That, and if the office workers going outside, they'll spend some of their money at local businesses, which may have to hire more people, which would help the local economy, and maybe stabilize peoples' situations, so you do have less homeless and less crap on the streets. Just a long term thought. (One that the knee-jerk types wouldn't consider whilst they're busy exterminating people who, just imagine it, might not be in that situation due to their own faults or character flaws, but due to a series of unfortunate events not of their making). The knee-jerk types never seem to look far enough down the road to consider that one of those unfortunate people could be their son/daughter one day.
They also fail to remember the beneficial head start they likely received by being fortunate enough to be healthy/relatively wealthy/from a good family, etc.
I agree as well. I don't mind paying for quality content (not saying salon.com is or is not, I don't use it actually). This sounds like a reasonable compromise. If they don't show ads and don't abuse it--we'll see--I'd be fine with it. I've paid for Medium subscriptions because I don't like ads and will continue IF Medium is fairly compensating the writers in the long run (we'll see). I won't pay for digital newspaper subscriptions because they continue to show me ads even if I've paid. Actually, now that I think of it, I should click on a slashvertisement or two I suppose...I still get some amount of value/entertainment from this site, even though it's not as tech-y as it used to be.
4 AA batteries actually (on the original). And the keyboard consumed them like there was no tomorrow. Nice keyboard, but lousy on the power consumption side.
From the article: âoeFacebook isnâ(TM)t a luxury,â Darling said. âoeItâ(TM)s a utility in our lives. For something that big to be so secretive and powerful in how it accumulates your information is unnerving.â
That's one of her problems right there. It may be a utility, but it is not a mandatory utility. It is opt-in. Life goes on just fine without it. Some sheeple seem to think it's required that you sign up for a facebook account. It's a proven privacy violator. And as far as ethics go, Facebook is in the same category as uber. Just use other technologies instead.
Neuromancer by far. I read many other (Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, The Difference Engine and others) but Neuromancer was the most visionary I think.
Agrippa, a short story, is fascinating to read. I read just an ordinary text version I found online a decade or so ago but IIRC Gibson originally wanted it released on a floppy disk that would erase itself after it was read once (you'll have to read the story to understand why). The whole concept was very inventive.
Yes, because poor-to-begin-with, hurricane-ravaged, probably-hungry and traumatized people are great at suddenly being physically fit enough to work long hours digging trenches? Sure. Keyboard critics (probably sitting in their parent's comfortable basement) always think everything is so easy.
I looked into notifications for iPhone webapps somewhat recently, it is not *currently* possible. Sevice workers are in development but not currently available.
So far. If you extrapolate that argument though, coal, oil and nuclear should be phased out. That stat regarding nuclear is like saying Russian roulette is safe
If you keep using nuclear eventually that 90 deaths will dramatically increase, making it far more dangerous than solar/wind. There will be no mass destruction due to solar/wind.
The fact that:
A) the FDA and EPA are both heavily staffed by ex-monsanto employees
B) crop diversity is reduced by GMO's (If you are pro-science, than it should be obvious that that is a terrible thing).
C) companies like monsanto are buying up seed supply businesses that sell non GMO seed
D) companies like monsanto are patenting non GMO seed (go ahead and fight us in court)
E) monsanto goes after individual farmers
is evidence enough for me that it isn't safe, there are ulterior motives involved, and that huge multinationals controlling the strings to most of the food supply is not good. There are bigger implications here regardless of the safety issue.
Ever hear of what happened in Bolivia when Bechtel owned the water supply? Why are people so eager to be in the same situation themselves one day?
Anyone with any amount of foresight can see this coming.
Sure he benefits. By coercing third world countries to adopt U.S. style IP laws, he (and his heirs) have more future sources of revenue from their patents. By partnering with Monsanto and their ilk, IF they are successful in supplanting non-GMO food sources, they would be sitting on the most valuable IP patents of all time (seed patents).
He benefits more from that than he does from good will, so if anything doesn't make sense, it's his philanthropy imo.
No it's actually well researched and true. Don't for a second think ol' billy boy is doing it out of the goodness of his heart.
Just google the the links between the Gates foundation, Monsanto and Syngenta (GMO) and his investment into the doomsday seed bank (which houses non-GMO seed there thank you very much). There's a lot of strings attached to his "donations".
This is one thing that really disgusted me about engineering. A good bunch of people in my classes at the time wanted to go and build weapons systems. I doubt any of them actually did end up doing that, but for so called educated people to have the desire to do that in the first place is...puzzling.
Almost the same here. Except I've started my 6 yr old on Logo (ACSLogo on the Mac) and Robozzle. Robozzle didn't last long though, when she learned she could solve it by trial and error rather than thinking through it.
I'll have to check out RubyKids. Lego NXT and possibly Arduino is on the horizon when she's a bit older.
This is why the human species is ultimately doomed. There is a basic disconnect at some basic level for too many people such that there is no respect for life. Sure, I understand the research and educational aspect, blah blah blah. Fine. Yes it's "only" a cockroach. Fine. Yes there are bigger atrocities everyday. Fine. I'm not saying we should never use a cockroach for research. But to see recreational "fun" in the discomfort of another creature (however small) shows that homo sapiens are mentally deficient. Yes, learning is necessary, research is required, but there should be no amusement aspect in it if we're wired correctly. Ultimately, and we already do, we shit on our own life support system. If we don't understand this, and it's apparent that by and large we don't as a species, we're ultimately doomed because we don't respect the systems that allow us to continue. If there's no respect, we will not do what is necessary to sustain those systems.
Slashdot Mirror
That, and if the office workers going outside, they'll spend some of their money at local businesses, which may have to hire more people, which would help the local economy, and maybe stabilize peoples' situations, so you do have less homeless and less crap on the streets. Just a long term thought. (One that the knee-jerk types wouldn't consider whilst they're busy exterminating people who, just imagine it, might not be in that situation due to their own faults or character flaws, but due to a series of unfortunate events not of their making). The knee-jerk types never seem to look far enough down the road to consider that one of those unfortunate people could be their son/daughter one day.
They also fail to remember the beneficial head start they likely received by being fortunate enough to be healthy/relatively wealthy/from a good family, etc.
For the video evidence to be accepted, it should have to be accompanied by an in person (or personally identifiable) affidavit. Problem solved.
"To hell with this death predictor... Sell the product that can read doctors' handwriting!!!"
Thanks for that! Made my day!
(where's my mod points when I need 'em)
^^ Slashdot comment as a cheap cloud storage mechanism?
Safari already treats self-signed certs as second class citizens. Websockets (for example) will not work with self signed certs in Safari.
I agree as well. I don't mind paying for quality content (not saying salon.com is or is not, I don't use it actually). This sounds like a reasonable compromise. If they don't show ads and don't abuse it--we'll see--I'd be fine with it. I've paid for Medium subscriptions because I don't like ads and will continue IF Medium is fairly compensating the writers in the long run (we'll see). I won't pay for digital newspaper subscriptions because they continue to show me ads even if I've paid. Actually, now that I think of it, I should click on a slashvertisement or two I suppose...I still get some amount of value/entertainment from this site, even though it's not as tech-y as it used to be.
4 AA batteries actually (on the original). And the keyboard consumed them like there was no tomorrow. Nice keyboard, but lousy on the power consumption side.
From the article: âoeFacebook isnâ(TM)t a luxury,â Darling said. âoeItâ(TM)s a utility in our lives. For something that big to be so secretive and powerful in how it accumulates your information is unnerving.â
That's one of her problems right there. It may be a utility, but it is not a mandatory utility. It is opt-in. Life goes on just fine without it. Some sheeple seem to think it's required that you sign up for a facebook account. It's a proven privacy violator. And as far as ethics go, Facebook is in the same category as uber. Just use other technologies instead.
Neuromancer by far. I read many other (Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, The Difference Engine and others) but Neuromancer was the most visionary I think.
Agrippa, a short story, is fascinating to read. I read just an ordinary text version I found online a decade or so ago but IIRC Gibson originally wanted it released on a floppy disk that would erase itself after it was read once (you'll have to read the story to understand why). The whole concept was very inventive.
Yes, because poor-to-begin-with, hurricane-ravaged, probably-hungry and traumatized people are great at suddenly being physically fit enough to work long hours digging trenches? Sure. Keyboard critics (probably sitting in their parent's comfortable basement) always think everything is so easy.
I looked into notifications for iPhone webapps somewhat recently, it is not *currently* possible. Sevice workers are in development but not currently available.
So far. If you extrapolate that argument though, coal, oil and nuclear should be phased out. That stat regarding nuclear is like saying Russian roulette is safe
If you keep using nuclear eventually that 90 deaths will dramatically increase, making it far more dangerous than solar/wind. There will be no mass destruction due to solar/wind.
The first copyright infringement case against this AI will be quite interesting.
Well the language may be ported over, but what about the frameworks? I haven't checked, but my guess is that is the piece that's missing
yes, Cargo cults!
So THIS is the guy getting all the bitcoins!
The fact that:
A) the FDA and EPA are both heavily staffed by ex-monsanto employees
B) crop diversity is reduced by GMO's (If you are pro-science, than it should be obvious that that is a terrible thing).
C) companies like monsanto are buying up seed supply businesses that sell non GMO seed
D) companies like monsanto are patenting non GMO seed (go ahead and fight us in court)
E) monsanto goes after individual farmers
is evidence enough for me that it isn't safe, there are ulterior motives involved, and that huge multinationals controlling the strings to most of the food supply is not good. There are bigger implications here regardless of the safety issue.
Ever hear of what happened in Bolivia when Bechtel owned the water supply? Why are people so eager to be in the same situation themselves one day?
Anyone with any amount of foresight can see this coming.
More programming than math, but they are related:
The book Coding Games in Scratch
I highly recommend this book. It's very well illustrated and self explanatory. My 7 & 10 year olds devoured this book.
They also enjoyed a minecraft programming course I subscribed to for them for a year: Learn to mod
Sure he benefits. By coercing third world countries to adopt U.S. style IP laws, he (and his heirs) have more future sources of revenue from their patents. By partnering with Monsanto and their ilk, IF they are successful in supplanting non-GMO food sources, they would be sitting on the most valuable IP patents of all time (seed patents).
He benefits more from that than he does from good will, so if anything doesn't make sense, it's his philanthropy imo.
No it's actually well researched and true. Don't for a second think ol' billy boy is doing it out of the goodness of his heart.
Just google the the links between the Gates foundation, Monsanto and Syngenta (GMO) and his investment into the doomsday seed bank (which houses non-GMO seed there thank you very much). There's a lot of strings attached to his "donations".
Where's my mod points when I need 'em.
This is one thing that really disgusted me about engineering. A good bunch of people in my classes at the time wanted to go and build weapons systems. I doubt any of them actually did end up doing that, but for so called educated people to have the desire to do that in the first place is...puzzling.
Both interesting and horribly depressing at the same time. Also made into movies.
such a great song
Almost the same here. Except I've started my 6 yr old on Logo (ACSLogo on the Mac) and Robozzle. Robozzle didn't last long though, when she learned she could solve it by trial and error rather than thinking through it.
I'll have to check out RubyKids. Lego NXT and possibly Arduino is on the horizon when she's a bit older.
This is why the human species is ultimately doomed. There is a basic disconnect at some basic level for too many people such that there is no respect for life. Sure, I understand the research and educational aspect, blah blah blah. Fine. Yes it's "only" a cockroach. Fine. Yes there are bigger atrocities everyday. Fine. I'm not saying we should never use a cockroach for research. But to see recreational "fun" in the discomfort of another creature (however small) shows that homo sapiens are mentally deficient. Yes, learning is necessary, research is required, but there should be no amusement aspect in it if we're wired correctly. Ultimately, and we already do, we shit on our own life support system. If we don't understand this, and it's apparent that by and large we don't as a species, we're ultimately doomed because we don't respect the systems that allow us to continue. If there's no respect, we will not do what is necessary to sustain those systems.
No I will not waste time debating this.