Funny you mention this, My 2014 iPhone 6+ runs this year's iOS 9 better than it ever did iOS 8. Same goes with the iPad Air too. We have a 5s and a 5c here and their owners haven't complained any either.
I'd guess you may be right talking about the 4s, but that's 4 years old now and it too runs iOS 9.
To anyone that opened it, it would look like a box of electronic junk and wires. Yes, there's a huge red display, but LED alarm clocks do not turn on their display when they are not plugged into AC power. The 9V battery is just to run the clock and alarm circuit. There were no ominous huge red numbers counting down when they opened the box.
While I have some doubts as to how wise it was to bring the device to school, I do not find it in any way odd that a kid of that age would be tearing apart electronic stuff and messing with it in the way that he did. He's also not an adult, so holding him to strict interpretations of the word "invent" is a little unfair too. He's a tinkerer, a critical first step in figuring out how stuff works.
The Islamophobia angle is what irritates me. Anyone who brought something like that into a school unannounced would raise a concern, no matter what their ethnicity/religion may be.
This student was up on felony charges for a science fair volcano project:
It's better than you mention. They have over 100 movies and TV shows available cached on their WiFi server - I never counted them all, but it's quite decent. Access to them is free, even if you do not pay for in-flight Internet access.
Yes, the service is pretty good - a lot of their cross-country flights are being upgraded to those thinner plastic seats to cram more passengers in and there's no seat-back screen anymore. Only problem is you have your phone, pad, or computer and no in-seat power in cattle class.
On a recent flight from FRA to LAX, the aging 747 had this installed and you had the screens in business class and the wifi on your device with 2-3x the selection. Better than 2 years ago when they had CRT's hanging over the aisle.
Well, the first thing that came to mind when the article mentioned "declining diversity" was yet another swipe at white males. The homophobia caused by the unmentioned boogeyman was yet another, this time at CIS white males.
Diversity as I hear it used nowadays typically means "we need more minorities". When our schools were predominately white, we needed diversity. So we bussed diversity in from minority neighborhoods. Demographics have changed over the years and now many of our schools are no longer predominately white, but 80-90%+ hispanic.
While I never owned an Aibo, I do have several Roombas. The Roomba lacks one thing Sony put an effort into with the Aibo - a programmed personality put in something that looks like what most people would be attached to: a cute clumsy puppy. This is much more amusing to interact with than a hockey-puck shaped noisemaker that zig-zags around the room bumping into things like a drunk sailor. The Roomba has the personalty of a soap dish, but I do have to admit it is sometimes entertaining watching one work its way out of a tight spot.
Tldr: The Aibo is designed to interact socially with humans, the Roomba is designed to clean your carpet. It all depends on your use case as to which is better.
There though human consciousness was transplanted into machine bodies to achieve immortality. Unfortunately, the end product usually winds up acting like a selfish entitled prick.
Ah, Munich. In 2014 you can still get a day pass for about 8 euro that covers the city. Less than 20 euro will get you the same pass with transportation to/from the airport included.
You cannot compare that city's public transit system with that of Los Angeles or San Francisco. Munich is light years ahead of the US. Unless you have to take the U6 when Bayern Munchen is playing, then it just plain sucks.
The egg only has 50% of her DNA, so it's not her body.
Let's make it more simple:
The human body has 46 chromosomes. 23 from the man and 23 from the woman. If the pre-embryo is female, one pair is XX. Male is XY.
So, if the pre-embryo is a female, then it's a 50-50 split. If male, then about 49.5% of the pre-embryo is his and 50.5% is the woman's - based on the presumption that there is less genetic material in a Y chromosome compared to an X. Therefore, she has a majority stake at best (XY) and an even split at worst (XX).
Then again, there's mitochondrial DNA which is solely provided by the female, that would probably put ownership in the woman's court in all cases except for the following situation:
Things get muddied when you have some pre-embryos with multiple X or Y chromosomes. One would have to find out which parent they came from first. XYY syndrome - father has majority rights. XXX syndrome, one would have to determine which parent's reproductive process malfunctioned before assigning parental rights.
Yeah, but that would require an immense surface area to work. You'd have to cover approx 70% of the planet with water. No one would go for it and the environmentalists would have a fit.
They had a nuclear power plant in San Diego. San Onofre.
They're shutting it down instead of refitting/repairing it because the operators figured there would be too much trouble jumping regulatory hurdles and endless delays from the government and environmental groups that had little interest in, or were openly hostile to letting the plant operate.
They have an opt-in program. It's called "Verizon Selects".
Basically, it's a points-based award program that "rewards" you for letting them monitor your location, app usage, and web browsing activity on your phone.
But why is this opt-in and the super cookie business opt-out?
Simple. In the selects program, they "pay" you with gift cards or merchandise. With the super cookie, Verizon gets your browsing for free.
What you say is true, but drivers who are aware of the camera also won't trust the yellow even if it is properly timed. So if in a non-camera intersection you get caught by a yellow you can breeze easily through safely. A driver aware of a camera won't trust the yellow and will slam on the brakes the moment he sees the light change. Take the driver behind him who is a tourist or someone else who may not be aware of the camera. That's a recipe for a rear-ender.
What bugs me are the cameras at toll booths that take your picture for no reason. Every toll booth I've seen in recent months I've noticed takes my picture. Just what the fuck is that about? If a person takes my picture... ok, 1st Amendment protects them. But why is a government agency taking pictures of every single toll booth transaction? How could that much data possibly be useful for the purpose of policing toll booths? Why can't they just take pictures of the drivers that don't pay?
Here's a good conspiracy theory:
Where do you think all the faces to seed/test the database for the facial recognition SW the feds are working on?
They know the car by the plate number. They know the owner by the registration. They have the owner's picture in a DMV database. Now they have tons of crappy real-world images to try to match with a known person where the person in the photo is likely to be the owner. Great for testing out the system.
They already use toll transponders to track vehicles. This isn't too far of a stretch.
Holy crap. Tickets for speed cameras in Baltimore/Maryland are in the $40-50 range?
If Los Angeles ever starts using them, I'm looking at nearly 10x that amount. Red light camera tickets were $490, and a typical speeding ticket (15 over) is about $240. The fine itself is just $35 ($70 in a construction zone), the other $205 are "fees". If a 3rd party company is operating them, the city just increases the cost of the ticket to cover the operator's share.
Back in the US it existed as far back as 1991. Back then I had a product called a K-40 "Chipsradar". What it did (aside from being a normal radar detector) was detect the handheld radio frequency of the CHP walkie-talkies (1-2 mile range) that linked up with the cars that relayed the transmissions to the station and used the signal strength as a proximity detector. It worked beautifully sniffing out speed traps since at the time CHP did not use radar all that much and would just hide on or behind overpasses looking for speeders.
It was exactly the same thing as the "Beartracker" you mention. That was also available back in the 1990's.
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Funny you mention this, My 2014 iPhone 6+ runs this year's iOS 9 better than it ever did iOS 8. Same goes with the iPad Air too. We have a 5s and a 5c here and their owners haven't complained any either.
I'd guess you may be right talking about the 4s, but that's 4 years old now and it too runs iOS 9.
May I ask what years you did this?
I had no trouble myself, but I went to school in the 80's. The environment in the schools now is totally different than what I remember.
I already gave one example of a non-muslim running into trouble with a science project. And here's another: MIT Sophomore Arrested at Logan For Wearing LED Device
To anyone that opened it, it would look like a box of electronic junk and wires. Yes, there's a huge red display, but LED alarm clocks do not turn on their display when they are not plugged into AC power. The 9V battery is just to run the clock and alarm circuit. There were no ominous huge red numbers counting down when they opened the box.
It was nothing like this alarm clock.
While I have some doubts as to how wise it was to bring the device to school, I do not find it in any way odd that a kid of that age would be tearing apart electronic stuff and messing with it in the way that he did. He's also not an adult, so holding him to strict interpretations of the word "invent" is a little unfair too. He's a tinkerer, a critical first step in figuring out how stuff works.
The Islamophobia angle is what irritates me. Anyone who brought something like that into a school unannounced would raise a concern, no matter what their ethnicity/religion may be.
This student was up on felony charges for a science fair volcano project:
16-year-old expelled, charged with felonies over volcano science experiment (auto play video warning)
There was a fair amount of media furor over that too.
It's better than you mention. They have over 100 movies and TV shows available cached on their WiFi server - I never counted them all, but it's quite decent. Access to them is free, even if you do not pay for in-flight Internet access.
I've been on those planes.
Yes, the service is pretty good - a lot of their cross-country flights are being upgraded to those thinner plastic seats to cram more passengers in and there's no seat-back screen anymore. Only problem is you have your phone, pad, or computer and no in-seat power in cattle class.
On a recent flight from FRA to LAX, the aging 747 had this installed and you had the screens in business class and the wifi on your device with 2-3x the selection. Better than 2 years ago when they had CRT's hanging over the aisle.
You know nothing then.
The state of the schools in the LAUSD in the late 70's to mid-80's compared to today gives absolutely no insight on my attitudes towards segregation.
All I asked is: Why is no one is asking to integrate schools with a supermajority of hispanic students?
I then supplied proof that these schools do indeed exist and the 90%+ was not an exaggeration.
Really?
Forced busing LAUSD
90% plus hispanic schools
Well, the first thing that came to mind when the article mentioned "declining diversity" was yet another swipe at white males. The homophobia caused by the unmentioned boogeyman was yet another, this time at CIS white males.
Diversity as I hear it used nowadays typically means "we need more minorities". When our schools were predominately white, we needed diversity. So we bussed diversity in from minority neighborhoods. Demographics have changed over the years and now many of our schools are no longer predominately white, but 80-90%+ hispanic.
No one is asking for diversity anymore.
Last I saw hestiaphobia was not considered a hate crime. The woman you mention was charged and convicted of unlawful discrimination.
You know what they say about a "Jack-of-all-trades"...
There is one significant difference.
While I never owned an Aibo, I do have several Roombas. The Roomba lacks one thing Sony put an effort into with the Aibo - a programmed personality put in something that looks like what most people would be attached to: a cute clumsy puppy. This is much more amusing to interact with than a hockey-puck shaped noisemaker that zig-zags around the room bumping into things like a drunk sailor. The Roomba has the personalty of a soap dish, but I do have to admit it is sometimes entertaining watching one work its way out of a tight spot.
Tldr:
The Aibo is designed to interact socially with humans, the Roomba is designed to clean your carpet. It all depends on your use case as to which is better.
Apparently you haven't seen Galaxy Express 999.
There though human consciousness was transplanted into machine bodies to achieve immortality. Unfortunately, the end product usually winds up acting like a selfish entitled prick.
China flexes their hacking skills while security researchers in the USofA worry they'll be jailed as terrorists by their own government?
Yup, I see no problem here.
Ah, Munich. In 2014 you can still get a day pass for about 8 euro that covers the city. Less than 20 euro will get you the same pass with transportation to/from the airport included.
You cannot compare that city's public transit system with that of Los Angeles or San Francisco. Munich is light years ahead of the US. Unless you have to take the U6 when Bayern Munchen is playing, then it just plain sucks.
The egg only has 50% of her DNA, so it's not her body.
Let's make it more simple:
The human body has 46 chromosomes. 23 from the man and 23 from the woman. If the pre-embryo is female, one pair is XX. Male is XY.
So, if the pre-embryo is a female, then it's a 50-50 split. If male, then about 49.5% of the pre-embryo is his and 50.5% is the woman's - based on the presumption that there is less genetic material in a Y chromosome compared to an X. Therefore, she has a majority stake at best (XY) and an even split at worst (XX).
Then again, there's mitochondrial DNA which is solely provided by the female, that would probably put ownership in the woman's court in all cases except for the following situation:
Things get muddied when you have some pre-embryos with multiple X or Y chromosomes. One would have to find out which parent they came from first. XYY syndrome - father has majority rights. XXX syndrome, one would have to determine which parent's reproductive process malfunctioned before assigning parental rights.
Yeah, but that would require an immense surface area to work. You'd have to cover approx 70% of the planet with water. No one would go for it and the environmentalists would have a fit.
They had a nuclear power plant in San Diego. San Onofre.
They're shutting it down instead of refitting/repairing it because the operators figured there would be too much trouble jumping regulatory hurdles and endless delays from the government and environmental groups that had little interest in, or were openly hostile to letting the plant operate.
You missed the part: who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state .
One would have to be in the state that forbids the activity, commit the crime and flee to another state.
Then you can be extradited.
Otherwise Texas would be busy nabbing everyone in the U.S. who orders stuff from Bad Dragon.
They have an opt-in program. It's called "Verizon Selects".
Basically, it's a points-based award program that "rewards" you for letting them monitor your location, app usage, and web browsing activity on your phone.
But why is this opt-in and the super cookie business opt-out?
Simple. In the selects program, they "pay" you with gift cards or merchandise. With the super cookie, Verizon gets your browsing for free.
Team of lawyers?
This team?
What you say is true, but drivers who are aware of the camera also won't trust the yellow even if it is properly timed. So if in a non-camera intersection you get caught by a yellow you can breeze easily through safely. A driver aware of a camera won't trust the yellow and will slam on the brakes the moment he sees the light change. Take the driver behind him who is a tourist or someone else who may not be aware of the camera. That's a recipe for a rear-ender.
What bugs me are the cameras at toll booths that take your picture for no reason. Every toll booth I've seen in recent months I've noticed takes my picture. Just what the fuck is that about? If a person takes my picture... ok, 1st Amendment protects them. But why is a government agency taking pictures of every single toll booth transaction? How could that much data possibly be useful for the purpose of policing toll booths? Why can't they just take pictures of the drivers that don't pay?
Here's a good conspiracy theory:
Where do you think all the faces to seed/test the database for the facial recognition SW the feds are working on?
They know the car by the plate number. They know the owner by the registration. They have the owner's picture in a DMV database. Now they have tons of crappy real-world images to try to match with a known person where the person in the photo is likely to be the owner. Great for testing out the system.
They already use toll transponders to track vehicles. This isn't too far of a stretch.
Holy crap. Tickets for speed cameras in Baltimore/Maryland are in the $40-50 range?
If Los Angeles ever starts using them, I'm looking at nearly 10x that amount. Red light camera tickets were $490, and a typical speeding ticket (15 over) is about $240. The fine itself is just $35 ($70 in a construction zone), the other $205 are "fees". If a 3rd party company is operating them, the city just increases the cost of the ticket to cover the operator's share.
Back in the US it existed as far back as 1991. Back then I had a product called a K-40 "Chipsradar". What it did (aside from being a normal radar detector) was detect the handheld radio frequency of the CHP walkie-talkies (1-2 mile range) that linked up with the cars that relayed the transmissions to the station and used the signal strength as a proximity detector. It worked beautifully sniffing out speed traps since at the time CHP did not use radar all that much and would just hide on or behind overpasses looking for speeders.
It was exactly the same thing as the "Beartracker" you mention. That was also available back in the 1990's.