Proceed with caution - This can cause issues depending on where you are in your life, or where you want to be. If you want to one day settle down with someone and have kids, then a nocturnal lifestyle is really incompatible with that. My sister is married to a nocturnal guy, and now that they have two kids it puts a real stress on their marriage. School, school events, swimming lessons, birthday parties - These regular 'family life' events all occur during the daylight hours and he's always asleep or if he does come to them he's a useless zombie...
The other advantage 20-year-olds have is they can give their life to the company. They don't care about having to work 60-hour weeks as long as there is foosball and free pizza. Why go home when 'work' is cool?
A 40 year old often has a spouse, kid or two and a dog they might like to take for a walk. They don't care about BS phrases like "Work hard play hard!"
...not to mention all those pollution controls the evil government forces on us to ensure my kids have clean air to breathe. Airborne toxins build character.
Plus, if you're running a tablet like my Surface Pro you can actually write and draw in OneNote, using the tablet's stylus. The top of the stylus also has an eraser so you can rub things out in OneNote.
It's pretty nifty when I just want to sketch something out that I will transpose into Visio later.
Yes that works because those directly involve real people on real locations with real organizing doing real work
So yesterday, when I saw many people hard at work in my city filming Continuum they weren't real people on real locations with real organizing doing real work?
Fascinating. What exactly were all those crew members doing?
No, it undermines the economic system of creation.
I agree 100%, but the Slashdot groupthink seems to be that the era of an 'economic system of creation' is over. Opinion seems to be that all content should be made free by creators ('content is just bytes and wants to be free.')
Exception seems to be paid admissions to live performances (music / theatre) as that appears to still be acceptable - Not sure how that works for people like my author-brother, though.
If 'evil sociopaths' have the eradication of malaria, the delivery of clean drinking water and readily available birth control to all as objectives, I say bring 'em on.
Certainly a bigger impact than all these so-called "Christians" blathering away on TV while doing nothing to follow Jesus's preachings.
The Windows 8 ARM devices need to cease to exist now
The main advantage at this point to the Win8 ARM platforms is the epic battery life compared to their x86 counterparts. Atom is pretty good, but still not as good.
Why don't these security researchers ever actually demonstrate the exploit they're talking about?
Seems to me that there are all these stories of late about how 'flaw X' *could* be used to do 'bad thing y."
Why don't these clever researchers rarely if ever demonstrate the flaw in use, in a reproducible way?
"I will now demonstrate using the faulty random number generator to attack the kernel and I will do this Really Bad Thing."
....but we never see that. We just hear about these hypothetical scenarios that create a lot of FUD and noise and a lot of scrambling from vendors and customers over nothing.
There a topic that isn't about America? Well can't have that! Spin it to be about America! Redirect all topics to be on America, particularly whining about America!
Yep, welcome to Slashdot. You could have an article about the most hellish police state on earth, where visiting a site like Reddit could have your grandmother tortured to death and the second comment post (after the GNAA and frosty piss comments) will be "YEAH, but the USA is WAY WORSE."
Usually these posts are by basement-dwellers who have no concept what living in a police state or under a totalitarian regime actually means.
Could the USA do better? Yes. Dramatically better, but there are many places on this blue marble that are MUCH, MUCH worse.
...oh yeah, and I'm not American and I don't live in the USA.
I still hate the fact that mini-devices sport so many ports which require traditional plugs. For example Apple has sported the magnetic power connection for ages - when plugging my Air into devices/power,
This complaint makes no sense. You're comparing a 'desktop' computer with an Air.
How often are users going to unplug their monitor, keyboard, mouse & power on this thing? Almost never.
I'm not totally convinced that most power users will be replacing their PC or laptop with what's essentially a thin client that Google has control over.
A Chromebook is a 'second' (or third) computer.
It's the computer that sits on the kitchen counter at home so people can look things up or play some music. It's the computer for email on the couch.
From my perspective as a non-marketer, it is very much ineffective
How, as a 'non-marketer' are you qualified to comment on how effective web marketing is?
Unlike many other marketing mediums, online advertising is usually very measurable in terms of rate-of-return on advertising dollars spent.
In many companies (like the one I work for) marketing dollars are very tight and are only spent in areas where we see a return. Online ads are a prime example.
What's to stop a terrorist from loading some C4 and rare earth magnets on one of these and attaching it to a plane while it's taxiing at a busy airport?
Level of effort.
Much easier to just detonate bombs at Grand Central Station at 5pm on Friday.
For that all you need is some IEDs and cell phones and America would immediately borrow 11 billion dollars from China to install checkpoints at the entrances to all commuter stations.
As a Canadian, what I'm not clear on is whether there are exact American laws dictating what the NSA can and cannot do? If there are laws, and they have been broken, can anyone be charged, and if not, why not?
I realize the standard answers involve political interference, corruption blah blah blah, but on a purely academic level is there a means to charge anyone with a crime?
How it it different with ships? A ship can be in the middle of the pacific and you can track its location, speed and heading online. What technology are they using?
When you view an aircraft's track on a site like FlightAware, where is the data coming from? Is it guesstimating based on ATC data?
Why wouldn't an EPIRB work post-crash? Why does a Cessna have an EPIRB but not a 777?
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Embrace it and you will be much happier
Proceed with caution - This can cause issues depending on where you are in your life, or where you want to be. If you want to one day settle down with someone and have kids, then a nocturnal lifestyle is really incompatible with that. My sister is married to a nocturnal guy, and now that they have two kids it puts a real stress on their marriage. School, school events, swimming lessons, birthday parties - These regular 'family life' events all occur during the daylight hours and he's always asleep or if he does come to them he's a useless zombie...
It is in every part of the world.
http://blog.nj.com/perspective/2011/07/crime_and_punishment_in_norway.html
Justice isn't a code word for vengence.
It is in a lot of the USA.
The other advantage 20-year-olds have is they can give their life to the company. They don't care about having to work 60-hour weeks as long as there is foosball and free pizza. Why go home when 'work' is cool?
A 40 year old often has a spouse, kid or two and a dog they might like to take for a walk. They don't care about BS phrases like "Work hard play hard!"
...not to mention all those pollution controls the evil government forces on us to ensure my kids have clean air to breathe. Airborne toxins build character.
Plus, if you're running a tablet like my Surface Pro you can actually write and draw in OneNote, using the tablet's stylus. The top of the stylus also has an eraser so you can rub things out in OneNote.
It's pretty nifty when I just want to sketch something out that I will transpose into Visio later.
Stopped reading at "son".
*Whoosh*
Yes that works because those directly involve real people on real locations with real organizing doing real work
So yesterday, when I saw many people hard at work in my city filming Continuum they weren't real people on real locations with real organizing doing real work?
Fascinating. What exactly were all those crew members doing?
No, it undermines the economic system of creation.
I agree 100%, but the Slashdot groupthink seems to be that the era of an 'economic system of creation' is over. Opinion seems to be that all content should be made free by creators ('content is just bytes and wants to be free.')
Exception seems to be paid admissions to live performances (music / theatre) as that appears to still be acceptable - Not sure how that works for people like my author-brother, though.
Do YOU follow Jesus' teachings, oh perfect one? Jackass.
Where I can, yeah. But I'm not perfect.
...but I also don't go on TV claiming to be a 'christian,' then cut food stamps for poor kids and cheer executions.
Gates is an evil sociopath.
If 'evil sociopaths' have the eradication of malaria, the delivery of clean drinking water and readily available birth control to all as objectives, I say bring 'em on.
Certainly a bigger impact than all these so-called "Christians" blathering away on TV while doing nothing to follow Jesus's preachings.
The Windows 8 ARM devices need to cease to exist now
The main advantage at this point to the Win8 ARM platforms is the epic battery life compared to their x86 counterparts. Atom is pretty good, but still not as good.
Why don't these security researchers ever actually demonstrate the exploit they're talking about?
....but we never see that. We just hear about these hypothetical scenarios that create a lot of FUD and noise and a lot of scrambling from vendors and customers over nothing.
Seems to me that there are all these stories of late about how 'flaw X' *could* be used to do 'bad thing y."
Why don't these clever researchers rarely if ever demonstrate the flaw in use, in a reproducible way?
"I will now demonstrate using the faulty random number generator to attack the kernel and I will do this Really Bad Thing."
so please stop the whining about how it's not totally perfect
You must be new here.
This is Slashdot, where perfect is the enemy of good, and the edge use-case wins, EVERY time.
There a topic that isn't about America? Well can't have that! Spin it to be about America! Redirect all topics to be on America, particularly whining about America!
Yep, welcome to Slashdot. You could have an article about the most hellish police state on earth, where visiting a site like Reddit could have your grandmother tortured to death and the second comment post (after the GNAA and frosty piss comments) will be "YEAH, but the USA is WAY WORSE."
...oh yeah, and I'm not American and I don't live in the USA.
Usually these posts are by basement-dwellers who have no concept what living in a police state or under a totalitarian regime actually means.
Could the USA do better? Yes. Dramatically better, but there are many places on this blue marble that are MUCH, MUCH worse.
I still hate the fact that mini-devices sport so many ports which require traditional plugs. For example Apple has sported the magnetic power connection for ages - when plugging my Air into devices/power,
This complaint makes no sense. You're comparing a 'desktop' computer with an Air.
How often are users going to unplug their monitor, keyboard, mouse & power on this thing? Almost never.
I'm not totally convinced that most power users will be replacing their PC or laptop with what's essentially a thin client that Google has control over.
A Chromebook is a 'second' (or third) computer.
It's the computer that sits on the kitchen counter at home so people can look things up or play some music. It's the computer for email on the couch.
For those use cases, it's perfect.
Yeah, I don't think Chrome OS makes any sense for a reader of /.
I'm currently *reading* Slashdot on my Chromebook, you insensitive clod.
how often does that happen?
About every five years, apparently.
I can see how a constant stream of telemetry might be cost-prohibitive, but what about a squirt of data consisting of -
...sent every five minutes? At least that would give a 'last known' location.
- Flight Number
- Lat / Long
- Airspeed
- Groundspeed
- Altitude
- Compass heeding
Call wealthy alumni. You could probably get a list from the alumni office.
A school like Georgia Tech would already have a finely tuned fundraising apparatus targeting 'wealthy alumni.'
It is highly unlikely the alumni office would provide this list to just anyone.
However, as a 'parent said, there may be funds available at the school.
From my perspective as a non-marketer, it is very much ineffective
How, as a 'non-marketer' are you qualified to comment on how effective web marketing is?
Unlike many other marketing mediums, online advertising is usually very measurable in terms of rate-of-return on advertising dollars spent.
In many companies (like the one I work for) marketing dollars are very tight and are only spent in areas where we see a return. Online ads are a prime example.
What's to stop a terrorist from loading some C4 and rare earth magnets on one of these and attaching it to a plane while it's taxiing at a busy airport?
Level of effort.
Much easier to just detonate bombs at Grand Central Station at 5pm on Friday.
For that all you need is some IEDs and cell phones and America would immediately borrow 11 billion dollars from China to install checkpoints at the entrances to all commuter stations.
As a Canadian, what I'm not clear on is whether there are exact American laws dictating what the NSA can and cannot do? If there are laws, and they have been broken, can anyone be charged, and if not, why not?
I realize the standard answers involve political interference, corruption blah blah blah, but on a purely academic level is there a means to charge anyone with a crime?
Thanks for this.
Can I ask some additional questions?
How it it different with ships? A ship can be in the middle of the pacific and you can track its location, speed and heading online. What technology are they using?
When you view an aircraft's track on a site like FlightAware, where is the data coming from? Is it guesstimating based on ATC data?
Why wouldn't an EPIRB work post-crash? Why does a Cessna have an EPIRB but not a 777?