It depends what you mean by free will. Perhaps physics can show that there is no free will, but that's different to the more philosophical question of if individuals can make free choices and be held accountable for them.
It's not really punishment, it's looking out for the safety of the attendees.
Crossing the US border is dangerous. You have few rights and your possessions can be searched or confiscated. You can detained for long periods of time without warning. Plus, the travel ban affects a lot of people who might want to attend, and it's hard to predict what the situation might be by the time the conference actually happens.
If they don't move they will lose out to conferences in other places.
"Bayer said there are limited, active ingredients available within the U.S. with the same proven effectiveness as oxybenzone for sunscreens over SPF 50."
Sounds like a classic example of externalized costs. Cheaper ingredients that pass the cost on to coral reefs.
I noticed that the lights on my modem flickered about once every 5 seconds, despite me not generating any traffic. I checked the logs and saw someone was sending ICMP pings, which were bouncing harmlessly off the firewall. I wanted them to stop doing it anyway for some reason...
So I tried to telnet to the source IP address, and it worked. I found myself with a prompt and no idea what I was talking to. Tried a few random commands like HELP and LS, but none worked. Eventually typed "REBOOT", the connection dropped and I didn't get pinged any more.
I was young and foolish. I dread to think what someone who knew what they were doing and was being pressured by their boss to do/something/ would get up to.
I'd love to see a world where there weren't millions of stupidly insecure devices connected to the internet
It's an impossible dream and probably wouldn't help, I'm afraid.
We need to re-engineer the network to distrust the clients. Most of early protocols were built on trust, e.g. DNS wouldn't lie to you, return IP addresses were genuine and all requests made in good faith. That legacy is slowly being undone.
That data is worthless right now, because it is under active investigation by the ICO. Anyone who bought it would instantly become part of that investigation.
Welcome to 2018. This is how we test software now.
Why bother testing all the popular bits of software on numerous hardware configurations when you can just do a gradual roll out and wait for users to do your QA for you? Rather than employ people to find bugs, just load the OS up with telemetry.
Everyone does it. Android and iOS app updates are rolled out slowly, and you can cancel the roll out via the dashboard if you notice abnormally high numbers of crashes.
Microsoft shares data with the Chinese government and applies their censorship filters to search results. Google declined to do that, so is blocked.
It's not a binary Disney Channel/4chan choice. Google does comply with some other censorship laws such as the right to be forgotten in the EU and DMCA in the US, but not with others.
How they make that decision is up for debate. You could argue it's driven by money, but China is a vast and rapidly growing market that I'm sure Google would love to be in. In reality it's probably a mixture of things, money and the nature of the governments implementing these rules.
I literally can't fathom why a vendor would choose to gamble that they can screw a customer without consequences.
Because on balance screwing the customer is more profitable, at least in the short term.
Retailer notices they are seeing a lot of returns that cost them money to process. Someone is charged with reducing returns. They do so by making the return process too difficult for most people to bother with. The few that end up costing them more don't outweigh the majority who just give up and get robbed.
The manager who instigates this gets their bonus and then moves on. Five years down the line sales are lagging and they have a reputation for difficult returns. A different manager is charged with fixing this, so introduces an easy return policy.
In the UK basically it's a warranty issue unless there is some evidence that the user caused the problem. That should be the default assumption, and if the manufacturer thinks you did something to screw it up then they should prove it.
Orwell was right at the time, and perhaps right again now as we have come full circle. In between the end of WW2 and the recent resurgence of the far right, fascism was well defined:
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism,[1][2] characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce,[3] which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.[4] The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I before it spread to other European countries.[4] Opposed to liberalism, Marxism and anarchism, fascism is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional leftâ"right spectrum.
(from Wikipedia)
The far right is now doing the same thing they did back in the 30s; they are trying to redefine what fascism means and label their opponents as it (e.g. AntiFa, whose name literally means anti-fascism, are often accused of being fascists). It's an attempt to move the central political ground to the right and create a more acceptable form of fascism (the so-called "alt-light") that acts as a feed in to their movement.
Writing essays on subjects unrelated to your core ones is to give up experience working outside your comfort zone and see how you cope with radically different problems.
It's annoying, but chances are you will need to learn new radically different concepts during your working life too.
University used to be even more abstract. My mum has a degree in Latin. A dead language. It was popular back then because it demonstrated your ability to learn to a high standard and to think logically, and companies were willing to provide training based on that.
Many people would value being able to see someone's Facebook profile and history, as a way of filtering out dangerous creeps. I can see it being a popular feature for that alone.
It's yet another situation where trying to enumerate all the things that identify something is doomed to failure and will always be full of loopholes.
The only way to do it is to set out the general principals and let courts decide the rest, making adjustments to the principals as required when the decisions are not as intended.
Mandating a location based living wage would have the additional benefit of encouraging companies to set up in cheaper areas, instead of all clustering in expensive ones.
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It's a bizarre statement. What does religion have to do with anything? Who asked about his religion?
He says that the code of conduct for excludes him because of his political views, but doesn't elaborate exactly what views he means.
It really seems like he left for some other reason and just decided to put the boot in.
Which doesn't really explain anything. If it was the last drop then he is saying that he did object to the code of conduct, without explaining why.
It depends what you mean by free will. Perhaps physics can show that there is no free will, but that's different to the more philosophical question of if individuals can make free choices and be held accountable for them.
Since Bush. This all started with 9/11.
It's not really punishment, it's looking out for the safety of the attendees.
Crossing the US border is dangerous. You have few rights and your possessions can be searched or confiscated. You can detained for long periods of time without warning. Plus, the travel ban affects a lot of people who might want to attend, and it's hard to predict what the situation might be by the time the conference actually happens.
If they don't move they will lose out to conferences in other places.
I don't look a day over 3.5 billion.
I'd have thought the ovoid nature of the ball would have been a greater problem. The earth is a bit chubby around the waist.
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"Bayer said there are limited, active ingredients available within the U.S. with the same proven effectiveness as oxybenzone for sunscreens over SPF 50."
Sounds like a classic example of externalized costs. Cheaper ingredients that pass the cost on to coral reefs.
Back in the 90s I hacked someone back.
I noticed that the lights on my modem flickered about once every 5 seconds, despite me not generating any traffic. I checked the logs and saw someone was sending ICMP pings, which were bouncing harmlessly off the firewall. I wanted them to stop doing it anyway for some reason...
So I tried to telnet to the source IP address, and it worked. I found myself with a prompt and no idea what I was talking to. Tried a few random commands like HELP and LS, but none worked. Eventually typed "REBOOT", the connection dropped and I didn't get pinged any more.
I was young and foolish. I dread to think what someone who knew what they were doing and was being pressured by their boss to do /something/ would get up to.
I'd love to see a world where there weren't millions of stupidly insecure devices connected to the internet
It's an impossible dream and probably wouldn't help, I'm afraid.
We need to re-engineer the network to distrust the clients. Most of early protocols were built on trust, e.g. DNS wouldn't lie to you, return IP addresses were genuine and all requests made in good faith. That legacy is slowly being undone.
That data is worthless right now, because it is under active investigation by the ICO. Anyone who bought it would instantly become part of that investigation.
You just described the entire advertising business.
Brianna Wu is standing and seems pretty tech savvy.
Welcome to 2018. This is how we test software now.
Why bother testing all the popular bits of software on numerous hardware configurations when you can just do a gradual roll out and wait for users to do your QA for you? Rather than employ people to find bugs, just load the OS up with telemetry.
Everyone does it. Android and iOS app updates are rolled out slowly, and you can cancel the roll out via the dashboard if you notice abnormally high numbers of crashes.
Google are yielding to pressure
Google is blocked in China. Microsoft isn't.
Microsoft shares data with the Chinese government and applies their censorship filters to search results. Google declined to do that, so is blocked.
It's not a binary Disney Channel/4chan choice. Google does comply with some other censorship laws such as the right to be forgotten in the EU and DMCA in the US, but not with others.
How they make that decision is up for debate. You could argue it's driven by money, but China is a vast and rapidly growing market that I'm sure Google would love to be in. In reality it's probably a mixture of things, money and the nature of the governments implementing these rules.
I literally can't fathom why a vendor would choose to gamble that they can screw a customer without consequences.
Because on balance screwing the customer is more profitable, at least in the short term.
Retailer notices they are seeing a lot of returns that cost them money to process. Someone is charged with reducing returns. They do so by making the return process too difficult for most people to bother with. The few that end up costing them more don't outweigh the majority who just give up and get robbed.
The manager who instigates this gets their bonus and then moves on. Five years down the line sales are lagging and they have a reputation for difficult returns. A different manager is charged with fixing this, so introduces an easy return policy.
The cycle repeats.
This seems like a really poorly designed law.
In the UK basically it's a warranty issue unless there is some evidence that the user caused the problem. That should be the default assumption, and if the manufacturer thinks you did something to screw it up then they should prove it.
Regardless of how true that is, is it their actions that make them fascists or their political views?
Orwell was right at the time, and perhaps right again now as we have come full circle. In between the end of WW2 and the recent resurgence of the far right, fascism was well defined:
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism,[1][2] characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce,[3] which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.[4] The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I before it spread to other European countries.[4] Opposed to liberalism, Marxism and anarchism, fascism is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional leftâ"right spectrum.
(from Wikipedia)
The far right is now doing the same thing they did back in the 30s; they are trying to redefine what fascism means and label their opponents as it (e.g. AntiFa, whose name literally means anti-fascism, are often accused of being fascists). It's an attempt to move the central political ground to the right and create a more acceptable form of fascism (the so-called "alt-light") that acts as a feed in to their movement.
Writing essays on subjects unrelated to your core ones is to give up experience working outside your comfort zone and see how you cope with radically different problems.
It's annoying, but chances are you will need to learn new radically different concepts during your working life too.
University used to be even more abstract. My mum has a degree in Latin. A dead language. It was popular back then because it demonstrated your ability to learn to a high standard and to think logically, and companies were willing to provide training based on that.
If they didn't take any responsibility for content beyond what is legally required, how would they make enough money to continue the service?
I wish there was a way for them to do so, but so far no-one has found it.
Many people would value being able to see someone's Facebook profile and history, as a way of filtering out dangerous creeps. I can see it being a popular feature for that alone.
Us relics from the late 70s and early 80s probably are not going anywhere
I've moved on from Facebook... I'm still young and cool!
It's yet another situation where trying to enumerate all the things that identify something is doomed to failure and will always be full of loopholes.
The only way to do it is to set out the general principals and let courts decide the rest, making adjustments to the principals as required when the decisions are not as intended.
Mandating a location based living wage would have the additional benefit of encouraging companies to set up in cheaper areas, instead of all clustering in expensive ones.