Umm, CNN is the reason that Millennials stayed home instead of voting for Hillary. CNN trashed Bernie throughout the entire campaign with lies and deception at the behest of the Clinton campaign. Unfortunately Millennials will believe anything they are told by "reputable" left-leaning journalism outfits like CNN.
You think I'm for Trump, and you're mistaken. Trump terrifies me, like he should terrify the legions of mouth-breathers who put him into office.
You are foolish to think that anyone who doesn't toe your particular line is necessarily against you. Your kneejerk reaction to my post, accusing me of being a Trump supporter, is ignorant, foolhardy, and outright stupid.
Well, CNN is already really good at telling stories to an audience of millennials who live in fantasyland, so this should be a raging success for them.
1) Might happen 2) Might happen 3) The centerpiece of his victory speech 4) Won't happen 5) Won't happen 6) Won't happen - see also #3 7) Sure as shit won't happen 8) Won't happen for the same reason we can't build pipelines, new power line rights of way, or any other new infrastructure: NIMBYism
"We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate," Zuckerberg wrote. "There are many reasons a person might support Trump that do not involve racism, sexism, xenophobia, or accepting sexual assault."
"We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate," Zuckerberg wrote. "There are many reasons a person might support Trump, but those that do are racist, sexist, xenophobic, and accept sexual assault."
For crying out loud, you'd think Slashdot editors could get correct the name of a top 10 national engineering program.
It's "Georgia Tech," or "The Georgia Institute of Technology." It's not "Georgia Tech University," "University of Georgia Tech," "The University of Georgia at Atlanta," or "The Georgia Technological University."
A decent new programmable thermostat is $40 at home depot. If I had a so-called "smart" thermostat and it got hacked, you can bet I'm neither going to pay the ransom nor replace it with another so-called "smart" thermostat.
Here is the basic construction of the device from TFA:
"The UIC artificial leaf consists of two silicon triple-junction photovoltaic cells of 18 square centimeters to harvest light; the tungsten diselenide and ionic liquid co-catalyst system on the cathode side; and cobalt oxide in potassium phosphate electrolyte on the anode side."
So, the cathode is immersed in a combination of water and ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate (from TFA).
The anode is immersed also in an electrolyte.
The result is that "hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas bubble up from the cathode, while free oxygen and hydrogen ions are produced at the anode." (From TFA)
There's a big piece missing here: how does the CO2 from the atmosphere get to the cathode to be catalyzed, as it is immersed in this ionic fluid? Where does the Hydrogen come from - the electrolyte? It must, because there is no other place for it to come from. This means that the electrolyte is consumed unless it reclaims the Hydrogen, which we've been told is not the point.
So, the questions I have are:
1) How does CO2 get from the atmosphere to the cathode?
2) If the electrolyte is consumed in the process, does the H come from the water in the mix or from the ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate? (Slightly less bad if all we have to do is add water, but the fact they don't answer this question leads me to believe the H comes from the ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate)
3) Since we're releasing H and CO from the electrolyte in which the cathode is immersed, then we must also necessarily release Oxygen, both from the CO2, and from the electrolyte if it is the water being electrolyzed. Why do they not mention Oxygen bubbling up from the cathode, as it must?
Um, have you ever BEEN to a Chik-Fil-A? Nothing but love and inclusion to be experienced in that place. Do you know why? It is because Jesus commands us to love each other as he loved us. Jesus loved all people, regardless of their sins, transgressions, and shortcomings. He died on the cross to pay for our sins, and believe you me, we are all sinners.
As a Christian, I know I am not endowed with the right to pass judgment. I live my life dedicated to loving my fellow man as Jesus loved me, and the folks at Chik-Fil-A do the same.
John 13:34-35 reads: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Colossians 3:12-17 is one of my favorite passages:
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Nothing in the great word preaches hate and intolerance, for we may not judge. Matthew 7 spells it out:
7 âoeJudge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, âLet me take the speck out of your eye,â(TM) when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Offtopic, but still the most contributory post in this thread. I was saddened that my spicy Christian chicken biscuit was taken off the menu. It costs almost $2 to have them put the spicy patty from the sandwich on the biscuit.
The best antivirus ever is to use your fucking brain when you surf the Internet. And, if you don't have a brain, to stay OFF the fucking Internet.
99.999% of all viruses and malware are distributed by one of these three methods:
1) Spamming email addresses with infected links promising penile enlargement, instant riches, or notifying you of a problem with an account you don't even have at a bank you've never heard of (and yet people still fall for it)
2) Porn sites. All of them spread viruses and malware. That is their job.
3) "One weird trick," "You'll be shocked," "They don't want you to know," and "This simple method" spam traps on Facebook and other social media sites.
Stop doing these three simple things, and you won't believe the results when it comes to the one weird trick the big AV makers don't want you to know about.
This. However, what self-driving cars (I prefer to call them by a more accurate name - semi-automatic cars) will do is cause an all-out war between the trial lawyer lobby and the auto insurance lobby. Trial lawyers would LOVE to shift liability for auto accidents from a pissant $25K minimum coverage individual policy to Google's stash of billions of dollars.
>> And what is "regular" maintenance on a grease fitting-free sealed and not serviceable component?
I can't tell if you are asking that seriously or not. But, assuming you honestly don't know, "regular maintenance" on ball joints is to replace them when they wear out, which is evidenced by improper motion of the joint when the suspension is unloaded.
There are many wear-out-and-replace parts on a car, even one without an internal combustion engine. Shocks, struts, strut spring seats, strut steering bearings, control arm bushings, ball joints, steering bushings, sway bar and sway bar end link bushings, motor mount bushings (I honestly don't know if Tesla's electric motors ride on bushing mounts, though), and in recent times, brake rotors and even whole transmissions (Ford 6F35 and Aisin Warner AW55 as examples) have made it onto the "wear out and replace" list of maintenance items.
A long time ago, most joints on a vehicle were not sealed and had grease fittings so that the joints could be cleaned out and relubricated. These types of joints lasted forever with regular maintenance. Everything started to go sealed/maintenance free when people got tired of constantly having to have this maintenance done, and demanded cars you could drive 50,000 miles without having to lay a wrench on except for oil changes. That figure today is more like 150,000 miles, and some car companies even warrant their drivetrains for 100k miles or 10 years.
$3,100 is actually insane for a control arm and ball joint. $310 would still be insane for a single side. I think I paid about $300 for a set of both front LCAs and ball joints on my Volvo, and that's a Volvo so it's already expensive compared to, say, a Chevy Cobalt.
None of this or your response is relevant to the fact that all parties involved are being dicks to each other about it, and to the fact that the Mom's Basement Commando crowd is all too willing to go to war over it.
The ball joint and control arm failed. It was found that the ball joint had an excessive amount of rust, which means that there was moisture incursion.
The ball joints used on the Tesla are sealed and do not have a grease fitting. They are not meant to be serviceable.
This leads to the logical conclusion that the ball joint was somehow defective, or was made defective at some point (i.e.the seal was broken).
Either moisture got in at the factory, or it got in post-production as if something tore the rubber seal.
In any case, this guy's car broke out of warranty and Tesla begrudgingly offered to pay half of the repair cost, and was a huge cock-gobbler about it.
So, what do we know?
1) The owner of this car is a bit of a dick for expecting warranty service out of warranty on a wearout item
2) Tesla is a bit of a dick for attaching a rather insane legal agreement for what amounts to an at-cost repair of the car
3) A bunch of Internet Commandos are taking sides in an all out war from Mom's Basement over who is "right" or "wrong" in this disagreement between two assholes.
What's the lesson to be learned here? If you don't do regular maintenance on your car, it will break. Duh.
How the hell does Netflix know you re-used your password on other sites? The salted hashes should be different for each site, even if the same password is used.
My observation has been for the past couple of years that there is no longer such thing as a strong password. Not because people don't create strong passwords, but because of weak password recovery tools.
"Security" questions are probably the worst way to protect the password reset process, because the answers to typical security questions can easily be found on social media, or worse, in the public record.
For example, "what city were you married in?" That's public record, and anybody can do a marriage license search and determine the location where you were married.
It is good practice to use more passwords as the answers to security questions, instead of the actual answers.
Indeed, if we could just get kids at the high school level to understand the mechanics of coding, and some very basic rules of writing decent code, that is plenty sufficient for those who want to pursue CS to have a foundation. Overall I think a reasonable expectation would be for HS kids to learn mechanically how code works, such as how to use functions, pointers, objects, structures, and so on, to organize data. I don't think it's necessarily a requirement that HS kids be architecture experts, algorithm experts or to know the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow, African OR European.
It does no good to be an algorithm wonk if you don't know how to implement them in code. However, it does a lot of good to know how to write code that does stuff even if you aren't the best at optimizing your algorithms, when you are beginning to pursue an education in CS.
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Umm, CNN is the reason that Millennials stayed home instead of voting for Hillary. CNN trashed Bernie throughout the entire campaign with lies and deception at the behest of the Clinton campaign. Unfortunately Millennials will believe anything they are told by "reputable" left-leaning journalism outfits like CNN.
You think I'm for Trump, and you're mistaken. Trump terrifies me, like he should terrify the legions of mouth-breathers who put him into office.
You are foolish to think that anyone who doesn't toe your particular line is necessarily against you. Your kneejerk reaction to my post, accusing me of being a Trump supporter, is ignorant, foolhardy, and outright stupid.
Well, CNN is already really good at telling stories to an audience of millennials who live in fantasyland, so this should be a raging success for them.
1) Might happen
2) Might happen
3) The centerpiece of his victory speech
4) Won't happen
5) Won't happen
6) Won't happen - see also #3
7) Sure as shit won't happen
8) Won't happen for the same reason we can't build pipelines, new power line rights of way, or any other new infrastructure: NIMBYism
Perfect post. End of Line.
Translation:
"We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate," Zuckerberg wrote. "There are many reasons a person might support Trump that do not involve racism, sexism, xenophobia, or accepting sexual assault."
"We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate," Zuckerberg wrote. "There are many reasons a person might support Trump, but those that do are racist, sexist, xenophobic, and accept sexual assault."
I drive an XC90 and ripped out all of Volvo's stock audio and NAV crap and replaced it with a semi-permanently mounted android tablet on my cell plan.
Spotify for music and Google Maps for directions. Done, and done, and it's all so much better than the stock junk.
For crying out loud, you'd think Slashdot editors could get correct the name of a top 10 national engineering program.
It's "Georgia Tech," or "The Georgia Institute of Technology." It's not "Georgia Tech University," "University of Georgia Tech," "The University of Georgia at Atlanta," or "The Georgia Technological University."
Sorry, maintaining full android "compatibility" on a product you are recalling anyway is not more important than safety.
A decent new programmable thermostat is $40 at home depot. If I had a so-called "smart" thermostat and it got hacked, you can bet I'm neither going to pay the ransom nor replace it with another so-called "smart" thermostat.
I don't know about you guys, but I sleep in the dark, with my eyes closed.
Here is the basic construction of the device from TFA:
"The UIC artificial leaf consists of two silicon triple-junction photovoltaic cells of 18 square centimeters to harvest light; the tungsten diselenide and ionic liquid co-catalyst system on the cathode side; and cobalt oxide in potassium phosphate electrolyte on the anode side."
So, the cathode is immersed in a combination of water and ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate (from TFA).
The anode is immersed also in an electrolyte.
The result is that "hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas bubble up from the cathode, while free oxygen and hydrogen ions are produced at the anode." (From TFA)
There's a big piece missing here: how does the CO2 from the atmosphere get to the cathode to be catalyzed, as it is immersed in this ionic fluid? Where does the Hydrogen come from - the electrolyte? It must, because there is no other place for it to come from. This means that the electrolyte is consumed unless it reclaims the Hydrogen, which we've been told is not the point.
So, the questions I have are:
1) How does CO2 get from the atmosphere to the cathode?
2) If the electrolyte is consumed in the process, does the H come from the water in the mix or from the ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate? (Slightly less bad if all we have to do is add water, but the fact they don't answer this question leads me to believe the H comes from the ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate)
3) Since we're releasing H and CO from the electrolyte in which the cathode is immersed, then we must also necessarily release Oxygen, both from the CO2, and from the electrolyte if it is the water being electrolyzed. Why do they not mention Oxygen bubbling up from the cathode, as it must?
I believe the word you are looking for is "Masonic."
I have no idea what this fatwa has with bricklaying.
Great, now we're going to have wars over "on a lamppost" patents.
Um, have you ever BEEN to a Chik-Fil-A? Nothing but love and inclusion to be experienced in that place. Do you know why? It is because Jesus commands us to love each other as he loved us. Jesus loved all people, regardless of their sins, transgressions, and shortcomings. He died on the cross to pay for our sins, and believe you me, we are all sinners.
As a Christian, I know I am not endowed with the right to pass judgment. I live my life dedicated to loving my fellow man as Jesus loved me, and the folks at Chik-Fil-A do the same.
John 13:34-35 reads: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Colossians 3:12-17 is one of my favorite passages:
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Nothing in the great word preaches hate and intolerance, for we may not judge. Matthew 7 spells it out:
7 âoeJudge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, âLet me take the speck out of your eye,â(TM) when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Offtopic, but still the most contributory post in this thread. I was saddened that my spicy Christian chicken biscuit was taken off the menu. It costs almost $2 to have them put the spicy patty from the sandwich on the biscuit.
I like DBAN. I've never had issues with it, and you can't beat the price.
The best antivirus ever is to use your fucking brain when you surf the Internet. And, if you don't have a brain, to stay OFF the fucking Internet.
99.999% of all viruses and malware are distributed by one of these three methods:
1) Spamming email addresses with infected links promising penile enlargement, instant riches, or notifying you of a problem with an account you don't even have at a bank you've never heard of (and yet people still fall for it)
2) Porn sites. All of them spread viruses and malware. That is their job.
3) "One weird trick," "You'll be shocked," "They don't want you to know," and "This simple method" spam traps on Facebook and other social media sites.
Stop doing these three simple things, and you won't believe the results when it comes to the one weird trick the big AV makers don't want you to know about.
This. However, what self-driving cars (I prefer to call them by a more accurate name - semi-automatic cars) will do is cause an all-out war between the trial lawyer lobby and the auto insurance lobby. Trial lawyers would LOVE to shift liability for auto accidents from a pissant $25K minimum coverage individual policy to Google's stash of billions of dollars.
Screw the 6GB of RAM. Give me Flash storage that doesn't slow to a crawl (taking the OS with it) in 6 months.
>> And what is "regular" maintenance on a grease fitting-free sealed and not serviceable component?
I can't tell if you are asking that seriously or not. But, assuming you honestly don't know, "regular maintenance" on ball joints is to replace them when they wear out, which is evidenced by improper motion of the joint when the suspension is unloaded.
There are many wear-out-and-replace parts on a car, even one without an internal combustion engine. Shocks, struts, strut spring seats, strut steering bearings, control arm bushings, ball joints, steering bushings, sway bar and sway bar end link bushings, motor mount bushings (I honestly don't know if Tesla's electric motors ride on bushing mounts, though), and in recent times, brake rotors and even whole transmissions (Ford 6F35 and Aisin Warner AW55 as examples) have made it onto the "wear out and replace" list of maintenance items.
A long time ago, most joints on a vehicle were not sealed and had grease fittings so that the joints could be cleaned out and relubricated. These types of joints lasted forever with regular maintenance. Everything started to go sealed/maintenance free when people got tired of constantly having to have this maintenance done, and demanded cars you could drive 50,000 miles without having to lay a wrench on except for oil changes. That figure today is more like 150,000 miles, and some car companies even warrant their drivetrains for 100k miles or 10 years.
$3,100 is actually insane for a control arm and ball joint. $310 would still be insane for a single side. I think I paid about $300 for a set of both front LCAs and ball joints on my Volvo, and that's a Volvo so it's already expensive compared to, say, a Chevy Cobalt.
None of this or your response is relevant to the fact that all parties involved are being dicks to each other about it, and to the fact that the Mom's Basement Commando crowd is all too willing to go to war over it.
Let's look at the facts:
The ball joint and control arm failed. It was found that the ball joint had an excessive amount of rust, which means that there was moisture incursion.
The ball joints used on the Tesla are sealed and do not have a grease fitting. They are not meant to be serviceable.
This leads to the logical conclusion that the ball joint was somehow defective, or was made defective at some point (i.e.the seal was broken).
Either moisture got in at the factory, or it got in post-production as if something tore the rubber seal.
In any case, this guy's car broke out of warranty and Tesla begrudgingly offered to pay half of the repair cost, and was a huge cock-gobbler about it.
So, what do we know?
1) The owner of this car is a bit of a dick for expecting warranty service out of warranty on a wearout item
2) Tesla is a bit of a dick for attaching a rather insane legal agreement for what amounts to an at-cost repair of the car
3) A bunch of Internet Commandos are taking sides in an all out war from Mom's Basement over who is "right" or "wrong" in this disagreement between two assholes.
What's the lesson to be learned here? If you don't do regular maintenance on your car, it will break. Duh.
Government workers will actually have to do their jobs now instead of sit around all day watching cat videos.
How the hell does Netflix know you re-used your password on other sites? The salted hashes should be different for each site, even if the same password is used.
THIS.
My observation has been for the past couple of years that there is no longer such thing as a strong password. Not because people don't create strong passwords, but because of weak password recovery tools.
"Security" questions are probably the worst way to protect the password reset process, because the answers to typical security questions can easily be found on social media, or worse, in the public record.
For example, "what city were you married in?" That's public record, and anybody can do a marriage license search and determine the location where you were married.
It is good practice to use more passwords as the answers to security questions, instead of the actual answers.
Indeed, if we could just get kids at the high school level to understand the mechanics of coding, and some very basic rules of writing decent code, that is plenty sufficient for those who want to pursue CS to have a foundation. Overall I think a reasonable expectation would be for HS kids to learn mechanically how code works, such as how to use functions, pointers, objects, structures, and so on, to organize data. I don't think it's necessarily a requirement that HS kids be architecture experts, algorithm experts or to know the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow, African OR European.
It does no good to be an algorithm wonk if you don't know how to implement them in code. However, it does a lot of good to know how to write code that does stuff even if you aren't the best at optimizing your algorithms, when you are beginning to pursue an education in CS.