When rational thought becomes a religion the leaders and followers of that religion will go to war over any outsiders who dare question the religion well before they will attempt to straighten out the inconsistencies within that religion
And in case you are dense, I am equating the current foss environment with religion
From The Fine Article:
I have always stayed consistent on this topic: I believe all views and perspectives should be welcome if they are constructive and solutions-oriented. Feel free to rabidly disagree with me, but don't just come to me with complaints. Come with a desire to find solutions, and then we can work together.
Do you have any thoughts to propose that move the conversation from "here's a problem" to "here's a solution"?
Oh, and spot price is for 24-karat gold, each ounce of which makes 1-1/3rd an ounce of 18-karat gold. So... does one of these watches weigh 10 ounces?
Even better, the speculation is that Apple's gold watch is only technically 18-karat. Why technically? Because the definition for 18-karat is that gold must make up 75% of the alloy's mass.
Don't use your fucking Point of Sale systems to browse the internet. Or check your E-mail. Or for anything other than inventory & payment.
This goes double for any computer that is used to access customer or patient records.
I see this all the time and it makes me cringe. If you can't afford separate systems for you or your employees to dick around on, then you sure as hell can't afford the fallout from getting pwned.
And most importantly, instead of paying its employees more for their 23% improvement in productivity, the company pockets the savings and gives executives bigger bonuses for making the company more profitable.
That's basically everything wrong with Corporate America for the last ~40 years.
Maybe taking advantage of the shutdown to do a bit of inspection and maintainance turned up something that took a while to fix.
Entergy's Pilgrim plant has been consistently ranked by the NRC as one of the worst in the country.
It's much more likely that Entergy took advantage of the shutdown to fix things they should have taken care of a long time ago, but refused to deal with, because the plant could be unprofitable in the near future and they're trying to milk as much profit out of it as possible. It'll all show up in some NRC filing(s) sooner or later.
Overall, the NRC has determined that your act ions have not provided the assurance level to fully meet all of the inspection objectives and have correspondingly determined that Pilgrim will remain in the Degraded Cornerstone of the Action Matrix by the assignment of two parallel White PI inspection findings. [Green, White, Yellow, Red, in increasing order of severity] [...] . Additionally, for one of the root cause evaluations, inspectors determined that Entergy failed to investigate a deficient condition in accordance with corrective action program (CAP) requirements to ensure they fully understood all of the causes of one of the [four unplanned] scram events [that happened in 2013].
Reliable != multiple unplanned SCRAMs per year.
Anyways, on January 27, while the reactor was SCRAMing, these three things happened:
The High Pressure Coolant Injection System had to be secured due to failure of the gland seal motor. The station diesel air compressor failed to start. One of the four safety relief valves could not be operated manually from the control room.
Those safety relief valves are the ones that get used to vent pressure after the coolant injection system fails.
Pilgrim has problems. On top of all those problems, locals are spitting mad because the disaster plans fail to include scenarios like "giant blizzard shuts down all the roads and nobody can evacuate."
3) is easy to make (see above, do not try this at home, professional driver on closed course and all that)
Actually, people are doing it at home.
It's a SFW thing to search for, as long as you get your search terms right. "diy" or "home" and "fecal transplant"
There's really no difference between what you can do at home and what a doctor can do for you, other than ordering up disease and parasite screening tests for your donor.
Therefore we will 'protest' by selling off an area of the business we have been planning to sell of for normal commercial reasons for quite some time, but using our highly paid group of lobbyists and spin doctors,
Lobbyists and spin doctors? Any media who reports "Verizon blames net neutrality" is basically falling down on the job. Journalists and editors are supposed to have some minimal obligation towards reporting the truth.
âoeWashington should be very thoughtful how they go forward here,â [Verizon Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam] said. âoeThis uncertainty is not good for investment, and itâ(TM)s not good for jobs here in America.â
The sale of the wireline operations has been in the works for several years, Verizon executives said.
Those should not be paragraphs 5 and 6. Heck, "in the works for several years," should have been the headline.
Signing on to every broad recommendation would be a direct insult to our own NRC, which does not dabble in such diplomatic newspeak, preferring to assess actual risk, look at each site, mandate practical and specific engineering guidelines, evaluate what has been done.
I wonder if you know something I don't.
You should dig up a 2011 Associated Press article about tritium leaks at nuclear plants across the country. Or maybe read about the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant which was so plagued by problems that it was finally shut down.
Heck, a quick google search for 'NRC regulatory capture' will kick back plenty of examples that you can use to reevaluate your position.
The way we have operated nuclear plants in the US is sound. The safety record shows it,
Well, now I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about. The safety record is public, go look at it. The NRC has a shit list of the worst plants that it publishes biannually.
Hell, there have been 2 nuclear plants that SCRAMed recently. One on Christmas and the other last week, during the big north east blizzard.
I wonder what your criteria is for "unsound" Do we have to have another 3-Mile Island accident?
Liberty means no ex post facto laws. Earnings made before passage of any such law (which, let's face it, will NEVER pass with the current Congress - whether you agree with them or not) should be excluded from this. If the Government can retroactively tax your profits,
This isn't a retroactive tax. There's no ex post facto involved.
You see, the trick is that technically, all the money held overseas is deferred income. The IRS said "you don't have to pay your taxes until you bring the money back to US shores." The corporations said "Cool, we'll bring it back. No really, we will. But how about we pay you less when we bring it back?"
As a result, the incentives for repatriating foreign profits are completely upside down and backwards. It makes far more sense to dodge US corporate taxes and invest the money overseas.
Indeed, some mice have a harder to press mid-button/scroll wheel, but there are some which are easier to press. I have a G700S and the middle click requires greater finger pressure than I'd like,
All the mice I've taken apart have one of several setups: 1. click pressure is controlled by a 'spring' inside a microswitch 2. click pressure is controlled by a tactile switch that is soldered to the PCB 3. click pressure is controlled by a spring that supports the scroll wheel axis or the full assembly
As best as I can tell, your G700s' scroll wheel has... 2 and 3. You can see it here at 6 minutes into the video. The tactile switch is the gold disk on the left of the screen, with two springs on each side of it.
You could try replacing those springs with weaker ones. And/or you could desolder the tactile switch and replace it with one that requires less force to operate.
If it's hardware, there's no reason you should be permanently stuck with some focus group's middle of the road choice. /tactile switches cost pocket change //microswitches are expensive when ordered as single pieces, so find a place that already has a thousand of them.
I know all the php/wordpress snobs on/. will dismiss this and laugh but personally if i'm building a site for someone (usually for no money and limited time) I just install wordpress, 'secure it',
I dismiss this and laugh because you think you can secure WordPress.
If you're using WordPress for clients, you better budget in the time you/they will spend upgrading WordPress to fix its latest security vulnerabilities.
A drug company CEO taking this position, but not accepting any blame, disgusts me.
Not just any drug company, a drug company that manufactures antibiotics.
DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals, formed together with the Sinochem Group in August 2011, is the global market leader in beta-lactam APIs such as semi-synthetic penicillins (SSPs) and semi-synthetic cephalosporins (SSCs), which represent the biggest class of APIs in anti-infectives. It is also a leader in other active ingredients such as nystatin [anti-fungals] and next generation statins.
That say this is because they are going into areas where Comcast or Time Warner has an existing COAX network. The new competitor builds a FIBER network. Comcast doesn't have a huge advantage since they also have to build their own fiber network to compete.
The technology already exists to crank up COAX cable speeds to 1Gbit. Docsis 3.1 is allegedly going to be 10/1 Gbit capable, though it will depend on the quality of the COAX to your home. The only catch is that the hardware isn't ready yet, it's still being designed and built
changing the subject ("We had no justification to be in Iraq." "Saddam was a dictator! Do you support dictators?!"), and use other propaganda techniques designed to appear legitimate.
The correct answer to that question is "Yes, I support dictators and so do you." Like, Rumsfeld once shook Saddam's hand because he was a valued ally in the region.
Even a cursory glance at the USA's current list of allies in Africa and Eastern Europe/Central Asia makes our support of dictators readily apparent. The list gets longer if you include Middle Eastern monarchies as de facto dictatorships.
The summary also makes the assumption that low voter turnout is a big problem. This is an oft-repeated claim but there's zero evidence to suggest that increased participation rates equate to better results.
Low voter turnout breaks Democracy. There are parts of the country with 1% or less voter turnout for primary elections. This effectively means that only the most partisan candidates get onto the ballots.
If you don't see how that's a problem, you probably haven't been paying attention.
It is a legal problem. The Second Amendment is perfectly clear â" keeping and bearing arms is a right. Any and all laws imposing licensing requirements turn that right (which can only be taken away by the Judiciary) into a privilege (to be granted and withdrawn by the Executive), are just that: Unconstitutional.
I was going to moderate, but I think a direct reply will be more productive.
The problem with this Constitutional argument is that it ignores history. Both before and after the Constitution + Bill of Rights, there were restrictions on gun ownership and carrying. These were restriction that the Founding Fathers did not find onerous, burdensome, or illegal.
The current school of purist 2nd Amendment ideology is an extremely modern one, showing up only in the last 40~50 years. Feel free to educate yourself. Even the NRA used to support gun laws that they now claim are unconstitutional.
So it's better to have bureaucrats handling everything, except for the fact that bureaucrats regularly come from and return to the industries they regulate and can be bought off rather easily. Nice bit of reasoning there.
We could create new or strengthen existing laws about revolving doors in order to return bureaucrats to their role as non-partisan cogs in the machine of governance.
The entire concept of western bureaucracy was a direct response to previous western systems of government where nepotism and cronyism caused endemic incompetence and corruption.
In contrast, the Chinese had a (mostly) meritocratic bureaucracy for ~1000 years before it became firmly embedded in any Western Government. If you want to go back to the roots, about 5,500 years ago, the Sumerians invented writing so that they could manage their nascent bureaucracy. Within a few hundred years, the Ancient Egyptians also had a solid bureaucracy that existed in some form or another for ~3,000 years.
If our bureaucracy is going poorly, it's because we're ignoring lessons of the past, not because there's anything inherently wrong with bureaucratic structures (although Marx would argue that point).
I imagine it would be rather trivial for Git-Hub and others to scan uploads before they go "live" and either censor keys or ask "are you sure you want to do this"
See: The Battle of Bretton Woods. It really is pretty fascinating.
A more useful answer is inertia.
After England's Sterling lost its place as reserve currency for the world, the USA's massive gold reserves (>50% of the world's holdings) let the US peg the Dollar to gold and everyone else pegged their currency to the Dollar (aka the Bretton Woods system).
Of course, (puts on flame suit) because gold standards are actually a terrible idea, the USA's overprinting of cash ended up causing exchange rate imbalances and Europeans started cashing in their dollars for gold.
So Nixon ended the gold standard and inertia + economic strength and maneuvering has kept the Dollar as the global reserve currency for 43 years.
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When rational thought becomes a religion the leaders and followers of that religion will go to war over any outsiders who dare question the religion well before they will attempt to straighten out the inconsistencies within that religion
And in case you are dense, I am equating the current foss environment with religion
From The Fine Article:
I have always stayed consistent on this topic: I believe all views and perspectives should be welcome if they are constructive and solutions-oriented. Feel free to rabidly disagree with me, but don't just come to me with complaints. Come with a desire to find solutions, and then we can work together.
Do you have any thoughts to propose that move the conversation from "here's a problem" to "here's a solution"?
Oh, and spot price is for 24-karat gold, each ounce of which makes 1-1/3rd an ounce of 18-karat gold. So... does one of these watches weigh 10 ounces?
Even better, the speculation is that Apple's gold watch is only technically 18-karat.
Why technically? Because the definition for 18-karat is that gold must make up 75% of the alloy's mass.
Apple patented a... not-alloy... that uses ceramic instead of metal. (PDF)
Since ceramic is significantly lighter by volume, Apple can use less gold and still meet the 75% gold-by-mass standard.
TLDR: Not all gold is created equal.
Don't use your fucking Point of Sale systems to browse the internet. Or check your E-mail. Or for anything other than inventory & payment.
This goes double for any computer that is used to access customer or patient records.
I see this all the time and it makes me cringe.
If you can't afford separate systems for you or your employees to dick around on,
then you sure as hell can't afford the fallout from getting pwned.
And most importantly, instead of paying its employees more for their 23% improvement in productivity, the company pockets the savings and gives executives bigger bonuses for making the company more profitable.
That's basically everything wrong with Corporate America for the last ~40 years.
Maybe taking advantage of the shutdown to do a bit of inspection and maintainance turned up something that took a while to fix.
Entergy's Pilgrim plant has been consistently ranked by the NRC as one of the worst in the country.
It's much more likely that Entergy took advantage of the shutdown to fix things they should have taken care of a long time ago, but refused to deal with, because the plant could be unprofitable in the near future and they're trying to milk as much profit out of it as possible. It'll all show up in some NRC filing(s) sooner or later.
Pilgrim is a reliable station still going strong after many years.
Lol @ reliable. Pilgrim has been on the NRC's worst-ten shit list for a few years now.
The same day the storm hit, the NRC sent Pilgrim a letter.
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1502/ML15026A069.pdf
Overall, the NRC has determined that your act ions have not provided the assurance level to fully meet all of the inspection objectives and have correspondingly determined that Pilgrim will remain in the Degraded Cornerstone of the Action Matrix by the assignment of two parallel White PI inspection findings. [Green, White, Yellow, Red, in increasing order of severity] [...] . Additionally, for one of the
root cause evaluations, inspectors determined that Entergy failed to investigate a deficient condition in accordance with corrective action program (CAP) requirements to ensure they fully understood all of the causes of one of the [four unplanned] scram events [that happened in 2013].
Reliable != multiple unplanned SCRAMs per year.
Anyways, on January 27, while the reactor was SCRAMing, these three things happened:
The High Pressure Coolant Injection System had to be secured due to failure of the gland seal motor.
The station diesel air compressor failed to start.
One of the four safety relief valves could not be operated manually from the control room.
Those safety relief valves are the ones that get used to vent pressure after the coolant injection system fails.
Pilgrim has problems. On top of all those problems, locals are spitting mad because the disaster plans fail to include scenarios like "giant blizzard shuts down all the roads and nobody can evacuate."
3) is easy to make (see above, do not try this at home, professional driver on closed course and all that)
Actually, people are doing it at home.
It's a SFW thing to search for, as long as you get your search terms right.
"diy" or "home" and "fecal transplant"
There's really no difference between what you can do at home and what a doctor can do for you, other than ordering up disease and parasite screening tests for your donor.
Therefore we will 'protest' by selling off an area of the business we have been planning to sell of for normal commercial reasons for quite some time, but using our highly paid group of lobbyists and spin doctors,
Lobbyists and spin doctors?
Any media who reports "Verizon blames net neutrality" is basically falling down on the job.
Journalists and editors are supposed to have some minimal obligation towards reporting the truth.
âoeWashington should be very thoughtful how they go forward here,â [Verizon Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam] said. âoeThis uncertainty is not good for investment, and itâ(TM)s not good for jobs here in America.â
The sale of the wireline operations has been in the works for several years, Verizon executives said.
Those should not be paragraphs 5 and 6.
Heck, "in the works for several years," should have been the headline.
Signing on to every broad recommendation would be a direct insult to our own NRC, which does not dabble in such diplomatic newspeak, preferring to assess actual risk, look at each site, mandate practical and specific engineering guidelines, evaluate what has been done.
I wonder if you know something I don't.
You should dig up a 2011 Associated Press article about tritium leaks at nuclear plants across the country.
Or maybe read about the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant which was so plagued by problems that it was finally shut down.
Heck, a quick google search for 'NRC regulatory capture' will kick back plenty of examples that you can use to reevaluate your position.
The way we have operated nuclear plants in the US is sound. The safety record shows it,
Well, now I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about.
The safety record is public, go look at it.
The NRC has a shit list of the worst plants that it publishes biannually.
Hell, there have been 2 nuclear plants that SCRAMed recently.
One on Christmas and the other last week, during the big north east blizzard.
I wonder what your criteria is for "unsound"
Do we have to have another 3-Mile Island accident?
Liberty means no ex post facto laws. Earnings made before passage of any such law (which, let's face it, will NEVER pass with the current Congress - whether you agree with them or not) should be excluded from this. If the Government can retroactively tax your profits,
This isn't a retroactive tax.
There's no ex post facto involved.
You see, the trick is that technically, all the money held overseas is deferred income.
The IRS said "you don't have to pay your taxes until you bring the money back to US shores."
The corporations said "Cool, we'll bring it back. No really, we will. But how about we pay you less when we bring it back?"
As a result, the incentives for repatriating foreign profits are completely upside down and backwards.
It makes far more sense to dodge US corporate taxes and invest the money overseas.
Like how New Zealand has "re-stabilized" with a quarter of its birds extinct after the introduction of rats.
It sounds like your problem is with the quality of the new equilibrium, not with the principle.
The best kind of correct is technically correct!
Indeed, some mice have a harder to press mid-button/scroll wheel, but there are some which are easier to press. I have a G700S and the middle click requires greater finger pressure than I'd like,
All the mice I've taken apart have one of several setups:
1. click pressure is controlled by a 'spring' inside a microswitch
2. click pressure is controlled by a tactile switch that is soldered to the PCB
3. click pressure is controlled by a spring that supports the scroll wheel axis or the full assembly
As best as I can tell, your G700s' scroll wheel has... 2 and 3.
You can see it here at 6 minutes into the video.
The tactile switch is the gold disk on the left of the screen, with two springs on each side of it.
You could try replacing those springs with weaker ones.
And/or you could desolder the tactile switch and replace it with one that requires less force to operate.
If it's hardware, there's no reason you should be permanently stuck with some focus group's middle of the road choice.
/tactile switches cost pocket change
//microswitches are expensive when ordered as single pieces, so find a place that already has a thousand of them.
I know all the php/wordpress snobs on /. will dismiss this and laugh but personally if i'm building a site for someone (usually for no money and limited time) I just install wordpress, 'secure it',
I dismiss this and laugh because you think you can secure WordPress.
If you're using WordPress for clients, you better budget in the time you/they will spend upgrading WordPress to fix its latest security vulnerabilities.
A drug company CEO taking this position, but not accepting any blame, disgusts me.
Not just any drug company, a drug company that manufactures antibiotics.
DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals, formed together with the Sinochem Group in August 2011, is the global market leader in beta-lactam APIs such as semi-synthetic penicillins (SSPs) and semi-synthetic cephalosporins (SSCs), which represent the biggest class of APIs in anti-infectives. It is also a leader in other active ingredients such as nystatin [anti-fungals] and next generation statins.
Not surprisingly, a company with "Sino" in its name has manufacturing facilities in Asia (India and China specifically).
That say this is because they are going into areas where Comcast or Time Warner has an existing COAX network. The new competitor builds a FIBER network. Comcast doesn't have a huge advantage since they also have to build their own fiber network to compete.
The technology already exists to crank up COAX cable speeds to 1Gbit.
Docsis 3.1 is allegedly going to be 10/1 Gbit capable, though it will depend on the quality of the COAX to your home.
The only catch is that the hardware isn't ready yet, it's still being designed and built
Does Amazon have any history of producing good content? Or is this just out of the blue?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Studios
They've been at it since 2013.
One of their original shows just won Best TV and Best Actor at the Golden Globes.
changing the subject ("We had no justification to be in Iraq." "Saddam was a dictator! Do you support dictators?!"), and use other propaganda techniques designed to appear legitimate.
The correct answer to that question is "Yes, I support dictators and so do you."
Like, Rumsfeld once shook Saddam's hand because he was a valued ally in the region.
Even a cursory glance at the USA's current list of allies in Africa and Eastern Europe/Central Asia makes our support of dictators readily apparent. The list gets longer if you include Middle Eastern monarchies as de facto dictatorships.
They buy US treasury bonds, but issue their own bonds to pay for them. So yes, in fact, the Chinese government is borrowing from the Chinese people.
Before marking this down as a problem for China, you'd have to factor in the economic benefits of keeping the Yuan mostly pegged to the dollar.
If the Yuan really floated free, China's exports would get get much more expensive and their status as a manufacturing hub could evaporate.
The summary also makes the assumption that low voter turnout is a big problem. This is an oft-repeated claim but there's zero evidence to suggest that increased participation rates equate to better results.
Low voter turnout breaks Democracy.
There are parts of the country with 1% or less voter turnout for primary elections.
This effectively means that only the most partisan candidates get onto the ballots.
If you don't see how that's a problem, you probably haven't been paying attention.
That should be grammar Nazis.
That should be "grammar Nazis."
It is a legal problem. The Second Amendment is perfectly clear â" keeping and bearing arms is a right. Any and all laws imposing licensing requirements turn that right (which can only be taken away by the Judiciary) into a privilege (to be granted and withdrawn by the Executive), are just that: Unconstitutional.
I was going to moderate, but I think a direct reply will be more productive.
The problem with this Constitutional argument is that it ignores history.
Both before and after the Constitution + Bill of Rights, there were restrictions on gun ownership and carrying.
These were restriction that the Founding Fathers did not find onerous, burdensome, or illegal.
The current school of purist 2nd Amendment ideology is an extremely modern one, showing up only in the last 40~50 years.
Feel free to educate yourself. Even the NRA used to support gun laws that they now claim are unconstitutional.
So it's better to have bureaucrats handling everything, except for the fact that bureaucrats regularly come from and return to the industries they regulate and can be bought off rather easily. Nice bit of reasoning there.
We could create new or strengthen existing laws about revolving doors in order to return bureaucrats to their role as non-partisan cogs in the machine of governance.
The entire concept of western bureaucracy was a direct response to previous western systems of government where nepotism and cronyism caused endemic incompetence and corruption.
In contrast, the Chinese had a (mostly) meritocratic bureaucracy for ~1000 years before it became firmly embedded in any Western Government. If you want to go back to the roots, about 5,500 years ago, the Sumerians invented writing so that they could manage their nascent bureaucracy. Within a few hundred years, the Ancient Egyptians also had a solid bureaucracy that existed in some form or another for ~3,000 years.
If our bureaucracy is going poorly, it's because we're ignoring lessons of the past, not because there's anything inherently wrong with bureaucratic structures (although Marx would argue that point).
I imagine it would be rather trivial for Git-Hub and others to scan uploads before they go "live" and either censor keys or ask "are you sure you want to do this"
See: The Battle of Bretton Woods. It really is pretty fascinating.
A more useful answer is inertia.
After England's Sterling lost its place as reserve currency for the world, the USA's massive gold reserves (>50% of the world's holdings) let the US peg the Dollar to gold and everyone else pegged their currency to the Dollar (aka the Bretton Woods system).
Of course, (puts on flame suit) because gold standards are actually a terrible idea, the USA's overprinting of cash ended up causing exchange rate imbalances and Europeans started cashing in their dollars for gold.
So Nixon ended the gold standard and inertia + economic strength and maneuvering has kept the Dollar as the global reserve currency for 43 years.