To use the schooling example again, some people would argue that to be equal all schools must get the same level of funding per pupil. The problem with that is that it ignores that some schools have higher costs than others. A good local library can reduce the cost of running the school's library. A large number of poorer students can mean a higher cost of providing them with food. Some areas are more expensive to live in, so teacher salaries have to be higher to compensate. In some areas the school bus needs to do more miles every day.
Another example might be a wheelchair ramp. Some people complain that it is unfair and discriminatory to spend extra money providing a ramp for people who need it. I'd argue that it gives those people an equal opportunity to access the venue.
Unfortunately you can't disable the ME. It's needed for the CPU to start up from cold. It manages the cold boot process. The best you can do is disable it after the initial boot up, but you have to trust that setting the disable flag really did what it claims to.
You can also erase all the firmware modules not related to the early boot process, but again you have to trust that the ME is lying when it says they are gone.
I meant the "prove his hypothesis" bit. If he doesn't believe in science then why would he be using the scientific method of proposing a hypothesis and then trying to prove it?
You are right though, he does seem to be focused more on engineering. TFA doesn't really convey that very well.
I see what you mean. Well, it depends on the opportunity. For example, take access to education. Clearly getting a good education is extremely beneficial. Unfortunately some people don't have access to good schools, because of where they live or their social status or a variety of other factors.
I suppose you could argue that we are measuring the quality of the school by the achievements of its pupils, e.g. exam results. But the actual opportunity is pretty much binary. Those kids can go to a well performing school or not, and the gulf between the good and not so good ones tends to be so big that it doesn't need extremely accurate quantification.
Do you have a specific concern here? Like an example of an improperly measured lack of opportunity?
Well at least he is trying to prove his hypothesis
He claims not to believe in science, so... It's not at all clear what he is doing.
TFA suggests that he isn't trying to go up to space though, more sideways at very high speed. Apparently he has made one flight already, this is just a longer one.
Imagine you start a game of chess without a queen. How would you measure your opportunity to win? You could count the number of pieces that each side has, but the queen is one of the most powerful so it would need to be weighted. Determining the weights is tricky, it needs you to study and understand the nature of the game and current trends in tactics and style.
A better question is if you really need to measure it to that extent at all.
Looking at the number of sites that use anti-patterns (malicious UIs designed to trick the user) I'd say you have lived a very sheltered life.
Getting you to buy more stuff IS abuse in many cases. Jacking up prices because your page view times and mouse hover positions suggest that you will pay 10% more is also abuse, and spying. It's creepy AF.
Google's vehicles can already deal with cyclists, pedestrians and construction areas. In fact they do it better than most humans.
They are now starting to test in poor weather, including snow. They actually have some advantages over human drivers in snow, for example because lidar can see the wrinkle where the curb is buried better than human eyes.
uBlock Origin allows you to use a list of hosts, and the performance is excellent...
Shame nothing like that existed before. All those years we could have been blocking this crap, if only app had existed. I'd like to see.apk version for Android too.
Are you saying that people don't know about apps? They think that because their phone doesn't come pre-installed with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter that it just doesn't have those features?
And that your phone had the full suit of Google apps, EXCEPT for the the Play Store. The Play Store that Google is very keen for you to browse because it makes them lots of money.
Privacy Badger fixes most of this automatically. It's a good option for less technical people.
uBlock Matrix with "medium mode" (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode) kills it completely. Without medium mode it also kills it, but you are reliant on the block list authors keeping up with whatever changes are made. Since this threat is so well known, they are probably on top of it.
Weird, when I open my browser it doesn't force me to view Google News. My phone has a number of non-Google news apps and they appear to be functional. Somehow I seem to have a choice.
The conflation is because the two are intrinsically linked. The NRC does most of its work on paper, looking at design documents and the risk assessments that the manufacturer did. Most of the "inspection" is examining maintenance records, not physically examining the plant.
When the operator wants to extend the working life of the plant, the manufacturer has to be involved in that decision. The manufacturer is under pressure to agree in order to improve the economics of their product and benefit from on-going contracts to maintain it.
I've answered this 20 times already. Look, I'm all for debate, but you clearly have some very strange ideas about my thoughts on this issue and I'm starting to feel like I need an FAQ or something.
What they wanted was Trump. The last minute email leak will go down as one of the greatest foreign ops in history. It's only flaw was that it was a bit too obvious, but it had the desired effect and if anything the subsequent investigation is only making it an even greater victory.
Which I think is the reason people downmod you. They see you as actively defending a pack of lies even in a pseudonymous forum instead of simply not challenging them in public for the good of your career like they do.
Bingo. Disagreement is not simply a differing point of view or counter-argument, not even devil's advocate or an opportunity to debate and explore the issue to those people. They consider it lying and trolling. They will not tolerate it.
Often such use violates the license the buyer agrees to when purchasing the track.
Not even TFA, from TFS. The licence is the control method. Licences are the primary way that IP is controlled, second only to DRM which isn't really possible for music that has to be incorporated into other works.
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To use the schooling example again, some people would argue that to be equal all schools must get the same level of funding per pupil. The problem with that is that it ignores that some schools have higher costs than others. A good local library can reduce the cost of running the school's library. A large number of poorer students can mean a higher cost of providing them with food. Some areas are more expensive to live in, so teacher salaries have to be higher to compensate. In some areas the school bus needs to do more miles every day.
Another example might be a wheelchair ramp. Some people complain that it is unfair and discriminatory to spend extra money providing a ramp for people who need it. I'd argue that it gives those people an equal opportunity to access the venue.
Unfortunately you can't disable the ME. It's needed for the CPU to start up from cold. It manages the cold boot process. The best you can do is disable it after the initial boot up, but you have to trust that setting the disable flag really did what it claims to.
You can also erase all the firmware modules not related to the early boot process, but again you have to trust that the ME is lying when it says they are gone.
I meant the "prove his hypothesis" bit. If he doesn't believe in science then why would he be using the scientific method of proposing a hypothesis and then trying to prove it?
You are right though, he does seem to be focused more on engineering. TFA doesn't really convey that very well.
I see what you mean. Well, it depends on the opportunity. For example, take access to education. Clearly getting a good education is extremely beneficial. Unfortunately some people don't have access to good schools, because of where they live or their social status or a variety of other factors.
I suppose you could argue that we are measuring the quality of the school by the achievements of its pupils, e.g. exam results. But the actual opportunity is pretty much binary. Those kids can go to a well performing school or not, and the gulf between the good and not so good ones tends to be so big that it doesn't need extremely accurate quantification.
Do you have a specific concern here? Like an example of an improperly measured lack of opportunity?
Well at least he is trying to prove his hypothesis
He claims not to believe in science, so... It's not at all clear what he is doing.
TFA suggests that he isn't trying to go up to space though, more sideways at very high speed. Apparently he has made one flight already, this is just a longer one.
He might injure someone else in the attempt.
You tell me, you are the one who asked how it was measured... What do you want to use this measurement for?
With a variety of factors.
Imagine you start a game of chess without a queen. How would you measure your opportunity to win? You could count the number of pieces that each side has, but the queen is one of the most powerful so it would need to be weighted. Determining the weights is tricky, it needs you to study and understand the nature of the game and current trends in tactics and style.
A better question is if you really need to measure it to that extent at all.
The same way you measure success.
Looking at the number of sites that use anti-patterns (malicious UIs designed to trick the user) I'd say you have lived a very sheltered life.
Getting you to buy more stuff IS abuse in many cases. Jacking up prices because your page view times and mouse hover positions suggest that you will pay 10% more is also abuse, and spying. It's creepy AF.
Google's vehicles can already deal with cyclists, pedestrians and construction areas. In fact they do it better than most humans.
They are now starting to test in poor weather, including snow. They actually have some advantages over human drivers in snow, for example because lidar can see the wrinkle where the curb is buried better than human eyes.
uBlock Origin allows you to use a list of hosts, and the performance is excellent...
Shame nothing like that existed before. All those years we could have been blocking this crap, if only app had existed. I'd like to see .apk version for Android too.
Are you saying that people don't know about apps? They think that because their phone doesn't come pre-installed with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter that it just doesn't have those features?
And that your phone had the full suit of Google apps, EXCEPT for the the Play Store. The Play Store that Google is very keen for you to browse because it makes them lots of money.
Privacy Badger fixes most of this automatically. It's a good option for less technical people.
uBlock Matrix with "medium mode" (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode) kills it completely. Without medium mode it also kills it, but you are reliant on the block list authors keeping up with whatever changes are made. Since this threat is so well known, they are probably on top of it.
Weird, when I open my browser it doesn't force me to view Google News. My phone has a number of non-Google news apps and they appear to be functional. Somehow I seem to have a choice.
The conflation is because the two are intrinsically linked. The NRC does most of its work on paper, looking at design documents and the risk assessments that the manufacturer did. Most of the "inspection" is examining maintenance records, not physically examining the plant.
When the operator wants to extend the working life of the plant, the manufacturer has to be involved in that decision. The manufacturer is under pressure to agree in order to improve the economics of their product and benefit from on-going contracts to maintain it.
Have you tried their apps? In fact Fox has half a dozen.
I've answered this 20 times already. Look, I'm all for debate, but you clearly have some very strange ideas about my thoughts on this issue and I'm starting to feel like I need an FAQ or something.
No need to imagine, just go to brietbart.com or turn on Fox News.
You didn't really think that one through, did you?
What they wanted was Trump. The last minute email leak will go down as one of the greatest foreign ops in history. It's only flaw was that it was a bit too obvious, but it had the desired effect and if anything the subsequent investigation is only making it an even greater victory.
It's a news feed. Russian propaganda and fake news isn't news. It's a spam filter.
Maybe you consider spam filtering to be censorship... I block ads too. Even Russian ones.
I'll take Google over Russian propaganda any time.
Don't give them ideas. The last thing I want is to lacerate my arse on the folded up EULA I forgot to take out of my jeans.
Which I think is the reason people downmod you. They see you as actively defending a pack of lies even in a pseudonymous forum instead of simply not challenging them in public for the good of your career like they do.
Bingo. Disagreement is not simply a differing point of view or counter-argument, not even devil's advocate or an opportunity to debate and explore the issue to those people. They consider it lying and trolling. They will not tolerate it.
From TFS:
Often such use violates the license the buyer agrees to when purchasing the track.
Not even TFA, from TFS. The licence is the control method. Licences are the primary way that IP is controlled, second only to DRM which isn't really possible for music that has to be incorporated into other works.