"The satellites will still be there, just listen in"
Well, no. Satellites don't last forever. If the satellites don't get replaced when they fail, while they will in some sense "still be there", it won't do you any good to "just listen in;" they won't be broadcasting.
...finally exonerating O.J. Simpson from the murder he was found guilty of in a civil trial.
Just to point out, O.J. was not found "guilty" in a civil trial. Civil courts cannot and do not find people "guilty" or "not guilty." That is up to criminal courts.
Come on. I don't know whether it's a scam, or whether it will succeed, or fail spectacularly. But it's *fascinating*, and as such it belongs on Slashdot.
If slashdot had run one or two stories about bitcoin, I would have agreed.
But when I see it over and over again, it begins to look just like advertising. Or a pump and dump scheme.
"By choosing the parameters under which documents will be considered similar enough to pay attention to, journalist-programmers actually choose the frame in which a story will be told."
Journalists already choose the frame in which a story will be told. They always have. That's not new.
The private school teachers (partially as a result of the lower pay) are also the ones who want to teach -- not the ones who got an English degree and then realized that they couldn't get any other job.
Huh? I see no evidence for that.
In general, I think most teachers go into teaching because they want to teach, public and private. Some of them just burn out faster.
The one advantage that private schools do have is that it's much easier for them to eject students out for being disruptive.
Then you used a bad example, since the settlement company was your lawfully paid agent. If you did not know what you were hiring someone to do on your behalf, then you should have read some of those papers you were signing. That is my point.
I don't know about the laws in your state, but where I am, the price you pay for a house is part of the public record; you can't not have it available. Regardless of the "settlement company", if any, or what papers you did or did not sign with them.
So, the totalitarian state with a complete control of the news sends its best and most idealistic young men outside the country, to learn about the internet, with the idea that they will go back home and use their knowledge to destroy the foreign enemies.
So explain why I have to shut off my non-wi-fi-capable ebook reader during take-off and landing?
Because computers have internal electronics that generate electric currents in the GHz range, and it is not impossible that these electrical currents could radiate enough energy to interfere with airplane electronic and navigation systems.
Presumably they have tested the particular devices that the pilots are using, and verified that these particular devices don't interfere. If they haven't tested your particular device, then they don't know that it won't interfere. Probably it won't. They don't know that for sure.
And, also, how do they know that it doesn't have wifi? Are they supposed to inspect all electronic devices on boarding? (Are you willing to be charged extra to pay for a person to do that?)
This is, undoubtably, absurdly over cautious. However, the penalties for failure are very large, and the cost for being overcautious (in the form of inconvenience) is paid by you, not by them.
If you knew what you were talking about, you might understand that subpoenas and search warrants are not the same thing. That post isn't nearly as useless as you make it out to be, so please, quiet down, grumpy slashdotter.
Huh?
The grandparent post said "Just another nail in the coffin of the Bill of Rights." The reply to it by mpoulton said "You realize this was in Canada, right?" My reply to that said "You realize that the third sentence of the article is about Ohio, which is in the US."
What do you suggest is the correct answer to the question "You realize this was in Canada, right?"? Is it a trick question? Part of "this" was in Canada. Part wasn't.
If the snarky reply by mpoulton had said "You realize the part of this dealing with search warrants was in Canada, right? The part that was in the United States was about subpoenas, which are different than search warrants, and thus (according to Anonymous Coward) don't involve the Bill of Rights at all," then my reply would have been different.
The summary is hard to read because the article itself is written in very poor English, making it hard to read. When there are two grammatical errors within in the first two words of the blog post, it's not a good sign.
The computers were concealed in their heads. They counted cards, and did the math in their heads. It is fairly easy if you have the discipline.
The MIT card-counting team was the book Bringing Down the House (the one they made the movie of). Semyon Dukach was not in that book, but in the following Ben Mezrich book, Breaking Vegas, which had a more sophisticated (and harder to accomplish) set of techniques.
And if the 1.8% efficient solar cell costs 1 dollarcent to manufacture, can be installed by rolling out a sheet of plastic and has a lot of other advantages as well....
If.
And if they had made a breakthrough in cost as well as efficiency, don't you think that the press office would have hyped that?
Assuming that the things not mentioned in a press release are all ideal and just what you want turns out, usually, not to be the case. Usually the things they don't mention are the flaws and reasons it won't work.
As I understand it (and I'm a bystander,not an expert), Allen's involvement was that he signed on to fund the prototype development up through the initial operating capability, with the understanding that it would find its own funding for operation after that.
Why are we trying to find aliens? Any race that gets to the top must be a murderous race, and aliens are no exceptions.
Well, if there actually are aliens, and they actually are murderous, that would be an extremely good reason that we should be looking. It's only the imaginary monster under the bed for which it's true "if you pretend you don't see it, then it won't hurt you."
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"The satellites will still be there, just listen in"
Well, no. Satellites don't last forever. If the satellites don't get replaced when they fail, while they will in some sense "still be there", it won't do you any good to "just listen in;" they won't be broadcasting.
...finally exonerating O.J. Simpson from the murder he was found guilty of in a civil trial.
Just to point out, O.J. was not found "guilty" in a civil trial. Civil courts cannot and do not find people "guilty" or "not guilty." That is up to criminal courts.
Sure, these are "all anecdotes", but I've a large enough family to find the sample size fairly representative of the population at large.
That's the real problem with ethanol. It used to be that when you have a crappy old car and it breaks down, you'd say "my crappy old car broke down."
Now, when you have a crappy old car and it breaks down, you say "my car broke down-- it's a government conspiracy!"
National debt = Entropy
It doesn't decrease!
...unless you have an external source of energy (and a place to radiate waste heat).
... The rioters were prepared to riot. They brought the tools with them to set fire before the game even started.
"Tools to set fire..." You mean, matches. Maybe even lighters. Yeah, I think carrying a Bic lighter with you definitely indicates an intent to riot.
Come on.
I don't know whether it's a scam, or whether it will succeed, or fail spectacularly.
But it's *fascinating*, and as such it belongs on Slashdot.
If slashdot had run one or two stories about bitcoin, I would have agreed.
But when I see it over and over again, it begins to look just like advertising. Or a pump and dump scheme.
Good grief, yet another advertisement for bitcoin?
Enough, already!
"By choosing the parameters under which documents will be considered similar enough to pay attention to, journalist-programmers actually choose the frame in which a story will be told."
Journalists already choose the frame in which a story will be told. They always have. That's not new.
The private school teachers (partially as a result of the lower pay) are also the ones who want to teach -- not the ones who got an English degree and then realized that they couldn't get any other job.
Huh? I see no evidence for that.
In general, I think most teachers go into teaching because they want to teach, public and private. Some of them just burn out faster.
The one advantage that private schools do have is that it's much easier for them to eject students out for being disruptive.
Then you used a bad example, since the settlement company was your lawfully paid agent. If you did not know what you were hiring someone to do on your behalf, then you should have read some of those papers you were signing. That is my point.
I don't know about the laws in your state, but where I am, the price you pay for a house is part of the public record; you can't not have it available. Regardless of the "settlement company", if any, or what papers you did or did not sign with them.
So, the totalitarian state with a complete control of the news sends its best and most idealistic young men outside the country, to learn about the internet, with the idea that they will go back home and use their knowledge to destroy the foreign enemies.
A fiendish plan. How could it possibly go wrong?
So explain why I have to shut off my non-wi-fi-capable ebook reader during take-off and landing?
Because computers have internal electronics that generate electric currents in the GHz range, and it is not impossible that these electrical currents could radiate enough energy to interfere with airplane electronic and navigation systems.
Presumably they have tested the particular devices that the pilots are using, and verified that these particular devices don't interfere. If they haven't tested your particular device, then they don't know that it won't interfere. Probably it won't. They don't know that for sure.
And, also, how do they know that it doesn't have wifi? Are they supposed to inspect all electronic devices on boarding? (Are you willing to be charged extra to pay for a person to do that?)
This is, undoubtably, absurdly over cautious. However, the penalties for failure are very large, and the cost for being overcautious (in the form of inconvenience) is paid by you, not by them.
I can't believe I'm praising Iowa politics, but here goes: Iowa uses a simple grid and a computer to determine the maps.
Cool! Do you have a reference?
Also, we should get rid of the two-party system and use preference voting...
Agreed. Preference or approval, either one, but the plurality-take-all system is terrible.
If you knew what you were talking about, you might understand that subpoenas and search warrants are not the same thing. That post isn't nearly as useless as you make it out to be, so please, quiet down, grumpy slashdotter.
Huh?
The grandparent post said "Just another nail in the coffin of the Bill of Rights."
The reply to it by mpoulton said "You realize this was in Canada, right?"
My reply to that said "You realize that the third sentence of the article is about Ohio, which is in the US."
What do you suggest is the correct answer to the question "You realize this was in Canada, right?"? Is it a trick question? Part of "this" was in Canada. Part wasn't.
If the snarky reply by mpoulton had said "You realize the part of this dealing with search warrants was in Canada, right? The part that was in the United States was about subpoenas, which are different than search warrants, and thus (according to Anonymous Coward) don't involve the Bill of Rights at all," then my reply would have been different.
You realize this was in Canada, right? High power consumption alone is insufficient to obtain a search warrant in the United States.
If you had read all the way to the third sentence, you would have seen:
Ohio police and the DEA file at least 60 subpoenas each month for energy-use records of people suspected of running an indoor pot growing operation.
Ohio is part of the US, and the DEA is a US Federal agency.
The summary is hard to read because the article itself is written in very poor English, making it hard to read. When there are two grammatical errors within in the first two words of the blog post, it's not a good sign.
The Daily Beast article is much better written. (It links back to the USA Today article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2011-05-06-google_n.htm , which lays out the campaign, although doesn't name Facebook)
The computers were concealed in their heads. They counted cards, and did the math in their heads. It is fairly easy if you have the discipline.
The MIT card-counting team was the book Bringing Down the House (the one they made the movie of). Semyon Dukach was not in that book, but in the following Ben Mezrich book, Breaking Vegas, which had a more sophisticated (and harder to accomplish) set of techniques.
And if the 1.8% efficient solar cell costs 1 dollarcent to manufacture, can be installed by rolling out a sheet of plastic and has a lot of other advantages as well ....
If.
And if they had made a breakthrough in cost as well as efficiency, don't you think that the press office would have hyped that?
Assuming that the things not mentioned in a press release are all ideal and just what you want turns out, usually, not to be the case. Usually the things they don't mention are the flaws and reasons it won't work.
To be pedantic, they have boosted the efficiency of LOUSY solar cells.
They've taken a 1.8% efficient solar cell and turned it into a 3.2% cell.
I wish the world's press offices would declare a moratorium on announcing breakthroughs in solar technology.
As I understand it (and I'm a bystander,not an expert), Allen's involvement was that he signed on to fund the prototype development up through the initial operating capability, with the understanding that it would find its own funding for operation after that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Telescope_Array
Why are we trying to find aliens? Any race that gets to the top must be a murderous race, and aliens are no exceptions.
Well, if there actually are aliens, and they actually are murderous, that would be an extremely good reason that we should be looking. It's only the imaginary monster under the bed for which it's true "if you pretend you don't see it, then it won't hurt you."
Seems an oddly complicated way to do it. Just put it in the oven at 350 F for a few minutes. (175 C, for the metric users).
"tivoization"-- Nice word.
Not up to the standards of an average high-tech toilet in Japan, but it's nice to see the US at least stepping up to toilet tech.
You would think.
But, no, you use that to beat the concentration limit: that would violate the second law of thermodynamics.
The proof is left to the student :)