The Russians are suspected of hacking computers of US political people, and then releasing edited documents. One POTUS candidate has very close ties to Russia, and even though Russia is not an enemy this is a concern, just like the same candidates direct request for campaign funds from a another foreign governement.
There are two problems here. First, nothing on Wikileaks should be taken as fact without corroboration. Right now too many just accept everything posted as fact. This is what lead to the current situation.
Second, Assange needed to have negotiated a trial for the rape charges. Right now he is a fugitive suspect. If what he did was rape under the laws of the country he was in, and if he really believes in the rule of law and is not in fact just a narcissistic demagogue, he needs to face the consequences of his actions. By not doing so he has lost all credibility as fighter of truth. He is a fighter for truth he finds useful.
That was back when Google thought that their smartphone would have enough market penetration and be broad enough that it would make Google a lot of direct and indirect money. Now the market is segmented into Apple, which rakes in most of the profit, and Samsung, which is Android, who sells most of the devices. Google itself no longer has the control it once had, even though it has tightened up the Android license.
The massive Android ecosystem which would have enriched Google with a monopoly on mobile device like MS had on the desktop never emerged. The reference device idea, which was to spearhead such an ecosystem, turned into an actual competitor that help kill the widespread use. If Google is in fact going to fork Android, give a lesser product that treat other device OEM as competitors, that might really kill Android as a competitor. I don't know where Samsung could go for an OS, but recall that many dominant phone OS have fallen over a very short period of time.
Also remember that most consumers are buying Samsung, or to a lesser extent Amazon products, not Android.
The last point, about the college kids, is a good point. What engineers learn is that there is a new gradated class while employers pick the best of, and then replace their worst employees. From what I can tell employees get three years of training, and if they don't do well, they get replaced. It is not all milk and sugar for the graduates. There are years when less than 50% of graduates get hired because really only the bad employees are going to get fired.
One wonders why employees choose to train their replacements instead of just quit. It seems to me that if a person is so qualified that they are being fired no for cause but just because they are too expensive, they could get another job. It is like complaining that there are no more jobs in the US, but never buying a product made in the US.
Clearly if the visa program did not exist companies would be forced to hire the maybe less qualified US workers, or perhaps open office outside the US. OTOH, I tend to believe that the US is the greatest place in the world, with a great deal of cheap capital, and many people agree. The problem is that people in the US tend to be much more complacent about living up to that greatness than highly motivated people in other countries. It is the greatness of the US that encourages workers to come here, not the ability of employers to pay less. Yes it may lead to the same outcome, but if we look at the former we only complain, but the later gives us solutions.
Here is what happened to me early in my career. At first if was easy because I was competing with the to 5% of the 18-30 year old living in the US, those who had access to technology but also to schools who were more interested in teaching novel skills than the three R's as we used to call them. As the years went on, and more people became computer literate, in the broad sense, not MS Office, then I had to compete with more people. Finally, I was competing with the world, and at that point, since I was not in the top 1%, it all fell apart, so to speak.
Again, when I was a kid the entire engineering class would be hired straight out college. Now one can be in the top 50% and not be hired. It is not just visas, it is not just that technology has made things more efficient, it is also that so many of us are simply complacent about our futures.
I have not seen any definitive data that is not 10 years old, and a lot of the current stuff is biased toward coal and nuclear and create astronomical number for the cost of wind. In reality as scale increases and data is gathered on how to best run the turbines maintenance costs are becoming predictable and not that outlandish. Texas which has the largest installation and the most experience also has some of the lowest O&M costs.
Wind energy is texas is still less than 10 cents, and will be cheaper as it allows us to decommission old inefficient coal power plants.
The biggest expense in my lifetime was paying for a nuclear power plant that never fully realized it's production goals and we had to have a special tax to pay for it.
MLB is not hiding behind the faÃade of amateur sports. This is becoming comparable to the exploitation of the NCAA. We have increasing evidence that the IOC is a corrupt organization that exists only to enrich the management. Sure it costs money, but much of that is paid for by the state. The players are owned by no one, unlike the MLB, and can only benefit by their exploits promoted on social media.
In some jurisdictions and for some people. In Vermont any maniac can have a gun, as long as they do not wish to harm people. Other jurisdictions way you get one chance to murder people, then you have your rights infringed.
It is simply that most geeks are going to McGyver a bomb if they need to defend themselves. Face it, now that cops are sendin in robot explosives, gun are inadequate
If you were 18 and could fund college by selling blood, would you? The downside is that if people were allowed to sell blood on the open market, the price of blood bank blood would likely go up significantly. Right now they get it for free. OTOH if you had to be healthy to sell blood, that would be an incentive for kids to eat better, not abuse drugs, and stay VD free.
This to me is more akin to pr0n than selling organs. Blood is simply a renewable resource that needs to be regulated.
I think most of us understand this. I think most of us know that this has to do with selling stuff using the olympics without the permission of the Olympics. However, the olympics is lawsuit happy so it is not unreasonable to think the policy might have some negative impact on people who are just tweeting.
Years ago Apple had a laptop that let you switch out an internal module. You could add a device, such as high capacity drive, without changing the form factor. The advantage was high speed and plug and play. It was not a success because these were not good values and you still had to carry all this stuff around with the added mass of casing and connectors.
I can't imagine what the benefit of this would be. USB is fast, the connector small. You can probably get all this stuff cheaper, maybe even lighter, as standalone components. The connectors seem to be way more metal than a USB C. If the issue is multiple devices without a hub, the we need to find a daisy chain solution this is both USB and FireWire.
The one good critism is DRM. Right now I can't watch movies on my desktop because my monitor is not HDMI. Which means content providers can block the headphones as well when the jack goes away.
Which I think it will. I see more kids using Bluetooth headphones. Think in a few year all the cool kids will use these. I wonder if you can pair multiple headphones to the same device?
Which is what I was thinking. A warning with an offer to help is great. Disabling the phone because a user installed unauthorized software is bad. Apple approves all software which is wall garden which is where Google is heading, but in not so great a way
That is the issue, right, we will buy lab meat if it is cheaper. I think that if this labeled it is ok, just like farm fish or GMO. Not that it will necessarily inferior or more dangerous, just consumers need to be informed.
I also think there is a huge market for this. Many people don't eat meat for environmental or social reasons. Lab meat, as it is probably less destructive than mass market meat, will be popular. The key will be cost. What could happen is that it will take the low end of the market, and we may see a return to more traditional ranching.
It is really truth versus fact versus partial reality. For instance Donald Trump says he can eliminate the US public debt in four years. In this mind, and the mind of his supporters, this is truth. There is a way to do this that is factual. However, the practical reality is that doing so would end the US as we know it.
The truth is that million of pounds every day went from the UK to the EU. The truth was that some people in the UK wanted to believe that the money could be going into their council housing. The practical reality is that the money going to the EU was much less, and without the EU the much of money would have to be spent provided services and paying for new expenses.
Lets take a more concrete example. I often am asked why it takes 9 months to get to mars. Why we can't just do a 1g acceleration and get there in a week to a month. The reason is because in space we do not travel in line like we can do for short distances on earth. In space we travel in orbits, and we need to do a few orbits around the sun to go from the earth to mars. We do not have to do it this way, but this is way we do it so we do not waste energy, among other reasons.
The problem with facts is that we cannot just choose the subset we want then reach a conclusion that works. The problem is truth is that people will usually just believe what is consistent with the few facts they know. If we take truth, and facts, and observation of what has worked in the past, and a little innovation, we generally reach a workable solution. We know there is silver bullet, there is no free lunch.
I think as we require more scientific validity in police work, we see that some of the old assumptions are false. For instance genetics was seen as a sufficient indicator of guilt, but if we apply mathematics we see that it can only be used to prove innocence. This lead us back to question fingerprints and other things. Many of these are good investigative tools, to indentify suspects, create leads, and as part of a package of evidence that can be used to establish guilt.
On the other hand I think it is proper to question if encrypted evidence that was somehow returned to plain text should on it's own establish guilt.
To some degree MS was kind of like a rental program, at least for consumers and small business, as far as revenue was concerned.. You bought a computer, and got to run the OS on that computer for the time the computer was in use. You could pay a fee to upgrade, but you could not transfer. MS was insured a steady revenue. As computer got cheaper, the fees they could charge got smaller, and that steady revenue got smaller.
To combat this they came up with an insane number of SKUs, and sold a stripped down system with the computer, that the user could them upgrade, and still now be able to transfer it to a new machine. For some one who wants to work with the OS professionally, it does lead to a situation where it is hard to take the seriously.
On the other hand, we do think that the laws of the universe should be based on the same principles at all levels, so the fact that General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics do not mesh well is a problem we need to solve. If some physics people want to look for other ways to solve the problem fine, but we do not discount a theory in modern physics simply because we cannot observe the phenomena with out current equipment.
We have to recall the Quantum mechanics was a radical explanation for a real problem. Theory says that if you put a heat source in a black box the universe should be destroyed. This does not happen so the theory was wrong and we ended up with a theory was very difficult to prove. I have had professors tell me that the absolute proof of quantum mechanics, i.e. an experiment that could not be explained using an alternative theory, did not exist until the 1960's when lasers were used. That does not mean that an alternative theory will win out, but there is a great deal of support for QM.
Likewise, general relativity is only now getting empirical evidence that supports it as the most likely out of competing theories. We must recall that the impetus of general relativity was a lack of symmetry in the mathematics of Maxwell laws, having to do with identical magnets moving with respect to one another. Warped space is an elegant explanation for why things happen, but it may not be the best explanation.
Time is more complex. Right now thermodynamics, which is not considered as grounded as Newtonian mechanics, says the the universe evolves in one direction defined by the fact that entropy always increases. The are some measurements of the asymmetry of a nucleus that indicates that direction of time is a constant, but I don't think anything in physics right now decisively says there is an arrow in time, just an arrow in the evolution of the universe, which is why we don't have perpetual motion.
This guy is nothing more than the friction described in The Structure of Scientific Revolution. There are always going to be people who do not assimilate the growing accumulation of data, who are stuck in the current paradigm, and who will oppose all efforts to a paradigm shift. They understand that Physics does change, but they get hung up on disproving new theories and not their pet theories that they assume are already beyond reproach.
It is not much that a character is defined by an actor, but when remaking a series on should make any changes early and use them in the narrative, like making Starbuck a female in BSG. I think if Sulu had always been gay, then it would have been ok. It is that in this future time there would have been some reason for Sulu to remain in the closet that is a problem for many of us. It reeks of dont ask, dont tell. How in the future idealistic world would such a thing be possible, unless you believe that being gay is not part of the ideal world.
OTOH this is what we expect from JJ Abrams. He is, after all, the person who envisioned a world that could build starships but have no homeworld security or even basic defense drones. I understand we live in peace, but the Enterprise is welled armed, and we are not that far off from a third world war in the scenario. It is pretty silly that a conference room could be shot up or a starship destroy a good part of a city with no defensive measures taken, or that one would have to physically run to catch someone in a world where transporters exist.
So we just sit back and enjoy the films that lack the traditional cohesiveness of internal logic of the sci fi genre. We accept that some things are going to be introduced with no payback, just because he had a whim that it might be interesting and boost the commercial value. This is fine if you are doing TV, but major movie releases are supposed to be more thought out.
The only issue I have ever had was in google chrome. There a modal dialog can block the ability of the to close tabs. This is typical of an application that values advertiser control over user experience.
I noticed they were talking about median income but a more vague average price of car, which makes no sense, We know that half the families makes more than this money, which means that half the families have this much to spend. On the other hand, it makes not sense to say the average price of a car as such a thing is not going to the limit the ability of a person to buy a car.
This is not the case of median home prices, which does represent the homes sold in an area, and a high median home price will result in families not being able to afford a home in that area if the median price. There is seldom an incentive to build cheaper housing outside of government programs. On the other hand, a person with a low budget can get a Nissan Versa.
Tl;dr there are a lot of cars under $20,000, so the fact that the average person can't afford the average car is irrelevant. The average person can afford a car.
Of course the big news in Portland is that Intel is and will layoff well over 1,000 workers. It is unclear that this city with a metro population of 2 million has the high paying tech job to absorb that loss. Expecially in market when you need $1500 a month just for rent.
Mechanically, a Honda might be more reliable. On the other hand, early Hondas rusted thought and their door latches were fragile. Safety wise, like seats that move and doors that open randomly, Mercedes is likely a better choice.
That your average Mercedes buyer will not forgive.
Anyone who owns a Honda ex-eats to make sacrifices for a cheap car.
Innovation does not excuse a crappy product. There is no way that a death trap seat is the result of innovation. It is the incompetence and arrogance of an inexperienced agent thinking they can make a car. Sort of like MS in security in the 1990's. Not being able to write software for doors in incompetence in embedded systems. Writing consumer embedded code is different from web server ode where it can be updated every day or rocket ship code where you have great control over the use case. There appears to be little engenuety here, just standard feature bloat.
In any case, as much hate dealers, this problem is a result of lack of reputable dealers. Like trying to solve a problem on a website, you have no ability to take someone that has a direct line to the manufacturer.
I have tried for the past year to get the flash and html5 video block to work in Firefox. Right now surfing the web is as painful as it was ften years ago, even though we have built in plugin blockers. Nothing works. If safari can restore my ability to browse, it will become my primary tool.
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There are two problems here. First, nothing on Wikileaks should be taken as fact without corroboration. Right now too many just accept everything posted as fact. This is what lead to the current situation.
Second, Assange needed to have negotiated a trial for the rape charges. Right now he is a fugitive suspect. If what he did was rape under the laws of the country he was in, and if he really believes in the rule of law and is not in fact just a narcissistic demagogue, he needs to face the consequences of his actions. By not doing so he has lost all credibility as fighter of truth. He is a fighter for truth he finds useful.
The massive Android ecosystem which would have enriched Google with a monopoly on mobile device like MS had on the desktop never emerged. The reference device idea, which was to spearhead such an ecosystem, turned into an actual competitor that help kill the widespread use. If Google is in fact going to fork Android, give a lesser product that treat other device OEM as competitors, that might really kill Android as a competitor. I don't know where Samsung could go for an OS, but recall that many dominant phone OS have fallen over a very short period of time.
Also remember that most consumers are buying Samsung, or to a lesser extent Amazon products, not Android.
One wonders why employees choose to train their replacements instead of just quit. It seems to me that if a person is so qualified that they are being fired no for cause but just because they are too expensive, they could get another job. It is like complaining that there are no more jobs in the US, but never buying a product made in the US.
Clearly if the visa program did not exist companies would be forced to hire the maybe less qualified US workers, or perhaps open office outside the US. OTOH, I tend to believe that the US is the greatest place in the world, with a great deal of cheap capital, and many people agree. The problem is that people in the US tend to be much more complacent about living up to that greatness than highly motivated people in other countries. It is the greatness of the US that encourages workers to come here, not the ability of employers to pay less. Yes it may lead to the same outcome, but if we look at the former we only complain, but the later gives us solutions.
Here is what happened to me early in my career. At first if was easy because I was competing with the to 5% of the 18-30 year old living in the US, those who had access to technology but also to schools who were more interested in teaching novel skills than the three R's as we used to call them. As the years went on, and more people became computer literate, in the broad sense, not MS Office, then I had to compete with more people. Finally, I was competing with the world, and at that point, since I was not in the top 1%, it all fell apart, so to speak.
Again, when I was a kid the entire engineering class would be hired straight out college. Now one can be in the top 50% and not be hired. It is not just visas, it is not just that technology has made things more efficient, it is also that so many of us are simply complacent about our futures.
Wind energy is texas is still less than 10 cents, and will be cheaper as it allows us to decommission old inefficient coal power plants.
The biggest expense in my lifetime was paying for a nuclear power plant that never fully realized it's production goals and we had to have a special tax to pay for it.
MLB is not hiding behind the faÃade of amateur sports. This is becoming comparable to the exploitation of the NCAA. We have increasing evidence that the IOC is a corrupt organization that exists only to enrich the management. Sure it costs money, but much of that is paid for by the state. The players are owned by no one, unlike the MLB, and can only benefit by their exploits promoted on social media.
Yes "price of blood bank blood would likely go up significantly" I am aware that some people don't read.
In some jurisdictions and for some people. In Vermont any maniac can have a gun, as long as they do not wish to harm people. Other jurisdictions way you get one chance to murder people, then you have your rights infringed.
It is simply that most geeks are going to McGyver a bomb if they need to defend themselves. Face it, now that cops are sendin in robot explosives, gun are inadequate
If you were 18 and could fund college by selling blood, would you? The downside is that if people were allowed to sell blood on the open market, the price of blood bank blood would likely go up significantly. Right now they get it for free. OTOH if you had to be healthy to sell blood, that would be an incentive for kids to eat better, not abuse drugs, and stay VD free. This to me is more akin to pr0n than selling organs. Blood is simply a renewable resource that needs to be regulated.
I think most of us understand this. I think most of us know that this has to do with selling stuff using the olympics without the permission of the Olympics. However, the olympics is lawsuit happy so it is not unreasonable to think the policy might have some negative impact on people who are just tweeting.
I can't imagine what the benefit of this would be. USB is fast, the connector small. You can probably get all this stuff cheaper, maybe even lighter, as standalone components. The connectors seem to be way more metal than a USB C. If the issue is multiple devices without a hub, the we need to find a daisy chain solution this is both USB and FireWire.
Which I think it will. I see more kids using Bluetooth headphones. Think in a few year all the cool kids will use these. I wonder if you can pair multiple headphones to the same device?
Which is what I was thinking. A warning with an offer to help is great. Disabling the phone because a user installed unauthorized software is bad. Apple approves all software which is wall garden which is where Google is heading, but in not so great a way
I also think there is a huge market for this. Many people don't eat meat for environmental or social reasons. Lab meat, as it is probably less destructive than mass market meat, will be popular. The key will be cost. What could happen is that it will take the low end of the market, and we may see a return to more traditional ranching.
The truth is that million of pounds every day went from the UK to the EU. The truth was that some people in the UK wanted to believe that the money could be going into their council housing. The practical reality is that the money going to the EU was much less, and without the EU the much of money would have to be spent provided services and paying for new expenses.
Lets take a more concrete example. I often am asked why it takes 9 months to get to mars. Why we can't just do a 1g acceleration and get there in a week to a month. The reason is because in space we do not travel in line like we can do for short distances on earth. In space we travel in orbits, and we need to do a few orbits around the sun to go from the earth to mars. We do not have to do it this way, but this is way we do it so we do not waste energy, among other reasons.
The problem with facts is that we cannot just choose the subset we want then reach a conclusion that works. The problem is truth is that people will usually just believe what is consistent with the few facts they know. If we take truth, and facts, and observation of what has worked in the past, and a little innovation, we generally reach a workable solution. We know there is silver bullet, there is no free lunch.
On the other hand I think it is proper to question if encrypted evidence that was somehow returned to plain text should on it's own establish guilt.
To combat this they came up with an insane number of SKUs, and sold a stripped down system with the computer, that the user could them upgrade, and still now be able to transfer it to a new machine. For some one who wants to work with the OS professionally, it does lead to a situation where it is hard to take the seriously.
We have to recall the Quantum mechanics was a radical explanation for a real problem. Theory says that if you put a heat source in a black box the universe should be destroyed. This does not happen so the theory was wrong and we ended up with a theory was very difficult to prove. I have had professors tell me that the absolute proof of quantum mechanics, i.e. an experiment that could not be explained using an alternative theory, did not exist until the 1960's when lasers were used. That does not mean that an alternative theory will win out, but there is a great deal of support for QM.
Likewise, general relativity is only now getting empirical evidence that supports it as the most likely out of competing theories. We must recall that the impetus of general relativity was a lack of symmetry in the mathematics of Maxwell laws, having to do with identical magnets moving with respect to one another. Warped space is an elegant explanation for why things happen, but it may not be the best explanation.
Time is more complex. Right now thermodynamics, which is not considered as grounded as Newtonian mechanics, says the the universe evolves in one direction defined by the fact that entropy always increases. The are some measurements of the asymmetry of a nucleus that indicates that direction of time is a constant, but I don't think anything in physics right now decisively says there is an arrow in time, just an arrow in the evolution of the universe, which is why we don't have perpetual motion.
This guy is nothing more than the friction described in The Structure of Scientific Revolution. There are always going to be people who do not assimilate the growing accumulation of data, who are stuck in the current paradigm, and who will oppose all efforts to a paradigm shift. They understand that Physics does change, but they get hung up on disproving new theories and not their pet theories that they assume are already beyond reproach.
OTOH this is what we expect from JJ Abrams. He is, after all, the person who envisioned a world that could build starships but have no homeworld security or even basic defense drones. I understand we live in peace, but the Enterprise is welled armed, and we are not that far off from a third world war in the scenario. It is pretty silly that a conference room could be shot up or a starship destroy a good part of a city with no defensive measures taken, or that one would have to physically run to catch someone in a world where transporters exist.
So we just sit back and enjoy the films that lack the traditional cohesiveness of internal logic of the sci fi genre. We accept that some things are going to be introduced with no payback, just because he had a whim that it might be interesting and boost the commercial value. This is fine if you are doing TV, but major movie releases are supposed to be more thought out.
The only issue I have ever had was in google chrome. There a modal dialog can block the ability of the to close tabs. This is typical of an application that values advertiser control over user experience.
This is not the case of median home prices, which does represent the homes sold in an area, and a high median home price will result in families not being able to afford a home in that area if the median price. There is seldom an incentive to build cheaper housing outside of government programs. On the other hand, a person with a low budget can get a Nissan Versa.
Tl;dr there are a lot of cars under $20,000, so the fact that the average person can't afford the average car is irrelevant. The average person can afford a car.
Of course the big news in Portland is that Intel is and will layoff well over 1,000 workers. It is unclear that this city with a metro population of 2 million has the high paying tech job to absorb that loss. Expecially in market when you need $1500 a month just for rent.
Mechanically, a Honda might be more reliable. On the other hand, early Hondas rusted thought and their door latches were fragile. Safety wise, like seats that move and doors that open randomly, Mercedes is likely a better choice.
Anyone who owns a Honda ex-eats to make sacrifices for a cheap car.
Innovation does not excuse a crappy product. There is no way that a death trap seat is the result of innovation. It is the incompetence and arrogance of an inexperienced agent thinking they can make a car. Sort of like MS in security in the 1990's. Not being able to write software for doors in incompetence in embedded systems. Writing consumer embedded code is different from web server ode where it can be updated every day or rocket ship code where you have great control over the use case. There appears to be little engenuety here, just standard feature bloat.
In any case, as much hate dealers, this problem is a result of lack of reputable dealers. Like trying to solve a problem on a website, you have no ability to take someone that has a direct line to the manufacturer.
I have tried for the past year to get the flash and html5 video block to work in Firefox. Right now surfing the web is as painful as it was ften years ago, even though we have built in plugin blockers. Nothing works. If safari can restore my ability to browse, it will become my primary tool.