Unlike children, adults have a right to disappear and start a new life somewhere else.
Sort of depends on how many bills and debts they are skipping out on, doesn't it?
I doubt anyone other than a single migrant worker can simply disappear without someone else holding a bag of rent bills, electric bills, child support, or some such. Disappearance is seldom a victimless event.
Well, most projects don't carry advertising. YouTube does, and it also has other revenue generation programs.
Projects tend to be very small, and the whole thing could be probably better handled by imposing a limit on the size. But i've seen a couple projects purporting to relate to video processing packages that had entire movies as test data. These disappeared pretty quickly, suggesting the "test data" (porn) was the purpose all along.
And if there's foul play, there's likely to be something indicating that.
Yeah, like the person is missing!
In fact, the standard followed by most jurisdictions is: the absence of any indication of intent to disappear is in fact evidence of either an accident or foul play.
Police make at least an effort to find people that simply disappear (after a suitable waiting period), and at least interview friends and workmates etc for changes in behavior, look at credit card usage, and request cell records, before throwing in the towel. (The effort is actually much larger if its a missing woman than if it is a man.) Its not an unreasonable level of effort, nor does it take a great deal of resources. (Some of this stuff is automated these days).
Most people who CHOOSE go missing end up defrauding someone out of some amount of money. Unpaid rent, unpaid credit card bills, saddling a spouse with a huge debt, etc. Its not a victimless choice.
I know more than a few projects using code.google.com that have downloads from a separate server, perhaps to get around some inconvienences already built into the system.
Maybe the cost of bandwidth is getting to be significant, or maybe it is due to abuse. The announcement seems to suggest people were creating projects just to distribute large files, probably copyrighted material, (and possibly malware), and getting Google to host it for free.
Still, if you have to set up two or more different services to host your project, why would you bother with the one that didn't allow project downloads? What would be the point of using that on a community project? It would seem this would drive the community away. Perhaps this telegraphs the death knell for yet another Google service?
The nearest active Coast Guard station is further away, but we are talking about Vancouver Harbor, which already is covered by Vancouver Police Boat, Vancouver Fire&Rescue boat, Vancouver Port Authority.
But nice cut and paste job.
Still this was not related to science in any way. The Coast Guard does not do any science as far as I know, and certainly not in Vancouver harbor, where all they had was a water rescue unit.
It was down town rescue station. Largely redundant with Vancouver Police and Fire rescue. There was no science done there.
It wasn't part of fishery management or fishing regulation. The 12 people were re-assigned to other coast guard stations, some of which actually do get involved in fishing enforcement.
There may be a few pure science projects on the list, but they are hard to find, and should have been the bailiwick of University Research at best, not National government paper shuffling bureaucracies that take on a life of their own.
Go read the list, and see if you think more than a small minority of those items affect real science in any real way.
There are a few, to be sure, but most of them are trimming of non-science paper-shuffling jobs, a shocking number of which seem to only employ journalism majors.
Closing a Downtown Vancouver coast guard station? Really?
It links to a Slashdot Channel article, which never appeared in the regular part of Slashdot.
Slashdot is not one-dimensional any more. It has grown a first-print arm for new articles. By your comment, I wager it was your first visit to a Slashdot Channel.
As long as we can still manage servers while sitting at our desks, I say go for it.
If they can get the inter-rack space narrower than a human body, and populate the racks via robots as well it might keep the FBI seizures to a minimum as a side benefit. Maybe run a nitrogen atmosphere for fire suppression.
Of course, neither trigger locks nor personalization features would prevent this "can't be fired by anyone but me" gun from accidental discharge when dropped or struck with things - something much more likely if a parent thinks it's now safe to leave where children can get the gun.
For any modern gun, that is pretty much a thing of the past. Modern handguns are designed with a "drop-safety" or firing pin block. Older ones still have this problem.
Children "get guns" because they are mysterious, and forbidden, or they think they are toys. All three of those are symptoms of lack of training. If the children were taken to the range (one child at a time) and shown how a real gun works and how it differs from a toy gun they would never touch a gun even if it was left in plain sight.
Because the right will complain about schools brainwashing our kids into thinking guns are dangerous, and the left will scream apoplectic about schools brainwashing our kids into thinking guns could be safe.
Bullshit. Gun Safety training would gain instant support among the right, as well as any thinking person.
The younger the better. There are far too many stories about kids thinking they have a toy and killing a sibling, all caused by the big left wing no-no against teaching kids anything about guns, or even so much as drawing a picture of one in school. Its the whole security by obscurity argument all over again in the physical world.
The right already knows guns are dangerous, and that every gun is treated like a loaded gun, and have been teaching this to their kids since they were old enough to walk. Its the delusional left who believe if we can just hide the existence of guns the whole problem will go away.
I took gun safety courses in grade school. We fired.22 short single shot rifles IN the School Basement during gun safety class. (4th or 5th grade as I recall). Of course by this time it was old hat to me since I had been hunting with my parents for many years by that time.
When I'm here at 8 o'clock at night -- I would much prefer free soda (or a pizza) to an extra $100 in my bank account.
With $100, I'm pretty sure you could order a pizza and lots of soda sent to your office, give a generous tip to the delivery guy, and still have quite a few bucks left in your bank account.
Depends on how many nights he is there till 8. If your typical pizza delivery is say $15 after all the tips, etc, and he ends up having to work late two days a week, its soon better to get the pizza free.
The last big employer I worked for offered nothing for free. We had to chip in for the coffee fund.
But we did have our own fridge, with our own lock, and management never asked what was in there, and we carried out our own empties, so....
Anyone reading a damn scripted card from a flow-chart flip-book system can be replaced by automation. I think the only thing still holding it back and keeping those jobs in place is voice recognition.
Voice reco is getting very good these days, but that doesn't mean that its going to solve the problem of being read a script from a flip book.
The script is there to allow the "tech support" to offer something they call "support" without having to know a single thing about what equipment or software you have, and what it is used for. These people are totally clueless. It would be easier to put the entire thing online.
But that still leaves you with a script-bot that has no insight, no ability to pick up on a nuance ("My tv only works in the evening") to understand that there is nothing wrong with the TV other than the fact that it was plugged into a switched outlet intended for a lamp, and the wall switch was off during the day.
If you don't have humans with some knowledge in the loop there is no way to even improve the stupid script.
and I'll be confined only to my excruciatingly small circle of Google+ friends...
Not, that part is wrong. The Hangouts replacement for Google Talk has no dependency on Google+.
At least not yet, but it looks like its heading in that direction.
It used to be that google was satisfied with simply and email address in exchange for all the advertising the dump on you. But its clear the bargain has changed and they want to know everything about you in exchange for that email address.
Of course you would know that if you used Google Talk
You have always been able to add multiple users to Google Talk without needing Google+.
There are some serious privacy concerns with Google+, and a lot of people smart enough to avoid the whole Facebook clusterfuck are not at all keen to surrender to Google even if Google appears to be somewhat more responsible with your data.
I've never found a problem sending pictures to people, even groups of people. Why do you feel you need to surrender all your privacy instead of just emailing a photo?
Actually, that's slightly incorrect. After reading through the articles a bit more, Utah specifically said they can't tax the federal government. So what they're doing is taxing the power company the additional 6% so that the power company can pass on the additional costs to the NSA, effectively taxing the NSA an additional 6%.
Which is sort of odd, because the State I am in does not make me pay sales tax (or any other kind of tax) when I sell to the Federal Government. So why is this power company collecting tax on the sales to the Feds?
The power company must be buying its power from somewhere else, rather than generating it itself. If that is the case, then they have to pay whatever taxes they would normally pay, just like I have to pay sales tax on the box I buy to ship stuff to the government.
Slashdot Mirror
Unlike children, adults have a right to disappear and start a new life somewhere else.
Sort of depends on how many bills and debts they are skipping out on, doesn't it?
I doubt anyone other than a single migrant worker can simply disappear without someone else holding a bag of rent bills, electric bills, child support, or some such.
Disappearance is seldom a victimless event.
Well, most projects don't carry advertising. YouTube does, and it also has other revenue generation programs.
Projects tend to be very small, and the whole thing could be probably better handled by imposing a limit on the size.
But i've seen a couple projects purporting to relate to video processing packages that had entire movies as test data.
These disappeared pretty quickly, suggesting the "test data" (porn) was the purpose all along.
And if there's foul play, there's likely to be something indicating that.
Yeah, like the person is missing!
In fact, the standard followed by most jurisdictions is: the absence of any indication of intent to disappear is in fact evidence of either an accident or foul play.
Police make at least an effort to find people that simply disappear (after a suitable waiting period), and at least interview friends and workmates etc for changes in behavior, look at credit card usage, and request cell records, before throwing in the towel. (The effort is actually much larger if its a missing woman than if it is a man.) Its not an unreasonable level of effort, nor does it take a great deal of resources. (Some of this stuff is automated these days).
Most people who CHOOSE go missing end up defrauding someone out of some amount of money. Unpaid rent, unpaid credit card bills, saddling a spouse with a huge debt, etc. Its not a victimless choice.
I know more than a few projects using code.google.com that have downloads from a separate server, perhaps to get around some inconvienences already built into the system.
Maybe the cost of bandwidth is getting to be significant, or maybe it is due to abuse. The announcement seems to suggest people were creating projects just to distribute large files, probably copyrighted material, (and possibly malware), and getting Google to host it for free.
Still, if you have to set up two or more different services to host your project, why would you bother with the one that didn't allow project downloads? What would be the point of using that on a community project? It would seem this would drive the community away. Perhaps this telegraphs the death knell for yet another Google service?
The nearest active Coast Guard station is further away, but we are talking about Vancouver Harbor, which already is covered
by Vancouver Police Boat, Vancouver Fire&Rescue boat, Vancouver Port Authority.
But nice cut and paste job.
Still this was not related to science in any way. The Coast Guard does not do any science as far as I know, and
certainly not in Vancouver harbor, where all they had was a water rescue unit.
Coast Guard stations do not do fishery data collection. Especially down town rescue stations in a busy port.
So if any one is off their rocker it would be the person claiming the closure of this station was anti-science.
I wish I could collect a paycheck from all the companies some twinkie AC on /. has accused me of working for.
It was down town rescue station. Largely redundant with Vancouver Police and Fire rescue. There was no science done there.
It wasn't part of fishery management or fishing regulation. The 12 people were re-assigned to other coast guard stations, some of which actually do get involved in fishing enforcement.
Exactly.
There may be a few pure science projects on the list, but they are hard to find, and should have been the bailiwick of University Research
at best, not National government paper shuffling bureaucracies that take on a life of their own.
Go read the list, and see if you think more than a small minority of those items affect real science in any real way.
There are a few, to be sure, but most of them are trimming of non-science paper-shuffling jobs, a shocking number
of which seem to only employ journalism majors.
Closing a Downtown Vancouver coast guard station? Really?
It links to a Slashdot Channel article, which never appeared in the regular part of Slashdot.
Slashdot is not one-dimensional any more. It has grown a first-print arm for new articles.
By your comment, I wager it was your first visit to a Slashdot Channel.
As long as we can still manage servers while sitting at our desks, I say go for it.
If they can get the inter-rack space narrower than a human body, and populate the racks via robots
as well it might keep the FBI seizures to a minimum as a side benefit.
Maybe run a nitrogen atmosphere for fire suppression.
Its preventable with simple education.
Its a non issue till A) its your child, or B) someone cries "Won't someone please think of the children" and we all lose our rights.
Here's an Idea, why not move the Scientists? Greyhound bus.
Or telecommute?
Of course, neither trigger locks nor personalization features would prevent this "can't be fired by anyone but me" gun from accidental discharge when dropped or struck with things - something much more likely if a parent thinks it's now safe to leave where children can get the gun.
For any modern gun, that is pretty much a thing of the past. Modern handguns are designed with a "drop-safety" or firing pin block. Older ones still have this problem.
Children "get guns" because they are mysterious, and forbidden, or they think they are toys. All three of those are symptoms of lack of training. If the children were taken to the range (one child at a time) and shown how a real gun works and how it differs from a toy gun they would never touch a gun even if it was left in plain sight.
Because the right will complain about schools brainwashing our kids into thinking guns are dangerous, and the left will scream apoplectic about schools brainwashing our kids into thinking guns could be safe.
Bullshit. Gun Safety training would gain instant support among the right, as well as any thinking person.
The younger the better. There are far too many stories about kids thinking they have a toy and killing a sibling, all caused by the big left wing no-no against teaching kids anything about guns, or even so much as drawing a picture of one in school. Its the whole security by obscurity argument all over again in the physical world.
The right already knows guns are dangerous, and that every gun is treated like a loaded gun, and have been teaching this to their kids since they were old enough to walk. Its the delusional left who believe if we can just hide the existence of guns the whole problem will go away.
I took gun safety courses in grade school. We fired .22 short single shot rifles IN the School Basement during gun safety class. (4th or 5th grade as I recall). Of course by this time it was old hat to me since I had been hunting with my parents for many years by that time.
When I'm here at 8 o'clock at night -- I would much prefer free soda (or a pizza) to an extra $100 in my bank account.
With $100, I'm pretty sure you could order a pizza and lots of soda sent to your office, give a generous tip to the delivery guy, and still have quite a few bucks left in your bank account.
Depends on how many nights he is there till 8. If your typical pizza delivery is say $15 after all the tips, etc, and he ends up having to work
late two days a week, its soon better to get the pizza free.
The last big employer I worked for offered nothing for free. We had to chip in for the coffee fund.
But we did have our own fridge, with our own lock, and management never asked what was in there, and we carried out our own empties, so....
Anyone reading a damn scripted card from a flow-chart flip-book system can be replaced by automation. I think the only thing still holding it back and keeping those jobs in place is voice recognition.
Voice reco is getting very good these days, but that doesn't mean that its going to solve the problem of being read a script from a flip book.
The script is there to allow the "tech support" to offer something they call "support" without having to know a single thing about what equipment or software you have, and what it is used for. These people are totally clueless. It would be easier to put the entire thing online.
But that still leaves you with a script-bot that has no insight, no ability to pick up on a nuance ("My tv only works in the evening") to understand that there is nothing wrong with the TV other than the fact that it was plugged into a switched outlet intended for a lamp, and the wall switch was off during the day.
If you don't have humans with some knowledge in the loop there is no way to even improve the stupid script.
And you think sending thru some app is private?
You poor delusional soul?
and I'll be confined only to my excruciatingly small circle of Google+ friends...
Not, that part is wrong. The Hangouts replacement for Google Talk has no dependency on Google+.
At least not yet, but it looks like its heading in that direction.
It used to be that google was satisfied with simply and email address in exchange for all the advertising the dump on you.
But its clear the bargain has changed and they want to know everything about you in exchange for that email address.
Of course you would know that if you used Google Talk
You have always been able to add multiple users to Google Talk without needing Google+.
There are some serious privacy concerns with Google+, and a lot of people smart enough to avoid the whole Facebook clusterfuck are not at all keen to surrender to Google even if Google appears to be somewhat more responsible with your data.
I've never found a problem sending pictures to people, even groups of people. Why do you feel you need to surrender all your privacy instead of just emailing a photo?
No its not. RTFA.
Actually, that's slightly incorrect. After reading through the articles a bit more, Utah specifically said they can't tax the federal government. So what they're doing is taxing the power company the additional 6% so that the power company can pass on the additional costs to the NSA, effectively taxing the NSA an additional 6%.
Which is sort of odd, because the State I am in does not make me pay sales tax (or any other kind of tax) when I sell to the Federal Government. So why is this power company collecting tax on the sales to the Feds?
The power company must be buying its power from somewhere else, rather than generating it itself.
If that is the case, then they have to pay whatever taxes they would normally pay, just like I have to pay sales tax on the box I buy to ship stuff to the government.
It would be the obvious choice, but it'd be the wrong one. It would be questioned, as you have,
Well, apparently it wasn't questioned by the Tech Week Europe, who published the story, or the security researchers who developed it.
Further he actually gives a (his?) reason:
And now there's nothing left for them to take. They must be pretty pissed off.