There is nothing that a smart phone can do that my flip phone can't that I want a phone to do. If I want to take pictures, I'll get my (more expensive than any smart phone) digital camera. If I want to cruise the internet, I'll fire up my (cheaper than any smart phone) net book. If I don't have WiFi access, I don't need to get on the internet where I am. If I want to play a computer game, it will almost certainly be a game not available on phones anyway.
Sure, more of that requires knowing in advance I'll want to do those things, but life is far, far easier when I plan things in advance, instead of running around like a demented chicken with my legs cut off.
There is no mechanism by which they can measure "I will never buy your products because your ads are stupid and offensive," unless they rise to the level of boycotts (which are normally politically motivated, and which normally have the exact opposite effect intended by the boycotters).
About 99.999% of ads on TV these days amount to "Our products are intended for mentally retarded people, so if you're mentally retarded, buy our worthless shit." Since I'm not mentally retarded, I don't buy their shit. How me how to inform them of that.
if Google also implemented a mechanism by which I can tell advertisers that I would have bought their products if their ads hadn't be so stupid, annoying and intrusive that they offended me.
to document every politician who does this, how often, and about what. It will offer no commentary on whether it is good or bad, whether the politician should be thrown out of office or given a medal. Just that they did it, how often, and about what.
Who is willing to help me post bail when I'm arrested for it?
While you are undoubtedly correct, given how many times it has been demonstrated that cars are not currently secure, the fact is, cars do need this. The alterative is not between cars needing this and cars not needing this. The alternative is between cars need this and having it and cars needing this and not having it.
"Elderly patients" covers a lot of territory. A 60 year old and a 90 year old are both elderly, but do not have the same life expectancy. And the 90 year old has likely been seeing the same doctor for years longer, so that doctor is likely older.
If they didn't ask the question, it's not a very useful study.
"Hacking" isn't a legal term, it's a news reporting term. And like all news reporting, it's basically meaningless. The only meaningful information is "he did something, got caught, and is being punished." Everything else is buzzwords to sell advertising.
my brother worked for did it to him at least once. He's clever (not enough to avoid fucking his life up so hard he worked at a series of small computer shops, but I digress), so he caught it every time,
So, being a crappy, worthless employee, he could only get crappy jobs at crappy places working for crappy bosses.
I have found that people who complain that all of their bosses are crooks, and all of their jobs suck, the most likely reason is that good bosses don't hire crappy employees.
Any time an industry in California can reasonably be described as "thriving," the legislature will tax (and regulate) the shit out of it for the specific purpose of driving it out of the state. The rich people who own the legislature already have theirs, and they will insure a steady supply of (wage) slave labor to be their servants. A thriving industry threatens that supply.
Sure, Millennials love to be able to ignore the world by sticking their nose in their phone, to the exclusion of all else (including oncoming traffic), but what manager in their right mind would ever interview someone by text, or hire someone without meeting them face to face?
A conversation that takes two minutes face to face will take days by text, because you can only reliable get most people to answer a single question per exchange, and half the time, it won't be any of the questions asked. That's normal in text and email. Do that in person, and the interviewer will begin to question your mental health. Do that on the job, and you won't be on the job for long. Identifying people who are incapable of doing the job is the whole point of the interview.
If a company is so desperate to hire employees they have to put up with this kind of childish nonsense, they have far bigger problems than interview processes.
What he really needs to do is find out how impossible it is to dig under other people's property in a heavily populated city like Los Angeles. Building an above ground highway in LA is a billion dollars a mile, or more, plus decades of lawsuits. That's with government backed eminent domain to seize property.
Now translate that underground, where you have power lines, sewer lines, water lines, traffic light control lines, all manner of existing tunnels, all belonging to other people, going down dozens, if not hundreds of feet, that all have to be avoided or moved.
LA has subways, and has spent tens or hundreds of billions on them. And they go from nowhere that people are to nowhere people want to go. Hell, the fare card system for LA Metro cost $150 million, and doesn't work worth a damn.
Musk won't live long enough to see the first lawsuit go to trial, nor will anyone else alive today. Either he's making yet another bid for government handouts (like all his other companies profit from) or he's spent his billions on the best drugs in the world.
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There is nothing that a smart phone can do that my flip phone can't that I want a phone to do. If I want to take pictures, I'll get my (more expensive than any smart phone) digital camera. If I want to cruise the internet, I'll fire up my (cheaper than any smart phone) net book. If I don't have WiFi access, I don't need to get on the internet where I am. If I want to play a computer game, it will almost certainly be a game not available on phones anyway.
Sure, more of that requires knowing in advance I'll want to do those things, but life is far, far easier when I plan things in advance, instead of running around like a demented chicken with my legs cut off.
There is no mechanism by which they can measure "I will never buy your products because your ads are stupid and offensive," unless they rise to the level of boycotts (which are normally politically motivated, and which normally have the exact opposite effect intended by the boycotters).
About 99.999% of ads on TV these days amount to "Our products are intended for mentally retarded people, so if you're mentally retarded, buy our worthless shit." Since I'm not mentally retarded, I don't buy their shit. How me how to inform them of that.
And if pigs had wings, we'd all be covered in cinnamon flavored unicorn poo.
Mind you, that's what they believe, sure. But then, stupid people believe a lot of stupid things.
And they'll only censor the entries about politicians they agree with. You know, like they do now.
You're doing things the hard way.
I just use a flip phone. It makes phone calls. It has an address book to remember numbers. That's pretty much it.
if Google also implemented a mechanism by which I can tell advertisers that I would have bought their products if their ads hadn't be so stupid, annoying and intrusive that they offended me.
Seriously. They need to be told this. Often.
to document every politician who does this, how often, and about what. It will offer no commentary on whether it is good or bad, whether the politician should be thrown out of office or given a medal. Just that they did it, how often, and about what.
Who is willing to help me post bail when I'm arrested for it?
If the car has Bluetooth, there's already a back door for police.
The service, which would also be able to install security patches to an idle car . . .
So, you're complaining that automakers need to keep firmware more up to date in an article about a service what will keep firmware more up to date?
Get a grip, dude. You're not CNN and this isn't Facebook.
While you are undoubtedly correct, given how many times it has been demonstrated that cars are not currently secure, the fact is, cars do need this. The alterative is not between cars needing this and cars not needing this. The alternative is between cars need this and having it and cars needing this and not having it.
"Elderly patients" covers a lot of territory. A 60 year old and a 90 year old are both elderly, but do not have the same life expectancy. And the 90 year old has likely been seeing the same doctor for years longer, so that doctor is likely older.
If they didn't ask the question, it's not a very useful study.
It does seem likely. I'd guess they mostly have been seeing the same doctor for many, many years, and have no interest in changing.
Did they correlate the doctor's age with the patient's age? Do older doctors tend to see more older (and thus more likely to die soon) patients?
Like attracts like.
You're assuming his business is successful. Given he's an idiot, I think that's a bit optimistic.
"Hacking" isn't a legal term, it's a news reporting term. And like all news reporting, it's basically meaningless. The only meaningful information is "he did something, got caught, and is being punished." Everything else is buzzwords to sell advertising.
my brother worked for did it to him at least once. He's clever (not enough to avoid fucking his life up so hard he worked at a series of small computer shops, but I digress), so he caught it every time,
So, being a crappy, worthless employee, he could only get crappy jobs at crappy places working for crappy bosses.
Go figure.
I have found that people who complain that all of their bosses are crooks, and all of their jobs suck, the most likely reason is that good bosses don't hire crappy employees.
This is a true point. It would actually make sense to fund bus tickets out of the area in a cynical way.
Florida did that for a while, with bus tickets to California.
The lawyers (on both sides of the lawsuits) thought it was a wonderful idea.
You're funny. Most of the professional email I get is from people who can't spell, punctuate, or form a complete sentence.
Any time an industry in California can reasonably be described as "thriving," the legislature will tax (and regulate) the shit out of it for the specific purpose of driving it out of the state. The rich people who own the legislature already have theirs, and they will insure a steady supply of (wage) slave labor to be their servants. A thriving industry threatens that supply.
is not always good for the gander.
Sure, Millennials love to be able to ignore the world by sticking their nose in their phone, to the exclusion of all else (including oncoming traffic), but what manager in their right mind would ever interview someone by text, or hire someone without meeting them face to face?
A conversation that takes two minutes face to face will take days by text, because you can only reliable get most people to answer a single question per exchange, and half the time, it won't be any of the questions asked. That's normal in text and email. Do that in person, and the interviewer will begin to question your mental health. Do that on the job, and you won't be on the job for long. Identifying people who are incapable of doing the job is the whole point of the interview.
If a company is so desperate to hire employees they have to put up with this kind of childish nonsense, they have far bigger problems than interview processes.
Not to mention that it doesn't take a genius to figure out that building subway tunnels in wet sand that is geologically active is a bad idea.
Welcome to LA.
What he really needs to do is find out how impossible it is to dig under other people's property in a heavily populated city like Los Angeles. Building an above ground highway in LA is a billion dollars a mile, or more, plus decades of lawsuits. That's with government backed eminent domain to seize property.
Now translate that underground, where you have power lines, sewer lines, water lines, traffic light control lines, all manner of existing tunnels, all belonging to other people, going down dozens, if not hundreds of feet, that all have to be avoided or moved.
LA has subways, and has spent tens or hundreds of billions on them. And they go from nowhere that people are to nowhere people want to go. Hell, the fare card system for LA Metro cost $150 million, and doesn't work worth a damn.
Musk won't live long enough to see the first lawsuit go to trial, nor will anyone else alive today. Either he's making yet another bid for government handouts (like all his other companies profit from) or he's spent his billions on the best drugs in the world.
is "Are women and minorities mistreated more often, or are white men more tolerant of being mistreated?"
Unfortunately, there's no possible way to ask that question that won't produce an hysterical, blind hatred response from pretty much everybody.
1984 was supposed to be a dystopia, not a marketing plan.