There are certain things that are natural monopolies - water, electricity, sewage - things that, over the long term, a company can not both reasonably make a profit on *and* serve the public's best interests.
You seem to be forgetting some things here. Lots of people have to go through this thing called "winter". And lots of elderly have to go through this thing called "hot summer".
Electricity != an iPod. It is a shared resource. If the price of electricity rises to the breaking point because of yahoos who don't give a fuck about what they waste, then the poor will not be able to afford it without social assistance. Cut off someone's electricity because they can't afford it , and they can die.
Is it worth people's lives because some greedy people feel they need to waste a *community* resource?
$3.50 / year * 100 million consoles = $350 million dollars a year wasted.
And it is reall *wasted*, because that money is mbasically lost to the enconomy, since a large portion of it is expensses the power company incurrs aquiring a non-renewable resource. It's not like it is money going from A -> B -> C, it is money going from A -> B ->
If the Mob (read:people like you) would care more about wasting "a couple cents to a dollar a month", then the cost of power would *go down* buy *a couple of dollars a KW a month*, because we wouldn't be in such a power crisis.
As in, if everyone cared about saving their 10 cents a month, they would end up actually saving tens of dollars a month(or more).
People in security have known this for a long time. There are three types of identifiers -
- Something you know (a password, an answer to a question that requires private knowledge, a PIN number),
- Something you have (an RFID card, a secureID token, a bank card)
- Something you are (fingerprint, DNA, retina, brain wave)
Any *one* of these metrics is too easy to bypass. Any system that requires security should use *at least* two of these factors for authentication (eg, banks use a card + a PIN). Being able to just swipe your thumbprint to enter a secure area is bad. Having to swipe it *and* know the password is not as bad - if the thumbprint is compromised, they still need to know the password. If the password is compromised, they still need your thumbprint. Hopefully you will disocver that A is compromized and recitify it before B is compromised as well. If you had used all three types, you would have also had to lsoe your security token - something that should be noticed and replaceable quite quickly.
You have the right to speak freely using your body, your tools and your property. No law and no politician can change that.
Actually, yes it can. A human being does not have any god-given de-facto right to own property any more than a llama does. It is the law that gives you right to own property, and the law could just as easily take it away.
The only "right" you are born with, the only "right" granted to you by nature, is the right to live, think, and die as you please. Any other "rights" you have are granted by the law and/or society, as seen fit by the community as a whole. If there wasn't law and/or general consensus on those "rights" they would not exist.
They key to this problem is the mugger can pick out the people with iPods from across the street, because of the super-visible white earbuds. He *knows* this guy has at least one thing valuable, so the mugging risk is worth it.
If the person has a cord going from a set of *black* earbuds to a device in their pocket, it could be an iPod, or a $4.95 FM radio - so he's less likely to take his chances.
Buy a set of decent black or grey earbuds and ditch the trendy iPod ones. It's like wearing a bullseye on your jacket.
Trounced in what sense? The Gamecube has shipped almost the same units vs. the Xbox (20.6 million vs. 22 million). They are in 3rd, but barely. Hardly a "trounced" rating. Combine that with all of Nintento's portable sales which have constantly led the marketplace.
If Nintendo comes out on top, welcome to brightly colored weirdsville.
I wouldnt' consider that weird at all, in fact, I anticipate just that. The Revolution/Wii looks like a truely innovative console, with some amazing games, and great gameplay. Nintendo is really doing the right thing here.
In my mind, the Wii looks poised to do what i haven't seen from a console since the NES/Super NES days - It's the type of console parent's will *want* to buy for their children for christmas, rather than the kind they are *asked* to buy by the children.
If the Wii falls anything short of first place after this season, I am convinced it would be because of the name change - I still hate it.
This DMR *seems* cool at first, but the fact that I have to inline the Javascript code insid ethe JSP with this stupid cusotm tag kills it for me. JSP's are supposed to be the presentation layer *only* - if you have JS code it should be in external.js files as much as humanly possible. THis also helps download times a lot since the.js files can be cached.
Personally I think that JSON-RPC is far superior to this "DMR" stuff. It's also been around much longer, so it's tried and tested. It also has non-Java backend implementations.
If the vacceine is effective againstt he current popular strain in avians, and they can make it rapidly (easier to do with chickens since they need smaller doses than humans, they can innoculate all the chickens in the country. Having the virus nealy eliminated in the bird population greatly mitigates the risk of having it mutate into the human strain of the virus.
You're looking at population growth by country, with is totally inaccurate as to what you want to look at, because it includes immigration. For example, your value for the United States - 0.92% growth. But look at the US entry in the CIA World Factbook (the source for your chart) - you will see it lists the U.S. as having a birthrate of 2.09 children born/woman (2006 est.) This is *below replacement fertility*, which lies at about 2.2 births / woman (basically you have to have more than two babies per couple on avgerage because a certain percentage of them will die before they bear their own children.
If you look at actual birthrate, you will see the vast majority of countries in the "first world" (read: North America, Europe, developed Asia, etc.), are actually well below replacement birthrate, and still falling rapidly. This trend comes from a number of reasons - people delaying children until late in life, people opting to not have children, more acceptance of gay/lesbian couplings.
If we did, as the GP said, "spread the weath" more evenly, we would see the population very rapidly stabilize. The more affluent a society the lower the birthrate, because the parent's don't feel they have to have as many children for their family to carry on. It is a trend you can see throughout history.
You will learn this and more around the topic in any intro sociology class.
You could use 100% of your brain and still have a successful "re-wiring" - what would be going on is your brain is sacrificing less important functions for others.
For example - you may have a horrible stroke and lose your speech and sight - but because your brain is still recieving neural impulses from your eyes, and auditory ones from your ears, over time it could "re-wire" itself through the good tissue to have at least partial restoration of those functions which are both very important, and also very path-stimulating in the brain.
But you may not be getting those at zero cost - some of those paths may have previously been used for other things - hand-eye coordination, or some long-term memory storage, or motor memory for some skill set. Any of which could be lost, and you may not even realize it. It's not like we can run a regression test on a person's brain to ensure that after it's repairs it knows everything it did before.
You are referring to an urban legend that is not true. It results from a mis-quotation around the idea that for any one task you use about 10% of your brain - but for a variety of different tasks you use all of it.
Not sure which is more sad - the fact that this is modded +3 Insightful rather than +3 Funny, or the fact that no one seems to read the comments anymore...
Are these people trying to tell me that crime is so low in Colorado that the sheriffs have nothing bettwe to do than go around war driving?
If that is indeed true (which I doubt), then these guys shouldn't be being paied at all, they should be laid off, since their service is no longer required.
I mean, even *if* this program was a valuable enough service to warrant funding (which it isn't), it's something a summer co-op student could do for 10 bucks an hour - not something to waste a highly-paid sherrif's time on.
The cable enables flight controllers on the ground to land the Shuttle completely by remote control, including the ability to lower the landing gear
Well, I would *hope* it would include that ability, otherwise the whole thig is pretty useless isn't i t?
Just trying to figure out why the poster decided to include that comment. I mean, is that supposed to be some major accomplishment? It's probably just a signal "lower landing gear" to a system - seems like a very minor part of a complex operation to me.
Again - web this web that. Not everything that runs in a browser runs on the web. Lots of things are internally hosted and having strict requirements on supported platforms and required feature sets is not only OK, but desired. For all you know the application may not be on a web server but running in an internal embedded HTML renderer.
Rich applications delivering rich functionality need rich APIs, period. And the contextual menu is one of those rich APIs.
There is absolutely no reason on God's green earth a web application should be constrained in what it can and can not do with it's GUI simply because it is hosted ina browser. There is no valid security concern or usability concern with why a custom application should not have a custom context menu when the user expects it to. A browser-based application should be able to do everything with it's GUI any native application can do.
The browser is just another development platform, period. Wherever possible it should not have hard and fast rules that govern what is OK and what is not in terms of it's interface to the user.
It is widely known that Google payments, aka GBuy, is justa small piece of a puzzla that includes GBuy, Google Base, and Google Search to compete with eBay/Paypal. Think about it - right now, you do a search for "cheap Xbox 360, and get links to stores and also eBay. Now, you will get links to stores hosted on Google Base selling with GPay, advertising with AdSense - more revenue for Google.
Slashdot Mirror
...of why energey should not be privitized.
There are certain things that are natural monopolies - water, electricity, sewage - things that, over the long term, a company can not both reasonably make a profit on *and* serve the public's best interests.
You seem to be forgetting some things here. Lots of people have to go through this thing called "winter". And lots of elderly have to go through this thing called "hot summer".
Electricity != an iPod. It is a shared resource. If the price of electricity rises to the breaking point because of yahoos who don't give a fuck about what they waste, then the poor will not be able to afford it without social assistance. Cut off someone's electricity because they can't afford it , and they can die.
Is it worth people's lives because some greedy people feel they need to waste a *community* resource?
$3.50 / year * 100 million consoles = $350 million dollars a year wasted.
And it is reall *wasted*, because that money is mbasically lost to the enconomy, since a large portion of it is expensses the power company incurrs aquiring a non-renewable resource. It's not like it is money going from A -> B -> C, it is money going from A -> B ->
If the Mob (read:people like you) would care more about wasting "a couple cents to a dollar a month", then the cost of power would *go down* buy *a couple of dollars a KW a month*, because we wouldn't be in such a power crisis.
As in, if everyone cared about saving their 10 cents a month, they would end up actually saving tens of dollars a month(or more).
But good luck getting everyone to care.
- Something you know (a password, an answer to a question that requires private knowledge, a PIN number),
- Something you have (an RFID card, a secureID token, a bank card)
- Something you are (fingerprint, DNA, retina, brain wave)
Any *one* of these metrics is too easy to bypass. Any system that requires security should use *at least* two of these factors for authentication (eg, banks use a card + a PIN). Being able to just swipe your thumbprint to enter a secure area is bad. Having to swipe it *and* know the password is not as bad - if the thumbprint is compromised, they still need to know the password. If the password is compromised, they still need your thumbprint. Hopefully you will disocver that A is compromized and recitify it before B is compromised as well. If you had used all three types, you would have also had to lsoe your security token - something that should be noticed and replaceable quite quickly.
Actually you'd be totally wrong, since I don't live in the US.
This story as the US flag on it, but of course we can't filter these stories off the homepage without filtering off *all* YRO off the homepage.
It's just rarely used in the present tense.
:P
'Slashdotted' is a very common term and is used frequently. Same with 'dug', although 'dug of course was always a verb
Unless "NSA illegal surveillance scandal" referrs to some covert blog, I don't see how this impacts my rights online.
You have the right to speak freely using your body, your tools and your property. No law and no politician can change that.
Actually, yes it can. A human being does not have any god-given de-facto right to own property any more than a llama does. It is the law that gives you right to own property, and the law could just as easily take it away.
The only "right" you are born with, the only "right" granted to you by nature, is the right to live, think, and die as you please. Any other "rights" you have are granted by the law and/or society, as seen fit by the community as a whole. If there wasn't law and/or general consensus on those "rights" they would not exist.
They key to this problem is the mugger can pick out the people with iPods from across the street, because of the super-visible white earbuds. He *knows* this guy has at least one thing valuable, so the mugging risk is worth it.
If the person has a cord going from a set of *black* earbuds to a device in their pocket, it could be an iPod, or a $4.95 FM radio - so he's less likely to take his chances.
Buy a set of decent black or grey earbuds and ditch the trendy iPod ones. It's like wearing a bullseye on your jacket.
Trounced in what sense? The Gamecube has shipped almost the same units vs. the Xbox (20.6 million vs. 22 million). They are in 3rd, but barely. Hardly a "trounced" rating. Combine that with all of Nintento's portable sales which have constantly led the marketplace.
Nintendo is doing just fine.
If Nintendo comes out on top, welcome to brightly colored weirdsville.
I wouldnt' consider that weird at all, in fact, I anticipate just that. The Revolution/Wii looks like a truely innovative console, with some amazing games, and great gameplay. Nintendo is really doing the right thing here.
In my mind, the Wii looks poised to do what i haven't seen from a console since the NES/Super NES days - It's the type of console parent's will *want* to buy for their children for christmas, rather than the kind they are *asked* to buy by the children.
If the Wii falls anything short of first place after this season, I am convinced it would be because of the name change - I still hate it.
I think that the Slashdot story queue should be made shared source. Maybe that would help prevent these dups.
By this logic, the government would *want* to legalize online gambling, since they could then tax it.
No, sorry - revenue has nothing to do with this. It's "What about the children" syndrome running rampant again.
This DMR *seems* cool at first, but the fact that I have to inline the Javascript code insid ethe JSP with this stupid cusotm tag kills it for me. JSP's are supposed to be the presentation layer *only* - if you have JS code it should be in external .js files as much as humanly possible. THis also helps download times a lot since the .js files can be cached.
Personally I think that JSON-RPC is far superior to this "DMR" stuff. It's also been around much longer, so it's tried and tested. It also has non-Java backend implementations.
If the vacceine is effective againstt he current popular strain in avians, and they can make it rapidly (easier to do with chickens since they need smaller doses than humans, they can innoculate all the chickens in the country. Having the virus nealy eliminated in the bird population greatly mitigates the risk of having it mutate into the human strain of the virus.
You're looking at population growth by country, with is totally inaccurate as to what you want to look at, because it includes immigration. For example, your value for the United States - 0.92% growth. But look at the US entry in the CIA World Factbook (the source for your chart) - you will see it lists the U.S. as having a birthrate of 2.09 children born/woman (2006 est.) This is *below replacement fertility*, which lies at about 2.2 births / woman (basically you have to have more than two babies per couple on avgerage because a certain percentage of them will die before they bear their own children.
If you look at actual birthrate, you will see the vast majority of countries in the "first world" (read: North America, Europe, developed Asia, etc.), are actually well below replacement birthrate, and still falling rapidly. This trend comes from a number of reasons - people delaying children until late in life, people opting to not have children, more acceptance of gay/lesbian couplings.
If we did, as the GP said, "spread the weath" more evenly, we would see the population very rapidly stabilize. The more affluent a society the lower the birthrate, because the parent's don't feel they have to have as many children for their family to carry on. It is a trend you can see throughout history.
You will learn this and more around the topic in any intro sociology class.
You could use 100% of your brain and still have a successful "re-wiring" - what would be going on is your brain is sacrificing less important functions for others.
For example - you may have a horrible stroke and lose your speech and sight - but because your brain is still recieving neural impulses from your eyes, and auditory ones from your ears, over time it could "re-wire" itself through the good tissue to have at least partial restoration of those functions which are both very important, and also very path-stimulating in the brain.
But you may not be getting those at zero cost - some of those paths may have previously been used for other things - hand-eye coordination, or some long-term memory storage, or motor memory for some skill set. Any of which could be lost, and you may not even realize it. It's not like we can run a regression test on a person's brain to ensure that after it's repairs it knows everything it did before.
You are referring to an urban legend that is not true. It results from a mis-quotation around the idea that for any one task you use about 10% of your brain - but for a variety of different tasks you use all of it.
See http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm for more info.
Not sure which is more sad - the fact that this is modded +3 Insightful rather than +3 Funny, or the fact that no one seems to read the comments anymore...
If you feel like you need to "get away" with reading "naughty filth", I think you need to find a new girlfriend, one who isn't so prudish.
Are these people trying to tell me that crime is so low in Colorado that the sheriffs have nothing bettwe to do than go around war driving?
If that is indeed true (which I doubt), then these guys shouldn't be being paied at all, they should be laid off, since their service is no longer required.
I mean, even *if* this program was a valuable enough service to warrant funding (which it isn't), it's something a summer co-op student could do for 10 bucks an hour - not something to waste a highly-paid sherrif's time on.
The cable enables flight controllers on the ground to land the Shuttle completely by remote control, including the ability to lower the landing gear
Well, I would *hope* it would include that ability, otherwise the whole thig is pretty useless isn't i t?
Just trying to figure out why the poster decided to include that comment. I mean, is that supposed to be some major accomplishment? It's probably just a signal "lower landing gear" to a system - seems like a very minor part of a complex operation to me.
Again - web this web that. Not everything that runs in a browser runs on the web. Lots of things are internally hosted and having strict requirements on supported platforms and required feature sets is not only OK, but desired. For all you know the application may not be on a web server but running in an internal embedded HTML renderer.
Rich applications delivering rich functionality need rich APIs, period. And the contextual menu is one of those rich APIs.
There is absolutely no reason on God's green earth a web application should be constrained in what it can and can not do with it's GUI simply because it is hosted ina browser. There is no valid security concern or usability concern with why a custom application should not have a custom context menu when the user expects it to. A browser-based application should be able to do everything with it's GUI any native application can do.
The browser is just another development platform, period. Wherever possible it should not have hard and fast rules that govern what is OK and what is not in terms of it's interface to the user.
It is widely known that Google payments, aka GBuy, is justa small piece of a puzzla that includes GBuy, Google Base, and Google Search to compete with eBay/Paypal. Think about it - right now, you do a search for "cheap Xbox 360, and get links to stores and also eBay. Now, you will get links to stores hosted on Google Base selling with GPay, advertising with AdSense - more revenue for Google.