"I've been shot, I need help, I think the shooter is still here..."
"Okay sir, I see you have the Silver Protection Plan, we will get an officer to you within 2-5 business days or I can offer you a special upgrade price that will get you help within 30 minutes, that will be $9000 and I have your card on file."
"I'm bleeding..."
"Yes sir, I understand that you are bleeding and need medical assistance. Your policy covers up to 3 bullet wounds but I see you have already been shot twice this year. How many bullets are inside your body at this time?"
Also by the time the suit gets to court the crypto currency will probably be worth 24 cents. How does it work in America, can you argue for the value as it was at the time or only the current value?
I hope they are not a lost cause, otherwise we are going to end up with another pizzagate.
The broader problem is that populists use conspiracy theories and that's basically what started the first world war. Both sides got to a point where they couldn't back out of the lies.
Friend of a friend did a scam where he set up a company that was paid his contacting fees, then paid him a nominal amount and gave the rest to him as a loan. He then defaulted on the loan and shut down the company, avoiding paying any income tax.
Naturally the tax authority wasn't having any of it and now he owes then â80,000.
"Other assessors say large corporations are using their resources to hire attorneys and expert witnesses to eventually wear down county governments."
Can't the court bar them from being an expert witness for putting in a $200 valuation on a $1,000,0000,000 building? Doesn't that demonstrate utter incompetence, if not criminal conspiracy to defraud the county of tax revenue?
This is more like your buddy owning a zoo and sealife aquarium resort with trillion dollar valuation, and then claiming it's a pet hamster for tax purposes.
Seriously you can easily spend more than $200/year on a hamster, it's actually taking less piss than Apple is.
Wow, that sounds like a terrible decision. What happens if the pad gets damaged or you need to operate it with something other than the finger of the suit?
What we do know is that because AMD correctly handles these kinds of situations they are not affected by most of these bugs. So the probability of there being similar flaws in AMD processors is much lower, even if we can't say that it is zero.
That's only because the response to it was relatively well coordinated and patches became available fairly quickly after the slightly premature announcement.
The damage done is quite real and measurable though. 60% performance loss for some server tasks, meaning a massive cost increase or degradation of service.
I'd love to see some stats on how many people sued Intel over this. They paid for my new workstation but I'd love to know how many more.
Can you explain precisely why their methodology is invalid? It doesn't seem unreasonable to use a higher than normal level of exposure to make some predictions about what long term lower level exposure might do.
The prediction might not be entirely accurate, but it does suggest that further research is warranted.
If you had a choice between vaping that harmed you and vaping that didn't, you would pick the harm-free one, right? So research that pinpoints the thing doing the harm and leads to the development of less harmful vaping is a good thing.
What makes more sense: throw a large amount of money at a full scale, long study with multiple variables just to find out if there is anything there, or do a cheaper limited study that will tell you if it's worth investigating further?
Obviously the answer is the former, you throw resources at the problem until you are sure no armchair biochemists on random tech news sites will be able to mock the size of your study.
The internet was less anonymous in the early days. Most people got access through an academic institution or work, with a fixed IP address. In fact my first dial-up ISP only offered fixed IP addresses... And most of those institutions would use your real name for things like mail addresses or in the URL of your homepage.
Of course there was no wifi or other easy means of getting semi-anonymous access, and commercial VPNs/Tor didn't exist. If you registered a domain name the whois data had your address and phone number on it.
What did help was that there were fewer online services for doxing people. These days you can look up all sorts of public records.
Presumably these will be crappy resistive touchscreens too, so that they work with gloves. They tend to be more fiddly and prone to calibration problems than capacitative screens.
First it needs an accurate source of time. These days that could be GPS, but it needs to keep working when GPS is not available so you need an atomic clock at each site.
Then you need some equipment to generate the signal. Yeah, a Raspberry Pi could do it, but have you certified that Python script to be correct and to produce a signal that is synchronized within nanoseconds of the atomic clock?
Finally you need a high power transmitter to broadcast it. Actually you need five because it broadcasts on five different frequencies.
Oh, and you need to keep monitoring it, not just at the transmitter but around the country to ensure propagation and accuracy. Conditions change, if you are relying on it for anything important you have to keep checking.
$6.3m actually sounds quite reasonable for such a system.
Do we have any detail on what this "fraud" is? Because if it's not leading to 13,000 prosecutions it's most likely just mistakes made on forms, probably by staff.
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"911. What's your emergency?"
"I've been shot, I need help, I think the shooter is still here..."
"Okay sir, I see you have the Silver Protection Plan, we will get an officer to you within 2-5 business days or I can offer you a special upgrade price that will get you help within 30 minutes, that will be $9000 and I have your card on file."
"I'm bleeding..."
"Yes sir, I understand that you are bleeding and need medical assistance. Your policy covers up to 3 bullet wounds but I see you have already been shot twice this year. How many bullets are inside your body at this time?"
Also by the time the suit gets to court the crypto currency will probably be worth 24 cents. How does it work in America, can you argue for the value as it was at the time or only the current value?
No USB either so you can't plug a flash drive/HDD/floppy in.
For long trips a flash drive with a few movies on is pretty handy.
I think they missed a leading 1 off the price though. Surely it will be more expensive than the smaller iPhone.
I hope they are not a lost cause, otherwise we are going to end up with another pizzagate.
The broader problem is that populists use conspiracy theories and that's basically what started the first world war. Both sides got to a point where they couldn't back out of the lies.
Not forgive as such, he just didn't pay it back and didn't sue himself.
Friend of a friend did a scam where he set up a company that was paid his contacting fees, then paid him a nominal amount and gave the rest to him as a loan. He then defaulted on the loan and shut down the company, avoiding paying any income tax.
Naturally the tax authority wasn't having any of it and now he owes then â80,000.
I was gonna say "Cortana, disable Alexa", but then I realized that I needed to ask Alexa to disable Cortana!
Well played Microsoft, well played.
It appears that they think all buildings are worth $200.
If a "cluster of buildings" on the periphery of Apple Park are worth $1bn, what is the main HQ worth? Oh right, $200.
"Other assessors say large corporations are using their resources to hire attorneys and expert witnesses to eventually wear down county governments."
Can't the court bar them from being an expert witness for putting in a $200 valuation on a $1,000,0000,000 building? Doesn't that demonstrate utter incompetence, if not criminal conspiracy to defraud the county of tax revenue?
If you apply the same discounted valuation to a $1000 iPhone X it is worth $0.02.
This is more like your buddy owning a zoo and sealife aquarium resort with trillion dollar valuation, and then claiming it's a pet hamster for tax purposes.
Seriously you can easily spend more than $200/year on a hamster, it's actually taking less piss than Apple is.
Wow, that sounds like a terrible decision. What happens if the pad gets damaged or you need to operate it with something other than the finger of the suit?
What we do know is that because AMD correctly handles these kinds of situations they are not affected by most of these bugs. So the probability of there being similar flaws in AMD processors is much lower, even if we can't say that it is zero.
That's only because the response to it was relatively well coordinated and patches became available fairly quickly after the slightly premature announcement.
The damage done is quite real and measurable though. 60% performance loss for some server tasks, meaning a massive cost increase or degradation of service.
I'd love to see some stats on how many people sued Intel over this. They paid for my new workstation but I'd love to know how many more.
Can you explain precisely why their methodology is invalid? It doesn't seem unreasonable to use a higher than normal level of exposure to make some predictions about what long term lower level exposure might do.
The prediction might not be entirely accurate, but it does suggest that further research is warranted.
Who cares?
Maybe you should.
If you had a choice between vaping that harmed you and vaping that didn't, you would pick the harm-free one, right? So research that pinpoints the thing doing the harm and leads to the development of less harmful vaping is a good thing.
You don't understand how these studies work.
What makes more sense: throw a large amount of money at a full scale, long study with multiple variables just to find out if there is anything there, or do a cheaper limited study that will tell you if it's worth investigating further?
Obviously the answer is the former, you throw resources at the problem until you are sure no armchair biochemists on random tech news sites will be able to mock the size of your study.
The internet was less anonymous in the early days. Most people got access through an academic institution or work, with a fixed IP address. In fact my first dial-up ISP only offered fixed IP addresses... And most of those institutions would use your real name for things like mail addresses or in the URL of your homepage.
Of course there was no wifi or other easy means of getting semi-anonymous access, and commercial VPNs/Tor didn't exist. If you registered a domain name the whois data had your address and phone number on it.
What did help was that there were fewer online services for doxing people. These days you can look up all sorts of public records.
My first PC was an Amstrad PC1512. It was a deluxe model with 640k RAM and a 20MB hard drive, as well as a 5.25" floppy.
It dual booted DOS 3.3 and DOSPLUS. It also had the GEM windowing system with a rather slow but fun version of BASIC by Locomotive software.
The first Voodoo card I owned was a Voodoo 3 which went in my Amiga that had been upgraded with a Mediator PCI backplane.
Presumably these will be crappy resistive touchscreens too, so that they work with gloves. They tend to be more fiddly and prone to calibration problems than capacitative screens.
Reminds me of China. They have metal detectors and x-ray scanners for bags.
It's not that simple.
First it needs an accurate source of time. These days that could be GPS, but it needs to keep working when GPS is not available so you need an atomic clock at each site.
Then you need some equipment to generate the signal. Yeah, a Raspberry Pi could do it, but have you certified that Python script to be correct and to produce a signal that is synchronized within nanoseconds of the atomic clock?
Finally you need a high power transmitter to broadcast it. Actually you need five because it broadcasts on five different frequencies.
Oh, and you need to keep monitoring it, not just at the transmitter but around the country to ensure propagation and accuracy. Conditions change, if you are relying on it for anything important you have to keep checking.
$6.3m actually sounds quite reasonable for such a system.
Do we have any detail on what this "fraud" is? Because if it's not leading to 13,000 prosecutions it's most likely just mistakes made on forms, probably by staff.
All of those things and more. That's what we call intersectionality.