I'm just getting bored (pun intended) of all these stories about random stuff Musk and his companies say. The chances of it actually happening are 50/50 at best and this seems like one of the more half baked ideas.
Consumers tend to make better decisions when they are informed. A sticker with the average lifespan and running cost of the product on should really help.
but you're still lowering market rates. Supply and demand dictate that. Your presence in the market increases supply, lowering demand. It also discourages training and investment in local talent.
Labour markets don't work like that, you can't compare skilled employees to commodities.
I've recently accepted a job overseas. The company couldn't find anyone locally and is paying me above market rate. Because they have filled that key role they can now employ even more people to do related jobs, from unskilled labour right up to electrical engineering and even marketing.
The alternative to employing me is not training and investing in local talent. That would mean delaying new products and falling behind in the industry. For that reason they have been contracting the work out to other European companies. Now that I'm there they can take on junior engineers who are gaining experience and working their way up to my level.
Of course, the company I used to work for in my home country has lost a valuable employee and is now struggling to find a replacement (it took them nearly a year to get me). Worse still they won't take on non-EU nationals because the visa situation is so bad, so they may have to go back to over-priced and under-performing contracting again.
They ruled that the way the decision to require him to bake the cake had been flawed, but not the decision itself. Indeed, from the text of the decision:
"The courtâ(TM)s precedents make clear that the baker, in his capacity as the owner of a business serving the public, might have his right to the free exercise of religion limited by generally applicable laws"
So the question isn't settled either way, it looks like it will have to be re-examined.
Interesting that that legal decision is on the same basis as requiring that bakery to make a cake supporting gay marriage:
"the views expressed by members of the public in passing out pamphlets or seeking signatures for a petition thus will not likely be identified with those of the owner."
The same argument was made in the cake case, that no-one would reasonably assume the message was by or endorsed by the baker so they couldn't refuse on those grounds.
Somewhat odd that you would now support this line of reasoning, given your views on its application to the bakery.
iPhones aren't really the problem, it's stuff like household appliances. The cheap ones barely last 3 years a lot of the time.
Also stuff like software that is reliant on some server somewhere. What is the minimum lifetime of that service? A few years ago some smart TVs stopped playing YouTube because they dropped support for old devices. Imagine phones having a sticker that told you the earliest date that they would stop supplying updates.
This proposal is quite clever. They will have to put a sticker on the box that says "average time before something fails is X years", which instantly does two things:
1. Consumers know how long something will likely last, rather than just guessing based on brand reputation or anecdotes.
2. Longevity will become a selling point. Before they had stickers on vacuum cleaners showing how well they actually cleaned people just tended to buy the most powerful one, but now they make a more intelligent and informed decision.
Selling price isn't based cost of manufacture, it's based on what the market will stand. So for example goods often cost about the same in Europe as they do in the US (factoring in tax), but in Europe you get a much longer statutory warranty.
The EU has similar measures to let you compare the efficiency and running costs of various appliances. For example a vacuum cleaner has to have a sticker that shows how well it cleans on carpet and on hard floors, how much noise it makes, how well it cleans the air before expelling it (really important for people with allergies) and how much it costs to run.
This new proposal is a great idea. The manufacturer will have to list the lowest MTBF of all components in the machine based on a standardized usage pattern. So if a washing machine has a belt with an MTBF of only 5 years then the label has to say "5 years" on it.
Video games should be interesting. "Servers guaranteed to run until 2019" could be pretty interesting on the next EA Sportsball game.
Fashion isn't driven by what women buy, it's driven by designers and brands deciding what they are doing this season and then marketing the hell out of it.
It's reasonable to request that they make clothes with bigger pockets and then use their influence to steer fashion in that direction. It happened in Japan a few years back when Muji practical and plain clothing became really popular, but then a popular girl band seemed to steer it towards frilly dresses.
I don't believe for a second that they deliberately designed it to be that size. It would have been constrained by the available LCDs and the limited GPU power.
Seems like there was widespread support for Damore, with people criticising him modded "troll" and "flamebait". The narrative was quite strictly enforced.
Working with China? What else do you expect from an evil corporation?
Well, yes, Google execs have stated publicly that they felt it was probably better to try to work with China on the basis of more access to information, even with limitations, is a good thing.
I wonder if they could use external airbags. Cars rely on crumple zones, but if it could reliably sense an impending collision maybe an airbag would work
It's a good job America's cyber security is so famously top-notch, now that Trump has escalated and opened it up for retaliatory/preemptive attacks.
Don't worry, I'm sure most critical systems have patched the leaked NSA/CIA vulnerabilities by now, so it's safe for the US to start deploying new ones. This time they won't lose control of them, for sure.
It was a term coined in 2016 in a peer reviewed paper to describe a phenomenon that had been observed. You admit you have not examined this study in any detail, but dismiss it as not real science anyway... Apparently because it's a relatively new thing.
They say science advances one funeral at a time, and this seems like a perfect example.
I imagine the defence argument would be that bitcoin or whatever is not currency, it's goods. Thus the bank should only have to buy him the amount of bitcoins he had at the time, which now only costs $78 because the price collapsed.
In the same way that if you lost a car because of their mistake they wouldn't give you the purchase price of the car when you bought it five years ago, they would give you the value of a 5 year old replacement model today.
This could be quite an interesting case because potentially it would establish crypto currencies as being more like real currencies, even though for example there is no official Dollar exchange rate to calculate their value against.
Cops turn up for a bust, but their ad-hoc wifi networks give them away.
Cops are conducting an operation and their ad-hoc wifi gets hacked, destroying evidence and exposing their unpatched Windows machines at the station to malware. Ransomware encrypts all their evidence files.
Cop does something illegal, decides they need to erase the bodycam footage.
Criminal does something illegal, decides they need to erase the bodycam footage.
Criminal exploits the insecure firmware update mechanism to load malware that disables the camera when certain wifi SSIDs are detected.
Criminal creates fake footage framing cops/rivals and plants it on police bodycam.
Criminal decides to brick all police bodycams with a bad firmware update.
They saw Zero Dark Thirty and thought it would be really cool if they could see their troops^H^H^H^H^H officers' video feeds in real time like Delta Force.
I'm a product engineer and I can tell you exactly how this happens without any deliberate malice. It's just pure incompetence.
Company sees a new market opening up due to improvements in battery and camera technology. Asks engineering staff to develop a bodycam. Market dictates the prices. Sales people dictate the features, like ad-hoc wifi that "just works". Support people demand that it's easy to support, e.g. hard coded root password and one click firmware updates.
Engineering department duly notes that this creates security issues. Bosses don't care, they write it off as paranoia about sophisticated attackers (they know most cops can barely operate a computer) and are more interested in getting to market early with something that they can sell.
This will only get fixed when cases start to collapse because the bodycam evidence is questioned and the customers start demanding better products. Otherwise there is no business case for security.
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I'm just getting bored (pun intended) of all these stories about random stuff Musk and his companies say. The chances of it actually happening are 50/50 at best and this seems like one of the more half baked ideas.
Get back to us when they start digging it
I've had recruiters not relay messages for me. I tell them I can't make it and can they reschedule, and they just ignore it.
How many of these no-shows are just recruiters and HR not relaying messages?
Consumers tend to make better decisions when they are informed. A sticker with the average lifespan and running cost of the product on should really help.
The slight cost increase is often more than offset by energy savings and making a better informed decision on what to buy.
When you look at software you can see that it's usually the smaller players who offer better long term support, and the big ones that don't.
Your numbers are way off. The local computer repair place (which has been going since 1998) charges 1/10th what you project.
but you're still lowering market rates. Supply and demand dictate that. Your presence in the market increases supply, lowering demand. It also discourages training and investment in local talent.
Labour markets don't work like that, you can't compare skilled employees to commodities.
I've recently accepted a job overseas. The company couldn't find anyone locally and is paying me above market rate. Because they have filled that key role they can now employ even more people to do related jobs, from unskilled labour right up to electrical engineering and even marketing.
The alternative to employing me is not training and investing in local talent. That would mean delaying new products and falling behind in the industry. For that reason they have been contracting the work out to other European companies. Now that I'm there they can take on junior engineers who are gaining experience and working their way up to my level.
Of course, the company I used to work for in my home country has lost a valuable employee and is now struggling to find a replacement (it took them nearly a year to get me). Worse still they won't take on non-EU nationals because the visa situation is so bad, so they may have to go back to over-priced and under-performing contracting again.
The supreme court didn't "punt on the issue"; they ruled in his favour.
Not really. https://www.theguardian.com/la...
They ruled that the way the decision to require him to bake the cake had been flawed, but not the decision itself. Indeed, from the text of the decision:
"The courtâ(TM)s precedents make clear that the baker, in his capacity as the owner of a business serving the public, might have his right to the free exercise of religion limited by generally applicable laws"
So the question isn't settled either way, it looks like it will have to be re-examined.
Interesting that that legal decision is on the same basis as requiring that bakery to make a cake supporting gay marriage:
"the views expressed by members of the public in passing out pamphlets or seeking signatures for a petition thus will not likely be identified with those of the owner."
The same argument was made in the cake case, that no-one would reasonably assume the message was by or endorsed by the baker so they couldn't refuse on those grounds.
Somewhat odd that you would now support this line of reasoning, given your views on its application to the bakery.
iPhones aren't really the problem, it's stuff like household appliances. The cheap ones barely last 3 years a lot of the time.
Also stuff like software that is reliant on some server somewhere. What is the minimum lifetime of that service? A few years ago some smart TVs stopped playing YouTube because they dropped support for old devices. Imagine phones having a sticker that told you the earliest date that they would stop supplying updates.
This proposal is quite clever. They will have to put a sticker on the box that says "average time before something fails is X years", which instantly does two things:
1. Consumers know how long something will likely last, rather than just guessing based on brand reputation or anecdotes.
2. Longevity will become a selling point. Before they had stickers on vacuum cleaners showing how well they actually cleaned people just tended to buy the most powerful one, but now they make a more intelligent and informed decision.
Selling price isn't based cost of manufacture, it's based on what the market will stand. So for example goods often cost about the same in Europe as they do in the US (factoring in tax), but in Europe you get a much longer statutory warranty.
The EU has similar measures to let you compare the efficiency and running costs of various appliances. For example a vacuum cleaner has to have a sticker that shows how well it cleans on carpet and on hard floors, how much noise it makes, how well it cleans the air before expelling it (really important for people with allergies) and how much it costs to run.
https://ec.europa.eu/energy/si...
This new proposal is a great idea. The manufacturer will have to list the lowest MTBF of all components in the machine based on a standardized usage pattern. So if a washing machine has a belt with an MTBF of only 5 years then the label has to say "5 years" on it.
Video games should be interesting. "Servers guaranteed to run until 2019" could be pretty interesting on the next EA Sportsball game.
Fashion isn't driven by what women buy, it's driven by designers and brands deciding what they are doing this season and then marketing the hell out of it.
It's reasonable to request that they make clothes with bigger pockets and then use their influence to steer fashion in that direction. It happened in Japan a few years back when Muji practical and plain clothing became really popular, but then a popular girl band seemed to steer it towards frilly dresses.
I don't believe for a second that they deliberately designed it to be that size. It would have been constrained by the available LCDs and the limited GPU power.
I don't know who told you that, but I've always been in favour of engagement with NK.
Everyone on this site cheered when Google went evil and fired that man for saying men and women are different.
Demonstrably untrue:
https://slashdot.org/poll/3049...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Seems like there was widespread support for Damore, with people criticising him modded "troll" and "flamebait". The narrative was quite strictly enforced.
Working with China? What else do you expect from an evil corporation?
Well, yes, Google execs have stated publicly that they felt it was probably better to try to work with China on the basis of more access to information, even with limitations, is a good thing.
I wonder if they could use external airbags. Cars rely on crumple zones, but if it could reliably sense an impending collision maybe an airbag would work
It's a good job America's cyber security is so famously top-notch, now that Trump has escalated and opened it up for retaliatory/preemptive attacks.
Don't worry, I'm sure most critical systems have patched the leaked NSA/CIA vulnerabilities by now, so it's safe for the US to start deploying new ones. This time they won't lose control of them, for sure.
Ask Samsung I guess, they have been selling phones with SD card slots for a decade.
I wish someone would tell my bank that. They keep bugging me to set up text messages to confirm transfers and payments. I keep telling them no.
It was a term coined in 2016 in a peer reviewed paper to describe a phenomenon that had been observed. You admit you have not examined this study in any detail, but dismiss it as not real science anyway... Apparently because it's a relatively new thing.
They say science advances one funeral at a time, and this seems like a perfect example.
I imagine the defence argument would be that bitcoin or whatever is not currency, it's goods. Thus the bank should only have to buy him the amount of bitcoins he had at the time, which now only costs $78 because the price collapsed.
In the same way that if you lost a car because of their mistake they wouldn't give you the purchase price of the car when you bought it five years ago, they would give you the value of a 5 year old replacement model today.
This could be quite an interesting case because potentially it would establish crypto currencies as being more like real currencies, even though for example there is no official Dollar exchange rate to calculate their value against.
Cops turn up for a bust, but their ad-hoc wifi networks give them away.
Cops are conducting an operation and their ad-hoc wifi gets hacked, destroying evidence and exposing their unpatched Windows machines at the station to malware. Ransomware encrypts all their evidence files.
Cop does something illegal, decides they need to erase the bodycam footage.
Criminal does something illegal, decides they need to erase the bodycam footage.
Criminal exploits the insecure firmware update mechanism to load malware that disables the camera when certain wifi SSIDs are detected.
Criminal creates fake footage framing cops/rivals and plants it on police bodycam.
Criminal decides to brick all police bodycams with a bad firmware update.
That's just off the top of my head.
They saw Zero Dark Thirty and thought it would be really cool if they could see their troops^H^H^H^H^H officers' video feeds in real time like Delta Force.
I'm a product engineer and I can tell you exactly how this happens without any deliberate malice. It's just pure incompetence.
Company sees a new market opening up due to improvements in battery and camera technology. Asks engineering staff to develop a bodycam. Market dictates the prices. Sales people dictate the features, like ad-hoc wifi that "just works". Support people demand that it's easy to support, e.g. hard coded root password and one click firmware updates.
Engineering department duly notes that this creates security issues. Bosses don't care, they write it off as paranoia about sophisticated attackers (they know most cops can barely operate a computer) and are more interested in getting to market early with something that they can sell.
This will only get fixed when cases start to collapse because the bodycam evidence is questioned and the customers start demanding better products. Otherwise there is no business case for security.
Healthcare in the US is extremely efficient... At making profit.