I think part of the problem, is they were looking for a single Shuttle Replacement,... A multi-use device, designed to handle many different type of mission parameters.
Perhaps NASA could use Emacs for their launch vehicle. I'm sure it could easily get things to LEO.
The Guardian reports of a recent paper, published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, that helps explain how wind and solar energy can power most of the United States...
A report developed by top scientists hand-picked by Scott Pruitt, Director of the EPA, has determined that if all the sunshine and wind are used up to generate power, there won't be any left for sunny days and cool breezes and recommends, instead, an increased use of coal to generate power.
You are a literal idiot or targeted troll to call someone an idiot for pointing out we are in the surveillance state we always feared.
I don't doubt/deny that we're in the surveillance state you talk about, but the examples she listed are ridiculous -- and you know that. So... either the intent of the article was humor, or she's an idiot who actually believes that stuff can happen like in the movies. Furthermore, she claimed to be "off the grid" and the subtitle of TFA was "They called me the nameless one, the ghost who commutes, the silent passenger who refused to get an Opal transport card." She actually *had* an Opal card, she just paid for it with cash. Almost everything in TFA was bullshit, not James Bond. She could be easily tracked, if "the man" wanted to, because she used the same Opal card the entire time. She could be linked to that card *because* of CCTV, digital tracking and facial recognition. Her behavior shows complete unawareness of what's actually needed to achieve her intended result -- to be anonymous and un-tracked. She simply wanted to have a seemingly clever angle for an article, but that angle doesn't hold up under, even light, scrutiny.
Michael: All I really ever wanted was to know what it feels like to be human, and now we’re going to do the most human thing of all: attempt
something futile with a ton of unearned confidence and fail spectacularly!
Don't be too hard on yourself; that probably saved you some brain cells. TFA is either a joke, or the woman is literally an idiot.
Here's an excerpt (really):
My email address (that is, my real email address, not my burner address) doesn't use my birth name. I am no fun at birthday parties, but you'd never know it... mostly because I won't reveal my actual birthday.
But I'm not alone. For someone who was mostly educated through the received wisdom of Hollywood movies, I learned a lot about what The State could do to me. I watched "The Net" as if it were a documentary. I didn't brush my hair for weeks after watching "Gattaca." I spent months walking around my house, narrating my life after watching "The Truman Show," just to give Ed Harris more material to edit.
I wish these stories weren't true. But in the grim near future of "Demolition Man" I know I would be the one hiding in the bathroom, away from the countless surveillance cameras, trying to stop people stealing my eyeballs.
Why did she hold onto one single card for so long and keep topping it up?
Because she's an idiot, who thinks she's James Bond, who wanted to write a seemingly clever story.
To digress a bit... It's like this chick, Hephzibah Anderson, and her book Chastened about her voluntary year of chastity. Turns out she just stopped having penetration - gave up the “last base” (her words). Still went on dates, still kissed, still fondled, but she drew the line at that – kiss, kiss, no bang, bang. How she must have suffered. So she writes a book about it and gets famous? Please. What the fuck is wrong with people that this is interesting or even worthy of more than a passing thought? Why is anyone even talking to her, about this? Because she’s young? blond? pretty? English? WHAT?? And who names their daughter “Hephzibah” anyway?
Buy your transport card. Pay cash. Top up with cash (preferably in a new location each time). Never register it. Never link it to your credit or debit card. Live off the grid. Stay away from The Man.
Ya, because acting like that isn't suspicious. "The Man" knows someone is paying for that unregistered, un-linked card w/cash, at different locations. They know the card number, they know where and when it was reloaded and used. They have CCTV cameras. They have a picture of you from somewhere you used it and, if you have any official ID -- driver license, passport, etc... -- they can match them up. They know who you are, what you're doing and where you're doing it. They have devices to identify the mobile phone(s) you're carrying and can track them if they want to.
Either they've been tracking you all this time or determined that you're an idiot and have been ignoring you all this time.
Why do you think businesses and governments encourage, and make it easy to use, electronic payment systems over cash? Identification and tracking.
... physicists find the idea absurd and unreal because there's no way you can transport matter and its quantum state without first destroying it and then recreating it perfectly, due to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
It's been established that ST transporters have Heisenberg compensators, so checkmate actual physicists.
That's basically cheaper than Netflix and on a better screen.
Sure, but with Netflix you can watch movies in your jammies and eat your own food. (And the floors are probably way less sticky - unless you have kids.)
Okay, okay. You could probably do that at a theater too, but it could be problematic...
"One day I was kicked out of a movie theater for bringing my own food, so I said: 'C'mon the prices for the food here are outrageous... and besides I haven't had a barbeque in a long time...' " - Steven Wright
While it made sure you wouldn't miss the most popular posts from your close friends,...
The algorithm, like the one on Twitter, makes visibility a popularity contest whereby people (accounts) with fewer followers and/or posts get dumped to the bottom of the feed, never to be noticed or loved by anyone.
We've lost over a fairly short period of time, 60,000 factories in our country. Closed, shuttered, gone. Six million jobs at least, gone. And now they are starting to come back," President Trump said during the briefing.
Factories gone for things that can be made much less expensively over seas, gone from a now more services-oriented US economy. Many, perhaps most, of those jobs won't be coming back and, if they do, US consumers will pay a steep price. Trump is longing for a World that was, but has now moved on.
What I find amusing about this whole thing is that the Trump campaign never used the data, because they didn't trust it.
Although... Trump did eventually use at least some of their suggestions generated from that data. For example, Cambridge Analytica came up with the slogan "drain the swamp" based on the Facebook data they stole and passed it along to Trump -- who admitted (on video) he got it from them.
Knowing that Trump's former Chief Strategist actually ran the program which collected Facebook data to create voter profiles, i'd say the differences are a bit deeper than that.
A little more than that. Steve Bannon was one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica and was its Vice President at that time. The other founder is super conservative billionaire Robert Mercer (apparently also a big player in Brexit):
Cambridge Analytica was founded by conservatives Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer. A minimum of 15 million dollars has been invested into the company by Mercer, according to The New York Times. Bannon's stake in the company was estimated at 1 to 5 million dollars, but he divested his holdings in April 2017 as required by his role as White House Chief Strategist.
Slashdot Mirror
For whatever reason, many of the iPhones being repaired at the Apple facility were going rogue and dialing 911.
I think part of the problem, is they were looking for a single Shuttle Replacement, ... A multi-use device, designed to handle many different type of mission parameters.
Perhaps NASA could use Emacs for their launch vehicle. I'm sure it could easily get things to LEO.
The Guardian reports of a recent paper, published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, that helps explain how wind and solar energy can power most of the United States ...
A report developed by top scientists hand-picked by Scott Pruitt, Director of the EPA, has determined that if all the sunshine and wind are used up to generate power, there won't be any left for sunny days and cool breezes and recommends, instead, an increased use of coal to generate power.
The only way to get out of paying a student loan is to die.
Unless your parents (or someone else) co-signed it ... After daughter’s death, parents plead for forgiveness of her $200K student-loan debt, then they're stuck with it. (Probably not surprising, but worth mentioning.)
Like a broken cell phone that can only text or take pictures, but not make a single call, ...
You can make phone calls with a cell phone? And... talk... to people...?
You are a literal idiot or targeted troll to call someone an idiot for pointing out we are in the surveillance state we always feared.
I don't doubt/deny that we're in the surveillance state you talk about, but the examples she listed are ridiculous -- and you know that. So... either the intent of the article was humor, or she's an idiot who actually believes that stuff can happen like in the movies. Furthermore, she claimed to be "off the grid" and the subtitle of TFA was "They called me the nameless one, the ghost who commutes, the silent passenger who refused to get an Opal transport card." She actually *had* an Opal card, she just paid for it with cash. Almost everything in TFA was bullshit, not James Bond. She could be easily tracked, if "the man" wanted to, because she used the same Opal card the entire time. She could be linked to that card *because* of CCTV, digital tracking and facial recognition. Her behavior shows complete unawareness of what's actually needed to achieve her intended result -- to be anonymous and un-tracked. She simply wanted to have a seemingly clever angle for an article, but that angle doesn't hold up under, even light, scrutiny.
Hey, he embodies the American spirit. The human spirit, really, in which your dreams are more important than reality.
To quote Michael on The Good Place:
Michael: All I really ever wanted was to know what it feels like to be human, and now we’re going to do the most human thing of all: attempt something futile with a ton of unearned confidence and fail spectacularly!
LSD Dissolves a Person's Sense of Self
Post something too clever on /. and get modded down.
I only read the headline (mea culpa) but...
Don't be too hard on yourself; that probably saved you some brain cells. TFA is either a joke, or the woman is literally an idiot.
Here's an excerpt (really):
My email address (that is, my real email address, not my burner address) doesn't use my birth name. I am no fun at birthday parties, but you'd never know it... mostly because I won't reveal my actual birthday.
But I'm not alone. For someone who was mostly educated through the received wisdom of Hollywood movies, I learned a lot about what The State could do to me. I watched "The Net" as if it were a documentary. I didn't brush my hair for weeks after watching "Gattaca." I spent months walking around my house, narrating my life after watching "The Truman Show," just to give Ed Harris more material to edit.
I wish these stories weren't true. But in the grim near future of "Demolition Man" I know I would be the one hiding in the bathroom, away from the countless surveillance cameras, trying to stop people stealing my eyeballs.
They called me the nameless one, the ghost who commutes, the silent passenger who refused to get an Opal transport card.
I doubt "they" called you any of those things -- especially since you actually *had* an Opal transport card (that you simply paid for w/cash).
I'm going to call you "pretentious".
Why did she hold onto one single card for so long and keep topping it up?
Because she's an idiot, who thinks she's James Bond, who wanted to write a seemingly clever story.
To digress a bit... It's like this chick, Hephzibah Anderson, and her book Chastened about her voluntary year of chastity. Turns out she just stopped having penetration - gave up the “last base” (her words). Still went on dates, still kissed, still fondled, but she drew the line at that – kiss, kiss, no bang, bang. How she must have suffered. So she writes a book about it and gets famous? Please. What the fuck is wrong with people that this is interesting or even worthy of more than a passing thought? Why is anyone even talking to her, about this? Because she’s young? blond? pretty? English? WHAT?? And who names their daughter “Hephzibah” anyway?
Buy your transport card. Pay cash. Top up with cash (preferably in a new location each time). Never register it. Never link it to your credit or debit card. Live off the grid. Stay away from The Man.
Ya, because acting like that isn't suspicious. "The Man" knows someone is paying for that unregistered, un-linked card w/cash, at different locations. They know the card number, they know where and when it was reloaded and used. They have CCTV cameras. They have a picture of you from somewhere you used it and, if you have any official ID -- driver license, passport, etc... -- they can match them up. They know who you are, what you're doing and where you're doing it. They have devices to identify the mobile phone(s) you're carrying and can track them if they want to.
Either they've been tracking you all this time or determined that you're an idiot and have been ignoring you all this time.
Why do you think businesses and governments encourage, and make it easy to use, electronic payment systems over cash? Identification and tracking.
I'm pretty sure fire kills bacteria, so how about flamethrowers? (Predictably, Elon is ahead of the curve on this.)
argh, beat me to it. :)
My browser has a /. compensator installed ... allowing me to know both what to post and when to post at the same time.
... physicists find the idea absurd and unreal because there's no way you can transport matter and its quantum state without first destroying it and then recreating it perfectly, due to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
It's been established that ST transporters have Heisenberg compensators, so checkmate actual physicists.
That's basically cheaper than Netflix and on a better screen.
Sure, but with Netflix you can watch movies in your jammies and eat your own food. (And the floors are probably way less sticky - unless you have kids.)
Okay, okay. You could probably do that at a theater too, but it could be problematic ...
"One day I was kicked out of a movie theater for bringing my own food, so I said: 'C'mon the prices for the food here are outrageous... and besides I haven't had a barbeque in a long time...' " - Steven Wright
... as some theater chains -- most notably AMC -- have criticized the service for allegedly cheapening the moviegoing experience.
Funniest thing I've read all week. Thanks AMC, et al.
While it made sure you wouldn't miss the most popular posts from your close friends, ...
The algorithm, like the one on Twitter, makes visibility a popularity contest whereby people (accounts) with fewer followers and/or posts get dumped to the bottom of the feed, never to be noticed or loved by anyone.
We've lost over a fairly short period of time, 60,000 factories in our country. Closed, shuttered, gone. Six million jobs at least, gone. And now they are starting to come back," President Trump said during the briefing.
Factories gone for things that can be made much less expensively over seas, gone from a now more services-oriented US economy. Many, perhaps most, of those jobs won't be coming back and, if they do, US consumers will pay a steep price. Trump is longing for a World that was, but has now moved on.
Bitcoin is running at, what, $1500 now? You can't buy groceries or a haircut with that.
1 Bitcoin is subdivisible into 100,000,000 (one hundred million) parts known as Satoshis. Here you are, with so much misplaced confidence.
Although... Even as a whole unit, one could buy a LOT of groceries or our President could use several bitcoins to get his hair, um..., worked on.
What I find amusing about this whole thing is that the Trump campaign never used the data, because they didn't trust it.
Although... Trump did eventually use at least some of their suggestions generated from that data. For example, Cambridge Analytica came up with the slogan "drain the swamp" based on the Facebook data they stole and passed it along to Trump -- who admitted (on video) he got it from them.
Knowing that Trump's former Chief Strategist actually ran the program which collected Facebook data to create voter profiles, i'd say the differences are a bit deeper than that.
A little more than that. Steve Bannon was one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica and was its Vice President at that time. The other founder is super conservative billionaire Robert Mercer (apparently also a big player in Brexit):
From Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica was founded by conservatives Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer. A minimum of 15 million dollars has been invested into the company by Mercer, according to The New York Times. Bannon's stake in the company was estimated at 1 to 5 million dollars, but he divested his holdings in April 2017 as required by his role as White House Chief Strategist.
Well, at least it will be sooner than twitter's working business model.
And it could be a self-defeating prophecy. All that electricity going toward mining, none left for tweeting. At least we'll all be warm.
Some of these groups behind SESTA / FOSTA seem to see the bill as a mere stepping stone to banning pornography from the Internet."
Dr. Cox: "I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called, 'Bring Back the Porn!'”