The best part of the whole thing was the reason: "The mistake happened because staff had not checked the timetable, the company statement said." Based on personal experience, the staff of subway systems and commuter trains in the US are consulting time tables that must round only to the nearest ten minutes.
"Altman says. 'And the American puritanical ideal that hard work for its own sake is valuable -- period -- and that you can't question that, I think that's just wrong.' [...] Study after study, however, has shown that giving people extra money makes them feel financially secure. That security ends up leading to empowerment, not de-motivation."
So, its a puritanical idea that work for work's sake is valuable, but if you give everyone an income, they will feel empowered to do what exactly? Work?
Yes, but it was the rule changes instituted between 1905 and 1909 that brought down the injuries and deaths, not the introduction of modern padding. It used to really be trench warfare with gang tackling, no distance between the players at the start of each play, eye gouging, etc...
I will grant that the number of injuries will not decline, but I would argue that the type of injuries will be different and easier to treat.
Eliminating the "protective" equipment worn by the players would massively decrease the quantity of brain injuries. Players hit at speed and tackle head-up and in front of the runner (vs the rugby style) because from Pop Warner on they are "up-armored" like a Hummer in Jalalabad. Everything about how you are taught to hit in football (everything I was taught through high school anyway) becomes impractical when you take away shoulder pads and the facemask, especially at the higher speeds in college and the pros.
Go to the soft helmet and no shoulder pads and the blood will fly but the concussions will drop dramatically. Since we have made good strides in treating lacerations and broken bones but can't fix brain injuries, I would vote for a trip in the way-back machine to early years of football.
Copyright enforcement by software: the speed camera of the internet...if the traffic ticket were set to eliminate your whole wage.
Actual people could review this stuff...or we could all accept that if you use the tools a giant corporation provides to you at essentially no cost, you are totally at their mercy.
Not sure why this is on Slashdot, but its certainly something that I have been interested in for a while. There is a large body of government, DoD and think-tank level research about this already, and a good source for it comes from the Center of Strategic and Budget Assessments" (I'm not affiliated). For example, they have a writeup on AirSea Battle that describes some of the tactics and vulnerabilities of carrier based operations in a joint forces framework. They also discuss the vulnerabilities of carriers in some of the possible operating environments of the future, namely the Western Pacific and the Strait of Hormuz . This question is also at the heart of the big debate about how China would optimally compose its growing navy (carriers vs. subs), and the practical US military response to such behavior.
If the issue is impersonation, then the headline of Schneier's post should have been "Counterfeit TSA agent IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security". Every TSA agent has access to the "secure" areas of the terminal and passes through security unchecked throughout the day. The assumption that counterfeit pilots will have access more than counterfeit TSA agents at a large airport is a little silly. What happened to Schneier's desire for intelligence based screening? If we assume that everyone has to be verified, aren't we back to strange child pat downs and removing the Depends of senior citizens. I suspect what Schneier thought but didn't want to say is that he thinks that people with the "background" to require strict scrutiny may be allowed through in a pilot uniform because the program creates a situation that removes the discretion of the security personnel.
This is one where I believe that no amount of logic and reasonable precedent will matter. The court will simply not invalidate the basis of an existing industry and it has nothing to do with corruption. No quantity of shine can alter the fundamental nature of this complaint. It won't happen, don't get excited.
Maybe it was targeted advertising, but I wanted to learn more about the RC trucks being advertised in the side-panels. They were slightly obscured by the "model".
Who modded this Funny? She's a judge, for crying out loud. If she were trying to be famous for being rich that would be one thing, but come on... I don't want to see her confirmed, but this is ridiculous. There is nothing to like about her politics, er, I mean, judicial record, but why would anyone hope she had an angry ex with a sex tape? If people were thinking that justice was supposed to be blind, that the constitution has a text that is meant to be followed and amended by the will of the people, and if anyone thought that the commerce clause was meant to give Congress the power to regulate interstate trade, we wouldn't even have to think about putting her on the bench. To think that people need to hope she has a sex tape that would get her excluded (though it shouldn't) is part of the problem. There are so many good reasons to keep her out, let's not hope for the bad ones.
TeX and it's offspring LaTeX aren't editors, they are programming languages that generate typeset output. My editor for TeX is emacs, but I have used Notepad, vi...anything to edit my TeX files. TeX and LaTeX are passed down from user to user in graduate programs because the learning curve is extremely sharp. The two reasons that TeX won't be supplanted quickly are that (1) academic journal formatting for TeX (in the form of style files) is commonly available and graduate students in many science/engineering programs use the style files from their senior counterparts. This builds familiarity and then you just keep using TeX because you recognize its beauty and ease of use. More importantly (2) TeX files are simply text files. A dissertation is very small in this format. It is very, very portable; very, very stable; and you can use any editor you want (well, except WYSIWYG editors unless you do some pre-formatting). TeX is a programming language for typesetting, lets not call it an editor.
Despite the fact that we didn't have accurate data about the pattern of ocean currents earlier, we can now welcome panicked decrees that we are changing the pattern of ocean currents!
What? Why is it that when a country wants to import jobs for its citizens and substitute the resulting household income tax (and resulting sales tax) for the corporate taxes, people claim tax haven? Ireland isn't Monaco, any country could (and should) consider doing exactly what Ireland is doing.
Honest question here: Can somebody with knowledge about this give me some data on the ice formation timeline here? I remember reading that a P-51 Mustang was dug out of the ice in Greenland and it was under 268 feet of ice after 50 years in 1992. That nets out to 5.36 feet of ice accumulation per year. Two miles of ice is roughly 10500 feet, or 1970 years. What am I missing? Non-linear accumulation?
Is everyone forgetting that this is a relatively small company. How many people believe that if The Suits show up with something that looks official on paper that a company with people who want to look out for their own families and such will say "No, we're not giving you that." If the algorithm is secure, you have to keep your own key. I'm not willing to go to prison for your secret, let me know if you find someone who think truly is.
What with the US government abandoning any real pretense of not militarizing space, I doubt there will be any real outsourcing, but we might get to see an honest to god space battle in our lifetimes (if you're young) and India and China really get into this.
I'm having similar frustrations in the changeover. When I go to extensions and themes the windows are blank, but have fully functional update buttons on the bottom. Its pretty irritating, and a reinstall hasn't helped. Is anyone else experiencing this particular bug?
This is essentially just a terrorism and geo-political version of some that the University of Iowa has been doing for years:
http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
Rumors abound as to whether or not politicals have tried to ``manipulate'' these markets before to get people to think certain candidates were going to win. The only thing they know for sure is that unless the right people put serious money forward, its predictive value is squat.
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The best part of the whole thing was the reason: "The mistake happened because staff had not checked the timetable, the company statement said." Based on personal experience, the staff of subway systems and commuter trains in the US are consulting time tables that must round only to the nearest ten minutes.
We really should applaud them. Imagine how hard it will be to figure out how to write code to hack this.
"Altman says. 'And the American puritanical ideal that hard work for its own sake is valuable -- period -- and that you can't question that, I think that's just wrong.' [...] Study after study, however, has shown that giving people extra money makes them feel financially secure. That security ends up leading to empowerment, not de-motivation." So, its a puritanical idea that work for work's sake is valuable, but if you give everyone an income, they will feel empowered to do what exactly? Work?
The IRS has a secret legal opinion that they CAN use lethal drone operations on a citizen noncombatant living in the United States.
Yes, but it was the rule changes instituted between 1905 and 1909 that brought down the injuries and deaths, not the introduction of modern padding. It used to really be trench warfare with gang tackling, no distance between the players at the start of each play, eye gouging, etc... I will grant that the number of injuries will not decline, but I would argue that the type of injuries will be different and easier to treat.
Eliminating the "protective" equipment worn by the players would massively decrease the quantity of brain injuries. Players hit at speed and tackle head-up and in front of the runner (vs the rugby style) because from Pop Warner on they are "up-armored" like a Hummer in Jalalabad. Everything about how you are taught to hit in football (everything I was taught through high school anyway) becomes impractical when you take away shoulder pads and the facemask, especially at the higher speeds in college and the pros. Go to the soft helmet and no shoulder pads and the blood will fly but the concussions will drop dramatically. Since we have made good strides in treating lacerations and broken bones but can't fix brain injuries, I would vote for a trip in the way-back machine to early years of football.
Copyright enforcement by software: the speed camera of the internet...if the traffic ticket were set to eliminate your whole wage. Actual people could review this stuff...or we could all accept that if you use the tools a giant corporation provides to you at essentially no cost, you are totally at their mercy.
Not sure why this is on Slashdot, but its certainly something that I have been interested in for a while. There is a large body of government, DoD and think-tank level research about this already, and a good source for it comes from the Center of Strategic and Budget Assessments" (I'm not affiliated). For example, they have a writeup on AirSea Battle that describes some of the tactics and vulnerabilities of carrier based operations in a joint forces framework. They also discuss the vulnerabilities of carriers in some of the possible operating environments of the future, namely the Western Pacific and the Strait of Hormuz . This question is also at the heart of the big debate about how China would optimally compose its growing navy (carriers vs. subs), and the practical US military response to such behavior.
If the issue is impersonation, then the headline of Schneier's post should have been "Counterfeit TSA agent IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security". Every TSA agent has access to the "secure" areas of the terminal and passes through security unchecked throughout the day. The assumption that counterfeit pilots will have access more than counterfeit TSA agents at a large airport is a little silly. What happened to Schneier's desire for intelligence based screening? If we assume that everyone has to be verified, aren't we back to strange child pat downs and removing the Depends of senior citizens. I suspect what Schneier thought but didn't want to say is that he thinks that people with the "background" to require strict scrutiny may be allowed through in a pilot uniform because the program creates a situation that removes the discretion of the security personnel.
This is one where I believe that no amount of logic and reasonable precedent will matter. The court will simply not invalidate the basis of an existing industry and it has nothing to do with corruption. No quantity of shine can alter the fundamental nature of this complaint. It won't happen, don't get excited.
Maybe it was targeted advertising, but I wanted to learn more about the RC trucks being advertised in the side-panels. They were slightly obscured by the "model".
Who modded this Funny? She's a judge, for crying out loud. If she were trying to be famous for being rich that would be one thing, but come on... I don't want to see her confirmed, but this is ridiculous. There is nothing to like about her politics, er, I mean, judicial record, but why would anyone hope she had an angry ex with a sex tape? If people were thinking that justice was supposed to be blind, that the constitution has a text that is meant to be followed and amended by the will of the people, and if anyone thought that the commerce clause was meant to give Congress the power to regulate interstate trade, we wouldn't even have to think about putting her on the bench. To think that people need to hope she has a sex tape that would get her excluded (though it shouldn't) is part of the problem. There are so many good reasons to keep her out, let's not hope for the bad ones.
TeX and it's offspring LaTeX aren't editors, they are programming languages that generate typeset output. My editor for TeX is emacs, but I have used Notepad, vi...anything to edit my TeX files. TeX and LaTeX are passed down from user to user in graduate programs because the learning curve is extremely sharp. The two reasons that TeX won't be supplanted quickly are that (1) academic journal formatting for TeX (in the form of style files) is commonly available and graduate students in many science/engineering programs use the style files from their senior counterparts. This builds familiarity and then you just keep using TeX because you recognize its beauty and ease of use. More importantly (2) TeX files are simply text files. A dissertation is very small in this format. It is very, very portable; very, very stable; and you can use any editor you want (well, except WYSIWYG editors unless you do some pre-formatting). TeX is a programming language for typesetting, lets not call it an editor.
Despite the fact that we didn't have accurate data about the pattern of ocean currents earlier, we can now welcome panicked decrees that we are changing the pattern of ocean currents!
What? Why is it that when a country wants to import jobs for its citizens and substitute the resulting household income tax (and resulting sales tax) for the corporate taxes, people claim tax haven? Ireland isn't Monaco, any country could (and should) consider doing exactly what Ireland is doing.
Honest question here: Can somebody with knowledge about this give me some data on the ice formation timeline here? I remember reading that a P-51 Mustang was dug out of the ice in Greenland and it was under 268 feet of ice after 50 years in 1992. That nets out to 5.36 feet of ice accumulation per year. Two miles of ice is roughly 10500 feet, or 1970 years. What am I missing? Non-linear accumulation?
Is everyone forgetting that this is a relatively small company. How many people believe that if The Suits show up with something that looks official on paper that a company with people who want to look out for their own families and such will say "No, we're not giving you that." If the algorithm is secure, you have to keep your own key. I'm not willing to go to prison for your secret, let me know if you find someone who think truly is.
What with the US government abandoning any real pretense of not militarizing space, I doubt there will be any real outsourcing, but we might get to see an honest to god space battle in our lifetimes (if you're young) and India and China really get into this.
I'm having similar frustrations in the changeover. When I go to extensions and themes the windows are blank, but have fully functional update buttons on the bottom. Its pretty irritating, and a reinstall hasn't helped. Is anyone else experiencing this particular bug?
This is essentially just a terrorism and geo-political version of some that the University of Iowa has been doing for years:
http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
Rumors abound as to whether or not politicals have tried to ``manipulate'' these markets before to get people to think certain candidates were going to win. The only thing they know for sure is that unless the right people put serious money forward, its predictive value is squat.