Have we learned nothing from the internet and its IoT problem?
Sure we have. I've learned yet again that the government and manufacturers will only get serious about the security of these things only after something major happens. I'm actually surprised that they are this on the ball so early. Normally they wait until a couple competing standards get established which of course are inoperable.
To meet the requirements some assembly would have to be done in the US so they leave the last wire connection for the US "factory". It gets shipped over to the US, unpacked, the cover taken off, the worker follows the diagram to connect the final wire (which actually doesn't do anything), puts the cover back on, and packs it back up. Voila, assembled in America.
Actually, 600,000 sounds like a really small area when you think that my block would be a section defined by roads. Later on in the article (which is an article that discusses the actual article) it says "They are dividing them into more than 600,000 pieces that are not directly affected by roads." So the 600k sections represent areas that we haven't really screwed up yet. I noticed on their map that they don't include Antarctica so I don't know if that's in with their calculations. There's one section with a large surface are (how large depends if you include the ice or not).
The problem is that the VCs also don't tolerate companies that grow slowly because they want the firms they have invested in to IPO in a short time frame. That means they have to grow big and grow fast. And unfortunately the company is going to lose money during that growth period. Another round or two of fund raising is expected on the way to an IPO. The only issue for the VCs here is is when they hear about some stupid expenses (i.e. employees jetting around the world) then it's time to bring in management that is more business oriented.
The government uses tax breaks as a means to direct corporations and people to move in a direction in which they would like them to go. It's a carrot while a tax can be used as a stick.
For example, if a government wants businesses to spend more on R&D they can increase the tax credit that the company receives for doing so. Just before 2000 came along the Canadian government allowed businesses to fully write off some computers and equipment in order to deal with the Y2K situation. Normally they would have had to depreciate them over time. I don't remember what limits, if any, there were. But it was a tax break being used to get companies to make sure that their equipment was Y2K compliant. Of course a lot of companies took advantage of the program to upgrade their computers just to write them off in that tax year.
A few years ago the federal government of Canada brought in a program where the parents or guardians could write off up to so much of sporting costs to supposedly get kids more active. It wasn't going to get any more kids involved in sports because if you couldn't afford the costs now you still couldn't because you wouldn't get the money until the spring when we file our taxes. But it looks like an attempt to use the tax code to get people to do something that they weren't going to do.
Soda taxes are a good example of tax being used as a stick to get people to change their consumption habits.
Sue them for the costs to support your clients because of their bug and also for the damage to your company's reputation since you say your clients think it's your fault. If you could get all ISPs to do that they might do more testing before deploying an update.
Really, if he's going to be changing the password after receiving every phishing scheme message there isn't going to be much time left for actually doing work.
All that he had to do was reply, "It's a scam to try and get you to enter your password on a bad guy's website. Delete the email and forget about it." Then write up a message that provides a few more details to be distributed to everyone that basically says the same thing because if one person asks you know that more than one person has that question.
You would have to switch it with a tag from another items that weighs the same thing. It should be on a scale (I saw that it required everything to have a tag and stopped reading since that's stupid).
Great, through on another level of paperwork, reporting, and inspectors. It's very easy to do in some place like an auto plant where all of the robots are working the whole shift. Even then what do you do when one breaks down and misses a couple of days?
But what do you do when you have a robot that only works when the volume requires it or the service it provides is only part of the working hours? Say I have a restaurant that is open 24/7 and I have a robot that cooks burgers. For ease let's say that there's six hours in the morning I don't serve burgers so the robot isn't active. And what is active for my burger cooking robot? If nobody has order a burger do I still have to pay proceeds because it's available? What about the six hours I don't serve burgers? The robot is still available to me then but it's just my choice not to use it. Now I have to track the hours that it's active and report it to the government. While my little restaurant might be easy to figure out if I'm cheating the system or not larger places won't be so easy so the government will need to do audits and have inspectors.
Or are all robots going to be keeping track of the time that they are active and reporting it? To whom? Me, the government, both of us, to the manufacturer too? I'm sure the government would love to have the ability to just send out a bill without having a way to prove how it got to that number.
It could also be the requirement of using water that is the wrong temperature. Something around 201F is what you want to brew with but who knows if that is what the machines use.
The type of bean, how old it is, how it's been stored, the type of grind, the brewing technique, water quality, and water temperature all go into the quality of the brew. You know that for most machines the quality of the bean isn't going to be that great since you are buying a cheap cup of coffee. As for the rest I could only offer guesses. I would imagine that the grinder itself would be good as it would have to do a lot but I don't know if they are doing a fine grind or course. That would depend on the type of filter they are using and hopefully they have matched those.
Forget jumping. Just throw the phone out the door and the problem is solved. And if they make too much of a fuss tell them that they'll be next if they continue making a fuss.
Something that I would love to do on the bus sometimes. I've got noise reducing earphones and sometimes I have to shut my podcast off because the idiot is talking so loud that the only way I could hear it would be to damage my ears.
If someone is so anxious about the red light turning green that they need a countdown to ease the anxiety then I'm thinking the problem isn't that a countdown is missing in their life. Why are they in such a state so that they are anxious about the light turning in the first place? There are a few cases where I could see a reason for being anxious such as being late for a job interview or wedding. But if you are anxious at every red light that you come to then I'm thinking that what you really need isn't a timer in your car but either a change in lifestyle or some therapy because you're headed for a breakdown.
Look at the pedestrian crossing signal. If it's signalling walk then you have plenty of time. If it's flashing don't walk then be prepared to stop. Some of the newer signals have a countdown on the pedestrian crossing until the light change and that will tell you exactly how much time is left.
Most people would use this to speed up to make the light instead of slowing down. And this actually exists as this is the purpose of the yellow (amber) light.
You shouldn't be pissed off at China for ignoring the IP of the developed nations and using it to catch up. That's what countries at their stage of development do. The US did that early in it's history, especially with fabrics. So it's a bit hypocritical for the US to have used those techniques to advance their economy and then try to deny China the same thing. Either that or admit that it was wrong for doing those things in the past.
And most of the game clock is used up spent waiting for the quarterback to start things and moving people on/off the field. The last couple of minutes of each half when they get into clock (or time) management is especially painful.
That's 70 after they've done their shopping. There were really 78 left behind that month but the agents were busy upgrading their MacBooks. In six months or so after the hype has gone down then they will start upgrading their MacBook Pros.
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Have we learned nothing from the internet and its IoT problem?
Sure we have. I've learned yet again that the government and manufacturers will only get serious about the security of these things only after something major happens. I'm actually surprised that they are this on the ball so early. Normally they wait until a couple competing standards get established which of course are inoperable.
To meet the requirements some assembly would have to be done in the US so they leave the last wire connection for the US "factory". It gets shipped over to the US, unpacked, the cover taken off, the worker follows the diagram to connect the final wire (which actually doesn't do anything), puts the cover back on, and packs it back up. Voila, assembled in America.
Actually, 600,000 sounds like a really small area when you think that my block would be a section defined by roads. Later on in the article (which is an article that discusses the actual article) it says "They are dividing them into more than 600,000 pieces that are not directly affected by roads." So the 600k sections represent areas that we haven't really screwed up yet. I noticed on their map that they don't include Antarctica so I don't know if that's in with their calculations. There's one section with a large surface are (how large depends if you include the ice or not).
The problem is that the VCs also don't tolerate companies that grow slowly because they want the firms they have invested in to IPO in a short time frame. That means they have to grow big and grow fast. And unfortunately the company is going to lose money during that growth period. Another round or two of fund raising is expected on the way to an IPO. The only issue for the VCs here is is when they hear about some stupid expenses (i.e. employees jetting around the world) then it's time to bring in management that is more business oriented.
What, you didn't expect a big stink when a swamp is drained?
The government uses tax breaks as a means to direct corporations and people to move in a direction in which they would like them to go. It's a carrot while a tax can be used as a stick.
For example, if a government wants businesses to spend more on R&D they can increase the tax credit that the company receives for doing so. Just before 2000 came along the Canadian government allowed businesses to fully write off some computers and equipment in order to deal with the Y2K situation. Normally they would have had to depreciate them over time. I don't remember what limits, if any, there were. But it was a tax break being used to get companies to make sure that their equipment was Y2K compliant. Of course a lot of companies took advantage of the program to upgrade their computers just to write them off in that tax year.
A few years ago the federal government of Canada brought in a program where the parents or guardians could write off up to so much of sporting costs to supposedly get kids more active. It wasn't going to get any more kids involved in sports because if you couldn't afford the costs now you still couldn't because you wouldn't get the money until the spring when we file our taxes. But it looks like an attempt to use the tax code to get people to do something that they weren't going to do.
Soda taxes are a good example of tax being used as a stick to get people to change their consumption habits.
Sue them for the costs to support your clients because of their bug and also for the damage to your company's reputation since you say your clients think it's your fault. If you could get all ISPs to do that they might do more testing before deploying an update.
Really, if he's going to be changing the password after receiving every phishing scheme message there isn't going to be much time left for actually doing work.
All that he had to do was reply, "It's a scam to try and get you to enter your password on a bad guy's website. Delete the email and forget about it." Then write up a message that provides a few more details to be distributed to everyone that basically says the same thing because if one person asks you know that more than one person has that question.
You would have to switch it with a tag from another items that weighs the same thing. It should be on a scale (I saw that it required everything to have a tag and stopped reading since that's stupid).
You probably can get someone in as a temp for 20 weeks for most jobs. It is around 5 months after all.
Hey, bribing politicians ain't cheap.
There are lies, damned lies, marketing, and politics.
Great, through on another level of paperwork, reporting, and inspectors. It's very easy to do in some place like an auto plant where all of the robots are working the whole shift. Even then what do you do when one breaks down and misses a couple of days?
But what do you do when you have a robot that only works when the volume requires it or the service it provides is only part of the working hours? Say I have a restaurant that is open 24/7 and I have a robot that cooks burgers. For ease let's say that there's six hours in the morning I don't serve burgers so the robot isn't active. And what is active for my burger cooking robot? If nobody has order a burger do I still have to pay proceeds because it's available? What about the six hours I don't serve burgers? The robot is still available to me then but it's just my choice not to use it. Now I have to track the hours that it's active and report it to the government. While my little restaurant might be easy to figure out if I'm cheating the system or not larger places won't be so easy so the government will need to do audits and have inspectors.
Or are all robots going to be keeping track of the time that they are active and reporting it? To whom? Me, the government, both of us, to the manufacturer too? I'm sure the government would love to have the ability to just send out a bill without having a way to prove how it got to that number.
It could also be the requirement of using water that is the wrong temperature. Something around 201F is what you want to brew with but who knows if that is what the machines use.
The type of bean, how old it is, how it's been stored, the type of grind, the brewing technique, water quality, and water temperature all go into the quality of the brew. You know that for most machines the quality of the bean isn't going to be that great since you are buying a cheap cup of coffee. As for the rest I could only offer guesses. I would imagine that the grinder itself would be good as it would have to do a lot but I don't know if they are doing a fine grind or course. That would depend on the type of filter they are using and hopefully they have matched those.
Hey, they don't load themselves or put the dishes away. That would be news.
Pies do not have to be round. And they don't need to have pastry. I give you shepherds pie and cottage pie.
* - For some definition of works.
All they've done is create the plasma. All that's left is the fusion part. Just the easy bit left I'm sure they're saying. /s
It's not like it's a single one day event. The whole thing is dragged out for over a year with the primaries and everything.
Forget jumping. Just throw the phone out the door and the problem is solved. And if they make too much of a fuss tell them that they'll be next if they continue making a fuss.
Something that I would love to do on the bus sometimes. I've got noise reducing earphones and sometimes I have to shut my podcast off because the idiot is talking so loud that the only way I could hear it would be to damage my ears.
If someone is so anxious about the red light turning green that they need a countdown to ease the anxiety then I'm thinking the problem isn't that a countdown is missing in their life. Why are they in such a state so that they are anxious about the light turning in the first place? There are a few cases where I could see a reason for being anxious such as being late for a job interview or wedding. But if you are anxious at every red light that you come to then I'm thinking that what you really need isn't a timer in your car but either a change in lifestyle or some therapy because you're headed for a breakdown.
Look at the pedestrian crossing signal. If it's signalling walk then you have plenty of time. If it's flashing don't walk then be prepared to stop. Some of the newer signals have a countdown on the pedestrian crossing until the light change and that will tell you exactly how much time is left.
Most people would use this to speed up to make the light instead of slowing down. And this actually exists as this is the purpose of the yellow (amber) light.
You shouldn't be pissed off at China for ignoring the IP of the developed nations and using it to catch up. That's what countries at their stage of development do. The US did that early in it's history, especially with fabrics. So it's a bit hypocritical for the US to have used those techniques to advance their economy and then try to deny China the same thing. Either that or admit that it was wrong for doing those things in the past.
According to this Wall Street Journal article there's about 11 minutes of action in a football game so it's even worse than you think.
And most of the game clock is used up spent waiting for the quarterback to start things and moving people on/off the field. The last couple of minutes of each half when they get into clock (or time) management is especially painful.
That's 70 after they've done their shopping. There were really 78 left behind that month but the agents were busy upgrading their MacBooks. In six months or so after the hype has gone down then they will start upgrading their MacBook Pros.