Am I supposed to know what an SPTM is??? (As it seems to be too much trouble to explain the initialism before throwing it at us over and over again...)
A more correct headline would be "Company who bought Atari trademark is now getting into crypto-currency". (But, of course, nobody would care about that at all...)
The Christmas we knows today - with the garish fat man dressed in red and gaudy lights that waste gigawatt hours of energy for nothing every year - is a pure invention of the Coca Cola company, designed solely to sell Coca Cola products
Since you seem to be so critical of "corporate bullshit" I'm surprised you take their statements at face value.
Coca Cola's "Santa Claus invention" is not at all as clear cut as they make it seem — see these old posters from the White Rock company, for example, for Santa Clauses that drink not just Coke...
They may be different engineering groups working on these different types of products, but the company culture (which, due to a strict top-down hierarchy, might suppress internal warnings) is the same; so — perhaps there is a good reason to avoid Samsung products in general after all.
It was a frigging tractor-trailer crossing the street. How can anybody in their right mind claim that this was impossible to see???
If you, as the driver, cannot see a tractor-trailer crossing the street (no matter whether it's white or any other color), then you shouldn't be driving a car.
If the car's AI cannot distinguish it either, it's not fit to control your vehicle. Very simple.
You can be pretty sure that any human that pays attention while driving would notice a truck crossing the street, and hitting the brakes in time (actually, you would most likely already see it approaching the intersection, and, if it doesn't slow down, you can probably guess that he's trying to make it across, and you would react accordingly). If, of course, you *don't* pay attention (or you have a color-blind AI driving the car), then all bets are off. But don't tell me "it's impossible" to see a white tractor-trailer...
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...you do not want to print the pictures because you are afraid for your own life, those of your staff or relatives, well I am sorry to say that the extremists have WON.
Which is, of course, easy to say as a semi-anonymous poster on the Internet.
But if your actions may actually cause somebody to lose their life, then the decision is not quite as simple.
After all, journalists aren't soldiers (who are well aware of the risk of getting killed while doing their job, and are equipped to defend themselves).
Some office worker at a magazine (it doesn't even have to be a journalist) has no protection at all (and there isn't enough police to protect every one 24/7), and if some nutcase is out to get them, they most likely will.
I'm sure every editor will fight as much as they can for freedom of press, but if that translates into a death sentence (for them, or some random employee), then the priority lies on eliminating those threats first. Only then can we get back to business as usual.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of overlap in your definitions, so they are by no means exclusive.
Also, if both, the manufacturer, as well as the Army, decide to call it aerostats, then I think that does carry a bit more weight than what some guy on Wikipedia thinks it should be called...
"Balanced features" in this context means nothing -- you have some random index indicating performance (which could be anything they want it to be), and compare that to some other random index for the battery life.
Yes, by itself those two indices might be useful, if you're looking for a phone to match your personal priorities, but talking about some "balance", just because the two indices are near each other is quite nonsensical.
All of this presupposes a pre-existing awareness of Open Source and Free Software among the general public. Due due the typically communal nature of Free Software, this awareness really doesn't exist to begin with. It's absurd to talk about the "general public" and how their confidence is "shaken" when they are blissfully unaware to begin with.
Before ranting about the ignorance of the "general public", it would help to read the article first, which makes no mention of them at all, but rather talks about multiple professional developers, and their response to these security breaches.
So, he'd rather move to Australia to get good broadband, instead of a few miles up the road?
Either he's got his priorities mixed up, or those two things have nothing at all with each other.
...but debating these people only give them credibility they do not deserve. The people who believe in creationism will never be swayed away
Discussions like these are not meant to convince your *oppenent*.
That's never gonna happen...
But they're there to give those audience member who might still be on the fence an exposure to arguments from the other side, to perhaps convince *them* that there's more to the issue than they've heard so far.
Quite funny, considering that the Army itself is freely distributing a simulation that allows you to play any side you want: video 1 & video 2>
It's the data that's crucial, not the software
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What brings a package like Racer to a level usable by F1 teams is not so much the software itself (even though the openness of it helps), but the data that it is being fed by the team and their suppliers (e.g. performance and feedback data from the car, professional track scans, etc.).
Since the casual user does NOT have access to these data set, all they're left with is the "empty sheet of paper", on which they can paint their own fantasies, but, just because they're using the same "paper" as a race team, this does not mean that the outcome (the simulation feel) will be the same as that of an F1 team.
So - unless you have some realistic data to plug into it (and to test in real-life feedback loops), don't be under any illusion that it's any better than any other racing sim.
I'm sure neither the MPAA nor the dogs are interested a single disc that is being shipped. It would grind customs processing to a halt, and not be very efficient in finding anything anyway.
The dogs will be able to distinguish whether a package contains just one DVD or a few hundred. And only those large shipments will be the ones MPAA or customs will be interested in.
Once they compare the dog's signals with the shipping declarations, and find a big mismatch, that's when the warning light will go off.
So yeah, MPAA bad and all that, but this seems to me like a rare occasion where trying to fight large-scale commercial pirace does make sense...
Since corporations are allowed to outsource anything they want, I've decided to outsource my shopping as well: http://www.mp3spy.ru/en
Less than $1 for most CDs, nearly every CD you can think of, and they happily accept foreign credit cards (and no funny business happening with the card either).
Every school teacher in Kansas etc. should get a copy of this.
They force you to teach ID in biology? No problem, then teach it as a science, and not a dogma. Which means analyzing it objectively, and approaching it from a multitude of perspectives, including the possibility of different 'designer configurations'.
ID would be out of the schools faster than you could spell "Intelligent Design Science"...
Whether or not courts will side with the 'links provider' (Google, etc) or against them (2600) probably has a lot to do with *how* the links on the site are generated.
If there is a human that comes across a link, finds it relevant for the site and its visitors, and then puts it up on the page, that's a very different situation from a search engine or directory that auotamically accepts and lists any link it comes across.
It's just like the Common Carrier clauses. As soon as you get involved in editing/filtering the content that comes across your channels, you can then get proscecuted for selecting the wrong kinds of subjects. But as long as it's a free for all (as long as it's not all illegal) you probably have a good chance of getting away with it.
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This is where they are: https://democrats-intelligence...
Am I supposed to know what an SPTM is??? (As it seems to be too much trouble to explain the initialism before throwing it at us over and over again...)
Please stop it.
There is no Atari anymore.
A more correct headline would be "Company who bought Atari trademark is now getting into crypto-currency". (But, of course, nobody would care about that at all...)
Someone may want to forward this to Elon Musk, to ease his fear of the upcoming robocalypse...
Except, they're all just gonna wear face-masks (as many of them do already), so good luck with that...
The Christmas we knows today - with the garish fat man dressed in red and gaudy lights that waste gigawatt hours of energy for nothing every year - is a pure invention of the Coca Cola company, designed solely to sell Coca Cola products
Since you seem to be so critical of "corporate bullshit" I'm surprised you take their statements at face value.
Coca Cola's "Santa Claus invention" is not at all as clear cut as they make it seem — see these old posters from the White Rock company, for example, for Santa Clauses that drink not just Coke...
They may be different engineering groups working on these different types of products, but the company culture (which, due to a strict top-down hierarchy, might suppress internal warnings) is the same; so — perhaps there is a good reason to avoid Samsung products in general after all.
It was a frigging tractor-trailer crossing the street. How can anybody in their right mind claim that this was impossible to see??? If you, as the driver, cannot see a tractor-trailer crossing the street (no matter whether it's white or any other color), then you shouldn't be driving a car. If the car's AI cannot distinguish it either, it's not fit to control your vehicle. Very simple. You can be pretty sure that any human that pays attention while driving would notice a truck crossing the street, and hitting the brakes in time (actually, you would most likely already see it approaching the intersection, and, if it doesn't slow down, you can probably guess that he's trying to make it across, and you would react accordingly). If, of course, you *don't* pay attention (or you have a color-blind AI driving the car), then all bets are off. But don't tell me "it's impossible" to see a white tractor-trailer...
The confirmation is on the linked-to Microsoft blog: Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
I'm looking forward to live broadcasts of "Drone Wars Above Beverly Hills" (as celebrity and paparazzi drones are battling it out)!
...you do not want to print the pictures because you are afraid for your own life, those of your staff or relatives, well I am sorry to say that the extremists have WON.
Which is, of course, easy to say as a semi-anonymous poster on the Internet.
But if your actions may actually cause somebody to lose their life, then the decision is not quite as simple.
After all, journalists aren't soldiers (who are well aware of the risk of getting killed while doing their job, and are equipped to defend themselves).
Some office worker at a magazine (it doesn't even have to be a journalist) has no protection at all (and there isn't enough police to protect every one 24/7), and if some nutcase is out to get them, they most likely will.
I'm sure every editor will fight as much as they can for freedom of press, but if that translates into a death sentence (for them, or some random employee), then the priority lies on eliminating those threats first. Only then can we get back to business as usual.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of overlap in your definitions, so they are by no means exclusive.
Also, if both, the manufacturer, as well as the Army, decide to call it aerostats, then I think that does carry a bit more weight than what some guy on Wikipedia thinks it should be called...
"Balanced features" in this context means nothing -- you have some random index indicating performance (which could be anything they want it to be), and compare that to some other random index for the battery life.
Yes, by itself those two indices might be useful, if you're looking for a phone to match your personal priorities, but talking about some "balance", just because the two indices are near each other is quite nonsensical.
All of this presupposes a pre-existing awareness of Open Source and Free Software among the general public. Due due the typically communal nature of Free Software, this awareness really doesn't exist to begin with. It's absurd to talk about the "general public" and how their confidence is "shaken" when they are blissfully unaware to begin with.
Before ranting about the ignorance of the "general public", it would help to read the article first, which makes no mention of them at all, but rather talks about multiple professional developers, and their response to these security breaches.
So, he'd rather move to Australia to get good broadband, instead of a few miles up the road?
Either he's got his priorities mixed up, or those two things have nothing at all with each other.
Discussions like these are not meant to convince your *oppenent*.
That's never gonna happen...
But they're there to give those audience member who might still be on the fence an exposure to arguments from the other side, to perhaps convince *them* that there's more to the issue than they've heard so far.
Quite funny, considering that the Army itself is freely distributing a simulation that allows you to play any side you want: video 1 & video 2>
What brings a package like Racer to a level usable by F1 teams is not so much the software itself (even though the openness of it helps), but the data that it is being fed by the team and their suppliers (e.g. performance and feedback data from the car, professional track scans, etc.).
Since the casual user does NOT have access to these data set, all they're left with is the "empty sheet of paper", on which they can paint their own fantasies, but, just because they're using the same "paper" as a race team, this does not mean that the outcome (the simulation feel) will be the same as that of an F1 team.
So - unless you have some realistic data to plug into it (and to test in real-life feedback loops), don't be under any illusion that it's any better than any other racing sim.
Also make sure to show this feature to any TSA agents when you check into the airport. They'll be very impressed! ;)
... is available for free: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1182327
I'm sure neither the MPAA nor the dogs are interested a single disc that is being shipped. It would grind customs processing to a halt, and not be very efficient in finding anything anyway.
The dogs will be able to distinguish whether a package contains just one DVD or a few hundred. And only those large shipments will be the ones MPAA or customs will be interested in.
Once they compare the dog's signals with the shipping declarations, and find a big mismatch, that's when the warning light will go off.
So yeah, MPAA bad and all that, but this seems to me like a rare occasion where trying to fight large-scale commercial pirace does make sense...
Since corporations are allowed to outsource anything they want, I've decided to outsource my shopping as well: http://www.mp3spy.ru/en
Less than $1 for most CDs, nearly every CD you can think of, and they happily accept foreign credit cards (and no funny business happening with the card either).
Well... Perhaps you should have read a bit further...
The activity was demonstrated at the CCC Conference, which took place in Berlin.
This is absolutely brilliant!
Every school teacher in Kansas etc. should get a copy of this.
They force you to teach ID in biology? No problem, then teach it as a science, and not a dogma. Which means analyzing it objectively, and approaching it from a multitude of perspectives, including the possibility of different 'designer configurations'.
ID would be out of the schools faster than you could spell "Intelligent Design Science"...
Whether or not courts will side with the 'links provider' (Google, etc) or against them (2600) probably has a lot to do with *how* the links on the site are generated.
If there is a human that comes across a link, finds it relevant for the site and its visitors, and then puts it up on the page, that's a very different situation from a search engine or directory that auotamically accepts and lists any link it comes across.
It's just like the Common Carrier clauses. As soon as you get involved in editing/filtering the content that comes across your channels, you can then get proscecuted for selecting the wrong kinds of subjects. But as long as it's a free for all (as long as it's not all illegal) you probably have a good chance of getting away with it.