Supercomputers could be "a game-changer" when it comes to predicting the risks of space radiation... During that 1972 solar storm, skin and organs would've risked being exposed to radiation in excess of NASA limits,
So using a big enough one as a shield would stop the radiation? Supercomputers -- what CAN'T they do? That ECC stuff is actually good for something!
And then really, you've got a timing problem. You discover high incoming radiation but don't have time to get the astronauts back home / out of the way. At some point you've got to block the rays, deflect them, dance between them, outrun them, or suck it up.
... then I can not put much weight into their theory.
Ahhh, c'mon. The Dinos are all dead, SOMETHING killed them. Asteroids, meteors, tar magnets, poisonous plants, global warming, SOMETHING. It's a heavy subject. So what if they got a few supporting things wrong? It's almost like you doubt their conclusions or something. If it feels right, it IS right -- right?
After all, everyone knows THIS is what actually happened.,
I'd agree with that comment, but I can't quite remember how old I actually am. Are 8080 CPUs and Digital Research's CP/M still a thing? PIP, anyone?? CALL 5???
Squeeze Q files???? Colonel David Winthrop????? (Sigh...)
Now get off my lawn and be sure and take some dandelions as you go.
sell iPower transformers to everyone who dares not run at 77V/127hz.
Better be careful there -- one more volt and you'll have to swap the tip and barrel polarity else you'll let out all of the magic smoke. ???But after thinking about it, maybe that's the idea.
I've not been paying attention but what I've got is it was way dark and she "just appeared out of nowhere". I've had similar driving experience surprises (haven't killed anyone.) Car computers may have faster reaction times but still can't bypass inertia.
Waymo CEO John Krafcik says he is confident its cars would have performed differently
Really? I'll believe him when I see him in this.. Strongly suggest you waste 30s viewing this -- I wish a lot MORE people would stand behind (or in front of ) their work.
Just so y'know, I open up the doors, crank up the HV or AC and the stereo, and turn ON every light I have for an hour. I wave at people as they go by.
The only problem is that to turn the fridge light ON I have to leave the fridge door open, and my drinks get warm and the ice melts. But, the sacrifices are worth it.
OOOOH! That's today, and RSN -- March 24, 2018, 8:30 PM. Gotta go get my 8-tracks ready.
Maybe not -- perhaps his middle name is Schrodinger, and then it'd be and.
Besides, even heard of hospital resuscitation? Maybe it's 100% completely accurate but just extremely FAST news.
He's dead, Jim. ZAP. He's back. Oops, he's gone again. ZAP. He's ba, nope. ZAAP. Back again. Still back. Sti, nope. ZAAAAAAAAAAAP. Back, but medium well now.. Y'know, I didn't know that went up to 11 -- you learn learn something new every day.
Blocking ads is not theft any more than going to the bathroom during a commercial is stealing from Toyota
Except they are connecting to Spotify's servers that Spotify owns to listen to Spotify's music library.
I have to comment on this one, sorry. I have a question, and you're probably not the one to ask:
If I'm fetching from a "legal source" and I somehow ignore commercials, am I breaking / stealing / anything? What if you, the legal source, let me? What if you force me to watch? How will you enforce / check / penalize that? (I suspect that question itself is wrong, but let's run with it.)
Let's take your argument. I'm got a device I bought that someone else built and someone else wrote the supporting OS and someone ELSE wrote the software application interface. But I bought it, so it's "my" hardware, running on "my" account on "my" internet connection and/or "my" paid-for 4G and/or an "open WiFi" point. That device then connects upstream to God-knows what, eventually to one of the backbone providers, eventually making it to Spotify's computers.
Right? That's how the internet works, being just a series of tubes. *I've" got my access, Spotify's got THEIR access, and everyone in between's got their own access rights. Assume for a second that skipping commercials are illegal. WHERE does that occur? On my device? On Spotify's? Maybe somewhere in the middle?
It's all active vs passive. Watching TV, the usual comparison, the commercials are interspersed within the shows, and there's nothing you can do to your TV to bypass them. So you walk away and use the bathroom / SUDO Make me a sandwich. You run the slight risk of missing the resumption of the show, but that's usually ignored.
Now let's bring up Tivo / Plex / Kodi / Direct TV DVR. Suddenly that passive device assumption is no longer valid -- there's an intermediate processor between source and destination that's suddenly not under the originator's direct or indirect control. I pay Tivo for a service that provides an Electronic Program Guide that specifies the date / time / channel / duration a show is on. I can specify a show by name and it will search out and record it for me, allowing me to play it back at my leisure and time (aka Time Shifting). That's nice and all but suddenly I can shift the time that commercials take down to 0. I still have the "missing program" problem, but that's easy to skip back and fix. Plex can scan recorded shows and physically remove them from the stream, Tivo will mark them so they're easy to skip, Kodi will mark them and even autoskip them I understand. (Heck, Tivo even has a "speed-up" command for the actual shows themselves, so you can watch a 60 minute show in 45 minutes. Forget skipping commercials, I'm speeding up content.)
All of these change the "intent" of the "original stream" in an "cost-adverse manner". However they're not free and the individual must actively implement them. So sorry, the world is not "Pure", no matter what kind of SJW you are. Just ask viruses that subvert larger systems and "bad bugs" that invade other bugs and plants.
So is this "wrong"? Depends on whom you ask. Vendors, yes. Consumers, no. The only way to enforce someone to watch (or at least fetch) something is to give it to them first, and then receive a verified response that allows the next item to proceed. (But: see third party Captcha decode services.)
TVs, providers, and intermediaries are NOT yet set up for that, so all they can do is force one show before another, or somehow intersperse them. (Product placement.)
Spotify's the same way -- if you WANT me to listen to your extras, you've going to have to FORCE me to at least download it before playing the next piece. That a client can automatically fetch the next correct part bypassing the annoyance is Morally Bankrupt, Bad Programming,
So you're saying he got mad over something that wasn't working right and... went to pieces over it?
Too early? If I wait a week you'll forget about it; if I wait two weeks then I can't comment anymore. Come back and read it in a month or two -- it'll be funnier then and he'll still be dead. If you wait MUCH longer than that, then..... ohhh, never mind.
I'm not at all the Army, but decades ago we had 2,000 PCs across 2 campuses, with like 600 copies of MS Word and Excel. (Not the Office bundle, individual copies.)
With my manager and their manager (CIO) supporting me, we installed Funk (yep, look up Sideways for dot-matrix printers) AppMeter on our Novell v3 servers. I could track exactly who and how many people were running it at one time (it was the "boob curve" -- usage tracking during the day showed a large startup at 8, big drop-off at 5 , with a 2/3rd drop-off at noon. Yes, I was an adolescent.)
If you weren't connected to the server, you didn't run it -- the software was installed locally but the actual executable was located on the server and it was counted and metered, so if you hit it at max I got an report and YOU got a "Try Later" prompt.
Also we ran software reporting -- I got the signature data direct from the BSA. Ran it, looked at the report, and called and complained to high heaven.
"Look, I'm scanning 2K PCs, but checking this just on my PC and I absolutely *know* there is software on it you're not reporting on." "Oh, well, our clients are too busy to always give us valid signatures to detect their software."
"Look, we try to be honest. I'm using your software for our internal audits to make sure we're valid. Don't come complaining to me if you come in later and find things that your software won't locate for us." Reported this to my boss, we soon got a different and better scanner. BSA's was free but not worth what we could have paid for it.
We tried to make sure everything was on the up-and-up. I'm sure we weren't actually pure at 100% but we tried hard to get there. Oh, and MS was NOT happy with us running their software metered on the server, but we had our lawyers look at the software licence and (at that time) it was a valid configuration -- the OFFICE suite wasn't, but the individual copies were. Or at least they told us to go ahead and (didn't expect to but) were willing to go to court to defend us, which was good enough.
Back on topic, I think there's something wrong there too, but it's not like they literally COULDN'T have done it that way. They'd just need to provide actual configs and logs over time as proof.
"While writers and publishers deserve fair compensation, "
But not their great grand-children.
Exactly.
Pray tell, what to do about the impending impending human/computer convergence - The Singularity, when you don't die, you're still around and you kinda ARE your own great grandchild?
Plant your brain in a new body? Clone yourself with DNA? How old fashioned, move on up to The Cloud and use CloneZilla, snapshots, or just start yourself up (!!) another Docker Personality Instance. Gives a who new meaning to schizophrenia or to Dissociative identity disorder.
At that point money will stop being the in-game comparison metric, it'll change to how big you are. (In bytes.) Hell, corporations will end up being People while People won't be.
Sorry, your bits are too big and heavy. Try moving the modem closer to the wall, or better yet just move closer to the CO. It's really that fast there!
Oh, and also your bits seem to be slightly off-color. Try adding more beige and see if that helps in the interim.
Let us know when you've completed your move and we'll bill you, I mean hook your additional location right up.
I've got cancer (currently being treated, level 2 out of 4) and that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm blaming asparagus for my condition, and consider myself LUCKY that I haven't accidentally touched more and made myself even worse.
If you enter your genuine personal information into a porn site's data base, you're taking a silly risk.
This is of course not the same thing, but OK Cupid is now asking for first names. I've heard of people actually entering them -- that and their actual pictures have led to some users actually being located in real life.
That being said, when they asked me I entered "Nope". Now they've begun sending me emails with Dear Nope,...
I might tell a potential date my first name during the first conversation, but i'm sure NOT telling the entire world. (That, and it's fairly unique. My first name is enough to narrow it down to easily less than 50 people, any other information and you've pegged me. That's great and all, but dating information is a two-way street.)
... the less you take 'the news' as gospel handed down from upon high by the omniscient.
But without someone feeding me exactly what's going on in the world leading me to think as I should, then what am I supposed to do? Start looking around in the world and begin to think for myself?
There's a reason we've evolved to become more and more specialized as we've grown a more complex society. Most people have trouble enough breathing and sitting, and now you want them to get up and walk and start thinking? 3 independent operations occurring ALL AT THE SAME TIME?
Madness. If our betters weren't actually better, they wouldn't be there to begin with. Just ask Kim Kardashian.
I was going to respond, but I forgot what I was going to say.
That being said, i just had a Space-OAR inserted for prostate cancer radiation treatment. I've been miserable for the last two weeks, waking up every 2 hours to pee, even if there's absolutely nothing to do; it just FEELS like there is.
That being said, the annoying feeling is slowly going away as I get used to it, and I'd MUCH rather have this that the standard balloon alternative it replaces.
Even though it's bothersome as heck for a few weeks (some discomfort may occur? How about I'm always horizontal and can't sit normally in a chair for 2 weeks?) I'd still glad I did it, even if it's the most annoying thing I've ever done to myself.
Older guys, get checked for prostate cancer. The standard routine examination is quick (kinda like you first time having sex!) and even a scan or biopsy isn't THAT terrible. The earlier you find it the earlier and better they can treat it.
YouTube conclusion.
I'd highly recommend this annoying procedure, but ask your doctor. This is FCC approved and new -- if he doesn't know anything about it, GET ANOTHER DOCTOR.
This is not a paid sponsorship or anything, I'm currently just an very annoyed and happy customer who's glad I did it.
Downloading Chrome or Firefox (or another browser) at initial OS install. That's it.
That's the only time I ever use them, the only other time is by accident when an app bypasses the default browser setting and renders Help or Status under IE.
JESUS CHRIST, we're doing a good job messing up the Earth as it is. And now you want to start corrupting the Sun too?
Just imagine if the Sun's happy face morphed into Hillary. IEEeeee, it's be Halloween every single day. Or Trump's hair would cause a solar prominence to no end -- it'd take out Mercury and we'd be left with only 8 planets.
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Supercomputers could be "a game-changer" when it comes to predicting the risks of space radiation ... During that 1972 solar storm, skin and organs would've risked being exposed to radiation in excess of NASA limits,
So using a big enough one as a shield would stop the radiation? Supercomputers -- what CAN'T they do? That ECC stuff is actually good for something!
And then really, you've got a timing problem. You discover high incoming radiation but don't have time to get the astronauts back home / out of the way. At some point you've got to block the rays, deflect them, dance between them, outrun them, or suck it up.
... then I can not put much weight into their theory.
Ahhh, c'mon. The Dinos are all dead, SOMETHING killed them. Asteroids, meteors, tar magnets, poisonous plants, global warming, SOMETHING. It's a heavy subject. So what if they got a few supporting things wrong? It's almost like you doubt their conclusions or something. If it feels right, it IS right -- right?
After all, everyone knows THIS is what actually happened.,
"Yeah, you're officially old now"
I'd agree with that comment, but I can't quite remember how old I actually am. Are 8080 CPUs and Digital Research's CP/M still a thing? PIP, anyone?? CALL 5??? Squeeze Q files???? Colonel David Winthrop????? (Sigh...)
Now get off my lawn and be sure and take some dandelions as you go.
sell iPower transformers to everyone who dares not run at 77V/127hz.
Better be careful there -- one more volt and you'll have to swap the tip and barrel polarity else you'll let out all of the magic smoke. ???But after thinking about it, maybe that's the idea.
link. It's the "Keep My Songs" button in the 3rd paragraph.
have retained data sets that were supposed to be destroyed
Can you imagine the SIZE of all of those PST files?
(Oh, so it's just me -- nobody's an Exchange/Outlook admin anymore??)
... so if we could ONLY somehow get rid of that annoying 99%!
Waymo CEO John Krafcik says he is confident its cars would have performed differently
Really? I'll believe him when I see him in this.. Strongly suggest you waste 30s viewing this -- I wish a lot MORE people would stand behind (or in front of ) their work.
Just so y'know, I open up the doors, crank up the HV or AC and the stereo, and turn ON every light I have for an hour. I wave at people as they go by.
The only problem is that to turn the fridge light ON I have to leave the fridge door open, and my drinks get warm and the ice melts. But, the sacrifices are worth it.
OOOOH! That's today, and RSN -- March 24, 2018, 8:30 PM. Gotta go get my 8-tracks ready.
Or: perhaps it's just a legal issue. 'I am listed dead, I can't do anything': Romanian court tells man he's not alive -- March 16, 2018
Either Shatner is dead or he isn't.
Maybe not -- perhaps his middle name is Schrodinger, and then it'd be and.
Besides, even heard of hospital resuscitation? Maybe it's 100% completely accurate but just extremely FAST news.
He's dead, Jim. ZAP. He's back. Oops, he's gone again. ZAP. He's ba, nope. ZAAP. Back again. Still back. Sti, nope. ZAAAAAAAAAAAP. Back, but medium well now.. Y'know, I didn't know that went up to 11 -- you learn learn something new every day.
Blocking ads is not theft any more than going to the bathroom during a commercial is stealing from Toyota
Except they are connecting to Spotify's servers that Spotify owns to listen to Spotify's music library.
I have to comment on this one, sorry. I have a question, and you're probably not the one to ask:
If I'm fetching from a "legal source" and I somehow ignore commercials, am I breaking / stealing / anything? What if you, the legal source, let me? What if you force me to watch? How will you enforce / check / penalize that? (I suspect that question itself is wrong, but let's run with it.)
Let's take your argument. I'm got a device I bought that someone else built and someone else wrote the supporting OS and someone ELSE wrote the software application interface. But I bought it, so it's "my" hardware, running on "my" account on "my" internet connection and/or "my" paid-for 4G and/or an "open WiFi" point. That device then connects upstream to God-knows what, eventually to one of the backbone providers, eventually making it to Spotify's computers.
Right? That's how the internet works, being just a series of tubes. *I've" got my access, Spotify's got THEIR access, and everyone in between's got their own access rights. Assume for a second that skipping commercials are illegal. WHERE does that occur? On my device? On Spotify's? Maybe somewhere in the middle?
It's all active vs passive. Watching TV, the usual comparison, the commercials are interspersed within the shows, and there's nothing you can do to your TV to bypass them. So you walk away and use the bathroom / SUDO Make me a sandwich. You run the slight risk of missing the resumption of the show, but that's usually ignored.
Now let's bring up Tivo / Plex / Kodi / Direct TV DVR. Suddenly that passive device assumption is no longer valid -- there's an intermediate processor between source and destination that's suddenly not under the originator's direct or indirect control. I pay Tivo for a service that provides an Electronic Program Guide that specifies the date / time / channel / duration a show is on. I can specify a show by name and it will search out and record it for me, allowing me to play it back at my leisure and time (aka Time Shifting). That's nice and all but suddenly I can shift the time that commercials take down to 0. I still have the "missing program" problem, but that's easy to skip back and fix. Plex can scan recorded shows and physically remove them from the stream, Tivo will mark them so they're easy to skip, Kodi will mark them and even autoskip them I understand. (Heck, Tivo even has a "speed-up" command for the actual shows themselves, so you can watch a 60 minute show in 45 minutes. Forget skipping commercials, I'm speeding up content.)
All of these change the "intent" of the "original stream" in an "cost-adverse manner". However they're not free and the individual must actively implement them. So sorry, the world is not "Pure", no matter what kind of SJW you are. Just ask viruses that subvert larger systems and "bad bugs" that invade other bugs and plants.
So is this "wrong"? Depends on whom you ask. Vendors, yes. Consumers, no. The only way to enforce someone to watch (or at least fetch) something is to give it to them first, and then receive a verified response that allows the next item to proceed. (But: see third party Captcha decode services.) TVs, providers, and intermediaries are NOT yet set up for that, so all they can do is force one show before another, or somehow intersperse them. (Product placement.)
Spotify's the same way -- if you WANT me to listen to your extras, you've going to have to FORCE me to at least download it before playing the next piece. That a client can automatically fetch the next correct part bypassing the annoyance is Morally Bankrupt, Bad Programming,
...until he blew himself up.
So you're saying he got mad over something that wasn't working right and ... went to pieces over it?
..... ohhh, never mind.
Too early? If I wait a week you'll forget about it; if I wait two weeks then I can't comment anymore. Come back and read it in a month or two -- it'll be funnier then and he'll still be dead. If you wait MUCH longer than that, then
I'm not at all the Army, but decades ago we had 2,000 PCs across 2 campuses, with like 600 copies of MS Word and Excel. (Not the Office bundle, individual copies.)
With my manager and their manager (CIO) supporting me, we installed Funk (yep, look up Sideways for dot-matrix printers) AppMeter on our Novell v3 servers. I could track exactly who and how many people were running it at one time (it was the "boob curve" -- usage tracking during the day showed a large startup at 8, big drop-off at 5 , with a 2/3rd drop-off at noon. Yes, I was an adolescent.)
If you weren't connected to the server, you didn't run it -- the software was installed locally but the actual executable was located on the server and it was counted and metered, so if you hit it at max I got an report and YOU got a "Try Later" prompt.
Also we ran software reporting -- I got the signature data direct from the BSA. Ran it, looked at the report, and called and complained to high heaven.
"Look, I'm scanning 2K PCs, but checking this just on my PC and I absolutely *know* there is software on it you're not reporting on."
"Oh, well, our clients are too busy to always give us valid signatures to detect their software."
"Look, we try to be honest. I'm using your software for our internal audits to make sure we're valid. Don't come complaining to me if you come in later and find things that your software won't locate for us." Reported this to my boss, we soon got a different and better scanner. BSA's was free but not worth what we could have paid for it.
We tried to make sure everything was on the up-and-up. I'm sure we weren't actually pure at 100% but we tried hard to get there. Oh, and MS was NOT happy with us running their software metered on the server, but we had our lawyers look at the software licence and (at that time) it was a valid configuration -- the OFFICE suite wasn't, but the individual copies were. Or at least they told us to go ahead and (didn't expect to but) were willing to go to court to defend us, which was good enough.
Back on topic, I think there's something wrong there too, but it's not like they literally COULDN'T have done it that way. They'd just need to provide actual configs and logs over time as proof.
Kids? I have an orange 72 year-old in mind.
I didn't know Hillary had died her hair. Or did you mean Bill?
"While writers and publishers deserve fair compensation, " But not their great grand-children.
Exactly.
Pray tell, what to do about the impending impending human/computer convergence - The Singularity, when you don't die, you're still around and you kinda ARE your own great grandchild?
Plant your brain in a new body? Clone yourself with DNA? How old fashioned, move on up to The Cloud and use CloneZilla, snapshots, or just start yourself up (!!) another Docker Personality Instance. Gives a who new meaning to schizophrenia or to Dissociative identity disorder.
At that point money will stop being the in-game comparison metric, it'll change to how big you are. (In bytes.) Hell, corporations will end up being People while People won't be.
Sorry, your bits are too big and heavy. Try moving the modem closer to the wall, or better yet just move closer to the CO. It's really that fast there!
Oh, and also your bits seem to be slightly off-color. Try adding more beige and see if that helps in the interim.
Let us know when you've completed your move and we'll bill you, I mean hook your additional location right up.
I've got cancer (currently being treated, level 2 out of 4) and that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm blaming asparagus for my condition, and consider myself LUCKY that I haven't accidentally touched more and made myself even worse.
Ok, this is broccoli, but you get the idea.
If you enter your genuine personal information into a porn site's data base, you're taking a silly risk.
This is of course not the same thing, but OK Cupid is now asking for first names. I've heard of people actually entering them -- that and their actual pictures have led to some users actually being located in real life.
...
That being said, when they asked me I entered "Nope". Now they've begun sending me emails with Dear Nope,
I might tell a potential date my first name during the first conversation, but i'm sure NOT telling the entire world. (That, and it's fairly unique. My first name is enough to narrow it down to easily less than 50 people, any other information and you've pegged me. That's great and all, but dating information is a two-way street.)
Once you've used Oracle they got you. If you try to leave, you can't. ...
Sounds like they're selling drugs. "The first one's free -- here, try it!" OTOH how ELSE do you expect Larry to afford that island?
https://youtu.be/Sm3b4_XLCOU?t...
... the less you take 'the news' as gospel handed down from upon high by the omniscient.
But without someone feeding me exactly what's going on in the world leading me to think as I should, then what am I supposed to do? Start looking around in the world and begin to think for myself?
There's a reason we've evolved to become more and more specialized as we've grown a more complex society. Most people have trouble enough breathing and sitting, and now you want them to get up and walk and start thinking? 3 independent operations occurring ALL AT THE SAME TIME?
Madness. If our betters weren't actually better, they wouldn't be there to begin with. Just ask Kim Kardashian.
Information overload? Stop consuming it.
WOW -- I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your email newsletter.
It'll fit right in with the rest of the stuff I never quite get around to actually read.
I was going to respond, but I forgot what I was going to say.
That being said, i just had a Space-OAR inserted for prostate cancer radiation treatment. I've been miserable for the last two weeks, waking up every 2 hours to pee, even if there's absolutely nothing to do; it just FEELS like there is. That being said, the annoying feeling is slowly going away as I get used to it, and I'd MUCH rather have this that the standard balloon alternative it replaces.
Even though it's bothersome as heck for a few weeks ( some discomfort may occur? How about I'm always horizontal and can't sit normally in a chair for 2 weeks?) I'd still glad I did it, even if it's the most annoying thing I've ever done to myself.
Older guys, get checked for prostate cancer. The standard routine examination is quick (kinda like you first time having sex!) and even a scan or biopsy isn't THAT terrible. The earlier you find it the earlier and better they can treat it.
YouTube conclusion. I'd highly recommend this annoying procedure, but ask your doctor. This is FCC approved and new -- if he doesn't know anything about it, GET ANOTHER DOCTOR.
This is not a paid sponsorship or anything, I'm currently just an very annoyed and happy customer who's glad I did it.
Downloading Chrome or Firefox (or another browser) at initial OS install. That's it.
That's the only time I ever use them, the only other time is by accident when an app bypasses the default browser setting and renders Help or Status under IE.
Shoot Trump and Clinton into the sun.
JESUS CHRIST, we're doing a good job messing up the Earth as it is. And now you want to start corrupting the Sun too?
Just imagine if the Sun's happy face morphed into Hillary. IEEeeee, it's be Halloween every single day. Or Trump's hair would cause a solar prominence to no end -- it'd take out Mercury and we'd be left with only 8 planets.