Emma Haruka Iwao works for Google, so there is that connection as well. But I agree, it wasn't a Google initiative or anything so the headline should properly credit the effort.
MS using the Insiders program to try to gather more information about how people are using Windows...well yes of course. I understand that MS = BAD and all that but this is exactly what they should be doing, isn't it?
Not to mention close to half the ads in that "campaign" had nothing to do with the election or were released after the election. It was really just a grab bag of various online trolling by that organization "linked" to Putin.
What a load of crap. No specifics at all, we are just supposed to take some government official's word that some Russian actor has a "massive" following? Are wen in Russia or something?
I don't agree that the guy who spent a couple hours/days writing a song should collect even more money at the expense of the people who invested in and continue to pay for the distribution of that song to listeners. Servers, software maintenance, bandwidth, salaries and benefits for all the people who keep all that running aren't free.
attracted about 175,000 followers on Facebook, and a further 4,500 on Instagram
In other words, an open communication 'marketplace' was working as expected and almost no one was paying attention to their crap factory. Those numbers are pathetically low, and still provide no data at all on whether any of this vanishingly small percentage of accounts even paid attention to any of the crap.
So everyone at every household has to sort out plastic bags and every other damn thing. The cumulative cost of that is enormous. Much cheaper and more effective, as events like this show, is to fix it in far fewer places and figure out a new way to handle plastic bags in there to prevent them from clogging the machine as it is designed now. I'm sure some some person somewhere has an answer to this, it is just taking a long time to implement since the small number of waste companies have far more focused political clout than the widely dispersed households who are asked to bear the cost. It is a story as old as the hills.
Probably he paid some bum with a similar body type to break into his house and kill him so his family could collect the insurance money, but then killed the bum instead and faked a car crash to burn up the body. Luckily the bum did not turn out to be an undercover investigative reporter.
When awake, the repair work cannot keep up with the rate at which damage builds up, but in the calm hours of sleep, the repair mechanisms have a chance to get on top of the job.
What are we doing while awake that increases the rate of damage? It can't be environmental since that would presumably also be a factor while sleeping. Does *thinking* damage the brain's DNA? I don't want to even think about the implications of that...
"Phone number is such a private, important security link,"
This is like saying 'never give out your IP address on the Internet', I'm not saying I like how they are using it, but you have to give out your phone number so people can call you. It is essentially public information. There's a few ways around that, but are still relatively complicated. I'm old enough to remember when you would get tons of sales calls on a new phone number since the phone company listed you by default in a big directory made out of cheap yellow paper. You could pay a fee to opt out of being listed, bleep you very much phone company. Even now you will get tons of sales calls if you buy a house or some other transaction that creates a public record.
Nobody is, it is just that the high growth opportunities offer better returns and are thus more interesting to the financial pundits the general public normally hears about. There are trillions invested in slow to normal growth securities, but they don't get blog posts. It is much the same problem that affects science reporting (or any other niche) targeted at general audiences.
I've been baffled by the chores aspect since The Sims was around simulating people washing dishes. Some games I quickly dropped since I was spending time sharpening my weapon or some other tedium. I have enough chores in real life to do, why on earth would I spend my precious free time doing simulated chores?
I suspect it has to do with the way these games make money nowadays. There was an article linked on/. some time ago about all the games catering to the small percentage of players who were addictive types who would spend all their money on in-game purchases, and the designers didn't care much about the other 95% of players who log in for an hour or two a week to shoot some stuff.
Yes, just like the piles of abandoned rental bikes in China. Well it will be a convenient source of metals for future generations, unless they get classified as historical artifacts.
So when you call a mobile phone service provider, or a bank, in China and ask them to help you log in to online service portal or otherwise make some change, how do they authenticate you?
Good point, there is not much to say in support of vaccinations. They've worked for so long, how much content can you cram into a book saying "they still work"? I suppose a history of some sort.
Their problem is the usual failure of the blacklist approach. They let anyone upload anything and then try to detect and blacklist after the fact. That approach is always going to fail as the uploaders have plenty of ways to evade the detection, and the moderators have limited resources. The only effective approach would be whitelisting, as in every video is reviewed *before* it is posted. But that would kill the platform's popularity and profitability.
It has to do with how they were used historically, not any intrinsic meaning. Much like "Herbert" is just a basic first name, but is considered a slur by some since a group of doofy hippy types used it to mock a famous seducer of female-looking robots.
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Emma Haruka Iwao works for Google, so there is that connection as well. But I agree, it wasn't a Google initiative or anything so the headline should properly credit the effort.
A narrow vision. You too will become one with the Microsoft
MS using the Insiders program to try to gather more information about how people are using Windows...well yes of course. I understand that MS = BAD and all that but this is exactly what they should be doing, isn't it?
Not to mention close to half the ads in that "campaign" had nothing to do with the election or were released after the election. It was really just a grab bag of various online trolling by that organization "linked" to Putin.
What a load of crap. No specifics at all, we are just supposed to take some government official's word that some Russian actor has a "massive" following? Are wen in Russia or something?
No Bloomberg is literally the last name of the credited reporter.
I don't agree that the guy who spent a couple hours/days writing a song should collect even more money at the expense of the people who invested in and continue to pay for the distribution of that song to listeners. Servers, software maintenance, bandwidth, salaries and benefits for all the people who keep all that running aren't free.
attracted about 175,000 followers on Facebook, and a further 4,500 on Instagram
In other words, an open communication 'marketplace' was working as expected and almost no one was paying attention to their crap factory. Those numbers are pathetically low, and still provide no data at all on whether any of this vanishingly small percentage of accounts even paid attention to any of the crap.
So everyone at every household has to sort out plastic bags and every other damn thing. The cumulative cost of that is enormous. Much cheaper and more effective, as events like this show, is to fix it in far fewer places and figure out a new way to handle plastic bags in there to prevent them from clogging the machine as it is designed now. I'm sure some some person somewhere has an answer to this, it is just taking a long time to implement since the small number of waste companies have far more focused political clout than the widely dispersed households who are asked to bear the cost. It is a story as old as the hills.
Probably he paid some bum with a similar body type to break into his house and kill him so his family could collect the insurance money, but then killed the bum instead and faked a car crash to burn up the body. Luckily the bum did not turn out to be an undercover investigative reporter.
When awake, the repair work cannot keep up with the rate at which damage builds up, but in the calm hours of sleep, the repair mechanisms have a chance to get on top of the job.
What are we doing while awake that increases the rate of damage? It can't be environmental since that would presumably also be a factor while sleeping. Does *thinking* damage the brain's DNA? I don't want to even think about the implications of that...
"Phone number is such a private, important security link,"
This is like saying 'never give out your IP address on the Internet', I'm not saying I like how they are using it, but you have to give out your phone number so people can call you. It is essentially public information. There's a few ways around that, but are still relatively complicated. I'm old enough to remember when you would get tons of sales calls on a new phone number since the phone company listed you by default in a big directory made out of cheap yellow paper. You could pay a fee to opt out of being listed, bleep you very much phone company. Even now you will get tons of sales calls if you buy a house or some other transaction that creates a public record.
STIA? Come on Democrats, you can do better
Nobody is, it is just that the high growth opportunities offer better returns and are thus more interesting to the financial pundits the general public normally hears about. There are trillions invested in slow to normal growth securities, but they don't get blog posts. It is much the same problem that affects science reporting (or any other niche) targeted at general audiences.
Fair enough. I want a divertive experience, not an immersive one.
I've been baffled by the chores aspect since The Sims was around simulating people washing dishes. Some games I quickly dropped since I was spending time sharpening my weapon or some other tedium. I have enough chores in real life to do, why on earth would I spend my precious free time doing simulated chores?
/. some time ago about all the games catering to the small percentage of players who were addictive types who would spend all their money on in-game purchases, and the designers didn't care much about the other 95% of players who log in for an hour or two a week to shoot some stuff.
I suspect it has to do with the way these games make money nowadays. There was an article linked on
Yes, just like the piles of abandoned rental bikes in China. Well it will be a convenient source of metals for future generations, unless they get classified as historical artifacts.
That's generally what happens now in more and more cases in the US. Well, the phone thing not WeChat obviously.
So when you call a mobile phone service provider, or a bank, in China and ask them to help you log in to online service portal or otherwise make some change, how do they authenticate you?
Good point, there is not much to say in support of vaccinations. They've worked for so long, how much content can you cram into a book saying "they still work"? I suppose a history of some sort.
Windows 10 Home users baffled by academic's flowchart
Their problem is the usual failure of the blacklist approach. They let anyone upload anything and then try to detect and blacklist after the fact. That approach is always going to fail as the uploaders have plenty of ways to evade the detection, and the moderators have limited resources. The only effective approach would be whitelisting, as in every video is reviewed *before* it is posted. But that would kill the platform's popularity and profitability.
You're a troll.
So you also scored a victory. Trolls are the Chaos Monkey of society, breaking what can be broken for the ultimate betterment of all.
It has to do with how they were used historically, not any intrinsic meaning. Much like "Herbert" is just a basic first name, but is considered a slur by some since a group of doofy hippy types used it to mock a famous seducer of female-looking robots.