Project Veritas doesn't make claims. They secretly film other people making claims. In this case, it is 8 or 9 Twitter employees (some of them apparently not junior flunkies) claiming that they can and do read your private messages.
New music has always sounded crap. It's a case of Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) combined with survivor bias (the 10% that isn't crap is more likely to be remembered and still played much later). For every great song you can remember from a prior decade, there are nine more that were such complete crap that you don't even remember that they were briefly popular.
Yeah, that's part of it. but TFA talks about some actually objective measures of quality.
Yes... no one's EVER reported fraud after using PayPal.
It has to be safer than just giving every ecommerce site on the internet your "secret" numbers, and just hoping they don't use them for anything but what you wish they will.
I've implemented (low level) PayPal integrations. About the only fraud I can picture is abusing the range that they allow when you go to PayPal to sign in and approve the purchase, and then go back to the cart. There's some wiggle room allowed for the amount for that token, if say you end up choosing faster shipping or something. But they still can't keep using that token to go to Cancun or anything. Like they could with your CC number.
Seriously, contact all the major TV and radio stations in the area first. The expectation that everyone should get critical information from "social" media is a joke.
Given how most media these days just republish and comment on tweets anyway, it worked out OK though.
Android (with Google) has excellent voice control. At least for what I have tried.
"Email to {name of my contact}" opens a blank email (in Gmail) and then asks me "what's the message"? Say the message and that becomes the body.
Then it asks "do you want to send this?" and you answer yes or no. It all works fine.
Haven't tried too much else, but "play {artist} on Spotify" starts Spotify and plays artist radio for that artist. I would imagine many other apps work similarly.
Yes, this stood out for me too. The guy is a psychopath. I read some statements he posted anonymously previously, and his mind seems quite warped. He enjoys doing this, putting other people in dangerous situations. I think he wanted samebody to eventually get killed. That makes him a sadist. He is dangerous, and he'll still be dangerous when released from prison. He should remain under surveillance afterwards. These people do not think like regular people do. The way their minds work, they may just as well be another species.
Then why release him at all?
His deliberate action caused someone's death, and he knew there was a very high probability it could do so. He's as guilty as someone playing Russian Roulette but with the gun pointed at another person.
What happens if you need to patch or upgrade in a few years? Like for security? Do you have to rely on unsupported frameworks or throw everything away and start over? How does it work?
Remember, companies pay huge licensing fees exactly for support.
Well, you could just keep using jQuery like we do. It's still maintained and developed.
It won't get you 100 recruiter calls a day, but hey.
You people apparently have not been paying any attention to what China has been doing for decades now. Automated facial scanning is but one tiny piece in a massive machine that has existed for quite a long time now.
Good point. Everything is novel to the naive.
"Oh no, maybe it will cause them to become a communist dictatorship!"
Submariners have it much worse. They can do it with one gallon, and would consider 3 gallons to be a "Hollywood shower".
Dang straight.
Except sonar techs, of course, or as we called them "#$%^ shower techs". They needed long luxurious showers, from all that sweating they didn't do, sitting in their little air conditioned shack...
As a Google employee, my takeaway is "This is why we can't have nice things." Open discussion fora with light oversight, and a culture of internal transparency and openness are really awesome, but they appear to be incompatible with being a large multinational corporation. Sigh.
I'd say rather "this is why you can't have it both ways".
The Google's of the world love to pretend that they want a "discussion" or a "dialog", but in reality if one should break out, they lower the boom.
To be a doctor, you need to do well on the MCAT, get into med school, take the USMLE, and get a residency. Or get into a combined medical program out of high school and still pass the USMLE and get a residency.
Engineering in life-critical fields involves passing the FE and PE exams. Not trivial.
There will still be standard exams as gatekeepers for both fields.
Give it time. First diplomas, then 4-year degrees... first entrance criteria, then protests that not enough graduate... these things always move up the chain.
they measure how much money your parents have. If they can afford to send you to test prep classes you do well. If they can't you don't.
No, prep classes might make you feel slightly more comfortable taking them, but they won't significantly improve your score (well, they didn't in the past; not sure if the tests have been de-objectified enough now for that to have changed.)
They were a rough proxy for IQ, itself a good predictor for academic success.
For most wealthy companies, you would be right. But we aren't talking about most wealthy companies, we are talking about the descendants of J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
The real reason is less interesting. The FM radio needs a reasonably long antenna to work, so wired headphones are required. Market research supposedly showed that nobody wanted to have an FM radio in their mobile phone.
Pretty much every mobile phone sold since the late 1990s has had a fully implemented, but disabled, FM radio chipset but no provisions for an antenna and no way to turn it on.
Huh? Every smart phone I've had, starting with the 2012 Google Galaxy Nexus, has had a working FM radio.
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What if it's the short-term solution? Robots remotely operated by humans?
Mechanical Turk (the actual one, not the Amazon version).
May as well - it seems to be humans we have the surplus of. As long as we can offshore them to make them affordable ...
Project Veritas doesn't make claims. They secretly film other people making claims. In this case, it is 8 or 9 Twitter employees (some of them apparently not junior flunkies) claiming that they can and do read your private messages.
Precisely. "How dare you quote me!"
They do expose such biases, full stop.
New music has always sounded crap. It's a case of Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) combined with survivor bias (the 10% that isn't crap is more likely to be remembered and still played much later). For every great song you can remember from a prior decade, there are nine more that were such complete crap that you don't even remember that they were briefly popular.
Yeah, that's part of it. but TFA talks about some actually objective measures of quality.
In particular, #2 and #5 are hard to argue with.
Excuse me. If we are running 3% growth right now, why do we need the tax cut?
Well, for one thing, markets anticipate, and they anticipated a tax cut.
Yes... no one's EVER reported fraud after using PayPal.
It has to be safer than just giving every ecommerce site on the internet your "secret" numbers, and just hoping they don't use them for anything but what you wish they will.
I've implemented (low level) PayPal integrations. About the only fraud I can picture is abusing the range that they allow when you go to PayPal to sign in and approve the purchase, and then go back to the cart. There's some wiggle room allowed for the amount for that token, if say you end up choosing faster shipping or something. But they still can't keep using that token to go to Cancun or anything. Like they could with your CC number.
Maybe AI would have read the operator's manual better for Hawaii's emergency alert system ...
Seriously, contact all the major TV and radio stations in the area first. The expectation that everyone should get critical information from "social" media is a joke.
Given how most media these days just republish and comment on tweets anyway, it worked out OK though.
(/sarc)
Is it because we put art majors in charge of UI design? Is that it?
Could be.
I've almost given up on pushing back on UI design.
Their two overriding and incompatible drives are to 1. hide complexity and 2. make things super easy.
The result is that it's super easy to do things that you don't understand.
Android (with Google) has excellent voice control. At least for what I have tried.
"Email to {name of my contact}" opens a blank email (in Gmail) and then asks me "what's the message"? Say the message and that becomes the body.
Then it asks "do you want to send this?" and you answer yes or no. It all works fine.
Haven't tried too much else, but "play {artist} on Spotify" starts Spotify and plays artist radio for that artist. I would imagine many other apps work similarly.
Yes, this stood out for me too. The guy is a psychopath. I read some statements he posted anonymously previously, and his mind seems quite warped. He enjoys doing this, putting other people in dangerous situations. I think he wanted samebody to eventually get killed. That makes him a sadist. He is dangerous, and he'll still be dangerous when released from prison. He should remain under surveillance afterwards. These people do not think like regular people do. The way their minds work, they may just as well be another species.
Then why release him at all?
His deliberate action caused someone's death, and he knew there was a very high probability it could do so. He's as guilty as someone playing Russian Roulette but with the gun pointed at another person.
Why should he ever see freedom again?
Wait 10 years.
The bill made permanent tax cuts for corporations and temporary ones for individuals.
Why does this objection always sound like the old joke "the food here is terrible ... and the portions are so small!"
What happens if you need to patch or upgrade in a few years? Like for security? Do you have to rely on unsupported frameworks or throw everything away and start over? How does it work?
Remember, companies pay huge licensing fees exactly for support.
Well, you could just keep using jQuery like we do. It's still maintained and developed.
It won't get you 100 recruiter calls a day, but hey.
You people apparently have not been paying any attention to what China has been doing for decades now. Automated facial scanning is but one tiny piece in a massive machine that has existed for quite a long time now.
Good point. Everything is novel to the naive.
"Oh no, maybe it will cause them to become a communist dictatorship!"
Submariners have it much worse. They can do it with one gallon, and would consider 3 gallons to be a "Hollywood shower".
Dang straight.
Except sonar techs, of course, or as we called them "#$%^ shower techs". They needed long luxurious showers, from all that sweating they didn't do, sitting in their little air conditioned shack ...
And if anything goes wrong with the guidance system, don't worry -- it will simply slow down, pull over, and stop.
And then...
Call AAA?
As a Google employee, my takeaway is "This is why we can't have nice things." Open discussion fora with light oversight, and a culture of internal transparency and openness are really awesome, but they appear to be incompatible with being a large multinational corporation. Sigh.
I'd say rather "this is why you can't have it both ways".
The Google's of the world love to pretend that they want a "discussion" or a "dialog", but in reality if one should break out, they lower the boom.
Oh look, it's the hackers can bomb you with you own computer headline again. This time featuring smartphones and apps oh boy that changes everything!
That said, poor security and factory machines accepting commands from smartphone apps does sound like a rather bad idea.
Uh, pot kettle? :)
I wasn't choosing them for FM radios, but they had them. Working.
Merely observing that I guess I got the three exceptions to "pretty much every mobile phone sold since the late 1990s".
If a mere remote network command can thwart police ... er, well, insert devastating finish here.
It seems to me that the FCC has been lowering its standards ever since Ajit took over control. Nothing new here.
Except that it's not being lowered: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/0808160504329/FCC-17-109A1.pdf
To be a doctor, you need to do well on the MCAT, get into med school, take the USMLE, and get a residency. Or get into a combined medical program out of high school and still pass the USMLE and get a residency.
Engineering in life-critical fields involves passing the FE and PE exams. Not trivial.
There will still be standard exams as gatekeepers for both fields.
Give it time. First diplomas, then 4-year degrees ... first entrance criteria, then protests that not enough graduate ... these things always move up the chain.
Just give it time.
they measure how much money your parents have. If they can afford to send you to test prep classes you do well. If they can't you don't.
No, prep classes might make you feel slightly more comfortable taking them, but they won't significantly improve your score (well, they didn't in the past; not sure if the tests have been de-objectified enough now for that to have changed.)
They were a rough proxy for IQ, itself a good predictor for academic success.
For most wealthy companies, you would be right. But we aren't talking about most wealthy companies, we are talking about the descendants of J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
Well by that logic, we should ban Kennedys.
The real reason is less interesting. The FM radio needs a reasonably long antenna to work, so wired headphones are required. Market research supposedly showed that nobody wanted to have an FM radio in their mobile phone.
Pretty much every mobile phone sold since the late 1990s has had a fully implemented, but disabled, FM radio chipset but no provisions for an antenna and no way to turn it on.
Huh? Every smart phone I've had, starting with the 2012 Google Galaxy Nexus, has had a working FM radio.