The numbers get rather large here, but that shouldnt matter. if NASA is our shining example of the commitment to scientific progress, then its so low on our list of priorities as to be a pointless comparison.
the DoD has an annual budget of over 500 billion dollars.
the USDA has a budget of 109 billion dollars.
the department of homeland security has a 60 billion dollar budget.
the department of justice has a 26 billion dollar budget
NASA has a budget of 18 billion dollars
So if one were to read these budgets as an expression of the will of a nation elected by and for its people (i know its a laughable presumption but stick with me here) then our priorities are shitty food thats killing us
the neverending war against everything
Airport anal probefest 2015
mass incarceration
NASA, the agency thats congressionally barred from collaborating with china or russia, and is expected by every reigning politician to turn a quarterly profit or die in a gutter.
At this point the fact that we gifted europe 75 million dollars for a project to assess the fundamental tenability of fusion should be considered a treasonously accidental oversight. thats a whopping six whole percent of the NASA budget that we wrecklessly applied to the concept of an energy source that would user in apocalyptic levels of productivity and peace.
Robert Parker and Anthony Johnson in 1654 was possibly one of the first documented cases of this. One of Johnsons servants, John Casor who was brought over from Africa, claimed he was under a 'seaven or eight yeares' contract and that hedd completed it. Thus, he asked Johnson for his freedom.
Johnson didnt see things this way, and denied the request. Despite this, according to Casor, Johnson eventually agreed to allow him to leave, with pressure supposedly coming from Johnsons family who felt that Casor should be free. Thus, Casor went to work for a man by the name of Robert Parker.
Either Johnson changed his mind or he never said Casor could go, because he soon filed a lawsuit against Parker claiming that Parker stole his servant, and that Casor was Johnsons for life and was not an indentured servant.
America patented this handy attack vector during the cold war. the CIA once destroyed a gas pipeline in 1982 by hacking malicious controls software into a system purchased by them from canada.The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. Again, the US did this in 2010 in collusion with Israeli Mossad, who were at the time busy with bomb attacks against key nuclear scientists in Iran. Stuxnet was meant to sabotage the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. The worm worked by first causing an infected Iranian IR-1 centrifuge to increase from its normal operating speed of 1,064 hertz to 1,410 hertz, causing repeated stress and ultimately failure.
now the cows have come home. America is finding itself on the receiving end of increasingly sophisticated attacks against its 60 year old reactors and control systems by proxy. smaller western nations use the same GE technology and concepts while arguably being 'under the radar' enough to avoid major investigation into penetrations that would result in increased security of these systems by the US, or so i suspect the prevailing theory would be. It is no longer a matter of if, but when we as a country will take a seat for one of our famous 'teachable moments'
seth mcfarlane has only pledged an additional 1 million dollars, and that million is contingent upon reaching four million more. anything less will be at his discretion.
on the one hand it means religions, er, corporations, can discriminate against everything from blood transfusions to births without circumcision, but...it also means the opinion shreds whatâ(TM)s known as the corporate veil (the principle that establishes a corporation as a distinct entity from its owners or shareholders). This would mess with a lot of businesses and how they do business.
Hobby Lobby 'also for all its piousness' has a retirement plan that invests very heavily in the manufacturers of the forms of contraception it claims to abhor so much. make of that what you will.
for the windows crowd: Unix Linux and BSD sending and receiving an email is pretty mundane business (even to millions of people.) Sendmail begat postfix, which tidied up the nuts and bolts of SMTP in the land of penguins neckbeards and that cartoon blowfish you occasionally see.
sending email from Exchange is orders of magnitude more complex by the nature of Exchange as a monolithic communications product. Because exchange does scheduling, calendaring, contacts, unified messaging, failover management, automatic load balancing, remote configuration management, archival, database storage, advanced RBAC permission delegation and cool stuff like shadow redundancy, outlook servers themselves have become increasingly divorced from the RFC for the SMTP. It isnt a bad thing for businesses that rely on being constantly connected, but it does mean the simple act of sending an email means relying on what for us would be an OS in itself. Exchange 2013 requires 2 gigabytes of free disk and recommends 16 gigabytes of free RAM. To compare and contrast, many in the BSD community can handle millions of messages per day with 2 gigabytes of ram and 1 gigabyte of free disk. that includes storage for the message being sent.
I think microsoft is doing this because exchange wasnt designed to just "send an email" anymore. it expects interactivity, redundancy, and universal access to the information being sent by default. the *nix solution runs hard and fast, but as an SMTP implementation requires significantly more engineering to provide the same level of service and feature set as outlook.
This summary reads like a stroke victim. im willing to assume the mayor of new orleans is probably drunk, but are we sure the mayor quoted from Atlanta isnt from, say, Atlanta Nicaragua?
Google made a radical change in that it never consulted any automaker during its initial trials with Lexus, Toyoya and Audi vehicles but simply chose to retrofit and augment the existing vehicles with their own technology. It also never sourced an american vehicle in its tests, which may be why among other reasons like competing technologies american automakers didnt take kindly to the event.
to make this a production system, something people can buy in meatspace, google needs a manufacturing partner with automotive chops and recognition from the federal government. safety systems, traction and handling, transmission and engine control systems are all critical components of the vehicle that would take google another 10-12 years to design if they went and did it on their own (just ask tesla.) the ability to strap light radar,software and a 64 laser vision system to the top of a golf cart or existing car is all they have.
Test tracks are one thing, but US and foreign auto makers pace their vehicles through some of the most rigorous and grueling testing imaginable. Lexus uses a multi-million dollar driver simulator to engineer vehicles around a person, and GM owns what amounts to an entire test city for their vehicles. for google thats an incredible asset to be granted access to. Having a team of automotive engineers with a century of experience among them to stand by and say, "that might work in a city, but on a rural route you'll kill your passengers" is what i suspect google really wants. Access to proprietary crash data and performance analytics would let google use any auto manufacturer who consented to the partnership as a step ladder to skip all the monstrously difficult work of designing and manufacturing a car, and what i believe most auto manufacturers are concerned about is seeing the lions share of their efforts go unrewarded, not to mention the decades of autonomics work they themselves pioneered being purloined by a tech giant.
K-12 CS is wreckless and ignorant. a 12 atom potassium bonded to a single Cesium? what are you doing? I mean sure you'll often find Cesium in reactor cores but I have no clue what you hope to achieve with the potassium. You're certainly right about the education part because im fairly certain most nuclear chemists have no clue what K12CS would hope to do in the real world, let alone the average college student.
Bluffdale Utah has a population of approximately 8000 residents who could at any time have seen the blimp, but the location of the site is so far to the outskirts of the city as to make it pointless. the only person who would see it immediately would be perhaps NSA employees entering and egressing, but its unlikely that theyd care.
protesting over congress and capitol hill would make more sense, but thats illegal incursion into a longstanding no fly zone.
We have far cheaper and more effective ways to curb yearly mortality in americans. If we focus on preventable disease and nutrition before we start pumping cash into silicon valley, the long term benefit will most certainly be greater than healthcare datamine moneytrain 4.0. here are some starters:
outlaw cigarette smoking: make a big dent in the 480,000 deaths per year it causes.
clamp down on fast food and set a realistic dietary outline for americans, not one bought and paid for by the dairy industry: make a dent in the 600,000 people who die yearly from coronary artery disease. youll also save countless others from cancer and stroke as exercise and diet play a crucial component in these health conditions as well.
The high mortality rate due to drinking amongst slashdotters can be directly attributed to physical and emotional abuse. Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP have ushered millions of nerds into an early grave from alcohol poisoning alone. the longterm effects of say, A peoplesoft migration however are much more destructive as theyre often worsened by the invisible culprit of change management. Taking a look at the youth of today, gateways like SCRUM and devops mean that not only are our future hackers drinking more at an early age, theyre forced to undergo gruelling "stand up" meetings that require then to concentrate all their effort into their creamy, underdeveloped legs to keep them aloft. the agony of being away from their natural habitat, the herman miller chair, coupled with the verbal and emotional abuse from phrases like swim-lanes and synergy amount to nothing short of an epidemic in IT.
but you can take action to stop this. IT workers thrive in an environment of nerf, far away from their natural predator the project manager. warmed slices of pizza pie and refreshing caffeinated nectars are what can keep this endangered species of young codelings healthy and free from substance abuse. The presence of the rare git-push neckbeard, or in some collectives a majestic greyhair vax longbeard have confirmed that excessive drinking is in fact no longer a problem in many dimly lit, cool climate colonies.
if this were an education project or something i could have at my library id think this is awesome, but we spend more on defense than the next 4 largest spending countries combined. we're constantly sold on the idea that america is broke, so broke that an entire party of the government often times refuses to increase our debt limit. nearly every american highway is riddled with potholes, highschool kids have to pay a portion of their textbooks in many cases, and the entire city of detroit is about to cut off water service to a quarter of its population. The only thing that ever seems to happen in america is war. we dont have the cash to keep street lights on anymore, but we sure as shit have cash to burn for training some syrian rebels. it didnt work the first or second time, but we sent troops back to iraq for a third round of 'father knows best' diplomacy by the gun, and now we have augmented reality for the troops? How about this:
we give them augmented reality but it is designed to simulate a life after 2 tours with stop-loss, a GI bill that no longer pays for college, a medical system thats underfunded and crooked, the hallucinations and nightmares from PTSD, and the constant struggle of putting a shirt on with only one remaining arm. and in 5 years when the defense department finds a way to sell it to civillians like they did the hummer and the barret 50 caliber rifle, it can be recalibrated. here it will simulate a reality where the user has a well paying job, affordable housing, healthy food to eat, clean air and water, social healthcare system, and a highway as nice as the one we built in afghanistan.
this may just be my opinion as a greybeard, but back in my day of commander keen and blake stone: aliens of gold, Cheat codes existed but players rarely used them. part of the games replayability was its challenge; its where nintendo users patented the phrase 'nintendo hard.' Sure, you always knew the kid down the block with the Game Genie, but there was a certain pride and honor to beating Duck Tales without using it.
my question is when will DLC stop? I already bought the game, and back in my day that meant half or a quarter of the content. some can argue shareware was analagous to DLC but thats a stretch. Shareware originally came on BBS systems and was a form of advertising. it convinced you to mail in a check for $25 and get that sweet copy of Duke Nukem 1. DLC just serves to segregate players by monetary class, effectively voiding any reason to care about prowess in gameplay. Some trustfund kid in hawaii will always be able to kill you with his microtransaction-approved skill enhancement that doesnt get flagged on multiplayer servers as cheating. Turning my playing field into an ayn rand capitalist paradise will certainly make me reconosider your games.
tethering me to a multiplayer universe serves only two purposes I can think, perhaps 3. Its a way to ensure you rent me a product instead of me buying it, and it prevents me from using your game without you knowing exactly how and when i decide to play it. Sometimes im not here to collaborate and that should be OK. i should be allowed to selfishly play a game by myself, i shouldnt have to 'authenticate' with your servers and i should be allowed to avoid entirely your rich tapestry of trash-talking 13 year olds and perhaps multitask with a bit of quake in one window, and code in the other.
Sourcing manufacturing jobs in Georgia is like shooting fish in a barrel. OSHA and EPA inspections are basically nonexistent and the threat of meaningful unionization is basically the same as the PRC. The most important reason chinas looking to the US for sourcing jobs is not because their citizens are earning more, its because you are earning less. according to the social security national wage index the average take home yearly pay for a worker in 1977 was $9779. adjusted, thats $58,713 in 2013 dollars. https://www.socialsecurity.gov... http://adjustforinflation.com/
what this chinese company proposes is offering manufacturing workers $15 an hour, or around $31k a year. Things like health and dental insurance are probably not going to be provided by this company, and that would usually be OK because a state healthcare exchange would help but georgia hasnt passed any conforming legislation and does not to date have an exchange of its own, nor has it expanded medicare coverage.
As an amateur radio hobbyist, im absolutely fed up with people basing their knowledge of healthcare reform solely on what Fox News says, but it doesnt give me the right to build a wave bubble jammer and knock out the satellite uplink for the local affiliate station. Because as much as i hate Fox, they provide valid EAS warnings and weather.
Stop. please. we tried this 20 years ago with ActiveX and it turned out to be a flaming turd that myred an entire generation in code that could only run in IE and only specific versions that supported different activeX framework.
Developers tell us that they are not sure how to start app development on the Web, with so many different tools and templates that they need to download from a variety of different sources.
I know it can be a bit overwhelming at first, but this icky feeling is called choice. things can be unique and different and thats okay, so long as they work in chrome and firefox and adhere to good coding practices like not exploiting specific browser quirks to achieve something. Also its entirely possible the web isnt the best place for you to write your "app" and thats okay too.
While this converts waste plastic to oil it does not however: A.: complete this conversion at a less than or equal cost of energy generated by the oil. The shredder, crucible, and condenser arent powered by the mellow rock stylings of huey lewis and the news. B.: Absolve us from researching alternatives to crude oil, a fossil fuel that is finite in supply and directly contributing to climate change.
Our lust for oil has become all but indistinguishable from a heroin addicts search for a fix.
The real power of a superPAC is its recurring ability to fund numerous candidates on a yearly basis during elections in order to build a substantial political concensus on an ideology or legislative policy the PAC members want. this PAC cannot be the next NyanCat, Doge, or Kony2012, and must persist and be funded for more than a decade to produce any meaningful change. It also doesnt factor in things like closed primaries and gerrymandered districts, for which no amount of PAC cash will change. Finally theres the issue of this PAC existing as a live wire.
expect and prepare for every candidate endorsed and successfully elected by this PAC to receive major criticism if not outright condemnation from every news network in america. It is, after all, designed to deprive their commercial sponsors of the ability to purchase an election. Expect every single form of media in the american household to deride Mayday PAC and its candidates as unamerican restriction of the first amendment (as it applies to corporations.) Expect commercial television airtime to be difficult to purchase, and dont count on endorsing a candidate for the republican party who routinely shill for big oil and shun everything from climate change to renewable energy. And even if thye seem to stand a chance of winning, expect the rules to change a-la rand paul in the republican party to ensure absolutely, positively no possibility of ever being seated in office. dont expect the nuclear option of disclosing PAC donors to be off the table as it would only just confirm what everyone already knows about existing pac's while serving to further denegrade yours. Expect 'walking dead' lifer politicians like John McCain to insist a lack of everything from competence to experience and military service in regard to your reform candidate(s).
Taking a break from repealing obamacare and re-affirming "in god we trust" on the currency, Its hard to imagine Republicans are doing anything in the interest of their constituents. Republicans under bush authorized and evangelized this warrantless wiretapping. shit, they even passed retroactive immunity for telecom companies forced to do it. And now after 2 terms of sitting on their obstructionist do-nothing arses they've suddenly gotten around to saving america from their monster? Give me a break.
We have to have some form of populist legislation, anything really. We cant have gay marriage, immigration reform, tax reform, campaign finance reform, gun crontrol, climate change policy, or minimum wage because we as the republican party are strapped inexorably to a vocal minority of elderly bible thumpers ginned up on glen beck and sean hannity who have loudly stated, "Moderates arent allowed or we will end you politically." Every issue facing americans is toxic to us so the best we can do is dial down the crazy on a policy we voted for and approved and hope its enough to get us into the whitehouse in 2016. And the sad fact is, no amount of wayback machine legislation is going to help. Once the republican party quietly dropped immigration reform they basically conceded to drop any chance at the presidency.
Many of the 'knowledge share' sessions ive taken part in have requested my notes and musings on the technologies ive handled. Cryptography is the most logical means of securing this data as we all know, but the method by which one achieves this should be carefully followed.
1. Choose a cypher whos strength is measured in the number of heat deaths of a cruel gods distant universe. Many will suggest a 256 bit cypher, but dont let that stop you from pursuing the correct size, a 256 megabyte cypher.
2. passwords for archives and files should be sized accordingly as the md5 sum of the number of office parking spaces multiplied by the number of empty toilet paper rolls in the nearest bathroom to the largest conference room. the password must only contain characters whos hexadecimal value falls between the number of chairs warmed by the morning sun in the main lobby, and the number of lights in the break room that flicker when first turned on.
3. You can never be too careful with USB drives. potting has long been a method of deterrence for unauthorized reverse engineering, but many dont know that a far more economical means of securing your USB data is to plunge it into an identical reproduction of a fifteenth century hessian crucible on the first blood moon of Rajab, the holy month of Allah.
4. your paper trail should be auditable, and the business should know to whom you've shared information in order to determine future knowledge owners and process managers of your data. a CMS like system (similar to sharepoint) can easily be constructed by liberally dredging your paper documents and binders in a mixture of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and low-yield fissile byproducts. the checked out or viewed copies will then be easy to track using simple FEMA disaster response processes.
and congratulations on your retirement! give yourself a pat on the back because you deserve it. I hope my tips help you achieve a smooth and manageable transition.
I dont know about other slashdotters, but Millenials like myself cant afford a brand new car, end of discussion. Years of college loans have ruined our credit score and what little we are saving is going directly toward maintaining the vehicle we already unfortunately own. For a bit less than a hundred dollars though, I can get a used car stereo and a wiring kit that lets me play music from a USB stick and over BlueTooth from my phone. If i cant afford that, I can just put my ear buds in.
I dont value a car. not like the Gen X or Y or baby boomers did. To me its nothing but oil changes, tire changes, and a lifetime of direct mail spam about my "warranty" running out or the latest bullshit deal from herpo derpersons car and truck supercenter. Its having to strap myself to an insurance company that will subrogate everything. A car just means I put up with expensive parking, gridlock traffic, tickets, and ridiculous gas prices until it dies on a hot day alongside the freeway.
what i do value is public transit. affordable busses that run every 20 minutes and light rail systems that give me time to do shit I actually care about, like browse slashdot and work. I already have a device that lets me use google or apple or whatever I need, but to strap it to a 2000 pound haggared burro doesnt help.
You've now attached your turd to a brand of cellphone that for all intents and purposes, people quit buying six years ago.
the Amazon moneytrain choo choo dollarstore forces developers to permanently lower their AppStore prices if ever they do promotions on other stores, not to mention Amazon could choose to lower the price of an application while deciding to reduce the developer's share without having to ask permission.
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The numbers get rather large here, but that shouldnt matter. if NASA is our shining example of the commitment to scientific progress, then its so low on our list of priorities as to be a pointless comparison.
the DoD has an annual budget of over 500 billion dollars.
the USDA has a budget of 109 billion dollars.
the department of homeland security has a 60 billion dollar budget.
the department of justice has a 26 billion dollar budget
NASA has a budget of 18 billion dollars
So if one were to read these budgets as an expression of the will of a nation elected by and for its people (i know its a laughable presumption but stick with me here) then our priorities are
shitty food thats killing us
the neverending war against everything
Airport anal probefest 2015
mass incarceration
NASA, the agency thats congressionally barred from collaborating with china or russia, and is expected by every reigning politician to turn a quarterly profit or die in a gutter.
At this point the fact that we gifted europe 75 million dollars for a project to assess the fundamental tenability of fusion should be considered a treasonously accidental oversight. thats a whopping six whole percent of the NASA budget that we wrecklessly applied to the concept of an energy source that would user in apocalyptic levels of productivity and peace.
Robert Parker and Anthony Johnson in 1654 was possibly one of the first documented cases of this. One of Johnsons servants, John Casor who was brought over from Africa, claimed he was under a 'seaven or eight yeares' contract and that hedd completed it. Thus, he asked Johnson for his freedom. Johnson didnt see things this way, and denied the request. Despite this, according to Casor, Johnson eventually agreed to allow him to leave, with pressure supposedly coming from Johnsons family who felt that Casor should be free. Thus, Casor went to work for a man by the name of Robert Parker. Either Johnson changed his mind or he never said Casor could go, because he soon filed a lawsuit against Parker claiming that Parker stole his servant, and that Casor was Johnsons for life and was not an indentured servant.
America patented this handy attack vector during the cold war. the CIA once destroyed a gas pipeline in 1982 by hacking malicious controls software into a system purchased by them from canada.The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds.
Again, the US did this in 2010 in collusion with Israeli Mossad, who were at the time busy with bomb attacks against key nuclear scientists in Iran. Stuxnet was meant to sabotage the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. The worm worked by first causing an infected Iranian IR-1 centrifuge to increase from its normal operating speed of 1,064 hertz to 1,410 hertz, causing repeated stress and ultimately failure.
now the cows have come home. America is finding itself on the receiving end of increasingly sophisticated attacks against its 60 year old reactors and control systems by proxy. smaller western nations use the same GE technology and concepts while arguably being 'under the radar' enough to avoid major investigation into penetrations that would result in increased security of these systems by the US, or so i suspect the prevailing theory would be. It is no longer a matter of if, but when we as a country will take a seat for one of our famous 'teachable moments'
seth mcfarlane has only pledged an additional 1 million dollars, and that million is contingent upon reaching four million more. anything less will be at his discretion.
With Commander Keen in my right screen, FreeDOS has hit me right in the childhood :) heres to another 20 YEARS!
on the one hand it means religions, er, corporations, can discriminate against everything from blood transfusions to births without circumcision, but...it also means the opinion shreds whatâ(TM)s known as the corporate veil (the principle that establishes a corporation as a distinct entity from its owners or shareholders). This would mess with a lot of businesses and how they do business.
Hobby Lobby 'also for all its piousness' has a retirement plan that invests very heavily in the manufacturers of the forms of contraception it claims to abhor so much. make of that what you will.
for the windows crowd: Unix Linux and BSD sending and receiving an email is pretty mundane business (even to millions of people.) Sendmail begat postfix, which tidied up the nuts and bolts of SMTP in the land of penguins neckbeards and that cartoon blowfish you occasionally see.
sending email from Exchange is orders of magnitude more complex by the nature of Exchange as a monolithic communications product. Because exchange does scheduling, calendaring, contacts, unified messaging, failover management, automatic load balancing, remote configuration management, archival, database storage, advanced RBAC permission delegation and cool stuff like shadow redundancy, outlook servers themselves have become increasingly divorced from the RFC for the SMTP. It isnt a bad thing for businesses that rely on being constantly connected, but it does mean the simple act of sending an email means relying on what for us would be an OS in itself. Exchange 2013 requires 2 gigabytes of free disk and recommends 16 gigabytes of free RAM. To compare and contrast, many in the BSD community can handle millions of messages per day with 2 gigabytes of ram and 1 gigabyte of free disk. that includes storage for the message being sent.
I think microsoft is doing this because exchange wasnt designed to just "send an email" anymore. it expects interactivity, redundancy, and universal access to the information being sent by default. the *nix solution runs hard and fast, but as an SMTP implementation requires significantly more engineering to provide the same level of service and feature set as outlook.
This summary reads like a stroke victim. im willing to assume the mayor of new orleans is probably drunk, but are we sure the mayor quoted from Atlanta isnt from, say, Atlanta Nicaragua?
Google made a radical change in that it never consulted any automaker during its initial trials with Lexus, Toyoya and Audi vehicles but simply chose to retrofit and augment the existing vehicles with their own technology. It also never sourced an american vehicle in its tests, which may be why among other reasons like competing technologies american automakers didnt take kindly to the event.
to make this a production system, something people can buy in meatspace, google needs a manufacturing partner with automotive chops and recognition from the federal government. safety systems, traction and handling, transmission and engine control systems are all critical components of the vehicle that would take google another 10-12 years to design if they went and did it on their own (just ask tesla.) the ability to strap light radar,software and a 64 laser vision system to the top of a golf cart or existing car is all they have.
Test tracks are one thing, but US and foreign auto makers pace their vehicles through some of the most rigorous and grueling testing imaginable. Lexus uses a multi-million dollar driver simulator to engineer vehicles around a person, and GM owns what amounts to an entire test city for their vehicles. for google thats an incredible asset to be granted access to. Having a team of automotive engineers with a century of experience among them to stand by and say, "that might work in a city, but on a rural route you'll kill your passengers" is what i suspect google really wants. Access to proprietary crash data and performance analytics would let google use any auto manufacturer who consented to the partnership as a step ladder to skip all the monstrously difficult work of designing and manufacturing a car, and what i believe most auto manufacturers are concerned about is seeing the lions share of their efforts go unrewarded, not to mention the decades of autonomics work they themselves pioneered being purloined by a tech giant.
K-12 CS is wreckless and ignorant. a 12 atom potassium bonded to a single Cesium? what are you doing? I mean sure you'll often find Cesium in reactor cores but I have no clue what you hope to achieve with the potassium. You're certainly right about the education part because im fairly certain most nuclear chemists have no clue what K12CS would hope to do in the real world, let alone the average college student.
Bluffdale Utah has a population of approximately 8000 residents who could at any time have seen the blimp, but the location of the site is so far to the outskirts of the city as to make it pointless. the only person who would see it immediately would be perhaps NSA employees entering and egressing, but its unlikely that theyd care.
protesting over congress and capitol hill would make more sense, but thats illegal incursion into a longstanding no fly zone.
We have far cheaper and more effective ways to curb yearly mortality in americans. If we focus on preventable disease and nutrition before we start pumping cash into silicon valley, the long term benefit will most certainly be greater than healthcare datamine moneytrain 4.0. here are some starters:
outlaw cigarette smoking: make a big dent in the 480,000 deaths per year it causes.
clamp down on fast food and set a realistic dietary outline for americans, not one bought and paid for by the dairy industry: make a dent in the 600,000 people who die yearly from coronary artery disease. youll also save countless others from cancer and stroke as exercise and diet play a crucial component in these health conditions as well.
The high mortality rate due to drinking amongst slashdotters can be directly attributed to physical and emotional abuse. Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP have ushered millions of nerds into an early grave from alcohol poisoning alone. the longterm effects of say, A peoplesoft migration however are much more destructive as theyre often worsened by the invisible culprit of change management. Taking a look at the youth of today, gateways like SCRUM and devops mean that not only are our future hackers drinking more at an early age, theyre forced to undergo gruelling "stand up" meetings that require then to concentrate all their effort into their creamy, underdeveloped legs to keep them aloft. the agony of being away from their natural habitat, the herman miller chair, coupled with the verbal and emotional abuse from phrases like swim-lanes and synergy amount to nothing short of an epidemic in IT.
but you can take action to stop this. IT workers thrive in an environment of nerf, far away from their natural predator the project manager. warmed slices of pizza pie and refreshing caffeinated nectars are what can keep this endangered species of young codelings healthy and free from substance abuse. The presence of the rare git-push neckbeard, or in some collectives a majestic greyhair vax longbeard have confirmed that excessive drinking is in fact no longer a problem in many dimly lit, cool climate colonies.
if this were an education project or something i could have at my library id think this is awesome, but we spend more on defense than the next 4 largest spending countries combined. we're constantly sold on the idea that america is broke, so broke that an entire party of the government often times refuses to increase our debt limit. nearly every american highway is riddled with potholes, highschool kids have to pay a portion of their textbooks in many cases, and the entire city of detroit is about to cut off water service to a quarter of its population. The only thing that ever seems to happen in america is war. we dont have the cash to keep street lights on anymore, but we sure as shit have cash to burn for training some syrian rebels. it didnt work the first or second time, but we sent troops back to iraq for a third round of 'father knows best' diplomacy by the gun, and now we have augmented reality for the troops? How about this:
we give them augmented reality but it is designed to simulate a life after 2 tours with stop-loss, a GI bill that no longer pays for college, a medical system thats underfunded and crooked, the hallucinations and nightmares from PTSD, and the constant struggle of putting a shirt on with only one remaining arm. and in 5 years when the defense department finds a way to sell it to civillians like they did the hummer and the barret 50 caliber rifle, it can be recalibrated. here it will simulate a reality where the user has a well paying job, affordable housing, healthy food to eat, clean air and water, social healthcare system, and a highway as nice as the one we built in afghanistan.
this may just be my opinion as a greybeard, but back in my day of commander keen and blake stone: aliens of gold, Cheat codes existed but players rarely used them. part of the games replayability was its challenge; its where nintendo users patented the phrase 'nintendo hard.' Sure, you always knew the kid down the block with the Game Genie, but there was a certain pride and honor to beating Duck Tales without using it.
my question is when will DLC stop? I already bought the game, and back in my day that meant half or a quarter of the content. some can argue shareware was analagous to DLC but thats a stretch. Shareware originally came on BBS systems and was a form of advertising. it convinced you to mail in a check for $25 and get that sweet copy of Duke Nukem 1. DLC just serves to segregate players by monetary class, effectively voiding any reason to care about prowess in gameplay. Some trustfund kid in hawaii will always be able to kill you with his microtransaction-approved skill enhancement that doesnt get flagged on multiplayer servers as cheating. Turning my playing field into an ayn rand capitalist paradise will certainly make me reconosider your games.
tethering me to a multiplayer universe serves only two purposes I can think, perhaps 3. Its a way to ensure you rent me a product instead of me buying it, and it prevents me from using your game without you knowing exactly how and when i decide to play it. Sometimes im not here to collaborate and that should be OK. i should be allowed to selfishly play a game by myself, i shouldnt have to 'authenticate' with your servers and i should be allowed to avoid entirely your rich tapestry of trash-talking 13 year olds and perhaps multitask with a bit of quake in one window, and code in the other.
Sourcing manufacturing jobs in Georgia is like shooting fish in a barrel. OSHA and EPA inspections are basically nonexistent and the threat of meaningful unionization is basically the same as the PRC. The most important reason chinas looking to the US for sourcing jobs is not because their citizens are earning more, its because you are earning less. according to the social security national wage index the average take home yearly pay for a worker in 1977 was $9779. adjusted, thats $58,713 in 2013 dollars.
https://www.socialsecurity.gov...
http://adjustforinflation.com/
what this chinese company proposes is offering manufacturing workers $15 an hour, or around $31k a year. Things like health and dental insurance are probably not going to be provided by this company, and that would usually be OK because a state healthcare exchange would help but georgia hasnt passed any conforming legislation and does not to date have an exchange of its own, nor has it expanded medicare coverage.
As an amateur radio hobbyist, im absolutely fed up with people basing their knowledge of healthcare reform solely on what Fox News says, but it doesnt give me the right to build a wave bubble jammer and knock out the satellite uplink for the local affiliate station. Because as much as i hate Fox, they provide valid EAS warnings and weather.
Developers tell us that they are not sure how to start app development on the Web, with so many different tools and templates that they need to download from a variety of different sources.
I know it can be a bit overwhelming at first, but this icky feeling is called choice. things can be unique and different and thats okay, so long as they work in chrome and firefox and adhere to good coding practices like not exploiting specific browser quirks to achieve something. Also its entirely possible the web isnt the best place for you to write your "app" and thats okay too.
All this performance in just one chip. I mean, sure, it has 36 cores but lets be rational here...does it seriously expect to run crysis?
While this converts waste plastic to oil it does not however:
A.: complete this conversion at a less than or equal cost of energy generated by the oil. The shredder, crucible, and condenser arent powered by the mellow rock stylings of huey lewis and the news.
B.: Absolve us from researching alternatives to crude oil, a fossil fuel that is finite in supply and directly contributing to climate change.
Our lust for oil has become all but indistinguishable from a heroin addicts search for a fix.
The real power of a superPAC is its recurring ability to fund numerous candidates on a yearly basis during elections in order to build a substantial political concensus on an ideology or legislative policy the PAC members want. this PAC cannot be the next NyanCat, Doge, or Kony2012, and must persist and be funded for more than a decade to produce any meaningful change. It also doesnt factor in things like closed primaries and gerrymandered districts, for which no amount of PAC cash will change. Finally theres the issue of this PAC existing as a live wire.
expect and prepare for every candidate endorsed and successfully elected by this PAC to receive major criticism if not outright condemnation from every news network in america. It is, after all, designed to deprive their commercial sponsors of the ability to purchase an election. Expect every single form of media in the american household to deride Mayday PAC and its candidates as unamerican restriction of the first amendment (as it applies to corporations.) Expect commercial television airtime to be difficult to purchase, and dont count on endorsing a candidate for the republican party who routinely shill for big oil and shun everything from climate change to renewable energy. And even if thye seem to stand a chance of winning, expect the rules to change a-la rand paul in the republican party to ensure absolutely, positively no possibility of ever being seated in office. dont expect the nuclear option of disclosing PAC donors to be off the table as it would only just confirm what everyone already knows about existing pac's while serving to further denegrade yours. Expect 'walking dead' lifer politicians like John McCain to insist a lack of everything from competence to experience and military service in regard to your reform candidate(s).
Taking a break from repealing obamacare and re-affirming "in god we trust" on the currency, Its hard to imagine Republicans are doing anything in the interest of their constituents. Republicans under bush authorized and evangelized this warrantless wiretapping. shit, they even passed retroactive immunity for telecom companies forced to do it. And now after 2 terms of sitting on their obstructionist do-nothing arses they've suddenly gotten around to saving america from their monster? Give me a break.
We have to have some form of populist legislation, anything really. We cant have gay marriage, immigration reform, tax reform, campaign finance reform, gun crontrol, climate change policy, or minimum wage because we as the republican party are strapped inexorably to a vocal minority of elderly bible thumpers ginned up on glen beck and sean hannity who have loudly stated, "Moderates arent allowed or we will end you politically." Every issue facing americans is toxic to us so the best we can do is dial down the crazy on a policy we voted for and approved and hope its enough to get us into the whitehouse in 2016. And the sad fact is, no amount of wayback machine legislation is going to help. Once the republican party quietly dropped immigration reform they basically conceded to drop any chance at the presidency.
Many of the 'knowledge share' sessions ive taken part in have requested my notes and musings on the technologies ive handled. Cryptography is the most logical means of securing this data as we all know, but the method by which one achieves this should be carefully followed.
1. Choose a cypher whos strength is measured in the number of heat deaths of a cruel gods distant universe. Many will suggest a 256 bit cypher, but dont let that stop you from pursuing the correct size, a 256 megabyte cypher.
2. passwords for archives and files should be sized accordingly as the md5 sum of the number of office parking spaces multiplied by the number of empty toilet paper rolls in the nearest bathroom to the largest conference room. the password must only contain characters whos hexadecimal value falls between the number of chairs warmed by the morning sun in the main lobby, and the number of lights in the break room that flicker when first turned on.
3. You can never be too careful with USB drives. potting has long been a method of deterrence for unauthorized reverse engineering, but many dont know that a far more economical means of securing your USB data is to plunge it into an identical reproduction of a fifteenth century hessian crucible on the first blood moon of Rajab, the holy month of Allah.
4. your paper trail should be auditable, and the business should know to whom you've shared information in order to determine future knowledge owners and process managers of your data. a CMS like system (similar to sharepoint) can easily be constructed by liberally dredging your paper documents and binders in a mixture of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and low-yield fissile byproducts. the checked out or viewed copies will then be easy to track using simple FEMA disaster response processes.
and congratulations on your retirement! give yourself a pat on the back because you deserve it. I hope my tips help you achieve a smooth and manageable transition.
Regards,
BOFH
I dont know about other slashdotters, but Millenials like myself cant afford a brand new car, end of discussion. Years of college loans have ruined our credit score and what little we are saving is going directly toward maintaining the vehicle we already unfortunately own. For a bit less than a hundred dollars though, I can get a used car stereo and a wiring kit that lets me play music from a USB stick and over BlueTooth from my phone. If i cant afford that, I can just put my ear buds in.
I dont value a car. not like the Gen X or Y or baby boomers did. To me its nothing but oil changes, tire changes, and a lifetime of direct mail spam about my "warranty" running out or the latest bullshit deal from herpo derpersons car and truck supercenter. Its having to strap myself to an insurance company that will subrogate everything. A car just means I put up with expensive parking, gridlock traffic, tickets, and ridiculous gas prices until it dies on a hot day alongside the freeway.
what i do value is public transit. affordable busses that run every 20 minutes and light rail systems that give me time to do shit I actually care about, like browse slashdot and work. I already have a device that lets me use google or apple or whatever I need, but to strap it to a 2000 pound haggared burro doesnt help.
You've now attached your turd to a brand of cellphone that for all intents and purposes, people quit buying six years ago.
the Amazon moneytrain choo choo dollarstore forces developers to permanently lower their AppStore prices if ever they do promotions on other stores, not to mention Amazon could choose to lower the price of an application while deciding to reduce the developer's share without having to ask permission.