Body armor designed specifically for gay soldiers.
Extensive historical research (no, I'm not kidding) points out that the army with the most stylish and fashionable uniform almost always loses the war. Just saying. Probably don't want to go there.
I have no personal experience with being in the army, but I'd expect the low percentage of women there get an above-average share of grief if they complain.... I was just taking it for granted that the military had already adjusted to the presence of women, but apparently they're only just starting now....
I was in, well darn near 20 years ago. First of all field wear has always been pretty baggy... its not some kind of fantasy DND skin tight stuff. God only knows that the girls have going on in there. As a guy who likes to check out the ladies don't waste time looking at field wear.
The skin tight PT uniforms for workouts, oh yeah. The mini-skirted formal uniform (although admittedly not as good as old star trek uniforms), yeah. But they're not talking about those.
Whining always results in grief in.mil don't matter who or why.
Who ever considered breasts a problem area? Seriously...
edit: captcha spelled "maternal". Hah.
I think they're referring to the maternity wear. Men's tac vests are too loose around the waste on hourglass non-prego women and too tight on the preggos.
LOL in this reality TV show the winners are the ones who escape.
There was a cheesy "human hunting" reality TV show awhile back, where dudes in matrix style men in black suits chased contestants around and tried to catch them, it may be something like that. If you didn't get captured in 30 minutes by the MIB then you "won". It was pretty intensely FOX network style, all arguing and yelling instead of cooperating, probably because if the contestants cooperated like a US infantry squad they'd have easily wasted the MIB. I don't recall the name.
The point of the reminisce is getting caught by guys in suits leads to a SERE like cubical environment?
I would watch just to see poor editing, maybe a contestant pulls out a iphone or an android phone. That would be funny.
Why? You sound all optimistic and kool aid drinky which is fine in a mass media group think way, but... why?
I've eaten great food from innovative and creative and hardworking chefs who aren't paid squat.
I've admired innovative and creative artwork from artists who live in comparative poverty. Ditto music. Music and fine art clowns sometimes Demand that poverty is a mandatory ingredient in good product.
Same story with architecture and landscaping/formal gardens.
I can design and implement a microwave RF amplifier transistor bias circuit and I/O matching network that in its own technical way is beautiful and innovative, but in a world where 1/2 the university graduating class is un/under employed, 25% of the population has no job, almost no one's hiring, 1000 applicants per job, there's no reason "why" shaking the "tech" saltshaker over this one example of a innovative job results in just this field being rewarded by being "well-paid".
A tool and die maker used to be the king of the "tech" employment hill in my area. Now instead of calling him the "rich guy" who can get a job at any shop he walks into, you call him the "unemployed guy", except for the small fraction of a percent who still have their job in the field. No particular reason why this generations definition of "tech" or "STEM" is somehow guaranteed a great career based on past results.
Yeah well sorry maybe that was a little harsh phrase selection. I checked wikipedia and the order is as I recall, the opposite of the order of events you recall. We bailed out, came back momentarily, were not exactly negotiating from a position of strength. If we were planning on taking one for the team and ally with Japan, we wouldn't have bailed out to begin with. I'm confused why the US and japan were supposedly allied as you'd think we'd have pushed harder for the Canadians who bailed out, maybe its more Japan allied with us because they would be against the Chinese and Korea (as usual). So japan was at best our 2nd choice but we would probably be their 1st choice in allies. This is all the view from an interested outsider not insider. I would imagine the insiders are not officially talking, a ask/. interview with an anonymous insider would be pretty good reading.
On the other hand as kind of a generational trend, only the europeans do "big science" anymore, so I don't know why there's even a window dressing that anyone other than the french would ever realistically get this project. The swiss are not getting another big physics project this generation (they got cern) and india/korea/china cannot seriously claim to build it, japan is not in the eurozone and only euros do big science, and germany was busy reunifying, so its gotta be built in france, more or less. A political drama played out where everyone knows the inevitable conclusion anyway. Much like US presidential elections where the single "rich guys" party always wins although one of the competitive PR departments lose.
As for implicit threats of backing out of the project, again from memory I think everyone but the french and russians made threats at least once, so I don't know if it means much. In the early stages the russians even stayed in during/around the USSR breakup, they have always been remarkably loyal to the project.
It used be a fun game, but the community is rotten and full antisocial d-bags.
Doesn't seem to be a problem for facebook
I'm thinking they have other problems:
1) The "all that matters is its new and technologically cutting edge" crowd has moved on. The same kind of people that watch formulaic action movies. Adding Monks isn't going to help with this crowd. They need smell-o-vision or 5.1 surround sound or some other new tech. Put it in google glasses so you can walk around while playing. Anything that would appeal to the "shiny and new" crowd.
2) Social / casual gaming is taking away the "I only play because my friends play" crowd... coincidentally, see above, facebook.
That leaves, what, the addicts? They're already addicted so stop wasting money. Its like putting food coloring in heroin as if the addicts would want it more or it'll lure the non addicts in, all a big LOL.
The U.S. contributes 1/11th of the ITER construction costs, and in return American companies get 1/11th of the construction contracts, and U.S. scientists make up 1/11th of the staffing.
So it's quite possible they withdrawn from ITER then go ahead and make their own ITER in the USA.
For an AC that's actually a pretty good idea, you should proudly sign your name to that. Seriously.
The problem with the ITER is there are 535 congress members and "most" of the ITER money as currently budgeted is probably going to come from a small minority of members districts... for example probably more scientists will be hired out of Caltech and MIT than, for example, Wyoming (does WY even have a research university as opposed to a teaching U?). Bringing it in-house like NASA means it'll cost more, but I guarantee all 535 members will end up with some pork to brag about. Perhaps my house rep can get me a pork contract to be a linux sysadmin or something for the domestic effort... That's not going to happen with the ITER plan as is...
Lets not make it too complicated here. There's an easy enough solution. Fund ITER out of the navy black ops budget. Just like happened historically with fission reactors, I guarantee some admiral is going to be waterski-ing behind a reactor powered aircraft carrier, decades before my kitchen oven is powered by reactor generated electricity. Now with fusion instead of fission. Whatever.
I don't think the US Navy wants to be left behind as the only world power navy who doesn't have fusion reactors in the engine room of each ship. There's a small talent pool of people who can safely run a reactor, not to mention having to keep platoons of marine guards on board, so that's why only carriers and subs get fission reactors, but a "safe" fusion reactor would probably get dropped in anything bigger than a rowboat.
Why do I get the feeling this wouldn't be on the cards if Japan had got ITER, as the US essentially demanded in the first place... Once France got it, US interest took a massive nose dive, with multiple calls for investment in a home grown alternative instead.
I think you're rewriting history a bit as the USA bailed completely out of the project in the 90s until the canadians pouted and quit in the 00s because they didn't get the construction site and we joined sorta in their place, kinda, at about the same time Japan agreed to stop arguing about where to build it if they got extra job slot quotas. So if anything interest picked up when Japan stopped fighting, not reduced. I suppose "interest decreased" in a sort of prime time reality TV drama sense in that it got less dramatic and more boring once Canada stopped pouting and got evicted from the island or whatever mixed metaphor and Japan stopped picking fights with everyone. On the other hand, after the prime time TV drama ended, they actually started working on stuff and there's dirt being dug up and things being built right now...
It won't be the first time we've bailed, it'll probably happen again.
Kazakhstan wants to join (yeah, Kazakhstan, no kidding)... I suppose as a point of national pride they are a rising country instead of a declining one like the US. They even have a superior medical system. Its embarrassing that replacing us with them will, overall, be an upgrade to the ITER project.
To some extent this is just a larger scale version of what happens every time a school district budget is squeezed. Don't lower mahogany row salaries from $250K to "only" $200K per year because then we wouldn't attract the "leadership" of the best and brightest who are currently running us into the ground, nahh, just threaten to cut something cool and popular like drivers ed or high school football until the taxpayers are beaten into submission and meekly accept higher tax rates.
Next article up, some manager whining about how there's a shortage of scientists because he wants to pay almost nothing and the domestic eggheads think they're worth more than $7.25/hr so we'll have to crank open the H1B floodgates until Physicists can only dare to daydream of having the career opportunities of a mcdonalds fry cook. I'm glad I didn't go into science. Would have loved to, but hate grinding poverty even more and don't want to spend my middle age as a taxi driver like happened to all the rocket scientists I know after Apollo.
Next article after that will be some washed up town patting themselves on the back for rolling out a new STEM program for grade school kids, to handle the massive future shortage of STEM employees. You know, the kind of town where 2000 STEM employees just got the axe because one of the STEM educational initiative corporations just moved their HQ from that heartland town to China, and another 200 person foundry just went bankrupt and a 200 person cement factory just closed (this is my home town... I'm not directly affected but it still sucks)
As long as the rich get richer I guess we're on the right path...
Most slashdotters likely use one or more ad blocking strategies.
The 'best Slashdot ad' would likely not be an ad at all but a revenue model without ads that actually works (difficult to say the least).
/. poll? "Shopping list under $100:" and list 9 items complete with amazon referral bonus code links and, of course, "cowboy neal" option? I would be moderately interested to see which item wins the poll assuming they're somehow related. The key is the poll comments would drive what I actually buy... if anything.
The wisdom of/. has never steered me wrong on non-commodity technical purchases and most service purchases... ever. Not a failure in over a decade. On the bad side, ask/. for advice on commodities like phone service (which depends solely on your local tower, which is idiotic to discuss on a worldwide website) or anecdotes about "a" car somehow applying to all cars ever made with that model badge, ditto hard drives...
The iPad is still killing the tablet market, over two years after release.
One of the business analysts I was reading blamed the decline on the tablet market, apparently Apple is about to lose its majority position in the tablet market and margins on tablets have been declining. So... Smaller market share times fewer sold times less profit each equals big market decline. At least thats one interpretation.
At this rate, I would do better to just sit at home, Google up all my symptoms and treat myself.
Your description is pretty much how my wifes allergies and sons digestive problems and my weight issues were treated. For some issues, its fundamentally the only way to do it, but people keep insisting on taking up space at a dr office.
Since I am using that one password anyway, it would be better to have only one point of failure.
We're rapidly moving toward only one financial corporation or at most a handful anyway. Just like the big 3 automakers we'll have 3 banks. That way they can collude to screw the customers while claiming we have free choice. I had credit cards at a couple places but now I have multiple citibank accounts, which is weird. Also my old car loan servicer now owns my local bank so they own my checking and car loan info.
If they know that a group of interest meets at 8pm on the 1st, 17th and 23rd of each month, and you buy a Latte from the Starbucks next door to the meeting place only on those days at 7:45pm, then you become a person of interest.
Technically its the first Friday of the month 5 to 8 local time. But whatever.
The only successful targeted internet ad company that I know of is Amazon.
I've bought hundreds (thousands?) of dollars of stuff based on recommended items. I forget exactly how they phrase it but its something like "people who bought your Charlie Stross book "Rule 34" also bought the following books" and they list Accelerando and The Apocalypse Codex and so on. Ditto about a zillion other authors and non-book products.
I've never intentionally clicked on or purchased anything from any other targeted ad, and have been using ad blockers since weeks after that tech was invented.
The scary part is thinking about what really finely focused/. ads would push on us/.ers. Hmm. Instant Hot Grits, Debian install disks, buy this package at a discount: one cup now with pix of two girls, lots of rick astley / rickroll music...
If apple sells a cable that has "weird new thing" on one end and plain ole PC USB on the other end (for charging, itunes sync, whatever) then there already exist adapters to go from usb-micro cable aka male to desktop USB female.
People forget the apple connector has at least composite video, maybe more on that little plug. I would not be surprised if the new plug has full HDMI and at least some weird digital SPDIF if not much more.
Now maybe one of those thousands of companies will realize the the smart move would be a USB plug for charging combined with a bluetooth system for transmitting the music. I can't seem to find anything good for my Android phone.
You've just described the thing in my car. As for "good", well define good. It does work... If you go to amazon.com and search for "Wagan 5 Amp AC to 12V DC Power Adapter" you'll see an $18 way to run my car's adapter thingy indoors. The absolute cheapest similar device is $12 made by Bestek. I can personally endorse the thingy in my car WRT to charging ability and sound quality being "good enough", but at home I have an elaborate 12 volt ham radio related distribution system, so I have no personal experience with $18 or $12 supplies.
Personally I like your idea but would much rather prefer a wireless charger solution. So drop the phone on the mat and it charges and the speakers also connect. This would also be nice in the car instead of having to plug in.
That would mean the new phone would not connect with the myriad of accessories playing a part in the current ecosystem of iPods, iPads and iPhones, at least without an adapter. On the upside...
... on the upside the large number of people who switched from apple i-products to android in the recent past (I had a touch and a nano before I got an android phone) had no problem abandoning the current i- ecosystem, so the i- fanboys will probably successfully make the same transition.
Hey government, so it's illegal when I share Thunderstruck with my friends, but it's OK for you to spend my tax dollars giving it away to douchebag weapons scientists who don't even like AC/DC? Whatever!
There's a pretty good analogy with automatic weapons in that I'm not allowed to "permanent loan" a buddy something shiny and fun without the tax stamp and going thru a FFL dealer, but foreign aid regularly delivers weapons to foreigners for free, even if the locals don't like the dictators thugs to be better armed. Its not all that unusual of a situation.
More likely some poor bastard on the night shift was intentionally and willfully listening to evil mp3s he downloaded from the great satan over livewire, and when he got caught doing air guitar instead of whatever the hell a centrifuge operator does in his spare time, rather than taking the fall for it, commited yet another sin by blaming the CIA.
The disinfo part is I've worked in industrial plants on networks, and later for decades in companies with airgapped production and IT networks, and the first thing you do after the first infection is airgap IT and everything else you can away from production, then you disassemble production.
So the scales of upper management weigh: 1) On one side the ops when they're bored want to check facebook, email, and play angry birds online 2) On the other side the plant might be destroyed in an explosion that kills us all and the dictator will kill my family as punishment even though I'm already dead.
Yeah I can see how the local equivalent of mahogany row decided to leave plant equipment accessible. Yeah, totally realistic. Not PR BS at all. Uh huh.
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Body armor designed specifically for gay soldiers.
Extensive historical research (no, I'm not kidding) points out that the army with the most stylish and fashionable uniform almost always loses the war. Just saying. Probably don't want to go there.
I have no personal experience with being in the army, but I'd expect the low percentage of women there get an above-average share of grief if they complain.... I was just taking it for granted that the military had already adjusted to the presence of women, but apparently they're only just starting now....
I was in, well darn near 20 years ago. First of all field wear has always been pretty baggy... its not some kind of fantasy DND skin tight stuff. God only knows that the girls have going on in there. As a guy who likes to check out the ladies don't waste time looking at field wear.
The skin tight PT uniforms for workouts, oh yeah. The mini-skirted formal uniform (although admittedly not as good as old star trek uniforms), yeah. But they're not talking about those.
Whining always results in grief in .mil don't matter who or why.
How will that make defense contractors rich?
See "cold war" and "MAD" on wikipedia.
Not too many 9 MT h-bombs have been detonated in anger, but a hell of a lot of money got made off them.
Also see american chemical weapons, american bio weapons, etc. I love those things... so awful they never got used.
Who ever considered breasts a problem area? Seriously...
edit: captcha spelled "maternal". Hah.
I think they're referring to the maternity wear. Men's tac vests are too loose around the waste on hourglass non-prego women and too tight on the preggos.
LOL in this reality TV show the winners are the ones who escape.
There was a cheesy "human hunting" reality TV show awhile back, where dudes in matrix style men in black suits chased contestants around and tried to catch them, it may be something like that. If you didn't get captured in 30 minutes by the MIB then you "won". It was pretty intensely FOX network style, all arguing and yelling instead of cooperating, probably because if the contestants cooperated like a US infantry squad they'd have easily wasted the MIB. I don't recall the name.
The point of the reminisce is getting caught by guys in suits leads to a SERE like cubical environment?
I would watch just to see poor editing, maybe a contestant pulls out a iphone or an android phone. That would be funny.
And innovation requires well-paid engineers
Why? You sound all optimistic and kool aid drinky which is fine in a mass media group think way, but... why?
I've eaten great food from innovative and creative and hardworking chefs who aren't paid squat.
I've admired innovative and creative artwork from artists who live in comparative poverty. Ditto music. Music and fine art clowns sometimes Demand that poverty is a mandatory ingredient in good product.
Same story with architecture and landscaping/formal gardens.
I can design and implement a microwave RF amplifier transistor bias circuit and I/O matching network that in its own technical way is beautiful and innovative, but in a world where 1/2 the university graduating class is un/under employed, 25% of the population has no job, almost no one's hiring, 1000 applicants per job, there's no reason "why" shaking the "tech" saltshaker over this one example of a innovative job results in just this field being rewarded by being "well-paid".
A tool and die maker used to be the king of the "tech" employment hill in my area. Now instead of calling him the "rich guy" who can get a job at any shop he walks into, you call him the "unemployed guy", except for the small fraction of a percent who still have their job in the field. No particular reason why this generations definition of "tech" or "STEM" is somehow guaranteed a great career based on past results.
Yeah well sorry maybe that was a little harsh phrase selection. I checked wikipedia and the order is as I recall, the opposite of the order of events you recall. We bailed out, came back momentarily, were not exactly negotiating from a position of strength. If we were planning on taking one for the team and ally with Japan, we wouldn't have bailed out to begin with. I'm confused why the US and japan were supposedly allied as you'd think we'd have pushed harder for the Canadians who bailed out, maybe its more Japan allied with us because they would be against the Chinese and Korea (as usual). So japan was at best our 2nd choice but we would probably be their 1st choice in allies. This is all the view from an interested outsider not insider. I would imagine the insiders are not officially talking, a ask /. interview with an anonymous insider would be pretty good reading.
On the other hand as kind of a generational trend, only the europeans do "big science" anymore, so I don't know why there's even a window dressing that anyone other than the french would ever realistically get this project. The swiss are not getting another big physics project this generation (they got cern) and india/korea/china cannot seriously claim to build it, japan is not in the eurozone and only euros do big science, and germany was busy reunifying, so its gotta be built in france, more or less. A political drama played out where everyone knows the inevitable conclusion anyway. Much like US presidential elections where the single "rich guys" party always wins although one of the competitive PR departments lose.
As for implicit threats of backing out of the project, again from memory I think everyone but the french and russians made threats at least once, so I don't know if it means much. In the early stages the russians even stayed in during/around the USSR breakup, they have always been remarkably loyal to the project.
It used be a fun game, but the community is rotten and full antisocial d-bags.
Doesn't seem to be a problem for facebook
I'm thinking they have other problems:
1) The "all that matters is its new and technologically cutting edge" crowd has moved on. The same kind of people that watch formulaic action movies. Adding Monks isn't going to help with this crowd. They need smell-o-vision or 5.1 surround sound or some other new tech. Put it in google glasses so you can walk around while playing. Anything that would appeal to the "shiny and new" crowd.
2) Social / casual gaming is taking away the "I only play because my friends play" crowd... coincidentally, see above, facebook.
That leaves, what, the addicts? They're already addicted so stop wasting money. Its like putting food coloring in heroin as if the addicts would want it more or it'll lure the non addicts in, all a big LOL.
We are almost the definition of a culture in decline.
Almost?
The U.S. contributes 1/11th of the ITER construction costs, and in return American companies get 1/11th of the construction contracts, and U.S. scientists make up 1/11th of the staffing.
So it's quite possible they withdrawn from ITER then go ahead and make their own ITER in the USA.
For an AC that's actually a pretty good idea, you should proudly sign your name to that. Seriously.
The problem with the ITER is there are 535 congress members and "most" of the ITER money as currently budgeted is probably going to come from a small minority of members districts... for example probably more scientists will be hired out of Caltech and MIT than, for example, Wyoming (does WY even have a research university as opposed to a teaching U?). Bringing it in-house like NASA means it'll cost more, but I guarantee all 535 members will end up with some pork to brag about. Perhaps my house rep can get me a pork contract to be a linux sysadmin or something for the domestic effort... That's not going to happen with the ITER plan as is...
(I hate .mil spending diatribe removed)
Lets not make it too complicated here. There's an easy enough solution. Fund ITER out of the navy black ops budget.
Just like happened historically with fission reactors, I guarantee some admiral is going to be waterski-ing behind a reactor powered aircraft carrier, decades before my kitchen oven is powered by reactor generated electricity. Now with fusion instead of fission. Whatever.
I don't think the US Navy wants to be left behind as the only world power navy who doesn't have fusion reactors in the engine room of each ship.
There's a small talent pool of people who can safely run a reactor, not to mention having to keep platoons of marine guards on board, so that's why only carriers and subs get fission reactors, but a "safe" fusion reactor would probably get dropped in anything bigger than a rowboat.
Why do I get the feeling this wouldn't be on the cards if Japan had got ITER, as the US essentially demanded in the first place... Once France got it, US interest took a massive nose dive, with multiple calls for investment in a home grown alternative instead.
I think you're rewriting history a bit as the USA bailed completely out of the project in the 90s until the canadians pouted and quit in the 00s because they didn't get the construction site and we joined sorta in their place, kinda, at about the same time Japan agreed to stop arguing about where to build it if they got extra job slot quotas. So if anything interest picked up when Japan stopped fighting, not reduced. I suppose "interest decreased" in a sort of prime time reality TV drama sense in that it got less dramatic and more boring once Canada stopped pouting and got evicted from the island or whatever mixed metaphor and Japan stopped picking fights with everyone. On the other hand, after the prime time TV drama ended, they actually started working on stuff and there's dirt being dug up and things being built right now...
It won't be the first time we've bailed, it'll probably happen again.
Kazakhstan wants to join (yeah, Kazakhstan, no kidding) ... I suppose as a point of national pride they are a rising country instead of a declining one like the US. They even have a superior medical system. Its embarrassing that replacing us with them will, overall, be an upgrade to the ITER project.
To some extent this is just a larger scale version of what happens every time a school district budget is squeezed. Don't lower mahogany row salaries from $250K to "only" $200K per year because then we wouldn't attract the "leadership" of the best and brightest who are currently running us into the ground, nahh, just threaten to cut something cool and popular like drivers ed or high school football until the taxpayers are beaten into submission and meekly accept higher tax rates.
Next article up, some manager whining about how there's a shortage of scientists because he wants to pay almost nothing and the domestic eggheads think they're worth more than $7.25/hr so we'll have to crank open the H1B floodgates until Physicists can only dare to daydream of having the career opportunities of a mcdonalds fry cook. I'm glad I didn't go into science. Would have loved to, but hate grinding poverty even more and don't want to spend my middle age as a taxi driver like happened to all the rocket scientists I know after Apollo.
Next article after that will be some washed up town patting themselves on the back for rolling out a new STEM program for grade school kids, to handle the massive future shortage of STEM employees. You know, the kind of town where 2000 STEM employees just got the axe because one of the STEM educational initiative corporations just moved their HQ from that heartland town to China, and another 200 person foundry just went bankrupt and a 200 person cement factory just closed (this is my home town... I'm not directly affected but it still sucks)
As long as the rich get richer I guess we're on the right path...
Most slashdotters likely use one or more ad blocking strategies.
The 'best Slashdot ad' would likely not be an ad at all but a revenue model without ads that actually works (difficult to say the least).
/. poll? "Shopping list under $100 :" and list 9 items complete with amazon referral bonus code links and, of course, "cowboy neal" option? I would be moderately interested to see which item wins the poll assuming they're somehow related. The key is the poll comments would drive what I actually buy... if anything.
The wisdom of /. has never steered me wrong on non-commodity technical purchases and most service purchases... ever. Not a failure in over a decade. /. for advice on commodities like phone service (which depends solely on your local tower, which is idiotic to discuss on a worldwide website) or anecdotes about "a" car somehow applying to all cars ever made with that model badge, ditto hard drives...
On the bad side, ask
The iPad is still killing the tablet market, over two years after release.
One of the business analysts I was reading blamed the decline on the tablet market, apparently Apple is about to lose its majority position in the tablet market and margins on tablets have been declining. So... Smaller market share times fewer sold times less profit each equals big market decline. At least thats one interpretation.
At this rate, I would do better to just sit at home, Google up all my symptoms and treat myself.
Your description is pretty much how my wifes allergies and sons digestive problems and my weight issues were treated. For some issues, its fundamentally the only way to do it, but people keep insisting on taking up space at a dr office.
Since I am using that one password anyway, it would be better to have only one point of failure.
We're rapidly moving toward only one financial corporation or at most a handful anyway. Just like the big 3 automakers we'll have 3 banks. That way they can collude to screw the customers while claiming we have free choice. I had credit cards at a couple places but now I have multiple citibank accounts, which is weird. Also my old car loan servicer now owns my local bank so they own my checking and car loan info.
If they know that a group of interest meets at 8pm on the 1st, 17th and 23rd of each month, and you buy a Latte from the Starbucks next door to the meeting place only on those days at 7:45pm, then you become a person of interest.
Technically its the first Friday of the month 5 to 8 local time. But whatever.
http://www.2600.com/meetings/
Not many comments on this story because its awesome. Or maybe I'm a faster reader than the rest of you. More /. interviews like this, please!
The only successful targeted internet ad company that I know of is Amazon.
I've bought hundreds (thousands?) of dollars of stuff based on recommended items. I forget exactly how they phrase it but its something like "people who bought your Charlie Stross book "Rule 34" also bought the following books" and they list Accelerando and The Apocalypse Codex and so on. Ditto about a zillion other authors and non-book products.
I've never intentionally clicked on or purchased anything from any other targeted ad, and have been using ad blockers since weeks after that tech was invented.
The scary part is thinking about what really finely focused /. ads would push on us /.ers. Hmm. Instant Hot Grits, Debian install disks, buy this package at a discount: one cup now with pix of two girls, lots of rick astley / rickroll music...
Do we know there won't be any adapters available?
If apple sells a cable that has "weird new thing" on one end and plain ole PC USB on the other end (for charging, itunes sync, whatever) then there already exist adapters to go from usb-micro cable aka male to desktop USB female.
People forget the apple connector has at least composite video, maybe more on that little plug. I would not be surprised if the new plug has full HDMI and at least some weird digital SPDIF if not much more.
Now maybe one of those thousands of companies will realize the the smart move would be a USB plug for charging combined with a bluetooth system for transmitting the music. I can't seem to find anything good for my Android phone.
You've just described the thing in my car. As for "good", well define good. It does work... If you go to amazon.com and search for "Wagan 5 Amp AC to 12V DC Power Adapter" you'll see an $18 way to run my car's adapter thingy indoors. The absolute cheapest similar device is $12 made by Bestek. I can personally endorse the thingy in my car WRT to charging ability and sound quality being "good enough", but at home I have an elaborate 12 volt ham radio related distribution system, so I have no personal experience with $18 or $12 supplies.
Personally I like your idea but would much rather prefer a wireless charger solution. So drop the phone on the mat and it charges and the speakers also connect. This would also be nice in the car instead of having to plug in.
That would mean the new phone would not connect with the myriad of accessories playing a part in the current ecosystem of iPods, iPads and iPhones, at least without an adapter. On the upside ...
... on the upside the large number of people who switched from apple i-products to android in the recent past (I had a touch and a nano before I got an android phone) had no problem abandoning the current i- ecosystem, so the i- fanboys will probably successfully make the same transition.
Hey government, so it's illegal when I share Thunderstruck with my friends, but it's OK for you to spend my tax dollars giving it away to douchebag weapons scientists who don't even like AC/DC? Whatever!
There's a pretty good analogy with automatic weapons in that I'm not allowed to "permanent loan" a buddy something shiny and fun without the tax stamp and going thru a FFL dealer, but foreign aid regularly delivers weapons to foreigners for free, even if the locals don't like the dictators thugs to be better armed. Its not all that unusual of a situation.
More likely some poor bastard on the night shift was intentionally and willfully listening to evil mp3s he downloaded from the great satan over livewire, and when he got caught doing air guitar instead of whatever the hell a centrifuge operator does in his spare time, rather than taking the fall for it, commited yet another sin by blaming the CIA.
The disinfo part is I've worked in industrial plants on networks, and later for decades in companies with airgapped production and IT networks, and the first thing you do after the first infection is airgap IT and everything else you can away from production, then you disassemble production.
So the scales of upper management weigh:
1) On one side the ops when they're bored want to check facebook, email, and play angry birds online
2) On the other side the plant might be destroyed in an explosion that kills us all and the dictator will kill my family as punishment even though I'm already dead.
Yeah I can see how the local equivalent of mahogany row decided to leave plant equipment accessible. Yeah, totally realistic. Not PR BS at all. Uh huh.