Since many women feel free to just go to a sperm bank and have a child without a "father" [through artificial insemination], men will eventually be able to go to an egg bank and have a child without a "mother" [by renting an artificial womb].
Of course that is not the primary drive behind the development, but there are so many possibilities. Women with hysterectomies banking eggs to have children later without the risk and complexity of a surrogate. Husbands having children from eggs extracted from their dead or dying wife. Gay couples having children without involving any women. Old couples changing their mind about having children (as long as they planned ahead). "Professional" women who don't want to ruin their jobs or be inconvenienced. Attractive women who don't want to ruin their figures. Governments producing children using extracted DNA.
>"AT&T Brings Fiber To Rich Areas While the Rest Are Stuck On DSL, Study Finds "
Duh. Can you say "How is that different from Verizon?" who does the EXACT SAME THING with their FIOS fiber. Here, one better-off neighborhood has FIOS and right across the street one that is less well-off has zero access to FIOS. And it is like that all throughout the city. Verizon covered only the absolute top of the market with FIOS and left the rest to rot with 2Mb/s DSL, which is so fragile that half of it goes down every time it rains. The only alternative is Cox, who at least covers almost the entire area. Cox now plays the same games with "Introductory pricing" so you never REALLY know what prices are, and they go up, a LOT, every year.
>"As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 8/10 are your only choices."
Wow- you will be rightfully modded down to -100 pretty quickly. Apparently you don't know much about the world out there.... the majority of the Internet is run by Linux servers, and has been for many, many years now. Almost all the S&P500 run Linux to various degrees in their IT. You think Linux doesn't support journaled filesystems? SMP? Seriously??? You think An MS-Windows box of ANY sort can do the work of 3 Linux boxes???!!! LOL!
You are either completely clueless or are an MS-shill or both. Not even many self-respecting professional MS-Windows administrators with Linux exposure would agree with anything you said.
I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Unfortunately I have no interest in "snap" nor *buntu. And having it in a container isn't really "running android apps natively on linux" although it might be close, depending on the container system used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Other Android-under-Linux setups never seem to be free, open, stable, reliable, and compatible (especially when dealing with a touchscreen and trying to deal with screen rotation). At least not that I have tried.... and none were "native".
>"One can do that. However, no one should force others to do so against their will."
Nobody was forcing them to be parents. They were prepared to be parents and take the financial and emotional responsibility... that was the whole point of the procedure.
>"they are just lucky that the court ordered the responsibility be split three ways, and not half for using the wrong sperm,"
Imagine if they got the wrong sperm AND egg; which is entirely possible since it was in-vitro. Using this theory, the clinic could be held 100% financially responsible for the child until age 18!
>"The kid does have the wrong genes. They wanted their kid, they got somebody else's kid. It fucking matters!"
I will certainly say that in many ways it should not matter. It is their kid, just not their offspring. Semantics aside, one can provide the exact same love and joy for a child, regardless of genetics. Look at sperm/egg donors, adoption, even pet lovers- doesn't even have to be the same species:)
The only reason it might really matter is later when dealing with healthcare and hereditary diseases, blood and organ donation, etc.
But it was a mistake. And the company SHOULD be punished. And punished they were! Had the company done it intentionally (like they just don't care, or it saves them money) then the punishment should be even worse.... because then we are talking fraud.
If we [society] really cared about privacy, we would require that ALL devices that contain a microphone or camera contain HARD switches that can cut them on/off at will. Not soft switches under software/firmware control. The reality is that ANY device with hard switches that contains a computer and a mic or camera can be broken into and used as a spy device. Be it a TV, phone, monitor, laptop, car, Echo, refrigerator, toy, whatever. And often there is no easy way to really/truly turn "off" the device (and then, of course, you can't use any other function).
Although it is relatively easy to disable cameras by sticking tape over them.... the same is not true for microphones. Of course, the manufacturers would scream about it, since it would add $0.25 to their $800+ devices and increase the mass by 0.0001%.
And regarding microphones, it isn't just about what you might be saying- sophisticated software can be used to detect all kinds of things like when you are present, where you might be, who you are with, what you are doing, even what you might be typing.
"A jet engine is a reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet that genenerates thrust by jet propulsion. This broad definition includes airbreathing jet engines (turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, and pulse jets) and non-airbreathing jet engines (such as rocket engines). In general, jet engines are combustion engines. In common parlance, the term jet engine loosely refers to an internal combustion airbreathing jet engine."
Not a word ANYWHERE on that or any related article in Wikipedia that ties the word "jet" to electric fans/motors. And the article is not about some theoretical engine, but a plane that uses electric FANS.
I came to post the same thing. It is a plane. It is not a jet nor a "jet plane" because it has no jet engines. Jets create propulsion from burning gases. It is a multiple prop or ducted fan plane.
>"Cycling To Work Can Cut Cancer and Heart Disease"
Nope, that is not the article. Look at the title of the paper:
"Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study"
*ASSOCIATION*, which is another way of saying correlation. It is not a study of causality. This proves nothing. Perhaps people who bike to work also eat better. Perhaps they have more income. Perhaps the other parts of their life have lower stress. They can't possibly eliminate ALL other possibilities by "adjusting for" because those are just assumptions.
Of course, it is common sense that exercising regularly will cut your chance of heart disease and possibly cancer. But the title of the posting implies there is causality where that is not proven in the article.
By the way, I bicycle to work almost every day.... but it is only like 2/3 of a mile round trip:)
>"Do you ever loop your boss when having a conversation with a colleague when his or her presence in the thread wasn't really necessary?"
Yes. It is rare, but does happen. And when it does, I usually will ignore the Email and delete it. It is usually when another Director/VP thinks it will motivate me to do something, and I quietly illustrate to them it has the exact opposite effect. If they later ask me about the Email, I will say something like "well, looked like you were trying to talk to the CEO and not me."
>"A centralized source of information also means a fair bit of power/control over which information comes out"
Which is why I tell people all the time to STOP USING GOOGLE AS YOUR ONLY SEARCH ENGINE! There is a truism to many of us tech-type people cheering on the underdog, and a lot of it has to do with diversification and distribution of power. Nothing scares us more than the mentality of people who simply hand over their whole life to a company, like Google- search, Email, IM, phone, online docs, photos, chat, contacts, GPS data, wallet, calendar, online file storage, document creation, etc. That is a HUGE amount of control one company has over that life. Knowledge *is* power, especially in this information age. Power corrupts.... absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The masses care more about convenience than security, privacy, or freedom. And not by just a little, by a LOT! One day many will wake up and the decision to have any of those three will be gone completely.
Sorry, I don't believe it. t is the dialing of the phone, the texting, the reading facebook, etc... THOSE are what have caused the accidents and it is mostly from taking eyes off the road and/or hands off the contols. Dumb phones didn't increase accidents much at all, especially not hands-free. Can you remember those days? I do.
For many people, if not most, TALKING on the phone is not much different than talking to a passenger.
>Well 'great value' wasn't brought up, so you're just moving goalposts.
Yes it was brought up when they said "the PC of mobile computing" which, to me, implied compatibility, standardization, and low price due to lots of competition.
>>"These things are computers; where is the PC of mobile computing?"
>"Nexus and Pixel phones."
I think it kinda died with the Nexus 5 if the comparison is openness AND great value. And now Nexus is completely gone, replaced with Pixel which is just as expensive as all the other phones out there.... although at least more open.
What is this 6 or 8 day nursing workday? Everywhere here is forced *12* hour workdays for nursing and nursing assistant staff. Makes for LONG days, and worn-out staff. But guarantees overtime and more days off. It is also FAR easier for management to perform staffing (requires fewer people, less slots to fill, fewer people to hire/train/inservice/license/review).
One needs to also remember that this is not like office work. Healthcare facilities are 24x7. 8 hour healthcare shifts are typically 7-3, 3-11, and 11-7. So both 2nd and 3rd shift have night hours, making it hard to find people willing. And those 8 hour shifts are typically only 7.5 hour (because of 30 min unpaid dinner/lunch/breakfast) so they don't get a full 40 hours.
>"Why is Samsung scared of the possibility? It's annoying."
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is almost irresistible for companies to gain the power to force their agenda on people and then NOT use that power. The only thing that keeps it in check is severe customer backlash (which rarely happens) and hacking (which the companies try to fight endlessly). Samsung is probably no worse than any other typical company. Google is certainly not immune to it- they have all kinds of artificial limitations in Android that favor their own agendas, too. Crap, even their web search page is full of it ("Oh, I see you are not using us as your default search engine." "Oh, I see you are not using Chrome..." dismiss it as much as you like, it will come right back next time or perhaps next week). As does Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc, etc.
>"Vaping people don't smell like coffee, the ones I know smell like strawberry bubble gum and other chemicals."
And food doesn't smell like chocolate but like pig and fish and other chemicals. (Highly offensive to a vegetarian)
See how silly that sounds? It depends on what people are vaping. There are lots that have almost no smell. Being annoying is not the fault of vaping, it is the fault of what they select. So instruct people to not use stupid smelling stuff. I have been around both types before (smelly and non-smelly) so I know there are differences.
Cars with illegally modified exhaust systems are loud and annoying. Ban all cars.
Some motorcycle drivers speed recklessly and weave between cars without using turn signals or leaving adequate clearance. Ban all motorcycles.
People blasting rap "music" is loud and annoying. Ban all stereos.
People wearing lots of perfume is horrible and annoying. Ban all toiletries.
Light pollution destroys the night sky and is annoying. Ban all lights.
People that walk into traffic looking at phones is unsafe and dangerous. Ban all phones.
Drunk people who pee on walls is gross and annoying. Ban all alcohol.
Guns are sometimes used by some bad people to illegally hurt other people (usually bad people), unlike 99.9999% of good gun owners. Ban all guns.
I could go on, but I think my point is made. There is always a small minority of people that will ruin ANYTHING for everyone else. So back to the actual topic....
A small fraction of people vaping modify their equipment with cheap crap to do things that are unsafe and stupid. And a small percent of THOSE people cause negative incidents (which is no surprise). That is not a good reason to ban all vaping.
The closest thing the planet has to a "universal language", at least as far as first-world nations go, is English (and that is not saying that English is anything special- it is very descriptive and colorful, but certainly not one of the easier languages out there). I can understand them getting their native language (Korean) working first, but would expect the second would probably be English.
>"If a show is available on-demand, viewers won't be able to skip ads, even if they recorded the episode on DVR."
And this is why streaming usually fails, because it puts the user out of control. It doesn't matter the who or why- broadcasters, content providers, streaming service, if they are going to FORCE the customer to view ANYTHING- be it ads, previews, trailers, "infomercials", public service announcements, then we have moved backwards. Streaming gives them that power, and it is often irresistible- something they don't have over DVR's.
Technology has released me from being forced to watch commercials for 20 years and I am not about to start now (VCR then TiVo then added Netflix streaming). I am amazed that people will PAY for services that force them to watch what they don't want. Even if the content is "free", there is a large segment of the market who is like me, and if that contains forced anything, we reject it.
Forced ads are a dinosaur that needs to become and stay extinct.
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Since many women feel free to just go to a sperm bank and have a child without a "father" [through artificial insemination], men will eventually be able to go to an egg bank and have a child without a "mother" [by renting an artificial womb].
Of course that is not the primary drive behind the development, but there are so many possibilities. Women with hysterectomies banking eggs to have children later without the risk and complexity of a surrogate. Husbands having children from eggs extracted from their dead or dying wife. Gay couples having children without involving any women. Old couples changing their mind about having children (as long as they planned ahead). "Professional" women who don't want to ruin their jobs or be inconvenienced. Attractive women who don't want to ruin their figures. Governments producing children using extracted DNA.
>"AT&T Brings Fiber To Rich Areas While the Rest Are Stuck On DSL, Study Finds "
Duh. Can you say "How is that different from Verizon?" who does the EXACT SAME THING with their FIOS fiber. Here, one better-off neighborhood has FIOS and right across the street one that is less well-off has zero access to FIOS. And it is like that all throughout the city. Verizon covered only the absolute top of the market with FIOS and left the rest to rot with 2Mb/s DSL, which is so fragile that half of it goes down every time it rains. The only alternative is Cox, who at least covers almost the entire area. Cox now plays the same games with "Introductory pricing" so you never REALLY know what prices are, and they go up, a LOT, every year.
>"As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 8/10 are your only choices."
Wow- you will be rightfully modded down to -100 pretty quickly. Apparently you don't know much about the world out there.... the majority of the Internet is run by Linux servers, and has been for many, many years now. Almost all the S&P500 run Linux to various degrees in their IT. You think Linux doesn't support journaled filesystems? SMP? Seriously??? You think An MS-Windows box of ANY sort can do the work of 3 Linux boxes???!!! LOL!
You are either completely clueless or are an MS-shill or both. Not even many self-respecting professional MS-Windows administrators with Linux exposure would agree with anything you said.
I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Unfortunately I have no interest in "snap" nor *buntu. And having it in a container isn't really "running android apps natively on linux" although it might be close, depending on the container system used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Other Android-under-Linux setups never seem to be free, open, stable, reliable, and compatible (especially when dealing with a touchscreen and trying to deal with screen rotation). At least not that I have tried.... and none were "native".
http://www.shashlik.io/
https://www.genymotion.com/
http://www.android-x86.org/
http://www.jide.com/remixos
>"One can do that. However, no one should force others to do so against their will."
Nobody was forcing them to be parents. They were prepared to be parents and take the financial and emotional responsibility... that was the whole point of the procedure.
>"they are just lucky that the court ordered the responsibility be split three ways, and not half for using the wrong sperm,"
Imagine if they got the wrong sperm AND egg; which is entirely possible since it was in-vitro. Using this theory, the clinic could be held 100% financially responsible for the child until age 18!
>"The kid does have the wrong genes. They wanted their kid, they got somebody else's kid. It fucking matters!"
I will certainly say that in many ways it should not matter. It is their kid, just not their offspring. Semantics aside, one can provide the exact same love and joy for a child, regardless of genetics. Look at sperm/egg donors, adoption, even pet lovers- doesn't even have to be the same species :)
The only reason it might really matter is later when dealing with healthcare and hereditary diseases, blood and organ donation, etc.
But it was a mistake. And the company SHOULD be punished. And punished they were! Had the company done it intentionally (like they just don't care, or it saves them money) then the punishment should be even worse.... because then we are talking fraud.
>"The reality is that ANY device with hard switches that contains a computer.."
That is a typo in which I meant to say "ANY device *WITHOUT* hard switches", but I am guessing most people knew what I meant.
+1 Insightful
I was going to write the exact same thing. It is about punishing a COMPANY that did something wrong.
If we [society] really cared about privacy, we would require that ALL devices that contain a microphone or camera contain HARD switches that can cut them on/off at will. Not soft switches under software/firmware control. The reality is that ANY device with hard switches that contains a computer and a mic or camera can be broken into and used as a spy device. Be it a TV, phone, monitor, laptop, car, Echo, refrigerator, toy, whatever. And often there is no easy way to really/truly turn "off" the device (and then, of course, you can't use any other function).
Although it is relatively easy to disable cameras by sticking tape over them.... the same is not true for microphones. Of course, the manufacturers would scream about it, since it would add $0.25 to their $800+ devices and increase the mass by 0.0001%.
And regarding microphones, it isn't just about what you might be saying- sophisticated software can be used to detect all kinds of things like when you are present, where you might be, who you are with, what you are doing, even what you might be typing.
>Does a jet ski boat burn water?
More of a layman's/marketing term. It is a registered trade name of a personal water craft. It is not a jet engine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"A jet engine is a reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet that genenerates thrust by jet propulsion. This broad definition includes airbreathing jet engines (turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, and pulse jets) and non-airbreathing jet engines (such as rocket engines). In general, jet engines are combustion engines. In common parlance, the term jet engine loosely refers to an internal combustion airbreathing jet engine."
Not a word ANYWHERE on that or any related article in Wikipedia that ties the word "jet" to electric fans/motors. And the article is not about some theoretical engine, but a plane that uses electric FANS.
I came to post the same thing. It is a plane. It is not a jet nor a "jet plane" because it has no jet engines. Jets create propulsion from burning gases. It is a multiple prop or ducted fan plane.
>"Cycling To Work Can Cut Cancer and Heart Disease"
Nope, that is not the article. Look at the title of the paper:
"Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study"
*ASSOCIATION*, which is another way of saying correlation. It is not a study of causality. This proves nothing. Perhaps people who bike to work also eat better. Perhaps they have more income. Perhaps the other parts of their life have lower stress. They can't possibly eliminate ALL other possibilities by "adjusting for" because those are just assumptions.
Of course, it is common sense that exercising regularly will cut your chance of heart disease and possibly cancer. But the title of the posting implies there is causality where that is not proven in the article.
By the way, I bicycle to work almost every day.... but it is only like 2/3 of a mile round trip :)
>"Do you ever loop your boss when having a conversation with a colleague when his or her presence in the thread wasn't really necessary?"
Yes. It is rare, but does happen. And when it does, I usually will ignore the Email and delete it. It is usually when another Director/VP thinks it will motivate me to do something, and I quietly illustrate to them it has the exact opposite effect. If they later ask me about the Email, I will say something like "well, looked like you were trying to talk to the CEO and not me."
>"A centralized source of information also means a fair bit of power/control over which information comes out"
Which is why I tell people all the time to STOP USING GOOGLE AS YOUR ONLY SEARCH ENGINE! There is a truism to many of us tech-type people cheering on the underdog, and a lot of it has to do with diversification and distribution of power. Nothing scares us more than the mentality of people who simply hand over their whole life to a company, like Google- search, Email, IM, phone, online docs, photos, chat, contacts, GPS data, wallet, calendar, online file storage, document creation, etc. That is a HUGE amount of control one company has over that life. Knowledge *is* power, especially in this information age. Power corrupts.... absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The masses care more about convenience than security, privacy, or freedom. And not by just a little, by a LOT! One day many will wake up and the decision to have any of those three will be gone completely.
Sorry, I don't believe it. t is the dialing of the phone, the texting, the reading facebook, etc... THOSE are what have caused the accidents and it is mostly from taking eyes off the road and/or hands off the contols. Dumb phones didn't increase accidents much at all, especially not hands-free. Can you remember those days? I do.
For many people, if not most, TALKING on the phone is not much different than talking to a passenger.
>Well 'great value' wasn't brought up, so you're just moving goalposts.
Yes it was brought up when they said "the PC of mobile computing" which, to me, implied compatibility, standardization, and low price due to lots of competition.
>>"These things are computers; where is the PC of mobile computing?"
>"Nexus and Pixel phones."
I think it kinda died with the Nexus 5 if the comparison is openness AND great value. And now Nexus is completely gone, replaced with Pixel which is just as expensive as all the other phones out there.... although at least more open.
What is this 6 or 8 day nursing workday? Everywhere here is forced *12* hour workdays for nursing and nursing assistant staff. Makes for LONG days, and worn-out staff. But guarantees overtime and more days off. It is also FAR easier for management to perform staffing (requires fewer people, less slots to fill, fewer people to hire/train/inservice/license/review).
One needs to also remember that this is not like office work. Healthcare facilities are 24x7. 8 hour healthcare shifts are typically 7-3, 3-11, and 11-7. So both 2nd and 3rd shift have night hours, making it hard to find people willing. And those 8 hour shifts are typically only 7.5 hour (because of 30 min unpaid dinner/lunch/breakfast) so they don't get a full 40 hours.
>"Why is Samsung scared of the possibility? It's annoying."
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is almost irresistible for companies to gain the power to force their agenda on people and then NOT use that power. The only thing that keeps it in check is severe customer backlash (which rarely happens) and hacking (which the companies try to fight endlessly). Samsung is probably no worse than any other typical company. Google is certainly not immune to it- they have all kinds of artificial limitations in Android that favor their own agendas, too. Crap, even their web search page is full of it ("Oh, I see you are not using us as your default search engine." "Oh, I see you are not using Chrome..." dismiss it as much as you like, it will come right back next time or perhaps next week). As does Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc, etc.
Tandy/TRS-80 CoCo 1, full-sized silver sucker with 4K RAM and tape drive. Those were the days!
>"Vaping people don't smell like coffee, the ones I know smell like strawberry bubble gum and other chemicals."
And food doesn't smell like chocolate but like pig and fish and other chemicals. (Highly offensive to a vegetarian)
See how silly that sounds? It depends on what people are vaping. There are lots that have almost no smell. Being annoying is not the fault of vaping, it is the fault of what they select. So instruct people to not use stupid smelling stuff. I have been around both types before (smelly and non-smelly) so I know there are differences.
Cars with illegally modified exhaust systems are loud and annoying. Ban all cars.
Some motorcycle drivers speed recklessly and weave between cars without using turn signals or leaving adequate clearance. Ban all motorcycles.
People blasting rap "music" is loud and annoying. Ban all stereos.
People wearing lots of perfume is horrible and annoying. Ban all toiletries.
Light pollution destroys the night sky and is annoying. Ban all lights.
People that walk into traffic looking at phones is unsafe and dangerous. Ban all phones.
Drunk people who pee on walls is gross and annoying. Ban all alcohol.
Guns are sometimes used by some bad people to illegally hurt other people (usually bad people), unlike 99.9999% of good gun owners. Ban all guns.
I could go on, but I think my point is made. There is always a small minority of people that will ruin ANYTHING for everyone else. So back to the actual topic....
A small fraction of people vaping modify their equipment with cheap crap to do things that are unsafe and stupid. And a small percent of THOSE people cause negative incidents (which is no surprise). That is not a good reason to ban all vaping.
The closest thing the planet has to a "universal language", at least as far as first-world nations go, is English (and that is not saying that English is anything special- it is very descriptive and colorful, but certainly not one of the easier languages out there). I can understand them getting their native language (Korean) working first, but would expect the second would probably be English.
>"If a show is available on-demand, viewers won't be able to skip ads, even if they recorded the episode on DVR."
And this is why streaming usually fails, because it puts the user out of control. It doesn't matter the who or why- broadcasters, content providers, streaming service, if they are going to FORCE the customer to view ANYTHING- be it ads, previews, trailers, "infomercials", public service announcements, then we have moved backwards. Streaming gives them that power, and it is often irresistible- something they don't have over DVR's.
Technology has released me from being forced to watch commercials for 20 years and I am not about to start now (VCR then TiVo then added Netflix streaming). I am amazed that people will PAY for services that force them to watch what they don't want. Even if the content is "free", there is a large segment of the market who is like me, and if that contains forced anything, we reject it.
Forced ads are a dinosaur that needs to become and stay extinct.