The plastic microparticles will inevitably appear in our honey.
In order to make plastic "Plastic" many types of chemicals were used. Some of the chemicals make the plastic "elastic", while some others make them tough, or heat resistant, or whatever characteristics the end-product form of plastic is supposed to be.
Some of those chemicals, when enter our bodies, can mimic the effect of Estrogen ( http://www.fastcompany.com/173... ) and mess up our body's hormonal balances.
Those insects might be resourceful, but the same estrogen mimicking chemical could also mess up the bee's biology too.
No matter if it's NRL or the one from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, if they can control *ALL* space traffic, including the ICBMs, that would be wonderful.
In fact, I would very much like to encourage them to develop the technology further - by not only able to control the speed but the trajectory of the space traffic also.
That way when someone started launching ICBM to attack another, people can use that technology to turn that ICBM back to the country of origin (and reduce that country back to the kingdom come, as they fully deserve)
... it can't say it out loud before everything is in place.
Just because Google's PR piece gave that "No Current Plan Regarding Bitcoin" doesn't mean Google isn't weighting the possibility (or even planning to accept) that virtual currency.
Company as large as Google must weight the pros and cons before it venture into something controversial (I am not saying that Bitcoin is in itself controversial, what I am saying is virtual currency, which Bitcoin is part of, is still being treated as something very alien by the establishment), or risk seeing its stock price tank all the way down to the earth's core.
... and you will get much more miles out of every kWh of juice
The Tesla model S has a base battery capacity of 60kWh for a 208 mile range, or 3.46 miles/kWh
What is the current weight of a Tesla car ? More than one metric ton ?
If the weight can be cut down, let's say, by 50%, it'll be more than 500KG less of mass to haul, which translate to more miles per kWh.
What is the total weight of the batteries in the Tesla vehicle ? If someone can improve on either the capacity of the batteries and/or reducing the weight of the batteries, that will boost the efficiency of the Tesla vehicle even more.
I mean, FDA (the Food and Drug Administration for the uninitiated) is supposed to have been tasked to oversee the safety over ***FOOD***.
This guy is selling his Soylent brand ***FOOD*** to 20,000 people to the tune of $ 2 Million, isn't it time FDA takes some samples and have them tested for safety ?
I am never for BIG GOVERNMENT, but there are times the government does need to step in to assure the safety of the food people buy and eat - especially when this guy use the word "Soylent" as his brand of food, which originally means Soy and Lentil, when his food doesn't even contain Soy.
And even if you were to dedicate a half hour show on prime time television explaining it and why it's important to preserve liberties
The problem being that the people who want to "preserve liberties" tend to be...selective...about which liberties need preserving.
Note that many First Amendment fanatics tend to be utterly opposed to the Second Amendment. And vice versa, of course.
You sir, are one of the many millions of victims of the mass media, as they have programmed into your brain (and millions of brains of other people) that people who want to preserve liberties tend to be "selective".
I am a member of the NRA - and damn proud to be so.
I am also a member of ACLU - and surprise, surprise, I am also damn proud to be so.
When we fight for liberty, cherry picking exercise is definitely not one of our routines.
No Sir.
***ALL*** our liberties are at stake, and we can no longer afford to trade in one liberty to preserve another.
The big brother has, for the past few decades, degraded the liberties of the citizens of the United States of America, and if we do not stop our silly "left vs right" infighting, we will end up one day having *NO* liberty left.
Please trust me, I came from a country (at least at the time when I left it) which the citizens could enjoy *NO* liberty.
The highly affluent ...blah blah... the bible belt ...blah blah mass delusions.
Another ongoing delusion ...blah blah...republican base ...blah blah...
After the NSA saga, after all the information Edward Snowden has shared with us, you still want to play this asinine partisanship game ??
When will you wake up to the fact that you, an "enlightened liberal" (since you used the word "delusion" to describe your opponents), is as much a victim of the so-called, in your own words, "mass delusion" as those "deluded nemesis" of yours, the "Bible belt Republicans" ?
... Now, details that give insight into the attack are being hastily removed or redacted by security companies Security through obscurity at play ?
Hackers already know the way to do it, or they wouldn't be able to break into Target's databases.
By deleting the info what the so-called 'security companies" are doing is to depriving the legitimate business owners a way to beef up their own security measures by learning from the mistakes of Target.
In the UK the Internet is being censored on a massive scale, they have to ask the government for permission to look at porn, and you can be arrested for insulting Islam or saying something racist. Don't pretend that the US even remotely close to the same.
It's all over the Western society, including what is happening right here, in/.
Don't believe me ?
Try posting a comment which is anti-Liberal and/or anti-Islamic and watch for yourself how your comment would end up be modded into the oblivion.
What US has is not a "firewall" per se, but the effect would, at the end of the day, be similar.
By tapping into everybody's phone, email and whatnot, the US government is sending out a message to all (including the hundreds of millions of the American citizens) that they better be careful of what they wrote/talk (or even think), or they will be subject to very very close scrutiny.
Thus, what available in the USA is akin to "censorship via intimidation".
It is unfair to paint all the "yanks" as ball-less.
Some of them still have their intact.
For example: Edward Snowden. That guy did what he had to do in order to dislodge enough information from the secretive (and apparently illegal) activities within the American government, and then revealed the information to the world.
The question that TFA asked "Which technology should I learn" is in itself, a wrong question.
The author should have asked him/herself "What do I want to do 10 / 20 / 30 years from now?" and then proceed from there.
There will always be technologies - many old technologies will still be around and some new technologies will be discovered / created - and once the author knows what kind of situation he/she wants to be in the future, he/she can start picking which route to go
Many people have chosen the wrong tech and end up in the wrong career, but at the end of the day, it's up to that person to "right the wrongs" and to make the best situation out of the mudane, for its his/her life and he/she should be the master of his/her own life
Take me, for example. Some 40 years ago I ended up in the States and did not know what to do. At that time there wasn't much for me to chose - genetic wasn't available, laser tech wasn't mature, and many fields were closed to me, a person who is not a born American.
So I ended up in computing. I dabbled in both hardware and software ever since.
Would I choose computing if I got the chance to start over ? Perhaps not. But, as I have said, back in the early 70's there wasn't a lot of tech fields opened to a nerdy kid from China.
Our government is so far from what it should bethat it confuses people as to what a government is/should be
This I don't understand.
Aren't the people supposed to be the real "BOSS" of the government ?
How can the "BOSS" play the role of the "BOSS" if the "BOSS" is him/herself confused ?
I was not born in America, but I did study a lot about America, and although I know that I am far from being an expert on democracy / governance and all that, at the very least I do understand which roles a government should play, which it shouldn't.
It's quite sad how people naturally distinguish the two. This is thesecond time we've faced such corporate entanglement in government, and the second time we've had the government more interested in the "spoils of victory" than governing, but it's the first time we have both at once.
I find your comment extremely interesting, however, I have difficulties in understanding the events that you have mentioned.
Would you kindly elaborate, or at least, give us a pointer or two, on the events ?
Reading TFA (yes, I did) revealed next to nothing. Other than a brief mention of "From Russia with love" and that their IPs were assigned to Russia, I can't glean any useful info on who owns those servers.
The concept of "Separation of Church and State" works (somewhat) in the United States of America because USA does not forbid people to do stuffs based on some flimsy criteria (like female aren't allowed to drive, for example)
Why only a buddhist temple and a christian church are classified as "pornography"? Why not the Islamic mosques getting the same classification?
Of is McAfee trying to tell us that he has converted into Islam ?
Free market, bitches! Suck it you socialist faggots!
Free market means exactly that - if the vendors do something despicable the customers stop doing business with them and choose other vendors who won't do similarly despicable things to them.
They may not have written history, but they certainly pass skills on from generation to generation.
They could hunt people if they wanted. But other than the occasional long imprisoned orca that goes mad and drowns a captor, they much prefer to make friends.
I really loath to say this - but as a Human Being I need to say that the dolphins are more civilized than the human beings who stay in Japan !
Instead of tens of million of consoles, Xbox one only sold 3 million, Sony's PS4 only sold 4.2 million and the much disappointing figure for Nintendo.
If we take a step back, the larger picture that we see is that the game console is no longer a hot item, and it's in a decline similar to the decline of the desktop PC.
It's all because the change of the demography - a brand new generation of customers are coming to the market with a different expectation, different outlook and different taste.
Just like Facebook is becoming passe, many things else are heading to the wastebasket of civilization - and game consoles, I am afraid, are included.
When I grew up there was no game console. When I reached the West all I saw was pinball machines, and only later, with the introduction of video games we got Pong and Pac Man and very very much later, Super Mario.
Since I never grew up with the video games, it is relatively easy for me to take a step back - and I am seeing the change as is happening right now.
Why should robber barons serve their customers when they can rob them blind ?
The problem with the United States of America is that history kept on repeating itself.
Back then it was the railroad fellas who monopolizing the transportation, then came the petroleum fellas, and then the US government supposed to have done something to curb the power of those robber barons...
And when everyone is not looking, the robber barons bought up Washington D.C. and here we go again.
How come South Korea and Japan can have ISP which provide their customers with Gbps throughput while on the United States of America the end users have to put up with all those robber barons ?
Back in the 1980's, just when the Net was started, everyone was pulling their own cables. At that time the competition was fierce, and customers (particularly those staying in cities) get a lot of very nice choices.
And then the telcos stepped in, bought up the politicians and changed the laws - forcing the indies (the *true* ISP) to either shut down of sell out, and look what we have here... another round of robber barons intending to squeeze the last penny out of their customers.
Why would you bother parsing what he said word by word. He lies, period. What he says means nothing.
I respectfully disagree.
Obama is not the first president of the United States, and I hope that he is not the last one either.
Similarly, Obama is not the first president of the United States who was caught lying.
What I am saying is, we should learn from Obama's lies.
We should learn a lesson on how the POTUS lies, what kind of lies POTUS utters, under which circumstance(s) and what kind of benefit the POTUS reaps with his/her lies.
We should learn that because it would benefit us, the people, to better recognize lies from this and all future POTUS.
It is our duty, as citizens of the United States of America, to keep our nation in order. If the POTUS wants to lie, it falls to us to make sure that the POTUS' lies won't put our nation in jeopardy.
1. People are (god help me, I feel a fedora sprouting from my head and hairs growing from my neck as I type this) sheep. Your average person would lose their goddamned shit if they didn't have someone telling them what to do and when to do it. This is the end result of an education system that teaches blind love of authority, followed by corporate structures that do the same with regard to their employees. Thinking is hard. Decisions are tough. Et cetera.
It's only partly because of education, but for the *most* part, it's the innate human instinct to "go with the flock", and yes, just like the sheep.
Idol worshiping is everywhere, from movie stars to athletes to religious figures to even people of the most untrustworthy occupation - politicians - flocks of sheep pay their homage to their idols.
Whatever their idol did, no matter how wrong it is, the sheep will find excuses to defend - even when it is utterly *un*defendable, they still try their best to defend.
Like the original contract for this website which went to a college buddy of the POTUS' wife, without open bidding.
If we are to criticize the award of that original contract to someone who has no clue in setting up a website, the sheep will be rubbed the wrong way and they will revolt. They will attack whoever dare to criticize their idols.
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The plastic microparticles will inevitably appear in our honey.
In order to make plastic "Plastic" many types of chemicals were used. Some of the chemicals make the plastic "elastic", while some others make them tough, or heat resistant, or whatever characteristics the end-product form of plastic is supposed to be.
Some of those chemicals, when enter our bodies, can mimic the effect of Estrogen ( http://www.fastcompany.com/173... ) and mess up our body's hormonal balances.
Those insects might be resourceful, but the same estrogen mimicking chemical could also mess up the bee's biology too.
No matter if it's NRL or the one from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, if they can control *ALL* space traffic, including the ICBMs, that would be wonderful.
In fact, I would very much like to encourage them to develop the technology further - by not only able to control the speed but the trajectory of the space traffic also.
That way when someone started launching ICBM to attack another, people can use that technology to turn that ICBM back to the country of origin (and reduce that country back to the kingdom come, as they fully deserve)
... it can't say it out loud before everything is in place.
Just because Google's PR piece gave that "No Current Plan Regarding Bitcoin" doesn't mean Google isn't weighting the possibility (or even planning to accept) that virtual currency.
Company as large as Google must weight the pros and cons before it venture into something controversial (I am not saying that Bitcoin is in itself controversial, what I am saying is virtual currency, which Bitcoin is part of, is still being treated as something very alien by the establishment), or risk seeing its stock price tank all the way down to the earth's core.
... and you will get much more miles out of every kWh of juice
The Tesla model S has a base battery capacity of 60kWh for a 208 mile range, or 3.46 miles/kWh
What is the current weight of a Tesla car ? More than one metric ton ?
If the weight can be cut down, let's say, by 50%, it'll be more than 500KG less of mass to haul, which translate to more miles per kWh.
What is the total weight of the batteries in the Tesla vehicle ? If someone can improve on either the capacity of the batteries and/or reducing the weight of the batteries, that will boost the efficiency of the Tesla vehicle even more.
Dear Sir,
Many thanks for the much valuable and most enlightening lessons !
How I hope /. has more people like you so that we can benefit from your wisdom !!
Thanks again !!!
... where's FDA ?
I mean, FDA (the Food and Drug Administration for the uninitiated) is supposed to have been tasked to oversee the safety over ***FOOD***.
This guy is selling his Soylent brand ***FOOD*** to 20,000 people to the tune of $ 2 Million, isn't it time FDA takes some samples and have them tested for safety ?
I am never for BIG GOVERNMENT, but there are times the government does need to step in to assure the safety of the food people buy and eat - especially when this guy use the word "Soylent" as his brand of food, which originally means Soy and Lentil, when his food doesn't even contain Soy.
And even if you were to dedicate a half hour show on prime time television explaining it and why it's important to preserve liberties
The problem being that the people who want to "preserve liberties" tend to be...selective...about which liberties need preserving.
Note that many First Amendment fanatics tend to be utterly opposed to the Second Amendment. And vice versa, of course.
You sir, are one of the many millions of victims of the mass media, as they have programmed into your brain (and millions of brains of other people) that people who want to preserve liberties tend to be "selective".
I am a member of the NRA - and damn proud to be so.
I am also a member of ACLU - and surprise, surprise, I am also damn proud to be so.
When we fight for liberty, cherry picking exercise is definitely not one of our routines.
No Sir.
*** ALL *** our liberties are at stake, and we can no longer afford to trade in one liberty to preserve another.
The big brother has, for the past few decades, degraded the liberties of the citizens of the United States of America, and if we do not stop our silly "left vs right" infighting, we will end up one day having *NO* liberty left.
Please trust me, I came from a country (at least at the time when I left it) which the citizens could enjoy *NO* liberty.
Liberty to me is everything.
The highly affluent ...blah blah... the bible belt ...blah blah mass delusions.
Another ongoing delusion ...blah blah... republican base ...blah blah ...
After the NSA saga, after all the information Edward Snowden has shared with us, you still want to play this asinine partisanship game ??
When will you wake up to the fact that you, an "enlightened liberal" (since you used the word "delusion" to describe your opponents), is as much a victim of the so-called, in your own words, "mass delusion" as those "deluded nemesis" of yours, the "Bible belt Republicans" ?
From TFA:
Hackers already know the way to do it, or they wouldn't be able to break into Target's databases.
By deleting the info what the so-called 'security companies" are doing is to depriving the legitimate business owners a way to beef up their own security measures by learning from the mistakes of Target.
In the UK the Internet is being censored on a massive scale, they have to ask the government for permission to look at porn, and you can be arrested for insulting Islam or saying something racist. Don't pretend that the US even remotely close to the same.
It's all over the Western society, including what is happening right here, in /.
Don't believe me ?
Try posting a comment which is anti-Liberal and/or anti-Islamic and watch for yourself how your comment would end up be modded into the oblivion.
What US has is not a "firewall" per se, but the effect would, at the end of the day, be similar.
By tapping into everybody's phone, email and whatnot, the US government is sending out a message to all (including the hundreds of millions of the American citizens) that they better be careful of what they wrote/talk (or even think), or they will be subject to very very close scrutiny.
Thus, what available in the USA is akin to "censorship via intimidation".
It is unfair to paint all the "yanks" as ball-less.
Some of them still have their intact.
For example: Edward Snowden. That guy did what he had to do in order to dislodge enough information from the secretive (and apparently illegal) activities within the American government, and then revealed the information to the world.
I do not understand. I just can not understand.
China is a communist country, a country in which the regime is NOT elected.
They have their "Great Firewall" in place in order to protect their totalitarian regime.
Why in the world the UK, with a supposedly "ELECTED" and "DEMOCRATIC" government, want to follow China in erecting their "Great Firewall" ??
The question that TFA asked "Which technology should I learn" is in itself, a wrong question.
The author should have asked him/herself "What do I want to do 10 / 20 / 30 years from now?" and then proceed from there.
There will always be technologies - many old technologies will still be around and some new technologies will be discovered / created - and once the author knows what kind of situation he/she wants to be in the future, he/she can start picking which route to go
Many people have chosen the wrong tech and end up in the wrong career, but at the end of the day, it's up to that person to "right the wrongs" and to make the best situation out of the mudane, for its his/her life and he/she should be the master of his/her own life
Take me, for example. Some 40 years ago I ended up in the States and did not know what to do. At that time there wasn't much for me to chose - genetic wasn't available, laser tech wasn't mature, and many fields were closed to me, a person who is not a born American.
So I ended up in computing. I dabbled in both hardware and software ever since.
Would I choose computing if I got the chance to start over ? Perhaps not. But, as I have said, back in the early 70's there wasn't a lot of tech fields opened to a nerdy kid from China.
Our government is so far from what it should be that it confuses people as to what a government is/should be
This I don't understand.
Aren't the people supposed to be the real "BOSS" of the government ?
How can the "BOSS" play the role of the "BOSS" if the "BOSS" is him/herself confused ?
I was not born in America, but I did study a lot about America, and although I know that I am far from being an expert on democracy / governance and all that, at the very least I do understand which roles a government should play, which it shouldn't.
It's quite sad how people naturally distinguish the two. This is the second time we've faced such corporate entanglement in government, and the second time we've had the government more interested in the "spoils of victory" than governing, but it's the first time we have both at once.
I find your comment extremely interesting, however, I have difficulties in understanding the events that you have mentioned.
Would you kindly elaborate, or at least, give us a pointer or two, on the events ?
Many thanks in advance !
Reading TFA (yes, I did) revealed next to nothing. Other than a brief mention of "From Russia with love" and that their IPs were assigned to Russia, I can't glean any useful info on who owns those servers.
I think McAfee might have gone too far.
The concept of "Separation of Church and State" works (somewhat) in the United States of America because USA does not forbid people to do stuffs based on some flimsy criteria (like female aren't allowed to drive, for example)
Why only a buddhist temple and a christian church are classified as "pornography"? Why not the Islamic mosques getting the same classification?
Of is McAfee trying to tell us that he has converted into Islam ?
Free market, bitches! Suck it you socialist faggots!
Free market means exactly that - if the vendors do something despicable the customers stop doing business with them and choose other vendors who won't do similarly despicable things to them.
They may not have written history, but they certainly pass skills on from generation to generation.
They could hunt people if they wanted. But other than the occasional long imprisoned orca that goes mad and drowns a captor, they much prefer to make friends.
I really loath to say this - but as a Human Being I need to say that the dolphins are more civilized than the human beings who stay in Japan !
See the sales figure of the game console ?
Instead of tens of million of consoles, Xbox one only sold 3 million, Sony's PS4 only sold 4.2 million and the much disappointing figure for Nintendo.
If we take a step back, the larger picture that we see is that the game console is no longer a hot item, and it's in a decline similar to the decline of the desktop PC.
It's all because the change of the demography - a brand new generation of customers are coming to the market with a different expectation, different outlook and different taste.
Just like Facebook is becoming passe, many things else are heading to the wastebasket of civilization - and game consoles, I am afraid, are included.
When I grew up there was no game console. When I reached the West all I saw was pinball machines, and only later, with the introduction of video games we got Pong and Pac Man and very very much later, Super Mario.
Since I never grew up with the video games, it is relatively easy for me to take a step back - and I am seeing the change as is happening right now.
Why should robber barons serve their customers when they can rob them blind ?
The problem with the United States of America is that history kept on repeating itself.
Back then it was the railroad fellas who monopolizing the transportation, then came the petroleum fellas, and then the US government supposed to have done something to curb the power of those robber barons ...
And when everyone is not looking, the robber barons bought up Washington D.C. and here we go again.
How come South Korea and Japan can have ISP which provide their customers with Gbps throughput while on the United States of America the end users have to put up with all those robber barons ?
Back in the 1980's, just when the Net was started, everyone was pulling their own cables. At that time the competition was fierce, and customers (particularly those staying in cities) get a lot of very nice choices.
And then the telcos stepped in, bought up the politicians and changed the laws - forcing the indies (the *true* ISP) to either shut down of sell out, and look what we have here ... another round of robber barons intending to squeeze the last penny out of their customers.
Sigh !
It's still better than someone who gave nothing but cheap hot air.
Why would you bother parsing what he said word by word. He lies, period. What he says means nothing.
I respectfully disagree.
Obama is not the first president of the United States, and I hope that he is not the last one either.
Similarly, Obama is not the first president of the United States who was caught lying.
What I am saying is, we should learn from Obama's lies.
We should learn a lesson on how the POTUS lies, what kind of lies POTUS utters, under which circumstance(s) and what kind of benefit the POTUS reaps with his/her lies.
We should learn that because it would benefit us, the people, to better recognize lies from this and all future POTUS.
It is our duty, as citizens of the United States of America, to keep our nation in order. If the POTUS wants to lie, it falls to us to make sure that the POTUS' lies won't put our nation in jeopardy.
Two reasons:
1. People are (god help me, I feel a fedora sprouting from my head and hairs growing from my neck as I type this) sheep. Your average person would lose their goddamned shit if they didn't have someone telling them what to do and when to do it. This is the end result of an education system that teaches blind love of authority, followed by corporate structures that do the same with regard to their employees. Thinking is hard. Decisions are tough. Et cetera.
It's only partly because of education, but for the *most* part, it's the innate human instinct to "go with the flock", and yes, just like the sheep.
Idol worshiping is everywhere, from movie stars to athletes to religious figures to even people of the most untrustworthy occupation - politicians - flocks of sheep pay their homage to their idols.
Whatever their idol did, no matter how wrong it is, the sheep will find excuses to defend - even when it is utterly *un*defendable, they still try their best to defend.
Like the original contract for this website which went to a college buddy of the POTUS' wife, without open bidding.
If we are to criticize the award of that original contract to someone who has no clue in setting up a website, the sheep will be rubbed the wrong way and they will revolt. They will attack whoever dare to criticize their idols.