Medical malpractice lawsuits cost billions of dollars a year. One thing decades of lawsuits have not done is reduce the number of mistakes doctors make. Why should we keep giving lawyers billions of dollars a year when they don't make us safer?
The file stores all the known access points within miles of the phone's location. It doesn't indicate which points the phone actually detected. Looking at the data for my phone I couldn't even see the specific cities I'd been to. It showed the state or county at best.
You need more than just the positions of near by cell towers to triangulate a position. You need the exact amount of time it took a signal to travel from each of at least three towers to the phone. If that data isn't stored then at best you can only get a very rough idea of where the phone is. A phone can connect to cell towers that are miles away.
If this data is a cash, then the time stamp might not even be the time the phone was near the tower. It could be the most recent date the actual position of the tower was confirmed.
I understand the politicians motivations. I'm against what they're doing because it wastes my tax dollars, and makes America look incompetent.
Designing a rocket is hard enough without congressmen adding a bunch of random requirements to protect big businesses that are no longer competitive. If politicians keep interfering with important engineering decisions like this we'll never get back to the moon. This bill should call for NASA to find the best way to get back to the moon. It shouldn't require that they use a specific system. They should leave that decision to the engineers.
SLS is an attempt to revive failed Constellation program. Six years, billions of dollars, and almost nothing to show for it. This is what happens when senators and congressmen make engineering decisions for political reasons.
This bill is an attempt to revive the failed SLS space launcher based on space shuttle parts. Here's the relevant text in the bill:
(3) The 111th Congress, in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010, called for the development of a heavy lift capability of greater than 130 metric tons consisting of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) to pursue exploration, yet fell short on explicitly stating a clear destination.
(4) The 112th Congress has reaffirmed this commitment to the development of a heavy lift capability.
A few months ago a senator from Utah tried to get NASA to stop looking for alternatives to the SLS (such as SpaceX) by citing the 130 ton requirement. Now they're trying to pass a new bill with stronger wording to force NASA to spend money on the SLS, which happens to be built in their states.
I don't support this lawsuit. I oppose any legal action that might deprive me of choice. That said, it's not reasonable to argue that intuitive interfaces are necessarily obvious. Just because it's easy to use an intuitive interface doesn't mean it's easy to invent one.
You're basically saying "the iPhone is easy to use, therefore it must have been easy to design". If that were true the first smart phones would have been as easy to use as an iPhone.
If that's truly the case, the battery % charge meter would count down running *any* CPU and/or GPU intensive application. To think that Flash somehow consumes more battery than any other CPU-pegging (not tough to do on an 8-year-old PC) process is to show a fundamental lack of understanding about how computers work.
--Jeremy
On any laptop I've used running the CPU at 100% reduces the battery life to less than a quarter of what it normally is. The issue is that there's no reason web browsing should be a CPU intensive task (besides poor programming). An iPad gets 10 hours of web browsing. It's completely inexcusable for my laptop which normally gets 8 hours of battery life to get only 2 hours of web browsing because flash is enabled.
A system is as secure as it's weakest component. The setup you described would make using hashed passwords for authentication only as secure as using public/private key encryption. So you could use a hash, but you wouldn't get any security benefit from it.
The article says they have to be able to provide the actual passwords. The idea behind using a hash it that the actual password isn't stored and can't be determined using the hash. That way if someone steals their data they still can't get the actual user passwords. According to the article, any secure implementation of hashed passwords would be in violation of this law.
This isn't a debate about how easy it is to code in various languages. It's about whether or not most users are effected by the absence of flash on the iPad. They aren't because the vast majority of the mainstream sites are written in JavaScript and HTML or have an iPad app available.
You can record video and print from an iPad. While you can't visit any arbitrary flash website you can get YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, or any other site that also has an iPad app or uses HTML 5.
Another explanation is that the Internet makes it easier for parents to read about satanism, become concerned that their child is under the influence of Satan, and look up an exorcist.
That would make debates more of a discussion and less of a contest. But agreeing on definitions before a debate doesn't seem to be an option on slashdot. Usually I try to phrase things so it is hard to argue definitions but apparently 'hand held' isn't as straightforward as I thought.
Breeder reactors are probably the least short sighted non-renewable method of producing electricity. Their primary fuel is U238, which is more than 100 times as common as the U235 used in conventioal reactors. The real problem is that most breeder reactor designs cost about twice as much to build. If these reactors can be built as cheep as conventional plants they make economic sense, even in the long term.
Hand held - A mobile device (also known as cellphone device, handheld device, handheld computer, "Palmtop" or simply handheld) is a pocket-sized computing device, typically having a display screen with touch input or a miniature keyboard.
Generally arguing definitions means useful discussion is over, and people are just arguing over who's right and who's wrong. That said, I think of the iPad as a hend held device because it's designed to be held while it's in use. Also, in some ways it's more portable than a 3DS, for example it has a much longer battery life.
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Homeopathic alcohol would be an interesting product to see in an organic food store. Of coarse according to homeopathy it would 'cure' drunkenness.
Medical malpractice lawsuits cost billions of dollars a year. One thing decades of lawsuits have not done is reduce the number of mistakes doctors make. Why should we keep giving lawyers billions of dollars a year when they don't make us safer?
Roads cost money to build and maintain. Why not charge people based on how much they use the roads.
The file stores all the known access points within miles of the phone's location. It doesn't indicate which points the phone actually detected. Looking at the data for my phone I couldn't even see the specific cities I'd been to. It showed the state or county at best.
You need more than just the positions of near by cell towers to triangulate a position. You need the exact amount of time it took a signal to travel from each of at least three towers to the phone. If that data isn't stored then at best you can only get a very rough idea of where the phone is. A phone can connect to cell towers that are miles away.
If this data is a cash, then the time stamp might not even be the time the phone was near the tower. It could be the most recent date the actual position of the tower was confirmed.
I understand the politicians motivations. I'm against what they're doing because it wastes my tax dollars, and makes America look incompetent.
Designing a rocket is hard enough without congressmen adding a bunch of random requirements to protect big businesses that are no longer competitive. If politicians keep interfering with important engineering decisions like this we'll never get back to the moon. This bill should call for NASA to find the best way to get back to the moon. It shouldn't require that they use a specific system. They should leave that decision to the engineers.
SLS is an attempt to revive failed Constellation program. Six years, billions of dollars, and almost nothing to show for it. This is what happens when senators and congressmen make engineering decisions for political reasons.
This bill is an attempt to revive the failed SLS space launcher based on space shuttle parts. Here's the relevant text in the bill:
(3) The 111th Congress, in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010, called for the development of a heavy lift capability of greater than 130 metric tons consisting of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) to pursue exploration, yet fell short on explicitly stating a clear destination.
(4) The 112th Congress has reaffirmed this commitment to the development of a heavy lift capability.
A few months ago a senator from Utah tried to get NASA to stop looking for alternatives to the SLS (such as SpaceX) by citing the 130 ton requirement. Now they're trying to pass a new bill with stronger wording to force NASA to spend money on the SLS, which happens to be built in their states.
I don't support this lawsuit. I oppose any legal action that might deprive me of choice. That said, it's not reasonable to argue that intuitive interfaces are necessarily obvious. Just because it's easy to use an intuitive interface doesn't mean it's easy to invent one.
You're basically saying "the iPhone is easy to use, therefore it must have been easy to design". If that were true the first smart phones would have been as easy to use as an iPhone.
If that's truly the case, the battery % charge meter would count down running *any* CPU and/or GPU intensive application. To think that Flash somehow consumes more battery than any other CPU-pegging (not tough to do on an 8-year-old PC) process is to show a fundamental lack of understanding about how computers work.
--Jeremy
On any laptop I've used running the CPU at 100% reduces the battery life to less than a quarter of what it normally is. The issue is that there's no reason web browsing should be a CPU intensive task (besides poor programming). An iPad gets 10 hours of web browsing. It's completely inexcusable for my laptop which normally gets 8 hours of battery life to get only 2 hours of web browsing because flash is enabled.
A system is as secure as it's weakest component. The setup you described would make using hashed passwords for authentication only as secure as using public/private key encryption. So you could use a hash, but you wouldn't get any security benefit from it.
The article says they have to be able to provide the actual passwords. The idea behind using a hash it that the actual password isn't stored and can't be determined using the hash. That way if someone steals their data they still can't get the actual user passwords. According to the article, any secure implementation of hashed passwords would be in violation of this law.
This isn't a debate about how easy it is to code in various languages. It's about whether or not most users are effected by the absence of flash on the iPad. They aren't because the vast majority of the mainstream sites are written in JavaScript and HTML or have an iPad app available.
If there are no books on paper how will we get informaion after the Zombie Apocalypse?
You can record video and print from an iPad. While you can't visit any arbitrary flash website you can get YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, or any other site that also has an iPad app or uses HTML 5.
Another explanation is that the Internet makes it easier for parents to read about satanism, become concerned that their child is under the influence of Satan, and look up an exorcist.
Everyone knows the world is going to end in 2012.
I support any decision that gives me more choice in what products I can use. Now all they have to do is invalidate Apple's claims against Nokia.
Most smartphones cost around $500. The price is just reduced because it's subsidized by a cell phone plan.
That would make debates more of a discussion and less of a contest. But agreeing on definitions before a debate doesn't seem to be an option on slashdot. Usually I try to phrase things so it is hard to argue definitions but apparently 'hand held' isn't as straightforward as I thought.
Because when you have a problem it's always a good idea to look at all the possible solutions.
Breeder reactors are probably the least short sighted non-renewable method of producing electricity. Their primary fuel is U238, which is more than 100 times as common as the U235 used in conventioal reactors. The real problem is that most breeder reactor designs cost about twice as much to build. If these reactors can be built as cheep as conventional plants they make economic sense, even in the long term.
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Hand held - A mobile device (also known as cellphone device, handheld device, handheld computer, "Palmtop" or simply handheld) is a pocket-sized computing device, typically having a display screen with touch input or a miniature keyboard.
Generally arguing definitions means useful discussion is over, and people are just arguing over who's right and who's wrong. That said, I think of the iPad as a hend held device because it's designed to be held while it's in use. Also, in some ways it's more portable than a 3DS, for example it has a much longer battery life.
Pick 2 for handhelds: Slim, slow, long lasting, powerful, large.
Unless you're talking about an iPad.
They're talking about locking this guy up for four years because he didn't fill out some paperwork. Don't they have better things to do?