Nonsense. The problem is that we've completely bypassed evolutionary mechanisms because of our obsession with preserving life at any cost, and people who ordinarily wouldn't reach reproductive age are passing on their genes.
For example: people who are obese have lower fertility rates, but thanks to fertility treatments, they can have children.
Premature-birth children are a perfect example. Even 50 years ago, they would have died. We've decided that spending $26 BILLION dollars a year on treating preemie babies is sound healthcare policy - they cost 15 times more than a normal baby to care for. We know now for a fact that the more premature a child, the poorer their development as a child and health in adulthood. Nature decided they weren't viable - but instead their genes get passed on to the next generation. It hasn't occurred to anyone that maybe it isn't such a great idea.
Same with people who have inherited diseases, things like heart defects, etc.
Each successive generation is becoming more and more dependent on medical treatments, care, drugs, etc. At some point, it'll be so obvious we can't ignore it.
Most eugenics practices are obviously immoral - but I think discontinuing an at-all-costs attitude to conception and preservation of life for babies and children would be enough.
The first Pi had chipsets that were known for years to be full of bugs and problematic. Then they went with proprietary blobs that free distros couldn't distribute and weren't open source.
Is this more of the same? When will we get a Pi that isn't buggy as hell? Eat your vegetables before you have dessert, guys.
"Barometers work fine in most buildings, outliers are rejected."
Barometers work in buildings where the barometer is in a set position, the barometer has been calibrated by the owner (who fetched the most recent barometric pressure reading via weather radio and set theirs to match), and the building's ventilation system doesn't change.
"Few people live/work high enough for it to make much difference, and ground level is easy to adjust for based on approximate location (1km)."
Newsflash: many people live in areas where the elevation difference within 1km can be hundreds of feet. Just because YOU live in a flat area doesn't mean everyone else does, child.
-In cars, which have varying interior pressure levels depending on design, speed, and other conditions (for example, I had a car where putting the sunroof in the "vent" position would result in a noticeable change in air pressure)
-In buildings, which can have wildly different pressures floor-to-floor or even between areas depending on a variety of factors
-In hyper-localized high pressure areas (for example, ever been caught in a severe wind gust between skycrapers? How about subway entrances and exits?)
-At different heights. Barometer readings are useless without knowing your altitude, and GPS is extremely poor at moment-to-moment altitude data; you have to collect a fair number of points over at least a couple of minutes. Do they perform this calibration?
A+ for the idea, C on evaluating the likely accuracy of the data...
They picked a poor minority neighborhood they and city officials could bully around, and despite public uproar, soon residents can look forward to being neighbors with Ebola.
Apparently BU just couldn't be bothered to build it, say, out somewhere in the suburbs where there'd be some isolation from the general populace. Let's put it right smack in the middle of a city with a big public transit system and an international airport, just so our researchers won't have to hop in a car for a drive. BRILLIANT.
Seriously, why does everyone still put up with those fucktards? Their level of incompetence has crossed from believable to they-must-be-doing-it-on-purpose-for-page-hits.
In short: submit an agenda item to discuss resolving issues to the document management system. Either ask Bob if he'd like to present a plan of his own to resolve the problems along with your own, or let the board discuss the problems and request plans of action from you, Bob, and anyone else. At the next meeting, the plans are presented and one is selected by the board.
Everything is above board, he's given a completely legitimate/fair shot at fixing the problems, and if the board fairly discusses and votes against him, he at least should feel he was treated fairly, and it won't impact his desire to help the organization.
IF and ONLY IF he's treated fairly and he goes off in a huff about the whole thing, then so be it. He's toxic.
If you go sneaking around trying to build support for switching to google docs (which you've kind of already done - you need to buy a copy of Robert's Rules of Order and read up about polling, and why you don't do it), then ambush Bob at a meeting and throw up a motion to switch to Google Docs - he's rightfully going to be angry and defensive, and it will definitely impact his contributions or cause him to leave.
Every 6 months on Slashdot we read about higher efficiency solar panels. Virtually none of them are available on the market, and if they are, they're only available to large-scale commercial installations. Right now, the best you can do retail is about 20%; some panels are barely 10%.
A condition for any prize should be "available in half-dozen quantities to individual purchasers."
The best return on investment remains solar hot water - we're talking an order of magnitude in efficiency per area between common solar panels and evacuated-tube hot water collectors. We waste enormous amounts of energy heating hot water and heating homes...
We'd also save billions of dollars if we stopped selling clothes dryers that are hideously inefficiency; elsewhere in the world condensing dryers are the norm and in some cases dry clothes faster.
Look, it's someone who believes in a school of thought that has done nothing but spread ignorance, hatred, bigotry, subservience, and war - used by leaders to maintain control. Religion is a disease. Religion is a control mechanism. Fuck yes - I'll fight that every time I see it.
I love the people who claim atheists are "persecuting" the religious. Which is pretty fucking funny given that almost every religion on the planet has persecuted (slaughtered) atheists since the beginning of time - and every time I turn around some religious fuckhead is trying to tell me I should be forced to live by his restrictive morals.
Reaction on the Android forums has been pretty swift: no microSD card slot = fail, especially given that there's a paltry 8GB in some of the units.
My iPhone 2G had 8GB of storage. It was about enough for my music and some apps. That was also 5 years ago.
They're trying to force cloud storage onto you by giving you a pathetic amount of storage and eliminating expansion. Meanwhile, they're forcing Google+ instant-uploads on people to encourage them to use it. All of this means increased data usage and reliance on google for your storage needs, which means they're going to start monetizing it at some point in the near future.
For sixty years fusion scientists have been saying "We've almost got it." They're promising that if we keep throwing them billions, they might have something feasible in another fifty.
The highest power levels obtained even after half a decade's research was 65% of the input power and lasted for half a second. The power levels needed to keep the reaction self-sustaining are an order of magnitude higher, and to generate useful power is yet another order of magnitude *or two* higher than that.
There are no known materials that can withstand the radiation and temperatures anywhere nearly long enough; even a second's operation permanently damages and contaminates huge parts of the reactor vessel.
I can think of no technology which has comparable levels of continued failure. It's time to put large scale fusion research to bed until other necessary technologies have caught up, and put the money saved into solar/wind/hydro generation and grid improvements.
I've looked over OpenStack and it looks great, with one exception: block storage (ie volumes.)
GlusterFS currently isn't recommended for VM storage by the GlusterFS people. They say "maybe" with the next release.
Sheepdog isn't recommended for production (and from what I read, provides abysmal performance - we're talking single-digit MB/sec.)
Lustre requires enormous setup+admin overhead. DRBD isn't scalable beyond 2 nodes, really, and has serious issues with reliability and keeping in sync.
They've made a huge hullabaloo about Cinder - it's going to do my taxes, slice bread, and surpass Christ - but information as to what the hell it actually is or how it'll do it, beyond marketing-speak, is difficult to find. If you dig around, you find that it's a layer on top of other network block devices.
Far as I can tell, the only free (in either sense) backend they support is Sheepdog, which, as I said before, isn't considered anywhere near production ready.
It also appears that 'Highly available', 'fault-Tolerant', and so on- is coming from the underlying storage, not Cinder itself.
So, where's the beef? You can't have an "open" visualization system if you then require a netapp, IBM, or nexenta backend (sidenote: has anyone SEEN nexenta pricing? Holy christ on a stick!)
They're not so much used for tracking as popping up "you are now leaving our site, we're not responsible for this content" advisories. I have yet to see a US government agency website that doesn't do this - and they're virtually the only ones who do.
The entire Transformer line is Tegra2 & Tegra3 based, not Snapdragon.
The Galaxy S3 is only Snapdragon in the US and Japan market; only one of the S2 flavors has the Snapdragon. The Galaxy Note has two flavors, one with the Snapdragon, one without.
Iif you're going to post an article hemming and hawing about the state of affairs in the mobile phone chipset market, at least get the chipset right when speaking about the most popular phone in the world right now (the S3), else you'll look like a complete idiot.
Hey, how about that. An existing solution. It's not perfect, but it'd make it a bit harder than just throwing the iPhone on craigslist - especially since they'd have to modify the sticker on the phone as well, and if they didn't, it'd be proof the phone was stolen.
Let's not forget that the reason these people steal phones is because there's a market - plenty of other people happy to get a phone cheap off craigslist.
They should be easy to find in that area.
You'd actually be amazed at how little it matters whether a road is plowed or not if you're using the right tires for the job.
That and start lobbying the city to plow the bike lanes better.
For winter riding, you want relatively narrow tires with soft compound rubber, with studs. About the narrowest studded tire for 700c wheels is around 32mm.
The studs are for ice.
The soft compound is so the tire is compliant in colder temperatures.
The narrowness helps cut through snow down to the road surface.
A fat tire will ride on top of the snow, where there's zero traction.
UGH. Watching David Jones is like sitting in a dentist's chair because he often squeaks his voice at a high, constant monotone pitch - and he doesn't just ramble, he goes on walkabouts. Seriously, the guy needs to print a fucking agenda and tape it above the camera, and then EDIT HIS FOOTAGE.
Most people would make a page or two on their blog with a few photos - but Jones manages to turn it into a 30 minute stream-of-consciousness youtube video, 90% of which should have been edited out.
It's beyond painful, and I have no idea why he insists on speaking in such a squeaky voice - he has moments where he's speaking normally and tolerably...
This is nothing more than an attempt to cash in on the Makerbot closed-hardware closed-source fiasco.
You know, all the people who were alllllllll about open hardware / open source? Until people started making clones of their sacred cow, the makerbot 3D printer?
You know, the same people who then got absolutely ripshit when Makerbot went closed-source?
It's a desperate attempt by the FSF to remain relevant when the world has largely moved on and ignored them...
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"too fast for natural selection to catch up"
Nonsense. The problem is that we've completely bypassed evolutionary mechanisms because of our obsession with preserving life at any cost, and people who ordinarily wouldn't reach reproductive age are passing on their genes.
For example: people who are obese have lower fertility rates, but thanks to fertility treatments, they can have children.
Premature-birth children are a perfect example. Even 50 years ago, they would have died. We've decided that spending $26 BILLION dollars a year on treating preemie babies is sound healthcare policy - they cost 15 times more than a normal baby to care for. We know now for a fact that the more premature a child, the poorer their development as a child and health in adulthood. Nature decided they weren't viable - but instead their genes get passed on to the next generation. It hasn't occurred to anyone that maybe it isn't such a great idea.
Same with people who have inherited diseases, things like heart defects, etc.
Each successive generation is becoming more and more dependent on medical treatments, care, drugs, etc. At some point, it'll be so obvious we can't ignore it.
Most eugenics practices are obviously immoral - but I think discontinuing an at-all-costs attitude to conception and preservation of life for babies and children would be enough.
The first Pi had chipsets that were known for years to be full of bugs and problematic. Then they went with proprietary blobs that free distros couldn't distribute and weren't open source.
Is this more of the same? When will we get a Pi that isn't buggy as hell? Eat your vegetables before you have dessert, guys.
"Barometers work fine in most buildings, outliers are rejected."
Barometers work in buildings where the barometer is in a set position, the barometer has been calibrated by the owner (who fetched the most recent barometric pressure reading via weather radio and set theirs to match), and the building's ventilation system doesn't change.
"Few people live/work high enough for it to make much difference, and ground level is easy to adjust for based on approximate location (1km)."
Newsflash: many people live in areas where the elevation difference within 1km can be hundreds of feet. Just because YOU live in a flat area doesn't mean everyone else does, child.
Cell phones are often:
-In cars, which have varying interior pressure levels depending on design, speed, and other conditions (for example, I had a car where putting the sunroof in the "vent" position would result in a noticeable change in air pressure)
-In buildings, which can have wildly different pressures floor-to-floor or even between areas depending on a variety of factors
-In hyper-localized high pressure areas (for example, ever been caught in a severe wind gust between skycrapers? How about subway entrances and exits?)
-At different heights. Barometer readings are useless without knowing your altitude, and GPS is extremely poor at moment-to-moment altitude data; you have to collect a fair number of points over at least a couple of minutes. Do they perform this calibration?
A+ for the idea, C on evaluating the likely accuracy of the data...
Meanwhile, everyone's been ramming through a BSL-4 facility which will study live human diseases, right smack in the middle of Boston:
http://www.wbur.org/2012/04/19/biolab-research-approval
They picked a poor minority neighborhood they and city officials could bully around, and despite public uproar, soon residents can look forward to being neighbors with Ebola.
Apparently BU just couldn't be bothered to build it, say, out somewhere in the suburbs where there'd be some isolation from the general populace. Let's put it right smack in the middle of a city with a big public transit system and an international airport, just so our researchers won't have to hop in a car for a drive. BRILLIANT.
Further, the liberal side is mostly women, minorities, homosexuals/transgenders and college students. The conservative side is mostly white men.
No, actually. A solid majority of white women voted for Romney. Also, while virtually nobody black voted for Romney, a very large number of other non-white citizens did - each category, it was around 1/3rd.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/11/why-white-women-voted-for-romney.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-exit-poll
A Gawker Networks site got something wrong?
In a sensationalist fashion?
SHOCKING.
Seriously, why does everyone still put up with those fucktards? Their level of incompetence has crossed from believable to they-must-be-doing-it-on-purpose-for-page-hits.
Jezebel is about presenting everything in a way that makes liberal women outraged.
Also, like most people in gender studies, they wouldn't know the scientific process or logic even if it pinched their ass.
Learn how to be a proper board member.
In short: submit an agenda item to discuss resolving issues to the document management system. Either ask Bob if he'd like to present a plan of his own to resolve the problems along with your own, or let the board discuss the problems and request plans of action from you, Bob, and anyone else. At the next meeting, the plans are presented and one is selected by the board.
Everything is above board, he's given a completely legitimate/fair shot at fixing the problems, and if the board fairly discusses and votes against him, he at least should feel he was treated fairly, and it won't impact his desire to help the organization.
IF and ONLY IF he's treated fairly and he goes off in a huff about the whole thing, then so be it. He's toxic.
If you go sneaking around trying to build support for switching to google docs (which you've kind of already done - you need to buy a copy of Robert's Rules of Order and read up about polling, and why you don't do it), then ambush Bob at a meeting and throw up a motion to switch to Google Docs - he's rightfully going to be angry and defensive, and it will definitely impact his contributions or cause him to leave.
Every 6 months on Slashdot we read about higher efficiency solar panels. Virtually none of them are available on the market, and if they are, they're only available to large-scale commercial installations. Right now, the best you can do retail is about 20%; some panels are barely 10%.
A condition for any prize should be "available in half-dozen quantities to individual purchasers."
The best return on investment remains solar hot water - we're talking an order of magnitude in efficiency per area between common solar panels and evacuated-tube hot water collectors. We waste enormous amounts of energy heating hot water and heating homes...
We'd also save billions of dollars if we stopped selling clothes dryers that are hideously inefficiency; elsewhere in the world condensing dryers are the norm and in some cases dry clothes faster.
Look, it's someone who believes in a school of thought that has done nothing but spread ignorance, hatred, bigotry, subservience, and war - used by leaders to maintain control. Religion is a disease. Religion is a control mechanism. Fuck yes - I'll fight that every time I see it.
I love the people who claim atheists are "persecuting" the religious. Which is pretty fucking funny given that almost every religion on the planet has persecuted (slaughtered) atheists since the beginning of time - and every time I turn around some religious fuckhead is trying to tell me I should be forced to live by his restrictive morals.
Reaction on the Android forums has been pretty swift: no microSD card slot = fail, especially given that there's a paltry 8GB in some of the units. My iPhone 2G had 8GB of storage. It was about enough for my music and some apps. That was also 5 years ago. They're trying to force cloud storage onto you by giving you a pathetic amount of storage and eliminating expansion. Meanwhile, they're forcing Google+ instant-uploads on people to encourage them to use it. All of this means increased data usage and reliance on google for your storage needs, which means they're going to start monetizing it at some point in the near future.
For sixty years fusion scientists have been saying "We've almost got it." They're promising that if we keep throwing them billions, they might have something feasible in another fifty.
The highest power levels obtained even after half a decade's research was 65% of the input power and lasted for half a second. The power levels needed to keep the reaction self-sustaining are an order of magnitude higher, and to generate useful power is yet another order of magnitude *or two* higher than that.
There are no known materials that can withstand the radiation and temperatures anywhere nearly long enough; even a second's operation permanently damages and contaminates huge parts of the reactor vessel.
I can think of no technology which has comparable levels of continued failure. It's time to put large scale fusion research to bed until other necessary technologies have caught up, and put the money saved into solar/wind/hydro generation and grid improvements.
Last I heard, failure rate was directly tied to process size. Does any of this fix that?
Also: Sandforce controller? Way to go, Intel - Sandforce is a bucket of fail:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sandforce+freeze
and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SandForce#Issues
and more...
I've looked over OpenStack and it looks great, with one exception: block storage (ie volumes.)
GlusterFS currently isn't recommended for VM storage by the GlusterFS people. They say "maybe" with the next release.
Sheepdog isn't recommended for production (and from what I read, provides abysmal performance - we're talking single-digit MB/sec.)
Lustre requires enormous setup+admin overhead.
DRBD isn't scalable beyond 2 nodes, really, and has serious issues with reliability and keeping in sync.
They've made a huge hullabaloo about Cinder - it's going to do my taxes, slice bread, and surpass Christ - but information as to what the hell it actually is or how it'll do it, beyond marketing-speak, is difficult to find. If you dig around, you find that it's a layer on top of other network block devices.
Far as I can tell, the only free (in either sense) backend they support is Sheepdog, which, as I said before, isn't considered anywhere near production ready.
It also appears that 'Highly available', 'fault-Tolerant', and so on- is coming from the underlying storage, not Cinder itself.
So, where's the beef? You can't have an "open" visualization system if you then require a netapp, IBM, or nexenta backend (sidenote: has anyone SEEN nexenta pricing? Holy christ on a stick!)
They're not so much used for tracking as popping up "you are now leaving our site, we're not responsible for this content" advisories. I have yet to see a US government agency website that doesn't do this - and they're virtually the only ones who do.
Asus Transformer Pad Infinity
The entire Transformer line is Tegra2 & Tegra3 based, not Snapdragon.
The Galaxy S3 is only Snapdragon in the US and Japan market; only one of the S2 flavors has the Snapdragon. The Galaxy Note has two flavors, one with the Snapdragon, one without.
Iif you're going to post an article hemming and hawing about the state of affairs in the mobile phone chipset market, at least get the chipset right when speaking about the most popular phone in the world right now (the S3), else you'll look like a complete idiot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Equipment_Identity#Blacklist_of_stolen_devices
Hey, how about that. An existing solution. It's not perfect, but it'd make it a bit harder than just throwing the iPhone on craigslist - especially since they'd have to modify the sticker on the phone as well, and if they didn't, it'd be proof the phone was stolen.
Let's not forget that the reason these people steal phones is because there's a market - plenty of other people happy to get a phone cheap off craigslist.
The New Yorker is a magazine. That's the date of release of the issue the article will be appearing in.
They should be easy to find in that area. You'd actually be amazed at how little it matters whether a road is plowed or not if you're using the right tires for the job. That and start lobbying the city to plow the bike lanes better.
For winter riding, you want relatively narrow tires with soft compound rubber, with studs. About the narrowest studded tire for 700c wheels is around 32mm.
The studs are for ice.
The soft compound is so the tire is compliant in colder temperatures.
The narrowness helps cut through snow down to the road surface.
A fat tire will ride on top of the snow, where there's zero traction.
UGH. Watching David Jones is like sitting in a dentist's chair because he often squeaks his voice at a high, constant monotone pitch - and he doesn't just ramble, he goes on walkabouts. Seriously, the guy needs to print a fucking agenda and tape it above the camera, and then EDIT HIS FOOTAGE.
Most people would make a page or two on their blog with a few photos - but Jones manages to turn it into a 30 minute stream-of-consciousness youtube video, 90% of which should have been edited out.
It's beyond painful, and I have no idea why he insists on speaking in such a squeaky voice - he has moments where he's speaking normally and tolerably...
This is nothing more than an attempt to cash in on the Makerbot closed-hardware closed-source fiasco.
You know, all the people who were alllllllll about open hardware / open source? Until people started making clones of their sacred cow, the makerbot 3D printer?
You know, the same people who then got absolutely ripshit when Makerbot went closed-source?
It's a desperate attempt by the FSF to remain relevant when the world has largely moved on and ignored them...
(I assume city folk who refused to pay for trash service)
You assume wrong, "country bumpkin", since "trash service" is something usually only businesses have to pay for in a city.
" just add a 12AH gel cell battery and a 20 watt solar panel and it will record to the internal SD card for over a month."
Not quite: "1 hour and 35 minutes of video"