I take this position as well. I like AC's suggestion above. If you are unvaccinated and infect others, you can be held liable for the cost of their health care and your own. Maybe health insurance rates could be adjusted accordingly.
Absolutely it is. Your have freedom to live your life as you choose. If you are forcing others to accommodate your choices, now you're infringing on THEIR rights.
Actually it is. If you're buying something on a PC you're probably going through a vendor's website, like Amazon or the Apple Store. They are handling most of the transaction cost, CPU-wise, probably offloading some of it to a 3rd party at some point. It's an asynchronous operation - you're credit card gets billed within a few minutes, you're receipt comes a little bit after that. You have some time to do the credit history checks, credit card purchasing history, whatever else needs to take place for fraud prevention.
When you're paying with something like ApplePay, it's all instantaneous. Your credit card gets billed immediately. This is how it has always worked with credit cards, but the back-channels are different. The idea is, more people are going to be using phones for transactions, the possibility of fraud goes up, and you need more instantaneous checking for potential fraud.
Then good luck buying *any* sort of technology from anybody. "Hey let us buy your fancy chip fabrication machine so we can produce cheap knockoffs." Not gonna happen. So now you end up having to design and build everything yourself, as a country.
The closest thing we have to this situation is North Korea - and look at how great their standard of living is.
Depends on what you're doing. Sending stuff to the GPU incurs overhead. If you're doing a ton of matrix operations all in a row, it may be worth it. If you are doing a few every once and a while, probably not.
Not to mention Intel Performance Primitives which is basically a library of ASM blobs tailored for various combinations of sse/avx - even cache and pipes, I believe.
You're absolutely right, that's why they added the ability to change it. It's been done several times. There's a fairly huge difference, however, between following the process to change it, and changing how you interpret what it says. That's how you end up with torture being OK, killing American citizens without due process being OK, arbitrary suspension of habeus corpus being OK, attacking other countries at the whim of the president being OK...
No, the taxi drivers are arguing they can be the only ones to drive people to their destination and charge them for the ride.
Not quite. In Detroit a church started running a free van to help people who couldn't afford a car. The free bus was shut down by the taxi commission. Taxi commissions, in general, are against anyone giving anyone else a ride who isn't a taxi driver.
My Archos 43 died enthusiastically. First the headphone jack blew out for no apparent reason, then the touchscreen stopped working. Never dropped or mishandled - usually hung out in my shirt pocket or on the passenger seat of my car. Support was garbage, too - there were a half dozen known issues with video playback that were fixed in base Android system updates that Archos never bothered to release. Before I could root it and do Cyanogen it died on me. Oh well.
My Nexus 7 is faring much better, but it's not really a "portable" sized mp3 player.
You don't quite understand. This is guilt through probability - there's no actual evidence you're guilty of a crime. This is a real problem in criminal justice right now. They grab the most convenient suspect - whomever is easiest to prosecute. They may or may not have any real evidence a given person committed a crime. There's a bunch of circumstantial evidence, usually very technical or scientifically advanced evidence that takes an expensive expert to refute. You can cough up the dough to hire your own expert, or just take a plea deal.
This isn't how criminal justice is supposed to work. If there are no good suspects - the police don't get to create one using statistics.
So we're not talking about the FBI or NSA using this to find out you have irritable bowel syndrome. (chances are they already know from other sources like Facebook anyway...*tin foil hat*). and they likely wouldnt care anyway (life is not a hollywood movie).
No, here's what will happen.
There will be a murder somewhere. There will be blood left at the scene. They'll type out the blood and find it contains an uncommon antigen. They'll search out the health database looking for people who knew the victim with that antigen. If that fails, they'll look for people who just lived near the victim. They'll cross reference cell records and find out you were in the area when the murder occurred (which doesn't prove you were there, just that your cell phone was within a few miles of a cell tower, which of course it was as you live in the area.)
Boom - you're a suspect in a murder case.
This is, granted, a limited example, but the possibilities for abuse are nearly limitless.
"Just because a US consultant in Ireland mentioned Puerto Rico's economic successes in passing, does not equal an endorsement of US tax evasion by the American government."
If the state department didn't think it was a good idea it probably shouldn't have been in the report recommending economic stimulus for Ireland, no?
"It's amazing to me how American society will look with suspicion at anything the federal government does, but give corporations a pass for taking and giving nothing back at all."
This is the issue. Federal government puts out a report saying tax havens seem to work as economic stimulus. Country enacts tax haven rules. Federal government flips out at companies taking advantage of tax haven status of said country.
The government just looks incompetent. Listening to Planet Money, which is by no means a crazy "wingnut" media outlet, will reinforce this view pretty regularly. Look up the debacle involving cotton subsidies in Texas, where the federal government violated a treaty it created, and ended up having to subsidize cotton farmers in Brazil as well. 'Cause that's a good use of tax dollars, right?
What are you talking about? I think some very early plasma screens cheated on the horizontal resolution a bit, but otherwise any HDTV (720p or 1080p) uses square pixels.
You're right - I had it stuck in my head that monitor manufacturers were upset at the original HD spec as it didn't *require* square pixels, and the first HD sets used rectangular pixels - mainly early plasmas and CRTs.
I'll still contend that staring at a TV to type in a bunch of text isn't an ideal situation.
On the other hand, modern TVs aren't the best thing to program on. Granted, they are sharper than old analog TVs we used to hook our 8-bits (bitters?) up to, but they still have non-square pixels making text fuzzy, and are usually situated in a family room in a spot nonconducive to sitting in front of and staring at for long periods of time.
A much cooler feature would be the ability to develop a game on your Win/Mac/Lin laptop, and bluetooth it over to the Speccy to play, with full remote debugging support. Stepping through code and immediately seeing the results on the system itself would be awesome.
The idea that an ameoba displays intelligence in excess of our current ability to simulate is frankly a little ridiculous.
That quote bothered me, too. We've been simulating simple insects for decades, back when neural networks were clusters of transistors on flip-chips. We're at the point where we can build machines that can learn to move and navigate on their own. There was a Slashdot article a week ago about a fully mapped nematode neural network wired into a robot.
What is the point of this article? You would think that people have learned better by now than to attempt to make predictions as to where technology will go.
Er, McAffee is wanted for murder in Belize. Knox is wanted in Italy and will be tried in absentia.
But neither have extradition requests pending. McAfee has charges pending but they've never made it to a judge. Knox is probably going to be extradited but hasn't yet.
Until the U.S. government gets an extradition request they aren't required to, and shouldn't, do anything.
The problem with nuclear, without even going close to the radiation boogeyman, is that:
- it requres huge investement before nothing happens - it takes years to construct a power plant - the nuclear plants require a lot of sweet water for cooling, 24/7, and the world is running out
I'm a fan of the mini-nuclear reactors. These are about the size of a bus, can be mass-produced to make them cheaper, and require no maintenance or cooling. They are extremely fault-tolerant - they only operate in a narrow thermal band, if they get too hot or too cold the reaction shuts itself down. One produces enough energy to power a small city, or a large neighborhood in a big city. You sink them in a concrete vault and forget about them for a decade or so. When their nuclear fuel is spent, you pull them out, get rid of the waste (about the size of a softball) refurbish and refuel the reactor and put it back in the ground.
The bonus side-effect is a more stable and efficient electrical grid with fewer long-haul high voltage power lines running all over the place, more redundancy and less centralization.
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I take this position as well. I like AC's suggestion above. If you are unvaccinated and infect others, you can be held liable for the cost of their health care and your own. Maybe health insurance rates could be adjusted accordingly.
Absolutely it is. Your have freedom to live your life as you choose. If you are forcing others to accommodate your choices, now you're infringing on THEIR rights.
Actually it is. If you're buying something on a PC you're probably going through a vendor's website, like Amazon or the Apple Store. They are handling most of the transaction cost, CPU-wise, probably offloading some of it to a 3rd party at some point. It's an asynchronous operation - you're credit card gets billed within a few minutes, you're receipt comes a little bit after that. You have some time to do the credit history checks, credit card purchasing history, whatever else needs to take place for fraud prevention.
When you're paying with something like ApplePay, it's all instantaneous. Your credit card gets billed immediately. This is how it has always worked with credit cards, but the back-channels are different. The idea is, more people are going to be using phones for transactions, the possibility of fraud goes up, and you need more instantaneous checking for potential fraud.
An industry is using government regulation to stifle competition? Holy cow NO!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Then good luck buying *any* sort of technology from anybody. "Hey let us buy your fancy chip fabrication machine so we can produce cheap knockoffs." Not gonna happen. So now you end up having to design and build everything yourself, as a country.
The closest thing we have to this situation is North Korea - and look at how great their standard of living is.
The teacher's unions will make sure everything stays affordable.
Depends on what you're doing. Sending stuff to the GPU incurs overhead. If you're doing a ton of matrix operations all in a row, it may be worth it. If you are doing a few every once and a while, probably not.
Not to mention Intel Performance Primitives which is basically a library of ASM blobs tailored for various combinations of sse/avx - even cache and pipes, I believe.
You're absolutely right, that's why they added the ability to change it. It's been done several times. There's a fairly huge difference, however, between following the process to change it, and changing how you interpret what it says. That's how you end up with torture being OK, killing American citizens without due process being OK, arbitrary suspension of habeus corpus being OK, attacking other countries at the whim of the president being OK...
There has been one published paper showing a possible link between non-ionizing radiation and cancer. That doesn't mean there is a link.
You need Fox news so Democratic administrations are held accountable.
You need MSNBC so Republican administrations are held accountable.
There are blowhards and static on both channels, but there is some useful information to be gleaned amongst the chaff.
No, the taxi drivers are arguing they can be the only ones to drive people to their destination and charge them for the ride.
Not quite. In Detroit a church started running a free van to help people who couldn't afford a car. The free bus was shut down by the taxi commission. Taxi commissions, in general, are against anyone giving anyone else a ride who isn't a taxi driver.
My Archos 43 died enthusiastically. First the headphone jack blew out for no apparent reason, then the touchscreen stopped working. Never dropped or mishandled - usually hung out in my shirt pocket or on the passenger seat of my car. Support was garbage, too - there were a half dozen known issues with video playback that were fixed in base Android system updates that Archos never bothered to release. Before I could root it and do Cyanogen it died on me. Oh well.
My Nexus 7 is faring much better, but it's not really a "portable" sized mp3 player.
You don't quite understand. This is guilt through probability - there's no actual evidence you're guilty of a crime. This is a real problem in criminal justice right now. They grab the most convenient suspect - whomever is easiest to prosecute. They may or may not have any real evidence a given person committed a crime. There's a bunch of circumstantial evidence, usually very technical or scientifically advanced evidence that takes an expensive expert to refute. You can cough up the dough to hire your own expert, or just take a plea deal.
This isn't how criminal justice is supposed to work. If there are no good suspects - the police don't get to create one using statistics.
So we're not talking about the FBI or NSA using this to find out you have irritable bowel syndrome.
(chances are they already know from other sources like Facebook anyway...*tin foil hat*).
and they likely wouldnt care anyway (life is not a hollywood movie).
No, here's what will happen.
There will be a murder somewhere. There will be blood left at the scene. They'll type out the blood and find it contains an uncommon antigen. They'll search out the health database looking for people who knew the victim with that antigen. If that fails, they'll look for people who just lived near the victim. They'll cross reference cell records and find out you were in the area when the murder occurred (which doesn't prove you were there, just that your cell phone was within a few miles of a cell tower, which of course it was as you live in the area.)
Boom - you're a suspect in a murder case.
This is, granted, a limited example, but the possibilities for abuse are nearly limitless.
"Just because a US consultant in Ireland mentioned Puerto Rico's economic successes in passing, does not equal an endorsement of US tax evasion by the American government."
If the state department didn't think it was a good idea it probably shouldn't have been in the report recommending economic stimulus for Ireland, no?
"It's amazing to me how American society will look with suspicion at anything the federal government does, but give corporations a pass for taking and giving nothing back at all."
This is the issue. Federal government puts out a report saying tax havens seem to work as economic stimulus. Country enacts tax haven rules. Federal government flips out at companies taking advantage of tax haven status of said country.
The government just looks incompetent. Listening to Planet Money, which is by no means a crazy "wingnut" media outlet, will reinforce this view pretty regularly. Look up the debacle involving cotton subsidies in Texas, where the federal government violated a treaty it created, and ended up having to subsidize cotton farmers in Brazil as well. 'Cause that's a good use of tax dollars, right?
Your argument would hold more water if it wasn't the US government's idea for Ireland to become a tax haven in the first place:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...
What are you talking about? I think some very early plasma screens cheated on the horizontal resolution a bit, but otherwise any HDTV (720p or 1080p) uses square pixels.
You're right - I had it stuck in my head that monitor manufacturers were upset at the original HD spec as it didn't *require* square pixels, and the first HD sets used rectangular pixels - mainly early plasmas and CRTs.
I'll still contend that staring at a TV to type in a bunch of text isn't an ideal situation.
On the other hand, modern TVs aren't the best thing to program on. Granted, they are sharper than old analog TVs we used to hook our 8-bits (bitters?) up to, but they still have non-square pixels making text fuzzy, and are usually situated in a family room in a spot nonconducive to sitting in front of and staring at for long periods of time.
A much cooler feature would be the ability to develop a game on your Win/Mac/Lin laptop, and bluetooth it over to the Speccy to play, with full remote debugging support. Stepping through code and immediately seeing the results on the system itself would be awesome.
And, since Arista didn't have to pay anyone to actually write the manuals or develop the command syntax, they can charge less for their products.
The idea that an ameoba displays intelligence in excess of our current ability to simulate is frankly a little ridiculous.
That quote bothered me, too. We've been simulating simple insects for decades, back when neural networks were clusters of transistors on flip-chips. We're at the point where we can build machines that can learn to move and navigate on their own. There was a Slashdot article a week ago about a fully mapped nematode neural network wired into a robot.
What is the point of this article? You would think that people have learned better by now than to attempt to make predictions as to where technology will go.
Er, McAffee is wanted for murder in Belize. Knox is wanted in Italy and will be tried in absentia.
But neither have extradition requests pending. McAfee has charges pending but they've never made it to a judge. Knox is probably going to be extradited but hasn't yet.
Until the U.S. government gets an extradition request they aren't required to, and shouldn't, do anything.
The problem with nuclear, without even going close to the radiation boogeyman, is that:
- it requres huge investement before nothing happens
- it takes years to construct a power plant
- the nuclear plants require a lot of sweet water for cooling, 24/7, and the world is running out
I'm a fan of the mini-nuclear reactors. These are about the size of a bus, can be mass-produced to make them cheaper, and require no maintenance or cooling. They are extremely fault-tolerant - they only operate in a narrow thermal band, if they get too hot or too cold the reaction shuts itself down. One produces enough energy to power a small city, or a large neighborhood in a big city. You sink them in a concrete vault and forget about them for a decade or so. When their nuclear fuel is spent, you pull them out, get rid of the waste (about the size of a softball) refurbish and refuel the reactor and put it back in the ground.
The bonus side-effect is a more stable and efficient electrical grid with fewer long-haul high voltage power lines running all over the place, more redundancy and less centralization.
There are no outstanding extradition requests for McAfee or Knox, so I'm not sure what your point is.