Actually, I believe this statistics, on its own, is quite meaningful for "job stability".
Even if the market keeps many people more-or-less employed, but they are frequently laid off and have to find a new employment, then that is not a very good sign for the market at large. At the very least, you'd have to say the market is volatile.
There are a lot of security companies in Israel. Probably in the thousands, if not more. It should come as no surprise, therefor, that some of them would be shady.
If I make an effort to remember a detail, I can actually do it. I remember deciding that my daughter's eyes are milk-chocolate brown. I don't remember seeing the color, but I do remember what it was.
I remember that, however, like you'd remember how a place you've never seen, but had described to you, looks like. You know the facts but don't have the mental image that comes with actually having seen it.
My case is mild, but I don't think gray nondescript blurs is the correct way to put it.
The face is there, and if you ask me questions about someone I can answer them without a problem, so long as I am seeing them right now. Ask me to look at a picture, and then cover the picture and ask me questions, and I'm hopelessly lost. I can see the face just fine, but nothing from it registers in memory.
Like I said, my case is a mild one. People I see often do stick to memory, but not via the details. I'm hopelessly lost about those even for close family. I cannot reliably tell you my wife's eye-color. Instead, when I see here, the overall shape of the face suddenly fits in to the right place, and I can tell you who that person is with confidence and without fail.
I took an online test once, and I had no trouble identifying Rowan Atkinson and Ian McKellen (pictures were shown with the hair cut away). Ask me to describe either one of them, and I'm drawing a total blank on Rowan, and for Ian I'm going to go with "wrinkles".
So it's not true that I see the face as a gray blur. It is more accurate to say that that's what's left in my memory as soon as I turn my eyes away.
As a bearer of mild prosopagnosia, such an app would be useless to me.
First of all, raising the camera to people before approaching them (or, as it more often the case, they approach you) is rude. I much rather tell people I have face blindness and that I'm sorry but they'll have to be specific.
Even had that not been the case, the people I don't know are people who I rarely meet, which means they won't be in my app's database.
Today, my coping mechanism is to simply tell new people I meet that I suffer from face blindness up front, and apologize to them I may not recognize them the next time.
First of all, ewww. Also, are you saying Jews aren't white? Also, ewww.
Aside from being racist, this comment is also factually wrong. Space travel (commercial or otherwise), the Internet and the iPhone had nothing particular to do with Jews. Lary Page isn't Jewish, so attributing Google to "Jews" is also somewhat strange.
Many Americans innovated. Some of them were Jewish.
Thank you, that was most informative. The only thing that would make that answer better would be if you cited your sources.
One question, though. How many of those extradited were native citizens of the country extraditing. I.e. - how many of those the UK asked extradited were US citizens?
Thanks,
Shachar
There are talks of relaxing that exactly. The discussions about high-tech visas centers precisely around how not to allow employers to use this channel to import cheap labor, but instead focus on truly solving the the high knowledge shortage
I'm sorry, but it really was too long, and I really didn't read all of it.
There is a group of people, and the original AC belongs to that group, that claim that choosing GPL is somehow immoral, non free or detracting from the public good. I was trying to get someone from that crowd to answer my question.
TL;DR: I won't use GPL source code. You can use GPL source code, and I don't care. The reason I won't use GPL is because it poisons commercial code with a toxic requirement to publish your own inventions.
If you don't care that I use the GPL, then you're not the correct recipient for my question. My question was directed at the vocal anti-GPL people (quite often ACs), who hate it when I use GPL for my projects, claiming I should be using BSD/MIT instead
I have long claimed that the choice of a FOSS license is a business model one. When you say you pick non-copyleft for your projects, I say "live long and prosper". I do not belong to the "everything needs to be GPL" crowd. I'm not sure I follow your logic re: why you think non-copyleft is right for you, and the part I think I did follow, I'm not sure I agree with, but see above as to why that's fine.
I'd like to point out that, while I do not belong to the group that claims that all software should be GPL, I at least think that position is internally consistent. Those who claim that free software is good but GPL software is bad, on the other hand, I see as self-contradicting
If I understand this correctly, if you're going the copyright route, you can collect various damages encoded in the copyright act. If, on the other hand, you are trying to go the contract route, you will need to prove your damages.
Proving damages under contract law is difficult if you never intended to collect money. This is unlike Copyright, which has such things as statutory damages and infringer's profits. If you go for contract violation, it is easier to prove damages if you have an actual alternative offering with clear cost attached to it.
All in all, I think (and, again, I am not a lawyer, just a someone who takes interest in those things) that this means less than people attribute to it. All it means is that the GPL, if it applies to your case, can be interpreted as a contract.
The article by Bruce Perens, like all pro-GPL writing, is nothing but Orwellian double-speak, constantly talking about freedom but at the same time insisting that freedom means "you must do exactly as I say".
This keeps coming up, and I've never received a proper reply, but maybe this potty mouth anonymous coward will surprise me.
Licensing code under a non-copyleft free license means you are fine with someone taking your code and building a commercial product with it, and never giving it back in any way or form. If you're okay with that, how come you're not okay with someone who does give it back, except in a way you can't use?
Intuitively, GPL ought to be more free than completely closed off no matter where you stand, and yet you're okay with the later but not with the former. Please explain.
Maybe it's because I'm not an American, but I don't get what the fuss is about.
If you're having a conversation with me, and I record (video or otherwise) the conversation, how is that invading your privacy? You were already conversing with me?
How is me recording the conversation different than me testifying about its content?
There are things other than implemented policy that can affect such things. Having a president that promises to do certain things might cause employers to change hiring practices.
With that said, yeah, I too would like to see a trend line, and how it changed (if any) since Trump's election and later taking office, before I'm willing to assign credit anywhere.
Most of the world doesn't get any benefits from Amazon Prime, and a very partial library from Netflix. With such lame offering, why would most of the world switch to something that costs money and doesn't give anything much in return?
This is without even mentioning that $10/mo in the US is not the same level of pay as in some other countries. You essentially pay more (relatively speaking) and get less
If I understand the situation correctly, it is not them that send the letter, but the ISP. The copyright group is the one who told the ISP that he is infringing. If that's the case, then it is, likely, not slander, but it is libel.
Also, if you're eager to go to court for some reason, you can sue them for a declaratory judgment that says you're not infringing.
Usual disclaimers: I am not a lawyer. This is not a legal advice. Even if I were a lawyer, you'd be crazy to take legal advice from some random schmo on the Internet.
It's, of course, possible you're right. My experience, however, is that PRs don't get the leeway to write such emails if the CEOs have not realized there is a genuine problem.
This email sounds sincere, which is, indeed, a good sign. On the other hand, this is the third time Uber has come up in similar context over the past month. Taking this long to notice such a severe problem is not a very good sign at all.
Let's hope that part of that help he said he'll seek, he'll also work on improving the improvement process
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Actually, I believe this statistics, on its own, is quite meaningful for "job stability".
Even if the market keeps many people more-or-less employed, but they are frequently laid off and have to find a new employment, then that is not a very good sign for the market at large. At the very least, you'd have to say the market is volatile.
I'm calling the programming language I'm creating Practical. I trust the name passes your approval?
Actually, there is a good technical reasons:
There are a lot of security companies in Israel. Probably in the thousands, if not more. It should come as no surprise, therefor, that some of them would be shady.
Shachar
It's not exactly the same thing.
If I make an effort to remember a detail, I can actually do it. I remember deciding that my daughter's eyes are milk-chocolate brown. I don't remember seeing the color, but I do remember what it was.
I remember that, however, like you'd remember how a place you've never seen, but had described to you, looks like. You know the facts but don't have the mental image that comes with actually having seen it.
I was born this way. I have to tell that did not make school years any more fun.
My case is mild, but I don't think gray nondescript blurs is the correct way to put it.
The face is there, and if you ask me questions about someone I can answer them without a problem, so long as I am seeing them right now. Ask me to look at a picture, and then cover the picture and ask me questions, and I'm hopelessly lost. I can see the face just fine, but nothing from it registers in memory.
Like I said, my case is a mild one. People I see often do stick to memory, but not via the details. I'm hopelessly lost about those even for close family. I cannot reliably tell you my wife's eye-color. Instead, when I see here, the overall shape of the face suddenly fits in to the right place, and I can tell you who that person is with confidence and without fail.
I took an online test once, and I had no trouble identifying Rowan Atkinson and Ian McKellen (pictures were shown with the hair cut away). Ask me to describe either one of them, and I'm drawing a total blank on Rowan, and for Ian I'm going to go with "wrinkles".
So it's not true that I see the face as a gray blur. It is more accurate to say that that's what's left in my memory as soon as I turn my eyes away.
As a bearer of mild prosopagnosia, such an app would be useless to me.
First of all, raising the camera to people before approaching them (or, as it more often the case, they approach you) is rude. I much rather tell people I have face blindness and that I'm sorry but they'll have to be specific.
Even had that not been the case, the people I don't know are people who I rarely meet, which means they won't be in my app's database.
Today, my coping mechanism is to simply tell new people I meet that I suffer from face blindness up front, and apologize to them I may not recognize them the next time.
First of all, ewww. Also, are you saying Jews aren't white? Also, ewww.
Aside from being racist, this comment is also factually wrong. Space travel (commercial or otherwise), the Internet and the iPhone had nothing particular to do with Jews. Lary Page isn't Jewish, so attributing Google to "Jews" is also somewhat strange.
Many Americans innovated. Some of them were Jewish.
Wow!
It's not common to see someone openly advocating for collective punishment.
Is there any other group of people you think should be punished for their government's actions?
Shachar
You're begging the question.
Thank you, that was most informative. The only thing that would make that answer better would be if you cited your sources. One question, though. How many of those extradited were native citizens of the country extraditing. I.e. - how many of those the UK asked extradited were US citizens? Thanks, Shachar
There are talks of relaxing that exactly. The discussions about high-tech visas centers precisely around how not to allow employers to use this channel to import cheap labor, but instead focus on truly solving the the high knowledge shortage
Shachar
Not considering who the 3rd party candidates are
Shachar
I'm sorry, but it really was too long, and I really didn't read all of it.
There is a group of people, and the original AC belongs to that group, that claim that choosing GPL is somehow immoral, non free or detracting from the public good. I was trying to get someone from that crowd to answer my question.
TL;DR: I won't use GPL source code. You can use GPL source code, and I don't care. The reason I won't use GPL is because it poisons commercial code with a toxic requirement to publish your own inventions.
If you don't care that I use the GPL, then you're not the correct recipient for my question. My question was directed at the vocal anti-GPL people (quite often ACs), who hate it when I use GPL for my projects, claiming I should be using BSD/MIT instead
I have long claimed that the choice of a FOSS license is a business model one. When you say you pick non-copyleft for your projects, I say "live long and prosper". I do not belong to the "everything needs to be GPL" crowd. I'm not sure I follow your logic re: why you think non-copyleft is right for you, and the part I think I did follow, I'm not sure I agree with, but see above as to why that's fine.
I'd like to point out that, while I do not belong to the group that claims that all software should be GPL, I at least think that position is internally consistent. Those who claim that free software is good but GPL software is bad, on the other hand, I see as self-contradicting
Shachar
IANAL!!!
If I understand this correctly, if you're going the copyright route, you can collect various damages encoded in the copyright act. If, on the other hand, you are trying to go the contract route, you will need to prove your damages.
Proving damages under contract law is difficult if you never intended to collect money. This is unlike Copyright, which has such things as statutory damages and infringer's profits. If you go for contract violation, it is easier to prove damages if you have an actual alternative offering with clear cost attached to it.
All in all, I think (and, again, I am not a lawyer, just a someone who takes interest in those things) that this means less than people attribute to it. All it means is that the GPL, if it applies to your case, can be interpreted as a contract.
Shachar
The article by Bruce Perens, like all pro-GPL writing, is nothing but Orwellian double-speak, constantly talking about freedom but at the same time insisting that freedom means "you must do exactly as I say".
This keeps coming up, and I've never received a proper reply, but maybe this potty mouth anonymous coward will surprise me.
Licensing code under a non-copyleft free license means you are fine with someone taking your code and building a commercial product with it, and never giving it back in any way or form. If you're okay with that, how come you're not okay with someone who does give it back, except in a way you can't use?
Intuitively, GPL ought to be more free than completely closed off no matter where you stand, and yet you're okay with the later but not with the former. Please explain.
Shachar
At least that will solve the trade deficit "problem" Trump is complaining about.
It will also encourage a recession in the USA, but hey! no trade deficit!
Shachar
Maybe it's because I'm not an American, but I don't get what the fuss is about.
If you're having a conversation with me, and I record (video or otherwise) the conversation, how is that invading your privacy? You were already conversing with me?
How is me recording the conversation different than me testifying about its content?
Shachar
Where are the mod points when I need them?
Yes. This exactly.
I was actually about to correct your "documentary" statement when I saw the mod. Does it count if I tell myself "whoosh"?
There are things other than implemented policy that can affect such things. Having a president that promises to do certain things might cause employers to change hiring practices.
With that said, yeah, I too would like to see a trend line, and how it changed (if any) since Trump's election and later taking office, before I'm willing to assign credit anywhere.
Shachar
Most of the world doesn't get any benefits from Amazon Prime, and a very partial library from Netflix. With such lame offering, why would most of the world switch to something that costs money and doesn't give anything much in return?
This is without even mentioning that $10/mo in the US is not the same level of pay as in some other countries. You essentially pay more (relatively speaking) and get less
Shachar
If I understand the situation correctly, it is not them that send the letter, but the ISP. The copyright group is the one who told the ISP that he is infringing. If that's the case, then it is, likely, not slander, but it is libel.
Also, if you're eager to go to court for some reason, you can sue them for a declaratory judgment that says you're not infringing.
Usual disclaimers: I am not a lawyer. This is not a legal advice. Even if I were a lawyer, you'd be crazy to take legal advice from some random schmo on the Internet.
Shachar
It's, of course, possible you're right. My experience, however, is that PRs don't get the leeway to write such emails if the CEOs have not realized there is a genuine problem.
Yes and no
This email sounds sincere, which is, indeed, a good sign. On the other hand, this is the third time Uber has come up in similar context over the past month. Taking this long to notice such a severe problem is not a very good sign at all.
Let's hope that part of that help he said he'll seek, he'll also work on improving the improvement process
Shachar