If your genes are bad, nothing about you will work right: you'll be dumb, you'll be ugly, you'll be unhealthy.
By contrast, good looks, good health, and good intelligence tend to go together, because people who have good genetics will express all the right genes at the right time during development and end up symmetrical and well-wired (barring some freak accident).
Back to Biology 101 for you. Not even close. Health and intelligence are not genetically linked (Stephen Hawkings, anyone?). Attractiveness and intelligence are not genetically linked (Paris Hilton for the win).
Yes, there are unfortunate people with 'piss poor protoplasm' (the technical term). These people have a much harder time being 'successful' because they're often sick or disabled. However, I can think of a number of individuals with chronically poor health who have managed to make enormous contributions to society. Furthermore, there are many perfectly healthy, perfectly attractive, perfectly stupid people running amok in the world, Sarah Palin being the perfect example. There are many, many extremely intelligent people whose physical attributes would never raise the pulse of bystanders. And yes, if you're attractive AND intelligent you have some advantages that most people don't have but that has nothing to do with genetic linkages to the two traits.
Wow! 25% - 30% just sitting here on/. (Firefox 3.6 / MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.8 GHz - not a sluggish machine). Just what the hell is slashcode doing? There must be some Flash embedded in here somewhere...
. Thus, if your friend takes your picture and uploads it, they are claiming to have your permission; if Facebook uses that photo, they have an agreement with the provider (your friend) in good faith. It is your friend who did something wrong, and your friend whom you should sue for damages.
Not really. In the US, Facebook would be held partially responsible because they are supposed to be 'professional' enough to realize that they need a model release. You might get away with it on your hobby site, but FB has lawyers and all sorts of smart people. right?
In the US, what could happen is that the person who's picture was used (without permission) could go after the photographer (who holds the copyright for the file) for inappropriate use of the image. Facebook's liability would come from the concept that they, as a professional organization that is supposed to know about copyright issues, has to do due diligence to ensure that the photographer does indeed have the appropriate permissions to sell / give / assign the image to FB. I don't think they would be completely off the hook, but might be harder to get to. Seems like a genuine mess, something only a lawyer could love.
I seem to recall a couple of cases where companies used photos uploaded to Flickr or some other photo site in a commercial venue. They had no model release and the 'models' were successfully suing the company with the photographer getting off the hook entirely.
You're right -- that's one of the biggest issues my employer has -- we can't get welders work anything. That 8/10 don't pass our weld test doesn't help, either. It's just a 4G 6" S80 position weld already fit and in the positioner for you. It's subject to visual testing and RT. I'd include our starting wages for welders, but they'd seem off since we're in a pretty low cost of living area (that also managed to more or less bypass the real estate bubble entirely, both the inflation and the pop)
That's because welders these days are either 1) skilled in their trade, having done it for a number of years and high in demand so they're not knocking at your door or 2) they learned it last week from their community college / voc tech program and are barely able to point the nozzle in the correct direction. The entire 'journeyman' class of welder appears to have gone up in smoke. While just fine for the skilled guys at the moment, they're eventually going to fall off the ladder and end up in the nursing home and somebody is going to have to replace them.
Welding is one of those funny trades that you really can't completely outsource. Too much of it is done onsite as final construction.
The thing is, if a group of engineers discusses an idea, sooner or later an idea pops up that everyone at the table agrees is the best possible solution, given the problem to be solved and the resources available to solve it. Then they go put their solution into practice. Politics isn't like this.
The problem is, engineering isn't like this either. As evidence, I offer you....
Slashdot.
Really, Roblimo, how can you say such a thing. After all the 'engineering' flame fests here? If these people were to be stuck in a single conference room to 'hash things out' the only thing left would be a bunch of pocket protectors and an old Titanium Power Book. Really.
You wouldn't steal a car. But soon you'll be able to copy one.
I doubt GM / Ford / Ferrari will be too worried about off white lumpy 'cars' with plastic engines anytime in the foreseeable future. Wal Mart might be concerned about your ability to mimic their large selection of plastic junk, everyone else - not so much.
FWIW I was trying to make a snarky comment about how medications seem to outdate a week after they're on the shelf, but then, in the interest of being sort of fair, I looked it up.
I still think that big pharma is screwing us to the wall with expiry dates shorter than Sarah Palin's attention span, but I couldn't find a whole lot other that the stuff in your medscape article.
This is bizarre. Playboy is R-rated, not NC-17, and Apple already distributes music that carries the [EXPLICIT] tag. Hell, they sell and rent Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and there's nothing you can see in Playboy that's not in that movie, and nothing they say in Playboy that's not in American Pie.
Dunno about that. Apparently this month's edition has 43 year old Pamela Anderson showing off her poetry.
The Playboy Archiverequires Silverlight to see anything useful (the articles, natch). Hard to see how that's gonna work on the pad. Maybe they'll make a special edition since the stuff on the website is just a teaser to get you to plunk down some cash.
No, repeat the test a thousand times. Think about it. The idea (from TFA) is that these devices USUALLY don't cause problems but at some low frequency MIGHT cause problems. Some small percentage of those times this MIGHT cause plane to go boom. Rare, but spectacular event.
Just running around on the tarmac waving test equipment neither proves nor disproves the issue.
That all depends on the visibility level! And they use it especially in bad weather! If I am not mistaken on the more modern aircraft carriers it's even a demand. Make no mistake about this, autolanding is being used every day.
I have heard of automobile manufacturers failing to honor vehicle warranties for electrical issues when amateur radios where installed in cars. Mostly seemed to be a CYA sort of thing although, in fairness, some mobile amateur radios draw 20 amps during transmit. This isn't an unreasonable amount of power to pull from a car but it does require a bit of planning and knowledge. So it's certainly possible to fry various components of the vehicle if you do it wrong.
At least the US manufacturers had fact sheets on exactly how to install in vehicle transmitters without voiding warranties.
You're assuming that the system is entirely digital. It's not. There is quite a bit of analog stuff on a plane. Then what can happen is: Unintentional Radiator makes analog radio signals which interacts with other analog signals (typically through cabling or a bad ground) which gives spurious data somewhere downstream which screws up something.
Again, equipment is designed to deal with these issues. However, as we all know, sometimes things don't work quite as well as designed. Most aircraft crashes are caused by cascades of failures, any one of which, if avoided, would have prevented the crash. So they're rare, but perfect shit storms do happen. Aircraft designers and maintainers have this mindset of trying to control everything possible to prevent such annoying consequences.
For most people in the aircraft industry, the tradeoff between occasionally crashing and not being able to twitter everyone on the planet that you managed to get through security with your virginity intact falls squarely on the "shut the fucking thing off" side.
Links (or anything, really, keywords, a name, an airplane model), please. The question whether there is even the possibility of personal electronic devices interfering with commercial air liners seems to be at the heart of the issue.
The TFA is a good start. Another article linked in the TFA is another.
Short answer: Interference from unwanted EM radiators in cabin is rare, but has been documented.
Policy issue: How much hassle do you want to impose on people to minimize rare, but potentially disastrous issues, especially when it revolves around doing something as stupid as playing 'Angry Birds'?
Take a picture of your laptop or device, carefully documenting the screws.
Take it in for service
Tell them not to change the screws
If they change the screws, ask them to put the old ones back.
Document change in screws
Take it to your states AG, and start a criminal investigation.
ITS YOUR COMPUTER, if they change it against your will, we have laws to protect you. It is illegal for them to do this without your permission.
SCENE: Office of local Attorney General
CAST: mlwmoohawk, Secretary
DIALOG:
mlwmoohawk: (Shaking, agitated) "They took my Phillips head screws out of my iPhone and replaced them with pentalobular torx!"
Secretary: "What?"
mlwmoohawk: (Shaking, agitated) "I demand an investigation! I want legal redress!"
Secretary: "What?"
mlwmoohawk: (Hands Secretary grossly normal appearing iPhone) Here! Look!
Secretary: (Studies grossly normal appearing iPhone, turns it on successfully, plays 'Angry Birds") "Seems to work OK..."
mlwmoohawk: (Shaking, agitated) "You don't understand! The screws! They've been changed! It's different!"
Secretary: (Edges away from mlwmoohawk, picks up phone to call security)
Slashdot Mirror
Plain text - Testing
Italics - testing
Bold - testing
Emphasis - testing
Two for four - not bad for basic HTML. Progress as promised!
You expect any of us here on Slashdot to believe that?
If your genes are bad, nothing about you will work right: you'll be dumb, you'll be ugly, you'll be unhealthy. By contrast, good looks, good health, and good intelligence tend to go together, because people who have good genetics will express all the right genes at the right time during development and end up symmetrical and well-wired (barring some freak accident).
Back to Biology 101 for you. Not even close. Health and intelligence are not genetically linked (Stephen Hawkings, anyone?). Attractiveness and intelligence are not genetically linked (Paris Hilton for the win).
Yes, there are unfortunate people with 'piss poor protoplasm' (the technical term). These people have a much harder time being 'successful' because they're often sick or disabled. However, I can think of a number of individuals with chronically poor health who have managed to make enormous contributions to society. Furthermore, there are many perfectly healthy, perfectly attractive, perfectly stupid people running amok in the world, Sarah Palin being the perfect example. There are many, many extremely intelligent people whose physical attributes would never raise the pulse of bystanders. And yes, if you're attractive AND intelligent you have some advantages that most people don't have but that has nothing to do with genetic linkages to the two traits.
Stop reading Playboy. It's messing up your mind.
There are always rumors that Mobile Me will get much better, perhaps this year.
Wow! 25% - 30% just sitting here on /. (Firefox 3.6 / MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.8 GHz - not a sluggish machine). Just what the hell is slashcode doing? There must be some Flash embedded in here somewhere ...
. Thus, if your friend takes your picture and uploads it, they are claiming to have your permission; if Facebook uses that photo, they have an agreement with the provider (your friend) in good faith. It is your friend who did something wrong, and your friend whom you should sue for damages.
Not really. In the US, Facebook would be held partially responsible because they are supposed to be 'professional' enough to realize that they need a model release. You might get away with it on your hobby site, but FB has lawyers and all sorts of smart people. right?
In the US, what could happen is that the person who's picture was used (without permission) could go after the photographer (who holds the copyright for the file) for inappropriate use of the image. Facebook's liability would come from the concept that they, as a professional organization that is supposed to know about copyright issues, has to do due diligence to ensure that the photographer does indeed have the appropriate permissions to sell / give / assign the image to FB. I don't think they would be completely off the hook, but might be harder to get to. Seems like a genuine mess, something only a lawyer could love.
I seem to recall a couple of cases where companies used photos uploaded to Flickr or some other photo site in a commercial venue. They had no model release and the 'models' were successfully suing the company with the photographer getting off the hook entirely.
You're right -- that's one of the biggest issues my employer has -- we can't get welders work anything. That 8/10 don't pass our weld test doesn't help, either. It's just a 4G 6" S80 position weld already fit and in the positioner for you. It's subject to visual testing and RT. I'd include our starting wages for welders, but they'd seem off since we're in a pretty low cost of living area (that also managed to more or less bypass the real estate bubble entirely, both the inflation and the pop)
That's because welders these days are either 1) skilled in their trade, having done it for a number of years and high in demand so they're not knocking at your door or 2) they learned it last week from their community college / voc tech program and are barely able to point the nozzle in the correct direction. The entire 'journeyman' class of welder appears to have gone up in smoke. While just fine for the skilled guys at the moment, they're eventually going to fall off the ladder and end up in the nursing home and somebody is going to have to replace them.
Welding is one of those funny trades that you really can't completely outsource. Too much of it is done onsite as final construction.
Whoopsie.
Madre de Dios. Can't somebody please come up with a grammar checker already?
Your making a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory analogy with Apple? That's crazy talk.
It's Citizen Kane all the way down.
The thing is, if a group of engineers discusses an idea, sooner or later an idea pops up that everyone at the table agrees is the best possible solution, given the problem to be solved and the resources available to solve it. Then they go put their solution into practice. Politics isn't like this.
The problem is, engineering isn't like this either. As evidence, I offer you....
Slashdot.
Really, Roblimo, how can you say such a thing. After all the 'engineering' flame fests here? If these people were to be stuck in a single conference room to 'hash things out' the only thing left would be a bunch of pocket protectors and an old Titanium Power Book. Really.
You wouldn't steal a car. But soon you'll be able to copy one.
I doubt GM / Ford / Ferrari will be too worried about off white lumpy 'cars' with plastic engines anytime in the foreseeable future. Wal Mart might be concerned about your ability to mimic their large selection of plastic junk, everyone else - not so much.
FWIW I was trying to make a snarky comment about how medications seem to outdate a week after they're on the shelf, but then, in the interest of being sort of fair, I looked it up.
I still think that big pharma is screwing us to the wall with expiry dates shorter than Sarah Palin's attention span, but I couldn't find a whole lot other that the stuff in your medscape article.
I'm terribly sorry that you are from Massachusetts, but do you realize that I was poking fun at you?
This is bizarre. Playboy is R-rated, not NC-17, and Apple already distributes music that carries the [EXPLICIT] tag. Hell, they sell and rent Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and there's nothing you can see in Playboy that's not in that movie, and nothing they say in Playboy that's not in American Pie.
Dunno about that. Apparently this month's edition has 43 year old Pamela Anderson showing off her poetry.
Do Not Want.
The Playboy Archiverequires Silverlight to see anything useful (the articles, natch). Hard to see how that's gonna work on the pad. Maybe they'll make a special edition since the stuff on the website is just a teaser to get you to plunk down some cash.
No, repeat the test a thousand times. Think about it. The idea (from TFA) is that these devices USUALLY don't cause problems but at some low frequency MIGHT cause problems. Some small percentage of those times this MIGHT cause plane to go boom. Rare, but spectacular event.
Just running around on the tarmac waving test equipment neither proves nor disproves the issue.
That all depends on the visibility level! And they use it especially in bad weather! If I am not mistaken on the more modern aircraft carriers it's even a demand. Make no mistake about this, autolanding is being used every day.
Not really. Not the way you mean it.
I have heard of automobile manufacturers failing to honor vehicle warranties for electrical issues when amateur radios where installed in cars. Mostly seemed to be a CYA sort of thing although, in fairness, some mobile amateur radios draw 20 amps during transmit. This isn't an unreasonable amount of power to pull from a car but it does require a bit of planning and knowledge. So it's certainly possible to fry various components of the vehicle if you do it wrong.
/end useless pedant info
At least the US manufacturers had fact sheets on exactly how to install in vehicle transmitters without voiding warranties.
You're assuming that the system is entirely digital. It's not. There is quite a bit of analog stuff on a plane. Then what can happen is: Unintentional Radiator makes analog radio signals which interacts with other analog signals (typically through cabling or a bad ground) which gives spurious data somewhere downstream which screws up something.
Again, equipment is designed to deal with these issues. However, as we all know, sometimes things don't work quite as well as designed. Most aircraft crashes are caused by cascades of failures, any one of which, if avoided, would have prevented the crash. So they're rare, but perfect shit storms do happen. Aircraft designers and maintainers have this mindset of trying to control everything possible to prevent such annoying consequences.
For most people in the aircraft industry, the tradeoff between occasionally crashing and not being able to twitter everyone on the planet that you managed to get through security with your virginity intact falls squarely on the "shut the fucking thing off" side.
Links (or anything, really, keywords, a name, an airplane model), please. The question whether there is even the possibility of personal electronic devices interfering with commercial air liners seems to be at the heart of the issue.
The TFA is a good start. Another article linked in the TFA is another. Short answer: Interference from unwanted EM radiators in cabin is rare, but has been documented.
Policy issue: How much hassle do you want to impose on people to minimize rare, but potentially disastrous issues, especially when it revolves around doing something as stupid as playing 'Angry Birds'?
Take a picture of your laptop or device, carefully documenting the screws. Take it in for service Tell them not to change the screws If they change the screws, ask them to put the old ones back. Document change in screws Take it to your states AG, and start a criminal investigation.
ITS YOUR COMPUTER, if they change it against your will, we have laws to protect you. It is illegal for them to do this without your permission.
SCENE: Office of local Attorney General
..."
CAST: mlwmoohawk, Secretary
DIALOG:
mlwmoohawk: (Shaking, agitated) "They took my Phillips head screws out of my iPhone and replaced them with pentalobular torx!"
Secretary: "What?"
mlwmoohawk: (Shaking, agitated) "I demand an investigation! I want legal redress!"
Secretary: "What?"
mlwmoohawk: (Hands Secretary grossly normal appearing iPhone) Here! Look!
Secretary: (Studies grossly normal appearing iPhone, turns it on successfully, plays 'Angry Birds") "Seems to work OK
mlwmoohawk: (Shaking, agitated) "You don't understand! The screws! They've been changed! It's different!"
Secretary: (Edges away from mlwmoohawk, picks up phone to call security)
I think MTV could start a series....
The last time I took apart a Dell laptop, I used a band saw.
Very satisfying.
Here are your iPhone parts, sir:
.
You sir. It's off to the local hardware store for you. Hand in your geek card there.
You are not worthy. ONLY 100 screwdrivers?
Have you no shame?