So I put on my data breeches and my wizard hat and...
Wyndham: Do these data breeches make my butt look fat? FTC: Um... later honey I have some paperwork to file.
Or maybe this the start of a new advertising campaign by wyndham "Ladies... don't like how data breeches make your butt look fat down at the poolside? Well come to Wyndham instead and relax in our spa, now featuring homeopathic computer security"
Conversation overheard at the defcon bar: "So I was social engineering the hotel firewall chick, and I charmed her outta her data breeches. At that point, I'm thinking third base for sure then I discovered it was a trap so I got the FTC to go after she/he for false advertising"
So... I heard the Wyndham has same day dry cleaning service as a perk, but if you send out your data breeches, rather than getting them back same day, everyone in.ru gets a copy of them.
That's all the time I got for/. standup comedy right now, thank you and I'll be here all night.
That's a conspicuous consumption situation. "Hey girls, look at me, I've got the pull to drive a fully restored 54 stude" or whatever. There's probably some political statement about driving cars made by the great satan to the north rather than just importing eurasian cars.
We could do that with frankensats. Hey we don't have a heavy lifter anymore and have to go begging to the euros and russkies but F you guys we'll spend ten times as much just to prove we don't need you. Or hey you foreigners, you suck, look at how we stole ur old sats and turned the scraps into a giant flying star spangled banner satellite just to make you feel bad ha ha. It would be dumb and uneconomical, but we could do it.
Those were customers, receivers of a at least sorta customized product or service. Also, in general, corporations not lowly humans. Consumers are a much more lowly social class. Like the difference between a diner eating while seated at a gourmet restaurant, vs the maggots in the dumpster eating the leftovers the diners didn't want. Its a social class thing.
If you think it is, you are an idiot that has no clue what the term entrapment means.
How the heck do you get a +3 insightful without bothering to explain why or even a cut and paste of the def?
I am not a lawyer blah blah. Some/.ers are, and will probably make fun of my definition, or even call me an idiot. Thats OK, that stuff makes me laugh. But the one line summary is: entrapment requires persuasive leadership by.gov not merely an announcement that ".gov is open for business!". The standard/. car analogy is walking onto the lot of your own free will with your own idea of buying a car is not like entrapment via the salesman. On the other hand, your boss at work, tracks you down at home, is the first to suggest the idea of buying a car from him, argues with you for hours until you finally give in and agree to buy a car even though you don't really want to and never wanted to, that is what entrapment is like. Maybe another way to put it, is if Mr.gov was not working for.gov, his behavior would be described as leadership/blackmail/intimidation/salesmanship, but if a law enforcement officer does it, its called entrapment.
I have a strange idea. What if its not Frankenstein like but more "siamese twin" like?
So the batteries fail on this sat and the charger on another sat, duct tape them together, run an extension cord... Yes I realize its not always going to be simple and there are no world wide standards. But its interesting to think about "siamese twin" sat work instead of the provided assumption/example of Frankenstein work.
Imagine a comsat with nearly full positioning fuel tanks and good thrusters and dead traveling wave tubes in the transmitter section or the antenna failed on deployment or whatever, duct taped to a perfectly working comsat with nearly empty positioning tanks...You may not even have to do wiring, some weird scenarios might require nothing other than two arms and a roll of duct tape, or aerospace grade kapton tape or whatever they use. I imagine just mushing them together might have some interesting thermal issues, those could be worked around, probably.
To do ANYTHING yes you'd need a full orbiting machine shop, and a full SMD rework station, and probably a solar powered foundry to make castings. But as decades (centuries?) of high tech redneck engineering proves, you can none the less do a hell of a lot with just duct tape, jb weld, and bailing wire. You can imagine this looking all liquid metal terminator 3 or whatever, but I'm thinking its gonna look a lot more "hold my beer and watch this"
It seems fairly obvious to me - Satellites become useless if just a few key parts fail, leaving the rest of the equipment in perfect working order.
The problem is if you gathered 200 old satellites you'd probably have 190 marginal to outright dead batteries, 200 mostly empty maneuvering/positioning fuel tanks, and 200 radiation damaged solar panel arrays.
You pretty much get to keep the perhaps decades obsolete electronics and the chassis, and those don't weigh much. So if you have to launch 80% of the mass of a new satellite to get a remanufactured old satellite, you're better off launching 100% of the mass for a completely new satellite that was integrated and checked out on the ground.
You can also imagine the agony if after rebuilding a week later the 25 year old battery charger fried wasting all the work.
There's a reason why old cars are scrapped instead of merely replacing the rusty chassis, worn engine, worn transmission, worn tires, worn suspension, rusted dinged body panels, worn carpet, ancient/obsolete cassette player radio... If the only thing you're keeping is the comfy drivers seat, just remove it and place it in a new car, if you must, because it makes no financial sense to replace "everything else" on the old car.
Engine blocks (old fashioned internal combustion, you know), panels, instruments, landing gear, steel hydraulics (if a plane that old had hydraulic brakes), steel brake calipers (aluminum brakes would be an epic fail, see difference in melting points and more importantly high temp strength), steel control cables, steel pulleys. I would have to think for a bit if they had advanced from wood propellers to steel propellers yet. There's a lot of steel, even in modern airplanes
If you want to get picky I know some old MIGs were made entirely of steel; admittedly for aerodynamic heating reasons, plus probably manufacturing logistics. Germans made some steel planes too.
Also aluminum corrodes pretty well. Maybe not quite as fast as steel. Different chemistry too. But not enough difference to matter much.
No, it streams just fine. That's what I use, in fact its all I've ever used. Disk space is cheap and my old PVR1600 or whatever it is outputs it natively and gig-ethernet is way fast enough and pretty much any VDPAU nvidia powered mythtv frontend can handle it quite easily.
And the Apple TV are too underpowered to decode it properly.
Ahh that is the problem with uncompressed mpeg2.
Everything I've heard about he appletv is that its tragically about a 99% solution as a frontend, almost enough power but not quite enough to actually work. Maybe by design.
They're actually supposed to be able to write and communicate.
Technically the only reason they're there is to pass standardized tests. Some of which DO have an essay portion. But, mostly, a touch screen for multiple choice options A thru E is probably sufficient. writing and communicating is bad, they might feel empowered which is not good training for proles, or they might criticize the educational complex which must be stamped out at all costs.
I have never figured out why anyone would want this. Maybe I'm just a newbie, because I didn't start using X until fairly late in the 80s. Maybe if I had been using it from the very beginning, focus-follows-mouse would make more sense.
Imagine playing a FPS video game where every time you move the mouse, nothing happens until AFTER you click the mouse. Aggravating?
I like focus follows mouse with autorise around 200 ms, long enough that nothing "accidental" happens short enough that my impatience is not triggered.
I switched to Awesome when I realised that most of what I always disliked about desktop interfaces was part of the desktop methaphor.
desktop metaphor people think Amazon.com would be "way better" if you had to walk around a 3-d VRML store to find anything and the check out process involved waiting 5 minutes in line for a teenager to hand you the wrong change because online shopping should be a metaphor for meatspace shopping. Abstraction is not evil. Metaphors, like diapers, need to occasionally be changed. Bye bye desktop metaphor, won't miss you much.
Another excellent way to shoot yourself in your foot with a distro is to install some stuff outside the distro by hand. Especially major components and libraries. A disaster waiting to happen for old well disciplined hands, hopeless for noobs.
And how many of you Linux guys just chuck the UI and go for the command line because it's actually easier?
A keyboard is an immensely higher bandwidth user interface. 10 fingers, 104 keys on a IBM type M, at 100 wpm vs a mouse with "a" button on a mac or maybe two on a PC and maybe a scroll wheel is no contest. Computers are supposed to be FOR people who have no patience, not a challenge for impatient people.
Also I can't understand GUIs. Too hard to use. Something to do with eye focus. I can read and write text about 2 to 4 times faster than the fastest speaker, but I can't figure out icons, like little standardized test puzzles. Click on the mating centipedes to configure. No wait the Fing centipedes means paste. Where's my gmail, ah a red letter M how.. incredibly unobvious. Ah click on the folder on the desktop to open outlook, no wait thats a directory, click on the yellow folder, no the other yellow folder, no the yellow folder with a round thing on it to open outlook. I don't know what that's even supposed to symbolize. Why do I have to solve symbolic graphic arts puzzles to imperiously give commands? Julius Caesar never held up cryptograms to invade Gaul, although I'm sure there's some fool UI designer working on it now for.mil. Google chome icon thats a saw blade on lsd, right? So not obvious. Why can't I just type "chrome" to run chrome or "configure" to configure stuff or "outlook" to run outlook or something simple like that? I want to stop so I click the start button, just like when I want my car to slow down I press the accelerator, right? F GUIs. CLI forever. Just too freaking easy to learn and use.
That's the mistake. There is no one master desktop. Its like convincing a bunch of book authors instead of writing a bunch of pulp, they should all cooperate to write the one great american novel.
10000 religions all claiming the other 9999 are wrong? Eh, they should give it up and all cooperate on the one master religion. (with our luck, unrestrained crony capitalism?)
No more hunting through menus looking for files or software functions. One hot key, followed by a few letters in the name, and up it pops.
There's this crazy thing on my Debian box that works the same way, but its even faster and marginally cooler. The UI is a little different though, you type a couple letters THEN hit the "hot key" which happens to be the tab key and then the enter key if the tab guessed right (kind of like Siri, sometimes it gets it wrong). So its like oct-TAB-ENTER and in instants you're running octave. I believe they call this desktop environment "bash" although theres 80 million clones like csh tcsh dash and even this weird operating system called "emacs" or maybe it was "vi" I don't remember.
Speaking of octave, it has a fascinating user interface too, where you use that row of digits on that old fashioned keyboard thingy to enter numbers, instead of clicking colorized, styled, fonted, widgeted "buttons" on the screen.
Its an interesting change of pace, but I do warn that this "CLI" user interface thing is way too new and experimental for all but the newest, most 'leet, early adopter hipsters, like if you only own a iphone 3gs instead of a 4, don't bother with this trendy new fangled CLI fad.
Car rental joints still use ye olde dotte matrixe. At least Enterprise as of about 6 months ago. Supposedly a really high speed dot matrix with carbon paper is still, even in 2012, faster than than printing 6 copies or whatever on a modern laser. Also you only have to sign once instead of all six copies, or doing the signature capture hardware, etc.
My productivity has never been higher using "awesome" at home and work http://awesome.naquadah.org/ Installation was quite painless, apt-get install awesome and its all done, pretty much. It is... awesome
Oh wait, were they talking about those gigantic slow clunky things that include a kitchen sink and everything? Yeah, those can just go away... please.
I kind of liked xfce4 also but thats getting a bit too desktoppy. Too much extra junk I'll never use. I want my apps not the desktop environment's selection.
Respectfully, it does not. The sale of organs is illegal.
That inconsistency is the problem. I would argue the highest goal/rule is profit under the current system (regardless of right or wrong, it is what it is). Stuff like making organ selling illegal is simply wrong and goes against the grain of the overall system. Under a socialized or corporatized or fascistic system, it would be consistent to make it illegal.
At best, you'll get treating with disrespect, dismisive attitude, rudeness, made to wait entire days in line, etc
Its part of the acclimation process... civil servants treat native born pretty much the same way here. Wait until your first run in with a police officer or TSA agent. Talk about delusions of grandeur!
Which is exactly what you appear to be against - only now it would be open and above board.
Honest and less corrupt. Rather than paying off a doc and/or administrators, you'd be paying off the donor's family. Honest in that instead of ridiculous claims of treating everyone equally, they'd honestly explain its ranked by $ which is how its always been done anyway and probably always will be done.
The problem with this scheme is I see is much like life insurance related murders, you'd now have organ donation murders. Or "I hate my kids so I'll drink heavily to make sure they make no money off my liver".
One argument against changing it is we seem to be on the cusp of being able to grow our own as needed, so if we waste time and money implementing it, later generations might look back on it like we'd look back on medical leech farm legislation, WTF were they thinking, etc.
Legal, perhaps, but morally bankrupt. Jobs was a bad man.
It boils down to a question of is medicine a for profit industry or not. A major political question only in the USA. Regardless of what it "should" be, for profit or socialized, medicine clearly currently is a for-profit industry, here, at this time, so what he did obviously perfectly fits our moral code and obviously did not make him a bad man. He may have been immoral or bad in general or for other reasons, but merely participating in our healthcare system is not going to have an effect on his moral standing.
I can see how someone from a different, perhaps more advanced culture, with a fully socialized medical system might think our system is wrong. Personally I'd agree. But its pointless to single out one famous guy from that inferior culture and demonize him as "the" problem.
Its very much like "George Washington owned slaves therefore he was evil" type of meaningless drivel.
If its in anaerobic mud or water there will be steel. If in aerobic aerated water there will be little more than rust. Also the effect of galvanic corrosion in general is well known, but in this specific example its not too clear exactly what will be down there.
Anecdote time is I've removed stuff like anchors and gas tanks from freshwater lakes (this is actually pretty exciting salvage ops for a teenager) and its unpredictable how much above vs below the mudline corrosion will be found. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out how anchors end up on the bottom of a lake, often with a short broken length of chain, but I could never figure out why I found gas cans down there. Those things are not cheap so its not simple littering. They just fall off occasionally and sink, or whats the deal with that, maybe junkyards won't accept them so they get sunk? I believe I found one propeller. Oh and I found sailboat rope cleats too, lots of them, apparently they rip right out of the hull. I never salvaged anything really interesting, unfortunately. As a hobby its very much like being a poor fisherman in that it takes a lot of time on the lake to find anything at all.
Before anyone gets all excited about WWII sunken battleship anecdotes from roughly the same era, corrosion is sorta linear not a percentage, so 6 inch thick battleship armor that has had a 1/16th of an inch corroded away looks untouched from far away, but something like 20 gauge sheet steel might look a bit different after the same 1/16th of an inch of corrosion.
E-mail addresses are surprisingly long-lasting. There are still many vans on German roads
The local US equivalent of your German story is people still paying for AOL to keep their aol screenname / aol email address because they really like it, or its all over their stationary so it would be expensive to change, etc. I would guess your t-online.de is vaguely equivalent in concept to AOL?
Our local political parties pay people to sloganeer in the comments of the local online newspaper. This sloganeering ruins the experience for everyone else. Since they apparently have stacks of cash to pay college students to astroturf, they should share the love and charge astroturfers a fair and reasonable advertising rate. So end anonymity, force commenters to post while linked to a facebook profile, and start charging on a sliding scale. Other than the charging, thats Exactly what my local dying newspaper is slowly moving toward doing online.
Not just politics but anything real estate related has astroturfers spamming the comments section, etc. Especially restaurant reviews, where if they charged astroturfers, it would be a license to print money.
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So I put on my data breeches and my wizard hat and ...
Wyndham: Do these data breeches make my butt look fat?
FTC: Um... later honey I have some paperwork to file.
Or maybe this the start of a new advertising campaign by wyndham
"Ladies... don't like how data breeches make your butt look fat down at the poolside? Well come to Wyndham instead and relax in our spa, now featuring homeopathic computer security"
Conversation overheard at the defcon bar: "So I was social engineering the hotel firewall chick, and I charmed her outta her data breeches. At that point, I'm thinking third base for sure then I discovered it was a trap so I got the FTC to go after she/he for false advertising"
So... I heard the Wyndham has same day dry cleaning service as a perk, but if you send out your data breeches, rather than getting them back same day, everyone in .ru gets a copy of them.
That's all the time I got for /. standup comedy right now, thank you and I'll be here all night.
That's a conspicuous consumption situation. "Hey girls, look at me, I've got the pull to drive a fully restored 54 stude" or whatever. There's probably some political statement about driving cars made by the great satan to the north rather than just importing eurasian cars.
We could do that with frankensats. Hey we don't have a heavy lifter anymore and have to go begging to the euros and russkies but F you guys we'll spend ten times as much just to prove we don't need you. Or hey you foreigners, you suck, look at how we stole ur old sats and turned the scraps into a giant flying star spangled banner satellite just to make you feel bad ha ha. It would be dumb and uneconomical, but we could do it.
Those were customers, receivers of a at least sorta customized product or service. Also, in general, corporations not lowly humans. Consumers are a much more lowly social class. Like the difference between a diner eating while seated at a gourmet restaurant, vs the maggots in the dumpster eating the leftovers the diners didn't want. Its a social class thing.
If you think it is, you are an idiot that has no clue what the term entrapment means.
How the heck do you get a +3 insightful without bothering to explain why or even a cut and paste of the def?
I am not a lawyer blah blah. Some /.ers are, and will probably make fun of my definition, or even call me an idiot. Thats OK, that stuff makes me laugh. But the one line summary is: entrapment requires persuasive leadership by .gov not merely an announcement that ".gov is open for business!". The standard /. car analogy is walking onto the lot of your own free will with your own idea of buying a car is not like entrapment via the salesman. On the other hand, your boss at work, tracks you down at home, is the first to suggest the idea of buying a car from him, argues with you for hours until you finally give in and agree to buy a car even though you don't really want to and never wanted to, that is what entrapment is like. Maybe another way to put it, is if Mr .gov was not working for .gov, his behavior would be described as leadership/blackmail/intimidation/salesmanship, but if a law enforcement officer does it, its called entrapment.
Dr Frankensat
I have a strange idea. What if its not Frankenstein like but more "siamese twin" like?
So the batteries fail on this sat and the charger on another sat, duct tape them together, run an extension cord... Yes I realize its not always going to be simple and there are no world wide standards. But its interesting to think about "siamese twin" sat work instead of the provided assumption/example of Frankenstein work.
Imagine a comsat with nearly full positioning fuel tanks and good thrusters and dead traveling wave tubes in the transmitter section or the antenna failed on deployment or whatever, duct taped to a perfectly working comsat with nearly empty positioning tanks...You may not even have to do wiring, some weird scenarios might require nothing other than two arms and a roll of duct tape, or aerospace grade kapton tape or whatever they use. I imagine just mushing them together might have some interesting thermal issues, those could be worked around, probably.
To do ANYTHING yes you'd need a full orbiting machine shop, and a full SMD rework station, and probably a solar powered foundry to make castings. But as decades (centuries?) of high tech redneck engineering proves, you can none the less do a hell of a lot with just duct tape, jb weld, and bailing wire. You can imagine this looking all liquid metal terminator 3 or whatever, but I'm thinking its gonna look a lot more "hold my beer and watch this"
It seems fairly obvious to me - Satellites become useless if just a few key parts fail, leaving the rest of the equipment in perfect working order.
The problem is if you gathered 200 old satellites you'd probably have 190 marginal to outright dead batteries, 200 mostly empty maneuvering/positioning fuel tanks, and 200 radiation damaged solar panel arrays.
You pretty much get to keep the perhaps decades obsolete electronics and the chassis, and those don't weigh much. So if you have to launch 80% of the mass of a new satellite to get a remanufactured old satellite, you're better off launching 100% of the mass for a completely new satellite that was integrated and checked out on the ground.
You can also imagine the agony if after rebuilding a week later the 25 year old battery charger fried wasting all the work.
There's a reason why old cars are scrapped instead of merely replacing the rusty chassis, worn engine, worn transmission, worn tires, worn suspension, rusted dinged body panels, worn carpet, ancient/obsolete cassette player radio... If the only thing you're keeping is the comfy drivers seat, just remove it and place it in a new car, if you must, because it makes no financial sense to replace "everything else" on the old car.
Engine blocks (old fashioned internal combustion, you know), panels, instruments, landing gear, steel hydraulics (if a plane that old had hydraulic brakes), steel brake calipers (aluminum brakes would be an epic fail, see difference in melting points and more importantly high temp strength), steel control cables, steel pulleys. I would have to think for a bit if they had advanced from wood propellers to steel propellers yet. There's a lot of steel, even in modern airplanes
If you want to get picky I know some old MIGs were made entirely of steel; admittedly for aerodynamic heating reasons, plus probably manufacturing logistics. Germans made some steel planes too.
Also aluminum corrodes pretty well. Maybe not quite as fast as steel. Different chemistry too. But not enough difference to matter much.
uncompressed mpeg2 is too much to stream.
No, it streams just fine. That's what I use, in fact its all I've ever used. Disk space is cheap and my old PVR1600 or whatever it is outputs it natively and gig-ethernet is way fast enough and pretty much any VDPAU nvidia powered mythtv frontend can handle it quite easily.
And the Apple TV are too underpowered to decode it properly.
Ahh that is the problem with uncompressed mpeg2.
Everything I've heard about he appletv is that its tragically about a 99% solution as a frontend, almost enough power but not quite enough to actually work. Maybe by design.
They're actually supposed to be able to write and communicate.
Technically the only reason they're there is to pass standardized tests. Some of which DO have an essay portion.
But, mostly, a touch screen for multiple choice options A thru E is probably sufficient.
writing and communicating is bad, they might feel empowered which is not good training for proles, or they might criticize the educational complex which must be stamped out at all costs.
I have never figured out why anyone would want this. Maybe I'm just a newbie, because I didn't start using X until fairly late in the 80s. Maybe if I had been using it from the very beginning, focus-follows-mouse would make more sense.
Imagine playing a FPS video game where every time you move the mouse, nothing happens until AFTER you click the mouse. Aggravating?
I like focus follows mouse with autorise around 200 ms, long enough that nothing "accidental" happens short enough that my impatience is not triggered.
I switched to Awesome when I realised that most of what I always disliked about desktop interfaces was part of the desktop methaphor.
desktop metaphor people think Amazon.com would be "way better" if you had to walk around a 3-d VRML store to find anything and the check out process involved waiting 5 minutes in line for a teenager to hand you the wrong change because online shopping should be a metaphor for meatspace shopping. Abstraction is not evil. Metaphors, like diapers, need to occasionally be changed. Bye bye desktop metaphor, won't miss you much.
Another excellent way to shoot yourself in your foot with a distro is to install some stuff outside the distro by hand. Especially major components and libraries. A disaster waiting to happen for old well disciplined hands, hopeless for noobs.
And how many of you Linux guys just chuck the UI and go for the command line because it's actually easier?
A keyboard is an immensely higher bandwidth user interface.
10 fingers, 104 keys on a IBM type M, at 100 wpm vs a mouse with "a" button on a mac or maybe two on a PC and maybe a scroll wheel is no contest.
Computers are supposed to be FOR people who have no patience, not a challenge for impatient people.
Also I can't understand GUIs. Too hard to use. Something to do with eye focus. I can read and write text about 2 to 4 times faster than the fastest speaker, but I can't figure out icons, like little standardized test puzzles. Click on the mating centipedes to configure. No wait the Fing centipedes means paste. Where's my gmail, ah a red letter M how .. incredibly unobvious. Ah click on the folder on the desktop to open outlook, no wait thats a directory, click on the yellow folder, no the other yellow folder, no the yellow folder with a round thing on it to open outlook. I don't know what that's even supposed to symbolize. Why do I have to solve symbolic graphic arts puzzles to imperiously give commands? Julius Caesar never held up cryptograms to invade Gaul, although I'm sure there's some fool UI designer working on it now for .mil. Google chome icon thats a saw blade on lsd, right? So not obvious. Why can't I just type "chrome" to run chrome or "configure" to configure stuff or "outlook" to run outlook or something simple like that? I want to stop so I click the start button, just like when I want my car to slow down I press the accelerator, right? F GUIs. CLI forever. Just too freaking easy to learn and use.
create one new master desktop
That's the mistake. There is no one master desktop. Its like convincing a bunch of book authors instead of writing a bunch of pulp, they should all cooperate to write the one great american novel.
10000 religions all claiming the other 9999 are wrong? Eh, they should give it up and all cooperate on the one master religion. (with our luck, unrestrained crony capitalism?)
No more hunting through menus looking for files or software functions. One hot key, followed by a few letters in the name, and up it pops.
There's this crazy thing on my Debian box that works the same way, but its even faster and marginally cooler. The UI is a little different though, you type a couple letters THEN hit the "hot key" which happens to be the tab key and then the enter key if the tab guessed right (kind of like Siri, sometimes it gets it wrong). So its like oct-TAB-ENTER and in instants you're running octave. I believe they call this desktop environment "bash" although theres 80 million clones like csh tcsh dash and even this weird operating system called "emacs" or maybe it was "vi" I don't remember.
Speaking of octave, it has a fascinating user interface too, where you use that row of digits on that old fashioned keyboard thingy to enter numbers, instead of clicking colorized, styled, fonted, widgeted "buttons" on the screen.
Its an interesting change of pace, but I do warn that this "CLI" user interface thing is way too new and experimental for all but the newest, most 'leet, early adopter hipsters, like if you only own a iphone 3gs instead of a 4, don't bother with this trendy new fangled CLI fad.
Car rental joints still use ye olde dotte matrixe. At least Enterprise as of about 6 months ago. Supposedly a really high speed dot matrix with carbon paper is still, even in 2012, faster than than printing 6 copies or whatever on a modern laser. Also you only have to sign once instead of all six copies, or doing the signature capture hardware, etc.
My productivity has never been higher using "awesome" at home and work
http://awesome.naquadah.org/
Installation was quite painless, apt-get install awesome and its all done, pretty much. It is... awesome
Oh wait, were they talking about those gigantic slow clunky things that include a kitchen sink and everything? Yeah, those can just go away... please.
I kind of liked xfce4 also but thats getting a bit too desktoppy. Too much extra junk I'll never use. I want my apps not the desktop environment's selection.
Respectfully, it does not. The sale of organs is illegal.
That inconsistency is the problem. I would argue the highest goal/rule is profit under the current system (regardless of right or wrong, it is what it is). Stuff like making organ selling illegal is simply wrong and goes against the grain of the overall system. Under a socialized or corporatized or fascistic system, it would be consistent to make it illegal.
At best, you'll get treating with disrespect, dismisive attitude, rudeness, made to wait entire days in line, etc
Its part of the acclimation process... civil servants treat native born pretty much the same way here.
Wait until your first run in with a police officer or TSA agent. Talk about delusions of grandeur!
Which is exactly what you appear to be against - only now it would be open and above board.
Honest and less corrupt. Rather than paying off a doc and/or administrators, you'd be paying off the donor's family. Honest in that instead of ridiculous claims of treating everyone equally, they'd honestly explain its ranked by $ which is how its always been done anyway and probably always will be done.
The problem with this scheme is I see is much like life insurance related murders, you'd now have organ donation murders. Or "I hate my kids so I'll drink heavily to make sure they make no money off my liver".
One argument against changing it is we seem to be on the cusp of being able to grow our own as needed, so if we waste time and money implementing it, later generations might look back on it like we'd look back on medical leech farm legislation, WTF were they thinking, etc.
Legal, perhaps, but morally bankrupt. Jobs was a bad man.
It boils down to a question of is medicine a for profit industry or not. A major political question only in the USA. Regardless of what it "should" be, for profit or socialized, medicine clearly currently is a for-profit industry, here, at this time, so what he did obviously perfectly fits our moral code and obviously did not make him a bad man. He may have been immoral or bad in general or for other reasons, but merely participating in our healthcare system is not going to have an effect on his moral standing.
I can see how someone from a different, perhaps more advanced culture, with a fully socialized medical system might think our system is wrong. Personally I'd agree. But its pointless to single out one famous guy from that inferior culture and demonize him as "the" problem.
Its very much like "George Washington owned slaves therefore he was evil" type of meaningless drivel.
If its in anaerobic mud or water there will be steel. If in aerobic aerated water there will be little more than rust. Also the effect of galvanic corrosion in general is well known, but in this specific example its not too clear exactly what will be down there.
Anecdote time is I've removed stuff like anchors and gas tanks from freshwater lakes (this is actually pretty exciting salvage ops for a teenager) and its unpredictable how much above vs below the mudline corrosion will be found. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out how anchors end up on the bottom of a lake, often with a short broken length of chain, but I could never figure out why I found gas cans down there. Those things are not cheap so its not simple littering. They just fall off occasionally and sink, or whats the deal with that, maybe junkyards won't accept them so they get sunk? I believe I found one propeller. Oh and I found sailboat rope cleats too, lots of them, apparently they rip right out of the hull. I never salvaged anything really interesting, unfortunately. As a hobby its very much like being a poor fisherman in that it takes a lot of time on the lake to find anything at all.
Before anyone gets all excited about WWII sunken battleship anecdotes from roughly the same era, corrosion is sorta linear not a percentage, so 6 inch thick battleship armor that has had a 1/16th of an inch corroded away looks untouched from far away, but something like 20 gauge sheet steel might look a bit different after the same 1/16th of an inch of corrosion.
slashdot should have email aliases.
I imagine anonymous.coward@slashdot.org would be a pretty popular registration at paywalls. Maybe it already is.
E-mail addresses are surprisingly long-lasting. There are still many vans on German roads
The local US equivalent of your German story is people still paying for AOL to keep their aol screenname / aol email address because they really like it, or its all over their stationary so it would be expensive to change, etc. I would guess your t-online.de is vaguely equivalent in concept to AOL?
Our local political parties pay people to sloganeer in the comments of the local online newspaper. This sloganeering ruins the experience for everyone else. Since they apparently have stacks of cash to pay college students to astroturf, they should share the love and charge astroturfers a fair and reasonable advertising rate. So end anonymity, force commenters to post while linked to a facebook profile, and start charging on a sliding scale. Other than the charging, thats Exactly what my local dying newspaper is slowly moving toward doing online.
Not just politics but anything real estate related has astroturfers spamming the comments section, etc. Especially restaurant reviews, where if they charged astroturfers, it would be a license to print money.