Because it's the law in civilised nations such as Australia and New Zealand.
In the United Kingdom. HEAT suggests that a law making helmets compulsory for cyclists may result in an overall increase in 253 premature deaths – 265 extra deaths from reduced cycling less 12 deaths saved among the reduced pool of cyclists receiving fatal head injuries.
The article makes it sound as if the crows are themselves acquiring genetic modifications giving them resistance to antibiotic compounds. However, it is the bacteria inhabiting the crows intestine that have acquired the antibiotic resistance genes, not the crows themselves.
if he doesn't file, he can then be arrested on tax evasion
Yeah, he's wanted for international espionage. I'm sure a charge of tax evasion doesn't bother him! What are they going to threaten him with next? A speeding ticket? Jaywalking? Littering?
"IT support. Have you tried turning the NSA tapping device off and on again?"
"Hello my name's Edward Snowden. I can help you today. I can see you tried switching it off and switching it off again but the password you just entered is not the one we have on file."
and some company offers to manipulate the trending words for a price?
Would there really be a market for manipulating an opinion poll? Having the measure of people's voting rigged won't change the election.
If there is a market for this then maybe there's a market for selling rigged weighing scales to fat people so that the scales say they've lost a pound every time they weigh themselves.
Not really - transaction processing takes far to long because the network has to agree on it.
I dunno, in a cafe you usually pay after you've eaten. I'd assume the time it takes to drink a coffee would be ample time to have a bitcoin transaction approved.
It's ridiculous in this day and age that an OS can fail to make random numbers properly. That's one of the most basic operations. How lazy/incompetent are the Google programmers?
To be fair, aren't random numbers genuinely hard to produce with a computer?
I'd have thought that a mobile phone would be a great source of genuinely random data though. Surely tapping into a compass, an accelerometer or a camera could produce genuinely random input?
Parent is spot on. You need to find organisations that are "military-friendly".
Generally speaking, the private sector don't like to employ ex-public sector workers (and vice-versa). You need to find a public sector engineering job or a private sector company that mainly does work for the public sector.
The fact you've been out there fighting a war that many people don't agree with isn't going to help matters much outside of the military, even if it is public sector. For example, I think you'll struggle to find work in the health sector; they're not going to take kidnly to the idea that you've spent years of your life maiming people even if you might be a perfect fit to engineer an advanced artificial limb!
I love th3e term "crop dusting". Whoever invented it deserves their spin-doctoring millions. When I think of "dusting". I think of my grandma using a mild feather duster to remove a bit of dust from her ornaments. I would never think of soaking a field with a few tons cancer-causing chemicals. Hooray for semantics!
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You quote a known kook site like cyclehelmets and you give thanks for being rational?
Ad hominem, much?
Because it's the law in civilised nations such as Australia and New Zealand.
In the United Kingdom. HEAT suggests that a law making helmets compulsory for cyclists may result in an overall increase in 253 premature deaths – 265 extra deaths from reduced cycling less 12 deaths saved among the reduced pool of cyclists receiving fatal head injuries.
http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1231.html
I for one am glad that I live in a rational nation, rather than one of the civilised ones which you mention!
On a side note, a question to the grammar Nazis. When using the word "Google" as a verb, should the first character be capitalized?
Not usually. However in the title it's correct to capitalize each word.
I don't care if my doctor Google's me. They'll have to weed through millions of results for Anonymous Coward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder
Vanilla Ice Ice Babycoins!
Do you really have to make a Giant Pert Chart that lists the entire future of the NASA space mission,
1. Walk on the moon
2. ???
3. Profit!
The article makes it sound as if the crows are themselves acquiring genetic modifications giving them resistance to antibiotic compounds. However, it is the bacteria inhabiting the crows intestine that have acquired the antibiotic resistance genes, not the crows themselves.
There's only one solution: stone the crows!
if he doesn't file, he can then be arrested on tax evasion
Yeah, he's wanted for international espionage. I'm sure a charge of tax evasion doesn't bother him! What are they going to threaten him with next? A speeding ticket? Jaywalking? Littering?
"IT support. Have you tried turning the NSA tapping device off and on again?"
"Hello my name's Edward Snowden. I can help you today. I can see you tried switching it off and switching it off again but the password you just entered is not the one we have on file."
It's not you... this is the link:
http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-13-10-a-desktop-tour-slideshow-7000021826/
Hello Congratulations on your prize, jealousy? no!
According to this PC world article, Can You Do Real Work With the 30-Year-Old IBM 5150? they were able to do basic internet things.
Not really. He just used the machine as a dumb terminal to a modern Linux machine.
I know! There's no way I'm mirroring that, Michael Grunwald might launch an airstrike at me!
and some company offers to manipulate the trending words for a price?
Would there really be a market for manipulating an opinion poll? Having the measure of people's voting rigged won't change the election.
If there is a market for this then maybe there's a market for selling rigged weighing scales to fat people so that the scales say they've lost a pound every time they weigh themselves.
Not really - transaction processing takes far to long because the network has to agree on it.
I dunno, in a cafe you usually pay after you've eaten. I'd assume the time it takes to drink a coffee would be ample time to have a bitcoin transaction approved.
It's ridiculous in this day and age that an OS can fail to make random numbers properly. That's one of the most basic operations. How lazy/incompetent are the Google programmers?
To be fair, aren't random numbers genuinely hard to produce with a computer?
I'd have thought that a mobile phone would be a great source of genuinely random data though. Surely tapping into a compass, an accelerometer or a camera could produce genuinely random input?
As long as temperatures don't exceed 451 degrees, they should be fine
It's called private key, you cretin. Now, go smoke some weed and don't bother the grown-ups will you?
Let me draw you a picture...
Me <---- (SSL) ----> Google ---- (SSL) ----> NSA
Sound more like a F451 thing than BNW... I may well be wrong though
I'm in the middle of reading it and the OP is right, they removed the phosphorus from cremated bodies for fertilizer in Brave New World.
I remember a lot from the book and movie, but not that detail.
Maybe the Ministry of Truth got to your copy and put that part of the book in a memory hole?
I have visions of Clippy turning up shouting "I see you're printing a gun!"
It's not working can you fix it. kthxby
go work for drone manufacturer
Parent is spot on. You need to find organisations that are "military-friendly".
Generally speaking, the private sector don't like to employ ex-public sector workers (and vice-versa). You need to find a public sector engineering job or a private sector company that mainly does work for the public sector.
The fact you've been out there fighting a war that many people don't agree with isn't going to help matters much outside of the military, even if it is public sector. For example, I think you'll struggle to find work in the health sector; they're not going to take kidnly to the idea that you've spent years of your life maiming people even if you might be a perfect fit to engineer an advanced artificial limb!
I love th3e term "crop dusting". Whoever invented it deserves their spin-doctoring millions. When I think of "dusting". I think of my grandma using a mild feather duster to remove a bit of dust from her ornaments. I would never think of soaking a field with a few tons cancer-causing chemicals. Hooray for semantics!
Of course he's guilty. Why else would the police have arrested him? :p
They're brigands and blaggards; those dirty vamints. These dastardly perpetrators must be stopped forthwith! What do you think, old bean?