Parents had trouble with geese years ago. They started letting the dog out to clear the beach head of geese. He'd charge down the lawn and put the binders on just before he got to the shore, but the geese would have moved into the water. Now years (3 or 4) after the dog has passed on, the geese are all over one neighbours lawn, get into the water, swim around their lawn and come up the beach onto the neighbour on the other side. It seems that avoidance of our place is embedded deeply now.
E-mail has never been secure or private? Which court decided that? Oh wait, it was never decided. Someone in the telecom industry recognized that if e-mail was to be treated as snail mail (private and secure) they would have to develop technologies to make e-mail secure. When letters were first introduced, they were private but not secure. Only couriers were deemed secure, and only if they were your couriers.
Then, with the advent of state (or crown) post offices, the demands to keep private communication away from the prying eyes of the state (or crown) set the agenda to make it that way.
The only reason why we had folks legislate e-mail NOT to be secure and private is become the state (or crown) decided that it would be in its best interest to have electronic communication declared "different" than snail mail. Governments hate court oversight. They hate having to prove the need to get a warrant. What if they could just get the people to accept that private e-mails aren't private. Bingo ! We'll just tell them that this is what we all want.
Sorry. I do have an expectation of privacy with my private e-mail correspondence. It works with surface mail. This utter claptrap about "no one should expect privacy or security when data is passed to 3rd party" is bullshit. You need a warrant to tap my land line. You need a warrant to intercept my mail. Both cases involve data handed to 3rd party. Hospital records move between doctors hospitals and me. They are private.
You may argue that e-mail is not secure. You may not argue that not secure means not private. the text I write on the back of a postcard is not secure, but it is still private.
Tie your horse to a post (you can carry one) then it won't wander away. Geez, just like a real horse.
I agree on horse armour, but I don't worry too much about it. I'm much more concerned about the inability to craft saddles.
I agree with the horse/boat issue - I don't see a way around that until they code the ability to use larger boats.
Mind you, the ability to travel endlessly without suffering hunger is a huge boon to those of us who play on hardcore mode.
Whining about the inability to craft a specialty armour that only aids your horse (a renewable resourse) against attacks that are completely avoidable is rather petty.
Except for those of us who do own the mineral rights below our land:)
Also, vegetation growing on the land is considered an improvement, and hence belongs to the landowner. Formal grazing is a land use, subject to zoning.
You are correct on water, but then only a complete idiot would try to claim water running through his land.
Science Fiction is always rooted in what it means to be human. Usually by exposing something that is not human, and trying to make sense of it. Its about making you think.
Star Wars does not do that. It is fantasy happening in space. Abrams will do a great job with that franchise. To be honest, I hope the next Star Trek series is a long time coming (if its too soon, we'll get the Abrams treatment - which would suck), so we can go back to the best of Trek : true science fiction with multiple plots going on in a single episode.
Power density is key. Yes, a reduction in charge time is great, but spending 10 mins charging for each hour of driving would NOT be desirable.
Unless I get at least 30:1 run time vs charge time for an electric vehicle with a 3 hour minimum run time, I'm not sold. As for the phone battery, 1 minute for 24 hours that's a 1400:1 ratio (run time vs charge time) If I could get that for a car, we'd drop gasoline in a heartbeat.
My understanding is that this particular telco was storing the texts. It wasn't that the police were interested in intercepting the messages live, but rather they wanted their general warrant to let them have access to the copies of the messages.
The Court ruled that a wiretap warrant is required for the police to have access to the copies of the messages.
As as I am aware, this telco is the only major player storing texts.
He didn't say 30 day old character, he said a 30 day old player. Idiots with cash buy established payer accounts all the time and so these guys paying for less than 30 days AREA flying 10B vindicators.
Having said all of that, please, let them continue.
That idiot, spending all that PLEX to die in many horrible ways, makes it so there is enough PLEX on the market to keep it cheap enough for me to continue to earn ISK ingame and easily buy my next 30 day PLEX. PLEX is not play to win per se, and someone sold that character to the idot for ISK.
Therefore, more idiots with credit cards and no comon sense = good.
And some folks would have been happy if Einstein would have made a better contribution to humanity if he'd turned his genius to violin playing.
Caramack is very interested in the way things look - visual fidelity of computer generated images. While working on AI is a somewhat related field, it may not simply interest the guy. His talent has been to find ways of producing impressive visuals with low resource costs, this IS the kind of guy we want working on VR (and AR for that matter), given the current state of the art. It may be that a portion of his skill set may also be applicable to AI, but I doubt it is significant enough to put him at the forefront of a very active front.
It is trivial to produce photographic quality virtual worlds, it is not trivial to produce them in real time, with consumer grade equipment. This is where John is focused. It is NOT trivial to produce advanced AI, let alone in real time with consumer grade equipment. Until AI with super computers is sufficiently advanced (i.e. made non-trivial), John's gifts for making the fantastic appear on lower power tech isn't useful.
In anything like this, it is about balance. Dealing in absolutes is of no benefit. The basic human right to freedom of expression is not unlimited; it is not absolute. Society must place limits. However, those limits must err on the side of offending the most easily offended, as opposed to not offending anyone.
It is no different than the burden of proof in that we must err on the side of finding "not guilty" a few guilty people in order to ensure we do not find any innocent person guilty.
I cannot and will not support unrestricted freedom of expression, for it is the nature of mankind to abuse that freedom beyond what rational people would consider acceptable to the detriment of our society.
Does that assume that we need to set limits? Yes. Well who decides those limits? Sadly, with democracies, that would mean the majority of voters. But on the positive side, most civilized countries have legal systems to balance the desires of the elected officials to prevent the tyranny of the majority (or the tyranny of popular thought).
Carriers have been replaced. Now its Supercarriers and Titans. Carriers and dreadnoughts have had their roles reduced to ship transports and structure shoots.
"the last I checked, they were individuals entitled to pursue happiness in any way that suited them"
Indeed they are. My. Nye's warning was against assuming parents know best for their children.
Parents do not know best for their child. This has been proven time and time again. If there was a test for becoming a proper parent (other than the practical) their would be a whole lot of folks with some unlearning to do.
The greatest danger to the human race are parents.
And yes, I am a parent. And I am aware that I am far from a perfect one.
I can see how they determine joint location, my question is whether or not the joint type selection is automatic. I.e. The knees didn't appear to be pure ball joints, but more like pinned joints. the tail and neck were obviously pure ball allowing multi-axis rotation, but the knees looked like single axis joints.
Was there something in that post that pointed to hypocrisy, if so I cannot find it. While he was well know to have his own peculiarities, his position clearly stating that religious beliefs should be between a person and their chosen god(s) and that the religious beliefs of others were not his concern, doesn't appear to be contradicted by his behaviour.
At least Jefferson would have placed no restriction on you voicing both your (apparently) religious opinion and your open disagreement with the poster.
Perhaps 'youth' may have been the incorrect term to use; 'recent graduate' may have been better. Its not often (but not unheard of) that you see a recent graduate that is not a "youth" from my perspective (anyone under 30 is still a 'youth' to me).
Here, we've had a shortage of finding folks with the right education and some experience. We've had terrible experience hiring intermediate or senior folks into the company as it surprising how in our business (engineering consulting) how corporate environment can determine how well folks fit in.
Our solution to all our hiring, has been to focus on finding youth with appropriate technical skills, hiring those who additionally had strong communication skills, and providing them continued skill development in both technical and communication while giving them the business skills they weren't given at school. The hiring and interviews are done by the project managers who need the staff themselves.
Its long term thinking, not short term. Being employee-owned (and broad based ownership at that) we can afford to take the long term view.
We have generally very low staff turnover (less than 5%) in any year, including retirements. Almost half our staff have at least 15 years with us.
For us, it seems to be the logical way forward.
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Parents had trouble with geese years ago. They started letting the dog out to clear the beach head of geese. He'd charge down the lawn and put the binders on just before he got to the shore, but the geese would have moved into the water. Now years (3 or 4) after the dog has passed on, the geese are all over one neighbours lawn, get into the water, swim around their lawn and come up the beach onto the neighbour on the other side. It seems that avoidance of our place is embedded deeply now.
I do miss the "apricot flash".
E-mail has never been secure or private? Which court decided that? Oh wait, it was never decided. Someone in the telecom industry recognized that if e-mail was to be treated as snail mail (private and secure) they would have to develop technologies to make e-mail secure. When letters were first introduced, they were private but not secure. Only couriers were deemed secure, and only if they were your couriers. Then, with the advent of state (or crown) post offices, the demands to keep private communication away from the prying eyes of the state (or crown) set the agenda to make it that way. The only reason why we had folks legislate e-mail NOT to be secure and private is become the state (or crown) decided that it would be in its best interest to have electronic communication declared "different" than snail mail. Governments hate court oversight. They hate having to prove the need to get a warrant. What if they could just get the people to accept that private e-mails aren't private. Bingo ! We'll just tell them that this is what we all want. Sorry. I do have an expectation of privacy with my private e-mail correspondence. It works with surface mail. This utter claptrap about "no one should expect privacy or security when data is passed to 3rd party" is bullshit. You need a warrant to tap my land line. You need a warrant to intercept my mail. Both cases involve data handed to 3rd party. Hospital records move between doctors hospitals and me. They are private. You may argue that e-mail is not secure. You may not argue that not secure means not private. the text I write on the back of a postcard is not secure, but it is still private.
Tie your horse to a post (you can carry one) then it won't wander away. Geez, just like a real horse. I agree on horse armour, but I don't worry too much about it. I'm much more concerned about the inability to craft saddles. I agree with the horse/boat issue - I don't see a way around that until they code the ability to use larger boats. Mind you, the ability to travel endlessly without suffering hunger is a huge boon to those of us who play on hardcore mode. Whining about the inability to craft a specialty armour that only aids your horse (a renewable resourse) against attacks that are completely avoidable is rather petty.
Care to name another game that lets that many pilots engage in single battle ?
Except for those of us who do own the mineral rights below our land :)
Also, vegetation growing on the land is considered an improvement, and hence belongs to the landowner. Formal grazing is a land use, subject to zoning.
You are correct on water, but then only a complete idiot would try to claim water running through his land.
Science Fiction is always rooted in what it means to be human. Usually by exposing something that is not human, and trying to make sense of it. Its about making you think.
Star Wars does not do that. It is fantasy happening in space. Abrams will do a great job with that franchise. To be honest, I hope the next Star Trek series is a long time coming (if its too soon, we'll get the Abrams treatment - which would suck), so we can go back to the best of Trek : true science fiction with multiple plots going on in a single episode.
You are absolutely correct - energy density, not power density.
Power density is key. Yes, a reduction in charge time is great, but spending 10 mins charging for each hour of driving would NOT be desirable.
Unless I get at least 30:1 run time vs charge time for an electric vehicle with a 3 hour minimum run time, I'm not sold. As for the phone battery, 1 minute for 24 hours that's a 1400:1 ratio (run time vs charge time) If I could get that for a car, we'd drop gasoline in a heartbeat.
Unless there is a massive increase in power density within a battery, it ain't a super battery, nor is it a breakthrough.
Oh, that's nice. Cause an extinction level event then send information back saying no live here.
My understanding is that this particular telco was storing the texts. It wasn't that the police were interested in intercepting the messages live, but rather they wanted their general warrant to let them have access to the copies of the messages.
The Court ruled that a wiretap warrant is required for the police to have access to the copies of the messages.
As as I am aware, this telco is the only major player storing texts.
He didn't say 30 day old character, he said a 30 day old player. Idiots with cash buy established payer accounts all the time and so these guys paying for less than 30 days AREA flying 10B vindicators.
Having said all of that, please, let them continue.
That idiot, spending all that PLEX to die in many horrible ways, makes it so there is enough PLEX on the market to keep it cheap enough for me to continue to earn ISK ingame and easily buy my next 30 day PLEX. PLEX is not play to win per se, and someone sold that character to the idot for ISK.
Therefore, more idiots with credit cards and no comon sense = good.
And some folks would have been happy if Einstein would have made a better contribution to humanity if he'd turned his genius to violin playing.
Caramack is very interested in the way things look - visual fidelity of computer generated images. While working on AI is a somewhat related field, it may not simply interest the guy. His talent has been to find ways of producing impressive visuals with low resource costs, this IS the kind of guy we want working on VR (and AR for that matter), given the current state of the art. It may be that a portion of his skill set may also be applicable to AI, but I doubt it is significant enough to put him at the forefront of a very active front.
It is trivial to produce photographic quality virtual worlds, it is not trivial to produce them in real time, with consumer grade equipment. This is where John is focused. It is NOT trivial to produce advanced AI, let alone in real time with consumer grade equipment. Until AI with super computers is sufficiently advanced (i.e. made non-trivial), John's gifts for making the fantastic appear on lower power tech isn't useful.
Thanks for marking all the valuable 'roids for our firm.
We'll let you know what we found. Maybe you'll get a finders fee, who knows ?
On the upside, if you were the observer travelling at the speed of light, it would not seem like 4 Billion years to travel.
There is a difference between speech based in hate, and rational discussion.
I dunno.
Absolutes make lousy edge-cases.
In anything like this, it is about balance. Dealing in absolutes is of no benefit. The basic human right to freedom of expression is not unlimited; it is not absolute. Society must place limits. However, those limits must err on the side of offending the most easily offended, as opposed to not offending anyone.
It is no different than the burden of proof in that we must err on the side of finding "not guilty" a few guilty people in order to ensure we do not find any innocent person guilty.
I cannot and will not support unrestricted freedom of expression, for it is the nature of mankind to abuse that freedom beyond what rational people would consider acceptable to the detriment of our society.
Does that assume that we need to set limits? Yes. Well who decides those limits? Sadly, with democracies, that would mean the majority of voters. But on the positive side, most civilized countries have legal systems to balance the desires of the elected officials to prevent the tyranny of the majority (or the tyranny of popular thought).
Carriers have been replaced. Now its Supercarriers and Titans. Carriers and dreadnoughts have had their roles reduced to ship transports and structure shoots.
"the last I checked, they were individuals entitled to pursue happiness in any way that suited them" Indeed they are. My. Nye's warning was against assuming parents know best for their children. Parents do not know best for their child. This has been proven time and time again. If there was a test for becoming a proper parent (other than the practical) their would be a whole lot of folks with some unlearning to do. The greatest danger to the human race are parents. And yes, I am a parent. And I am aware that I am far from a perfect one.
I can see how they determine joint location, my question is whether or not the joint type selection is automatic. I.e. The knees didn't appear to be pure ball joints, but more like pinned joints. the tail and neck were obviously pure ball allowing multi-axis rotation, but the knees looked like single axis joints.
Was there something in that post that pointed to hypocrisy, if so I cannot find it. While he was well know to have his own peculiarities, his position clearly stating that religious beliefs should be between a person and their chosen god(s) and that the religious beliefs of others were not his concern, doesn't appear to be contradicted by his behaviour.
At least Jefferson would have placed no restriction on you voicing both your (apparently) religious opinion and your open disagreement with the poster.
Thankfully, not in the US.
Perhaps 'youth' may have been the incorrect term to use; 'recent graduate' may have been better. Its not often (but not unheard of) that you see a recent graduate that is not a "youth" from my perspective (anyone under 30 is still a 'youth' to me).
Here, we've had a shortage of finding folks with the right education and some experience. We've had terrible experience hiring intermediate or senior folks into the company as it surprising how in our business (engineering consulting) how corporate environment can determine how well folks fit in. Our solution to all our hiring, has been to focus on finding youth with appropriate technical skills, hiring those who additionally had strong communication skills, and providing them continued skill development in both technical and communication while giving them the business skills they weren't given at school. The hiring and interviews are done by the project managers who need the staff themselves. Its long term thinking, not short term. Being employee-owned (and broad based ownership at that) we can afford to take the long term view. We have generally very low staff turnover (less than 5%) in any year, including retirements. Almost half our staff have at least 15 years with us. For us, it seems to be the logical way forward.