--It's just one of those things car designers learnt from trial and error, like where to put a petrol tank so it doesn't explode and why not to use metal steering wheels.--
Speaking of the petrol tank or gas tank or whatever, couldn't a bladder be used inside them that collapses as the fuel is used up? That is the way they protect helicopters that might take a round or two and racing cars. I know what they have now may be better than it was but not as good as it could be. There are probably also ways to retrofit older cars to make them safer.
Just because something is old, doesn't mean it's worth much. The article said the Bel-Air had the 6 cylinder in it. I wonder how the V8 would have done? One of the big things though is generally if the older car took a small lick, it would be easier to fix. Now, with bumpers covered in plastic, it's not so easy. Just 5 miles an hour can be very costly, but I guess it's worth it if it saves lives in the higher impact scenario.
I fear here that all personal internet activity will be banned, but define personal? Sometimes, this stuff has dual uses IMO.
Message boards are where you really learn stuff I think, and with the unwillingness to pay for training you basically have to train yourself. Some have the discipline for this. Some do not.
Most use their down time merely for play. I try to find something of some limited value at least. I have been reading/. long before I got a UID. There are some forums in my field that have maybe 30 regular posters, but we have all been there for 10 years or more. One is just now changing from a list server to Google Groups.
Damn, I wish I worked for the feds. Good rules and retirement.
--Deliberately accessing customer data to which you have no right gets you all of the above, plus you go to jail.--
I think this is the case anywhere.
--inserting a personally-owned pen drive to a computer on the network that gets caught in a scan results in a suspension.--
To bad I can't force adoption of this policy within our organization. A lot of this stems from the fact that there is no broadband out where some of the higher ups live. So they take stuff home & bring it back in.
Just one question though; what does surfing and posting to/. get you working for the IRS?
What if the ones most guilty are over you in rank?
--that means limiting access to the bare minimum required--
Define bare minimum? In some cases this can stifle productivity. A lot of the blame can be placed on Microsoft for not putting more of their stuff in user space. Here's my idea; switch the OS if possible, if not the switch what is possible to something else.
I really wish I had the authority to do what you say, but here there would be so much whining that I would be likely affected by all of the negative feedback. We don't just have people doing data entry here. There are many applications that are needed and used, but perhaps there are some things that can be done, but I don't think this problem is going away any time soon with so many old XP machines out there in business. They are easier to break into in the first place.
--All the network management in the world cannot control that many people--
This hit a nerve, because this is the exact problem that we have in a small company, but it's the higher up's that insist on having this stuff present.
Can you give more specifics? Like there may be no way to avoid this on an XP machine, that's what I'm getting at. A lot of corps still have that with computers 5 years old and it as godd a reason as any to use some other OS.
Not superior in all applications, just easier because everything is base 10, where the imperial system bases it measurements on the material requirements. So it really doesn't matter any more what the units are. Money is base 10 in the US but the pound sterling was based on something else altogether and I don't think it had to do with numbers.
--You definitely haven't been around goats if you think they're dumb. In many countries goats live indoors with the family and are house broken, just like dogs. Goats are alert, curious and very intelligent creatures. I'd put them close to the dogs on the intelligence scale, although they're clever in different ways.--
We'll not much and I don't want to be. It's funny you mentioned this but I had an acquaintance that had one as a pet without the smell and so on. It did in fact smell less bad but it was still bad. Define: housebroke?
That goat would do it's business outside, but was mean as crap especially if you turned your back. We'll I don't know if you would call it mean or clever or neither.
In the summer here 1 guy I know has a herd and the stink could be smelled inside your car driving by with the windows up and the air on. So he must have had a male somewhere. That was worse.
The other smell is there, but you are used to it and don't notice, but like you say I haven't been around them that much, but what time that I have maybe has formed a slanted opinion of the work involved in raising them as far as I would know.
That was exactly my thinking as well, but I wasn't sure, but still it just seems a little bit unprofessional. Maybe there is no more to it than that and the problem will be fixed in the future at least with that department. What the head said about the supervisor, not supervising might be more of an issue.
None of this is at issue here. It's the bio diversity or future lack of it that is in question, because of what?
The company's aggressiveness in enforcing their patents that's what. Pollen blows with the wind but yet they expect you not to save seeds, not to let it out of your property and things that are just plain impossible. As a matter of fact the makers of the GM corn here should be hit harder than GM beets. If someone saves a seed to replant and it has mingled by accident with another farmers GM corn, they can be sued. So the impact it might have, is to have less species of the plant left to modify in the first place, leading to disaster if there is only a couple of kinds of GM corn left, and the succumb to some disease or something. There would not be something else to use instead if this were allowed to happen.
Also, don't you think a farmer has the right to not use something if he doesn't want to? And..don't think an organism can't possibly attack a GM plant. It needs to be looked at in perspective, not just from the greens being against it for the wrong reasons angle. There is more to it, than that.
Interesting, you have the docile lamb, and the hard to tame (to say the least) goat. People in the US will not eat it for some stupid reason that I fail to understand.
The CongoBongo Grass or whatever it's called is said to be disliked by even goats. Goats also don't eat the roots of kudzu and from what I have heard unless you stop those you can't get rid of that either. Of course if you had goats cover the area for a long period of time, you want want that grass back. The biggest thing about that I haven't heard anyone mention is the fire hazard.
Speaking of weeds and Australia. In Florida Eucalyptus is considered a weed or at least it was by us.
It's not about making something. It's about everything becoming a commodity to make AND there was electronics in the 40's AND why just superpower nations?
What about Pakistan and India for instance? It's also about not having the need to physically test it. So a small country may stockpile something in this manner without anyone knowing what they have until they decide to do a little ethnic cleansing or something similar. I used the hardest example, for there are other things even worse than that possibility, but anyhow....just read on, there is more.
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Damn it, don't give HBO any ideas and especially the cash strapped car companies.
You just need a photon to electron converter box. Big fat hairy deal, right?
Say what!?
Yeah, I wouldn't stir that can full of crazy either. This is why I very seldom go to youtube anymore.
--It's just one of those things car designers learnt from trial and error, like where to put a petrol tank so it doesn't explode and why not to use metal steering wheels.--
Speaking of the petrol tank or gas tank or whatever, couldn't a bladder be used inside them that collapses as the fuel is used up? That is the way they protect helicopters that might take a round or two and racing cars. I know what they have now may be better than it was but not as good as it could be. There are probably also ways to retrofit older cars to make them safer.
Just because something is old, doesn't mean it's worth much. The article said the Bel-Air had the 6 cylinder in it. I wonder how the V8 would have done? One of the big things though is generally if the older car took a small lick, it would be easier to fix. Now, with bumpers covered in plastic, it's not so easy. Just 5 miles an hour can be very costly, but I guess it's worth it if it saves lives in the higher impact scenario.
I fear here that all personal internet activity will be banned, but define personal? Sometimes, this stuff has dual uses IMO.
Message boards are where you really learn stuff I think, and with the unwillingness to pay for training you basically have to train yourself. Some have the discipline for this. Some do not.
Most use their down time merely for play. I try to find something of some limited value at least. I have been reading /. long before I got a UID. There are some forums in my field that have maybe 30 regular posters, but we have all been there for 10 years or more. One is just now changing from a list server to Google Groups.
Damn, I wish I worked for the feds. Good rules and retirement.
--Deliberately accessing customer data to which you have no right gets you all of the above, plus you go to jail.--
I think this is the case anywhere.
--inserting a personally-owned pen drive to a computer on the network that gets caught in a scan results in a suspension.--
To bad I can't force adoption of this policy within our organization. A lot of this stems from the fact that there is no broadband out where some of the higher ups live. So they take stuff home & bring it back in.
Just one question though; what does surfing and posting to /. get you working for the IRS?
What if the ones most guilty are over you in rank?
--that means limiting access to the bare minimum required--
Define bare minimum? In some cases this can stifle productivity. A lot of the blame can be placed on Microsoft for not putting more of their stuff in user space. Here's my idea; switch the OS if possible, if not the switch what is possible to something else.
I really wish I had the authority to do what you say, but here there would be so much whining that I would be likely affected by all of the negative feedback. We don't just have people doing data entry here. There are many applications that are needed and used, but perhaps there are some things that can be done, but I don't think this problem is going away any time soon with so many old XP machines out there in business. They are easier to break into in the first place.
--All the network management in the world cannot control that many people--
This hit a nerve, because this is the exact problem that we have in a small company, but it's the higher up's that insist on having this stuff present.
Can you give more specifics? Like there may be no way to avoid this on an XP machine, that's what I'm getting at. A lot of corps still have that with computers 5 years old and it as godd a reason as any to use some other OS.
--(clearly superior) metric system.--
Not superior in all applications, just easier because everything is base 10, where the imperial system bases it measurements on the material requirements. So it really doesn't matter any more what the units are. Money is base 10 in the US but the pound sterling was based on something else altogether and I don't think it had to do with numbers.
Hmm....Helium 3 is there too. Fusion baby.
You have to terraform it first so that it is habitable.
--You definitely haven't been around goats if you think they're dumb. In many countries goats live indoors with the family and are house broken, just like dogs. Goats are alert, curious and very intelligent creatures. I'd put them close to the dogs on the intelligence scale, although they're clever in different ways.--
We'll not much and I don't want to be. It's funny you mentioned this but I had an acquaintance that had one as a pet without the smell and so on. It did in fact smell less bad but it was still bad. Define: housebroke?
That goat would do it's business outside, but was mean as crap especially if you turned your back. We'll I don't know if you would call it mean or clever or neither.
In the summer here 1 guy I know has a herd and the stink could be smelled inside your car driving by with the windows up and the air on. So he must have had a male somewhere. That was worse.
The other smell is there, but you are used to it and don't notice, but like you say I haven't been around them that much, but what time that I have maybe has formed a slanted opinion of the work involved in raising them as far as I would know.
I think crucifixion happened to those guys back in the day? Bowling was optional.
He was already at 5. What could I do beyond what I did?
Damn that really is possible, and not that hard.
Radio Active Decay = Heat Energy
Heat Energy & Radio Active Decay = Electricity (ca ching)
Well I may have a detail or two off, but you get the idea, right? Where is my damn flying car? Gotta go.
It's plausible don't you think? I would let em if they asked me. I would just say "my home is your home".
That was exactly my thinking as well, but I wasn't sure, but still it just seems a little bit unprofessional. Maybe there is no more to it than that and the problem will be fixed in the future at least with that department. What the head said about the supervisor, not supervising might be more of an issue.
None of this is at issue here. It's the bio diversity or future lack of it that is in question, because of what?
The company's aggressiveness in enforcing their patents that's what. Pollen blows with the wind but yet they expect you not to save seeds, not to let it out of your property and things that are just plain impossible. As a matter of fact the makers of the GM corn here should be hit harder than GM beets. If someone saves a seed to replant and it has mingled by accident with another farmers GM corn, they can be sued. So the impact it might have, is to have less species of the plant left to modify in the first place, leading to disaster if there is only a couple of kinds of GM corn left, and the succumb to some disease or something. There would not be something else to use instead if this were allowed to happen.
Also, don't you think a farmer has the right to not use something if he doesn't want to? And..don't think an organism can't possibly attack a GM plant. It needs to be looked at in perspective, not just from the greens being against it for the wrong reasons angle. There is more to it, than that.
--Do we really have the confidence in our understanding of genetic mechanisms to rule out harmful side-effects?--
YES, but that's not the issue in this case.
--In short, they're patent-wielding litigious bastards.--
I can't mod you any higher or I would, but this is true.
--If their position wasn't opposite that of environmentalist, Slashdot readers would be on the anti-Monsanto bandwagon like white on rice.--
I could have said that better but would have had to curse to do it.
I'm not really against GM stuff as such. I don't see the big deal except with what you have already stated.
--(I bought it because it's a feral pest.)--
Interesting, you have the docile lamb, and the hard to tame (to say the least) goat. People in the US will not eat it for some stupid reason that I fail to understand.
The CongoBongo Grass or whatever it's called is said to be disliked by even goats. Goats also don't eat the roots of kudzu and from what I have heard unless you stop those you can't get rid of that either. Of course if you had goats cover the area for a long period of time, you want want that grass back. The biggest thing about that I haven't heard anyone mention is the fire hazard.
Speaking of weeds and Australia. In Florida Eucalyptus is considered a weed or at least it was by us.
It's not about making something. It's about everything becoming a commodity to make AND there was electronics in the 40's AND why just superpower nations?
What about Pakistan and India for instance? It's also about not having the need to physically test it. So a small country may stockpile something in this manner without anyone knowing what they have until they decide to do a little ethnic cleansing or something similar. I used the hardest example, for there are other things even worse than that possibility, but anyhow....just read on, there is more.