A marketing slogan with no actual meaning. How democratic is the DPRK?
LOL. So many times, I've seen replies to comments about antifa using fascist tactics that say something like, "No, no! They're AGAINST fascism! It's right in the name!"
You're pedantically correct, but contextually deaf. It's obvious from context what Jzanu was referring to with his reference to the fight for civil rights.
...their hands are probably pretty full just fixing iOS 11's messes.
And adding emojis. Apparently iOS can never have enough frickin' emojis. (How much smaller would the OS be if they'd dump all those useless graphics? What possible reason is there to devolve from words to pictograms? What are we, cave people?)
No, we aren't cave people. But apparently a lot of us are idiots, if this is any indication.
Coalinga and Kettleman City aren't very far apart. Kettleman City is right on I5, which makes it more convenient. At least, it would be convenient were it not for the extremely stinky stockyard just up the road.
Apparently, the developers that did it were lacking as well.
Well, since the threat didn't exist when the systems were developed, it's understandable that mitigations weren't put into place. Also, humans are prone to errors. There aren't any processes that can guarantee perfection, but that doesn't mean you might as well have no process.
I've never been convinced that these forms of making stuff good by massive oversite actually works.
I don't know what "massive oversite" is, but a disciplined process and independent verification and validation combined with reasonable regulatory oversight usually results in good quality
How does JPL do this?
They seem to be able to make stuff that works in a wide variety of extreme use cases.
Having worked with JPL, I can assure you that they have their own set of development rules that would make the average Slashdotter blanch. But they aren't involved in commercial passenger aviation, where catastrophic failure rates are measured in failures per billion operating hours.
I expect quite a few folks here are going to question the figure, "a million dollars per line changed."
As well they should, because that isn't what he said. What he said was, "The cost to change one line of code on a piece of avionics equipment is $1 million". But everything else you said in your post is spot on. Most software developers have no idea what is involved in creating DAL-A safety critical software for commercial aviation, and would run screaming to the safety of their iOS development environment if they were tasked with doing it.
The funny thing, at least to me, is that while soldering properly is an art form, it is rather easy to learn. A couple of YouTube videos, and a little practice and you are there. I learned to solder many many years ago from a former NASA employee who had worked on the Apollo project.
You can't get a certification in soldering from YouTube. Or from a former NASA employee either, unless they're a certified trainer. But if you don't need the cert, I guess YouTube will do.
You don't think people in modest houses and with modest cars ever buy nice electronics?
Sure they do. Anyone in a modest house and with modest cars is likely to have a pretty nice television or two and a computer or three. But they're unlikely to have jewelry boxes filled with very valuable, very portable jewelry or other small, expensive items scattered about the place.
If you are locked in a black box, there is no way to... distinguish between gravity and acceleration.
That's because there isn't a difference to distinguish. If you're in a gravitational field, you will accelerate. You may not move, though, if you're subject to a force accelerating you in the opposite direction; e.g., if you're sitting on the floor of the box.
I will say that I still don't like that my phone is always quite warm to the touch when its on its wireless charger. I instinctively beleive that's not "good for it".
I've seen lots of comments similar to this, so I guess it must be true. My personal experience, for what it's worth, is that my phone gets no warmer when charging wirelessly than it does when plugged into the charger. If wireless is less efficient, then the charging current to the battery should be lower than it is when the phone is plugged in. So where is the heat coming from? Is the wireless charger getting hot and transferring heat to the phone? Again, not my personal experience. You want to get your phone hot? Plug it into a car charger and use Google Maps to get turn-by-turn directions for about an hour.
yet California has many train regulations enforced by the Caliifornia Public Utilities Commission.
As long as they don't contradict federal train regulations. If those clash, I'm sure you know which side wins.
Of course. But in the case of the ISP customer privacy regulations, the FCC proposal is to get rid of the regulations. State regulations don't conflict with Federal regulations if the Federal regulations don't exist.
If it really is a gaming phone it will support OpenGL in addition to OpenGL ES so that the NVidia Shield ports can work on it. Somehow I doubt it does that.
And honestly, it's not yet clear what, beyond the Razer brand, makes this a gaming phone. When we ask, Moss downplays that idea a bit. "It shouldn't just be a gaming phone, it should be a phone for gamers," he tells us. - TFA
wireless charge is...meh.
I've got a phone with it, i'd rather plug it in.
It charges faster plugged in, it charges cooler plugged in, and it takes less electricity to charge it plugged in.
wireless charging is pretty much a step backwards in every possible way... except a slight convenience.
The average annual cost of charging a smartphone is estimated at $0.25; about 1/16 of what it costs to run an LED lightbulb 10 hours/day for a year. If wireless charging is only half as efficient (my personal experience says it's not that bad, but it's not worth arguing), the cost goes up to a whopping half a buck. What will you do with all the money you save?
The convenience factor is, I suppose, in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I'm much more likely to keep my phone's battery at or near fully charged while at work if I have a wireless charger on my desk than if I don't, and for me, a fully charged phone is a major convenience.
Regulating interstate commerce is an enumerated power. Even the most hardcore Constitutionalists will not argue that regulating the Internet is outside of the domain of the Federal Government.
Specious: apparently good or right though lacking real merit. Even the most hardcore Constitutionalists will not argue that regulating railroad trains is outside of the domain of the Federal Government, yet California has many train regulations enforced by the Caliifornia Public Utilities Commission.
Judgement Day will happen when SkyNet spends its vulnerable childhood years reading the degeneracy posted to Reddit and decides it's time to hit the big old reset button on all biological life.
Well, thank God all the non-biological life won't be affected.
I singled out one sentence of yours that seems to let such behavior off the hook.
In other words, you took one sentence out of context. In the sentence you fixated upon, he wasn't talking about Weinstein or Spacey. Go back and read it again.
You laugh, but there are quite a few law firms out there that are in the business of suing business that are out of technical compliance (real or imagined) with social justice regulations. And by "out of technical compliance", I mean such things as restroom mirrors mounted 1/8" too high per Americans With Disabilities Act rules. See, for example, this.
Saying the Constitution is not a suicide pact is a red herring. We have never been in a situation in which honoring and respecting and following the Constitution would have resulted in everyone's death.
You appear to be unfamiliar with the concept of metaphor.
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Mandatory overtime is legal in America
Define "mandatory".
OK.
mandatory: authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory
Any other questions?
A marketing slogan with no actual meaning. How democratic is the DPRK?
LOL. So many times, I've seen replies to comments about antifa using fascist tactics that say something like, "No, no! They're AGAINST fascism! It's right in the name!"
You're pedantically correct, but contextually deaf. It's obvious from context what Jzanu was referring to with his reference to the fight for civil rights.
And adding emojis. Apparently iOS can never have enough frickin' emojis. (How much smaller would the OS be if they'd dump all those useless graphics? What possible reason is there to devolve from words to pictograms? What are we, cave people?)
No, we aren't cave people. But apparently a lot of us are idiots, if this is any indication.
Dude, I'm much more worried about bolt cutters or even sharp knives with fingerprint-based security.
I like my fingers ATTACHED to my hand.
Two questions:
Coalinga and Kettleman City aren't very far apart. Kettleman City is right on I5, which makes it more convenient. At least, it would be convenient were it not for the extremely stinky stockyard just up the road.
... thats not a secret.
May as well be, since no one has figured out how to do it.
Apparently, the developers that did it were lacking as well.
Well, since the threat didn't exist when the systems were developed, it's understandable that mitigations weren't put into place. Also, humans are prone to errors. There aren't any processes that can guarantee perfection, but that doesn't mean you might as well have no process.
I've never been convinced that these forms of making stuff good by massive oversite actually works.
I don't know what "massive oversite" is, but a disciplined process and independent verification and validation combined with reasonable regulatory oversight usually results in good quality
How does JPL do this? They seem to be able to make stuff that works in a wide variety of extreme use cases.
Having worked with JPL, I can assure you that they have their own set of development rules that would make the average Slashdotter blanch. But they aren't involved in commercial passenger aviation, where catastrophic failure rates are measured in failures per billion operating hours.
I expect quite a few folks here are going to question the figure, "a million dollars per line changed."
As well they should, because that isn't what he said. What he said was, "The cost to change one line of code on a piece of avionics equipment is $1 million". But everything else you said in your post is spot on. Most software developers have no idea what is involved in creating DAL-A safety critical software for commercial aviation, and would run screaming to the safety of their iOS development environment if they were tasked with doing it.
Other countries don't have the same level of theatre
It appears you haven't departed from London or Paris in recent years.
The funny thing, at least to me, is that while soldering properly is an art form, it is rather easy to learn. A couple of YouTube videos, and a little practice and you are there. I learned to solder many many years ago from a former NASA employee who had worked on the Apollo project.
You can't get a certification in soldering from YouTube. Or from a former NASA employee either, unless they're a certified trainer. But if you don't need the cert, I guess YouTube will do.
People not being educated is not the same as people not giving a shit.
It is, if people don't give enough of a shit to educate themselves.
You don't think people in modest houses and with modest cars ever buy nice electronics?
Sure they do. Anyone in a modest house and with modest cars is likely to have a pretty nice television or two and a computer or three. But they're unlikely to have jewelry boxes filled with very valuable, very portable jewelry or other small, expensive items scattered about the place.
If you are locked in a black box, there is no way to... distinguish between gravity and acceleration.
That's because there isn't a difference to distinguish. If you're in a gravitational field, you will accelerate. You may not move, though, if you're subject to a force accelerating you in the opposite direction; e.g., if you're sitting on the floor of the box.
Looking at that list, you should be shifting your outrage from the US to Qatar, Trinidad and Tobago, and Curacao.
I will say that I still don't like that my phone is always quite warm to the touch when its on its wireless charger. I instinctively beleive that's not "good for it".
I've seen lots of comments similar to this, so I guess it must be true. My personal experience, for what it's worth, is that my phone gets no warmer when charging wirelessly than it does when plugged into the charger. If wireless is less efficient, then the charging current to the battery should be lower than it is when the phone is plugged in. So where is the heat coming from? Is the wireless charger getting hot and transferring heat to the phone? Again, not my personal experience. You want to get your phone hot? Plug it into a car charger and use Google Maps to get turn-by-turn directions for about an hour.
yet California has many train regulations enforced by the Caliifornia Public Utilities Commission.
As long as they don't contradict federal train regulations. If those clash, I'm sure you know which side wins.
Of course. But in the case of the ISP customer privacy regulations, the FCC proposal is to get rid of the regulations. State regulations don't conflict with Federal regulations if the Federal regulations don't exist.
If it really is a gaming phone it will support OpenGL in addition to OpenGL ES so that the NVidia Shield ports can work on it. Somehow I doubt it does that.
And honestly, it's not yet clear what, beyond the Razer brand, makes this a gaming phone. When we ask, Moss downplays that idea a bit. "It shouldn't just be a gaming phone, it should be a phone for gamers," he tells us. - TFA
wireless charge is ...meh.
I've got a phone with it, i'd rather plug it in.
It charges faster plugged in, it charges cooler plugged in, and it takes less electricity to charge it plugged in.
wireless charging is pretty much a step backwards in every possible way... except a slight convenience.
The average annual cost of charging a smartphone is estimated at $0.25; about 1/16 of what it costs to run an LED lightbulb 10 hours/day for a year. If wireless charging is only half as efficient (my personal experience says it's not that bad, but it's not worth arguing), the cost goes up to a whopping half a buck. What will you do with all the money you save?
The convenience factor is, I suppose, in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I'm much more likely to keep my phone's battery at or near fully charged while at work if I have a wireless charger on my desk than if I don't, and for me, a fully charged phone is a major convenience.
Regulating interstate commerce is an enumerated power. Even the most hardcore Constitutionalists will not argue that regulating the Internet is outside of the domain of the Federal Government.
Specious: apparently good or right though lacking real merit. Even the most hardcore Constitutionalists will not argue that regulating railroad trains is outside of the domain of the Federal Government, yet California has many train regulations enforced by the Caliifornia Public Utilities Commission.
Judgement Day will happen when SkyNet spends its vulnerable childhood years reading the degeneracy posted to Reddit and decides it's time to hit the big old reset button on all biological life.
Well, thank God all the non-biological life won't be affected.
I singled out one sentence of yours that seems to let such behavior off the hook.
In other words, you took one sentence out of context. In the sentence you fixated upon, he wasn't talking about Weinstein or Spacey. Go back and read it again.
You laugh, but there are quite a few law firms out there that are in the business of suing business that are out of technical compliance (real or imagined) with social justice regulations. And by "out of technical compliance", I mean such things as restroom mirrors mounted 1/8" too high per Americans With Disabilities Act rules. See, for example, this.
Saying the Constitution is not a suicide pact is a red herring. We have never been in a situation in which honoring and respecting and following the Constitution would have resulted in everyone's death.
You appear to be unfamiliar with the concept of metaphor.
You keep saying ripe. I don't think it means what you think it means.
This is the second article in a short time with this issue. Are we trending a new lose/loose issue?
Nothing wrong with "ripe for abuse". Now, if TFS had said, "ripe with abuse" (instead of "rife with abuse"), you'd have a point.