Rightwingers always dismiss anything they don't agree with as 'leftwing' as if that makes it false, and thus remain idiots. The article DID in fact give you the full details on the study it reports from, and a mere few minutes of googling would confirm that the FBI does consider rightwing christian militias the biggest terror threat in the USA from multiple sources - including the FBI's own website.

None of which will convince you since your beliefs are based on personal prejudice rather than any concern for correlation with reality.

Does this one get a nifty name?

Translation: When evidence disagrees with you you'll dismiss. Gotta keep the cognitive dissonance going.

A microcode patch is included with the BIOS image and is loaded by BIOS at startup. This isn't the only way to do it -- it is also possible to load a patch from the O/S. But for most users the best solution is for BIOS to do this, and that means updating the BIOS image. So the article is correct.

.If you have any evidence that a crime is being (or has been) committed, convince a judge to issue a search warrantHowever,

You might be able to convince a judge to give you a warrant, but if you can't tap the communications you're still back at square one.

If you have intelligence that The People's Front is going to blow up an elementary school, and you get a warrant to tap their comms, you still need access to those comms. This is what law enforcement is going on about - They're not upset about needing to get a warrant, they're upset about the fact it no longer helps.

Yes and what is your point? It's still cool as shit. If you think it isn't cool as shit I have to wonder why you are posting someplace like slashdot.

Again so what? Just because something has been done before doesn't mean it is no longer interesting.

Oh so you're just being a hard to impress hipster. I get it. So sorry you are so bored by life.

You're building a whole forest of strawmen, founded in extreme ignorance and pigheadedness. It's actually kind of impressive, and sad.

And who will pay for the constant production of the huge amount of aerosols and delivery system needed to constantly alter the planet's average temperature?

"Compared to the United States there are quite a few more high school students in Russia who choose to specialize in information technology subjects."

Because of the jobs. When you see people being showed the door because their IT job is being filled by H1B Visa holders, you tend not to want to gravitate to their professions.

It has nothing, repeat nothing to do with education. It's about choice about professional career and right now IT is being ravaged by H1B Visa holders. So why on earth would you pursue it.

FYI a Microsoft sponsored study does not ad weight to your argument.

Exactly. ... but how would you install an emergency breaking system on a (contactless!) Maglev system without seriously restricting the the directions in which this can move? (diagonally...)

Because of the shoddy writing in the article and the summary, I can understand why you would think it's contactless. But it isn't. The similarity with maglev trains and the hyperloop is the fact that it uses a linear motor to move along the track. The elevator car is still affixed to a track/rail and does not levitate. When it needs to go sideways, it does so at specially located switchpoints where it traverses a horizontal track. This would be obvious from reading the articles or, for the short-attention-spanned, watching the embedded videos.

cheers. religion is the root of all war, genocide, and above all else hypocrisy. it also has the power to help people find solace in ignorance, coddling the fears of death and wrong doing with a rag of ether. to "hell" with donald trump, religious zealots of all varieties, and the rambling liars that stand behind their deceit in cowardice.

That's just bullshit and there is copious evidence to prove it. People get pulled over routinely because of the color of their skin. This isn't a debate. It happens and if you deny it happens you are either lying or delusional. Happens to black people and latinos so often it borders on cliche. Perhaps you live in a location where it is relatively uncommon. Those do exist. But to pretend it doesn't happen is to have your head in the sand at best.

There are PLENTY of times when it is trivial to note the ethnicity of the driver/occupants.

Ahh, we have an answer.

Or all three at once! And don't forget sex!

Good luck, then!

The primary benefit is not the sideways thing.

I could imagine that the sideways thing could be the main benefit.

Imagine a ten story building with two lift shafts and 10 cars. In a quiescent state there's one car parked on each floor.

During light times, someone gets into a lift, the cars above or below move out of the way and then it travels to the required floor. The cars it has passed simultaneously shuffle up or down one floor and you're back to the quiescent state. In busy times there can be one up and one down shaft - but there doesn't need to be the same wait time, indeed the lifts could be positioned every other floor.

Biggest issue with this I can see is the loading/unloading time. Ideally you'd want to do something similar to the way some London underground stations work where people leaving the lift go out through a different door to those entering the lift. Which may defeat any space savings from having fewer lift shafts.

What I'm not sure about is whether the lift can safely move sideways while people are in it. Feels to me as though trying to stand in such a lift would be like trying to stand on a train or boat where the sideways forces require significant strength and coordination to remain standing unsupported.

If the cars have multiple doors then you could have four lift shafts in a square array and every car would have four available directions to move.

Of course, what you could do is open the doors and then rapidly move the lift sideways, ejecting the people out of the door (a-la pulling the table cloth off the table without disturbing what is on the table) and readying the lift for the next load ;-)

Both would be difficult to put in place on a Maglev system.

The maglev part is kind of a misnomer. It's not using magnetic levitation, per se, but rather using linear motors to move around. Yes, maglev trains use that technology to travel, but so do a number of launched roller coasters out there. Any it's being used as a replacement for the steam catapult in the latest U.S. aircraft carrier.

The elevator car is still in contact with a track, for mechanical and electrical reasons. It almost certainly has track brakes that require energy to release. That is, in the event of power loss, they are spring-loaded to engage automatically.

Additionally, since we are talking about a motor, you can do dynamic braking: short the stator windings together, and the back-emf created by the passing magnets will create a substantial drag force. Want to try at home? Drop a neodymium magnet down a copper pipe and see how long it takes. Or take an ordinary DC motor, short the leads together, then try to backdrive it.

Last time I checked there were back episodes of MST3K on Netflix.

MST3K is also some of the easiest stuff to torrent or even find on YouTube. I've never not been able to pull up clips or whole episodes to show my kids what we watched back in the day.

Overall, Twitch seems a little lost with this gimmick. There IS a market for gaming liveplay. (I watch it myself at work when I get sick of podcasts and streaming music.) Why not continue to invest in it, especially as ESPN and its sports have finally jumped the shark?