GM will also work with Lyft to set up a series of short-term car rental hubs across the United States, places where people who do not own cars can pick up a vehicle and drive for Lyft to earn money.
its all good up to the lyft for money plug. Lyft and Uber as a 'play taxi for cash' concept is break-even at best. These services will exist for maybe 5-6 more years before folding or being gobbled up by taxi companies under a combination of legislative overhaul targeting the livery vehicle segment, and the fact that neither of these options lets their "contractors" put food on the table. GM is hoping to cash in on two companies skirting multiple federal and state labour and taxi regulations before said companies collapse...but why?
because GM has seen the writing on the wall for the past 10 years. Millenials drive less, not more than previous generations and so far interfaces for their phones to their cars doesnt seem to be enticing them to change that trend. Its partly the culture, and partly the great recession of 2008 thats pushed this segment of budding new drivers into the climate controlled hull of city busses and taxis, and more importantly, used cars. Millenials buy more things online and less things at malls and shopping centers, meaning less driving of those used cars overall. GM is using lyft as a marketing device, but if the only association millenials take from their experience with GM's venture is scraping together rent and sitting in gridlock on saturday nights while the cool kids party, its not going to get them far.
ah, turning 20 and enjoying 10% recognition. reminds me of my youth.
but seriously guys. theres no excuse other than laziness at this point. home docsis3 routers are dual stack, and hurricanes 6-2-4 gateways have done heavy lifting for a decade now. lets make 15% a 2016 resolution.
most, if not all passenger diesels have been turbocharged for about 30 years. Datsun was one of the only companies not to do it. imho they get good mileage because of their weight/displacement ratio and aerodynamics, or just flat-out lying. the problem Id venture is that a new turbo will always feel smart and strong, but give it 160k miles and without a resurface or rebuilt, the burnt-down fins will cause performance to suffer.
Antigel is crucial. not for 30-40 degree cold starts, but for the bone-cracking cold. the "winter blend" diesel is what youre thinking about, and that covers above freezing, but -40 will require a gel arrestor. especially if you like biodiesel (which has no winterblend.) OTR trucks can "roll coal" all day long, theyre largely exempt from EPA rules. passenger cars, as other posters have noted, have tank heaters but id be very, very surprised if they can handle -30 or more. long haul tank heaters keep caps from freezing and fuel at the top of the tank from gelling/slurrying
urea? that used to be the case. now-a-days everything has a tank. they generally last 6mo to a year. long haul trucks measure in hours in service or miles in service.
Before taking a job in systems administration, I used to hold a CDL and drive regional/long haul for a trucking company. Everything we had was, of course, diesel because we run mostly on highways and at fourty tons our speed isnt a huge priority. in fact, we sometimes drive under the speed limit to make up mileage/save fuel based on projected consumption. the diesel car, for all its promises, is a break-even proposition at best.
speed: outside of a few concept sports cars, diesel isnt about speed but torque. in trucking we compensate by turbocharging our engines, to make the lives of normal drivers easier. without turbos it would take ten minutes or more to get up to speed. the tradeoff is bad mileage. coldstart: cold start problems will always exist. for those of you in minneapolis or duluth, I see you shopping for the same antigel treatments and fuel additives for your audi that I use on my freighliner, and the truth is theyre awful for emissions and even worse for mileage. emissions systems are often programmed to detect and correct for them. they dont always work in the coldest weather, and consumer autos dont have fuel tank heaters or radiator louvres. "cleanliness": no. hell no. On my Freightliner CL Columbia truck, I had no less than 6 gauges for the emissions system. everything from exhaust backpressure to air-in temp, exhaust temp, and temperature monitors on the scrubber DPF CV. sometimes id sit idling for 15 minutes just to make sure my emissions layout was "green" before taking off, because if its not ill blow smoke for miles down the highway. urea tanks and injectors need to be filled and cleaned respectively at regular intervals, and in long haul trucking this is a no brainer. we have a very user friendly interface for monitoring and planning refill. but car drivers? do you really want to worry about the car dropping down into "limp home" mode when you forget to top off the tank? it could strand you on the highway at 24 miles per hour.
finally, theres the godless process of smogging. what might fly in one state, wont in another, and as more states adopt emissions standards that require smog checks, more of these older diesel cars will fail outright. for most trucks, if you can smell the diesel smell, you wont pass.
call me a greybeard but ill be in the cold cold ground before I recognize Ununseptium. These damn kids with their designer isotopes that clock less than a second of half-life. superheavy artificial chemical elements are almost as offensive as those hooligans in the physics department with their infernal "strings." "oh its just a theoretical framework, daddy-o, in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced..." theyll say, but what in the hell do you put in place of them!? "those groovy one-dimensional objects called strings." theyll croon, probably high on their marijuana reefer cigarettes.
Mark my words, this never would have happened if Reagan were still president, and the science department hadn't quit making me handle mercury in my cupped hands for demonstrations.
royal marine private" can we come in yet? its really cold out here. sergeant: negative soldier. we are to be her majesties largest atlantic marine reserve. officer: my floatie has a leak... major: Look alive soldiers! we've got a bit of large trout closing on our position!! ammunition technician boys ive got some real bad news...
Imagine how nerve-racking â" terrifying, even â" tweeting would be if it was immutable and irrevocable?
in the tricky world of social media, You can call your product "customers" and insist theyre a close friend of the brand. you can insist your "service" is in fact to their benefit for communication when in fact it is merely a portal into which you collect their content. But the real danger comes when a majority of the cattle consider your social media offering a democratic and/or community project outside your definitions of the words.
twitter, facebook, instagram --any social site really-- operates on the model of a large farm. The cattle are free to eat as much as they want, sleep as much as they want, and produce as much as they want so long as they dont kick or bite the other cattle, and so long as they dont produce bad milk or meat for the actual customer. Twitter shut down politwoops because it was bad for their brand to make the most important cattle unappealing in the marketplace.
but without cyber hackers... who is there to fight off online terrorists?
I understand the goal of these cyber hackers but they need to be very careful messing with the BBC...Jeremy Clarkson isnt up to much these days and i hear he's got a real mean right hook.
1991 microsoft: we dominate every PC on the planet. weve crushed countless office competitors and even have a hand in CPUs. Java is a bloodbath. we crush all comers with embrace, extend, extinguish. 2015 microsoft: we layed off 26,000 employees and strike out hard, yearly, on phones and tablets. Apples profits, once laughable, now are five times ours. we lost 2.5 billion dollars in 2010. next year we lost another 700 million. The best we managed to do is put a voice assistant in windows and buy everyone even close to a television camera in the NFL a surface tablet, which is still constantly referred to as an ipad. That thing we used to not care about at all, Linux, is now the number 1 operating system and thats only taking into account cellphones. We sat idly by as one of the largest game distributors in the world rolled out almost ubiquitous support for this OS. no one uses our cloud or our appstore but make selfie apps now.
Almost 45 years later, staff gathered to mark the Reactor One switch-off
reactor team so rory left on holiday for spain yesterday and told us, rite, to make sure we shut everything off before new years. so i dont know if that means the reactor too or if he wants that on... cheeky bloke: he was a right bastard last year 'bout not turning off that kettle in the kitchen though mates... reactor team: right right... best to shut off the ole magnox lest he send another of those fiery emails. cheeky bloke: nobody!? right. ill get the sodding kettle then.
Twitter is a business. You, the cattle, are free to imbibe at the trough so long as you dont:
1. kick or bite other cattle
2. produce bad milk.
Just because youre the biggest user of the pasture, doesnt mean you own the farm.
editorial authority: guise linux its...its just not ready for the desktop. its got graphics driver issues... community: the ones preventing nearly 200 steam games from running on it? editorial authority nonono guys its worse than that see theres audio problems too, the audio has problems community: you mean with the countless instructibles articles on home theater via the pi? editorial authority: guys i wish it were that simple but you see X has the issues too, its wayland isnt ready. community: you...you know those two things are completely different right? xorgs been stable for a decade.... editorial authority: the font is ugly. community:...pick...another one? editorial authority: its fragmented...the desktops....theyre all fragmented. community:....what? editorial authority: and i heard linux torval yelling at people too.
Faced with a shrinking budget and poor economic conditions
from nearly a decade of western sanctions in retaliation for attempting to enforce the post cold-war agreed upon limits on NATO expansion. and as a result of rising costs from fighting a war to prevent the overthrow of a soverign foreign ally by a conglomerate of western backed terrorists as well as muslim extremists whom themselves came to fruition solely by a pointless war of aggression in Iraq to unseat another soverign foreign leader.
Like all government agencies divorced from profit and loss, its primary task is really to provide pork barrel jobs
yes. this was the unfortuate problem in the soviet union. After having invented the ion drive, the first lunar rover, the first space capsule, the first satellite, and orbiting the first man around the earth the USSR's bloated government agency charged with space exploration had delivered nothing more than technological revolution, the most popular modern commercial satellite launch facility in the world at baikonur, and uh, pork.
Russia will have a very expensive space program for the next decade, but the money spent will not accomplish much of anything new.
you mean like the united states, where most of the money attributed to space exploration is squandered into pet projects for senators states or pissed away to the tune of military riders and defense oriented contracts that contribute nothing to the overall goal of interstellar or even orbital scientific exploration for that matter.
Maybe stealth should be reconsidered when applied to robotics. Other applications should be considered. For example, imagine 230 of these robots, each as noisy as a lawnmower and as terrifying as war itself, charging over a hillside in bevis and butthead masks. And as a peacekeeping force they would be unsurpassed! either keep the peace, or we send these things back around christmas decked in flashing lights and dressed as bea arthur.
many states and municipalities that are explicitly banning flights within cities and over homes
By the FAA's definition, a drone is an aircraft. States and municipaliteis dont have the unilateral authority to declare no-fly zones. thats the UN security council, NATO, NORAD, and the FAA. its the same reason why as an amateur radeo operator, the local law prohibiting my short wave antenna is entirely unenforceable. Radio communication is the sacrosanct jurisdiction of the FCC.
The United States then had a huge advantage over the Soviet Union, with a nuclear arsenal about 10 times as big.
No, it didnt. The US had a firm understanding that every missile the soviet union posessed, every single ICBM since the mid seventies, contained between 10 and 32 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. Each missile could impact more than a dozen cities with a near perfect mortality rate. The folly of the cold war wasnt in numbers, it was that those numbers in the context of the power of a nuclear bomb were meaningless. MAD didnt ensure peace, it only assured we found more creative, clever means of inching closer to destruction. It was brinksmanship of the cuban missile crisis that ultimately caused the US to back away from the bomb and in turn pull their missiles from Turkey.
The software involved applied the inmates' good behavior credits to each section of their sentence
So we're going to have to refactor the code to include subroutines and functions that support the US criminal justice systems perogative of biblical retribution it seems. For those worried about the inmates released, you can sleep soundly tonight knowing they are barred from most forms of employment, voting, public assistance, loans, and education grants after being released under the auspices that they are now rehabilitated. homeless shelters will also refuse service in many cases to convicted felons. So thanks to this system the only thing an early release ensures is an early re-incarceration due to a life-by-default of petty theft and drug trade.
as an american, I avoid outright any travel during the holidays. I can visit my family cheaper and with far less hassle any other time during the year. That having been said -- and I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion -- I've had relatively productive experiences with the TSA sans a few minor run-ins, likely enacted as part of the general TSA theatricality.
Returning to LA from Ohio on a business trip I was detained after an explosives detector found something on my hands. I was led to a small concrete room with two bluecoats and my carry-on was privately searched. I explained a bar of soap, and they packed everything as they found it and sent me on my way. Another time, I decided to exit the very tedious screening line to get a beer at an adjacent microbrewery in the portland airport. Big mistake. I was detained by police and questioned for leaving the line. I told them the line was boring, and I wanted beer. After refusing to answer a few questions about religion and my laptop password, my laptop was confiscated and i was free to return to the pub. I rescheduled my flight, shared a laugh with the bartender, and re-entered the line only to be followed by the cops again to my gate. My laptop was returned, along with an apology and some rambling nonsense about muslims. They didnt crack a smile until I asked how many beers the average muslim drinks in a day.
Travel is simple, with a few caveats*, in america. board with a smile, speak softly, dress comfortably, and keep entertained. Im willing to suspect most TSA officers wont turn away a kind face asking for an opt out.
*simple travel may not be available to anyone of middle eastern, south asian, or african american descent.
not since the april fools teapot code has something so silly been proposed. from TFA:
the 403 status code says "Forbidden", but it doesn't say "I can't show you that for legal reasons."
because 403 is relaying constraints affected upon the target site path from the browsers configuration. "I cant show you that for legal reasons" is explained by blogs, chilling effects, boingboing, twitter, email, mailing lists, and sometimes even slashdot. keep your social web bullshit out of my nginx. all this code does is afford one more excuse for the user to stop investigating why or how this site was blocked. the new code isnt a redirect to information, and conveys nothing meaningful outside of boilerplating.
By its nature, you can't guarantee that all attempts to censor content will be conveniently labeled by the censor.
thats right. multinational corporations that dont want you reading about salmonella outbreaks and exploding recalls will not use 451. they will purchase an abundance of airtime on $news-website and then threaten any evidence of coverage with bankrupting the site. additionally your government isnt about to 451 your favourite e-zine that exposes the secret torture prison in cuba, theyll just null route that traffic. the FBI just hijacks your DNS and points it to their boilerplate eagle and shield jpg designed by a bureaucrat with all the comprehension of internet censorship as a four year old. Did your favourite website just get a gag order and secret court warrant? that sorry, 451 isnt going to show up because it would violate the conditions of the gag order. 451 is as useless as do not track, but social justice warriors love it.
I blame windows for this, but mostly because im a neckbeard. This is every bit as much the IT Managers fault for investing in technology and not people. What we have in this foul year of our lord 2015 is infrastructure managed by support ticket and not seasoned admin and as an old unix hand Im frankly chuckling whenever I see revelations of backdoors. These vendors include this garbage because they understand the race to the bottom includes hiring a junior admin to handle the stack for half the cost of a greybeard. The consequence of this is paying the rest of that greybeard salary times three to Juniper, who in turn need a way to un-fsck the device once junior leaves, or completely cocks up the device.
dont think of it as a backdoor. think of it as the technological equivalent of child safety locks or those little plastic outlet covers. The vendor doesnt trust you to handle the device on your own terms, because the majority of the vendors customers cant seem to make it much beyond the boot prompt before bricking the device. an argument could also be made that its not the fault of the admin here. Juniper took the logical, moneytrain route of locking away all their documentation to the licensed cloistered elite, so if youre out 3 admins of turnover and the support contract has been ignored for a month, that backdoor is likely getting used to bring you back into the loving embrace of the vendor.
now for the soap box. Back in my day there were real repercussions for not knowing your kit. You couldnt just open a support ticket and wait for a fix on an HPUX handling thirty million transactions per second. You needed to have a good escalation path in your organization to make sure problems got solved quickly, and management has forgotten the value of the most expensive part of this equation, the greybeard. Maybe we never had good visibility, or our people skills were just mediocre, but i for one am ambivalent about this kind of dictatorial lording over appliance, SaS, and anything "cloud."
Thinking about things is abhorrent and vile. Why just the other day, I considered making a cup of tea, but I stopped in the nick of time. Why? Because that tea might have been dangerously hot. crisis, averted.
A few hours ago while driving to work i considered, but for a fleeting moment, that I should hang out with my friends at the pub tonight but nay! belay that thought...because drinking an alcoholic lager beer would certainly impair my abiltiies and make me a roaring powderkeg at the snooker table. Christs whiskers just this instant I considered getting a bagel from the coffee shop next door but sweet mother mercy I shouldnt dream such lascivious fancy...that bagel could have gluten...the devils chewy delight.
And how exactly did having little contact with the Russians hurt the American economy?
I apologise if im not following completely, but our isolationist standoff with the USSR cost us two buildings during the terrorist attack of 9/11 and it plunged us into deep recession. How? one of our many proxy wars with the former soviet union was in Afghanistan in which we backed the Mujahadeen in their efforts to resist occupation by Soviet forces. we provided arms and advanced training, and in doing so helped create the Taliban. we fought these wars in a continued push to isolate and contain the USSR based on our limited knowledge of russian social and domestic policy.
They're technologically backwards and really have nothing of value to offer except for oil.
Or modern algebra, judeochristian philosophy, coffee, cateract surgery, the vertical axis windmill, mercuric chloride, the first known rocket driven torpedo, or a little instrument known as the guitar.
Militarily they are no threat whatsoever
offtopic. immigration policy in the context of international diplomacy and multiculturalism have nothing to do with military power. but to be fair, the Persian nation of Iran did manage to with great success hijack and safely land our most advanced stealth drone, the RQ-110, in 2011.
If we weren't so interested in their oil, we'd have nothing to lose by simply practicing a policy of isolation and containment with them.
youre right! the Carter doctrine of foreign policy stipulates we have to spend an inordinate amount of time, and resources, in order to secure middle eastern oil not for ourselves, but against other nations. we import it at a fraction of its capacity, but we dominate its export with intent.
I would argue to the contrary as youre assuming a short term definition. While not strictly necesary in the short term, an outright ban on middle eastern nations has a significant long term impact on our ability to understand, react to and interact with these cultures. shunning these immigrants would beget demonizing the region and cultures and, much as demonizing communists/reds/russians in the sixties, would lead to strategic and tactical disadvantages as we supplant knowledge for rhetoric. A prime example lies in the Tupolev bomber, which was consistently outclassing our best range and capability assessments as they were founded on a fundamental predicate of soviet 'inadequacy.' We based much of our political interaction with russians on the rhetoric of politicians and social scientists who, without direct access to a communist russian, simply assumed that due to their atheism they were untrustworthy scoundrels.
considering society as an organism, diversity in organisms enhances their survival capabilities while enhancing a monoculture causes increased succeptibility to its environment. Becoming less adaptive and diverse would naturally be in a nations least interest.
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GM will also work with Lyft to set up a series of short-term car rental hubs across the United States, places where people who do not own cars can pick up a vehicle and drive for Lyft to earn money.
its all good up to the lyft for money plug. Lyft and Uber as a 'play taxi for cash' concept is break-even at best. These services will exist for maybe 5-6 more years before folding or being gobbled up by taxi companies under a combination of legislative overhaul targeting the livery vehicle segment, and the fact that neither of these options lets their "contractors" put food on the table. GM is hoping to cash in on two companies skirting multiple federal and state labour and taxi regulations before said companies collapse...but why?
because GM has seen the writing on the wall for the past 10 years. Millenials drive less, not more than previous generations and so far interfaces for their phones to their cars doesnt seem to be enticing them to change that trend. Its partly the culture, and partly the great recession of 2008 thats pushed this segment of budding new drivers into the climate controlled hull of city busses and taxis, and more importantly, used cars. Millenials buy more things online and less things at malls and shopping centers, meaning less driving of those used cars overall. GM is using lyft as a marketing device, but if the only association millenials take from their experience with GM's venture is scraping together rent and sitting in gridlock on saturday nights while the cool kids party, its not going to get them far.
ah, turning 20 and enjoying 10% recognition. reminds me of my youth. but seriously guys. theres no excuse other than laziness at this point. home docsis3 routers are dual stack, and hurricanes 6-2-4 gateways have done heavy lifting for a decade now. lets make 15% a 2016 resolution.
most, if not all passenger diesels have been turbocharged for about 30 years. Datsun was one of the only companies not to do it. imho they get good mileage because of their weight/displacement ratio and aerodynamics, or just flat-out lying. the problem Id venture is that a new turbo will always feel smart and strong, but give it 160k miles and without a resurface or rebuilt, the burnt-down fins will cause performance to suffer.
Antigel is crucial. not for 30-40 degree cold starts, but for the bone-cracking cold. the "winter blend" diesel is what youre thinking about, and that covers above freezing, but -40 will require a gel arrestor. especially if you like biodiesel (which has no winterblend.) OTR trucks can "roll coal" all day long, theyre largely exempt from EPA rules. passenger cars, as other posters have noted, have tank heaters but id be very, very surprised if they can handle -30 or more. long haul tank heaters keep caps from freezing and fuel at the top of the tank from gelling/slurrying
urea? that used to be the case. now-a-days everything has a tank. they generally last 6mo to a year. long haul trucks measure in hours in service or miles in service.
Before taking a job in systems administration, I used to hold a CDL and drive regional/long haul for a trucking company. Everything we had was, of course, diesel because we run mostly on highways and at fourty tons our speed isnt a huge priority. in fact, we sometimes drive under the speed limit to make up mileage/save fuel based on projected consumption. the diesel car, for all its promises, is a break-even proposition at best.
speed: outside of a few concept sports cars, diesel isnt about speed but torque. in trucking we compensate by turbocharging our engines, to make the lives of normal drivers easier. without turbos it would take ten minutes or more to get up to speed. the tradeoff is bad mileage.
coldstart: cold start problems will always exist. for those of you in minneapolis or duluth, I see you shopping for the same antigel treatments and fuel additives for your audi that I use on my freighliner, and the truth is theyre awful for emissions and even worse for mileage. emissions systems are often programmed to detect and correct for them. they dont always work in the coldest weather, and consumer autos dont have fuel tank heaters or radiator louvres.
"cleanliness": no. hell no. On my Freightliner CL Columbia truck, I had no less than 6 gauges for the emissions system. everything from exhaust backpressure to air-in temp, exhaust temp, and temperature monitors on the scrubber DPF CV. sometimes id sit idling for 15 minutes just to make sure my emissions layout was "green" before taking off, because if its not ill blow smoke for miles down the highway. urea tanks and injectors need to be filled and cleaned respectively at regular intervals, and in long haul trucking this is a no brainer. we have a very user friendly interface for monitoring and planning refill. but car drivers? do you really want to worry about the car dropping down into "limp home" mode when you forget to top off the tank? it could strand you on the highway at 24 miles per hour.
finally, theres the godless process of smogging. what might fly in one state, wont in another, and as more states adopt emissions standards that require smog checks, more of these older diesel cars will fail outright. for most trucks, if you can smell the diesel smell, you wont pass.
call me a greybeard but ill be in the cold cold ground before I recognize Ununseptium. These damn kids with their designer isotopes that clock less than a second of half-life. superheavy artificial chemical elements are almost as offensive as those hooligans in the physics department with their infernal "strings." "oh its just a theoretical framework, daddy-o, in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced..." theyll say, but what in the hell do you put in place of them!? "those groovy one-dimensional objects called strings." theyll croon, probably high on their marijuana reefer cigarettes.
Mark my words, this never would have happened if Reagan were still president, and the science department hadn't quit making me handle mercury in my cupped hands for demonstrations.
royal marine private" can we come in yet? its really cold out here.
sergeant: negative soldier. we are to be her majesties largest atlantic marine reserve.
officer: my floatie has a leak...
major: Look alive soldiers! we've got a bit of large trout closing on our position!!
ammunition technician boys ive got some real bad news...
Imagine how nerve-racking â" terrifying, even â" tweeting would be if it was immutable and irrevocable?
in the tricky world of social media, You can call your product "customers" and insist theyre a close friend of the brand. you can insist your "service" is in fact to their benefit for communication when in fact it is merely a portal into which you collect their content. But the real danger comes when a majority of the cattle consider your social media offering a democratic and/or community project outside your definitions of the words.
twitter, facebook, instagram --any social site really-- operates on the model of a large farm. The cattle are free to eat as much as they want, sleep as much as they want, and produce as much as they want so long as they dont kick or bite the other cattle, and so long as they dont produce bad milk or meat for the actual customer. Twitter shut down politwoops because it was bad for their brand to make the most important cattle unappealing in the marketplace.
but without cyber hackers... who is there to fight off online terrorists?
I understand the goal of these cyber hackers but they need to be very careful messing with the BBC...Jeremy Clarkson isnt up to much these days and i hear he's got a real mean right hook.
1991 microsoft: we dominate every PC on the planet. weve crushed countless office competitors and even have a hand in CPUs. Java is a bloodbath. we crush all comers with embrace, extend, extinguish.
2015 microsoft: we layed off 26,000 employees and strike out hard, yearly, on phones and tablets. Apples profits, once laughable, now are five times ours. we lost 2.5 billion dollars in 2010. next year we lost another 700 million. The best we managed to do is put a voice assistant in windows and buy everyone even close to a television camera in the NFL a surface tablet, which is still constantly referred to as an ipad. That thing we used to not care about at all, Linux, is now the number 1 operating system and thats only taking into account cellphones. We sat idly by as one of the largest game distributors in the world rolled out almost ubiquitous support for this OS. no one uses our cloud or our appstore but make selfie apps now.
This is probably the most accurate account of the perspective and critique george has offered the community. http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg
Almost 45 years later, staff gathered to mark the Reactor One switch-off
reactor team so rory left on holiday for spain yesterday and told us, rite, to make sure we shut everything off before new years. so i dont know if that means the reactor too or if he wants that on...
cheeky bloke: he was a right bastard last year 'bout not turning off that kettle in the kitchen though mates...
reactor team: right right... best to shut off the ole magnox lest he send another of those fiery emails.
cheeky bloke: nobody!? right. ill get the sodding kettle then.
Twitter is a business. You, the cattle, are free to imbibe at the trough so long as you dont:
1. kick or bite other cattle
2. produce bad milk. Just because youre the biggest user of the pasture, doesnt mean you own the farm.
editorial authority: guise linux its...its just not ready for the desktop. its got graphics driver issues...
community: the ones preventing nearly 200 steam games from running on it?
editorial authority nonono guys its worse than that see theres audio problems too, the audio has problems
community: you mean with the countless instructibles articles on home theater via the pi?
editorial authority: guys i wish it were that simple but you see X has the issues too, its wayland isnt ready.
community: you...you know those two things are completely different right? xorgs been stable for a decade....
editorial authority: the font is ugly.
community:...pick...another one?
editorial authority: its fragmented...the desktops....theyre all fragmented.
community:....what?
editorial authority: and i heard linux torval yelling at people too.
Faced with a shrinking budget and poor economic conditions
from nearly a decade of western sanctions in retaliation for attempting to enforce the post cold-war agreed upon limits on NATO expansion. and as a result of rising costs from fighting a war to prevent the overthrow of a soverign foreign ally by a conglomerate of western backed terrorists as well as muslim extremists whom themselves came to fruition solely by a pointless war of aggression in Iraq to unseat another soverign foreign leader.
Like all government agencies divorced from profit and loss, its primary task is really to provide pork barrel jobs
yes. this was the unfortuate problem in the soviet union. After having invented the ion drive, the first lunar rover, the first space capsule, the first satellite, and orbiting the first man around the earth the USSR's bloated government agency charged with space exploration had delivered nothing more than technological revolution, the most popular modern commercial satellite launch facility in the world at baikonur, and uh, pork.
Russia will have a very expensive space program for the next decade, but the money spent will not accomplish much of anything new.
you mean like the united states, where most of the money attributed to space exploration is squandered into pet projects for senators states or pissed away to the tune of military riders and defense oriented contracts that contribute nothing to the overall goal of interstellar or even orbital scientific exploration for that matter.
Maybe stealth should be reconsidered when applied to robotics. Other applications should be considered. For example, imagine 230 of these robots, each as noisy as a lawnmower and as terrifying as war itself, charging over a hillside in bevis and butthead masks. And as a peacekeeping force they would be unsurpassed! either keep the peace, or we send these things back around christmas decked in flashing lights and dressed as bea arthur.
many states and municipalities that are explicitly banning flights within cities and over homes
By the FAA's definition, a drone is an aircraft. States and municipaliteis dont have the unilateral authority to declare no-fly zones. thats the UN security council, NATO, NORAD, and the FAA. its the same reason why as an amateur radeo operator, the local law prohibiting my short wave antenna is entirely unenforceable. Radio communication is the sacrosanct jurisdiction of the FCC.
The United States then had a huge advantage over the Soviet Union, with a nuclear arsenal about 10 times as big.
No, it didnt. The US had a firm understanding that every missile the soviet union posessed, every single ICBM since the mid seventies, contained between 10 and 32 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. Each missile could impact more than a dozen cities with a near perfect mortality rate. The folly of the cold war wasnt in numbers, it was that those numbers in the context of the power of a nuclear bomb were meaningless. MAD didnt ensure peace, it only assured we found more creative, clever means of inching closer to destruction. It was brinksmanship of the cuban missile crisis that ultimately caused the US to back away from the bomb and in turn pull their missiles from Turkey.
The software involved applied the inmates' good behavior credits to each section of their sentence
So we're going to have to refactor the code to include subroutines and functions that support the US criminal justice systems perogative of biblical retribution it seems. For those worried about the inmates released, you can sleep soundly tonight knowing they are barred from most forms of employment, voting, public assistance, loans, and education grants after being released under the auspices that they are now rehabilitated. homeless shelters will also refuse service in many cases to convicted felons. So thanks to this system the only thing an early release ensures is an early re-incarceration due to a life-by-default of petty theft and drug trade.
as an american, I avoid outright any travel during the holidays. I can visit my family cheaper and with far less hassle any other time during the year. That having been said -- and I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion -- I've had relatively productive experiences with the TSA sans a few minor run-ins, likely enacted as part of the general TSA theatricality.
Returning to LA from Ohio on a business trip I was detained after an explosives detector found something on my hands. I was led to a small concrete room with two bluecoats and my carry-on was privately searched. I explained a bar of soap, and they packed everything as they found it and sent me on my way. Another time, I decided to exit the very tedious screening line to get a beer at an adjacent microbrewery in the portland airport. Big mistake. I was detained by police and questioned for leaving the line. I told them the line was boring, and I wanted beer. After refusing to answer a few questions about religion and my laptop password, my laptop was confiscated and i was free to return to the pub. I rescheduled my flight, shared a laugh with the bartender, and re-entered the line only to be followed by the cops again to my gate. My laptop was returned, along with an apology and some rambling nonsense about muslims. They didnt crack a smile until I asked how many beers the average muslim drinks in a day.
Travel is simple, with a few caveats*, in america. board with a smile, speak softly, dress comfortably, and keep entertained. Im willing to suspect most TSA officers wont turn away a kind face asking for an opt out.
*simple travel may not be available to anyone of middle eastern, south asian, or african american descent.
the 403 status code says "Forbidden", but it doesn't say "I can't show you that for legal reasons."
because 403 is relaying constraints affected upon the target site path from the browsers configuration. "I cant show you that for legal reasons" is explained by blogs, chilling effects, boingboing, twitter, email, mailing lists, and sometimes even slashdot. keep your social web bullshit out of my nginx. all this code does is afford one more excuse for the user to stop investigating why or how this site was blocked. the new code isnt a redirect to information, and conveys nothing meaningful outside of boilerplating.
By its nature, you can't guarantee that all attempts to censor content will be conveniently labeled by the censor.
thats right. multinational corporations that dont want you reading about salmonella outbreaks and exploding recalls will not use 451. they will purchase an abundance of airtime on $news-website and then threaten any evidence of coverage with bankrupting the site. additionally your government isnt about to 451 your favourite e-zine that exposes the secret torture prison in cuba, theyll just null route that traffic. the FBI just hijacks your DNS and points it to their boilerplate eagle and shield jpg designed by a bureaucrat with all the comprehension of internet censorship as a four year old. Did your favourite website just get a gag order and secret court warrant? that sorry, 451 isnt going to show up because it would violate the conditions of the gag order. 451 is as useless as do not track, but social justice warriors love it.
I blame windows for this, but mostly because im a neckbeard. This is every bit as much the IT Managers fault for investing in technology and not people. What we have in this foul year of our lord 2015 is infrastructure managed by support ticket and not seasoned admin and as an old unix hand Im frankly chuckling whenever I see revelations of backdoors. These vendors include this garbage because they understand the race to the bottom includes hiring a junior admin to handle the stack for half the cost of a greybeard. The consequence of this is paying the rest of that greybeard salary times three to Juniper, who in turn need a way to un-fsck the device once junior leaves, or completely cocks up the device.
dont think of it as a backdoor. think of it as the technological equivalent of child safety locks or those little plastic outlet covers. The vendor doesnt trust you to handle the device on your own terms, because the majority of the vendors customers cant seem to make it much beyond the boot prompt before bricking the device. an argument could also be made that its not the fault of the admin here. Juniper took the logical, moneytrain route of locking away all their documentation to the licensed cloistered elite, so if youre out 3 admins of turnover and the support contract has been ignored for a month, that backdoor is likely getting used to bring you back into the loving embrace of the vendor.
now for the soap box. Back in my day there were real repercussions for not knowing your kit. You couldnt just open a support ticket and wait for a fix on an HPUX handling thirty million transactions per second. You needed to have a good escalation path in your organization to make sure problems got solved quickly, and management has forgotten the value of the most expensive part of this equation, the greybeard. Maybe we never had good visibility, or our people skills were just mediocre, but i for one am ambivalent about this kind of dictatorial lording over appliance, SaS, and anything "cloud."
The current tax code was made for the industrial age, and not the "digital age"
In other words, taxes are for you the industrious consumers. Now run along and play taxi with the uber we've so generously gifted you.
Thinking about things is abhorrent and vile. Why just the other day, I considered making a cup of tea, but I stopped in the nick of time. Why? Because that tea might have been dangerously hot. crisis, averted. A few hours ago while driving to work i considered, but for a fleeting moment, that I should hang out with my friends at the pub tonight but nay! belay that thought...because drinking an alcoholic lager beer would certainly impair my abiltiies and make me a roaring powderkeg at the snooker table. Christs whiskers just this instant I considered getting a bagel from the coffee shop next door but sweet mother mercy I shouldnt dream such lascivious fancy...that bagel could have gluten...the devils chewy delight.
And how exactly did having little contact with the Russians hurt the American economy?
I apologise if im not following completely, but our isolationist standoff with the USSR cost us two buildings during the terrorist attack of 9/11 and it plunged us into deep recession. How? one of our many proxy wars with the former soviet union was in Afghanistan in which we backed the Mujahadeen in their efforts to resist occupation by Soviet forces. we provided arms and advanced training, and in doing so helped create the Taliban. we fought these wars in a continued push to isolate and contain the USSR based on our limited knowledge of russian social and domestic policy.
They're technologically backwards and really have nothing of value to offer except for oil.
Or modern algebra, judeochristian philosophy, coffee, cateract surgery, the vertical axis windmill, mercuric chloride, the first known rocket driven torpedo, or a little instrument known as the guitar.
Militarily they are no threat whatsoever
offtopic. immigration policy in the context of international diplomacy and multiculturalism have nothing to do with military power. but to be fair, the Persian nation of Iran did manage to with great success hijack and safely land our most advanced stealth drone, the RQ-110, in 2011.
If we weren't so interested in their oil, we'd have nothing to lose by simply practicing a policy of isolation and containment with them.
youre right! the Carter doctrine of foreign policy stipulates we have to spend an inordinate amount of time, and resources, in order to secure middle eastern oil not for ourselves, but against other nations. we import it at a fraction of its capacity, but we dominate its export with intent.
I would argue to the contrary as youre assuming a short term definition. While not strictly necesary in the short term, an outright ban on middle eastern nations has a significant long term impact on our ability to understand, react to and interact with these cultures. shunning these immigrants would beget demonizing the region and cultures and, much as demonizing communists/reds/russians in the sixties, would lead to strategic and tactical disadvantages as we supplant knowledge for rhetoric. A prime example lies in the Tupolev bomber, which was consistently outclassing our best range and capability assessments as they were founded on a fundamental predicate of soviet 'inadequacy.' We based much of our political interaction with russians on the rhetoric of politicians and social scientists who, without direct access to a communist russian, simply assumed that due to their atheism they were untrustworthy scoundrels.
considering society as an organism, diversity in organisms enhances their survival capabilities while enhancing a monoculture causes increased succeptibility to its environment. Becoming less adaptive and diverse would naturally be in a nations least interest.