My mechanic should, and does, make more money than your average CS geek. He should make more money than half the engineers and developers I know.
His family lives comfortably, and I know he loves what he does. He's a magician with cars and trucks. Highly valuable. Turns out, he's part owner of the business. He being doing it for over 25 years. Sure, he did not have to "bother with degrees", but he sure as hell works his ass off, and he's an unbelievable knowledgebase of automobile information.
Now plumbers on the other hand...$150 to fix my tub drain is outrageous!
Buy hybrid cars. Start conserving toilet paper. Wait, that's for global warming!
Can we launch a few nukes at a nearby Asteroid? Oh, that's for stopping the apocolyptic end-of-the-world asteroid collision.
What can *I do* to help stop this 64 million year cycle? There must be something I should worry about here. I'll buy some solar panels. Doh! That's for global warming again...
Weren't the Borg capable of predicting the next frequency hop of the shields, thus modulating their own weapons and transporters to correspond with the shield frequency, thus making the shields useless.
And, your reference page at the IRS also has this tidbit, which applies to many slashdotters most likely. So, even if you are owed a refund, and are self employed, within 3 years you should file, or else you will lose credit for social security when you're old and wrinkled, or if you lose a hand in a copier mishap:
Self-employed persons who do not file a return will not receive credits toward Social Security retirement or disability benefits.
I just read that there was another ruling due the first week of March on some of this. I guess this crap is why SED technology interest has gone silent...
OK. But, I'd really like to see SED technology hit the shelves. Seemed like quite a bit of news last quarter of 2006. But, since then, still nothing solid.
Yeah, I like to keep Sportsline and ESPN up on my second monitor, so I can watch the daily fantasy news and waiver wire, as well as email, while my "regular work" is displayed on my first monitor. It keeps me highly productive, because I'm not constantly context switching from "regular work" to check on the various fantasy league standings and news.
Of course, it helps that the boss is in the same fantasy leagues and does the same thing with three screens. I need a third LCD to keep up...
"Within two to three years we will have developed a prototype for real applications. "The technology could be sold off already, but it would be a shame to get rid of it now."
It would be a shame to let a budding company or two develop the technology into something useful in 2 years.
And the administration gets to decide what "bad" is, and what "good" is. One person's bad is another person's "very bad" and another person's "not so bad". Content police. "Family value" police. Not a good idea. Whatever happened to pulling all-nighters to get the next project done. Now internet access is cut-off. Better do all your online research before 11:00PM.
I'd like to see a microcam video of a flight. Fly it over something interesting. If you do it in Boston, over City Hall perhaps, you'll be able to bring the entire city to it's knees, and the Mayor will be demanding $$$ from Lego. A state police helicopter, sharp shooters, the bomb squad...it'll all be on the 6 o'clock news...
From wikipedia, In December 2004, the Hong Kong magazine Open quoted an alleged instruction by Hu to propaganda officials in September in which he wrote that, when managing ideology, China had to learn from Cuba and North Korea. Although North Korea had encountered "temporary economic problems", its political policies were "consistently correct". Open also quoted Hu as calling Mikhail Gorbachev, "a betrayer of socialism".
Well, that doesn't sound too good. And he wants to "purify" the internet.
Number Eight is interesting, "Regard plain living and hard struggle as an honour, regard living in luxury as a shame."
Perhaps he needs a number nine, which reads something like "Regard the internet as a backward Western evil, filled with filthy images and make-believe."
From the article: The FCC chief of staff told Educause this wasn't about universities and to go away, but Educause wouldn't let it go and asked the FBI. And of course if you ask the FBI if they'd want cameras in every bedroom of every American citizen, they'd say of course, we could cut down on domestic violence. They woke a sleeping giant. For now, CALEA is a source of angst for IT, but the lawyers are busy.
So, they've had to make provisions to allow wiretapping on their VOIP network inside MIT, because some consider them a "telecommunications carrier"? Or, they are fighting it now, hoping they don't need to make provisions.
From the CALEA website: The objective of CALEA implementation is to preserve law enforcement's ability to conduct lawfully-authorized electronic surveillance while preserving public safety, the public's right to privacy, and the telecommunications industry's competitiveness.
Unless my robot makes a leap into "being", like in some Star Trek nano-bot scenario where I feel bad if I flush them into space...I digress...
Where's the OFF switch? I'm gonna put my robot in the garage.
Why was WOPR connected to a modem that a kid could dial-in to from home? I guess the NORAD folks needed to run thermonuclear war simulations from home sometimes...
The third kind of parents are the ones that make up the vast majority. We spend a great deal of time with our families, and enjoy doing so. There's just no headline in that.
From the article: Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, for whom OpenID provides a fertile ground for innovation, such as:
- reputation services, which help both end users and site operators and represent a major business opportunity in itself;
- open social networks that are not confined to a single vendor's site;
- more secure, efficient and accountable messaging systems that one day could replace the protocols that e-mail runs on.
Some have told us they consider the OpenID community to lack a clear process or structure, to not solve the "real" problems in identity (yet?), or to be only applicable for low-end problems. They are probably right; however, we think of it as the early days of Internet-scale innovation in action, where these characteristics are desirable, not detrimental.
What are the "real" problems? I'd like to hear what the author sees as the real problems in identity. I guess, at the end of the day, it would be easier to remember one username and password. I often use the same username and password on multiple sites anyway. But it seems like this leaves me vulnerable to identity theft. Then again, I don't enter my "real identity" information on non-critical sites anyway. So, this is probably about as useful as MS Passport...
It explains all the pottery found around the pyramids. They formed long passing lines to send water to fill the concrete mixing troughs. And they built casts with lumber, also found around the pyramids...it all makes sense now.
Or, aliens from mars mixed the concrete on their spaceships and poured the casts while hovering over each apex...
So when I tell one friend I'm staying in because I'm tired, and go out with another friend for some beers, and tell yet another I was working late, I'm gonna get screwed when they all locate me nearby.
How about they work on dropped calls and poor coverage first.
The exchange of opinions and critique in the comments that follow the study are interesting, and worth reading. Be sure to take a look at those. This study seems familiar. Isn't one of these done every five or ten years? And the outlook is always worrisome. And then, ten years later, the "revised" outlook is again worrisome, while predictions of the past ten years turned out to be off-the-mark.
Perhaps this study is correct, and fuel shortages will pin the price of gasoline at $30 per gallon in 2020...I'd bet that other energy technologies will have made leaps and bounds by then, and petroleum will not be a problem for most economies.
Perhaps water and fresh air will be the problem...a sci-fi book or two are coming to mind...
"But troubling laboratory tests suggest some nanoscale particles may pose novel health risks by, for instance, slipping easily past barriers to the brain that keep larger particles out"
Great, people will stop having clogged arteries from fat and cholesterol, but instead have arteries suddenly clogged from zeolite clusters, or problems from tiny zeolite particles parking themselves in brain tissue.
We're going to have to look for food and restaurants that advertise: No MSG... No Zeolite... No OilFresh... No Olestra...
Slashdot Mirror
Classic.
Sacrifice at least a little bit of time, if you can, so when you look back at your kids' childhood, you don't realize you missed out on everything...
My mechanic should, and does, make more money than your average CS geek. He should make more money than half the engineers and developers I know.
His family lives comfortably, and I know he loves what he does. He's a magician with cars and trucks. Highly valuable. Turns out, he's part owner of the business. He being doing it for over 25 years. Sure, he did not have to "bother with degrees", but he sure as hell works his ass off, and he's an unbelievable knowledgebase of automobile information.
Now plumbers on the other hand...$150 to fix my tub drain is outrageous!
Buy hybrid cars. Start conserving toilet paper. Wait, that's for global warming!
Can we launch a few nukes at a nearby Asteroid? Oh, that's for stopping the apocolyptic end-of-the-world asteroid collision.
What can *I do* to help stop this 64 million year cycle? There must be something I should worry about here. I'll buy some solar panels. Doh! That's for global warming again...
Steak dinner. Pfftssshshzzzz.
A Guinness. Pfftssshshzzzz.
Can replicators only make food? Still, not bad...
Weren't the Borg capable of predicting the next frequency hop of the shields, thus modulating their own weapons and transporters to correspond with the shield frequency, thus making the shields useless.
Or some such nonsense.
And, your reference page at the IRS also has this tidbit, which applies to many slashdotters most likely. So, even if you are owed a refund, and are self employed, within 3 years you should file, or else you will lose credit for social security when you're old and wrinkled, or if you lose a hand in a copier mishap:
Self-employed persons who do not file a return will not receive credits toward Social Security retirement or disability benefits.
I didn't realize all the legal issues in the way of SED. There was a story from January here, http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/ 14/0134216
I just read that there was another ruling due the first week of March on some of this. I guess this crap is why SED technology interest has gone silent...
OK. But, I'd really like to see SED technology hit the shelves. Seemed like quite a bit of news last quarter of 2006. But, since then, still nothing solid.
g y-explained/
Here's an older overview of that technology,
http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/08/16/sed-technolo
Yeah, I like to keep Sportsline and ESPN up on my second monitor, so I can watch the daily fantasy news and waiver wire, as well as email, while my "regular work" is displayed on my first monitor. It keeps me highly productive, because I'm not constantly context switching from "regular work" to check on the various fantasy league standings and news.
Of course, it helps that the boss is in the same fantasy leagues and does the same thing with three screens. I need a third LCD to keep up...
"Within two to three years we will have developed a prototype for real applications. "The technology could be sold off already, but it would be a shame to get rid of it now."
It would be a shame to let a budding company or two develop the technology into something useful in 2 years.
I want it in Soylent Green, please.
And the administration gets to decide what "bad" is, and what "good" is. One person's bad is another person's "very bad" and another person's "not so bad". Content police. "Family value" police. Not a good idea. Whatever happened to pulling all-nighters to get the next project done. Now internet access is cut-off. Better do all your online research before 11:00PM.
add a Bluetooth GPS module and a microcam
I'd like to see a microcam video of a flight. Fly it over something interesting. If you do it in Boston, over City Hall perhaps, you'll be able to bring the entire city to it's knees, and the Mayor will be demanding $$$ from Lego. A state police helicopter, sharp shooters, the bomb squad...it'll all be on the 6 o'clock news...
From wikipedia, In December 2004, the Hong Kong magazine Open quoted an alleged instruction by Hu to propaganda officials in September in which he wrote that, when managing ideology, China had to learn from Cuba and North Korea. Although North Korea had encountered "temporary economic problems", its political policies were "consistently correct". Open also quoted Hu as calling Mikhail Gorbachev, "a betrayer of socialism".
Well, that doesn't sound too good. And he wants to "purify" the internet.
Another interesting summary on wiki of his "Eight Do's and Dont's", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_rong_ba_chi
Number Eight is interesting, "Regard plain living and hard struggle as an honour, regard living in luxury as a shame."
Perhaps he needs a number nine, which reads something like "Regard the internet as a backward Western evil, filled with filthy images and make-believe."
From the article:
The FCC chief of staff told Educause this wasn't about universities and to go away, but Educause wouldn't let it go and asked the FBI. And of course if you ask the FBI if they'd want cameras in every bedroom of every American citizen, they'd say of course, we could cut down on domestic violence. They woke a sleeping giant. For now, CALEA is a source of angst for IT, but the lawyers are busy.
CALEA = Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, http://www.askcalea.net/
So, they've had to make provisions to allow wiretapping on their VOIP network inside MIT, because some consider them a "telecommunications carrier"? Or, they are fighting it now, hoping they don't need to make provisions.
From the CALEA website:
The objective of CALEA implementation is to preserve law enforcement's ability to conduct lawfully-authorized electronic surveillance while preserving public safety, the public's right to privacy, and the telecommunications industry's competitiveness.
Unless my robot makes a leap into "being", like in some Star Trek nano-bot scenario where I feel bad if I flush them into space...I digress... Where's the OFF switch? I'm gonna put my robot in the garage.
Was the choice of 192 as private based on something? Or was it just picked pretty much out of a hat based on what was remaining...
Just wondering...
Why was WOPR connected to a modem that a kid could dial-in to from home? I guess the NORAD folks needed to run thermonuclear war simulations from home sometimes...
o mputers of course.
A good list of fictional computers is available on here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_c
The third kind of parents are the ones that make up the vast majority. We spend a great deal of time with our families, and enjoy doing so. There's just no headline in that.
From the article:
Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, for whom OpenID provides a fertile ground for innovation, such as:
- reputation services, which help both end users and site operators and represent a major business opportunity in itself;
- open social networks that are not confined to a single vendor's site;
- more secure, efficient and accountable messaging systems that one day could replace the protocols that e-mail runs on.
Some have told us they consider the OpenID community to lack a clear process or structure, to not solve the "real" problems in identity (yet?), or to be only applicable for low-end problems. They are probably right; however, we think of it as the early days of Internet-scale innovation in action, where these characteristics are desirable, not detrimental.
What are the "real" problems? I'd like to hear what the author sees as the real problems in identity. I guess, at the end of the day, it would be easier to remember one username and password. I often use the same username and password on multiple sites anyway. But it seems like this leaves me vulnerable to identity theft. Then again, I don't enter my "real identity" information on non-critical sites anyway. So, this is probably about as useful as MS Passport...
It explains all the pottery found around the pyramids. They formed long passing lines to send water to fill the concrete mixing troughs. And they built casts with lumber, also found around the pyramids...it all makes sense now.
Or, aliens from mars mixed the concrete on their spaceships and poured the casts while hovering over each apex...
So when I tell one friend I'm staying in because I'm tired, and go out with another friend for some beers, and tell yet another I was working late, I'm gonna get screwed when they all locate me nearby.
How about they work on dropped calls and poor coverage first.
The exchange of opinions and critique in the comments that follow the study are interesting, and worth reading. Be sure to take a look at those. This study seems familiar. Isn't one of these done every five or ten years? And the outlook is always worrisome. And then, ten years later, the "revised" outlook is again worrisome, while predictions of the past ten years turned out to be off-the-mark.
Perhaps this study is correct, and fuel shortages will pin the price of gasoline at $30 per gallon in 2020...I'd bet that other energy technologies will have made leaps and bounds by then, and petroleum will not be a problem for most economies.
Perhaps water and fresh air will be the problem...a sci-fi book or two are coming to mind...
"But troubling laboratory tests suggest some nanoscale particles may pose novel health risks by, for instance, slipping easily past barriers to the brain that keep larger particles out"
Great, people will stop having clogged arteries from fat and cholesterol, but instead have arteries suddenly clogged from zeolite clusters, or problems from tiny zeolite particles parking themselves in brain tissue.
We're going to have to look for food and restaurants that advertise:
No MSG...
No Zeolite...
No OilFresh...
No Olestra...