Anyone remember the first season of Mannix on TV? (yes I am that old!)
Larry and Sergei should create a new company named Intertect. They already have the computers; they already know everything about everyone. They would only need to hire, train and equip a bunch of good looking operatives and presto! no unresolved crimes.
The Good Old Days, indeed:
X-rated photos were secretly added to Apollo 12 astronauts' suits | Daily Mail Online
Location: London, England. A traveler hails a taxi cab (the real thing, not a Uber car).
[cabbie] Where to, sir?
[traveler] Waterloo.
[cabbie] You mean the station?
[traveler] I am sure we are late for the battle.
(disclaimer: over the time I met with different takes on the same tale, some even claimed to be anecdotal. This is just my retelling)
For several weeks, my "recently used" menu in Lastpass was empty.
It was annoying as Hell ((recently used sites are usually the ones used more frequently, so it is a convenient feature).
Many users (including me) posted complains in the forum. We were surprised - and rather upset - to get no feedback at all from Lastpass (at least the last time I checked the forums - after a while I gave up).
After the latest update of the software, the "recently used" menu works again.
Now I wonder if disabling the "recently used" menu was a mitigation measure taken while they worked to solve the bug.
And this is a bad thing? (Unless most of that 10% were bots, _that _ would be a bad thing.)
Blessed those who have nothing to say, and do not give in to temptation to say it...
Question: when they talk about user "creating" tweets - do they refer to tweets starting a new conversation, or also tweets adding to an ongoing conversation? (The latter are mostly worthless)
Previously on Slashdot:
Urban Death Project Aims To Rebuild Our Soil By Composting Corpses - Slashdot
(The process described is somewhat different - the one proposed here could be an improvement)
Upgraded model Aries 1b to follow at a later time.
In his novel From the Earth to the Moon - Wikipedia Jules Verne wrote a whole chapter about the struggle between Florida and Texas, to host the location for the "Columbiad" gun that would shoot a projectile to the Moon.
Verne's portrait of representatives from Texas and Florida arguing on this is... humoruous.
(Florida won the match, and IIRC the location chosen by Verne was not that far from Cape Canaveral.)
Many years ago (keep this in mind - things may have changed) I worked at an European company, designing and building production plants for the automotive industry, especially for the body shops.
A typical production line for European mid-sized cars had a theoretical capacity of fifty (50) car bodies per hour - that would be at 100% efficiency, actual yeld was lower but not much. A typical production facility for non-premium class cars had two production lines running in parallel on two eight-hour shifts per day (third shift for clean-up and maintenance), five days a week. 50*2*8*2*5=8000 car bodies per week at 100% efficiency (as I said, actual yeld was something less than that). Of course, most manufacturers had (still have) more than one facility running.
Premium / luxury production lines are usually smaller than that, of course. Think Ferrari.
I hope this is of interest.
If I understand correctly, these invasive species feed on native earthworms.
If I remember correctly, earthworms have a relevant role in the conservation of top soil.
Will these invasive species have an impact on the conservation of top soil?
Waze has been doing this for some time, but only when I stop at red lights. As soon as I move the ad goes away.
I guess automakers would like a slice of the pie. I only wish they would be as self-constrained...
Personally, I believe it could work - if managed properly (which would not be simple - but what is simple in a complex world?)
I also believe it is not going to happen any time soon, and for a whole different reason.
I think somebody (a Latin author? maybe Horatio?) once said, "I do not love money, but it makes me feel safe."
An universal basic income, to some extent, would make people feel less afraid.
And that would be unfortunate, because so many structures of our civilization are built on fear. (I am sure anyone here could make some example of this.) And significantly reducing the amount of fear in most people's lives would have a dramatic disestablishing effect. So... it is not going to happen any time soon.
However, we tend to forget that civilizations are intrinsically transient - they have been rising and falling for the last 12000 years at least - and this one is not looking good. (My personal opinion - and I may be wrong - is that we jumped the shark sometimes between the 70s and the 80s of last century.) So it is possible that a future civilization, built on different premises, will make it work for good... (The heck, in a few centuries historians will look back to this time of history, and wonder what in hell we were sniffing, smoking, or assuming by any other means!)
OK, am I the only one who watched this?
JetPack Aviation JB-9 JETPACK - YouTube
World's only JetPack flies in New York - YouTube
If it's CGI it's pretty good...
Inside the shadowy world of birth tourism at ‘maternity hotels’ - The Washington Post
"In luxury apartment complexes in Southern California and in grand, single-family homes in New York, “maternity hotels” are brimming with pregnant women and cooing newborn babies.
For wealthy foreign women, the facilities offer the promise of a comfortable, worry-free vacation complete with a major perk: a U.S. passport for their newborn."
Maybe they should have a friendly talk with the IRS...
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
