Or...you know...the company did QA which was paid by the company who made the batteries which was paid by the supplier who sourced the batteries which was paid by....etc.
I highly doubt *Samsung* decided to ignore battery quality issues in order to meet their shipment deadlines.
Forget 'bad things'... They can't keep mock bombs and guns off the planes. (or probably real ones but people oddly don't seem as excited to bring bombs and guns on planes as they want us to think)
But they're quite good at keeping non-airport-purchased bottled water off planes!
I wonder what security each pallet of water bottles for sale in the airport terminal goes through. Best guess? Effectively zero.
So yeah...they're either goign to start banning many phones arbitrarily and truly pissing people off...or not doing this at all.
Sure, except it violates some very, very established 'laws' of our universe. I can google dozens of other 'impossible' machines which are gimmicks and not actually perpetual motion, free energy, or a 200% increase in gas mileage (surpassing the carnot cycle efficiency no less) for my strangely large pickup truck.
I don't blame people for being skeptical. You want to say the earth goes aroung the sun when everyone knows your wrong? Well then you better have some damn good proof otherwise we hang you for blasphemy. We will probably hang you anyway, but this is/.
It's far, far more likely we'll learn some new, esoteric quantum interaction that we had no idea existed (or that someone fked up pretty hard). Now, if that interaction means your 'equal and opposite reaction' still exists but it's able to function on space the same way a car does on the ground...well we haven't broken any rules, just solved the biggest problem in space travel.
I've gone into Canada a handfull of times over the last year and had similar.
They customs agents going into Canada typically ask some pointed questions - nothing onerous but things that usually catch you off guard. It's enough to throw someone actualy doing things wrong for a loop and give them easy justification for a detailed search/etc.
I'm going on vacation to visit a friend...i'm invarilably asked either who are they/name, where I know them from, where i'll be staying, or what we're planning to do.
The one time I said I was on business they wanted to know who i worked for, who i was meeting, where, etc. which was amusing since I have a Canadian office for my own company I was going to and two dozen people to meet with. She didn't really care, but was testing to see if it was a basic story/lie of if there were some facts behind it.
It's acutally proven psychology (though it requires *gasp* training) and probably 100x more effective than the rape-i-scan machines are for preventing Bad Things from happening.
It's fairly trivial to put together an encrypted chat client to begin with.
IM platform and communication has off-the-shelf and/or open-source options available. Pretty much IM modules where you provide the host for the server. Encryption modules...same thing. Tons of open source and easily integrated with above IM platforms.
While it requires some expertise...it's really, really not that hard. Things like this nonsense that france is preaching are utter BS and have very little, if any, impact on terrorism.
If you want to throw blame around...let's give it to the 1% crowd.
I'll even justify it...watch!
Redundancy and proper backup costs $. Odds of occurance are quite low and pointy-haired people have this habit of cutting budgets to meet spending targets and save money, and all that. Why? Oh, because their bosses say so...the execs and board. Why? Because the company can get an extra $xyz in EPS by cutting budgets back and taking the low % risk on themselves in the short-ish term.
So yeah, we close down the secondary datacenter and justfiy it with getting a redundant backup generator or something... save a chunk of money, improve the company's margin by a smidge (which is considered impressive given how much they've already squeezed).. and the stock market reacts to the 'innovative savings' positively which raises the stock price by a bit.
That 'bit' matters when you own 6- or 7-figure $ in stock of that company...and your yearly $millions bonus is tied to the same. It's the same reason companies habitually gut their employee base... not because the company is about to be insolvent but because their stock price sucks (generally due to not having 'enough' profit)./rant
You've got one built into every single car...high beams are notorious for blinding drivers on dark roads. (not to mention being extremely annoying even when you've got other cars/lights around)
Actually to play devil's advocate here...a smaller cut would give you similar feeling on the brake pedal for light braking and the fail catastrophically (or at least not provide adequate breaking) under emergency braking...or when you finally emptied all the brake fluid.
Point being, there are malicious failure methods available that work just fine on plain old humans. Simple, cheap, easy ones. To say autopilot is less safe than a human drive because other, complicated and technical, things can fool it is misleading and disingenuous. Autopilot, especially in it's more advanced iterations that are coming, is highly likely to be a much, much safer driver than people in the vast majority of situations.
Will some circumstances fool autopilot and cause an accident? Yep. Could some of those have been avoided by a human driver? Yep. However, when you compare the number of times a computerized driver doesn't something wrong vs. a human I've got my money on the computer. They don't play pokemon go while driving, txt, get drunk, etc.
And I've also got $millions in the bank but I can't get to them just this minute, so can you buy luch?
Oh, and my Bently is being waxed, the Ferrari is a roadster and it looked like rain this morning, and my porche only seats two and I didn't know who was coming to lunch...so can you drive?
Oh, hey, I'm so fameous in this restaurant that they always stop everything and seranade me when I go in... it's such a hassle...do you mind running in to grab the food too? I'm not banned for trying to skip my check last week. I swear.
Don't bother with silly little things like... ugh... facts.
Haters gunna hate. They'll go on about how everyone is drinking the koolaid and they're the only ones with a real perspective and wah wah wah. Little things like facts that fly opposite their opinion are ignored. Other things that support their opinion but are minor get exaggerated. par for the course.
Tesla is losing money...because they're building and expanding as fast as they can. If they cared to sit back and just make a botique car line they'd be plenty profitable. Kind of like how Amazon has (until just recently) barely been profitable despite huge sales numbers. They are dumping all that $ into growth...and it's working.
I'm not saying there aren't some big issues that Tesla, SpaceX and Amazon need to work on...but they've already solved much larger issues. They've already done what no one else has...except perhaps outside of massively subsidized goverment programs (ahem, NASA).
They built several functional, high-quality, durable, daily-usable electric cars. They've nearly completed the largest battery factory in the world. They're in a position to deploy massive amounts of solar with less subsidies than a lot of established industries (*cough*farming*cough*) get. They're launching freaking rockets...real ones with real payloads not dinky little test rockets to suborbital... on the regular AND reclaiming the first stages with controlled landings. Amazon has built a network and distribution chain to rival even the giant walmart...and has changed online ordering from 'i need this for some time in the future' to 'i need this tomorrow/later today' and shortly 'i need this in an hour'. Amazon in the next few years will deliver faster than a trip to the store.
Anyone who wants to point out how stupid all this is and how much of a failure... can happily do so. I'll buy out any stock they 'mistakenly' purchased for a few bucks so they can be rid of it too...:)
You assume that 10% margin isn't subject to all kinds of legal tax voodoo first...which I highly suspect is the case. Considering other providers in countries can provide the same (well, better anyhow) service for significantly LESS I really doubt comcast is really operating on that margin.
See 'hollywood accounting' for examples of those who have made an art of it.
THIS is what copyright law is (well, was) designed to protect. An individual or company wrongly selling, misrepresenting, harassing or even suing others over works it does not have control over the copyright of is exactly what copyright law was targeted at. THIS is how copyright could 'protects the artists' and foster more artistic contribution to the world as a whole.
Getty would do well to quickly offer up a very reasonable/rationa settlement - such as repaying every customer who paid for images they didn't have the right to sell and making a sizable donation to some art charity/foundation. Anything else, and they undermind the very laws that provide for their business model and very existence.
This is another 'just because' argument...just because criminals can use encryption, everyone else must give up the security of encryption.
Just because a minority-case situation exists, why must the majority who aren't involved suffer the consequences?
I mean, some politicians have been proven to be criminals so does that justify us investigating each and every one for criminal activity? Some politicians hide finances within their campaign - should we audit every campaign in detail? Some policitians take kickbacks either directly or indirectly - should we monitor the finances of them all? Some politicians are sex offenders - should all be required to log?
Yes, it's somewhat tangential analogies but the fundamental point remains.
Lots of people point out how a few bad cops do things that make the news and how we shoudln't treat every other cop like they did somethign wrong. Why doesn't this apply here too? (and yeah, i'm prepared for the -1 troll on that but my point stands)
Well not really, but would it surprise anyone at this point?
Granted the mainstream media won't cover it of course...so it'll go largely unnoticed. Just like the title 'worked directly for russian president'... 's government. Well all that says is he isn't an independent contractor...BFD. Tons of people (hackers included) work for the various first world governments.
You could also say that the soldiers who "worked directly for Obama"... 's government. Yawn.
I only see those notifications when I visit google's webpage as part of (or in place of) other ads.
As opposed to a 'notification area' being used as an advertising area. It'd be nice though if they made a button called 'yeah I acutally know what i'm doing, leave me alone'... I mean besides installing linux of course.
How exactly can they play hardball when they don't 'own' anything but their subs? While novel, there's nothing all that unique or profound about the platform itself.
Subs aren't that hard to gain (or lose) in large quantities. Especially millenials are quick to dump for the new trend. Amazon, hulu, and plenty of others are ready, willing, and eager (and trying) to take over the space themselves.
Unless I'm mistaken, netflix is in AWS so amazon obviously has the capacity to server up everything that netflix does (and more)... given licensing to do so. So if netflix told the big movie studios to go suck it, i'm sure amazon would happily use that to negotiate something.
Even audio streaming is struggling because of licensing costs an order of magnitude higher than broadcast radio.
Somewhere buried in my garage are two modded xbox consoles which...should one go download the "omg so illegal" ROMS, would play NES, SNES, GB, GBA, GBC, MAME, and a bunch of older 1st and 2nd gen console and handheld games.
And hey...all 20,000-30,000 game ROMs happily fit in something like 25GB. I mean, of course, if you were the type of person who would posess said ROMs without proper licensing agreements from all the companies. Of course.
It's a cute idea though and for the price I might just get one myself. Hopefully there's a uSD slot so we can add more ROMs.
That's not entrapment. They already signed up on a website for cheating spouses. There's clear intent to participate. While the ultimate decision to go ahead with the action in a particular circumstance is up in the air, that's outside the bounds of entrapment.
For this to be entrapment AM would have needed to send someone to specifically solicit an individual to cheat out of the blue. e.g. hired girl approaches married target out of the blue and a asks him to sleep with her. THAT'S entrapment.
Guy goes to a singles mixer and a girl hits on him evem though she knows he's married but wants to mess with him, that's not entrapment.
Replace dating with a crime (drug purchase works well) and now we have a better understanding of entrapment.
Layoffs result in immediate, long-term improvement to a comanies run-rate. That almost inevitably leads to a boost in share price which ties directly to the financial rewards senior execs get and have.
The business will figure out how to make due with crappy, underpaid, foreign employees (usually)...and in the meantime you cut out a huge amount of recurring cost. Thus, the company is in a better financial situation and bonuses all around for those who are in power.
Look at it from another side: if you could lay off some portion (be it 5% of 50%) of your workforce and still have the company be viable...AND get a multi-million dollar bonus out of the deal plus have your stock options be work millions more...who honestly wouldn't?
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wah wah...didn't you read?
There's 2 more hours of battery life! Who would need to worry about stupid things like CHARGING while listening to music?
You're going to have a hard time explaining bokah to people who primarily take selfies :)
Actually it's worth about 80% of the pay an american would get for doing whatever job their H1-B brings them into.
Or...you know...the company did QA which was paid by the company who made the batteries which was paid by the supplier who sourced the batteries which was paid by....etc.
I highly doubt *Samsung* decided to ignore battery quality issues in order to meet their shipment deadlines.
Forget 'bad things' ... They can't keep mock bombs and guns off the planes. (or probably real ones but people oddly don't seem as excited to bring bombs and guns on planes as they want us to think)
But they're quite good at keeping non-airport-purchased bottled water off planes!
I wonder what security each pallet of water bottles for sale in the airport terminal goes through. Best guess? Effectively zero.
So yeah...they're either goign to start banning many phones arbitrarily and truly pissing people off...or not doing this at all.
Sure, except it violates some very, very established 'laws' of our universe. I can google dozens of other 'impossible' machines which are gimmicks and not actually perpetual motion, free energy, or a 200% increase in gas mileage (surpassing the carnot cycle efficiency no less) for my strangely large pickup truck.
I don't blame people for being skeptical. You want to say the earth goes aroung the sun when everyone knows your wrong? Well then you better have some damn good proof otherwise we hang you for blasphemy. We will probably hang you anyway, but this is /.
It's far, far more likely we'll learn some new, esoteric quantum interaction that we had no idea existed (or that someone fked up pretty hard). Now, if that interaction means your 'equal and opposite reaction' still exists but it's able to function on space the same way a car does on the ground...well we haven't broken any rules, just solved the biggest problem in space travel.
I've gone into Canada a handfull of times over the last year and had similar.
They customs agents going into Canada typically ask some pointed questions - nothing onerous but things that usually catch you off guard. It's enough to throw someone actualy doing things wrong for a loop and give them easy justification for a detailed search/etc.
I'm going on vacation to visit a friend...i'm invarilably asked either who are they/name, where I know them from, where i'll be staying, or what we're planning to do.
The one time I said I was on business they wanted to know who i worked for, who i was meeting, where, etc. which was amusing since I have a Canadian office for my own company I was going to and two dozen people to meet with. She didn't really care, but was testing to see if it was a basic story/lie of if there were some facts behind it.
It's acutally proven psychology (though it requires *gasp* training) and probably 100x more effective than the rape-i-scan machines are for preventing Bad Things from happening.
It's fairly trivial to put together an encrypted chat client to begin with.
IM platform and communication has off-the-shelf and/or open-source options available. Pretty much IM modules where you provide the host for the server.
Encryption modules...same thing. Tons of open source and easily integrated with above IM platforms.
While it requires some expertise...it's really, really not that hard. Things like this nonsense that france is preaching are utter BS and have very little, if any, impact on terrorism.
If you want to throw blame around...let's give it to the 1% crowd.
I'll even justify it...watch!
Redundancy and proper backup costs $. Odds of occurance are quite low and pointy-haired people have this habit of cutting budgets to meet spending targets and save money, and all that. Why? Oh, because their bosses say so...the execs and board. Why? Because the company can get an extra $xyz in EPS by cutting budgets back and taking the low % risk on themselves in the short-ish term.
So yeah, we close down the secondary datacenter and justfiy it with getting a redundant backup generator or something ... save a chunk of money, improve the company's margin by a smidge (which is considered impressive given how much they've already squeezed) .. and the stock market reacts to the 'innovative savings' positively which raises the stock price by a bit.
That 'bit' matters when you own 6- or 7-figure $ in stock of that company...and your yearly $millions bonus is tied to the same. It's the same reason companies habitually gut their employee base ... not because the company is about to be insolvent but because their stock price sucks (generally due to not having 'enough' profit). /rant
You've got one built into every single car...high beams are notorious for blinding drivers on dark roads. (not to mention being extremely annoying even when you've got other cars/lights around)
Actually to play devil's advocate here...a smaller cut would give you similar feeling on the brake pedal for light braking and the fail catastrophically (or at least not provide adequate breaking) under emergency braking...or when you finally emptied all the brake fluid.
Point being, there are malicious failure methods available that work just fine on plain old humans. Simple, cheap, easy ones. To say autopilot is less safe than a human drive because other, complicated and technical, things can fool it is misleading and disingenuous. Autopilot, especially in it's more advanced iterations that are coming, is highly likely to be a much, much safer driver than people in the vast majority of situations.
Will some circumstances fool autopilot and cause an accident? Yep. Could some of those have been avoided by a human driver? Yep. However, when you compare the number of times a computerized driver doesn't something wrong vs. a human I've got my money on the computer. They don't play pokemon go while driving, txt, get drunk, etc.
Malicious acts can potentially cause Bad Things. New at 10.
Or go one further....a $10 laser pointer can temporarily blind pilots flying large planes.
A driver swerving around can easily cause a crash.
It's the paranoid 'what if' mentality that's resulted in so many pointless laws and regulations around new technology.
Right.
And I've also got $millions in the bank but I can't get to them just this minute, so can you buy luch?
Oh, and my Bently is being waxed, the Ferrari is a roadster and it looked like rain this morning, and my porche only seats two and I didn't know who was coming to lunch...so can you drive?
Oh, hey, I'm so fameous in this restaurant that they always stop everything and seranade me when I go in ... it's such a hassle...do you mind running in to grab the food too? I'm not banned for trying to skip my check last week. I swear.
Don't bother with silly little things like ... ugh ... facts.
Haters gunna hate. They'll go on about how everyone is drinking the koolaid and they're the only ones with a real perspective and wah wah wah. Little things like facts that fly opposite their opinion are ignored. Other things that support their opinion but are minor get exaggerated. par for the course.
Tesla is losing money...because they're building and expanding as fast as they can. If they cared to sit back and just make a botique car line they'd be plenty profitable. Kind of like how Amazon has (until just recently) barely been profitable despite huge sales numbers. They are dumping all that $ into growth...and it's working.
I'm not saying there aren't some big issues that Tesla, SpaceX and Amazon need to work on...but they've already solved much larger issues. They've already done what no one else has...except perhaps outside of massively subsidized goverment programs (ahem, NASA).
They built several functional, high-quality, durable, daily-usable electric cars. They've nearly completed the largest battery factory in the world. They're in a position to deploy massive amounts of solar with less subsidies than a lot of established industries (*cough*farming*cough*) get. They're launching freaking rockets...real ones with real payloads not dinky little test rockets to suborbital ... on the regular AND reclaiming the first stages with controlled landings. Amazon has built a network and distribution chain to rival even the giant walmart...and has changed online ordering from 'i need this for some time in the future' to 'i need this tomorrow/later today' and shortly 'i need this in an hour'. Amazon in the next few years will deliver faster than a trip to the store.
Anyone who wants to point out how stupid all this is and how much of a failure ... can happily do so. I'll buy out any stock they 'mistakenly' purchased for a few bucks so they can be rid of it too... :)
You assume that 10% margin isn't subject to all kinds of legal tax voodoo first...which I highly suspect is the case. Considering other providers in countries can provide the same (well, better anyhow) service for significantly LESS I really doubt comcast is really operating on that margin.
See 'hollywood accounting' for examples of those who have made an art of it.
Get a VPN service. That's one of the few ways to actually get some privacy.
I can forsee a not-too-distant future where that's the default for almost any internet connection.
Agreed.
THIS is what copyright law is (well, was) designed to protect. An individual or company wrongly selling, misrepresenting, harassing or even suing others over works it does not have control over the copyright of is exactly what copyright law was targeted at. THIS is how copyright could 'protects the artists' and foster more artistic contribution to the world as a whole.
Getty would do well to quickly offer up a very reasonable/rationa settlement - such as repaying every customer who paid for images they didn't have the right to sell and making a sizable donation to some art charity/foundation. Anything else, and they undermind the very laws that provide for their business model and very existence.
This is another 'just because' argument...just because criminals can use encryption, everyone else must give up the security of encryption.
Just because a minority-case situation exists, why must the majority who aren't involved suffer the consequences?
I mean, some politicians have been proven to be criminals so does that justify us investigating each and every one for criminal activity? Some politicians hide finances within their campaign - should we audit every campaign in detail? Some policitians take kickbacks either directly or indirectly - should we monitor the finances of them all? Some politicians are sex offenders - should all be required to log?
Yes, it's somewhat tangential analogies but the fundamental point remains.
Lots of people point out how a few bad cops do things that make the news and how we shoudln't treat every other cop like they did somethign wrong. Why doesn't this apply here too? (and yeah, i'm prepared for the -1 troll on that but my point stands)
Well not really, but would it surprise anyone at this point?
Granted the mainstream media won't cover it of course...so it'll go largely unnoticed. Just like the title 'worked directly for russian president' ... 's government. Well all that says is he isn't an independent contractor...BFD. Tons of people (hackers included) work for the various first world governments.
You could also say that the soldiers who "worked directly for Obama" ... 's government. Yawn.
Yup, but not on my desktop itself.
I only see those notifications when I visit google's webpage as part of (or in place of) other ads.
As opposed to a 'notification area' being used as an advertising area. It'd be nice though if they made a button called 'yeah I acutally know what i'm doing, leave me alone' ... I mean besides installing linux of course.
'Without ads' is important to 74% of netflix subs according to a survey last month that showed they'd drop the service if it introduced ads.
http://bgr.com/2016/06/22/netf...
I know it's /. but I'm still pretty sure that 74% represents 'most'.
How exactly can they play hardball when they don't 'own' anything but their subs? While novel, there's nothing all that unique or profound about the platform itself.
Subs aren't that hard to gain (or lose) in large quantities. Especially millenials are quick to dump for the new trend. Amazon, hulu, and plenty of others are ready, willing, and eager (and trying) to take over the space themselves.
Unless I'm mistaken, netflix is in AWS so amazon obviously has the capacity to server up everything that netflix does (and more) ... given licensing to do so. So if netflix told the big movie studios to go suck it, i'm sure amazon would happily use that to negotiate something.
Even audio streaming is struggling because of licensing costs an order of magnitude higher than broadcast radio.
Somewhere buried in my garage are two modded xbox consoles which...should one go download the "omg so illegal" ROMS, would play NES, SNES, GB, GBA, GBC, MAME, and a bunch of older 1st and 2nd gen console and handheld games.
And hey...all 20,000-30,000 game ROMs happily fit in something like 25GB. I mean, of course, if you were the type of person who would posess said ROMs without proper licensing agreements from all the companies. Of course.
It's a cute idea though and for the price I might just get one myself. Hopefully there's a uSD slot so we can add more ROMs.
That's not entrapment. They already signed up on a website for cheating spouses. There's clear intent to participate. While the ultimate decision to go ahead with the action in a particular circumstance is up in the air, that's outside the bounds of entrapment.
For this to be entrapment AM would have needed to send someone to specifically solicit an individual to cheat out of the blue. e.g. hired girl approaches married target out of the blue and a asks him to sleep with her. THAT'S entrapment.
Guy goes to a singles mixer and a girl hits on him evem though she knows he's married but wants to mess with him, that's not entrapment.
Replace dating with a crime (drug purchase works well) and now we have a better understanding of entrapment.
This isn't unique, new, or even unusual.
Layoffs result in immediate, long-term improvement to a comanies run-rate. That almost inevitably leads to a boost in share price which ties directly to the financial rewards senior execs get and have.
The business will figure out how to make due with crappy, underpaid, foreign employees (usually)...and in the meantime you cut out a huge amount of recurring cost. Thus, the company is in a better financial situation and bonuses all around for those who are in power.
Look at it from another side: if you could lay off some portion (be it 5% of 50%) of your workforce and still have the company be viable...AND get a multi-million dollar bonus out of the deal plus have your stock options be work millions more...who honestly wouldn't?