Nah! It's the *other* Georgia: the small country that invaded South Ossetia in 2008, and then complained when the Russians bitchslapped them back out...
"typical suburban neighborhood"... "You say your kid is 7 and can't play outside by himself??"
Do you even lock your doors? Do you realize that most cities are not like this, and statistically, most humans live in cities?
I dont think anyone who lives in the country has anything to worry about letting their kids play out side. You do realize you are the exception here dont you? Im not sure how it is in USA but here you need to be 12+ to be left home alone, legally. A kid playing in the parking lot of my condo tower is quite far away from my home indeed.
Do you think people want to live in cities? do you think they want to live in condos??? with a family? You are living a charmed life so dont be hating. hell you get to work from HOME...
Only about 52% of the *world's* population live in cities, so while that *does* mean that statistically more do, you're not exactly an "exception" for being not in a city. Also realize that stat includes places incorporated as "cities" but that don't look like one (compared to, say, Manhattan).
Bah. Give them a job to do, like basket weaving. Or have them do homework until you're ready to pay attention to them. Or have them learn an instrument, no need for a teacher. Or do artwork. Or read books. It's not as if kids can't entertain themselves for long periods of time with minimal supervision, and if their efforts are productive, so much the better.
I was home all day every day - and was able to stay out of the way and out of trouble: LEGOs, toy cars, books, some cartoons: pretty much the story of my young childhood:)
Are the automatic sinking valves out there yet? I thought I read about 10 years ago about a gizmo that would be installed into a container that would have a couple radios in it. One would sense the ship's radio (or that it's been removed from the ship and not disabled). In that case, the second radio would be a transmitter beacon, to help locate the missing cargo container if it's fallen off a ship (and has sufficiently valuable contents). It would also be detectable by other ocean vessels. When the battery was about to run out on the transmitter beacon, the last thing it would do would be to blow a valve, causing the container to sink.
The additional logistics would consist of checking in and out a container when it was put on a ship, electronically registering it to the ship - not terribly hard to implement or integrate. Countries could require these valves for entry at their ports.
Or, did I just dream that one up?
If you *din't* dream it up - then it's pretty cool. If you *did* - you should go patent it.
Hard to tell whether this is anything new or not when the article makes such glaring errors as:
While some traditional prosthetic arms move via myoelectric motors and relays
Myoelectrics involves sensing muscle movements by the electric fields generated, and is nothing to do with a type of electric motor. I doubt if anyone has used a relay in a prosthetic limb for at least a decade..
So it's not a "glaring error" at all - if they were used previously, then likely many of those devices are still in operation, so it's a true statement.
Well, for one it will mean folks doing just for the heck of it will likely not - the inconvenience of needing an envelope and postage would turn off many, I think.
OTOH, it's a good way to get the USPS some extra business:)
It's not really a surprise no one wants to be a juror, you're treated almost like the prisoner in some case, cut off from the world and with shitty pay to boot.
Which implies that the prospecrive juror that stays the course is serious about the business.
The civic minded, small-C conservative who believes in law and order. You might want to think about that the next time a geek plays the "jury nullification" card.
And jury nullification is effectively eliminated in criminal cases (with the possible exception of places like NY with draconian drug laws) - no juror in their right mind would try to go for jury nullification on, say, life in prison for premeditated homicide.
"We will not be banning cars from city centres anymore than we will be having rectangular bananas,"
With the recent advances in gene technology, rectangular bananas should be a non-problem. In addition to getting UK cities petrol-car free, banana packaging, and therefore shipping, would become much more efficient. It's a double win, anyone up for the task?
They are sold, in bulk, and if not properly disposed-of (most won't be), that mercury gets into the soil around landfills, possibly into the water supply, where it joins all those pharmaceuticals (and god knows what else) that were irresponsibly dumped down the drain/toilet.
And yet, for how long were we told that flushing old tablets was the way to go?
If you think the science on _both_ side of the climate change issue is bad, you need to stop drinking the spiked cool-aid... There is science on only one side of the debate (it exists, it is caused by carbon, and humans are emitting crazy amounts).
There is a lot of high-quality spin on the other side, though...
As should you (stop drinking the koolaid, that is) - humans do emit a lot of pollutants - but nothing in comparison to animals and natural earth processes. The "science" exists on both sides for a reason - it is NOT a settled debate, and there is much left to wonder about.
The really scary part is that we live in a society where the police have to pre-prepare texts and emails to warn students that someone is shooting up their school.
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Nah! It's the *other* Georgia: the small country that invaded South Ossetia in 2008, and then complained when the Russians bitchslapped them back out...
WHOOOOooosh
people don't have that type of grant money to actually crash planes. They'll crash 3 planes on a pilot grant
now THAT made me laugh
Do you even lock your doors? Do you realize that most cities are not like this, and statistically, most humans live in cities?
I dont think anyone who lives in the country has anything to worry about letting their kids play out side. You do realize you are the exception here dont you? Im not sure how it is in USA but here you need to be 12+ to be left home alone, legally. A kid playing in the parking lot of my condo tower is quite far away from my home indeed.
Do you think people want to live in cities? do you think they want to live in condos??? with a family? You are living a charmed life so dont be hating. hell you get to work from HOME...
Only about 52% of the *world's* population live in cities, so while that *does* mean that statistically more do, you're not exactly an "exception" for being not in a city. Also realize that stat includes places incorporated as "cities" but that don't look like one (compared to, say, Manhattan).
Bah. Give them a job to do, like basket weaving. Or have them do homework until you're ready to pay attention to them. Or have them learn an instrument, no need for a teacher. Or do artwork. Or read books. It's not as if kids can't entertain themselves for long periods of time with minimal supervision, and if their efforts are productive, so much the better.
I was home all day every day - and was able to stay out of the way and out of trouble: LEGOs, toy cars, books, some cartoons: pretty much the story of my young childhood :)
? Seriously - if Google just powered-down for a day to save electricity and be an encourager of "greenness" for one day: what would happen to *all* the other search engines out there?
Are the automatic sinking valves out there yet? I thought I read about 10 years ago about a gizmo that would be installed into a container that would have a couple radios in it. One would sense the ship's radio (or that it's been removed from the ship and not disabled). In that case, the second radio would be a transmitter beacon, to help locate the missing cargo container if it's fallen off a ship (and has sufficiently valuable contents). It would also be detectable by other ocean vessels. When the battery was about to run out on the transmitter beacon, the last thing it would do would be to blow a valve, causing the container to sink.
The additional logistics would consist of checking in and out a container when it was put on a ship, electronically registering it to the ship - not terribly hard to implement or integrate. Countries could require these valves for entry at their ports.
Or, did I just dream that one up?
If you *din't* dream it up - then it's pretty cool. If you *did* - you should go patent it.
The Big Mac containers lost in my apartment have attracted new life, as well!
I find your claim insightful - "Big Mac" containers are the only life-attracting aspect of the product
The AES instruction set referred to as security processing instructions in the summary will accelereate ssh.
Is this anything like the accelerators Sun put in the Niagara line a few years back?
Huh? Why are the core operating on octal? Does this new version run in decimal?
Oh and on topic. Didn't Bose (yes, the speaker people) already do this before?
Tom...
yes they did Though why anyone would want anything made by that overpriced junk company in their car is beyond me.
Maybe because it's where they *started*...
5 years was considered extra? Did she have a master's first? The minimum at my school is 5 years for a Computer Engineering Ph.D. without a master's.
I've known several people who completed their PhD in 3 years after their Bachelor's degree is finished.
Kia - looks nicer but only goes places that are downhill, hard to use the steering wheel when you are outside pushing Osborn
I bet it is!
Hard to tell whether this is anything new or not when the article makes such glaring errors as:
While some traditional prosthetic arms move via myoelectric motors and relays
Myoelectrics involves sensing muscle movements by the electric fields generated, and is nothing to do with a type of electric motor. I doubt if anyone has used a relay in a prosthetic limb for at least a decade. .
So it's not a "glaring error" at all - if they were used previously, then likely many of those devices are still in operation, so it's a true statement.
OTOH, it's a good way to get the USPS some extra business :)
>In some headline I saw somewhere, could even have been /., 0.5% do 80% of the nattering.
Probably from /. itself ... http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/31/036255/50-of-Tweets-Consumed-Come-Fromnobr-wbrnobr05-of-Users
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW. Well, I'm not.
And yet here you are on /. posting to a social community under a non-AC account....
It's not really a surprise no one wants to be a juror, you're treated almost like the prisoner in some case, cut off from the world and with shitty pay to boot.
Which implies that the prospecrive juror that stays the course is serious about the business.
The civic minded, small-C conservative who believes in law and order. You might want to think about that the next time a geek plays the "jury nullification" card.
And jury nullification is effectively eliminated in criminal cases (with the possible exception of places like NY with draconian drug laws) - no juror in their right mind would try to go for jury nullification on, say, life in prison for premeditated homicide.
"We will not be banning cars from city centres anymore than we will be having rectangular bananas,"
With the recent advances in gene technology, rectangular bananas should be a non-problem. In addition to getting UK cities petrol-car free, banana packaging, and therefore shipping, would become much more efficient. It's a double win, anyone up for the task?
They sell rectangular watermelons in Singapore.
The Greek island of Hydra is largely car-free, other than garbage collection.
And Mackinaw Island in MI is car-free other than the ferry to bring folks to and from it.
They are sold, in bulk, and if not properly disposed-of (most won't be), that mercury gets into the soil around landfills, possibly into the water supply, where it joins all those pharmaceuticals (and god knows what else) that were irresponsibly dumped down the drain/toilet.
And yet, for how long were we told that flushing old tablets was the way to go?
If you think the science on _both_ side of the climate change issue is bad, you need to stop drinking the spiked cool-aid... There is science on only one side of the debate (it exists, it is caused by carbon, and humans are emitting crazy amounts).
There is a lot of high-quality spin on the other side, though...
As should you (stop drinking the koolaid, that is) - humans do emit a lot of pollutants - but nothing in comparison to animals and natural earth processes. The "science" exists on both sides for a reason - it is NOT a settled debate, and there is much left to wonder about.
If you're going to get pissed off about an article, shouldn't you at least read it first?
you must be new here...
gets worse if the ISP is monitoring ATM packets instead of IP traffic...
Why is the ISP monitoring my banking?
The really scary part is that we live in a society where the police have to pre-prepare texts and emails to warn students that someone is shooting up their school.
"pre-prepare"?!?
And don't forget HP-UX users, and overseas companies like Fujitsu.