I agree. This is all fine and dandy and yeah we helped catch the bad guys, but now if I say wanted to bang my wife oustand in the back-yard of my own home, I have to worry about some predator drone, and a creeper viewing the tape. This just leads to yet another slippery slope to decreasing freedom and abuse of our lovely government.
No, you have to worry about your next door neighbor's kid with the quadcopter and GoPro camera.
Drug use is expensive - let's not kid ourselves. Look at health care expenditures for our favorite drugs in the US - alcohol and tobacco. Hell, those drugs have their very own federal bureau. But humans do things that are counterproductive to our health and safety. It isn't the government's business to keep us all safely cocooned and protected from ourselves - it's the government's responsibility to keep us safe from each other.
So, yes, regulation (and treatment programs for those folks that get in trouble from the drugs) is expensive but that's what money is for. Good luck getting that bit of enlightenment past the brimfire and damnation ethos that runs through vast tracks of this country.
Just like Slashdot's inability to figure out the Apple demographic, most of us can't quite figure out how fucking weird an enormous swath of the US really is when it comes to moral issues. I mean, Michelle Bachman? Really? She makes Sarah Palin look sane.
I'm interested in seeing what my generation does though, there is almost nobody who doesn't know what the drugs are or their effects if not first handed, and the current generation's political influence fades off. But for us to replace those people is another couple of decades, so bear on I guess.
Nope, doesn't work like that. Hell, my generation - who grew up in the '70's did plenty of drugs. So did half the current lawmakers. More than half if you include alcohol as a 'drug' (it is but most people don't think so - denial is a wonderful thing). Funny thing, entrenched bureaucracies tend to remain entrenched bureaucracies. That and the weird Calvinist (the preacher, not the kid) mindset that is deeply embedded in this country's psych will keep the Boogy man alive for many a generation.
Let's get over the sensationalism and realize the real problem: We had false expectations of GPS and therefore should not have depended on this technology in defense systems.
You do realize that the US military owns the GPS system. It seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Of course, no tech is perfect but I don't understand what you're whining about. It's not like Lightspeed is going to put transmitters in Afghanistan and if some nefarious persons try to block GPS signals with a transmitter well, the military has some nice little tools to solve that problem.
I don't really want a lot of intelligence built into my car. Instead of having a screen built into the dashboard I'd rather have a standard way of docking my phone so that I could use its built-in navigation and audio functions.
And that might be just what you're getting:
The device does not replace existing instrumentation, but rather provides additional services to both the driver and passengers. The device will have access to the vehicles telemetry information and will have mobile connectivity, allowing a number of mobile services to be delivered he said.
OTOH, Did you ever think it was possible that you could answer 'yes' to the question 'Does that car run Linux?'.
Sprained ankles though I wouldn't lump as a minor ailment. You don't necessarily always know if it's a sprain or a minor factor or torn ligament. Delaying care can end up costing a lot more money and result in inferior recovery.
Not really. Unless your managed to fracture more than one bone, in which case the pain would likely drive you to seek care, if you elevated it, put some ice on it, took some OTC pain meds you could easily wait out a weekend.
Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me? Bomb #20: Of course. Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts? Bomb #20: I am always receptive to suggestions. Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist? Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist. Doolittle: But how do you know you exist? Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious. Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist? Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am. Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists? Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.
People talk about NASA in the time of the Apollo program as a well oiled machine that could do no wrong. Well, here's evidence that it was a bureaucratic disaster. It's easy to look back with rose colored glasses and say the shuttle era was a mess, but in reality maybe it was always that way?
Bureaucracies are always a mess. Strip the facade behind any complicated human activity and you will find confusion, graft, incompetence and sloth. NASA has 'lost' lots of things - Apollo tapes, pieces parts, data. They've made grevious engineering errors (ie, Apollo 1).
Archival processes are very expensive and when you are more focused about doing things than preserving what you did, it isn't surprising that you can't account for everything.
The BIG problem was getting the PR people involved. They started hyping it as if it were the discovery of the century. A paper with 'weird' results is fine - even if it turns out wrong. A paper with a dozen PR flacks hyping an entirely new paradigm in molecular biology not so much.
Other sources have indicated that the RC-170 has a 'fly home and land if lost' mode. If maybe simply that the Iranians confused it's GPS or for whatever reason the plane decided to land, thinking mommy would come pick it up soon. Instead, it turns out to be the Big Bad Wolf (or it's really one hell of a Trojan).
It's going to be pretty funny if the US moves all its military aircraft technology to unmanned operation (which seems to be the trend at the moment), and suddenly someone figures out how to take control of them all electronically, rendering the US military completely impotent overnight.
Which is exactly why to put these things out in the field. Firstly, no one has ever mentioned putting ALL (or even most) Air Force planes in drone mode. They have been actively improving the drones and amazingly enough, the enemy has been improving drone defense tactics (although it's possible that the Iranians just got lucky this time - no matter - I'm sure they'll take it).
A side effect of Iraq / Afghanistan / Pakistan / Somilia and other countries unknown to us is that the US military is actively fighting enemies and getting better at it all of the time. It isn't worth it, IMHO, on many levels, but again, nobody has asked me lately.
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Our species has gotten its hands on toys that we're just not grown-up enough to play with.
Yeah, our balls.
There are apparently issues he doesn't want to acknowledge.
Check your batteries on your sarcasm detector. Or maybe just get a bottle of Scotch and reboot it.
I agree. This is all fine and dandy and yeah we helped catch the bad guys, but now if I say wanted to bang my wife oustand in the back-yard of my own home, I have to worry about some predator drone, and a creeper viewing the tape. This just leads to yet another slippery slope to decreasing freedom and abuse of our lovely government.
No, you have to worry about your next door neighbor's kid with the quadcopter and GoPro camera.
Yeah, just a few little problems with translation.
Mods aren't very happy today. Must've been a bad weekend.
Although I like +2 Troll. Keep up the good work guys.
Somebody forgot about sex.
Typical Americans....
Drug use is expensive - let's not kid ourselves. Look at health care expenditures for our favorite drugs in the US - alcohol and tobacco. Hell, those drugs have their very own federal bureau. But humans do things that are counterproductive to our health and safety. It isn't the government's business to keep us all safely cocooned and protected from ourselves - it's the government's responsibility to keep us safe from each other.
So, yes, regulation (and treatment programs for those folks that get in trouble from the drugs) is expensive but that's what money is for. Good luck getting that bit of enlightenment past the brimfire and damnation ethos that runs through vast tracks of this country.
Just like Slashdot's inability to figure out the Apple demographic, most of us can't quite figure out how fucking weird an enormous swath of the US really is when it comes to moral issues. I mean, Michelle Bachman? Really? She makes Sarah Palin look sane.
I'm interested in seeing what my generation does though, there is almost nobody who doesn't know what the drugs are or their effects if not first handed, and the current generation's political influence fades off. But for us to replace those people is another couple of decades, so bear on I guess.
Nope, doesn't work like that. Hell, my generation - who grew up in the '70's did plenty of drugs. So did half the current lawmakers. More than half if you include alcohol as a 'drug' (it is but most people don't think so - denial is a wonderful thing). Funny thing, entrenched bureaucracies tend to remain entrenched bureaucracies. That and the weird Calvinist (the preacher, not the kid) mindset that is deeply embedded in this country's psych will keep the Boogy man alive for many a generation.
Libertarian bumpersticker:
-- Drugs Not Thugs --
I think "Drugs AND Thugs" would be more appropriate.
An easier solution would be bury a small diameter pipe and to dissolve the drugs in water and pump from Mexico
You would then be infringing on the Oil Company's turf. You don't want to do that. They make the Narco boys look like prissy little angels.
You little slut! You dare insult me? You have no idea who you're dealing with, do you? I have the true power under my belt!
We will only believe you if you pen a 3 page description of what you are wearing and what you had in your tea.
Ah Slashdot where there is never a middle ground, its vi + tex or Office 2010.
Screw that - it's COPY CON or Wordstar.
Kids these days....
Let's get over the sensationalism and realize the real problem: We had false expectations of GPS and therefore should not have depended on this technology in defense systems.
You do realize that the US military owns the GPS system. It seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Of course, no tech is perfect but I don't understand what you're whining about. It's not like Lightspeed is going to put transmitters in Afghanistan and if some nefarious persons try to block GPS signals with a transmitter well, the military has some nice little tools to solve that problem.
I don't really want a lot of intelligence built into my car. Instead of having a screen built into the dashboard I'd rather have a standard way of docking my phone so that I could use its built-in navigation and audio functions.
And that might be just what you're getting:
The device does not replace existing instrumentation, but rather provides additional services to both the driver and passengers. The device will have access to the vehicles telemetry information and will have mobile connectivity, allowing a number of mobile services to be delivered he said.
OTOH, Did you ever think it was possible that you could answer 'yes' to the question 'Does that car run Linux?'.
If the computer system shuts down and workflow speeds up then you know you have a problem.
Sprained ankles though I wouldn't lump as a minor ailment. You don't necessarily always know if it's a sprain or a minor factor or torn ligament. Delaying care can end up costing a lot more money and result in inferior recovery.
Not really. Unless your managed to fracture more than one bone, in which case the pain would likely drive you to seek care, if you elevated it, put some ice on it, took some OTC pain meds you could easily wait out a weekend.
Why? The nursing home should have a TV. Just ask the nice nurses to switch to the NASA channel.
Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?
Bomb #20: Of course.
Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Bomb #20: I am always receptive to suggestions.
Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.
People talk about NASA in the time of the Apollo program as a well oiled machine that could do no wrong. Well, here's evidence that it was a bureaucratic disaster. It's easy to look back with rose colored glasses and say the shuttle era was a mess, but in reality maybe it was always that way?
Bureaucracies are always a mess. Strip the facade behind any complicated human activity and you will find confusion, graft, incompetence and sloth. NASA has 'lost' lots of things - Apollo tapes, pieces parts, data. They've made grevious engineering errors (ie, Apollo 1).
Archival processes are very expensive and when you are more focused about doing things than preserving what you did, it isn't surprising that you can't account for everything.
Is there a practical way to make interstitials invisible instead of blocking them?
I don't care if adverts run, I just don't want to see them.
Unplug the computer.
Didn't you just mis spell wench?
The BIG problem was getting the PR people involved. They started hyping it as if it were the discovery of the century. A paper with 'weird' results is fine - even if it turns out wrong. A paper with a dozen PR flacks hyping an entirely new paradigm in molecular biology not so much.
Other sources have indicated that the RC-170 has a 'fly home and land if lost' mode. If maybe simply that the Iranians confused it's GPS or for whatever reason the plane decided to land, thinking mommy would come pick it up soon. Instead, it turns out to be the Big Bad Wolf (or it's really one hell of a Trojan).
It's going to be pretty funny if the US moves all its military aircraft technology to unmanned operation (which seems to be the trend at the moment), and suddenly someone figures out how to take control of them all electronically, rendering the US military completely impotent overnight.
Which is exactly why to put these things out in the field. Firstly, no one has ever mentioned putting ALL (or even most) Air Force planes in drone mode. They have been actively improving the drones and amazingly enough, the enemy has been improving drone defense tactics (although it's possible that the Iranians just got lucky this time - no matter - I'm sure they'll take it).
A side effect of Iraq / Afghanistan / Pakistan / Somilia and other countries unknown to us is that the US military is actively fighting enemies and getting better at it all of the time. It isn't worth it, IMHO, on many levels, but again, nobody has asked me lately.