It's hard to consistantly and accurately measure weight when the force of gravity constantly changes, add to the fact that there may be radioactive decay of trace elements, oxidation of metals, Dust/erosion, sublimation of trace components), it's easy to understand how using a physical object to consistantly measure a weight, would fluxuate. when your "constants" are actually "variables" it's really hard to nail down constants...
Well, you wouldn't want to measure the weight really... you want to measure the mass and then calculate the weight from that. However, objects are in a constant state of decay, as you say. Basing it all on the standard model and building up would probably provide a more consistent result with fewer fluctuations.
If you were a trained former officer, you'd also know that the murderer improperly escalated the situation by responding with deadly force to a non-deadly battery (not assault). Assault can't be claimed because the murderer was clearly not in fear of his life, for he removed himself from the situation safely and then returned. If you punch a cop, they can't just shoot you. If a cop yells freeze, and you run, they can't shoot you (unless you already used deadly force). The rules get a bit fuzzy from there: the shod foot (boots, etc) and teeth are considered deadly weapons. But a fist is generally taken to be simple battery. Popcorn would qualify as a weapon, (see the chicken nugget fight for reference), but not a deadly one.
You are completely correct. It seems to me that there's a LOT to this story that we're not hearing with the single report. Either that, or policing standards in Tampa are so poor that you'd be best served never to go anywhere near there. It's possible the shooter will be declared temporarily insane.
Nobody's pointed out yet that he was *texting* his *3 year old*. Most three year olds don't know anything about the written word -- some of the brighter ones may recognize a few letters. Was he sending her Emoji? Or, as more likely, was he actually texting a message to the baby sitter to tell to his 3 year old? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to explain that he had to text his sitter?
I respectfully disagree. Retired police officers do not undergo background checks nor are they required to submit evidence of training or qualification before getting 50 state concealed carry for life. To the best of my knowledge, no police officer undergoes any kind of background check or psychological screening when they retire. My point being that where I live, a typical citizen undergoes an evaluation every 5 years whether they can qualify to concealed carry. Moreover, there's a 20-point list of stipulations that would immediately disqualify them. At the same time, active duty or retired police are given concealed carry without any review whatsoever. Meanwhile, stories abound of one-off incidents of individuals who probably should not have qualified to be police officers in the first place abusing the authority given them. This is one of them.
To be fair, background checks aren't run against active or retired officers because they've already had a more extensive background check and active monitoring for a sizeable portion of their life. They have also supposedly had far superior training in how to use a firearm as well as training in how to handle stressful situations.
But the fact that they're exempt from evaluation boggles the mind... retired officers are more likely than the average person to suffer from PTSD and various other stress-related issues that may not show up for years after they've left active duty.
If I were an ex-cop who had weapons training, and had a gun ready at close range, and was trying to avoid an assault, I'd do what *I hope* my training taught me to -- take the attacker down by aiming at a shoulder or leg. Someone with an injured leg isn't going to do very much attacking.
However, in this case the assault appeared to involve "someone" throwing popcorn, after which the texter's wife appears to have tried to restrain him.
There are so many things wrong with this scene that it has moved into the realms of the totally bizarre. For instance: where was the usher during all of this?
Latex, being a biological product does biodegade, it just does so slowly.
Rubber, produced from petroleum, is not biodegradable.
Most condoms are latex.
Actually, rubber comes from the rubber tree -- and vulcanized rubber isn't very biodegradable as it has been chemically altered. Latex is just a product name for the type of rubber extracted from a particular rubber tree. Unvulcanized rubber is biodegradable, but is also prone to tears, so most rubber is vulcanized. You probably wouldn't want a non-vulcanized condom.
Petroleum-based alternatives are things like polyeurethane, which is a less-popular alternative to Latex.
I can't believe this load of biased garbage is voted insightful. Genital mutilation? It wasn't mutilation when I got circumcised. It was a standard medical procedure needed for medical reasons which has several hygiene benefits too. You claims on sensation? [Citation required].
As for the rest of you post there's no need for a citation there because it's a load of bull. Both the WHO and the CDC have conducted studies which show that the HIV transmission rates to men reduced if circumcised. The studies show it had no effect on transmission to women but guess what, it's kind of hard to pass on an infection you don't have so the women benefit long term too. Before you run out criticizing the gates foundation maybe you should start at the WHO who recommended in 2007 that the medical procedure be used in the prevention of AIDS.
Now excuse me while I go mutilate my finger nails because they are getting too long.
I don't know where you live, but circumcision has moved from being SOP to a cosmetic surgery over the past 30 years in most places. In case of severe infection, the surgery is sometimes performed, just like a tonsilectome. In both circumstances, we're talking about a flap of skin that isn't really required anymore, but still provides benefits if it stays where it is. At one point, tonsilectomes were SOP too -- but they aren't anymore, despite the health benefits of having one.
Oh, and I'm fairly unbiased about the whole thing, as I see benefits to both sides and detriments to both. But it's best to be properly informed on BOTH sides of an argument before ranting.
The very existence of Hackintoshes shows you that a Mac is just a PC with some special custom ROMs to facilitate easy installation of OS-X.
The very existence of this quote shows you that you don't know what you're talking about. All the mainboard components required for OS X can be found on other Foxconn motherboards. The existence of hackintoshes shows you that some different parameters and device drivers are needed to make other hardware work with OS X, and yet people still want to do it. Otherwise, there'd be no "hack". The premium is paid for the package, not *just* the logo.
To look at the car analogy: it's how the Porsche drives that really differentiates it from the Corolla, as well as the company's support network. Same is true with Apple and (for example) Dell. Not saying one's better than the other, just that you pay for those differentiators.
To look at it another way, you could look on the "tax" as an "investment" -- chunks of that money roll back into R&D, which is more than can be said for the majority of PC brands. Not sure how long this'll be the case though, especially since Apple's margins on most products really aren't that different than other hardware with the same components inside.
There have been particular Dells used as hackintoshes for this very reason.
I think this says something all by itself, doesn't it?
Oh, and those hackintoshes are because the hardware meets the bare minimum (basic hardware, including CPU) required to run the OS. It doesn't mean they have all the same components (although they could) for a cheaper price.
I just hope that Apple's handling of iBooks on OS X isn't a prophecy of where they're taking their software platform in the future; if it does, I'll be switching to OpenStep on some flavour of BSD for an everyday use PC.
...about this write-up was that there was NO mention of the nationality of the scientists ("group of experimentalists"?) who had performed this feat. Slashdot almost always prefaces this sort of news story with "Scientists at MIT..." or some such.
So I guessed that this meant they were not American. And I clicked on the reference to find out that I was right. They aren't. They aren't even in the US.
So why is this story even mentioned? Isn't it the case that nothing is true unless it happens here?
happens where?
Even though Dice.com is located in the US, I think you'll find a large number of posters on slashdot aren't. Same goes for submitters.
I'm going to toss this out there but I expect the answer to be "no."
Does this solve the issue with using quantum entanglement as a possible means of FTL communications? I'm under the impression that quantum entanglement can't be used for this because the act of looking at the particle would change the state. But this seems to be away around that.
So am I wrong here and why?
The issue is that the information has to be minimal enough to not be verifiable -- so you could never guarantee that it's the same neutron you're measuring. But I guess if you had enough of them, you MAY be able to send a message through the properties. But that would involve quantum entanglement on a massive scale; something we can't do yet. Plus, these quantum measurements are usually done on things that can only be measured reliably for very short periods of time... which doesn't give time to get them far enough apart in space for it to be useful.
Its because the CC's attributes can be in one place while its body is somewhere else... after all, it can be between the state of abnormal and nothing: the last thing to fade is the smile (not the teeth and lips, but the smile) and it can interact without in fact being there.
1: You're quoting the MWD -- I can find all sorts of slang that it defines. 2: Battery has been used to refer to single cells for around 40 years, which is why I commented as I did -- "Magazine" has been in disuse even longer.
So basically, the words in common usage have shifted meaning so much that a) most people don't even know the original term anymore and b) it's now almost impossible to figure out what the word means by picking apart its components (a flashlight battery -- does it hurt?). Other words that have shifted like this include gay, nice and toilet.
Just to clarify that my pedantry is aimed at pedants, not at the current common use of the term "battery":)
However, even the OED considers a single cell a "battery" now:
noun (plural batteries)
1a container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power:a camera battery [as modifier]:battery power
The thing is, with a paper airplane, you've pretty much got a fixed-speed device (depending on design) with thrust adjusting the incline more than the speed. I haven't seen too many paper airplane designs with a slow enough glide to really benefit from having the rudder aft of the prop.
But with published APIs and a pretty modular hardware design, you could probably modify it yourself and write your own controller app.
If you were on the Kickstarter page, then you failed to read down far enough.
There is a risk with development of the Android app: It is unclear whether the Android app will perform at the same level as the iOS app. The Android API is still in its early stage and has not been fully tested for maturity and stability. With PowerUp 3.0, we are pushing the limits of Bluetooth Smart technology.
In comparison, our iOS code has been tested and perfected over the past 1.5 years as we have worked with Apple in finding and fixing problems in Apple’s own Bluetooth implementation.
The 50,000 campaign was iOS only. 150,000 was the target for Android, and they're well past that. The range of 180 feet isn't guaranteed on an Android device though, and the software isn't complete yet.
well, kickstarter says you can get one for $30 -- but if they hit $2m in pledges, they're incorporating a pinhole camera to the design. Raising $1m (which looks like it'll likely happen) will enable "dogfight" mode where the first person to hit the fire button once two planes are close enough to each other will cause the other plane's engine to stall. They've already passed the multi-control (big plane with multiple engines, or multiple planes flying in tandem) and Android targets.
Yeah; the use of battery has become almost as bad as the use of magazine....
We should just replace the word "battery" with "cluster" (as in beowulf) so that people understand what it means. But I think it's already too late for that.
Well, what this really means is that states such as Idaho and Kentucky can suddenly make it rich in renewable energy, as they're well positioned on the power grid. If other states are preventing renewable energy in-state, that just means other states can drop a few incentives and get a sudden boom in the local economy. Especially since all they need to do is become a storage pool for the existing grid.
Now renewable energy in privately-held consumables... that's another issue. Such states could easily become the forerunners here too though, showing that it can be done and becoming attractive to corporations/talent that wants to solve the problems.
So he gets the same treatment as mass murderers? Clearly the copyright barons have 1) swung the pendulum to have copyright last far longer than is reasonable (20 years, 1 generation, is reasonable, forever is what we have now), and 2) they have corrupted anyone they deal with into 'going along' with their 'forever copyright, infinite profits, infinite fines and jail' mentality.
This conflates two of his activities: alleged copyright infringement and alleged hacking. This hacking bit doesn't have to do with TPB directly -- but there is still the question of "would he be in solitary confinement if he wasn't the cofounder of TPB...."
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It's hard to consistantly and accurately measure weight when the force of gravity constantly changes, add to the fact that there may be radioactive decay of trace elements, oxidation of metals, Dust/erosion, sublimation of trace components), it's easy to understand how using a physical object to consistantly measure a weight, would fluxuate. when your "constants" are actually "variables" it's really hard to nail down constants...
Well, you wouldn't want to measure the weight really... you want to measure the mass and then calculate the weight from that. However, objects are in a constant state of decay, as you say. Basing it all on the standard model and building up would probably provide a more consistent result with fewer fluctuations.
If you were a trained former officer, you'd also know that the murderer improperly escalated the situation by responding with deadly force to a non-deadly battery (not assault). Assault can't be claimed because the murderer was clearly not in fear of his life, for he removed himself from the situation safely and then returned. If you punch a cop, they can't just shoot you. If a cop yells freeze, and you run, they can't shoot you (unless you already used deadly force). The rules get a bit fuzzy from there: the shod foot (boots, etc) and teeth are considered deadly weapons. But a fist is generally taken to be simple battery. Popcorn would qualify as a weapon, (see the chicken nugget fight for reference), but not a deadly one.
You are completely correct. It seems to me that there's a LOT to this story that we're not hearing with the single report. Either that, or policing standards in Tampa are so poor that you'd be best served never to go anywhere near there. It's possible the shooter will be declared temporarily insane.
can the ISP now block access to commercial VPN providers in the USA?
Yup... they're not common carriers after all. As a private business, they can do whatever they want with their hardware.
I can see why you'd want to remain anonymous after a statement like that....
Nobody's pointed out yet that he was *texting* his *3 year old*. Most three year olds don't know anything about the written word -- some of the brighter ones may recognize a few letters. Was he sending her Emoji? Or, as more likely, was he actually texting a message to the baby sitter to tell to his 3 year old? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to explain that he had to text his sitter?
This was the poster child "good guy with a gun".
I respectfully disagree. Retired police officers do not undergo background checks nor are they required to submit evidence of training or qualification before getting 50 state concealed carry for life. To the best of my knowledge, no police officer undergoes any kind of background check or psychological screening when they retire. My point being that where I live, a typical citizen undergoes an evaluation every 5 years whether they can qualify to concealed carry. Moreover, there's a 20-point list of stipulations that would immediately disqualify them. At the same time, active duty or retired police are given concealed carry without any review whatsoever. Meanwhile, stories abound of one-off incidents of individuals who probably should not have qualified to be police officers in the first place abusing the authority given them. This is one of them.
To be fair, background checks aren't run against active or retired officers because they've already had a more extensive background check and active monitoring for a sizeable portion of their life. They have also supposedly had far superior training in how to use a firearm as well as training in how to handle stressful situations.
But the fact that they're exempt from evaluation boggles the mind... retired officers are more likely than the average person to suffer from PTSD and various other stress-related issues that may not show up for years after they've left active duty.
If I were an ex-cop who had weapons training, and had a gun ready at close range, and was trying to avoid an assault, I'd do what *I hope* my training taught me to -- take the attacker down by aiming at a shoulder or leg. Someone with an injured leg isn't going to do very much attacking.
However, in this case the assault appeared to involve "someone" throwing popcorn, after which the texter's wife appears to have tried to restrain him.
There are so many things wrong with this scene that it has moved into the realms of the totally bizarre. For instance: where was the usher during all of this?
Only of you draw a cloud on it
That's so 2010... these days, it would need to be connected to the cloud and have its own IPV6 address.
You jest, but that would be a great feature. House burning down, auto call fire department, and also send you info to reserve a hotel room.
Not only that, but backing up all your data to the cloud before it goes up in smoke would also be useful....
Of course, I can see these sending info to your insurer as well, which would be a mixed blessing.
Latex, being a biological product does biodegade, it just does so slowly.
Rubber, produced from petroleum, is not biodegradable.
Most condoms are latex.
Actually, rubber comes from the rubber tree -- and vulcanized rubber isn't very biodegradable as it has been chemically altered. Latex is just a product name for the type of rubber extracted from a particular rubber tree. Unvulcanized rubber is biodegradable, but is also prone to tears, so most rubber is vulcanized. You probably wouldn't want a non-vulcanized condom.
Petroleum-based alternatives are things like polyeurethane, which is a less-popular alternative to Latex.
I can't believe this load of biased garbage is voted insightful. Genital mutilation? It wasn't mutilation when I got circumcised. It was a standard medical procedure needed for medical reasons which has several hygiene benefits too. You claims on sensation? [Citation required].
As for the rest of you post there's no need for a citation there because it's a load of bull. Both the WHO and the CDC have conducted studies which show that the HIV transmission rates to men reduced if circumcised. The studies show it had no effect on transmission to women but guess what, it's kind of hard to pass on an infection you don't have so the women benefit long term too. Before you run out criticizing the gates foundation maybe you should start at the WHO who recommended in 2007 that the medical procedure be used in the prevention of AIDS.
Now excuse me while I go mutilate my finger nails because they are getting too long.
I don't know where you live, but circumcision has moved from being SOP to a cosmetic surgery over the past 30 years in most places. In case of severe infection, the surgery is sometimes performed, just like a tonsilectome. In both circumstances, we're talking about a flap of skin that isn't really required anymore, but still provides benefits if it stays where it is. At one point, tonsilectomes were SOP too -- but they aren't anymore, despite the health benefits of having one.
sensation link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23374102
Oh, and I'm fairly unbiased about the whole thing, as I see benefits to both sides and detriments to both. But it's best to be properly informed on BOTH sides of an argument before ranting.
is why they just didn't use YETI as their company acronym and be done with it?
Because Blue already makes a YETI?
The very existence of Hackintoshes shows you that a Mac is just a PC with some special custom ROMs to facilitate easy installation of OS-X.
The very existence of this quote shows you that you don't know what you're talking about. All the mainboard components required for OS X can be found on other Foxconn motherboards. The existence of hackintoshes shows you that some different parameters and device drivers are needed to make other hardware work with OS X, and yet people still want to do it. Otherwise, there'd be no "hack". The premium is paid for the package, not *just* the logo.
To look at the car analogy: it's how the Porsche drives that really differentiates it from the Corolla, as well as the company's support network. Same is true with Apple and (for example) Dell. Not saying one's better than the other, just that you pay for those differentiators.
To look at it another way, you could look on the "tax" as an "investment" -- chunks of that money roll back into R&D, which is more than can be said for the majority of PC brands. Not sure how long this'll be the case though, especially since Apple's margins on most products really aren't that different than other hardware with the same components inside.
There have been particular Dells used as hackintoshes for this very reason.
I think this says something all by itself, doesn't it?
Oh, and those hackintoshes are because the hardware meets the bare minimum (basic hardware, including CPU) required to run the OS. It doesn't mean they have all the same components (although they could) for a cheaper price.
I just hope that Apple's handling of iBooks on OS X isn't a prophecy of where they're taking their software platform in the future; if it does, I'll be switching to OpenStep on some flavour of BSD for an everyday use PC.
...about this write-up was that there was NO mention of the nationality of the scientists ("group of experimentalists"?) who had performed this feat. Slashdot almost always prefaces this sort of news story with "Scientists at MIT..." or some such.
So I guessed that this meant they were not American. And I clicked on the reference to find out that I was right. They aren't. They aren't even in the US.
So why is this story even mentioned? Isn't it the case that nothing is true unless it happens here?
happens where?
Even though Dice.com is located in the US, I think you'll find a large number of posters on slashdot aren't. Same goes for submitters.
I'm going to toss this out there but I expect the answer to be "no."
Does this solve the issue with using quantum entanglement as a possible means of FTL communications? I'm under the impression that quantum entanglement can't be used for this because the act of looking at the particle would change the state. But this seems to be away around that.
So am I wrong here and why?
The issue is that the information has to be minimal enough to not be verifiable -- so you could never guarantee that it's the same neutron you're measuring. But I guess if you had enough of them, you MAY be able to send a message through the properties. But that would involve quantum entanglement on a massive scale; something we can't do yet. Plus, these quantum measurements are usually done on things that can only be measured reliably for very short periods of time... which doesn't give time to get them far enough apart in space for it to be useful.
Its because the CC's attributes can be in one place while its body is somewhere else... after all, it can be between the state of abnormal and nothing: the last thing to fade is the smile (not the teeth and lips, but the smile) and it can interact without in fact being there.
Did they kill the cat, by looking?
No... you did, by being curious.
1: You're quoting the MWD -- I can find all sorts of slang that it defines.
2: Battery has been used to refer to single cells for around 40 years, which is why I commented as I did -- "Magazine" has been in disuse even longer.
So basically, the words in common usage have shifted meaning so much that a) most people don't even know the original term anymore and b) it's now almost impossible to figure out what the word means by picking apart its components (a flashlight battery -- does it hurt?). Other words that have shifted like this include gay, nice and toilet.
Just to clarify that my pedantry is aimed at pedants, not at the current common use of the term "battery" :)
However, even the OED considers a single cell a "battery" now:
The thing is, with a paper airplane, you've pretty much got a fixed-speed device (depending on design) with thrust adjusting the incline more than the speed. I haven't seen too many paper airplane designs with a slow enough glide to really benefit from having the rudder aft of the prop.
But with published APIs and a pretty modular hardware design, you could probably modify it yourself and write your own controller app.
If you were on the Kickstarter page, then you failed to read down far enough.
There is a risk with development of the Android app: It is unclear whether the Android app will perform at the same level as the iOS app. The Android API is still in its early stage and has not been fully tested for maturity and stability. With PowerUp 3.0, we are pushing the limits of Bluetooth Smart technology.
In comparison, our iOS code has been tested and perfected over the past 1.5 years as we have worked with Apple in finding and fixing problems in Apple’s own Bluetooth implementation.
The 50,000 campaign was iOS only. 150,000 was the target for Android, and they're well past that. The range of 180 feet isn't guaranteed on an Android device though, and the software isn't complete yet.
well, kickstarter says you can get one for $30 -- but if they hit $2m in pledges, they're incorporating a pinhole camera to the design.
Raising $1m (which looks like it'll likely happen) will enable "dogfight" mode where the first person to hit the fire button once two planes are close enough to each other will cause the other plane's engine to stall. They've already passed the multi-control (big plane with multiple engines, or multiple planes flying in tandem) and Android targets.
Yeah; the use of battery has become almost as bad as the use of magazine....
We should just replace the word "battery" with "cluster" (as in beowulf) so that people understand what it means. But I think it's already too late for that.
Well, what this really means is that states such as Idaho and Kentucky can suddenly make it rich in renewable energy, as they're well positioned on the power grid. If other states are preventing renewable energy in-state, that just means other states can drop a few incentives and get a sudden boom in the local economy. Especially since all they need to do is become a storage pool for the existing grid.
Now renewable energy in privately-held consumables... that's another issue. Such states could easily become the forerunners here too though, showing that it can be done and becoming attractive to corporations/talent that wants to solve the problems.
From corn to rhubarb... worth a try.
So he gets the same treatment as mass murderers? Clearly the copyright barons have 1) swung the pendulum to have copyright last far longer than is reasonable (20 years, 1 generation, is reasonable, forever is what we have now), and 2) they have corrupted anyone they deal with into 'going along' with their 'forever copyright, infinite profits, infinite fines and jail' mentality.
This conflates two of his activities: alleged copyright infringement and alleged hacking. This hacking bit doesn't have to do with TPB directly -- but there is still the question of "would he be in solitary confinement if he wasn't the cofounder of TPB...."