Steam was considered draconian, until it proved not to be. And...importantly...it was 'optional' during that testing phase.
No, no, no... Steam still IS draconian; you've just have to deal with it and have gotten used to it.
It's like the TSA-equivalent of gaming. It sucks, but is unavoidable, and eventually you just get used to periodically having your genitals fondled "for the good of the community."
I'm more concerned that Facebook didn't have a process in place to monitor for OBVIOUS abuses.
1. Hundreds of complaints filed.
2. From a single account.
3. In a defined time period.
4. All the victims shared a common trait.
#1 & #2 should have been red flags over and Over and OVER and OVER. How many complaints does the average user file? Why wasn't this flagged with that person hit 2x the average? 5x? 10x? 20x? 50x? 100x?
Facebook doesn't really care unless it impacts their bottom line.
In this case, it only impacted their bottom line after they started getting negative press for being homophobic.
In fact, they probably like type-A asshats that spend their lives pursuing their site for potential violators... It's like having a free sysadmin on a petty powertrip!
Start reading it. They go through the basics and have articles on how amateurs can contribute to research.
But you really need to limit your expectations. Observational astronomy (even amateur-style) requires several hours of daytime prep work, followed by 1-2 hours of equipment setup and familiarization, before you even embark in a 3-4 hour observation run. After an observing run, you might have another 2-10 hours of data processing to do.
If you have a wife, two kids, and a day job, you will get pretty tired pretty quick.
Good equipment (solid mount, high quality telescope, imaging system, star stracker) is not cheap either and, sadly, most people need to invest in or borrow good equipment before they can really evaluate if they like it or if they want to stick with it.
If you improve the endurance of a soldier you *have* improved their weight carrying capacity. But I get what you're saying. They won't be able to lift 300lbs instead of 100lbs and put it on a shelf. However, they might be able to realistically haul say 80lbs of gear 15 miles instead of 50 lbs of gear. Of course that might be how much the batteries weigh to keep the thing running for a day.:)
You clearly don't get what he was saying!
We want HALO-like suits that will let us jump 50 feet high, jump out of an airplane and land safely with no parachute, and lift 500 lbs with one hand while accurately shooting at something a mile away with a fully automatic weapon in the other.
This soft-suit is like increasing the fuel economy on a Civic when you really want a Ferrari.
Your link is misleading. Autopilot can control aircraft at all times (climb, cruise , descent, approach, and landing phases) except during the taxi and landing phases.
Thus, with modern avionics, autopilot can control can be engaged immediately after takeoff (once flaps are off and gear is up) and kept on through landing.
A separate feature, called autothrottle, can be used to automatically control the plane's engines through the entire flight.
Of course, pilots are essential for programming these systems, monitoring them during flight, and stepping in during anomalous situations, but the planes really can fly themselves.
Microsoft employs >40K employees in the Seattle Metro area, while the other 3.6M residents (literally the 99%) get screwed.
So tell me, if Microsoft left and took the 40k jobs with them, they would then NOT get tax breaks in Seattle.
How would the other 99% of the Seattle residents be better off?
Would they somehow be less screwed?
Yes, Seattle would be less screwed if the former Microsoft employees either left the city or got jobs with (smaller) companies that pay more taxes.
Take it to the limit, where a company gets a zero tax liability deal while still incurring indirect costs to the city (Their trucks damage the roads, their employees necessitate more city infrastructure such as lights, police, parking, power, waste, etc.): It is actually possibly for the city to lose money on such a deal since they have brought in additional people and incurred additional costs. The costs will be recouped from the taxpayers in that case and not from the corporation causing the costs.
Also, by continuing to give huge companies lower tax liability, we are essentially driving all companies towards monopolies by making it harder for the smaller competitors.
So it's rational to give large companies tax breaks to keep them in your city as a way to keep your economy strong. It may seem unfair, but all these cities and states have done enough research to conclude that doing tax favors for these big companies is worth more than taxing them at regular rates and losing the employment. So it's neither illegal or irrational on the part of the government or the corporations.
It doesn't seem unfair, it is unfair.
The big companies get tax breaks. The politicians get kickbacks, lobbying, and stay in office. The regular citizens pay higher taxes to make up for the company and the politician screwing them.
Microsoft employs >40K employees in the Seattle Metro area, while the other 3.6M residents (literally the 99%) get screwed.
No sir. I am dead serious! Obama is incompetent. Take for example this business with Putin and ISIS and Taliban. It is getting out of control. Not because these are hard problems, but because Obama is a pussy. He wants to keep thinking about it. As GWB would say, time for thinking is over. Its time to kick some ass. If you have seen the Rambo series of movies, you'd know what I am talking about.
Man, I hope to God Chuck Norris runs for president and wins. I'd like see the expression on Putin's face when that happens.
Why is the parent modded as funny?
I mean, the post is funny, but I think he was also serious! It should be "insightful!!!"
Even if you voted for Obama twice, you have got to admit (by now) that he does do a lot more thinking and talking than taking action.
Of course, with politicians, less action is often preferable!
The difference is people voluntarily give data to these companies where as you are forced to give information to Healthcare.gov. It would be the same as if the IRS was hacked.
Well, you aren't forced to! You could just not have healthcare, be financially penalized for not having healthcare, and then die prematurely.
Plus, like all of the academic, financial, security, and IT institutions, the government is really sorry that your personal identity was compromised, but it was an accident OK? So let's not get too upset... they are doing the best that they can! (The hackers are just doing better!)
Plus, I am sure that they will give you one whole free year of credit monitoring to make up for it, but you'll have to give your social security number to yet another online entity to take advantage of that deal!
“As an officer, we are trained to multi-task and are exempt from certain laws in certain situations such as using a cellphone,” he said.
Not only are they trained to "multitask," they are also apparently above the law.
If a regular citizen were to accidentally kill someone in the course of they regular work duties, would that be OK? Because that seems to be what the Los Angeles DA's office is arguing.
aside from artificial gravity, nothing. No amount of exercise bike pedaling will save your optic nerves from being in zero G too long.
There isn't really any good reason to put people in orbit for 6 months+. Rotate them out every couple of months. Yes we needed data on long-term microgravity effects on the human body. We have them now, zero G does bad things to your body. So don't do it for extended periods.
Fly in the ointment is the expected trip to Mars, which will take 9 months to a year. Fortunately people like Zubrin have developed advanced technologies to deal with this. It's called a rope. Attach the Mars spacecraft to a ballast via a rope (they call it tether) and spin it until you get 1/3rd G. Problem solved.
How do you know that 1/3G will solve the problem without testing it on human subjects?
The Speigel article states that the person responsible for making the call recordings of Clinton/Kerry and Kofi Annan was the same person the BND now believes to be a double-agent working for the US. The headline here makes it seem like the German government ordered the BND to do it, but it doesn't seem to be the case here.
Oh come on! That's like saying: "The Germans made it seem like the Americans are excited about the NSA's actions. In reality, the NSA is really a triple agent for Germany through Russia, so it really isn't America's fault that the NSA was spying on other countries, right?"
Germany, despite all their protestations about spying, had the infrastructure in place to record calls by other political officials. If they did it accidentally (which sounds like BS), they they are automatically collecting ALL calls and they are hypocrites. If they did it intentionally, they are also hypocrites for targeting allies.
It isn't surprising that they are doing it despite their prior protestations. What is satisfying, however, is that the US will now get to rub their noses in it.
Assuming you have an insulated garage door, and an attached garage, it's likely your home will add 20-30 degrees to a -22F (outside) temperature environment in your garage. Homes leak a lot of heat, and all the walls/doors to your garage leak it into your garage. There is also no wind chill in your garage.
I invite you to put a thermometer in your garage and track it. I don't think you will exceed the Tesla specifications unless you leave the garage door open 24x7x365.
You are making the assumption that his garage is connected to his house and that he has an insulated garage door.
I have lived in houses that had neither of these features.
Also, I think his point was that he doesn't want to pay $80K for a car and more problems to worry about than if he spent $30K.
It is a requirement leaving primary school to be able to do a division. it is not a requirement to know what feet or yard or stones or furlong are. When you have an international audience, it is polite to use the international measurement methods that about 95% of the world use maybe put it in parenthesis near the medieval unit. like say 500 yards (about 450 meters).
This has an ecological impact by the way, because if thousand of people google "500 yards to meter" the electricity and time lost, would have been better spent on something else. If one person the submitter does it it is maybe 5 second lost to him and no big deal. If say 10000 persons do it, guessestimate international audience slashdot, that's 50000 seconds lost, electricity, bandwidth usage and so forth. Not a lot but cumulated over the years ? And jsut because the submitter does not want to make 1 step, he forces those loss on everybody else
A true historian would use both SI units and units that were contemporary of when the tomb was created.
That's because here in Sweden at least, we learned from childhood to work in groups, including presentations etc, though that has changed a lot now that we've adopted more international methods. Aka, downgraded our education...
For example, when I was a kid, we had student councils in school, from age 10, where each class has 1 or 2 representatives, who then report to the rest of the class at the weekly class meetings etc. It was also a good way to teach students about democracy.
As for the difference between US and nordic culture in regards to meetings, time keeping etc, I do notice that a lot in my freelancing. US clients are more likely to call at completely idiotic times(like calling at 19:00 their local time, meaning it's middle of the night/really early morning for me), and as you say, less coordinated with materials at meetings etc.
The US has 30 times the population of Sweden, so please don't assume that all Americans are the same in terms of education or courtesy.
Let's bring all the diseases here. What could go wrong?
In all likelihood, nothing. The CDC handles copies of pretty much every known pathogen on the planet. It is the premier pathogen research institution on the planet. They've already seen ebola. The only thing novel about this is that they are bringing in a live patient with the disease to a top tier hospital so they can bring the best tools to bear on researching the disease and hopefully treating this guy.
That's not really the point though!
They are bringing an infected patient into the US when he could just as easily be treated elsewhere. Transporting a live patient is a lot messier and has more room for error than transporting blood samples in a crashproof, airtight box.
How would you feel about the US transporting nuclear IEDs from Iraq to Georgia to defuse them more safely? Because that is pretty much what is going on here. It will probably be fine, but it could be a colossal disaster that didn't need to happen.
It's a waste too, because there isn't much that they can do for Ebola infections other than keeping the victims hydrated and giving them transfusions. None of those treatments require particularly advanced medical facilities.
Let me summarize the situation more succinctly and pragmatically: It's might makes right. The Israelis have the upper hand militarily, yet the Palestinians keep poking them and asking for more.
As far as I can figure it, anyone in Gaza who hasn't been trying to get asylum elsewhere for the past 20 years must actually want to die. Israeli made its military prowess and willingness to fight to the death clear in 1967.
From a natural selection point of view, the only intelligent thing for the Palestinians to do at this point is to admit defeat and immigrate to another Muslim (or Christian) country. There are lots of other Muslim countries, but only one Jewish state, which has made it clear that they will go nuclear before they get pushed out of their own country or get slaughtered again.
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Steam was considered draconian, until it proved not to be. And...importantly...it was 'optional' during that testing phase.
No, no, no... Steam still IS draconian; you've just have to deal with it and have gotten used to it.
It's like the TSA-equivalent of gaming. It sucks, but is unavoidable, and eventually you just get used to periodically having your genitals fondled "for the good of the community."
I'm more concerned that Facebook didn't have a process in place to monitor for OBVIOUS abuses.
1. Hundreds of complaints filed.
2. From a single account.
3. In a defined time period.
4. All the victims shared a common trait.
#1 & #2 should have been red flags over and Over and OVER and OVER. How many complaints does the average user file? Why wasn't this flagged with that person hit 2x the average? 5x? 10x? 20x? 50x? 100x?
Facebook doesn't really care unless it impacts their bottom line.
In this case, it only impacted their bottom line after they started getting negative press for being homophobic.
In fact, they probably like type-A asshats that spend their lives pursuing their site for potential violators... It's like having a free sysadmin on a petty powertrip!
Start reading it. They go through the basics and have articles on how amateurs can contribute to research.
But you really need to limit your expectations. Observational astronomy (even amateur-style) requires several hours of daytime prep work, followed by 1-2 hours of equipment setup and familiarization, before you even embark in a 3-4 hour observation run. After an observing run, you might have another 2-10 hours of data processing to do.
If you have a wife, two kids, and a day job, you will get pretty tired pretty quick.
Good equipment (solid mount, high quality telescope, imaging system, star stracker) is not cheap either and, sadly, most people need to invest in or borrow good equipment before they can really evaluate if they like it or if they want to stick with it.
From TFA:
Canon said it planned to fix the loopholes on future printers to make them harder to subvert.
Why would you want to subvert someone from installing Doom on your printer?
If you improve the endurance of a soldier you *have* improved their weight carrying capacity. But I get what you're saying. They won't be able to lift 300lbs instead of 100lbs and put it on a shelf. However, they might be able to realistically haul say 80lbs of gear 15 miles instead of 50 lbs of gear. Of course that might be how much the batteries weigh to keep the thing running for a day. :)
You clearly don't get what he was saying!
We want HALO-like suits that will let us jump 50 feet high, jump out of an airplane and land safely with no parachute, and lift 500 lbs with one hand while accurately shooting at something a mile away with a fully automatic weapon in the other.
This soft-suit is like increasing the fuel economy on a Civic when you really want a Ferrari.
...it's just flourishing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Who cares about performance anymore. Fast enough is fast enough. Which one lasts longer on battery?
Probably people who own an iPhone 5 and are debating upgrading to the new one.
Especially so if they like the smaller form factor of the iPhone 5, but would be willing to trade it for increased performance.
And let's just remember that planes don't actually fly themselves:
http://www.askthepilot.com/que...
-Chris
Your link is misleading. Autopilot can control aircraft at all times (climb, cruise , descent, approach, and landing phases) except during the taxi and landing phases.
Thus, with modern avionics, autopilot can control can be engaged immediately after takeoff (once flaps are off and gear is up) and kept on through landing.
A separate feature, called autothrottle, can be used to automatically control the plane's engines through the entire flight.
Of course, pilots are essential for programming these systems, monitoring them during flight, and stepping in during anomalous situations, but the planes really can fly themselves.
Yeah, and it went into manual controlled mode when it recognized obstacles it couldn't handle:
A. A railroad crossing without signals
B. A roundabout
C. Construction work
D. "Some specific turns"
Obviously not ready for the real world yet.
Ummm, have you driven lately? Most people with licenses also can't handle those obstacles!
You should ask for your money back.
You should ask for all your data back.
However, Google has quite a strong monopoly. That will make their case a lot weaker.
You should actually ask for a share of the money that Google made off of your data.
This seems not very much. How do we know of them at all?
Because there are a lot of square kilometers out there... especially when the blurb doesn't actually define what the surface area of observation is!
Microsoft employs >40K employees in the Seattle Metro area, while the other 3.6M residents (literally the 99%) get screwed.
So tell me, if Microsoft left and took the 40k jobs with them, they would then NOT get tax breaks in Seattle.
How would the other 99% of the Seattle residents be better off?
Would they somehow be less screwed?
Yes, Seattle would be less screwed if the former Microsoft employees either left the city or got jobs with (smaller) companies that pay more taxes.
Take it to the limit, where a company gets a zero tax liability deal while still incurring indirect costs to the city (Their trucks damage the roads, their employees necessitate more city infrastructure such as lights, police, parking, power, waste, etc.): It is actually possibly for the city to lose money on such a deal since they have brought in additional people and incurred additional costs. The costs will be recouped from the taxpayers in that case and not from the corporation causing the costs.
Also, by continuing to give huge companies lower tax liability, we are essentially driving all companies towards monopolies by making it harder for the smaller competitors.
So it's rational to give large companies tax breaks to keep them in your city as a way to keep your economy strong. It may seem unfair, but all these cities and states have done enough research to conclude that doing tax favors for these big companies is worth more than taxing them at regular rates and losing the employment. So it's neither illegal or irrational on the part of the government or the corporations.
It doesn't seem unfair, it is unfair.
The big companies get tax breaks. The politicians get kickbacks, lobbying, and stay in office. The regular citizens pay higher taxes to make up for the company and the politician screwing them.
Microsoft employs >40K employees in the Seattle Metro area, while the other 3.6M residents (literally the 99%) get screwed.
> Please tell me your comment is snark.
No sir. I am dead serious! Obama is incompetent. Take for example this business with Putin and ISIS and Taliban. It is getting out of control. Not because these are hard problems, but because Obama is a pussy. He wants to keep thinking about it. As GWB would say, time for thinking is over. Its time to kick some ass. If you have seen the Rambo series of movies, you'd know what I am talking about.
Man, I hope to God Chuck Norris runs for president and wins. I'd like see the expression on Putin's face when that happens.
Why is the parent modded as funny?
I mean, the post is funny, but I think he was also serious! It should be "insightful!!!"
Even if you voted for Obama twice, you have got to admit (by now) that he does do a lot more thinking and talking than taking action.
Of course, with politicians, less action is often preferable!
The difference is people voluntarily give data to these companies where as you are forced to give information to Healthcare.gov. It would be the same as if the IRS was hacked.
Well, you aren't forced to! You could just not have healthcare, be financially penalized for not having healthcare, and then die prematurely.
Plus, like all of the academic, financial, security, and IT institutions, the government is really sorry that your personal identity was compromised, but it was an accident OK? So let's not get too upset... they are doing the best that they can! (The hackers are just doing better!)
Plus, I am sure that they will give you one whole free year of credit monitoring to make up for it, but you'll have to give your social security number to yet another online entity to take advantage of that deal!
(Yes, I am being sardonic.)
From the article:
“As an officer, we are trained to multi-task and are exempt from certain laws in certain situations such as using a cellphone,” he said.
Not only are they trained to "multitask," they are also apparently above the law.
If a regular citizen were to accidentally kill someone in the course of they regular work duties, would that be OK? Because that seems to be what the Los Angeles DA's office is arguing.
aside from artificial gravity, nothing. No amount of exercise bike pedaling will save your optic nerves from being in zero G too long.
There isn't really any good reason to put people in orbit for 6 months+. Rotate them out every couple of months. Yes we needed data on long-term microgravity effects on the human body. We have them now, zero G does bad things to your body. So don't do it for extended periods.
Fly in the ointment is the expected trip to Mars, which will take 9 months to a year. Fortunately people like Zubrin have developed advanced technologies to deal with this. It's called a rope. Attach the Mars spacecraft to a ballast via a rope (they call it tether) and spin it until you get 1/3rd G. Problem solved.
How do you know that 1/3G will solve the problem without testing it on human subjects?
For me, it was worth clicking on the article just to find out that there was a clan called the "PMS Clan" that used to stand for "Psycho Man Slayers."
That said, I think male and female gamers everywhere are cringing being lumped in with people who play games on mobile devices.
The Speigel article states that the person responsible for making the call recordings of Clinton/Kerry and Kofi Annan was the same person the BND now believes to be a double-agent working for the US. The headline here makes it seem like the German government ordered the BND to do it, but it doesn't seem to be the case here.
Oh come on! That's like saying: "The Germans made it seem like the Americans are excited about the NSA's actions. In reality, the NSA is really a triple agent for Germany through Russia, so it really isn't America's fault that the NSA was spying on other countries, right?"
Germany, despite all their protestations about spying, had the infrastructure in place to record calls by other political officials. If they did it accidentally (which sounds like BS), they they are automatically collecting ALL calls and they are hypocrites. If they did it intentionally, they are also hypocrites for targeting allies.
It isn't surprising that they are doing it despite their prior protestations. What is satisfying, however, is that the US will now get to rub their noses in it.
Assuming you have an insulated garage door, and an attached garage, it's likely your home will add 20-30 degrees to a -22F (outside) temperature environment in your garage. Homes leak a lot of heat, and all the walls/doors to your garage leak it into your garage. There is also no wind chill in your garage.
I invite you to put a thermometer in your garage and track it. I don't think you will exceed the Tesla specifications unless you leave the garage door open 24x7x365.
You are making the assumption that his garage is connected to his house and that he has an insulated garage door.
I have lived in houses that had neither of these features.
Also, I think his point was that he doesn't want to pay $80K for a car and more problems to worry about than if he spent $30K.
It is a requirement leaving primary school to be able to do a division. it is not a requirement to know what feet or yard or stones or furlong are. When you have an international audience, it is polite to use the international measurement methods that about 95% of the world use maybe put it in parenthesis near the medieval unit. like say 500 yards (about 450 meters).
This has an ecological impact by the way, because if thousand of people google "500 yards to meter" the electricity and time lost, would have been better spent on something else. If one person the submitter does it it is maybe 5 second lost to him and no big deal. If say 10000 persons do it, guessestimate international audience slashdot, that's 50000 seconds lost, electricity, bandwidth usage and so forth. Not a lot but cumulated over the years ? And jsut because the submitter does not want to make 1 step, he forces those loss on everybody else
A true historian would use both SI units and units that were contemporary of when the tomb was created.
That's because here in Sweden at least, we learned from childhood to work in groups, including presentations etc, though that has changed a lot now that we've adopted more international methods. Aka, downgraded our education...
For example, when I was a kid, we had student councils in school, from age 10, where each class has 1 or 2 representatives, who then report to the rest of the class at the weekly class meetings etc. It was also a good way to teach students about democracy.
As for the difference between US and nordic culture in regards to meetings, time keeping etc, I do notice that a lot in my freelancing. US clients are more likely to call at completely idiotic times(like calling at 19:00 their local time, meaning it's middle of the night/really early morning for me), and as you say, less coordinated with materials at meetings etc.
The US has 30 times the population of Sweden, so please don't assume that all Americans are the same in terms of education or courtesy.
Let's bring all the diseases here. What could go wrong?
In all likelihood, nothing. The CDC handles copies of pretty much every known pathogen on the planet. It is the premier pathogen research institution on the planet. They've already seen ebola. The only thing novel about this is that they are bringing in a live patient with the disease to a top tier hospital so they can bring the best tools to bear on researching the disease and hopefully treating this guy.
That's not really the point though!
They are bringing an infected patient into the US when he could just as easily be treated elsewhere. Transporting a live patient is a lot messier and has more room for error than transporting blood samples in a crashproof, airtight box.
How would you feel about the US transporting nuclear IEDs from Iraq to Georgia to defuse them more safely? Because that is pretty much what is going on here. It will probably be fine, but it could be a colossal disaster that didn't need to happen.
It's a waste too, because there isn't much that they can do for Ebola infections other than keeping the victims hydrated and giving them transfusions. None of those treatments require particularly advanced medical facilities.
Your post is very long.
Let me summarize the situation more succinctly and pragmatically:
It's might makes right. The Israelis have the upper hand militarily, yet the Palestinians keep poking them and asking for more.
As far as I can figure it, anyone in Gaza who hasn't been trying to get asylum elsewhere for the past 20 years must actually want to die. Israeli made its military prowess and willingness to fight to the death clear in 1967.
From a natural selection point of view, the only intelligent thing for the Palestinians to do at this point is to admit defeat and immigrate to another Muslim (or Christian) country. There are lots of other Muslim countries, but only one Jewish state, which has made it clear that they will go nuclear before they get pushed out of their own country or get slaughtered again.
What is heartless about it? You enjoy watching human beings go into life threatening situations so you can get your rocks off?
Not all human beings have been turned into sheep yet.
Some people are actually still willing to risk their lives to advance science or just to do something cool.