OK, so now we have more people getting their news from facebook than from TV, newspapers or any "traditional" source.
And then look at something like snopes.com to have an idea how much of this so called news are hoaxes, misinformation or blatant lies*!
And none of them gets an even remote feeling that something as unreliable as facebook is as usefull as a rubber knife when you treat it as news source. Yes, it's great for cat pictures. And I love the "25 incredible stupid things stupid people did" stuff. But that's it. It's a SOCIAL media. Is your social environment a regular part of the news? No? See?
Because if its in the data logs thats cast iron it was the meatsack's fault right? Not even remotely possible say the pot on the accelerator went bad contact, demanded max throttle and that left the audit trail in the logs?
I know that every single one who claims to know what happened or did not happen is talking a huge pile of BS.
Ruling out a sensor malfunction is BS, too, but so is ignoring that human error is more likely than a sensor that should be designed to fail safely gets stuck at 100%
An AI called "Wintermute" hired a "contractor" to remove said killswitch mandated by the Turing Police from its mainfraime located in the orbital station owned by Tessier-Ashpool.
Google Calendar is supposed to sync to phones and other devices. For that to work, deletions have to be logged so that the synching tool knows if they need to delete the event on your phone, too, after you deleted the event on the web calendar or if it is a new event in your phone that needs to be created on the Google servers. That's why deleting events only marks them as deleted. Since a while, access to those "deleted" items is at least possible using the "trashcan" feature. Before that, they couls be accessed through the API and some tools like "Spanning Undelete" could be used to restore them.
Adding to that is another aspect on Google Apps: Auditing. Apps is for businesses that need to be able to exactly track who created (and even more important!) deleted data.
This is a looooooong tunnel, and trains aren't exactly clean (unless we're talking electric),
What other trains but electric are in widespread use in your area? We have a few Diesel trains for service (when electricity is down) or a few side tracks, but there is no reason to allow other than electric trains into that tunnel.
Probably. But he'll do it somewhere in the great plains, cause the stupid europeans didn't realize that it's buch easier to build such a structure if you don't have to drill through a mountain range first.
I'd be curious how much space such an installation might require and how easy it is to add capacity. I imagine adding more cars or putting more weight per car is probably pretty cheap in comparison to other options.
Probably not. The cars would have to be designed at a maximum weight and running them below that specified weight would be a waste of capacity BECAUSE it would be so easy to load those cars with, say, rocks. To load the same volume with more mass, you'd probably need to use cast metal bars, which would cost much more than rocks and would probably eat the profit from the amount of stored energy.
And putting more weight on the cars than originally designed for would result in a completly new fleet of cars that can hold more weight than model 1.
Adding more cars isn't trivial either as you would need to buy the cars, and assert that the uphill storage area can hold them.
How many trains would you need to store the energy of an average tank / water tower (built at the same elevation as the upper station of the train system) and what area would be needed as storage capacity for trains instead?
Gtall already mentioned the rounding losses as the least amount of energy you can store is the amount that is needed to bring one train all the way up to the upper plateau.
Granted, it doesn't need water which may be an advantage in dessert areas, but there you could usually just build a solar thermic plant (like the one that just had a little fire accident...) to create the amount of additional electric energy that those trains could probably store and dump the excess power.
Intresting concept, but probably less practical then hydro.
What this does mean is that 2Angry2Birds will be given the go ahead and Rovio will transform itself into a third rate animation company rather than a third rate mobile game company.
What's the difference?
Character design is the main point of both. Artwork, voices, animation is needed for both, models can be reused.... the main difference between a movie and a game is the length of the cutscenes and a few lines of Unity programming (or flash or whatever game engine is used)
(C) is not applicable here as these devices are NOT protected
There is no way to determine if this has been on purpose or by accident.
So... do you have explicit owner's permission to use slashdot and access the slashdot servers?
Granted that having a styled website, rss feeds, entries in the Google index and probably a facebook page are strong hints that/. is supposed to be public, but even that is still not explicit but implicit permission. And none of these is required for actual public sites and services.
Set up a fake camera that is connected to an Oceans11-DVD and you'll either have the police out of the way for your real heist (The "bomb" inthe school in Die Hard 3) or do it often enough until they won't react anymore when they see your actual operation.
Any vehicle or building door not locked can be entered by anybody whenever. In fact, you're usually lucky if it's the police.
The internet is not the physical world where big signs and storefronts would help you to see if an unlocked door leads into a public bar or lounge and is intentionally unlocked or into someones living room and is not locked unintentionally.
There is no mandatory directory to register public services on the internet, so any service offered without access restriction could be considered public in good faith.
You can put whatever terms to it you want. Execution and murder are two different things, evidenced by the fact they came up with different names for them
So, if a Blade Runner "retires" someone or some henchmen "snuffs" someone, that is also something different because it has a different name?
Look up euphemism. When someone claims that things are different just because of their names, someone is usually trying to BS you into something.
It's so bad that the Asian half of my family were always trying skin lightening products and trying to make photos look whiter (this was before Photoshop).
Snapchat isn't helping. To be fair, they are hardly the only ones doing it, but let's call it out what we see it.
Which is kind of ironic when you keep in mind that europeans grill them in tanning beds until the get skin cancer just to have their skin getting darker,
Makes me wonder if there isn't a "perfect" skin tone that is considrered beautiful
Slashdot Mirror
OK, so now we have more people getting their news from facebook than from TV, newspapers or any "traditional" source.
And then look at something like snopes.com to have an idea how much of this so called news are hoaxes, misinformation or blatant lies*!
And none of them gets an even remote feeling that something as unreliable as facebook is as usefull as a rubber knife when you treat it as news source. Yes, it's great for cat pictures. And I love the "25 incredible stupid things stupid people did" stuff. But that's it. It's a SOCIAL media. Is your social environment a regular part of the news? No? See?
* and sometimes misunderstood satire
Don't forget, in the beginning of Star Trek species inter-breeding wasn't normal
Well, THAT explains why Kirk never had to worry about space-alimony...
That's not "social engineerineg" that's Security by letterhead.
Or T-Shirt, in this case,
ok,thanks.
Hold on a second:
Wouldn't that mean that facebook and netflix are keeping their users passwords in plain text instead of salted hashes?
How could they find out who used the same credentials at linkedin?
Or is everyone using the same salt???
Because if its in the data logs thats cast iron it was the meatsack's fault right?
Not even remotely possible say the pot on the accelerator went bad contact, demanded max throttle and that left the audit trail in the logs?
I know that every single one who claims to know what happened or did not happen is talking a huge pile of BS.
Ruling out a sensor malfunction is BS, too, but so is ignoring that human error is more likely than a sensor that should be designed to fail safely gets stuck at 100%
An AI called "Wintermute" hired a "contractor" to remove said killswitch mandated by the Turing Police from its mainfraime located in the orbital station owned by Tessier-Ashpool.
Is that endgame somehow connected to that "Endgame"?
Anyone knows a site that shares the solution of those puzzles?
Google Calendar is supposed to sync to phones and other devices. For that to work, deletions have to be logged so that the synching tool knows if they need to delete the event on your phone, too, after you deleted the event on the web calendar or if it is a new event in your phone that needs to be created on the Google servers. That's why deleting events only marks them as deleted. Since a while, access to those "deleted" items is at least possible using the "trashcan" feature. Before that, they couls be accessed through the API and some tools like "Spanning Undelete" could be used to restore them.
Adding to that is another aspect on Google Apps: Auditing. Apps is for businesses that need to be able to exactly track who created (and even more important!) deleted data.
Aehmm... High-Accuracy-Location IS GPS.
It's the wifi/cell tower location that is less accurate, but doesn't need to power an extra device (GPS-Receiver) in your phone.
This is a looooooong tunnel, and trains aren't exactly clean (unless we're talking electric),
What other trains but electric are in widespread use in your area? We have a few Diesel trains for service (when electricity is down) or a few side tracks, but there is no reason to allow other than electric trains into that tunnel.
Isst den Kaas mit samt dem Teller hollaradiidüüjahuu
Probably. But he'll do it somewhere in the great plains, cause the stupid europeans didn't realize that it's buch easier to build such a structure if you don't have to drill through a mountain range first.
Gosh, I'm old enough to get that joke :-(
I'd be curious how much space such an installation might require and how easy it is to add capacity. I imagine adding more cars or putting more weight per car is probably pretty cheap in comparison to other options.
Probably not. The cars would have to be designed at a maximum weight and running them below that specified weight would be a waste of capacity BECAUSE it would be so easy to load those cars with, say, rocks. To load the same volume with more mass, you'd probably need to use cast metal bars, which would cost much more than rocks and would probably eat the profit from the amount of stored energy.
And putting more weight on the cars than originally designed for would result in a completly new fleet of cars that can hold more weight than model 1.
Adding more cars isn't trivial either as you would need to buy the cars, and assert that the uphill storage area can hold them.
But at what capacity?
How many trains would you need to store the energy of an average tank / water tower (built at the same elevation as the upper station of the train system) and what area would be needed as storage capacity for trains instead?
Gtall already mentioned the rounding losses as the least amount of energy you can store is the amount that is needed to bring one train all the way up to the upper plateau.
Granted, it doesn't need water which may be an advantage in dessert areas, but there you could usually just build a solar thermic plant (like the one that just had a little fire accident...) to create the amount of additional electric energy that those trains could probably store and dump the excess power.
Intresting concept, but probably less practical then hydro.
What this does mean is that 2Angry2Birds will be given the go ahead and Rovio will transform itself into a third rate animation company rather than a third rate mobile game company.
What's the difference?
Character design is the main point of both. Artwork, voices, animation is needed for both, models can be reused.... the main difference between a movie and a game is the length of the cutscenes and a few lines of Unity programming (or flash or whatever game engine is used)
(C) is not applicable here as these devices are NOT protected
There is no way to determine if this has been on purpose or by accident.
So... do you have explicit owner's permission to use slashdot and access the slashdot servers?
Granted that having a styled website, rss feeds, entries in the Google index and probably a facebook page are strong hints that /. is supposed to be public, but even that is still not explicit but implicit permission. And none of these is required for actual public sites and services.
That's a good point, but a lame example.
Set up a fake camera that is connected to an Oceans11-DVD and you'll either have the police out of the way for your real heist (The "bomb" inthe school in Die Hard 3) or do it often enough until they won't react anymore when they see your actual operation.
Any vehicle or building door not locked can be entered by anybody whenever. In fact, you're usually lucky if it's the police.
The internet is not the physical world where big signs and storefronts would help you to see if an unlocked door leads into a public bar or lounge and is intentionally unlocked or into someones living room and is not locked unintentionally.
There is no mandatory directory to register public services on the internet, so any service offered without access restriction could be considered public in good faith.
What does a exercise routine developed by a porn site have anything to do with tech.
Because it is on that internet-thingie. ...and this is not "news about tech", it is "news for nerds"
You can put whatever terms to it you want. Execution and murder are two different things, evidenced by the fact they came up with different names for them
So, if a Blade Runner "retires" someone or some henchmen "snuffs" someone, that is also something different because it has a different name?
Look up euphemism. When someone claims that things are different just because of their names, someone is usually trying to BS you into something.
Sorry, but that's plain wrong:
Evidence A: Tanning beds
Evidence B: self bronzer
It's so bad that the Asian half of my family were always trying skin lightening products and trying to make photos look whiter (this was before Photoshop).
Snapchat isn't helping. To be fair, they are hardly the only ones doing it, but let's call it out what we see it.
Which is kind of ironic when you keep in mind that europeans grill them in tanning beds until the get skin cancer just to have their skin getting darker,
Makes me wonder if there isn't a "perfect" skin tone that is considrered beautiful
What I am saying is that I have a right to employ who I want, on the criteria I want, and work with whomever I please.
Absolutely. And set your criteria as high as you want. But then don't whine about any "shortage". (Which is what this 'news item' is about)