Comment Re:Private? (Score 1) 39
Yeah, why is the US government stealing $130 million from taxpayers and giving it to Bezos who's worth more than 1000 times that.
Comment choices matter (Score 4, Insightful) 43
I choose to not buy the game again.
Comment Re: Barber (Score 3, Insightful) 199
I think you mean 300 times more: https://www.epi.org/publicatio...
Comment speaking of communication lag (Score 1) 80
The article was from March. The flood of missions to Mars that will be launching this summer, have already been launched.
Comment Re:Write once read never == bad investment (Score 1) 101
Java and C# have endured because they were optimized for long-term development and maintenance
Doesn't hurt that they have very large companies backing them..
Comment seismic event (Score 1) 141
simply refuse and depart like Google did in China a decade ago over some of the very same issues. Much like that seismic event shook the mainland in 2010
In what way did that "shake the mainland"? Maybe it let Alibaba grow more? I could see it maybe being more important in Hong Kong, though.
Comment 4th amendment (Score 1) 22
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches....
Comment impersonal (Score 1) 65
Comment accessibility (Score 1) 296
I'm not sure of the current situation, but previously in this "debate" I heard that people with difficulty seeing (not necessarily blind, but need to magnify the screen) can have a lot harder time if you use long lines. It's the main reason I always try to limit the line length, not old terminals. It's possible I was gullible and fell for a troll.
Comment good lawyer (Score 4, Funny) 34
Being able to defend opposing sides of an argument, seems like a good thing for a lawyer.
Comment games (Score 1) 84
From what I briefly read just now, this would be relevant to those who use WINE or play Steam games on Linux.
Submission + - A New Spin On 3D Printing Can Produce An Object In Seconds (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A 3D model is sliced up into hundreds of 2D horizontal layers and slowly built up, one layer at a time. This layer-by-layer process can take hours or even days, but what if we could print the entire model at once? A new technique demonstrated by researchers from Switzerland's Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)—and further detailed in this Nature article — does just that and can print an entire model in seconds. The new technique builds a model by hardening a photosensitive resin with a laser, not unlike existing stereolithography (SLA) printers. The big difference here is the application of tomographic techniques, the same used in x-rays and ultrasounds, that allows for rotational printing. Laser light is modulated with a DLP chip (just like in old rear-projection HDTVs) and is blasted into a container full of resin. The laser covers the entire build volume, and the container of resin actually rotates while it's being exposed to the light. The laser projects the model at different rotational perspectives, which is synced up with the spinning resin, and a whole 3D model can be produced in seconds.
The EPFL writes, "The system is currently capable of making two-centimeter structures with a precision of 80 micrometers, about the same as the diameter of a strand of hair. But as the team develops new devices, they should be able to build much bigger objects, potentially up to 15 centimeters." In this first public demonstration, the build volume is 16mm×16mm×20mm, making it one of the smallest 3D printers on earth. An 80 um resolution is also nothing to write home about and can be bested by ~$500 consumer SLA printers. It is very fast, though, and the technique is just getting started. The researchers have set up a spin-off company called "Readily 3D" to develop and market the technology.
The EPFL writes, "The system is currently capable of making two-centimeter structures with a precision of 80 micrometers, about the same as the diameter of a strand of hair. But as the team develops new devices, they should be able to build much bigger objects, potentially up to 15 centimeters." In this first public demonstration, the build volume is 16mm×16mm×20mm, making it one of the smallest 3D printers on earth. An 80 um resolution is also nothing to write home about and can be bested by ~$500 consumer SLA printers. It is very fast, though, and the technique is just getting started. The researchers have set up a spin-off company called "Readily 3D" to develop and market the technology.
Comment enjoy! (Score 2) 94
Passengers who were stranded were compensated with free park tickets and gift cards.
You spent "about three hours" stuck in the air. Why would you ever go back again?
Google Settles Age Descrimination Lawsuit (forbes.com) 120
Long-time Slashdot reader sfcat quotes Forbes:
Almost a decade ago, courts sounded a clear warning bell that Google's culture was tainted by illegal and pervasive age discrimination. Inexplicably, Google didn't listen.
And so the Los Angeles Times recently reported that Google has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging Google engaged in a systemic practice of discriminating on the basis of age in hiring. Some 227 plaintiffs will collect an average of $35,000 each.
Google actually agreed to settle the case in December but the final settlement agreement was presented to a federal judge on Friday. The lawsuit was filed by Cheryl Fillekes, a software engineer who was interviewed by Google four times from 2007 to 2014, starting when she was 47, but was never hired.
The lawsuit alleged Google hired younger workers based on "cultural fit."
In the settlement Google also agrees to train its managers about age bias and create an "age diversity in recruiting" committee. Forbes points out that the median age for all Google employees in 2017 was 30, "a decade younger than the median age of U.S. workers."
"On its web page, Google says its mission is to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.' But for some reason Google has failed as a company to organize and use the information that age discrimination is illegal."
And so the Los Angeles Times recently reported that Google has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging Google engaged in a systemic practice of discriminating on the basis of age in hiring. Some 227 plaintiffs will collect an average of $35,000 each.
Google actually agreed to settle the case in December but the final settlement agreement was presented to a federal judge on Friday. The lawsuit was filed by Cheryl Fillekes, a software engineer who was interviewed by Google four times from 2007 to 2014, starting when she was 47, but was never hired.
The lawsuit alleged Google hired younger workers based on "cultural fit."
In the settlement Google also agrees to train its managers about age bias and create an "age diversity in recruiting" committee. Forbes points out that the median age for all Google employees in 2017 was 30, "a decade younger than the median age of U.S. workers."
"On its web page, Google says its mission is to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.' But for some reason Google has failed as a company to organize and use the information that age discrimination is illegal."
Comment Re: Time for pro-freedom anti-greedom taxation? (Score 0) 275
You "terminated" a "discussion" because someone pointed out that you used caps lock. "Time for pro-freedom", haha. Just admit that you need to control everything.
