Why not just have a geospatial database of signs that self-driving cars access? Then it won't matter what's on the sign, or if the sign even physically exists. Why is anti-stick coating the solution that "researchers" suggest?
And transactions are cleared in only a few short hours. Plus, you only have to download 128 Gb of blockchain data. What could be more convenient than that? Get your Dunning-Kruggerands today!
Totally agreed. Garmin makes the best all-around smart watches on the market when you consider battery life, readability, and durability. And I happen to think my Tactix Bravo is a much nicer-looking timepiece than the Apple Gummi-Lego watch.
That's not sad at all. "Safe spaces" have their appropriate uses. I consider the iOS walled garden to be a valuable feature. Since I don't have the time or inclination to mess around with my phone's internals, I don't care that I'm forbidden from doing so. I just want it to work, and it does, in a mostly secure way.
Yes it does make sense, because the mainstream news media love to report on who tweeted what, and "who" is usually come celebrity cretin or venal politician. I don't have an account and yet I am sick of Twitter.
Amazon ran their retail business at a loss for years in order to gain market dominance. We always knew the day would come when they'd use their immense power to start extracting higher profits out of their customer base. That day has arrived. And, don't think for one minute that they won't do the same with AWS if they ever achieve the same level of dominance. (Giving us all a rare reason to root for Microsoft.)
This seems more like a test bed for someone who wants to play with Caffe without spending big bucks on a fast GPU, or an engineer who wants to take the Intel Myriad 2 VPU for a test drive without having to build anything. Both of them are perfectly valid uses, and I'm considering buying one. Otherwise this is much like the USB-based coin miners: fun and educational, but don't expect to use them for any real-world [proof of] work.
Fitness trackers don't work. There's a large body of research that demonstrates how useless they are. They don't provide actionable information and they aren't particularly motivational. As the previous poster pointed out, the fine-grained data just don't help. Blood pressure and weight are what you need to record every day, and those only once a day.
If it's such a "very real problem," then why has not one single media outlet actually explained how the election was "hacked?" We hear "Russians" twenty times a day, but no one actually points a single compromised voting system, nor any research that show Clinton would have won if hadn't been circulated. This, from a media that has become otherwise quite good at explaining things like quantum teleportation and CRISPR/CAS9 to the general population - but somehow lots of hand-waving about the "hacked election."
This is exactly the scenario that countless spams and clickbait ads have promised,:that if you challenge the bank's record keeping, you can completely free yourself from your mortgage (and here's your $49 kit to help you do it). Except in this case, it's apparently not total bullshit.
Sure, but the precedent is very un-cryptocurrency. Reverting the transfer means that a central authority has the ability to invalidate transactions they don't like. Today it may be theft, but tomorrow it could be political contributions or purchases of "bad" items. It seems like that kind of thing would undermine the value of having a cryptocurrency in the first place.
Which is yet another token of how much contempt the network had for the show. Though maybe we should be glad they didn't extend the series finale into a three-part episode, in which Riker gets to bang T'Pol, beats Archer in a fistfight, kills Shran for calling him a "pink-skin," and more holodeck wish-fulfillment horseshit.
For the networks, there's an incentive to keep plodding on with a show until it hits 100 episodes, which is the magic number required for syndication. That's why Star Trek: Enterprise was allowed to stagger through its crummy fourth season. Syndication allows recovery of the sunken costs in a mediocre show.
Netflix doesn't have to worry about that. Syndication has no meaning in an on-demand world. They can make a handful of episodes of, say, Marco Polo, and even if most people don't enjoy it, there will be enough people who do that Netflix can cancel the show early yet still get the benefit of the show in perpetuity. So for Netflix, pretty much anything they make is a "hit" as long as some people, now or in the extended future, are willing to watch it (and keep their Netflix subscriptions going).
... to live than pretty much anywhere else, certainly including the United States. The US is in a breakneck race to the bottom, essentially becoming a prison state. If you're a poor immigrant, you'll get kicked out, but if you have any assets at all, you have to surrender them at the border if you want to emigrate. Surveillance is pervasive, justice is for sale, and corporations basically write and pass their own legislation (don't think for a moment that TPP won't be revived the second Trump leaves office).
America isn't a place to follow your dreams. It's a place to escape from, if you can.
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Why not just have a geospatial database of signs that self-driving cars access? Then it won't matter what's on the sign, or if the sign even physically exists. Why is anti-stick coating the solution that "researchers" suggest?
And transactions are cleared in only a few short hours. Plus, you only have to download 128 Gb of blockchain data. What could be more convenient than that? Get your Dunning-Kruggerands today!
Totally agreed. Garmin makes the best all-around smart watches on the market when you consider battery life, readability, and durability. And I happen to think my Tactix Bravo is a much nicer-looking timepiece than the Apple Gummi-Lego watch.
Please link to one single comment, from anyone, whining that the new Star Trek isn't 100% white men. Just one.
"No, you're not. Now shut up while we find a grown-up to run the company, because we want our money."
Also when an article repeatedly claims "this isn't hype" yet is written in breathless promotional style.
That's not sad at all. "Safe spaces" have their appropriate uses. I consider the iOS walled garden to be a valuable feature. Since I don't have the time or inclination to mess around with my phone's internals, I don't care that I'm forbidden from doing so. I just want it to work, and it does, in a mostly secure way.
Yes it does make sense, because the mainstream news media love to report on who tweeted what, and "who" is usually come celebrity cretin or venal politician. I don't have an account and yet I am sick of Twitter.
Tainted by the awful people who most frequently and publicly post to it, e.g. Kanye, the Kardashians, Trump, and Wesley Crusher.
True, but what they want to dominate is IT itself. Once a critical mass of that has moved onto AWS, the screws will start to tighten.
Amazon ran their retail business at a loss for years in order to gain market dominance. We always knew the day would come when they'd use their immense power to start extracting higher profits out of their customer base. That day has arrived. And, don't think for one minute that they won't do the same with AWS if they ever achieve the same level of dominance. (Giving us all a rare reason to root for Microsoft.)
Can't they just make a call to George Soros and get whatever money they need to keep their propaganda machine running?
This seems more like a test bed for someone who wants to play with Caffe without spending big bucks on a fast GPU, or an engineer who wants to take the Intel Myriad 2 VPU for a test drive without having to build anything. Both of them are perfectly valid uses, and I'm considering buying one. Otherwise this is much like the USB-based coin miners: fun and educational, but don't expect to use them for any real-world [proof of] work.
Fitness trackers don't work. There's a large body of research that demonstrates how useless they are. They don't provide actionable information and they aren't particularly motivational. As the previous poster pointed out, the fine-grained data just don't help. Blood pressure and weight are what you need to record every day, and those only once a day.
If it's such a "very real problem," then why has not one single media outlet actually explained how the election was "hacked?" We hear "Russians" twenty times a day, but no one actually points a single compromised voting system, nor any research that show Clinton would have won if hadn't been circulated. This, from a media that has become otherwise quite good at explaining things like quantum teleportation and CRISPR/CAS9 to the general population - but somehow lots of hand-waving about the "hacked election."
This is exactly the scenario that countless spams and clickbait ads have promised,:that if you challenge the bank's record keeping, you can completely free yourself from your mortgage (and here's your $49 kit to help you do it). Except in this case, it's apparently not total bullshit.
I would argue that Ethereum became less valuable as a result of the fork.
Sure, but the precedent is very un-cryptocurrency. Reverting the transfer means that a central authority has the ability to invalidate transactions they don't like. Today it may be theft, but tomorrow it could be political contributions or purchases of "bad" items. It seems like that kind of thing would undermine the value of having a cryptocurrency in the first place.
Enterprise only had 98 episodes.
Which is yet another token of how much contempt the network had for the show. Though maybe we should be glad they didn't extend the series finale into a three-part episode, in which Riker gets to bang T'Pol, beats Archer in a fistfight, kills Shran for calling him a "pink-skin," and more holodeck wish-fulfillment horseshit.
Indeed, thank you for the correction. My Econ-Sense was tingling as I was typing that, I should have heeded it.
For the networks, there's an incentive to keep plodding on with a show until it hits 100 episodes, which is the magic number required for syndication. That's why Star Trek: Enterprise was allowed to stagger through its crummy fourth season. Syndication allows recovery of the sunken costs in a mediocre show.
Netflix doesn't have to worry about that. Syndication has no meaning in an on-demand world. They can make a handful of episodes of, say, Marco Polo, and even if most people don't enjoy it, there will be enough people who do that Netflix can cancel the show early yet still get the benefit of the show in perpetuity. So for Netflix, pretty much anything they make is a "hit" as long as some people, now or in the extended future, are willing to watch it (and keep their Netflix subscriptions going).
... to live than pretty much anywhere else, certainly including the United States. The US is in a breakneck race to the bottom, essentially becoming a prison state. If you're a poor immigrant, you'll get kicked out, but if you have any assets at all, you have to surrender them at the border if you want to emigrate. Surveillance is pervasive, justice is for sale, and corporations basically write and pass their own legislation (don't think for a moment that TPP won't be revived the second Trump leaves office).
America isn't a place to follow your dreams. It's a place to escape from, if you can.
I will only post as AC due to the re-positioning of /. as an astro-turfing tool
That's like, "The pizza had rat turds on it, so I only had two slices."
Thank goodness you're here to add thoughtful and worthwhile content.
Pardon my ignorance: does this actually exist? It's a great idea.