It's actually quite the opposite. Pagers have no guaranteed delivery, because they are a one way service. The pager does not ever communicate back to the tower (or at least the type most doctors carry don't). If the pager is out of range or has a poor signal at the moment the page is broadcast, you are SOL. On the other hand, SMS will at least hold the message until you connect and then make a best effort to get the message to you.
This is quite right. I see below that someone posted that there are 2 way pagers, which I suppose is fine to let people know that you got a page, but since paging does not use guaranteed delivery, a 2 way pager isn't a complete fix for that. The lack of guaranteed delivery is what finally got my (at the time) department manager to stop using the pager and move to calling mobile phones. We had a few instances where the only notification of a problem was via our on call pager and the on call person didn't get the page and a problem wasn't dealt with for hours.
The evil ones.
Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
Even worse, because of this I'm now expecting Trump any day to put forth the theory that this somehow means that the Democrats did not actually win the House in the recent election and the Republican victory was stolen. I live in a red state and if he does this, yes, lots of people here will believe it.
No new value has been created. If anything there will be higher costs from duplicated overheads. The fact that despite this the claim is probably correct and shareholders will get a big bump if this happens (just like when a company does a share split) is testament to how screwed up the economy's idea of 'value' is right now.
Shareholders don't just get a bump from splitting off a company in terms of the parent company going up in value. They often get shares in the new company in some formula like 2 shares of new company X for every 4 shares of old company Y you own, for example. These new shares can be valuable. And until you sell them and have to pay taxes, they sort of are like free money, especially if the former parent company maintains its value or goes up after the spin off.
I don't see Bezos as a guy who would want to spin off AWS. Just because a professor guessed right on Whole Foods doesn't necessarily mean he's right in this case.
EV's are not luxury vehicles for the wealthy, and haven't been for some time.
For example, the Nissan Leaf starts at $30K -- in a country where the average price for a new car is $33K.And no one that's driven a Leaf could confuse it with a Luxury car. Some expensive EV's do receive subsidies... which is good since it means that affluent early adopters pay a premium for new technology and then as the technology is refined, it trickles down into more affordable vehicles.
This is quite right. And note that a lot of Americans who aren't rich/wealthy don't even blink at paying $45000 or more for a pickup truck. That just blows my mind.
I leased a Leaf and while you are right that it's not a luxury car, I did like it a lot and so did my friends and my (now ex) girlfriend. I liked the whole electric car experience. I used it as a 2nd vehicle while I had an older car I used for long trips. I eventually had to cut back to one car and the limited range of the Leaf ruled it out for me as an only vehicle but I would definitely consider an electric vehicle in the future if the range can meet my needs.
Wish I had mod points so I could vote you up. I wish more people would understand that the cutting of state and federal funding is the number one reason why US colleges cost so much.
That Ampere thinks it can compete is a testament to stumbles by Intel, and TSMC's ability to benefit from those mistakes.
Maybe. But from personal experience, I can also say that they might just be stupid. I work in IT for a Fortune 500 company. I never name them here. We do a lot of software as a service type things. We're pretty good at what we do and in some areas we are likely the top dog for US based solutions. The business segment I support isn't sexy at all. But every year we have to deal with multiple startups who try to take our business. Many fail. We often see new companies say they can do everything we do for half the cost. Half the cost? Sure. But in reality they do like 1/3 instead of everything we do. So we have customers who leave over cost and then come back because our competitors really suck. Again, this is just not a sexy business segment in what I work with. This isn't it, but imagine you work for Turbo Tax. You don't just have H&R Block, Tax Slayer, etc. to deal with but every year some punk upstart company says it can do taxes better for way less than you charge. How much better can it really be? Either tax software works or it doesn't. You can't really make it "better". But we still have competitors who claim that this somewhat stagnant business can be done better and cheaper. And every year we watch as they go out of business.
Another problem I've seen with startups is the "We can't possibly fail because we're geniuses!" attitude. Most startups do fail. I know a guy who has spent most of his IT career chasing startup glory and failing. He does make really good money, but he's always having to find a new job with the next startup. The older product I still support was started by a successful startup that my current employer bought out. I can tell you that a large number of people associated with that startup left us within a year or two of the acquisition going through and they went to a few different new startups that various people associated with the original company started. All those startups failed. And a large number of those people returned to my employer, tail between their legs. So sure, maybe what is said about Ampere is true and will happen, but I'm not ruling out that it's a dumb idea and they'll fail at it.
I seem to recall reading that basically Rex Sinquefield threw a bunch of money at 2 of the current USA's top 3 players to get them to change country allegiances to the USA. I think one of the 3 did actually move to the US as a child though. I don't remember his name, but I think it's the guy who was born in Japan.
What just puzzles me, and I have no explanation for it other than the usual "Commies like to win medals in world competitions" explanation, is why China cares so much about chess. They have their own variant, xiang qi, which is extremely popular. Honestly, it's considered a harder game to solve in terms of computational power vs. chess. Because xiang qi is considered a harder game, you could make an argument that China spending so many resources to win chess championships is kind of a case of them slumming and trying to win an "easier" game. Xiang qi strategy is very different from chess strategy and I believe the Chinese did successfully convert one of their best female xiang qi players into a women's chess star, in general I would not expect skills at one to translate well into skills in the other. I suspect once they identify promising chess players, they get them to stop playing xiang qi. To give readers a rough idea of the differences in the games, it's quite common in xiang qi for a knight (they call it "horse") to be moved to the side of the board early in the game whereas in chess that would usually be a bad move and it would be much better placed to be first moved towards the middle.
I can personally testify to it having problems. A few weeks ago there was a store I wanted to go to that's about a 15-20 minute drive from my house if I go the most direct way (fewest turns). However, it is possible to shave a good 5 minutes off the drive if I let Google maps direct me through some residential areas. I don't ever go through these areas unless I am letting Google Maps direct me and it involves a large number of turns, so I don't have the path memorized. I used Google Maps to go there, something I have done many times before, because I wanted to save time but it failed. It put me in a loop during the final mile of the drive and it cost me so much time, I should have just gone the direct longer way I knew instead. Once I realized I was in a loop, I did know another shopping center nearby, so I drove there and got out of Google Maps and got back into it. I looked up the exact path and it only required one turn on a street I was familiar with so I drove and I had to actually drive past the part where it kept looping and only then did it give me the correct directions the rest of the way, but I didn't need them at that point. I remain puzzled as to what exactly was wrong with Google Maps and its made me a bit leery of it.
What they will be trying to prosecute, is that it is illegal for a foreign citizen in a foreign nation to report the criminal espionage activity of the United States government in those and other nations, interesting idea. So here I am in Australia, if I see an CIA agent murder an Australian in Australia, the US government wants to be able to prosecute me for the crime of espionage if I publicly report their crime, keeping in mind it is a crime to fail to report a crime, accessory after the fact. So the US government is attempting to demand that citizens all over the world, betray their own countries laws, to keep secret the criminal activities of the US government, in those countries.
No, that's not it at all. Imagine that you are driving a car and reading and writing SMS messages ("text messages" for us US and Canada people) because you aren't paying attention you kill a pedestrian. And now you're crying about looking at 10+ years in jail because "the government doesn't want me to use my phone in the car". No, you're in trouble for killing someone through carelessness.
The problem is not that it's a "crime to report a crime" as you basically claim. The problem is that the documents Wikileaks obtained were classified and they didn't have the US legal right to access them at all, let alone make them available to the world. Also, in the interesting catch 22 situation you came up with, I would hope that the Oz government would recognize your dilemma and not extradite you for obeying their law, but whether they would or not in your scenario is your problem with your government. Stating that the US government is angry about foreign nationals reporting illegal activities is a glib distraction from the real issue, which was illegally accessing classified documents and making them available to the world. The fact that Wikileaks was given the documents doesn't mean that they didn't break the law by having them in the first place when they weren't supposed to. Note that Wikileaks's one attempt to not face legal problems was to contact the US government and say "Hey. Some idiot gave us these classified docs." They didn't. They published them instead.
It's fine to say "we don't want to entice that company to setting up shop" or even "they would come without the incentives, so we shouldn't offer the incentive," but not "we shouldn't be giving away money."
I'm guessing you didn't read that article about 2 weeks ago that got some national attention about what a disaster Wisconsin's Foxxconn deal has been. Go read it. That pretty much qualifies as "giving away money". Best case estimates are that the Foxxconn plant, which as always with Foxxconn is already reduced in size and scope from what they originally promised to build, might be profitable by 2050. Maybe. There's some thought that Scott Walker lost his re-election bid as a direct result of the bad deal with Foxxconn. I know that NY threw almost double the amount of money Northern Virginia did at Amazon and it's not all just tax breaks. The joke is on both of them - I'm pretty sure their subsidies won't go down but they're getting half the number of jobs they offered subsidies for.
But what the SWAT team did was also clearly wrong. They gunned down an innocent person based on nothing but an anonymous phone call.
The prank caller isn't the only one who should be going to prison.
I've come to the conclusion that here in the USA we'll almost never see police held accountable for this kind of thing. There was an episode of South Park where there were major hunting restrictions so to get around them, Jimbo and Ned said "It's coming right at us!" and shot any animal they wanted to. Cops can unfortunately do the same thing. All they have to do is say "I was scared for my life" in court and it seems like about 90% of the time they walk. I can promise you if the police in this case ever go to trial - and I said "if" - that they will just say they were scared and they'll probably walk. There's nothing I can do about juries. They seem inclined to just let the cops kill anybody they want to if they say they were scared.
Ah yes. Can't talk about EVs on Slashdot without somebody claiming that they pollute as much or more than gasoline burning cars because, whatever. And again, I point out that there are excellent reasons for moving to electric vehicles that have nothing to do with pollution reduction. I guess I'm going to have to spell this out for you, but given how many petroleum producing countries aren't friendly to Israel and at least one questions its right to even exist, it seems logical to me for Israel to move away from dependence on those countries.
1) As you get older, you need more light to read and you have problems with smaller print. Even my eagle eyed brother had to get glasses eventually after 40+ years of being, as I said, eagle eyed.
2) Young people don't buy physical media of any kind.
So the smaller books would require younger and better eyes to read them but young people don't buy physical media. Not going to work.
Again, why should society pay for interstate highways when there are millions of people who hardly ever use interstate highways? Why should society pay for harbours when most people hardly ever travel by sea? Why should society pay for rail networks when millions of people never travel by rail? Why should society pay for airports when millions of Americans have never taken a commercial flight in their life? The answer is that your questions simplifies the issue far too much, you can't just reduce this to a subsidy and then rage against it. Even if you don't do any of the above things you still benefit indirectly from funding interstate highways, harbours, a rail network and airports. Then there is also that nice warm glow you get when you do like the Christians and their commandments would have you do, i.e. give a damn about somebody other than yourself, like the people in flyover country
I'm American and I live in a pretty large metro area in the USA. I grew up in a small town in my state several hours away from where I live. I'll tell you why I really don't care if rural areas ever get broadband. You know what I hear all the time from people who still live in my hometown and other small towns in my state? This is what I hear all the time.
1) Sarah Palin made a career out of telling small town America that they are the "Real America" and those of us in large metro areas don't matter - at all.
2) I keep hearing how in my large metro area that we are "out of touch" because many of us don't think Trump is the greatest president of all time.
3) I keep hearing how life in their small town simply could not be better.
So no, I am not interested at all in paying to help rural America get broadband given how they've already told me what they think of me just because of where I live.
I'll be zapped for this, but fine: Disney and The Song of the South. Findable, but basically gone. I understand Disney bought all of the available copies and buried it, intending for it never to be released again.
Fantasia? There are a couple of Framing Improvements in the current release.
Not true about Song Of The South. The film exists. Disney actually restored it a few years ago. The reason you can't see it is that the restoration was shown to Bob Iger and he said something like his successor could put it out if he/she wanted to, but he wasn't going to touch it. But it is ready to go and could, in theory, come out in the future. For those who don't know, it doesn't even take place during the time of slavery (it's set in the 1870s or 1880s) but it's become a victim to white people who afraid that African Americans are going to revolt if it comes out. I have my doubts that most African Americans care about the film one way or the other, but we live in an age where young people of all races are convinced that cultural appropriation is real and Iger simply doesn't want to deal with any potential backlash on his watch. I haven't heard about Disney buying up copies, but it was never released on DVD and the VHS tapes and the Japanese laserdisc are both long out of print because those are dead formats.
Fantasia is complete now, but a small number of seconds during the Pastoral Symphony sequence have been reframed to remove the (now) culturally inappropriate character named Sunflower. The late Roy O. Disney (Walt's nephew and Roy's son) said that the film was simply never going to be released with Sunflower visible again. Some of the introductory talking sequences by Deems Taylor have lost their original soundtrack so while the video exists, Disney decided to hire a voice actor to redo all the narration so it would be consistent. So the talking sequence videos are now fully restored and have been in the most recent reissue but it doesn't feature the actual original audio.
I'm no expert on quantum computing, but I can see problems already based on the summary.
The QKD approach used by Quantum Xchange works by sending an encoded message in classical bits while the keys to decode it are sent in the form of quantum bits, or qubits. These are typically photons, which travel easily along fiber-optic cables. The beauty of this approach is that any attempt to snoop on a qubit immediately destroys its delicate quantum state, wiping out the information it carries and leaving a telltale sign of an intrusion.
Maybe if I'm a bad guy, I'm quite OK with that. That would be something like a DDOS. Maybe I don't care about trying to steal your quantum encrypted data but I want to deny your ability to transfer data that way so you will move to a method of transmission I can read.
At nodes, keys are decrypted into classical bits and then returned to a quantum state for onward transmission. In theory, a hacker could steal them while they are briefly vulnerable.
Believe me, bad people will certainly do this. One of the ways Blu Ray encryption got cracked is that the players stored the keys unprotected in memory and smart people figured out how to dump the memory to get the keys. National actors who really want access to your data will have no problems trying to attack this weak point in the chain.
Anyone else thinks that feels more Star Trek than Discovery*?
Sure. Lots of people do. Had discussions about this on Facebook with people I know. But there are a lot of Trek haters here on Slashdot or people who hate all Trek after The Next Gen so I wouldn't recommend using Slashdot as a sounding board on this.
Well, they have the following type of free speech laws, which I will illustrate via a joke from the early 1960s. By the way, my ex-girlfriend, who was born and raised in China, loved this joke because it really hit home for her.
An American named Jim goes with a tour group to Moscow and while there he meets a local Russian, Ivan. Their conversation goes like this:
Ivan: So, Jim, you are American. How you like trip to Moscow?
Jim: I have enjoyed it very much. Red Square is beautiful and there are so many interesting places in Moscow. The Russian people have been very friendly also.
Ivan: I am glad you like Moscow.
Jim: But there is one thing I don't like. You don't have freedom here.
Ivan: What you mean, we don't have freedom here?
Jim: You can't criticize the government. When I go home, if I want to, I can stand outside the White House and say that the president is a bad man and nobody will arrest me.
Ivan: Oh, it is the same here. If I want, any day I can go stand outside the Kremlin and say that the American president is a bad man and nobody will arrest me.
"Once the darling of design" is right. Actual research shows that the "open office" idea, with no privacy at all, is a terrible idea for a workplace, which maximized distractions and minimized getting things done.
It is. It's awful. In my first job after graduating from college, which was in the 2nd half of the 1980s, we had this kind of office. It was terrible. You heard everything. Yyou knew which of your co-workers were constantly on the phone dealing with family matters instead of working. It was a government job, so nobody got fired. After some years of this, we got moved to a new building and we got cubicles and everybody breathed a sigh of relief. This whole idea that open offices are great is nuts and a few years from now, nobody who backs it is going to believe they could have ever thought it was a good idea. Except maybe Zuckerberg and other millennials. If they were older and had gone through it before, they wouldn't be pushing for it now. Everything in cyclical. Maybe after this fails, people will actually remember how terrible it is and not do it again. Maybe.
I'm admitting that I just looked at the summary. So assuming it's accurate...
Why is it that so many people misunderstand the purpose of electric cars? I don't know why for years now on Slashdot we keep getting posts about articles that nitpick about electric car manufacturing. "Ooh, at one place in your manufacturing chain for 1 second you involved coal, so the whole idea is trash." No it's not. First of all, electric cars don't burn gasoline. Big win there. Reducing petroleum use is a Good Thing. Second, with time electricity sources to both charge said vehicles and produce the batteries could come from renewable sources. The fact that we aren't there today doesn't mean we won't be there soon enough. Having production lines in place to make these vehicles is smart and when the production sources are from renewable energy, what will they complain about next?
Patents are limited to 20 years, hardly unlimited.
Yes. And some patents do expire as planned. Yet perhaps you are unaware of the term "evergreening" which is a way that patents about to expire are extended by making minor changes and then getting a new patent to cover the changes. It's used a lot in the pharmaceutical industry, but not just limited to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most of these letters have ZERO legal weight, and get thrown-out when submitted to courts. While CBS owns the appearance of the TNG Enterprise, the law clearly allows derivative works (such as parodies and fan-inspired art).
Only a JUDGE has the power to shutdown this endeavor, not some Intern at CBS writing cut-and-paste form letters.
Let me guess. You're not a lawyer. I'm not and at least I'll admit it, but I bet I know a lot more about US law than you do. I've got a handful of friends who are lawyers and they've taught me a lot. I also had a chance once to sit in a discussion on IP and fair use given by a real lawyer who worked in the field.
Parody is protected. This is not parody. I agree that "fain-inspired art" could be OK, if for example, it was for the USS Bartok, a ship in the Star Trek Next Gen universe but never mentioned on the TV show. Doing a recreation of something that clearly belongs to CBS/Paramount, even if not for profit, is very different. Also, yes, a judge could in theory rule in favor of the website, but do you think they have infinite amounts of time and money to fight this? Also, judges are subject to their own personal biases and it's certainly possible that the case could get a judge who sees this as the website basically stealing from CBS/Paramount or if a jury hears it, you probably have to do even less to get them convinced it's outright robbery to do an online recreation. Real world people can't spend the time and money needed to fight these things for what is basically a hobby.
I make double what I was making as a salaried employee. I take uber fairly often and the drivers all have said they make more driving for Uber (duh) than they did at there last job. One even shown me spread sheets of his expenses and his strategies for being available when the fairs are higher. I don't see anyone in the gig economy complaining, so I have no idea where these articles are coming from.
I'm in the USA and I've used Uber quite a few times this year for trips to and from a public transportation station that can take me to the airport. I live in a large metropolitan area and we have a major airport here. In the past I used to beg friends to take me or pick me up as taxi fares are outrageous and my air travel is 100% personal, so I can't expense taxis as it's not for work. I've talked to the various drivers and I'd say about half the ones I've had don't have another job and they told me basically they were driving because they were having problems finding another job. Few seemed to really like driving for Uber, but they needed the money so they did it. I'm sure that people do exist like in your post, but they also exist like in my post - doing it because they don't really have an alternative.
They aren't the same. The fact that you don't know that means either
1) You're stupid.
2) You've fallen for China's argument that Taiwan is part of China, which means go back to #1.
Taiwan can do whatever it wants with a foreign citizen. The fact that the US invalidated his passport means he shouldn't, in theory, be able to travel away from Taiwan, and indeed he didn't. It's not like you are implying, which apparently you think means "Wilson now isn't a citizen of any country so nobody can send him anywhere he doesn't want to go.' How on earth did you get 5 points for this? Rather than post I would just mod you down but Slashdot really stuck it to me the one time I did that and wouldn't give me mod points for a very long time, so I'd rather just post and say your post sucks and what you said is stupid.
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It's actually quite the opposite. Pagers have no guaranteed delivery, because they are a one way service. The pager does not ever communicate back to the tower (or at least the type most doctors carry don't). If the pager is out of range or has a poor signal at the moment the page is broadcast, you are SOL. On the other hand, SMS will at least hold the message until you connect and then make a best effort to get the message to you.
This is quite right. I see below that someone posted that there are 2 way pagers, which I suppose is fine to let people know that you got a page, but since paging does not use guaranteed delivery, a 2 way pager isn't a complete fix for that. The lack of guaranteed delivery is what finally got my (at the time) department manager to stop using the pager and move to calling mobile phones. We had a few instances where the only notification of a problem was via our on call pager and the on call person didn't get the page and a problem wasn't dealt with for hours.
The evil ones. Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
Even worse, because of this I'm now expecting Trump any day to put forth the theory that this somehow means that the Democrats did not actually win the House in the recent election and the Republican victory was stolen. I live in a red state and if he does this, yes, lots of people here will believe it.
No new value has been created. If anything there will be higher costs from duplicated overheads. The fact that despite this the claim is probably correct and shareholders will get a big bump if this happens (just like when a company does a share split) is testament to how screwed up the economy's idea of 'value' is right now.
Shareholders don't just get a bump from splitting off a company in terms of the parent company going up in value. They often get shares in the new company in some formula like 2 shares of new company X for every 4 shares of old company Y you own, for example. These new shares can be valuable. And until you sell them and have to pay taxes, they sort of are like free money, especially if the former parent company maintains its value or goes up after the spin off.
I don't see Bezos as a guy who would want to spin off AWS. Just because a professor guessed right on Whole Foods doesn't necessarily mean he's right in this case.
EV's are not luxury vehicles for the wealthy, and haven't been for some time.
For example, the Nissan Leaf starts at $30K -- in a country where the average price for a new car is $33K.And no one that's driven a Leaf could confuse it with a Luxury car. Some expensive EV's do receive subsidies... which is good since it means that affluent early adopters pay a premium for new technology and then as the technology is refined, it trickles down into more affordable vehicles.
This is quite right. And note that a lot of Americans who aren't rich/wealthy don't even blink at paying $45000 or more for a pickup truck. That just blows my mind.
I leased a Leaf and while you are right that it's not a luxury car, I did like it a lot and so did my friends and my (now ex) girlfriend. I liked the whole electric car experience. I used it as a 2nd vehicle while I had an older car I used for long trips. I eventually had to cut back to one car and the limited range of the Leaf ruled it out for me as an only vehicle but I would definitely consider an electric vehicle in the future if the range can meet my needs.
Wish I had mod points so I could vote you up. I wish more people would understand that the cutting of state and federal funding is the number one reason why US colleges cost so much.
That Ampere thinks it can compete is a testament to stumbles by Intel, and TSMC's ability to benefit from those mistakes.
Maybe. But from personal experience, I can also say that they might just be stupid. I work in IT for a Fortune 500 company. I never name them here. We do a lot of software as a service type things. We're pretty good at what we do and in some areas we are likely the top dog for US based solutions. The business segment I support isn't sexy at all. But every year we have to deal with multiple startups who try to take our business. Many fail. We often see new companies say they can do everything we do for half the cost. Half the cost? Sure. But in reality they do like 1/3 instead of everything we do. So we have customers who leave over cost and then come back because our competitors really suck. Again, this is just not a sexy business segment in what I work with. This isn't it, but imagine you work for Turbo Tax. You don't just have H&R Block, Tax Slayer, etc. to deal with but every year some punk upstart company says it can do taxes better for way less than you charge. How much better can it really be? Either tax software works or it doesn't. You can't really make it "better". But we still have competitors who claim that this somewhat stagnant business can be done better and cheaper. And every year we watch as they go out of business.
Another problem I've seen with startups is the "We can't possibly fail because we're geniuses!" attitude. Most startups do fail. I know a guy who has spent most of his IT career chasing startup glory and failing. He does make really good money, but he's always having to find a new job with the next startup. The older product I still support was started by a successful startup that my current employer bought out. I can tell you that a large number of people associated with that startup left us within a year or two of the acquisition going through and they went to a few different new startups that various people associated with the original company started. All those startups failed. And a large number of those people returned to my employer, tail between their legs. So sure, maybe what is said about Ampere is true and will happen, but I'm not ruling out that it's a dumb idea and they'll fail at it.
I seem to recall reading that basically Rex Sinquefield threw a bunch of money at 2 of the current USA's top 3 players to get them to change country allegiances to the USA. I think one of the 3 did actually move to the US as a child though. I don't remember his name, but I think it's the guy who was born in Japan.
What just puzzles me, and I have no explanation for it other than the usual "Commies like to win medals in world competitions" explanation, is why China cares so much about chess. They have their own variant, xiang qi, which is extremely popular. Honestly, it's considered a harder game to solve in terms of computational power vs. chess. Because xiang qi is considered a harder game, you could make an argument that China spending so many resources to win chess championships is kind of a case of them slumming and trying to win an "easier" game. Xiang qi strategy is very different from chess strategy and I believe the Chinese did successfully convert one of their best female xiang qi players into a women's chess star, in general I would not expect skills at one to translate well into skills in the other. I suspect once they identify promising chess players, they get them to stop playing xiang qi. To give readers a rough idea of the differences in the games, it's quite common in xiang qi for a knight (they call it "horse") to be moved to the side of the board early in the game whereas in chess that would usually be a bad move and it would be much better placed to be first moved towards the middle.
First link is good. Yeah, that second link is badly wrong, but the first link has the stuff you want to see.
I can personally testify to it having problems. A few weeks ago there was a store I wanted to go to that's about a 15-20 minute drive from my house if I go the most direct way (fewest turns). However, it is possible to shave a good 5 minutes off the drive if I let Google maps direct me through some residential areas. I don't ever go through these areas unless I am letting Google Maps direct me and it involves a large number of turns, so I don't have the path memorized. I used Google Maps to go there, something I have done many times before, because I wanted to save time but it failed. It put me in a loop during the final mile of the drive and it cost me so much time, I should have just gone the direct longer way I knew instead. Once I realized I was in a loop, I did know another shopping center nearby, so I drove there and got out of Google Maps and got back into it. I looked up the exact path and it only required one turn on a street I was familiar with so I drove and I had to actually drive past the part where it kept looping and only then did it give me the correct directions the rest of the way, but I didn't need them at that point. I remain puzzled as to what exactly was wrong with Google Maps and its made me a bit leery of it.
What they will be trying to prosecute, is that it is illegal for a foreign citizen in a foreign nation to report the criminal espionage activity of the United States government in those and other nations, interesting idea. So here I am in Australia, if I see an CIA agent murder an Australian in Australia, the US government wants to be able to prosecute me for the crime of espionage if I publicly report their crime, keeping in mind it is a crime to fail to report a crime, accessory after the fact. So the US government is attempting to demand that citizens all over the world, betray their own countries laws, to keep secret the criminal activities of the US government, in those countries.
No, that's not it at all. Imagine that you are driving a car and reading and writing SMS messages ("text messages" for us US and Canada people) because you aren't paying attention you kill a pedestrian. And now you're crying about looking at 10+ years in jail because "the government doesn't want me to use my phone in the car". No, you're in trouble for killing someone through carelessness.
The problem is not that it's a "crime to report a crime" as you basically claim. The problem is that the documents Wikileaks obtained were classified and they didn't have the US legal right to access them at all, let alone make them available to the world. Also, in the interesting catch 22 situation you came up with, I would hope that the Oz government would recognize your dilemma and not extradite you for obeying their law, but whether they would or not in your scenario is your problem with your government. Stating that the US government is angry about foreign nationals reporting illegal activities is a glib distraction from the real issue, which was illegally accessing classified documents and making them available to the world. The fact that Wikileaks was given the documents doesn't mean that they didn't break the law by having them in the first place when they weren't supposed to. Note that Wikileaks's one attempt to not face legal problems was to contact the US government and say "Hey. Some idiot gave us these classified docs." They didn't. They published them instead.
It's fine to say "we don't want to entice that company to setting up shop" or even "they would come without the incentives, so we shouldn't offer the incentive," but not "we shouldn't be giving away money."
I'm guessing you didn't read that article about 2 weeks ago that got some national attention about what a disaster Wisconsin's Foxxconn deal has been. Go read it. That pretty much qualifies as "giving away money". Best case estimates are that the Foxxconn plant, which as always with Foxxconn is already reduced in size and scope from what they originally promised to build, might be profitable by 2050. Maybe. There's some thought that Scott Walker lost his re-election bid as a direct result of the bad deal with Foxxconn. I know that NY threw almost double the amount of money Northern Virginia did at Amazon and it's not all just tax breaks. The joke is on both of them - I'm pretty sure their subsidies won't go down but they're getting half the number of jobs they offered subsidies for.
But what the SWAT team did was also clearly wrong. They gunned down an innocent person based on nothing but an anonymous phone call.
The prank caller isn't the only one who should be going to prison.
I've come to the conclusion that here in the USA we'll almost never see police held accountable for this kind of thing. There was an episode of South Park where there were major hunting restrictions so to get around them, Jimbo and Ned said "It's coming right at us!" and shot any animal they wanted to. Cops can unfortunately do the same thing. All they have to do is say "I was scared for my life" in court and it seems like about 90% of the time they walk. I can promise you if the police in this case ever go to trial - and I said "if" - that they will just say they were scared and they'll probably walk. There's nothing I can do about juries. They seem inclined to just let the cops kill anybody they want to if they say they were scared.
Switching to EVs does very little good if 95% of your electricity generation is via fossil fuels.
Ah yes. Can't talk about EVs on Slashdot without somebody claiming that they pollute as much or more than gasoline burning cars because, whatever. And again, I point out that there are excellent reasons for moving to electric vehicles that have nothing to do with pollution reduction. I guess I'm going to have to spell this out for you, but given how many petroleum producing countries aren't friendly to Israel and at least one questions its right to even exist, it seems logical to me for Israel to move away from dependence on those countries.
1) As you get older, you need more light to read and you have problems with smaller print. Even my eagle eyed brother had to get glasses eventually after 40+ years of being, as I said, eagle eyed.
2) Young people don't buy physical media of any kind.
So the smaller books would require younger and better eyes to read them but young people don't buy physical media. Not going to work.
Again, why should society pay for interstate highways when there are millions of people who hardly ever use interstate highways? Why should society pay for harbours when most people hardly ever travel by sea? Why should society pay for rail networks when millions of people never travel by rail? Why should society pay for airports when millions of Americans have never taken a commercial flight in their life? The answer is that your questions simplifies the issue far too much, you can't just reduce this to a subsidy and then rage against it. Even if you don't do any of the above things you still benefit indirectly from funding interstate highways, harbours, a rail network and airports. Then there is also that nice warm glow you get when you do like the Christians and their commandments would have you do, i.e. give a damn about somebody other than yourself, like the people in flyover country
I'm American and I live in a pretty large metro area in the USA. I grew up in a small town in my state several hours away from where I live. I'll tell you why I really don't care if rural areas ever get broadband. You know what I hear all the time from people who still live in my hometown and other small towns in my state? This is what I hear all the time.
1) Sarah Palin made a career out of telling small town America that they are the "Real America" and those of us in large metro areas don't matter - at all.
2) I keep hearing how in my large metro area that we are "out of touch" because many of us don't think Trump is the greatest president of all time.
3) I keep hearing how life in their small town simply could not be better.
So no, I am not interested at all in paying to help rural America get broadband given how they've already told me what they think of me just because of where I live.
I'll be zapped for this, but fine: Disney and The Song of the South. Findable, but basically gone. I understand Disney bought all of the available copies and buried it, intending for it never to be released again. Fantasia? There are a couple of Framing Improvements in the current release.
Not true about Song Of The South. The film exists. Disney actually restored it a few years ago. The reason you can't see it is that the restoration was shown to Bob Iger and he said something like his successor could put it out if he/she wanted to, but he wasn't going to touch it. But it is ready to go and could, in theory, come out in the future. For those who don't know, it doesn't even take place during the time of slavery (it's set in the 1870s or 1880s) but it's become a victim to white people who afraid that African Americans are going to revolt if it comes out. I have my doubts that most African Americans care about the film one way or the other, but we live in an age where young people of all races are convinced that cultural appropriation is real and Iger simply doesn't want to deal with any potential backlash on his watch. I haven't heard about Disney buying up copies, but it was never released on DVD and the VHS tapes and the Japanese laserdisc are both long out of print because those are dead formats.
Fantasia is complete now, but a small number of seconds during the Pastoral Symphony sequence have been reframed to remove the (now) culturally inappropriate character named Sunflower. The late Roy O. Disney (Walt's nephew and Roy's son) said that the film was simply never going to be released with Sunflower visible again. Some of the introductory talking sequences by Deems Taylor have lost their original soundtrack so while the video exists, Disney decided to hire a voice actor to redo all the narration so it would be consistent. So the talking sequence videos are now fully restored and have been in the most recent reissue but it doesn't feature the actual original audio.
The QKD approach used by Quantum Xchange works by sending an encoded message in classical bits while the keys to decode it are sent in the form of quantum bits, or qubits. These are typically photons, which travel easily along fiber-optic cables. The beauty of this approach is that any attempt to snoop on a qubit immediately destroys its delicate quantum state, wiping out the information it carries and leaving a telltale sign of an intrusion.
Maybe if I'm a bad guy, I'm quite OK with that. That would be something like a DDOS. Maybe I don't care about trying to steal your quantum encrypted data but I want to deny your ability to transfer data that way so you will move to a method of transmission I can read.
At nodes, keys are decrypted into classical bits and then returned to a quantum state for onward transmission. In theory, a hacker could steal them while they are briefly vulnerable.
Believe me, bad people will certainly do this. One of the ways Blu Ray encryption got cracked is that the players stored the keys unprotected in memory and smart people figured out how to dump the memory to get the keys. National actors who really want access to your data will have no problems trying to attack this weak point in the chain.
Anyone else thinks that feels more Star Trek than Discovery*?
Sure. Lots of people do. Had discussions about this on Facebook with people I know. But there are a lot of Trek haters here on Slashdot or people who hate all Trek after The Next Gen so I wouldn't recommend using Slashdot as a sounding board on this.
I don't know if China has free speech laws.
Well, they have the following type of free speech laws, which I will illustrate via a joke from the early 1960s. By the way, my ex-girlfriend, who was born and raised in China, loved this joke because it really hit home for her.
An American named Jim goes with a tour group to Moscow and while there he meets a local Russian, Ivan. Their conversation goes like this:
Ivan: So, Jim, you are American. How you like trip to Moscow?
Jim: I have enjoyed it very much. Red Square is beautiful and there are so many interesting places in Moscow. The Russian people have been very friendly also.
Ivan: I am glad you like Moscow.
Jim: But there is one thing I don't like. You don't have freedom here.
Ivan: What you mean, we don't have freedom here?
Jim: You can't criticize the government. When I go home, if I want to, I can stand outside the White House and say that the president is a bad man and nobody will arrest me.
Ivan: Oh, it is the same here. If I want, any day I can go stand outside the Kremlin and say that the American president is a bad man and nobody will arrest me.
"Once the darling of design" is right. Actual research shows that the "open office" idea, with no privacy at all, is a terrible idea for a workplace, which maximized distractions and minimized getting things done.
It is. It's awful. In my first job after graduating from college, which was in the 2nd half of the 1980s, we had this kind of office. It was terrible. You heard everything. Yyou knew which of your co-workers were constantly on the phone dealing with family matters instead of working. It was a government job, so nobody got fired. After some years of this, we got moved to a new building and we got cubicles and everybody breathed a sigh of relief. This whole idea that open offices are great is nuts and a few years from now, nobody who backs it is going to believe they could have ever thought it was a good idea. Except maybe Zuckerberg and other millennials. If they were older and had gone through it before, they wouldn't be pushing for it now. Everything in cyclical. Maybe after this fails, people will actually remember how terrible it is and not do it again. Maybe.
I'm admitting that I just looked at the summary. So assuming it's accurate...
Why is it that so many people misunderstand the purpose of electric cars? I don't know why for years now on Slashdot we keep getting posts about articles that nitpick about electric car manufacturing. "Ooh, at one place in your manufacturing chain for 1 second you involved coal, so the whole idea is trash." No it's not. First of all, electric cars don't burn gasoline. Big win there. Reducing petroleum use is a Good Thing. Second, with time electricity sources to both charge said vehicles and produce the batteries could come from renewable sources. The fact that we aren't there today doesn't mean we won't be there soon enough. Having production lines in place to make these vehicles is smart and when the production sources are from renewable energy, what will they complain about next?
Patents are limited to 20 years, hardly unlimited.
Yes. And some patents do expire as planned. Yet perhaps you are unaware of the term "evergreening" which is a way that patents about to expire are extended by making minor changes and then getting a new patent to cover the changes. It's used a lot in the pharmaceutical industry, but not just limited to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>"This letter was a cease-and-desist order,"
Most of these letters have ZERO legal weight, and get thrown-out when submitted to courts. While CBS owns the appearance of the TNG Enterprise, the law clearly allows derivative works (such as parodies and fan-inspired art).
Only a JUDGE has the power to shutdown this endeavor, not some Intern at CBS writing cut-and-paste form letters.
Let me guess. You're not a lawyer. I'm not and at least I'll admit it, but I bet I know a lot more about US law than you do. I've got a handful of friends who are lawyers and they've taught me a lot. I also had a chance once to sit in a discussion on IP and fair use given by a real lawyer who worked in the field.
Parody is protected. This is not parody. I agree that "fain-inspired art" could be OK, if for example, it was for the USS Bartok, a ship in the Star Trek Next Gen universe but never mentioned on the TV show. Doing a recreation of something that clearly belongs to CBS/Paramount, even if not for profit, is very different. Also, yes, a judge could in theory rule in favor of the website, but do you think they have infinite amounts of time and money to fight this? Also, judges are subject to their own personal biases and it's certainly possible that the case could get a judge who sees this as the website basically stealing from CBS/Paramount or if a jury hears it, you probably have to do even less to get them convinced it's outright robbery to do an online recreation. Real world people can't spend the time and money needed to fight these things for what is basically a hobby.
I make double what I was making as a salaried employee. I take uber fairly often and the drivers all have said they make more driving for Uber (duh) than they did at there last job. One even shown me spread sheets of his expenses and his strategies for being available when the fairs are higher. I don't see anyone in the gig economy complaining, so I have no idea where these articles are coming from.
I'm in the USA and I've used Uber quite a few times this year for trips to and from a public transportation station that can take me to the airport. I live in a large metropolitan area and we have a major airport here. In the past I used to beg friends to take me or pick me up as taxi fares are outrageous and my air travel is 100% personal, so I can't expense taxis as it's not for work. I've talked to the various drivers and I'd say about half the ones I've had don't have another job and they told me basically they were driving because they were having problems finding another job. Few seemed to really like driving for Uber, but they needed the money so they did it. I'm sure that people do exist like in your post, but they also exist like in my post - doing it because they don't really have an alternative.
They aren't the same. The fact that you don't know that means either
1) You're stupid.
2) You've fallen for China's argument that Taiwan is part of China, which means go back to #1.
Taiwan can do whatever it wants with a foreign citizen. The fact that the US invalidated his passport means he shouldn't, in theory, be able to travel away from Taiwan, and indeed he didn't. It's not like you are implying, which apparently you think means "Wilson now isn't a citizen of any country so nobody can send him anywhere he doesn't want to go.' How on earth did you get 5 points for this? Rather than post I would just mod you down but Slashdot really stuck it to me the one time I did that and wouldn't give me mod points for a very long time, so I'd rather just post and say your post sucks and what you said is stupid.