This is highly misleading. What IS a "GPS"? It's NOT the whole unit, it's JUST the receiver, yet people - even people who should know better - persist in mis-labeling the entire device as a "GPS". What got the people described in this article in life-threatening trouble was NOT the GPS, it was the software and maps, which were of a type completely unsuited to an undeveloped wilderness area.
Had the ignorant people described in the article had a GPS receiver with the right device, software, and maps, for instance TOPO USA or the outdated Outdoor Navigator, then they likely would have survived and found their destinations in good (or better) health.
I wonder exactly what entity is suing this guy: the Benihana corporation, or just the local franchise owner? At least the stupidity can be contained if it's the latter. If it really is the former, perhaps a global boycott of Benihana everywhere is in order?
It's turnover and updating of local DNS caches that allows them to get away with this crap in the first place. The solution is to make those DNS entries static, like perhaps embedding them in the local hosts file or using Treewalk or some DNS filtering utility.
Well, either that or bypass DNS entirely by using URL shortcuts that directly reference the IP address....
You say 'when', but perhaps what you mean is 'if'? Perhaps Egypt will simply slide back into the 'Dark' Ages again? Then the Amish could vacation there.
It's worth noting that Dow doesn't have a lock on that stuff: I have a Dri-Slide brand moly lube. Nope, definitely don't wanna let it touch skin.
Speaking of playing with arsenide chunks of stuff, I once had ore samples of arsenopyrite when I was a kid. Guess what I did with them? I heated them of course! I was 'rewarded' with a nice pretty purple vapor....
I can't seem to see any comments your grandchild comment below. I made one, and if the e-mail notices are to be believed you've been trying repeatedly? Ain't this new discussion code wunderful? The preferences won't actually even lemme select the old D1 system: whenever I place a check next to D1 it immediately changes it back....
There might not be any immediate consequences to mining molybdenum in vast quantities, but you're thinking is short-sighted. What we're talking about here tantamount to SEQUESTERING molybdenum out of the environment... where plants can't get at it through natural processes like erosion. Never heard of erosion? It may not affect plants for a millennium, but what doesn't GO around doesn't COME around. This is a finite and closed ecosystem. That was the point of the GP. We're doing the same with many elements, not just molybdenum, and even doing it by the simple act of static farming - continually removing biomass from the same spot - in the first place. It's called soil depletion. Crop plants today don't have the same micro-nutrient value as the same crops 50 years ago; this has been demonstrated.
We'd be better off grabbing it from the Moon, assuming it's present in quantity.
That, too. I just haven't been much of a comics reader, so it didn't immediately come to mind. There are many other examples of how we reinforce it culturally.
Funny thing, that... I did tune away and spend my time elsewhere. The ethical relativitism on that show, more than any other I can recall, made me almost physically sick. Calling it a 'unique ethical perspective' is quite an understatement.
You don't provide very effective counter-examples, since more than one of those shows have also featured plots involving breaking the law to allegedly serve the law. Did your very first example, Hawaii Five-O, mean to refer to the current re-made series or the original? My memory of the original isn't that good, but recent episodes of the current series featured plots that were anything but cops coloring inside the lines.
I am pretty sure the plants inside of the middle of a mountain are not going to mind.
You made fun of him for being overly simplistic (he wasn't, just poorly documented), but then you turned around and committed the same crime of ignorance. Remind me to pass on watching your TED talk.
All governments, as macro pseudo-organisms, sufficiently mimic life that they have their own survival instinct. Any government - every government - when faced with its own imminent mortality, WILL do anything necessary to prolong its survival.
This is precisely why revolutions are cyclically necessary in human civilization: the Beast has to be killed off every so often because it will never simply retire.
You know the shows I'm talking about: the ones that show spooks and law enforcers breaking their own ethical rules (and everyone else's) in the obsessive pursuit of goals and people who have been quietly pre-convicted outside of any court or due process. They just KNOW the person is guilty... they just have to concoct some a-moral scheme to PROVE it!
These shows plant the seed that such behavior is acceptable. It can't help but have repercussions in the real world, humans being as impressionable as they are. It's "the end justifies the means" yet again. Judicial impartiality? What's that?
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I think they call that "throwing the baby out with the bath water"....
I'd certainly choose to opt out of illiteracy on Slashdot. Is there an app for that?
... when both the intent and result is exactly the same.
*facepalm*
This is highly misleading. What IS a "GPS"? It's NOT the whole unit, it's JUST the receiver, yet people - even people who should know better - persist in mis-labeling the entire device as a "GPS". What got the people described in this article in life-threatening trouble was NOT the GPS, it was the software and maps, which were of a type completely unsuited to an undeveloped wilderness area.
Had the ignorant people described in the article had a GPS receiver with the right device, software, and maps, for instance TOPO USA or the outdated Outdoor Navigator, then they likely would have survived and found their destinations in good (or better) health.
Lemme guess: all of those innovations involve revenue generation strategy, right? Knowing Murdoch, it couldn't possibly mean anything else.
I wonder exactly what entity is suing this guy: the Benihana corporation, or just the local franchise owner? At least the stupidity can be contained if it's the latter. If it really is the former, perhaps a global boycott of Benihana everywhere is in order?
Ya got that backwards. ;-)
It's turnover and updating of local DNS caches that allows them to get away with this crap in the first place. The solution is to make those DNS entries static, like perhaps embedding them in the local hosts file or using Treewalk or some DNS filtering utility.
Well, either that or bypass DNS entirely by using URL shortcuts that directly reference the IP address....
They can make a Viking boat.
You say 'when', but perhaps what you mean is 'if'? Perhaps Egypt will simply slide back into the 'Dark' Ages again? Then the Amish could vacation there.
It's worth noting that Dow doesn't have a lock on that stuff: I have a Dri-Slide brand moly lube. Nope, definitely don't wanna let it touch skin.
Speaking of playing with arsenide chunks of stuff, I once had ore samples of arsenopyrite when I was a kid. Guess what I did with them? I heated them of course! I was 'rewarded' with a nice pretty purple vapor....
I can't seem to see any comments your grandchild comment below. I made one, and if the e-mail notices are to be believed you've been trying repeatedly? Ain't this new discussion code wunderful? The preferences won't actually even lemme select the old D1 system: whenever I place a check next to D1 it immediately changes it back....
I'll stop by for a visit, then. *snort* [Ooops, wrong narcotic.]
I've already pre-ordered my ringside seat for the next revolution. I expect to live to see it. It's overdue.
There might not be any immediate consequences to mining molybdenum in vast quantities, but you're thinking is short-sighted. What we're talking about here tantamount to SEQUESTERING molybdenum out of the environment... where plants can't get at it through natural processes like erosion. Never heard of erosion? It may not affect plants for a millennium, but what doesn't GO around doesn't COME around. This is a finite and closed ecosystem. That was the point of the GP. We're doing the same with many elements, not just molybdenum, and even doing it by the simple act of static farming - continually removing biomass from the same spot - in the first place. It's called soil depletion. Crop plants today don't have the same micro-nutrient value as the same crops 50 years ago; this has been demonstrated.
We'd be better off grabbing it from the Moon, assuming it's present in quantity.
That, too. I just haven't been much of a comics reader, so it didn't immediately come to mind. There are many other examples of how we reinforce it culturally.
Funny thing, that... I did tune away and spend my time elsewhere. The ethical relativitism on that show, more than any other I can recall, made me almost physically sick. Calling it a 'unique ethical perspective' is quite an understatement.
But the really scary aspect is that it's all unintentional non-conspiratorial free-advertising-type propaganda....
That tongue-in-cheek thing looks painful. Can it get stuck that way, like crossing your eyes?
You don't provide very effective counter-examples, since more than one of those shows have also featured plots involving breaking the law to allegedly serve the law. Did your very first example, Hawaii Five-O, mean to refer to the current re-made series or the original? My memory of the original isn't that good, but recent episodes of the current series featured plots that were anything but cops coloring inside the lines.
You made fun of him for being overly simplistic (he wasn't, just poorly documented), but then you turned around and committed the same crime of ignorance. Remind me to pass on watching your TED talk.
Already asked and answered in TFS. What's your point, aside from giving Dow free advertising?
Regurgitate your own Kool-Aid much? Does it really taste better going down the 100th time?
All governments, as macro pseudo-organisms, sufficiently mimic life that they have their own survival instinct. Any government - every government - when faced with its own imminent mortality, WILL do anything necessary to prolong its survival.
This is precisely why revolutions are cyclically necessary in human civilization: the Beast has to be killed off every so often because it will never simply retire.
You know the shows I'm talking about: the ones that show spooks and law enforcers breaking their own ethical rules (and everyone else's) in the obsessive pursuit of goals and people who have been quietly pre-convicted outside of any court or due process. They just KNOW the person is guilty... they just have to concoct some a-moral scheme to PROVE it!
These shows plant the seed that such behavior is acceptable. It can't help but have repercussions in the real world, humans being as impressionable as they are. It's "the end justifies the means" yet again. Judicial impartiality? What's that?