And as if that wasn't bad enough, Verizon has also updated its convoluted sliding pricing scheme that adjusts based on how many phones are on a single bill.
This is called volume pricing. In this case it is used to entice households to use the same carrier rather than shop around based on different needs. It may be bad, but it makes plenty of sense.
Cashiers rank among the top jobs in the US by numbers employed. Is Microsoft also working on technology that will eliminate the problems they're planning on creating when they make millions of jobs obsolete?
I don't know, did Amazon work on those problems? You never shop online, right?
I hope La Liga gets kicked in the nuts over this, make an example of them.
You had me until right there.
NO.
Applying the law differently to particular, usually more financially liable, parties in order to "make an example of them" only perverts justice. If the law does not scare violators, strengthen the law.
This may have been asked before, but isn't this a form of an illegal wiretap? I do not think an EULA would cover domestic or international spying by a corporation even with support of police.
It's difficult to fathom that this goes well for them. The EU is hyper-sensitive about privacy (as evidenced by all the hoopla over cookies, which are an order of magnitude less concerning than this).
Add some kind of wiper system to the panels to dust them off during these storms. Dust storms are common on Mars, why didn't they think of this when designing them?
On the contrary, the fact the rovers lasted as long as they did (Spirit)/ have (Opportunity) means that a wiper system would have been a poor design choice.
Ha, my first thought was, just call it GitVFS, and then I saw they had some guidelines in TFA for suggestions, the first of which was they weren't going to put 'Git' in it, the second of which
Short and welcoming - It has to be a nice welcoming word in most languages (sorry – while PoopVFS might elicit a giggle, it won't make the cut when I go to meetings with the Windows team with that in my slide deck. Also it needs to not contain special characters so M$FT is a no go as well
Well, it looks like that's what I get for not reading TFA
No Git - As discussed, we don’t want it to be GitName or things like that – we don’t want to mess with Git’s name and the fact that it is vendor agnostic.
What if your left thumb unlocked your phone and your right thumb wiped the device invisibly? The criminal could never know, you deniability and the police will be too scared to tap your dead finger to the phone.
Or what if left-right-left unlocked and left-right-right wiped?
Sounds like a good solution for iUsers who don't drink.
Before anyone asks, we are aware of Apple's developer conference. The company has just unveiled iOS 12, and is describing the new features. Most of the features are yet to be announced, so we will be running that story in about half an hour.
I can't figure out if this was supposed to be a joke or you actually were concerned that people would be upset you posted on a promising cancer treatment instead of Apple product announcements.
but because CA's had a drought for ages and the last thing they need is numbnuts running around setting stuff on fire for fun (which appears to be the core market for this thing).
It's a propane roofing torch with a little extra range. It's something you hang in your garage and bring out at parties to light the barbecue. Honestly, it's probably less dangerous than Coleman fuel, which many a camper has used in place of lighter fluid. It's definitely less dangerous than alcohol in a super soaker, and it's not like kids haven't done that for decades.
I can't find an article about this and it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Polygon article, but the Content ID system that Youtube uses to flag copyright violations is apparently going to have significant changes this month. This is per Matthew Patrick (MatPat/The Game Theory)--who is basically as close to the company as someone can be without working there--in a recent livestream of theirs.
Other long-running issues he address in that same 15-ish minutes are Youtube tools being confusing, a severe lack of response from Youtube support (and conflicting responses, even when that person has better access than xXxStoneddGamer567xXx), and he's talked in the past about how Youtube extremely over-reacts to controversies. Their "solutions" rarely take care of the original issue and instead punish a significant number of other creators.
Youtube has been relying on critical mass for years now.
In the last few years Youtube has increasingly been courting "mainstream" outlets, including launching their Youtube TV service, and these outlets have pushed original creators more to the sidelines. While MatPat doesn't explain what these Content ID changes will be, my expectation is that the system will become far, far less lenient toward infringements real, imagined, or claimed (thanks, DMCA!). If so, there will likely be a "purge" of creators.
If that is the case, I'm hoping that some company can step up to with a video-focused service that caters to smaller creators (or creator groups.) Vimeo might be able to branch into this, but their current (apparent) focus on completely-original content (and content not too far removed from television or film festivals) makes me think this is unlikely.
That's all... not what the article is about. No matter what platform, this is essentially about young workaholics who don't know how to recognize they are overworking themselves. No platform switch will fix this. They'll burn out and others will take their places... then burn out, etc.
Due to Polygon's bizarre politics, they do imply this is a problem Youtube needs to solve, but that's just silly.
I just don't understand how you can have spam calls like that and be ok with it.
I try to make the most of it: I ask them all about the area that their number shows them to be calling from ("Bruce" with an Indian accent apparently resides in Idaho).
The thing is, "Bruce" may not realize it but a lot of legitimate call centers have remote employees using VOIP, so they may not know anything about the geographic region where the operations are centered. Being able to work from home is one way to make those jobs tolerable.
Unless someone has their machine connected directly to the internet (in which case you've got a whole lot of bigger problems), what's the likelyhood that this would actually be exploited?
Depending on whether anybody malicious was aware of this exploit, the likelihood is quite high.
All cloud business could be running somewhere else. Azure, believe it or not, does have something to offer over AWS, not least of which is a less confusing and redundant line of services on offer.
It takes like five or six seconds after the boot splash for Windows to fully boot, unless I fat finger my password.
Wait, are you talking about in an enterprise? Then you're probably waiting on Group Policy, and that's... nearly unavoidable in an enterprise, unfortunately, especially if they haven't optimized it well.
This means that I will be able to run Linux as a bag on the side of your wonderful Windows 10 product with two big advantages over a normal Linux installation: I will have the enormous overhead and slow boot time of Windows to deal with daily. And, Windows 10 will continue to spy on my every move and report it to you without telling me. I can hardly wait to get on the bandwagon with this one.
It takes like five or six seconds after the boot splash for Windows to fully boot, unless I fat finger my password.
I fully support their right to strike since it is the only mechanism the 'common worker' has to defend themselves and ensure they get a reasonable slice of the pie. However, this is probably something that cannot be stopped.
Strikes don't really influence the customer like they used to (in many cases they turn off customers who aren't in unions themselves), and I'm not sure how this would affect the management other than to increase their desire to automate.
The primary military case is for spy and com satellites. The governments we're talking about have ICBMs aplenty, just waiting to go. Orbiting a new satellite requires the maintenance of much more infrastructure at this point.
That was my thought. If someone will quit for $600 over the course of a few months, wouldnâ(TM)t they quit, anyway? Thatâ(TM)s less than theyâ(TM)ll save by not buying cigarettes.
Well, it stands to reason that the magic number was the savings AND the bonus combined. Or the psychological effect of being given something extra if they are incapable of internalizing the long term savings alone.
Why don't the companies just pay non smokers more? Can I start smoking and then quit to reap these rewards? TFA doesn't really go into these questions that I can tell, it just says that it costs $3000 to $6000 more a year to employ smokers.
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And as if that wasn't bad enough, Verizon has also updated its convoluted sliding pricing scheme that adjusts based on how many phones are on a single bill.
This is called volume pricing. In this case it is used to entice households to use the same carrier rather than shop around based on different needs. It may be bad, but it makes plenty of sense.
You have to be a special kind of design nut to be "stunned" by any font.
Cashiers rank among the top jobs in the US by numbers employed. Is Microsoft also working on technology that will eliminate the problems they're planning on creating when they make millions of jobs obsolete?
I don't know, did Amazon work on those problems? You never shop online, right?
The Quad Core Mac Mini I bought in 2012 is faster than any Mac Mini sold in 2018. Get it together, Apple.
But the Mac Mini sold now is for computer hacking
Mac Mini: 1337 days ago
I hope La Liga gets kicked in the nuts over this, make an example of them.
You had me until right there.
NO.
Applying the law differently to particular, usually more financially liable, parties in order to "make an example of them" only perverts justice. If the law does not scare violators, strengthen the law.
This may have been asked before, but isn't this a form of an illegal wiretap? I do not think an EULA would cover domestic or international spying by a corporation even with support of police.
It's difficult to fathom that this goes well for them. The EU is hyper-sensitive about privacy (as evidenced by all the hoopla over cookies, which are an order of magnitude less concerning than this).
Add some kind of wiper system to the panels to dust them off during these storms. Dust storms are common on Mars, why didn't they think of this when designing them?
On the contrary, the fact the rovers lasted as long as they did (Spirit)/ have (Opportunity) means that a wiper system would have been a poor design choice.
M$VFS
Ha, my first thought was, just call it GitVFS, and then I saw they had some guidelines in TFA for suggestions, the first of which was they weren't going to put 'Git' in it, the second of which
Short and welcoming - It has to be a nice welcoming word in most languages (sorry – while PoopVFS might elicit a giggle, it won't make the cut when I go to meetings with the Windows team with that in my slide deck. Also it needs to not contain special characters so M$FT is a no go as well
GitVFS. Why make it difficult?
Well, it looks like that's what I get for not reading TFA
No Git - As discussed, we don’t want it to be GitName or things like that – we don’t want to mess with Git’s name and the fact that it is vendor agnostic.
GitVFS. Why make it difficult?
What if your left thumb unlocked your phone and your right thumb wiped the device invisibly? The criminal could never know, you deniability and the police will be too scared to tap your dead finger to the phone. Or what if left-right-left unlocked and left-right-right wiped?
Sounds like a good solution for iUsers who don't drink.
Before anyone asks, we are aware of Apple's developer conference. The company has just unveiled iOS 12, and is describing the new features. Most of the features are yet to be announced, so we will be running that story in about half an hour.
I can't figure out if this was supposed to be a joke or you actually were concerned that people would be upset you posted on a promising cancer treatment instead of Apple product announcements.
but because CA's had a drought for ages and the last thing they need is numbnuts running around setting stuff on fire for fun (which appears to be the core market for this thing).
It's a propane roofing torch with a little extra range. It's something you hang in your garage and bring out at parties to light the barbecue. Honestly, it's probably less dangerous than Coleman fuel, which many a camper has used in place of lighter fluid. It's definitely less dangerous than alcohol in a super soaker, and it's not like kids haven't done that for decades.
I can't find an article about this and it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Polygon article, but the Content ID system that Youtube uses to flag copyright violations is apparently going to have significant changes this month. This is per Matthew Patrick (MatPat/The Game Theory)--who is basically as close to the company as someone can be without working there--in a recent livestream of theirs.
Other long-running issues he address in that same 15-ish minutes are Youtube tools being confusing, a severe lack of response from Youtube support (and conflicting responses, even when that person has better access than xXxStoneddGamer567xXx), and he's talked in the past about how Youtube extremely over-reacts to controversies. Their "solutions" rarely take care of the original issue and instead punish a significant number of other creators.
Youtube has been relying on critical mass for years now.
In the last few years Youtube has increasingly been courting "mainstream" outlets, including launching their Youtube TV service, and these outlets have pushed original creators more to the sidelines. While MatPat doesn't explain what these Content ID changes will be, my expectation is that the system will become far, far less lenient toward infringements real, imagined, or claimed (thanks, DMCA!). If so, there will likely be a "purge" of creators.
If that is the case, I'm hoping that some company can step up to with a video-focused service that caters to smaller creators (or creator groups.) Vimeo might be able to branch into this, but their current (apparent) focus on completely-original content (and content not too far removed from television or film festivals) makes me think this is unlikely.
That's all... not what the article is about. No matter what platform, this is essentially about young workaholics who don't know how to recognize they are overworking themselves. No platform switch will fix this. They'll burn out and others will take their places... then burn out, etc.
Due to Polygon's bizarre politics, they do imply this is a problem Youtube needs to solve, but that's just silly.
I just don't understand how you can have spam calls like that and be ok with it.
I try to make the most of it: I ask them all about the area that their number shows them to be calling from ("Bruce" with an Indian accent apparently resides in Idaho).
The thing is, "Bruce" may not realize it but a lot of legitimate call centers have remote employees using VOIP, so they may not know anything about the geographic region where the operations are centered. Being able to work from home is one way to make those jobs tolerable.
Braille displays always make me think of Whistler from Sneakers (apparently based on real life phreaker Joybubbles.
Unless someone has their machine connected directly to the internet (in which case you've got a whole lot of bigger problems), what's the likelyhood that this would actually be exploited?
Depending on whether anybody malicious was aware of this exploit, the likelihood is quite high.
All cloud business could be running somewhere else. Azure, believe it or not, does have something to offer over AWS, not least of which is a less confusing and redundant line of services on offer.
It takes like five or six seconds after the boot splash for Windows to fully boot, unless I fat finger my password.
Wait, are you talking about in an enterprise? Then you're probably waiting on Group Policy, and that's... nearly unavoidable in an enterprise, unfortunately, especially if they haven't optimized it well.
This means that I will be able to run Linux as a bag on the side of your wonderful Windows 10 product with two big advantages over a normal Linux installation: I will have the enormous overhead and slow boot time of Windows to deal with daily. And, Windows 10 will continue to spy on my every move and report it to you without telling me. I can hardly wait to get on the bandwagon with this one.
It takes like five or six seconds after the boot splash for Windows to fully boot, unless I fat finger my password.
I fully support their right to strike since it is the only mechanism the 'common worker' has to defend themselves and ensure they get a reasonable slice of the pie. However, this is probably something that cannot be stopped.
Strikes don't really influence the customer like they used to (in many cases they turn off customers who aren't in unions themselves), and I'm not sure how this would affect the management other than to increase their desire to automate.
The primary military case is for spy and com satellites. The governments we're talking about have ICBMs aplenty, just waiting to go. Orbiting a new satellite requires the maintenance of much more infrastructure at this point.
That was my thought. If someone will quit for $600 over the course of a few months, wouldnâ(TM)t they quit, anyway? Thatâ(TM)s less than theyâ(TM)ll save by not buying cigarettes.
Well, it stands to reason that the magic number was the savings AND the bonus combined. Or the psychological effect of being given something extra if they are incapable of internalizing the long term savings alone.
Why don't the companies just pay non smokers more? Can I start smoking and then quit to reap these rewards? TFA doesn't really go into these questions that I can tell, it just says that it costs $3000 to $6000 more a year to employ smokers.
I think I've inadvertently caught a few. Are they easily mistaken for a meteor, or is the apparent movement to slow?