So now we're supposed to believe that about $50k worth of Facebook ads tilted the election to Trump
No. No one (reasonable) is pointing to this specific $50,000 ad buy as the reason Hilary lost. This is evidence see that a foreign power attempted to influence an American election by exploiting racial divides. The natural follow-up question, then, is did that foreign power do so in collusion with the candidate they were assisting?
They could've taken the typical Hollywood approach and shown a bunch of green, Matrix-like gibberish scrolling across the screen. I'm choosing to view this more as an easter egg than as a continuity issue.
The probability that a random person in the population could look at your iPhone X and unlock it using Face ID is approximately 1 in 1,000,000 (versus 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID)... The probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed. If you're concerned about this, we recommend using a passcode to authenticate.
Until we have some third party testing on how easy it is to fool Face ID, I'm reserving judgment.
Except that Apple doesn't say "We don't work with the government. Promise."
Apple says "Our products fundamentally limit the ways in which we can work with the government, even if we try or are coerced." The recent leak of the 5s Secure Enclave firmware should allow independent verification of that fact.
Here in Bristol, England Uber drivers have to have the same Private Hire license that you'd need if you were driving a town car for a charter company, and in my experience their fares are ~20-25% less than the local cabs.
It'd be interesting to see how Uber's rates compare to local taxis when they're regulated exactly like taxis (most restrictive), like unliveried private hire cars (less restrictive), and when totally unregulated.
Your position is that sexual harassment is a myth?
Whenever these topics come up, the part of the Slashdot discussion that I find most irritating is the logical jump from "some gender pay gap and sexual harassment statistics are misleading if taken at face value" to "any woman who claims she was sexually harassed or passed up for a promotion because of her gender is wrong and a liar." It seems to happen every time.
The first can lead to an interesting discussion about gender and it's effect on the tech workplace. The second is just ignorant prejudice.
The article and the Reddit thread both talk about a "huge spike" in data usage without including any hard figures. What are we talking about here? 100 MB per day? A gigabyte?
The goal of all of this shit should be to eliminate as much work as possible for the good of everyone but our economic system will not allow for that.
The goal should be to eliminate less productive work so that labor can be allocated to more productive work. What's needed is job training and mid-career education so that the pain of the transition is minimized for those caught up in it. The fact that those structures don't exist is a societal problem, not an economic one (as much as you can draw a distinction between a society and its economy, anyways).
That falls apart if you believe that there's a subset of society that is fundamentally incapable of making the transition because of natural ability, talent, whatever, but I'm more optimistic about the capacity of humans to improve themselves given the opportunity to do so. OP claims by fiat that "we've come to the end of the line for the next-best-job fix" without providing a justification for why that's the case.
Really? If your ISP gave you $2/month (or whatever the marginal value of one customer's browsing history is) on the condition that all your traffic is inspectable, you'd agree?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. M is archaic and lacks many of the conveniences and guardrails of modern languages, but it's also ludicrously fast and scalable. Much of the hate is actually for Meditech's in-house language MAGIC. It's often conflated with M but isn't the same language at all.
You're over generalizing. Several of the major players in the EHR field run on an M database. They offer modern software suites with all the security bells and whistles that you'd expect of a program handling something as sensitive as medical record data.
The problem comes in when you have to start balancing cost/convenience against risk of abuse. You could lock down your EHR to an arbitrary degree, but then it starts to interfere with users' ability to do their jobs. The more stringent your auditing protocols, the more cost you pile on in administrative overhead. The "security vs. convenience" battle is not at all specific to M or to healthcare IT.
You're over generalizing. The major players in the EHR marketplace offer modern software suites with all the security/access auditing bells and whistles you would expect of a program that handles something as sensitive as medical data. There are protections in place to prevent egregious abuses of access, but something as subtle as what's described in this story (occasional inappropriate access over the course of years) would be tough to catch.
The problem with security, as it is in all types of IT, is that you have to weigh risk against cost and convenience. You can lock down your EHR to an arbitrary degree, but then you start interfering with the ability of clinicians to do their jobs and introduce a ton of administrative overhead if you're reviewing all of that access audit data.
The major players in the field are starting to do some cool stuff with the "big data" and "machine learning" buzzwords to automate some of these processes for picking up on inappropriate access. It'll be a while before that's viable for a production application.
Their sample was 370 million emails over the course of four years. With a false positive rate of 0.004%, that works out to about 10 messages per day for a company with "thousands of employees." Impressive.
At $3.75/episode, I think that pretty convincingly sinks the argument of "I have NO CHOICE but to pirate Game of Thrones because no one will offer it at a reasonable price!"
at that speed you are starting to have problems with the round trip time of radio waves from your radar system being too long to accurately predict where the missile will be at any significant distance
That doesn't sound right. Say you have a missile at 50km away. Speed of light is 3e8 m/s. It'll take a radio wave about 0.3 ms to travel the 100 km round trip (1e5 m / 3e8 m/s). If the missile is travelling at mach 5 (1700 m/s), it will have traveled about 50cm in that time (1700 m/s * 0.0003 s). Maybe you need to account for that when you're aiming your laser, but there's no way that the missile is making massive course changes on that time scale so it should be easy to project its actual position.
I've picked my numbers pretty conservatively (fast missile, far away). I'd still be more worried about the processing time on the computer that's interpreting the radar signal.
Today, the laser is intended primarily to disable or destroy aircraft and small boats. "It's designed with the intent of being able to counter airborne and surface-based threats," said Hughes. "And it's been able to prove itself over the last three years as being incredibly effective at that."
However, the Navy is developing more powerful, second-generation systems which would bring more significant targets into its crosshairs: missiles.
May I ask why you prefer driving for Uber? More business?
The image being presented recently is that Lyft is a warm, fuzzy company that wants to take care of its riders/drivers while Uber is an uncaring behemoth that wants to give its drivers the absolute minimum they can get away with.
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So now we're supposed to believe that about $50k worth of Facebook ads tilted the election to Trump
No. No one (reasonable) is pointing to this specific $50,000 ad buy as the reason Hilary lost. This is evidence see that a foreign power attempted to influence an American election by exploiting racial divides. The natural follow-up question, then, is did that foreign power do so in collusion with the candidate they were assisting?
They could've taken the typical Hollywood approach and shown a bunch of green, Matrix-like gibberish scrolling across the screen. I'm choosing to view this more as an easter egg than as a continuity issue.
The probability that a random person in the population could look at your iPhone X and unlock it using Face ID is approximately 1 in 1,000,000 (versus 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID)... The probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed. If you're concerned about this, we recommend using a passcode to authenticate.
Until we have some third party testing on how easy it is to fool Face ID, I'm reserving judgment.
Except that Apple doesn't say "We don't work with the government. Promise."
Apple says "Our products fundamentally limit the ways in which we can work with the government, even if we try or are coerced." The recent leak of the 5s Secure Enclave firmware should allow independent verification of that fact.
Here in Bristol, England Uber drivers have to have the same Private Hire license that you'd need if you were driving a town car for a charter company, and in my experience their fares are ~20-25% less than the local cabs.
It'd be interesting to see how Uber's rates compare to local taxis when they're regulated exactly like taxis (most restrictive), like unliveried private hire cars (less restrictive), and when totally unregulated.
Wow! Godwin'd after a thread just three deep!
claimed she was sexually harasssed.
she moved on to next feminist myth
Your position is that sexual harassment is a myth?
Whenever these topics come up, the part of the Slashdot discussion that I find most irritating is the logical jump from "some gender pay gap and sexual harassment statistics are misleading if taken at face value" to "any woman who claims she was sexually harassed or passed up for a promotion because of her gender is wrong and a liar." It seems to happen every time.
The first can lead to an interesting discussion about gender and it's effect on the tech workplace. The second is just ignorant prejudice.
The article and the Reddit thread both talk about a "huge spike" in data usage without including any hard figures. What are we talking about here? 100 MB per day? A gigabyte?
The goal of all of this shit should be to eliminate as much work as possible for the good of everyone but our economic system will not allow for that.
The goal should be to eliminate less productive work so that labor can be allocated to more productive work. What's needed is job training and mid-career education so that the pain of the transition is minimized for those caught up in it. The fact that those structures don't exist is a societal problem, not an economic one (as much as you can draw a distinction between a society and its economy, anyways).
That falls apart if you believe that there's a subset of society that is fundamentally incapable of making the transition because of natural ability, talent, whatever, but I'm more optimistic about the capacity of humans to improve themselves given the opportunity to do so. OP claims by fiat that "we've come to the end of the line for the next-best-job fix" without providing a justification for why that's the case.
Really? If your ISP gave you $2/month (or whatever the marginal value of one customer's browsing history is) on the condition that all your traffic is inspectable, you'd agree?
combination of the pricing model of printer toner combined with a predatory monthly app subscription and a keurig.
Not sure who the hell thought people would actually swallow this.
Probably some people who saw the success of the market model of inkjet printers, Netflix, and Keurig.
You must be a blast at parties.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. M is archaic and lacks many of the conveniences and guardrails of modern languages, but it's also ludicrously fast and scalable. Much of the hate is actually for Meditech's in-house language MAGIC. It's often conflated with M but isn't the same language at all.
You're over generalizing. Several of the major players in the EHR field run on an M database. They offer modern software suites with all the security bells and whistles that you'd expect of a program handling something as sensitive as medical record data.
The problem comes in when you have to start balancing cost/convenience against risk of abuse. You could lock down your EHR to an arbitrary degree, but then it starts to interfere with users' ability to do their jobs. The more stringent your auditing protocols, the more cost you pile on in administrative overhead. The "security vs. convenience" battle is not at all specific to M or to healthcare IT.
You're over generalizing. The major players in the EHR marketplace offer modern software suites with all the security/access auditing bells and whistles you would expect of a program that handles something as sensitive as medical data. There are protections in place to prevent egregious abuses of access, but something as subtle as what's described in this story (occasional inappropriate access over the course of years) would be tough to catch.
The problem with security, as it is in all types of IT, is that you have to weigh risk against cost and convenience. You can lock down your EHR to an arbitrary degree, but then you start interfering with the ability of clinicians to do their jobs and introduce a ton of administrative overhead if you're reviewing all of that access audit data.
The major players in the field are starting to do some cool stuff with the "big data" and "machine learning" buzzwords to automate some of these processes for picking up on inappropriate access. It'll be a while before that's viable for a production application.
Their sample was 370 million emails over the course of four years. With a false positive rate of 0.004%, that works out to about 10 messages per day for a company with "thousands of employees." Impressive.
The 82% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes says that most people disagree with you.
why do you suppose someone is paying them?
Because it's (currently) cheaper than automating the job out of existence.
Watch how the markets every time the chairman of the Fed opens his/her mouth and then tell me that economists don't affect the economy.
$15/mo. Link.
At $3.75/episode, I think that pretty convincingly sinks the argument of "I have NO CHOICE but to pirate Game of Thrones because no one will offer it at a reasonable price!"
at that speed you are starting to have problems with the round trip time of radio waves from your radar system being too long to accurately predict where the missile will be at any significant distance
That doesn't sound right. Say you have a missile at 50km away. Speed of light is 3e8 m/s. It'll take a radio wave about 0.3 ms to travel the 100 km round trip (1e5 m / 3e8 m/s). If the missile is travelling at mach 5 (1700 m/s), it will have traveled about 50cm in that time (1700 m/s * 0.0003 s). Maybe you need to account for that when you're aiming your laser, but there's no way that the missile is making massive course changes on that time scale so it should be easy to project its actual position.
I've picked my numbers pretty conservatively (fast missile, far away). I'd still be more worried about the processing time on the computer that's interpreting the radar signal.
Today, the laser is intended primarily to disable or destroy aircraft and small boats. "It's designed with the intent of being able to counter airborne and surface-based threats," said Hughes. "And it's been able to prove itself over the last three years as being incredibly effective at that."
However, the Navy is developing more powerful, second-generation systems which would bring more significant targets into its crosshairs: missiles.
May I ask why you prefer driving for Uber? More business? The image being presented recently is that Lyft is a warm, fuzzy company that wants to take care of its riders/drivers while Uber is an uncaring behemoth that wants to give its drivers the absolute minimum they can get away with.
Thank you for taking the time to answer the question asked in the submission.
Aramco is prepping for an IPO so technically, they won't be privately held for much more than another year or two.