A truck already costs more than a car due to higher gas consumption, and thus higher total gasoline taxes they pay which are justified as taxes for road maintenance, although in most states, the gas taxes go into the general coffers, not reserved specifically for transportation.
The problem here is that a delivery truck will make a stop in the middle of a street not meant for that activity
They need to make their deliveries. I think if the cities are upset about it, they should crack down more on trucks stopping in the middle of the street. Stop issuing cheap tickets, and start issuing expensive ones like $250 per incident, increase the ticket fine per company AND per vehicle based on the number of incidents, And stop negotiating bulk deals.
If unpaid tickets for a company exceeds $2,000, then boot and tow any vehicle owned by their company seen on sight..
When property owners can't get their stuff delivered, they'll make changes to their property, so the trucks have someplace to park that is not in the public right of way.
The expectation is that the salaried position is a 40 hr/wk position
That's a de-facto standard, not a contractual requirement. Most employers are quite happy to have you work 45 hours, or 50 hours, or even 38 hours, as long as you are getting a full workload done job-dependent.
And if you happen to be at work extra above the stated minimum and do 60 hours a week instead.... Do you think they have a right to care what you do on the side for 5 or 6 of those 60 hours?
Oh please. I'd be surprised if my salaried employees didn't "steal" 2 hours a day; BSing with co-workers, checking the news, running an errand on the way back
It's NOT about amount of time. It is about productivity and availability for the job during the work day.
If you're working on something else, then you are draining cognitive resources that you are being paid to use on your employer's tasks.
BS'ing with co-workers / checking the news / running an errand consumes very little. Working on a complex problem, writing a piece of software, will drain energy you should be using on your employer.
That is, unless of course, you've automated most of your own job, so you'd just be sitting back watching TV playing video games in your cube all day, and your employer doesn't mind --- if that's the case, then working on a side project shouldn't be a further insult.
It's a DRM/Phone home feature. A backdoor would be running arbitrary code specified by the manufacturer OR changing the mining workload so the mining activity benefits a Bitcoin address different from the one configured by the owner of the unit.
If huge corporations such as Facebook and Google can fall victim to scammers, who are we to even try resisting?
A company's large size actually works against you, when it comes to protecting against issues like this ---- the more people you have, the harder it is to effectively communicate a message to everyone and mobilize all the important parties against a threat....
Instead of being agile and able to adapt, you need to rely mostly on written policies, putting systems into place, and training staff in advance.
If your company was smaller (Unlike Google), then you can probably put new systems into place and modify existing IT systems to more quickly detect and respond to issues.
Also, if your company has only a few million in the bank, it's unlikely that $100 Million will be stolen from you
Infinite memory is Not required to avoid making the assumptions. You can allocate from heap space just fine. Unbounded memory requirement does Not mean infinite memory requirement. It just means you have to add more memory as demands on the application cause the application's memory demand to dynamically expand.
Yeah.... give her the cash assistance she was due PLUS 25% default interest for the bank's past failure in their obligation to settle up their debt promptly.
Yes you can. Raw data values have no inherent interpretation, which is why there are different ways of coding binary values such as BCD and the Graycode. You can take the most significant bit and say that this particular bit, If set to True shall be interpreted as 4 times the original value, instead of 2 times the original value. Or you can say this field contains quantities between
128 and 256
There are a lot more people below the age of one with bank accounts than over 117.
People below the Age of 1 don't get Bankcards or control of their own bank accounts, however. ESAs require a named "Responsible individual" who is at least 18 years of age, And a custodian..... The account does not really belong to the person; the account belongs to the ESA trust that is "For the benefit of X" person. Because if no bankcard, and because they're administered by a custodian, these accounts wouldn't run into age-field related problems anyways.
Anyways.... There's no reason banks should need a stored variable that contains someone's age with any number of bits; it should just contain the date of birth for security and minimum age verification reasons.
The couple of kilobytes per file for some XML stream is minuscule and immaterial, a few megabytes per computer. MS is smart to not step over a dollar to pick up a penny.
The REAL bloat comes from Executable code modules' executable code, lack of a proper package management system for DLL dependencies And keeping around multiple preceding revisions of each library with SXS backups as a system is updated by Windows update, or keeping unnecessary libraries around as software is uninstalled; However, on the plus side.... programs suddenly stop working from missing/incompatible DLLs less often.
I suppose art becomes more important in Windows10 as the interface gets more complicated and uses more image assets in it, but NOT the XML metadata. Not when the XML uses 1 kilobyte on a 1 Megabyte plus image file.
1. Saving prematures whose parents already have decided they want it.
If the treatment proves effective, then it should become a required treatment, when the kid's life can be saved; Also, if a mother wants to abort her pregnancy early, because of her right to choose what happens with her body, then this treatment should also be mandatory to attempt to save the life of the kid --- If effective, then her offspring can survive, even if she decides to stop being pregnant. Conflicting rights dilemma resolved!
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said: "Mr. Levandowski argues that he is entitled to relief under the Fifth Amendment because production of the unredacted privilege log could potentially incriminate him.
The privilege log is a DOCUMENT. Since when did the 5TH Amendment apply to Documents or other Tangible written evidence, Ever?
As far as I know, if you commit a crime and write something about it in your private diary, then Yes, the police ARE allowed to use it against you, and you can be prosecuted in court based on this evidence. Hell..... they can even use it against you if you make a note about it on your smartphone and secure it with a passcode. Courts have ordered people to hand over their passcodes.
So why would the guys at Uber think this would go any differently than the well-established standard that once a piece of information is made into a tangible form, whether written to a piece of paper, Or saved to a hard drive, the 5th amendment does not protect the medium from seizure, analysis, and compulsory decryption if necessary to access the info, And the 5th amendment no longer protects the information once recorded?
I'm all for personal responsibility, but do you have any idea what a simple 1200 SqFt home goes for in this place?
In this overcrowded space, 1200 SqFt dedicated to your use is NOT simple, that is a Luxurious home that only the rich can afford. The price is high BECAUSE the demand is high. The simple answer is: Eventually the cost will be so high that you're financially justified in spending more $$$ on commuting, telecommuting, or working someplace else.
High demand and low available space EQUALS High Price or Exhaustion of supply. There's no getting around the fact that supply is limited........ If government tries to subsidize people with six-figure incomes, they'll just wind up raising the price even more, at least for the people with barely enough income that they no longer qualify for the subsidy.
The high price is how the markets respond to the shortage to tell you that you should move elsewhere, And the high price that developers can charge for rents/sales also justifies developers consuming larger and larger amounts of resources to try to squeeze in more people, whereas, without that incentive there would be less total usable housing.
No, he didn't. He had some credentials, both his own and some stolen. Nothing was "hacked".
It wasn't hacking. It was abuse of privileges. The crime would be possible attempts to falsify access logs (By rerouting through backup system and fraudulently using a co-worker's account) and expropriate proprietary company information.
I wonder what the implications will be for Yahoo Mail once Verizon finishes acquiring Yahoo. Aside from @yahoo.com accounts,
Well, in response to the Yahoo.com security breach, I already registered my own domain name and started migrating away from Gmail and Yahoo and using them only as a backup. I for one hope to be completely off of yahoo.com and gmail.com long before Verizon closes on their acquisition.
You are absolutely right, it does fucking matter. It matters that this kid is now going to be raised by people who despise them
Their action against the clinic does not mean they personally despise the kid. After they get their payout, they have the choice, if they want to stick with raising the other person's kid that they got, and very much loving their kid as a cashcow.... COUGH. Or they might pursue their dream and go through the process again (Probably with a different clinic), and then raise two kids, one theirs, and the other their adopted.
They were prepared to be parents and take the financial and emotional responsibility
Only for the kid being produced as a result of the procedure performed As the procedure was explained to them. (Including all the conditions: Such as, the genes of the kid will come from the Mother and Father doing the procedure.)
I will certainly say that in many ways it should not matter. It is their kid, just not their offspring.
NO. This is for THEM to decide based on their values. Presumably if the parents would be satisfied with a kid of different genes, they COULD have just adopted without going through this procedure. If the parents think it matters, then it matters. And if they believe the child was not theirs then it's not theirs. In going through this procedure they likely had specific goals in mind. The choice to sacrifice their original goal (If they want), would be the parent's choice.
The clinic should still pay the extra cost the parents would incur in the case where they act to completely correct this situation and further their original goal to raise a child of the same genes as they have.
The clinic is responsible for child support, in the same way a guy would be responsible for child support if he impregnated a woman by accident
It is an even worse situation, if the kid has neither the man's genes nor the woman's genes. If a man accidentally impregnates a woman, the woman will still have to pay a portion of the child support (Unless it were Rape), but in this case, NEITHER parent is genetically related to the kid, so the Clinic's level of child support should be 100% of the costs of supporting the kid. Or perhaps 100% minus some small percentage if it will be raised by the couple who the clinic failed, since the woman who carried the child through pregnancy will likely feel some bond and responsibility to the child, so the clinic should pay 90% of costs if they keep the kid, or 100% of the kid's support costs, if they will give the kid up for adoption. And the support costs including daycare, safety equipment, diapers, 3 square meals + 2 snacks a day for 21 years, ample clothing, medical and dental including insurance, medicines treatment for conditions, and 2 checkups a year, quality education, books, basic tools such as a calculator, a computer, high-speed internet, and a fair budget for the child's entertainment and other incidentals (at least $250/month), Plus the child's share of rent and use of property for at least 500 square feet..... In other words, the Clinic should pay about $13,000 US per year X 21 years = ~$273,000 US.
problem is they are not suing over the mistake made by the clinic, but that the child has the wrong genes.
That is a Red herring. The child has the wrong genes BECAUSE the clinic made a mistake, The child having the wrong genes is a RESULT of their medical malpractice, therefore, the clinic has committed damages in the amount of the costs of correcting the result to be what the parents' paid for. Not only did the parents Not get what they paid for, when the parents go to correct by going through the process again, the clinic will still have saddled them with the additional costs associated with the previous child that was created by the Clinic's mistake; the law does not allow the parents to return the Child to the clinic for a refund, therefore, the clinic must compensate to offset all additional expenses that will be created on the parents by the birth of the out-of-spec Child.
Sometimes a woman will trick a man into raising another man's child. It is more common than you think.
I suggest routine DNA testing after birth to make sure the hospital didn't swap someone else's baby for yours. Maybe another parent made an under-the-table deal with some random nurse to secretly swap the wristbands so they could get the kid they wanted.
You only need guys with basic skills to nail 2x4s together every 14".
"Framing a house" is a more static job than programming, because you can make plans, Your requirements for framing are Not likely to substantively change within a job or from one job to the next. Also, you can tell your guys with basic skills exactly what to do, And you can even make sure the nails and 2x4"s they are given to use are all the same and the exact right kind for the job, and rated appropriately.
Programming does not fit that model, because every programmer needs to make strategic decisions about what kind of code to apply to the parts of the problem they're assigned to complete. In programming, the distance between metaphorical 2x4"s is dependent on the fine business requirements and can change from one iteration to the next, Also, each nail is different, the worker needs a bag of 1000 different kind of nails and the general knowledge of which one is the correct one to use on each board based on its type and location, and not all the boards are 2x4"s, and the programmer needs to work out what kind of board is a safe and best fit where. The boards and nails need to be put in an appropriate place that cannot be planned in advance, the Right nail has to go to the right kind of board, otherwise there will be an obscure problem that may causes random unexpected failures of boards on the opposite side of the building, with no definitive quick/easy way of tracing exactly which nail was hammered in of the wrong type or inserted incorrectly, or to a board not at the correct precise spacing or angle.
It's absolutely disgusting to think anyone would agree to an arrangement like that.
Don't blame the workers for a shoddy system that doesn't protect them from being held hostage to agree to do something they don't want to do.
Until programmers organize into a National or International union, there's no co-ordination of people choosing to refuse..... the individuals that refuse are just shooting themselves in the foot. Often their personal finances are such that the Severence offer and a few weeks or months extra pay is an offer they cannot refuse --- As it allows them the ability to survive and the best chances of getting a new job (Easier to get hired while still employed).
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A truck already costs more than a car due to higher gas consumption, and thus higher total gasoline taxes they pay which are justified as taxes for road maintenance, although in most states, the gas taxes go into the general coffers, not reserved specifically for transportation.
The problem here is that a delivery truck will make a stop in the middle of a street not meant for that activity
They need to make their deliveries. I think if the cities are upset about it, they should crack down more on trucks stopping in the middle of the street. Stop issuing cheap tickets, and start issuing expensive ones like $250 per incident, increase the ticket fine per company AND per vehicle based on the number of incidents, And stop negotiating bulk deals.
If unpaid tickets for a company exceeds $2,000, then boot and tow any vehicle owned by their company seen on sight..
When property owners can't get their stuff delivered, they'll make changes to their property, so the trucks have someplace to park that is not in the public right of way.
The expectation is that the salaried position is a 40 hr/wk position
That's a de-facto standard, not a contractual requirement.
Most employers are quite happy to have you work 45 hours, or 50 hours, or even 38 hours, as long as you are getting a full workload done job-dependent.
And if you happen to be at work extra above the stated minimum and do 60 hours a week instead....
Do you think they have a right to care what you do on the side for 5 or 6 of those 60 hours?
Oh please. I'd be surprised if my salaried employees didn't "steal" 2 hours a day; BSing with co-workers, checking the news, running an errand on the way back
It's NOT about amount of time. It is about productivity and availability for the job during the work day.
If you're working on something else, then you are draining cognitive resources that you are being paid to use on your employer's tasks.
BS'ing with co-workers / checking the news / running an errand consumes very little.
Working on a complex problem, writing a piece of software, will drain energy you should be using on your employer.
That is, unless of course, you've automated most of your own job, so you'd just be sitting back watching TV playing video games in your cube all day, and your employer doesn't mind --- if that's the case, then working on a side project shouldn't be a further insult.
It's a DRM/Phone home feature. A backdoor would be running arbitrary code specified by the manufacturer OR changing the mining workload so the mining activity benefits a Bitcoin address different from the one configured by the owner of the unit.
If huge corporations such as Facebook and Google can fall victim to scammers, who are we to even try resisting?
A company's large size actually works against you, when it comes to protecting against issues like this ---- the more people you have,
the harder it is to effectively communicate a message to everyone and mobilize all the important parties against a threat....
Instead of being agile and able to adapt, you need to rely mostly on written policies, putting systems into place, and training staff in advance.
If your company was smaller (Unlike Google), then you can probably put new systems into place and modify existing IT systems to more quickly detect and respond to issues.
Also, if your company has only a few million in the bank, it's unlikely that $100 Million will be stolen from you
So, what happens when someone wakes up from a 130 year cryo sleep, and their age is now 160?
Infinite memory is Not required to avoid making the assumptions. You can allocate from heap space just fine.
Unbounded memory requirement does Not mean infinite memory requirement. It just means you have to add more memory as demands on the application cause the application's memory demand to dynamically expand.
Yeah.... give her the cash assistance she was due PLUS 25% default interest for the bank's past failure in their obligation to settle up their debt promptly.
You can't store 256 in 7 bits.
Yes you can. Raw data values have no inherent interpretation, which is why there are different ways of coding binary values such as BCD and the Graycode. You can take the most significant bit and say that this particular bit, If set to True shall be interpreted as 4 times the original value, instead of 2 times the original value. Or you can say this field contains quantities between
128 and 256
There are a lot more people below the age of one with bank accounts than over 117.
People below the Age of 1 don't get Bankcards or control of their own bank accounts, however.
ESAs require a named "Responsible individual" who is at least 18 years of age, And a custodian..... The account does not really belong to the person; the account belongs to the ESA trust that is "For the benefit of X" person.
Because if no bankcard, and because they're administered by a custodian, these accounts wouldn't run into age-field related problems anyways.
Anyways.... There's no reason banks should need a stored variable that contains someone's age with any number of bits; it should just contain the date of birth for security and minimum age verification reasons.
The couple of kilobytes per file for some XML stream is minuscule and immaterial, a few
megabytes per computer. MS is smart to not step over a dollar to pick up a penny.
The REAL bloat comes from Executable code modules' executable code, lack of a proper package management system for DLL dependencies And keeping around multiple preceding revisions of each library with SXS backups as a system is updated by Windows update, or keeping unnecessary libraries around as software is uninstalled; However, on the plus side.... programs suddenly stop working from missing/incompatible DLLs less often.
I suppose art becomes more important in Windows10 as the interface gets more complicated and uses more image assets in it, but NOT the XML metadata. Not when the XML uses 1 kilobyte on a 1 Megabyte plus image file.
1. Saving prematures whose parents already have decided they want it.
If the treatment proves effective, then it should become a required treatment, when the kid's life can be saved; Also, if a mother wants to abort her pregnancy early, because of her right to choose what happens with her body, then this treatment should also be mandatory to attempt to save the life of the kid --- If effective, then her offspring can survive, even if she decides to stop being pregnant. Conflicting rights dilemma resolved!
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said: "Mr. Levandowski argues that he is entitled to relief under the Fifth Amendment because production of the unredacted privilege log could potentially incriminate him.
The privilege log is a DOCUMENT.
Since when did the 5TH Amendment apply to Documents or other Tangible written evidence, Ever?
As far as I know, if you commit a crime and write something about it in your private diary, then Yes, the police ARE allowed to use it against you, and you can be prosecuted in court based on this evidence. Hell..... they can even use it against you if you make a note about it on your smartphone and secure it with a passcode. Courts have ordered people to hand over their passcodes.
So why would the guys at Uber think this would go any differently than the well-established standard that once a piece of information is made into a tangible form, whether written to a piece of paper, Or saved to a hard drive, the 5th amendment does not protect the medium from seizure, analysis, and compulsory decryption if necessary to access the info, And the 5th amendment no longer protects the information once recorded?
I'm all for personal responsibility, but do you have any idea what a simple 1200 SqFt home goes for in this place?
In this overcrowded space, 1200 SqFt dedicated to your use is NOT simple, that is a Luxurious home that only the rich can afford. The price is high BECAUSE the demand is high. The simple answer is: Eventually the cost will be so high that you're financially justified in spending more $$$ on commuting, telecommuting, or working someplace else.
High demand and low available space EQUALS High Price or Exhaustion of supply. There's no getting around the fact that supply is limited........ If government tries to subsidize people with six-figure incomes, they'll just wind up raising the price even more, at least for the people with barely enough income that they no longer qualify for the subsidy.
The high price is how the markets respond to the shortage to tell you that you should move elsewhere, And
the high price that developers can charge for rents/sales also justifies developers consuming larger and larger amounts of resources to try to squeeze in more people, whereas, without that incentive there would be less total usable housing.
No, he didn't. He had some credentials, both his own and some stolen. Nothing was "hacked".
It wasn't hacking. It was abuse of privileges. The crime would be possible attempts to falsify access logs (By rerouting through backup system and fraudulently using a co-worker's account) and expropriate proprietary company information.
I wonder what the implications will be for Yahoo Mail once Verizon finishes acquiring Yahoo. Aside from @yahoo.com accounts,
Well, in response to the Yahoo.com security breach, I already registered my own domain name and started
migrating away from Gmail and Yahoo and using them only as a backup. I for one hope to be completely off of yahoo.com and gmail.com long before Verizon closes on their acquisition.
You are absolutely right, it does fucking matter. It matters that this kid is now going to be raised by people who despise them
Their action against the clinic does not mean they personally despise the kid.
After they get their payout, they have the choice, if they want to stick with raising the other person's kid that they got,
and very much loving their kid as a cashcow.... COUGH. Or they might pursue their dream and go through the process
again (Probably with a different clinic), and then raise two kids, one theirs, and the other their adopted.
They were prepared to be parents and take the financial and emotional responsibility
Only for the kid being produced as a result of the procedure performed As the procedure was explained to them.
(Including all the conditions: Such as, the genes of the kid will come from the Mother and Father doing the procedure.)
I will certainly say that in many ways it should not matter. It is their kid, just not their offspring.
NO. This is for THEM to decide based on their values. Presumably if the parents would be satisfied with a kid of
different genes, they COULD have just adopted without going through this procedure. If the parents think it matters, then it matters. And if they believe the child was not theirs then it's not theirs. In going through this procedure they likely had specific goals in mind.
The choice to sacrifice their original goal (If they want), would be the parent's choice.
The clinic should still pay the extra cost the parents would incur in the case where they act to completely correct this
situation and further their original goal to raise a child of the same genes as they have.
The clinic is responsible for child support, in the same way a guy would be responsible for child support if he impregnated a woman by accident
It is an even worse situation, if the kid has neither the man's genes nor the woman's genes.
If a man accidentally impregnates a woman, the woman will still have to pay a portion of the child support (Unless it were Rape),
but in this case, NEITHER parent is genetically related to the kid, so the Clinic's level of child support should be 100% of the costs
of supporting the kid. Or perhaps 100% minus some small percentage if it will be raised by the couple who the clinic failed, since the woman who carried the child through pregnancy will likely feel some bond and responsibility to the child, so the clinic should pay 90% of costs if they keep the kid, or 100% of the kid's support costs, if they will give the kid up for adoption. And the support costs including daycare, safety equipment, diapers, 3 square meals + 2 snacks a day for 21 years, ample clothing, medical and dental including insurance, medicines treatment for conditions, and 2 checkups a year, quality education, books, basic tools such as a calculator, a computer, high-speed internet, and a fair budget for the child's entertainment and other incidentals (at least $250/month), Plus the child's share of rent and use of property for at least 500 square feet..... In other words, the Clinic should pay about $13,000 US per year X 21 years = ~$273,000 US.
problem is they are not suing over the mistake made by the clinic, but that the child has the wrong genes.
That is a Red herring. The child has the wrong genes BECAUSE the clinic made a mistake, The child having the wrong genes is a RESULT of their medical malpractice, therefore, the clinic has committed damages in the amount of the costs of correcting the result to be what the parents' paid for. Not only did the parents Not get what they paid for, when the parents go to correct by going through the process again, the clinic will still have saddled them with the additional costs associated with the previous child that was created by the Clinic's mistake; the law does not allow the parents to return the Child to the clinic for a refund, therefore, the clinic must compensate to offset all additional expenses that will be created on the parents by the birth of the out-of-spec Child.
Sometimes a woman will trick a man into raising another man's child. It is more common than you think.
I suggest routine DNA testing after birth to make sure the hospital didn't swap someone else's baby for yours.
Maybe another parent made an under-the-table deal with some random nurse to secretly swap the wristbands so they could get the kid they wanted.
You only need guys with basic skills to nail 2x4s together every 14".
"Framing a house" is a more static job than programming, because you can make plans, Your requirements for framing are Not likely to substantively change within a job or from one job to the next. Also, you can tell your guys with basic skills exactly what to do, And you can even make sure the nails and 2x4"s they are given to use are all the same and the exact right kind for the job, and rated appropriately.
Programming does not fit that model, because every programmer needs to make strategic decisions about what kind of code to apply to the parts of the problem they're assigned to complete. In programming, the distance between metaphorical 2x4"s is dependent on the fine business requirements and can change from one iteration to the next, Also, each nail is different, the worker needs a bag of 1000 different kind of nails and the general knowledge of which one is the correct one to use on each board based on its type and location, and not all the boards are 2x4"s, and the programmer needs to work out what kind of board is a safe and best fit where. The boards and nails need to be put in an appropriate place that cannot be planned in advance, the Right nail has to go to the right kind of board, otherwise there will be an obscure problem that may causes random unexpected failures of boards on the opposite side of the building, with no definitive quick/easy way of tracing exactly which nail was hammered in of the wrong type or inserted incorrectly, or to a board not at the correct precise spacing or angle.
It's absolutely disgusting to think anyone would agree to an arrangement like that.
Don't blame the workers for a shoddy system that doesn't protect them from being held hostage to agree to do something they don't want to do.
Until programmers organize into a National or International union, there's no co-ordination of people choosing to refuse..... the individuals that refuse are just shooting themselves in the foot. Often their personal finances are such that the Severence offer and a few weeks or months extra pay is an offer they cannot refuse --- As it allows them the ability to survive and the best chances of getting a new job (Easier to get hired while still employed).