Perhaps I should have said "I'd rather not subject myself voluntarily to additional unnecessary and ineffectual radiation" since that would appear to appease the pedantic types. I'll repeat that no documentation exists (at least the last time I checked) of exactly what these machines exactly spit out, how much, what their variance is, and exactly what effect it has on people. Or even animals. No testing was done. When is the last time you saw entirely unregulated electronics being used on general populations?
All to prevent what was a known weak spot back in the 70s or earlier, and could have been fixed by a simple secure door between the cockpit and the rest of the plane. El Al implemented that long long ago, and that alone would have stopped 9/11 cold.
Exactly this. We could roll back all airport/airline security to pre-911 levels except for the locked, reinforced cockpit doors and the changed mentality of passengers (pre-911 hijacking meant you went to Cuba for a few days and are unharmed if you stay quiet, post-911 hijacking means you die if you don't fight back). Doing so wouldn't reduce our security by a measurable amount, but would restore a large amount of our liberties. (You know, those things the terrorists apparently hate and that we're trying to protect.)
Exactly, although I would still encourage use of metal detectors and scanning all baggage. Traces of explosives are generally simple enough to detect, and those scanners should also be used. They also don't require radiation nor privacy invasion.
Well, then you really shouldn't fly. As mentioned above, you will incur far more radiation from the actual flight than from anything the scanners could do to you.
You'll need to provide proof of the levels of radiation you'll be exposed to. Hint - there are no documented tests detailing what these machines release, because... NATIONAL SECURITY!!!! (My guess, the theater involved makes me gag as much as a soap opera) In any case, any extra radiation is amazingly "extra" and not necessary. I'll continue to refuse "extra" and unnecessary radiation exposure at every opportunity.
By all means, complain about your loss of rights - I despise TSA myself - but if we're dishonest about our rejection of TSA then we're no better than the deceptive methods by which they seized control of our airports.
I don't believe I'm in the least dishonest about my opinions of the TSA and their largely useless and, IMNSHO, unconstitutional activities. The only activity that will have a direct effect on preventing a repeat of 9-11, the previously mentioned cockpit security doors, was finally implemented and is the only reasonable thing that was done. Scanning baggage is fine as well, and doesn't require loss of privacy. There are numerous non privacy violating steps that are more effective than the current security theater that they won't do, except for special "pre-approved" people. The simplest are metal scanners. I guarantee you a standard gun won't make it through a metal scanner, for instance, per the previously linked TSA failures. I still never fathomed why metal scanners weren't part of the process, everyone should walk through one. It's fast, simple, easy.
This is a similar situation: the airline is unwilling to transport you unless you agree to a search. That is their right.
I don't recall any airline requiring a search prior to travel, even today. I do recall the feds and congress going nuts and requiring cavity searches of everyone for any reason at their whim before allowing them through a commercial airport to a gate. All to prevent what was a known weak spot back in the 70s or earlier, and could have been fixed by a simple secure door between the cockpit and the rest of the plane. El Al implemented that long long ago, and that alone would have stopped 9/11 cold. Who's to blame? Both the government and the airlines, the former for its (continuing) laissez faire attitude towards security, the latter for their arguments against strengthening the doors because of cost.
And please indicate where these are at all effective. Note that in the TSA's own tests they missed nearly all guns and explosives. What's the point of these body scanners, other than allowing the TSA to get the equivalent of nylon filtered pornography? It's obvious the scanners do fuck all for security.
Agile - something invented by people that did not want to document anything, not realizing that all they did was put themselves at the end of a bunch of bungie cords and get bounced about at the stakeholder puppetmasters whims, gathering crap and debris as they go. Not until the project is declared a failure do they come back with "but it didn't fail, we delivered all these incremental and desired items" while missing the point that incremental releases are irrelevant when you're needing a full product to be delivered last year.
I've done nothing, because I haven't put anything in the cloud in the first place. The cloud is a stupid idea for things you want to keep yours and yours alone. I have multiple backups, both online and offline, including remote. Same as your former life, I learned valuable lessons without the pain. (We had weekly rotations of backup sets and sent 1 of 4 offsite, so every week we'd rotate our offsite copy. Yes, it seemed stupid at the time. It seemed less stupid when we got hit by a virus. It seemed a whole lot less stupid when another site had a fire.
We need to be stopping the relentless growth of big corporations and monopolies, not giving them more power & money to control politics.
This is the core problem. Corporations should be barred from buying anything after reaching 10% market share in any market they are active in. This means that you will not have M&A consolidations that result in greater than 10% of a market share, which means after 10%, the companies have to gain market share by competition. It also means that a company that owns more than 10% of a market cannot be sold. Those restrictions would go far in alleviating a bunch of Wall Street fleecing of the public. As for those that state "Oh noes, but foreign companies will dominate", the federal government has the ability and obligation to levy taxes appropriately at the borders and ports of entry. Inspect every single container. "It costs too much" is not an argument but an appeal - the answer is that the cost to import is increased by whatever costs to inspect add to them. I haven't seen a single candidate address this aspect of "securing our borders".
AT&T is the biggest violator here, IMNSHO. I know of one entire build out where they literally have FTTH where you can't get more than 1Mbps up, at any price.
I try to forget/skip most of the ewok crap in RotJ. It's not that they were the only thing in the movie, it's that they were in SO MUCH of it that it detracted from everything else. And yes, the prequels were incredibly terrible in every way.
MTBE related to asthma is interesting, given the increase in asthma over the past 30 years. It'd be interesting to see what the correlations are. I'm sure lead removal was necessary, but the other additives they needed to use are not necessarily a better option, just a different trade-off. Removing gas engines entirely is probably the right answer to automotive air pollution, but then you're trading that pollution for electrical production pollution.
If those protocols are updated to match HomeKit's requirements (mostly security related and standardization) then Apple will have done more for home automation than pretty much anyone and it will benefit everyone. My personal biggest beefs are interoperation between products and the complete lack of security for a number of them. It's a crap shoot any time you add a new item to your system. It sucks.
Regardless of his sociopathic nature, which he arguably had at least in his second tenure as Apple's CEO, you have to give Jobs props. Jobs built up at least 3 separate companies, one twice and morphed from near bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world, in multiple different categories. And he didn't start suing people AFAIK until they started copying his runaway successful products which were significantly different from all others. So to compare him to Carly really only can be done by stating their differences, because there's nothing to compare between a huge self-destructive flop and multiple successes. Maybe HP should have hired Jobs as CEO.
You've got to look at the times this was created, regarding hydraulics etc. After all, you can build an interstellar faster than light starship that can be fixed with a spanner?
But regarding C3PO, he and R2D2 were fine in the first 2 movies as they were relatively novel at the time. The 3rd movie was crap, so any scene including the moronic ewoks is already suspect and only served to ruin other characters. And I agree, I think we all wanted to see a planet full of wookies bashing storm troopers heads in and other antics. It would also have been somewhat believable in the universe that was created by the previous 2 movies, and would have been a suitable ending to nice trilogy.
I sat through RotJ because of the first two relatively great movies. RotJ seemed like a 20 minute serial with filler, being the Ewoks, and that filler was somewhere between terrible and horrible. A bunch of anthropomorphic stone age koala bears take down energy weapon toting enhanced sensor soldiers. What more needs be said?
JarJar wasn't even what sealed the deal in ep 1, but the incredibly long winded childhood story. I did see ep 1 and 2 when they aired on TV in the 5 times a day rotation on one of the cable channels and you couldn't avoid it. You know - you just have to see the train wreck. And what a long winded train wreck it was. I'd say that ep 1 could be condensed down to less than 10 minutes of actual story, ep 2 maybe 20, if you're ok with a plodding pace, and hopefully according to others, ep 3 could fill the final 25-30 min required for a single hour TV show with commercials. Note: I have not seen ep 3, just snippets. Vin Diesel is an Oscar contending actor compared to what I saw there.
If Apple can fix ZWave, Insteon, Zigbee, etc, I'll be happy. The current market blows compared to X-10 and Insteon, which at least worked together for the most part.
It can be done if you wrap the SQL up in an API. Then you have no choice but to use the API. Note that this does reduce your ability to run adhoc queries just a touch, but then again, that's the problem in the first place.
This article sparked the memory of wondering why we had to pay more for unleaded gas... Apparently it was expensive to remove the naturally occurring lead from the refined gasoline.
because instead of lead, they had to add other chemicals to raise octane ratings to reduce knocking. Those chemicals cost more.
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Seems they have been doing predictions for a while, and the time frame is set: Transitions between glacial and warm climates — and back again — might come in a matter of only a few centuries if not faster. So as you can see we have not even approached a single test's time frame, although the effects of the predictions appear to be happening more or less.
Perhaps I should have said "I'd rather not subject myself voluntarily to additional unnecessary and ineffectual radiation" since that would appear to appease the pedantic types. I'll repeat that no documentation exists (at least the last time I checked) of exactly what these machines exactly spit out, how much, what their variance is, and exactly what effect it has on people. Or even animals. No testing was done. When is the last time you saw entirely unregulated electronics being used on general populations?
Exactly this. We could roll back all airport/airline security to pre-911 levels except for the locked, reinforced cockpit doors and the changed mentality of passengers (pre-911 hijacking meant you went to Cuba for a few days and are unharmed if you stay quiet, post-911 hijacking means you die if you don't fight back). Doing so wouldn't reduce our security by a measurable amount, but would restore a large amount of our liberties. (You know, those things the terrorists apparently hate and that we're trying to protect.)
Exactly, although I would still encourage use of metal detectors and scanning all baggage. Traces of explosives are generally simple enough to detect, and those scanners should also be used. They also don't require radiation nor privacy invasion.
Well, then you really shouldn't fly. As mentioned above, you will incur far more radiation from the actual flight than from anything the scanners could do to you.
You'll need to provide proof of the levels of radiation you'll be exposed to. Hint - there are no documented tests detailing what these machines release, because... NATIONAL SECURITY!!!! (My guess, the theater involved makes me gag as much as a soap opera) In any case, any extra radiation is amazingly "extra" and not necessary. I'll continue to refuse "extra" and unnecessary radiation exposure at every opportunity.
By all means, complain about your loss of rights - I despise TSA myself - but if we're dishonest about our rejection of TSA then we're no better than the deceptive methods by which they seized control of our airports.
I don't believe I'm in the least dishonest about my opinions of the TSA and their largely useless and, IMNSHO, unconstitutional activities. The only activity that will have a direct effect on preventing a repeat of 9-11, the previously mentioned cockpit security doors, was finally implemented and is the only reasonable thing that was done. Scanning baggage is fine as well, and doesn't require loss of privacy. There are numerous non privacy violating steps that are more effective than the current security theater that they won't do, except for special "pre-approved" people. The simplest are metal scanners. I guarantee you a standard gun won't make it through a metal scanner, for instance, per the previously linked TSA failures. I still never fathomed why metal scanners weren't part of the process, everyone should walk through one. It's fast, simple, easy.
This is a similar situation: the airline is unwilling to transport you unless you agree to a search. That is their right.
I don't recall any airline requiring a search prior to travel, even today. I do recall the feds and congress going nuts and requiring cavity searches of everyone for any reason at their whim before allowing them through a commercial airport to a gate. All to prevent what was a known weak spot back in the 70s or earlier, and could have been fixed by a simple secure door between the cockpit and the rest of the plane. El Al implemented that long long ago, and that alone would have stopped 9/11 cold. Who's to blame? Both the government and the airlines, the former for its (continuing) laissez faire attitude towards security, the latter for their arguments against strengthening the doors because of cost.
I'd rather not be irradiated in the first place.
And please indicate where these are at all effective. Note that in the TSA's own tests they missed nearly all guns and explosives. What's the point of these body scanners, other than allowing the TSA to get the equivalent of nylon filtered pornography? It's obvious the scanners do fuck all for security.
Sounds like 6th Day.
Agile - something invented by people that did not want to document anything, not realizing that all they did was put themselves at the end of a bunch of bungie cords and get bounced about at the stakeholder puppetmasters whims, gathering crap and debris as they go. Not until the project is declared a failure do they come back with "but it didn't fail, we delivered all these incremental and desired items" while missing the point that incremental releases are irrelevant when you're needing a full product to be delivered last year.
I've done nothing, because I haven't put anything in the cloud in the first place. The cloud is a stupid idea for things you want to keep yours and yours alone. I have multiple backups, both online and offline, including remote. Same as your former life, I learned valuable lessons without the pain. (We had weekly rotations of backup sets and sent 1 of 4 offsite, so every week we'd rotate our offsite copy. Yes, it seemed stupid at the time. It seemed less stupid when we got hit by a virus. It seemed a whole lot less stupid when another site had a fire.
We need to be stopping the relentless growth of big corporations and monopolies, not giving them more power & money to control politics.
This is the core problem. Corporations should be barred from buying anything after reaching 10% market share in any market they are active in. This means that you will not have M&A consolidations that result in greater than 10% of a market share, which means after 10%, the companies have to gain market share by competition. It also means that a company that owns more than 10% of a market cannot be sold. Those restrictions would go far in alleviating a bunch of Wall Street fleecing of the public. As for those that state "Oh noes, but foreign companies will dominate", the federal government has the ability and obligation to levy taxes appropriately at the borders and ports of entry. Inspect every single container. "It costs too much" is not an argument but an appeal - the answer is that the cost to import is increased by whatever costs to inspect add to them. I haven't seen a single candidate address this aspect of "securing our borders".
AT&T is the biggest violator here, IMNSHO. I know of one entire build out where they literally have FTTH where you can't get more than 1Mbps up, at any price.
Except weren't ISPs just declared "common carrier" a few months ago? Happy days!
Because... CLOUD!
Honestly, I don't know why everyone is in such a hurry to give all their stuff to cloud providers.
I try to forget/skip most of the ewok crap in RotJ. It's not that they were the only thing in the movie, it's that they were in SO MUCH of it that it detracted from everything else. And yes, the prequels were incredibly terrible in every way.
MTBE related to asthma is interesting, given the increase in asthma over the past 30 years. It'd be interesting to see what the correlations are. I'm sure lead removal was necessary, but the other additives they needed to use are not necessarily a better option, just a different trade-off. Removing gas engines entirely is probably the right answer to automotive air pollution, but then you're trading that pollution for electrical production pollution.
If those protocols are updated to match HomeKit's requirements (mostly security related and standardization) then Apple will have done more for home automation than pretty much anyone and it will benefit everyone. My personal biggest beefs are interoperation between products and the complete lack of security for a number of them. It's a crap shoot any time you add a new item to your system. It sucks.
Regardless of his sociopathic nature, which he arguably had at least in his second tenure as Apple's CEO, you have to give Jobs props. Jobs built up at least 3 separate companies, one twice and morphed from near bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world, in multiple different categories. And he didn't start suing people AFAIK until they started copying his runaway successful products which were significantly different from all others. So to compare him to Carly really only can be done by stating their differences, because there's nothing to compare between a huge self-destructive flop and multiple successes. Maybe HP should have hired Jobs as CEO.
If you take the prequels as canon
If we only could forget those exist, or somehow relegate them to pink pony status.
You've got to look at the times this was created, regarding hydraulics etc. After all, you can build an interstellar faster than light starship that can be fixed with a spanner?
But regarding C3PO, he and R2D2 were fine in the first 2 movies as they were relatively novel at the time. The 3rd movie was crap, so any scene including the moronic ewoks is already suspect and only served to ruin other characters. And I agree, I think we all wanted to see a planet full of wookies bashing storm troopers heads in and other antics. It would also have been somewhat believable in the universe that was created by the previous 2 movies, and would have been a suitable ending to nice trilogy.
I sat through RotJ because of the first two relatively great movies. RotJ seemed like a 20 minute serial with filler, being the Ewoks, and that filler was somewhere between terrible and horrible. A bunch of anthropomorphic stone age koala bears take down energy weapon toting enhanced sensor soldiers. What more needs be said?
JarJar wasn't even what sealed the deal in ep 1, but the incredibly long winded childhood story. I did see ep 1 and 2 when they aired on TV in the 5 times a day rotation on one of the cable channels and you couldn't avoid it. You know - you just have to see the train wreck. And what a long winded train wreck it was. I'd say that ep 1 could be condensed down to less than 10 minutes of actual story, ep 2 maybe 20, if you're ok with a plodding pace, and hopefully according to others, ep 3 could fill the final 25-30 min required for a single hour TV show with commercials. Note: I have not seen ep 3, just snippets. Vin Diesel is an Oscar contending actor compared to what I saw there.
If Apple can fix ZWave, Insteon, Zigbee, etc, I'll be happy. The current market blows compared to X-10 and Insteon, which at least worked together for the most part.
Because Carly destroyed a company, and Marissa is about to, apparently. Meg, OTOH, seems determined to try to repair some of the damage.
It can be done if you wrap the SQL up in an API. Then you have no choice but to use the API. Note that this does reduce your ability to run adhoc queries just a touch, but then again, that's the problem in the first place.
You're probably right. Most of those math-challenged students became Java programmers.
The rest post on /.
This article sparked the memory of wondering why we had to pay more for unleaded gas... Apparently it was expensive to remove the naturally occurring lead from the refined gasoline.
because instead of lead, they had to add other chemicals to raise octane ratings to reduce knocking. Those chemicals cost more.