Mars One is a hoax. Elon Musk is an excellent marketer getting no end of free publicity with his Mars plans. He may or may not be honest about going to Mars - it doesn't really matter. There's not going to be any Mars colonies in our lifetimes. Probably not even a manned mission.
Probably not. The most important part of this, however, is that Xenomorph XX121 (The alien from Alien, Aliens, etc) is now a Disney princess, as it was born by a queen and is owned by Disney.
It's allowed in checked baggage. Apparently the amount of explosive they're worried about laptops containing would only be enough to break the fuselage if held against it. Such a laptop bomb exploding within the cargo section would only damage luggage.
While I fully agree with climate change being a catastrophic risk, a global organization with enforcement power will immidiately become the most valuable target for lobbying in the world.
I believe we'd see such an organization effectively ruled by the very interests it's set to regulate within a few years at most.
“We did this calculation; if all the ice in the world melted—Greenland, Arctic, Antarctic, everything—and then we had the world's largest recorded tsunami right in front of the seed vault. So, very high sea levels and the worlds largest Tsunami. What would happen to the seed vault?” Fowler says. “We found that the seed vault was somewhere between a five and seven story building above that point. It might not help the road leading up to the seed vault, but the seeds themselves would be ok."
Where did I say anything about illegal immigrants? The fact is the US has been a significant brain drain on the rest of the world for ~70 years. You've had some of the best schools, the best labs and the best funding for science. This has attracted top-league scientists and entrepreneurs.
But the growing security state, the rising xenophobia and the very public hostility to science is now leading many of the same kinds of people to avoiding visiting the US altogether, much less wanting to immigrate.
Trump, and even the whole Republican party, is hardly the only source of anti-intellectualism in the US, it's been ongoing for quite a while.
You've got colleges and universities that can't handle debate, and appear to value the contributions of their sports teams far above any science produced. Ideological interests have been shaping your school books for decades, and the problem's getting worse. The right disbelieves global warming, the left disbelieves GMO and nuclear safety - two of the most important tools to actually solve some of the problems caused by said global warming. Federal science funding has been stagnant / dropping in real value since the 80s. Your corporates are raiding the most successful university labs - turning them from basic to applied science, and locking that science up to the point where they're blocked from even discussing in general terms what they're working on with their peers.
This is just off of the top of my head, I'm sure the slashdot community can come up with more examples.
And, of course, if Trump gets his budget through thousands of US scientists will be unable to get funding and be forced to look for employment elsewhere.
That the US is going to see significantly more brain drain in the years to come does not seem to me like a very controversial prediction.
Here's to hoping things change or that I'm just wrong.
As the US continues falling into a post-intellectual, foreigner-fearing state, the brain drain will only continue. Vast parts of the scientific progress the US "gave" the post WWII-world was built on immigrants, but now the tide is turning - the empire falling apart at the seams.
considering the scale of this project I am surprised the cost is only US$272 million, has technology to do this advanced that far or are the Norwegians just very efficient. hell a lot of large buildings cost considerable more than this
The ore mined as part of building the tunnel is expected to defray some of the cost.
So you're publicly admitting to engaging in illegal age discrimination. More than that, you're strongly implying that you wouldn't hire anyone in a "protected class". You'd better hope applicants for one of your jobs won't find this message, or you'll quickly find that *every single person* in a protected class who has ever applied for a job with you has a strong legal case against you.
If you even are an employer and not just delusional like I suspect.
I can't wait until you get technology like this combined with eye tracking to decide on-the-fly what parts of your VR experience are the most visually important and can optimize rendering accordingly.
On of my main pet peeves with current VR is that I can't see why you'd need to render at full resolution outside of the eye's focus area, which should make it possible to massively reduce the rendering required to get amazing quality.
If you can also optimize by using machine learning to decide which areas are perceptually important that should make it possible to focus your processing resources even better on the parts that matter for the visual experience.
I guess that marks the end of 8 years of HTC phones for me. Listening to music is one of my most common uses of my phone, and there's literally no way I'm changing over to headsets I also have to recharge.
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I've yet to find a chatbot able to correctly answer "What did I say three sentences ago?". This shouldn't even be hard, but it appears the programmers just don't bother.
This is getting as bad as the birthers. Which Trump says Clinton started, the gaslighting asshole.
Clinton did start it. Even far-leftmagazines and newspaperswho aren't in the tank for Clinton can trace how Clinton ops in 2008, told investigative reporters that they should look into it. And many actually did, going as far as sending investigative teams to look into it. It was one of her campaign strategies.
None of these links say anything about Clinton starting anything of the sort.
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There were more updates yesterday, and I've plugged in the Kindle several times today without anything bad happening.
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Mars One is a hoax.
Elon Musk is an excellent marketer getting no end of free publicity with his Mars plans. He may or may not be honest about going to Mars - it doesn't really matter. There's not going to be any Mars colonies in our lifetimes. Probably not even a manned mission.
Seconded. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a one-trick pony whose answer to absolutely everything is panspermia. (life from space)
Probably not. The most important part of this, however, is that Xenomorph XX121 (The alien from Alien, Aliens, etc) is now a Disney princess, as it was born by a queen and is owned by Disney.
It's allowed in checked baggage.
Apparently the amount of explosive they're worried about laptops containing would only be enough to break the fuselage if held against it. Such a laptop bomb exploding within the cargo section would only damage luggage.
While I fully agree with climate change being a catastrophic risk, a global organization with enforcement power will immidiately become the most valuable target for lobbying in the world.
I believe we'd see such an organization effectively ruled by the very interests it's set to regulate within a few years at most.
Mod parent up, and GP down!
“We did this calculation; if all the ice in the world melted—Greenland, Arctic, Antarctic, everything—and then we had the world's largest recorded tsunami right in front of the seed vault. So, very high sea levels and the worlds largest Tsunami. What would happen to the seed vault?” Fowler says. “We found that the seed vault was somewhere between a five and seven story building above that point. It might not help the road leading up to the seed vault, but the seeds themselves would be ok."
http://www.popsci.com/seed-vau...
Where did I say anything about illegal immigrants? The fact is the US has been a significant brain drain on the rest of the world for ~70 years. You've had some of the best schools, the best labs and the best funding for science. This has attracted top-league scientists and entrepreneurs.
But the growing security state, the rising xenophobia and the very public hostility to science is now leading many of the same kinds of people to avoiding visiting the US altogether, much less wanting to immigrate.
Trump, and even the whole Republican party, is hardly the only source of anti-intellectualism in the US, it's been ongoing for quite a while.
You've got colleges and universities that can't handle debate, and appear to value the contributions of their sports teams far above any science produced.
Ideological interests have been shaping your school books for decades, and the problem's getting worse.
The right disbelieves global warming, the left disbelieves GMO and nuclear safety - two of the most important tools to actually solve some of the problems caused by said global warming.
Federal science funding has been stagnant / dropping in real value since the 80s.
Your corporates are raiding the most successful university labs - turning them from basic to applied science, and locking that science up to the point where they're blocked from even discussing in general terms what they're working on with their peers.
This is just off of the top of my head, I'm sure the slashdot community can come up with more examples.
And, of course, if Trump gets his budget through thousands of US scientists will be unable to get funding and be forced to look for employment elsewhere.
That the US is going to see significantly more brain drain in the years to come does not seem to me like a very controversial prediction.
Here's to hoping things change or that I'm just wrong.
As the US continues falling into a post-intellectual, foreigner-fearing state, the brain drain will only continue.
Vast parts of the scientific progress the US "gave" the post WWII-world was built on immigrants, but now the tide is turning - the empire falling apart at the seams.
considering the scale of this project I am surprised the cost is only US$272 million, has technology to do this advanced that far or are the Norwegians just very efficient. hell a lot of large buildings cost considerable more than this
The ore mined as part of building the tunnel is expected to defray some of the cost.
So you're publicly admitting to engaging in illegal age discrimination. More than that, you're strongly implying that you wouldn't hire anyone in a "protected class". You'd better hope applicants for one of your jobs won't find this message, or you'll quickly find that *every single person* in a protected class who has ever applied for a job with you has a strong legal case against you.
If you even are an employer and not just delusional like I suspect.
I can't wait until you get technology like this combined with eye tracking to decide on-the-fly what parts of your VR experience are the most visually important and can optimize rendering accordingly.
On of my main pet peeves with current VR is that I can't see why you'd need to render at full resolution outside of the eye's focus area, which should make it possible to massively reduce the rendering required to get amazing quality.
If you can also optimize by using machine learning to decide which areas are perceptually important that should make it possible to focus your processing resources even better on the parts that matter for the visual experience.
I guess that marks the end of 8 years of HTC phones for me. Listening to music is one of my most common uses of my phone, and there's literally no way I'm changing over to headsets I also have to recharge.
I, for one, welcome our silicon nanowire overlords.
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"software that forces the machines to spit out cash" sounds useful. :-P
Anybody got a copy?
Well as fast as free speech world rankings go, the USA is 41st in the world
Yeah, I'm sure these rankings are completely unbiased.
Any ranking that shows the US as lower than #1 in free speech or freedom of the press is clearly false and should be illegal.
Expecting conservative meltdown in 3... 2...
As most of us know: Reality, and thus also facts, is/are clearly liberally biased.
I've yet to find a chatbot able to correctly answer "What did I say three sentences ago?".
This shouldn't even be hard, but it appears the programmers just don't bother.
High tech dupe replaces Slashdot front page article with these news every day.
I've got a more secure solution.
I'll only let Edge run on other people's computers.
This is getting as bad as the birthers. Which Trump says Clinton started, the gaslighting asshole.
Clinton did start it. Even far-left magazines and newspapers who aren't in the tank for Clinton can trace how Clinton ops in 2008, told investigative reporters that they should look into it. And many actually did, going as far as sending investigative teams to look into it. It was one of her campaign strategies.
None of these links say anything about Clinton starting anything of the sort.
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Site owner agrees Oracle holds title to first- through fifth-born.
I had this problem. After installing the Anniversary update, plugging my Kindle Paperwhite into the USB port would bluescreen Windows about half the time.
There were more updates yesterday, and I've plugged in the Kindle several times today without anything bad happening.