I think they just gave up trying to quantify if it has actually left the solar system after years of false positives and debate, so they just made it official. 99.999999999% of us are not going to check, so its safe bet.
Slightly off topic, but now that Voyager has officially left the solar system, I hope that NASA could spend some time and explain to JJ Abrams that the Enterprise would not actually leave vapor trails that flutter and make a tinkling sound when it goes to warp since light does not crystallize into particles and space has no fucking "downward gravity" or wind or sound.
Seriously would Joss Whedon just beat the shit out of JJ and end it.
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Again Apple has stated this information is not stored on a cloud or server. It also doesn't send your fingerprint scan to a server, your fingerprint generates a data key that is compared against data stored in an encrypted section of the CPU. So there is no centralized "data" to send to the NSA, court approved or otherwise. Apple is not consolidating a list of user profiles with fingerprint scans that the NSA or any policing agency could then demand access too.
Leaving a fingerprint on a cup at Starbucks is not going to lead to the NSA hacking into your iTunes account to profile your taste in music and movies to find out if you are a suspect terrorist.
You have the audacity to ask people to learn by the news, but when the news is spreading FUD and garbage all you are asking, and contributing to, is an increase in social ignorance.
The only thing I fear these days is a growing lack of common sense and outright stupidity of the Idiot Elite that would rather believe in Hollywood fictitious level of government conspiracy, and "report" on it, rather than actually trying to understand the science of the technology they are using.
The problem with my laptop fingerprint scanner is I have to swipe like 16 times before it recognizes anything, so its just faster and easier to typing in my password.
However for phones and tablets, the Achilles heal of all touch devices is the on screen keyboard, so if your password involves characters, numbers and symbols is it freaking annoying. A fingerprint scanner would be welcome.
But, if Apple's fingerprint scanner is not 100% flawless and quick every time, then it will fail just like every other fingerprint scanner. The moment it takes longer to unlock something by a fingerprint then by entering a 4 character passcode, its going to fail.
The "privacy" arguments here are baseless FUD, once again, because Apple has specifically said the fingerprint is not sent or stored on the cloud, its used to generate a key that is compared against encrypted data stored directly on the CPU. Its no more less private than entering a 4 digit passcode or password that everybody does now.
I mean at the beginning of the year there was supposed to be all these big things coming out of Valve, like the Steambox, but then it all kind of just fizzled into water vapor.
Then I also remembered that Valve is a company that takes 6 years to release anything. So we might see the Steambox in 2020, just in time to compete with the Nokiabox Two, PlaySamsung 5 and Nintendo's WiiilUPleezeBiiMii.
Global warming is the source of all problems according to the BBC. Our selfish behavior today can be directly linked back to killing the Wooly Mammoths 30,000 years ago, dontcha know.
I don't know how many open source projects have little to no real documentation and just a bunch of community driven wikis and message boards (usually complaining) about the project.
BTW aren't there services like SourceForge ang GitHub all set up to let you publish open source projects? I mean it sounds Andy Lester is about 10 years behind and fucking clueless of how people really publish open source code ( wtf is a mailing list in the 21st century?) Nobody wants you to pump their email with hundreds of useless messages, it the reason why RSS, wiki and community message boards were created in the first place, to supercede mailing lists.
Why are open sourcers forever looking for a new way to do the same thing someone else has already solved?
People that complain about code features are generally ignorant of how to use them, and thus spread FUD about them.
Lambdas are a great powerful feature when you really don't need to write a full fledged function. In combination with something like multithreading, being able to write an off-thread lambda in-place is quite powerful, it's actually easier to maintain a thread that is set up, starts and is monitored all within the same functional block, rather than writing a bunch of support functions to start, stop and monitor the thread throughout a class or spread across many classes or files. Another key win for Lambdas is being able to write a predicate for a sorting function without having to reference some function somewhere down in the file.
Yes, like EVERYTHING in code, lambdas can be abused, but generally speaking lambdas are not significantly more complicated to understand and manage, if you are not a complete software noob. This is why senior developers should guide juniors and intermediates using code review to the correct use of code features rather than to simply encourage not to use a feature out of fear and ignorance.
What is the point of monitoring the ocean acidity. Is there anything you are going to do about it while it rises? Does it really make a difference to see global warming in action.
Where is the X-Prize to create clean energy? Or the X-Prize to close the carbon cycle by having a process to pull CO2 back out of the atmosphere and turn it back into fuel? If they exist why are they not making news?
Why is humanity obsessed with proving the obvious? All this X-Prize will do is create a tool that will be used by smug people to say "See, I told you so, the oceans are slightly more acidic now then they were 10 years ago.", but it won't SOLVE A freaking thing.
I wish people would move away from trying to "prove" global warming to finding was to adapt to it, or find ACTUAL solutions to improve the quality of life on the planet. I mean what a waste of 2 million dollars.
I am going to start an X-Prize for the world's largest Arm & Hammer box to put into the fucking oceans, at least that would solve the problem of their acidity.
The problem is that most people don't realize there is no food that takes a plant and injects tuna genes into it. FDA and other governments expressly forbid the production of such crops. Scientists might be doing R&D in the labs, but there is no Tomato/Fish hybrid on your table or in the grocery store.
So instead of people educating themselves over the reality and facts of GMO, they would rather argue and debate about nonsense.
Also what is ignorant is the idea that taking a single gene out of Tuna and putting it into a Tomato makes the Tomato an animal and thus inedible by vegetarians, or make the Tomato inedible by those allergic to tuna fish. There is a gross misunderstanding about the nature of genetic manipulation if people think along those lines. Even if they find some benefit to taking animal genes and putting it into a plant, say to increase Omega 3 in a tomato, people would again debate about nonsense FUD if it even would be possible.
You are worried that because someone took one species of tomato and injected a gene from another species of tomato to make the tomato sweeter or more resistant to disease should be expressly labeled as GMO so that people can choose to not consume it out of ignorance. Yet if someone, say, cross pollinated two species of tomatoes to make a smaller sweeter tomato it does not require any labeling or moral angst? There is simply no food on the market, farmer's stand, or in your backyard garden, that has not had some form of human intervention.
I agree, no company has a right to make you eat a tomato with fish genes in it, because the government does not allow that.
Start pounding their fists and say "no! no! no!" to anything GMO related.
Not because of any real scientific evidence but because "social news" has told them that GMO is bad, period. The Idiot Elite cannot form their own opinion on anything only regurgitate and corrupt a single myopic one.
In the meantime GMO has saved billions of lives by provided food to areas of the world that could not otherwise sustain crops or increasing the yield of crops to make food affordable and to allow farmers to make some kind of profit rather than always relying on government subsidies to produce a crop where half of it goes to rot.
I am not saying that some care and concern should be made over how GMO is used, certainly I have no respect for Monsanto trying to monopolize food crops by adding suicide genes so that farmers are forced to buy seed every season, but this is not the reason to dismiss GMO as a whole. Finding one negative and then striving to shut down an industry is what the Idiot Elite excels at.
Humans have been manipulating crop genes for thousands of years. While we do it in the lab these days, taking two plants and cross pollinating them to produce another species has been going on for thousands of years, all in an effort to make food more efficient and effective and produce a better product. The Idiot Elite can easily understand the idea of shaking pollen from one plant on another, they can't understand the concept of taking individual genes out of one plant and combining them with another under a microscope to achieve the same results. Therefore this must be protested simply out of ignorance. There is no such thing as a non-GMO organic food item that has not resulted from thousands of years of human intervention.
I mean those fluffy passive stuffed animals that people call their pet 'doodles these days is a result of thousands of years of human fuckery, there is nothing natural about a Schnickerdoodle or whatever. But you don't have the Idiot Elite rising up and calling them Hellhounds (except maybe pitbulls).
One day soon, the Idiot Elite will grab their pitchforks and burn down the institutions of science claiming they are using witchery when in reality they are trying to cure disease, solve world hunger, and find a solution to the energy and environmental crises.
I mean WTF, some positive environmental news, but we should just dismiss this because it doesn't fit with the current trend of hyper-reactive green environmentalism that want's us all to act like the end of the world is nigh. I'd like to read more similar reports before I say its a trend, but why all the hate to discredit an actual scientist doing actual research opposed to some website regurgitating environmental hyperbole.
Besides, discrediting global warming will only ruin the billion dollar industry of green guilt products. Being green is just as much about corporate greed as oil or mining, green marketers just do a good job to make you think you are trying to save the planet and not simply throwing thousands of dollars into the green eco-friendly schtick.
It is a disgusting smell. Just because your sense of taste and smell is ruined from years of smoking doesn't mean that its a pleasant smell to other people.
Also, people get used to the smell of their own farts, but that doesn't mean it smells good to other people. You are never going to convince me that I should tolerate someone farting beside me all day long and I should just learn to "acquire" a taste for someone else's farts.
Humans adjust to their tolerance for bad smells the more they are exposed to it. Ever been to a pig farm? I threw up the first time smelling the ammonia and manure stink of a pig farm when I went there on a school trip. Yet the workers there were used to the smell. It doesn't mean its not disgusting because other people tolerate it, they tolerate the disgusting smell because their senses have been deadened to it.
So yes, if you smoke all day long you will come to love or at least ignore the acrid putrid stank of burnt tar and tobacco, but someone doesn't have to tolerate something that would otherwise make non-smokers gage on.
Smokers stink, period. While I don't believe you should just remain addicted to something because it stinks less, at least when my co-workers go for an e-Cig I don't have to smell their disgusting stank (or worse, the cologne use to cover it up) next to me all day long anymore.
Most of the people I know that smoke have switched to e-Cigs, not to quit, but because its not as disgusting as using traditional cigarettes. I know someone that decided to start smoking specifically because he found e-Cigs was not as hard on his lungs as a regular cigarette.
I don't think these things were created to stop smoking, they were created as a modern 21st century way to get your tobacco fix in a way that doesn't make you smell like a stale ashtray, which might actually cause smoking to increase again which will bring more profit to the tobacco industry.
While blocking cookies or ads are fine, once the data is sent out into the ether its going to be picked up an decrypted, no browser is going to stop that.
If you want privacy on the web, stop using the web.
Its funny how Americans continually blame Obama for the world wide fuck up that was George Bush, both Sr and Jr.
Sure Obama could do more to clean up the mess, but its like walking into a latrine after someone else's shit storm with nothing more than a toothbrush and being blamed for why it still stinks an hour later.
The US gov has betrayed its people and the world, thanks a lot US voters.
What stupid terrorist is using the Internet to coordinate these days?
I mean the NSA and most governments are trying to monitor all internet traffic, and this is widely known, so I mean are their ANY terrorists out their dumb enough to be using the internet still to coordinate their attacks?
This ain't exactly a secret. I guess people are trying to use clever ways of encoding their transmissions through the Internet, but since the Internet is fundamentally corrupted then its no longer a viable resource for communication IMHO.
So all the NSA is doing is wasting billions of dollars monitoring the benign traffic of innocents using FUD to continue to fund program.
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Just say you don't have a square to spare...on the battery charge indicator that is..
I think they just gave up trying to quantify if it has actually left the solar system after years of false positives and debate, so they just made it official. 99.999999999% of us are not going to check, so its safe bet.
Slightly off topic, but now that Voyager has officially left the solar system, I hope that NASA could spend some time and explain to JJ Abrams that the Enterprise would not actually leave vapor trails that flutter and make a tinkling sound when it goes to warp since light does not crystallize into particles and space has no fucking "downward gravity" or wind or sound.
Seriously would Joss Whedon just beat the shit out of JJ and end it.
By now its definitely running on Unicorn farts.
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Um, so I have to comment on this.
Again Apple has stated this information is not stored on a cloud or server. It also doesn't send your fingerprint scan to a server, your fingerprint generates a data key that is compared against data stored in an encrypted section of the CPU. So there is no centralized "data" to send to the NSA, court approved or otherwise. Apple is not consolidating a list of user profiles with fingerprint scans that the NSA or any policing agency could then demand access too.
Leaving a fingerprint on a cup at Starbucks is not going to lead to the NSA hacking into your iTunes account to profile your taste in music and movies to find out if you are a suspect terrorist.
You have the audacity to ask people to learn by the news, but when the news is spreading FUD and garbage all you are asking, and contributing to, is an increase in social ignorance.
The only thing I fear these days is a growing lack of common sense and outright stupidity of the Idiot Elite that would rather believe in Hollywood fictitious level of government conspiracy, and "report" on it, rather than actually trying to understand the science of the technology they are using.
The problem with my laptop fingerprint scanner is I have to swipe like 16 times before it recognizes anything, so its just faster and easier to typing in my password.
However for phones and tablets, the Achilles heal of all touch devices is the on screen keyboard, so if your password involves characters, numbers and symbols is it freaking annoying. A fingerprint scanner would be welcome.
But, if Apple's fingerprint scanner is not 100% flawless and quick every time, then it will fail just like every other fingerprint scanner. The moment it takes longer to unlock something by a fingerprint then by entering a 4 character passcode, its going to fail.
The "privacy" arguments here are baseless FUD, once again, because Apple has specifically said the fingerprint is not sent or stored on the cloud, its used to generate a key that is compared against encrypted data stored directly on the CPU. Its no more less private than entering a 4 digit passcode or password that everybody does now.
I mean at the beginning of the year there was supposed to be all these big things coming out of Valve, like the Steambox, but then it all kind of just fizzled into water vapor.
Then I also remembered that Valve is a company that takes 6 years to release anything. So we might see the Steambox in 2020, just in time to compete with the Nokiabox Two, PlaySamsung 5 and Nintendo's WiiilUPleezeBiiMii.
it has density and no density at the same time
"4.5 watts of power in specific usage scenarios"
Like in the off scenario.
Bay Trail and Windows 8.1, trailblazing a new generation of failures.
It's the BBC, English is not their forte.
Global warming is the source of all problems according to the BBC. Our selfish behavior today can be directly linked back to killing the Wooly Mammoths 30,000 years ago, dontcha know.
Welcome to Slashdot! I see this is your first time visiting given your moral outrage over and needs solved to correct grammar.
Actually means create an empty wiki.
I don't know how many open source projects have little to no real documentation and just a bunch of community driven wikis and message boards (usually complaining) about the project.
BTW aren't there services like SourceForge ang GitHub all set up to let you publish open source projects? I mean it sounds Andy Lester is about 10 years behind and fucking clueless of how people really publish open source code ( wtf is a mailing list in the 21st century?) Nobody wants you to pump their email with hundreds of useless messages, it the reason why RSS, wiki and community message boards were created in the first place, to supercede mailing lists.
Why are open sourcers forever looking for a new way to do the same thing someone else has already solved?
People that complain about code features are generally ignorant of how to use them, and thus spread FUD about them.
Lambdas are a great powerful feature when you really don't need to write a full fledged function. In combination with something like multithreading, being able to write an off-thread lambda in-place is quite powerful, it's actually easier to maintain a thread that is set up, starts and is monitored all within the same functional block, rather than writing a bunch of support functions to start, stop and monitor the thread throughout a class or spread across many classes or files. Another key win for Lambdas is being able to write a predicate for a sorting function without having to reference some function somewhere down in the file.
Yes, like EVERYTHING in code, lambdas can be abused, but generally speaking lambdas are not significantly more complicated to understand and manage, if you are not a complete software noob. This is why senior developers should guide juniors and intermediates using code review to the correct use of code features rather than to simply encourage not to use a feature out of fear and ignorance.
This is one of humanity's greatest challenges?
I mean for christ's sake this is retarded.
What is the point of monitoring the ocean acidity. Is there anything you are going to do about it while it rises? Does it really make a difference to see global warming in action.
Where is the X-Prize to create clean energy? Or the X-Prize to close the carbon cycle by having a process to pull CO2 back out of the atmosphere and turn it back into fuel? If they exist why are they not making news?
Why is humanity obsessed with proving the obvious? All this X-Prize will do is create a tool that will be used by smug people to say "See, I told you so, the oceans are slightly more acidic now then they were 10 years ago.", but it won't SOLVE A freaking thing.
I wish people would move away from trying to "prove" global warming to finding was to adapt to it, or find ACTUAL solutions to improve the quality of life on the planet. I mean what a waste of 2 million dollars.
I am going to start an X-Prize for the world's largest Arm & Hammer box to put into the fucking oceans, at least that would solve the problem of their acidity.
While many people won't admit it, most people usually enjoy fingering something in the back to give them enjoyment.
The problem is that most people don't realize there is no food that takes a plant and injects tuna genes into it. FDA and other governments expressly forbid the production of such crops. Scientists might be doing R&D in the labs, but there is no Tomato/Fish hybrid on your table or in the grocery store.
So instead of people educating themselves over the reality and facts of GMO, they would rather argue and debate about nonsense.
Also what is ignorant is the idea that taking a single gene out of Tuna and putting it into a Tomato makes the Tomato an animal and thus inedible by vegetarians, or make the Tomato inedible by those allergic to tuna fish. There is a gross misunderstanding about the nature of genetic manipulation if people think along those lines. Even if they find some benefit to taking animal genes and putting it into a plant, say to increase Omega 3 in a tomato, people would again debate about nonsense FUD if it even would be possible.
You are worried that because someone took one species of tomato and injected a gene from another species of tomato to make the tomato sweeter or more resistant to disease should be expressly labeled as GMO so that people can choose to not consume it out of ignorance. Yet if someone, say, cross pollinated two species of tomatoes to make a smaller sweeter tomato it does not require any labeling or moral angst? There is simply no food on the market, farmer's stand, or in your backyard garden, that has not had some form of human intervention.
I agree, no company has a right to make you eat a tomato with fish genes in it, because the government does not allow that.
Start pounding their fists and say "no! no! no!" to anything GMO related.
Not because of any real scientific evidence but because "social news" has told them that GMO is bad, period. The Idiot Elite cannot form their own opinion on anything only regurgitate and corrupt a single myopic one.
In the meantime GMO has saved billions of lives by provided food to areas of the world that could not otherwise sustain crops or increasing the yield of crops to make food affordable and to allow farmers to make some kind of profit rather than always relying on government subsidies to produce a crop where half of it goes to rot.
I am not saying that some care and concern should be made over how GMO is used, certainly I have no respect for Monsanto trying to monopolize food crops by adding suicide genes so that farmers are forced to buy seed every season, but this is not the reason to dismiss GMO as a whole. Finding one negative and then striving to shut down an industry is what the Idiot Elite excels at.
Humans have been manipulating crop genes for thousands of years. While we do it in the lab these days, taking two plants and cross pollinating them to produce another species has been going on for thousands of years, all in an effort to make food more efficient and effective and produce a better product. The Idiot Elite can easily understand the idea of shaking pollen from one plant on another, they can't understand the concept of taking individual genes out of one plant and combining them with another under a microscope to achieve the same results. Therefore this must be protested simply out of ignorance. There is no such thing as a non-GMO organic food item that has not resulted from thousands of years of human intervention.
I mean those fluffy passive stuffed animals that people call their pet 'doodles these days is a result of thousands of years of human fuckery, there is nothing natural about a Schnickerdoodle or whatever. But you don't have the Idiot Elite rising up and calling them Hellhounds (except maybe pitbulls).
One day soon, the Idiot Elite will grab their pitchforks and burn down the institutions of science claiming they are using witchery when in reality they are trying to cure disease, solve world hunger, and find a solution to the energy and environmental crises.
I mean WTF, some positive environmental news, but we should just dismiss this because it doesn't fit with the current trend of hyper-reactive green environmentalism that want's us all to act like the end of the world is nigh. I'd like to read more similar reports before I say its a trend, but why all the hate to discredit an actual scientist doing actual research opposed to some website regurgitating environmental hyperbole.
Besides, discrediting global warming will only ruin the billion dollar industry of green guilt products. Being green is just as much about corporate greed as oil or mining, green marketers just do a good job to make you think you are trying to save the planet and not simply throwing thousands of dollars into the green eco-friendly schtick.
It is a disgusting smell. Just because your sense of taste and smell is ruined from years of smoking doesn't mean that its a pleasant smell to other people.
Also, people get used to the smell of their own farts, but that doesn't mean it smells good to other people. You are never going to convince me that I should tolerate someone farting beside me all day long and I should just learn to "acquire" a taste for someone else's farts.
Humans adjust to their tolerance for bad smells the more they are exposed to it. Ever been to a pig farm? I threw up the first time smelling the ammonia and manure stink of a pig farm when I went there on a school trip. Yet the workers there were used to the smell. It doesn't mean its not disgusting because other people tolerate it, they tolerate the disgusting smell because their senses have been deadened to it.
So yes, if you smoke all day long you will come to love or at least ignore the acrid putrid stank of burnt tar and tobacco, but someone doesn't have to tolerate something that would otherwise make non-smokers gage on.
Smokers stink, period. While I don't believe you should just remain addicted to something because it stinks less, at least when my co-workers go for an e-Cig I don't have to smell their disgusting stank (or worse, the cologne use to cover it up) next to me all day long anymore.
Most of the people I know that smoke have switched to e-Cigs, not to quit, but because its not as disgusting as using traditional cigarettes. I know someone that decided to start smoking specifically because he found e-Cigs was not as hard on his lungs as a regular cigarette.
I don't think these things were created to stop smoking, they were created as a modern 21st century way to get your tobacco fix in a way that doesn't make you smell like a stale ashtray, which might actually cause smoking to increase again which will bring more profit to the tobacco industry.
While blocking cookies or ads are fine, once the data is sent out into the ether its going to be picked up an decrypted, no browser is going to stop that.
If you want privacy on the web, stop using the web.
Its funny how Americans continually blame Obama for the world wide fuck up that was George Bush, both Sr and Jr.
Sure Obama could do more to clean up the mess, but its like walking into a latrine after someone else's shit storm with nothing more than a toothbrush and being blamed for why it still stinks an hour later.
The US gov has betrayed its people and the world, thanks a lot US voters.
What stupid terrorist is using the Internet to coordinate these days?
I mean the NSA and most governments are trying to monitor all internet traffic, and this is widely known, so I mean are their ANY terrorists out their dumb enough to be using the internet still to coordinate their attacks?
This ain't exactly a secret. I guess people are trying to use clever ways of encoding their transmissions through the Internet, but since the Internet is fundamentally corrupted then its no longer a viable resource for communication IMHO.
So all the NSA is doing is wasting billions of dollars monitoring the benign traffic of innocents using FUD to continue to fund program.