Did it occur to anyone to LIE about their personal information? Make up a paper man? Eliminate personal snooping as a barrier?
While that would work for a supermarket loyalty card,...
Not really, unless you never, ever use a credit card with that loyalty card. Whatever info you gave when getting the card could probably be assumed to be old anyway. So you would also have to always use cash as, once you use a credit card, it's probably associated with that loyalty card along with the real information that can be assumed to be good. Most places have all but stopped asking for info when handing out loyalty cards now if they are in a hurry.
I ride trains when I am in Europe. In the USA it is not just that you have to be not in a hurry, but you have to be retired or independently wealthy. I just checked to visit my brother in TX, would take one overnight train to Chicago, a long layover, and another overnight train onward. So I am supposed to pay more than airplane tickets, and take two days?
I ride the trains when in Europe too and it's not much difference. It's a day quicker and hundreds of dollars cheaper to fly from Rome to Berlin than to take the train which is about the same distance. Sure, it may take a day longer in the US but even in Europe it's quicker and easier to fly instead (even with the TSA) at that distance even between large hubs. Add in that nobody rides the train in the US unless they are scared of flying and I'm sort of surprised that passenger trains even exist in the US.
Neck in Neck seems like a more internet appropriate version. As in a series of images tucked away in a dark corner of imgur, briefly referenced on reddit before being removed by admins. Neck in Neck - "A filthy, gritty internet version of Neck and Neck."
Yes, but this just begs the question as to who we make the escape goat here on/.
How would google translate speak with an accent? As far as I'm aware the accent is unique from the actual language, it would need to learn by listening to phrases that have define accents/dialects. Otherwise it wouldn't have that information using translation algorithms alone. If this is incorrect, please explain.
Probably the same way that speech recognition can deal with accents. Words are made up of phonemes which are much more limited than the actual number of words. I imagine that most dialects have slightly different phonemes or words that traditionally use different phonemes from other dialects. Once a known piece of speech is matches with the spoken phonemes, then it can be compared to a list of dialects and accents and the correct one chosen for translation whether converting to text or speech.
Just imagine it: a two-ton walking, climbing, rollerblading autonomous spider tank armed with lasers, capable of dodging rockets, never sleeping, never resting, tirelessly prowling the night looking for its intended targets... And just to go that extra mile, we could equip it with a glucose-burning fuel cell and have it suck its victims dry with its titanium mandibles. And if you do get a lucky hit, the thing will release a horde of flying robotized killer bees that attack everything in sight.
I don't have to imagine it, I've seen all the Ghost in the Shell anime.
Contrary to The Breakfast Club, I also got As in shop class. Quite frankly, that ignorant assumption by Hollywood always irritated me.
It is not really surprising. One of the biggest correlating factors for intelligence (however you define intelligence) is general health, and general health is strongly caused by good nutrition. It should be no surprise that athleticism and physical skill positively correlates with brains. Quite a number of the legendary physics minds of the 1st half of the 20th century enjoyed hiking mountains and/or flirting with the ladies.
Hrrm. See, I thought that the ignorant assumption by Hollywood was that shop classes could actually be hard. I took them with the jocks too and the hardest thing about it was remembering not to stand around in the painting room after painting (and many of the jocks failed that one on purpose). Otherwise, it was take these pre-manufactured parts and assemble into a product that will need to be sanded and painted. I see no way any egghead could have failed to put together the lamp they speak of in the movie because I'm sure it would have been about as hard as an Ikea lamp in real life.
However, if you're gonna attempt relativistically significant velocities, you're gonna have to use a mother Ion motor, or great big laser or an Orion engine, or something you can keep thrusting with for years while at the same time providing you with a meaningful ISP.
It doesn't have to be for years. You could, for example use a rail gun with high g acceleration powered by solar energy. Of course, although a modern rail gun like the navy uses is good for 1000g/s, I did the math once and you'd need a rail gun 250k miles long (here to the moon) to get to.1c.
This is about the equivalent momentum of a baseball (142g) moving at.00000001838 m/s (or.018 mm/s). (This is about the velocity imparted to an average baseball by an average slashdotter. So, not very fast.)
Yes, but a baseball is over a much, much larger area than the bacterium in the example. What you will have is a bacterium sized bullet that will probably penetrate deeply into the person even if they don't move at all. With secondary cavitation and fragmentation of the bacteria, it might actually end up being a cross sectional area that can't be ignored with regards to the health of the target.
If Americans were still fat, but used all electric cars instead of public transportation, would you still hate them so much? Oh wait, I shouldn't ask, you'll probably just find another reason to hate them.
As an American, I'd have to say 'yes'. They'd still be clogging up the roads, demanding newer and larger freeways, complaining about the lack of parking, using more power, and be lazier and fatter, than if they didn't mind building and using some decent public transit.
And banning guns tomorrow, totally...would not affect gun crime in the US for decades,...
No, it would affect crime fairly quickly. First there would be about a year of less murders as guns are banned and there is increased enforcement and policing. Then things would go back to normal as people just changed weapons as weapon choice does not really affect the outcome. Before that, crime would rise as the criminals would know there is much less of a chance to run across a victim carrying a gun. Meanwhile, all the drug related murders we see will continue as if they can smuggle billions of dollars in drugs into a country can also smuggle millions of dollars of guns. Just look at Mexico as they have strict gun laws and see how safe they are.
The unanswered question is whether the federal government will use its resources (DEA etc) to target those producing and selling Marijuana when its being legally produced according to Washington and Colorado law.
Given that the DEA has carried out raids against those dispensing marijuana for medical use in states where such use is legal and given the hardline stance taken by the DEA against marijuana in general, I wouldn't be surprised if they did carry out raids in Washington and Colorado.
Washington has been selling medical marijuana for some time now and selling out of public fronts that advertise in the local newspapers. A friend of mine works in one of those dispensaries, and what he has been saying is that the Federal government has a cut off of 100 plants. Growers for WA have been careful to stay under that limit and seem to be left alone. Likewise, although I'm aware of the details, he is and has said that those that have been busted were basically doing something stupid, either selling to people without a card or pushing the boundries of the law. Not to say that he and his coworkers weren't nervous when that was all going on, but AFAIK, most of the places in WA and the police are trying their hardest to stay within clear law. From the police side of things, they have asked for clear instructions and so far that has been to do nothing other than give verbal warnings to anybody smoking pot in public even through it is still against the law to do so. They don't want to be bothered with bullshit anymore than those smoking the pot.
5. Photography and Videography as a profession are pretty well toast. When a fucking phone takes better video than a $100,000 camera did 30 years ago, the Gig Is Up. Content creation is trivial and a short ride to the poor house, unless you move to LA and suck enough dick to get into the film industry.
As a photographer with lots of photographer and videographer friends, I'd have to say, "hardly". A phone might take video as good as a $100k camera from 30 years ago, but nobody wants 30 year old quality in the same market these days. Everybody might have a camera, even a DSRL camera similar to what pros have, but content creation still goes to the talented. There is still a market to get good photos and good video done in a professional manner as there always has been. Even more because there is more need for content since everybody is online. What we are seeing is the market being flush with lots of people with good equipment and people who were used to being able to set up a business because they were part of the few that could afford expensive equipment, finding out that they can't compete with other people with talent or talentless people with the same equipment. The bar has been lowered for entry, but if anything the market has increased.
It is very similar to the situation in hairdressers. Anybody can buy scissors and clipper or hair dye. There are $10 haircut places all over, but there is still a very large market for expensive salons which hire the highly trained people with talent.
According to statcounter, Android had topped iOS for half a year already, with 32% and 24% market share respectively last month.
Man, that's... awful.
For every iOS device sold, there are 3 Androids. Yet the traffic for Android devices is only 50% higher than iOS?
What are people doing with their android phones? Android should be 3 times as much usage as iOS, not 1.5 times as much... or is Android the new "featurephone"?
What's the retention rate for Android versus iOS? If the average Android user is replacing their phone every six months and the average iOS user every year to get newer models, then Android usage would be unusually high.
The UN has gotten a really bad reputation lately due to the pandering to groups that outright hate the United States.
And that is what the UN is for, being a soap box for everybody, not just our friends. That's what it was set up for and that is what it was designed for because if we limit it to just people who all agree, it fails in it's roll to try and talk out differences before war. This is also the reason that it should not be given control of things such as the internet. It is not a body designed and intended to control things. Talk about them, yes. Have groups of countries come to a consensus and act on them, sure. Take control and manage things, no.
Your sister sounds like someone that's never actually been in Texas. It's a little more diverse than Hollywood stereotypes (which you happen to be repeating) would lead you to believe.
Sounds like you've never been to SF. Anything you can find in Texas, you can find in San Francisco. One could argue that the cities all have the same stuff, just in different proportions, and being in SF means she find more of what she wants and can get there to whatever you want by public transit if you can't just walk to it in less time it would take to drive across town or the same amount of bible thumping rednecks.
BS just look at all the hipster photographers trying to justify using their iPads as some sort of computer like image work flow tool and storage machine, meanwhile buying extra sd cards for dirt cheap gives you 100x more storage capacity then some 64gb tablet.
Screw workflow. All the photographers I know and myself bought one and use it for the same reason that we ran out and bought an iPhone when we first saw one. We looked at it and said to ourselves, "I can put my entire portfolio on here and carry it with me everywhere!" It's lighter than a gallery of 8x10 photos or a laptop, turns on instantly, and you can hand it over for people to look at without an issue. Early adopters because it fills a service that no other device at the time did. For that matter, all the artists I know have done the same.
I'm certain Star Trek was one of the top reasons many of the engineers at NASA became interested in engineering in the first place.
Not to mention the social effects of the show also. Nichelle Nichols as a female, black officer was so ground breaking that Martin Luther King Jr. called her to ask her to stay in her role when she was thinking about leaving after the first season so she could be a role model. Her role is credited with inspiring many women including Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut.
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While that would work for a supermarket loyalty card,...
Not really, unless you never, ever use a credit card with that loyalty card. Whatever info you gave when getting the card could probably be assumed to be old anyway. So you would also have to always use cash as, once you use a credit card, it's probably associated with that loyalty card along with the real information that can be assumed to be good. Most places have all but stopped asking for info when handing out loyalty cards now if they are in a hurry.
Well, that's 2/3rds the distance of what we're talking about. Let's try Amsterdam to Barcelona.
I ride trains when I am in Europe. In the USA it is not just that you have to be not in a hurry, but you have to be retired or independently wealthy. I just checked to visit my brother in TX, would take one overnight train to Chicago, a long layover, and another overnight train onward. So I am supposed to pay more than airplane tickets, and take two days?
I ride the trains when in Europe too and it's not much difference. It's a day quicker and hundreds of dollars cheaper to fly from Rome to Berlin than to take the train which is about the same distance. Sure, it may take a day longer in the US but even in Europe it's quicker and easier to fly instead (even with the TSA) at that distance even between large hubs. Add in that nobody rides the train in the US unless they are scared of flying and I'm sort of surprised that passenger trains even exist in the US.
Neck in Neck seems like a more internet appropriate version. As in a series of images tucked away in a dark corner of imgur, briefly referenced on reddit before being removed by admins. Neck in Neck - "A filthy, gritty internet version of Neck and Neck."
Yes, but this just begs the question as to who we make the escape goat here on /.
How would google translate speak with an accent? As far as I'm aware the accent is unique from the actual language, it would need to learn by listening to phrases that have define accents/dialects. Otherwise it wouldn't have that information using translation algorithms alone. If this is incorrect, please explain.
Probably the same way that speech recognition can deal with accents. Words are made up of phonemes which are much more limited than the actual number of words. I imagine that most dialects have slightly different phonemes or words that traditionally use different phonemes from other dialects. Once a known piece of speech is matches with the spoken phonemes, then it can be compared to a list of dialects and accents and the correct one chosen for translation whether converting to text or speech.
Well, if stones can only be minerals and minerals can't be organically made, then what about kidney stones? Huh? huh? Answer me that smarty pants!
I want to set my own price. Facebook can take their usual 30% cut.
You're getting FB confused with Apple. Apple only takes 30%. FB takes it all.
My time is worth more than $1.00. Let me set the price, FB can take 10%.
FB will take it all and if you don't like it, you can quit using FB anytime you wish.
Just imagine it: a two-ton walking, climbing, rollerblading autonomous spider tank armed with lasers, capable of dodging rockets, never sleeping, never resting, tirelessly prowling the night looking for its intended targets... And just to go that extra mile, we could equip it with a glucose-burning fuel cell and have it suck its victims dry with its titanium mandibles. And if you do get a lucky hit, the thing will release a horde of flying robotized killer bees that attack everything in sight.
I don't have to imagine it, I've seen all the Ghost in the Shell anime.
Contrary to The Breakfast Club, I also got As in shop class. Quite frankly, that ignorant assumption by Hollywood always irritated me.
It is not really surprising. One of the biggest correlating factors for intelligence (however you define intelligence) is general health, and general health is strongly caused by good nutrition. It should be no surprise that athleticism and physical skill positively correlates with brains. Quite a number of the legendary physics minds of the 1st half of the 20th century enjoyed hiking mountains and/or flirting with the ladies.
Hrrm. See, I thought that the ignorant assumption by Hollywood was that shop classes could actually be hard. I took them with the jocks too and the hardest thing about it was remembering not to stand around in the painting room after painting (and many of the jocks failed that one on purpose). Otherwise, it was take these pre-manufactured parts and assemble into a product that will need to be sanded and painted. I see no way any egghead could have failed to put together the lamp they speak of in the movie because I'm sure it would have been about as hard as an Ikea lamp in real life.
And yet countries that ban ownership of assault rifles and handguns by the average person don't have these crimes. They just don't.
Yes, with tougher gun laws, we could be safe, like Mexico, Jamaica, Columbia, or a host of African nations.
However, if you're gonna attempt relativistically significant velocities, you're gonna have to use a mother Ion motor, or great big laser or an Orion engine, or something you can keep thrusting with for years while at the same time providing you with a meaningful ISP.
It doesn't have to be for years. You could, for example use a rail gun with high g acceleration powered by solar energy. Of course, although a modern rail gun like the navy uses is good for 1000g/s, I did the math once and you'd need a rail gun 250k miles long (here to the moon) to get to .1c.
This is about the equivalent momentum of a baseball (142g) moving at .00000001838 m/s (or .018 mm/s). (This is about the velocity imparted to an average baseball by an average slashdotter. So, not very fast.)
Yes, but a baseball is over a much, much larger area than the bacterium in the example. What you will have is a bacterium sized bullet that will probably penetrate deeply into the person even if they don't move at all. With secondary cavitation and fragmentation of the bacteria, it might actually end up being a cross sectional area that can't be ignored with regards to the health of the target.
If Americans were still fat, but used all electric cars instead of public transportation, would you still hate them so much? Oh wait, I shouldn't ask, you'll probably just find another reason to hate them.
As an American, I'd have to say 'yes'. They'd still be clogging up the roads, demanding newer and larger freeways, complaining about the lack of parking, using more power, and be lazier and fatter, than if they didn't mind building and using some decent public transit.
And banning guns tomorrow, totally...would not affect gun crime in the US for decades,...
No, it would affect crime fairly quickly. First there would be about a year of less murders as guns are banned and there is increased enforcement and policing. Then things would go back to normal as people just changed weapons as weapon choice does not really affect the outcome. Before that, crime would rise as the criminals would know there is much less of a chance to run across a victim carrying a gun. Meanwhile, all the drug related murders we see will continue as if they can smuggle billions of dollars in drugs into a country can also smuggle millions of dollars of guns. Just look at Mexico as they have strict gun laws and see how safe they are.
Speak for yourself...
Some of us like to think that S.W.A.T. is a fashion statement, especially if you accessorize.
Talk about sexy on the catwalk..sporting kevlar and flashbangs!!!
Ah, I remember my gothic-industrial club days.
The unanswered question is whether the federal government will use its resources (DEA etc) to target those producing and selling Marijuana when its being legally produced according to Washington and Colorado law.
Given that the DEA has carried out raids against those dispensing marijuana for medical use in states where such use is legal and given the hardline stance taken by the DEA against marijuana in general, I wouldn't be surprised if they did carry out raids in Washington and Colorado.
Washington has been selling medical marijuana for some time now and selling out of public fronts that advertise in the local newspapers. A friend of mine works in one of those dispensaries, and what he has been saying is that the Federal government has a cut off of 100 plants. Growers for WA have been careful to stay under that limit and seem to be left alone. Likewise, although I'm aware of the details, he is and has said that those that have been busted were basically doing something stupid, either selling to people without a card or pushing the boundries of the law. Not to say that he and his coworkers weren't nervous when that was all going on, but AFAIK, most of the places in WA and the police are trying their hardest to stay within clear law. From the police side of things, they have asked for clear instructions and so far that has been to do nothing other than give verbal warnings to anybody smoking pot in public even through it is still against the law to do so. They don't want to be bothered with bullshit anymore than those smoking the pot.
5. Photography and Videography as a profession are pretty well toast. When a fucking phone takes better video than a $100,000 camera did 30 years ago, the Gig Is Up. Content creation is trivial and a short ride to the poor house, unless you move to LA and suck enough dick to get into the film industry.
As a photographer with lots of photographer and videographer friends, I'd have to say, "hardly". A phone might take video as good as a $100k camera from 30 years ago, but nobody wants 30 year old quality in the same market these days. Everybody might have a camera, even a DSRL camera similar to what pros have, but content creation still goes to the talented. There is still a market to get good photos and good video done in a professional manner as there always has been. Even more because there is more need for content since everybody is online. What we are seeing is the market being flush with lots of people with good equipment and people who were used to being able to set up a business because they were part of the few that could afford expensive equipment, finding out that they can't compete with other people with talent or talentless people with the same equipment. The bar has been lowered for entry, but if anything the market has increased.
It is very similar to the situation in hairdressers. Anybody can buy scissors and clipper or hair dye. There are $10 haircut places all over, but there is still a very large market for expensive salons which hire the highly trained people with talent.
How is Celsius worse than Fahrenheit in this situation?
I imagine it would be because Celsius is harder to determine due to the wooshing sound going on.
Man, that's ... awful.
For every iOS device sold, there are 3 Androids. Yet the traffic for Android devices is only 50% higher than iOS?
What are people doing with their android phones? Android should be 3 times as much usage as iOS, not 1.5 times as much... or is Android the new "featurephone"?
What's the retention rate for Android versus iOS? If the average Android user is replacing their phone every six months and the average iOS user every year to get newer models, then Android usage would be unusually high.
The UN has gotten a really bad reputation lately due to the pandering to groups that outright hate the United States.
And that is what the UN is for, being a soap box for everybody, not just our friends. That's what it was set up for and that is what it was designed for because if we limit it to just people who all agree, it fails in it's roll to try and talk out differences before war. This is also the reason that it should not be given control of things such as the internet. It is not a body designed and intended to control things. Talk about them, yes. Have groups of countries come to a consensus and act on them, sure. Take control and manage things, no.
Your sister sounds like someone that's never actually been in Texas. It's a little more diverse than Hollywood stereotypes (which you happen to be repeating) would lead you to believe.
Sounds like you've never been to SF. Anything you can find in Texas, you can find in San Francisco. One could argue that the cities all have the same stuff, just in different proportions, and being in SF means she find more of what she wants and can get there to whatever you want by public transit if you can't just walk to it in less time it would take to drive across town or the same amount of bible thumping rednecks.
BS just look at all the hipster photographers trying to justify using their iPads as some sort of computer like image work flow tool and storage machine, meanwhile buying extra sd cards for dirt cheap gives you 100x more storage capacity then some 64gb tablet.
Screw workflow. All the photographers I know and myself bought one and use it for the same reason that we ran out and bought an iPhone when we first saw one. We looked at it and said to ourselves, "I can put my entire portfolio on here and carry it with me everywhere!" It's lighter than a gallery of 8x10 photos or a laptop, turns on instantly, and you can hand it over for people to look at without an issue. Early adopters because it fills a service that no other device at the time did. For that matter, all the artists I know have done the same.
Trouble is that each time you think about doing so, you're only halfway to actually making that joke.
I'm certain Star Trek was one of the top reasons many of the engineers at NASA became interested in engineering in the first place.
Not to mention the social effects of the show also. Nichelle Nichols as a female, black officer was so ground breaking that Martin Luther King Jr. called her to ask her to stay in her role when she was thinking about leaving after the first season so she could be a role model. Her role is credited with inspiring many women including Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut.