Of course not. If he chose to fight it, they would load him up with other charges. A jury would find him guilty of something. The process is the punishment.
Hollywood would like you to think an innocent person could fight against this. They are wrong. You go to court, you're screwed whether you win or lose.
I think that the election of Trump demonstrates that the massive US propaganda machine (ie Hollywood and the various news and media companies) are not actually as powerful as we might have thought. They fought against him, threw everything they had at supporting Clinton and yet he still won.
So theres hope for the USA yet. Even if Trump is an ass at least the power of the propaganda machine has been thwarted.
Based on my own experience as a long term sysadmin, the quality and longevity of drives go up and down. Late 1990s drives were bad, early 2000s were good, late 2000s were bad, early 2010s were good, and now it's pretty bad again. It's not just vendor specific, because vendors seem to adjust to each other to arrive at common price/quality point. Sure, there are exceptions, like the Deathstars, but overall, I think the drives tend to be similar in longevity not so much based on brand, but what generation they are.
I agree. And even within a vendor and within a model there can be huge variation. I worked on a server farm where we had hundreds of 'identical disks' (same make, model and vendor) except some were made in Hungary and some were made in Thailand. The Thailand disks were failing at an enormous rate.
In other news, in 2062 they will have time travel, otherwise how could you possibly know that just-released 8TB drive would last 45 years?
Is aggregate usage even a meaningful metric?
I find it hard to believe. It isn't measuring 45 years worth of things like metal fatigue, material decay or degeneration, wear and tear etc.
What its really saying is that early failures are at a very low rate; they've measured lots of disks for a few years and can show that these disks don't typically fail in the first few years of use. Totally different from saying that one of these disks can last 45 years of continuous use. To represent it as that seems like something doomed to litigation.
And they obviously won't improve their chances of survival with cannibalism.
It's tempting to accept this statement at face value, but an instance of cannibalism involves the death of an individual, not the death of a species. Cannibalism is just another variant of natural selection, and it's fairly easy to construct a scenario where it in fact leads to better overall survival rates (e.g. only the sick are eaten, or the challenge of evading being eaten leads to the accelerated development of intelligence/swiftness/whatever). Whether it turns out that way in this case remains to be seen.
In New Zealand, turning to cannibalism arguably stopped a precipitous population crash. The Maori population had soared from a diet of native birds including the gigantic moa which were easily hunted. When these species were driven to extinction people started starving. By the time Europeans arrived the Maori population was a fraction of what it had been (eg there were dozens and dozens of uninhabited hill-forts dotting the countryside, a testament to the huge population that had existed in the past.) and people were sustaining themselves by cannibalism, which had become a common part of every-day life. Eg slaves were captured in raids and kept in order to be killed and eaten later.
If they hadn't turned to cannibalism, the population crash may have gone even further and there might have been only a vestigial population of Maori remaining when the Europeans arrived and today their culture might be completely unknown.
On web pages, at least, the excessive white space is an obnoxious side-effect of current "responsive design" practices.
More specifically, it seems that the idea that 'content is like water' results in having just enough content to fill the small screen of a mobile device and then presenting that same content on a larger screen by introducing huge amounts of white space to pad that small amount of content out.
It should have been glaringly obvious that this was going to be the result from looking at the pic on wikipedia:
"Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained by hybridization between pigs and chimpanzees."
>> I wouldn't trust anything coming from Trumps office for shit...
Would you have honestly trusted data coming from Hillary's office had she become president?
I would trust that Hillary would not have sent people into the NOAA, NASA, to either 'adjust data' to suit the alt-right world view or intimidate scientist into doing it. Trump on the other hand has openly declared his intention to crack down on scientists that come to conclusions which are incompatible with his world view and inconvenient for the fossil fuel industry.
Of course Hillary would NEVER have done anything to help the alt-right.
But do you really, honestly, believe she would not have adjusted data to suit some other agenda?
My understanding is that some deep packet inspection methods can determine if potentially encrypted data is being passed through a filter. Obviously it's going to be error prone, but what does that matter when the general plan is to sufficiently inconvenience people so they don't even try. I doubt the PRC cares that maybe the odd innocent bystander's data gets hit as a false positive.
As a counter to that, I have read of encryption schemes that will bypass this kind of filtering, but it's going to be a lot slower as a lot more junk data has to be thrown in to fool detection. Good for low-bandwidth needs like passing text-based emails and the like, but not much good for anything high bandwidth like voice communications.
IIRC there is a patch for OpenVPN to make a tcp:443 based VPN appear to be a genuine https connection, even to DPI
Yes. Timing is the key to understanding it. Sanders would have defeated Trump easily. The timing of the releases were carefully placed so as to build suspicion with independants while not hurting her primary bid. Then once she clenched that, proof that it was a rigged primary sent a lot of independants away from the DNC to either Green, Libertarian, and even a number to Trump.
If they had released it all in the beginning, we would be swearing in Sanders tomorrow.
Right, because exposure of those emails was totally enough all by itself to overcome the cumulative effects of billions of dollars spent on her campaign plus the complete support of Americas very VERY substantial propaganda machine (Hollywood combined with the news media) and the support of ALL the living ex-presidents plus the suppression of all those videos etc showing Hillary going into spasms and convulsions when people asked her too many questions at the same time etc etc.
Yeah the exposure of those emails sure made all the difference...
CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- a highly resistant form of CRE
It should at least read "revealed the germ CONTAINED New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase". NDM-1 is not a bacteria, it's an enzyme possessed by resistant bacteria that inactivates antibiotics.
What's really fun is that this gene can potentially be transferred to other types of bacteria laterally...
I love the way bacteria, and other organisms can exchange genes laterally. It means evolution doesn't follow a nice straightforward tree structure; its a graph, with cycles, possibly not even directional (ie gene exchanges can go both ways). That makes things a lot more interesting.
It's not people who refuse so much as who can't; and that doesn't mean automation will wipe all jobs away, either, regardless of what the doomsday predictors who fear the pneumatic air gun and wooden shipping pallet say.
Not sure about the air gun reference...
But shipping pallets were revolutionary. A box car loaded with goods the 'old fashioned way' in their individual boxes and crates took a team of people 3 days to unload. Shipping pallets took that down to under 8 hours.
Identifying a WASP is easy: a person who steps out of the shower so as to pee in the toilet.
Sometimes you have to go to the bathroom while you are in the shower. Curse those home designers who didn't put the toilet in the bathroom. I hate having to push it down the plug hole with my toe.
Lost sales or licensing fees are purely hypothetical if all someone does is sit on a patent for years.
Suppose you hold 2 patents for doing the same thing. One patent would result in more profit and a more expensive good/service, the other in less profit but a cheaper good/service.
You implement the more profitable patent.
Someone else 'steals' that 'intellectual property' for the less profitable patent, brings it to market selling that product or service for a lot less than you sell it for. Say through good marketing, they start to make a big profit out of this and your profits fall (because your good/service is now overpriced).
They have no purpose. Most people now simply use TVs as monitors for a set top box and if you need any more functionality simply plug your computer or tablet into a normal TV. Why anyone would pay a significant extra amount of cash for an oversized underpowered android tablet I have no idea.
Yet a 50+" monitor costs a LOT more than a 50" TV. Even more than a smart TV. A 55" monitor costs about $1400, at the low end. A 55" smart TV costs about $450 (going by Amazon).
If you don't like the terms, don't buy the product. Let the free market sort things out.
Thats nice. I'll just buy out the water supply and include "Your first born become my slaves" in the terms of service. Let the free market sort things out, if they don't want to give me their first born they are welcome to die of thirst about 2 days later. That free market really works.
Just look at how she teased Anakin, it seemed quite deliberate to me. She was leading him along the path to the dark side from the very beginning.
"Oh, Ani, we can't fall in love!" she says wearing a revealing dominatrix outfit next to a romantic roaring fireplace...
Three options:
1. Lucas intended her to tease Anakin.
2. Lucas knows women, and that some women are truly that clueless.
3. Lucas has absolutely no clue about women.
Gotta say my money's on 3.
1. Lucas intended her to tease Anakin because she was part of the scheme to turn him to the dark side.
Anakin came from a 'virgin birth'. Everyone LOL's. Sounds funny, right?
But then later on we learn that Darth Sidious' teacher, Darth Plagueis, had the ability to use the force to actually create life...
“Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life."
Anakin had the highest midi-chlorian count ever recorded.
So this Anakin who came from a 'virgin birth', does that really sound so implausible now? He was created by Plagueis; Anakin was effectively an artificial person, engineered by the force to be a super-Sith. Plagueis probably intended him to become his own apprentice and use him to rule the galaxy. Sidious learned of this plan, killed Plagueis and took over the operation.
Padme was a crucial part of this plan. She was from Naboo, where Sidious is also from. Given this and the way she treated Anakin and how well it played into Sidious' schemes it seems implausible that Sidious and Padme weren't working together.
The best mindfuck would be remaking Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith with Jar Jar Binks as a Sith Lord
Oh no, you had to say that? Now I'm doomed to keep hearing...
Meesa no kill your father, Luke. Meesa is your father.
Actually I'm fairly certain that Padme was in on Darth Sidious' scheme the whole time and was his apprentice if not a Sith Lord in her own right. Just look at how she teased Anakin, it seemed quite deliberate to me. She was leading him along the path to the dark side from the very beginning.
>> Unlikely. Lucas destroyed the originals when he made the Special Editions.
Whut? Why TF would he do that?
Because he is God of the Star Wars Universe
Isn't Disney now the God of the Star Wars Universe? I definitely got that impression from Force Awakens, which was a terribly standard Disney movie. I'd rather have Lucas owning Star Wars than Disney.
Food critics will pan KFC, but if it is exactly what you are aching for RIGHT now it will be hard to believe people wouldn't eat it everyday. It doesn't make the critics wrong, but rather that tastes vary.
And food reviewers these days seem to really love those tiny little plates with tiny little portions of very heavily dressed up, colorful and pretty-to-look-at, very carefully laid out 'food' on them. Give me home cooking any day.
Why do some people like food other people hate? MYSTERY!
This happens with everything. Movies, books, music... With a large enough population of players there are bound to be some who enjoy games that most of the world didn't enjoy, add then you have some that are just overlooked.
The article may as well have asked "Why do some people like games that other people hate and vice versa??"
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Of course not. If he chose to fight it, they would load him up with other charges. A jury would find him guilty of something. The process is the punishment.
Hollywood would like you to think an innocent person could fight against this. They are wrong. You go to court, you're screwed whether you win or lose.
I think that the election of Trump demonstrates that the massive US propaganda machine (ie Hollywood and the various news and media companies) are not actually as powerful as we might have thought. They fought against him, threw everything they had at supporting Clinton and yet he still won.
So theres hope for the USA yet. Even if Trump is an ass at least the power of the propaganda machine has been thwarted.
Based on my own experience as a long term sysadmin, the quality and longevity of drives go up and down. Late 1990s drives were bad, early 2000s were good, late 2000s were bad, early 2010s were good, and now it's pretty bad again. It's not just vendor specific, because vendors seem to adjust to each other to arrive at common price/quality point. Sure, there are exceptions, like the Deathstars, but overall, I think the drives tend to be similar in longevity not so much based on brand, but what generation they are.
I agree. And even within a vendor and within a model there can be huge variation. I worked on a server farm where we had hundreds of 'identical disks' (same make, model and vendor) except some were made in Hungary and some were made in Thailand. The Thailand disks were failing at an enormous rate.
In other news, in 2062 they will have time travel, otherwise how could you possibly know that just-released 8TB drive would last 45 years?
Is aggregate usage even a meaningful metric?
I find it hard to believe. It isn't measuring 45 years worth of things like metal fatigue, material decay or degeneration, wear and tear etc.
What its really saying is that early failures are at a very low rate; they've measured lots of disks for a few years and can show that these disks don't typically fail in the first few years of use. Totally different from saying that one of these disks can last 45 years of continuous use. To represent it as that seems like something doomed to litigation.
And they obviously won't improve their chances of survival with cannibalism.
It's tempting to accept this statement at face value, but an instance of cannibalism involves the death of an individual, not the death of a species. Cannibalism is just another variant of natural selection, and it's fairly easy to construct a scenario where it in fact leads to better overall survival rates (e.g. only the sick are eaten, or the challenge of evading being eaten leads to the accelerated development of intelligence/swiftness/whatever). Whether it turns out that way in this case remains to be seen.
In New Zealand, turning to cannibalism arguably stopped a precipitous population crash. The Maori population had soared from a diet of native birds including the gigantic moa which were easily hunted. When these species were driven to extinction people started starving. By the time Europeans arrived the Maori population was a fraction of what it had been (eg there were dozens and dozens of uninhabited hill-forts dotting the countryside, a testament to the huge population that had existed in the past.) and people were sustaining themselves by cannibalism, which had become a common part of every-day life. Eg slaves were captured in raids and kept in order to be killed and eaten later.
If they hadn't turned to cannibalism, the population crash may have gone even further and there might have been only a vestigial population of Maori remaining when the Europeans arrived and today their culture might be completely unknown.
On web pages, at least, the excessive white space is an obnoxious side-effect of current "responsive design" practices.
More specifically, it seems that the idea that 'content is like water' results in having just enough content to fill the small screen of a mobile device and then presenting that same content on a larger screen by introducing huge amounts of white space to pad that small amount of content out.
It should have been glaringly obvious that this was going to be the result from looking at the pic on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
how could designers not have seen this coming?
"Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained by hybridization between pigs and chimpanzees."
https://phys.org/news/2013-07-...
>> I wouldn't trust anything coming from Trumps office for shit...
Would you have honestly trusted data coming from Hillary's office had she become president?
I would trust that Hillary would not have sent people into the NOAA, NASA, to either 'adjust data' to suit the alt-right world view or intimidate scientist into doing it. Trump on the other hand has openly declared his intention to crack down on scientists that come to conclusions which are incompatible with his world view and inconvenient for the fossil fuel industry.
Of course Hillary would NEVER have done anything to help the alt-right.
But do you really, honestly, believe she would not have adjusted data to suit some other agenda?
My understanding is that some deep packet inspection methods can determine if potentially encrypted data is being passed through a filter. Obviously it's going to be error prone, but what does that matter when the general plan is to sufficiently inconvenience people so they don't even try. I doubt the PRC cares that maybe the odd innocent bystander's data gets hit as a false positive.
As a counter to that, I have read of encryption schemes that will bypass this kind of filtering, but it's going to be a lot slower as a lot more junk data has to be thrown in to fool detection. Good for low-bandwidth needs like passing text-based emails and the like, but not much good for anything high bandwidth like voice communications.
IIRC there is a patch for OpenVPN to make a tcp:443 based VPN appear to be a genuine https connection, even to DPI
I hope not or we will have a lot.of enterprise equipment (printers, copiers, projectors, etc) that will become unmanaged.
Oh don't worry I'm sure the vendors will all provide updates!
Lots of famous characters were without fathers
And then there are Disney princesses, most of whom don't have dads.
No. Parthenogenesis (and Gynogenesis) means two X chromosomes, meaning only females can be produced.
With turkeys the offspring of this are always male.
Yes. Timing is the key to understanding it. Sanders would have defeated Trump easily. The timing of the releases were carefully placed so as to build suspicion with independants while not hurting her primary bid. Then once she clenched that, proof that it was a rigged primary sent a lot of independants away from the DNC to either Green, Libertarian, and even a number to Trump.
If they had released it all in the beginning, we would be swearing in Sanders tomorrow.
Right, because exposure of those emails was totally enough all by itself to overcome the cumulative effects of billions of dollars spent on her campaign plus the complete support of Americas very VERY substantial propaganda machine (Hollywood combined with the news media) and the support of ALL the living ex-presidents plus the suppression of all those videos etc showing Hillary going into spasms and convulsions when people asked her too many questions at the same time etc etc.
Yeah the exposure of those emails sure made all the difference...
CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- a highly resistant form of CRE
It should at least read "revealed the germ CONTAINED New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase". NDM-1 is not a bacteria, it's an enzyme possessed by resistant bacteria that inactivates antibiotics.
What's really fun is that this gene can potentially be transferred to other types of bacteria laterally...
I love the way bacteria, and other organisms can exchange genes laterally. It means evolution doesn't follow a nice straightforward tree structure; its a graph, with cycles, possibly not even directional (ie gene exchanges can go both ways). That makes things a lot more interesting.
It's not people who refuse so much as who can't; and that doesn't mean automation will wipe all jobs away, either, regardless of what the doomsday predictors who fear the pneumatic air gun and wooden shipping pallet say.
Not sure about the air gun reference...
But shipping pallets were revolutionary. A box car loaded with goods the 'old fashioned way' in their individual boxes and crates took a team of people 3 days to unload. Shipping pallets took that down to under 8 hours.
I'd guess a whole load of people lost their jobs.
That's some thick pee you got there, buddy!
I don't think its pee; it has lumps.
Identifying a WASP is easy: a person who steps out of the shower so as to pee in the toilet.
Sometimes you have to go to the bathroom while you are in the shower. Curse those home designers who didn't put the toilet in the bathroom. I hate having to push it down the plug hole with my toe.
Lost sales or licensing fees are purely hypothetical if all someone does is sit on a patent for years.
Suppose you hold 2 patents for doing the same thing. One patent would result in more profit and a more expensive good/service, the other in less profit but a cheaper good/service.
You implement the more profitable patent.
Someone else 'steals' that 'intellectual property' for the less profitable patent, brings it to market selling that product or service for a lot less than you sell it for. Say through good marketing, they start to make a big profit out of this and your profits fall (because your good/service is now overpriced).
I guess thats a counterexample?
They have no purpose. Most people now simply use TVs as monitors for a set top box and if you need any more functionality simply plug your computer or tablet into a normal TV. Why anyone would pay a significant extra amount of cash for an oversized underpowered android tablet I have no idea.
Yet a 50+" monitor costs a LOT more than a 50" TV. Even more than a smart TV. A 55" monitor costs about $1400, at the low end. A 55" smart TV costs about $450 (going by Amazon).
If you don't like the terms, don't buy the product. Let the free market sort things out.
Thats nice. I'll just buy out the water supply and include "Your first born become my slaves" in the terms of service. Let the free market sort things out, if they don't want to give me their first born they are welcome to die of thirst about 2 days later. That free market really works.
Just look at how she teased Anakin, it seemed quite deliberate to me. She was leading him along the path to the dark side from the very beginning.
"Oh, Ani, we can't fall in love!" she says wearing a revealing dominatrix outfit next to a romantic roaring fireplace...
Three options:
1. Lucas intended her to tease Anakin.
2. Lucas knows women, and that some women are truly that clueless.
3. Lucas has absolutely no clue about women.
Gotta say my money's on 3.
1. Lucas intended her to tease Anakin because she was part of the scheme to turn him to the dark side.
Anakin came from a 'virgin birth'. Everyone LOL's. Sounds funny, right?
But then later on we learn that Darth Sidious' teacher, Darth Plagueis, had the ability to use the force to actually create life...
“Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life."
Anakin had the highest midi-chlorian count ever recorded.
So this Anakin who came from a 'virgin birth', does that really sound so implausible now? He was created by Plagueis; Anakin was effectively an artificial person, engineered by the force to be a super-Sith. Plagueis probably intended him to become his own apprentice and use him to rule the galaxy. Sidious learned of this plan, killed Plagueis and took over the operation.
Padme was a crucial part of this plan. She was from Naboo, where Sidious is also from. Given this and the way she treated Anakin and how well it played into Sidious' schemes it seems implausible that Sidious and Padme weren't working together.
Won't matter what Lucas says. Disney owns the Star Wars franchise now. Lucas is 100% removed from it.
I'd prefer Lucas than Disney. Force Awakens was a terrible and very 'normal' Disney movie.
The best mindfuck would be remaking Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith with Jar Jar Binks as a Sith Lord
Oh no, you had to say that? Now I'm doomed to keep hearing ...
Meesa no kill your father, Luke. Meesa is your father.
Actually I'm fairly certain that Padme was in on Darth Sidious' scheme the whole time and was his apprentice if not a Sith Lord in her own right. Just look at how she teased Anakin, it seemed quite deliberate to me. She was leading him along the path to the dark side from the very beginning.
>> Unlikely. Lucas destroyed the originals when he made the Special Editions.
Whut? Why TF would he do that?
Because he is God of the Star Wars Universe
Isn't Disney now the God of the Star Wars Universe? I definitely got that impression from Force Awakens, which was a terribly standard Disney movie. I'd rather have Lucas owning Star Wars than Disney.
Food critics will pan KFC, but if it is exactly what you are aching for RIGHT now it will be hard to believe people wouldn't eat it everyday. It doesn't make the critics wrong, but rather that tastes vary.
And food reviewers these days seem to really love those tiny little plates with tiny little portions of very heavily dressed up, colorful and pretty-to-look-at, very carefully laid out 'food' on them. Give me home cooking any day.
Why do some people like food other people hate? MYSTERY!
This happens with everything. Movies, books, music... With a large enough population of players there are bound to be some who enjoy games that most of the world didn't enjoy, add then you have some that are just overlooked.
The article may as well have asked "Why do some people like games that other people hate and vice versa??"