It is just like moderation value around here is over-hipped. Just take a look at stackoverlflow - almost anyone can downvote and upvote everything, unlimited times, and it is not like it sunk down in a singularity.
I for one, do not care for having/. "moderation points" I have to carefully spent over 5 days for a while.
I have a LG Smart-TV - non android. Just browsing the web trying to see videos in sites, you are covered by a rain of pop-up adds that make it impossible to navigate. One can't even remove a cookie from the built-in TV browser. It is just a matter of time before smart TVs stuck bloated by adware, unless the TV vendors offer more control to the TV owners - android platform or not.
In a connected world, customers can pick the cars straight with the makers - the whole article is written as if the unnecessary middle-men where a show stopper. They are the ones being stopped, and what makes one wonder is that are not gone already.
I've followed/.for the most part of the last 20 years. And I guess once every 2-3 years they do come with a headline of "transparent aluminium" breakthrough - which each and every time turns out to be some kind of ceramics that takes aluminium in each composition (a.k.a. "glass"). Let's see what they do have this time around.
It looks like it is not/. editors who can't read things here, but you. This is the sitautionm - I own Wifi access point "A"; Friend "B" comes by, I physically pass A's password to B. Now "B" is the one with the option to share or not the passwords (and all of them) with all HIS contacts - not mine. And moreover, it will happen by default - if B has 2000 Outlook.com contacts, all those 2000 people will be automatically allowed to connect on my WiFi "A". And the ony means this not to happen is if `B` opt out __all__ his sharing (not just for WiFi "A") or if WiFi "A` SSID is formatted as dictated by Microsoft (i.e., ending in `_optout`).
This is so insanely ridiculous that there are no word to describe how ridiculous that is.
Since the post is related, I will take my time to off-topically cast my votes as a consumer: avoid Lenovo "ideapad" line like you'd avoid hell.
Mine has the worst screen I had ever seen in my life - worst contrast and highest reflection ever! (it can't beat a generic sub $ 60 Chinese Android tablet's). Sound volume is poor almost as if non-existent, keyboard build is flimsy. Just say NO. And even if going to other Lenovo product lines, I'd be extra careful checking the overall building.
What is the point for attackers to continue attacking a Windows without support? They should all move along to newer versions, and that includes ceasing the use of any already compromised machines.
Seriously! Do you remember the 90's widespread hoax of a company selling kittens grown up inside glass bottles as "bonsai"? I consider this to be on the same level of hoax - but for some possible state-intelligence level sponsoring that could be used to stir even more the rage against "the terrorists". Just to keep the wars going, you know.
Google certainly didn't ask for being mandated for governments. But when governments wanted to seize control of search results in name of "war against terrorism" people aplauded. Governments are in charge now, and there are just a couple information hubs they need to care about. So much for the World we've choosen to live in.
Still, as they find slowly their way through what Plasma in space can achieve, mainstream science is blinded by Gravity only suppositions turned into "reality" with an increasingly set of fudge factors. TFA just list a small number of them. But talk someone on the "mainstream" - including just self-presumed scientifically educated persons that the Big Bang perhaps did not take place, and point to the political and social movements inside Science that led to its conformation, and you are as an "heretic" as someone who tries to tell a fundamentalist Christiant that Hell or Heaven may not be the way he have been told.
BTW, the grandparent post was written in a "trollish" wording on purpose - but I seriously consider the electric comet theory - and would advise anyone not tending to hold "the most accepted current theory" in science as if it were a religious fact. If anyone one is curious about it, give it a read.
Now - I just got to this article and video depicting an explosion in Mars that fits quite well with the electric comet model - but which would get a hard time being explained by ice blocks: https://missiongalacticfreedom...
There is no water coming out of comets. What is detected are OH- ions, that are believed to be derived from water - which is not there - but can equally derive from ionized oxygen combined with protons (A.K.A. H+) from the solar wind.
I wonder why do they still write "icy comet nucleus" if no comet photographed up to today - and we have at least three close encounters with crafts - had displayed icy features. All of them are pretty much rocky.
By now it should be obvious that the light-show given by comets is electric in nature, and has nothing to do with melting ice or snow.
Given TFS later tells of "1.5 billion years since switching off", and the impossibility of measuring 300.000 years accurately in this context, I suppose the reactor was active for 300 million years, not 300 thousand years. Is ee the "300000" number is in TFA, but it looks suspect.
How much of the total plant bio-mass are you processing to start with when you are dealing with corn? 2%? 3%? (That is until you get to the actual fuel, which is much less than that.) When you do Biofuels from farming monoculture the proper way (if such a thing is possible at all), like from sugar-cane, where maybe 30-50% of the biomass is the part to be processed into biofuel, you may be getting some improvement over oil status-quo. With algae you maybe can achieve 100% of the biomass to start processing, sounds even nicer.
But from Corn? It is so stupid, it does not even deserve a proper adjective. It is even stupid to waste time making "studies" on it.
Trying to do it is only about corn super-production, hype, and abuse of government subsidies to plant corn, all mixed with a large, big dose of the reverse of common sense.
If it's the latter, Fluke should step up and allow them to make a one time exception for this shipment. It would generate considerably goodwill for the company and show that they're not bullies keeping the little guy down.
You are new to this "capitalism" thing, aren't you?
The problem seems to be that the managin practcies of breaking work in "time unites" rather than tasks makes us allbelieve it is the right thing to do. But as a matter of fact, outside a big construction company (and I am not shure how it is dealt inside such a company), one would not hire the builder to "build a wall in 20 hours", and I pay you this per hour. The only sane thing to do is to hire the builder to build the wall - he will take his time, and make his price for that. In the slavish software development World dictated by this managing techniques, we all learned to think of the "man hour" as a reality - when what should happen is a contract to build a software piece. So, yes, the bugs problem should be built in the price for building the "software piece", up to reasonable time after deployment and seriousness of bugs. But also, that implies that the idea of ordering one to "build this piece of software in 8 hours" is also nonsense.
Given that for each "not immediate dismissable" time traveler there are thousands of plausible future-tellers, I don't know how positive identifications of "events published before they happen" could actually signal one rather than the other.
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Millions of Waze users can have their movements tracked by other Waze users #noissuethere
(The protocol reverse engineer and the ability to spoof extra cars are news worthy, I'd guess - but the headline is completely pointless)
It is just like moderation value around here is over-hipped. Just take a look at stackoverlflow - almost anyone can downvote and upvote everything, unlimited times, and it is not like it sunk down in a singularity.
I for one, do not care for having /. "moderation points" I have to carefully spent over 5 days for a while.
I have a LG Smart-TV - non android. Just browsing the web trying to see videos in sites, you are covered by a rain of pop-up adds that make it impossible to navigate. One can't even remove a cookie from the built-in TV browser. It is just a matter of time before smart TVs stuck bloated by adware, unless the TV vendors offer more control to the TV owners - android platform or not.
In a connected world, customers can pick the cars straight with the makers - the whole article is written as if the unnecessary middle-men where a show stopper. They are the ones being stopped, and what makes one wonder is that are not gone already.
Is it just me that was completely "shoot this guy off the internet", when TFS multiplied "4k by four yet once again" to get to 8K??
TFS lost me right there. There is No Such Thing(tm)
I've followed /.for the most part of the last 20 years. And I guess once every 2-3 years they do come with a headline of "transparent aluminium" breakthrough - which each and every time turns out to be some kind of ceramics that takes aluminium in each composition (a.k.a. "glass"). Let's see what they do have this time around.
It looks like it is not /. editors who can't read things here, but you. This is the sitautionm - I own Wifi access point "A"; Friend "B" comes by, I physically pass A's password to B. Now "B" is the one with the option to share or not the passwords (and all of them) with all HIS contacts - not mine. And moreover, it will happen by default - if B has 2000 Outlook.com contacts, all those 2000 people will be automatically allowed to connect on my WiFi "A". And the ony means this not to happen is if `B` opt out __all__ his sharing (not just for WiFi "A") or if WiFi "A` SSID is formatted as dictated by Microsoft (i.e., ending in `_optout`).
This is so insanely ridiculous that there are no word to describe how ridiculous that is.
Since the post is related, I will take my time to off-topically cast my votes as a consumer:
avoid Lenovo "ideapad" line like you'd avoid hell.
Mine has the worst screen I had ever seen in my life - worst contrast and highest reflection ever!
(it can't beat a generic sub $ 60 Chinese Android tablet's). Sound volume is poor almost as if non-existent,
keyboard build is flimsy.
Just say NO. And even if going to other Lenovo product lines, I'd be extra careful checking the overall building.
What is the point for attackers to continue attacking a Windows without support? They should all move along to newer versions,
and that includes ceasing the use of any already compromised machines.
Seriously!
Do you remember the 90's widespread hoax of a company selling kittens grown up inside glass bottles as "bonsai"? I consider this to be on the same level of hoax - but for some possible state-intelligence level sponsoring that could be used to stir even more the rage against "the terrorists". Just to keep the wars going, you know.
Google certainly didn't ask for being mandated for governments. But when governments wanted to seize control of search results in name of "war against terrorism" people aplauded. Governments are in charge now, and there are just a couple information hubs they need to care about. So much for the World we've choosen to live in.
Of course a lot of people thought. They've warned of such scenarios back there, and they could do nothing, just as little can be done now.
Still, as they find slowly their way through what Plasma in space can achieve, mainstream science is blinded by Gravity only suppositions turned into "reality" with an increasingly set of fudge factors. TFA just list a small number of them. But talk someone on the "mainstream" - including just self-presumed scientifically educated persons that the Big Bang perhaps did not take place, and point to the political and social movements inside Science that led to its conformation, and you are as an "heretic" as someone who tries to tell a fundamentalist Christiant that Hell or Heaven may not be the way he have been told.
Rather, it is just the confirmation of slashdot's true darma.
BTW, the grandparent post was written in a "trollish" wording on purpose - but I seriously consider the electric comet theory - and would advise anyone not tending to hold "the most accepted current theory" in science as if it were a religious fact. If anyone one is curious about it, give it a read.
Now - I just got to this article and video depicting an explosion in Mars that fits quite well with the electric comet model - but which would get a hard time being explained by ice blocks: https://missiongalacticfreedom...
There is no water coming out of comets. What is detected are OH- ions, that are believed to be derived from water - which is not there - but can equally derive from ionized oxygen combined with protons (A.K.A. H+) from the solar wind.
I wonder why do they still write "icy comet nucleus" if no comet photographed up to today - and we have at least three close encounters with crafts - had displayed icy features. All of them are pretty much rocky.
By now it should be obvious that the light-show given by comets is electric in nature, and has nothing to do with melting ice or snow.
Just uplad everything, and let the netowrk be your backup.
Q. "So who cares about IQ anyway?"
A. MENSA members!
Given TFS later tells of "1.5 billion years since switching off", and the impossibility of measuring 300.000 years accurately in this context, I suppose the reactor was active for 300 million years, not 300 thousand years. Is ee the "300000" number is in TFA, but it looks suspect.
It is brain-dead stupid!
How much of the total plant bio-mass are you processing to start with when you are dealing with corn? 2%? 3%? (That is until you get to
the actual fuel, which is much less than that.) When you do Biofuels from farming monoculture the proper way (if such a thing is possible at all), like from sugar-cane, where maybe 30-50% of the biomass is the part to be processed into biofuel, you may be getting some improvement over oil status-quo. With algae you maybe can achieve 100% of the biomass to start processing, sounds even nicer.
But from Corn? It is so stupid, it does not even deserve a proper adjective. It is even stupid to waste time making "studies" on it.
Trying to do it is only about corn super-production, hype, and abuse of government subsidies to plant corn, all mixed with a large, big
dose of the reverse of common sense.
If it's the latter, Fluke should step up and allow them to make a one time exception for this shipment. It would generate considerably goodwill for the company and show that they're not bullies keeping the little guy down.
You are new to this "capitalism" thing, aren't you?
The problem seems to be that the managin practcies of breaking work in "time unites" rather than tasks makes us allbelieve it is the right thing to do. But as a matter of fact, outside a big construction company (and I am not shure how it is dealt inside such a company), one would not hire the builder to "build a wall in 20 hours", and I pay you this per hour. The only sane thing to do is to hire the builder to build the wall - he will take his time, and make his price for that. In the slavish software development World dictated by this managing techniques, we all learned to think of the "man hour" as a reality - when what should happen is a contract to build a software piece. So, yes, the bugs problem should be built in the price for building the "software piece", up to reasonable time after deployment and seriousness of bugs. But also, that implies that the idea of ordering one to "build this piece of software in 8 hours" is also nonsense.
Given that for each "not immediate dismissable" time traveler there are thousands of plausible future-tellers, I don't know how
positive identifications of "events published before they happen" could actually signal one rather than the other.