All of which I'm sure are mostly free from traffic tickets -- just not something you can purchase on a whim. Survived Pearl Harbor? Fuck it, Mr. Have a nice day.
I know gut instinct is what the Slashdot comments section runs on, but what actual, non-anecdotal evidence to we have that police officers give preferential treatment to people with these license-plate holders?
Has any of this actually been studied in a scientific way, and if so, what were the results?
Good point, 2500 USD is pretty cheap for bribe... To think that cops would care is crazy, 2500 USD makes no difference.
Even more wild that you think Mozilla is about building a free web and that somehow that justifies denying rights of people. Well done comrade.
Not actively fighting for a cause is not the same as "denying rights".
Pick your battles, Mozilla is and should continue to fight for the free web, not fight for every injustice in the world.
All I'm asking for is a little perspective. The US is actively committing serious human rights offenses, and you complain about somebody supporting a proposition that was found illegal by the supreme court.
I think that is disrespectful to the people held up in guantanamo... Or subjected to torture... Or imprisoned without proper trial... the list goes on:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/huma...
We are looking at 99% incoming data, 10-12 fields, 1000-2000 per session per week, X as many users as we can get.
Hmm... I would consider azure table storage, if data-points are big or complicated query features is needed, maybe mongodb.
When you say 99% incoming, I suspect you don't need to query much. Hence, querying by scanning entire partitions of the database might be acceptable.
In this case storing the data as one file per customer per week might a good solution. If data collection is your primary goal with cost and scalability as primary concerns..
But unless, you're looking at multi terabyte loads anytime soon, you'll probably do fine with any solution you pick:)
So consider going with what is easiest to develop with and optimize for scalability later...
You might want to read about proposition 8 before you sound like a jackass...
I won't argue that the US is sane... but prop 8 is a small thing...
The US happily locks up more than 1% of the population under cruel and inhuman conditions.
I could continue to list atrocities that US actively commits with the support of it's population.
My point is, that "right to marry" is insignificant compared to so many other issues. And at the end of the day, Mozilla is about building a free web.
Given the legal issues I don't think the entire smart phone industry combined is actually big enough to get the baseband code opensourced.
I'm no expert, but I imagine it could be open sourced. But you're probably right that people won't be allowed to flash their own baseband code. Which makes source availability a lot less interesting. Even the ability to verify integrity of the binary would be hard, though useful..
Well, Google complained that MS doesn't really "play ball" in that they didn't open their own networks in the same way (e.g. Skype), and that is a valid complaint.
valid complaint, true. But it's not a valid reason for closing the network.
Lol, just lol... Why would anybody phrase it as "New Mexicans experiencing hunger". As if it's nothing more than an unpleasant experience... Lol, Americans are crazy.
On topic, just fix our environmental policy. Charge more money for destruction and waste disposal. And don't just dump stuff in a landfill, as if you're some sort of third world country.
Coincidentally, a mere week before that happened, Microsoft added Google Talk support to outlook.com webmail (which already supported FB chat and Live/Skype). Needless to say, said support became effectively dysfunctional for anyone who "upgraded" from Talk to Hangouts.
Yeah, Google really took a page from the Microsoft playbook there...
I seriously doubt they're going to get us anything open sourced. Google is starting to look more like Microsoft in the 90'ties.
This move is particularly sad, because Google went with XMPP because they didn't have a customer base and needed others to open up and integrate. And now that Microsoft plays ball, Google just kicks it off the field.
On-topic, open source baseband isn't so important. It's not really something that very hackable anyways. Nor should it be hackable, just imagine teenager bringing down the GSM network by playing around with their firm ware. That is not a good thing.
Nevertheless, Mozilla with Firefox OS might eventually be in a position to pressure manufacturers at some point. I know they should love to, but there is still some market to grow before they have enough leverage.
If this were Microsoft we wouldn't be remotely apologetic about it. We'd bitch, not use the new interface, and wait for the drop in funds to beat sense back into them.
ha ha, you're probably right:)
On./ we're notorious for bashing MS. Though I feel we've become less aggressive about it in recent years.
- What shame, I loved to hate Microsoft; life was easier when evil was well-defined:)
Except Mozilla seems pretty immune/oblivious to that last point.
If you think Mozilla doesn't care about the community, the feedback and user adoption (market share), I suggest that you listen in on some of the Mozilla project meetings, videos here: https://air.mozilla.org/?tag=m...
I think there is pros and cons, to landing a big UI change at once, as oppose to introducing the changes one by one over time. Either way, I don't think Firefox will maintain or grow it's market share without changing and taking chances... Like I said, I'm no fan of fancy UIs, but IMO the UI overhaul could have been much worse. Just, look at office 2007 or gnome-shell...
If you change things that affect every user you have in order to satisfy theoretical needs for a future user that you don't have
I don't think all power users are affected by the changes, but some arguably will be. I do think that the wast majority of users (non-power-users) will be affected positively. I suspect that a lot of the current non-powerusers don't customize firefox because it's hard.
Well, no matter what change happens to Firefox, somebody will be unhappy.
Don't get me wrong though, I loved the classic UI, the fact that buttons, etc. looks like other buttons on my OS.
But these days, no matter where I go, gnome-shell, unity, windows 8, office 2007, the UI is messed up. Everybody thinks they need to reinvent their own theme and UI concept, as if an application was a website.
Having used FF nightly for a while though, I must say that Australis isn't that revolutionary. It does look a little like most other GTK apps.
And wrt. to customization, I think that customization is easier with australis. So hopefully more people (not just super power users), will start customizing their browser, just a little bit.
Sorry, but it is not an example of IP run amok. This is Sparkfun being disingenuous.
Hard to say. The multimeters doesn't carry Flake logo or name, people know they're buying a sparkfun product.
(Trademarks are here to protect consumers from buying products pretending to be a brand they are not).
Either way, sparkfun shouldn't cry about this, if they truly think they are being wronged they should test it in court. They' aren't without means, and I'm not arguing that they should take it all the way to the supreme court.
Billionaires tend to be far more critical of what their money finances than government granting authorities. Consider all of the scandals involving made up data. A billionaire who funded that might get it checked out before allowing it to be published. A government agency won't. A billionaire who discovers shenanigans certainly won't fund that researcher again, a government agency probably will.
From the summary: "Steven Edwards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science says...", granted I don't know Steven, but you're suggestion implies that the research community is more concerned with protecting scam artists, than they are concerned with the advancedment of science. Do you really believe most researchers endorse fraud? - Because that's what you are implying.
Publish or perish isn't perfect, and it certainly produces many publications of limited novelty. On the other hand that is good, because it makes researchers share incomplete discoveries. But to suggest that the community is looking out for the interests of scam artists, is crazy talk..
- Get real!
Note, while publish or perish does make fraud tempting, I'm sure most researchers are honest... Most intelligent people who wants to scam their way to fame and fortune does to wall street and becomes a billionarie. Committing fraud as a researcher is much harder than on wall street, and a lot less rewarding...:)
Seriously, internet scammers are probably making more money than most researchers.
We just need to transfer wealth from those with a lot to everyone else -- like we did when America was the greatest economic power and had the best education.
+1, I agree...
In other parts of the world, where there there is universal healthcare and decent unemployment support, politicians argue that we cannot afford not to give everybody an education. Because there will no jobs for people without an education.
Note, I'm not saying that everybody needs a STEM degree, or a degree at all. Just an education (without having to accumulate debt).
they'd remove the blacklist completely --- and all the driver vendors would quickly fix the bugs (if there even are any).
Yeah, good luck with that... nVidia doesn't care about linux users, Unity is currently super buggy because of poor drivers.nVidia only recently started working on optimus support.
And using a laptop with an nVidia card is a nightmare, I constantly have artifacts, crashes, and things that misbehave.
On my work laptop I've disabled the nVidia card in BIOS, because I wouldn't get anything done using it... The result is that I can't use external displays etc.
The only graphics drivers that works on Linux is Intel... So if nVidia doesn't care to fix their drivers so that they work with Ubuntus default desktop environment, I seriously doubt they care about chrome.
Stupid American brat clicks on Facebook ad she doesn't like. The world is shocked.
No... the news will be parent sues ad company for advertising underaged teens as webcam models.
From the summary:
Clicking on it (the ad)....... did mean they would receive the page's updates and could be mentioned in future versions of the ad.
So when the ad company automatically uses a teens photos in a new version of the ad... Some parents might get slightly angry, and a lawsuit and police charges probably wouldn't be impossible.
Anyways, I for one am looking forward to that story:)
Forging evidence of and publicly lie about mass-destruction weapons in order to make a case to invade a country...
Hey, I'm no fan of the crimes the US have been conducting over the past decade... But at least the US issued a declaration of war, and gave both Iraq and Afghanistan the option of negotiating their way out of the conflict without deploying troops on the ground.
Here the Russians haven't issued an ultimatum, they haven't given proper notice, nor have they tried to resolve their issues through neither direct negotiations or the UN. And as of right now, they do not seem open to retreat in favor of a UN peace keeping force.
This is an old school imperialistic land grab, seems like the Russians might get away with it because they don't care about sanctions. And sanctions won't last forever anyway, does anybody still remember Georgien? That wasn't so long ago, and more or less equally unprovocated.
40-50 USD with a subscription from a TracFone subsidiary and that includes 2-3 GB data.
TracFone has a few subsidiarity like net10, StraightTalk, and SimpleMobile, they are mostly the same.
All these runs on AT&T, Sprint and T-mobile networks. I had problems getting a signal with an expensive T-mobile subscription in my apartment, and AT&T which seems to have connection was way to expensive, so I just switched to net10, works fine.
I'm new in the US (H-1B) relocated from Denmark, a small country but with is much more competition on the phone market. I think it due to regulations that certain close-to-monopoly-like carriers must allow other operators to sell their capacity.
Anyways, I'm surprised people go with the name-brand subscriptions, it makes no sense... At certainly makes no sense to pay 70 USD to 115 USD (which is what AT&T tried to sell me).
running a massive experiment on all of humanity by GMOing foods is more anti-science to me.
I'm no GMO fan... but if you think for a second that we haven't manipulated plants and animals for thousands of years, you're being naive.
There is absolutely nothing natural about the modern cow, the pig, chickens, the size of chicken eggs, the size of strawberries or the length of grain straws...
All of these things about been perfected over hundreds of years.. It's nothing new.
So while I'm no GMO fan, I'm afraid that sad reality is that big changes aren't being made to GMO crops, and we have been making changes to crops for years.
Anyways do you think it's better to farm efficiently with chemicals? In the good olds days, 50ties, 60ties and 70ties we were using much more chemicals than today. And many of the chemicals are scientifically proven to be bad for you.
On-topic, I'm not sure why organic farming is being singled out as pseudo science. Sure, whether it takes better and is more healthy is debatable, but the effects of chemicals on our environment (and water supply) isn't very debatable at all...
I imagine a gay CEO isn't too enthused about doing business with a state that thinks it's ok to refuse to do business with someone because they're gay. It's a two-way street, Arizona.
Let's not pretend the free market can or should fix this... The proposed law will be found to conflict with basic human rights.
Whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. Clearly illegal? I disagree with that. The owner of an account is the owner of the email account linked to it which is the entire premise of the password reset system.
You might be right... But I wouldn't want to be the poor guy arguing that in court!
It's also fairly reasonable to assume that the owner of an account is the person who created the account. And that the owner of a airplane tickets is the guy to bought them.
Keep in mind, it could be that the buyer bought the ticket over the phone, and gave his email verbally, hence, the error wasn't his. Whilst you feel, well within your right to do whatever you want with stuff that ends in your email box.. I'm not sure perfectly legal, and certainly not smart to do..
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All of which I'm sure are mostly free from traffic tickets -- just not something you can purchase on a whim. Survived Pearl Harbor? Fuck it, Mr. Have a nice day.
I know gut instinct is what the Slashdot comments section runs on, but what actual, non-anecdotal evidence to we have that police officers give preferential treatment to people with these license-plate holders?
Has any of this actually been studied in a scientific way, and if so, what were the results?
Good point, 2500 USD is pretty cheap for bribe... To think that cops would care is crazy, 2500 USD makes no difference.
Even more wild that you think Mozilla is about building a free web and that somehow that justifies denying rights of people. Well done comrade.
Not actively fighting for a cause is not the same as "denying rights".
Pick your battles, Mozilla is and should continue to fight for the free web, not fight for every injustice in the world.
All I'm asking for is a little perspective.
The US is actively committing serious human rights offenses, and you complain about somebody supporting a proposition that was found illegal by the supreme court.
I think that is disrespectful to the people held up in guantanamo... Or subjected to torture... Or imprisoned without proper trial... the list goes on: https://www.aclu.org/blog/huma...
We are looking at 99% incoming data, 10-12 fields, 1000-2000 per session per week, X as many users as we can get.
Hmm... I would consider azure table storage, if data-points are big or complicated query features is needed, maybe mongodb.
:)
When you say 99% incoming, I suspect you don't need to query much. Hence, querying by scanning entire partitions of the database might be acceptable.
In this case storing the data as one file per customer per week might a good solution. If data collection is your primary goal with cost and scalability as primary concerns..
But unless, you're looking at multi terabyte loads anytime soon, you'll probably do fine with any solution you pick
So consider going with what is easiest to develop with and optimize for scalability later...
Did you even read the summery: "'It's clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,' Baker was quoted as saying."
When Baker said that she was basically quoting Brendan resignation email.
In fact I would be surprised if this isn't a quote of her quoting Brendan.
You might want to read about proposition 8 before you sound like a jackass...
I won't argue that the US is sane... but prop 8 is a small thing...
The US happily locks up more than 1% of the population under cruel and inhuman conditions.
I could continue to list atrocities that US actively commits with the support of it's population.
My point is, that "right to marry" is insignificant compared to so many other issues. And at the end of the day, Mozilla is about building a free web.
Given the legal issues I don't think the entire smart phone industry combined is actually big enough to get the baseband code opensourced.
I'm no expert, but I imagine it could be open sourced. But you're probably right that people won't be allowed to flash their own baseband code. Which makes source availability a lot less interesting. Even the ability to verify integrity of the binary would be hard, though useful..
Well, Google complained that MS doesn't really "play ball" in that they didn't open their own networks in the same way (e.g. Skype), and that is a valid complaint.
valid complaint, true. But it's not a valid reason for closing the network.
Lol, just lol... Why would anybody phrase it as "New Mexicans experiencing hunger". As if it's nothing more than an unpleasant experience... Lol, Americans are crazy.
On topic, just fix our environmental policy. Charge more money for destruction and waste disposal. And don't just dump stuff in a landfill, as if you're some sort of third world country.
Coincidentally, a mere week before that happened, Microsoft added Google Talk support to outlook.com webmail (which already supported FB chat and Live/Skype). Needless to say, said support became effectively dysfunctional for anyone who "upgraded" from Talk to Hangouts.
Yeah, Google really took a page from the Microsoft playbook there...
I seriously doubt they're going to get us anything open sourced. Google is starting to look more like Microsoft in the 90'ties.
This move is particularly sad, because Google went with XMPP because they didn't have a customer base and needed others to open up and integrate. And now that Microsoft plays ball, Google just kicks it off the field.
On-topic, open source baseband isn't so important. It's not really something that very hackable anyways. Nor should it be hackable, just imagine teenager bringing down the GSM network by playing around with their firm ware. That is not a good thing.
Nevertheless, Mozilla with Firefox OS might eventually be in a position to pressure manufacturers at some point. I know they should love to, but there is still some market to grow before they have enough leverage.
If this were Microsoft we wouldn't be remotely apologetic about it. We'd bitch, not use the new interface, and wait for the drop in funds to beat sense back into them.
ha ha, you're probably right :) ./ we're notorious for bashing MS. Though I feel we've become less aggressive about it in recent years. :)
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- What shame, I loved to hate Microsoft; life was easier when evil was well-defined
Except Mozilla seems pretty immune/oblivious to that last point.
If you think Mozilla doesn't care about the community, the feedback and user adoption (market share), I suggest that you listen in on some of the Mozilla project meetings, videos here: https://air.mozilla.org/?tag=m...
I think there is pros and cons, to landing a big UI change at once, as oppose to introducing the changes one by one over time. Either way, I don't think Firefox will maintain or grow it's market share without changing and taking chances... Like I said, I'm no fan of fancy UIs, but IMO the UI overhaul could have been much worse. Just, look at office 2007 or gnome-shell...
If you change things that affect every user you have in order to satisfy theoretical needs for a future user that you don't have
I don't think all power users are affected by the changes, but some arguably will be. I do think that the wast majority of users (non-power-users) will be affected positively. I suspect that a lot of the current non-powerusers don't customize firefox because it's hard.
Well, no matter what change happens to Firefox, somebody will be unhappy.
Don't get me wrong though, I loved the classic UI, the fact that buttons, etc. looks like other buttons on my OS.
But these days, no matter where I go, gnome-shell, unity, windows 8, office 2007, the UI is messed up. Everybody thinks they need to reinvent their own theme and UI concept, as if an application was a website.
Having used FF nightly for a while though, I must say that Australis isn't that revolutionary. It does look a little like most other GTK apps.
And wrt. to customization, I think that customization is easier with australis. So hopefully more people (not just super power users), will start customizing their browser, just a little bit.
Sorry, but it is not an example of IP run amok. This is Sparkfun being disingenuous.
Hard to say. The multimeters doesn't carry Flake logo or name, people know they're buying a sparkfun product.
(Trademarks are here to protect consumers from buying products pretending to be a brand they are not).
Either way, sparkfun shouldn't cry about this, if they truly think they are being wronged they should test it in court. They' aren't without means, and I'm not arguing that they should take it all the way to the supreme court.
Billionaires tend to be far more critical of what their money finances than government granting authorities. Consider all of the scandals involving made up data. A billionaire who funded that might get it checked out before allowing it to be published. A government agency won't. A billionaire who discovers shenanigans certainly won't fund that researcher again, a government agency probably will.
From the summary: "Steven Edwards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science says...", granted I don't know Steven, but you're suggestion implies that the research community is more concerned with protecting scam artists, than they are concerned with the advancedment of science. Do you really believe most researchers endorse fraud?
:)
- Because that's what you are implying.
Publish or perish isn't perfect, and it certainly produces many publications of limited novelty. On the other hand that is good, because it makes researchers share incomplete discoveries. But to suggest that the community is looking out for the interests of scam artists, is crazy talk..
- Get real!
Note, while publish or perish does make fraud tempting, I'm sure most researchers are honest... Most intelligent people who wants to scam their way to fame and fortune does to wall street and becomes a billionarie. Committing fraud as a researcher is much harder than on wall street, and a lot less rewarding...
Seriously, internet scammers are probably making more money than most researchers.
We just need to transfer wealth from those with a lot to everyone else -- like we did when America was the greatest economic power and had the best education.
+1, I agree...
In other parts of the world, where there there is universal healthcare and decent unemployment support, politicians argue that we cannot afford not to give everybody an education. Because there will no jobs for people without an education.
Note, I'm not saying that everybody needs a STEM degree, or a degree at all. Just an education (without having to accumulate debt).
I wouldn't be surprised to see a startup providing third-party support for Xp and Office 2003 by patching binaries...
I mean is it really that unthinkable?
they'd remove the blacklist completely --- and all the driver vendors would quickly fix the bugs (if there even are any).
Yeah, good luck with that... nVidia doesn't care about linux users, Unity is currently super buggy because of poor drivers.nVidia only recently started working on optimus support.
And using a laptop with an nVidia card is a nightmare, I constantly have artifacts, crashes, and things that misbehave.
On my work laptop I've disabled the nVidia card in BIOS, because I wouldn't get anything done using it... The result is that I can't use external displays etc.
The only graphics drivers that works on Linux is Intel... So if nVidia doesn't care to fix their drivers so that they work with Ubuntus default desktop environment, I seriously doubt they care about chrome.
Stupid American brat clicks on Facebook ad she doesn't like. The world is shocked.
No... the news will be parent sues ad company for advertising underaged teens as webcam models. From the summary:
Clicking on it (the ad) ....... did mean they would receive the page's updates and could be mentioned in future versions of the ad.
So when the ad company automatically uses a teens photos in a new version of the ad... Some parents might get slightly angry, and a lawsuit and police charges probably wouldn't be impossible.
:)
Anyways, I for one am looking forward to that story
Forging evidence of and publicly lie about mass-destruction weapons in order to make a case to invade a country...
Hey, I'm no fan of the crimes the US have been conducting over the past decade... But at least the US issued a declaration of war, and gave both Iraq and Afghanistan the option of negotiating their way out of the conflict without deploying troops on the ground.
Here the Russians haven't issued an ultimatum, they haven't given proper notice, nor have they tried to resolve their issues through neither direct negotiations or the UN. And as of right now, they do not seem open to retreat in favor of a UN peace keeping force.
This is an old school imperialistic land grab, seems like the Russians might get away with it because they don't care about sanctions. And sanctions won't last forever anyway, does anybody still remember Georgien? That wasn't so long ago, and more or less equally unprovocated.
40-50 USD with a subscription from a TracFone subsidiary and that includes 2-3 GB data.
TracFone has a few subsidiarity like net10, StraightTalk, and SimpleMobile, they are mostly the same.
All these runs on AT&T, Sprint and T-mobile networks. I had problems getting a signal with an expensive T-mobile subscription in my apartment, and AT&T which seems to have connection was way to expensive, so I just switched to net10, works fine.
I'm new in the US (H-1B) relocated from Denmark, a small country but with is much more competition on the phone market. I think it due to regulations that certain close-to-monopoly-like carriers must allow other operators to sell their capacity.
Anyways, I'm surprised people go with the name-brand subscriptions, it makes no sense... At certainly makes no sense to pay 70 USD to 115 USD (which is what AT&T tried to sell me).
running a massive experiment on all of humanity by GMOing foods is more anti-science to me.
I'm no GMO fan... but if you think for a second that we haven't manipulated plants and animals for thousands of years, you're being naive.
There is absolutely nothing natural about the modern cow, the pig, chickens, the size of chicken eggs, the size of strawberries or the length of grain straws...
All of these things about been perfected over hundreds of years.. It's nothing new.
So while I'm no GMO fan, I'm afraid that sad reality is that big changes aren't being made to GMO crops, and we have been making changes to crops for years.
Anyways do you think it's better to farm efficiently with chemicals? In the good olds days, 50ties, 60ties and 70ties we were using much more chemicals than today. And many of the chemicals are scientifically proven to be bad for you.
On-topic, I'm not sure why organic farming is being singled out as pseudo science. Sure, whether it takes better and is more healthy is debatable, but the effects of chemicals on our environment (and water supply) isn't very debatable at all...
I imagine a gay CEO isn't too enthused about doing business with a state that thinks it's ok to refuse to do business with someone because they're gay. It's a two-way street, Arizona.
Let's not pretend the free market can or should fix this... The proposed law will be found to conflict with basic human rights.
Whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. Clearly illegal? I disagree with that. The owner of an account is the owner of the email account linked to it which is the entire premise of the password reset system.
You might be right... But I wouldn't want to be the poor guy arguing that in court!
It's also fairly reasonable to assume that the owner of an account is the person who created the account. And that the owner of a airplane tickets is the guy to bought them.
Keep in mind, it could be that the buyer bought the ticket over the phone, and gave his email verbally, hence, the error wasn't his. Whilst you feel, well within your right to do whatever you want with stuff that ends in your email box.. I'm not sure perfectly legal, and certainly not smart to do..
Next step must be to make computer generated papers that gets citations... :)
USA "defense" budget is 90% welfare and employment program.
Lol, That is a whole new category of crazy, I haven't heard that argument before :)
Sorry, about the messed up quotation... It's early morning..