Do we really have to keep beating this product liability drum? Product liability lawyers have been beating this drum for years because the cell phone industry is such a cash cow. There is absolutely no danger from cell phones. None at all. The idiots who think cell phones can ignite fuel vapors at a gas station are the same idiots who think cell phones can cause cancer - at least they want it to be true sooooo badly so they can sue everyone in sight and make a killer living at it.
Spy agencies do not have the right to steal electricity, or anything else, from anybody. They will have to figure out a way to pay whichever power company provides the electricity that they use, which means a certified metering device and some honesty.
I don't think we can hold out any hope for the latter.
One core is sufficient for 99% of office workstations that only run a browser and MS Office applications. Dual-core is a bit more snappy, but I'd rather spend an extra hundred bucks on an SSD for the O/S volume than a more-core processor.
Customers already have the choice of which airline to fly or whether to fly at all.
In any case, I think it's exceedingly hypocritical for the government to paint the airline industry as the "bad guys" when it's the federal government that has single-handedly destroyed the airline industry (at least in the US) by adding hours of senseless "security" bullshit to the process, and imposing billions in hidden costs.
The last time I flew from PHL to ATL, my door-to-door transit time was nearly 15 hours... it takes 13-14 hours to drive. Seriously, when flying can't take you 800 miles any faster than driving yourself, what the hell is the point?
Because there is no need to. With a BOP, you need minutes to close the well. It just so happens that this crappy BOP design has a single point of failure in its supposedly-redundant hydraulic system. This spill belongs to the design team of that BOP and nobody else. It was a stupid decision that never should have made it out of the building.
I imagine it's because it's too labor-intensive and too expensive, and making a routine out of opening the pumps would probably only make it easier for criminals to gain access to them.
I'm usually paranoid about such things, but I didn't even notice. Chase was really on the ball with it though. The crooks who stole my card weren't able to charge a damn thing, because their first attempt tripped the alarm bells.
These skimmer gangs are pervasive, though. They have people working on the inside at retailers everywhere. When mine was skimmed, they tried to use the card to buy several DVD players at a Walgreens nearby within minutes of me buying gas. As it turned out, they had skimmed several dozen cards that morning and had people working in retail stores all around the area trying to buy mostly electronics merchandise with the card numbers. It was a pretty large theft ring...
So, how do you reconcile the fundamental human right against self-incrimination with the fundamental human right of procreation?
Clearly, using DNA in crime investigation is a violation of human rights because it seems to make these two very fundamental human rights mutually exclusive.
"Who cares if you can regurgitate from memory fifty different formula. If you can actually build the device and make it work or write the code and make it work, IMHO you're a far better employment candidate than if you just talk about it."
You hit the nail right on the head here. This is something that we STILL cannot convince the major colleges of. We want candidates that have intuition and creativity, not ones that have been trained to memorize something just long enough to take the test on it.
I might get creative and say that you cannot perform a medical procedure on someone without their consent.
I can also smell a 5th Amendment issue here - being forced to provide evidence against yourself. It is one thing if you choose to throw something in the trash that could be used against you, or if you choose to say something incriminating. But, you have no choice whether to drop DNA samples everywhere. It's practically impossible to avoid.
Because you have no control over the DNA evidence you leave everywhere, that evidence should be off limits COMPLETELY. You cannot be forced into self-incrimination, either by State or by Nature. The 5th draws no distinction.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
It says nothing about whether the person is compelled by the State, or compelled by a condition of nature.
I know this is an absolute pipe dream analysis of it, but in an ideal world where liberty comes first, it would be the way.
I taught a circuits lab class when I was in grad school. I eliminated cheating quite easily. I generated an individual test for each student with the exact same problems but different values for the components. I also randomized the order of the questions and used different color paper to create more confusion. For example, I'd hand out 1/4 of the test each in 4 different colors, with no two adjacent students having the same color - to discourage the thought of cheating in the first place.
I'll never forget, though, the time that two students in different sections turned in lab writeups with the exact same measurement data - out to 5 decimal places (because that's what the Keithley meters were set to display).
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Do we really have to keep beating this product liability drum? Product liability lawyers have been beating this drum for years because the cell phone industry is such a cash cow. There is absolutely no danger from cell phones. None at all. The idiots who think cell phones can ignite fuel vapors at a gas station are the same idiots who think cell phones can cause cancer - at least they want it to be true sooooo badly so they can sue everyone in sight and make a killer living at it.
Here we go again with version number games! Gotta get to a big number quickly so people think your browser is at least as good as your competitor's.
Chrome 3? Why would I use Chrome 3? Internet Explorer is at 8! EIGHT!!!
Spy agencies do not have the right to steal electricity, or anything else, from anybody. They will have to figure out a way to pay whichever power company provides the electricity that they use, which means a certified metering device and some honesty.
I don't think we can hold out any hope for the latter.
"As you can imagine, landing on a power line is hard to do ... and charging off transmission lines has its own problems."
Yeah, stealing electricity also has its problems...
Please take your racist rant somewhere else. While you're there, please learn the difference between violence and terrorism.
One core is sufficient for 99% of office workstations that only run a browser and MS Office applications. Dual-core is a bit more snappy, but I'd rather spend an extra hundred bucks on an SSD for the O/S volume than a more-core processor.
Not every case of violence is terrorism.
A disgruntled employee showing up at work with a weapon is not terrorism.
An estranged spouse kidnapping a child from daycare is not terrorism.
Killing school children is not terrorism.
These are certainly acts of violence, but they are not terrorism at all.
Customers already have the choice of which airline to fly or whether to fly at all.
In any case, I think it's exceedingly hypocritical for the government to paint the airline industry as the "bad guys" when it's the federal government that has single-handedly destroyed the airline industry (at least in the US) by adding hours of senseless "security" bullshit to the process, and imposing billions in hidden costs.
The last time I flew from PHL to ATL, my door-to-door transit time was nearly 15 hours... it takes 13-14 hours to drive. Seriously, when flying can't take you 800 miles any faster than driving yourself, what the hell is the point?
Because there is no need to. With a BOP, you need minutes to close the well. It just so happens that this crappy BOP design has a single point of failure in its supposedly-redundant hydraulic system. This spill belongs to the design team of that BOP and nobody else. It was a stupid decision that never should have made it out of the building.
Virtual Humans have been around for a long time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la4VxWjUAGI :-)
Those whackjobs have a pretty powerful lobby and are largely responsible for senseless crap like this.
If adults really ingested 1200 times the "safe" level of something, they'd all be dead.
I imagine it's because it's too labor-intensive and too expensive, and making a routine out of opening the pumps would probably only make it easier for criminals to gain access to them.
I'm usually paranoid about such things, but I didn't even notice. Chase was really on the ball with it though. The crooks who stole my card weren't able to charge a damn thing, because their first attempt tripped the alarm bells.
These skimmer gangs are pervasive, though. They have people working on the inside at retailers everywhere. When mine was skimmed, they tried to use the card to buy several DVD players at a Walgreens nearby within minutes of me buying gas. As it turned out, they had skimmed several dozen cards that morning and had people working in retail stores all around the area trying to buy mostly electronics merchandise with the card numbers. It was a pretty large theft ring...
So, how do you reconcile the fundamental human right against self-incrimination with the fundamental human right of procreation?
Clearly, using DNA in crime investigation is a violation of human rights because it seems to make these two very fundamental human rights mutually exclusive.
Blaming the computer for Internet distraction isn't correct.
I would be interested to see the effects of putting a computer with educational tools in the home, but WITHOUT INTERNET.
"Who cares if you can regurgitate from memory fifty different formula. If you can actually build the device and make it work or write the code and make it work, IMHO you're a far better employment candidate than if you just talk about it."
You hit the nail right on the head here. This is something that we STILL cannot convince the major colleges of. We want candidates that have intuition and creativity, not ones that have been trained to memorize something just long enough to take the test on it.
I might get creative and say that you cannot perform a medical procedure on someone without their consent.
I can also smell a 5th Amendment issue here - being forced to provide evidence against yourself. It is one thing if you choose to throw something in the trash that could be used against you, or if you choose to say something incriminating. But, you have no choice whether to drop DNA samples everywhere. It's practically impossible to avoid.
Because you have no control over the DNA evidence you leave everywhere, that evidence should be off limits COMPLETELY. You cannot be forced into self-incrimination, either by State or by Nature. The 5th draws no distinction.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
It says nothing about whether the person is compelled by the State, or compelled by a condition of nature.
I know this is an absolute pipe dream analysis of it, but in an ideal world where liberty comes first, it would be the way.
>> 2. Apple intends to release a software update that will inaccurately display good signal strength when it is poor.
Strike that - reverse it. Apple intends to release a software update that will inaccurately display poor signal strength when it is actually good.
The shock! Here are a couple of lines of code that were BLATANTLY copied from Unix into Linux:
Here's one shocking example:
#include
and another:
return(0);
I can't believe the audacity of Linux developers to just shamelessly steal this code from Unix.
How about the need for *ANY* openness?
Currency is only valuable if people accept it as payment for things. Nobody seems to take this, so therefore it has no value.
This shameless slashvertisement and joke of a Wikipedia article about it aren't really going to change that.
I taught a circuits lab class when I was in grad school. I eliminated cheating quite easily. I generated an individual test for each student with the exact same problems but different values for the components. I also randomized the order of the questions and used different color paper to create more confusion. For example, I'd hand out 1/4 of the test each in 4 different colors, with no two adjacent students having the same color - to discourage the thought of cheating in the first place.
I'll never forget, though, the time that two students in different sections turned in lab writeups with the exact same measurement data - out to 5 decimal places (because that's what the Keithley meters were set to display).
Plot a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15
So the control system can be virtualized and run/monitored by operators in India and the Czech Republic.
How is 10^27 even remotely close to 1/4 Googol?