I'm not even sure why they would think they'll be able to replace taxis and occupy a Monopoly position that would allow them to increase rates. Are they blind to the fact that their very own model could be used to unseat them if they were to try to act like a city taxi service
You're assuming the business model was not flawed from the outset and because of that, you're interpreting their motive to be more brilliant than it appears to be. Please review the venture capital, and stock market dumpster fire (fueled by investor hundreds of $millions) called MoviePass.
There are a lot of business people who think by sheer force of money, they can disrupt an industry and eventually own the kingdom. In the case of Uber, their investors were racing in a land rush to become such an immense 900lb gorilla that no other competitors could challenge them... they expected to own the consumers and the service providers. As you point out, the free market has stepped in and eliminated the opportunity for Uber.
Python 2 is an obsolete language, that has been obsolete for quite a while.
All I'm sayin' is there isn't C 2.7 and C 3.4. It's just "C." I suppose some may argue C++ is the equivalent to Python's 3.x branch in relation to "C." The object-oriented concepts introduced in C++ make it a wholly different language from C, while Python 3.x isn't so different from Python 2.x.
C and Python have somehow avoided turning into clusterfucks by being simple, while building an unstoppable freight train of reference work.
I use Python much more than C or C++, but seriously. The complication between Python 2.x and 3.x compatibility is immense. And then there are the third-party libraries that frequently are no platform independent. To try to address this nightmare, the concept of Python virtual environments has been created as a hacky workaround.
For these reasons, I cannot agree with you that Python evades the clusterfuck designation.
Is in China. Because China has eclipsed the US in every conceivable way possible.
Per the June 2018 Top 500 List, the US owns the title of fastest supercomputer. In fact, 6 of the top 10 on the list are installed in the United States. And for those opining the days of Cray's dominance in this space, I'll point out that several of the systems in the top 10 are identified with Cray as the vendor. Just two computers in the top 10 are hosted in Jackie Chan's home country.
Hear ye! From this day forward, any monument or landmark unknown to Cultural Significance Minister Kalarius will have its status removed and any physical marker shall be decommissioned as soon as is logistically convenient. All current or future restoration projects are now cancelled to repair or renovate all monuments or landmarks that have been determined to look "worn and kinda crappy."
Besides, Amazon didn't turn a profit until very recently.
I share your enthusiasm and hope for Tesla to be a successful American auto maker.
Please don't conflate Tesla with Amazon, however. Jeff Bezo could have flipped the switch on profitability 10 years ago. He dragged the shareholders through this long process while building out infrastructure with all revenue brought in. Kind of like in the movie, "There will be blood" where the guy is buying up all the land around the town and nobody knows why, then he starts pumping oil out of all that property and nobody can negotiate a sale of property on the newly-realized value. In the case of Amazon, Bezos wanted to absolutely pave an immense footprint before being held to profitability on a quarterly basis by the shareholders. Now he's got an fairly diversified company that dominates in many sectors (public cloud, online retail, digital media readers, echo).
In Norway, electricity is way cheaper than jet fuel. They are the leading producer of hydroelectric power in European markets.
Because of this, if electric planes become relevant, Norway could insert itself as a major air traffic hub for other European travel. Electric planes would route through Norway to refuel less expensively.
I strongly suspect that Google is planning to lease services to businesses that will field these duplex-sourced calls without routing them to their human staff. Google has an opportunity to generate a bunch of annoying bot traffic to human call-takers and then sell the solution to the businesses to automate the transactions. Instead of one bot talking to another bot, they'll probably pass JSONs back and forth to negotiate whatever it is the Google Assistant is attempting to arrange.
The insurance companies are constantly mining their data for payouts on cancer treatments. They're correlating common threads between these patients such as work environment and then lobbying industry to change the work environment to reduce the cancer risk.
If cellphone radiation was causing cancer, the insurance companies would see higher incidents of cancer treatment payouts for cellphone tower technicians. They would then lobby OSHA to modify regulations surrounding cellphone tower work.
Natural gas was the source of about 34% of U.S. electricity generation in 2016. In addition to burning natural gas to heat water for steam, it is also burned to produce hot combustion gases that pass through a gas turbine, spinning the turbine's blades to generate electricity.
If there were substantial cancer risks due to flying, the data miners at insurance companies would have already correlated their payouts on treatments for high-frequency fliers like pilots and would be raising their premiums. Insurance companies are very much on top of cancer-causing workplaces.
Not trying to disprove your thoughtful post here, rsilvergun. Just want to expand people's awareness of modern vulnerability probing
reCAPTCHA means you can't brute force user checks, because even if you can get around it most have a 5-10 second delay built in
The delay is effective at slowing a single-source attack. Modern probing is performed by botnets numbering in the tens-to-hundreds of thousands of sources. I run a firewall monitor that tracks connections attempts and reports them to Dshield. If you look at hits and check their reports on any given IP address, you won't see a particular IP address attempting thousands of connections across a bunch of different targets. Something that hits my firewall probing for exposed mysql or MS SQL Server ports will only be reported by a few other targets if at all. This is because the attackers are distributing the probing across enormous botnets and limiting any individual member of the botnet from being identified as generating hostile network traffic.
So, what I'm saying is that a 5-second delay on a failed login does slow down a single-sourced probe. The attacker distributes the probing across a many-thousand-member botnet and can make many thousands of requests per second.
The Chinese have no interest in spying on the average consumer in the West.
Let's ignore the traditional image of foreign agents conducting espionage and think more about what could be gained by operating a beachhead device inside a random US home.
1. Botnet participant can be used for DDOS attacks on government and corporate entities.
2. Automated network snooping can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise network routers
3. With network router compromised, MITM attacks can inject malware and gather remote credentials to other services. This can grow the botnet population and compromise additional devices on remote networks. MITM attack enables automated identity theft to erode American economic stability.
The identity theft part highlights the probability that these trojan devices can very well be controlled by criminal elements rather than state actors. Cryptoviruses and blackmail can be implemented thanks to such compromised IOT devices.
The guy in the video with all the Lambos is widely described as a member of the Yakuza. No big surprise. When you look at those cars rolling down the street, understand that they are financed with the broken lives of a great many people.
I have an Alpine iLX-007 and it works great with all the Apple apps, including the podcast app. I have been extremely pleased with this headunit and Carplay implementation.
Overcast is maintained by a single developer and this person has decided to walk away from CarPlay support. Yes, there's a Carplay Overcast app, but it fails to launch and crashes consistently. I mean to the point that it has never worked once in the past year or so.
Go ahead and post your ad on TaskRabbit seeking candidates to come over and fix your plumbing, rack your servers, etc. A hundred people show up at your door offering to perform these jobs for obscenely cheap rates. To identify the best candidate, you ask each what their prior work experience has been that makes them suited for the plumbing, spark plugs, and so on.
Candiate 1: "I traded stocks on Wall Street for 20 years prior to having my job automated."
Candiate 2: "I operated a fork lift in a warehouse for 8 years before the facility was automated."
Candiate 3: "I drove semi trucks for 15 years before the robots came in."
And so on.
The thing about AI and automation is that as human workers are displaced, they shift to job types that are financially unattractive to automate-- like those categories you cite. With the flood of displaced workers in these job areas, wages are diluted. "A plumber always makes a good living" will no longer be a true statement as the plumber job market becomes oversaturated by workers displaced by automation.
Please do not confuse a fetish with sexual assault. A fetish is an activity engaged in by consenting adults. Sexual assault is an act of violence perpetrated by an attacker taking advantage of a power imbalance putting the victim at a disadvantage.
I hung out with Tarantino for about a week in the early 2000s. Every night there was an extremely attractive blonde who would show up at the theater and arrange to sit right next to him. She brought her headshot and would forcefully flirt with him constantly. Tarantino politely blew off her advances and referred her to his agent. He was exceptionally nice about the whole thing and never hinted at trying to take advantage of the power dynamic.
In all other respects, Quentin Tarantino can be a social goof, but I would be very surprised if he was accused of sexual misconduct. His biggest fault is turning a blind eye to his pals Harvey Weinstein and Robert Rodriguez. In this regards, he has been an enabler.
As for this Star Trek gig, I am hopeful that Quentin Tarantino will helm the project. Abrams success in Hollywood is largely due to his ability to draw consensus among producers in their formulaic demands on big ticket franchise productions. Tarantino works at a much smaller budget and will minimize his debt to producers trying to mold his vision to their money-making formulas. This approach will mean stripped down production values and emphasis on plot and characters- ala TOS.
Maybe it's just people such as me becoming overly suspicious and paranoid..
Yes, you are being unreasonably suspicious and paranoid. Consider for a moment the fact that Apple has not lifted a finger to interfere with the hackintosh scene.... The OS is freely downloadable and commodity hardware can be assembled and deployed as a MacPro without the premium price tag. In your post, you're suggesting there is some kind of trend at play here. If that were the case, Apple would be battling the hackintosh scene by locking out hardware without a special ROM signature. Or even lawyers attacking websites hosting tools to create boot disks and installers. None of that's happening.
I do grant you this... Having a crazy proprietary hodge-podge hardware spec with an A10 cpu riding on top of an X64 motherboard / CPU will certainly shut down the homebrew hackintosh scene.
The circle fraud you describe is absolutely happening over at Amazon. I had thought it was only to farm positive reviews and get products boosted to #1 seller status in a category, but now I suspect the manufacturers may be benefitting in other ways.
As an example, do a search on Amazon for "pico projector"-- you'll find a bunch of cheapie ~$100 video projectors with hundreds if not thousands of 4 and 5 star ratings. This item is the "best seller" in the category. Check the reviews. There are two thousand reviews written by 'verified purchasers' who simply relate a few of the product features likely printed on the box and offer no comparison with competing products nor mention any possible drawbacks (like that these projectors don't display true HD resolution), and English does not seem to be the authors' native language.
i like this mini projector very much! it has really good quality and works really well~ it shows very clear and also with sounds by itself. This projector is very good, It's worth to get this!
I love this projector. when it will be in 20 ft or 10 ft image is clear that when it is in 4 to 5 ft otherwise it is really good quality in dark.
Projector is good value for money. Small, lightweight and does the job effectively. The cables and remote control are added plus.
And the USB interface is really cool. You don't even need to connect is to a computer. Just plug in the USB and enjoy.
If you click through on any of these profile names, you'll see hundreds of reviews written on cheap, Asian-sourced gadgets. Never any expensive, name-brand products. And the reviewers are so prolific, they write the reviews almost every day and usually upwards of five reviews per day. It's common to see one of these fake reviewers purchase two or three knock-off fitness trackers over the course of two months, yet none of their reviews compare the multiple trackers they seemingly have recently purchased.
I can imagine that when they boost a product up to "#1 seller" status, they can get loans against projected sales volume just like these scammers did via their Newegg fraud.
This could destroy googles hold on ads and the new revenue stream for the internet
Perhaps Google is more afraid that this distributed computing model might compete with their fledgling Google Cloud computing offering. AWS already makes more money for Amazon than their retail sales business. If Google is going to compete, they are going to have to stifle distributed computing so that crypto miners will perceive a greater value in the Google Cloud.
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You're assuming the business model was not flawed from the outset and because of that, you're interpreting their motive to be more brilliant than it appears to be. Please review the venture capital, and stock market dumpster fire (fueled by investor hundreds of $millions) called MoviePass.
There are a lot of business people who think by sheer force of money, they can disrupt an industry and eventually own the kingdom. In the case of Uber, their investors were racing in a land rush to become such an immense 900lb gorilla that no other competitors could challenge them... they expected to own the consumers and the service providers. As you point out, the free market has stepped in and eliminated the opportunity for Uber.
All I'm sayin' is there isn't C 2.7 and C 3.4. It's just "C." I suppose some may argue C++ is the equivalent to Python's 3.x branch in relation to "C." The object-oriented concepts introduced in C++ make it a wholly different language from C, while Python 3.x isn't so different from Python 2.x.
I use Python much more than C or C++, but seriously. The complication between Python 2.x and 3.x compatibility is immense. And then there are the third-party libraries that frequently are no platform independent. To try to address this nightmare, the concept of Python virtual environments has been created as a hacky workaround.
For these reasons, I cannot agree with you that Python evades the clusterfuck designation.
Per the June 2018 Top 500 List, the US owns the title of fastest supercomputer. In fact, 6 of the top 10 on the list are installed in the United States. And for those opining the days of Cray's dominance in this space, I'll point out that several of the systems in the top 10 are identified with Cray as the vendor. Just two computers in the top 10 are hosted in Jackie Chan's home country.
Glad you got a kick out of it. Just messing with you. Have a great weekend!
I share your enthusiasm and hope for Tesla to be a successful American auto maker.
Please don't conflate Tesla with Amazon, however. Jeff Bezo could have flipped the switch on profitability 10 years ago. He dragged the shareholders through this long process while building out infrastructure with all revenue brought in. Kind of like in the movie, "There will be blood" where the guy is buying up all the land around the town and nobody knows why, then he starts pumping oil out of all that property and nobody can negotiate a sale of property on the newly-realized value. In the case of Amazon, Bezos wanted to absolutely pave an immense footprint before being held to profitability on a quarterly basis by the shareholders. Now he's got an fairly diversified company that dominates in many sectors (public cloud, online retail, digital media readers, echo).
As of late, the BLM seems to have become anybody's bitch to fuck with if you are white and have guns.
Interesting echo of this FCC discussion:
In Norway, electricity is way cheaper than jet fuel. They are the leading producer of hydroelectric power in European markets.
Because of this, if electric planes become relevant, Norway could insert itself as a major air traffic hub for other European travel. Electric planes would route through Norway to refuel less expensively.
I strongly suspect that Google is planning to lease services to businesses that will field these duplex-sourced calls without routing them to their human staff. Google has an opportunity to generate a bunch of annoying bot traffic to human call-takers and then sell the solution to the businesses to automate the transactions. Instead of one bot talking to another bot, they'll probably pass JSONs back and forth to negotiate whatever it is the Google Assistant is attempting to arrange.
The insurance companies are constantly mining their data for payouts on cancer treatments. They're correlating common threads between these patients such as work environment and then lobbying industry to change the work environment to reduce the cancer risk.
If cellphone radiation was causing cancer, the insurance companies would see higher incidents of cancer treatment payouts for cellphone tower technicians. They would then lobby OSHA to modify regulations surrounding cellphone tower work.
Most of US municipal electricity is generated using fossil fuels.
If there were substantial cancer risks due to flying, the data miners at insurance companies would have already correlated their payouts on treatments for high-frequency fliers like pilots and would be raising their premiums. Insurance companies are very much on top of cancer-causing workplaces.
The delay is effective at slowing a single-source attack. Modern probing is performed by botnets numbering in the tens-to-hundreds of thousands of sources. I run a firewall monitor that tracks connections attempts and reports them to Dshield. If you look at hits and check their reports on any given IP address, you won't see a particular IP address attempting thousands of connections across a bunch of different targets. Something that hits my firewall probing for exposed mysql or MS SQL Server ports will only be reported by a few other targets if at all. This is because the attackers are distributing the probing across enormous botnets and limiting any individual member of the botnet from being identified as generating hostile network traffic.
So, what I'm saying is that a 5-second delay on a failed login does slow down a single-sourced probe. The attacker distributes the probing across a many-thousand-member botnet and can make many thousands of requests per second.
Let's ignore the traditional image of foreign agents conducting espionage and think more about what could be gained by operating a beachhead device inside a random US home.
1. Botnet participant can be used for DDOS attacks on government and corporate entities.
2. Automated network snooping can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise network routers
3. With network router compromised, MITM attacks can inject malware and gather remote credentials to other services. This can grow the botnet population and compromise additional devices on remote networks. MITM attack enables automated identity theft to erode American economic stability.
The identity theft part highlights the probability that these trojan devices can very well be controlled by criminal elements rather than state actors. Cryptoviruses and blackmail can be implemented thanks to such compromised IOT devices.
The guy in the video with all the Lambos is widely described as a member of the Yakuza. No big surprise. When you look at those cars rolling down the street, understand that they are financed with the broken lives of a great many people.
I have an Alpine iLX-007 and it works great with all the Apple apps, including the podcast app. I have been extremely pleased with this headunit and Carplay implementation.
Overcast is maintained by a single developer and this person has decided to walk away from CarPlay support. Yes, there's a Carplay Overcast app, but it fails to launch and crashes consistently. I mean to the point that it has never worked once in the past year or so.
Go ahead and post your ad on TaskRabbit seeking candidates to come over and fix your plumbing, rack your servers, etc. A hundred people show up at your door offering to perform these jobs for obscenely cheap rates. To identify the best candidate, you ask each what their prior work experience has been that makes them suited for the plumbing, spark plugs, and so on.
Candiate 1: "I traded stocks on Wall Street for 20 years prior to having my job automated."
Candiate 2: "I operated a fork lift in a warehouse for 8 years before the facility was automated."
Candiate 3: "I drove semi trucks for 15 years before the robots came in."
And so on.
The thing about AI and automation is that as human workers are displaced, they shift to job types that are financially unattractive to automate-- like those categories you cite. With the flood of displaced workers in these job areas, wages are diluted. "A plumber always makes a good living" will no longer be a true statement as the plumber job market becomes oversaturated by workers displaced by automation.
Please do not confuse a fetish with sexual assault. A fetish is an activity engaged in by consenting adults. Sexual assault is an act of violence perpetrated by an attacker taking advantage of a power imbalance putting the victim at a disadvantage.
I hung out with Tarantino for about a week in the early 2000s. Every night there was an extremely attractive blonde who would show up at the theater and arrange to sit right next to him. She brought her headshot and would forcefully flirt with him constantly. Tarantino politely blew off her advances and referred her to his agent. He was exceptionally nice about the whole thing and never hinted at trying to take advantage of the power dynamic.
In all other respects, Quentin Tarantino can be a social goof, but I would be very surprised if he was accused of sexual misconduct. His biggest fault is turning a blind eye to his pals Harvey Weinstein and Robert Rodriguez. In this regards, he has been an enabler.
As for this Star Trek gig, I am hopeful that Quentin Tarantino will helm the project. Abrams success in Hollywood is largely due to his ability to draw consensus among producers in their formulaic demands on big ticket franchise productions. Tarantino works at a much smaller budget and will minimize his debt to producers trying to mold his vision to their money-making formulas. This approach will mean stripped down production values and emphasis on plot and characters- ala TOS.
Ahuxley- I do remember those days! Also, how about the DOS and PC Compatibility cards?
Yes, you are being unreasonably suspicious and paranoid. Consider for a moment the fact that Apple has not lifted a finger to interfere with the hackintosh scene.... The OS is freely downloadable and commodity hardware can be assembled and deployed as a MacPro without the premium price tag. In your post, you're suggesting there is some kind of trend at play here. If that were the case, Apple would be battling the hackintosh scene by locking out hardware without a special ROM signature. Or even lawyers attacking websites hosting tools to create boot disks and installers. None of that's happening.
I do grant you this... Having a crazy proprietary hodge-podge hardware spec with an A10 cpu riding on top of an X64 motherboard / CPU will certainly shut down the homebrew hackintosh scene.
If you click through on any of these profile names, you'll see hundreds of reviews written on cheap, Asian-sourced gadgets. Never any expensive, name-brand products. And the reviewers are so prolific, they write the reviews almost every day and usually upwards of five reviews per day. It's common to see one of these fake reviewers purchase two or three knock-off fitness trackers over the course of two months, yet none of their reviews compare the multiple trackers they seemingly have recently purchased.
I can imagine that when they boost a product up to "#1 seller" status, they can get loans against projected sales volume just like these scammers did via their Newegg fraud.
Perhaps Google is more afraid that this distributed computing model might compete with their fledgling Google Cloud computing offering. AWS already makes more money for Amazon than their retail sales business. If Google is going to compete, they are going to have to stifle distributed computing so that crypto miners will perceive a greater value in the Google Cloud.