Firefox can't update itself successfully. It updated on my machine this morning and afterwards, it wouldn't start because it had deleted it's own executable. Then I went to the Mozilla website and almost vomited from sheer ugly. Their website has little squares of different shapes and sizes everywhere (Like Windows Metro interface), and as such, presents information extremely both inefficiently and in a manner which is offensive to the eye. It was hard to find the download link amongst all of the other squares which did who knows what. I assume they were advertisements, but similar to the ACA, you can't tell what they do unless you click on them.
Pat downs are not guaranteed. There is so much that can slip through that you could have caught with a scanner. Do you know that since the program has started, the number of tiger attacks on airplanes has been reduced to zero? A pat down is not guaranteed to find a tiger hidden on your person. But by irradiating the entire body, they are 1.8% more likely to find any tigers you have hidden on your person. We simply can't take the risk people.
I must not be "with it", because I didn't know Apple and Google were apps. I sure don't have them on my phone. Of course I knew Facebook has an app, but putting it on your phone is about the biggest mistake one can make. It is worse than some viruses.
So this is a 1/10th scale model, fine... but only 50lbs? Doesn't that mean the full size can only weigh 500lbs to match the flight characteristics of the model?
Still seems very much like vaporware.
Absolutely. The largest bird capable of flight is under 30 pounds. If you double it's size, there probably isn't any way you could make it fly unless you altered the materials. The same goes for scaling up miniatures like this. You can learn SOME things from it, but you can't learn whether it will actually work unless you already know how you are going to scale down the weight while retaining the strength.
Why does a company need government's permission to fly a 10:1 model of their future product? It is not like they are testing it in public or on animals...
(And here is the link I submitted about the same thing earlier.)
Because selfish drone owners who believe they can do whatever they want ruined it for everyone. RC Airplane flying had been largely unregulated for 50 years because people acted responsibly. But drone owners don't think they have to be responsible. They can do whatever they want, fly anywhere they want, videotape whatever they want. Now because of their selfishness, everybody pays.
When healthcare requires insurance they are one in the same...
How can you not afford to pay for healthcare, with insurance... There are caps on out of pocket expenses.
If you lose your job and cannot get assistance than you are not required to have health insurance.... If you work part time then you would be required but you would get it free.
I'm not sure it is that hard to understand. It is not like the doctor's see you for free now that you are paying 4 times as much in health insurance. It's just that you can no longer afford to pay them when they see you because that extra couple of hundred dollars pad per month now all goes to paying insurance.
You say it like it's cigarettes and beer. It's fucking health care and financial assistance programs for people (you know, humans like you and I), and the transition of some of our tax burden to the mega corporations that currently pay jack shit. Disagree with the programs if you want, but don't be the disingenuous prick who reduces the whole thing to your idiot fiction of a black Friday mob of welfare mothers.
It's not healthcare. That I could get behind. It's insurance. Insurance is not equal to healthcare. For many people it is one or the other. I know I can't afford to pay for both insurance and also get healthcare. And there is no financial assistance for people, at least not people like me. When I lost my job, I received no food stamps, no section 8 housing, no reduction in my insurance premiums, no tax credits for my insurance premiums. I got about 4 months of unemployment. Other people are apparently on it for years. There seems to be some line that determines whether you are a giver or a taker. If you are a giver and you need a handout, you are out of luck. If you are a taker, then you can be a taker forever.
The article states that child safety experts as well as tech representatives stated objections but then only quotes two tech oriented people. I am left wondering if any child safety experts disagree with the proposed rules other than a person with a website that obviously has an interest in young people using social media or a tech consultant who has operated what looks like a PAC or political "thinktank." If there were any legitimate voices raised then why are they not in the article?
How can any child safety expert possibly disagree with the proposal? There really can be no argument that young children just don't understand that maybe it is a bad idea to broadcast their personal information, address, pictures, and what fancy new home theater stuff their daddy got for Christmas all over the internet. If you tell them, they still won't get it, because social media is a feedback mechanism that makes them feel accepted when people view, like or share their information.
Before the internet, we would have kids bragging about all the stuff their mommy and daddy had to all their friends, and that was dangerous enough. Now they brag about it all over the world.
I'm sure that the 15 year old's with a smart phone would all obey the rule and not use a false date of birth
Yes, I have previously conjectured that a lot of people are going to be permanently stuck with an online presence that represents them as 10+ years older than they are because they lied on a social media site at some point. It's going to be hell on dating sites. The only people that will show up as being in their mid 20s are actually underaged minors that got a social media account at 6,
I've seen them recently and they were exactly as I remembered them. I enjoyed them. I haven't seen the prequels yet. I've seen parts of the prequels but after having seen those parts, could not force myself to watch the whole thing.
The new one coming out, from the previews, looks like it will be Star Wars meets Batman Returns. It looks to be very dark, unlike the light hearted action of the first movies. I usually don't care for dark, so I probably won't like the new one. I may or may not see it in the theater depending what I hear from friends. I'm sure many of my friends will have seen it by Saturday morning.
Its not the bulbs, its the bridge that controls the bulbs. Basically you've got some smart lightbulbs, but they need an intermediary between the network/internet and the bulbs to relay commands (over RF I believe). Philips updated the firmware on their bridge to only command Philips bulbs.
Ah, see there is the problem I believe. All this talk about internet and network and commands over RF. No, see, it is much more simple than that. Apply voltage to socket, or don't apply voltage to socket. Then any bulb works.If your bulb can understand commands, then it has been overdesigned. All it needs to do is turn on when voltage is applied and turn off when voltage is not applied. It doesn't even have to think about doing that. Basic physics will go ahead and take care of it.
If one looks deeper, they'll find that this is really a zoning decision and has nothing to do with fear of solar. The town already has approved other solar farms which are actively being built, but they don't want another one in this particular area. The writer of an article chose to ignore the entirety of the panel discussion and select a few ignorant and irrelevant statements made during the proceedings just to give the people a rise.
And thus the reaction we see here. It looks like there are more ignorant folks out there than just the few in this town.
And here we get to the one comment that needed to be made on the story and then close the article for comment.
The article itself was catered specifically to slashdotters who are emotionally disturbed and must be constantly reassured that they are better than other people. Now those people, feeling all good about themselves can have advertisements shown to them while they read comment after comment that soothes their ego and Dice Holdings gets to get richer.
The lockdown didn't seem to hamper his movement at all, so I'd guess the risk was the same either way. They would've found him sooner, though, as people would've been at the marina sooner and noticed something was amiss sooner, so in that sense the risk would've been less, as he would've spent less time not in custody.
Those pesky criminals. It's bad enough they break the felony laws, but then they go and break the lockdown laws and the "no guns" laws too.
Does this involve white terrorists, like the one in Colorado, as well? Or is this one of those rules we apply to people whose beliefs or skin-color are outside of the norm?
It appears that it is applied when some of the suspects got away from the scene of the crime.
Dogs bark when something is wrong, or when they perceive that something is wrong.
That can be shortened to: Dogs bark. They've been doing it for millions of years, they will be doing it for millions more. If you feel like you need to own a dog then understand that where you are able to live may be affected.
First they are disrupting terrorists, then disrupting somebody else who wants to disrupt the terrorists. Maybe anonymous should go after anonymous next.
Of course, I always figured they went after ISIS because they didn't like the competition.
Not true. Science is all about the "why" of an observation. An apple falls from a tree. Why? Gravitation and force are discovered to be something measurable and can be demonstrated to have universal application. What it won't tell you is whose orchard it is.
It should be tied to housing costs instead of prevailing wage:
H-1B wage should be 5 times the annual mortgage payment for a 30-year-fixed mortgage on a median 4-person home in the county where the job is located.
I don't like that. In the midwest, where houses are more reasonably priced, H1bs would be able to come in for $35k and bump out the locals who ar making much more.
You shouldn't like that either. When a housing market crash occurs, you will also lose your job because it will become cheaper to hire H1bs.
Note that the top three companies actively engage in sidestepping the H1b rules. Companies want to hire cheaper H1bs to replace their prevailing wage workers, but that would be illegal. So they hire from companies like TATA, which hires primarily H1bs. These consultants then replace your prevailing wage workers and everything is all nice and legal. Well, to the letter of the law it is legal. In the spirit of the law it is highly, highly illegal.
The very fact that a company would be able to say with a straight face that they were unable to find ANY qualified candidates anywhere in the U.S. and that is why 99+% of their workforce is H1b ( and all from one country, too)...it's just wrong on so many levels. The federal government needs to fine them for however much money they have collectively stolen from the American people and multiply that by 10.
I live where $110k is a lot of money, and I still agree that a fixed amount is wrong. it should be tied to the prevailing wage, just as it is today. However, it should be highly buffered. I'm talking they should have to offer 50 to 100% over prevailing wage.
Just think it through- why would he rail against the existence of a federal minimum wage yet _propose_ a minimum wage for H1B holders? Because he has no ideological consistency. Feature or bug?
Think it through even more. A federal minimum wage encourages employers to employ illegal foreign nationals in America. A minimum wage on H1B discourages employers from employing legal (in this case) foreign nationals in America.
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Firefox can't update itself successfully. It updated on my machine this morning and afterwards, it wouldn't start because it had deleted it's own executable. Then I went to the Mozilla website and almost vomited from sheer ugly. Their website has little squares of different shapes and sizes everywhere (Like Windows Metro interface), and as such, presents information extremely both inefficiently and in a manner which is offensive to the eye. It was hard to find the download link amongst all of the other squares which did who knows what. I assume they were advertisements, but similar to the ACA, you can't tell what they do unless you click on them.
Pat downs are not guaranteed. There is so much that can slip through that you could have caught with a scanner. Do you know that since the program has started, the number of tiger attacks on airplanes has been reduced to zero? A pat down is not guaranteed to find a tiger hidden on your person. But by irradiating the entire body, they are 1.8% more likely to find any tigers you have hidden on your person. We simply can't take the risk people.
I must not be "with it", because I didn't know Apple and Google were apps. I sure don't have them on my phone. Of course I knew Facebook has an app, but putting it on your phone is about the biggest mistake one can make. It is worse than some viruses.
So this is a 1/10th scale model, fine... but only 50lbs? Doesn't that mean the full size can only weigh 500lbs to match the flight characteristics of the model?
Still seems very much like vaporware.
Absolutely. The largest bird capable of flight is under 30 pounds. If you double it's size, there probably isn't any way you could make it fly unless you altered the materials. The same goes for scaling up miniatures like this. You can learn SOME things from it, but you can't learn whether it will actually work unless you already know how you are going to scale down the weight while retaining the strength.
Why does a company need government's permission to fly a 10:1 model of their future product? It is not like they are testing it in public or on animals...
(And here is the link I submitted about the same thing earlier.)
Because selfish drone owners who believe they can do whatever they want ruined it for everyone. RC Airplane flying had been largely unregulated for 50 years because people acted responsibly. But drone owners don't think they have to be responsible. They can do whatever they want, fly anywhere they want, videotape whatever they want. Now because of their selfishness, everybody pays.
When healthcare requires insurance they are one in the same...
How can you not afford to pay for healthcare, with insurance... There are caps on out of pocket expenses.
If you lose your job and cannot get assistance than you are not required to have health insurance.... If you work part time then you would be required but you would get it free.
I'm not sure it is that hard to understand. It is not like the doctor's see you for free now that you are paying 4 times as much in health insurance. It's just that you can no longer afford to pay them when they see you because that extra couple of hundred dollars pad per month now all goes to paying insurance.
"free" stuff
You say it like it's cigarettes and beer. It's fucking health care and financial assistance programs for people (you know, humans like you and I), and the transition of some of our tax burden to the mega corporations that currently pay jack shit. Disagree with the programs if you want, but don't be the disingenuous prick who reduces the whole thing to your idiot fiction of a black Friday mob of welfare mothers.
It's not healthcare. That I could get behind. It's insurance. Insurance is not equal to healthcare. For many people it is one or the other. I know I can't afford to pay for both insurance and also get healthcare. And there is no financial assistance for people, at least not people like me. When I lost my job, I received no food stamps, no section 8 housing, no reduction in my insurance premiums, no tax credits for my insurance premiums. I got about 4 months of unemployment. Other people are apparently on it for years. There seems to be some line that determines whether you are a giver or a taker. If you are a giver and you need a handout, you are out of luck. If you are a taker, then you can be a taker forever.
The article states that child safety experts as well as tech representatives stated objections but then only quotes two tech oriented people. I am left wondering if any child safety experts disagree with the proposed rules other than a person with a website that obviously has an interest in young people using social media or a tech consultant who has operated what looks like a PAC or political "thinktank." If there were any legitimate voices raised then why are they not in the article?
How can any child safety expert possibly disagree with the proposal? There really can be no argument that young children just don't understand that maybe it is a bad idea to broadcast their personal information, address, pictures, and what fancy new home theater stuff their daddy got for Christmas all over the internet. If you tell them, they still won't get it, because social media is a feedback mechanism that makes them feel accepted when people view, like or share their information.
Before the internet, we would have kids bragging about all the stuff their mommy and daddy had to all their friends, and that was dangerous enough. Now they brag about it all over the world.
I'm sure that the 15 year old's with a smart phone would all obey the rule and not use a false date of birth
Yes, I have previously conjectured that a lot of people are going to be permanently stuck with an online presence that represents them as 10+ years older than they are because they lied on a social media site at some point. It's going to be hell on dating sites. The only people that will show up as being in their mid 20s are actually underaged minors that got a social media account at 6,
What if you are visiting ISIS sites to troll their message boards with anti-ISIS messages?
I've seen them recently and they were exactly as I remembered them. I enjoyed them. I haven't seen the prequels yet. I've seen parts of the prequels but after having seen those parts, could not force myself to watch the whole thing.
The new one coming out, from the previews, looks like it will be Star Wars meets Batman Returns. It looks to be very dark, unlike the light hearted action of the first movies. I usually don't care for dark, so I probably won't like the new one. I may or may not see it in the theater depending what I hear from friends. I'm sure many of my friends will have seen it by Saturday morning.
Its not the bulbs, its the bridge that controls the bulbs. Basically you've got some smart lightbulbs, but they need an intermediary between the network/internet and the bulbs to relay commands (over RF I believe). Philips updated the firmware on their bridge to only command Philips bulbs.
Ah, see there is the problem I believe. All this talk about internet and network and commands over RF. No, see, it is much more simple than that. Apply voltage to socket, or don't apply voltage to socket. Then any bulb works.If your bulb can understand commands, then it has been overdesigned. All it needs to do is turn on when voltage is applied and turn off when voltage is not applied. It doesn't even have to think about doing that. Basic physics will go ahead and take care of it.
If one looks deeper, they'll find that this is really a zoning decision and has nothing to do with fear of solar. The town already has approved other solar farms which are actively being built, but they don't want another one in this particular area. The writer of an article chose to ignore the entirety of the panel discussion and select a few ignorant and irrelevant statements made during the proceedings just to give the people a rise. And thus the reaction we see here. It looks like there are more ignorant folks out there than just the few in this town.
And here we get to the one comment that needed to be made on the story and then close the article for comment.
The article itself was catered specifically to slashdotters who are emotionally disturbed and must be constantly reassured that they are better than other people. Now those people, feeling all good about themselves can have advertisements shown to them while they read comment after comment that soothes their ego and Dice Holdings gets to get richer.
One of my girls asked for a typewriter and another one asked for an 8mm film camera.
Wow, I love how you seemingly aimed that hate cannon at me, a cat owner.
No, I'm aiming it at irresponsible dog owners. I prefer cats myself. They don't bark and pretty much take care of themselves.
The lockdown didn't seem to hamper his movement at all, so I'd guess the risk was the same either way. They would've found him sooner, though, as people would've been at the marina sooner and noticed something was amiss sooner, so in that sense the risk would've been less, as he would've spent less time not in custody.
Those pesky criminals. It's bad enough they break the felony laws, but then they go and break the lockdown laws and the "no guns" laws too.
Does this involve white terrorists, like the one in Colorado, as well? Or is this one of those rules we apply to people whose beliefs or skin-color are outside of the norm?
It appears that it is applied when some of the suspects got away from the scene of the crime.
Dogs bark when something is wrong, or when they perceive that something is wrong.
That can be shortened to: Dogs bark. They've been doing it for millions of years, they will be doing it for millions more. If you feel like you need to own a dog then understand that where you are able to live may be affected.
First they are disrupting terrorists, then disrupting somebody else who wants to disrupt the terrorists. Maybe anonymous should go after anonymous next.
Of course, I always figured they went after ISIS because they didn't like the competition.
Because if it wasn't, we wouldn't be here to observe it.
Not true. Science is all about the "why" of an observation. An apple falls from a tree. Why? Gravitation and force are discovered to be something measurable and can be demonstrated to have universal application. What it won't tell you is whose orchard it is.
Science is "how", philosophy is "why".
It should be tied to housing costs instead of prevailing wage:
H-1B wage should be 5 times the annual mortgage payment for a 30-year-fixed mortgage on a median 4-person home in the county where the job is located.
I don't like that. In the midwest, where houses are more reasonably priced, H1bs would be able to come in for $35k and bump out the locals who ar making much more.
You shouldn't like that either. When a housing market crash occurs, you will also lose your job because it will become cheaper to hire H1bs.
Note that the top three companies actively engage in sidestepping the H1b rules. Companies want to hire cheaper H1bs to replace their prevailing wage workers, but that would be illegal. So they hire from companies like TATA, which hires primarily H1bs. These consultants then replace your prevailing wage workers and everything is all nice and legal. Well, to the letter of the law it is legal. In the spirit of the law it is highly, highly illegal.
The very fact that a company would be able to say with a straight face that they were unable to find ANY qualified candidates anywhere in the U.S. and that is why 99+% of their workforce is H1b ( and all from one country, too)...it's just wrong on so many levels. The federal government needs to fine them for however much money they have collectively stolen from the American people and multiply that by 10.
That's still poverty in Silicon Valley
I live where $110k is a lot of money, and I still agree that a fixed amount is wrong. it should be tied to the prevailing wage, just as it is today. However, it should be highly buffered. I'm talking they should have to offer 50 to 100% over prevailing wage.
Just think it through- why would he rail against the existence of a federal minimum wage yet _propose_ a minimum wage for H1B holders? Because he has no ideological consistency. Feature or bug?
Think it through even more. A federal minimum wage encourages employers to employ illegal foreign nationals in America. A minimum wage on H1B discourages employers from employing legal (in this case) foreign nationals in America.