You have to teach them some smattering of the over arching themes in Science. If for no other reason than they are going to hear about it on TV or the Internet. You don't teach detailed issues and it is going to be at a 'religious' level if you will - it is taught as doctrine, not reasoned learning. But that is true of pretty much everything at an elementary school level. Hopefully you teach enough of the foundational basics that they can learn to think later on when their brains are fully developed (after they quit reading Slashdot).
The part that you don't understand is that despite this horrible design decision, aircraft are much safer than they have ever been. Perfect, no. Safe, yes.
The bigger issue is that pilots spend hundreds of hours practicing those emergency maneuvers. Car drivers not so much. Pilots have strict rules about how many hours they can fly. Automobile drivers, not so much.
If we held automobile and truck drivers to the standard we hold even private pilots, there would likely be many fewer accidents. But we don't.
They also expect cars to start carrying "black boxes" that will help crash investigators figure out exactly what caused an accident.
Really I just don't want to be tracked any more!!! Fitbit to see how I live, black boxes to see my driving habits, using my cell phone to track my movements.
Enough...FUCKING ENOUGH!!
Your angst is a bit late. That telemetry beacon has left the barn. It was pretty much inevitable that as soon as people could create systems that tracked everyone and everything, they would. Thus is the way of man. (Notice I said 'man', if women ran the world, it might well have been different). The best we can do is limit the damage, use the rule of law to keep the incursions into areas that really need to be private, private.
It's a big planet and a small nuke. Although it would be a smoking gun, so to speak, either the sensors didn't find the fallout or the information is still classified.
As the article points out, pretty much every other bit of evidence points to a nuclear explosion. Personally, I think it was a lead in to District 9. We were telling the aliens where to land but something screwed up.
The whole history of that region has been various peoples stomping the shit out of various other peoples. This latest spat is just a continuation of stuff that has been going on for at least eight centuries. If it wasn't Israel it would be something else (Lebanon for instance). Of course, the British managed to screw things up in a way only the British can do when the created Palestine. To be fair, the French tried hard but were out classed by the Brits.
And to make it harder, the concept of a species is fluid and artificial. It's not like Homo Neanderthalis just popped up de novo. There were undoubtedly populations of mixed breeds, localized variants and quite possibly early politicians rummaging around the oyster middens. Our fossil record is incredibly incomplete so even small additions to the database are likely to change our views on things dramatically.
Hopefully, as techniques improve we will be able to get more data from older fossils, fossils that are poorly preserved and fossils that are in collections where the curators haven't allowed for destructive sampling. The entire field has benefited enormously from pushing the sequencing technology forward.
If you're interested, Svante Paablo (Nice work with that Unicode, Slashdot) has a book about the science (and engineering) of paleo DNA sequencing. Pretty amazing hard core work.
I am not an AC - just can't drive/. I am Charlie Merritt. I was in a big to-do re PGP. Persecuted was Phil Zimmerman, and anyone who helped with PGP. Everybody knew "Special" Agent Robin Sterzer of customs (ICE today). She was amazing - knew absolutely nothing about crypto. Even less about the difference between source and compiled machine language. She was the "prosecutor's" assistant in nailing this crime down. [Would a FOIA re Sterzer work? 'Prolly not - personnel privacy and all.
My lawyer said (at that time) said DOJ *NEVER* announces a drop in investigation. [They used to let you figure out the statutes of limitations] I read the law, witnesses are under NO obligation to keep quiet. I Posted case number and names on Internet. And the questions they asked, and the fact that I asked how many of the Grand Jury read what news groups on USNET. EVERYBODY could "testify" - I am surprised it took so long with this pocket heater thing. Where were his fellow physicists?
His fellow physicists were in the dark until his lawyer managed to drum them up. Something any half bright 'prosecutor' would think of. It is fortunate that the FBI is as stupid as they appear to be. Imagine if they had done their due diligence, found out they screwed up but decided to hide it by threatening the other scientists with National Security Letters or some such threat? We'd never know. We don't know.
Exactly. Now, how hard would it have been to find some knowledgeable physicists with decent security clearances to run this by? Might have taken a couple of days. Even a week. The horror.
And why the fuck did they SWAT team the guy? Do they think he has a tachyon deflector in his pocket and that turns FBI agents into primordial soup?
Yep, this is exactly why we don't 'trust' the Powers That Be. Once they act like full grown adults for a while, maybe be can restart the discussion.
The last time somebody tried this was the Library of Alexandria which required the dictates and commands of several kings. Even then they had to pay money to the Athenians to get some documents.
Except most of his crazy ideas either never get implemented, or don't work. People focus on his successes so much they tend not to see his failures.
So. Most of my crazy ideas (or yours) never get implemented either. SOME of his crazy ideas have been implemented. Which is why he is funding a real rocket company and we... well, we're posting on Slashdot.
After so many comments, and people have not realised this is not about consumer loyalty or helping or deceiving the customer...this is about killing a very active 2nd hand market.
Bullshit. This will affect, what, 10, 20, 30% of the iPhone sales? It's never going to be the dominant way to get an iPhone. The advantages really fit only a fairly small demographic - people with disposable income AND some deep seated desire to have the latest iPhone. While one could argue that the money would be better spent on psychotherapy or Cialis, people do what they will.
But there will be lots of extra iPhones for the refurb market. And if there isn't? Again, who the hell cares? There will be zillions of perfectly decent Android phones on the secondary market. And where exactly else will the Blackberry and Windows phones go?
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No, you seem to be the fourth so far. But no matter, we're still happy that they're trying to keep up.
I knew stepping though that portal was risky but I kind of like this Alabama filled with science education and NASA engineers.
Back in my dimension, we are mainly focused on where to put our 10 commandment monument and the evils of an education lottery.
It's not all Bibles and Chitlins. Marshall Space Flight Center is in Huntsville.
You have to teach them some smattering of the over arching themes in Science. If for no other reason than they are going to hear about it on TV or the Internet. You don't teach detailed issues and it is going to be at a 'religious' level if you will - it is taught as doctrine, not reasoned learning. But that is true of pretty much everything at an elementary school level. Hopefully you teach enough of the foundational basics that they can learn to think later on when their brains are fully developed (after they quit reading Slashdot).
I read the summary and it didn't say anything about unseasonably cold weather - much less sub-freezing temperatures - in Alabama.
That's because of Climate Change. It's getting warmer and they figured they had to explain it somehow.
Must. Not.
The part that you don't understand is that despite this horrible design decision, aircraft are much safer than they have ever been. Perfect, no. Safe, yes.
The bigger issue is that pilots spend hundreds of hours practicing those emergency maneuvers. Car drivers not so much. Pilots have strict rules about how many hours they can fly. Automobile drivers, not so much.
If we held automobile and truck drivers to the standard we hold even private pilots, there would likely be many fewer accidents. But we don't.
Really I just don't want to be tracked any more!!! Fitbit to see how I live, black boxes to see my driving habits, using my cell phone to track my movements.
Enough...FUCKING ENOUGH!!
Your angst is a bit late. That telemetry beacon has left the barn. It was pretty much inevitable that as soon as people could create systems that tracked everyone and everything, they would. Thus is the way of man. (Notice I said 'man', if women ran the world, it might well have been different). The best we can do is limit the damage, use the rule of law to keep the incursions into areas that really need to be private, private.
And goodluckwiththat.
It's a big planet and a small nuke. Although it would be a smoking gun, so to speak, either the sensors didn't find the fallout or the information is still classified.
As the article points out, pretty much every other bit of evidence points to a nuclear explosion. Personally, I think it was a lead in to District 9. We were telling the aliens where to land but something screwed up.
The whole history of that region has been various peoples stomping the shit out of various other peoples. This latest spat is just a continuation of stuff that has been going on for at least eight centuries. If it wasn't Israel it would be something else (Lebanon for instance). Of course, the British managed to screw things up in a way only the British can do when the created Palestine. To be fair, the French tried hard but were out classed by the Brits.
And to make it harder, the concept of a species is fluid and artificial. It's not like Homo Neanderthalis just popped up de novo. There were undoubtedly populations of mixed breeds, localized variants and quite possibly early politicians rummaging around the oyster middens. Our fossil record is incredibly incomplete so even small additions to the database are likely to change our views on things dramatically.
Hopefully, as techniques improve we will be able to get more data from older fossils, fossils that are poorly preserved and fossils that are in collections where the curators haven't allowed for destructive sampling. The entire field has benefited enormously from pushing the sequencing technology forward.
If you're interested, Svante Paablo (Nice work with that Unicode, Slashdot) has a book about the science (and engineering) of paleo DNA sequencing. Pretty amazing hard core work.
Yeah, but you have to get people to turn in 'on' in the first place.
That seems to be hard part.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics would like a few words with you in private.
It does show you that people have been ignoring backups for a very long time.
Hop to it folks!
I am not an AC - just can't drive /. I am Charlie Merritt.
I was in a big to-do re PGP. Persecuted was Phil Zimmerman, and anyone who helped with PGP.
Everybody knew "Special" Agent Robin Sterzer of customs (ICE today).
She was amazing - knew absolutely nothing about crypto.
Even less about the difference between source and compiled machine language.
She was the "prosecutor's" assistant in nailing this crime down.
[Would a FOIA re Sterzer work? 'Prolly not - personnel privacy and all.
My lawyer said (at that time) said DOJ *NEVER* announces a drop in investigation.
[They used to let you figure out the statutes of limitations]
I read the law, witnesses are under NO obligation to keep quiet.
I Posted case number and names on Internet.
And the questions they asked, and the fact that I asked
how many of the Grand Jury read what news groups on USNET.
EVERYBODY could "testify" - I am surprised it took so long with this pocket heater thing.
Where were his fellow physicists?
His fellow physicists were in the dark until his lawyer managed to drum them up. Something any half bright 'prosecutor' would think of. It is fortunate that the FBI is as stupid as they appear to be. Imagine if they had done their due diligence, found out they screwed up but decided to hide it by threatening the other scientists with National Security Letters or some such threat? We'd never know. We don't know.
Exactly. Now, how hard would it have been to find some knowledgeable physicists with decent security clearances to run this by? Might have taken a couple of days. Even a week. The horror.
And why the fuck did they SWAT team the guy? Do they think he has a tachyon deflector in his pocket and that turns FBI agents into primordial soup?
Yep, this is exactly why we don't 'trust' the Powers That Be. Once they act like full grown adults for a while, maybe be can restart the discussion.
It is hard to have a discussion when the summary is so biased. It should be like a real news report - report the facts.
Did you just arrive on the Unicorn bus? Do you even know where you are?
Did you accidentally switch your browser from 'The Sound of Music"?
The last time somebody tried this was the Library of Alexandria which required the dictates and commands of several kings. Even then they had to pay money to the Athenians to get some documents.
Knowledge is power. Power isn't easily shared.
Not only that; but "exploration" no longer requires heroic bare-chested men going out there with swords and stealing treasure from the natives.
OTOH, heroic, bare chested women would make great reality TV, swords and treasure optional. Probably the best funding angle NASA could ever devise.
(And, you can have your bare chested men there as well for those special SJW type folk).
Except most of his crazy ideas either never get implemented, or don't work. People focus on his successes so much they tend not to see his failures.
So. Most of my crazy ideas (or yours) never get implemented either. SOME of his crazy ideas have been implemented. Which is why he is funding a real rocket company and we... well, we're posting on Slashdot.
Those are your socks.
You wanna medal or something?
After so many comments, and people have not realised this is not about consumer loyalty or helping or deceiving the customer...this is about killing a very active 2nd hand market.
Bullshit. This will affect, what, 10, 20, 30% of the iPhone sales? It's never going to be the dominant way to get an iPhone. The advantages really fit only a fairly small demographic - people with disposable income AND some deep seated desire to have the latest iPhone. While one could argue that the money would be better spent on psychotherapy or Cialis, people do what they will.
But there will be lots of extra iPhones for the refurb market. And if there isn't? Again, who the hell cares? There will be zillions of perfectly decent Android phones on the secondary market. And where exactly else will the Blackberry and Windows phones go?
Yes. It's called re-insurance.
But who re-re-re-re-insures th re-re-re-insurers? That's the burning question that I want an answer to, anyway.
You do. It's always that way,