When did drinking at a party suddenly become a reason to be denied a teaching certification?
When there's 100 applicants for each open job and HR needs an excuse, literally any excuse, to narrow the field of otherwise equivalent applicants?
Part of the problem is "every teacher is qualified for every job" which is far different than the tech field. So, everyone whom is unemployed applies for every single job.
the cyberscholar Viktor Mayer-Schönberger cites the case of Stacy Snyder -- who was denied a teaching certificate on the basis of a single photo on MySpace
.jpg or it didn't happen. And no I have not soiled myself by having a myspace account.
I tried google images and I'm having trouble figuring which one I wouldn't hire. All of them? The woman posing with several different dogs? (how many does she own, anyway?) The woman singing in front of a well known german political party symbol? The woman wearing a pirate hat drinking from a "goodbur" cup? The woman posing (fully clothed) in a tutu? Then there's about ten other "Stacy Snyder" whom are smiling way too much, which you'd think would be OK for a teacher (unless of course they're the wrong race for racial quota reasons?)
Two other oddities. "cyberscholar" WTF is that? Also, in my youth, HR used to make fun of people whom submitted pictures of themselves posed in suit and tie with their resumes, don't they know we have to toss those out to prove we aren't discriminating based on race etc, but its OK for HR to look at all the pictures of women wearing pirate hats and hugging dogs?
Merely being blinded by the inscrutable oriental stereotype. Translate it into "American" with some simple search and replace and it becomes blindingly cliche.
Start with "paradox between Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design, contrasted with the complexity of Japanese websites"
Some search and replace later:
"paradox between America's strong cultural preference for thin women, contrasted with the obesity of American Walmart shoppers"
It is the oldest (non-)story in the book, convince folks that what they don't/can't have is the ideal, preferentially if you can use it to profitably sell your product/service.
Am I the only one that opens up tabs to read the content and then closes the tab after doing so? I don't really see why someone would have like 20+ tabs constantly just sitting open.
You're just lacking good examples of things to keep "permanently open".
"tabs" that I never close on my ipod touch, my ipad, or firefox:
Local NWS weather radar direct link (radar.weather.gov/Thumbs/???.png where ??? is your local three letter code that has nothing to do with IACO airport codes)
Local NWS 7 day forecast for my home, a rather complicated (bookmarked) URL.
A vhfdx.net ham radio "activity map" for the 6 meter band on my continent, at least during Es season (which probably makes zero sense to non-amateur radio operators, but trust me its quite handy to see at a glance if anythings going on).
A "club news/club announcement" blog that is updated roughly daily.
My personal "feed on feeds" web based RSS aggregator.
At work on firefox for half a decade or so, I have always had a tab open on RT, and a couple internal apps.
Could I just use bookmarks? Yeah, but thats clicky clicky clicky hell and since I scan all those pages every time I do "anything" why not leave them open? Its sort of a "cache" between me and my bookmarks.
As far as having 20 open tabs, I use LRU expiration, if there is a tab I don't look at "all the time" then I stop leaving it open... Some people are the digital equivalent of hoarders.
Basically the entire computer's assembled in a sweatshop by barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money.
People talk about Detroit autoworkers exactly the same way. Doesn't mean much, really.
In other news, the ls command is also dead. When was the last major functional change for ls? When was the last time you saw a major support contract signed for the ls command? Note that I am accepting $1M contract offers to implement the next generation directory listing program, which I will be naming dir.exe, although I haven't decided whats more trendy, enterprise Java, ruby on rails, or maybe erlang?
They started with 150,000 readers and lost 135,000 (90%), leaving 15,000 readers (10%).
Yikes. I assumed that couldn't possibly be correct because they are supposed to be 'relevant', meaning that most people paid attention to them, but it turns out that even before they had to pay, as a percentage of the population, virtually no one cared, and now their fans are a rounding error.
I've given up. I barely pay attention to news anymore.
Its called "extreme narrrowcasting". A pretty effective industry killer. Usually comes from over management and/or over reliance on simplistic metrics. Generally requires an oligopoly where only a couple companies control the market. Also requires shortsightedness, not exactly a quality lacking in American corporations.
In a healthy ecology of news sources, the supplier with the most "scandal/rhetoric" will probably beat the more bland supplier. However, when escalated, it rapidly repels the population, until one supplier gloriously achieves 100% of the market of the remaining 1% of the consumers.
In the movie biz, it leads to endless sequels of formulaic movies. In the music biz it leads to lip syncing and formulaic music. In the video game biz it leads to FPS sequels, or in the early 80s led to quite an industry crash. In the news biz it forces tabloid journalism.
Once enough people are fed up, the entire industry collapses, and reboots, essentially.
by default, such a website can't possibly be "liked", because it needs to satisfy your granma and your cousin with the PhD who's doing research into AI. nobody can really like it, they're just using it because they can't find anything better
necessary to do battle against would-be adversaries. The protection of US computer systems essentially requires an army of cyberwarriors
Who is the enemy? If you think its a nebulous "them", then you're wrong, its us.
"security" where I work is primarily focused on giving as many employees parking tickets as possible, monitoring our every move (although car breakins are of course not monitored), protecting the company from downsized employees, and generally being bullies.
I can assure you that "leet cyberwarriors" are not going to be used against enemy nation of the week, but against Americans. Against people with the mistaken idea they live in a free country. Against anyone standing in the way of the big corporations that pay for our elections. Against anyone whom does not understand they exist to serve the govt, not the other way around.
If you're constantly at a desk, and have control over the lighting and other environmental factors
In other words, the complete opposite of cubical-land. At two places I've worked we had to shut off the overhead lights and go strictly window lighting to cut down on the glare.
Amusingly, you've described the fifty year old "shopping downtown vs shopping in the suburbs" problem and believe it or not, people still claim to "not understand" why retail is dying downtown, and will come up with all kinds of insane justifications to avoid thinking about that simple fact. Maybe the problem is lack of scrapbooking and candle stores? Or we need wider sidewalks? No, it must be the use of plastic bags instead of requiring only "green" paper bags. Anything to avoid thinking about reality.
Since that insane dance of justification to avoid reality has been going on for about half a century in the USA, I would expect that the same class of fools will be promoting internet paywalls half a century from now.
I cannot speak for grandparent, but some options for premium content or pay advantages could be ad-free viewing, a convenient search function, access to older articles and/or larger background articles.
Ability to bookmark and permanently save "favorite articles". Ability to "like" on facebook or whatever. Ability to comment blog, or even more valuable, filter comments to remove the idiots. Ability to suggest articles to friends / family. Ability to directly email the author, and possibly even get a response. Graphics displayed at 150 dpi instead of 50 dpi. Graphics displayed in full 24 bit color instead of monochrome. Ability to mod up and mod down articles (people will actually pay for the privilege of doing free quality control for you). Access to the purely "fun" non-news parts of the paper, like a really nice crossword puzzle interface or whatever it is people use dead tree newspapers for (I'm under 40, so I don't get newspapers and have no idea what to do with "yesterdays news, tomorrow"). All kinds of exciting ideas.
Or you could just block everyone, that being the express ticket to irrelevancy.
However, some have registered: Dan Sabbagh, formerly the media correspondent for the Times, suggests that about 150,000 users registered for access to the Times and Sunday Times while they were free, with 15,000 apparently agreeing to pay money.
This is very sad to see. It will only encourage others.
You sure? 90% drop in readership would imply the remaining 10% was that "150,000 users". That meaning their competitors just gained 1,350,000 readers, I'm sure they're strongly encouraging all their competitors to install paywalls.
When the local 70s rock station changed to continuous Kenny-G saxophone, and 90% of their listeners left, every other radio station in the state did not see that 90% decline and immediately decide to also switch to 24x7 Kenny-G saxophone.
Only important for the "green on the outside, red on the inside" professional protestor crowd.
Most of those folks will drive their gas guzzling SUVs straight from the "save the birdies" rally to their nearest Chicken McNugget provider, or KFC, and then gobble down some birds. I have occasionally wondered how many wind farms a single KFC restaurant is equivalent to.
Then there's the wimps. "well, I was going to save western civilization from the pox of coal mining and filling the GoM with crude oil, but then I found out it involved someone thousands of miles away building a machine that kills one rabid, bird flu infested buzzard per year, so I wimped out and decided all the humans can die instead of that filthy birdie, I feel so much better now".
Even better would be a means of pulling carbon from the air over at the generation plant, generating hydrogen gas or an alcohol, then pumping that fuel via pipeline to a place near the city, and burning it there.
1) Windmills tend to be in agricultural areas, because the land is cheap and too windy for the average resident anyway.
2) Factory farming / big agribusiness is also located there
3) FF / Big Agro requires fertilizers, in part derived from ammonia, to function
4) Ammonia production via Haber-Bosch requires nitrogen (air) and purified hydrogen (electrolyzed water) and a crapton of energy.
5) Conveniently overreving windmills have lots of air and a crapton of energy. Most windmills are either offshore (surrounded by H2O) or are in a non-arid area. Perhaps Oregon has a lack of water, don't know.
So, the rural areas will make their own fertilizer using excess power. Cool.
Of course stereotypical Haber-Bosch plants are all designed to run continuously so as to maximize capital return, and why the heck not. That having a variable source of power has never been a plant requirement, so plants would not tolerate it, does not mean that its technologically impossible to design and build a Haber-Bosch plant that only runs during low demand hours, or that can tolerate a modest disruption to incoming power.
The main problem is electric power companies are not really fertilizer companies. Oh sure, just like any other major American corporation, their management and marketing people spew out vast quantities of B.S., and B.S. is a great nitrogen fertilizer, but its not their core competency. Some fertilizer company would pretty much have to move out there and set up a plant with Very favorable contracted energy cost rates. But most fertilizer companies are dead set on using depleting natural gas as their H2 source...
while background processes such as the OS, drivers, pr0n downloads, etc. run on the second core.
More likely, given todays throw away mentality of, "if its infected, just throw it out and buy a new PC", using a 6-core processor means you get 5 "free" worm/virus infestations before you "have to" buy a new computer. Unless you run mac or linux of course.
Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the 6-core system is clocked slower than the 4-core one, the 6-core system should outperform it easily in all tasks.
Classic newbie to high performance computing mistake. All a "supercomputer processor" does is push the bottleneck to another spot, which sometimes/often collapses completely under the load. My guess is the memory caching and memory bandwidth subsystem.
Its pretty easy to end up in a situation, especially in semi-realtime work, where you end up with not enough memory BW (or other BW) for any task to succeed. So, you're encoding multiple realtime video streams. And you have 4 cores. And your encoding process takes one full core plus 1/4 of the memory bandwidth to keep up with the realtime stream. You'd like to handle more than 4 simultaneous streams. No problemo, just pop in a 6-core and feed in 6 streams. Ooops, you've now got enough processor to handle 6 streams, but you only have 2/3 of the required memory bandwidth. Assuming it splits equally, all the tasks will fail to keep up with real time, and your number of successful encoded streams, rather than increasing from 4 to 6, drops from 4 to ZERO ZILCH NADA because none of the streams have enough dedicated memory (or cache/disk/network/whatever) bandwidth.
If you're thrashing because you don't have enough memory, or enough memory bandwidth, or whatever, more cores is just gonna make it collapse faster.
Standard slashdot car analogy is an Indy car requires heavy "exotic" 190 Kpsi tensile strength chromemoly steel head bolts to prevent the head from blowing off the block. On the other hand, installing that level of head bolt on my 1998 Saturn is not going to make my car any faster, if anything they're heavier and more expensive so they'll slow my car down, because I could have put that weight and money into the suspension, tires, exhaust, etc.
have carefully lifted several million pounds of delicate scientific instruments about five millimeters (0.2 inches) and transferred the weight of the antenna to temporary supporting legs.
A crucial missing part of the summary. I was wondering how they prevented the thing from digging or otherwise tipping back due to the wind.
Sure, drug companies are going to have trouble marketing medi-pops, but if you are actually worried about the legal risks you would take by making your own, you have gone off the deep end.
But thats the whole point. I'm not worried about the legal risks of making my own, but the medical risks of DIY. Obviously aspirin coated in a buffering compound would be a dumb idea to grind and mix. And there are probably medications out there that oxidize so fast, or are insoluble outside of an acidic stomach acid solution that you shouldn't do this. Most liquids, I would guess, should be fine. But what about liq amoxicillin? Who knows? The whole point is the legal risks of drug companies marketing medi-pops is what causes the somewhat unknown medical risks of DIY medi-pops. Its worth worrying about if something this blindingly obvious can cause a problem.
Rather than a made up example of patenting the wheel, I provide a real world example of how the broken patent system results in a net loss to society. TrollFlame the "patent the wheel" guy, not me.
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When did drinking at a party suddenly become a reason to be denied a teaching certification?
When there's 100 applicants for each open job and HR needs an excuse, literally any excuse, to narrow the field of otherwise equivalent applicants?
Part of the problem is "every teacher is qualified for every job" which is far different than the tech field. So, everyone whom is unemployed applies for every single job.
the cyberscholar Viktor Mayer-Schönberger cites the case of Stacy Snyder -- who was denied a teaching certificate on the basis of a single photo on MySpace
.jpg or it didn't happen. And no I have not soiled myself by having a myspace account.
I tried google images and I'm having trouble figuring which one I wouldn't hire. All of them? The woman posing with several different dogs? (how many does she own, anyway?) The woman singing in front of a well known german political party symbol? The woman wearing a pirate hat drinking from a "goodbur" cup? The woman posing (fully clothed) in a tutu? Then there's about ten other "Stacy Snyder" whom are smiling way too much, which you'd think would be OK for a teacher (unless of course they're the wrong race for racial quota reasons?)
Two other oddities. "cyberscholar" WTF is that? Also, in my youth, HR used to make fun of people whom submitted pictures of themselves posed in suit and tie with their resumes, don't they know we have to toss those out to prove we aren't discriminating based on race etc, but its OK for HR to look at all the pictures of women wearing pirate hats and hugging dogs?
Merely being blinded by the inscrutable oriental stereotype. Translate it into "American" with some simple search and replace and it becomes blindingly cliche.
Start with "paradox between Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design, contrasted with the complexity of Japanese websites"
Some search and replace later:
"paradox between America's strong cultural preference for thin women, contrasted with the obesity of American Walmart shoppers"
It is the oldest (non-)story in the book, convince folks that what they don't/can't have is the ideal, preferentially if you can use it to profitably sell your product/service.
The point I was making was why would you leave those 20 tabs open AFTER you've read the contents of them?
They change. I agree, useless for a static or semi-static page, but my local radar updates every few minutes.
I don't really see the point in leaving the page open using any resources for something that changes once a day
The resources used round down to zero. The cost of my time is not so cheap.
Am I the only one that opens up tabs to read the content and then closes the tab after doing so? I don't really see why someone would have like 20+ tabs constantly just sitting open.
You're just lacking good examples of things to keep "permanently open".
"tabs" that I never close on my ipod touch, my ipad, or firefox:
Local NWS weather radar direct link (radar.weather.gov/Thumbs/???.png where ??? is your local three letter code that has nothing to do with IACO airport codes)
Local NWS 7 day forecast for my home, a rather complicated (bookmarked) URL.
A vhfdx.net ham radio "activity map" for the 6 meter band on my continent, at least during Es season (which probably makes zero sense to non-amateur radio operators, but trust me its quite handy to see at a glance if anythings going on).
A "club news/club announcement" blog that is updated roughly daily.
My personal "feed on feeds" web based RSS aggregator.
At work on firefox for half a decade or so, I have always had a tab open on RT, and a couple internal apps.
Could I just use bookmarks? Yeah, but thats clicky clicky clicky hell and since I scan all those pages every time I do "anything" why not leave them open? Its sort of a "cache" between me and my bookmarks.
As far as having 20 open tabs, I use LRU expiration, if there is a tab I don't look at "all the time" then I stop leaving it open... Some people are the digital equivalent of hoarders.
"Ever felt pressured by your better half to buy a small piece of metal (jewelery) for $1000 dollars or a tiny bottle of water (perfume) for $100?"
Nope (and we've been together 13 years). Get a better better half.
This only works once, then you run out of hands. Then become jealous of octopus.
Basically the entire computer's assembled in a sweatshop by barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money.
People talk about Detroit autoworkers exactly the same way. Doesn't mean much, really.
In other news, the ls command is also dead. When was the last major functional change for ls? When was the last time you saw a major support contract signed for the ls command? Note that I am accepting $1M contract offers to implement the next generation directory listing program, which I will be naming dir.exe, although I haven't decided whats more trendy, enterprise Java, ruby on rails, or maybe erlang?
They started with 150,000 readers and lost 135,000 (90%), leaving 15,000 readers (10%).
Yikes. I assumed that couldn't possibly be correct because they are supposed to be 'relevant', meaning that most people paid attention to them, but it turns out that even before they had to pay, as a percentage of the population, virtually no one cared, and now their fans are a rounding error.
I've given up. I barely pay attention to news anymore.
Its called "extreme narrrowcasting". A pretty effective industry killer. Usually comes from over management and/or over reliance on simplistic metrics. Generally requires an oligopoly where only a couple companies control the market. Also requires shortsightedness, not exactly a quality lacking in American corporations.
In a healthy ecology of news sources, the supplier with the most "scandal/rhetoric" will probably beat the more bland supplier. However, when escalated, it rapidly repels the population, until one supplier gloriously achieves 100% of the market of the remaining 1% of the consumers.
In the movie biz, it leads to endless sequels of formulaic movies. In the music biz it leads to lip syncing and formulaic music. In the video game biz it leads to FPS sequels, or in the early 80s led to quite an industry crash. In the news biz it forces tabloid journalism.
Once enough people are fed up, the entire industry collapses, and reboots, essentially.
If Facebook is an attempt to map reality,
Then most people either want to be peasant farmers or mafia bosses?
The weird part is, that may be true!
by default, such a website can't possibly be "liked", because it needs to satisfy your granma and your cousin with the PhD who's doing research into AI. nobody can really like it, they're just using it because they can't find anything better
In other words, "The internet is for pr0n"
necessary to do battle against would-be adversaries. The protection of US computer systems essentially requires an army of cyberwarriors
Who is the enemy? If you think its a nebulous "them", then you're wrong, its us.
"security" where I work is primarily focused on giving as many employees parking tickets as possible, monitoring our every move (although car breakins are of course not monitored), protecting the company from downsized employees, and generally being bullies.
I can assure you that "leet cyberwarriors" are not going to be used against enemy nation of the week, but against Americans. Against people with the mistaken idea they live in a free country. Against anyone standing in the way of the big corporations that pay for our elections. Against anyone whom does not understand they exist to serve the govt, not the other way around.
being able to trade them
No one trades book files, just like no one trades music files. Officially, anyway.
If you're constantly at a desk, and have control over the lighting and other environmental factors
In other words, the complete opposite of cubical-land. At two places I've worked we had to shut off the overhead lights and go strictly window lighting to cut down on the glare.
Amusingly, you've described the fifty year old "shopping downtown vs shopping in the suburbs" problem and believe it or not, people still claim to "not understand" why retail is dying downtown, and will come up with all kinds of insane justifications to avoid thinking about that simple fact. Maybe the problem is lack of scrapbooking and candle stores? Or we need wider sidewalks? No, it must be the use of plastic bags instead of requiring only "green" paper bags. Anything to avoid thinking about reality.
Since that insane dance of justification to avoid reality has been going on for about half a century in the USA, I would expect that the same class of fools will be promoting internet paywalls half a century from now.
I cannot speak for grandparent, but some options for premium content or pay advantages could be ad-free viewing, a convenient search function, access to older articles and/or larger background articles.
Ability to bookmark and permanently save "favorite articles". Ability to "like" on facebook or whatever. Ability to comment blog, or even more valuable, filter comments to remove the idiots. Ability to suggest articles to friends / family. Ability to directly email the author, and possibly even get a response. Graphics displayed at 150 dpi instead of 50 dpi. Graphics displayed in full 24 bit color instead of monochrome. Ability to mod up and mod down articles (people will actually pay for the privilege of doing free quality control for you). Access to the purely "fun" non-news parts of the paper, like a really nice crossword puzzle interface or whatever it is people use dead tree newspapers for (I'm under 40, so I don't get newspapers and have no idea what to do with "yesterdays news, tomorrow"). All kinds of exciting ideas.
Or you could just block everyone, that being the express ticket to irrelevancy.
However, some have registered: Dan Sabbagh, formerly the media correspondent for the Times, suggests that about 150,000 users registered for access to the Times and Sunday Times while they were free, with 15,000 apparently agreeing to pay money.
This is very sad to see. It will only encourage others.
You sure? 90% drop in readership would imply the remaining 10% was that "150,000 users". That meaning their competitors just gained 1,350,000 readers, I'm sure they're strongly encouraging all their competitors to install paywalls.
When the local 70s rock station changed to continuous Kenny-G saxophone, and 90% of their listeners left, every other radio station in the state did not see that 90% decline and immediately decide to also switch to 24x7 Kenny-G saxophone.
is not great for birds
Only important for the "green on the outside, red on the inside" professional protestor crowd.
Most of those folks will drive their gas guzzling SUVs straight from the "save the birdies" rally to their nearest Chicken McNugget provider, or KFC, and then gobble down some birds. I have occasionally wondered how many wind farms a single KFC restaurant is equivalent to.
Then there's the wimps. "well, I was going to save western civilization from the pox of coal mining and filling the GoM with crude oil, but then I found out it involved someone thousands of miles away building a machine that kills one rabid, bird flu infested buzzard per year, so I wimped out and decided all the humans can die instead of that filthy birdie, I feel so much better now".
Even better would be a means of pulling carbon from the air over at the generation plant, generating hydrogen gas or an alcohol, then pumping that fuel via pipeline to a place near the city, and burning it there.
1) Windmills tend to be in agricultural areas, because the land is cheap and too windy for the average resident anyway.
2) Factory farming / big agribusiness is also located there
3) FF / Big Agro requires fertilizers, in part derived from ammonia, to function
4) Ammonia production via Haber-Bosch requires nitrogen (air) and purified hydrogen (electrolyzed water) and a crapton of energy.
5) Conveniently overreving windmills have lots of air and a crapton of energy. Most windmills are either offshore (surrounded by H2O) or are in a non-arid area. Perhaps Oregon has a lack of water, don't know.
So, the rural areas will make their own fertilizer using excess power. Cool.
Of course stereotypical Haber-Bosch plants are all designed to run continuously so as to maximize capital return, and why the heck not. That having a variable source of power has never been a plant requirement, so plants would not tolerate it, does not mean that its technologically impossible to design and build a Haber-Bosch plant that only runs during low demand hours, or that can tolerate a modest disruption to incoming power.
The main problem is electric power companies are not really fertilizer companies. Oh sure, just like any other major American corporation, their management and marketing people spew out vast quantities of B.S., and B.S. is a great nitrogen fertilizer, but its not their core competency. Some fertilizer company would pretty much have to move out there and set up a plant with Very favorable contracted energy cost rates. But most fertilizer companies are dead set on using depleting natural gas as their H2 source...
while background processes such as the OS, drivers, pr0n downloads, etc. run on the second core.
More likely, given todays throw away mentality of, "if its infected, just throw it out and buy a new PC", using a 6-core processor means you get 5 "free" worm/virus infestations before you "have to" buy a new computer. Unless you run mac or linux of course.
Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the 6-core system is clocked slower than the 4-core one, the 6-core system should outperform it easily in all tasks.
Classic newbie to high performance computing mistake. All a "supercomputer processor" does is push the bottleneck to another spot, which sometimes/often collapses completely under the load. My guess is the memory caching and memory bandwidth subsystem.
Its pretty easy to end up in a situation, especially in semi-realtime work, where you end up with not enough memory BW (or other BW) for any task to succeed. So, you're encoding multiple realtime video streams. And you have 4 cores. And your encoding process takes one full core plus 1/4 of the memory bandwidth to keep up with the realtime stream. You'd like to handle more than 4 simultaneous streams. No problemo, just pop in a 6-core and feed in 6 streams. Ooops, you've now got enough processor to handle 6 streams, but you only have 2/3 of the required memory bandwidth. Assuming it splits equally, all the tasks will fail to keep up with real time, and your number of successful encoded streams, rather than increasing from 4 to 6, drops from 4 to ZERO ZILCH NADA because none of the streams have enough dedicated memory (or cache/disk/network/whatever) bandwidth.
If you're thrashing because you don't have enough memory, or enough memory bandwidth, or whatever, more cores is just gonna make it collapse faster.
Standard slashdot car analogy is an Indy car requires heavy "exotic" 190 Kpsi tensile strength chromemoly steel head bolts to prevent the head from blowing off the block. On the other hand, installing that level of head bolt on my 1998 Saturn is not going to make my car any faster, if anything they're heavier and more expensive so they'll slow my car down, because I could have put that weight and money into the suspension, tires, exhaust, etc.
have carefully lifted several million pounds of delicate scientific instruments about five millimeters (0.2 inches) and transferred the weight of the antenna to temporary supporting legs.
A crucial missing part of the summary. I was wondering how they prevented the thing from digging or otherwise tipping back due to the wind.
Is it really feasible to send humans faster than Hohmann with current tech?
Current tech? sure. Current budgets? No. Maybe with a couple fewer wars, a couple fewer temporary big campaign donor bailouts...
Sure, drug companies are going to have trouble marketing medi-pops, but if you are actually worried about the legal risks you would take by making your own, you have gone off the deep end.
But thats the whole point. I'm not worried about the legal risks of making my own, but the medical risks of DIY. Obviously aspirin coated in a buffering compound would be a dumb idea to grind and mix. And there are probably medications out there that oxidize so fast, or are insoluble outside of an acidic stomach acid solution that you shouldn't do this. Most liquids, I would guess, should be fine. But what about liq amoxicillin? Who knows? The whole point is the legal risks of drug companies marketing medi-pops is what causes the somewhat unknown medical risks of DIY medi-pops. Its worth worrying about if something this blindingly obvious can cause a problem.
Rather than a made up example of patenting the wheel, I provide a real world example of how the broken patent system results in a net loss to society. TrollFlame the "patent the wheel" guy, not me.