No but at this point I miss seeing those flashing but quiet and not malicious (ok misleading) "YOU'VE WON A NEW CAR" They really weren't that bad also: XKCD new car https://xkcd.com/570/
But the 9v battery was there to keep the time so your alarm would still go off when it was supposed to if mains was disconnected.
Nowadays we just put CR2032's in everything.
No I don't feel he invented anything either but I thought that as soon as I saw the transformer and how it was mounted in the box. No one is going to bother cutting one of those stupid transformers out of a wall wart.
However the schools reaction was still wrong. Possibly even more wrong because it wasn't even home made just disassembled.
Anyone ever heard of the Mintyboost? Some people (the TSA) think they look scary and they are all home made http://www.natch.net/stuff/TSA...
Oh what fun things I would have made if I had had access to a 3d printer when I was in school.
Well for the most part I think it's that when individual sites try to go to a subscription model they want much more than their content would be worth as part of a set.
For example newegg wants $50/year for their 2 day shipping for newegg only.
Or I can get a shoprunner subscription for $79/year and get 2 day shipping at hundreds of stores.
Another example would be netflix vs cbs all access or hbo
If I go with netflix I have a rather large collection of shows to watch from a variety of networks for $7.99/mo
Cbs I would have a collection of shows I could watch But only cbs shows no others for $5.99/mo
Hbo want's $15/mo for access to only hbo's shows. I have never seen any of Hbo's shows since I don't have cable at home and the cable at work doesn't include that channel.
A subscription model like flattr could be made to work I think.
I would be thrilled to be able to pay only $230 to remove ads everywhere I go online it would easily make up in time saved! However I wouldn't pay much for an ad blocker because where would that money go?
Well frig If I was paying for the discovery channel as an individual channel and saw cash cab was going to be on every day the only hours I was home to watch tv I would probably drop that channel.
I wouldn't have the scifi channel either WWE, ghost hunters and some kind of makeup show? Where did all the good scifi shows go?
It seems quite apparent that apparently only idiots still have cable else they would have to have something watchable on.
As someone with a non jailbroken ipad I can vouch this is mostly true.
However there will only be more and better ad blockers. That piracy argument will never fly as long as webmasters continue to allow malicious intrusive intrusive ads.
As An ipad user I can say I do miss those flash site's. most websites work without flash now. But much remains broken to this day. I used to like albinoblacksheep but it's pretty worthless on the ipad. Some of the videos have been put on youtube but none of the games work.
Have you seen sling tv? They claim it is a la carte but you still can not pick only the channels you want. They are going to hang on to packaged plans until it kills them.
What surprises me the most is that afaik no one has ever even made an attempt to sell true a la carte service.
No not unless It was part of a general news subscription service. say $5-$10/mo gets divided among the sites based on how much I use them. Maybe something like Flattr?
Like how the saying goes a few bad apples can ruin the whole batch.
I don't mind unobtrusive ads but popunders,interstitials,click redirects and malware are too much.
I use an adblocker because of sites like those, however most blockers operate on a whitelist policy unless you go out of your way to not block the ads on a website they are blocked by default.
Sites that have polite advertising aren't being singled out they just happen to be collateral damage from a few bad apples.
I am sure you are correct that many do not want to quit I could name a few people off hand that haven't been sober in years.
But when desire preempts actual biological needs then it becomes a serious mental health problem that will quickly turn into a death problem if left untreated.
Otherwise they could be content subsisting with their alcohol, drugs, and government check.
I get to explain to several people each week that android tablets are not ipads...Then I have to explain why an ipad costs more than the android tablet that is the same size sitting next to it.
US GDP 16,770,000,000,000 / US population 318,000,000 $52,735/year in some parts of the country that would get you nice accommodations in others NY for example it wouldn't even cover the rent of a closet.
Going with sprint for their cell provider wasn't their best idea. (some lifeline providers may use others but every one I have ever seen uses sprint)
I am more annoyed that they are subsidising broadband without taking into consideration that there are a lot of people that can't get broadband. It just seems shortsighted to me for some reason.
Afaik everything covered by the MMRV vaccine is human only measles, mumps, rubella, varicella and of those afaik only varicella is problematic to eliminate as it creates lifetime human carriers. Polio is another notable human only disease.
I really thought that we would have eliminated another world wide by now. It can be done it should be done and we have the ability. I hate to think its just stupidity but I can't seem to find any other reason.
Rabies while still quite dangerous is thankfully very limited in its infection vectors to the point that the vaccine is not typically even given unless traveling to an area where exposure is likely or exposure has already occurred.
As you said rabies has a rather large number of hosts some of which fly this makes total elimination very difficult.
One of the things I worry about is since they (mmrv and polio) are still out there they can still mutate into a version the vaccine doesn't prevent we are very lucky they have a low mutation rate unlike the flu which they have to guess at every year.
What I hope to see in the future are viral vaccines I suppose there would be moral implications there but I feel if people were stupid enough to spread the disease for the last several thousand years they shouldn't be complaining about spreading a vaccine although I expect they would.
I understand samples of smallpox do need to be kept for research but I hope they are well protected as it would be a huge setback if it were to ever come back.
We have been able to do some amazing things here in the last century but people are starting to forget...Maybe they should mention more of these in school?
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No but at this point I miss seeing those flashing but quiet and not malicious (ok misleading) "YOU'VE WON A NEW CAR"
They really weren't that bad also:
XKCD new car https://xkcd.com/570/
I am very glad that slashdot gives me the option as I would not be able to read /. on my ipad without it.
Clocks really aren't as hard to make as radioshack made them appear back in the 70's see: http://www.electro-labs.com/di...
But the 9v battery was there to keep the time so your alarm would still go off when it was supposed to if mains was disconnected.
Nowadays we just put CR2032's in everything.
No I don't feel he invented anything either but I thought that as soon as I saw the transformer and how it was mounted in the box.
No one is going to bother cutting one of those stupid transformers out of a wall wart.
However the schools reaction was still wrong. Possibly even more wrong because it wasn't even home made just disassembled.
Anyone ever heard of the Mintyboost? Some people (the TSA) think they look scary and they are all home made http://www.natch.net/stuff/TSA...
Oh what fun things I would have made if I had had access to a 3d printer when I was in school.
Well for the most part I think it's that when individual sites try to go to a subscription model they want much more than their content would be worth as part of a set.
For example newegg wants $50/year for their 2 day shipping for newegg only.
Or I can get a shoprunner subscription for $79/year and get 2 day shipping at hundreds of stores.
Another example would be netflix vs cbs all access or hbo
If I go with netflix I have a rather large collection of shows to watch from a variety of networks for $7.99/mo
Cbs I would have a collection of shows I could watch But only cbs shows no others for $5.99/mo
Hbo want's $15/mo for access to only hbo's shows.
I have never seen any of Hbo's shows since I don't have cable at home and the cable at work doesn't include that channel.
A subscription model like flattr could be made to work I think.
Worth noting http://news.slashdot.org/story...
I would be thrilled to be able to pay only $230 to remove ads everywhere I go online it would easily make up in time saved! However I wouldn't pay much for an ad blocker because where would that money go?
Not sure who you were replying to but if it was me.
Slashdot thinks I am excellent! No adblocker needed.
Well frig If I was paying for the discovery channel as an individual channel and saw cash cab was going to be on every day the only hours I was home to watch tv I would probably drop that channel.
I wouldn't have the scifi channel either WWE, ghost hunters and some kind of makeup show? Where did all the good scifi shows go?
It seems quite apparent that apparently only idiots still have cable else they would have to have something watchable on.
As someone with a non jailbroken ipad I can vouch this is mostly true.
However there will only be more and better ad blockers. That piracy argument will never fly as long as webmasters continue to allow malicious intrusive intrusive ads.
As An ipad user I can say I do miss those flash site's. most websites work without flash now. But much remains broken to this day. I used to like albinoblacksheep but it's pretty worthless on the ipad. Some of the videos have been put on youtube but none of the games work.
And a quarter of the coverage....
Have you seen sling tv? They claim it is a la carte but you still can not pick only the channels you want. They are going to hang on to packaged plans until it kills them.
What surprises me the most is that afaik no one has ever even made an attempt to sell true a la carte service.
I haven't been able to find any 3rd party browsers for the ipad that let you turn off javascript.
However you can turn javascript off for safari on the ipad in system settings.
No not unless It was part of a general news subscription service. say $5-$10/mo gets divided among the sites based on how much I use them. Maybe something like Flattr?
Youtube. If it was ad free.
I have to leave the ads turned off or slashdot crashes safari on my ipad.
Like how the saying goes a few bad apples can ruin the whole batch.
I don't mind unobtrusive ads but popunders,interstitials,click redirects and malware are too much.
I use an adblocker because of sites like those, however most blockers operate on a whitelist policy unless you go out of your way to not block the ads on a website they are blocked by default.
Sites that have polite advertising aren't being singled out they just happen to be collateral damage from a few bad apples.
I feel I must mention the CCC as no one else has
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Civilian Conservation Corps
The US government did at least from 1933 to 1942 function at least somewhat as a employer of last resort.
I don't know why the job guarantee page does not mention it.
I was replying to this comment http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
I am sure you are correct that many do not want to quit I could name a few people off hand that haven't been sober in years.
But when desire preempts actual biological needs then it becomes a serious mental health problem that will quickly turn into a death problem if left untreated.
Otherwise they could be content subsisting with their alcohol, drugs, and government check.
I get to explain to several people each week that android tablets are not ipads...Then I have to explain why an ipad costs more than the android tablet that is the same size sitting next to it.
What do they do now?
They run out of money and steal things from other people Not to buy food they don't care about that just the next fix.
At least that's the druggies the alcoholics seem to just drink as much as they can while they have money.
Giving them free money will not change their current situation. The current ebt cards and so on aren't able to help either.
But I don't think it's intended to fix those types of problems.
Addiction is a mental health problem and they aren't treated well here...Maybe someone should do something about that.
US GDP 16,770,000,000,000 / US population 318,000,000
$52,735/year in some parts of the country that would get you nice accommodations in others NY for example it wouldn't even cover the rent of a closet.
This exactly IF it replaced the others and made all that BS go away I would support it. Remember the K.I.S.S principle.
But what I expect to happen is it would be just one more program added into the already horrid mess of others.
Going with sprint for their cell provider wasn't their best idea.
(some lifeline providers may use others but every one I have ever seen uses sprint)
I am more annoyed that they are subsidising broadband without taking into consideration that there are a lot of people that can't get broadband. It just seems shortsighted to me for some reason.
California is trying it's best to regulate, restrict, tax and police the residents out of the state but they just won't leave.
Afaik everything covered by the MMRV vaccine is human only measles, mumps, rubella, varicella and of those afaik only varicella is problematic to eliminate as it creates lifetime human carriers. Polio is another notable human only disease.
I really thought that we would have eliminated another world wide by now. It can be done it should be done and we have the ability. I hate to think its just stupidity but I can't seem to find any other reason.
Rabies while still quite dangerous is thankfully very limited in its infection vectors to the point that the vaccine is not typically even given unless traveling to an area where exposure is likely or exposure has already occurred.
As you said rabies has a rather large number of hosts some of which fly this makes total elimination very difficult.
One of the things I worry about is since they (mmrv and polio) are still out there they can still mutate into a version the vaccine doesn't prevent we are very lucky they have a low mutation rate unlike the flu which they have to guess at every year.
What I hope to see in the future are viral vaccines I suppose there would be moral implications there but I feel if people were stupid enough to spread the disease for the last several thousand years they shouldn't be complaining about spreading a vaccine although I expect they would.
I understand samples of smallpox do need to be kept for research but I hope they are well protected as it would be a huge setback if it were to ever come back.
We have been able to do some amazing things here in the last century but people are starting to forget...Maybe they should mention more of these in school?
Don't mind me this is just a note so I can find this later.