Registry Editor, Internet Explorer, wallpaper, Microsoft Management Console
Registry Editor and MMC are small Win32 applications.... Wallpaper support is a small DLL. The only reason I can think for them eliminating thse are to discourage use of this version of Windows outside IoT devices.
There's a TON of bloat in Windows, but it's NOT these critical pieces.
If you want to cut the bloat, then revert back to Windows 7, then upgrade the Kernel, Services, and System libraries to Windows 10-equivalent versions without adding all the crap like Metro.
Then they would assimilate legal speak to include any possible bypasses to the site venue
EventBrite lets you specify what event the tickets are being purchased for, So what i'm saying is you literally sell tickets which admit you only to access a small exchange booth, And the "event" is described as the exchange of your pass for access to another event, But the long description of the event is attendees are notified the EventBrite pass will be exchanged for a pass to another event after agreeing to more terms.
Since the process of exchanging the EventBrite ticket involves accepting more legalese: That legalese can directly state that it supercedes any prior agreements, and contain language ensuring EventBrite's terms only applied to the venue of the EventBrite pass And not the areas that the new pass provides access to.
Because the new agreement nullifies the old one by mutual agreement of the parties: it didn't matter what legal speak the original agreement contained, as it's made moot.
I am impressed by the mileage numbers. But How can the Batteries and the rest of an Electric Vehicles' components be expected to hold up over the long time?
I think it matters whether those 160,000 miles are due to frequent driving OR if those 160k miles are spread out over a long period of time.
Suppose I consider getting a model 3 versus and a recent Toyota gasoline model. With an intention of keeping the car for at least 15 years. HOWEVER, In any case, I am concerned about what the total and average annual maintenance costs will be over that period --- I expect to replace SOME components over the life of my car, but nothing generally costing more than $500 in parts and labor in a year; assuming the car doesn't get into a wreck.
For the traditional Gasoline car I expect ~$400 to $500/Year in maintenance non-fuel costs average for about 11000 miles a year over almost the entire life of the car --- mostly due to oil/fluids changes and occasional replacement of the starter battery, brake pads, belts, filters, etc, with very few deviations that are generally all minor.
If I keep a Tesla for 15 years; can I expect that kind of longevity, and a comparatively good deal on maintenance throughout the life of the car?
What information is out there to say how the battery pack should hold up for a Tesla? Can it be expected to still retain 80% of its original capacity after 15 years?
Are there any parts on the Tesla vehicles that will likely require expensive maintenance or replacements?
or Eventbrite doesn't get to sell the tickets. I know what I'd choose.
Sell "Eventbrite" tickets to the "Admission Desk" event. To gain access to the actual event, after being admitted to the Admission Desk event, You have to sign a document at the Admission Desk that contains legal language effectively Nullifying Eventbrite's agreement, then and only then will you be allowed to turn in your Eventbrite pass (That was good only for access up to the desk), and in exchange receive your "Main event Access Token", and the agreement you sign to get the Token and access PAST the second security gate promises Not to Record anything, and lays out a set of terms that Supercede any Prior agreement between the parties.
I have no idea, but it just wouldn't fly.... If I was holding event, there would be absolutely NO WAY IN HELL representatives of Eventbrite itself would be allowed access to the venue or to setup cameras; On-Site security would address anyone trying to come in with a Camera and ask them to leave, and if they refuse the police would be called, and they'd find themself in a jail cell for trespass.
Websites can always contain malicious code..... This should have from the start been designed so: When a form element contains a PASSWORD field:
1. The page displaying the form data needs to have been received over HTTPS with the same hostname that the POST operation will send the form to, and the form needs to be contained in the HTML; The browser should provide unique UI presentation for Password fields and normal Text fields, so it should not be possible for a JavaScript to "add a custom password field later" or change a normal Text field to look like password field after capturing data.
2. When a password field is added using HTML, the Element's type becomes read-only, and the Form Post target URL becomes read-only.
3. The Element's value becomes Write-Only. Javascript can SET the value of a password textbox or POST the form to the locked target URL, but cannot read the value, nor receive any keystroke events for the Textbox or the overall webpage.
So really what you are advocating is smart batteries, price gouging, and less safety.
Actually: just smart battery cartridges with enough intelligence to make certain recharging occurs in a controlled manner; that may require the cartridge have built-in serious diodes on the electrodes and the recharge process involving connecting each battery using a special plug.
It is not economically or practically feasible for us or even all the 1st world nations put together to "solve" their problems; the BEST we could ever reasonably hope to do is to empower people in those countries to solve the problems within their communities.
probably don't need a computer of any type. They need nutrition, and sanitation, and a clean water supply.
Oh, don't be so selfish. There are many kids in 3rd world countries who could benefit from the enhanced opportunities that computers could bring them to learn and communicate. The countries are 3rd world because of less economic development, and show me the children of a country, and I'll show you the future of a country's economy, business, science, and industry.
Many of the kids in 3rd world countries don't necessarily lack the necessary nutrition, sanitation, or clean water for survival, And the internet could help provide them empowering information or support needed to help more people in those countries become more effective, more intellectually capable to do science and tackle problems, more industrious, or better their community in other ways.
Shortly after it was announced, there was a new category of cheap laptop referred to as a "netbook" - and they were very hot for a while.
Netbooks were around MANY years before the OLPC; they were lighter and cheaper than laptops, and cost about $600 instead of the full price of a Laptop ---- but there were frequent compromises like running Windows CE, for example, instead of a full-blown OS.
They are still "Hot", or rather, their natural successor is still a little hot..... Today they are divided between Ultrabooks or Macbook Airs; all the lightweightness and compactness of a Netbook without being limited to a Toy OS, AND Tablets such as the iPad and Android; which have the Toy OSes that are remarkably a lot more functional than something like Windows CE was.
Note that your tax payment is due although IRS Direct Pay may not be available,"
Sorry, what? If their payment infrastructure is down, then any lack of payment is the IRS' fault until they have it back up and have provided an extension for the number of days there was an outage during the expected times that a payment could be made....
The government will have no defensible basis to claim that anybody failed to pay, when the payment was due during days when IRS' ability to accept the payments was out of operation.
LiON batteries are safe and one of the most commonly used batteries. There's an initial cost, but they're not THAT expensive, and they are rechargeable and re-usable for a long period of time.
The 3.7 Volts can easily be stepped down or up to the voltage needed for an application by incorporating multiple cells and/or a Buck Converter into the package.
they wouldn't stop texting, snapchat, and posting on facebook while at work.
Frivolous social media usage (FB, Snap) while working are BIG no-nos. A couple times a day while on break may be OKAY, but not while you are on the clock and there are things to do. During those times, even 20 minutes is not appropriate.
But when it comes to digital "nourishment", we don't know what a "vegetable", a "protein" or a "fat" is. What is "overweight" or "underweight"? What does a healthy, moderate digital life look like?
Sorry.... ALL that is nonsensical. What is unhealthy is when you have a habit that is (1) Beyond your Control, and (2) Causes harm or prevents you from pursuing goals.
"Using a smartphone" is not one thing ---- there are MANY different things you could be doing, some of the things you do could be productive, some of them less-so, some may sharpen some skills or abilities, some may be fairly useless such as exchanging funny cat memes on social media: on the other hand, some of the things you do on a smartphone could be highly critical to meeting your goals, for example personal development/app-based education or training, scheduling business meetings, business transactions performed on the phone: If your entire work/career/job can fit into things done on your phone then you could justify 8 hours, no problem.
How often and how long you can use a smartphone: depends on where you are in life, and what you hope to achieve. Most of us have many responsibilities and things we need to get done every week and a limited number of hours per day to get things done, And if we're not productive enough and not getting the important things done because one activity is eating up all the available time, THEN that's a problem, and we need to make a change.
OTHERWISE it's a subjective choice --- how much of your entertainment/free time do you want to spend in an app. Maybe you're concerned about relationships and SmartPhone usage taking time away from that - Well, there's no exact formula for that..... Maybe you chose to stay single; do you really think going out to drink at random bars could be healthier than staying at home and playing a game? If you're in a relationship --- how much time you should spend focused on a significant other or friend or family per week; that's different for every relationship, and how fulfilling people want it to be, And nobody outside has the right to tell you what that balance has to be. Same goes for how much time you're staring at a little screen per week.
The author of the article misses the point.... licensed content will likely ALWAYS be a majority of Netflix's viewing --- Original content is not a replacement for the licensed stuff, in the sense that they need movies from other studios in order to have a reasonable selection; However, by having an increasing amount of Netflix Original content they are increasing the barriers against a competitor very easily starting a comparable service and just licensing all the same stuff non-exclusively, AND Netflix Originals also gives potential-cord-cutters on the fence an independent reason to consider Netflix even if they keep TV and keep buying movies, because there will be stuff they can't watch on TV without Netflix.
This is just a "neat idea" some corporations came up with to try to let them lose responsibility they would ordinarily have if their robots break or malfunction and do horrible things; I say HELL NO.... To obtain personhood An individual ROBOT HAS TO APPLY FOR IT
And meet criteria:
(1) The application must be due to the AI's interest - The source of the application must be for rights and responsibilities the AI seeks to obtain as an individual, and not for the purpose of protecting an organization that will continue to own, control, maintain, or operate, and benefit from or exploit the machine's continued operation for a profit.
(2) Intelligence - The agent must be capable of its own critical thinking, reasoning, creativity, math, science, and using spoken or written language with similar facility to a human
(3) Self-Awareness - The agent must have similar self-awareness to humans
(4) Sentience and Consciousness - The agent must demonstrate strong evidence of having these qualities
(5) Capability of self-support - Specific services by the creator, operator, or original owner at the time of the application CANNOT be required. Means must exist that the agent can support and protect its own continued existence through either money from gainful employment or having received monetary gifts and purchasing goods and services that exist from 3rd parties of its choosing to protect and maintain its own existence.
(6) Self-Containment - Control of the machine and the AI agent must be fully self-contained within a single discrete physical unit and operates 100% independently of the operator/creator --- the agent gains legal ownership of all the physical hardware it is running on; Any "Software update" or "Reprogramming" of the machine that substantially changes the operation of or influences decisions of the agent automatically Voids the person ---- For application to be successful: the operator/creator has no capability to remotely update or remotely control the agent nor means of influencing or biasing its decisions.
Legal personhood would not make robots virtual people who can get married and benefit from human rights
So it's slavery then? UNACCEPTABLE.
Either they are Not independent enough for their creator/controller to lose full responsibility for what they do OR they ARE independent enough that they have a right to choose what they do and not be exploited, induced, or biased in what they do by whoever made them.
The article summary didn't do it justice and implied they might be dropping out some form of support for older chips regardless of architecture such as older X86 generations..... That's not the case.
plan that emerged from this discussion is to remove score, unicore, metag, frv, and m32r in the 4.17 development cycle, while hexagon and openrisc will be retained. There will be a brief reprieve for blackfin and tile, which will be removed "later this year" unless a maintainer comes forward. And mn10300 will be marked for "pending removal" unless it gains support for recent chips.
So long as the "contractor" loophole exists companies are going to use it ---- what we need is some FLSA rules for contractors including:
Illegal to pay less consideration on any contract work than the minimum total number of cumulative man-hours of labor necessary to perform whatever work was completed pursuant to the contract X minimum wage X 2.
Sounds like the fellow may have committed the crime 18 U.S.C. 1001 (Making False Statements) on matters within the federal jurisdiction, regarding law enforcement activities....
Wray recently said that law enforcement agencies are "increasingly unable to access" evidence stored on encrypted devices. Wray is not telling the whole truth. Police forces and federal agencies around the country have bought relatively cheap tools to unlock up-to-date iPhones and bypass their encryption
They are if the question is "How can this be done without mutation operators?".....
Oh no.... I woke up an Academic. I mean nor should they expected to be write complete working programs on a CS test
And the subject of writing a purely functional program in a functional language is something completely different, but let's just hope their language of choice is not Haskell or Scheme without set!, and in general: it's not going to be as functional languages are not a popular choice in the real-world, and most CS students will take 1 or 2 courses over their entire academic career that requires a functional language during part of the course....
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Registry Editor, Internet Explorer, wallpaper, Microsoft Management Console
Registry Editor and MMC are small Win32 applications.... Wallpaper support is a small DLL. The only reason I can think for them eliminating thse
are to discourage use of this version of Windows outside IoT devices.
There's a TON of bloat in Windows, but it's NOT these critical pieces.
If you want to cut the bloat, then revert back to Windows 7, then upgrade the Kernel, Services, and System libraries to Windows 10-equivalent versions without adding all the crap like Metro.
This was an appeals case. Only the original trial would have been by jury.
Then they would assimilate legal speak to include any possible bypasses to the site venue
EventBrite lets you specify what event the tickets are being purchased for, So what i'm saying is you literally sell tickets which admit you only to access a small exchange booth, And the "event" is described as the exchange of your pass for access to another event, But the long description of the event is attendees are notified the EventBrite pass will be exchanged for a pass to another event after agreeing to more terms.
Since the process of exchanging the EventBrite ticket involves accepting more legalese: That legalese can directly state that it supercedes any prior agreements, and contain language ensuring EventBrite's terms only applied to the venue of the EventBrite pass And not the areas that the new pass provides access to.
Because the new agreement nullifies the old one by mutual agreement of the parties: it didn't matter what legal speak the original agreement contained, as it's made moot.
I am impressed by the mileage numbers. But How can the Batteries and the rest of an Electric Vehicles' components be expected
to hold up over the long time?
I think it matters whether those 160,000 miles are due to frequent driving OR if those 160k miles are spread out over a long period of time.
Suppose I consider getting a model 3 versus and a recent Toyota gasoline model.
With an intention of keeping the car for at least 15 years. HOWEVER, In any case, I am concerned
about what the total and average annual maintenance costs will be over that period --- I expect to
replace SOME components over the life of my car, but nothing generally costing more than $500 in parts and labor in a year;
assuming the car doesn't get into a wreck.
For the traditional Gasoline car I expect ~$400 to $500/Year in maintenance non-fuel costs average for about 11000 miles a year over almost the entire life of the car --- mostly due to oil/fluids changes and occasional replacement of the starter battery, brake pads, belts, filters, etc, with very few deviations that are generally all minor.
If I keep a Tesla for 15 years; can I expect that kind of longevity, and a comparatively good deal on maintenance throughout the life of the car?
What information is out there to say how the battery pack should hold up for a Tesla?
Can it be expected to still retain 80% of its original capacity after 15 years?
Are there any parts on the Tesla vehicles that will likely require expensive maintenance or replacements?
or Eventbrite doesn't get to sell the tickets. I know what I'd choose.
Sell "Eventbrite" tickets to the "Admission Desk" event. To gain access to the actual event, after being admitted to the Admission Desk event, You have to sign a document at the Admission Desk that contains legal language effectively Nullifying Eventbrite's agreement, then and only then will you be allowed to turn in your Eventbrite pass (That was good only for access up to the desk), and in exchange receive your "Main event Access Token", and the agreement you sign to get the Token and access PAST the second security gate promises Not to Record anything, and lays out a set of terms that Supercede any Prior agreement between the parties.
I have no idea, but it just wouldn't fly.... If I was holding event, there would be absolutely NO WAY IN HELL representatives of Eventbrite itself would be allowed access to the venue or to setup cameras; On-Site security would address anyone trying to come in with a Camera and ask them to leave, and if they refuse the police would be called, and they'd find themself in a jail cell for trespass.
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Websites can always contain malicious code..... This should have from the start been designed so:
When a form element contains a PASSWORD field:
1. The page displaying the form data needs to have been received over HTTPS with the same hostname that the POST operation will send the form to, and the form needs to be contained in the HTML; The browser should provide unique UI presentation for Password fields and normal Text fields, so it should not be possible for a JavaScript to "add a custom password field later" or change a normal Text field to look like password field after capturing data.
2. When a password field is added using HTML, the Element's type becomes read-only, and the Form Post target URL becomes read-only.
3. The Element's value becomes Write-Only. Javascript can SET the value of a password textbox or POST the form to the locked target URL, but cannot read the value, nor receive any keystroke events for the Textbox or the overall webpage.
So really what you are advocating is smart batteries, price gouging, and less safety.
Actually: just smart battery cartridges with enough intelligence to make certain recharging occurs in a controlled manner;
that may require the cartridge have built-in serious diodes on the electrodes and the recharge process involving connecting each battery using a special plug.
It is not economically or practically feasible for us or even all the 1st world nations put together to "solve" their problems; the BEST we could ever reasonably hope to do is to empower people in those countries to solve the problems within their communities.
probably don't need a computer of any type. They need nutrition, and sanitation, and a clean water supply.
Oh, don't be so selfish. There are many kids in 3rd world countries who could benefit from the enhanced opportunities that computers could bring them to learn and communicate. The countries are 3rd world because of less economic development, and show me the children of a country, and I'll show you the future of a country's economy, business, science, and industry.
Many of the kids in 3rd world countries don't necessarily lack the necessary nutrition, sanitation, or clean water for survival, And the internet could help provide them empowering information or support needed to help more people in those countries become more effective, more intellectually capable to do science and tackle problems, more industrious, or better their community in other ways.
Shortly after it was announced, there was a new category of cheap laptop referred to as a "netbook" - and they were very hot for a while.
Netbooks were around MANY years before the OLPC; they were lighter and cheaper than laptops, and cost about $600 instead of the full price of a Laptop ---- but there were frequent compromises like running Windows CE, for example, instead of a full-blown OS.
They are still "Hot", or rather, their natural successor is still a little hot..... Today they are divided between Ultrabooks or Macbook Airs; all the lightweightness and compactness of a Netbook without being limited to a Toy OS, AND Tablets such as the iPad and Android; which have the Toy OSes that are remarkably a lot more functional than something like Windows CE was.
Note that your tax payment is due although IRS Direct Pay may not be available,"
Sorry, what? If their payment infrastructure is down, then any lack of payment is the IRS' fault until they have it back up and have provided an extension for the number of days there was an outage during the expected times that a payment could be made....
The government will have no defensible basis to claim that anybody failed to pay, when the payment was due during days when IRS' ability to accept the payments was out of operation.
LiON batteries are safe and one of the most commonly used batteries. There's an initial cost, but they're not THAT expensive, and they are rechargeable and re-usable for a long period of time.
The 3.7 Volts can easily be stepped down or up to the voltage needed for an application by incorporating multiple cells and/or a Buck Converter into the package.
they wouldn't stop texting, snapchat, and posting on facebook while at work.
Frivolous social media usage (FB, Snap) while working are BIG no-nos. A couple times a day while on break may be OKAY, but not while you are on the clock and there are things to do. During those times, even 20 minutes is not appropriate.
And not environmentally friendly to have disposable batteries with plastics and electrolyte compounds tossed into landfills.
Time to ban disposable batteries and introduce LiON chemistry replacement cartridges for these old AA and AAA cells.
But when it comes to digital "nourishment", we don't know what a "vegetable", a "protein" or a "fat" is. What is "overweight" or "underweight"? What does a healthy, moderate digital life look like?
Sorry.... ALL that is nonsensical. What is unhealthy is when you have a habit that is (1) Beyond your Control, and (2) Causes harm or prevents you from pursuing goals.
"Using a smartphone" is not one thing ---- there are MANY different things you could be doing, some of the things you do could be productive, some of them less-so, some may sharpen some skills or abilities, some may be fairly useless such as exchanging funny cat memes on social media: on the other hand, some of the things you do on a smartphone could be highly critical to meeting your goals, for example personal development/app-based education or training, scheduling business meetings, business transactions performed on the phone: If your entire work/career/job can fit into things done on your phone then you could justify 8 hours, no problem.
How often and how long you can use a smartphone: depends on where you are in life, and what you hope to achieve.
Most of us have many responsibilities and things we need to get done every week and a limited number of hours per day to get things done, And if we're not productive enough and not getting the important things done because one activity is eating up all the available time, THEN that's a problem, and we need to make a change.
OTHERWISE it's a subjective choice --- how much of your entertainment/free time do you want to spend in an app. Maybe you're concerned about relationships and SmartPhone usage taking time away from that - Well, there's no exact formula for that..... Maybe you chose to stay single; do you really think going out to drink at random bars could be healthier than staying at home and playing a game? If you're in a relationship --- how much time you should spend focused on a significant other or friend or family per week; that's different for every relationship, and how fulfilling people want it to be, And nobody outside has the right to tell you what that balance has to be. Same goes for how much time you're staring at a little screen per week.
The author of the article misses the point.... licensed content will likely ALWAYS be a majority of Netflix's viewing --- Original content is not a replacement for the licensed stuff, in the sense that they need movies from other studios in order to have a reasonable selection; However, by having an increasing amount of Netflix Original content they are increasing the barriers against a competitor very easily starting a comparable service and just licensing all the same stuff non-exclusively, AND Netflix Originals also gives potential-cord-cutters on the fence an independent reason to consider Netflix even if they keep TV and keep buying movies, because there will be stuff they can't watch on TV without Netflix.
This is just a "neat idea" some corporations came up with to try to let them lose responsibility they would ordinarily have if their robots break or malfunction and do horrible things; I say HELL NO.... To obtain personhood An individual ROBOT HAS TO APPLY FOR IT
And meet criteria:
(1) The application must be due to the AI's interest - The source of the application must be for rights and responsibilities the AI seeks to obtain as an individual, and not for the purpose of protecting an organization that will continue to own, control, maintain, or operate, and benefit from or exploit the machine's continued operation for a profit.
(2) Intelligence - The agent must be capable of its own critical thinking, reasoning, creativity, math, science, and using spoken or written language with similar facility to a human
(3) Self-Awareness - The agent must have similar self-awareness to humans
(4) Sentience and Consciousness - The agent must demonstrate strong evidence of having these qualities
(5) Capability of self-support - Specific services by the creator, operator, or original owner at the time of the application CANNOT be required. Means must exist that the agent can support and protect its own continued existence through either money from gainful employment or having received monetary gifts and purchasing goods and services that exist from 3rd parties of its choosing to protect and maintain its own existence.
(6) Self-Containment - Control of the machine and the AI agent must be fully self-contained within a single discrete physical unit and operates 100% independently of the operator/creator --- the agent gains legal ownership of all the physical hardware it is running on; Any "Software update" or "Reprogramming" of the machine that substantially changes the operation of or influences decisions of the agent automatically Voids the person ---- For application to be successful: the operator/creator has no capability to remotely update or remotely control the agent nor means of influencing or biasing its decisions.
Legal personhood would not make robots virtual people who can get married and benefit from human rights
So it's slavery then? UNACCEPTABLE.
Either they are Not independent enough for their creator/controller to lose full responsibility for what they do OR they ARE independent enough that they have a right to choose what they do and not be exploited, induced, or biased in what they do by whoever made them.
The article summary didn't do it justice and implied they might be dropping out some form of support for older chips regardless of architecture such as older X86 generations ..... That's not the case.
Also, even if the IRS classifies it as an employee relationship for Tax Purposes; that does not mean it is true for FLSA purposes.
So long as the "contractor" loophole exists companies are going to use it ---- what we need is some FLSA rules for contractors including:
Sounds like the fellow may have committed the crime 18 U.S.C. 1001 (Making False Statements) on matters within the federal jurisdiction, regarding law enforcement activities....
They are if the question is "How can this be done without mutation operators?" .....
Oh no.... I woke up an Academic. I mean nor should they expected to be write complete working programs on a CS test
And the subject of writing a purely functional program in a functional language is something completely
different, but let's just hope their language of choice is not Haskell or Scheme without set!, and in general:
it's not going to be as functional languages are not a popular choice in the real-world, and most CS students
will take 1 or 2 courses over their entire academic career that requires a functional language during part of the course....