The number of households with fridges and air conditioners is growing exponentially. Would hundreds of Asian cities with millions of households with leaky ACs not throw up a plume? https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The search engine is the saving grace of Reddit, Twitter, etc. It doesn't matter how much traffic or crap is generated, to me, because I'm there for the search box. If I use booleans correctly, I usually find someone intelligent sending some information I needed.
Purchasers of Bitcoin have surplus earnings and are looking to diversify savings, same as CDs, bonds, stocks, gold coins, REITs and other investments. The argument that it's a bubble "because people don't intend to use/consume it" is just speculating on speculation. Bitcoin bubbles will probably occur, as do stock, REIT, bonds, gold coins, etc., but the summary reads like a mod 1 opinion. Even if you put surplus cash under your mattress, you taking an action not to use it, and that does not define a "bubble".
There's an underlying snobbery about the term FOMO. The key question is what are you searching for? The summary describes blindly scanning the feed page for whatever someone else somewhere reported. I suppose there are people who do that. But there must be other people besides me who search for news they are interested in for a reason. I use the "search" box on Twitter every day, looking for news on, say, lithium battery fires. Sure, if I take an interest in a non-research news topic, like Nazis or Trump hate, I will scroll for that as well. But I'm usually bored or procrastinating when I do that. All the comments saying "stop using social media" seem like throwing away your cell phone because you got a spam call. Some folks look for more interesting info than others, I guess.
I'm furious when certain newspapers or other non-important or non-financial websites force me to use combinations of letters, symbols, capitals and numbers. They are actually trying to make sure I don't give my password to other people to read their content, they aren't protecting ME from anything. That forces me to either a) disclose my important password techniques, or b) create an even more difficult to remember password for a site that's considerably less important than my bank, etc. Worst case are (a) the poor fools who use their important bank password for a bullshit local non-important site where a snotty 20 year old has access to all the customer passwords.
This has been a war over user rights to "camouflage". Google and other ads-funded corporations have feared the "false positive", the background-running random search engine. The recent "are you human" captchas come when I'm not even running an anti-phorm, so I guess I have to prove I'm human because my searches appear to be non-sequetors to Google (though they are not, to me). x2010 http://retroworks.blogspot.com...
And anyone here defending it. Most of the arguments against the FBI that I see here follow the logic that "if FBI does X to stop a crime, FBI or some other person might do X for bad reason". So no one can own a software exploit, a gun, or a computer, or a sandwich, if it sets a 'precedent' that someone else could posses such an exploit, gun, computer, etc. Seems to me FBI is making a judgement call, how much they can damage the child porn industry through the prosecution and disclosure of method, and how much they can damage it by having people know they aren't immunized by Tor. See header. I'm for giving the FBI that discretion, and if and when it's power is abused, object to THAT, rather than to FBI doing their job correctly.
Yep, I was an editor from about 1999 to 2006. It did have a positive effect on SEO back then. But then I had to reapply to be an editor, and since it was kind of a thankless task I gave up. As wilth Wikipedia, it was fairly easy to detect the personality of the people in charge of the group one was subgroup/topic editor of, and sometimes there was suspicion of bias in the industry website DMOZ approval/disapprovals. Overall quaint, I have some fond memories, but wouldn't bother to resurrect the thing.
Bullshit. MIT tracking study found only 14% of CRTs were exported, and most of those were found in reuse operations. And they didn't even track any large CRT TVs (only small monitors) which haven't had much of an export market for a decade. The NGOs who made up this story about "primitive" tech sector have a uniqure role, raising millions with pictures of kids at foreign dumps, but not actually sharing a single penny with the people in the photos - instead driving it into these warehouses. I'm a lifelong environmentalist, but the NGO's "CRT e-waste policy" was a sever case of malpractice, planned obsolescence, and racial profiling.
Mod Down! That's the biggest bullshit. I was at the so-called "largest e-waste dump" in Africa 3 weeks ago (my second visit). Total and complete hoax. World Bank data shows how many African city households had televisions 20 years ago (millions) and the major problem is that Africans aren't throwing them away - there are not enough of them burned, because they repair them forever. I don't like to throw the "racist" term around, but the fact that so many reporters repeated this false story about the "primitive" Africa Tech Sector is kind of telling. UK is the worst, actually put an African TV repairman in jail, citing 80% bullshit statistic at his hearing (which the NGO now admits was false).
I'm a professional CRT recycler with experience with the companies in the article. The leaded silicate in CRT glass can actually be valuable as a fluxing agent. It's basically the same as anglesite, the leaded quartz that's mined worldwide. But because of e-waste alarmism (e.g. original article said they were full of "toxic gases", still says the CRTs "explode"), the primary copper and lead smelting industries stopped accepting the material. I personally managed several hundred tons of cullet from one on the companies in the article, but the smelter didn't like the regulators and environmentalists poking around, or the red tape. So they went back to mining lead and silica from the ground. Here's an article I wrote about the "no good deed goes unpunished" aspects of CRT glass recycling. resource-recycling.com/pdfs/Ingenthron0316e.pdf Previously I wrote one - also published in Motherboard - about how Asian refurbishers stopped buying CRTs from America for the same reason (they were being cast as "primitive wire burners). motherboard.vice.com/2011/3/26/e-waste-recycling-exports-are-good
A good rule of thumb is that the worst forms of recycling are better for the environment than the best forms of hard rock metal mining. But "waste" policy says the opposite, waste is a "liability" for the consuming industry, mined material is subsidized.
Back in 2006 or 2007, he identified Journalists as way behind students (who were behind random chimpanzees) in correctly answering questions about "third world". Journalists have been living in 1970 when it comes to "lesser developed countries", apparently blowback to their profession from decades of "if it bleeds, it leads". I had my kids all watch his vids while in high school, there was no one like him.
At least SOME H1-Bs from overseas will see an increase in pay. The market response will be more applicants, and more people overseas seeking degrees in those fields. You can't fool Mother Free Market.
The authenticators are to be paid by the Sellers, not by ebay or the buyers. It's offering the service to someone who already owns the piece and wants to sell it, and presumably is willing to take the risk that what they are selling isn't faked, in order to give buyers more confidence. This "certification model" paid for by the businesses in the hopes that enough will adapt it and it will become mandatory "professional licensing". Ebay is already in that business, via "Powerseller" status.
It appears too general. If I pay to ask ebay to "certify" that a photo I took of a duck was really taken by me, does ebay turn down the money, or admit that they have no expert qualified to determine it was my duck photo.
My assumption is that we are all unconsciously writing the code for a future Artificial Intelligence bot, through twitter, slashdot, other comment fields. We don't know how it will be distilled, filtered, and assembled into a greater intelligence any more than a termite knows whose house it is eating.
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The number of households with fridges and air conditioners is growing exponentially. Would hundreds of Asian cities with millions of households with leaky ACs not throw up a plume? https://www.washingtonpost.com...
How is the /. business model going to do with out tips?
The search engine is the saving grace of Reddit, Twitter, etc. It doesn't matter how much traffic or crap is generated, to me, because I'm there for the search box. If I use booleans correctly, I usually find someone intelligent sending some information I needed.
Purchasers of Bitcoin have surplus earnings and are looking to diversify savings, same as CDs, bonds, stocks, gold coins, REITs and other investments. The argument that it's a bubble "because people don't intend to use/consume it" is just speculating on speculation. Bitcoin bubbles will probably occur, as do stock, REIT, bonds, gold coins, etc., but the summary reads like a mod 1 opinion. Even if you put surplus cash under your mattress, you taking an action not to use it, and that does not define a "bubble".
There's an underlying snobbery about the term FOMO. The key question is what are you searching for? The summary describes blindly scanning the feed page for whatever someone else somewhere reported. I suppose there are people who do that. But there must be other people besides me who search for news they are interested in for a reason. I use the "search" box on Twitter every day, looking for news on, say, lithium battery fires. Sure, if I take an interest in a non-research news topic, like Nazis or Trump hate, I will scroll for that as well. But I'm usually bored or procrastinating when I do that. All the comments saying "stop using social media" seem like throwing away your cell phone because you got a spam call. Some folks look for more interesting info than others, I guess.
Seems par for the course
Antarctica Conglomerate shares split, in related news.
I, for one, welcome our new adoptive parent overlords
Thank you sirsnork for participating on Slashdot. Comments like yours bring me back. I have no mod points at the moment.
We should ask VP Pence if it was a mistake. https://www.scientificamerican... I seriously doubt it's saving anything.
I'm furious when certain newspapers or other non-important or non-financial websites force me to use combinations of letters, symbols, capitals and numbers. They are actually trying to make sure I don't give my password to other people to read their content, they aren't protecting ME from anything. That forces me to either a) disclose my important password techniques, or b) create an even more difficult to remember password for a site that's considerably less important than my bank, etc. Worst case are (a) the poor fools who use their important bank password for a bullshit local non-important site where a snotty 20 year old has access to all the customer passwords.
In other words, the answer is "it depends".
This has been a war over user rights to "camouflage". Google and other ads-funded corporations have feared the "false positive", the background-running random search engine. The recent "are you human" captchas come when I'm not even running an anti-phorm, so I guess I have to prove I'm human because my searches appear to be non-sequetors to Google (though they are not, to me). x2010 http://retroworks.blogspot.com...
Have you not seen the movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"??? I, for one, will welcome our new potato overlords.
Relative speed and quality of porn (so I'm told) vs. aging, fattening population trends
And anyone here defending it. Most of the arguments against the FBI that I see here follow the logic that "if FBI does X to stop a crime, FBI or some other person might do X for bad reason". So no one can own a software exploit, a gun, or a computer, or a sandwich, if it sets a 'precedent' that someone else could posses such an exploit, gun, computer, etc. Seems to me FBI is making a judgement call, how much they can damage the child porn industry through the prosecution and disclosure of method, and how much they can damage it by having people know they aren't immunized by Tor. See header. I'm for giving the FBI that discretion, and if and when it's power is abused, object to THAT, rather than to FBI doing their job correctly.
Yep, I was an editor from about 1999 to 2006. It did have a positive effect on SEO back then. But then I had to reapply to be an editor, and since it was kind of a thankless task I gave up. As wilth Wikipedia, it was fairly easy to detect the personality of the people in charge of the group one was subgroup/topic editor of, and sometimes there was suspicion of bias in the industry website DMOZ approval/disapprovals. Overall quaint, I have some fond memories, but wouldn't bother to resurrect the thing.
Bullshit. MIT tracking study found only 14% of CRTs were exported, and most of those were found in reuse operations. And they didn't even track any large CRT TVs (only small monitors) which haven't had much of an export market for a decade. The NGOs who made up this story about "primitive" tech sector have a uniqure role, raising millions with pictures of kids at foreign dumps, but not actually sharing a single penny with the people in the photos - instead driving it into these warehouses. I'm a lifelong environmentalist, but the NGO's "CRT e-waste policy" was a sever case of malpractice, planned obsolescence, and racial profiling.
Mod Down! That's the biggest bullshit. I was at the so-called "largest e-waste dump" in Africa 3 weeks ago (my second visit). Total and complete hoax. World Bank data shows how many African city households had televisions 20 years ago (millions) and the major problem is that Africans aren't throwing them away - there are not enough of them burned, because they repair them forever. I don't like to throw the "racist" term around, but the fact that so many reporters repeated this false story about the "primitive" Africa Tech Sector is kind of telling. UK is the worst, actually put an African TV repairman in jail, citing 80% bullshit statistic at his hearing (which the NGO now admits was false).
I'm a professional CRT recycler with experience with the companies in the article. The leaded silicate in CRT glass can actually be valuable as a fluxing agent. It's basically the same as anglesite, the leaded quartz that's mined worldwide. But because of e-waste alarmism (e.g. original article said they were full of "toxic gases", still says the CRTs "explode"), the primary copper and lead smelting industries stopped accepting the material. I personally managed several hundred tons of cullet from one on the companies in the article, but the smelter didn't like the regulators and environmentalists poking around, or the red tape. So they went back to mining lead and silica from the ground. Here's an article I wrote about the "no good deed goes unpunished" aspects of CRT glass recycling. resource-recycling.com/pdfs/Ingenthron0316e.pdf Previously I wrote one - also published in Motherboard - about how Asian refurbishers stopped buying CRTs from America for the same reason (they were being cast as "primitive wire burners). motherboard.vice.com/2011/3/26/e-waste-recycling-exports-are-good
A good rule of thumb is that the worst forms of recycling are better for the environment than the best forms of hard rock metal mining. But "waste" policy says the opposite, waste is a "liability" for the consuming industry, mined material is subsidized.
Good call! And if I recall correctly, there was a funny joke about 'roundabouts'
Back in 2006 or 2007, he identified Journalists as way behind students (who were behind random chimpanzees) in correctly answering questions about "third world". Journalists have been living in 1970 when it comes to "lesser developed countries", apparently blowback to their profession from decades of "if it bleeds, it leads". I had my kids all watch his vids while in high school, there was no one like him.
Thats 10/10 dagnabbit
At least SOME H1-Bs from overseas will see an increase in pay. The market response will be more applicants, and more people overseas seeking degrees in those fields. You can't fool Mother Free Market.
The authenticators are to be paid by the Sellers, not by ebay or the buyers. It's offering the service to someone who already owns the piece and wants to sell it, and presumably is willing to take the risk that what they are selling isn't faked, in order to give buyers more confidence. This "certification model" paid for by the businesses in the hopes that enough will adapt it and it will become mandatory "professional licensing". Ebay is already in that business, via "Powerseller" status.
It appears too general. If I pay to ask ebay to "certify" that a photo I took of a duck was really taken by me, does ebay turn down the money, or admit that they have no expert qualified to determine it was my duck photo.
My assumption is that we are all unconsciously writing the code for a future Artificial Intelligence bot, through twitter, slashdot, other comment fields. We don't know how it will be distilled, filtered, and assembled into a greater intelligence any more than a termite knows whose house it is eating.