Fiber optic is pretty fragile - far more so than a copper cable. Can't bend it past a certain radius, much less kink it. Optical's main benefit is distance, not speed...
TOSlink and all that jazz worked because you connect stuff and that's it- the cable rarely gets disturbed. Think of your average business traveler - they'd go through optical cables like candy.
Sure, you could make them heavier-duty since they don't have to stretch that far, but that grade of optical plastic or glass is $$$, and volume goes up (Pi)*r*r...
This 100w power standard is pretty stupid, though. We're talking power levels where fires will definitely be possible from damaged USB cables.
So they identified the suspects by having FBI agents sitting at a monitor and watching video over and over and over.
No, actually. They spent hundreds if not thousands of man-hours looking over the video, and then the guy with his legs blown off came out of sedation and wrote "I know who did it" on a pad, and the FBI was at his beside not longer after, getting a description of events and the suspect.
The witness said one of them plonked the backpack down next to him and walked away. Looked him right in the face. Had he not been run over by his younger brother in the middle of a firefight with police, he would've been guaranteed a death penalty, because there isn't a jury in the world that could do otherwise after hearing his testimony. Golden testimony, too, because after being incapacitated, he hadn't had any exposure to media coverage.
Contrast this with Kobo and B&N. Their hardware looks and feels great.
Agreed. The Nook Touch is brilliant ergonomically. People constantly ask me about it; when they hold it, they love the rounded, rubbery texture. Thing's durable as hell, too; it's survived 2 years of being in a bag with all sorts of other crap (note, the glow models are NOT durable, any screen marks show up as brighter specks. They require a screen cover!)
The problem, though, is that their stores are smaller and have worse prices, and no syncing for side loading (and less easy to accomplish, as well).
Sorry, what? I plug in my B&N Nook Touch, internal and external storage volumes mount, and I copy over an epub. Unmount, and presto, it's there.
Root either the Nook or the Kindle and you can use whatever reading software you want. The only negative I see with the Kobo is that it doesn't run Android, and thus you don't get access to all the wonderful goodies you can install - however, it's reportedly very easy to hack as a linux system.
Are you really that thick that you can't see that I was, in fact, precisely reminding the OP that their comments are not in light with slashdot's normal political groupthink?
MIT Campus Police are real police, recruited only from among real police departments,
No, actually.
First: There is no such term as "real police"; campus police powers vary greatly. Some can't even give you a traffic ticket, for example ("Chapter 90 powers".)
Second: Collier was not hired from an officer position; he worked in IT for Somerville police, and was hoping to work on the Somerville force from working for MIT. He did, however, go through the Massachusetts police academy.
When a bomb goes off, you do NOT need to call everyone you know to say "OMG I'm OK!!!!!!"
Seriously - the panic is the problem, not the network. Unless you're hurt and need help, put the phone away and keep the airwaves clear for emergency responders - maybe text ONE person and say "hey can you put up on my FB wall that I'm ok?" In fact, go one step further and put your phone into airplane mode and save your battery life, because in a real emergency, charging the phone is going to be a bigger problem. At the very least, disable syncing services.
It was amazing how many people thought it was necessary to call everyone they knew in their lives to MIGHT have been running in the marathon or lived somewhere in Boston.
Why are people smart enough to make something like this...so stupid as to think that the people they name on the letters come anywhere near them?
Newsflash to any mail-related ter'rists in training: Bob Shmoe the Senator doesn't open his mail. He doesn't read it. He doesn't even find out about it. It's some intern or minimum-wage lackey.
Characterizing RIM devices as durable is a laugh. I worked at a company where people broke them routinely without even trying.
A friend went through them like candy; that stupid rollerball would break all the time.
RIM *has* been sunk because the smartphone industry was revolutionized by the iOS and Android platforms; RIM's devices were pathetically unfeatured. The writing was on the wall that it was only a matter of time before iOS and Android offered the same security features as RIM, and RIM were idiots for not reading that writing - or not doing anything about it.
I am going to call BS on this one.
These are indication systems.
Think of smashing your speedometer and turning the needle with pliers and expecting the car to go faster.
The article is bullshit because they claim "with an Android phone" when they mean "with a bunch of custom hardware that happens to be driven by a UI running on an Android phone"...but if they're able to present false information, your analogy is not correct.
If someone is able to spoof a transponder signal enough to be believed by collision warning systems, then absolutely, they're going to affect the plane - all it would take would be simulating a plane coming at the target in question, and the pilots on board will take evasive action. That's absolutely a form of "control".
If Apple were actually anti-gay, why did the donate so much money to stop proposition 8? It's more likely Apple just never noticed it until that time.
Donating to the SPCA doesn't morally or legally excuse you kicking your dog, or lend defense against being labelled an animal abuser. A close parallel would be the "feminist cookie"; another would be "I'm not racist, I have black friends."
Further, given that donation amount consists of an extremely tiny percentage of Apple's cash resources, the gesture was token at best and does not compare to anti-gay censorship on one of the world's largest content distribution forms.
You know who is getting a "tax free" "lunch" in the US?
Anyone who drives.
Those of us who don't drive are paying for all of you who do, because the gas tax in the US hasn't covered the cost of roads in decades.
I ride a bike; my bike produces zero impact on infrastructure. Your hulking SUV, on the other hand, causes quite a bit of road wear and tear because road wear is directly correlated to weight of the vehicle. That SUV also pollutes, requires gas, causes congestion, etc. None of which I do on my bike.
Yet curiously, an enormous amount of my property taxes and salary taxes go towards building the roads I'm not wearing down...and then I have idiots in SUVs blowing by me screaming out their windows that I should get off the roads because I don't "pay" for them.
The university, unless it uses well water, pays for its water like everyone else via the water taxes.
By the way: $10 of water is an ENORMOUS amount of water. $10 barely gets you a nice cheeseburger or salad in many US cities. Typical US household water bill is $330/year, according to a quick search.
his salary is paid from taxes. It's HIS lunches that are paid by tax dollars.
NO, the WORK he does for the University is paid for by tax dollars. He then chooses to spend them on lunch. His lunches are "paid from" his work effort.
If his lunches were "paid by tax dollars", that would mean he was eating for free. He's not.
I have a right to use the road as a pedestrian or cyclist.
You do not have a right to endanger me or anyone else by looking at your cell phone while piloting 2-3 tons of metal.
Driving is a responsibility nobody seems to take seriously, and it's no great surprise.
Societal attitudes: people still call them "accidents", even though they're almost always everything but; nearly every crash is the result of driver error.
Financial risk: Insurance companies essentially nullify most of the financial risk (and at least one company advertises "accident forgiveness")
Criminal punishment: police and prosecutors rarely even try to apply what little negligent driving statutes are available, and rarely investigate collisions unless there's serious injury or death. With the pedestrian or cyclist being carted off to the hospital or dead, it's the driver's word.
Injury risk: even if you hit another car, modern safety features are such that you're extremely likely to walk away unharmed from a crash you caused, particularly if you're well-off enough to afford a new-ish, expensive car; drive a BMW, Audi, or Mercedes, and you can pretty much drive like a complete asshat and unless you slam into a tree or bridge pillar at 60-80mph, you're going to be fine. Per-mile safety has improved for passengers; it's plummeted for pedestrians and cyclists. Our roads are MORE dangerous, not less.
Your text, tweet, or phone call is not worth my life. Your laziness (ie, pulling over and THEN looking at a map or phone to figure out where you are) is not worth my life. You being 4 minutes late to wherever you're going is not worth my life.
The paper map analogy is bullshit, because few people tried to read maps while driving; you pulled over, noted the cross-streets, looked them up, then figured out your next 2-3 turns. I remember being a teenager and trying it once and scaring the crap out of myself, and not trying it again...and people seriously want to argue that an INTERACTIVE map is less distracting?
European countries have by and large solved this problem by making pedestrians and cyclists protected road users; hit one, and you're presumed by police to be at-fault, instead of here in the US, where the pedestrian or cyclist is. "Innocent until proven guilty", I hear you say. I say "Don't blame the victim." They also investigate road crashes more seriously.
Every time someone uploads a PDF to behind scribd's stupid registration-required-to-download-so-I-can-see-it-in-something-bigger-than-a-porthole wall, His Noodliness kills a kitten.
Seriously, people. There are plenty of places you can upload ANY file to, where only YOU will have to register (and some, even, where you don't!) With Firefox now able to parse PDFs in-browser, there is little excuse for scribd to exist.
Let's all take this breakin as a great reason to let them head off into the sunset.
Bullying often stems from problems, many of them at home. Abusive parents, neglectful parents, absent parents, actual mental issues, economic problems, familial stress, physical injuries, drug and alcohol issues and many more things all can play a part.
As someone who was repeatedly attacked and harassed and threatened - I see nothing has changed. You fucking teachers and administrators still feel perfectly justified telling a victim of violence, a child no less, that they must endure it for the sake of the person that just attacked them.
Most IT people would have said "Where are your backups?" When the programmers say "We're using mirrors", the IT person would say, "Where are your backups?" a second time.
$50 says that whoever handles IT for KDE said "Hey guys, we need backups" and the programmers all said "Nah, we've got mirroring."
Seriously: why doesn't an organization as large as KDE have backups? I understand if Safe the Fuzzy Wuzzies doesn't have good IT, but a major open source project?
Always amazes me how I don't tell programmers how to do their job, yet I've had a decade and a half of programmers arguing with me about how to do mine. Which is particularly funny, since if the server under their desk dies, it's magically my fault/responsibility.
This was an outstanding, very brave effort for a woman who had just been triggered. She was applauded by the feminist blogosphere, and in the end was fired by a man in a position of power. The fucking patriarchy. Fuck them.
First off, stuff the "triggering" bullshit - I'm getting really tired of people slinging that word around. Using the word to describe seeing an innocuous photo is an insult to people with PTSD.
Second: half the population is male. That means that there is a high likelihood negative decisions that impact women will be made by men, and for reasons that have nothing to do with gender.
Your comment is as stupid as a male programmer complaining that his female manager "hates men" when she fires him for insubordination.
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Did you basically just use Youtube's auto-closed-captioning function? The quality of the transcript is so bad it's virtually unreadable.
Fiber optic is pretty fragile - far more so than a copper cable. Can't bend it past a certain radius, much less kink it. Optical's main benefit is distance, not speed...
TOSlink and all that jazz worked because you connect stuff and that's it- the cable rarely gets disturbed. Think of your average business traveler - they'd go through optical cables like candy.
Sure, you could make them heavier-duty since they don't have to stretch that far, but that grade of optical plastic or glass is $$$, and volume goes up (Pi)*r*r...
This 100w power standard is pretty stupid, though. We're talking power levels where fires will definitely be possible from damaged USB cables.
So they identified the suspects by having FBI agents sitting at a monitor and watching video over and over and over.
No, actually. They spent hundreds if not thousands of man-hours looking over the video, and then the guy with his legs blown off came out of sedation and wrote "I know who did it" on a pad, and the FBI was at his beside not longer after, getting a description of events and the suspect.
The witness said one of them plonked the backpack down next to him and walked away. Looked him right in the face. Had he not been run over by his younger brother in the middle of a firefight with police, he would've been guaranteed a death penalty, because there isn't a jury in the world that could do otherwise after hearing his testimony. Golden testimony, too, because after being incapacitated, he hadn't had any exposure to media coverage.
Contrast this with Kobo and B&N. Their hardware looks and feels great.
Agreed. The Nook Touch is brilliant ergonomically. People constantly ask me about it; when they hold it, they love the rounded, rubbery texture. Thing's durable as hell, too; it's survived 2 years of being in a bag with all sorts of other crap (note, the glow models are NOT durable, any screen marks show up as brighter specks. They require a screen cover!)
The problem, though, is that their stores are smaller and have worse prices, and no syncing for side loading (and less easy to accomplish, as well).
Sorry, what? I plug in my B&N Nook Touch, internal and external storage volumes mount, and I copy over an epub. Unmount, and presto, it's there.
Root either the Nook or the Kindle and you can use whatever reading software you want. The only negative I see with the Kobo is that it doesn't run Android, and thus you don't get access to all the wonderful goodies you can install - however, it's reportedly very easy to hack as a linux system.
Are you really that thick that you can't see that I was, in fact, precisely reminding the OP that their comments are not in light with slashdot's normal political groupthink?
Oh, I guess I didn't get the Slashdot memo...so torture and no due process is now okay?
Just checking: are drone strikes, domestic spying, overzealous prosecution, and all the other things we usually rant about, still bad?
MIT Campus Police are real police, recruited only from among real police departments,
No, actually.
First: There is no such term as "real police"; campus police powers vary greatly. Some can't even give you a traffic ticket, for example ("Chapter 90 powers".)
Second: Collier was not hired from an officer position; he worked in IT for Somerville police, and was hoping to work on the Somerville force from working for MIT. He did, however, go through the Massachusetts police academy.
Second hit for "linkedin email preferences." You're on Slashdot, and you don't know how to do this?
http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/67
Email notifications can be added, changed, or stopped in the Email Preferences section of the Settings page [...] The following options are available:
Individual Email
Daily Digest Email
Weekly Digest Email
No Email
When a bomb goes off, you do NOT need to call everyone you know to say "OMG I'm OK!!!!!!" Seriously - the panic is the problem, not the network. Unless you're hurt and need help, put the phone away and keep the airwaves clear for emergency responders - maybe text ONE person and say "hey can you put up on my FB wall that I'm ok?" In fact, go one step further and put your phone into airplane mode and save your battery life, because in a real emergency, charging the phone is going to be a bigger problem. At the very least, disable syncing services. It was amazing how many people thought it was necessary to call everyone they knew in their lives to MIGHT have been running in the marathon or lived somewhere in Boston.
Why are people smart enough to make something like this...so stupid as to think that the people they name on the letters come anywhere near them?
Newsflash to any mail-related ter'rists in training: Bob Shmoe the Senator doesn't open his mail. He doesn't read it. He doesn't even find out about it. It's some intern or minimum-wage lackey.
FtFA:
http://blog.angrygoats.net/2013/04/12/2011-australian-census-release-3/
Boston has a huge internet/tech/biotech community.
Characterizing RIM devices as durable is a laugh. I worked at a company where people broke them routinely without even trying.
A friend went through them like candy; that stupid rollerball would break all the time.
RIM *has* been sunk because the smartphone industry was revolutionized by the iOS and Android platforms; RIM's devices were pathetically unfeatured. The writing was on the wall that it was only a matter of time before iOS and Android offered the same security features as RIM, and RIM were idiots for not reading that writing - or not doing anything about it.
I am going to call BS on this one. These are indication systems. Think of smashing your speedometer and turning the needle with pliers and expecting the car to go faster.
The article is bullshit because they claim "with an Android phone" when they mean "with a bunch of custom hardware that happens to be driven by a UI running on an Android phone"...but if they're able to present false information, your analogy is not correct.
If someone is able to spoof a transponder signal enough to be believed by collision warning systems, then absolutely, they're going to affect the plane - all it would take would be simulating a plane coming at the target in question, and the pilots on board will take evasive action. That's absolutely a form of "control".
If Apple were actually anti-gay, why did the donate so much money to stop proposition 8? It's more likely Apple just never noticed it until that time.
Donating to the SPCA doesn't morally or legally excuse you kicking your dog, or lend defense against being labelled an animal abuser. A close parallel would be the "feminist cookie"; another would be "I'm not racist, I have black friends."
Further, given that donation amount consists of an extremely tiny percentage of Apple's cash resources, the gesture was token at best and does not compare to anti-gay censorship on one of the world's largest content distribution forms.
You know who is getting a "tax free" "lunch" in the US?
Anyone who drives.
Those of us who don't drive are paying for all of you who do, because the gas tax in the US hasn't covered the cost of roads in decades.
I ride a bike; my bike produces zero impact on infrastructure. Your hulking SUV, on the other hand, causes quite a bit of road wear and tear because road wear is directly correlated to weight of the vehicle. That SUV also pollutes, requires gas, causes congestion, etc. None of which I do on my bike.
Yet curiously, an enormous amount of my property taxes and salary taxes go towards building the roads I'm not wearing down...and then I have idiots in SUVs blowing by me screaming out their windows that I should get off the roads because I don't "pay" for them.
The university, unless it uses well water, pays for its water like everyone else via the water taxes.
By the way: $10 of water is an ENORMOUS amount of water. $10 barely gets you a nice cheeseburger or salad in many US cities. Typical US household water bill is $330/year, according to a quick search.
his salary is paid from taxes. It's HIS lunches that are paid by tax dollars.
NO, the WORK he does for the University is paid for by tax dollars. He then chooses to spend them on lunch. His lunches are "paid from" his work effort.
If his lunches were "paid by tax dollars", that would mean he was eating for free. He's not.
I have a right to use the road as a pedestrian or cyclist.
You do not have a right to endanger me or anyone else by looking at your cell phone while piloting 2-3 tons of metal.
Driving is a responsibility nobody seems to take seriously, and it's no great surprise.
Your text, tweet, or phone call is not worth my life. Your laziness (ie, pulling over and THEN looking at a map or phone to figure out where you are) is not worth my life. You being 4 minutes late to wherever you're going is not worth my life.
The paper map analogy is bullshit, because few people tried to read maps while driving; you pulled over, noted the cross-streets, looked them up, then figured out your next 2-3 turns. I remember being a teenager and trying it once and scaring the crap out of myself, and not trying it again...and people seriously want to argue that an INTERACTIVE map is less distracting?
European countries have by and large solved this problem by making pedestrians and cyclists protected road users; hit one, and you're presumed by police to be at-fault, instead of here in the US, where the pedestrian or cyclist is. "Innocent until proven guilty", I hear you say. I say "Don't blame the victim." They also investigate road crashes more seriously.
Every time someone uploads a PDF to behind scribd's stupid registration-required-to-download-so-I-can-see-it-in-something-bigger-than-a-porthole wall, His Noodliness kills a kitten.
Seriously, people. There are plenty of places you can upload ANY file to, where only YOU will have to register (and some, even, where you don't!) With Firefox now able to parse PDFs in-browser, there is little excuse for scribd to exist.
Let's all take this breakin as a great reason to let them head off into the sunset.
Bullying often stems from problems, many of them at home. Abusive parents, neglectful parents, absent parents, actual mental issues, economic problems, familial stress, physical injuries, drug and alcohol issues and many more things all can play a part.
As someone who was repeatedly attacked and harassed and threatened - I see nothing has changed. You fucking teachers and administrators still feel perfectly justified telling a victim of violence, a child no less, that they must endure it for the sake of the person that just attacked them.
Do you have ANY idea how that makes you feel?
Most IT people would have said "Where are your backups?" When the programmers say "We're using mirrors", the IT person would say, "Where are your backups?" a second time.
$50 says that whoever handles IT for KDE said "Hey guys, we need backups" and the programmers all said "Nah, we've got mirroring."
Seriously: why doesn't an organization as large as KDE have backups? I understand if Safe the Fuzzy Wuzzies doesn't have good IT, but a major open source project?
Always amazes me how I don't tell programmers how to do their job, yet I've had a decade and a half of programmers arguing with me about how to do mine. Which is particularly funny, since if the server under their desk dies, it's magically my fault/responsibility.
This was an outstanding, very brave effort for a woman who had just been triggered. She was applauded by the feminist blogosphere, and in the end was fired by a man in a position of power. The fucking patriarchy. Fuck them.
First off, stuff the "triggering" bullshit - I'm getting really tired of people slinging that word around. Using the word to describe seeing an innocuous photo is an insult to people with PTSD.
Second: half the population is male. That means that there is a high likelihood negative decisions that impact women will be made by men, and for reasons that have nothing to do with gender.
Your comment is as stupid as a male programmer complaining that his female manager "hates men" when she fires him for insubordination.
Remote control aircraft are not permitted for commercial use.
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/04/17181948-damn-the-regulations-drones-plying-us-skies-without-waiting-for-faa-rules
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/15/faa-halts-mans-drone-photography-business-over-regulations/
This is clearly commercial activity. How'd they get around the FAA ban?
http://www.businessinsider.com/faa-ban-on-commercial-drones-2013-3
"However, the FAA currently bans all commercial use of drones pending regulatory rules scheduled to be published sometime in 2015."