> Facebook's chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company after internal disagreements over how the social network should deal with its role in spreading disinformation.
Let's hope that Facebook can weather the storm of seeming growth-spurt induced moral troubles; Russian meddling, data mining, etc.
The moral compass like a magnetic compass has to be checked for angular deviation, due to the near presence of great attractors nearby.
Similarly, the lines of the Earth's magnetism are misalligned with true north; an underlying social/societal moral misallignment may have a similar effect on an organisation.
Have a read of the story, that is WRONG AS WRITTEN.
> While the Meteor-M launched last month from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East, it was reportedly programmed with take-off coordinates for the Baikonur cosmodrome, which is located in southern Kazakhstan.
No, no, no... NO! The word "it" refers to the Meteor-M satellite. The satellite was NOT programmed incorrectly; it was the launcher that was mis-programmed, as the following sentence clarifies.
> "The rocket was really programmed as if it was taking off from Baikonur,"....
I agree. I've been seeing young-up-and-comers near me totally deferring to the older-and-cunning people (and maybe I am one) because there is corporate knowledge and "executive function" being exercised.
I have attended three long-form talks by Dr Neil Gordon, and some others involved. He is always the most compelling speaker. I have followed up in one-on-one discussions, at least twice.
This effort has been a hugely consuming effort for most, and there is an 'answer' to where MH370 is: It is MOST likely to be in the next-most-probable statistical area, currently to the north-east of the last-most-likely area.
Read the 'Full' report and get the picture. https://www.atsb.gov.au/public...
I organised the 10 year party in Canberra, Australia, at the "Uni Pub". I organised a plasticised "attendance card" for those who came. I still carry my card in my wallet. So, I can be called a "card-carrying Slashdoter".
I put white bread in my toaster and it does not like that; the toaster makes the bread come out a darker colour. I can even put wholemeal bread in, and that is not dark enough for the toaster. Even when I put some of the bread back in the toaster after it has done its thing, it comes out even darker still. My toaster is definitely racist.
THIS IS A RACIALLY OFFENSIVE THREAD. DELETE!
This thread is being racially offensive to Australian Aboriginals ("abos" / "abbos" / "abo").
For Americans, think what "nigger" means in your culture.
For Asians and people from the UK, think what "Pakki" means.
For others, you probably have something equally offensive that makes you cringe, even if you use the term.
Slashdot SHOULD remove this thread.
Please (as a white Australian)
This **is** a highly politicised post. And, I will make **no** comment on the 'political' outcome of, or machinations behind, this legislation.
It takes only a few seconds to see that the prism / microscope / binoculars / rose-tinted-glasses through which this story has been passed is distorting the image spectacularly into a politically charged version of what ever is the truth.
For someone from Australia, as I am, it takes about 1/10 that time, at most.
The authors have used no restraint in being 'political' in their framing of the post.
The SlashDot editors have used scant / little judgement in editing the two contributors' stories into one biased story. "Shame, shame, shame!"
SpaceX had to scrub its launch today. The launch was 'racing' to beat a weather system moving through the area ('attached anvil cloud') and had to scrub the launch with just 3min to launch. There will be another try, tomorrow. http://www.spacex.com/
Do some selfies at places she will know in years to come: city and local landmarks, places and things that interest you, not just the local playground where you and she have been.
Digital pics have a date/time stamp, but any printed pics in a book should have a date written on the back and under.
You will be thought about regularly, but make sure that it is always a good memory you are leaving.
Your interests and accomplishments may be of interest to any men in her life; they will more naturally associate with those, so have something to say about your 'man' interests.
Explain a man's understanding of love. Link it to how your lady and you got together. Add how you and she decided to have a child. She will need to understand this in order to get a rounded idea of how to choose a man in her life.
(Assuming you can) Write some HTML in a small text file that says some of the important "Dad things" things in a browser. Suggest that she can have this as a remembrance. If she runs it, okay. If not, she'll remember it anyway. Your collective 'geek' will be passed on.
> So, somebody deliberately did this for no practical reason - perhaps just for the joy of doing it? It also seems like a very well controlled scratch...
Thanks, 'j'. You got the point of this discovery. It jumped out at me in the same way. The report makes the point that the covering of the shell would have probably been green so the marking down into the white shell underneath would have made the scoring stand out. If it had only been one scratch then it would be called an incidental mark, but it went well beyond that to be a deliberate pattern.
There is already a 'flying' business model for Pay By Weight -- Samoa Air.
The Samoan people tend to be "large framed", so they now pay for their bodies and their baggage, or cargo, by weight. Getting their frames into the seats is then another matter. But, how could they complain?
I notice from the diagram (per the linked story) that I only need to fit a spiral phase plate (no, not a flux capacitor) to my Tardis and it all works automagically...
I have a clue: The embryo's transparency made their study of the muscles easier, by photography, and that led to the [incidental but ground-breaking] findings on the blood stem cells.
True! "This call may be recorded..." is a bi-directional statement. I love the logic.
Also, if in doubt, as you hear the 'statement', repeat their exact words into the phone.
And, if in further doubt, when a real human comes on the line, ask, "Do you agree?" If the answer is a spluttering 'Yes' then.... or if 'No' then say "Please review your recording of his call, and I'll wait on the line as you do that." And, listen to what happens; It's likely to be hilarious!;-)
> As a young teen I read the manuals for a (defunct) satellite old retired engineer had, funny as electronics hobbyist I could understand it.
:-) I've been there, too. My first computer was an IBM 1130, with 8kB of 'ram'.
From what I can tell, here, we have 0kB and all hard-wired to the devices attached to the receivers and transmitters.
The satellite just 'talks' via the transmitter and Earth has to listen, or lose the data.
That is "how it was" in 1978 (earlier for the finalisation of the design, and the satellite's set-up of the NSA Deep Space Network ground stations).
Yes, I understand what you say. In this case, there is no "computer in the middle", just hard-wired resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. That the Reboot Project has found it to be active and responsive is VERY exciting to an old-school electronics person like me.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, but, "... hominims..." is wrong.
However, "hominin" (or at a stretch "hominid") would be correct. See the diagram at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and see the original article that uses "hominin" liberally: http://science.sciencemag.org/...
Let's hope that Facebook can weather the storm of seeming growth-spurt induced moral troubles; Russian meddling, data mining, etc.
The moral compass like a magnetic compass has to be checked for angular deviation, due to the near presence of great attractors nearby.
Similarly, the lines of the Earth's magnetism are misalligned with true north; an underlying social/societal moral misallignment may have a similar effect on an organisation.
aka ANON comments....
YES.
I also Moderate SlashDot, and I seriously thin that a quiz would be a good way to weed out the "dottard", "dullard" and "dolt" comments.
It need not weed out autonomous commenting. Sometimes, we need the blow-ins, sleepers, surprisers, and leakers.
;-)
Have a read of the story, that is WRONG AS WRITTEN.
> While the Meteor-M launched last month from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East, it was reportedly programmed with take-off coordinates for the Baikonur cosmodrome, which is located in southern Kazakhstan.
No, no, no... NO! The word "it" refers to the Meteor-M satellite. The satellite was NOT programmed incorrectly; it was the launcher that was mis-programmed, as the following sentence clarifies.
> "The rocket was really programmed as if it was taking off from Baikonur," ....
I agree. I've been seeing young-up-and-comers near me totally deferring to the older-and-cunning people (and maybe I am one) because there is corporate knowledge and "executive function" being exercised.
I have attended three long-form talks by Dr Neil Gordon, and some others involved. He is always the most compelling speaker. I have followed up in one-on-one discussions, at least twice. This effort has been a hugely consuming effort for most, and there is an 'answer' to where MH370 is: It is MOST likely to be in the next-most-probable statistical area, currently to the north-east of the last-most-likely area. Read the 'Full' report and get the picture. https://www.atsb.gov.au/public...
I organised the 10 year party in Canberra, Australia, at the "Uni Pub". I organised a plasticised "attendance card" for those who came. I still carry my card in my wallet. So, I can be called a "card-carrying Slashdoter".
Office thermostats are sexist?
Have I a story for you!!!
I put white bread in my toaster and it does not like that; the toaster makes the bread come out a darker colour. I can even put wholemeal bread in, and that is not dark enough for the toaster. Even when I put some of the bread back in the toaster after it has done its thing, it comes out even darker still. My toaster is definitely racist.
The pronunciation of the Australian long "O" is easy.
Say 'fuel'. Now, drop the "ee-you-eh" sound and instead just say the "oo". It comes out as "F'yool".
Say "foot". Now, say it like "soot" (rather that "sort".)
Say "roof". Now, say it not like a dog saying "ruff", but with the "ooo" of "rooof".
Say "kangaroo". Now, say it without as "Kang-gar-Rooo" with the capitals meaning a bit more emphasis (aka "Em-far-siss", as opposed to "em-FAR-sis").
That takes you along the road to speaking "strine" (the local contraction for "Australian", as in "a- Stine").
an Aussie
THIS IS A RACIALLY OFFENSIVE THREAD. DELETE! This thread is being racially offensive to Australian Aboriginals ("abos" / "abbos" / "abo"). For Americans, think what "nigger" means in your culture. For Asians and people from the UK, think what "Pakki" means. For others, you probably have something equally offensive that makes you cringe, even if you use the term. Slashdot SHOULD remove this thread. Please (as a white Australian)
This **is** a highly politicised post. And, I will make **no** comment on the 'political' outcome of, or machinations behind, this legislation.
It takes only a few seconds to see that the prism / microscope / binoculars / rose-tinted-glasses through which this story has been passed is distorting the image spectacularly into a politically charged version of what ever is the truth.
For someone from Australia, as I am, it takes about 1/10 that time, at most.
The authors have used no restraint in being 'political' in their framing of the post.
The SlashDot editors have used scant / little judgement in editing the two contributors' stories into one biased story. "Shame, shame, shame!"
SpaceX had to scrub its launch today. The launch was 'racing' to beat a weather system moving through the area ('attached anvil cloud') and had to scrub the launch with just 3min to launch. There will be another try, tomorrow. http://www.spacex.com/
Do some selfies at places she will know in years to come: city and local landmarks, places and things that interest you, not just the local playground where you and she have been.
Digital pics have a date/time stamp, but any printed pics in a book should have a date written on the back and under.
You will be thought about regularly, but make sure that it is always a good memory you are leaving.
Your interests and accomplishments may be of interest to any men in her life; they will more naturally associate with those, so have something to say about your 'man' interests.
Geek credibility: do the Geek Code, and add 'extensions'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Explain a man's understanding of love. Link it to how your lady and you got together. Add how you and she decided to have a child. She will need to understand this in order to get a rounded idea of how to choose a man in her life.
(Assuming you can) Write some HTML in a small text file that says some of the important "Dad things" things in a browser. Suggest that she can have this as a remembrance. If she runs it, okay. If not, she'll remember it anyway. Your collective 'geek' will be passed on.
Cry.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2506 (not behind paywall)
> Can you tell me the thickness of a U.S. Postage stamp with the glue on it?
A: Get a pile of stamp sheets, measure the height, and do a calculation. (You did go to school, didn't you.)
Thanks, 'j'. You got the point of this discovery. It jumped out at me in the same way. The report makes the point that the covering of the shell would have probably been green so the marking down into the white shell underneath would have made the scoring stand out. If it had only been one scratch then it would be called an incidental mark, but it went well beyond that to be a deliberate pattern.
There is already a 'flying' business model for Pay By Weight -- Samoa Air. The Samoan people tend to be "large framed", so they now pay for their bodies and their baggage, or cargo, by weight. Getting their frames into the seats is then another matter. But, how could they complain?
I notice from the diagram (per the linked story) that I only need to fit a spiral phase plate (no, not a flux capacitor) to my Tardis and it all works automagically...
... via "orbital angular momentum" and "OAM multiplexing".
Frankly, I am still confused as to why it's not (more simply) "circular polarisation" that has been known about since the early days of radio.
I have a clue: The embryo's transparency made their study of the muscles easier, by photography, and that led to the [incidental but ground-breaking] findings on the blood stem cells.
True! "This call may be recorded..." is a bi-directional statement. I love the logic.
Also, if in doubt, as you hear the 'statement', repeat their exact words into the phone.
And, if in further doubt, when a real human comes on the line, ask, "Do you agree?" If the answer is a spluttering 'Yes' then.... or if 'No' then say "Please review your recording of his call, and I'll wait on the line as you do that." And, listen to what happens; It's likely to be hilarious! ;-)
It is a dark room and I do not touch-type.
I do not presume that the satellits has been the other ageny of the USA government. ;-)
:-) I've been there, too. My first computer was an IBM 1130, with 8kB of 'ram'. From what I can tell, here, we have 0kB and all hard-wired to the devices attached to the receivers and transmitters. The satellite just 'talks' via the transmitter and Earth has to listen, or lose the data. That is "how it was" in 1978 (earlier for the finalisation of the design, and the satellite's set-up of the NSA Deep Space Network ground stations).
Yes, I understand what you say. In this case, there is no "computer in the middle", just hard-wired resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. That the Reboot Project has found it to be active and responsive is VERY exciting to an old-school electronics person like me. :-)