Cashless society means that Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx can impose sales tax on everyone in form of transaction fees.
Remember postal money orders, Western Union, Traveler's Checks? "Do not send cash, coins or stamps by mail." No free checking for accounts below a stiff minimum balance? Transaction fees were a big part of the cash society, and remain so for the poor.
Windows 10 64 Bit 34% Up 1%
Windows 7 64 Bit 34%
Windows 8.1 64 Bit 13%
Window 7 8%
Windows XP 2%
OSX 3%
MacOS 10.11.3 64 bit 1%
Linux 1%
Ubuntu 0.4%
Linux Mint 0.1%
The $490 Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-2980BLK Desktop Console currently ranks #127 in in the catch-all "Desktop Tower" sales category at Amazon.com. A fully pimped-out $6,000 Cybertron Win 10 gamer's PC ranks #37. You'll find the MacMini here and the $99 Win 10 dongle as well.
It is all pretty good evidence that no one knows where the Steam Machine belongs in the marketplace or how to sell it.
If somebody had have died or gotten sick, the hacking party would be the ones to get in shit, not the asshat that put the admin password in a text file...
The rules are no different than if you and your gang of adolescent thrill seekers climbed over the fence or found an unlocked gate and began flipping exposed switches or opening valves just for the hell of it.
So tell ell me why screwing with the process controls in a chemical plant counts only as an "accident."
and also escalated their access to reach SCADA equipment responsible for the water treatment process. The hackers modified water treatment chemical levels four different times
The mark of a true leftist, is that they always view themselves as the political center. There's always room to move farther left, and every who disagrees is to the right.
From a global perspective, Obama is unmistakably centrist or center-right.
Though BernieSanders has described himself as a democratic socialist, Noam Chomsky has called him "basically a New Dealer." Which is about as far left as you can go in the states, and still win an election.
What cost $5000 in 1985 would cost $11,102.50 in 2015.The Inflation Calculator. In other words, Boom is claiming a ticket for their 40-seat SST will cost half the price charged for one aboard the 128-seat Concorde.
The Lufthansa executive transatlantic suite in 2016 costs $10,000.
Including limo service and other amenities. The SST is fast, but far from instantaneous, and over longer routes rather confining and comfortless, and for that there is no easy fix.
Back at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, aerodynamicists claimed a breakthrough: computer codes that made it possible to design a supersonic airplane with a much reduced sonic boom. The snag was that the craft could not be very large. It would be a corporate jet. Gulfstream saw a market and teamed with the Skunks.
The only surviving supersonic project is the decade-old Aerion business jet, designed to fly at supersonic speed over water and just-subsonic --- a few knots faster than a Gulfstream --- over land. But it's only a concept. The jet reappeared at a business aviation show in Geneva last May with its billionaire backer and Aerion's chairman, Robert Bass, offering to fund any qualified aircraft manufacturer to build it. Nobody yet has bitten on that offer.
I don't know how you plan global business travel around an aircraft that has only forty seats --- can you plan a seat being available or are you spinning the wheel of fortune?
Facebook has about one billion monthly active users, pretty much guaranteeing that your "share" or "stock" in Facebook will be all but meaningless.
Facebook is peripheral to the lives of its users, not central. You will never see the level of involvement that ownership demands. That is where the "shantytown" analogy breaks down completely.
The geek applauds the changes in Slashdot. That doesn't necessarily translate into enough money to keep the site from going on the auction block again. Someone has to pay the light bill --- and that someone, whether subscriber, advertiser, or charitable foundation will have the final say on how the site is managed.
Great writers don't tend to be highly intelligent (if they were, they'd get work that pays better)
Money isn't everything.
Case in point, the novelists, essayists, philosophers, poets and journalists, among others, whose work has been chosen for preservation by the Library of America.
All the same, according to the Steam Hardware and Software Survey for February, about 40% of Linux gamers have chosen Ubuntu. Those are good numbers for a Linux distribution. It's a pity that they translate to a bare 0.4% of all Steam gamers, but you can't have everything.
We have our suicide hill --- on the map a direct and plausible route south, but with a steep S curve which even the locals occasionally fail to navigate.
Come Labor Day and the VFW and our rural volunteer firemen have beer tents set up in a small town parks, with temporary parking on the grass, while minor road work elsewhere have traffic being routed off onto the shoulder. In theory, every hazard should be properly signed and flagged and posted to the web. In practice, it doesn't always work out that way. The point being that your self-driving car can't be reliably programmed to deal with every possible contingency.
It is my belief that, for the original audience of this site, some here since before the 9/11, some even from when http colon slash slash was actually pronounced when reading URLs out loud, the main drive to come and read the front page is to catch up with the latest of the technology and its applications.
Proof once again of the old adage that some people grow up while others merely grow older.
The evolution of technology is defined by those are affected by it and by those who govern its use. Gender issues in tech are not out of bounds for discussion here, Perpetuating the geek stereotypes of the nineties does not insure the future of Slashdot.
The US had 45,000 miles of streetcar lines in 1917 --- and all the speed and danger you could ask for But most lines were all but bankrupt before World War I and never really recovered. The automobile was cheaper, more comfortable and more flexible. Portal-to-portal with passengers and cargo for about 1 cent a mile in those days.
Few American cities have ever approached the density of their European and Asian counterparts, and de-centralization began early. It's why you begin building a bridge to Brooklyn in 1869. This works against the success of any mass transit system, road or rail --- which is inherently stop-and-go.
There has been a revival of sorts in the central city, but usually at the expense of low and middle class families, who have been priced out.
There's one thing Microsoft could do to gain real open-source trust: Stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents.
The geek never sounds more adolescent then when he whines about Microsoft cross-licensing patents with its major corporate partners, It happens all the time and these guys are big enough and old enough to take care of themselves.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous.
The geek is grasping at straws.. It would be too much of a blow to his own ego to admit that Anonymous has run out our of gas, become dim-witted and futile.
I appreciate the taste of paranoia as much as anyone. Less so when it is salted with too many words like "could" and "may."
widespread awareness of mass surveillance could undermine democracy by making citizens fearful of voicing dissenting opinions in public. the government's online surveillance programs may threaten the disclosure of minority views and contribute to the reinforcement of majority opinion The NSA's ability to surreptitiously monitor the online activities of U.S. citizens may make online opinion climates especially chilly
It struck me that if minority views are not disclosed they --- for all practical purposes --- do not exist. The majority holds the floor uncontested. It also struck me that the kind of group think that prevails in many online forums makes the NSA quite irrelevant.
This is a perfect example of a purely-political submission that should not have been promoted to the front page.
It doesn't even have a damn thing to do about technology, science, math, computing, software, or anything relating at all to what Slashdot submissions should be about.
The Supreme Court will making decisions that will shape our society for generations to come. The geek will not escape unscathed.
switching to an Operating System that is not the target of virus writers, or at least less of a target Linux is your best bet for a general purpose operating system.
You don't chose an operating system because it is free of risks.
You chose it because it supports the programs and services you want and need to run on the hardware you find attractive and affordable. You chose it because it is a comfortable fit for your level of interest and involvement. Not everyone enjoys spending time under the hood.
It's telling that the only flavor of Linux to achieve mass-market status is the malware-ridden Android platform.
I like to see a little more attention paid to problems like evacuation from the tunnel. The HyperLoop is, after all, essentially a more or less airless pipe mounted high on pylons.
Hackers affiliated with Anonymous threaten to "dismantle [Trump's] campaign" by taking his election websites offline in a large-scale and orchestrated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Trump isn't running a web-based campaign.
But he is damn good at demonizing his enemies and making then look like fools when they try to take him down.
Maybe use Uber or Lyft instead of renting a Hertz car?
Nah. You rent a car rather than hire a taxi because you are going to making many stops along the along while putting some serious mileage on the thing.
No one has a "right" to live anywhere. Ridiculous.
I'll remember that when you are priced out of your own home or apartment --- forced to relocate and find a new job. I'll enjoy it even more if you are not as high up on the food chain as some claim to be here. The median household income in California is $67,500.
Slashdot Mirror
Cashless society means that Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx can impose sales tax on everyone in form of transaction fees.
Remember postal money orders, Western Union, Traveler's Checks? "Do not send cash, coins or stamps by mail." No free checking for accounts below a stiff minimum balance? Transaction fees were a big part of the cash society, and remain so for the poor.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016
Windows 96%
Windows 10 64 Bit 34% Up 1%
Windows 7 64 Bit 34%
Windows 8.1 64 Bit 13%
Window 7 8%
Windows XP 2%
OSX 3%
MacOS 10.11.3 64 bit 1%
Linux 1%
Ubuntu 0.4%
Linux Mint 0.1%
The $490 Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-2980BLK Desktop Console currently ranks #127 in in the catch-all "Desktop Tower" sales category at Amazon.com. A fully pimped-out $6,000 Cybertron Win 10 gamer's PC ranks #37. You'll find the MacMini here and the $99 Win 10 dongle as well.
It is all pretty good evidence that no one knows where the Steam Machine belongs in the marketplace or how to sell it.
If somebody had have died or gotten sick, the hacking party would be the ones to get in shit, not the asshat that put the admin password in a text file...
The rules are no different than if you and your gang of adolescent thrill seekers climbed over the fence or found an unlocked gate and began flipping exposed switches or opening valves just for the hell of it.
So tell ell me why screwing with the process controls in a chemical plant counts only as an "accident."
and also escalated their access to reach SCADA equipment responsible for the water treatment process. The hackers modified water treatment chemical levels four different times
The mark of a true leftist, is that they always view themselves as the political center. There's always room to move farther left, and every who disagrees is to the right.
From a global perspective, Obama is unmistakably centrist or center-right.
Though BernieSanders has described himself as a democratic socialist, Noam Chomsky has called him "basically a New Dealer." Which is about as far left as you can go in the states, and still win an election.
Bernie Sanders
What cost $5000 in 1985 would cost $11,102.50 in 2015.The Inflation Calculator. In other words, Boom is claiming a ticket for their 40-seat SST will cost half the price charged for one aboard the 128-seat Concorde.
The Lufthansa executive transatlantic suite in 2016 costs $10,000.
Including limo service and other amenities. The SST is fast, but far from instantaneous, and over longer routes rather confining and comfortless, and for that there is no easy fix.
Back at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, aerodynamicists claimed a breakthrough: computer codes that made it possible to design a supersonic airplane with a much reduced sonic boom. The snag was that the craft could not be very large. It would be a corporate jet. Gulfstream saw a market and teamed with the Skunks.
The only surviving supersonic project is the decade-old Aerion business jet, designed to fly at supersonic speed over water and just-subsonic --- a few knots faster than a Gulfstream --- over land. But it's only a concept. The jet reappeared at a business aviation show in Geneva last May with its billionaire backer and Aerion's chairman, Robert Bass, offering to fund any qualified aircraft manufacturer to build it. Nobody yet has bitten on that offer.
Why We Don't Have An SST. Sukhoi--Gulfstream S-21
The ten passenger S-21 weighing 54,000 lbs empty would have required 58,000 lbs of fuel for a range of 2,700 miles.
I don't know how you plan global business travel around an aircraft that has only forty seats --- can you plan a seat being available or are you spinning the wheel of fortune?
Facebook has about one billion monthly active users, pretty much guaranteeing that your "share" or "stock" in Facebook will be all but meaningless.
Facebook is peripheral to the lives of its users, not central. You will never see the level of involvement that ownership demands. That is where the "shantytown" analogy breaks down completely.
The geek applauds the changes in Slashdot. That doesn't necessarily translate into enough money to keep the site from going on the auction block again. Someone has to pay the light bill --- and that someone, whether subscriber, advertiser, or charitable foundation will have the final say on how the site is managed.
Great writers don't tend to be highly intelligent (if they were, they'd get work that pays better)
Money isn't everything.
Case in point, the novelists, essayists, philosophers, poets and journalists, among others, whose work has been chosen for preservation by the Library of America.
Dwango will publish and develop an Open Source platform based on Toonz (OpenToonz).
So what are the differences between Toonz and the open source derivative?
stuff that matters.
All the same, according to the Steam Hardware and Software Survey for February, about 40% of Linux gamers have chosen Ubuntu. Those are good numbers for a Linux distribution. It's a pity that they translate to a bare 0.4% of all Steam gamers, but you can't have everything.
We have our suicide hill --- on the map a direct and plausible route south, but with a steep S curve which even the locals occasionally fail to navigate.
Come Labor Day and the VFW and our rural volunteer firemen have beer tents set up in a small town parks, with temporary parking on the grass, while minor road work elsewhere have traffic being routed off onto the shoulder. In theory, every hazard should be properly signed and flagged and posted to the web. In practice, it doesn't always work out that way. The point being that your self-driving car can't be reliably programmed to deal with every possible contingency.
It is my belief that, for the original audience of this site, some here since before the 9/11, some even from when http colon slash slash was actually pronounced when reading URLs out loud, the main drive to come and read the front page is to catch up with the latest of the technology and its applications.
Proof once again of the old adage that some people grow up while others merely grow older.
The evolution of technology is defined by those are affected by it and by those who govern its use. Gender issues in tech are not out of bounds for discussion here, Perpetuating the geek stereotypes of the nineties does not insure the future of Slashdot.
The US had 45,000 miles of streetcar lines in 1917 --- and all the speed and danger you could ask for But most lines were all but bankrupt before World War I and never really recovered. The automobile was cheaper, more comfortable and more flexible. Portal-to-portal with passengers and cargo for about 1 cent a mile in those days.
Few American cities have ever approached the density of their European and Asian counterparts, and de-centralization began early. It's why you begin building a bridge to Brooklyn in 1869. This works against the success of any mass transit system, road or rail --- which is inherently stop-and-go.
There has been a revival of sorts in the central city, but usually at the expense of low and middle class families, who have been priced out.
There's one thing Microsoft could do to gain real open-source trust: Stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents.
The geek never sounds more adolescent then when he whines about Microsoft cross-licensing patents with its major corporate partners, It happens all the time and these guys are big enough and old enough to take care of themselves.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous.
The geek is grasping at straws.. It would be too much of a blow to his own ego to admit that Anonymous has run out our of gas, become dim-witted and futile.
I appreciate the taste of paranoia as much as anyone.
Less so when it is salted with too many words like "could" and "may."
widespread awareness of mass surveillance could undermine democracy by making citizens fearful of voicing dissenting opinions in public.
the government's online surveillance programs may threaten the disclosure of minority views and contribute to the reinforcement of majority opinion
The NSA's ability to surreptitiously monitor the online activities of U.S. citizens may make online opinion climates especially chilly
It struck me that if minority views are not disclosed they --- for all practical purposes --- do not exist. The majority holds the floor uncontested. It also struck me that the kind of group think that prevails in many online forums makes the NSA quite irrelevant.
This is a perfect example of a purely-political submission that should not have been promoted to the front page.
It doesn't even have a damn thing to do about technology, science, math, computing, software, or anything relating at all to what Slashdot submissions should be about.
The Supreme Court will making decisions that will shape our society for generations to come. The geek will not escape unscathed.
switching to an Operating System that is not the target of virus writers, or at least less of a target
Linux is your best bet for a general purpose operating system.
You don't chose an operating system because it is free of risks.
You chose it because it supports the programs and services you want and need to run on the hardware you find attractive and affordable. You chose it because it is a comfortable fit for your level of interest and involvement. Not everyone enjoys spending time under the hood.
It's telling that the only flavor of Linux to achieve mass-market status is the malware-ridden Android platform.
I like to see a little more attention paid to problems like evacuation from the tunnel. The HyperLoop is, after all, essentially a more or less airless pipe mounted high on pylons.
Hackers affiliated with Anonymous threaten to "dismantle [Trump's] campaign" by taking his election websites offline in a large-scale and orchestrated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Trump isn't running a web-based campaign.
But he is damn good at demonizing his enemies and making then look like fools when they try to take him down.
"Blurry Fish Butt"
Geek humor is to humor what military music is to music.
Maybe use Uber or Lyft instead of renting a Hertz car?
Nah. You rent a car rather than hire a taxi because you are going to making many stops along the along while putting some serious mileage on the thing.
A whiny sense of entitlement that makes claim to something scarce simply because they want it...
Oh, boy.
A whiny sense of entitlement is quintessentially geek, judging by posts to Slashdot.
No one has a "right" to live anywhere. Ridiculous.
I'll remember that when you are priced out of your own home or apartment --- forced to relocate and find a new job. I'll enjoy it even more if you are not as high up on the food chain as some claim to be here. The median household income in California is $67,500.