Seriously, only a masochist would buy an early adopter version of a flexible phone display tech. I actually like Samsung and consider them among the better vendors, there was no way this was going to work out cleanly.
The whole adjustment to force Google etc to provide compensation for article snippets seems fair. If the companies don't want to agree to a fair price, don't include them.
However, the whole illegal uploading part seems, well...... extraordinarily draconian.
Standards are highly influenced by organizations which are motivated to ensure that the internet is not secure (CIA, FSB, Ministry of State Security) so they all intentionally influence them to ensure that they have advanced knowledge of what the keys to the kingdom are. People really need to stop overlooking the fact that the same people who write cryptographic techniques are the same people who are paid to break them later. This is an obvious conflict of interest that will not ever go away. TLDR the internet was never meant to be secure.
Honestly the whole 737 scandal only raised a little concern. You make products for long enough one will crash and burn. Thinking that you can actually design, produce, and QA, and begin delivering a solution which lives depended in a matter of weeks, is a institutional cultural problem that will take a major effort to overhaul. Agile has its uses, this is a abomination of what looks to be a corporations attempt at it.
Nonsense. We trust in science, not because we as humans are perfect, but because its a process we use to try and get as close the truth as we can. Admitting to inherent imperfection in humans in no way takes away from the scientific process. Peoples belief is fading because we have a couple political dogmas floating around that pump out the idea that the goberment/scientists/the illuminati is lying to them. Humans are flappable and yet the scientific process is ineffable when compared to "my neighbor told me"
Sure, in a perfect world we would all discuss the exact probabilities. The reality is we all (even professionals in an industry) have a limited attention span. Benchmarks are useful, even imperfect benchmarks. This is just another example of some purists thinking we should move to some idealized but impractical situation
I realize you are being sarcastic. But there are actually loads of solutions which do not violate any notion of free speech. The most basic is to actually educate our population on how to judge the validity of a source. Some schools are doing that, unfortunately the elderly (the most gullible for various reasons, including age related mental denervation) are out of reach. We should start internet based source validity courses to the elderly.
No the implication of this story is that social media once again enables the gullible to be targeted via misinformation campaigns. What do Anti-vaxers, flat earthers, Anti-gmo crusaders, and a certain branch of one of our main political parties all have in common? They get their information from Facebook. Ill actually defend Facebook here. They are the platform, the scammers and the scammed just happen to both use it.
I agree, there are loads of GOOD games. Cheap ones as well. Darkest Dungeon, This War of Mine, The Awakening of Theam Wasteland 2. All great, all without EA or Ubi behind them ripping you off. You can easily avoid the big guys 90% of the time. The only problem is that the humongous studios tend to buy up any good IP or small studios and destroy them. What I wouldn't give for a decent version of Civilization to come out again.
You are intentionally ignoring the point. Even the people who like particular types of games are finding the latest big name releases awfully boring. No matter what type of game you are a fan of, they latest iterations simply lack substance.
A very well produced game, but truly lacking any fun component. Day 1 it seemed more of a trailer for a game, than an actual game. I would love to second the idea that AAA games these days are designed merely to extract as much possible $$$ from the customer as possible with every micro transaction. Its even apparent in the very recent iterations of the same franchise. I LOVED Destiny 1, Destiny 2 was just a rehash designed to make me think I got something new. I was sincerely embarrassed I managed to get a few of my friends to buy D2 so that we could play together. The upside is that we are seeing a whole new generation of craft studies, who actually produce fun games. They may not cost a billion to make but they are fun. For whatever reason the small studies seem to produce more fun out of their shoestring budgets than Blizzard or EA can produce with a billion. We are in a generation with Blizzard, EA, Activsion etc all exist to buy up and destroy classic IP while draining us for all the $$$ they can. They have destroyed Command and Conquer, Civilization, Bioshock, and sooo many others.
Finance, Cities, Airlines, Pharma, the whole defense industry. What kind of news article is this for a software developer biased news aggregation portal when even this most basic fact is stated as some kind of surprise.
There was an article the other day mocking your conspiracy theory as the competitors to Huawei are also non-american. Although I can actually give it a grain of salt. Even if we are not benefiting, it is hurting China, which is worth something in a trade war.
There was a story a few years back about some rather secretive Russian organizations that had to go back to typewriters because the U.S. had completely owned any kind of multimedia based communications systems. From the language used in the reports I read this implied Russian made PCs, private phone lines, to low tech like projector screens were all compromised.
In the US, the US is more likely to use privacy violations (philosophical or legal) for run of the mill criminal prosecutions of varying moral worth. In the US, China and Russia are more likely to entrap in you in a espionage plot that threatens your life and livelihood. Separate and different depending on your personal proclivities one is more threating than the other.
This actually has been problem for Google. I have seen them muddy the water with reused names/acronyms more often than what I would intuit as their fair share.
You think that China and Russia have never black bagged a person on US territory? Like I said above, childlike like naiveté or purposeful subterfuge based denial on your part.
It is a tactic that has its strengths and weaknesses like any other. I am speaking of our collective responsibility as citizens of humanity to not live in a fantasy world and accept the reality and discuss from there.
That's simply not true. The Russians and Chinese are constantly monitoring communications to identify persons of interest for both corporate and national security espionage related reasons. For example the Equifax hack has been linked back to the Russians for precisely this reason. There is more than enough reason to debate the morality of US privacy invasions, what is not reasonable is either the willful child like naiveté or purposeful subterfuge based denial that the Russians and Chinese are hyper aggressive in this front.
Ive said this before and will likely have to say it again. If you use American tech, the Americans have access to your data. If you use Russian tech, the Americans and the Russians have access to your data. If you use Chinese tech the Americans, Russians, Chinese and everyones pet gerbil has access to your data. Its comical to live in a fantasy world where there is privacy. The only choice you have is who has access to your data.
Individuals who are using ATT , Verizon, or Sprint are buying expensive phones they think are subsidized by the carrier (hit you just pay way more on your bill) and than want to move to another carrier.
The answer is don't. Don't even start on any one of them. Excluding some rather specific edge cases, the major carriers are all ripping you off horribly. I just did a quick search and the cheapest plan Verizon is offering is $35/month for 3GB. I am paying $25/month for 10GB. To match my usage I would have to pay $65. What are you fools tossing money away for?
"And we have a long way to go before its utility is fully found." Not universally true.
"So all we'd doing is preventing US companies from having a share in the market and fostering more global competition." Not a reasonable assumption actually the exact opposite of what happens. If you prevent the export of fundamental knowledge you ensure that start nation's companies have 100% of the global market.
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Seriously, only a masochist would buy an early adopter version of a flexible phone display tech. I actually like Samsung and consider them among the better vendors, there was no way this was going to work out cleanly.
The whole adjustment to force Google etc to provide compensation for article snippets seems fair. If the companies don't want to agree to a fair price, don't include them.
However, the whole illegal uploading part seems, well...... extraordinarily draconian.
Standards are highly influenced by organizations which are motivated to ensure that the internet is not secure (CIA, FSB, Ministry of State Security) so they all intentionally influence them to ensure that they have advanced knowledge of what the keys to the kingdom are. People really need to stop overlooking the fact that the same people who write cryptographic techniques are the same people who are paid to break them later. This is an obvious conflict of interest that will not ever go away. TLDR the internet was never meant to be secure.
Honestly the whole 737 scandal only raised a little concern. You make products for long enough one will crash and burn. Thinking that you can actually design, produce, and QA, and begin delivering a solution which lives depended in a matter of weeks, is a institutional cultural problem that will take a major effort to overhaul. Agile has its uses, this is a abomination of what looks to be a corporations attempt at it.
You do know that solar and wind end up releasing more radiation into the environment than nuclear due to mining the materials needed? Sure you do lol.
Still cheaper than Solar, Wind, Coal, and NG when all costs are accounted for. Yes, even disposal.
Nonsense. We trust in science, not because we as humans are perfect, but because its a process we use to try and get as close the truth as we can. Admitting to inherent imperfection in humans in no way takes away from the scientific process. Peoples belief is fading because we have a couple political dogmas floating around that pump out the idea that the goberment/scientists/the illuminati is lying to them. Humans are flappable and yet the scientific process is ineffable when compared to "my neighbor told me"
Sure, in a perfect world we would all discuss the exact probabilities. The reality is we all (even professionals in an industry) have a limited attention span. Benchmarks are useful, even imperfect benchmarks. This is just another example of some purists thinking we should move to some idealized but impractical situation
I realize you are being sarcastic. But there are actually loads of solutions which do not violate any notion of free speech. The most basic is to actually educate our population on how to judge the validity of a source. Some schools are doing that, unfortunately the elderly (the most gullible for various reasons, including age related mental denervation) are out of reach. We should start internet based source validity courses to the elderly.
No the implication of this story is that social media once again enables the gullible to be targeted via misinformation campaigns. What do Anti-vaxers, flat earthers, Anti-gmo crusaders, and a certain branch of one of our main political parties all have in common? They get their information from Facebook. Ill actually defend Facebook here. They are the platform, the scammers and the scammed just happen to both use it.
I agree, there are loads of GOOD games. Cheap ones as well. Darkest Dungeon, This War of Mine, The Awakening of Theam Wasteland 2. All great, all without EA or Ubi behind them ripping you off. You can easily avoid the big guys 90% of the time. The only problem is that the humongous studios tend to buy up any good IP or small studios and destroy them. What I wouldn't give for a decent version of Civilization to come out again.
You are intentionally ignoring the point. Even the people who like particular types of games are finding the latest big name releases awfully boring. No matter what type of game you are a fan of, they latest iterations simply lack substance.
A very well produced game, but truly lacking any fun component. Day 1 it seemed more of a trailer for a game, than an actual game. I would love to second the idea that AAA games these days are designed merely to extract as much possible $$$ from the customer as possible with every micro transaction. Its even apparent in the very recent iterations of the same franchise. I LOVED Destiny 1, Destiny 2 was just a rehash designed to make me think I got something new. I was sincerely embarrassed I managed to get a few of my friends to buy D2 so that we could play together. The upside is that we are seeing a whole new generation of craft studies, who actually produce fun games. They may not cost a billion to make but they are fun. For whatever reason the small studies seem to produce more fun out of their shoestring budgets than Blizzard or EA can produce with a billion. We are in a generation with Blizzard, EA, Activsion etc all exist to buy up and destroy classic IP while draining us for all the $$$ they can. They have destroyed Command and Conquer, Civilization, Bioshock, and sooo many others.
Finance, Cities, Airlines, Pharma, the whole defense industry. What kind of news article is this for a software developer biased news aggregation portal when even this most basic fact is stated as some kind of surprise.
There was an article the other day mocking your conspiracy theory as the competitors to Huawei are also non-american. Although I can actually give it a grain of salt. Even if we are not benefiting, it is hurting China, which is worth something in a trade war.
There was a story a few years back about some rather secretive Russian organizations that had to go back to typewriters because the U.S. had completely owned any kind of multimedia based communications systems. From the language used in the reports I read this implied Russian made PCs, private phone lines, to low tech like projector screens were all compromised.
In the US, the US is more likely to use privacy violations (philosophical or legal) for run of the mill criminal prosecutions of varying moral worth. In the US, China and Russia are more likely to entrap in you in a espionage plot that threatens your life and livelihood. Separate and different depending on your personal proclivities one is more threating than the other.
This actually has been problem for Google. I have seen them muddy the water with reused names/acronyms more often than what I would intuit as their fair share.
You think that China and Russia have never black bagged a person on US territory? Like I said above, childlike like naiveté or purposeful subterfuge based denial on your part.
It is a tactic that has its strengths and weaknesses like any other. I am speaking of our collective responsibility as citizens of humanity to not live in a fantasy world and accept the reality and discuss from there.
That's simply not true. The Russians and Chinese are constantly monitoring communications to identify persons of interest for both corporate and national security espionage related reasons. For example the Equifax hack has been linked back to the Russians for precisely this reason. There is more than enough reason to debate the morality of US privacy invasions, what is not reasonable is either the willful child like naiveté or purposeful subterfuge based denial that the Russians and Chinese are hyper aggressive in this front.
Ive said this before and will likely have to say it again. If you use American tech, the Americans have access to your data. If you use Russian tech, the Americans and the Russians have access to your data. If you use Chinese tech the Americans, Russians, Chinese and everyones pet gerbil has access to your data. Its comical to live in a fantasy world where there is privacy. The only choice you have is who has access to your data.
US/Mintpcs (T-Mobile)/12 GB per month for a year at $300
Individuals who are using ATT , Verizon, or Sprint are buying expensive phones they think are subsidized by the carrier (hit you just pay way more on your bill) and than want to move to another carrier.
The answer is don't. Don't even start on any one of them. Excluding some rather specific edge cases, the major carriers are all ripping you off horribly. I just did a quick search and the cheapest plan Verizon is offering is $35/month for 3GB. I am paying $25/month for 10GB. To match my usage I would have to pay $65. What are you fools tossing money away for?
"And we have a long way to go before its utility is fully found." Not universally true.
"So all we'd doing is preventing US companies from having a share in the market and fostering more global competition." Not a reasonable assumption actually the exact opposite of what happens. If you prevent the export of fundamental knowledge you ensure that start nation's companies have 100% of the global market.