If you're the tinfoil hat type, you can already hear the bootsteps of The Man coming to take our 3D printers away because we printed guns instead of water pots to tend our victory gardens.
I'm not suggesting for a second that it's not an awesome demonstration...
...it's just unfortunate that ZOMG! 3D PRINTERS MAKE GUNS gets to dominate the news cycle. The guy who got a prosthetic hand from a 3D printer gets two inches under the fold.:/
Recalls due to manufacturing defects that cause car fires have happened many times.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
I'm surprised so few established projects use BT as their primary distribution channel considering all you need to do is run a BT daemon on your server to seed it
Well, first you need to have the majority of your clients download a BT client, from a similar collection of shady sites with DOWNLOAD NOW arrows pointing everywhere. Of course you can host a copy of a small BT client on your server, but which one? The tiny one with obvious pirate search ads at the top, or the one wrapped in a similar bloatware wrapper? Will the BT installer get past the file-download-proxy-scanner at your office? Maybe.
Then, likely, you need to have all of your corporate customers wait until they get home to download your software, because running a BT client in any big company gets you fired. Then, when they bring the software in on USB, they can get permission from security to insert it into a machine without getting audited.
Now you can install GIMP, if you have rights on your machine.
Tandy made pretty awesome computers for the time. I fondly remember my first TDS-80; being excited to get each month's computer magazine in the mail with a demo-cassette full of programs to load.
Go to the teller. Ask for cash. If they ask why, feel fee to give them the honest answer that you're buying a car at auction. Fill out the CTR. Leave with cash.
I guess I'm fooling myself. I've spoken to my daughter at length to determine what sort of levels of "magical teachings" she gets at public school, and I've been pleasantly surprised that - for the most part - that the answer has always been so low that I don't need to do much correction. There's certainly some noise in the signal, but nothing a little parental involvement can't squelch out....of course, I'm not in Oklahoma, so all bets are off there.
I've taught (and continue to teach) her to think for herself.
The only living, breathing homeschooling parents that I know are homeschooling their kids EXPRESSLY because they don't want to expose them to The Agendas(tm). They don't want their kids exposed to The Gay Agenda, The Secular Humanist Agenda, the Evolutionist Agenda, the WHATEVER Agenda.
I do believe that, in some ways, those kids are getting a better education. They have good study habits, they get more 1-on-1 time with their instructors, they don't have to be taught to the lowest common denominator, etc. Their parents, outside of their belief in magic, do a good job educating them -- unless you count science, where they flat out lie to them.
Outside of your desire to brand me "barely a parent" based on my observations of homeschoolers I know personally, you sound like one of the good ones.
I know two parents each homeschooling their kids. Both believe the universe is 6,000 years old. I highly doubt that the discovery of a "600 million year old" supernova will make it to them.
There's a few homeschoolers just trying to provide a better education to their kids, because public schools (can) suck, and because they can't afford private schools and stay-at-home-moms can participate in collectives. The rest? Absolute nutbags, afraid that their kids will learn about Jonnhy's Two Dads instead of how Jesus ride a dinosaur. WRAA! Must. Defeat. Human. Secular. Agenda!
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...and therein is the rub.
If you're the tinfoil hat type, you can already hear the bootsteps of The Man coming to take our 3D printers away because we printed guns instead of water pots to tend our victory gardens.
They're not responsible for plenty of other (generally) good things they do either.
Automating a service that warns about leaked data could be another of them...
Percentage of people eventually dying:
With guns: 100%
Without guns: 100%
7% of all people who have ever lived are alive today, meaning human mortality is currently somewhere around 93%.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/27/
I'm not suggesting for a second that it's not an awesome demonstration...
This is why we can't have nice things....
Couldn't 3D printers make the news the first few years of going mainstream by producing hospital equipment or something?
15000 fires / 28700000 gas cars =0.000523
3 fires / 21000 Teslas = 0.000143
Recalls due to manufacturing defects that cause car fires have happened many times.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
To Do: Add tracking cookie support to FTP.
I'm surprised so few established projects use BT as their primary distribution channel considering all you need to do is run a BT daemon on your server to seed it
Well, first you need to have the majority of your clients download a BT client, from a similar collection of shady sites with DOWNLOAD NOW arrows pointing everywhere. Of course you can host a copy of a small BT client on your server, but which one? The tiny one with obvious pirate search ads at the top, or the one wrapped in a similar bloatware wrapper? Will the BT installer get past the file-download-proxy-scanner at your office? Maybe.
Then, likely, you need to have all of your corporate customers wait until they get home to download your software, because running a BT client in any big company gets you fired. Then, when they bring the software in on USB, they can get permission from security to insert it into a machine without getting audited.
Now you can install GIMP, if you have rights on your machine.
Tandy made pretty awesome computers for the time. I fondly remember my first TDS-80; being excited to get each month's computer magazine in the mail with a demo-cassette full of programs to load.
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada
"Scientists" is clearly the name of a publication of some sort.
In my universe, scientists studying gravity still aren't completely sure how it works.
No, we're pretty good on the HOW.
It's the WHY we're working on.
To paraphrase Zach and Miri,
If you told me there was a 5 hour video of a 72-year old man getting beaten by 5 hookers, I'd say, "Why aren't we watching that right now!"
Go to the teller. Ask for cash. If they ask why, feel fee to give them the honest answer that you're buying a car at auction. Fill out the CTR. Leave with cash.
Nobody cares.
Car insurance.com also showed that 75% of respondents think they could drive a car better than a computer.
Is there actually a space in their URL?
Anyway...
Car%20Insurance.com also showed that nearly 75% of respondents are wrong about their driving skills.
Because they have such great textbooks !
All of my angers! :/
How can they be exciting?
Volatility, regulation, deregulation, crashes when drug sites get busted, gambling sites... ...what's not to like?
I guess I'm fooling myself. I've spoken to my daughter at length to determine what sort of levels of "magical teachings" she gets at public school, and I've been pleasantly surprised that - for the most part - that the answer has always been so low that I don't need to do much correction. There's certainly some noise in the signal, but nothing a little parental involvement can't squelch out. ...of course, I'm not in Oklahoma, so all bets are off there.
I've taught (and continue to teach) her to think for herself.
The only living, breathing homeschooling parents that I know are homeschooling their kids EXPRESSLY because they don't want to expose them to The Agendas(tm). They don't want their kids exposed to The Gay Agenda, The Secular Humanist Agenda, the Evolutionist Agenda, the WHATEVER Agenda.
I do believe that, in some ways, those kids are getting a better education. They have good study habits, they get more 1-on-1 time with their instructors, they don't have to be taught to the lowest common denominator, etc. Their parents, outside of their belief in magic, do a good job educating them -- unless you count science, where they flat out lie to them.
Outside of your desire to brand me "barely a parent" based on my observations of homeschoolers I know personally, you sound like one of the good ones.
Bitcoins are the wild west...and that's why they're so exciting.
I missed the gold rush, but there's still money to be made selling shovels and pans to those who think they didn't...
In my experience, 100% of homeschoolers are nutbags. What else do you want me to say?
Hence the word anecdotal to start my post.
My experience is 100% nutbag, 0% quality-education-providing parent.
All credit to Adam and Eve.
Anecdotal Supporting Evidence:
I know two parents each homeschooling their kids. Both believe the universe is 6,000 years old. I highly doubt that the discovery of a "600 million year old" supernova will make it to them.
There's a few homeschoolers just trying to provide a better education to their kids, because public schools (can) suck, and because they can't afford private schools and stay-at-home-moms can participate in collectives. The rest? Absolute nutbags, afraid that their kids will learn about Jonnhy's Two Dads instead of how Jesus ride a dinosaur. WRAA! Must. Defeat. Human. Secular. Agenda!
blog.writeathome.com
seems legit