This problem is basically a question of if certain material is harmful.
Do you accept that some material does actually create victims? There were cases of live child abuse being streamed on hidden Tor sites, which seems like a pretty straight forward case of there being a victim and a moral imperative to do something about it. But what about videos of ISIS murdering people? You could argue that by hiding their crimes it actually helps them and prevents the victim's plight being seen.
Then you have sites like the Daily Stormer. People who openly call for genocide. And sometimes people who were radicalized by sites like that become terrorists and start murdering people. The question is, are they victims of sites like the Daily Stormer or is the right to free speech so important we must allow ISIS to post their propaganda? I find the argument that they should be heard so we can rebut them to be kind of weak, because those sites are often read-only or ideological echo chambers.
As you say, there is no easy solution to this. It's just an endless series of hard choices.
Not exactly too caustic for some, more like "I'm interested in this but learning about it means hanging out with these asshats who will give me nothing but abuse. Making a video is only going to invite further trollings, so why bother? I'll do something else instead."
Actually, if you look at countries with high levels of gender equality you do see fairly equal representation in many areas that are dominated by one gender in other countries.
Either those countries are authoritarian hell holes where women are forced to study maths until they are as good as men, or once you remove the gender related stereotyping and barriers it turns out that their interests are fairly similar.
Turns out a lot of guys want to do "girly" stuff once you remove the social stigma and peer pressure.
Scroll down a bit and read the comments on YouTube. Men get harassed for doing traditionally girly things, and women get harassed for doing traditionally male things.
So why would people go to the effort of making videos when they get that kind of response?
For Arduino stuff a lot of the web sites are the same. It got so bad on Hack a Day they had to really clamp down on it with a series of articles and comment purges. But go over to Adafruit and you will find many more women, because those forums are much friendlier to them.
Face ID is a reasonable security measure for many people. People are basically lazy and their main adversaries are petty thieves and nosy friends/co-workers. The hierarchy of security levels is something like:
0 No lock at all 1 Fixed swipe pattern 2 PIN 3 PIN with randomized keypad 4 Face ID 5 Fingerprint 6 Very strong password
1 is enough to stop a lot of people. 3 is enough to stop most law enforcement. 4 and 5 depend on the implementation, but based on the backlog of phones waiting to be unlocked at least 5 is effective against even the FBI.
I think owners of Tesla cars are getting a little frustrated at the lack of progress on promised features. Maybe he needs to hire more people to manage/engineer things.
Tesla is selling "full self driving" capability today, for about $3500 on top of the $5000 "enhanced auto-pilot". Self driving will be delivered at some unspecified date via software update. Enhanced auto-pilot doesn't work very well yet. There was an old version, known as AP1, which was better. Newer cars have AP2 hardware, which doesn't even have auto-wipers yet.
This is problematic because people have expensive cars that are depreciating and running out their finance plans, with features that they paid for but which have not been delivered. And in fact, it seems like Tesla is actually going backwards because the older cars have better autopilot and working rain sensors.
What they didn't tell you about on the first day of basic economics class is the other factors that determine price. The Barbie Dreamhouse is the gateway to many future purchases. Furniture, dolls to populate it, extensions, vehicles, supplementary media... So selling it at $1000 will reduce profits, because very few people will own one and thus very few accessories will be sold.
Everything from games consoles to cars are sold using this model.
Since when are middle men who contribute nothing other than inflating the price and burning some oil to ship things around for no reason a good thing?
It also perpetuates inequality by transferring wealth to people who have the capital to run shopping bots.
Imagine if someone bought a fleet of tankers and went around draining every gas station, then selling you that same gas at 10x the normal price. Would you be okay with that, because after all it's just extracting money from rich people clearly have too much and distributing it back to poor working class tanker fleet owners?
You will probably argue that gas is different because people "need" it (as if they can't just walk), but that doesn't sound very capitalist.
- There is a disable bit, added at the request of the NSA, to support "High-Assurance Platform" mode. It's supposed to be reserved for government use, but is available on most (all?) consumer hardware too. There is no official mechanism to enable it, only a hack, so it's not clear if Dell is using it.
- Due to flaws in the way that the ME does integrity checks you can actually just erase most of the ME firmware, leaving only the early boot code necessary to bring the system up from cold. Again, this is a hack so it seems unlikely that Dell would be using it.
- The UEFI BIOS can simply set the user-level "disable" flag, which kinda turns parts of the ME off but doesn't really disable it in any meaningful way. It's up to the BIOS vendor if they provide a user interface for controlling this flag. Maybe Dell just removed the "enable" option.
Conclusion: Unless Dell has acquired some special tool from Intel to disable the ME, they have probably not actually disabled it.
Unless these optical sensors have improved a lot in the last few months I think this is going to need some heavy qualification.
Other optical sensors have proven wildly inaccurate when people use them for exercising or just wearing them all day. Maybe if the watch waits until you are stationary and not moving much it could get a better reading, but realistically trying to measure blood flow accurately using through-the-skin optics is never going to be very good.
Maybe they don't need to accurately measure amplitude, just relative flow from beat to beat. Even that is a tall order.
"AppleÃ(TM)s Irish tax arrangements have allowed it to pay tax at a rate of 3.8 percent on $200 billion of overseas profits"
From this article.
So that is 7.6 *billion* dollars in taxes that Apple has paid to the EU in taxes.
Or to put it another way, it's at least 50 *billion* that Apple dodged paying to the EU in taxes.
The corporation tax rate in France is 33%. It varies around Europe but 25-30% is typical.
Again, just for Apple having a store located in that country or city.
No. It includes everything they sell on iTunes to French citizens. It includes all the paid services they offer to French customers like repairs, battery replacements and cloud storage. It includes all the business services they offer in France like Siri integration. This stuff is so significant that Apple set up a French subsidiary to manage it all, and also to dodge paying tax on it.
Apple has subsidiaries in Europe. They do a huge amount of business in Europe. They employ Europeans, who have their education and healthcare partially or fully funded by taxation. They use European infrastructure. They own property in Europe, like the Apple store being protested at. They advertise in Europe, they pay European sales tax. They have to abide by European data protection and consumer laws.
Apple should pay its fair share of taxes, or get out of Europe. They won't do the latter because it is a huge, profitable market for them. They want the profit, they just don't want to pay for the privilege of operating here.
France has a long history of this kind of protest taking place and getting results. From framers shutting down roads to campaigners against poverty openly robbing supermarkets, politicians take notice and stuff gets done. Of course, sometimes the protesters find themselves in the minority, but even then it tends to settle the issue for a while and stop them agitating.
The French incorporated protest into their democracy, unlike many other countries where politicians are always looking for ways to marginalize and ignore such things. It's a good system because it results in fewer protests overall and a more participatory democracy.
A 300 mile range and 30 minute / 80% charge time, like current Teslas, makes the car no worse than a fossil ones for most people. After 5 hours of driving a half hour break isn't a big deal.
Yeah, that guy who lives in an off-grid cabin and needs to do 9000 miles in a day isn't going to buy one, but for most people it's fine.
The "pile of money" is actually just a tax break in the UK. They don't collect all of the VAT on the sale.
As for emissions, it's up to the owner. In the UK you can choose who you get your electricity from. I have 100% renewable energy. It costs about 10% more than dirty energy. My car runs on wind and sunshine.
Someone will ask how I block the coal elections. Electricity doesn't work that way, it's more like a water network where your obligation is to maintain pressure, not make sure your particular molecules come out the tap.
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This problem is basically a question of if certain material is harmful.
Do you accept that some material does actually create victims? There were cases of live child abuse being streamed on hidden Tor sites, which seems like a pretty straight forward case of there being a victim and a moral imperative to do something about it. But what about videos of ISIS murdering people? You could argue that by hiding their crimes it actually helps them and prevents the victim's plight being seen.
Then you have sites like the Daily Stormer. People who openly call for genocide. And sometimes people who were radicalized by sites like that become terrorists and start murdering people. The question is, are they victims of sites like the Daily Stormer or is the right to free speech so important we must allow ISIS to post their propaganda? I find the argument that they should be heard so we can rebut them to be kind of weak, because those sites are often read-only or ideological echo chambers.
As you say, there is no easy solution to this. It's just an endless series of hard choices.
Not exactly too caustic for some, more like "I'm interested in this but learning about it means hanging out with these asshats who will give me nothing but abuse. Making a video is only going to invite further trollings, so why bother? I'll do something else instead."
https://hackaday.com/2011/07/2...
Actually, if you look at countries with high levels of gender equality you do see fairly equal representation in many areas that are dominated by one gender in other countries.
Either those countries are authoritarian hell holes where women are forced to study maths until they are as good as men, or once you remove the gender related stereotyping and barriers it turns out that their interests are fairly similar.
Turns out a lot of guys want to do "girly" stuff once you remove the social stigma and peer pressure.
Scroll down a bit and read the comments on YouTube. Men get harassed for doing traditionally girly things, and women get harassed for doing traditionally male things.
So why would people go to the effort of making videos when they get that kind of response?
For Arduino stuff a lot of the web sites are the same. It got so bad on Hack a Day they had to really clamp down on it with a series of articles and comment purges. But go over to Adafruit and you will find many more women, because those forums are much friendlier to them.
You could at least listen to them before getting upset and what you imagine they are saying.
I talk to, email and go out for lunch with the women I work with. Never been accused of anything.
Citing the Daily Mail and Daily Caller only proves that your point is just alarmist far right nonsense.
Age is a protected attribute. Can't even ask what it is when interviewing around here.
When people start movements to address this like transchrono folk you mock them.
Face ID is a reasonable security measure for many people. People are basically lazy and their main adversaries are petty thieves and nosy friends/co-workers. The hierarchy of security levels is something like:
0 No lock at all
1 Fixed swipe pattern
2 PIN
3 PIN with randomized keypad
4 Face ID
5 Fingerprint
6 Very strong password
1 is enough to stop a lot of people. 3 is enough to stop most law enforcement. 4 and 5 depend on the implementation, but based on the backlog of phones waiting to be unlocked at least 5 is effective against even the FBI.
I think owners of Tesla cars are getting a little frustrated at the lack of progress on promised features. Maybe he needs to hire more people to manage/engineer things.
Tesla is selling "full self driving" capability today, for about $3500 on top of the $5000 "enhanced auto-pilot". Self driving will be delivered at some unspecified date via software update. Enhanced auto-pilot doesn't work very well yet. There was an old version, known as AP1, which was better. Newer cars have AP2 hardware, which doesn't even have auto-wipers yet.
This is problematic because people have expensive cars that are depreciating and running out their finance plans, with features that they paid for but which have not been delivered. And in fact, it seems like Tesla is actually going backwards because the older cars have better autopilot and working rain sensors.
What they didn't tell you about on the first day of basic economics class is the other factors that determine price. The Barbie Dreamhouse is the gateway to many future purchases. Furniture, dolls to populate it, extensions, vehicles, supplementary media... So selling it at $1000 will reduce profits, because very few people will own one and thus very few accessories will be sold.
Everything from games consoles to cars are sold using this model.
Since when are middle men who contribute nothing other than inflating the price and burning some oil to ship things around for no reason a good thing?
It also perpetuates inequality by transferring wealth to people who have the capital to run shopping bots.
Imagine if someone bought a fleet of tankers and went around draining every gas station, then selling you that same gas at 10x the normal price. Would you be okay with that, because after all it's just extracting money from rich people clearly have too much and distributing it back to poor working class tanker fleet owners?
You will probably argue that gas is different because people "need" it (as if they can't just walk), but that doesn't sound very capitalist.
What we know so far:
- There is a disable bit, added at the request of the NSA, to support "High-Assurance Platform" mode. It's supposed to be reserved for government use, but is available on most (all?) consumer hardware too. There is no official mechanism to enable it, only a hack, so it's not clear if Dell is using it.
- Due to flaws in the way that the ME does integrity checks you can actually just erase most of the ME firmware, leaving only the early boot code necessary to bring the system up from cold. Again, this is a hack so it seems unlikely that Dell would be using it.
- The UEFI BIOS can simply set the user-level "disable" flag, which kinda turns parts of the ME off but doesn't really disable it in any meaningful way. It's up to the BIOS vendor if they provide a user interface for controlling this flag. Maybe Dell just removed the "enable" option.
Conclusion: Unless Dell has acquired some special tool from Intel to disable the ME, they have probably not actually disabled it.
They look great off-shore, although now deep water ones are price competitive we probably won't be able to see many of the new farms from land.
Unless these optical sensors have improved a lot in the last few months I think this is going to need some heavy qualification.
Other optical sensors have proven wildly inaccurate when people use them for exercising or just wearing them all day. Maybe if the watch waits until you are stationary and not moving much it could get a better reading, but realistically trying to measure blood flow accurately using through-the-skin optics is never going to be very good.
Maybe they don't need to accurately measure amplitude, just relative flow from beat to beat. Even that is a tall order.
"AppleÃ(TM)s Irish tax arrangements have allowed it to pay tax at a rate of 3.8 percent on $200 billion of overseas profits"
From this article.
So that is 7.6 *billion* dollars in taxes that Apple has paid to the EU in taxes.
Or to put it another way, it's at least 50 *billion* that Apple dodged paying to the EU in taxes.
The corporation tax rate in France is 33%. It varies around Europe but 25-30% is typical.
Again, just for Apple having a store located in that country or city.
No. It includes everything they sell on iTunes to French citizens. It includes all the paid services they offer to French customers like repairs, battery replacements and cloud storage. It includes all the business services they offer in France like Siri integration. This stuff is so significant that Apple set up a French subsidiary to manage it all, and also to dodge paying tax on it.
Apple has subsidiaries in Europe. They do a huge amount of business in Europe. They employ Europeans, who have their education and healthcare partially or fully funded by taxation. They use European infrastructure. They own property in Europe, like the Apple store being protested at. They advertise in Europe, they pay European sales tax. They have to abide by European data protection and consumer laws.
Apple should pay its fair share of taxes, or get out of Europe. They won't do the latter because it is a huge, profitable market for them. They want the profit, they just don't want to pay for the privilege of operating here.
France has a long history of this kind of protest taking place and getting results. From framers shutting down roads to campaigners against poverty openly robbing supermarkets, politicians take notice and stuff gets done. Of course, sometimes the protesters find themselves in the minority, but even then it tends to settle the issue for a while and stop them agitating.
The French incorporated protest into their democracy, unlike many other countries where politicians are always looking for ways to marginalize and ignore such things. It's a good system because it results in fewer protests overall and a more participatory democracy.
Or it might be because they are the deranged rantings of POTUS.
I fully agree. Such a trip would be illegal if made by a commercial driver in Europe.
You don't actually have to charge right where your battery guys hits 10% you know.
Most people would pick a couple of nice places along their route and do some short charges.
So to you choosing not to buy petrol and thus avoid paying all the tax on it is the same as the government handing you cash?
A 300 mile range and 30 minute / 80% charge time, like current Teslas, makes the car no worse than a fossil ones for most people. After 5 hours of driving a half hour break isn't a big deal.
Yeah, that guy who lives in an off-grid cabin and needs to do 9000 miles in a day isn't going to buy one, but for most people it's fine.
About £350 these days.
Both of you are wrong.
The "pile of money" is actually just a tax break in the UK. They don't collect all of the VAT on the sale.
As for emissions, it's up to the owner. In the UK you can choose who you get your electricity from. I have 100% renewable energy. It costs about 10% more than dirty energy. My car runs on wind and sunshine.
Someone will ask how I block the coal elections. Electricity doesn't work that way, it's more like a water network where your obligation is to maintain pressure, not make sure your particular molecules come out the tap.