Comment Excellent! (Score 1) 78
This is the one device that has support wired into iOS (e.g. the healthkit). Now other wearable makers can get their data straight into the phone!
This is the one device that has support wired into iOS (e.g. the healthkit). Now other wearable makers can get their data straight into the phone!
The US government funded Tor development and encourages its use as a way to avoid repressive governments and then considers its use in the US to be a suspcious act.
The irony, it burns!
I presume by the end of this year we'll have systemd running on bare iron, handing off to emacs, which then allows you to run instances of Linux in different buffers.
(Why yes I am a lifelong emacs user which means I am allowed to make fun of it)
last line should read '...a “clipper chip” that would supposedly allow only the government to decrypt...'
Darn, another good explanation I learned years ago now smashed.
However that explanation is odd. Australia also had conscription for the Viet Nam war. My dad wasn't subject to it because he worked for the PMG (and had two small kids). Wouldn't Canada have made more sense?
...whereas it deported its religious nutcases to North America.
If only it were true. Australia is where the nutcases go when they consider the US intolerant. Case in point: New York-born Mel Gibson, whose nutjob dad brought his brood to Australia looking for the "freedom" to practice his (even more) loony brand of christianity...
It's probably worth pointing out that these are not "given" to police. They are "loaned".
Therefore police depts that accept this gear are required to pay for maintenance [...] and are forbidden from selling them [...]
And they are required by 1033 to use the equipment and (according to that wikipedia entry) are allowed to sell some of it.
I'm sympathetic to the marketroids on this one. Most people think a "computer" is a thing with a keyboard and display (hence the strange confusion over whether a phone or tablet is a "computer"). And people do understand that a network is a way for computers to talk to each other.
But the idea that you might have a microprocessor in a light bulb is plain weird to most people, hence the new name. And at least it's better than "the washing machine network". Now if only they would turn their thinking caps to the part where you actually think up uses for networked frogs that normal people care about....
As for "cloud", yeah, that's a perfectly good technical term stretched and abused by marketards. At least it bears some resemblance to its original meaning (unlike, say, "broadband", much less "narrowband" -- you mean "baseband" you fuckwits).
Actually, trackers are pretty expensive in $/W, and this is even after you take advantage of the increased yield (you're paying money to avoid the cosine effect so you better generate more power than the cost of your tracker). If you're going to do this you might as well use higher yield panels, which again increases capital cost, thus...
The economics of PV solar went this way:
For a while single axis tracking was worth it, but the price of PV has come down so far it no longer matters.
There are specialized applications (mainly where space is required, or concentration can benefit in other ways) where tracking is worth it and smoe people are still at it. Since the tracking motor itself is expensive, one strategy was to make a robot that went along moving each panel one by one. (QBotix). I don't know how well that has worked out.
Yeah, you're quite right that I overstated it by saying they are orthogonal. They are coupled (diamond is not particularly flexible) but not 100% correlated. Different manifestations of the underlying structure.
They simply foolishly don't fear our feline overlords. While Americans practice, training themselves to recognize the enemy.
Seriously, having lived in both France and the USA: most people in France will ignore the critics but yes, books and culture are seen as more important to people then they are in the USA. Being a public intellectual is considered a reasonable and high profile job.
Note I said "seen as more important" -- don't forget we're talking about the country that invented celebrity culture and "celeb journos", and in which the most popular restaurant is McDonalds. Nevertheless, the French are anti- a lot of things, but being intellectual isn't one of them.
Please tell us how they achieved this feat or materials engineering.
Oh you silly slashdotter. Sure, you may have studied materials science and engineering, but do you have the real world experience? In the modern corporation it's all about teamwork. Well-managed teams can do more than any one person possibly could. In this case, the engineers make the glass hard. Then marketing adds the flexibility. See? Teamwork. Oh yeah, and management makes it all happen and does extra janatorial tasks like mopping up the excess bucks.
(Actually, cynicism aside, it's simply that hardness and flexibility are orthogonal axes in materials science).
Seems the same as a product released by apple in 1994 -- 20 years ago.
The way to end this is not to say, "Would be nice to hear something similar from Verizon" like it's some sort of game.
TFA (and the summary) are silent on the real question is which is, "What right do they have to fuck with my traffic?"
It's like they are asking to be reclassified as a Title II common carrier.
This is a sensible comment. Although I disagree with your conclusion (since they are so rare, almost any precuationary defense is a waste of effort - and I say this as a parent), your reasoning is good.
The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money. -- B. Franklin
