Google / FB just requires a new HTML header that explicitly gives them permission.
Don't even need a header, you can borrow the robots.txt idea to make a privilege.txt, stating what may be indexed, what may be copied, and what may not.
NCSU academics scanned GitHub accounts for a period of nearly six months... and looked for text strings formatted like API tokens and cryptographic keys.
Or maybe they were just misidentifying old Perl scripts
A large part of the increase in educational costs has been caused by government meddling, which resulted increased non-teaching staff, overpaid administrators, and the buildings to hold them.
Bullshit. The largest single reason for "increasing" education costs is that education has not seen the same productivity gains as manufacturing. It seems more expensive, but it really isn't.
It's like playing a symphony: It takes just as long, and just as many people, to play a symphony today as it did when it was written -- no matter how long ago. There's no increase in productivty. The typical college education took 16 years (12 primary + 4 secondary) years a hundred years ago, and takes that long today.
Compare and contrast to a car over the same time frame, which took a week of solid labor on Ford's first assembly line, to less than 12 hours now.
Education seems expensive now, compared to the cost of a car, but really it's the car that got cheaper -- and your wages went down -- over the years.
One answer might be to assign to the *doctor* (primary care physician) a monthly fee per patient, regardless of that patient needing medical service.
That sounds a lot like the witch-doctor model: everyone in the village pays the witch-doctor for keeping them healthy. If you get sick, you stop paying - which gives the witch-doctor a strong incentive to both cure you when you're sick, and keep you healthy as healthy as possible in the long-term.
PETA* and anti-vaxxers are purely emotion movements. There are no experts weighing in with expert opinions for either.
* PETA could have a strong philosophical backing, but IMHO they appeal strictly to emotion.
If Trump promised anything at all in 2016, he clearly promised he'd build a wall. He *does* in fact have a mandate to do this, whether you agree with it or not.
Trump failed to gain the popular vote so he, in fact, does not have a mandate for anything in his platform.
IIRC 32-bit pointers chop something like 20% off the Firefox binary vs it's 64-bit version. That's not an inconsiderate savings.
Of course, you wouldn't want to run Firefox, Chrome, LibreOffice, or X with a 4-gig memory limit, hence the utility just isn't there for the times you would really like it.
I'm not going to say that your overall premise is wrong, but I'll point out that you're in error on this point:
I can't help but think that it's actually more efficient to use taxes to fund transit. Installing ALL THAT infrastructure to collect tolls is going to be expensive too.
Think about it, tracking a gazillion micropayments has got to be more difficult and costly than taxing people once per year.
Tolling using EZ-Pass or, when there's no transponder, pay-by-plate seems to be working out pretty well for the states that do it.
Here in Massachusetts the turnpike that runs the length of the state switched over, from EZ-Pass with tollbooths to EZ-Pass and pay-by-plate, a couple of years ago. The gantries going over the pavement have cameras that read your license plate, look you up, and send you a bill if you don't have a transponder.
If you have a transponder you have an account that debited at each use, and automatically replenished from a credit card on file when the balance gets low. I imagine that frequent users without transponders get their bills batched up by the week or month.
My point being, micro-transactions for tolling on major arteries doesn't seem to be an encumbrance. The rest of your point, that everybody benefits from shared infrastructure so everyone should pay for it, still stands. Tolls and other usage fees are regressive taxes that make the people who benefit the least from something pay the most.
If you're going to play that close to the metal (let alone doing anything further down, like, say, Assembly), at least try to know WTF you're doing, and get help if you're not sure. The more powerful and flexible the tool, the more dangerous (and less tolerant) things can get for the neglectful, the incompetent, and the ignorant.
Aren't you making the article's point for them? IIUC it boils down to: some languages are too difficult for mere mortals to handle, therefore they should be avoided unless you have a really, really good reason.
There's no licensure for programming so anyone can read up on C and call themselves a C programmer, and most managers aren't qualified enough to tell them they're wrong. In a world such as this, doesn't it become almost necessary to use languages that ensure the programmer can't blow his/her own foot off?
Cisco knew they were there, and knows how many more are present. But they can't just go and remove them all today. They have to clear each one with the people that wanted the backdoors there in the first place.
Fun fact: it uses 1840 as the epoch because when MUMPS was written that was the birth year of the oldest person currently living.
That kind of makes sense, given that it was written to handle patient records at MGH: you're guaranteed to never take in a patient older than that, and the original system was simplistic enough that it wouldn't need to handle complicated dates.
Users figure out the account is fake (usually after some attempted scam) and report, Or Facebook's bot catches some outlandish names and automatically bans them.
Well, sure. The question is, should this be the limits of Facebook's responsibility? If their business is representing people, should they be held to a higher standard?
This is no different from most businesses... If you place a pickup order under your neighbor's name, then go to the restraurant to pick up your order and tell them it's your neighbor's name and pay for cash; there's nothing gonna detect that you used a fake name.
Maybe so, but what if the business is in the business of relationships?
Facebook's entire plan is to make money off of peoples' presentation, providing a platform for self-promotion and interconnection. Doesn't it become encumbent on Facebook to validate peoples' identities? Do you want to find out that your "Aunt May" that you've been sharing baby photos with is actually some middle-aged guy you don't even know?
If you agree with the above, then I believe it follows that advertisers should be held to the same standard. Just because they're paying, the relationship is superficially similar -- self promotion and relationships with others. The advertisers should demand it. I should have faith that the account hawking branded laundry soap at me is the real deal and not some knock-off.
Perhaps we'd have a better alternative to the Standard Model if decades of brilliant minds weren't wasted chasing string theory nonsense.
I don't mind letting brilliant minds spend decades, and mere billions, trying out an alternative theory of how the universe works. It's still money better spent than the trillions that have been spent over the same period on things with little or no social value.
There would obviously be "things" that are simply not repairable, such as smaller components, like ICs, of some larger "thing". The point is making the larger "thing" repairable by being able to replace its non-repairable components, like ICs, rather than having to discard the entire larger "thing" when it breaks.
But where do draw the line between "repairable" and "non-repairable"?
An iPad has some repairable components and some non-repairable components. The glass, chassis, and battery are replaceable, and if you break one of those components you may currently have them replaced by Apple or a local vendor of your choice.
All the other major components are embedded into a small PCB with a few chips doing everything. If one of chips cracks or burns out, the most expensive part of the iPad is toast. The PCB cannot be unsoldered and repaired for a reasonable cost, you may as well buy a new iPad.
As the GP pointed out in a general sense, redesigning an iPad to be more repairable than it already is would quickly balloon the chassis into a small form-factor PC -- you've lost your ergonomic tablet to the repairability cause -- as well as making it radically more expensive.
Taken to the illogical extreme, if we declare that SoC's and IC's are not allowed because they're not "repairable" we'll have to go back to room-sized computers that require dedicated power plants to operate.
More importantly, how do you draw such a line? A blanket rule via legislation isn't feasible because it cannot take varying technologies into account over time; an agency to determine the RP (repairability quotient) of every new product would be a slow process that radically hampers innovation while driving up costs due to product redesigns required to fit the RP; a promise by companies is worth the paper it's printed on.
So how do we determine and enforce the repairability quotient of our consumer products?
Apple et. al. are not stupid clucks, they went over motherboards with a microscope. They saw exactly how true to their design finished goods matched. Amazon paid a 3rd party due diligence and its public. SO, we have the answer now.
Please. Do you think that each and every motherboard was inspected this way? Just one company called out in the article, Elemental, ordered thousands of units. After they confirm that the units are up to spec they're not going to continue any deep inspection.
If you read the article, you'll notice that much of the deception happened when an overloaded factory sub-contracted the work; the sub-contractors were coerced into varying from the design and inserting the chips. A subset of motherboards containing chips so small that they can be embedded into the plastic backing of the motherboard itself will not be noticed on a basic visual or photo inspection.
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His favorite movie is Logistics.
Google / FB just requires a new HTML header that explicitly gives them permission.
Don't even need a header, you can borrow the robots.txt idea to make a privilege.txt, stating what may be indexed, what may be copied, and what may not.
NCSU academics scanned GitHub accounts for a period of nearly six months... and looked for text strings formatted like API tokens and cryptographic keys.
Or maybe they were just misidentifying old Perl scripts
The problem is russian government is kind of fake
The Russian government is, unfortunately, all too real, and it's slipping back into Stalin-esque authoritarianism.
A large part of the increase in educational costs has been caused by government meddling, which resulted increased non-teaching staff, overpaid administrators, and the buildings to hold them.
Bullshit. The largest single reason for "increasing" education costs is that education has not seen the same productivity gains as manufacturing. It seems more expensive, but it really isn't.
It's like playing a symphony: It takes just as long, and just as many people, to play a symphony today as it did when it was written -- no matter how long ago. There's no increase in productivty. The typical college education took 16 years (12 primary + 4 secondary) years a hundred years ago, and takes that long today.
Compare and contrast to a car over the same time frame, which took a week of solid labor on Ford's first assembly line, to less than 12 hours now.
Education seems expensive now, compared to the cost of a car, but really it's the car that got cheaper -- and your wages went down -- over the years.
One answer might be to assign to the *doctor* (primary care physician) a monthly fee per patient, regardless of that patient needing medical service.
That sounds a lot like the witch-doctor model: everyone in the village pays the witch-doctor for keeping them healthy. If you get sick, you stop paying - which gives the witch-doctor a strong incentive to both cure you when you're sick, and keep you healthy as healthy as possible in the long-term.
Hectare Agritech, which also runs online grain marketplace Graindex
Missed opportunity for Graindr
PETA* and anti-vaxxers are purely emotion movements. There are no experts weighing in with expert opinions for either. * PETA could have a strong philosophical backing, but IMHO they appeal strictly to emotion.
If Trump promised anything at all in 2016, he clearly promised he'd build a wall. He *does* in fact have a mandate to do this, whether you agree with it or not.
Trump failed to gain the popular vote so he, in fact, does not have a mandate for anything in his platform.
A contract for an illegal act is, itself, illegal and unenforceable.
IIRC 32-bit pointers chop something like 20% off the Firefox binary vs it's 64-bit version. That's not an inconsiderate savings.
Of course, you wouldn't want to run Firefox, Chrome, LibreOffice, or X with a 4-gig memory limit, hence the utility just isn't there for the times you would really like it.
Both statements can be true, it all depends on where in the company you work.
TFS makes it sounds like the article is about executives and managers, but that won't represent everyone in the company.
GP is correct. You may not like the law but it's as described.
Stop being a douchebag and labeling people you don't like as 'shills' and 'bots', especially when it's just someone trying to set the record straight.
I'm not going to say that your overall premise is wrong, but I'll point out that you're in error on this point:
Tolling using EZ-Pass or, when there's no transponder, pay-by-plate seems to be working out pretty well for the states that do it.
Here in Massachusetts the turnpike that runs the length of the state switched over, from EZ-Pass with tollbooths to EZ-Pass and pay-by-plate, a couple of years ago. The gantries going over the pavement have cameras that read your license plate, look you up, and send you a bill if you don't have a transponder.
If you have a transponder you have an account that debited at each use, and automatically replenished from a credit card on file when the balance gets low. I imagine that frequent users without transponders get their bills batched up by the week or month.
My point being, micro-transactions for tolling on major arteries doesn't seem to be an encumbrance. The rest of your point, that everybody benefits from shared infrastructure so everyone should pay for it, still stands. Tolls and other usage fees are regressive taxes that make the people who benefit the least from something pay the most.
If you're going to play that close to the metal (let alone doing anything further down, like, say, Assembly), at least try to know WTF you're doing, and get help if you're not sure. The more powerful and flexible the tool, the more dangerous (and less tolerant) things can get for the neglectful, the incompetent, and the ignorant.
Aren't you making the article's point for them? IIUC it boils down to: some languages are too difficult for mere mortals to handle, therefore they should be avoided unless you have a really, really good reason.
There's no licensure for programming so anyone can read up on C and call themselves a C programmer, and most managers aren't qualified enough to tell them they're wrong. In a world such as this, doesn't it become almost necessary to use languages that ensure the programmer can't blow his/her own foot off?
Cisco knew they were there, and knows how many more are present. But they can't just go and remove them all today. They have to clear each one with the people that wanted the backdoors there in the first place.
Fun fact: it uses 1840 as the epoch because when MUMPS was written that was the birth year of the oldest person currently living.
That kind of makes sense, given that it was written to handle patient records at MGH: you're guaranteed to never take in a patient older than that, and the original system was simplistic enough that it wouldn't need to handle complicated dates.
Users figure out the account is fake (usually after some attempted scam) and report, Or Facebook's bot catches some outlandish names and automatically bans them.
Well, sure. The question is, should this be the limits of Facebook's responsibility? If their business is representing people, should they be held to a higher standard?
Facebook is not law enforcement.
This is no different from most businesses... If you place a pickup order under your neighbor's name, then go to the restraurant to pick up your order and tell them it's your neighbor's name and pay for cash; there's nothing gonna detect that you used a fake name.
Maybe so, but what if the business is in the business of relationships?
Facebook's entire plan is to make money off of peoples' presentation, providing a platform for self-promotion and interconnection. Doesn't it become encumbent on Facebook to validate peoples' identities? Do you want to find out that your "Aunt May" that you've been sharing baby photos with is actually some middle-aged guy you don't even know?
If you agree with the above, then I believe it follows that advertisers should be held to the same standard. Just because they're paying, the relationship is superficially similar -- self promotion and relationships with others. The advertisers should demand it. I should have faith that the account hawking branded laundry soap at me is the real deal and not some knock-off.
ROT13 FTW!
Perhaps we'd have a better alternative to the Standard Model if decades of brilliant minds weren't wasted chasing string theory nonsense.
I don't mind letting brilliant minds spend decades, and mere billions, trying out an alternative theory of how the universe works. It's still money better spent than the trillions that have been spent over the same period on things with little or no social value.
There would obviously be "things" that are simply not repairable, such as smaller components, like ICs, of some larger "thing". The point is making the larger "thing" repairable by being able to replace its non-repairable components, like ICs, rather than having to discard the entire larger "thing" when it breaks.
But where do draw the line between "repairable" and "non-repairable"?
An iPad has some repairable components and some non-repairable components. The glass, chassis, and battery are replaceable, and if you break one of those components you may currently have them replaced by Apple or a local vendor of your choice.
All the other major components are embedded into a small PCB with a few chips doing everything. If one of chips cracks or burns out, the most expensive part of the iPad is toast. The PCB cannot be unsoldered and repaired for a reasonable cost, you may as well buy a new iPad.
As the GP pointed out in a general sense, redesigning an iPad to be more repairable than it already is would quickly balloon the chassis into a small form-factor PC -- you've lost your ergonomic tablet to the repairability cause -- as well as making it radically more expensive.
Taken to the illogical extreme, if we declare that SoC's and IC's are not allowed because they're not "repairable" we'll have to go back to room-sized computers that require dedicated power plants to operate.
More importantly, how do you draw such a line? A blanket rule via legislation isn't feasible because it cannot take varying technologies into account over time; an agency to determine the RP (repairability quotient) of every new product would be a slow process that radically hampers innovation while driving up costs due to product redesigns required to fit the RP; a promise by companies is worth the paper it's printed on.
So how do we determine and enforce the repairability quotient of our consumer products?
Walmart will give you receipts of varying length. Home Depot and Lowes also.
Yes, but do they give ROUS's (receipts of unusual size)?
It's probably people getting a proof of concept going, and management saying "perfect, ship it as-is tonight!"
Apple et. al. are not stupid clucks, they went over motherboards with a microscope. They saw exactly how true to their design finished goods matched. Amazon paid a 3rd party due diligence and its public. SO, we have the answer now.
Please. Do you think that each and every motherboard was inspected this way? Just one company called out in the article, Elemental, ordered thousands of units. After they confirm that the units are up to spec they're not going to continue any deep inspection.
If you read the article, you'll notice that much of the deception happened when an overloaded factory sub-contracted the work; the sub-contractors were coerced into varying from the design and inserting the chips. A subset of motherboards containing chips so small that they can be embedded into the plastic backing of the motherboard itself will not be noticed on a basic visual or photo inspection.