As far as I know every interstate still has rest areas and some of them are called "Welcome Centers". They have free maps of the state you're in and sometimes the neighboring states as well. Usually, the welcome centers are near the state borders but some of them are more in the middle of the state.
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JimFive
Except the bug has nothing to do with the fact that it's a 32 bit device. It has to do with the software being written to use a 32 bit signed integer to hold the value. It is completely possible for a 32 bit device to handle 64 bit integers.
The first amendment does not mean that anyone has to be forced to listen to you or agree with you.
The first amendment is more than just freedom of speech. It also contains the right to "petition the government". It is arguable that this requires that the government be forced to listen to (not agree with) you. If the twitter account is considered an official communication platform (per Spicer) then it MAY be that the President (or his designee) would be required to listen to people who communicate with it.
Secondly, the GPs statement was a hypothetical: IF the president was using the power of the government to prevent someone from posting on twitter at all then we would all agree that this violates freedom of speech. -- JimFive
And the people that reduced their work were: Mothers of young children. Adolescents who stayed in school instead of working. (In the Canadian experiment).
should I pay a living wage to the kid down he block to mow my lawn or rake leaves...or baby site my kid
You have a choice. You can pay a living wage or you can pay for the social safety net that subsidizes those jobs that pay less than a living wage. If a job does not pay enough for the workers to support themselves then that job is being subsidized in some manner. (How do I know: because the worker is alive.) You can pay the wage or pay the subsidy, but you will pay. -- JimFive
I can see why Tesla would want to be able to impose that kind of condition. However, I think the First Sale Doctrine is going to say they can't. Especially, if they allow it to be used on their own driverless taxi network. -- JimFive
The John Deere case is a "right to repair" case, this Tesla provision is a "right to use for purpose" case. Tesla is trying to say "you can't drive your own car in a manner that we don't like."
That's true, and a better example would be a car repair. You can either pay to fix your car and not pay the rent or pay the rent and not be able to get to work because you have no car. Either way you're screwed.
That's why the calls spike around the time change - because people aren't entirely sure anymore.
I think it's because that's when they reset all of their unconnected clocks (oven, microwave, wristwatch). You might as well set them accurately twice a year.
If you're setting password policy tell users to use 5 truly random words. (flip through the dictionary with their eyes closed or use a random word generator)
A random word generator is good (but you have to use the words it gives you, no do overs), but flipping through a dictionary won't give you truly random words, they will pick words that are easy, that go together, and that are in alphabetical order. And that's assuming they don't cheat by flipping through nearby pages after they select a page. If you require that they close the dictionary after each word their selections will be clustered near the center of the dictionary rather than random.
If you're worried about the cops or your roommate then, yes, writing them down might be bad. But in the context of online attacks writing them down doesn't make you any less secure. -- JimFive
Do you really believe that people are going to quit their minimum wage (~$16,000/year) janitorial jobs so they can try to live on ~$10,000/year when they could keep their job (at a slightly lower wage because minimum wage would go away) and live on ~$20,000/year? [Note that in this scenario the employer saves ~$6,000 on wages as well.] -- JimFive
Of course bribes can be defined. A bribe is a payment to a functionary to encourage them to do their job in a way that is favorable to you. (See TIP). This is distinct from licensing fees, etc, in that the bribe is paid to an individual as an individual while a fee is paid to a company or government division. In addition, bribes are ad hoc while fees are contractual or defined by law. -- JimFive
I disagree with your solution. Double click should only run, not open. You should run your word processor and then open a document with it. Allowing a document to open on double click means that some program is going to run, the user should have to explicitly select which one. -- JimFive
That seems a naive comment. How are they supposed to execute your command without recording it? It's not like the computer can process the voice in real time directly from the microphone input. It has to record the command, possibly clean out background noise, split it into component sounds and then compare those sounds to known commands and try to make words out of it. The problem isn't the recording, it's the sending of that recording to the cloud.
This has been quite an interesting discussion. I do find the argument from counting to be quite convincing, actually, but I got distracted by my email analogy in the previous response.
We're talking about people who were doing nicely pre-EHR.
Unless you asked them questions that go across their patient population such as, "How many of your patients are overdue for their mammogram?" or "What percentage of your diabetes patients are successfully managing their A1C levels?" or even, "How many of your patients had a wellness appointment last year?"
Without an EHR you basically can't answer those questions. The benefit of an EHR isn't at the bedside. Having said that, the problems with EHR interfaces certainly exists and hopefully will be improved over the next ten years. -- JimFive
The magnetic disc doesn't store your email, it stores magnetic fields that an algorithm converts into your email. (As an aside, if you wanted to "see" that you would use a magnetic force microscope.) If you are allowing an algorithm to count as "containing", then the library of babel contains the book pages in the same manner.
The metaphysical argument is exactly as you express, does something exist if it is the product of an algorithm or does it only exist after the algorithm has been executed. If I compress a document does the document cease to exist until I decompress it, or does it exist as a combination of the algorithm and the compressed data.
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As far as I know every interstate still has rest areas and some of them are called "Welcome Centers". They have free maps of the state you're in and sometimes the neighboring states as well. Usually, the welcome centers are near the state borders but some of them are more in the middle of the state.
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JimFive
Most of the games are blitz or lightening timed games (5 minutes or 1 minute). There's a lot of them.
Except the bug has nothing to do with the fact that it's a 32 bit device. It has to do with the software being written to use a 32 bit signed integer to hold the value. It is completely possible for a 32 bit device to handle 64 bit integers.
The first amendment does not mean that anyone has to be forced to listen to you or agree with you.
The first amendment is more than just freedom of speech. It also contains the right to "petition the government". It is arguable that this requires that the government be forced to listen to (not agree with) you. If the twitter account is considered an official communication platform (per Spicer) then it MAY be that the President (or his designee) would be required to listen to people who communicate with it.
Secondly, the GPs statement was a hypothetical: IF the president was using the power of the government to prevent someone from posting on twitter at all then we would all agree that this violates freedom of speech.
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JimFive
And the people that reduced their work were: Mothers of young children. Adolescents who stayed in school instead of working. (In the Canadian experiment).
Then pack their lunch and let them eat that. The government doesn't MAKE your kids eat the school provided lunch.
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JimFive
Believing that something shouldn't be stigmatized does not preclude acknowledging that it is stigmatized.
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JimFive
should I pay a living wage to the kid down he block to mow my lawn or rake leaves...or baby site my kid
You have a choice. You can pay a living wage or you can pay for the social safety net that subsidizes those jobs that pay less than a living wage. If a job does not pay enough for the workers to support themselves then that job is being subsidized in some manner. (How do I know: because the worker is alive.) You can pay the wage or pay the subsidy, but you will pay.
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JimFive
We already have the ability to do all that anyway. Somebody forces you to use your phone to take a picture.
And after taking the picture, you spoil your ballot and take it to the election worker to get a new one and vote the way you want.
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JimFive
Substitute the word "use" for the word "drive".
I can see why Tesla would want to be able to impose that kind of condition. However, I think the First Sale Doctrine is going to say they can't. Especially, if they allow it to be used on their own driverless taxi network.
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JimFive
The John Deere case is a "right to repair" case, this Tesla provision is a "right to use for purpose" case. Tesla is trying to say "you can't drive your own car in a manner that we don't like."
That's true, and a better example would be a car repair. You can either pay to fix your car and not pay the rent or pay the rent and not be able to get to work because you have no car. Either way you're screwed.
Did the movie or the Def Leppard song Pyromania(?) come first?
That's why the calls spike around the time change - because people aren't entirely sure anymore.
I think it's because that's when they reset all of their unconnected clocks (oven, microwave, wristwatch). You might as well set them accurately twice a year.
If you're setting password policy tell users to use 5 truly random words. (flip through the dictionary with their eyes closed or use a random word generator)
A random word generator is good (but you have to use the words it gives you, no do overs), but flipping through a dictionary won't give you truly random words, they will pick words that are easy, that go together, and that are in alphabetical order. And that's assuming they don't cheat by flipping through nearby pages after they select a page. If you require that they close the dictionary after each word their selections will be clustered near the center of the dictionary rather than random.
People are bad at random
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JimFive
If you're worried about the cops or your roommate then, yes, writing them down might be bad. But in the context of online attacks writing them down doesn't make you any less secure.
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JimFive
Do you really believe that people are going to quit their minimum wage (~$16,000/year) janitorial jobs so they can try to live on ~$10,000/year when they could keep their job (at a slightly lower wage because minimum wage would go away) and live on ~$20,000/year? [Note that in this scenario the employer saves ~$6,000 on wages as well.]
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JimFive
Of course bribes can be defined. A bribe is a payment to a functionary to encourage them to do their job in a way that is favorable to you. (See TIP). This is distinct from licensing fees, etc, in that the bribe is paid to an individual as an individual while a fee is paid to a company or government division. In addition, bribes are ad hoc while fees are contractual or defined by law.
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JimFive
I disagree with your solution. Double click should only run, not open. You should run your word processor and then open a document with it. Allowing a document to open on double click means that some program is going to run, the user should have to explicitly select which one.
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JimFive
Rural state (and federal) highways have shoulders and intersections.
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JimFive
If the line on the edge of the road is solid you are not supposed to cross it, anything past the solid white line is not part of the roadway.
That seems a naive comment. How are they supposed to execute your command without recording it? It's not like the computer can process the voice in real time directly from the microphone input. It has to record the command, possibly clean out background noise, split it into component sounds and then compare those sounds to known commands and try to make words out of it. The problem isn't the recording, it's the sending of that recording to the cloud.
JimFive
This has been quite an interesting discussion. I do find the argument from counting to be quite convincing, actually, but I got distracted by my email analogy in the previous response.
I have nothing more to add
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JimFive
We're talking about people who were doing nicely pre-EHR.
Unless you asked them questions that go across their patient population such as, "How many of your patients are overdue for their mammogram?" or "What percentage of your diabetes patients are successfully managing their A1C levels?" or even, "How many of your patients had a wellness appointment last year?"
Without an EHR you basically can't answer those questions. The benefit of an EHR isn't at the bedside.
Having said that, the problems with EHR interfaces certainly exists and hopefully will be improved over the next ten years.
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JimFive
The magnetic disc doesn't store your email, it stores magnetic fields that an algorithm converts into your email. (As an aside, if you wanted to "see" that you would use a magnetic force microscope.) If you are allowing an algorithm to count as "containing", then the library of babel contains the book pages in the same manner.
The metaphysical argument is exactly as you express, does something exist if it is the product of an algorithm or does it only exist after the algorithm has been executed. If I compress a document does the document cease to exist until I decompress it, or does it exist as a combination of the algorithm and the compressed data.