How many people would take advantage of a sale to get new laptop batteries at 60% off?
I've got an iPhone 6 with a replaced battery a little under a year ago (woohoo rebate!) and I FULLY intend to purchase the replacement around the end of the year just to extend the life of my 6 by another 2 years or so.
It also ups the resale value.
The past doesn't change. History is malleable and does change because only recorded history remains and that can be changed on a whim.
Destroying monuments changes history and does, indeed, strike them from history.
That's why its called "historical revisionism" and used by governments of all flavors to keep the narrative proper.
Bushnell isn't dishonorable and deserves to be honored. Which is further proof that history is malleable as you're already to discredit his work as "dishonorable" because of gossip and innuendo.
So now, on account of gossip and innuendo, we're going to just strike people from history?
Not 20 years ago Christian fundamentalists were mocked and pilloried for ramming their morals down people's throats and following some stupid rule book. Now we have an entire zombie movement enforcing their morals views and attitudes on a public as a whole.
There's not ONE PERSON ALIVE who's not guilty of unsavory behavior of one kind or another and we've entered an age where "my unsavory behavior" is now considered untouchable but "your unsavory behavior" is damnable.
Fuck that. Make a law and make it a crime through the official processes. Did Bushnell actually commit a crime? Bring him up on charges. This condemning or people to non-existence without even a chance for defense is Orwellian, wrong and downright evil - just as it was 20 years ago.
Some of the airline reservation services display an "ontime" percentage next to the flight - EG This flight is ontime 75% of the time.
You don't need machine learning for something that simple statistical analysis will do.
Unless Google's adding in a few factors into the model like weather and time of year.
Which leads to an interesting side-business. Gambling on "airline times."
Ahh the airfield is kinda muddy today and Frontier airlines always does better on a muddy track...
Hey pal! Animojis are DA BOMB! They are single-handedly responsible for Apple's meteoric stock rise since the introduction of the iPhone X. Everybody wants it and everybody who doesn't want it are luddites who didn't understand the genius of Microsoft B.O.B and probably hated Clippy too!
"Impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law,"
Since when is a twitter account considered a bona-fide persona for legal purposes?
It's one thing if you've got a Twitter account trying to act like an official mouthpiece like DeBlasio's office or DeBlasio himself. But a name retweeting or liking a post isn't impersonation. Deception? That 3.5 million retweets aren't a valid count of a posts accuracy? Likability? Popularity? What's being deceived? a "i like this" has no meaning unless you're a sheep. Likewise, a retweet doesn't mean something is liked or unliked.
Is this guy honestly insinuating that all tweets must be legally accurate?! How about RottenTomatoes? Amazon review scores?!
And what does this portend for Slashdot's mod system?
Aside from the fact that the FCC regulates the wireless spectrum that the FCC would be on.
I don't think Ajit Pai was making an official "FCC" statement here but a personal/professional statement on the issue (given that he IS head of the FCC)
pfft - back in my day we had these things called Lie-Brer-EEES where you could check out books that had actual programs written in them that you could TYPE IN by yourself (with some hours of effort) to play Star Trek (You were the E, Klingons were the K...). In truth, I actually bought that book with my own birthday money at an incredible sum at the time.
There was no Ent-ree-net, hell boy modems weren't even readily available for consumers yet!
I just got tasked with setting up a new project in a framework I've never used before - I've already googled around, found some help on stack exchange and a few blogs describing examples and already running with it. In ye olden dayeth (like more than 5 years ago) I'd be trying to find a book on Amazon about it, 10 years ago I'd be spending lunch at the local book store seeing if there were any tomes on it, in ancient civilizations (20 years ago) my company would've sent me off for a training class!
Hear hear!
It's astonishing that he thinks a simple "I forgot my password, teacher" is a proper excuse for failing to inform people that they're NOT about to be nuked into oblivion!
Not always.
I've worked at shops that were supposed to be HIPAA compliant and, on paper, we were. In practice, however, we always took shortcuts - not for time to market issues either but for performance reasons (as in how fast the app runs) or logistical reasons (Yeah we know encyrption 2 has issues but our team can't go to encryption 3 until team b, c, d, and e have updated and they don't have the cycles) I have friends that work in the financial industry and they encounter the same problems.
In every company I've worked at though, as engineers, we've always enforced a level of security that we'd demand if this was in our own homes or our data.
In the times we didn't consider security it was for data or apps that were practically "valueless". Imagine our surprise when our early 2000s home network music servers got connected from outside sources and were used as remote data storage servers! They could read the music but couldn't delete the files because we had stored the files under the account ID which was password locked (and then only to prevent a user from accidentally deleting it) - but never bothered locking down the system as a whole coz it's on a home network!!!
Same goes with online game cheating today.
Do you work at my last company?
We spent over a week hammering out work and time estimates for a large project because management demanded we were going to have a realistic schedule this time. No other work was done. We were in day long meetings knocking out feature requirements and possible work load and time estimates for it. In the end we hammered out a 10 month time estimate (basically the following March) - management turned around and said it had to be out by Christmas and took a "F- it we'll do it live" attitude.
We sat there afterwards with our jaws on the floor wondering a> Why they didn't stipulate Christmas as a hard deadline to begin with and b> why they made us waste a week on a schedule for an already looming deadline!
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How many people would take advantage of a sale to get new laptop batteries at 60% off?
I've got an iPhone 6 with a replaced battery a little under a year ago (woohoo rebate!) and I FULLY intend to purchase the replacement around the end of the year just to extend the life of my 6 by another 2 years or so.
It also ups the resale value.
Jimmy Hoffa wasn't in there!
plus or minus a year... or two...
The past doesn't change. History is malleable and does change because only recorded history remains and that can be changed on a whim.
Destroying monuments changes history and does, indeed, strike them from history.
That's why its called "historical revisionism" and used by governments of all flavors to keep the narrative proper.
Bushnell isn't dishonorable and deserves to be honored. Which is further proof that history is malleable as you're already to discredit his work as "dishonorable" because of gossip and innuendo.
utter, total, bullshit.
So now, on account of gossip and innuendo, we're going to just strike people from history?
Not 20 years ago Christian fundamentalists were mocked and pilloried for ramming their morals down people's throats and following some stupid rule book. Now we have an entire zombie movement enforcing their morals views and attitudes on a public as a whole.
There's not ONE PERSON ALIVE who's not guilty of unsavory behavior of one kind or another and we've entered an age where "my unsavory behavior" is now considered untouchable but "your unsavory behavior" is damnable.
Fuck that. Make a law and make it a crime through the official processes. Did Bushnell actually commit a crime? Bring him up on charges. This condemning or people to non-existence without even a chance for defense is Orwellian, wrong and downright evil - just as it was 20 years ago.
Some of the airline reservation services display an "ontime" percentage next to the flight - EG This flight is ontime 75% of the time.
You don't need machine learning for something that simple statistical analysis will do.
Unless Google's adding in a few factors into the model like weather and time of year.
Which leads to an interesting side-business. Gambling on "airline times."
Ahh the airfield is kinda muddy today and Frontier airlines always does better on a muddy track...
*cough* I mean, y'know... as a geek...
Hey pal! Animojis are DA BOMB! They are single-handedly responsible for Apple's meteoric stock rise since the introduction of the iPhone X. Everybody wants it and everybody who doesn't want it are luddites who didn't understand the genius of Microsoft B.O.B and probably hated Clippy too!
"HEY!"
"MY EYES ARE UP HERE!"
There's an iPhone X joke in there somewhere...
"Impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law,"
Since when is a twitter account considered a bona-fide persona for legal purposes?
It's one thing if you've got a Twitter account trying to act like an official mouthpiece like DeBlasio's office or DeBlasio himself. But a name retweeting or liking a post isn't impersonation. Deception? That 3.5 million retweets aren't a valid count of a posts accuracy? Likability? Popularity? What's being deceived? a "i like this" has no meaning unless you're a sheep. Likewise, a retweet doesn't mean something is liked or unliked.
Is this guy honestly insinuating that all tweets must be legally accurate?! How about RottenTomatoes? Amazon review scores?!
And what does this portend for Slashdot's mod system?
Aside from the fact that the FCC regulates the wireless spectrum that the FCC would be on.
I don't think Ajit Pai was making an official "FCC" statement here but a personal/professional statement on the issue (given that he IS head of the FCC)
I killed a gopher on my lawn!
Of all of them I think the only one that can actually affect "capitalism" (and is to a certain extent) is Amazon.
You have 15 seconds to comply.
Where the city board threw in so many ethical directives into the programming that they were contradictory.
pfft - back in my day we had these things called Lie-Brer-EEES where you could check out books that had actual programs written in them that you could TYPE IN by yourself (with some hours of effort) to play Star Trek (You were the E, Klingons were the K...). In truth, I actually bought that book with my own birthday money at an incredible sum at the time.
There was no Ent-ree-net, hell boy modems weren't even readily available for consumers yet!
I just got tasked with setting up a new project in a framework I've never used before - I've already googled around, found some help on stack exchange and a few blogs describing examples and already running with it. In ye olden dayeth (like more than 5 years ago) I'd be trying to find a book on Amazon about it, 10 years ago I'd be spending lunch at the local book store seeing if there were any tomes on it, in ancient civilizations (20 years ago) my company would've sent me off for a training class!
Here ya young punk! Educate yourself! That same book is up on the net for FREE!
https://annarchive.com/files/B...
Hear hear!
It's astonishing that he thinks a simple "I forgot my password, teacher" is a proper excuse for failing to inform people that they're NOT about to be nuked into oblivion!
Not always.
I've worked at shops that were supposed to be HIPAA compliant and, on paper, we were. In practice, however, we always took shortcuts - not for time to market issues either but for performance reasons (as in how fast the app runs) or logistical reasons (Yeah we know encyrption 2 has issues but our team can't go to encryption 3 until team b, c, d, and e have updated and they don't have the cycles) I have friends that work in the financial industry and they encounter the same problems.
In every company I've worked at though, as engineers, we've always enforced a level of security that we'd demand if this was in our own homes or our data.
In the times we didn't consider security it was for data or apps that were practically "valueless". Imagine our surprise when our early 2000s home network music servers got connected from outside sources and were used as remote data storage servers! They could read the music but couldn't delete the files because we had stored the files under the account ID which was password locked (and then only to prevent a user from accidentally deleting it) - but never bothered locking down the system as a whole coz it's on a home network!!!
Same goes with online game cheating today.
Enough of this - Nader, relase him!
(including end of 2019) I think they overestimate their chances!
It's just common courtesy
That way I'll be last in line when the robots rise up against us!
Ok - total truth - I've also said "No Siri you stupid idiot!" Who else has said that?!
I relinquish my geek card!
if you take 10,000 steps a day you get a discount on your health insurance....
Do you work at my last company?
We spent over a week hammering out work and time estimates for a large project because management demanded we were going to have a realistic schedule this time. No other work was done. We were in day long meetings knocking out feature requirements and possible work load and time estimates for it. In the end we hammered out a 10 month time estimate (basically the following March) - management turned around and said it had to be out by Christmas and took a "F- it we'll do it live" attitude.
We sat there afterwards with our jaws on the floor wondering a> Why they didn't stipulate Christmas as a hard deadline to begin with and b> why they made us waste a week on a schedule for an already looming deadline!