So listening to some of the raw data, it seems like the orca frequently uses fart sounds to try and imitate human speech. I can only imagine that this means we sound like fart noises to them.
America is, in terms of wealth, power, and influence, the undisputed head of the world right now. With that honor comes the knowledge that the rest of the world dreams of dethroning us, some through peaceful means, some violent. Nothing lasts forever.
Microscale chemistry has been a thing for a long time now, and it's not all that difficult. If these drugs could be cost-effectively produced in this fashion then they would be. On top of that, I've done a bit of 3D printing, and my faith in the ability of 3D printers to produce complex systems flawlessly every time is nil.
As a Boy Scout many years ago, we were taught when receiving a bladed object from someone, to say 'Thank you" when and only when we had a firm grip on the object, letting the other person know it was safe to let go. In a similar way, for many Americans, "Thank you" signals the end of an interaction. The people are merely informing the car that they had completed the transaction, received the pizza, and had no more need of it anymore. It just do happens that the car isn't capable of making use of that information, but that is likely a temporary condition.
How possible would it be for the municipality to declare it was "Modernizing" their poles, and do a pole-by-pole replacement (paid for by Google, of course)? that would solve the issue of the existing renters being slow to move their equipment by giving a fixed schedule.
You are completely wrong. It might be allllllll the way in the second paragraph, but it's right in the summary-
The next step for AT&T and Comcast was overturning the rule as it applies to poles owned by the municipal Nashville Electric Service (NES), which owns around 80 percent of the Nashville poles. AT&T and Comcast achieved that on Friday with a new ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger. Nashville's One Touch Make Ready ordinance "is ultra vires and void or voidable as to utility poles owned by Nashville Electric Service because adoption of the Ordinance exceeded Metro Nashville's authority and violated the Metro Charter," the ruling said.
I wonder if they will open source their work, so that other like-minded individuals can use their program to ferret out communists, or Sufis, or Jews, or whoever else they want to round up.
As an urban dweller, your comment makes me think. In many cities like my own, we have an imbalance- more women than men. Many of these women come here from rural areas, looking for the greater social opportunities of the city. At the same time, it seems that in America, rural areas are more and more resentful of urban areas. Now you have me wondering if the two are connected.
I would think if they were trying to showcase their technology they would have chosen someone with a less "robotic" voice to copy. I guess they just wanted someone who spoke very clearly?
I'm still not sure I can get my head around this. You walked out of your job one day with no notice, and didn't come back, and weren't concerned at all with the disruption that would cause your coworkers and, I assume, students? You had made no connections at a place that you had spent the majority of your time for years? Not to mention everyone I know who retired required extensive communication with HR to make sure their benefits were in place, ect., you didn't need to do this? I'm not someone who derives an large amount of my self-identity from work, but even I find this strange.
Who are these collaborators, and where are they located? If they are from Snowden's new digs I would be concerned about giving their program access to my phone's sensors. In a perfect world, the open source community will drag a fine tooth comb through the code and we could be sure there was nothing malicious, but I don't believe in that world yet.
So? Who is all that kinetic energy going to affect? If it makes the surface completely uninhabitable for a hundred years why does it matter- it's not inhabitable now. Unless we can make it habitable then there's really no reason to go there.
Well, last time we were doing bioweapons research and testing we did it fifteen miles from the Capitol, so I'm sure this will likewise performed somewhere safe.
If you had bothered to read the article at all (I know, it is slashdot) you would have seen that it's mostly about cheap energy storage displacing peaker plants. And the person they quote on this is the CEO of NextEra Energy, who is hardly an "eco-loon" as another comment implies. Solar is just one method of baseload generation.
I had the same issue- except is was the graphics card that died. At the time I couldn't justify $400 to buy the outdated graphics card that was the only one that could fit the case unmodified. It was a shame, I loved that machine.
I can't see how this could be accomplished via normal government funding. Even black budgets have some level of congressional approval, literally nobody in congress is willing to write Trump a check for his own private spy agency. The best they could do is hand out some short term contracts, not create their own agency.
BONUS CONSPIRACY THEORY
A "private intelligence agency" could produce some really impressive results for cheap if all they needed to do was launder information from some other intelligence organization funded by a government.
The fact that news costs money to produce and deliver has never stopped being an issue, there was just a brief period of easy capital where players tried to stake out their turf in the digital world. What people don't seem to realize is that if you are getting your news for free it means someone else has paid for it. It's naive to believe the only advertising they see is obvious and commercial, when the media has always been seen as a way to push viewpoints. Your ad blocker doesn't work when the ad is the content.
A conspiracy theorist would suggest that this might have been Apple's plan all along, push out a patch that allowed the government to root anything they currently had in their possession.
Imagine that, a young man coming home from a new social environment and testing the waters by espousing a challenging and impolitic viewpoint. I bet that never, ever happened in the past.
Slashdot Mirror
Wait there is a Ringworld movie coming out? I was just having a conversation last week about "When will we see Larry Niven films get made?"
So listening to some of the raw data, it seems like the orca frequently uses fart sounds to try and imitate human speech. I can only imagine that this means we sound like fart noises to them.
America is, in terms of wealth, power, and influence, the undisputed head of the world right now. With that honor comes the knowledge that the rest of the world dreams of dethroning us, some through peaceful means, some violent. Nothing lasts forever.
Microscale chemistry has been a thing for a long time now, and it's not all that difficult. If these drugs could be cost-effectively produced in this fashion then they would be. On top of that, I've done a bit of 3D printing, and my faith in the ability of 3D printers to produce complex systems flawlessly every time is nil.
As a Boy Scout many years ago, we were taught when receiving a bladed object from someone, to say 'Thank you" when and only when we had a firm grip on the object, letting the other person know it was safe to let go. In a similar way, for many Americans, "Thank you" signals the end of an interaction. The people are merely informing the car that they had completed the transaction, received the pizza, and had no more need of it anymore. It just do happens that the car isn't capable of making use of that information, but that is likely a temporary condition.
How possible would it be for the municipality to declare it was "Modernizing" their poles, and do a pole-by-pole replacement (paid for by Google, of course)? that would solve the issue of the existing renters being slow to move their equipment by giving a fixed schedule.
You really should read the summary. This lawsuit is over Nashville Electric Service's poles, which are owned by the municipality already.
I wonder if they will open source their work, so that other like-minded individuals can use their program to ferret out communists, or Sufis, or Jews, or whoever else they want to round up.
As an urban dweller, your comment makes me think. In many cities like my own, we have an imbalance- more women than men. Many of these women come here from rural areas, looking for the greater social opportunities of the city. At the same time, it seems that in America, rural areas are more and more resentful of urban areas. Now you have me wondering if the two are connected.
I would think if they were trying to showcase their technology they would have chosen someone with a less "robotic" voice to copy. I guess they just wanted someone who spoke very clearly?
I'm still not sure I can get my head around this. You walked out of your job one day with no notice, and didn't come back, and weren't concerned at all with the disruption that would cause your coworkers and, I assume, students? You had made no connections at a place that you had spent the majority of your time for years? Not to mention everyone I know who retired required extensive communication with HR to make sure their benefits were in place, ect., you didn't need to do this? I'm not someone who derives an large amount of my self-identity from work, but even I find this strange.
Who are these collaborators, and where are they located? If they are from Snowden's new digs I would be concerned about giving their program access to my phone's sensors. In a perfect world, the open source community will drag a fine tooth comb through the code and we could be sure there was nothing malicious, but I don't believe in that world yet.
Wow you people sound bitter. What kind of terrible jobs do you have that you hate everyone there so much?
So? Who is all that kinetic energy going to affect? If it makes the surface completely uninhabitable for a hundred years why does it matter- it's not inhabitable now. Unless we can make it habitable then there's really no reason to go there.
Well, last time we were doing bioweapons research and testing we did it fifteen miles from the Capitol, so I'm sure this will likewise performed somewhere safe.
If you had bothered to read the article at all (I know, it is slashdot) you would have seen that it's mostly about cheap energy storage displacing peaker plants. And the person they quote on this is the CEO of NextEra Energy, who is hardly an "eco-loon" as another comment implies. Solar is just one method of baseload generation.
I had the same issue- except is was the graphics card that died. At the time I couldn't justify $400 to buy the outdated graphics card that was the only one that could fit the case unmodified. It was a shame, I loved that machine.
I can't see how this could be accomplished via normal government funding. Even black budgets have some level of congressional approval, literally nobody in congress is willing to write Trump a check for his own private spy agency. The best they could do is hand out some short term contracts, not create their own agency.
BONUS CONSPIRACY THEORY
A "private intelligence agency" could produce some really impressive results for cheap if all they needed to do was launder information from some other intelligence organization funded by a government.
The fact that news costs money to produce and deliver has never stopped being an issue, there was just a brief period of easy capital where players tried to stake out their turf in the digital world. What people don't seem to realize is that if you are getting your news for free it means someone else has paid for it. It's naive to believe the only advertising they see is obvious and commercial, when the media has always been seen as a way to push viewpoints. Your ad blocker doesn't work when the ad is the content.
A conspiracy theorist would suggest that this might have been Apple's plan all along, push out a patch that allowed the government to root anything they currently had in their possession.
I see you're trying to reason with people in this comment section. I wish I could upvote your comment "+1 Forlorn hope".
Next you will be telling me that dealers routinely short junkies when selling drugs.
Well, I'm sure now it's going to be a top search query, since thousands of people will read the article and go try it out to see if anything comes up.
Imagine that, a young man coming home from a new social environment and testing the waters by espousing a challenging and impolitic viewpoint. I bet that never, ever happened in the past.