"Obviously, if this becomes law, the only way to comply is to automatically take down any reported content without review"
Except
Those responsibilities also imply that they should put in place effective and appropriate safeguards, in particular with a view to ensuring that they act in a diligent and proportionate manner and to preventing the unintended removal of content which is not illegal.
Russia is unlikely to improve as long as Putin, the oligarchs and the mafias are in charge. No matter how much he hypes up external threats, the 70% of the population who aren't gullible understand that, as in the west, the system is stacked in favour of the elites but unlike the west, they're not allowed even to elect a totally unsuitable leader who promises to "drain the swamp".
When even the rule of law is at the whim of the state and they see that anyone who complains too much ends up without a job or in prison or dead, they have little choice but to acquiesce or participate in the endemic corruption.
In such an environment, any call to work together for the good of the country will be met with hollow laughter at best.
Even when Putin eventually goes, hoping for a new leader who can make an efficient functioning state out of the current mess seems to be wishful thinking.
"Some of the ones I find easier to read, the machine will probably be able to read sooner rather than later," says Watson. "But anything slightly difficult and... Iâ(TM)ve seen some documents done by the software, and they just make you laugh. I think Iâ(TM)m safe in my job for a good while yet."
I can't decide whether AI would be an improvement on the Slashdot editors or if it's already replaced them.
"Once, while talking to a client, she found the perfect way to sum up her skills."
What's that then? Not going to tell us? Have to go to the article to find out? ps. It's not worth it.
"Nearly there, it appears to be a prayer, no, more like a summoning. Just can't recognize this group of syllables which appears all over the manuscript. Ah, now I see! It's a name, Cthulhu, mighty Cthulhu."
All done. Now, what does it sound like? ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn...".
"Paravirtualization is really only useful when the host CPU doesn't have the hardware necessary for virtualization."
That's not true. Paravirtualization can provide better performance in either case. From the virtio wiki
So-called "full virtualization" is a nice feature because it allows you to run any operating system virtualized. However, it's slow because the hypervisor has to emulate actual physical devices such as RTL8139 network cards . This emulation is both complicated and inefficient.
Virtio is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers where just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to get high performance network and disk operations, and gives most of the performance benefits of paravirtualization.
Note that virtio is different, but architecturally similar to, Xen paravirtualized device drivers (such as the ones that you can install in a Windows guest to make it go faster under Xen). Also similar is VMWare's Guest Tools.
Russian meddling, are you completely mad? There was no Russian meddling, in fact I have it on the best authority and I mean the very best, none better believe me, that this whole Russian thing is totally made up and fake and that experts have said, people who know things, are saying THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS RUSSIANS.
I heard that too: refused to target civilians with bombs, drones and trigger-happy military convoys, didn't take part in torturing or degrading prisoners, wouldn't cover up war crimes, a total disgrace to the US military.
"In coastal regions, fertiliser, manure and sewage pollution cause algal blooms and when the algae decompose oxygen is sucked out of the water. However, in some places, the algae can lead to more food for fish and increase catches around the dead zones."
As for the rest, Guardian readers can generally be assumed to understand that excessively shitting in your water leads to bad results. Fans of Fox News, maybe not so much.
"these dead zones have expanded dramatically, increasing by millions of square kilometres since 1950, roughly equivalent to the area of the European Union"
Area of the European Union = 4.5 million sq km Area of the oceans = 360 million sq km
The article mentions Chesapeake Bay as a success story.
"[Breitburg] pointed to recoveries in Chesapeake Bay in the US and the Thames river in the UK, where better farm and sewage practices led to dead zones disappearing."
In the UK, DAB is quite popular (less so in cars), having been pushed by the BBC, and recent governments who would have liked to sell off the FM spectrum though it looks like we're still some years away from that. There are many AM/FM stations which don't have a DAB presence because of the cost.
From Wikipedia, In the UK, 49% of all radio listening hours were through digital platforms, with DAB making up the majority of digital radio listening (74%) and 61% of UK households claiming to have access to a DAB radio set.
DAB radios have advantages including ease of tuning and broadcast text with the station name, "Now playing...", etc. I have a radio which can rewind the last 15 minutes and another which has a speech synthesizer which reads out the station name or the time. The binary quality, all or nothing (though there can sometimes be a warbling stage between the two, reception is stable and unaffected by weather) at least removes the need to decide when the FM hiss has become too much to bear.
One potential problem with DAB is that more stations can be put in the same bandwidth by lowering the quality so the temptation is there - more stations means more listeners - to see how much distortion your audience will tolerate (similar to the optimal amount of adverts).
The UK's DAB standard is not the best use of bandwidth and the stations are almost all broadcast in lower quality than FM is capable of.
Wikipedia again, DAB technically provides low audio quality in the UK due to 98% of stereo stations using a bit rate level of 128 kbit/s. with the MP2 audio codec, which provides poorer sound quality than FM-quality (assuming good reception on both DAB and FM).
Note also the "stereo"; there are apparently stations broadcasting in mono.
After the US under Bush and others help to stir up the forces which became ISIS through the invasion of Iraq and the incompetent and deadly aftermath, Bush minor and then Obama (with help from Iran) managed to calm Iraq down enough for them to mainly fight ISIS and other extremists rather than each other. The Obama administration, albeit under pressure from Manning's leaks and the press, tried to minimize civilian casualties and be the good guys in reality *.
Putin concentrates more on Assad's enemies than on ISIS (Assad like most tyrants has many enemies, not all of them Muslim or extremist) and will kill civilians without mercy if it furthers their objectives.
"The researchers analysed the total cost of ownership of cars over four years, including the purchase price and depreciation, fuel, insurance, taxation and maintenance."
What I find amazing (though a little disappointing, like a Wizard of Oz moment) is that these huge batteries are made of thousands and thousands of cells, in this case 6 million (by my calculation) of Tesla's 2170 cells. The clever bit is the monitoring and control and presumably the design and manufacture as a series of repeatable modules.
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"Obviously, if this becomes law, the only way to comply is to automatically take down any reported content without review"
Except
From the Recommendation.
It's OK for now, I just put another 50p in the meter.
Does anyone have an idea what's gone wrong with this site over the past week?
I'm waiting for the point when the Intel patch does less damage than Spectre and Meltdown. Are we there yet?
Russia is unlikely to improve as long as Putin, the oligarchs and the mafias are in charge. No matter how much he hypes up external threats, the 70% of the population who aren't gullible understand that, as in the west, the system is stacked in favour of the elites but unlike the west, they're not allowed even to elect a totally unsuitable leader who promises to "drain the swamp".
When even the rule of law is at the whim of the state and they see that anyone who complains too much ends up without a job or in prison or dead, they have little choice but to acquiesce or participate in the endemic corruption.
In such an environment, any call to work together for the good of the country will be met with hollow laughter at best.
Even when Putin eventually goes, hoping for a new leader who can make an efficient functioning state out of the current mess seems to be wishful thinking.
I did say "just about all that remains of the UK owned car industry". Noble counts, Nissan and Honda don't.
Hey the athletes formerly known as Russians had no gold medals but now the scoreboard says 10 and something rude about NATO.
The chassis of Morgan sports cars (just about all that remains of the UK owned car industry) are still made of ash.
The last paragraph of the article.
I can't decide whether AI would be an improvement on the Slashdot editors or if it's already replaced them.
"Once, while talking to a client, she found the perfect way to sum up her skills."
What's that then? Not going to tell us? Have to go to the article to find out? ps. It's not worth it.
"Nearly there, it appears to be a prayer, no, more like a summoning. Just can't recognize this group of syllables which appears all over the manuscript. Ah, now I see! It's a name, Cthulhu, mighty Cthulhu."
All done. Now, what does it sound like? ...".
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
"Paravirtualization is really only useful when the host CPU doesn't have the hardware necessary for virtualization."
That's not true. Paravirtualization can provide better performance in either case. From the virtio wiki
The virtio drivers provide paravirtualization for KVM. I don't know how they compare with Xen but it used to be quicker than VirtualBox.
"even though dating is almost always very difficult and a source of fiery debates among experts."
A statistically significant proportion of Slashdot readers are quite familiar with this concept.
Russian meddling, are you completely mad? There was no Russian meddling, in fact I have it on the best authority and I mean the very best, none better believe me, that this whole Russian thing is totally made up and fake and that experts have said, people who know things, are saying THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS RUSSIANS.
"while in the Army he was a terrible private"
I heard that too: refused to target civilians with bombs, drones and trigger-happy military convoys, didn't take part in torturing or degrading prisoners, wouldn't cover up war crimes, a total disgrace to the US military.
Is it pronounced doggycoin, Dogecoin (as in the onetime rulers of Venice) or something else? I have to know before i invest.
"In coastal regions, fertiliser, manure and sewage pollution cause algal blooms and when the algae decompose oxygen is sucked out of the water. However, in some places, the algae can lead to more food for fish and increase catches around the dead zones."
As for the rest, Guardian readers can generally be assumed to understand that excessively shitting in your water leads to bad results. Fans of Fox News, maybe not so much.
You have to do a bit of work for your data.
"these dead zones have expanded dramatically, increasing by millions of square kilometres since 1950, roughly equivalent to the area of the European Union"
Area of the European Union = 4.5 million sq km
Area of the oceans = 360 million sq km
So an increase of 1.3% since 1950.
The article mentions Chesapeake Bay as a success story.
"[Breitburg] pointed to recoveries in Chesapeake Bay in the US and the Thames river in the UK, where better farm and sewage practices led to dead zones disappearing."
In the UK, DAB is quite popular (less so in cars), having been pushed by the BBC, and recent governments who would have liked to sell off the FM spectrum though it looks like we're still some years away from that. There are many AM/FM stations which don't have a DAB presence because of the cost.
From Wikipedia,
In the UK, 49% of all radio listening hours were through digital platforms, with DAB making up the majority of digital radio listening (74%) and 61% of UK households claiming to have access to a DAB radio set.
DAB radios have advantages including ease of tuning and broadcast text with the station name, "Now playing ...", etc. I have a radio which can rewind the last 15 minutes and another which has a speech synthesizer which reads out the station name or the time. The binary quality, all or nothing (though there can sometimes be a warbling stage between the two, reception is stable and unaffected by weather) at least removes the need to decide when the FM hiss has become too much to bear.
One potential problem with DAB is that more stations can be put in the same bandwidth by lowering the quality so the temptation is there - more stations means more listeners - to see how much distortion your audience will tolerate (similar to the optimal amount of adverts).
The UK's DAB standard is not the best use of bandwidth and the stations are almost all broadcast in lower quality than FM is capable of.
Wikipedia again,
DAB technically provides low audio quality in the UK due to 98% of stereo stations using a bit rate level of 128 kbit/s. with the MP2 audio codec, which provides poorer sound quality than FM-quality (assuming good reception on both DAB and FM).
Note also the "stereo"; there are apparently stations broadcasting in mono.
After the US under Bush and others help to stir up the forces which became ISIS through the invasion of Iraq and the incompetent and deadly aftermath, Bush minor and then Obama (with help from Iran) managed to calm Iraq down enough for them to mainly fight ISIS and other extremists rather than each other. The Obama administration, albeit under pressure from Manning's leaks and the press, tried to minimize civilian casualties and be the good guys in reality *.
Putin concentrates more on Assad's enemies than on ISIS (Assad like most tyrants has many enemies, not all of them Muslim or extremist) and will kill civilians without mercy if it furthers their objectives.
* exclusions may apply
Wise words. Never sign one of those bits of paper which say someone gets to punch you Ow! whenever they like. Ow!
"The researchers analysed the total cost of ownership of cars over four years, including the purchase price and depreciation, fuel, insurance, taxation and maintenance."
It's 75 years after his, er, death.
What I find amazing (though a little disappointing, like a Wizard of Oz moment) is that these huge batteries are made of thousands and thousands of cells, in this case 6 million (by my calculation) of Tesla's 2170 cells. The clever bit is the monitoring and control and presumably the design and manufacture as a series of repeatable modules.
Most ready-made meals have added sugar. Every flavour of crisps/chips except plain and most frozen chips/fries have added dextrose.