As to your last comment, Really? PHP has a host of problems - mainly due to the way they update the language without removing old stuff, and add features haphazardly. This leaves you with twenty different ways to access a database, etc..., etc... Python, on the other hand, has specifically avoided this. 3.x has gone back and fixed core language problems where they existed, and made the experience much more consistent. This is a sign the language is being curated and nurtured, not hacked on like JavaScript or PHP.
If anything, Python is just the opposite: Every upgrade of Python to a new version will invariably break things that once seemed to work. Maybe this has changed in the last few years (I will admit to getting so turned off by having Python apps break after a version update that I tossed Python aside several years ago), but I really can't see how an organization suddenly fixes the inability to remain backwards-compatible with previous releases.
...is the decision to go with MW. Seriously. Look at WikiEmacs, then at EmacsWiki. The main problem with WikiEmacs (the MW version) is that you are forced to read the content in order to find what it is you need. Compare that to EmacsWiki: Links are clearly defined, not embedded in a lot of cruft, and describe exactly what it is that the link points to.
I've said this before: MW is overbloated and has a horrible UI, to the point where navigating most MW sites are excruciatingly painful. Anyone who thinks that MW is actually a user-friendly experience that promotes quick and easy navigation and drill-down is obviously a glutton for punishment and knows nothing about proper UI design.
...for the hundreds of thousands of dollars it must cost to close the world's busiest airport? Is anyone held responsible? Who eats the losses? Do the good citizens of Atlanta? Or is the cost passed on to the airlines, which in turn pass them on to their customers?
Maybe this is why my $600 flight overseas this spring comes with $800 in taxes and fees...because of electric toothbrushes.
If I were the parents, I'd wait until they were convicted, then discuss sentencing options and see about making sure the harm is minimized.
I'm not so sure best parenting practices were followed here by inviting the judicial system into the mix to dole out punishment. A family psychologist might have been the better choice. As a parent, there would have to be some extremely bad shit going down to turn my own children in. This story isn't what I'd call "extremely bad shit," and the parents should be ashamed of themselves for not being able to handle this situation the right way.
...it's not as if Google, HelloFax, and Expensify stand to gain from a paperless office or anything like that. Oh look, there's this little thing called sustainable forestry that ensures a renewable resource like trees is managed properly to (gasp!) provide paper to the masses and a natural resource for visitors.
I noticed a week or two ago that the Google Play store will no longer permit you to submit reviews and ratings for apps if you do not have a Google+ account. No opting out of it either.
I suspect the day is coming where you will have to have a G+ account to even download from the Play store (and what a stupid fucking name that is BTW, Google Play).
It is faintly amusing to me though that I can create an unlimited number of gmail accounts under any nom de plume I choose. Riddle me this: Which has more potential for abuse? (1) The ability to create an unlimited number of fake gmail accounts, or (2) the ability to create an anonymous G+ account?
...until they actually make their archives downloadable to the general public. Their TOS expressly prohibits downloading from the site, which makes their archive useless to the masses. And don't tell me about Warrick...I'm well aware of it, as well as the fact that they haven't been accepting submissions for months.
Here's the relevant cite from the FAQ:
Can people download sites from the Wayback?
Our terms of use specify that users of the Wayback Machine are not to copy data from the collection. If there are special circumstances that you think the Archive should consider, please contact info at archive dot org.
We might as well just get used to the idea of mass shootings occurring on a regular basis with ever increasing body counts.
Or take proactive measures to ensure the safety of every man, woman and child in this country. Which might mean (gasp!) arming teachers and permitting guns to be carried by law-abiding citizens where they are currently banned. In the meantime, the country should do a better job vetting the mentally ill and ensuring they do not have access to firearms. This isn't gun control; it's called common sense.
To paraphrase another poster, the horse has left the barn. Our gun culture in the US is what it is. Instead of trying to do the impossible (disarm the US populace), politicians need to be pushing for measures that will improve mental health care in this country and will help identify those individuals who should not be around guns in the first place.
That's a nice list of US based gun supporting sources you have chosen to backup your statements.
I hardly think pro-gun-control groups will carry the statistics needed to prove my point.
That said, I did provide a couple of non-partisan links in followup posts (if you consider Wikipedia "non-partisan"). Also, you state that an American is 3.5 times more likely to be killed by someone (regardless of weapon). To be complete, you should find some countries that (1) have some form of gun control more strict than the US and (2) have higher per capita homicide rates. I found several, but I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader.
My point in all this is that there is no clear correlation between gun control and crime, despite claims to the contrary.
You are 40 times as likely to be killed in by a firearm in the US (no gun control) as in the UK (no guns).
You are comparing apples and oranges, my friend. Of course murder-by-firearms rates will be lower in countries where the per capita firearm ownership is lower. No one is arguing that.
In fact, the U.S. doesn't even make it in the top 100 when comparing per capita intentional murder rates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate). So one would be hard-pressed to argue that there is a positive correlation between gun control and murder rate (regardless of weapon).
And to be fair: It doesn't make sense to compare murder rates by firearms between countries with varying levels of firearms control. A better comparison is overall murder rate. The U.S. doesn't even make it in the top 37 on a per-capita basis (Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita)
Notice how many "Western" states there are in this listing, all with gun control policies far stricter than the U.S. Apparently, they are killing each other with items other than guns.
I would not buy one for just that reason. A couple of Kahrs I own do not have safeties. But I have never "accidentally" fired off a round, because I'm rather meticulous about the 5 rules of gun safety:
1. All guns are always loaded. 2. Don't let the muzzle of the gun cross anything you're not prepared to shoot. 3. Keep your finger out of the trigger guard, up on the frame of the gun, until the sights are on target and you're prepared to shoot. 4. Always be sure of your target and what's beyond it. 5. Maintain control of your gun.
Every other western nation has seriously controlled guns and their level of gun violence is dramatically lower than in the US.
Cite needed.
Oh wait, I've got some cites you can use:
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws, states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%. If those states that did not permit concealed handguns in 1992 had permitted them back then, citizens might have been spared approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and 12,000 robberies. To put it even more simply Criminals, we found, respond rationally to deterrence threats. Source: More Guns Equal Less Violent Crime by Professor John R. Lott, Jr. University of Chicago Law School
This is one of the favorite arguments of gun control proponents, and yet the facts show that there is simply no correlation between gun control laws and murder or suicide rates across a wide spectrum of nations and cultures. In Israel and Switzerland, for example, a license to possess guns is available on demand to every law-abiding adult, and guns are easily obtainable in both nations. Both countries also allow widespread carrying of concealed firearms, and yet, admits Dr. Arthur Kellerman, one of the foremost medical advocates of gun control, Switzerland and Israel âoehave rates of homicide that are low despite rates of home firearm ownership that are at least as high as those in the United States.â A comparison of crime rates within Europe reveals no correlation between access to guns and crime. Source: Gun Control: Myths and Realities David Lampo, Cato Institute
According to the study, published last year in The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, European nations with more guns had lower murder rates. As summarized in a brief filed by several criminologists and other scholars supporting the challenge to the Washington law, the seven nations with the most guns per capita had 1.2 murders annually for every 100,000 people. The rate in the nine nations with the fewest guns was 4.4. Source: Gun Laws and Crime: A Complex Relationship By ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times
...at least back when Boeing had a presence in Wichita, KS in the 80's. They shot dead chickens out of a specially-built canon to simulate windshield strikes. My understanding is that jet engine manufacturers still use chicken canons to fire birds into running jet engines.
Basically Google appears to be hellbent on getting their foundering social platform going, and is pulling people off other - arguably more useful - projects in an attempt to somehow accomplish this.
I just noticed that Google is now requiring a Google+ account to leave app reviews on the Google Play store. I've noticed that in conjunction with this change, there are many apps where the latest reviews are from "A Google User," meaning people aren't rushing to create Google+ accounts to leave feedback.
This not only sucks for users, but sucks for developers who depend upon user feedback to determine how their apps are faring.
Nice job, Google. Way to further alienate your user base.
Anyone with a diagnostic cable and the car has access to the data.
This is absolutely not true. Event data records from the EDR is not accessible via the OBD-2 protocol; proprietary software from the manufacturer (or in the case of airbag deployment, third-party software) is required. So your statement that "anyone" can access the data in question is patently false.
...I was transported back to my air traffic control days. There was a high performance aircraft called a Mooney 20 that was favored by doctors and lawyers with way too much money on their hands. The Mooney was a tricky aircraft to fly, lots of airplane to handle for the uninitiated. Mooney pilots in crisis were the worst pilots to deal with due to their relative lack of inexperience. The running joke was that each Mooney came equipped with a "golden spike" mounted on the door, impaling unsuspecting pilots in the head and rendering them stupid.
Needless to say, a company called "Golden Spike" would not be a company I'd prefer to take me to the moon and back.
Quite frankly I don't think it should even be a choice.
My son almost died when he went into anaphylactic shock immediately after receiving an MMR vaccination. This happened again a year later. Suffice to say, my son is medically exempt from ever having to take the MMR in his lifetime. It does happen (and yes, I understand this is not the same as linking vaccinations to autism), so there would have to be exceptions carved out of such a policy that do not require a proverbial act of Congress to invoke.
...but isn't perchlorate an ion? The article reads:
including signs of an intriguing compound called perchlorate
Did they detect perchlorate ions? Or perchlorate compounds? Or perchlorates perhaps? I'm sorry, but this just struck me as a rather in-your-face mistake if that is indeed how it was reported. Or maybe I'm just being pedantic and should find a better use of my time?
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As to your last comment, Really? PHP has a host of problems - mainly due to the way they update the language without removing old stuff, and add features haphazardly. This leaves you with twenty different ways to access a database, etc..., etc... Python, on the other hand, has specifically avoided this. 3.x has gone back and fixed core language problems where they existed, and made the experience much more consistent. This is a sign the language is being curated and nurtured, not hacked on like JavaScript or PHP.
If anything, Python is just the opposite: Every upgrade of Python to a new version will invariably break things that once seemed to work. Maybe this has changed in the last few years (I will admit to getting so turned off by having Python apps break after a version update that I tossed Python aside several years ago), but I really can't see how an organization suddenly fixes the inability to remain backwards-compatible with previous releases.
...is the decision to go with MW. Seriously. Look at WikiEmacs, then at EmacsWiki. The main problem with WikiEmacs (the MW version) is that you are forced to read the content in order to find what it is you need. Compare that to EmacsWiki: Links are clearly defined, not embedded in a lot of cruft, and describe exactly what it is that the link points to.
I've said this before: MW is overbloated and has a horrible UI, to the point where navigating most MW sites are excruciatingly painful. Anyone who thinks that MW is actually a user-friendly experience that promotes quick and easy navigation and drill-down is obviously a glutton for punishment and knows nothing about proper UI design.
Bruce Schneier knew about the universe before it was cool.
FTFY.
...for the hundreds of thousands of dollars it must cost to close the world's busiest airport? Is anyone held responsible? Who eats the losses? Do the good citizens of Atlanta? Or is the cost passed on to the airlines, which in turn pass them on to their customers?
Maybe this is why my $600 flight overseas this spring comes with $800 in taxes and fees...because of electric toothbrushes.
If I were the parents, I'd wait until they were convicted, then discuss sentencing options and see about making sure the harm is minimized.
I'm not so sure best parenting practices were followed here by inviting the judicial system into the mix to dole out punishment. A family psychologist might have been the better choice. As a parent, there would have to be some extremely bad shit going down to turn my own children in. This story isn't what I'd call "extremely bad shit," and the parents should be ashamed of themselves for not being able to handle this situation the right way.
The feds rated it at 25/31, average 28 mpg. No way you were averaging 10 mpg over...
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/11683.shtml
22-30mpg is crap. I've had better mileage than that for over a decade even on US made autos.
In the past decade? I call bullshit. Prove it or shut up.
...it's not as if Google, HelloFax, and Expensify stand to gain from a paperless office or anything like that. Oh look, there's this little thing called sustainable forestry that ensures a renewable resource like trees is managed properly to (gasp!) provide paper to the masses and a natural resource for visitors.
it made me a Google+ profile which I didn't want.
I noticed a week or two ago that the Google Play store will no longer permit you to submit reviews and ratings for apps if you do not have a Google+ account. No opting out of it either.
I suspect the day is coming where you will have to have a G+ account to even download from the Play store (and what a stupid fucking name that is BTW, Google Play).
It is faintly amusing to me though that I can create an unlimited number of gmail accounts under any nom de plume I choose. Riddle me this: Which has more potential for abuse? (1) The ability to create an unlimited number of fake gmail accounts, or (2) the ability to create an anonymous G+ account?
...until they actually make their archives downloadable to the general public. Their TOS expressly prohibits downloading from the site, which makes their archive useless to the masses. And don't tell me about Warrick...I'm well aware of it, as well as the fact that they haven't been accepting submissions for months.
Here's the relevant cite from the FAQ:
Can people download sites from the Wayback?
Our terms of use specify that users of the Wayback Machine are not to copy data from the collection. If there are special circumstances that you think the Archive should consider, please contact info at archive dot org.
I seem to get mod points every two or three weeks now...I'd be glad to toss some your way.
We might as well just get used to the idea of mass shootings occurring on a regular basis with ever increasing body counts.
Or take proactive measures to ensure the safety of every man, woman and child in this country. Which might mean (gasp!) arming teachers and permitting guns to be carried by law-abiding citizens where they are currently banned. In the meantime, the country should do a better job vetting the mentally ill and ensuring they do not have access to firearms. This isn't gun control; it's called common sense.
To paraphrase another poster, the horse has left the barn. Our gun culture in the US is what it is. Instead of trying to do the impossible (disarm the US populace), politicians need to be pushing for measures that will improve mental health care in this country and will help identify those individuals who should not be around guns in the first place.
That's a nice list of US based gun supporting sources you have chosen to backup your statements.
I hardly think pro-gun-control groups will carry the statistics needed to prove my point.
That said, I did provide a couple of non-partisan links in followup posts (if you consider Wikipedia "non-partisan"). Also, you state that an American is 3.5 times more likely to be killed by someone (regardless of weapon). To be complete, you should find some countries that (1) have some form of gun control more strict than the US and (2) have higher per capita homicide rates. I found several, but I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader.
My point in all this is that there is no clear correlation between gun control and crime, despite claims to the contrary.
You are 40 times as likely to be killed in by a firearm in the US (no gun control) as in the UK (no guns).
You are comparing apples and oranges, my friend. Of course murder-by-firearms rates will be lower in countries where the per capita firearm ownership is lower. No one is arguing that.
In fact, the U.S. doesn't even make it in the top 100 when comparing per capita intentional murder rates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate). So one would be hard-pressed to argue that there is a positive correlation between gun control and murder rate (regardless of weapon).
And to be fair: It doesn't make sense to compare murder rates by firearms between countries with varying levels of firearms control. A better comparison is overall murder rate. The U.S. doesn't even make it in the top 37 on a per-capita basis (Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita)
Notice how many "Western" states there are in this listing, all with gun control policies far stricter than the U.S. Apparently, they are killing each other with items other than guns.
I would not buy one for just that reason. A couple of Kahrs I own do not have safeties. But I have never "accidentally" fired off a round, because I'm rather meticulous about the 5 rules of gun safety:
1. All guns are always loaded.
2. Don't let the muzzle of the gun cross anything you're not prepared to shoot.
3. Keep your finger out of the trigger guard, up on the frame of the gun, until the sights are on target and you're prepared to shoot.
4. Always be sure of your target and what's beyond it.
5. Maintain control of your gun.
(I did not make these up nor claim credit for them. Expanded details can be found here: http://www.spw-duf.info/safety.html)
Every other western nation has seriously controlled guns and their level of gun violence is dramatically lower than in the US.
Cite needed.
Oh wait, I've got some cites you can use:
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws, states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%. If those states that did not permit concealed handguns in 1992 had permitted them back then, citizens might have been spared approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and 12,000 robberies. To put it even more simply Criminals, we found, respond rationally to deterrence threats.
Source: More Guns Equal Less Violent Crime
by Professor John R. Lott, Jr.
University of Chicago Law School
This is one of the favorite arguments of gun control proponents, and yet the facts show that there is simply no correlation between gun control laws and murder or suicide rates across a wide spectrum of nations and cultures. In Israel and Switzerland, for example, a license to possess guns is available on demand to every law-abiding adult, and guns are easily obtainable in both nations. Both countries also allow widespread carrying of concealed firearms, and yet, admits Dr. Arthur Kellerman, one of the foremost medical advocates of gun control, Switzerland and Israel âoehave rates of homicide that are low despite rates of home firearm ownership that are at least as high as those in the United States.â A comparison of crime rates within Europe reveals no correlation between access to guns and crime.
Source: Gun Control: Myths and Realities
David Lampo, Cato Institute
According to the study, published last year in The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, European nations with more guns had lower murder rates. As summarized in a brief filed by several criminologists and other scholars supporting the challenge to the Washington law, the seven nations with the most guns per capita had 1.2 murders annually for every 100,000 people. The rate in the nine nations with the fewest guns was 4.4.
Source: Gun Laws and Crime: A Complex Relationship
By ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times
...at least back when Boeing had a presence in Wichita, KS in the 80's. They shot dead chickens out of a specially-built canon to simulate windshield strikes. My understanding is that jet engine manufacturers still use chicken canons to fire birds into running jet engines.
Now if only you could actually order a Raspberry Pi to run your software with, now that would be something to post on /. about!
Basically Google appears to be hellbent on getting their foundering social platform going, and is pulling people off other - arguably more useful - projects in an attempt to somehow accomplish this.
I just noticed that Google is now requiring a Google+ account to leave app reviews on the Google Play store. I've noticed that in conjunction with this change, there are many apps where the latest reviews are from "A Google User," meaning people aren't rushing to create Google+ accounts to leave feedback.
This not only sucks for users, but sucks for developers who depend upon user feedback to determine how their apps are faring.
Nice job, Google. Way to further alienate your user base.
Anyone with a diagnostic cable and the car has access to the data.
This is absolutely not true. Event data records from the EDR is not accessible via the OBD-2 protocol; proprietary software from the manufacturer (or in the case of airbag deployment, third-party software) is required. So your statement that "anyone" can access the data in question is patently false.
...I was transported back to my air traffic control days. There was a high performance aircraft called a Mooney 20 that was favored by doctors and lawyers with way too much money on their hands. The Mooney was a tricky aircraft to fly, lots of airplane to handle for the uninitiated. Mooney pilots in crisis were the worst pilots to deal with due to their relative lack of inexperience. The running joke was that each Mooney came equipped with a "golden spike" mounted on the door, impaling unsuspecting pilots in the head and rendering them stupid.
Needless to say, a company called "Golden Spike" would not be a company I'd prefer to take me to the moon and back.
Quite frankly I don't think it should even be a choice.
My son almost died when he went into anaphylactic shock immediately after receiving an MMR vaccination. This happened again a year later. Suffice to say, my son is medically exempt from ever having to take the MMR in his lifetime. It does happen (and yes, I understand this is not the same as linking vaccinations to autism), so there would have to be exceptions carved out of such a policy that do not require a proverbial act of Congress to invoke.
...but isn't perchlorate an ion? The article reads:
including signs of an intriguing compound called perchlorate
Did they detect perchlorate ions? Or perchlorate compounds? Or perchlorates perhaps? I'm sorry, but this just struck me as a rather in-your-face mistake if that is indeed how it was reported. Or maybe I'm just being pedantic and should find a better use of my time?