Which works well as long as you leave it on or don't accidentally forget to enable it. Ultimately, this isn't really an appropriate way of dealing with the perceived problem.
It's less than ideal, but the fact that it's only liquid nitrogen and not some of the more expensive coolants that they used to use is a significant step.
That was my thought, there's no mention of superconductivity in the article, just higher capacity. Plus you've got to keep it bathed in liquid nitrogent. Which isn't bad, it wasn't that long ago that you needed much more expensive coolants, but this isn't a superconductor so it's somewhat moot.
I'm not sure where they got the idea that it's a super conductor when there was no mention at all of resistance.
I think you've hit on something. In the closed source world MS killed Bob, but Canonical has yet to kill that unity crap. Most of the time OSS is the way to go, but sometimes you do need to just kill a bad idea before it really starts to monopolize your time and energy.
Well, the problem is that it makes it way too easy to filter for porn sites. Any reputable porn site is voluntarily listed by web filtering software, using something like.XXX goes way beyond that and makes it really easy to figure out if somebody has been looking at porn. Just type.xxx into the awesome bar and you'd get a concise list very quickly. And even without doing so, it's obvious just by the TLD that it's a porn site.
Most of us refuse the body scanner by not flying. And ultimately, most people don't have the money to pay the ridiculous fines for refusing.
Then there's the fact that they force people to get sexually assaulted if they decline the body scanners. It's been well documented that the TSA will threaten criminal charges and refuse to let you leave if you turn down the blatantly unconstitutional searches.
Yes, it's every bit as illegal as if it's a vagina. In fact it's just as illegal as the mouth as well. Rape is rape and sexual assault is sexual assault, if there isn't permission and there is coercion, then it's definitely illegal. For reasons relating to several constitutional amendments you can't make things like this only illegal when done to one sex or the other.
I don't, I refuse to fly in the US. I'll take the train or drive, if I really need to fly, I'll drive up to Canada and catch a flight there. It's definitely not worth being sexually assaulted just to get on a plane.
Plus, it's pointless anyways since they don't do that with airline employees.
That would be correct, she's pissed about being called out for sexually assaulting a vulnerable woman. Sexual assault and rape are kind of a fine line and often times you'll find instances like this being labelled either way. But, it doesn't sound to me like the TSA goon is contesting the facts.
The TSA troll's attorney at no point states that it didn't happen. It's just strongly implied that the contact didn't happen. Also, it's established procedure that they go until they get resistance. Which strongly implies at bare minimum that the TSA agent sexually assaulted her. Which means that it might have been sexual assault rather than rape, but the difference is moot in proceedings like this.
Ultimately, if it reaches court, it's not going to go well for the TSA employee. There's just been too much publicity of coercive practices for her to claim that there was any meaningful consent. Beyond that, just having to give up the fee you paid for the tickets and accommodations is sufficient to question how consensual it really is when you don't get any of that money back if you refuse to be sexually assaulted.
I'm sure that the defendant will have little to no trouble finding witnesses to support the claim of sexual assault if not rape. And tons to attest to the coercion at the check points.
What's worse, is that the TSA agents aren't law enforcement and lack the legal authority to conduct the searches in the first place.
I'm sure the CIA can by this point. It's been known for years that they can resolve a grapefruit sitting on the ground from space, I'd be shocked if they hadn't bettered that by now.
The bigger problem with that tends to be one of manpower, it's great to be able to zoom in like that, but only after you've determined the area to be interesting. And often times it's just more convenient to use a UAV anways.
He had a solution. Require that shares in companies be own solely by individuals that are working there. In all other ways the economy would be the same. But, because the workers would own their own company, there would be a vested interested in balancing the needs of the workers with the demands of the market. And because there would be multiple companies doing the same thing you'd still get market forces.
The problem is that 90% of the folks that talk about Marx haven't even bothered to read his Manifesto, the main thing he's striking out about is the treatment of humans as capital rather than as humans. At no point does he suggest that capitalism is inherently evil, in fact he spends a fair bit fawning over the amazing results, but he is very clear that a capitalist society must not treat people as machines and must not involve exploiting workers.
His solution being to have the workers own the means of production was probably the least radical solution one could come up with to the problem.
That's come up in the past, if the government doesn't step in and tell the rich that they have to give back their ill gotten gains, then things are going to get ugly. As technology gets better and productivity improves there's going to be a permanent job shortage. Which wouldn't be a problem if wages would increase so that a person could feed himself and his family on the reduced wages. But that's not happening, people are being expected to take on multiple jobs, and deprive other people of those jobs because we're too cheap to provide welfare and too stubborn to tell companies that if they want our tax breaks that they have to create jobs in the US.
It's a bit of a slippery slope, but at this point, I don't see any reason why it's going to stop on its own, naturally it's going to want to go to the logical conclusion as robots can do an increasing amount of what previously could only be done by people. And robots don't get sick or go on vacation, they can work nearly 24/7 except for periods being offline for maintenance.
That's because communism has never been tried. A communist regime in the model that Marx was pushing hasn't ever been implemented. Marx wanted a state like the US, except where the people owned all of the shares of the companies they worked for rather than random investors. And where there was only one class.
To date there has been precisely zero countries where they did away with class and where the workers truly owned the means of production.
The level of ignorance that people express about how it's been tried and failed just boggles my mind, when it hasn't even been tried once.
My laptops web cam is far from HD, and it still uses a ridiculous amount of space to store uncompressed footage.Enough space that it would be unrealistic to get daily diary entries uploaded without applying compression to them.
12TB is a lot, unless you start backing up your entire blu ray collection to disk, in which case it might not be that much. Also if you're into shooting HD video.
Companies that aren't going bankrupt typically only get sold when there's a hostile takeover or the larger company bribes the executives. Profitable companies rarely if ever benefit from being purchased.
I should have worded that better, I seem to have implied that the USPS isn't a community service. We'd be missing out on a lot without the USPS. Certified and registered mail are something that one doesn't think about until one needs to get a collection agency off their back. And for some things a postmark from the USPS is the only thing that counts.
And even after the recent price hikes, it's still cheaper for many services than UPS or Fed Ex is.
Depends, I remember quite a few really dazzling children's books when I was a kid. And regardless of the number of colors used, you'd only get 4096 colors total to choose from, which means that if the colorist used a color that isn't quite right the whole thing looks significantly worse.
But, beyond that, one of the problems they still have is that the images are about as in color as the Game Boy Color was, technically color, but the contrast is crap. It'll be cool when they solve that problem, but I don't think we're there yet.
I'm guessing that by that point, people will be beyond the need for physical books, and even if the price does come down, it's still not at all practical. It's that many more pages that can break and that many more flexible connections. But, without any actual benefit, this is just a matter of Luddites trying to fight progress.
Cost, and battery life. I'm sure that it can be done, but at this stage in the game, the money is mainly there for something that most people need. Plus, most PDFs have text that can reflow as needed. Unless you spend most of your time reading PDFs that were scans it shouldn't be an issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Which works well as long as you leave it on or don't accidentally forget to enable it. Ultimately, this isn't really an appropriate way of dealing with the perceived problem.
It's less than ideal, but the fact that it's only liquid nitrogen and not some of the more expensive coolants that they used to use is a significant step.
That was my thought, there's no mention of superconductivity in the article, just higher capacity. Plus you've got to keep it bathed in liquid nitrogent. Which isn't bad, it wasn't that long ago that you needed much more expensive coolants, but this isn't a superconductor so it's somewhat moot.
I'm not sure where they got the idea that it's a super conductor when there was no mention at all of resistance.
I think you've hit on something. In the closed source world MS killed Bob, but Canonical has yet to kill that unity crap. Most of the time OSS is the way to go, but sometimes you do need to just kill a bad idea before it really starts to monopolize your time and energy.
One has a reasonable expectation of privacy in ones own backyard typically as well as in the portion of the property directly around your house.
Well, the problem is that it makes it way too easy to filter for porn sites. Any reputable porn site is voluntarily listed by web filtering software, using something like .XXX goes way beyond that and makes it really easy to figure out if somebody has been looking at porn. Just type .xxx into the awesome bar and you'd get a concise list very quickly. And even without doing so, it's obvious just by the TLD that it's a porn site.
Most of us refuse the body scanner by not flying. And ultimately, most people don't have the money to pay the ridiculous fines for refusing.
Then there's the fact that they force people to get sexually assaulted if they decline the body scanners. It's been well documented that the TSA will threaten criminal charges and refuse to let you leave if you turn down the blatantly unconstitutional searches.
Yes, it's every bit as illegal as if it's a vagina. In fact it's just as illegal as the mouth as well. Rape is rape and sexual assault is sexual assault, if there isn't permission and there is coercion, then it's definitely illegal. For reasons relating to several constitutional amendments you can't make things like this only illegal when done to one sex or the other.
I don't, I refuse to fly in the US. I'll take the train or drive, if I really need to fly, I'll drive up to Canada and catch a flight there. It's definitely not worth being sexually assaulted just to get on a plane.
Plus, it's pointless anyways since they don't do that with airline employees.
That would be correct, she's pissed about being called out for sexually assaulting a vulnerable woman. Sexual assault and rape are kind of a fine line and often times you'll find instances like this being labelled either way. But, it doesn't sound to me like the TSA goon is contesting the facts.
The TSA troll's attorney at no point states that it didn't happen. It's just strongly implied that the contact didn't happen. Also, it's established procedure that they go until they get resistance. Which strongly implies at bare minimum that the TSA agent sexually assaulted her. Which means that it might have been sexual assault rather than rape, but the difference is moot in proceedings like this.
Ultimately, if it reaches court, it's not going to go well for the TSA employee. There's just been too much publicity of coercive practices for her to claim that there was any meaningful consent. Beyond that, just having to give up the fee you paid for the tickets and accommodations is sufficient to question how consensual it really is when you don't get any of that money back if you refuse to be sexually assaulted.
I'm sure that the defendant will have little to no trouble finding witnesses to support the claim of sexual assault if not rape. And tons to attest to the coercion at the check points.
What's worse, is that the TSA agents aren't law enforcement and lack the legal authority to conduct the searches in the first place.
That raises an interesting point, to what extent does reasonable expectation of privacy apply to satellite imaging?
I'm sure the CIA can by this point. It's been known for years that they can resolve a grapefruit sitting on the ground from space, I'd be shocked if they hadn't bettered that by now.
The bigger problem with that tends to be one of manpower, it's great to be able to zoom in like that, but only after you've determined the area to be interesting. And often times it's just more convenient to use a UAV anways.
This was scheduled to be a dupe, but the new management decided to go another route...
He had a solution. Require that shares in companies be own solely by individuals that are working there. In all other ways the economy would be the same. But, because the workers would own their own company, there would be a vested interested in balancing the needs of the workers with the demands of the market. And because there would be multiple companies doing the same thing you'd still get market forces.
The problem is that 90% of the folks that talk about Marx haven't even bothered to read his Manifesto, the main thing he's striking out about is the treatment of humans as capital rather than as humans. At no point does he suggest that capitalism is inherently evil, in fact he spends a fair bit fawning over the amazing results, but he is very clear that a capitalist society must not treat people as machines and must not involve exploiting workers.
His solution being to have the workers own the means of production was probably the least radical solution one could come up with to the problem.
That's come up in the past, if the government doesn't step in and tell the rich that they have to give back their ill gotten gains, then things are going to get ugly. As technology gets better and productivity improves there's going to be a permanent job shortage. Which wouldn't be a problem if wages would increase so that a person could feed himself and his family on the reduced wages. But that's not happening, people are being expected to take on multiple jobs, and deprive other people of those jobs because we're too cheap to provide welfare and too stubborn to tell companies that if they want our tax breaks that they have to create jobs in the US.
It's a bit of a slippery slope, but at this point, I don't see any reason why it's going to stop on its own, naturally it's going to want to go to the logical conclusion as robots can do an increasing amount of what previously could only be done by people. And robots don't get sick or go on vacation, they can work nearly 24/7 except for periods being offline for maintenance.
That's because communism has never been tried. A communist regime in the model that Marx was pushing hasn't ever been implemented. Marx wanted a state like the US, except where the people owned all of the shares of the companies they worked for rather than random investors. And where there was only one class.
To date there has been precisely zero countries where they did away with class and where the workers truly owned the means of production.
The level of ignorance that people express about how it's been tried and failed just boggles my mind, when it hasn't even been tried once.
My laptops web cam is far from HD, and it still uses a ridiculous amount of space to store uncompressed footage.Enough space that it would be unrealistic to get daily diary entries uploaded without applying compression to them.
12TB is a lot, unless you start backing up your entire blu ray collection to disk, in which case it might not be that much. Also if you're into shooting HD video.
Wow, this is gripping, where can I subscribe to your blog of crazy rants?
Companies that aren't going bankrupt typically only get sold when there's a hostile takeover or the larger company bribes the executives. Profitable companies rarely if ever benefit from being purchased.
I should have worded that better, I seem to have implied that the USPS isn't a community service. We'd be missing out on a lot without the USPS. Certified and registered mail are something that one doesn't think about until one needs to get a collection agency off their back. And for some things a postmark from the USPS is the only thing that counts.
And even after the recent price hikes, it's still cheaper for many services than UPS or Fed Ex is.
Depends, I remember quite a few really dazzling children's books when I was a kid. And regardless of the number of colors used, you'd only get 4096 colors total to choose from, which means that if the colorist used a color that isn't quite right the whole thing looks significantly worse.
But, beyond that, one of the problems they still have is that the images are about as in color as the Game Boy Color was, technically color, but the contrast is crap. It'll be cool when they solve that problem, but I don't think we're there yet.
I'm guessing that by that point, people will be beyond the need for physical books, and even if the price does come down, it's still not at all practical. It's that many more pages that can break and that many more flexible connections. But, without any actual benefit, this is just a matter of Luddites trying to fight progress.
Cost, and battery life. I'm sure that it can be done, but at this stage in the game, the money is mainly there for something that most people need. Plus, most PDFs have text that can reflow as needed. Unless you spend most of your time reading PDFs that were scans it shouldn't be an issue.