If it or any other theory can explain why the other mechanics are what they are, that would be an accomplishment, but it can't do that. There is nothing to suggest why the constants would be what they must be for the other mechanics to fall out of it.
It may one day get there but right now it shouldn't be called theory.
The issue there is that more parsimonious theories already predicted everything that has been tested in string theory.
The problem is that practically any experimental outcome can be shown to be a 'prediction' of string theory. String theory predicts nearly anything and everything depending on where you set the constants. It is far more descriptive than predictive.
The problem with string theory isn't that it doesn't predict anything. The problem is that it predicts nearly everything and shows no particular bias towards one prediction over another. Pretty much any experimental result that comes out can be accommodated by string theory.
It is interesting. It may one day help to describe an actual theory (making it string toolkit rather than string theory) it may spur thought along new lines, but it isn't a very good theory.
The one thing string theory does predict strongly is supersymmetry, but that was already predicted by less extreme theories. The whole thing may turn out to be moot if LHC can't scare up a supersymmetric particle.
Not sure why anyone would own such a device, but nest sells and the WD 'personal cloud' sells. Also, if this is a tiny device powered by random RF, you might not know you own such a thing. It might be inside the insulated coffee mug you bought.
As for the spam filter, if it's sent to your work email, it doesn't have to actually get through to give your homophobic employer the wrong idea.
Oh great. You take a walk during lunch because you're concerned about your health. You stop to re-tie your shoe. Too bad your watch tattled that you just paused in front of a 'bookstore' that sells gay porn.
Suddenly you get spammed with offers for gay porn. It's also too bad your employer was exempted from EOE because it's against the corporation's sincerely held religion, so you get fired in the process.
Sadly for you, as you take that long walk back to your parking space you pause a
gain (you'll never learn!) next to a fast food joint. By the time you get home you have an e-mail informing you of the increase in your health insurance premium.
The internet of things could be interesting if those things would report to a
server that I own and control. Too bad most corporations make internet enabled
things report to them so they can sell your personal information to the highest
bidder with no questions asked.
I don't imagine the rash actually disappeared, but with the active bleeding stopped, it would look much better in short order. Of course, once the bruising develops, they'll look like hell again for a few days.
The solution is to move the option selection up in the UI rather than bury it a few clicks deep. Perhaps put an icon in the notification area for the duration of the window so people don't forget.
I prefer to avoid seeing (or at least actually reading and comprehending) stuff on other people's PCs. Not just for legal liabilities and such, but there are some things they might be emailing about that are perfectly legal but might send me running for the brain bleach. I'd rather avoid that and the subsequent awkwardness.
When was the last time the IT folks provided reveune?
Every time a sales guy enters an order into the system and a sale actually takes place complete with product delivery. Shut down IT and the sales guys' productivity will plummet.
In all honesty, do you really think anything that didn't actually contribute somehow to profit (or even continued existence) wasn't tossed out the window long ago?
I'm not advocating anything like counting exact output or such. Many things aren't conducive to that or even to an hourly wage.
I am advocating merit raises for people who clearly have merit and at least decent pay for decent work.
As for the current minimum wage, if the employer is paying that, they're lucky if the employee actually stays awake for the whole shift and doesn't give all the customers swine flu.
A LOT of people knew nothing about it and the interface didn't tell. Nor did it offer a confirmation of when the 15 minutes had expired. Ideally, it should have expired instantly unless the user specifically selected a window, and should have offered a way to see if the window was still open and a button to close it immediately.
There is a such thing as an interface that defies understanding. This was such an interface and it seems deliberate.
It was clear this was a source of trouble and confusion well before the FTC took action.
Meanwhile, I'm guessing you have no children, nore have you had any significant interaction with a child.
Or they could use WiFi for that like sensible people. They could even download an upgrade from the app store, a tiny app that just sets the appropriate flags and goes away.
That is true enough for an incompetent boob. A proper manager knows quality and productivity when he/she sees it, even if it can only be roughly quantified.
We gave management an inch and they took a mile and won't give it back. Every time someone has their weekend interrupted or is told they are expected to monitor work emails at night, they make a mental note to take that time back by goofing off at work. When they aren't paid what they're worth, they slack a bit more until a rough balance is struck.
A few work harder but notice that it doesn't increase their pay or get them promoted so they slack off.
Tracking GDP/capita vs pay (accounting for inflation), really employers are on average only paying enough to get one productive day out of every 6 workdays. The ball is in their court. if they want better, they should identify the willing employees and pay them the other 5/6ths of their proper income.
They could always offer the non-shareware version separately in the App Store. That would be better anyway since it would assert control over the purchase and avoid deceptive in-app interfaces.
Perhaps you haven't educated yourself sufficiently on the issue at hand. The problem was that parents would enter their password to allow a single purchase and then hand the device to a child, unaware that the password would be cached for the next X minutes. They expected that the child not knowing the password would secure them from unauthorized in-app purchases. That is a reasonable expectation, one would think.
Alas, businesses wanted to make impulse buys as easy as possible and so violated that reasonable expectation AND failed to make it clear that they had. That's why the FTC got involved and insisted that they EITHER meet that expectation OR make it very clear that it was violated.
That seems to me to be both reasonable and EXACTLY the sort of thing the FTC should be doing.
If you saturate your cable modem, only your family notices. If you saturate LTE by disabling a cap, then your whole community notices!
Likewise if you mow the lawn at 3 AM or drive on the sidewalk. Solution: don't
Solution recognizing that some people are assholes: put the cap in the modem part, allow root for the main CPUs OS. If someone abuses the network anyway, lock them out and if necessary, fine them.
If it's your first keyboard it should give you a countdown. "You have plugged in a keyboard devioce. If that's not what you want, unplug in 5 seconds. 4...3....2....1"
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Because it's not Tor that failed, it was the browser that got exploited allowing an injected Windows program to bypass the Tor proxy.
If it or any other theory can explain why the other mechanics are what they are, that would be an accomplishment, but it can't do that. There is nothing to suggest why the constants would be what they must be for the other mechanics to fall out of it.
It may one day get there but right now it shouldn't be called theory.
The issue there is that more parsimonious theories already predicted everything that has been tested in string theory.
The problem is that practically any experimental outcome can be shown to be a 'prediction' of string theory. String theory predicts nearly anything and everything depending on where you set the constants. It is far more descriptive than predictive.
It's not a total waste, it's just premature.
It is close. It does involve a lot of math, but unlike math, it claims some relevance to physical structure. Math makes no such claim.
Neither is an assertion about the absolute limit on speed in the universe(really: devise a test for that).
It's been tested over and over again.
The problem with string theory isn't that it doesn't predict anything. The problem is that it predicts nearly everything and shows no particular bias towards one prediction over another. Pretty much any experimental result that comes out can be accommodated by string theory.
It is interesting. It may one day help to describe an actual theory (making it string toolkit rather than string theory) it may spur thought along new lines, but it isn't a very good theory.
The one thing string theory does predict strongly is supersymmetry, but that was already predicted by less extreme theories. The whole thing may turn out to be moot if LHC can't scare up a supersymmetric particle.
Not sure why anyone would own such a device, but nest sells and the WD 'personal cloud' sells. Also, if this is a tiny device powered by random RF, you might not know you own such a thing. It might be inside the insulated coffee mug you bought.
As for the spam filter, if it's sent to your work email, it doesn't have to actually get through to give your homophobic employer the wrong idea.
Oh great. You take a walk during lunch because you're concerned about your health. You stop to re-tie your shoe. Too bad your watch tattled that you just paused in front of a 'bookstore' that sells gay porn.
Suddenly you get spammed with offers for gay porn. It's also too bad your employer was exempted from EOE because it's against the corporation's sincerely held religion, so you get fired in the process.
Sadly for you, as you take that long walk back to your parking space you pause a gain (you'll never learn!) next to a fast food joint. By the time you get home you have an e-mail informing you of the increase in your health insurance premium.
The internet of things could be interesting if those things would report to a server that I own and control. Too bad most corporations make internet enabled things report to them so they can sell your personal information to the highest bidder with no questions asked.
I don't imagine the rash actually disappeared, but with the active bleeding stopped, it would look much better in short order. Of course, once the bruising develops, they'll look like hell again for a few days.
The solution is to move the option selection up in the UI rather than bury it a few clicks deep. Perhaps put an icon in the notification area for the duration of the window so people don't forget.
So what's the problem then?
I prefer to avoid seeing (or at least actually reading and comprehending) stuff on other people's PCs. Not just for legal liabilities and such, but there are some things they might be emailing about that are perfectly legal but might send me running for the brain bleach. I'd rather avoid that and the subsequent awkwardness.
When was the last time the IT folks provided reveune?
Every time a sales guy enters an order into the system and a sale actually takes place complete with product delivery. Shut down IT and the sales guys' productivity will plummet.
In all honesty, do you really think anything that didn't actually contribute somehow to profit (or even continued existence) wasn't tossed out the window long ago?
I'm not advocating anything like counting exact output or such. Many things aren't conducive to that or even to an hourly wage.
I am advocating merit raises for people who clearly have merit and at least decent pay for decent work.
As for the current minimum wage, if the employer is paying that, they're lucky if the employee actually stays awake for the whole shift and doesn't give all the customers swine flu.
Read here, the section Share Data Among Apps.
Exactly. It is clear that the default was chosen strategically rather than based on what most people would want or expect to be true.
Kinda like the checkbox hidden in the web form that says "Yes, please spam me constantly" checked by default.
A LOT of people knew nothing about it and the interface didn't tell. Nor did it offer a confirmation of when the 15 minutes had expired. Ideally, it should have expired instantly unless the user specifically selected a window, and should have offered a way to see if the window was still open and a button to close it immediately.
There is a such thing as an interface that defies understanding. This was such an interface and it seems deliberate.
It was clear this was a source of trouble and confusion well before the FTC took action.
Meanwhile, I'm guessing you have no children, nore have you had any significant interaction with a child.
Or they could use WiFi for that like sensible people. They could even download an upgrade from the app store, a tiny app that just sets the appropriate flags and goes away.
That is true enough for an incompetent boob. A proper manager knows quality and productivity when he/she sees it, even if it can only be roughly quantified.
We gave management an inch and they took a mile and won't give it back. Every time someone has their weekend interrupted or is told they are expected to monitor work emails at night, they make a mental note to take that time back by goofing off at work. When they aren't paid what they're worth, they slack a bit more until a rough balance is struck.
A few work harder but notice that it doesn't increase their pay or get them promoted so they slack off.
Tracking GDP/capita vs pay (accounting for inflation), really employers are on average only paying enough to get one productive day out of every 6 workdays. The ball is in their court. if they want better, they should identify the willing employees and pay them the other 5/6ths of their proper income.
DLC's & free to play are the same.
How so? They don't upgrade your phone/tablet hardware in any way and they don't provide a place to hang out with friends.
They could always offer the non-shareware version separately in the App Store. That would be better anyway since it would assert control over the purchase and avoid deceptive in-app interfaces.
Perhaps you haven't educated yourself sufficiently on the issue at hand. The problem was that parents would enter their password to allow a single purchase and then hand the device to a child, unaware that the password would be cached for the next X minutes. They expected that the child not knowing the password would secure them from unauthorized in-app purchases. That is a reasonable expectation, one would think.
Alas, businesses wanted to make impulse buys as easy as possible and so violated that reasonable expectation AND failed to make it clear that they had. That's why the FTC got involved and insisted that they EITHER meet that expectation OR make it very clear that it was violated.
That seems to me to be both reasonable and EXACTLY the sort of thing the FTC should be doing.
If you saturate your cable modem, only your family notices. If you saturate LTE by disabling a cap, then your whole community notices!
Likewise if you mow the lawn at 3 AM or drive on the sidewalk. Solution: don't
Solution recognizing that some people are assholes: put the cap in the modem part, allow root for the main CPUs OS. If someone abuses the network anyway, lock them out and if necessary, fine them.
If it's your first keyboard it should give you a countdown. "You have plugged in a keyboard devioce. If that's not what you want, unplug in 5 seconds. 4...3....2....1"