Am still shocked at this part... "Biologists have found them at altitudes of up to 4 km"
Well, life gets around it seems. Perhaps you would be interested to hear that I have seen small flying insects several hundred miles out at sea (that didn't seem desperate to land, on my small yacht).. also crabs out there, swimming on the surface, and the water was 2-3 miles deep. I don't know how they get there; presumably they don't swim up from the bottom.
People don't get it as children when it is a mild disease that has a death rate similar to riding a bus to school or high school football
The problem with that is, that the parents of the child who died now think the risk was too high.. In fact, oglaf is generally NSFW but this weeks comic is strangely pertinent..
Well I do, and moreover I personally have written ~30 thousand lines of code for NetBSD which has been used in other OS projects (the other BSDs, and OpenSolaris at least - see Bluetooth code) in varying amounts, and I am certainly not the only one to have had code re-used. The NetBSD libc is being used for Android now, I believe.
Also, many companies do use it, though they don't always advertise that fact.
Seriously, after 25 years in the business I've never seen or heard about anyone using NetBSD in production ever.
The licence is liberal, and companies are not obligated to mention their usage.
They do this by asking for the receipt. They then look for items listed on the receipt, and verify those items are in the shopping basket. After a couple of checks to make sure different items listed on the receipt are in your basket, they wish you a good day and wave you on.
They are not checking you, they are checking that the checkout staff are not in collusion with thieves.. I worked in a large DIY store once, and their stated theory was that 90% of the thieves were customers but that 90% of the value stolen was staff, as the staff had vastly more opportunity.. so to keep the shrinkage down, the security watched the staff.
I'm not sure that being a monopolist is any kind of crime, so being convicted of such a thing does not seem possible? However, I have seen such language here before and I would like to emphasize that they were convicted of being monopoly abusers, as in.. they abused their fully legal monopoly position. I feel that there are different possible PR angles around these terms, and it is important that we do not encourage that.
convicted monopolist: the implication can be promoted that its not really their fault that they are so popular that everybody uses their products and the EU really is unfair to penalize them because of that.
convicted monopoly abuser: this is much more difficult to weasel out of, as it has the negative word abuser in the phrase.
Personally, I prefer the latter phrase as it is more descriptive and correct, and I feel it is important to label such a company as this correctly, so that other people who would otherwise not know the details, are not as able to be misled..
Consider Google Maps reviews on restaurants. As a consumer I have found them highly valuable in avoiding restaurants that are poorly run and provide substandard food.
If you avoid them, based on bad reviews you found on the internet.. how do you know if the review is correct?
40kts sounds like a lot until you compare it to the speed at which a storm can move.
ORLY? Storm systems don't generally move that fast. The wind speed during a hurricane vastly exceeds that (Sandy was only a cat 2, with max sustained wind speeds of 110mph according to wikipedia, less than that when it hit the USA) but the storm itself does not move very fast, it will often dawdle around and my recollection is that it would be a pretty fast system to be doing over 30kts.. Hence my assertion that a fast ship with no reason to be in the area can (and does) get the hell out of the projected track.
We're talking about oceangoing and you want to talk about people tooling around a bathtub.
No, we are talking about a fancy private yacht built for Steve Jobs. Sure, it can go into the ocean but I am arguing that you can't compare it to a commercial vessel as it never will need to be in the kind of heavy weather that Runaway1956 writes of because a) it will not go where heavy weather is (far North, or far South) or b) it is fast enough to avoid the, comparitively slow moving and localised, heavy weather that occurs in more moderate areas.
what were they doing out there in the face of a storm? They thought the ship would be safer at sea but they sure as hell weren't capable of running away from the storm track at 40kts. Even at 25kts, they could have been in florida the day before, or they could have gone the other way and been halfway to europe.
Titanic
They were on a scheduled crossing with beancounters in control (not in command) and the captain was all 'full steam ahead' when icebergs had been reported.. and note that RADAR had not yet been invented nor did he have access to satellite imagery
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They were out on the job going somewhere because they had to get there, in the worst storm the captain had ever seen! leisure superyachts have a different lifestyle, they don't do that.
Only a fool would go to sea aboard a vessel that isn't seaworthy.
Except that in these modern times, there are plenty of leisure vessels that are seaworthy for the conditions they are used in but not capable of withstanding a hurricane. Is every person who rows across a calm bay on a summer day a fool, because they didn't have a survival suit and an EPIRB on board? Every sailing boat does not need to be equipped for Cape Horn, when they are only going to Catalina Island for the weekend..
A ship? Fek - unless they run the damned thing aground first, it WILL have to weather a storm someday.
You speak of storms, sir, yet you also speak of destroyers.. note that the military ships you speak of will be standing on station, or going places that are a bit out of the way for various reasons (training perhaps, to ensure that the crew can take the worst of the weather when they need to)
But perhaps you don't have a grasp of the leisure aspect especially of the superyacht set? Those boats, like warships, can also travel at 40kts and have access to satellite images, wave height data and very good weather forecasting. They don't need to be anywhere near bad weather and indeed they usually run away when a violent storm approaches. They don't need to demonstrate how tough they are, and the people who own them really just like to lounge around in calm conditions in the sun. They can cross oceans in the calmest conditions, dodging around the worst weather and they usually do. The focus of design of such a yacht is not to endure terrible weather while carrying goods halfway around the world, nor to blockade a port in all weathers. The focus is that the owner is noticed, and envied for their wealth. That this boat is ugly is neither here nor there, it was custom built for 137 MILLION dollars and everybody knows it. The point was that people would look and say Oooh, that belongs to Steve Jobs, I can only dream I could be rich like him.
..but ultimately, how well does this help to get the next invoice paid on time, do you have to do the same every time?
In the UK at least, there is an EU Directive "2000/35/EC late payment scheme" in force which sets out a standard for business/business transactions.. at least you can charge interest on the outstanding invoices, not sure if that helps (as IIRC it is bank base rate plus 8%, meaning you can charge 8.5% after 30 days)
As far as I can tell there are like 4 datapoints available atm. Whoopdiedoo.
I thought that too since there is nothing showing in my town, but the wikipedia page says the project was started in 2005 and there should be a lot more than that..
By early 2011 the Wikispeedia database contained 28 million speed limit entries
Perhaps their database is slashdotted, or the website is just broken? For some reason the map API is slightly different from the normal google-map one..
You can probably pay the Royal Mail to hold a PO Box for you, but a PO Box address is extremely obviously a PO Box rather than a real address.
Having used a Royal Mail PO box in the past, I can say that its not that easy to set up such a thing unless you tell lies. You do need to already have a valid postal address in the post town that the PO box will be (a pain for me.. living on a boat, I wanted a postal address in a town that I did not have a valid street address in). Also, you can have the street addressed mail automatically diverted to your PO box, so that it is not obviously a PO box, which is also useful since banks at least won't allow your registered address to be a PO box.
it seems to me (with no time at all spent thinking about it, and I am scarcely skilled in the art) that it is when a device is being alarming that a whack is most significant.. just like a naughty child who knows they are doing wrong, when the 'whack' is applied then they will shut up. If you 'whacked' a child who was just playing peacefully they would justifiably object.. and please, substitute your choice of censure, if 'whacking' a child is distasteful to you.
So, the whack detection becomes more accurate when the current state of the device is accounted for.
you have a chunk of metal (a porous copper plate, if I recall correctly, as it provides a pretty large surface area) on the outside of the hull, or get a metal boat.. seawater is an excellent conductor.
I've also seen a sheet of copper laid against the inside of the hull, relying on the capacitance effect with seawater.. but I don't know how well that works. On the other hand, a metal hull is generally isolated from the seawater with paint, so I guess that is relying on capacitance also.
Corporations are people: living, breathing people.
Then why are corporations allowed to be bought and sold?
In fact, related to that, I am not sure that it is a good idea that corporations are allowed to own other corporations.. I would like to see some restrictions on what can own a corporation; it should only be actual people that can incorporate, not other corporations. Then we could always see who is actually responsible for the corporate malfeasance that regularly occurs.
There are two tides each day, one when the moon is directly overhead, and one when the moon is directly underneath. Since the gravitational attraction of the moon causes tides, can you explain why there is a tide when the moon is directly underneath?
Except that your statement is not actually true.. some places only have one tide per day, and even when there are two it is not directly aligned to the moon as the tides are caused by the water slopping back and forth, rather than following the moon around the planet.
I don't know enough about fourier transforms to comment on your second example, and your third is very oriented towards the current economic management who would like you to think that what they do is correct, but you might like to note that those people are generally getting richer at our expense, so I'm taking whatever they say with a pinch of salt.
You could create more accounts and constantly log in/out to avoid it but that's a pain in the ass.
You can do youtube in one browser and G+ in another... but it's still a pain in the ass.
Surely if this becomes a significant problem, an extension could be written to allow a browser to have a unique set of cookies per page-domain? Such that a page loaded from www.youtube.com would look like a different user from the one who loads www.google.com.. of course, there would be tricks to get around that, such as tracking referrerals and such, but a privacy extension could handle that too.. I guess even 'Private Browsing' mode could be extended along these lines.. I don't think this war will ever end, and there will be many gains and losses along the way.
What is this "letting the kid go" thing you are talking about? The vast majority of child abuse happens in the home, by the parents.. Kids getting abducted and raped is pretty much the exception as far as I know. People don't abuse kids because they want to hurt them, they do it because they [think they] love them.. and killing is rarely going to be a part of that
Not to mention, that letting the kid live has other advantages.. firstly, you told them not to tell and you might get away with it (vs a dead kid is pretty obvious) and secondly, you might get to do them again (you can do that with dead kids but not for long I guess).
thats not how it works.. if he spams here, on a highly google-ranked site then his messages will start to appear high up in search rankings. Then if you search for that product name, you will see messages in the search results where the extract on display consists wholly of "and ${product} did a really fantastic job at ${action}!!!" and there will be pages of it, so people who are ignorant will see that and assume it is legit. Thats why it is important to down-moderate any spam here, because I suppose -1 comments don't get crawled by googlebot. They are not advertising to us, they are using our good reputation to bolster themselves in the search results.. IMO slashdot should implement filtering to block that stuff from being posted, so that the moderation can go back to being about the comments (maybe thats what those flags are for, I dunno)
Or they don't do facial recognition at all, only triggering "male/female" and "going in/going out" and don't store the information beyond that, as it says in TFA had you bothered to read it.
Heck, I didn't even read the fine summary and I know about the Facial Recognition part of it..
So, you might say they don't do facial recognition but actually they do.. they have a digital camera feed, and it is fed to a computer which analyzes the picture, extracts faces and analyzes them some more to detect which gender the person is. So, you say that they don't store the information beyond that, but hey, we are all nerds here and the majority are computer nerds. Don't try to tell us that a computer processing information cannot be modified very easily to store information, or forward it to another host for further processing. Is the computer on-camera, with a set of counters on the side of the device that the bar owners can read at their leisure? I doubt it.. I expect it is in a remote location, and what is more I expect that it already has a network connection and that the bar owner doesn't know anything about when it might be upgraded and what it would be capable of at that time.
Humans are social creatures, they usually feel more comfortable when not diverging from the social group. This has been demonstrated many times with psychological experiments where people will act against all common sense when others are setting an example to follow (see: Stanley Milgrams New Hampshire experiment, for an extreme example). Those people who wear branding and/or follow fashions slavishly are just belonging because it makes them comfortable to blend in with what everybody else is doing.
And that is why mass market advertising works too.. they show you pictures of other people doing what they want you to do, and large segments of the population follow suit.. Its not [any longer] about telling you truthfully what the benefits of this product vs that product are so that you can make a reasoned decision about which to use, it is solely about getting the images into your brain so that you prefer to use that product because you have seen other people using it.
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Well, life gets around it seems. Perhaps you would be interested to hear that I have seen small flying insects several hundred miles out at sea (that didn't seem desperate to land, on my small yacht).. also crabs out there, swimming on the surface, and the water was 2-3 miles deep. I don't know how they get there; presumably they don't swim up from the bottom.
The problem with that is, that the parents of the child who died now think the risk was too high.. In fact, oglaf is generally NSFW but this weeks comic is strangely pertinent..
There are vast areas of the country that do not have piped gas. London is but a small corner!
Well I do, and moreover I personally have written ~30 thousand lines of code for NetBSD which has been used in other OS projects (the other BSDs, and OpenSolaris at least - see Bluetooth code) in varying amounts, and I am certainly not the only one to have had code re-used. The NetBSD libc is being used for Android now, I believe.
Also, many companies do use it, though they don't always advertise that fact.
The licence is liberal, and companies are not obligated to mention their usage.
They are not checking you, they are checking that the checkout staff are not in collusion with thieves.. I worked in a large DIY store once, and their stated theory was that 90% of the thieves were customers but that 90% of the value stolen was staff, as the staff had vastly more opportunity.. so to keep the shrinkage down, the security watched the staff.
I'm not sure that being a monopolist is any kind of crime, so being convicted of such a thing does not seem possible? However, I have seen such language here before and I would like to emphasize that they were convicted of being monopoly abusers, as in.. they abused their fully legal monopoly position. I feel that there are different possible PR angles around these terms, and it is important that we do not encourage that.
convicted monopolist: the implication can be promoted that its not really their fault that they are so popular that everybody uses their products and the EU really is unfair to penalize them because of that.
convicted monopoly abuser: this is much more difficult to weasel out of, as it has the negative word abuser in the phrase.
Personally, I prefer the latter phrase as it is more descriptive and correct, and I feel it is important to label such a company as this correctly, so that other people who would otherwise not know the details, are not as able to be misled..
If you avoid them, based on bad reviews you found on the internet.. how do you know if the review is correct?
Well, "The Technicolor Time Machine" by Harry Harrison featured a pretty good example of what you could do with a professor in the movie industry..
ORLY? Storm systems don't generally move that fast. The wind speed during a hurricane vastly exceeds that (Sandy was only a cat 2, with max sustained wind speeds of 110mph according to wikipedia, less than that when it hit the USA) but the storm itself does not move very fast, it will often dawdle around and my recollection is that it would be a pretty fast system to be doing over 30kts.. Hence my assertion that a fast ship with no reason to be in the area can (and does) get the hell out of the projected track.
No, we are talking about a fancy private yacht built for Steve Jobs. Sure, it can go into the ocean but I am arguing that you can't compare it to a commercial vessel as it never will need to be in the kind of heavy weather that Runaway1956 writes of because a) it will not go where heavy weather is (far North, or far South) or b) it is fast enough to avoid the, comparitively slow moving and localised, heavy weather that occurs in more moderate areas.
Yes, more or less my point exactly...
what were they doing out there in the face of a storm? They thought the ship would be safer at sea but they sure as hell weren't capable of running away from the storm track at 40kts. Even at 25kts, they could have been in florida the day before, or they could have gone the other way and been halfway to europe.
They were on a scheduled crossing with beancounters in control (not in command) and the captain was all 'full steam ahead' when icebergs had been reported.. and note that RADAR had not yet been invented nor did he have access to satellite imagery
They were out on the job going somewhere because they had to get there, in the worst storm the captain had ever seen! leisure superyachts have a different lifestyle, they don't do that.
Except that in these modern times, there are plenty of leisure vessels that are seaworthy for the conditions they are used in but not capable of withstanding a hurricane. Is every person who rows across a calm bay on a summer day a fool, because they didn't have a survival suit and an EPIRB on board? Every sailing boat does not need to be equipped for Cape Horn, when they are only going to Catalina Island for the weekend..
You speak of storms, sir, yet you also speak of destroyers.. note that the military ships you speak of will be standing on station, or going places that are a bit out of the way for various reasons (training perhaps, to ensure that the crew can take the worst of the weather when they need to)
But perhaps you don't have a grasp of the leisure aspect especially of the superyacht set? Those boats, like warships, can also travel at 40kts and have access to satellite images, wave height data and very good weather forecasting. They don't need to be anywhere near bad weather and indeed they usually run away when a violent storm approaches. They don't need to demonstrate how tough they are, and the people who own them really just like to lounge around in calm conditions in the sun. They can cross oceans in the calmest conditions, dodging around the worst weather and they usually do. The focus of design of such a yacht is not to endure terrible weather while carrying goods halfway around the world, nor to blockade a port in all weathers. The focus is that the owner is noticed, and envied for their wealth. That this boat is ugly is neither here nor there, it was custom built for 137 MILLION dollars and everybody knows it. The point was that people would look and say Oooh, that belongs to Steve Jobs, I can only dream I could be rich like him.
In the UK at least, there is an EU Directive "2000/35/EC late payment scheme" in force which sets out a standard for business/business transactions.. at least you can charge interest on the outstanding invoices, not sure if that helps (as IIRC it is bank base rate plus 8%, meaning you can charge 8.5% after 30 days)
I thought that too since there is nothing showing in my town, but the wikipedia page says the project was started in 2005 and there should be a lot more than that..
Perhaps their database is slashdotted, or the website is just broken? For some reason the map API is slightly different from the normal google-map one..
not as far as I know: you might be thinking of freepost, which can use "freepost name" as the entire address.
Having used a Royal Mail PO box in the past, I can say that its not that easy to set up such a thing unless you tell lies. You do need to already have a valid postal address in the post town that the PO box will be (a pain for me.. living on a boat, I wanted a postal address in a town that I did not have a valid street address in). Also, you can have the street addressed mail automatically diverted to your PO box, so that it is not obviously a PO box, which is also useful since banks at least won't allow your registered address to be a PO box.
it seems to me (with no time at all spent thinking about it, and I am scarcely skilled in the art) that it is when a device is being alarming that a whack is most significant.. just like a naughty child who knows they are doing wrong, when the 'whack' is applied then they will shut up. If you 'whacked' a child who was just playing peacefully they would justifiably object.. and please, substitute your choice of censure, if 'whacking' a child is distasteful to you.
So, the whack detection becomes more accurate when the current state of the device is accounted for.
you have a chunk of metal (a porous copper plate, if I recall correctly, as it provides a pretty large surface area) on the outside of the hull, or get a metal boat.. seawater is an excellent conductor.
I've also seen a sheet of copper laid against the inside of the hull, relying on the capacitance effect with seawater.. but I don't know how well that works. On the other hand, a metal hull is generally isolated from the seawater with paint, so I guess that is relying on capacitance also.
Then why are corporations allowed to be bought and sold?
In fact, related to that, I am not sure that it is a good idea that corporations are allowed to own other corporations.. I would like to see some restrictions on what can own a corporation; it should only be actual people that can incorporate, not other corporations. Then we could always see who is actually responsible for the corporate malfeasance that regularly occurs.
Except that your statement is not actually true.. some places only have one tide per day, and even when there are two it is not directly aligned to the moon as the tides are caused by the water slopping back and forth, rather than following the moon around the planet.
I don't know enough about fourier transforms to comment on your second example, and your third is very oriented towards the current economic management who would like you to think that what they do is correct, but you might like to note that those people are generally getting richer at our expense, so I'm taking whatever they say with a pinch of salt.
Surely if this becomes a significant problem, an extension could be written to allow a browser to have a unique set of cookies per page-domain? Such that a page loaded from www.youtube.com would look like a different user from the one who loads www.google.com.. of course, there would be tricks to get around that, such as tracking referrerals and such, but a privacy extension could handle that too.. I guess even 'Private Browsing' mode could be extended along these lines.. I don't think this war will ever end, and there will be many gains and losses along the way.
What is this "letting the kid go" thing you are talking about? The vast majority of child abuse happens in the home, by the parents.. Kids getting abducted and raped is pretty much the exception as far as I know. People don't abuse kids because they want to hurt them, they do it because they [think they] love them.. and killing is rarely going to be a part of that
Not to mention, that letting the kid live has other advantages.. firstly, you told them not to tell and you might get away with it (vs a dead kid is pretty obvious) and secondly, you might get to do them again (you can do that with dead kids but not for long I guess).
thats not how it works.. if he spams here, on a highly google-ranked site then his messages will start to appear high up in search rankings. Then if you search for that product name, you will see messages in the search results where the extract on display consists wholly of "and ${product} did a really fantastic job at ${action}!!!" and there will be pages of it, so people who are ignorant will see that and assume it is legit. Thats why it is important to down-moderate any spam here, because I suppose -1 comments don't get crawled by googlebot. They are not advertising to us, they are using our good reputation to bolster themselves in the search results.. IMO slashdot should implement filtering to block that stuff from being posted, so that the moderation can go back to being about the comments (maybe thats what those flags are for, I dunno)
Thanks for your summary, but I have further questions..
because operating a site linking to other sites in the internet is not a crime
What was he charged with, and by whom?
and what where they being charged with and by whom? Seeing as how the police decided not to press charges..
Heck, I didn't even read the fine summary and I know about the Facial Recognition part of it..
So, you might say they don't do facial recognition but actually they do.. they have a digital camera feed, and it is fed to a computer which analyzes the picture, extracts faces and analyzes them some more to detect which gender the person is. So, you say that they don't store the information beyond that, but hey, we are all nerds here and the majority are computer nerds. Don't try to tell us that a computer processing information cannot be modified very easily to store information, or forward it to another host for further processing. Is the computer on-camera, with a set of counters on the side of the device that the bar owners can read at their leisure? I doubt it.. I expect it is in a remote location, and what is more I expect that it already has a network connection and that the bar owner doesn't know anything about when it might be upgraded and what it would be capable of at that time.
Humans are social creatures, they usually feel more comfortable when not diverging from the social group. This has been demonstrated many times with psychological experiments where people will act against all common sense when others are setting an example to follow (see: Stanley Milgrams New Hampshire experiment, for an extreme example). Those people who wear branding and/or follow fashions slavishly are just belonging because it makes them comfortable to blend in with what everybody else is doing.
And that is why mass market advertising works too.. they show you pictures of other people doing what they want you to do, and large segments of the population follow suit.. Its not [any longer] about telling you truthfully what the benefits of this product vs that product are so that you can make a reasoned decision about which to use, it is solely about getting the images into your brain so that you prefer to use that product because you have seen other people using it.