Yet the United States continues to use at least 70 percent of its antibiotics on livestock, to shave pennies per pound from the price of pork chops or chicken
Meat producers have fed growth-promoting antibiotics to food animals for years.
Millions of pounds of antibiotics are routinely administered at low doses to large numbers of animals living in crowded conditions, not because they are sick, but to speed their growth and prevent possible infections
Your economic argument explains why they are doing it. It makes them money because the animals are fatter.
The worst possible bug is an intermittent timing-related bug that happens in closed-source firmware.
There are two requirements to solving any bug: 1) It must be reproducible 2) It must be debuggable.
These factors violate the above requirements: Intermittent: If it happens every 6 months, then I can't be there to debug it. Closed-source: I can't trace a problem if I can't see the code. Firmware: I can put a breakpoint in the firmware, but that won't pause the laws of physics. The hardware keeps moving. Timing: If it only happens in release mode, or if adding bread-crumbs changes the behavior, then you are relying solely on intuition.
This is well written. Assuming it is true, it points out how we (the US) are handling these things incorrectly.
If you go undercover and catch someone being unscrupulous, you announce it publicly, not privately. You do that because then the other side can't say "see, we knew you were spying!" Since they were exposed for their treachery, they are no longer credible. And since we owned up to what we were doing, we remain credible.
But if we expose their behavior privately, only to them, then we no longer have the moral high ground. We have compromised our position: they now know that we are spying, and can expose us as criminals. We won't have the proof of their unscrupulous behavior as a matter of public record to justify our actions. And they will continue the unscrupulous behavior because there was no consequence.
Your point about check cashing services is valid, but I checks are not as bad as you claim:
Free checking is not available in most banks
1) I disagree. For the last 20 years I have always had a 100% free checking account with no minimum balance requirement. I've never even had to shop for it, because every bank I have been to has it. The catch is that they offer no interest. But someone in the position you are referring too probably doesn't have much savings anyway. Perhaps free checking is more common in the Northeast US than the rest of the country? 2) Irrelevant - You don't need a checking account to cash a check.
Further many people, mostly undocumented, don't have bank accounts
If they are undocumented, they are getting paid cash under the table anyway. Otherwise, their employer is doing something illegal.
The GPL doesn't mean that if you include a GPL library, you need to open source your whole project.
No, really, it does mean that. That is why the GPL is so controversial compared to other more permissive licenses:
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.
If you create a program that links to a GPL library, then your program is a derivative work of the library. This is the reason for the existence of the LGPL and the GPL linking exception
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
jQuery would fall under this clause because you don't link to jQuery. You merely include it in your HTML. The FSF view is that including Javascript code in your HTML is not linking. It is more like packaging. Although it is moot because jQuery is not GPL.
This makes the entire marriage issue moot. Instead of getting a marriage license, I should file a "Visitation Rights Form" and a "Default Inheritance" form and a "Joint Tax Authorization" form. If I put my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate on the form, the government should not care.
That's an interesting concept: that all the searches are reasonable anyway, but they created the court anyway.
All my students' do A+ work. Therefore, I don't need to write the "A+" at the top of the paper. But I choose to write "A+" at the top of the paper, without even bothering to read them, as proof that they are doing A+ work.
There is a breathtaking "underwater palance" in india called the Jal Mahal. A few floors of it are underwater during the wet season. When I went there it was not open for tours although Wikipedia indicates that it now is open.
That's a good point, except for this: If these searches were reasonable, then they would not need a FISA court. The fact that they established this court and go to it is shows that they do not believe the searches were reasonable. So, given that the search was not reasonable, did the court issue the warrant based on Oath or affirmation? Did the warrant describe the place to be search or the persons or things to be seized?
it would have been nice to provide metric units in the summary in addition to the imperial units
Sorry! I'll fix it for you:
The long anticipated Chinese construction project called Sky City, a 220 metric story building that can house 30,000 metric Chinese people, has finally received approval from the central government to break ground. The firm Broad Sustainable Building previously constructed a prefab 30 metric story building in 15 earth solar days, but for Sky City, they have an even more aggressive schedule: 90 earth solar days to build 83,820 centimeters into the air. Once completed, the building will be a place for people to both live and work, with recreational facilities, theaters, a school, and a hospital all within the structure.":-)
Electric == opposite of jet. A jet is "A rapid stream of liquid or gas forced out of a small opening." So if it is electric, what is it spewing out of the back? An ion drive is about the closest thing I can think of that might be called a "jet" but is kinda sorta electric. Unfortunately, that article has almost no information whatsoever. Perhaps by "jet" he meant "really fast plane" that actually isn't a jet?
As far as I know, this problem is not intrinsic to the design of OpenID itself. It is designed to use redirections to basically pass data back and forth between the OpenID provider and the web site. I don't think other OpenID implementations have this problem. I don't know enough details about OpenID to describe exactly how, but I think the answer comes down to "follow the specification" and "do what other sites do."
Those sites just aren't doing it properly. By comparison, OpenID works fine without 3rd-party cookies. So do other commercial Single Sign On (SSO) solutions.
I wasn't presenting evidence that Klingon is any less complete than any other language. That is a simple matter of fact. I was merely demonstrating the consequences of said fact.
The Klingon language isn't actually complete, so if it encounters a word that has no translation it just makes-up something by adding unpronounceable letters in place of real ones. Unless it starts with a capital letter at which point it knows it was a proper name. Examples: Microsoft --> microsoft microsoft --> mIchroSotlht what stinks is that it isn't smart enough to reverse the process: mIchroSotlht --> michrosokt
They are similar in that both are cases of misunderstood statistics. The chapter is about statistics, so that is the only similarity that is required.
Humorously, you are committing the very fallacy that the author is trying to point out. You jumped right to the consequences, and skipped the statistical likelihood of them happening.
23 hours of summer sunlight isn't enough to grow crops?
No.
Good point though: it isn't the # of hours, it is the angle. The arctic may get 24 hours of sun on some days, but the actual amount of sunlight that reaches the ground is minimal because the sun is so low in the sky.
I just cant wrap my head around the concept that you can purchase something not under contract, that someone else can then come along and sue you for having purchased under incorrect terms.
That's how patents work. They go even further than your example does: If you independently re-invent that something, you still can't sell it without violating the patent.
If the Arctic Circle rises in temperatures by 8C again - or even 16C - then Mankind gets more arable land and living space, not less, because polar temps increase disproportionately to equatorial temps. Plants and animals move north quite rapidly. The vast Alaskan, Canadian and Russian permafrost becomes cropland.
I was under this impression too until recently, but it doesn't actually work that way. If you increase the temperature without increasing the amount of sunlight, plants won't move north. Ex: Even if you increase the temperature, Palm trees will not grow in Canada because it doesn't receive enough winter sunlight. Similarly, you can't grow significant crops in the Arctic circle for the same reason.
Slashdot Mirror
Who says we are applying them randomly to livestock?
Dr. Glen Morris
PBS
FDA
Union of Concerned Scientists
CDC
I got all that from the first few hits on a Google search for "Antibiotics livestock"
Here are a few quotes from some of the articles:
Yet the United States continues to use at least 70 percent of its antibiotics on livestock, to shave pennies per pound from the price of pork chops or chicken
Meat producers have fed growth-promoting antibiotics to food animals for years.
Millions of pounds of antibiotics are routinely administered at low doses to large numbers of animals living in crowded conditions, not because they are sick, but to speed their growth and prevent possible infections
Your economic argument explains why they are doing it. It makes them money because the animals are fatter.
The worst possible bug is an intermittent timing-related bug that happens in closed-source firmware.
There are two requirements to solving any bug:
1) It must be reproducible
2) It must be debuggable.
These factors violate the above requirements:
Intermittent: If it happens every 6 months, then I can't be there to debug it.
Closed-source: I can't trace a problem if I can't see the code.
Firmware: I can put a breakpoint in the firmware, but that won't pause the laws of physics. The hardware keeps moving.
Timing: If it only happens in release mode, or if adding bread-crumbs changes the behavior, then you are relying solely on intuition.
This is well written. Assuming it is true, it points out how we (the US) are handling these things incorrectly.
If you go undercover and catch someone being unscrupulous, you announce it publicly, not privately. You do that because then the other side can't say "see, we knew you were spying!" Since they were exposed for their treachery, they are no longer credible. And since we owned up to what we were doing, we remain credible.
But if we expose their behavior privately, only to them, then we no longer have the moral high ground. We have compromised our position: they now know that we are spying, and can expose us as criminals. We won't have the proof of their unscrupulous behavior as a matter of public record to justify our actions. And they will continue the unscrupulous behavior because there was no consequence.
Your point about check cashing services is valid, but I checks are not as bad as you claim:
Free checking is not available in most banks
1) I disagree. For the last 20 years I have always had a 100% free checking account with no minimum balance requirement. I've never even had to shop for it, because every bank I have been to has it. The catch is that they offer no interest. But someone in the position you are referring too probably doesn't have much savings anyway. Perhaps free checking is more common in the Northeast US than the rest of the country?
2) Irrelevant - You don't need a checking account to cash a check.
Further many people, mostly undocumented, don't have bank accounts
If they are undocumented, they are getting paid cash under the table anyway. Otherwise, their employer is doing something illegal.
The GPL doesn't mean that if you include a GPL library, you need to open source your whole project.
No, really, it does mean that. That is why the GPL is so controversial compared to other more permissive licenses:
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.
If you create a program that links to a GPL library, then your program is a derivative work of the library. This is the reason for the existence of the LGPL and the GPL linking exception
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
jQuery would fall under this clause because you don't link to jQuery. You merely include it in your HTML. The FSF view is that including Javascript code in your HTML is not linking. It is more like packaging. Although it is moot because jQuery is not GPL.
, i for one am entirely unprepared to fire shoulder mounted rockets at the decapitated head of John Romero
Then move out of the way, there is a whole like of people behind you who bought Daikatana. They have been waiting for this opportunity.
Bingo.
This makes the entire marriage issue moot. Instead of getting a marriage license, I should file a "Visitation Rights Form" and a "Default Inheritance" form and a "Joint Tax Authorization" form. If I put my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate on the form, the government should not care.
Patents should be for creations, not discoveries.
No. Patents should be for inventions. Creations, such as a string of the letters ATGC in any particular order, should be covered by copyright.
That's an interesting concept: that all the searches are reasonable anyway, but they created the court anyway.
All my students' do A+ work.
Therefore, I don't need to write the "A+" at the top of the paper.
But I choose to write "A+" at the top of the paper, without even bothering to read them, as proof that they are doing A+ work.
There is a breathtaking "underwater palance" in india called the Jal Mahal. A few floors of it are underwater during the wet season. When I went there it was not open for tours although Wikipedia indicates that it now is open.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jal_Mahal
That's a good point, except for this: If these searches were reasonable, then they would not need a FISA court. The fact that they established this court and go to it is shows that they do not believe the searches were reasonable. So, given that the search was not reasonable, did the court issue the warrant based on Oath or affirmation? Did the warrant describe the place to be search or the persons or things to be seized?
it would have been nice to provide metric units in the summary in addition to the imperial units
Sorry! I'll fix it for you:
The long anticipated Chinese construction project called Sky City, a 220 metric story building that can house 30,000 metric Chinese people, has finally received approval from the central government to break ground. The firm Broad Sustainable Building previously constructed a prefab 30 metric story building in 15 earth solar days, but for Sky City, they have an even more aggressive schedule: 90 earth solar days to build 83,820 centimeters into the air. Once completed, the building will be a place for people to both live and work, with recreational facilities, theaters, a school, and a hospital all within the structure." :-)
Electric == opposite of jet. A jet is "A rapid stream of liquid or gas forced out of a small opening." So if it is electric, what is it spewing out of the back? An ion drive is about the closest thing I can think of that might be called a "jet" but is kinda sorta electric. Unfortunately, that article has almost no information whatsoever. Perhaps by "jet" he meant "really fast plane" that actually isn't a jet?
How do I download my Slashdot posts? I've wanted to do that for years.
As far as I know, this problem is not intrinsic to the design of OpenID itself. It is designed to use redirections to basically pass data back and forth between the OpenID provider and the web site. I don't think other OpenID implementations have this problem. I don't know enough details about OpenID to describe exactly how, but I think the answer comes down to "follow the specification" and "do what other sites do."
There is one very large product that relies on 3rd-party cookies: Disqus. It is used by a lot of popular sites such as Thingiverse and StackOverflow. Disqus simply needs to fix the problem. There is actually a discussion on StackOverflow about this: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/126764/why-does-registration-require-third-party-cookies-to-be-enabled
The last time I looked at it it claimed the problem was fixed, but I just now tried to register and it says this:
Third Party Cookies Appear To Be Disabled
This site depends on third-party cookies, please add an exception for https://openid.stackexchange.com/.
Those sites just aren't doing it properly. By comparison, OpenID works fine without 3rd-party cookies. So do other commercial Single Sign On (SSO) solutions.
I wasn't presenting evidence that Klingon is any less complete than any other language. That is a simple matter of fact. I was merely demonstrating the consequences of said fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
The Klingon language isn't actually complete, so if it encounters a word that has no translation it just makes-up something by adding unpronounceable letters in place of real ones. Unless it starts with a capital letter at which point it knows it was a proper name. Examples:
Microsoft --> microsoft
microsoft --> mIchroSotlht
what stinks is that it isn't smart enough to reverse the process:
mIchroSotlht --> michrosokt
They are not at all similar
They are similar in that both are cases of misunderstood statistics. The chapter is about statistics, so that is the only similarity that is required.
Humorously, you are committing the very fallacy that the author is trying to point out. You jumped right to the consequences, and skipped the statistical likelihood of them happening.
That's not junk: Those are comments!
23 hours of summer sunlight isn't enough to grow crops?
No.
Good point though: it isn't the # of hours, it is the angle. The arctic may get 24 hours of sun on some days, but the actual amount of sunlight that reaches the ground is minimal because the sun is so low in the sky.
I was wondering why Monsanto didnt sue the elevator instead
Because they didn't do anything wrong. They were completely within their rights to sell the seed. That is even stated in Monsanto's contract.
I just cant wrap my head around the concept that you can purchase something not under contract, that someone else can then come along and sue you for having purchased under incorrect terms.
That's how patents work. They go even further than your example does: If you independently re-invent that something, you still can't sell it without violating the patent.
If the Arctic Circle rises in temperatures by 8C again - or even 16C - then Mankind gets more arable land and living space, not less, because polar temps increase disproportionately to equatorial temps. Plants and animals move north quite rapidly. The vast Alaskan, Canadian and Russian permafrost becomes cropland.
I was under this impression too until recently, but it doesn't actually work that way. If you increase the temperature without increasing the amount of sunlight, plants won't move north. Ex: Even if you increase the temperature, Palm trees will not grow in Canada because it doesn't receive enough winter sunlight. Similarly, you can't grow significant crops in the Arctic circle for the same reason.