No they are not. Public roads are for use by all, not by a select few. It is not within a few citizens' "rights" to deny others use of taxpayer-funded public roads.
The entitlement here is the residents. If they don't like their side streets being used to overcome traffic congestion they should lobby for improvements to all roads, not to f*ck over the other 99%.
I'd like to see proof that drivers on their commutes "don't care" about residential neighborhoods. What a BS inflammatory statement.
Opinions of "academics" bystanders don't matter. If this were provable, as it should easily be if what is stated were true, then the patent process would care greatly. The people involved in litigating these issues aren't dumb.
Furthermore Doudnav and Charpentier are unlikely to have written the patents so the "work" the judges consider is not theirs, they are merely the inventors. You can invent anything but you are entitled to only what the patent says you are.
The statement was written by a person ignorant of the issues.
"In the eyes of the law and insurance companies, if you're in an automobile accident while driving impaired, you're at fault no matter the circumstances. This is why we don't drink and drive."
No, we don't drink and drive because it's unsafe, not because of punitive definitions.
"...and the driver's BAL was three times the limit."
This lie is working as intended. The BAL was not "three times the limit".
Except this is not categorically correct. More deliveries per hour means a shorter work day unless other steps are taken, steps which may not always be possible. Even if those steps are taken, total mileage may not always be reduced.
Anything's possible if you're willing to assume details not provided. That discussion is not interesting.
I know you think this makes you seem intelligent...but it does not. Communicating clearly is a sign of intelligence, not using clever phrases incorrectly along with grammatical errors.
"The increase to 512GB is a godsend to AI researchers and other fields with large datasets."
References?
While there's no doubt that there is SOME application that could use that amount of physical addressability, it would seem extraordinarily unlikely that a single GPU would be sufficient for such an application and, even so, it's absurd to refer to such a niche as a "godsend". Meaningless hyperbole, most likely without any supporting insight.
"Nobody in the HA crowd has ever been able to offer a coherent value proposition for how HA could improve *my* life that would in any way be useful to *me*. Until this changes I will continue to blindly assume HA is a pointless waste of time and money with increasingly massive malware/privacy issues."
It's not the first time someone has bragged about their willful ignorance.
Saying that there is no value proposition to HA is like saying there is no point in painting the walls different colors. If the extent of your lighting is limited to a single ceiling fixture in your room then lighting automation, as an example, is not valuable to you. This reflects more on your lack of sophistication than on HA's value proposition. HA is a tool to achieve desirable ends, not an end in itself, and the problem here is your lack of vision.
BLE doesn't use pairing and Bluetooth isn't a "network" that devices need to join.
With bluetooth you don't have to discover a network, join it, and provide one of several login credentials, none of which many bluetooth devices have an adequate UI to implement. Joining a WiFi network during setup of smaller devices is a horrendous, unacceptable process. The equivalent process with bluetooth is either nonexistent (BLE) or a joy in comparison. Often time, even when pairing is needed, the process is entirely automatic. That can NEVER happen with WiFi.
Zigbee is a far better competitor to Bluetooth than WiFi is.
California is one of 17 states, not just 3, that gives more than it receives. California ranks 8th among those 17. It is not one of only three, it's not even in the top three.
"I understand your disgust, but keep in mind that an intelligent person who leaves is contributing as much to the demise of Slashdot as each troll who is added."
What is wrong with the demise of Slashdot though? No "intelligent person" should feel any duty to its preservation. Intelligent people should want to be free from garbage and trolling, not obligated to fight them. Tribalism is a fundamental problem, not a fundamental solution.
"Incidentally, for those looking for someone to blame here, look no further than the DNC:"
Why would any thinking person blame the opposition for a policy of non-interference and not blame the nominating party itself? Of all the reasons to assign blame for the nomination of Trump, the DNC not interfering during the process is not one of them. The DNC opposed Trump when they were supposed to and had their candidate been different perhaps they would have succeeded.
It's done much more than that. The two party system has corrupted the intention of our representative government. It has destroyed the electoral college, locked out competition, and gerrymandered itself into perpetual electoral security, then the two sides sell themselves to the same corporate interests leaving us with essentially fascism. We don't have a representative government at al, only the pretense of itl.
Most government organizations don't directly elect their chief executive. I think the US would be best served to do away with presidential elections entirely and instead focus on restoring the legislature to real representation and have them choose the "CEO" like every other government and business of consequence.
It has never been more clear that the population cannot be trusted to choose its president directly but the constitutional fix for this (the electoral college) itself is corrupt and useless. A properly functioning electoral college would never elect Trump and the knowledge of this fact would have prevented the party from nominating him in the first place.
Wow, you must be really proud of this comment. "...having a non-functional set of gonads being president..." Considering Trump is in his 70's it's likely that we would have this either way. Not that it matters as reproductive capability is not a qualification for the office, apparently nothing is.
It's not inherently sexist to vote for Trump unless the reason for the vote is that you didn't want a woman as president. It is equally sexist to vote for Hilary because you want a woman as president. Gender should not be the factor (though it very likely was).
Hilary carried minority voters with a significantly lower margin than Obama despite the fact that a vote for her was just as much in their interest, perhaps more. The reason for this must have had to do, perhaps entirely, with her being a woman. Had she carried minorities at Obama levels she would have won.
DEC Alpha was an abject failure in the market and was technically threadbare. Sure it was 64 bit when little else was, but so what? No software would benefit at the time as opposed to, say, an integer divide instruction that the Alpha didn't even have!
Morons who name-drop Alpha are simply exposing their ignorance. No one had Alphas because no one sold any.
You don't "use it" with a 1TB SD Card either (if you use it for this purpose at all). Internal storage in notebooks can be made adequate for most uses without the relatively slow application of an SD card.
The 1TB SD card shown less than 6 weeks ago was a prototype. There is no such card on the market. Nice try.
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The "approach here" is no speed bumps. The problem isn't speed over even the legal use of public roads, the problem is local resident entitlement.
No they are not. Public roads are for use by all, not by a select few. It is not within a few citizens' "rights" to deny others use of taxpayer-funded public roads.
The entitlement here is the residents. If they don't like their side streets being used to overcome traffic congestion they should lobby for improvements to all roads, not to f*ck over the other 99%.
I'd like to see proof that drivers on their commutes "don't care" about residential neighborhoods. What a BS inflammatory statement.
"A persons (sic) rights cannot be taken."
I doubt any of those in prison would agree.
Opinions of "academics" bystanders don't matter. If this were provable, as it should easily be if what is stated were true, then the patent process would care greatly. The people involved in litigating these issues aren't dumb.
Furthermore Doudnav and Charpentier are unlikely to have written the patents so the "work" the judges consider is not theirs, they are merely the inventors. You can invent anything but you are entitled to only what the patent says you are.
The statement was written by a person ignorant of the issues.
"In the eyes of the law and insurance companies, if you're in an automobile accident while driving impaired, you're at fault no matter the circumstances. This is why we don't drink and drive."
No, we don't drink and drive because it's unsafe, not because of punitive definitions.
"...and the driver's BAL was three times the limit."
This lie is working as intended. The BAL was not "three times the limit".
Except this is not categorically correct. More deliveries per hour means a shorter work day unless other steps are taken, steps which may not always be possible. Even if those steps are taken, total mileage may not always be reduced.
Anything's possible if you're willing to assume details not provided. That discussion is not interesting.
"While Celiac disease is believed to effect about 1% of the population, some studies have found as high as 6% of the population is effected by NCGS."
Since you're quoting the same source, here's another: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
The conclusion? "The prevalence of CD in the United States was 0.71% (1 in 141), similar to that found in several European countries. "
There's quite a difference between 0.71% and 1%, it's about as large an abuse of "about" as you can get. There seems to be a lot left to learn.
"Malware and users are in zero-sum..."
I know you think this makes you seem intelligent...but it does not. Communicating clearly is a sign of intelligence, not using clever phrases incorrectly along with grammatical errors.
"The increase to 512GB is a godsend to AI researchers and other fields with large datasets."
References?
While there's no doubt that there is SOME application that could use that amount of physical addressability, it would seem extraordinarily unlikely that a single GPU would be sufficient for such an application and, even so, it's absurd to refer to such a niche as a "godsend". Meaningless hyperbole, most likely without any supporting insight.
You developed Python and C++ for 10 years yet didn't own your own computer? That seems highly unlikely.
You "freelance" and have a single, "real solid client"? What kind of professional programmer are you?
"Now that tablets and phones are taking over on the road..."
Says who?
"...the advantages of good desktops are being recognized again."
They've always been recognized, just taken for granted.
"Nobody in the HA crowd has ever been able to offer a coherent value proposition for how HA could improve *my* life that would in any way be useful to *me*. Until this changes I will continue to blindly assume HA is a pointless waste of time and money with increasingly massive malware/privacy issues."
It's not the first time someone has bragged about their willful ignorance.
Saying that there is no value proposition to HA is like saying there is no point in painting the walls different colors. If the extent of your lighting is limited to a single ceiling fixture in your room then lighting automation, as an example, is not valuable to you. This reflects more on your lack of sophistication than on HA's value proposition. HA is a tool to achieve desirable ends, not an end in itself, and the problem here is your lack of vision.
The topic is paid time off, not the benefits of not having children.
The work NOT done by employees who don't come to work for 6 straight months has to be covered by someone.
"Non-breeders needn't look at this as discrimination."
But they should, after all that's EXACTLY what it is.
"The kid is the one who really benefits and we were all kids."
No, it's the parents that benefit. Kids weren't neglected when this wasn't available.
What an incredibly un-insightful post.
Does the earth care where the population growth is? What's wrong with letting immigrants in? It's not a contest.
Unequal benefits is a problem employers should solve, not one they should accelerate as an incentive to do harm to the environment.
BLE doesn't use pairing and Bluetooth isn't a "network" that devices need to join.
With bluetooth you don't have to discover a network, join it, and provide one of several login credentials, none of which many bluetooth devices have an adequate UI to implement. Joining a WiFi network during setup of smaller devices is a horrendous, unacceptable process. The equivalent process with bluetooth is either nonexistent (BLE) or a joy in comparison. Often time, even when pairing is needed, the process is entirely automatic. That can NEVER happen with WiFi.
Zigbee is a far better competitor to Bluetooth than WiFi is.
"California is one of ONLY 3 states to give more to the US federal government than it receives."
Not even close. https://visualeconomics.credit...
California is one of 17 states, not just 3, that gives more than it receives. California ranks 8th among those 17. It is not one of only three, it's not even in the top three.
"You'd better do some research."
So should you.
"I understand your disgust, but keep in mind that an intelligent person who leaves is contributing as much to the demise of Slashdot as each troll who is added."
What is wrong with the demise of Slashdot though? No "intelligent person" should feel any duty to its preservation. Intelligent people should want to be free from garbage and trolling, not obligated to fight them. Tribalism is a fundamental problem, not a fundamental solution.
"Incidentally, for those looking for someone to blame here, look no further than the DNC:"
Why would any thinking person blame the opposition for a policy of non-interference and not blame the nominating party itself? Of all the reasons to assign blame for the nomination of Trump, the DNC not interfering during the process is not one of them. The DNC opposed Trump when they were supposed to and had their candidate been different perhaps they would have succeeded.
It's done much more than that. The two party system has corrupted the intention of our representative government. It has destroyed the electoral college, locked out competition, and gerrymandered itself into perpetual electoral security, then the two sides sell themselves to the same corporate interests leaving us with essentially fascism. We don't have a representative government at al, only the pretense of itl.
Most government organizations don't directly elect their chief executive. I think the US would be best served to do away with presidential elections entirely and instead focus on restoring the legislature to real representation and have them choose the "CEO" like every other government and business of consequence.
It has never been more clear that the population cannot be trusted to choose its president directly but the constitutional fix for this (the electoral college) itself is corrupt and useless. A properly functioning electoral college would never elect Trump and the knowledge of this fact would have prevented the party from nominating him in the first place.
Wow, you must be really proud of this comment. "...having a non-functional set of gonads being president..." Considering Trump is in his 70's it's likely that we would have this either way. Not that it matters as reproductive capability is not a qualification for the office, apparently nothing is.
It's not inherently sexist to vote for Trump unless the reason for the vote is that you didn't want a woman as president. It is equally sexist to vote for Hilary because you want a woman as president. Gender should not be the factor (though it very likely was).
Hilary carried minority voters with a significantly lower margin than Obama despite the fact that a vote for her was just as much in their interest, perhaps more. The reason for this must have had to do, perhaps entirely, with her being a woman. Had she carried minorities at Obama levels she would have won.
DEC Alpha was an abject failure in the market and was technically threadbare. Sure it was 64 bit when little else was, but so what? No software would benefit at the time as opposed to, say, an integer divide instruction that the Alpha didn't even have!
Morons who name-drop Alpha are simply exposing their ignorance. No one had Alphas because no one sold any.
That's all fine "once a basic level of performance and functionality is met" but some definitions of "basic" are more basic than others.
Usability between phones still varies far too greatly to ignore.
You don't "use it" with a 1TB SD Card either (if you use it for this purpose at all). Internal storage in notebooks can be made adequate for most uses without the relatively slow application of an SD card.
The 1TB SD card shown less than 6 weeks ago was a prototype. There is no such card on the market. Nice try.