So the CEO of a big company that intends to use Huawei gear instead of spending the money on developing their own/waiting for more trustworthy but possibly more exepnsive alternatives from other places is whining that "it will take more time"? How about worrying about your customers and their information privacy before you worry about your wallet - f*ck you Vodafone.
I absolutely agree with that. There's tons of other axis that could be mapped against, such as "traditionalism" and "religiosity". But then again I personally can't stand those questionnaires that try to map your political alignment on multiple spectra because I always have some sort of exception to a bunch of the questions. I also hate the generalizations of "Conservative" and "Liberal" because I can't think of a single person I've ever met who I could actually cleanly categorize in one of them without exception... and that's not even taking into consideration of the fact that the term "liberal" now seems to mean something different depending on what news network you prefer.
End rant: the only reason I brought it up in the first place was to clear up aversion to or preference for taxation isn't a left-right issue. So in context I think the political compass is "good enough" for this discussion.
It's not my personal graph, it's the fundamental graph used to represent the relationship of different political ideologies to each-other. If you don't even know this then you probably shouldn't be discussing politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Suggesting all taxation is evil is a libertarian standpoint (anti-authoritarian). A centrist would believe in moderate taxation with specific conditions, and consequently would scrutinize the allocation of fund from those taxes as the parent does.
> Either taxes are evil or they aren't. This is not a binary. Taxes don't have to be categorized as "evil" or "good" at all.
> Everything else is simply discussing the proper role of government which is a different topic. 1. The government requires funds to run, and taxation is the primary source of those funds in most types of liberalist societies. Perhaps you are basing your arguments on illiberal societies such as socialist and communist ones which run industry though the government and use the profits from those industries as economic support [rather than from taxes]? 2. I would categorize utilization of government funds [derived from taxes or otherwise] as a critical role of government.
The political positioning on taxation is the Y axis [Libertarian/Authoritarian] of the political spectrum, not the X axis. Anarchism is extreme left libertarian, there is also centrist libertarian and "ancap" extreme right libertarian.
But none of that is particularly important, as parents argument is on the allocation of funds from tax collection, not on the collection of taxes in and of itself - meaning parent could very well be a pure centrist.
She wasn't even supposed to have the job. She literally chased out the chosen next-in-line CEO Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript) by getting a bunch of her SJW staff to physically keep him out of the building and threaten him. Look it up *and note how a lot of news didn't cover it at all*. There's a personal account from him floating around too.
Here's hoping Brave development progresses to the point we can all just forget about FireFox and Mozilla at some point in the near future.
I came to the comments for this. So many people don't know the real story behind what happened. Unfortunately most of the press didn't even cover it, so here's one of the few articles that did: https://www.breitbart.com/tech...
Brave is "ok". I've been alternating between brave and FF but haven't found Brave mature in development enough to make the switch completely.
The whole point of the Chromebook is to be a machine people who can't properly use an actual OS can use. I'd imagine this is the same kind of market that wants to do their accounting on their iPad and finds it more comfortable to write mail and documents on their phone than on their computer.
I have to admit I actually find this an interesting idea. But banning is kind of an overly authoritarian way to go about it. Maybe something like a "cafeteria license" where they make them pay extra to provide such a facility (and include all the inspections and other costs that go with it?), making it less economically viable to provide a cafeteria but earning extra revenue for the city from the companies that do. Or, maybe provide an incentive, like waive those costs if they allow local businesses to provide catering/delivery to those cafeteria areas.
Either way this is such a "bay area" problem. And we all know the real way to fix the bay area is to raze it with atomic flame.
And I don't even use Box. Not like they'd have my trust to begin with - I have never trusted any of these companies other than the (very few) which have *earned* my trust. The fact the CEO of Box is such a f*ing idiot he would assume users just come in to a new platform completely trusting is as laughable as it is horrifying.
Are there other countries in the accord that are meeting their commitments? I'd be curious to see who is and isn't, and how they are doing it if they are.
Did you miss the second sentence of my post? > Just because this door is being opened by the NN repeal doesn't mean telcos don't already have a full on assault ready to close it again *without* NN
Yeah but I'm reserving my optimism. Just because this door is being opened by the NN repeal doesn't mean telcos don't already have a full on assault ready to close it again *without* NN. After all they've surely got plenty of senators they've been sucking off in preparation to this.
All that said I don't actually live in America so despite the fact I find this whole situation interesting it doesn't actually effect me. I've got a 2Gbps fibre line to my home for about $50USD a month because I live in a country where backbone is municipal and there's a free market for service providers - but I also live in a populated part of a country that is tiny in size compared to America. There's no easy solution in America, but there are free as in freedom solutions that could show the power of the free market; and I really hope the repeal of NN is an actual precursor to that.
No it's not dipshit, if you reclassify ISP's you don't need to worry about the LEC classification barrier and we can have municipal fibre open up to any little business that wants to run their own ISP and can fill the minimum requirements. As it is big telcos have locked everyone out of LEC [Utility] applications basically by bribing Congress and harassing municipalities with shared fibre infrastructure.
I'm not saying repealing NN was a good idea but NN was a bandaid on a broken leg. The whole thing needs to be redone so hopefully the repeal will actually be a precursor to that - though who knows if it really will be.
My issue is with illiberal practices, restrictions on freedom of speech and/or expression, and anti-meritocratic/anti-technocratic systems. Filtering information is an authoritarian practice - and one the Nazi's made ample use of. If the current government is trying prevent companies from censoring information on the grounds the company doesn't agree with, therefore fostering real freedom of speech and expression which is the foundation for a liberal society, then I don't care what government it is I'll support that.
It's not just "grassroots conservatives" that are worried about this. Re: the Demore memo, but also the fact Google was contributing to the Clinton campaign, and of course the "american scientist" search results. I'll grand that search result could be an organic result... but the fact we've had multiple engineers stating it's common practice to feed the engine specific data to "help" it find the right data does make me pretty suspicious. You can't deny most people use Google services, so if what they see come up on those services is manipulated for political gain, directly or indirectly, that's a pretty scary thing - especially when you consider there seems to be a large push for a non-meritocratic/anti-technocratic culture within the current ranks of Google employees.
I'm a hardcore GNU/Linux user for over two decades now. Only recently have I had to deal with Windows again (coding a cross platform desktop client), and although the interface is clunky and the continued lack of a usable package manager is a pain you also don't have to deal with all the stupid hand holding and bizarre restrictions OS X forces on you. As far as antivirus and security, just go with something free if you're worried and keep a backup schedule like you should with any OS. That's really all there is to it.
You all seem to have forgotten when NewEgg was originally selling things "auction" style where you'd bid on their products. The thing was they would creatively mis-label products, such as labelling disposable film cameras as "Digital Camera". Then after that I seem to remember something about selling rejected OEM equipment but I don't remember if they actually got in trouble for that one...
Here in Japan they're doing Scratch and then roll into samples in 8 different languages (basically hello world with a loop and some variables) in middle school.
My son however did a scratch book when he was ~7 and did some Arduino programming in that Arduino flavoured C in a robotics course which he's still doing (he's 10), but we're doing some things together in C because of that. I had originally thought about Ruby (because I like it and it's clean) or Python (because there are tons of ways to use it for beginners, like MineCraft scripting), but he's handling C just fine.
Now, what would I recommend for a class of students? Honestly I'm not sure Scratch is better at getting the concepts of program flow than flow charts with stencil templates, I actually think flow charts would make more sense. Once they get the concept of variables and loops look for something simple and visual or something they know and can see immediate results, like that MineCraft and Python setup or maybe even go old school and grab that demo where you move the robot around. Just try not to do the whole think in Scratch, as I think that past a point forcing that visual representation is detrimental and could actually turn off some students who would be into actual programming.
You usually get 2 to 4 keys with a new car, always 2 standard with fob/chip, often 1 backup key without fob/chip, and sometimes 1 "valet" key. When you get the keys you get a code tag that you use to order additional keys at any time - loose the tag and you can still order as long as you have an existing key, but you need to send the key in to have the tag info cross referenced. So basically as long as you don't loose the tag and *all* of the fob/chip keys you're totally fine.
And the whole issue was due to the immobilizer, which was DOING EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. The idea is it makes it very difficult to hot-wire a car, and even if someone does somehow (with a trailer?) steal your car they won't be able to actually use it or sell it without putting in a huge amount of effort.
So what do you do if you loose all your keys and tag? You bring it to the dealer or an authorized/licensed mechanic who deals with that brand and have the immobilizer unit replaced. I just looked it up, and the cost for that on a newer Estima looks to be about $900USD.
The dealer/importer should have been able to figure this out much easier but I'm guessing they're just one of those places that grabs cache stock from auto auctions and kludges the paperwork.
You've sort of missed some of the reality of the situation but it would be intensely difficult for me to elegantly explain it all. Essentially the factors here are: 1. Japanese auto manufacturers are competing against not only US auto manufacturers in the US market, in the case of say Toyota we have Korean (Hyundai) and German (VW) competitors along with the domestics (~Ford). The issue here is that Hyundai produces lower quality cars at *much* lower prices and VW produces similar range cars at roughly equal prices - with the TPP Toyota could sell VW range cars at Hyundai prices. 2. The opposite end of (1) is that US cars would flood the Japanese market - which has already been attempted in the past but the poor image of US cars and general national brand loyalty of the general Japanese market lead to total failure. Even if the Japanese market was flooded with US cars it is highly unlikely it would make any significant impact to domestic manufacturers and would not lead to a profit for US manufacturers. 3. Agriculture in Japan is a very specific market: extremely high quality at almost any price. Already the highest quality beef, apples, etc. produced in the US don't even touch the US domestic market and are diverted to Japan (and now increasingly China). Don't believe me? Check the label on your apple juice: where is it produced? The apple juice in Japan is usually made with US apples. With lower import costs Japan would get more mid-to-high range food products for the US for a cheaper price.
I'm guessing you live in Japan like me, so just wanted to point out for anyone interested that this is pretty much dead on. I would like to point out that it's neglecting the immensely positive push it got from car and electronics companies. If the TPP passed as-is Japanese cars and electronics could easily take over the US market place and would likely decimate the US domestic market. Really it would have been great for Japan, which is why I personally wanted it to pass, but the honest truth is as Trump points out it was an abysmal deal for the US. Personally I hope they just renegotiate it.
I never had the custom of eating breakfast. I wake up and work till noon and have lunch. I never ate before school as a child. I haven't experienced any negative side effects from this, I'm not overweight, I don't have digestive issues and I don't run out of energy in the morning. I doubt people from one of the many countries/cultures around the world that don't have a "breakfast" meal have any major issues either.
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I've gotten Google as much out of my life as I possibly can. No way I'm going to buy a car that's literally integrated with Google as a "feature".
So the CEO of a big company that intends to use Huawei gear instead of spending the money on developing their own/waiting for more trustworthy but possibly more exepnsive alternatives from other places is whining that "it will take more time"? How about worrying about your customers and their information privacy before you worry about your wallet - f*ck you Vodafone.
I absolutely agree with that. There's tons of other axis that could be mapped against, such as "traditionalism" and "religiosity". But then again I personally can't stand those questionnaires that try to map your political alignment on multiple spectra because I always have some sort of exception to a bunch of the questions. I also hate the generalizations of "Conservative" and "Liberal" because I can't think of a single person I've ever met who I could actually cleanly categorize in one of them without exception... and that's not even taking into consideration of the fact that the term "liberal" now seems to mean something different depending on what news network you prefer.
End rant: the only reason I brought it up in the first place was to clear up aversion to or preference for taxation isn't a left-right issue. So in context I think the political compass is "good enough" for this discussion.
It's not my personal graph, it's the fundamental graph used to represent the relationship of different political ideologies to each-other. If you don't even know this then you probably shouldn't be discussing politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Suggesting all taxation is evil is a libertarian standpoint (anti-authoritarian). A centrist would believe in moderate taxation with specific conditions, and consequently would scrutinize the allocation of fund from those taxes as the parent does.
> Either taxes are evil or they aren't.
This is not a binary. Taxes don't have to be categorized as "evil" or "good" at all.
> Everything else is simply discussing the proper role of government which is a different topic.
1. The government requires funds to run, and taxation is the primary source of those funds in most types of liberalist societies. Perhaps you are basing your arguments on illiberal societies such as socialist and communist ones which run industry though the government and use the profits from those industries as economic support [rather than from taxes]?
2. I would categorize utilization of government funds [derived from taxes or otherwise] as a critical role of government.
The political positioning on taxation is the Y axis [Libertarian/Authoritarian] of the political spectrum, not the X axis. Anarchism is extreme left libertarian, there is also centrist libertarian and "ancap" extreme right libertarian.
But none of that is particularly important, as parents argument is on the allocation of funds from tax collection, not on the collection of taxes in and of itself - meaning parent could very well be a pure centrist.
She wasn't even supposed to have the job. She literally chased out the chosen next-in-line CEO Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript) by getting a bunch of her SJW staff to physically keep him out of the building and threaten him. Look it up *and note how a lot of news didn't cover it at all*. There's a personal account from him floating around too.
Here's hoping Brave development progresses to the point we can all just forget about FireFox and Mozilla at some point in the near future.
I came to the comments for this. So many people don't know the real story behind what happened. Unfortunately most of the press didn't even cover it, so here's one of the few articles that did: https://www.breitbart.com/tech...
Brave is "ok". I've been alternating between brave and FF but haven't found Brave mature in development enough to make the switch completely.
Honestly, with all these trolls having such *based* opinion these "investigations" into their activities are just making me a fan of Russian trolls.
The whole point of the Chromebook is to be a machine people who can't properly use an actual OS can use. I'd imagine this is the same kind of market that wants to do their accounting on their iPad and finds it more comfortable to write mail and documents on their phone than on their computer.
I have to admit I actually find this an interesting idea. But banning is kind of an overly authoritarian way to go about it. Maybe something like a "cafeteria license" where they make them pay extra to provide such a facility (and include all the inspections and other costs that go with it?), making it less economically viable to provide a cafeteria but earning extra revenue for the city from the companies that do. Or, maybe provide an incentive, like waive those costs if they allow local businesses to provide catering/delivery to those cafeteria areas.
Either way this is such a "bay area" problem. And we all know the real way to fix the bay area is to raze it with atomic flame.
And I don't even use Box. Not like they'd have my trust to begin with - I have never trusted any of these companies other than the (very few) which have *earned* my trust. The fact the CEO of Box is such a f*ing idiot he would assume users just come in to a new platform completely trusting is as laughable as it is horrifying.
Are there other countries in the accord that are meeting their commitments? I'd be curious to see who is and isn't, and how they are doing it if they are.
Did you miss the second sentence of my post?
> Just because this door is being opened by the NN repeal doesn't mean telcos don't already have a full on assault ready to close it again *without* NN
Don't mistake an air of hope for actual optimism.
Yeah but I'm reserving my optimism. Just because this door is being opened by the NN repeal doesn't mean telcos don't already have a full on assault ready to close it again *without* NN. After all they've surely got plenty of senators they've been sucking off in preparation to this.
All that said I don't actually live in America so despite the fact I find this whole situation interesting it doesn't actually effect me. I've got a 2Gbps fibre line to my home for about $50USD a month because I live in a country where backbone is municipal and there's a free market for service providers - but I also live in a populated part of a country that is tiny in size compared to America. There's no easy solution in America, but there are free as in freedom solutions that could show the power of the free market; and I really hope the repeal of NN is an actual precursor to that.
No it's not dipshit, if you reclassify ISP's you don't need to worry about the LEC classification barrier and we can have municipal fibre open up to any little business that wants to run their own ISP and can fill the minimum requirements. As it is big telcos have locked everyone out of LEC [Utility] applications basically by bribing Congress and harassing municipalities with shared fibre infrastructure.
I'm not saying repealing NN was a good idea but NN was a bandaid on a broken leg. The whole thing needs to be redone so hopefully the repeal will actually be a precursor to that - though who knows if it really will be.
My issue is with illiberal practices, restrictions on freedom of speech and/or expression, and anti-meritocratic/anti-technocratic systems. Filtering information is an authoritarian practice - and one the Nazi's made ample use of. If the current government is trying prevent companies from censoring information on the grounds the company doesn't agree with, therefore fostering real freedom of speech and expression which is the foundation for a liberal society, then I don't care what government it is I'll support that.
Have you read the Demore memo by the way?
It's not just "grassroots conservatives" that are worried about this. Re: the Demore memo, but also the fact Google was contributing to the Clinton campaign, and of course the "american scientist" search results. I'll grand that search result could be an organic result... but the fact we've had multiple engineers stating it's common practice to feed the engine specific data to "help" it find the right data does make me pretty suspicious. You can't deny most people use Google services, so if what they see come up on those services is manipulated for political gain, directly or indirectly, that's a pretty scary thing - especially when you consider there seems to be a large push for a non-meritocratic/anti-technocratic culture within the current ranks of Google employees.
I'm a hardcore GNU/Linux user for over two decades now. Only recently have I had to deal with Windows again (coding a cross platform desktop client), and although the interface is clunky and the continued lack of a usable package manager is a pain you also don't have to deal with all the stupid hand holding and bizarre restrictions OS X forces on you. As far as antivirus and security, just go with something free if you're worried and keep a backup schedule like you should with any OS. That's really all there is to it.
You all seem to have forgotten when NewEgg was originally selling things "auction" style where you'd bid on their products. The thing was they would creatively mis-label products, such as labelling disposable film cameras as "Digital Camera". Then after that I seem to remember something about selling rejected OEM equipment but I don't remember if they actually got in trouble for that one...
Here in Japan they're doing Scratch and then roll into samples in 8 different languages (basically hello world with a loop and some variables) in middle school.
My son however did a scratch book when he was ~7 and did some Arduino programming in that Arduino flavoured C in a robotics course which he's still doing (he's 10), but we're doing some things together in C because of that. I had originally thought about Ruby (because I like it and it's clean) or Python (because there are tons of ways to use it for beginners, like MineCraft scripting), but he's handling C just fine.
Now, what would I recommend for a class of students? Honestly I'm not sure Scratch is better at getting the concepts of program flow than flow charts with stencil templates, I actually think flow charts would make more sense. Once they get the concept of variables and loops look for something simple and visual or something they know and can see immediate results, like that MineCraft and Python setup or maybe even go old school and grab that demo where you move the robot around. Just try not to do the whole think in Scratch, as I think that past a point forcing that visual representation is detrimental and could actually turn off some students who would be into actual programming.
I live in Japan and am super into cars.
You usually get 2 to 4 keys with a new car, always 2 standard with fob/chip, often 1 backup key without fob/chip, and sometimes 1 "valet" key. When you get the keys you get a code tag that you use to order additional keys at any time - loose the tag and you can still order as long as you have an existing key, but you need to send the key in to have the tag info cross referenced. So basically as long as you don't loose the tag and *all* of the fob/chip keys you're totally fine.
And the whole issue was due to the immobilizer, which was DOING EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. The idea is it makes it very difficult to hot-wire a car, and even if someone does somehow (with a trailer?) steal your car they won't be able to actually use it or sell it without putting in a huge amount of effort.
So what do you do if you loose all your keys and tag? You bring it to the dealer or an authorized/licensed mechanic who deals with that brand and have the immobilizer unit replaced. I just looked it up, and the cost for that on a newer Estima looks to be about $900USD.
The dealer/importer should have been able to figure this out much easier but I'm guessing they're just one of those places that grabs cache stock from auto auctions and kludges the paperwork.
You've sort of missed some of the reality of the situation but it would be intensely difficult for me to elegantly explain it all. Essentially the factors here are:
1. Japanese auto manufacturers are competing against not only US auto manufacturers in the US market, in the case of say Toyota we have Korean (Hyundai) and German (VW) competitors along with the domestics (~Ford). The issue here is that Hyundai produces lower quality cars at *much* lower prices and VW produces similar range cars at roughly equal prices - with the TPP Toyota could sell VW range cars at Hyundai prices.
2. The opposite end of (1) is that US cars would flood the Japanese market - which has already been attempted in the past but the poor image of US cars and general national brand loyalty of the general Japanese market lead to total failure. Even if the Japanese market was flooded with US cars it is highly unlikely it would make any significant impact to domestic manufacturers and would not lead to a profit for US manufacturers.
3. Agriculture in Japan is a very specific market: extremely high quality at almost any price. Already the highest quality beef, apples, etc. produced in the US don't even touch the US domestic market and are diverted to Japan (and now increasingly China). Don't believe me? Check the label on your apple juice: where is it produced? The apple juice in Japan is usually made with US apples. With lower import costs Japan would get more mid-to-high range food products for the US for a cheaper price.
I'm guessing you live in Japan like me, so just wanted to point out for anyone interested that this is pretty much dead on. I would like to point out that it's neglecting the immensely positive push it got from car and electronics companies. If the TPP passed as-is Japanese cars and electronics could easily take over the US market place and would likely decimate the US domestic market. Really it would have been great for Japan, which is why I personally wanted it to pass, but the honest truth is as Trump points out it was an abysmal deal for the US. Personally I hope they just renegotiate it.
As far as I see it they're telling us who to thank.
Russia - defender of democracy.....?
I never had the custom of eating breakfast. I wake up and work till noon and have lunch. I never ate before school as a child. I haven't experienced any negative side effects from this, I'm not overweight, I don't have digestive issues and I don't run out of energy in the morning. I doubt people from one of the many countries/cultures around the world that don't have a "breakfast" meal have any major issues either.