I think it is clear that the Tesla is more likely to have a fire if you hit something hard enough to puncture the vehicle's armor plating and pierce the battery pack.
If my gasoline-power car hits something hard enough to puncture the fuel tank, it'll probably catch on fire too...
With caseless ammunition (or muzzleloader-style loose powder) and high density ceramic bullets (with a plastic shell to "grab" the rifling") you could get past a metal detector.
While there is some merit in the idea that some legal terminology is needed to make laws precise, it does appear from some of the stuff I've seen that some of it is cruft/tradition that has accumulated over the years and serves no real purpose. And there are cases where the legal usage of a term is quite different than the layman's usage of the same term....this is particularly bad because it only serves to confuse the layman.
Also, just like computer code, the legal code has gotten more complicated over time. It seems to me that there would be some benefit in going back and refactoring it to simplify things rather than continuing to special-case individual items.
The brightest plasma screens are far darker than the brightest LCD screens (which are so bright you have to turn them down in a dim room otherwise they're uncomfortable to watch).
Plasma has better colours, better viewing angle, better blacks, etc. But it's not brighter.
4k is indeed pointless, unless you literally have a full size movie theater in your house
Nonsense. With a 50" tv (fairly moderate by today's standards) If you sit 6 feet away you'll see the difference between 1080p and 4K. With a 100" projector (also fairly moderate by projector standards) you can sit 13 feet away and see the difference.
When I want to download software, I want that software, not other piece of software that's going to install itself in my browsers and mine my information.
As others have said, make it purely opt-in and I can live with it. The opt-out stuff just pisses me off because it is so transparently trying to profit off people that aren't paying attention.
The energy required to send back to the basestation is going to be in the same region as the original signal at source, not once it's been spread out and dissipated...
Sorry, no. The antenna on a cell tower puts out a far stronger signal than your phone, and is also much more sensitive at receiving incoming signals.
The guides to the kernel on amazon are outdated, but any book is going to be outdated and the places where they're outdated are exactly the places that are seeing churn and so it would be hard to keep anything updated. What the books can do is give a general overview about how things were at one point.
That, combined with looking at the kernelnewbies site, reading lwn.net/kernel, and looking at the code will give you somewhere to start.
I've worked on the kernel (and other low level stuff) professionally for ~10 years. I've had code submitted into the kernel. I've interacted with Linus directly, I've met him in person, etc.
Yes, on occasion he flies off the handle. It doesn't happen often, and when it does it's mostly at things that would drive many people nuts. I think he could deal with it a bit better sometimes, but most of the time it's not a big deal.
Generally when people get flamed it's not a new contributor, and it's for things that they've done wrong multiple times.
So for new people looking to contribute, go ahead. It's fun, and the quality of the code that you'll see is generally pretty high.
Considering that most smartphones will happily run a terminal program...and you can get bootable linux on a usb stick or a whole linux computer on an HDMI plug.
Technically it's only the implementation of an idea that is supposed to be patentable. With physical patents if you can accomplish the same thing by other means then it's fair game.
Somehow in software they've decided to allow patenting the *idea* of momentum when scrolling via swiping, or bounceback when you hit the end.
The equivalent to patenting physical implementations would be to allow protection of their *implementation* of an idea--and in the software world that implementation is already protected by copyright, so there's really no need for software patents.
Clearly people will act out of self-interest to avoid that.
No, that's not at all clear. People often act against their own interests--how else do you explain poor people who vote against expanding medical coverage for poor people?
In the real world, there are those that only care about the short-term, and thus will betray their own long-term interest for the sake of short-term gain.
There are also those that only care about themselves, and see nothing wrong with wreaking havoc and then leaving others to deal with the problem.
Lastly, the Free Market also assumes everyone has access to sufficient information to act rationally--this is not always the case.
I question the "horribly painful to use". Maybe it depends what you're doing. I use VNC across a distance of about 3000km (ping time of 53ms). I turned off lossy encoding to get crisper text for coding, and even with that while there's a noticeable lag it's good enough to use a shell, edit text, run virtual machine managers, etc.
I wouldn't want to watch video through it, or do media editing, but for typical office/coding work it seems to be basically okay.
There is a distinction. The pervs thought they were interacting with a virtual girl. In their own minds, they thought they were interacting with a real person.
The researchers knew it wasn't a real person.
Yes, if someone tried to pimp out a virtual girl *that they thought was real*, then they should certainly face consequences for that action.
It's not that one wrong click leads to committing a crime...it's more that if you knowingly click a link with the expectation that you are committing a crime (even if you actually aren't) then maybe you should be treated as though you were trying to commit a crime (because you really were) even if no crime was actually committed.
Arguably the most ethical response is to leave the original comment there, but preface it with a note from tech support suggesting that the recommendation is not correct and giving reasons why.
Unless you live in a small town there should be at least one or two "serious" computer stores that will stock and/or bring in whatever you want. My local one even stocks Monoprice cabling for basically the cost of ordering small quantities from Monoprice myself (they buy in bulk so get a discount).
Oh, and for things like smoke detectors, HVAC components, electrical supplies shop the industrial district, not the big box stores.
Talking about how much you pay in taxes is pointless unless you also talk about what services you get in return.
How are your roads, your water treatment plants, your health care, your power plants, your communications infrastructure, your emergency services, etc...?
Only because you assume that conservatives are anti-science.
I'm in Canada. The Conservative party here (currently in power) certainly seems to be anti-science. I know of formerly pure-science government labs that are being hired out to industry and anyone that can't get industry funding is getting the boot.
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I think it is clear that the Tesla is more likely to have a fire if you hit something hard enough to puncture the vehicle's armor plating and pierce the battery pack.
If my gasoline-power car hits something hard enough to puncture the fuel tank, it'll probably catch on fire too...
I firmly believe that there should be publicly-funded journalism for exactly this reason.
At its best, it can take on issues that are important but not profitable enough to interest for-profit "news" organizations.
It's a grouping of people with some authority over the people living in a geographic area.
With caseless ammunition (or muzzleloader-style loose powder) and high density ceramic bullets (with a plastic shell to "grab" the rifling") you could get past a metal detector.
I would love to see something like that.
While there is some merit in the idea that some legal terminology is needed to make laws precise, it does appear from some of the stuff I've seen that some of it is cruft/tradition that has accumulated over the years and serves no real purpose. And there are cases where the legal usage of a term is quite different than the layman's usage of the same term....this is particularly bad because it only serves to confuse the layman.
Also, just like computer code, the legal code has gotten more complicated over time. It seems to me that there would be some benefit in going back and refactoring it to simplify things rather than continuing to special-case individual items.
In some places there is no requirement for slower traffic to drive in the right hand lane.
The brightest plasma screens are far darker than the brightest LCD screens (which are so bright you have to turn them down in a dim room otherwise they're uncomfortable to watch).
Plasma has better colours, better viewing angle, better blacks, etc. But it's not brighter.
4k is indeed pointless, unless you literally have a full size movie theater in your house
Nonsense. With a 50" tv (fairly moderate by today's standards) If you sit 6 feet away you'll see the difference between 1080p and 4K. With a 100" projector (also fairly moderate by projector standards) you can sit 13 feet away and see the difference.
When I want to download software, I want that software, not other piece of software that's going to install itself in my browsers and mine my information.
As others have said, make it purely opt-in and I can live with it. The opt-out stuff just pisses me off because it is so transparently trying to profit off people that aren't paying attention.
The energy required to send back to the basestation is going to be in the same region as the original signal at source, not once it's been spread out and dissipated...
Sorry, no. The antenna on a cell tower puts out a far stronger signal than your phone, and is also much more sensitive at receiving incoming signals.
The guides to the kernel on amazon are outdated, but any book is going to be outdated and the places where they're outdated are exactly the places that are seeing churn and so it would be hard to keep anything updated. What the books can do is give a general overview about how things were at one point.
That, combined with looking at the kernelnewbies site, reading lwn.net/kernel, and looking at the code will give you somewhere to start.
I've worked on the kernel (and other low level stuff) professionally for ~10 years. I've had code submitted into the kernel. I've interacted with Linus directly, I've met him in person, etc.
Yes, on occasion he flies off the handle. It doesn't happen often, and when it does it's mostly at things that would drive many people nuts. I think he could deal with it a bit better sometimes, but most of the time it's not a big deal.
Generally when people get flamed it's not a new contributor, and it's for things that they've done wrong multiple times.
So for new people looking to contribute, go ahead. It's fun, and the quality of the code that you'll see is generally pretty high.
Considering that most smartphones will happily run a terminal program...and you can get bootable linux on a usb stick or a whole linux computer on an HDMI plug.
I don't know about you, but I certainly don't go searching patent applications when implementing something.
I'd argue that if multiple people independently invent something that is covered under patent then the patent should be invalidated as too obvious.
Technically it's only the implementation of an idea that is supposed to be patentable. With physical patents if you can accomplish the same thing by other means then it's fair game.
Somehow in software they've decided to allow patenting the *idea* of momentum when scrolling via swiping, or bounceback when you hit the end.
The equivalent to patenting physical implementations would be to allow protection of their *implementation* of an idea--and in the software world that implementation is already protected by copyright, so there's really no need for software patents.
and once it's all gone, we're all fucked.
Clearly people will act out of self-interest to avoid that.
No, that's not at all clear. People often act against their own interests--how else do you explain poor people who vote against expanding medical coverage for poor people?
In the real world, there are those that only care about the short-term, and thus will betray their own long-term interest for the sake of short-term gain.
There are also those that only care about themselves, and see nothing wrong with wreaking havoc and then leaving others to deal with the problem.
Lastly, the Free Market also assumes everyone has access to sufficient information to act rationally--this is not always the case.
I question the "horribly painful to use". Maybe it depends what you're doing. I use VNC across a distance of about 3000km (ping time of 53ms). I turned off lossy encoding to get crisper text for coding, and even with that while there's a noticeable lag it's good enough to use a shell, edit text, run virtual machine managers, etc.
I wouldn't want to watch video through it, or do media editing, but for typical office/coding work it seems to be basically okay.
There is a distinction. The pervs thought they were interacting with a virtual girl. In their own minds, they thought they were interacting with a real person.
The researchers knew it wasn't a real person.
Yes, if someone tried to pimp out a virtual girl *that they thought was real*, then they should certainly face consequences for that action.
It's not that one wrong click leads to committing a crime...it's more that if you knowingly click a link with the expectation that you are committing a crime (even if you actually aren't) then maybe you should be treated as though you were trying to commit a crime (because you really were) even if no crime was actually committed.
Arguably the most ethical response is to leave the original comment there, but preface it with a note from tech support suggesting that the recommendation is not correct and giving reasons why.
Unless you live in a small town there should be at least one or two "serious" computer stores that will stock and/or bring in whatever you want. My local one even stocks Monoprice cabling for basically the cost of ordering small quantities from Monoprice myself (they buy in bulk so get a discount).
Oh, and for things like smoke detectors, HVAC components, electrical supplies shop the industrial district, not the big box stores.
Talking about how much you pay in taxes is pointless unless you also talk about what services you get in return.
How are your roads, your water treatment plants, your health care, your power plants, your communications infrastructure, your emergency services, etc...?
Conservative Americans might be mad at my post ...
Only because you assume that conservatives are anti-science.
I'm in Canada. The Conservative party here (currently in power) certainly seems to be anti-science. I know of formerly pure-science government labs that are being hired out to industry and anyone that can't get industry funding is getting the boot.
and their deductible is high enough that they'd end up replacing it out of pocket.