This is yet another good example of how the free market isn't. The entire situation is asymmetric. Companies have more information and control supply. If there was more competition maybe, but between buyouts left and right (thanks to enormous cash reserves left from decades of not taxing anyone) and the simple fact that they can watch each other's prices... well the whole system's busted and I don't see anything fixing it short of UBI + single payer healthcare or the like putting power in consumers hands by ensuring basic needs are met.
Uh, a very transparent market of highly substitutable goods is much closer to ideal competition than most. Sure they play little tricks to nudge out those extra cents of profit but it's important to realize that it makes a huge difference for them if the margin is 2% or 5%. If you're paying $1.02 or $1.05 not so much. If you made it a state monopoly it'd probably cost $1.50 because nobody has strong incentive to make it cheaper, it'll sell because people need it and they can't have it from anywhere else. Socialism is great when there's clear reasons why the market would be dysfunctional. Like:
1. Society would benefit more than the individual, like public transport or immunization programs. This may also include indirect costs like more tax earnings, less benefits, lower crime, lower pollution etc. 2. The nature of the service or economics of scale make it a natural monopoly, like water pipes or a sewage system. The installation and maintenance can be still be contracted out though. 3. The terms are so vague or complex that profit-seeking companies try to bait and switch, like for example in healthcare. Also it's often too urgent and serious to be stuck in court over an insurance dispute.
It's actually the last one I see fail the most but usually it's just incompetence, they blame the profit seeking companies when in reality it's a failure to properly specify what they want, the quality they want it in, how it will be monitored and to have sufficient penalties. That's what you ask companies for, what's the cheapest price you can deliver something that fulfills the minimum requirements. Don't act so surprised when they deliver by cutting anywhere they can.
Thanks to machine learning and A.I., voice assistants can accurately convert your speech into text. Unfortunately, they still are dumber than dirt, and have trouble COMPREHENDING things that even a 2 year old could. It's not artificial intelligence, it's artificial stupidity.
But is that the fault of the machine or the people programming it? We barely got the faintest idea of how to extract what the brain does and put it in a computer, deciphering it is still cutting edge Nobel prize worthy research. But a two year old doesn't go to class or have it zapped into their brain, they learn. And when we hardly can explain how we do it, we certainly can't explain how we learned it or what enabled us to learn it. They say the brain is super powerful but with petaflops of CPU processing power surely we can simulate something. After all, humans do ~0 FLOPS compared to a computer.
A lot of the most interesting research has been on not "programming" it in any traditional, instructional way. It simply has a ton of weights that we don't really understand, but then we don't understand them about ourselves. When I look at a cat, I know there's billions of neurons firing about it's size, shape, color, texture, features etc. and what angle I might been looking at and whether it's a live cat, a photo of a cat, a drawing of a cat, a statue of a cat or maybe even a stuffed cat. There's no way I could write a function "bool isCatInPhoto( const Photo &jpg )", so how can I teach a computer.
The downside is that we don't really know what it's "thinking", we don't know what the reasons are for the choices it makes. That's okay for a Chess or Go board, an industrial robot in a safety cage or even a second opinion at the doctor's office, but not for say a self driving car. Much like actual people there's always the risk of incomprehensible failure, if that's not acceptable we need a more restrained form of programming.
But if you didn't have to worry about the performance, what would boost the other two? This is how great advances are made. Design for the world you wish you had, then figure out how to make it real.
Actually it's more like create a magic fantasy land and create solutions that don't work anywhere else. Or how space ships would look like if we had warp cores, if you prefer the sci-fi version. The first thing I'd get rid of is threads, who needs it if you have infinite single thread performance? Shaders? Dedicated hardware? You'd make games without all the tricks just ray trace everything. Databases with zero indexing and roll-ups, because you can do an infinite number of table scans and aggregations instantly. You could forget everything about Big-O notation, sort algorithms, caching, pipelining, NUMA, compiler optimizations and all that and finally operate on the ivory tower idealized computer. Except in the real world games would run at 0.01 FPS.
Privilege escalation exploits are a dime a dozen, so ultimately all those permissions can be circumvented. They serve to block semi-good actors (people who are only trying to track you, not completely control your system).
Sure circumvention is possible but a real company with employees using an exploit would be sued and hopefully put in jail, the barrier would at least be a lot higher than giving yourself permission on page 92 of the EULA. And even in the event of a hacker it would decrease the attack surface, for example a cryptolocker couldn't just start encrypting my files it'd have to escalate first. Obviously it wouldn't solve everything, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Jews have been the scapegoats for a whole lot of things, there's plenty of hate to go around. There's not much a black man can do to make friends with a Ku Klux Klan member. But when have they ever made special demands for their religious minority? When have they demanded the rest of society bend to their way of life? When have they ever acted with disdain towards the society they live in? When have they committed atrocities against people who believe differently or changed religion?
They've been a despised pariah caste, but it's other people that have had a problem with the Jews, not the Jews that have had a problem with everybody else. In fact, they seem to be the world religion that cares the least about what non-Jews believe or do and make very little if any effort to convert others to Judaism. Try eating pork together with Jews and Muslims, it's neither kosher nor halal but I'll give you 100:1 odds that if anyone complains it's a Muslim. P.S. A lot of the arab world is still where Europe was before Hitler.
Thanks, easy read and very informative. One follow-up:
They passed section 230 of the CDA. And until that law is changed, the law says that nobody on the internet (except for the actual poster of information) is civilly liable to anyone else for things posted by others on the internet. End of story.
If it's so all-encompassing why do you need to follow USC 17/512 (c) and the DMCA take down procedures, aren't those about civil liability for ISPs?
GNU/FOSS is the way to go if you want at least a reasonable sense of peace of mind as to what your PC or laptop is actually running, even if you dont audit the code yourself at least it is open source and the GNU/FOSS Open Source community can look though it. so if any bugs or strange behavior appears it can be fixed or if some dirty crook tries to sneak something nefarious in the software it will be found and routed out
Here I actually miss a better permission system like mobile apps have. For example, if I run a photo editor there's no reason for it to have for example network access, microphone access or general file system access. It should have access only to those files I open using a system dialog. That of course wouldn't be a cure for everything, but a lot of the time I feel the legacy of PC applications come from a world where everything is permitted unless explicitly blocked. It ought to be the other way around.
Though to be fair Macron was orders of magnitude better than Hillary. Maybe not as a public servant but at least at campaigning. Hopefullyà post Trump the rest of the world will take the far right and the working class problems they play to seriously.
In 2002 dad Le Pen got 18% of the vote, now daughter Le Pen got 35% of the vote. France has been in a continuous state of emergency since November 2015. There's been both targeted attacks (Charlie Hebdo) and untargeted attacks (Paris, Nice). And the rest of the establishment is so busy trying to prove they're not islamophobes they'll continue to refuse to acknowledge there's a problem. Here in Norway it's election in September and it looks like we'll vote in a more pro-immigration government than today, despite the fact that third world immigration is an economic disaster, integration is not working and we're inviting back in medieval attitudes to separation of church and state, democracy, freedom of speech, equality of the sexes, LBGT rights and so on.
The saddest thing is that we're backing out of almost every conflict out of religious tolerance. We'd never allow people to wear ski masks to schools and banks and whatnot, but if you want to wear a Niqab that's okay in the name of religious tolerance. We've become afraid of christmas, pork, alcohol and everything that might possibly offend some uptight Muslim to a degree we'd never considering for an abstinent vegan of any other religious conviction. We constantly have apologists that say it's better for girls to have separate swimming lessons in burkinis than to not have them show up for swimming lessons at all. And Trump didn't help, he's got a microscopic problem compared to Europe and turned a molehill into a mountain. That only silenced those who should be protesting.
It's very telling that most of the world's Islamic nations don't want the refugees, they're being routed into Europe and we let them come by the millions. There's never been a problem with Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any other foreign religion or other denominations of Christianity like Catholics, Baptists, Orthodox it's always the same religion that doesn't integrate. They don't get along with Christians in Europe, they don't get along with Hindus in India, not anywhere with anyone. Saudi Arabia is at the center of it all and the most backwards wealthy country in the world where women can't even drive a car, why do we want more of that religion? I really, really don't understand why we're such a glutton for punishment.
Also, you can't file civil suits based upon "supporting terrorist organizations" or "aiding the enemy." Only the U.S. government and the states can bring criminal charges, and note that they're not doing so...
Since we have an actual lawyer here, how does it work in the US when the core of the civil tort is an alleged criminal act? Like say someone burned my house down, the police think they don't have evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt" for a criminal conviction but I think I might have a "preponderance of evidence" to win in civil court. It certainly sounds like I'd sue for arson...
And the other question, if say a person was shot dead during a bank robbery, how many could the victim's family sue? The robbers themselves, of course. Anyone in a conspiracy. People aiding and abetting, people supplying like suppliers of illegal guns? The bank for defective alarms, cameras and metal detectors? The security guard for neglect or recklessly starting a shootout? Faulty bulletproof glass etc. that wasn't? Because this sounds like a major case of the butterfly effect, even if social media didn't do all they should it sounds quite removed from the actual terrorist killing.
It's only entrapment if you lure the mark into downloading something that he does not think is child porn, or if you infect someone who visits the site by misspelling a URL. If you bundle the malware with actual child porn images that are advertised as such, you're golden.
Assuming they try to hack everyone who visits a specific page and not just logged in accounts it's also real easy to poison the well by redirecting innocent users there using URL shorteners. It doesn't take many false leads to turn it into a PR nightmare as innocent people are searched and "no smoke without fire" suspicions take hold.
And how do you think it does that? They hack the browser, only the payload is different. Granted their code doesn't do anything malicious but anyone can take their exploit, pop in a cryptolocker and have their own remotely exploitable 0-day malware. This is the police going black hat along with the NSA.
There's really no advantage to it over Linux in any kind of practical terms, and some key disadvantages. (...) And if it was at all plausible for it to achieve either 100% Windows compatibility or close enough to be worth it, it would have done so by now.
If it was plausible, the WINE project would have done it by now too. In which case why wouldn't you run Linux and your legacy Windows software? I think that even if things were different the niche for ReactOS is limited to an extremely small segment where you want a 100% drop-in replacement with zero retraining. But the chances of replicating everything so faithfully you wouldn't realize you're not running "real" Windows is basically zero. As long as you got bigger issues that that, it's maybe preferable for everyone to know that you're just running an emulation. Even for those who feel WINE is "hard" there are front-ends like PlayOnLinux that give you very close to a native install/run/uninstall experience, assuming WINE can do the heavy lifting.
Affected applicants would have to provide their social media handles and platforms used during the previous five years, and divulge all phone numbers and email addresses used during that period. U.S. consular officials would not seek social media passwords, and would not try to breach any privacy controls on applicants' accounts, according to the department's notice.
So consular officers won't do that, but I bet it'll all go through a NSA filter and since we're talking about foreigners they're free to do all the dragnet surveillance they want.
Number of 2nd language English speakers: 510B Number of 2nd language French speakers: 192M
Assuming the B stands for billions I'm sure many would like to know how far our galactic empire stretches. Realistically yeah I agree, if people speak a second language it's by far likely to be English.
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.
This sounds the exact opposite of my experience, what ought to be a ten minute effective time, three hour wall time email exchange instead becomes a one hour long meeting. I'd appreciate any employee who can get their own thoughts together and give some coherent request or response in their own time instead of scheduling a meeting with no clear agenda, arrive unprepared and spend five people's time getting their rambling thoughts together on the fly. Granted, not everything can be solved like that but the experience from forcing people to submit a request in JIRA explaing what they want and why they want it instead of standing on my doorstep as been almost exclusively positive. At least if it's not an emergency and must be solved right now.
Well you probably don't want to do high end gaming on it, but my ping to/. via fiber from Norway is a stable 133 ms. GEO = 2 * 120 ms latency at lightspeed + overhead, SpaceX's orbits about 2 x 4 ms + overhead and they're aiming for 25-35 ms actual. Even if they have to bounce if off another satellite or two it should cut latency by 200+ ms compared to current satellite offerings. Basically it'd make them quite ordinary users for anything but twitch games.
If Microsoft is looking for the "next change in form and function" wouldn't that imply it's something entirely different than a phone? I mean phones have been rectangular-ish slabs for the last ~20 years. Multi-touch smart phones is now ~10 years old. None of those concepts seem likely to change. Maybe you can invent something totally different that can sorta function like a phone just like a PC with a headset, but nobody's going to call that a phone. In fact, the name is pretty much an anachronism by now because people do everything else but call with it. I just checked here in Norway and the 2016 figures is that 89% now have a smartphone. In a few more years "smartphone" will be almost as implied as "cell phone" unless you say otherwise.
Funny how this is announced in step with the announcement of Windows 10 S, which will only run things from the Windows Store. Seems like the timing is related.
Both are a consequence of Microsoft giving up on mobile, without convergence they don't need UWP so they don't care if it's a "classic" application anymore. They're still trying to salvage their "take a cut from every sale" strategy of copying Apple, but if they don't do anything there's no reason for manufacturers to use the store. So the store-only version of Windows is a poorly hidden attempt to sell crippleware under the guise of being educational while goading manufacturers to make store versions of their software, with Microsoft leading by example.
I think this frog is severely under-cooked, but if they play hardball with their educational licensing maybe they can create a large enough market that "need" store applications to make third party developers fall in line. Microsoft is trying to overcome a catch-22 here, it could severely backfire if those who are persuaded to use it make a big stink about how it doesn't run all the oddball educational apps they need instead. But at the end of the day this is all Microsoft is left with after the last 5 years from Windows 8 being pretty much a total flop where even free upgrades have so far failed to overtake Windows 7.
You are apparently using that phrase working from the ridiculous assumption that I know what you are talking about. Well, I don't. What is this "uncertainty about Ubuntu" you speak of?
It's a direct quote from the linked article without the preceding paragraph or further links, so poor submission/editing. In short:
1. Convergence: Dead 2. Mir: Dead 3. Unity: Dead
In terms of "why wouldn't Mint continue to be based on Debian", I don't see the big deal though. They go Gnome3/Wayland, Mint will continue to do their Cinnamon thing, don't see there's any uncertainty about Ubuntu continuing to exist as an okay base for other distros.
Well the alternative is that nothing happens, the most extreme examples I see here in Norway are in road construction. Basically on a national level we want quick, reliable main roads between cities. Because we have a lot of rugged nature we can't just draw lines with rulers, it has to pass through a lot of local communities/counties. They generally have completely different wants like taking the long way around, building bridges and tunnels and using paths more prone to flooding, avalanches, landslides etc. because the prime real estate is already taken. In theory we could steamroll the local democracy, in practice it's political suicide. So the process kinda bounces back and forth rejecting each other's suggestions until it's so painfully overdue for both sides they compromise on something.
Restarting such a process is just to snap both sides back to their original positions and spent another decade on bringing them together again. Sometimes it actually is better to move forward with a poor solution than to stay on a terrible one while you argue what the ideal should be. I have a situation like that at work where someone has been arguing for some "big bang" changes but they always get stuck in quicksand. I've been more "guerilla tactics", making things better one step at the time. Turns out many small steps works out to a pretty big one and if you partially fail all your effort is not wasted. Not to mention that with a little foresight you can take out pain points and put it into structures to ease the big transitions you want to do to the point where they don't become such insurmountable obstacles.
Indeed. If there is a market for COBOL programmers (and it's clear there is), then the obvious solution is for unis and colleges to spit out more COBOL-literate CS graduates. Honestly, if I was ten years younger, I'd probably delve into it myself. It is, after all, just a programming language, and hardly on the same level of trying to learn Sanskrit.
As long as you have a real fall-back so your career doesn't dead end. What can easily happen is that you do X then more of X because it's the only place you get a salary/career development until you've done X so long nobody will really hire you for anything else. I see this with for example some SAP consultants, essentially SAP customers want to hire you for your SAP experience and the rest of the world doesn't care that you have a general IT degree 5 or 10 years ago because your experience is all SAP-specific and they don't run SAP.
Now they're probably safe since that ERP is burrowed so deep into many companies they'll never get out, but for something like COBOL you could end up doing it for some years and then the legacy system is shut down and nobody wants to give you anything but a junior non-COBOL position. That is if they'll even hire you or if they'd rather have a recent college graduate. Or you might have to relocate to find one of those increasingly rare positions that actually value your COBOL experience, which of course only makes it harder at the next crossroads.
If you write cell phone apps as a hobby and can show them a portfolio or something, maybe you'll get away with it. No, you're not a dinosaur who only knows an outdated language and best practices from 50 years ago. Or some other way to be able to transition away from that COBOL career more smoothly. Some of my older colleagues noted that the parking inspector at work used to be COBOL programmer some 20 years ago, they updated their skillset and apparently he didn't.
How about someone in the bank just puts here age in like 10 years younger than she is, what's the big deal if their system thinks he is 106 instead of 116?
Well, the bank is usually allowed to issue IDs that many people who don't have a driver's license and don't want to carry their passport use. Intentionally falsifying records like that is not something I'd do without explicit approval from my boss in writing, because a note is unlikely to prevent such false documents from being issued. And that would probably escalate all the way to legal, who might have to check whatever agreements they have with the government, who will then probably say no. It's just not worth my own skin to be customer friendly.
*and* some panicky manager started having $deity damned _daily_ meetings about it.
This is my favorite bit when something very unexpected happens and managers make us twice as late by creating a ton of overhead about when/how/why/re-estimating/re-planning and plain old nagging to get it fixed. If what you care about is getting it actually done, let me work. If you need an alternative other than not delivering I can help you find that, but other than that you're not helping. You're slowing us down. This is particular frustrating when you're not 100% assigned to a project, yeah I'm supposed to spend 30% of my time on this... you spent 10% of your time, maybe that made sense to you. But you just spent 33% of your development time on BS, was that worth it? That way we have the same meeting in a few days on how nothing is happening.
Insurance is for accidents, not routine maintenance. Its that way for your car, it should be that way for you too.
Well that would be nice if we could simply swap parts and be back in factory condition. The reality of it is that many of us have or will get problems that sneak up on us like back problems, heart problems, eye problems, bad shoulder, bad hip, cancers and such that come gradually or relapse or are semi-chronic that you can't just trivially cure but do a lot of medication and preventative measures but ultimately you don't really control and the insurance company knows long in advance that you're a hot potato that probably will require expensive treatment in the future. Catastrophic insurance works great for a major trauma like a car crash. It works much less well when they more you'll depend on your insurance in the future, the more the insurance company will want to get rid of you.
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This is yet another good example of how the free market isn't. The entire situation is asymmetric. Companies have more information and control supply. If there was more competition maybe, but between buyouts left and right (thanks to enormous cash reserves left from decades of not taxing anyone) and the simple fact that they can watch each other's prices... well the whole system's busted and I don't see anything fixing it short of UBI + single payer healthcare or the like putting power in consumers hands by ensuring basic needs are met.
Uh, a very transparent market of highly substitutable goods is much closer to ideal competition than most. Sure they play little tricks to nudge out those extra cents of profit but it's important to realize that it makes a huge difference for them if the margin is 2% or 5%. If you're paying $1.02 or $1.05 not so much. If you made it a state monopoly it'd probably cost $1.50 because nobody has strong incentive to make it cheaper, it'll sell because people need it and they can't have it from anywhere else. Socialism is great when there's clear reasons why the market would be dysfunctional. Like:
1. Society would benefit more than the individual, like public transport or immunization programs. This may also include indirect costs like more tax earnings, less benefits, lower crime, lower pollution etc.
2. The nature of the service or economics of scale make it a natural monopoly, like water pipes or a sewage system. The installation and maintenance can be still be contracted out though.
3. The terms are so vague or complex that profit-seeking companies try to bait and switch, like for example in healthcare. Also it's often too urgent and serious to be stuck in court over an insurance dispute.
It's actually the last one I see fail the most but usually it's just incompetence, they blame the profit seeking companies when in reality it's a failure to properly specify what they want, the quality they want it in, how it will be monitored and to have sufficient penalties. That's what you ask companies for, what's the cheapest price you can deliver something that fulfills the minimum requirements. Don't act so surprised when they deliver by cutting anywhere they can.
Thanks to machine learning and A.I., voice assistants can accurately convert your speech into text. Unfortunately, they still are dumber than dirt, and have trouble COMPREHENDING things that even a 2 year old could. It's not artificial intelligence, it's artificial stupidity.
But is that the fault of the machine or the people programming it? We barely got the faintest idea of how to extract what the brain does and put it in a computer, deciphering it is still cutting edge Nobel prize worthy research. But a two year old doesn't go to class or have it zapped into their brain, they learn. And when we hardly can explain how we do it, we certainly can't explain how we learned it or what enabled us to learn it. They say the brain is super powerful but with petaflops of CPU processing power surely we can simulate something. After all, humans do ~0 FLOPS compared to a computer.
A lot of the most interesting research has been on not "programming" it in any traditional, instructional way. It simply has a ton of weights that we don't really understand, but then we don't understand them about ourselves. When I look at a cat, I know there's billions of neurons firing about it's size, shape, color, texture, features etc. and what angle I might been looking at and whether it's a live cat, a photo of a cat, a drawing of a cat, a statue of a cat or maybe even a stuffed cat. There's no way I could write a function "bool isCatInPhoto( const Photo &jpg )", so how can I teach a computer.
The downside is that we don't really know what it's "thinking", we don't know what the reasons are for the choices it makes. That's okay for a Chess or Go board, an industrial robot in a safety cage or even a second opinion at the doctor's office, but not for say a self driving car. Much like actual people there's always the risk of incomprehensible failure, if that's not acceptable we need a more restrained form of programming.
But if you didn't have to worry about the performance, what would boost the other two? This is how great advances are made. Design for the world you wish you had, then figure out how to make it real.
Actually it's more like create a magic fantasy land and create solutions that don't work anywhere else. Or how space ships would look like if we had warp cores, if you prefer the sci-fi version. The first thing I'd get rid of is threads, who needs it if you have infinite single thread performance? Shaders? Dedicated hardware? You'd make games without all the tricks just ray trace everything. Databases with zero indexing and roll-ups, because you can do an infinite number of table scans and aggregations instantly. You could forget everything about Big-O notation, sort algorithms, caching, pipelining, NUMA, compiler optimizations and all that and finally operate on the ivory tower idealized computer. Except in the real world games would run at 0.01 FPS.
Privilege escalation exploits are a dime a dozen, so ultimately all those permissions can be circumvented. They serve to block semi-good actors (people who are only trying to track you, not completely control your system).
Sure circumvention is possible but a real company with employees using an exploit would be sued and hopefully put in jail, the barrier would at least be a lot higher than giving yourself permission on page 92 of the EULA. And even in the event of a hacker it would decrease the attack surface, for example a cryptolocker couldn't just start encrypting my files it'd have to escalate first. Obviously it wouldn't solve everything, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Jews have been the scapegoats for a whole lot of things, there's plenty of hate to go around. There's not much a black man can do to make friends with a Ku Klux Klan member. But when have they ever made special demands for their religious minority? When have they demanded the rest of society bend to their way of life? When have they ever acted with disdain towards the society they live in? When have they committed atrocities against people who believe differently or changed religion?
They've been a despised pariah caste, but it's other people that have had a problem with the Jews, not the Jews that have had a problem with everybody else. In fact, they seem to be the world religion that cares the least about what non-Jews believe or do and make very little if any effort to convert others to Judaism. Try eating pork together with Jews and Muslims, it's neither kosher nor halal but I'll give you 100:1 odds that if anyone complains it's a Muslim. P.S. A lot of the arab world is still where Europe was before Hitler.
Thanks, easy read and very informative. One follow-up:
They passed section 230 of the CDA. And until that law is changed, the law says that nobody on the internet (except for the actual poster of information) is civilly liable to anyone else for things posted by others on the internet. End of story.
If it's so all-encompassing why do you need to follow USC 17/512 (c) and the DMCA take down procedures, aren't those about civil liability for ISPs?
GNU/FOSS is the way to go if you want at least a reasonable sense of peace of mind as to what your PC or laptop is actually running, even if you dont audit the code yourself at least it is open source and the GNU/FOSS Open Source community can look though it. so if any bugs or strange behavior appears it can be fixed or if some dirty crook tries to sneak something nefarious in the software it will be found and routed out
Here I actually miss a better permission system like mobile apps have. For example, if I run a photo editor there's no reason for it to have for example network access, microphone access or general file system access. It should have access only to those files I open using a system dialog. That of course wouldn't be a cure for everything, but a lot of the time I feel the legacy of PC applications come from a world where everything is permitted unless explicitly blocked. It ought to be the other way around.
Though to be fair Macron was orders of magnitude better than Hillary. Maybe not as a public servant but at least at campaigning. Hopefullyà post Trump the rest of the world will take the far right and the working class problems they play to seriously.
In 2002 dad Le Pen got 18% of the vote, now daughter Le Pen got 35% of the vote. France has been in a continuous state of emergency since November 2015. There's been both targeted attacks (Charlie Hebdo) and untargeted attacks (Paris, Nice). And the rest of the establishment is so busy trying to prove they're not islamophobes they'll continue to refuse to acknowledge there's a problem. Here in Norway it's election in September and it looks like we'll vote in a more pro-immigration government than today, despite the fact that third world immigration is an economic disaster, integration is not working and we're inviting back in medieval attitudes to separation of church and state, democracy, freedom of speech, equality of the sexes, LBGT rights and so on.
The saddest thing is that we're backing out of almost every conflict out of religious tolerance. We'd never allow people to wear ski masks to schools and banks and whatnot, but if you want to wear a Niqab that's okay in the name of religious tolerance. We've become afraid of christmas, pork, alcohol and everything that might possibly offend some uptight Muslim to a degree we'd never considering for an abstinent vegan of any other religious conviction. We constantly have apologists that say it's better for girls to have separate swimming lessons in burkinis than to not have them show up for swimming lessons at all. And Trump didn't help, he's got a microscopic problem compared to Europe and turned a molehill into a mountain. That only silenced those who should be protesting.
It's very telling that most of the world's Islamic nations don't want the refugees, they're being routed into Europe and we let them come by the millions. There's never been a problem with Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or any other foreign religion or other denominations of Christianity like Catholics, Baptists, Orthodox it's always the same religion that doesn't integrate. They don't get along with Christians in Europe, they don't get along with Hindus in India, not anywhere with anyone. Saudi Arabia is at the center of it all and the most backwards wealthy country in the world where women can't even drive a car, why do we want more of that religion? I really, really don't understand why we're such a glutton for punishment.
Also, you can't file civil suits based upon "supporting terrorist organizations" or "aiding the enemy." Only the U.S. government and the states can bring criminal charges, and note that they're not doing so...
Since we have an actual lawyer here, how does it work in the US when the core of the civil tort is an alleged criminal act? Like say someone burned my house down, the police think they don't have evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt" for a criminal conviction but I think I might have a "preponderance of evidence" to win in civil court. It certainly sounds like I'd sue for arson...
And the other question, if say a person was shot dead during a bank robbery, how many could the victim's family sue? The robbers themselves, of course. Anyone in a conspiracy. People aiding and abetting, people supplying like suppliers of illegal guns? The bank for defective alarms, cameras and metal detectors? The security guard for neglect or recklessly starting a shootout? Faulty bulletproof glass etc. that wasn't? Because this sounds like a major case of the butterfly effect, even if social media didn't do all they should it sounds quite removed from the actual terrorist killing.
It's only entrapment if you lure the mark into downloading something that he does not think is child porn, or if you infect someone who visits the site by misspelling a URL. If you bundle the malware with actual child porn images that are advertised as such, you're golden.
Assuming they try to hack everyone who visits a specific page and not just logged in accounts it's also real easy to poison the well by redirecting innocent users there using URL shorteners. It doesn't take many false leads to turn it into a PR nightmare as innocent people are searched and "no smoke without fire" suspicions take hold.
And how do you think it does that? They hack the browser, only the payload is different. Granted their code doesn't do anything malicious but anyone can take their exploit, pop in a cryptolocker and have their own remotely exploitable 0-day malware. This is the police going black hat along with the NSA.
There's really no advantage to it over Linux in any kind of practical terms, and some key disadvantages. (...) And if it was at all plausible for it to achieve either 100% Windows compatibility or close enough to be worth it, it would have done so by now.
If it was plausible, the WINE project would have done it by now too. In which case why wouldn't you run Linux and your legacy Windows software? I think that even if things were different the niche for ReactOS is limited to an extremely small segment where you want a 100% drop-in replacement with zero retraining. But the chances of replicating everything so faithfully you wouldn't realize you're not running "real" Windows is basically zero. As long as you got bigger issues that that, it's maybe preferable for everyone to know that you're just running an emulation. Even for those who feel WINE is "hard" there are front-ends like PlayOnLinux that give you very close to a native install/run/uninstall experience, assuming WINE can do the heavy lifting.
Affected applicants would have to provide their social media handles and platforms used during the previous five years, and divulge all phone numbers and email addresses used during that period. U.S. consular officials would not seek social media passwords, and would not try to breach any privacy controls on applicants' accounts, according to the department's notice.
So consular officers won't do that, but I bet it'll all go through a NSA filter and since we're talking about foreigners they're free to do all the dragnet surveillance they want.
Number of 2nd language English speakers: 510B
Number of 2nd language French speakers: 192M
Assuming the B stands for billions I'm sure many would like to know how far our galactic empire stretches. Realistically yeah I agree, if people speak a second language it's by far likely to be English.
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.
This sounds the exact opposite of my experience, what ought to be a ten minute effective time, three hour wall time email exchange instead becomes a one hour long meeting. I'd appreciate any employee who can get their own thoughts together and give some coherent request or response in their own time instead of scheduling a meeting with no clear agenda, arrive unprepared and spend five people's time getting their rambling thoughts together on the fly. Granted, not everything can be solved like that but the experience from forcing people to submit a request in JIRA explaing what they want and why they want it instead of standing on my doorstep as been almost exclusively positive. At least if it's not an emergency and must be solved right now.
Well you probably don't want to do high end gaming on it, but my ping to /. via fiber from Norway is a stable 133 ms. GEO = 2 * 120 ms latency at lightspeed + overhead, SpaceX's orbits about 2 x 4 ms + overhead and they're aiming for 25-35 ms actual. Even if they have to bounce if off another satellite or two it should cut latency by 200+ ms compared to current satellite offerings. Basically it'd make them quite ordinary users for anything but twitch games.
If Microsoft is looking for the "next change in form and function" wouldn't that imply it's something entirely different than a phone? I mean phones have been rectangular-ish slabs for the last ~20 years. Multi-touch smart phones is now ~10 years old. None of those concepts seem likely to change. Maybe you can invent something totally different that can sorta function like a phone just like a PC with a headset, but nobody's going to call that a phone. In fact, the name is pretty much an anachronism by now because people do everything else but call with it. I just checked here in Norway and the 2016 figures is that 89% now have a smartphone. In a few more years "smartphone" will be almost as implied as "cell phone" unless you say otherwise.
Funny how this is announced in step with the announcement of Windows 10 S, which will only run things from the Windows Store. Seems like the timing is related.
Both are a consequence of Microsoft giving up on mobile, without convergence they don't need UWP so they don't care if it's a "classic" application anymore. They're still trying to salvage their "take a cut from every sale" strategy of copying Apple, but if they don't do anything there's no reason for manufacturers to use the store. So the store-only version of Windows is a poorly hidden attempt to sell crippleware under the guise of being educational while goading manufacturers to make store versions of their software, with Microsoft leading by example.
I think this frog is severely under-cooked, but if they play hardball with their educational licensing maybe they can create a large enough market that "need" store applications to make third party developers fall in line. Microsoft is trying to overcome a catch-22 here, it could severely backfire if those who are persuaded to use it make a big stink about how it doesn't run all the oddball educational apps they need instead. But at the end of the day this is all Microsoft is left with after the last 5 years from Windows 8 being pretty much a total flop where even free upgrades have so far failed to overtake Windows 7.
You are apparently using that phrase working from the ridiculous assumption that I know what you are talking about. Well, I don't. What is this "uncertainty about Ubuntu" you speak of?
It's a direct quote from the linked article without the preceding paragraph or further links, so poor submission/editing. In short:
1. Convergence: Dead
2. Mir: Dead
3. Unity: Dead
In terms of "why wouldn't Mint continue to be based on Debian", I don't see the big deal though. They go Gnome3/Wayland, Mint will continue to do their Cinnamon thing, don't see there's any uncertainty about Ubuntu continuing to exist as an okay base for other distros.
Well the alternative is that nothing happens, the most extreme examples I see here in Norway are in road construction. Basically on a national level we want quick, reliable main roads between cities. Because we have a lot of rugged nature we can't just draw lines with rulers, it has to pass through a lot of local communities/counties. They generally have completely different wants like taking the long way around, building bridges and tunnels and using paths more prone to flooding, avalanches, landslides etc. because the prime real estate is already taken. In theory we could steamroll the local democracy, in practice it's political suicide. So the process kinda bounces back and forth rejecting each other's suggestions until it's so painfully overdue for both sides they compromise on something.
Restarting such a process is just to snap both sides back to their original positions and spent another decade on bringing them together again. Sometimes it actually is better to move forward with a poor solution than to stay on a terrible one while you argue what the ideal should be. I have a situation like that at work where someone has been arguing for some "big bang" changes but they always get stuck in quicksand. I've been more "guerilla tactics", making things better one step at the time. Turns out many small steps works out to a pretty big one and if you partially fail all your effort is not wasted. Not to mention that with a little foresight you can take out pain points and put it into structures to ease the big transitions you want to do to the point where they don't become such insurmountable obstacles.
Indeed. If there is a market for COBOL programmers (and it's clear there is), then the obvious solution is for unis and colleges to spit out more COBOL-literate CS graduates. Honestly, if I was ten years younger, I'd probably delve into it myself. It is, after all, just a programming language, and hardly on the same level of trying to learn Sanskrit.
As long as you have a real fall-back so your career doesn't dead end. What can easily happen is that you do X then more of X because it's the only place you get a salary/career development until you've done X so long nobody will really hire you for anything else. I see this with for example some SAP consultants, essentially SAP customers want to hire you for your SAP experience and the rest of the world doesn't care that you have a general IT degree 5 or 10 years ago because your experience is all SAP-specific and they don't run SAP.
Now they're probably safe since that ERP is burrowed so deep into many companies they'll never get out, but for something like COBOL you could end up doing it for some years and then the legacy system is shut down and nobody wants to give you anything but a junior non-COBOL position. That is if they'll even hire you or if they'd rather have a recent college graduate. Or you might have to relocate to find one of those increasingly rare positions that actually value your COBOL experience, which of course only makes it harder at the next crossroads.
If you write cell phone apps as a hobby and can show them a portfolio or something, maybe you'll get away with it. No, you're not a dinosaur who only knows an outdated language and best practices from 50 years ago. Or some other way to be able to transition away from that COBOL career more smoothly. Some of my older colleagues noted that the parking inspector at work used to be COBOL programmer some 20 years ago, they updated their skillset and apparently he didn't.
Who would think that unscrupulous people would trick people... now excuse me while I help this Nigerian prince rescue his fortune.
How about someone in the bank just puts here age in like 10 years younger than she is, what's the big deal if their system thinks he is 106 instead of 116?
Well, the bank is usually allowed to issue IDs that many people who don't have a driver's license and don't want to carry their passport use. Intentionally falsifying records like that is not something I'd do without explicit approval from my boss in writing, because a note is unlikely to prevent such false documents from being issued. And that would probably escalate all the way to legal, who might have to check whatever agreements they have with the government, who will then probably say no. It's just not worth my own skin to be customer friendly.
*and* some panicky manager started having $deity damned _daily_ meetings about it.
This is my favorite bit when something very unexpected happens and managers make us twice as late by creating a ton of overhead about when/how/why/re-estimating/re-planning and plain old nagging to get it fixed. If what you care about is getting it actually done, let me work. If you need an alternative other than not delivering I can help you find that, but other than that you're not helping. You're slowing us down. This is particular frustrating when you're not 100% assigned to a project, yeah I'm supposed to spend 30% of my time on this... you spent 10% of your time, maybe that made sense to you. But you just spent 33% of your development time on BS, was that worth it? That way we have the same meeting in a few days on how nothing is happening.
Insurance is for accidents, not routine maintenance. Its that way for your car, it should be that way for you too.
Well that would be nice if we could simply swap parts and be back in factory condition. The reality of it is that many of us have or will get problems that sneak up on us like back problems, heart problems, eye problems, bad shoulder, bad hip, cancers and such that come gradually or relapse or are semi-chronic that you can't just trivially cure but do a lot of medication and preventative measures but ultimately you don't really control and the insurance company knows long in advance that you're a hot potato that probably will require expensive treatment in the future. Catastrophic insurance works great for a major trauma like a car crash. It works much less well when they more you'll depend on your insurance in the future, the more the insurance company will want to get rid of you.