I couldn't have put it better. I wish the media finally got this message as well, instead of pampering to these spoiled, whining, pampered white (con) women. I guess controversy just sells better...
It's fortunately only a small number of women who are attempting to ruin it for the rest of us. Unsurprisingly we find bullies and trolls in roughly equal amounts everywhere, regardless of their physical specifications.
Grace Hopper is indeed one example of a woman who defined the world. Same for Ada Lovelace, and countless others. They also did it together with men. I think that message of cooperation is something which seems to be often lost on humanity as a whole...
As a woman & part of a minority who has been in and around open source projects, video games and what not for most of her life, I am frankly flabbergasted at articles and wild accusations like these.
The supposition is that there is a problem 'we women' suffer at the hands of males. The reality is that there are trolls and bullies who just pick on the weak. What I have also found is that said trolls and bullies are generally rapidly expunged from tech & gaming circles as they are unpleasant to deal with.
I have always found both the video gaming and open source/tech communities to be the most pleasant and welcoming of all. Am I doing something wrong here? Am I internalising misogyny, or some such nonsense?
Please, stop making up non-existing problems. We got enough real problems as-is already, including radicalised feminists and the media harassing us female gamers and geeks for not adhering to outdated and/or ridiculous stereotypes. Now there's a target to focus on for some real research on an actual problem. I won't stop you.
After reading the friendly summary & article one might be left confused about where this lead is coming from, but according to the Wikipedia entry on the Flint River, it's due to the river's water being corrosive (presumably low pH) and degrading the lead pipes which form part of the water distribution network of the city.
The water itself is lead-free as it leaves the treatment plant, but still unsuitable for drinking due to containing high levels of carcinogenic trihalomethanes, which was the original reason that the river water was deemed unsuitable for producing potable water from.
I couldn't agree more. I'm a software developer by trade. That I am a woman is a completely irrelevant quantifier in this context, as neither one's biological sex nor one's chosen gender role seems to have any effect on the quality of one's code in my experience.
Frankly, if someone refers to me as a 'female software developer' I'm more likely to feel offended, as if I'm somehow different from my (mostly male) colleagues, despite doing the exact same job and delivering (roughly) the same results.
Previously such thermal solar tower designs have caught a lot of flak for a number of reasons, including their ability to light passing birds on fire ('streamers'), their maintenance-intensive nature (lots of mirrors and associated electronics to clean and maintain), the risk of massive arrays of mirrors reflecting light for passing pilots, as well as their relatively low power density.
The article reads more like a fluff PR piece instead of providing any credible reason for why we should get about yet another one of these plants.
One of the hallmarks of PV solar and wind (turbine) power is that its installed capacity is so completely out of sync with its utilization rate. While a coal, nuclear or gas plant can hit utilization rates of 90 - 99%, PV solar and wind tend to fluctuate around 20-30%.
In short, 70-80% of installed PV solar and wind capacity has to be discarded in order to close to the utilization percentage. It also means that you need 3-5 times as much installed capacity to get near the power delivered figures for baseload power sources.
In summary, in terms commonly used here in/., I believe this article is what is referred to as a 'circle jerk':)
The German grid more stable in 2013? Relative to the years before it, maybe. Mostly because there's a big new market springing up here for people to sell grid stabilization services, which involves buffering energy somehow. It's all a response to the utter unsuitability of wind/solar to provide reliable power output.
But feel free to believe in your propaganda... fact of the matter is that the German Energiewende is on its last legs. Subsidies are being cut, projects are being scaled back and politicians are desperately trying to figure out ways to break the bad news to the populace.
Germany, Scotland and Denmark have stabilization issues on their national grids. Fortunately they are linked into other (national) grids to help stabilize things again.
Unfortunately for my country (Germany) the surrounding countries are getting a bit pissed over having to take our power fluctuations every time the wind picks up/slows down and a cloud moves in front of our freakin' solar panels.,
Even the Green party here which originally championed the Energiewende is slowly retreating on its statements and original goals. It's increasingly becoming clear that it is all just a poorly planned and very expensive joke which has only served to increase the CO2 produced. Our government has already indicated that Germany will have to back out of the CO2 reduction goals previously set.
'Renewable energy' is largely just a white elephant, with some very severe negative repercussions.
Separating children and teenagers into 'boys and girls' keeps reinforcing the idea that these are part of some black and white, unchanging reality.
The fact of the matter is that both the gender and sex binaries are a complete lie. From fluent gender roles to a wide variety of physical characteristics (where'd an intersex/hermaphrodite person like yours truly fit into this system, for example?), making a school 'girls-only' or 'boys-only' merely opens the can of worms of 'what's a girl/boy?'.
Is a transsexual boy or girl a girl or a boy? What about someone who is 'genderqueer'? What about an intersex person (pick one of many dozens of conditions there)?
For these reasons 'gender-segregated' schools feel more like an artifact of an ancient, ignorant society than something which we should admire or strive to imitate.
Is there any reason why anyone would want to use Rust when they're already proficient in both C++ and Ada?
You'd think that Ada is already covering most if not everything what Rust is trying to cover here, especially the memory safety and concurrency aspects.
While I do not work for BMW directly, the company I work for does do projects for BMW. One of the projects I worked on was the iOS app which is part of this ConnectedDrive system.
To be precise, for the 'old' version of the app (My BMW Remote App) for non-i models we started off with this black box library (CD lib) which handled all the communication with the BMW servers.
While I didn't do any protocol analysis or looked at the communication between car and servers, even for this iOS app it was pretty clear to me and my colleagues what the security implications would be if someone were to be able to obtain log-in data just for that part of the communication.
Depending on the market (America, Europe, Japan, etc.) there are some limitations to what one can do with the app (based on the type of account, IIRC), such as from what range one can see where the car is on a map and whether one can unlock doors with the app or not (not allowed in the US market, from what I recall). Where these limitations are enforced I'm not sure. It might be based on the server, in which case this hack would bypass such limitations as well.
At any rate, this security leak does demonstrate quite succinctly how important it is to properly security audit such systems before releasing it into the wild. Even for the current project I do for BMW (related to the headunits), having an active internet connection means that security is essential, including plugging buffer overruns and similar.
Nobody wants to have one's headunit go blank during navigation, in a constant reset cycle or be turned into a spying device, after all:)
Note that I'm still under NDA for all of these projects, so I can't go into much detail.
Best way to judge how successful a new technology is going to be is to look at how many clones stream out of China. Haven't seen a single Google Glass clone so far. Cloners may be cheap, but they're not crazy:)
Lead was actually added to solder to lower the melting point. If you read the Wikipedia article you linked to you can see that lead whiskers also occur.
All I can think of while reading up on the Turing and related tests is how many humans would fail such a test.
With the many assumptions made about what constitutes 'true' intelligence, how sure are we of the assumption that a human being of at least average intelligence would pass it? What's the research telling us there so far?
Or are human and artificial intelligence somehow considered to be mutually exclusive?
Amazing progress, but it would be nice if the attitude within the medical scientific community to for example intersex-born individuals wasn't still stuck somewhere in the 19th century. Progress is relative.
How many people here actually know what intersex is? I didn't know it existed (among humans at least) or what it was called until I was 21 and I was born intersex (hermaphrodite).
Don't get me wrong, it's great that these women born without certain reproductive organs are getting them transplanted, but on the other side doctors are also chopping up the genitals of intersex infants and manipulating intersex adults like yours truly into 'normalization' surgeries.
Heck, after consulting dozens of 'experts' in about a dozen countries I honestly couldn't tell you which reproductive and related organs I do or don't have exactly. I also meet so many others who had to discover as a teenager or adult that their parents and medical file have withheld details about surgery being performed on them as an infant.
So yes, happy news for some, but just a bitter feeling for many others who had the misfortune of not being born a 'normal' male or female even one missing some bits...
Not true, each DisplayPort 1.2 output on a GTX 980 card can drive up to two monitors daisy-chained, so with a single GTX 980 you could have up to 6 displays with DisplayPort alone, more if the other outputs are independently driven (haven't checked into this yet).
Interesting. That would explain why China for example can build this type of reactor without major delays and the US can't. Nice of the US to sabotage itself like that:)
True, the US kinda switched to natural gas and are now shipping coal to Europe:) Here in Germany we got 26 new coal plants built or under construction in the past few years alone.
So the problem in the end is largely a logistics problem which should become less of an issue if more nuclear plants were being built due to the parts becoming less specialized. That's good to know, I guess:)
It always amazes me to hear about cost overruns and delays with new nuclear plants considering that in essence they're little more complex than coal plants, which keep popping up everywhere without any apparent issues.
So, is it just the red tape causing delays, or is it something else which make a nuclear plants so much more complex than a coal or gas plant?
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I couldn't have put it better. I wish the media finally got this message as well, instead of pampering to these spoiled, whining, pampered white (con) women. I guess controversy just sells better...
It's fortunately only a small number of women who are attempting to ruin it for the rest of us. Unsurprisingly we find bullies and trolls in roughly equal amounts everywhere, regardless of their physical specifications.
Grace Hopper is indeed one example of a woman who defined the world. Same for Ada Lovelace, and countless others. They also did it together with men. I think that message of cooperation is something which seems to be often lost on humanity as a whole...
As a woman & part of a minority who has been in and around open source projects, video games and what not for most of her life, I am frankly flabbergasted at articles and wild accusations like these.
The supposition is that there is a problem 'we women' suffer at the hands of males. The reality is that there are trolls and bullies who just pick on the weak. What I have also found is that said trolls and bullies are generally rapidly expunged from tech & gaming circles as they are unpleasant to deal with.
I have always found both the video gaming and open source/tech communities to be the most pleasant and welcoming of all. Am I doing something wrong here? Am I internalising misogyny, or some such nonsense?
Please, stop making up non-existing problems. We got enough real problems as-is already, including radicalised feminists and the media harassing us female gamers and geeks for not adhering to outdated and/or ridiculous stereotypes. Now there's a target to focus on for some real research on an actual problem. I won't stop you.
After reading the friendly summary & article one might be left confused about where this lead is coming from, but according to the Wikipedia entry on the Flint River, it's due to the river's water being corrosive (presumably low pH) and degrading the lead pipes which form part of the water distribution network of the city.
The water itself is lead-free as it leaves the treatment plant, but still unsuitable for drinking due to containing high levels of carcinogenic trihalomethanes, which was the original reason that the river water was deemed unsuitable for producing potable water from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_River_(Michigan)
I couldn't agree more. I'm a software developer by trade. That I am a woman is a completely irrelevant quantifier in this context, as neither one's biological sex nor one's chosen gender role seems to have any effect on the quality of one's code in my experience.
Frankly, if someone refers to me as a 'female software developer' I'm more likely to feel offended, as if I'm somehow different from my (mostly male) colleagues, despite doing the exact same job and delivering (roughly) the same results.
No, I'm not transgender. Which you could easily have figured out if you had looked at my site. But this is Slashdot after all :)
As a (female) senior developer my only response to the summary was a stunned 'WTH'. Now I'm certain this is a The Onion article... *checks*
Previously such thermal solar tower designs have caught a lot of flak for a number of reasons, including their ability to light passing birds on fire ('streamers'), their maintenance-intensive nature (lots of mirrors and associated electronics to clean and maintain), the risk of massive arrays of mirrors reflecting light for passing pilots, as well as their relatively low power density.
The article reads more like a fluff PR piece instead of providing any credible reason for why we should get about yet another one of these plants.
One of the hallmarks of PV solar and wind (turbine) power is that its installed capacity is so completely out of sync with its utilization rate. While a coal, nuclear or gas plant can hit utilization rates of 90 - 99%, PV solar and wind tend to fluctuate around 20-30%.
/., I believe this article is what is referred to as a 'circle jerk' :)
In short, 70-80% of installed PV solar and wind capacity has to be discarded in order to close to the utilization percentage. It also means that you need 3-5 times as much installed capacity to get near the power delivered figures for baseload power sources.
In summary, in terms commonly used here in
The German grid more stable in 2013? Relative to the years before it, maybe. Mostly because there's a big new market springing up here for people to sell grid stabilization services, which involves buffering energy somehow. It's all a response to the utter unsuitability of wind/solar to provide reliable power output.
But feel free to believe in your propaganda... fact of the matter is that the German Energiewende is on its last legs. Subsidies are being cut, projects are being scaled back and politicians are desperately trying to figure out ways to break the bad news to the populace.
Germany, Scotland and Denmark have stabilization issues on their national grids. Fortunately they are linked into other (national) grids to help stabilize things again.
Unfortunately for my country (Germany) the surrounding countries are getting a bit pissed over having to take our power fluctuations every time the wind picks up/slows down and a cloud moves in front of our freakin' solar panels.,
Even the Green party here which originally championed the Energiewende is slowly retreating on its statements and original goals. It's increasingly becoming clear that it is all just a poorly planned and very expensive joke which has only served to increase the CO2 produced. Our government has already indicated that Germany will have to back out of the CO2 reduction goals previously set.
'Renewable energy' is largely just a white elephant, with some very severe negative repercussions.
Separating children and teenagers into 'boys and girls' keeps reinforcing the idea that these are part of some black and white, unchanging reality.
The fact of the matter is that both the gender and sex binaries are a complete lie. From fluent gender roles to a wide variety of physical characteristics (where'd an intersex/hermaphrodite person like yours truly fit into this system, for example?), making a school 'girls-only' or 'boys-only' merely opens the can of worms of 'what's a girl/boy?'.
Is a transsexual boy or girl a girl or a boy? What about someone who is 'genderqueer'? What about an intersex person (pick one of many dozens of conditions there)?
For these reasons 'gender-segregated' schools feel more like an artifact of an ancient, ignorant society than something which we should admire or strive to imitate.
And much like tape, it seems like the random mixing of imperial and metric measurements won't ever go away, either :)
Is there any reason why anyone would want to use Rust when they're already proficient in both C++ and Ada?
You'd think that Ada is already covering most if not everything what Rust is trying to cover here, especially the memory safety and concurrency aspects.
While I do not work for BMW directly, the company I work for does do projects for BMW. One of the projects I worked on was the iOS app which is part of this ConnectedDrive system.
:)
To be precise, for the 'old' version of the app (My BMW Remote App) for non-i models we started off with this black box library (CD lib) which handled all the communication with the BMW servers.
While I didn't do any protocol analysis or looked at the communication between car and servers, even for this iOS app it was pretty clear to me and my colleagues what the security implications would be if someone were to be able to obtain log-in data just for that part of the communication.
Depending on the market (America, Europe, Japan, etc.) there are some limitations to what one can do with the app (based on the type of account, IIRC), such as from what range one can see where the car is on a map and whether one can unlock doors with the app or not (not allowed in the US market, from what I recall). Where these limitations are enforced I'm not sure. It might be based on the server, in which case this hack would bypass such limitations as well.
At any rate, this security leak does demonstrate quite succinctly how important it is to properly security audit such systems before releasing it into the wild. Even for the current project I do for BMW (related to the headunits), having an active internet connection means that security is essential, including plugging buffer overruns and similar.
Nobody wants to have one's headunit go blank during navigation, in a constant reset cycle or be turned into a spying device, after all
Note that I'm still under NDA for all of these projects, so I can't go into much detail.
Best way to judge how successful a new technology is going to be is to look at how many clones stream out of China. Haven't seen a single Google Glass clone so far. Cloners may be cheap, but they're not crazy :)
Lead was actually added to solder to lower the melting point. If you read the Wikipedia article you linked to you can see that lead whiskers also occur.
All I can think of while reading up on the Turing and related tests is how many humans would fail such a test.
With the many assumptions made about what constitutes 'true' intelligence, how sure are we of the assumption that a human being of at least average intelligence would pass it? What's the research telling us there so far?
Or are human and artificial intelligence somehow considered to be mutually exclusive?
'Uterus' sounds too scientific and medical, I guess :) I'm pretty sure most of the population has no clue what it is if you ask them.
Amazing progress, but it would be nice if the attitude within the medical scientific community to for example intersex-born individuals wasn't still stuck somewhere in the 19th century. Progress is relative.
:)
How many people here actually know what intersex is? I didn't know it existed (among humans at least) or what it was called until I was 21 and I was born intersex (hermaphrodite).
Don't get me wrong, it's great that these women born without certain reproductive organs are getting them transplanted, but on the other side doctors are also chopping up the genitals of intersex infants and manipulating intersex adults like yours truly into 'normalization' surgeries.
Heck, after consulting dozens of 'experts' in about a dozen countries I honestly couldn't tell you which reproductive and related organs I do or don't have exactly. I also meet so many others who had to discover as a teenager or adult that their parents and medical file have withheld details about surgery being performed on them as an infant.
So yes, happy news for some, but just a bitter feeling for many others who had the misfortune of not being born a 'normal' male or female even one missing some bits...
Excuse the brief rant
That's indeed a bummer :(
Not true, each DisplayPort 1.2 output on a GTX 980 card can drive up to two monitors daisy-chained, so with a single GTX 980 you could have up to 6 displays with DisplayPort alone, more if the other outputs are independently driven (haven't checked into this yet).
Interesting. That would explain why China for example can build this type of reactor without major delays and the US can't. Nice of the US to sabotage itself like that :)
True, the US kinda switched to natural gas and are now shipping coal to Europe :) Here in Germany we got 26 new coal plants built or under construction in the past few years alone.
:)
So the problem in the end is largely a logistics problem which should become less of an issue if more nuclear plants were being built due to the parts becoming less specialized. That's good to know, I guess
It always amazes me to hear about cost overruns and delays with new nuclear plants considering that in essence they're little more complex than coal plants, which keep popping up everywhere without any apparent issues.
So, is it just the red tape causing delays, or is it something else which make a nuclear plants so much more complex than a coal or gas plant?
If you wish to refute my sources, please provide your own references. It doesn't appear that you even read any of them.