Comment Re:"school-provided devices" (Score 2) 115
I had hoped, at least here on Slashdot, to find a few like-minded folks. Instead it feels like most people just saying "keep your head down, don't rock the boat, support the Man." Truly depressing!
I had hoped, at least here on Slashdot, to find a few like-minded folks. Instead it feels like most people just saying "keep your head down, don't rock the boat, support the Man." Truly depressing!
Would you care to elaborate on the *more* worrisome things that you've encountered? I would truly love to learn more.
1) & 2) If you had read before posting, you would see that this software is monitoring what students write even when they are not at school, working on on-school projects. Obviously they shouldn't be using surveilled devices in the first place, but that doesn't justify Big Brother snooping around.
3) I respectfully disagree, and would maintain that electronic monitoring of anyone is corrosive in exactly the manner you state it isn't. Just because this sort of monitoring and coercion may frequently occur doesn't make it right, laudable, or desirable.
You are welcome to try to teach attitude adjustments anytime, of course, with (I think) predictable results.
I've watched webcasts of numerous spacecraft landing at Mars: multiple, uplinked images are shown essentially as soon as they come through, and the mission control room erupts in cheers. Those events far preceded this ESA event, and both seem equally 'live.'
A Boeing official said Thursday that the company was "standing down" from an attempt to launch the Starliner spacecraft on July 21 to focus on recently discovered issues with the vehicle. Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager for Starliner, said two spacecraft problems were discovered before Memorial Day weekend and that the company spent the holiday investigating them. After internal discussions that included Boeing chief executive Dave Calhoun, the company decided to delay the test flight that would carry NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station.
TLDR; the parachute cords might not be strong enough and the tape that holds down all the wiring harnesses might go up in flames. Manned flight score: SpaceX 9 — Boeing 0
My go-to list, in priority order:
Web Browser: Vivaldi, Firefox, Chrome
Email Client: Thunderbird!
Terminal: Terminal, xterm
IDE: meh
File manager: any
Basic Text Editor: emacs, vi
IRC/Messaging Client: meh
PDF Reader: evince, okular
Office Suite: LibreOffice!
Calendar: Thunderbird/Lightning
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: meh
Screen recording: meh
LAX is right on the coast, as far from the city center as one can get. It's a half-hour ride through traffic to downtown.
SFO is way down in the southern extremity of San Francisco. It's a half-hour BART ride to downtown.
SJC has much smaller capacity than those, but I'll grant that it's closer to downtown.
SAN and SNA won't be reached by high-speed rail in the first phase;
When can we get started on all of the million or so projects that somebody would call "progress", but not such that they'd choose to pay for it?
Well, the CA high-speed rail project is being funded as it is built -- though some is funded by bonds, there's no "blank check" or unlimited deficit spending. So I'm not sure the above comment is really relevant.
HSR safety document. AFAIK, true grade separation isn't fully funded. The quad gates described in the PDF are said to reduce "collisions" 98%, but I'm inferring that as vehicle collisions. They don't look like they would do much for pedestrians.
Fair enough: "In the Central Valley, where trains will be capable of running at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour, the high-speed rail system is being built fully grade separated." But in the denser regions (which have more people, albeit lower running speeds) it looks like grade separation will not be complete, at least in the regions with blended service. I find that pretty disappointing -- but thanks for pointing it out.
+1 to parent, if I could.
Amtrak and buses take 7+ hours to make the trip that high-speed rail will do in 3.
As for airports: the planes pollute more, the trains are more comfortable, and the train stations are located where people are (in downtowns) instead of on the outskirts of town.
Your "gut feeling" that this project is a debacle does not make it so.
In fact, years of studies by many different groups that all suggest the project will be feasible and useful might incline one toward the opposite conclusion.
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