Having blobs of liquid metal flowing to the heart seems like a show stopper to me. I'm intrigued by the old-school-mad-scientist aspect of this idea, but the potential risks seem a bit serious.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. 30 years ago, applications were built with long life-spans in mind, so dropping into very low-level code could make financial sense. Today, programs are generally designed for adaptability and compatibility. The target is constantly moving for the vast majority of applications out there. Dropping into assembly rarely makes sense anymore, because the mantra is "good enough" rather than "best" because even the "best" won't stay that way for long.
Of course, different industries will have different mileage. If you do most of your work for embedded devices or industry-niche things like robotics or satellites, then by all means dive into the 1's and 0's.
No, Jobs alienated himself from his peers and spent the next few decades doing acid while Apple ran itself into the ground. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley was already establishing their reputation for pushing boundaries, engaging in barely-legal business practices, and working to change the industry as fast as possible.
Jobs came back from his acid trip and turned Apple around, but the industry's attitudes and culture were well-established by that point.
Assuming you are talking to me, I did consider it. The lawyers I spoke with, however, said the courts generally won't side the plaintiff on this stuff unless identity theft or mistake identity is involved. He did say the fact that I wasn't contacted for 3 years should theoretically swing things into my favor, however the collections agency would simply claim they tried and it would be a he-said-she-said scenario where, again, the courts rarely side with the plaintiff.
All in all, I just decided to wait for it to drop from my credit. Amazingly, I've never had the collections agency call me, so I'm not having to deal with phones calls or anything, and at this point it is set to expire next year. It's still very annoying with just how stacked against the people this system is. Oh, and I filed a 3 page complaint with the FTC after TransUnion basically did nothing, complete with supporting documentation and everything (which I had at the time), but I never did hear anything of it.
I think you are overestimating the extend that google influenced this guys' arrest. They found child porn on his gmail account, and forwarded the info (not the email, just the fact that something was found) to the police, who then received a warrant to officially search his email, probably due in large part to both the claim that google found stuff and that the guy was a registered sex offender.
Google basically provided an anonymous tip; that's it. I had to do something similar a few years ago, although it wasn't automated. While doing a routine virus removal for a (former) client, I found a few pictures that were pretty obviously child porn. I called the police to let them know, they quickly received a warrant to pick the computer up and that was it. I wasn't looking for shit, or snooping around, or trying to start trouble. But I'm pretty sure it's actually illegal for me NOT to report something like that.
You are blind. Google has scanned email content for the purpose of serving adds for years. It's also no secret that they have a vast database of picture sigs/hashse for examples of known child porn, for the purpose of keeping the stuff off their search engine. It's really not that much of a stretch to think they combine the two if it furthers a well-documented company goal/policy...
This is hardly a new company stance or anything, but it looks to me like the program started up last year and is only now starting to "come online" for email scanning. Maybe we'll see more cases like this. Or maybe they've been sending tips to police for years, and the police have simply been able to nab the guy without having to request access to his email first. Anyway, I think it's weird that people are all freaked out something that's been in place for a year, officially, and has been a company focus for at least 8.
I think google is just actively searching for specific things (child porn) for this purpose. They've actually advertised the fact that they have a vast database of known child porn pictures, originally as a method of keeping them out of search results. That info is at least a few years old, even if it wasn't advertised very well.
Hard to take him seriously when he's basically made himself very wealthy by "advocating" for blacks. It's hard to find anything he's done in the last 30 years that has had any meaningful impact, beyond lining his own pocket. But that hasn't stopped him from taking the soap box every chance he can get, before moving onto whatever new crisis comes up -- often leaving his previous efforts hanging.
I ran into this a few years ago. Basically, I got a random call saying I owed about $1k. After asking for the debt verification letter to be sent, I was able to figure out that the debt in question was for some daycare provider in 2009, 3 years before receiving my first collections call. Problem was, we had moved out of that area when this supposed debt occurred, meaning it shouldn't have been charged in the first place. The daycare provider couldn't produce any documentation to support their claim, saying that it happened 3 years ago and they can't find anything. I then called the debt collection agency back and asked for the debt to be discharged as a result, but they said the daycare center claims the debt is valid and won't reverse it. I then opened a ticket with TransUnion (where the collections was listed) and explained the situation. 30 days later I got a letter saying the looked into the debt and determined that it is valid, despite having no documentation to back the debt up, and my documentation showing I wasn't even living in that area. Best part is, I followed up with TansUnion to find out how they validated the debt, and was told they called the daycare center and simply asked them if it was valid; no proof or documentation or anything provided. The whole system is a racket, and there's basically no way to get collections reversed unless the debt involves identity theft. The original creditor has no interest in the truth because they already sold the debt. The collection agency has no interest in the truth because they have already bought the debt. The credit industry has no interest in the truth because it's their core business. The only reason this whole thing hasn't bothered me too much is because since I basically went 4 years before realizing the debt existed, I can just wait for it to fall off my report.
Thankfully, Chrome doesn't require Java to be installed separately, so they've kind of taken care of that problem for us. But yeah, I agree that the Java installer should be labeled as malware. Same with basically anything that comes from Sourceforge ever since they changed the downloads to install programs, complete with bundled crap.
uTorrent IS malware these days. Try installing it without unchecking all the extra crap that gets bundled with it, then come back here and tell me why it shouldn't be flagged.
All they did was discover that everyone on a dating site places physical attraction (based on a photo) above everything else by a wide margin. Reported "compatibility" and profile data are largely irrelevant. Basically, Hot or Not should be as effective for online dating as eHarmony.
My experience is that most tablets and chrome books have horrid resell values. Take a hammer to it and, if you're concerned about dumpster divers, go drive it to your local landfill.
I don't care what the OS is. Just release a decently-spec'd phone with a 3.5-4 inch screen max. I'm tired of not being able to upgrade because everything from the last 3 years has been huge.
Agreed. Since the vast majority of open source projects are designed to be free alternatives to paid products, my source of "news" usually comes in the form of "open source sharepoint" or "open source office" type searches. The main problem with this is that, like most things in the open-source world, tons of projects exist without any updates for years. So while googling can offer a wide range of results, I usually have to cross-reference them with Wikipedia since they seem to do a good job of showing current versions of software.
Aren't these the kinds of questions the EU should have been asking themselves before passing the law? The fact that so many of these questions need to be asked should show them just how poorly conceived and written the law is in the first place.
Maybe so, but I do think it sounds like this guy was looking for a fight, so to speak. He tries to board early, is told he has to wait, and he equates that with "rude service?" The fact that he approached the situation looking for an exception to be made in his favor at the last minute rather than asking to get better seating ahead of time sort of makes him look like a douche bag to me. And then to send out a very possibly misleading Tweet about it, knowing (hoping probably) that SWA will catch it just sounds like he was fishing for a freebie or a ticket comp.
I know a guy who basically does that kind of thing every time he flies, because he knows 9 times out of 10, he does get comped in one way or another.
Sounds more like he means he wants one OS that people can write programs for and have it properly scale to the device, within reason. I don't think he's talking about the GUI. One bit of information that supports this is how he's combining the various windows teams into one, so that you don't have one group making the desktop OS, and another making the phone OS, and a third making the XBox OS. One team builds and maintains it, so that each device type shares the same core functionality.
There will probably be GUI similarities, and I'm sure many of them will suck. But hopefully we'll avoid situations like the Windows 8 keyboard/touchscreen dichotomy in the future, since the design workload won't be as segmented.
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He also invented "Artificial Intelligence engines" whatever the hell that means.
Having blobs of liquid metal flowing to the heart seems like a show stopper to me. I'm intrigued by the old-school-mad-scientist aspect of this idea, but the potential risks seem a bit serious.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. 30 years ago, applications were built with long life-spans in mind, so dropping into very low-level code could make financial sense. Today, programs are generally designed for adaptability and compatibility. The target is constantly moving for the vast majority of applications out there. Dropping into assembly rarely makes sense anymore, because the mantra is "good enough" rather than "best" because even the "best" won't stay that way for long.
Of course, different industries will have different mileage. If you do most of your work for embedded devices or industry-niche things like robotics or satellites, then by all means dive into the 1's and 0's.
No, Jobs alienated himself from his peers and spent the next few decades doing acid while Apple ran itself into the ground. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley was already establishing their reputation for pushing boundaries, engaging in barely-legal business practices, and working to change the industry as fast as possible.
Jobs came back from his acid trip and turned Apple around, but the industry's attitudes and culture were well-established by that point.
If it outputs to 1080p, then sure. Rendering and displaying are two very different things.
If you read closely, monitors and TV's usually word the size in the form of a "class" rather than an exact measurement.
Unfortunately for Sony, the box clearly states 1080p.
Assuming you are talking to me, I did consider it. The lawyers I spoke with, however, said the courts generally won't side the plaintiff on this stuff unless identity theft or mistake identity is involved. He did say the fact that I wasn't contacted for 3 years should theoretically swing things into my favor, however the collections agency would simply claim they tried and it would be a he-said-she-said scenario where, again, the courts rarely side with the plaintiff.
All in all, I just decided to wait for it to drop from my credit. Amazingly, I've never had the collections agency call me, so I'm not having to deal with phones calls or anything, and at this point it is set to expire next year. It's still very annoying with just how stacked against the people this system is. Oh, and I filed a 3 page complaint with the FTC after TransUnion basically did nothing, complete with supporting documentation and everything (which I had at the time), but I never did hear anything of it.
Maybe we'll finally stop relying on Russia for access to space...
I think you are overestimating the extend that google influenced this guys' arrest. They found child porn on his gmail account, and forwarded the info (not the email, just the fact that something was found) to the police, who then received a warrant to officially search his email, probably due in large part to both the claim that google found stuff and that the guy was a registered sex offender.
Google basically provided an anonymous tip; that's it. I had to do something similar a few years ago, although it wasn't automated. While doing a routine virus removal for a (former) client, I found a few pictures that were pretty obviously child porn. I called the police to let them know, they quickly received a warrant to pick the computer up and that was it. I wasn't looking for shit, or snooping around, or trying to start trouble. But I'm pretty sure it's actually illegal for me NOT to report something like that.
You are blind. Google has scanned email content for the purpose of serving adds for years. It's also no secret that they have a vast database of picture sigs/hashse for examples of known child porn, for the purpose of keeping the stuff off their search engine. It's really not that much of a stretch to think they combine the two if it furthers a well-documented company goal/policy...
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This is hardly a new company stance or anything, but it looks to me like the program started up last year and is only now starting to "come online" for email scanning. Maybe we'll see more cases like this. Or maybe they've been sending tips to police for years, and the police have simply been able to nab the guy without having to request access to his email first. Anyway, I think it's weird that people are all freaked out something that's been in place for a year, officially, and has been a company focus for at least 8.
I think google is just actively searching for specific things (child porn) for this purpose. They've actually advertised the fact that they have a vast database of known child porn pictures, originally as a method of keeping them out of search results. That info is at least a few years old, even if it wasn't advertised very well.
Hard to take him seriously when he's basically made himself very wealthy by "advocating" for blacks. It's hard to find anything he's done in the last 30 years that has had any meaningful impact, beyond lining his own pocket. But that hasn't stopped him from taking the soap box every chance he can get, before moving onto whatever new crisis comes up -- often leaving his previous efforts hanging.
I ran into this a few years ago. Basically, I got a random call saying I owed about $1k. After asking for the debt verification letter to be sent, I was able to figure out that the debt in question was for some daycare provider in 2009, 3 years before receiving my first collections call. Problem was, we had moved out of that area when this supposed debt occurred, meaning it shouldn't have been charged in the first place. The daycare provider couldn't produce any documentation to support their claim, saying that it happened 3 years ago and they can't find anything. I then called the debt collection agency back and asked for the debt to be discharged as a result, but they said the daycare center claims the debt is valid and won't reverse it. I then opened a ticket with TransUnion (where the collections was listed) and explained the situation. 30 days later I got a letter saying the looked into the debt and determined that it is valid, despite having no documentation to back the debt up, and my documentation showing I wasn't even living in that area. Best part is, I followed up with TansUnion to find out how they validated the debt, and was told they called the daycare center and simply asked them if it was valid; no proof or documentation or anything provided. The whole system is a racket, and there's basically no way to get collections reversed unless the debt involves identity theft. The original creditor has no interest in the truth because they already sold the debt. The collection agency has no interest in the truth because they have already bought the debt. The credit industry has no interest in the truth because it's their core business. The only reason this whole thing hasn't bothered me too much is because since I basically went 4 years before realizing the debt existed, I can just wait for it to fall off my report.
Thankfully, Chrome doesn't require Java to be installed separately, so they've kind of taken care of that problem for us. But yeah, I agree that the Java installer should be labeled as malware. Same with basically anything that comes from Sourceforge ever since they changed the downloads to install programs, complete with bundled crap.
uTorrent IS malware these days. Try installing it without unchecking all the extra crap that gets bundled with it, then come back here and tell me why it shouldn't be flagged.
All they did was discover that everyone on a dating site places physical attraction (based on a photo) above everything else by a wide margin. Reported "compatibility" and profile data are largely irrelevant. Basically, Hot or Not should be as effective for online dating as eHarmony.
My experience is that most tablets and chrome books have horrid resell values. Take a hammer to it and, if you're concerned about dumpster divers, go drive it to your local landfill.
I don't care what the OS is. Just release a decently-spec'd phone with a 3.5-4 inch screen max. I'm tired of not being able to upgrade because everything from the last 3 years has been huge.
I just want to know when Slashdot became Bennett Haselton's personal blog. Is he an employee or something?
Agreed. Since the vast majority of open source projects are designed to be free alternatives to paid products, my source of "news" usually comes in the form of "open source sharepoint" or "open source office" type searches. The main problem with this is that, like most things in the open-source world, tons of projects exist without any updates for years. So while googling can offer a wide range of results, I usually have to cross-reference them with Wikipedia since they seem to do a good job of showing current versions of software.
Aren't these the kinds of questions the EU should have been asking themselves before passing the law? The fact that so many of these questions need to be asked should show them just how poorly conceived and written the law is in the first place.
Maybe so, but I do think it sounds like this guy was looking for a fight, so to speak. He tries to board early, is told he has to wait, and he equates that with "rude service?" The fact that he approached the situation looking for an exception to be made in his favor at the last minute rather than asking to get better seating ahead of time sort of makes him look like a douche bag to me. And then to send out a very possibly misleading Tweet about it, knowing (hoping probably) that SWA will catch it just sounds like he was fishing for a freebie or a ticket comp. I know a guy who basically does that kind of thing every time he flies, because he knows 9 times out of 10, he does get comped in one way or another.
Sounds more like he means he wants one OS that people can write programs for and have it properly scale to the device, within reason. I don't think he's talking about the GUI. One bit of information that supports this is how he's combining the various windows teams into one, so that you don't have one group making the desktop OS, and another making the phone OS, and a third making the XBox OS. One team builds and maintains it, so that each device type shares the same core functionality. There will probably be GUI similarities, and I'm sure many of them will suck. But hopefully we'll avoid situations like the Windows 8 keyboard/touchscreen dichotomy in the future, since the design workload won't be as segmented.