I don't think I've ever complained about there being dupes on here before....but FFS, this was just posted this past Monday: https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
much hand-wringing about all the lives that they would cost when sources were revealed. That didn't happen [bbc.com]
My credit card info was released during the Target hack; since none of it was used, that makes it okay and I should congratulate the ones responsible? In the name of what exactly?
huge amounts of documents like this can not be censored for potentially harmful or embarrassing personal information prior to their release
This is patently false. Snowden seemed to do a pretty good job of it.
In one case, the cables included the name of a Saudi who was arrested for being gay. In Saudi Arabia, homosexuality is punishable by death.
As the person was already arrested, I assume the govt already knows their name and their punishment is already lined up. Making this info widely public is probably the only way anyone else will ever know what happened to this person.
This this person request that this information get released? Just because the Saudi government knows about it doesn't mean the rest of the world should either.
Maybe, but Intel does bear some responsibility for letting themselves fall behind during that time frame. I can remember back in the K7/Athlon days, there were some Athlon chips that outperformed the P4 chips that ran at the same clockspeeds (Some of the PIII chips even outperformed it). Intel eventually tried to compensate for this by upping the clock speeds and adding cache to the already flawed NetBurst architecture (like the P4 Extreme Editions). I can also remember Intel stating early on that they expected NetBurst to scale up to 10 Ghz, when it in fact never got about 4. The decision to only support RamBus in the initial P4 Williamette rollout also hampered things.
"Last week, 25 advocacy groups asked Congress to sue to enforce riders it passed on prohibiting spending of taxpayer money on the IANA transition"
Did Congress get a say-so in letting go of control initially? If riders were added to it, then that tells me that they agreed to handing over control at some point (with conditions). When did this happen?
Withholding money won't help them at all with their addiction, but it makes you feel self-righteous.
By turning a cold shoulder to them, you are not helping them.
Having the government pay them money doesn't help them either, but I guess it makes you feel self-righteous.
Giving $1,000 lump sum payment every month to a person like that doesn't help them. They would still be in the same situation, only more easily able to feed their addiction. What everyone here is suggesting is actually worse.....we'd have to eliminate all welfare and treatment programs available to this person to cover the cost of UBI.
"They say alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having. Damnit Otto, you're an Alcoholic! Damnit Otto, you have lupus! One of those doesn't sound right." -- Mitch Hedberg
Every Nigerian scam e-mail I've ever received has been all caps. The AC must be pretty dense if he can't get the joke. I guess I was able to get around the lameness filter the same way he was able to get around the login page.
MY NAME IS WUMI ABDUL I RECEIVED YOUR NAME FROM INTERNATIONAL WEB DIRECTORY. MY COUSIN PRINCE MIKE IS BEING HELD AGAINST HIS WILL BY NIGERIAN AUTHORITIES. HE IS IN THE POSSESSION OF $60 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS THAT WE WILL GIVE YOU 45% OF IF YOU ASSIST US. ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU DONATE $25000 U.S. DOLLARS TO OUR "FREE PRINCE MIKE" KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN.
IF YOU DONATE YOU WILL RECEIVE A "FREE PRINCE MIKE" COFFEE MUG.
ANTICIPATING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON. THANKS AND GOD BLESS. BEST REGARDS, WUMI ABDUL
will abandon allies we protected from being overrun by the same communists
Leave them in a lurch to the commies? They'll get to keep their socialized health care, and there will also be even less income inequality than there is now!;-)
The real news is about investors pumping billions into a company without even the most cursory research.
I wouldn't necessarily call that news....did you see how much Theranos was valued at just under a year ago, before it came to light that they didn't have anything revolutionary? https://science.slashdot.org/s...
That $9 Billion valuation was given by Forbes.....not just a bunch of day traders buying up stock. If a "respected" voice in the financial industry can get it that wrong, I don't expect John Q Public to do any better.
Why on Earth was this modded up? To date Tesla has sold less than 100,000 cars. In 2014 GM sold over 3.4 MILLION. Instead of focusing on the fact that these incidents were notable because of Tesla calling their adaptive cruise control tech "autopilot", which mass-media picked up on, or the fact that it involved a car that typically cost over $70,000 US, you jumped straight to conspiracy.
Not to mention that the other car makes DO get media attention...I guess you can ignore that to because consipracy and Elon Musk. http://blog.caranddriver.com/m...
*I know that safety can be determined through a number of different ways, such as deaths per miles driven, but I don't think that's applicable when talking about why journalist would pick up a story.
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The fact the whole state is a river flood plain
The Baton Rouge area is 56 feet above sea level.
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...
and only stupid people build homes in a river flood plain?
I'm sure that the area you live in doesn't have any sort of vulnerability to any type of natural disaster. Go fuck yourself.
The reason everything in Texas is big is all of the radiation.
Maybe that's the reason you should stay away from Texas Toast......it's been directly linked to thyroid cancer (as well as gluten allergies).
This is such an important story - we need to make sure no one misses it.
I'm hoping they'll continue use to repost it daily for the next several weeks.
We don't need to give mdsolar anymore ideas ;-)
I don't think I've ever complained about there being dupes on here before....but FFS, this was just posted this past Monday:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
much hand-wringing about all the lives that they would cost when sources were revealed. That didn't happen [bbc.com]
My credit card info was released during the Target hack; since none of it was used, that makes it okay and I should congratulate the ones responsible? In the name of what exactly?
huge amounts of documents like this can not be censored for potentially harmful or embarrassing personal information prior to their release
This is patently false. Snowden seemed to do a pretty good job of it.
Where is the "SLASHDOT IS FBI" guy? I figured he'd be all over this story.
He was killed by our Robotic Overlords.
As the person was already arrested, I assume the govt already knows their name and their punishment is already lined up. Making this info widely public is probably the only way anyone else will ever know what happened to this person.
This this person request that this information get released? Just because the Saudi government knows about it doesn't mean the rest of the world should either.
Here's the data when you account for GDP:
http://data.worldbank.org/indi...
The United States barely makes the top 20.
Maybe, but Intel does bear some responsibility for letting themselves fall behind during that time frame. I can remember back in the K7/Athlon days, there were some Athlon chips that outperformed the P4 chips that ran at the same clockspeeds (Some of the PIII chips even outperformed it). Intel eventually tried to compensate for this by upping the clock speeds and adding cache to the already flawed NetBurst architecture (like the P4 Extreme Editions). I can also remember Intel stating early on that they expected NetBurst to scale up to 10 Ghz, when it in fact never got about 4. The decision to only support RamBus in the initial P4 Williamette rollout also hampered things.
This part of the article is interesting:
"Last week, 25 advocacy groups asked Congress to sue to enforce riders it passed on prohibiting spending of taxpayer money on the IANA transition"
Did Congress get a say-so in letting go of control initially? If riders were added to it, then that tells me that they agreed to handing over control at some point (with conditions). When did this happen?
little more weed and avoid going through withdrawal symptoms
Are you sure this guy was ONLY on weed?
Withholding money won't help them at all with their addiction, but it makes you feel self-righteous.
By turning a cold shoulder to them, you are not helping them.
Having the government pay them money doesn't help them either, but I guess it makes you feel self-righteous.
Giving $1,000 lump sum payment every month to a person like that doesn't help them. They would still be in the same situation, only more easily able to feed their addiction. What everyone here is suggesting is actually worse.....we'd have to eliminate all welfare and treatment programs available to this person to cover the cost of UBI.
No one is suggesting that everyone gets a flat amount with no recovery in other programs and taxes.
Actually, that's the "Universal" in Universal Basic Income:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
" all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government"
The system you just described is no different than having separate tax brackets or a negative income tax.
" seriously intimate personal information like when you get off, how long it take"
Most Slashdotters already have information like this collected by their ISP ;-)
My biggest concern however is our growing dependence upon multinational and branded consumer food companies to provide replacements
FWIW, Soylent is Open Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"They say alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having.
Try catching gonorrhea sometime.
Good point....but remember this is Slashdot, nobody here indulges in the activity that transmits Gonorrhea. :-)
"They say alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having. Damnit Otto, you're an Alcoholic! Damnit Otto, you have lupus! One of those doesn't sound right." -- Mitch Hedberg
Every Nigerian scam e-mail I've ever received has been all caps. The AC must be pretty dense if he can't get the joke. I guess I was able to get around the lameness filter the same way he was able to get around the login page.
GREETINGS RESEPECTED ONE,
MY NAME IS WUMI ABDUL I RECEIVED YOUR NAME FROM INTERNATIONAL WEB DIRECTORY. MY COUSIN PRINCE MIKE IS BEING HELD AGAINST HIS WILL BY NIGERIAN AUTHORITIES. HE IS IN THE POSSESSION OF $60 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS THAT WE WILL GIVE YOU 45% OF IF YOU ASSIST US. ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU DONATE $25000 U.S. DOLLARS TO OUR "FREE PRINCE MIKE" KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN.
IF YOU DONATE YOU WILL RECEIVE A "FREE PRINCE MIKE" COFFEE MUG.
ANTICIPATING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS.
BEST REGARDS,
WUMI ABDUL
NATO alliance and leave Europe in a lurch.
will abandon allies we protected from being overrun by the same communists
Leave them in a lurch to the commies? They'll get to keep their socialized health care, and there will also be even less income inequality than there is now! ;-)
That's true, thanks for the clarification :-)
The market corrects for it by brutally penalizing those who make bad decisions and rewarding those who make good ones.
If only that were true....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The real news is about investors pumping billions into a company without even the most cursory research.
I wouldn't necessarily call that news....did you see how much Theranos was valued at just under a year ago, before it came to light that they didn't have anything revolutionary?
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
That $9 Billion valuation was given by Forbes.....not just a bunch of day traders buying up stock. If a "respected" voice in the financial industry can get it that wrong, I don't expect John Q Public to do any better.
If it's this that's being referred to, it's Oregon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The whole thing started over something that happened in Nevada. The participants are from Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and New Hampshire.
Regardless, it's hard to take people seriously when they can't get simple facts straight.
Why on Earth was this modded up? To date Tesla has sold less than 100,000 cars. In 2014 GM sold over 3.4 MILLION. Instead of focusing on the fact that these incidents were notable because of Tesla calling their adaptive cruise control tech "autopilot", which mass-media picked up on, or the fact that it involved a car that typically cost over $70,000 US, you jumped straight to conspiracy.
Not to mention that the other car makes DO get media attention...I guess you can ignore that to because consipracy and Elon Musk.
http://blog.caranddriver.com/m...
https://forums.teslamotors.com...
http://media.gm.com/media/us/e...
*I know that safety can be determined through a number of different ways, such as deaths per miles driven, but I don't think that's applicable when talking about why journalist would pick up a story.