What you say makes sense, but it is far more interesting to think that there are people encased in the concrete, thus that is what I choose to believe.
What is meant by that is that the quietly disclosed it to Facebook, so that Facebook could fix the problem before it was exploited, rather than going public with it first and putting the pressure on Facebook to fix it quicker.
These things generally get announced after the fact especially if it was disclosed in a bug bounty program because part of the deal is the recognition that the security researcher gets (which is a big deal in the security world from what I can tell).
tl;dr - the quietly refers to the fact that we heard about it after it was fixed and not before.
If the summary is correct I don't really see how this affects servers all that much... The summary says it is an issue in the first 15-60 minutes after startup. Servers are generally up for longer periods of time so the actual impact would be low for W2K03.
Would Google Glass capture that information even if it wasn't in use? The data might be there in Google Glass but might not indicate that she was using it.
"Also given that when a prospective employer calls your present or a former employer those old employers can only say "Yes x worked here" they can't by law go into detail about your work habits."
Is there actually such a law? My understanding was that the general practice is more a safeguard against litigation happy employees filing defamation lawsuits. What's different here is that these are the results of disciplinary hearings where evidence has been presented and a decision has been made. i.e. the information is vetted and is probably less likely to contain false/inaccurate information.
I totally agree on the write ups from employers, and as such I really hope/assume that these sorts of things are reserved for rather more egregious cases (such as unwarranted police violence, corruption, etc).
Also, as I searched a bit, there is precedent for making this information publicly available. If you look at http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cpb/auto_generated/police_discipline_archives.html you will find the equivalent information from the Chicago Police Department - a record of findings and decisions made by the Chicago Police board with respect to police discipline.
So what is new here is not the fact that this information is being made publicly available (it already has, if not in Dallas, in other jurisdictions), but that the information is being made public via Facebook and Twitter.
I think his argument is that because Facebook or Twitter could at any time delete the posts/tweets, therefore it isn't transparent. Where with a physical newspaper once it is printed you can't unprint it.
I personally think he is missing the point. The point of this is presumably not to make a permanent, archived record, but more to make the information available in a way that is accessible to many. It also isn't the same as a public notice which is generally trying to ensure a good proportion of the constituency receives the information. The point is to make the information easily accessible, not to ensure that it does get accessed.
A newspaper is just as free to stop distributing old editions, and it likely isn't too difficult, but also not super easy to get a copy of a three year old newspaper from the newspaper itself (i.e. it likely involves at least a phone call and some cost to have it reprinted from the archives or whatever they do).
The more important signal here is to indicate to the public that police officers no longer have carte blanche to do whatever they want and rely on the protection of the police force to cover it up. The majority of the police officers who are working hard to do their jobs well and be upstanding citizens don't have to worry about wearing the reputation of the few jackasses that are doing stupid stuff and not facing any consequences.
Yes... bring the shelf forward, worker picks the item off the shelf, turns around and puts it in the box and does whatever needs to be done. In the meantime, the robot has brought the shelf for the next item.
Also, I would think motion sickness or something would come into play with a robotic platform moving a worker back and forth all the time.
They can perhaps factor and/or influence, but you are correct that RAM, # cores and frequency don't directly impact usability.
Other people in the discussion seem to make much screen resolution though as being easier to read. This might mean that the difference between 300ppi and 132ppi is a meaningful number for comparison.
The complete phrase is 'password safe on Dropbox'. KeePass looks after the security and encryption - Dropbox is just the means of sharing the password safe between devices.
i.e. 'password safe' together is the noun rather than 'password' being the noun and safe being the adjective.
This happens enough that I often wonder whether the editors are really that careless, or whether they intentionally insert errors like that in order to provide fodder for those who so enjoy writing posts correcting the article and complaining about the lack of editing. Thorough proofreading would kill one of the memes that makes slashdot what it is.
So if you have a toy drone you can take over other toy drones? Could be great fun at a toy drone party but I don't see how it has anything to do with law enforcement drones or Amazon drones.
I'm sure it would never cross the minds of intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies or Amazon to authenticate the controller.
And the thread was started by somebody who is presumably an individual criticizing the apparent pattern of governments discouraging profitable organizations. Agree or not, I feel like it is reasonable, as individuals, to debate the merits of various laws and whether we feel they produce a desirable outcome.
It also seems perfectly reasonable to me for a corporation to criticize the laws of a particular jurisdiction and even lobby to have them changed. The challenge is obviously trying to achieve a system where the decision makers are not corrupt and corporations can't get their way by simply shoveling bucket loads of money at those responsible for deciding.
As an example, it would seem perfectly reasonable for Tesla Motors to lobby the government to setup laws in such a way as to permit their business to operate. It is the responsibility of government officials to ensure that the rules are set up fairly and to make decisions based on national interests rather than based on any self interest he might have (or a corporation might be willing to offer him).
Ultimately, the corporation has to abide by the laws set out in the country in question, or deal with the consequences if it chooses not to.
And if you don't agree with every single law of the country in which you maintain citizenship? Or should we keep all the laws in our country (whichever country that happens to be) the same and if we come to disagree with one find another country to move to?
If there was much degree of accuracy, it may end up working the way open source does - developers scratch their own itches. Some people may be more likely to fund alzheimer's research if they knew their son or daughter was likely to get it. Or they themselves were.
The negative effect of this might be that harder to predict and/or less common diseases would get less funding.
Yeah, but think of all the page views they get by simply taking a bunch of screen shots and writing two sentences for each screen shots. Gone are the days when you have to write 15 full paragraphs to get a five page article. Now all you have to do is take a few screen shots and make up inane sentences to go with them.
What's more, is that they don't even manage to ruin the surprise of what the experience is actually like.
Indeed, the question should probably have been whether they were observant enough to notice the difference (which can, to an extent, depend on how well the Administrator did his/her job).
I thought the Borg said things more along the lines of 'You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile'. Not so much a request to prepare, just a statement that it will happen.
The 8gb Nexus 4 has been lowered to $200 CAD. While perhaps no longer quite top of the line, it is still a rather competitive device and, on par, I would argue with the iPhone 5.
Apps do matter, IMO. Sure, apps will spread between platforms. And, I would argue, the reality of the apps situation matters far less that perception. There was at one point the perception that the iEcosystem had all the apps that you wanted and you didn't get the same apps on other platforms. There was probably some truth to this and probably some truth to the reverse, but Apple's product had the name recognition and others were perceived as 'Apple knockoffs'. I don't think Android is quite there in terms of consumer understanding of what it is. I suspect that a mass number of people just go to the store looking for a phone, don't want to spend the money on an iPhone and get some Android phone instead because the salesman says 'it is basically the same'.
Nah. They have to ask verification questions. It's just like when Google called me the other day telling me my GMail account has been hacked into. In order for them to verify who I was, I had to give them my name, my address, two phone numbers, another email address, my mother's maiden name, the credit card number that was registered on my Play account and a list of all the addresses I had lived at in the last five years. I gave them that information so they would know it was really me and then they helped get my account sorted out.
Have a couple of Acer laptops running Windows 7 with displays that frequently (always?) don't come up out of sleep. The solution is to close the laptop and open it again, but this is obviously quite a pain. Linux actually performs better in this regard on the one. THe other one is my wife's so it isn't running Linux.
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What you say makes sense, but it is far more interesting to think that there are people encased in the concrete, thus that is what I choose to believe.
What is meant by that is that the quietly disclosed it to Facebook, so that Facebook could fix the problem before it was exploited, rather than going public with it first and putting the pressure on Facebook to fix it quicker.
These things generally get announced after the fact especially if it was disclosed in a bug bounty program because part of the deal is the recognition that the security researcher gets (which is a big deal in the security world from what I can tell).
tl;dr - the quietly refers to the fact that we heard about it after it was fixed and not before.
If the summary is correct I don't really see how this affects servers all that much... The summary says it is an issue in the first 15-60 minutes after startup. Servers are generally up for longer periods of time so the actual impact would be low for W2K03.
Would Google Glass capture that information even if it wasn't in use? The data might be there in Google Glass but might not indicate that she was using it.
IIUC, yes.
"Also given that when a prospective employer calls your present or a former employer those old employers can only say "Yes x worked here" they can't by law go into detail about your work habits."
Is there actually such a law? My understanding was that the general practice is more a safeguard against litigation happy employees filing defamation lawsuits. What's different here is that these are the results of disciplinary hearings where evidence has been presented and a decision has been made. i.e. the information is vetted and is probably less likely to contain false/inaccurate information.
I totally agree on the write ups from employers, and as such I really hope/assume that these sorts of things are reserved for rather more egregious cases (such as unwarranted police violence, corruption, etc).
Also, as I searched a bit, there is precedent for making this information publicly available. If you look at http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cpb/auto_generated/police_discipline_archives.html you will find the equivalent information from the Chicago Police Department - a record of findings and decisions made by the Chicago Police board with respect to police discipline.
So what is new here is not the fact that this information is being made publicly available (it already has, if not in Dallas, in other jurisdictions), but that the information is being made public via Facebook and Twitter.
The top of the facebook post says "Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown disciplined the following officers during hearings this morning.".
This isn't just about a boss disciplining his employees. This seems to be posting the results of police disciplinary hearings.
There is a difference between yelled at for making mistakes at your job and being involved in a disciplinary hearing.
I think his argument is that because Facebook or Twitter could at any time delete the posts/tweets, therefore it isn't transparent. Where with a physical newspaper once it is printed you can't unprint it.
I personally think he is missing the point. The point of this is presumably not to make a permanent, archived record, but more to make the information available in a way that is accessible to many. It also isn't the same as a public notice which is generally trying to ensure a good proportion of the constituency receives the information. The point is to make the information easily accessible, not to ensure that it does get accessed.
A newspaper is just as free to stop distributing old editions, and it likely isn't too difficult, but also not super easy to get a copy of a three year old newspaper from the newspaper itself (i.e. it likely involves at least a phone call and some cost to have it reprinted from the archives or whatever they do).
The more important signal here is to indicate to the public that police officers no longer have carte blanche to do whatever they want and rely on the protection of the police force to cover it up. The majority of the police officers who are working hard to do their jobs well and be upstanding citizens don't have to worry about wearing the reputation of the few jackasses that are doing stupid stuff and not facing any consequences.
Yes... bring the shelf forward, worker picks the item off the shelf, turns around and puts it in the box and does whatever needs to be done. In the meantime, the robot has brought the shelf for the next item.
Also, I would think motion sickness or something would come into play with a robotic platform moving a worker back and forth all the time.
They can perhaps factor and/or influence, but you are correct that RAM, # cores and frequency don't directly impact usability.
Other people in the discussion seem to make much screen resolution though as being easier to read. This might mean that the difference between 300ppi and 132ppi is a meaningful number for comparison.
The complete phrase is 'password safe on Dropbox'. KeePass looks after the security and encryption - Dropbox is just the means of sharing the password safe between devices.
i.e. 'password safe' together is the noun rather than 'password' being the noun and safe being the adjective.
This happens enough that I often wonder whether the editors are really that careless, or whether they intentionally insert errors like that in order to provide fodder for those who so enjoy writing posts correcting the article and complaining about the lack of editing. Thorough proofreading would kill one of the memes that makes slashdot what it is.
So if you have a toy drone you can take over other toy drones? Could be great fun at a toy drone party but I don't see how it has anything to do with law enforcement drones or Amazon drones.
I'm sure it would never cross the minds of intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies or Amazon to authenticate the controller.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
Nah it will just mean that he won't be able to change that entertaining habit or he'll get locked out of his workstation.
And the thread was started by somebody who is presumably an individual criticizing the apparent pattern of governments discouraging profitable organizations. Agree or not, I feel like it is reasonable, as individuals, to debate the merits of various laws and whether we feel they produce a desirable outcome.
It also seems perfectly reasonable to me for a corporation to criticize the laws of a particular jurisdiction and even lobby to have them changed. The challenge is obviously trying to achieve a system where the decision makers are not corrupt and corporations can't get their way by simply shoveling bucket loads of money at those responsible for deciding.
As an example, it would seem perfectly reasonable for Tesla Motors to lobby the government to setup laws in such a way as to permit their business to operate. It is the responsibility of government officials to ensure that the rules are set up fairly and to make decisions based on national interests rather than based on any self interest he might have (or a corporation might be willing to offer him).
Ultimately, the corporation has to abide by the laws set out in the country in question, or deal with the consequences if it chooses not to.
And if you don't agree with every single law of the country in which you maintain citizenship? Or should we keep all the laws in our country (whichever country that happens to be) the same and if we come to disagree with one find another country to move to?
If there was much degree of accuracy, it may end up working the way open source does - developers scratch their own itches. Some people may be more likely to fund alzheimer's research if they knew their son or daughter was likely to get it. Or they themselves were.
The negative effect of this might be that harder to predict and/or less common diseases would get less funding.
Yeah, but think of all the page views they get by simply taking a bunch of screen shots and writing two sentences for each screen shots. Gone are the days when you have to write 15 full paragraphs to get a five page article. Now all you have to do is take a few screen shots and make up inane sentences to go with them.
What's more, is that they don't even manage to ruin the surprise of what the experience is actually like.
Indeed, the question should probably have been whether they were observant enough to notice the difference (which can, to an extent, depend on how well the Administrator did his/her job).
I thought the Borg said things more along the lines of 'You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile'. Not so much a request to prepare, just a statement that it will happen.
The 8gb Nexus 4 has been lowered to $200 CAD. While perhaps no longer quite top of the line, it is still a rather competitive device and, on par, I would argue with the iPhone 5.
Apps do matter, IMO. Sure, apps will spread between platforms. And, I would argue, the reality of the apps situation matters far less that perception. There was at one point the perception that the iEcosystem had all the apps that you wanted and you didn't get the same apps on other platforms. There was probably some truth to this and probably some truth to the reverse, but Apple's product had the name recognition and others were perceived as 'Apple knockoffs'. I don't think Android is quite there in terms of consumer understanding of what it is. I suspect that a mass number of people just go to the store looking for a phone, don't want to spend the money on an iPhone and get some Android phone instead because the salesman says 'it is basically the same'.
Nah. They have to ask verification questions. It's just like when Google called me the other day telling me my GMail account has been hacked into. In order for them to verify who I was, I had to give them my name, my address, two phone numbers, another email address, my mother's maiden name, the credit card number that was registered on my Play account and a list of all the addresses I had lived at in the last five years. I gave them that information so they would know it was really me and then they helped get my account sorted out.
Have a couple of Acer laptops running Windows 7 with displays that frequently (always?) don't come up out of sleep. The solution is to close the laptop and open it again, but this is obviously quite a pain. Linux actually performs better in this regard on the one. THe other one is my wife's so it isn't running Linux.