Comment I do not think that word means what you think... (Score 4, Informative) 157
We do not intend to launch until we are confident that the program is consumer friendly.
It is, inherently, not consumer friendly.
We do not intend to launch until we are confident that the program is consumer friendly.
It is, inherently, not consumer friendly.
Can we vote to prioritize Linux versions? I'm sure the Apple guys would like a button to prioritize games (that already exist on steam) to get OSX versions as well.
Strange since they touched or blocked each camera at least once. They obviously knew they were there. Which makes me think they might have wanted the owner to know and see what they were doing. Either that or the cameras had some kind of auto-alarm if the signal blacks out for more than a few seconds.
Basically summed up most of my feelings on this matter. If I could mod you up to +6 I would.
Might be interesting to see who is registering for which names. Is Coke buying up Pepsi.foo names etc? Could maybe be considered anti-competitive type practices. Is this information typically visible to the general population?
They're only protecting their customers to secure their ability to keep screwing them up the ass.
If "that's what the public wants the mayor to do" then the public wouldn't be buying ginormous sized beverages and thus there wouldn't be a problem in the first place. The fact that they are buying the large sodas means the public wants it. I can see slapping a warning on the side of the containers that say "Hey fatty, you keep drinking this much crap and you're going to die from diabeetus," but a ban seems to infringe on peoples' freedom of choice. (Unlike the bans on foie gras, there's no one torturing corn plants to make the soda.)
If ever there were a word that disrupted the flow of something it would be "Csíkszentmihályi."
From my personal experience, the grocery stores are the only places I've encountered the self checkout lanes. When you don't put something on the scale after scanning it, the software pops up a display saying to place it on the scale with a button right beneath it to ignore it and continue ringing products up. The software messes up fairly frequently so the employees don't bat an eye. This would be trivially bypassed here.
Babies shouldn't be SEALs. They should wait until they are adults before training to go after terrorists.
I was under the impression that the transformers on residential electrical poles could cause small (relatively speaking) EMPs when damaged/detonated. Is this not the case?
This telescope will be used both to look for and observe known Near-Earth asteroids, and can also be pointed down to Earth for remote sensing operations.
"Remote sensing operations" being what exactly?
I know this is slashdot, but you could at least read the article before the knee-jerk response kicks in.
To test this idea, the researchers injected a nerve-blocking drug to temporarily paralyze one hand and forearm in the monkeys.
They used a drug to temporarily paralyze the hand. They didn't break its spine, they didn't kill it. There was probably a tiny bit of pain and fear, no different from vaccinating a child. Please try to keep things in context.
How is that abuse? A crime was committed. He didn't lift the prints off of a public place. I see nothing morally wrong with investigating a legitimate crime when the police can't be bothered to do so themselves.
...and yet, here you are.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
