Commercial truck driving is almost as tightly regulated as taxi services. For many of the same reasons: people who have done it without being regulated have killed a lot of people. And an 80,000 pound truck can kill far more people than a 2,000 pound car, when driven poorly.
Uber's entirely business model is criminal, and they know it.
"Project Neon should benefit all types of Windows 10 devices
At the expense of usability on the desktop.
Will this be another multi-gigabyte update that opens hundreds of simultaneous connections to download, not only making Windows 10 unusable, but shutting down your entire network and making every other device on it unusable?
I'd setting for even low res porn that didn't have all those long, loving close ups of the guy's hairy ass and shaved balls. Is all porn made by amateurs these days, and they have their gay buddy run the camera cuz he's not interested in the hot chick they hired?
I have never, not even once, seen a web forum that had enough traffic to need more than one mod that did not quickly devolve into the mods being the biggest asshole trolls, using their mod status to protect their favorites. Not once. Ever.
Or they can give you an estimate on time, and you can call them. Less convenient, sure, but more so than telephone harassment and stalking over a less than perfect feedback survey.
1. Do not serve malware. Ever. No matter what it takes. If you have to have an actual human being (who isn't a moron) personally review every single ad every single time it is served to prevent malware, that is what you have to do. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
2. Do not serve ads that contain so much a) animation or b) scripting that they slow down the browser to the point it is unusable. Or that it crashes. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
3. Do no serve ads that use more bandwidth than the web page they're embedded in by two or three orders of magnitude. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
4. Do not serve popup or popunder ads, or ads that load any additional windows of any kind. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
5. Do no serve ads that float on top of content, and do no rescale when I zoom in my browser because the web designer doesn't believe in using integer values for font sizes. It makes it literally impossible to read the content. Just do not do this. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
6. Do no serve ads that cover more than 25% of the screen that is visible when the page initially loads. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
7. Stop blaming your victims when you can't make a living because you refuse to do any, much less all, of these things. It is your fault you can't make your boat payment, because you are stupid, dishonest, and lazy. You deserve to live in a cardboard box, and have no choice but to eat your own home for food.
Yes, I can. If Microsoft gave a damn about whether or not their products were actually usable, I wouldn't have to. The old system worked just fine. So they broke it.
If you bother to do your research, you will find that Windows 10 does not, in fact, use BITS. BITS is still there, with the various registry controls (including a default limit of 4 simultaneous connections), but Windows Updates no longer uses it, and the new, half-baked replacement, has no limit on simultaneous connections, and so far as I can tell, no way to implement one.
Large organization have domain controllers, and use their own update servers, and always have to control bandwidth usage, because local network bandwidth is generally orders of magnitude faster than the internet pipe. My experience with Windows 10 is that a single computer will shut down the entire local network by using all available bandwidth, for considerable amounts of time, pulling multi-gig updates. But as soon as I block access to Windows Updates at the firewall, everything is back to normal. There's no question whatsoever what's going on.
This is hardly a new issue. It's been covered by technical media before. So far as I can tell, there's still no solution, and little reason to believe there ever will be. Microsoft clearly doesn't care if their products are usable or not.
Or does it still open 400+ connections to pull multi-gigabyte files every time, taking up all available bandwidth, and shutting down everything else on the network?
Windows 10 is literally not usable without an update server to let you control this, since they have apparently removed all controls for who much bandwidth it uses to pull updates. And it makes your entire network unusable, as well.
A flying car is also called "an airplane," and light aircraft have been around for a century. Curtiss never flew his Autoplane, but given that he was Glen Curtiss, there's no reason to believe he couldn't have if he hadn't been distracted by World War I. The Pitcairn PCA-2 was a production aircraft in 1923.
The reasons this will be a non-event, like all previous attempts are as follows:
1. Flying vehicles must be built to higher standards for safety reasons - not just of the pilot and passengers, but if everyone. This means they are a lot more expensive.
2. Flying in three dimensions is more complicated than driving in two, and requires far more training. Most people simply can't handle the demands.
3. Ground traffic can be monitored and governed by simple rules and automated systems, like traffic lights and signs. Air traffic requires human controllers, and there is a limit to how many planes one controller can monitor. Automation can increase that limit, but not replace human judgment. The cost of replacing traffic lights with millions of air traffic controllers is . . . not feasible.
4. Self flying cars are even more ridiculous than self driving cars, given that self driving cars cannot handle streets that have not been mapped to millimeter precision, or road constructions, or bad weather, or any of a million other real life conditions. Flying is geometrically more complicated than driving, and there's no reason to believe anyone alive to day will live to see true self driving cars.
This is, in the end, simply an announcement that Airbus is going into the personal aircraft business with a high-tech helicopter for the obscenely wealthy. But I'm happy they're getting a lot of free publicity for it.
They don't necessarily. They only have to put their database server on a network that's connected to the internet, and lose control of something else on the network. That's why computers than handle classified information cannot be connected to a network that is capable, at the hardware level, of connecting to the internet. If the wiring's there, it's not secure.
Sooo, your internet service you get from "not the government" isn't a right, then?
If they offer me free internet access, then there would be a valid comparison. But they don't. With an ISP, the consumer is the customer. With Facebook, the consumer is the product.
Indeed. It should also be done by well informed, educated people who research the issues and candidates, and make choices based on the common good of everyone.
And if we had unicorns that farted cinnamon flavored rainbows, the world would be a more colorful place, too!
However, the problem with all this is NEWS (fake or not) is now a business.
Now? Really? It's always been a business, and it's not the business of selling news, it's the business of selling advertising, and always has been. Those that have tried to sell news (subscriptions) have not done well at all.
Your eyeballs are the product, and to survive, the news has to show your eyeballs what you want to see, true or not. Whether or not something actually happened is completely unconnected from whether or not it's "news." Only whether or not you'll watch it.
The Geek Squad techs were, according to the article, "active informants" for the FBI, which is to say, they agreed to be beforehand. That means they are agents of the government, which means they are under the same restrictions as the cops. So if you think it's OK for Geek Squad to search your computer without a warrant, you believe it's OK for the cops to do the same thing, because it is the same thing.
Aside from that, the FBI did additional searches without warrants, like to get warrants, and apparently continues to hide evidence. They claimed the informants told them they (the informants, that is) had "accidentally" run the carving software that was, in no way, involved in repairing the computer, and found the image. So either the informants (at least one, and likely all three) lied to the FBI under penalty of perjury, or the FBI agent getting the warrant perjured himself to the judge. Or both.
There isn't an FBI agent involved in this case that doesn't belong in prison for corruption. Same for the prosecutor, at this point, because it is long since possible for him to not be aware of the FBI's corruption.
Best Buy is the least guilty of anything, and apparently, according to the update at the bottom, actually have policies prohibiting their employees from accepting any kind of reward for reporting this stuff. Whether or not they'll fire the employees named (there are three) for doing so remains to be seen. They are correct, though, that once they become aware of child porn on a computer, they're required to report it.
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Commercial truck driving is almost as tightly regulated as taxi services. For many of the same reasons: people who have done it without being regulated have killed a lot of people. And an 80,000 pound truck can kill far more people than a 2,000 pound car, when driven poorly.
Uber's entirely business model is criminal, and they know it.
"Project Neon should benefit all types of Windows 10 devices
At the expense of usability on the desktop.
Will this be another multi-gigabyte update that opens hundreds of simultaneous connections to download, not only making Windows 10 unusable, but shutting down your entire network and making every other device on it unusable?
Yeah, I'm still not interested in close-ups of some guy's hairy ass and shaved balls.
I'd setting for even low res porn that didn't have all those long, loving close ups of the guy's hairy ass and shaved balls. Is all porn made by amateurs these days, and they have their gay buddy run the camera cuz he's not interested in the hot chick they hired?
TV Detective: "We have this security video showing the murder."
TV Lab Rat: "It's too grainy to tell how is it?"
TV Detective: "Can't you enhance it?"
TV Lab Rat: "Sure. Who do you want it to look like?"
Rule #1: You cannot win.
Rule #2: The only way to not lose is to not play.
Rule #3: There is no Rule #3.
Ignore them. Any other action is encouraging them.
I don't disagree, but I see plenty of both. They both commit the most heinous sin on the internet: they're boring.
I have never, not even once, seen a web forum that had enough traffic to need more than one mod that did not quickly devolve into the mods being the biggest asshole trolls, using their mod status to protect their favorites. Not once. Ever.
I'm pretty certain I never will, either.
Now? Where have you been the last 10 years?
Which is trivial to block. Duh.
Or they can give you an estimate on time, and you can call them. Less convenient, sure, but more so than telephone harassment and stalking over a less than perfect feedback survey.
I've been told (at Boyd Autobody) that if I don't give the guy a 10/10 rating, he'll call me to find out why.
And you gave them your real phone number? If you really, really have to let them call you, maybe you should be a 900 number.
"It's not my problem that you work for abusive idiots."
I didn't think of it because that's so common I keep the sound turned off virtually all the time. But good point.
1. Do not serve malware. Ever. No matter what it takes. If you have to have an actual human being (who isn't a moron) personally review every single ad every single time it is served to prevent malware, that is what you have to do. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
2. Do not serve ads that contain so much a) animation or b) scripting that they slow down the browser to the point it is unusable. Or that it crashes. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
3. Do no serve ads that use more bandwidth than the web page they're embedded in by two or three orders of magnitude. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
4. Do not serve popup or popunder ads, or ads that load any additional windows of any kind. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
5. Do no serve ads that float on top of content, and do no rescale when I zoom in my browser because the web designer doesn't believe in using integer values for font sizes. It makes it literally impossible to read the content. Just do not do this. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
6. Do no serve ads that cover more than 25% of the screen that is visible when the page initially loads. Ever. If you cannot achieve this, close your doors and get a real job.
7. Stop blaming your victims when you can't make a living because you refuse to do any, much less all, of these things. It is your fault you can't make your boat payment, because you are stupid, dishonest, and lazy. You deserve to live in a cardboard box, and have no choice but to eat your own home for food.
There aren't 100 million A380s in the air every rush hour. "Flying cars" will never be more than a toy for the wealthy.
Yes, I can. If Microsoft gave a damn about whether or not their products were actually usable, I wouldn't have to. The old system worked just fine. So they broke it.
If you bother to do your research, you will find that Windows 10 does not, in fact, use BITS. BITS is still there, with the various registry controls (including a default limit of 4 simultaneous connections), but Windows Updates no longer uses it, and the new, half-baked replacement, has no limit on simultaneous connections, and so far as I can tell, no way to implement one.
Large organization have domain controllers, and use their own update servers, and always have to control bandwidth usage, because local network bandwidth is generally orders of magnitude faster than the internet pipe. My experience with Windows 10 is that a single computer will shut down the entire local network by using all available bandwidth, for considerable amounts of time, pulling multi-gig updates. But as soon as I block access to Windows Updates at the firewall, everything is back to normal. There's no question whatsoever what's going on.
This is hardly a new issue. It's been covered by technical media before. So far as I can tell, there's still no solution, and little reason to believe there ever will be. Microsoft clearly doesn't care if their products are usable or not.
Or does it still open 400+ connections to pull multi-gigabyte files every time, taking up all available bandwidth, and shutting down everything else on the network?
Windows 10 is literally not usable without an update server to let you control this, since they have apparently removed all controls for who much bandwidth it uses to pull updates. And it makes your entire network unusable, as well.
A flying car is also called "an airplane," and light aircraft have been around for a century. Curtiss never flew his Autoplane, but given that he was Glen Curtiss, there's no reason to believe he couldn't have if he hadn't been distracted by World War I. The Pitcairn PCA-2 was a production aircraft in 1923.
The History of Flying Cars.
The reasons this will be a non-event, like all previous attempts are as follows:
1. Flying vehicles must be built to higher standards for safety reasons - not just of the pilot and passengers, but if everyone. This means they are a lot more expensive.
2. Flying in three dimensions is more complicated than driving in two, and requires far more training. Most people simply can't handle the demands.
3. Ground traffic can be monitored and governed by simple rules and automated systems, like traffic lights and signs. Air traffic requires human controllers, and there is a limit to how many planes one controller can monitor. Automation can increase that limit, but not replace human judgment. The cost of replacing traffic lights with millions of air traffic controllers is . . . not feasible.
4. Self flying cars are even more ridiculous than self driving cars, given that self driving cars cannot handle streets that have not been mapped to millimeter precision, or road constructions, or bad weather, or any of a million other real life conditions. Flying is geometrically more complicated than driving, and there's no reason to believe anyone alive to day will live to see true self driving cars.
This is, in the end, simply an announcement that Airbus is going into the personal aircraft business with a high-tech helicopter for the obscenely wealthy. But I'm happy they're getting a lot of free publicity for it.
They don't necessarily. They only have to put their database server on a network that's connected to the internet, and lose control of something else on the network. That's why computers than handle classified information cannot be connected to a network that is capable, at the hardware level, of connecting to the internet. If the wiring's there, it's not secure.
Sooo, your internet service you get from "not the government" isn't a right, then?
If they offer me free internet access, then there would be a valid comparison. But they don't. With an ISP, the consumer is the customer. With Facebook, the consumer is the product.
Try again.
Indeed. It should also be done by well informed, educated people who research the issues and candidates, and make choices based on the common good of everyone.
And if we had unicorns that farted cinnamon flavored rainbows, the world would be a more colorful place, too!
However, the problem with all this is NEWS (fake or not) is now a business.
Now? Really? It's always been a business, and it's not the business of selling news, it's the business of selling advertising, and always has been. Those that have tried to sell news (subscriptions) have not done well at all.
Your eyeballs are the product, and to survive, the news has to show your eyeballs what you want to see, true or not. Whether or not something actually happened is completely unconnected from whether or not it's "news." Only whether or not you'll watch it.
The Geek Squad techs were, according to the article, "active informants" for the FBI, which is to say, they agreed to be beforehand. That means they are agents of the government, which means they are under the same restrictions as the cops. So if you think it's OK for Geek Squad to search your computer without a warrant, you believe it's OK for the cops to do the same thing, because it is the same thing.
Aside from that, the FBI did additional searches without warrants, like to get warrants, and apparently continues to hide evidence. They claimed the informants told them they (the informants, that is) had "accidentally" run the carving software that was, in no way, involved in repairing the computer, and found the image. So either the informants (at least one, and likely all three) lied to the FBI under penalty of perjury, or the FBI agent getting the warrant perjured himself to the judge. Or both.
There isn't an FBI agent involved in this case that doesn't belong in prison for corruption. Same for the prosecutor, at this point, because it is long since possible for him to not be aware of the FBI's corruption.
Best Buy is the least guilty of anything, and apparently, according to the update at the bottom, actually have policies prohibiting their employees from accepting any kind of reward for reporting this stuff. Whether or not they'll fire the employees named (there are three) for doing so remains to be seen. They are correct, though, that once they become aware of child porn on a computer, they're required to report it.