All we have here is somebody trying to make Apple look bad by releasing their bargaining position so it gets tried in the press, which may be fair, but unfortunate that things get decided like this in the press. The appeals process should run it's course, unhindered by such interference by the likes of the local news paper.
Right.... Apple has the right to appeal for FAIR UNBIASED due process regarding the assessed value.. The newspapers are unfairly meddling which might result in anti-Apple bias in the process. This is not fair or right.... it seems in the future it might be more prudent for such appeals to be kept confidential --- It should be a matter of public record for the property what the tax disposition is, but they ought to seal the records until there is no longer an active challenge/appeals process in progress.
Probably to respond to load shedding requests. Ideally that should only allow a signal to setback the water temperature setpoint.
That.... and I see another possible application. Usually hot water from the tank is needed Only during certain times of day.
Major uses for hot water are: Showers... Hot Baths... Kitchen cleanup. Dishwashing. Laundry. All 4 of these tasks occur during certain days and times on a predictable weekly schedule; and among those only Showers/Baths and Dishwashing require an enormous amount of hot water --- with Kitchen cleanup and Laundry sometimes using a little bit of warm water.
Why not be able to schedule the hot water system so that it only cares to make sure enough gallons of hot water at sufficient temperature at the expected demand times?
Introduce a random time error into thermostats for things like HVAC systems
Usually when people lower the temperature on their thermostat to below the current temp; they expect their A/C to kick on immediately --- if there's a 2 minute delay between adjusting it in the app and seeing the new temp in effect on the thermostat, there are going to be complaints, since that is a long time.
Better yet, have all new homes use tankless/"on-demand" heaters.
Tankless heaters require MUCH more electric power while operating and there's still a delay from shower start to hot water arrives at the bath. So imagine some company sells an IoT convenience device for your shower/tub called a "Pre-Warmer"; basically an App that lets you turn on and run the hot water spigot to your shower/tub over the internet without having to walk all the way to the shower/tub and then back to what you were doing, in order to provide you the convenience that the water may be already toasty warm by the time that you walk over to it, and millions of these devices get hacked, then we're back at the same situation --- a million of these devices turning on will activate half a million tankless water heaters at the same time (if 50% of the people with the app are tankless).
Everything the USA learned from its new ships since then? ie they want a new ship with new tech. Not something that needs constant work and tax money.
It's called an overhaul to make everything as good as new and refit all the infrastructure and equipment on the ship with new infrastructure and equipment.... so they can put in their new toys without wasting billions?
Fundamentally though, a ship built 50 years ago should be hardly different from a new ship; it's not like there's a new material to make the structure out of.
This seems a highly aggressive stance for Bethesda to be taking
If the sale is legal by first-sale, then Bethesda have absolutely no business nor any legal basis for saying how the seller can or can't represent their wares; if the seller describes it as "NEW", and that's because the product was never used -- then fine, that is legal; Nothing gives the publisher any right to interfere with the sale or to try and force the seller to represent the good's condition in a different way.
Why are they decommissioning these anyways, instead of maintaining them? It seems like an insane waste to be continually building new vessels and shredding old ones.
That would mean all games older than 5 years becomes free. If all games released until 2013 where available legally for free, I think a lot of people would be a lot less motivated to buy games released in 2018.
Correct... I advocate returning copyright to its ORIGINAL term. 20 Years after publication; Renewable IF REGISTERED Upon paying a RENEWAL FEE, for at most one additional 20 year term for a MAXIMUM TOTAL of 40 years to profit from a work.
If the IP is really abandoned, claim adverse possession. If the owner doesn't refute by the allowed time
That's cute, but your copyright on a work is not "property"; It is a set of exclusive rights over X granted to you by the federal government, so it is not subject to state laws that typically govern real-estate (Real Property) or even Personal Property; Although the feds have provided processes by which you can transfer away your right Or confer to someone else permission to use your rights by license or contract ---- the states cannot apply their property rules, so it would be necessary for Congress to pass an act allowing this, and the powerful rightsholders' lobbies would pressure all their people firmly against this.
Time for a Smartphone with a SD Card slot and a User-Replaceable Battery.
Or how about some battery solution that can be fully recharged in 5 seconds by putting a pair of holes on the phone to attach tubes to for flushing out the battery with a fresh squirt of fully ionized electrolyte liquid?
Sigh.... I am contending that it helps no more to have a Liberal Arts degree than being familiar with the tools. Being a REALLY savvy artist does not translate into better skill at developing software; what translates into better skill at writing software is experience with tools, experience with software, and if you're in the design process --- the humility to
solicit some user feedback before you start writing, and once you reach Alpha 1.
The medium is a 3D printed plastic plate --- It seems you are totally ignorant to the basic properties of plastics.
Dust gets in the way, moisture changes the refractive index.
Dust and Moisture cannot penetrate plastics. It's trivial to make sure the environment is clean when first 3D printing the media. You can bury a plastic plate/block in a pile of sand or a mound of dirt, dig it up, and spray it off --- not a single spec of dirt or sand or drop of water will penetrate into the material. A plastic plate/block can be submerged to a significant depth with no water or gas able to penetrate through the layers, let-alone dust.
If during manufacture the detectors and projection units are epoxied to the plate, there will be a continuous layer of plastics, and a Zero percent chance of any dust or moisture ever entering in the first place.
Temperature makes things expand and contract. Different materials do s at different rates.
Plastics experience very little or no thermal expansion, some can survive very high temperatures with no change in state. Also, the entire printed sheets are plastic with different bumps printed in different locations on different layers: the plates/units are not a combination of differing kinds of materials.
There's PLENTY of room for a decent mail experience; Outlook is not great, and Gmail app is no good for people who aren't using Google for e-mail service.
But $100 a year which is more than even Outlook and Eudora Pro used to cost... doesn't fly for a software mail client unless you're providing a major meaningful service above and beyond, such as cloud-based archiving and searching that client software alone cannot provide.
Try something like $20 upfront, plus $5/year for maintenance.
they could determine those individuals who worked in the CIA. And by backtracking the location of those individuals to where they were early in the morning, their home address could be determined
Shoot.. this could probably done without an app just by triangulating IMEIs as multiple cellular stations detect the same IMEI; I imagine the carriers could already easily do this --- monitor what IMEIs are frequently detected near a known CIA location, and where that same IMEI is during the early morning, late nights, and weekends...
Perhaps employees should be encouraged to leave their smartphone at home and never take it on the commute --- give them throwaway feature phones to be stored powered off in their vehicle, in case of emergencies, and issue them a work phone for use during the day after they enter the building, that can't be traced to them or their home, And they can use all the fitness trackers they want, provided none of the fitness trackers people use require that they register with identifying information.....
Musicians need software for creating music. Artists need software for creating art. Writers need software for writing. Programmers who also understand those secondary fields are likely to be better at creating such software than programmers who don't.
You don't need a liberal arts degree to effectively write software for composing music, and you don't need to be an artist to create digital painting software --- There exist already tools for these, and if you're writing new software it would help to receive training or instruction in those tools first, so you can better meet the need of professionals in your market or domain; in some cases having domain-specific knowledge or access to an expert in the right domain-specific knowledge can be helpful or necessary.
What if the dingaling for New Guy Cable causes an outage for my whole neighborhood
How about holding the new Guy responsible to repair or pay for repairing the damage when they do that ?
In most cases the people running lines for New Guy Cable will have former employees of the Incumbent cable provider, or may even be the same contractors that the incumbent provider uses; so the only question then is about shady contractors who screw something up ----- which can happen even if they don't use the poles and decide on directional drilling instead -- This is why permitting is required, and if the contractor starts causing too much disruption, the municipality can order them to pause or suspend their activities for a time, until what's going wrong can be investigated.
By the way, I believe if the incumbents are THAT concerned, they have the opportunity to do the work themselves, if they don't delay ---- the problem is those arseholes use delaying tactics to try and stop new competition coming in.
As in require the employee to type some facts into the computer that only the customer knows in order to authorize a SIM Swap.
Starting with a "Support PIN" when the CSR opens up an account it should display a message that says something like "A PIN is required to access some support functions for this customer"
In a normal call, the employee asks the customer to provide the PIN, and the employee types the PIN and gets a Yes/No "Support Functions Unlocked" OR "Access Denied"
Next, have a secondary identifier that needs to be entered to authorize a SIM swap specifically... something like "Last 4 digits of social", that Telco employees cannot view, but the computer will prompt them for, and must be entered correctly to access the SIM SWAP feature, Finally the procedure is Requested and will result in E-mail and SMS messages being sent... the customer will then have to wait X hours then call back and authorize completion of the SWAP --- Three incorrect entries of support PIN or SSN will put the account on "Support Lockdown," and Two Persons other than that employee will have to participate to do an Unlock.
be for naught if the voter ID requirements are designed to disenfranchise certain groups of voters.
It shouldn't disenfranchise anyone, unless they're in a group such as unlawful residents or convicted Felons who are not to be voting. That would be a last thing we need.... felons forming more NAMBLA-like groups to elect representatives in order to soften criminal statutes like burglary or reduce enforcement or take protections off the books.
That's theoretically possible, and maybe a possible situation, but not that realistic a scenario. Crypto exchange rates have been volatile, yes, but NOT nearly as volatile as you are implying. We don't see the value decreasing to 1/100th what it was or increasing 100x all in one day. The largest single-day change for BTC ever was approximately 25% which was on major news events.
Just dust, moisture, temperature changes, vibration.
It would take some rather extreme conditions to bend layered sheets of plastic, especially inside a decent enclosure. The interface points could be a weak spot, but there are a number of ways they could protected, such as putting the detectors flush with the media and filling the space with epoxy.
Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life
Testing how a human responds to a robot saying "Please don't kill me" seems very disturbing; this is only a step removed from having test subjects see a human in a bed with a breathing apparatus and be instructed to switch it off, while the other human begs them not to.
Actually.. how is that any different? The human doesn't necessarily know or not how sentient or not the robot is, and in their mind, switching off the robot could become tantamount to euthanizing an intelligent being.
.... Normally Only another human can beg -- machines don't beg or hold such conversations, and when a human does beg, then it means they are in severely desired straits and worth at least listening too: although then judgement will kick in to determine if they are begging based on a legitimate situation or trying to manipulate you like a kid begging to keep the TV turned on, or a full-time street beggar asking for change for food, but in reality they have hundreds of $$$ on them, and your contribution would be feeding an alcohol/drug/smoking habit.
silently flipping some bits or simply coercing the electorate through emotive social media campaigns?
Emotive social media campaigns are protected free speech; not voting system tampering. Campaigns involving spreading a message or idea may be a powerful way to influence outcomes, but that's how democracy is supposed to work.
Preventing someone from silently flipping bits is the primary objective that polling systems are supposed to be trying to achieve. If the states have not gotten what they paid for, then this is an issue their vendors need to fix, or be subject to fines.
If you think thats bad, you should see what happens when the 911 database is wrong.
I don't think it's THAT hard. When I was with an interconnected VoIP provider, we had some contacts who could make corrections to customers' location and other details in the database --- didn't really seem like it was a "1 Guy in the world" type situation.
signing up legitimately and then giving copies of the browser to others who did not register?
Their product was not a PC installer you download from a website -- they were only available on Smartphones and Tablets, and the major platforms have DRM technologies controlling distribution of commercial apps, and limiting your installs per account.
Their installation steps were: (1) Install App (No verification required yet)
(2) Launch App
(3) Follow prompt to login with Google, Facebook or LinkedIn Account
(2) Go through prompts to Point your Tablet/Smart Phone's camera at the back of your driver's license and take picture
(3) Final prompt is to make a $19.99 In-App Purchase to register for "The New Internet"
(4) The In-App purchase will only succeed if your Social Media Account's Data: Name, Address, DOB, and In-App Purchase billing details match Driver's license data.
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All we have here is somebody trying to make Apple look bad by releasing their bargaining position so it gets tried in the press, which may be fair, but unfortunate that things get decided like this in the press. The appeals process should run it's course, unhindered by such interference by the likes of the local news paper.
Right.... Apple has the right to appeal for FAIR UNBIASED due process regarding the assessed value.. The newspapers are unfairly meddling which might result in anti-Apple bias in the process. This is not fair or right.... it seems in the future it might be more prudent for such appeals to be kept confidential --- It should be a matter of public record for the property what the tax disposition is, but they ought to seal the records until there is no longer an active challenge/appeals process in progress.
Probably to respond to load shedding requests. Ideally that should only allow a signal to setback the water temperature setpoint.
That.... and I see another possible application. Usually hot water from the tank is needed Only during certain times of day.
Major uses for hot water are: Showers... Hot Baths... Kitchen cleanup. Dishwashing. Laundry.
All 4 of these tasks occur during certain days and times on a predictable weekly schedule; and among those only Showers/Baths and Dishwashing require an enormous amount of hot water --- with Kitchen cleanup and Laundry sometimes using a little bit of warm water.
Why not be able to schedule the hot water system so that it only cares to make sure enough gallons of hot water at sufficient temperature at the expected demand times?
The biggest problem I have with mine is the teenaged kids now have no limits in the shower
There are multiple electronic and mechanical timer-based devices that can be installed for enforcing limits
on shower time... isn't technology great?
Introduce a random time error into thermostats for things like HVAC systems
Usually when people lower the temperature on their thermostat to below the current temp; they expect their A/C to kick on immediately ---
if there's a 2 minute delay between adjusting it in the app and seeing the new temp in effect on the thermostat, there are going to be complaints, since that is a long time.
Better yet, have all new homes use tankless/"on-demand" heaters.
Tankless heaters require MUCH more electric power while operating and there's still a delay from shower start to
hot water arrives at the bath. So imagine some company sells an IoT convenience device for your shower/tub called a "Pre-Warmer";
basically an App that lets you turn on and run the hot water spigot to your shower/tub over the internet without having to walk all the way
to the shower/tub and then back to what you were doing, in order to provide you the convenience that the water may be already toasty warm by the time that you walk over to it, and millions of these devices get hacked, then we're back at the same situation --- a million of these devices turning on will activate half a million tankless water heaters at the same time (if 50% of the people with the app are tankless).
Everything the USA learned from its new ships since then?
ie they want a new ship with new tech. Not something that needs constant work and tax money.
It's called an overhaul to make everything as good as new and refit all the infrastructure and equipment on the ship with new infrastructure and equipment....
so they can put in their new toys without wasting billions?
Fundamentally though, a ship built 50 years ago should be hardly different from a new ship; it's not like there's a new material to make the structure out of.
This seems a highly aggressive stance for Bethesda to be taking
If the sale is legal by first-sale, then Bethesda have absolutely no business nor any legal basis for saying how the seller can or can't represent their wares; if the seller describes it as "NEW", and that's because the product was never used -- then fine, that is legal; Nothing gives the publisher any right to interfere with the sale or to try and force the seller to represent the good's condition in a different way.
Why are they decommissioning these anyways, instead of maintaining them?
It seems like an insane waste to be continually building new vessels and shredding old ones.
That would mean all games older than 5 years becomes free. If all games released until 2013 where available legally for free, I think a lot of people would be a lot less motivated to buy games released in 2018.
Correct... I advocate returning copyright to its ORIGINAL term. 20 Years after publication; Renewable IF REGISTERED Upon paying a RENEWAL FEE, for at most one additional 20 year term for a MAXIMUM TOTAL of 40 years to profit from a work.
If the IP is really abandoned, claim adverse possession. If the owner doesn't refute by the allowed time
That's cute, but your copyright on a work is not "property"; It is a set of exclusive rights over X granted to you by the federal government,
so it is not subject to state laws that typically govern real-estate (Real Property) or even Personal Property; Although the feds have provided processes
by which you can transfer away your right Or confer to someone else permission to use your rights by license or contract ---- the states cannot apply their property rules, so it would be necessary for Congress to pass an act allowing this, and the powerful rightsholders' lobbies would pressure all their people firmly against this.
Time for a Smartphone with a SD Card slot and a User-Replaceable Battery.
Or how about some battery solution that can be fully recharged in 5 seconds by putting a pair of holes on the
phone to attach tubes to for flushing out the battery with a fresh squirt of fully ionized electrolyte liquid?
Need, no, but it helps.
Sigh.... I am contending that it helps no more to have a Liberal Arts degree than being familiar with the tools.
Being a REALLY savvy artist does not translate into better skill at developing software; what translates into
better skill at writing software is experience with tools, experience with software, and if you're in the design process --- the humility to
solicit some user feedback before you start writing, and once you reach Alpha 1.
The medium is a 3D printed plastic plate --- It seems you are totally ignorant to the basic properties of plastics.
Dust gets in the way, moisture changes the refractive index.
Dust and Moisture cannot penetrate plastics. It's trivial to make sure the environment is clean when first 3D printing the media. You can bury a plastic plate/block in a pile of sand or a mound of dirt, dig it up, and spray it off --- not a single spec of dirt or sand or drop of water will penetrate into the material. A plastic plate/block can be submerged to a significant depth with no water or gas able to penetrate through the layers, let-alone dust.
If during manufacture the detectors and projection units are epoxied to the plate, there will be a continuous layer of plastics, and a Zero percent chance of any dust or moisture ever entering in the first place.
Temperature makes things expand and contract. Different materials do s at different rates.
Plastics experience very little or no thermal expansion, some can survive very high temperatures with no change in state. Also, the entire printed sheets are plastic with different bumps printed in different locations on different layers: the plates/units are not a combination of differing kinds of materials.
There's PLENTY of room for a decent mail experience; Outlook is not great, and Gmail app is no good for people who aren't using Google for e-mail service.
But $100 a year which is more than even Outlook and Eudora Pro used to cost... doesn't fly for a software mail client unless you're providing a major meaningful service above and beyond, such as cloud-based archiving and searching that client software alone cannot provide.
Try something like $20 upfront, plus $5/year for maintenance.
they could determine those individuals who worked in the CIA. And by backtracking the location of those individuals to where they were early in the morning, their home address could be determined
Shoot.. this could probably done without an app just by triangulating IMEIs as multiple cellular stations detect the same IMEI; I imagine the carriers could already easily do this --- monitor what IMEIs are frequently detected near a known CIA location, and where that same IMEI is during the early morning, late nights, and weekends...
Perhaps employees should be encouraged to leave their smartphone at home and never take it on the commute --- give them throwaway feature phones to be stored powered off in their vehicle, in case of emergencies, and issue them a work phone for use during the day after they enter the building, that can't be traced to them or their home, And they can use all the fitness trackers they want, provided none of the fitness trackers people use require that they register with identifying information.....
Musicians need software for creating music. Artists need software for creating art. Writers need software for writing. Programmers who also understand those secondary fields are likely to be better at creating such software than programmers who don't.
You don't need a liberal arts degree to effectively write software for composing music, and you don't need to be an artist to create digital painting software --- There exist already tools for these, and if you're writing new software it would help to receive training or instruction in those tools first, so you can better meet the need of professionals in your market or domain; in some cases having domain-specific knowledge or access to an expert in the right domain-specific knowledge can be helpful or necessary.
What if the dingaling for New Guy Cable causes an outage for my whole neighborhood
How about holding the new Guy responsible to repair or pay for repairing the damage when they do that ?
In most cases the people running lines for New Guy Cable will have former employees of the Incumbent cable provider, or may even be the same contractors that the incumbent provider uses; so the only question then is about shady contractors who screw something up ----- which can happen even if they don't use the poles and decide on directional drilling instead -- This is why permitting is required, and if the contractor starts causing too much disruption, the municipality can order them to pause or suspend their activities for a time, until what's going wrong can be investigated.
By the way, I believe if the incumbents are THAT concerned, they have the opportunity to do the work themselves, if they don't delay ---- the problem is those arseholes use delaying tactics to try and stop new competition coming in.
As in require the employee to type some facts into the computer that only the customer knows
in order to authorize a SIM Swap.
Starting with a "Support PIN" when the CSR opens up an account it should display a message that says something like
"A PIN is required to access some support functions for this customer"
In a normal call, the employee asks the customer to provide the PIN, and the employee types the PIN and gets a Yes/No "Support Functions Unlocked" OR "Access Denied"
Next, have a secondary identifier that needs to be entered to authorize a SIM swap specifically... something like "Last 4 digits of social", that Telco employees cannot view, but the computer will prompt them for, and must be entered correctly to access the SIM SWAP feature, Finally the procedure is Requested and will result in E-mail and SMS messages being sent... the customer will then have to wait X hours then call back and authorize completion of the SWAP --- Three incorrect entries of support PIN or SSN will put the account on "Support Lockdown," and Two Persons other than that employee will have to participate to do an Unlock.
WHEN can I buy the ORIGINAL theatrical release on Blu-Ray?
When you shelve your BluRay player and get a LaserDisc player instead.?
be for naught if the voter ID requirements are designed to disenfranchise certain groups of voters.
It shouldn't disenfranchise anyone, unless they're in a group such as unlawful residents or convicted Felons who are not to be voting.
That would be a last thing we need.... felons forming more NAMBLA-like groups to elect representatives in order to
soften criminal statutes like burglary or reduce enforcement or take protections off the books.
That's theoretically possible, and maybe a possible situation, but not that realistic a scenario. Crypto exchange rates have been volatile, yes, but NOT nearly as volatile as you are implying. We don't see the value decreasing to 1/100th what it was or increasing 100x all in one day. The largest single-day change for BTC ever was approximately 25% which was on major news events.
Just dust, moisture, temperature changes, vibration.
It would take some rather extreme conditions to bend layered sheets of plastic, especially inside a decent enclosure.
The interface points could be a weak spot, but there are a number of ways they could protected, such as putting the detectors flush with the media and filling the space with epoxy.
Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life
Testing how a human responds to a robot saying "Please don't kill me" seems
very disturbing; this is only a step removed from having test subjects see a human in a bed
with a breathing apparatus and be instructed to switch it off, while the other human begs them not to.
Actually.. how is that any different? The human doesn't necessarily know or not how sentient or not
the robot is, and in their mind, switching off the robot could become tantamount to euthanizing an intelligent being.
and when a human does beg, then it means they are in severely desired straits and worth
at least listening too: although then judgement will kick in to
determine if they are begging based on a legitimate situation or trying to manipulate you like a kid
begging to keep the TV turned on, or a full-time street beggar asking for change for food, but
in reality they have hundreds of $$$ on them, and your contribution would be feeding an alcohol/drug/smoking habit.
silently flipping some bits or simply coercing the electorate through emotive social media campaigns?
Emotive social media campaigns are protected free speech; not voting system tampering.
Campaigns involving spreading a message or idea may be a powerful way to influence outcomes, but that's how democracy is supposed to work.
Preventing someone from silently flipping bits is the primary objective that polling systems are supposed to be trying to achieve.
If the states have not gotten what they paid for, then this is an issue their vendors need to fix, or be subject to fines.
If you think thats bad, you should see what happens when the 911 database is wrong.
I don't think it's THAT hard. When I was with an interconnected VoIP provider, we had some contacts who could make corrections to customers' location and other details in the database --- didn't really seem like it was a "1 Guy in the world" type situation.
signing up legitimately and then giving copies of the browser to others who did not register?
Their product was not a PC installer you download from a website -- they were only available on Smartphones and Tablets, and the major platforms have DRM technologies controlling distribution of commercial apps, and limiting your installs per account.
Their installation steps were:
(1) Install App (No verification required yet)
(2) Launch App
(3) Follow prompt to login with Google, Facebook or LinkedIn Account
(2) Go through prompts to Point your Tablet/Smart Phone's camera at the back of your driver's license and take picture
(3) Final prompt is to make a $19.99 In-App Purchase to register for "The New Internet"
(4) The In-App purchase will only succeed if your Social Media Account's Data: Name, Address, DOB, and In-App Purchase billing details match Driver's license data.