Then put your dollar bills into the machine and never worry.
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For Christ's sake USA, get rid of the dollar bill already. There's nothing more freaking frustrating that trying to feed *paper* money into a vending machine - Especially crumbled torn and dirty American singles. I don't know what on earth you print your nearly-monochrome money onto but man it sure doesn't survive well... Get some $1 and $2 coins into circulation and make your smallest paper bill a five.
No something being sold as insurance SHOULD NOT COVER either of those things
You're right, which is why the USA, like all other wealthy nations (and a few poor ones) should have health coverage for all her people, not 'insurance.'
I got my kids some $59 "iRola" Jelly Bean tablets from nomorerack for Christmas and they're really fantastic for the price, and plenty of machine for kids
Amazing how low you can get the prices when you use children to build gadgets for children.
Yet we get presented with totally irrelevant crap like this.
This story is less than an hour old and has 100+ comments. Below it is a 'tech' story that's nearly six hours old that has under 40. Seems to me this topic is of interest to the Slashdot crowd, and the Slashdot overlords are doing their job.
Insurance is for contingent, unlikely, but potentially costly events
So health insurance should not cover pre-natal care for pregnant women? Colonoscopies for middle-aged men?
Presumably by your logic since health insurance should not cover birth control, it should also not cover cholesterol nor blood pressure regulating meds?
So if they suspect you're crossing the border with child porn, bomb parts or 38 bottles of whiskey in your car they should get a warrant before they search it? What should the mechanism be? Consent to search, or hold you while they get a warrant?
The problem here is that, since the dawn of time, customs has had the right to 'go through your stuff' when you cross their border. They've had the right to go through your suitcase looking for banned or smuggled items. They've had the right to look for cash or magazines featuring child pornography. They had the right to photocopy and take pictures of evidence. If your suitcase or briefcase was locked, they had the right to tell you to unlock it. Fast-forward fifty years and that 'looking through your stuff' includes looking through your phone or laptop. Where do you draw the line? Do you say CBP and CBSA and their ilk can look through briefcases but not laptops? That they can ask you to turn out your pockets, but not turn on your phone? It's a weird gray area.
In this case, we aren't "guessing and naysaying" - we're pointing at boiling water and saying "you'll cook your hand if you stick it in there". You're going "looks warm, might as well see what happens, there might be a miracle".
We can send robots to Mars, but we still don't have the technology to send people there -
- A craft that can support people for the ~200-day journey to Mars through interplanetary space (including protecting them from ionizing radiation) has never been built and we don't know how.
- The creation of a landing craft is a tremendous challenge. Granted, Mars One is 'supposedly' a one-way trip so many of these issues are mitigated, but assuming the astronauts would want to come home you need to launch from the surface of Mars and then return to earth. No craft that has ever landed on Mars has returned to terra firma.
Yes, at a cost of $100 Billion dollars in today's money.
Let's be generous and say that a lot of the 'inventing' Mars One requires has already been done and slice that number by a third. That's still 33 billion dollars.
What I don't understand is the people saying they shouldn't even try
It's not that they shouldn't try, it's that they shouldn't waste everyone's time on what is so obviously a publicity stunt. No one is ever going to get to Mars with this plan.
Are you telling me that four years from now their launch vehicle, spacecraft, landing craft and habitation structures will be built and ready to be deployed? That the BILLIONS of dollars this endeavour will cost will have been raised?
Virgin Galactic hasn't even announced the date for orbital flights.
None of the world's space agencies have figured out how to land people on Mars.
...yet these jokers have it all worked out? I don't think so.
The person who can figure out how we can have all our tech toys and our privacy too will earn a fortune
They'll earn some money for sure, but not a fortune. The public & the bean counters are more interested in low prices than privacy. If your 'private' device is $100 more, everyone will buy the cheaper device.
While iPads have made good traction in K12, education is still looking at other technologies, for several reasons -
a) Standardized testing. In most cases, standardized testing still requires the use of a device with a physical keyboard. If Chromebooks get approved for this purpose they will likely take off even more in K12.
b) Cost. iPads remain an expensive choice when budgets are constrained. It's safe to assume a new uber-iPad will not cost less than existing solutions. While Surface RT devices are laughed at by Slashdot, their price point is difficult for education to resist.
c) Manageability. The 'sticky' provisioning profiles that are (supposedly) coming with iOS 7.1 may improve this, but at its heart Apple remains a consumer company. They seem incapable of designing devices where manageability is taken out of the hands of the end user. For example, users still need to tap "OK" to install apps etc. This remains a major hurdle in K12 - The recent stories from the Los Angeles Unified School District are good examples of this, and the other districts are paying close attention to LAUSD's experiences.
d) Theft recovery. Unlike Windows & Android (e.g. Samsung) platforms there are still no good solutions for recovering stolen iPads which have been factory-reset post-theft. When a thief knocks a kid over the head and steals his device, catching that bad guy becomes of paramount importance.
FAA rules apply to any airline arriving or departing from the USA, regardless of nationality - So a KAL flight offering USA - Palau service absolutely falls under FAA rules when it is servicing the USA.
Losses resulting from the fact they likely could have sold those seats for much more money. Most flights depart full, or nearly-full, these days, so they would have sold those seats.
> charging those "lucky" customers change fees
Only if they change their tickets. Most passengers don't. I flew 66 segments last year. Didn't change a single ticket.
> luggage fees
Only if they check a bag. Pack a rollaboard and then check it at the gate for free.
> "Economy Comfort" fees
Only if you upgrade to a better seat.
>onboard entertainment
Bring your tablet.
> Gogo internet
Then don't buy it. No one is forcing you to buy internet
> and food served onboard
Then bring your own food.
I'm old enough to remember when flights included free bags, a free meal and free beer. Indexed to today's dollars, airline tickets were much more expensive than they are today, even if you include all the paid extras.
Our kids are 3 and 5 - We don't (yet) have a gaming console - The kids play games on the iPad. However, I do have a couple of those joysticks that run 'classic' 80s games, and a few weeks ago at our Christmas open house I hooked them up to the TV. The older kids who were there (age 8 - 14) were instantly hooked and for several hours they played Pac-Man, Bosconian, Dig Dug, Galaga and others. I think part of the appeal was the fact that they were easy to just pick up and start playing.
Amusingly, the exception seemed to be Pac-Man. Took most of the kids several tries to just figure out what the heck they were supposed to do.
The other solution is a utility trailer. When I was a kid (I'm 46) you saw all kinds of people hauling trailers with their cars when they had to move stuff. You rarely see it today. We have a utility trailer that we fill up when we're doing things like hauling gear to the cabin in the summer Rest of the time it's disconnected. Only downside is it can be difficult to back up.
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Sorry - Can you clarify for me why, in this scenario, a cheap laptop with a USB TV tuner isn't a simple solution? e.g.
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr1950.html
Hook the laptop up to your TV, add a remote and you're off to the races, for hundreds of dollars less than a VCR cost back in the day...
Paper money stores far better than coin. I can easily put 500$ in bills in my wallet.
Jesus. How big is your wallet? You can put $500 worth of ones and twos in there?
Some ticket/food/item only costs $2-3, I get 17 $1 coins jingling around in my pocket.
This seems unlikely. No vendor would give away all their change like that. They'd give you a ten, a five, then coins.
Then put your dollar bills into the machine and never worry.
[rant]
For Christ's sake USA, get rid of the dollar bill already. There's nothing more freaking frustrating that trying to feed *paper* money into a vending machine - Especially crumbled torn and dirty American singles. I don't know what on earth you print your nearly-monochrome money onto but man it sure doesn't survive well... Get some $1 and $2 coins into circulation and make your smallest paper bill a five.
[/rant]
No something being sold as insurance SHOULD NOT COVER either of those things
You're right, which is why the USA, like all other wealthy nations (and a few poor ones) should have health coverage for all her people, not 'insurance.'
I got my kids some $59 "iRola" Jelly Bean tablets from nomorerack for Christmas and they're really fantastic for the price, and plenty of machine for kids
Amazing how low you can get the prices when you use children to build gadgets for children.
Yet we get presented with totally irrelevant crap like this.
This story is less than an hour old and has 100+ comments. Below it is a 'tech' story that's nearly six hours old that has under 40. Seems to me this topic is of interest to the Slashdot crowd, and the Slashdot overlords are doing their job.
Insurance is for contingent, unlikely, but potentially costly events
So health insurance should not cover pre-natal care for pregnant women? Colonoscopies for middle-aged men?
Presumably by your logic since health insurance should not cover birth control, it should also not cover cholesterol nor blood pressure regulating meds?
So if they suspect you're crossing the border with child porn, bomb parts or 38 bottles of whiskey in your car they should get a warrant before they search it? What should the mechanism be? Consent to search, or hold you while they get a warrant?
The problem here is that, since the dawn of time, customs has had the right to 'go through your stuff' when you cross their border. They've had the right to go through your suitcase looking for banned or smuggled items. They've had the right to look for cash or magazines featuring child pornography. They had the right to photocopy and take pictures of evidence. If your suitcase or briefcase was locked, they had the right to tell you to unlock it. Fast-forward fifty years and that 'looking through your stuff' includes looking through your phone or laptop. Where do you draw the line? Do you say CBP and CBSA and their ilk can look through briefcases but not laptops? That they can ask you to turn out your pockets, but not turn on your phone? It's a weird gray area.
In this case, we aren't "guessing and naysaying" - we're pointing at boiling water and saying "you'll cook your hand if you stick it in there". You're going "looks warm, might as well see what happens, there might be a miracle".
Excellent analogy, dude. Someone mod this guy up.
The technology has existed for decades
Actually, no.
We can send robots to Mars, but we still don't have the technology to send people there -
- A craft that can support people for the ~200-day journey to Mars through interplanetary space (including protecting them from ionizing radiation) has never been built and we don't know how.
- The creation of a landing craft is a tremendous challenge. Granted, Mars One is 'supposedly' a one-way trip so many of these issues are mitigated, but assuming the astronauts would want to come home you need to launch from the surface of Mars and then return to earth. No craft that has ever landed on Mars has returned to terra firma.
Wired had a good overview of these issues here -
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/31/getting-to-mars
I guess Apollo managed to ramp up in 7 years
Yes, at a cost of $100 Billion dollars in today's money.
Let's be generous and say that a lot of the 'inventing' Mars One requires has already been done and slice that number by a third. That's still 33 billion dollars.
What I don't understand is the people saying they shouldn't even try
It's not that they shouldn't try, it's that they shouldn't waste everyone's time on what is so obviously a publicity stunt. No one is ever going to get to Mars with this plan.
Are you telling me that four years from now their launch vehicle, spacecraft, landing craft and habitation structures will be built and ready to be deployed? That the BILLIONS of dollars this endeavour will cost will have been raised?
Virgin Galactic hasn't even announced the date for orbital flights.
None of the world's space agencies have figured out how to land people on Mars.
...yet these jokers have it all worked out? I don't think so.
It was autographed postal covers, actually.
http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-armstrong-couldnt-afford-life-insurance-so-this-would-have-taken-care-of-his-family-if-he-died-2012-8
The person who can figure out how we can have all our tech toys and our privacy too will earn a fortune
They'll earn some money for sure, but not a fortune. The public & the bean counters are more interested in low prices than privacy. If your 'private' device is $100 more, everyone will buy the cheaper device.
While iPads have made good traction in K12, education is still looking at other technologies, for several reasons -
a) Standardized testing. In most cases, standardized testing still requires the use of a device with a physical keyboard. If Chromebooks get approved for this purpose they will likely take off even more in K12.
b) Cost. iPads remain an expensive choice when budgets are constrained. It's safe to assume a new uber-iPad will not cost less than existing solutions. While Surface RT devices are laughed at by Slashdot, their price point is difficult for education to resist.
c) Manageability. The 'sticky' provisioning profiles that are (supposedly) coming with iOS 7.1 may improve this, but at its heart Apple remains a consumer company. They seem incapable of designing devices where manageability is taken out of the hands of the end user. For example, users still need to tap "OK" to install apps etc. This remains a major hurdle in K12 - The recent stories from the Los Angeles Unified School District are good examples of this, and the other districts are paying close attention to LAUSD's experiences.
d) Theft recovery. Unlike Windows & Android (e.g. Samsung) platforms there are still no good solutions for recovering stolen iPads which have been factory-reset post-theft. When a thief knocks a kid over the head and steals his device, catching that bad guy becomes of paramount importance.
Did any news agencies bother to ask them if they even detected something?
They did - And even released footage of the incident, including footage from a fighter jet -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeMNXQBzd8
FAA laws only apply to usa airlines obviously
Incorrect.
FAA rules apply to any airline arriving or departing from the USA, regardless of nationality - So a KAL flight offering USA - Palau service absolutely falls under FAA rules when it is servicing the USA.
FAA law states that once a sale confirmation has been given to the customer, the airline must honor the price
FAA law states this? Really? Can you provide a cite?
I find it hard to believe airlines are required to honour mistake fares - Just read that KAL example I cite above, where they decided not to.
By and large, airlines have a history of honouring 'fare mistakes.' There are of course, exceptions, e.g. KAL's $500 fare to Palau...
...but most of the time they do.
http://crankyflier.com/2011/11/22/how-mistake-fares-get-filed-and-why-korean-messed-up/
Day after day Flyertalk.com has examples, e.g.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals-372/
Retail is new to the game, so they're still making up the rules as they go along.
>What losses does Delta have to swallow?
Losses resulting from the fact they likely could have sold those seats for much more money. Most flights depart full, or nearly-full, these days, so they would have sold those seats.
> charging those "lucky" customers change fees
Only if they change their tickets. Most passengers don't. I flew 66 segments last year. Didn't change a single ticket.
> luggage fees
Only if they check a bag. Pack a rollaboard and then check it at the gate for free.
> "Economy Comfort" fees
Only if you upgrade to a better seat.
>onboard entertainment
Bring your tablet.
> Gogo internet
Then don't buy it. No one is forcing you to buy internet
> and food served onboard
Then bring your own food.
I'm old enough to remember when flights included free bags, a free meal and free beer. Indexed to today's dollars, airline tickets were much more expensive than they are today, even if you include all the paid extras.
How do you control our little yellow waka-waka friend on a touchscreen?
It was a gadget like this, so no touchscreen -
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2168205052_bcd0802ca5_m.jpg
Our kids are 3 and 5 - We don't (yet) have a gaming console - The kids play games on the iPad. However, I do have a couple of those joysticks that run 'classic' 80s games, and a few weeks ago at our Christmas open house I hooked them up to the TV. The older kids who were there (age 8 - 14) were instantly hooked and for several hours they played Pac-Man, Bosconian, Dig Dug, Galaga and others. I think part of the appeal was the fact that they were easy to just pick up and start playing.
Amusingly, the exception seemed to be Pac-Man. Took most of the kids several tries to just figure out what the heck they were supposed to do.
The other solution is a utility trailer. When I was a kid (I'm 46) you saw all kinds of people hauling trailers with their cars when they had to move stuff. You rarely see it today. We have a utility trailer that we fill up when we're doing things like hauling gear to the cabin in the summer Rest of the time it's disconnected. Only downside is it can be difficult to back up.
Here's a picture: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3184/2705266016_cc2cb0009f_z.jpg