Policing isn't the solution to crime. That's your mistake, that's why you are part of the problem.
Liberty understand that, which is why they want to fix the actual problem rather than treating the symptoms.
Stop being politically correct and demanding harsh treatment. Properly fund youth services and community policing that doesn't criminalize kids, setting them up for a life of crime and poverty.
If you send extra officers to an area you will detect more crime, obviously. If you then say that proves that there is more crime in that area you are an idiot. It just means you got better at detecting it there, and helped create some more by criminalizing people who would otherwise have smoked a bit of pot or sprayed some graffiti and then got on with the rest of their lives.
This is all obvious, right?
The computer doesn't understand this, it just gets into a feedback loop where the more officers it sends to an area the more crime it finds.
In this case it means being economically liberal, as in low regulation, which she definitely was. In fact that legacy of low regulation, high risk/reward financial services was the origin of the 2008 financial crash.
I doubt it would be used for making legal decisions, even for people who can hear perfectly well we tend to write stuff down.
Visually impaired people already make extensive use of Google services like maps and text to speech so any privacy issues are probably well known by now. At least in Europe you can opt out of everything and run it all locally if you wish. The biggest issue they have is abuse from people who see them looking at their phones and assume that they are faking their disability.
They should implement it as a browser plug-in. Problem is that all the major browsers block their plug-ins now because local plug-in installation was widely abused. Now they only allow installation via the user clicking to accept within the browser itself, and apparently that's not a good enough user experience for AV companies.
In theory they can block dangerous downloads before they even hit your hard drive, block malicious Javascript, and block access to "bad" sites. They often have some kind of phishing detection for webmail built in too.
All stuff you can get for free elsewhere, e.g. most browsers have site blocklists enabled by default, decent webmail will detect and at least warn about potential phishing etc. I'm sure the AV companies would claim that they do a better job and have more coverage, and I suppose to be fair they do offer an all-in-one simple solution for people who can't install uBlock Origin themselves.
I get the impression that most of their sales are people who heard that it's a good idea to have AV software or who just paid up when the free McAfee trial pre-installed on their computer expired and wouldn't stop nagging them.
The UK destroyed much of its industry and manufacturing in the 1980s, for political reasons. Coal was smashed, everything else run down. The early 90s were a series of recessions.
The economy switched over to providing services, which produce a lot less CO2.
The other issue is that the reduction has been very uneven. Pollution levels in some cities regularly exceed legal limits, while other areas are now recovered after industry left.
Of course reduction is good, but it wasn't really the primary goal of most of the things that caused it.
I only dabble but I've found that some simple filters can help. For example, real PacMan machines use a joystick with a 4 way gate on it, that is the stick physically can't be moved into the diagonal positions. It's up, down, left and right only.
Such things are fairly uncommon for computers and games consoles. I build an adaptor for a friend to use an old Amiga joystick on his PC, but he found that PacMan on MAME didn't play very well. I fixed it by making the adaptor ignore diagonals. Trickier than it sounds, because the stick can still move to the corners, but I found that if it always switches to the "new" direction and and ignores the old (e.g. right to up/right corner produces up only) it felt natural.
PacMan is ideal for this kind of thing because although it has some "twitch" elements, you can actually buffer inputs heavily, e.g. you can push to take a corner long before you reach the corner and the game will be fine with it.
Interesting, what triggered a poor moderator in this post? My guess would be suggesting that something Chinese isn't just a cheap rip-off of an American product, but it could also be an Apple fanboy.
This is one of the reasons why there was a move towards coursework instead of exams back in the 90s. Measure performance over a longer period of time, factoring in things like the student's willingness to learn and fill in gaps in their knowledge when required. Also helps prevent transient problems like illness causing life-long disadvantage or a culture of re-sits.
The oft cited problem is that it's very easy to cheat on coursework, but there are ways to handle that.
India and China are huge and rapidly developing markets. Someone is going to get in early and dominate them, and everyone wants to be that someone.
China has issues with foreign companies being banned because they refuse to censor. Microsoft and Apple operate there, but Google doesn't and it's created a huge opportunity for companies like Tencent and Huawei to develop their own assistants and language processing tech.
India is more open but hasn't developed the local talent to quite the extent that China has, so it's harder for companies to offer really good services in Indian's native languages. Thus far most have been offering services in English to get established, but that's going to have to change soon if they want to stay on top.
Until recently there was a big difference between cheaper phone's cameras and the high end ones. Now that gap has narrowed considerably, especially due to some really good mid range Chinese devices pushing up expectations.
The industry is hoping that foldable displays are the next big thing, but so far no-one has demonstrated one that looked much good. They all tend to be a bit thick and a bit naff looking around the hinge.
The only other thing at the moment is getting rid of the notch. Many phones are going to pin holes now, which are better but still not perfect. Some are going to sliders which seem to work surprisingly well.
Google gave up on 3D scanning, seems like Apple may have a crack at it but it's not clear what the market is.
Reliability probably depends on a lot of different factors. The quality of the device you are talking to, the environment (even if it's a quiet room the acoustics can have a lot of reverberation etc.) and your accent.
One thing my wife has found is that she sometimes needs to speak a little more loudly with her phone. Not shouting, just making a little effort to project. My phone is fine, even in the car.
A fine idea but consumer expectations have changed since then, which is part of the problem. Remember when fruit used to be bruised and maybe a bit ripe at the supermarket? These days they discard all the cosmetically imperfect ones.
Consumers want convenient and high quality goods, so it's hard to convince them to take used bottles to a special location for recycling, or to clean and bring their own for refilling. Starbucks tried it, offering a discount if you brought your own mug, and most people ignored it.
This is the unfortunate reality we live in, so the plan has to be either to change consumer expectations or to change recycling to meet them.
It's not all bad though, many countries got rid of free plastic bags and people have mostly been okay with it.
They are web sites for people who think they need an app.
The rational is that users think they need an app, and go looking for one in the Play store. Rather than just go to Facebook.com, they think they have to have the Facebook app. So to save time and money, you can make a Facebook app that is just a wrapper for Facebook.com.
Well, you could do that before, but now it's a bit more "native" and benefits from using the browser that is already loaded into memory etc.
PWAs use a new "API" in Chrome, really just some basic hooks that tell it to open without the usual address bar and other controls. They are all published and available for other browsers to implement, which doesn't see to be a lot of work.
Google's speech recognition is excellent. It supports multiple languages at the same time, so my wife or I can talk to it in English, Japanese or Chinese and it responds in the same. It does incredibly well with tricky things like place names too.
It's very handy when one of us can't remember the right word or phrase in our non-native languages. Just ask it "how do I say X in Japanese".
You can't really use other people's computers to mine bitcoin, they are too slow to do any useful work. You need dedicated, application specific hardware. The various web based stuff focuses on lighter, easier to mine coins, most of which are just scams anyway.
This story is good news. It might stop people wasting energy on bitcoin, and it means that there will be more cheap GPUs on the second hand market. You can pick up a cheap Geforce 1060 class mining card for $70 on AliExpress. It doesn't have any connections for monitors but with a simple modification to the driver you can use it along with an on-board GPU (e.g. Intel) with only a minimal performance loss, or even in SLI with another Nvidia card.
Yes. Especially the older ones, but even the new Model 3 isn't that great and is causing massive delays at service centres.
A guy in Norway recently booked his X in for 200k km service. It's already had IIRC two new drive units, a new battery and many, many other things fixed on it. First there was a 3 month wait to get a service done. Then they took it in but had no loaners, and a month later started work on it. I don't think he has it back yet.
This is causing knock-on problems for Tesla. They stopped selling certified pre-owned (CPO) cars and now just sell used cars. Don't even clean them, just hand them to you in whatever state the previous owner left them with a promise to fix any mechanical problems that arise, because they don't have the service capacity to fix all the stuff wrong with them or even hoover them out.
So we should probably support Google Analytics because it's easy to block, unlikely self-hosted solutions which don't offer an easy to kill domain name.
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Policing isn't the solution to crime. That's your mistake, that's why you are part of the problem.
Liberty understand that, which is why they want to fix the actual problem rather than treating the symptoms.
Stop being politically correct and demanding harsh treatment. Properly fund youth services and community policing that doesn't criminalize kids, setting them up for a life of crime and poverty.
If you send extra officers to an area you will detect more crime, obviously. If you then say that proves that there is more crime in that area you are an idiot. It just means you got better at detecting it there, and helped create some more by criminalizing people who would otherwise have smoked a bit of pot or sprayed some graffiti and then got on with the rest of their lives.
This is all obvious, right?
The computer doesn't understand this, it just gets into a feedback loop where the more officers it sends to an area the more crime it finds.
In this case it means being economically liberal, as in low regulation, which she definitely was. In fact that legacy of low regulation, high risk/reward financial services was the origin of the 2008 financial crash.
I doubt it would be used for making legal decisions, even for people who can hear perfectly well we tend to write stuff down.
Visually impaired people already make extensive use of Google services like maps and text to speech so any privacy issues are probably well known by now. At least in Europe you can opt out of everything and run it all locally if you wish. The biggest issue they have is abuse from people who see them looking at their phones and assume that they are faking their disability.
It's probably just an artefact of how far to the right the whole of US politics is. Compare US and UK:
US far left -> UK centre
US left -> UK centre right
US centre -> UK hard right
US right -> UK far right
US far right -> UK far right
They should implement it as a browser plug-in. Problem is that all the major browsers block their plug-ins now because local plug-in installation was widely abused. Now they only allow installation via the user clicking to accept within the browser itself, and apparently that's not a good enough user experience for AV companies.
In theory they can block dangerous downloads before they even hit your hard drive, block malicious Javascript, and block access to "bad" sites. They often have some kind of phishing detection for webmail built in too.
All stuff you can get for free elsewhere, e.g. most browsers have site blocklists enabled by default, decent webmail will detect and at least warn about potential phishing etc. I'm sure the AV companies would claim that they do a better job and have more coverage, and I suppose to be fair they do offer an all-in-one simple solution for people who can't install uBlock Origin themselves.
I get the impression that most of their sales are people who heard that it's a good idea to have AV software or who just paid up when the free McAfee trial pre-installed on their computer expired and wouldn't stop nagging them.
The UK destroyed much of its industry and manufacturing in the 1980s, for political reasons. Coal was smashed, everything else run down. The early 90s were a series of recessions.
The economy switched over to providing services, which produce a lot less CO2.
The other issue is that the reduction has been very uneven. Pollution levels in some cities regularly exceed legal limits, while other areas are now recovered after industry left.
Of course reduction is good, but it wasn't really the primary goal of most of the things that caused it.
Why do they insist on all the armour that makes injuries worse? Rugby isn't great but it's not nearly as bad as American Football.
I only dabble but I've found that some simple filters can help. For example, real PacMan machines use a joystick with a 4 way gate on it, that is the stick physically can't be moved into the diagonal positions. It's up, down, left and right only.
Such things are fairly uncommon for computers and games consoles. I build an adaptor for a friend to use an old Amiga joystick on his PC, but he found that PacMan on MAME didn't play very well. I fixed it by making the adaptor ignore diagonals. Trickier than it sounds, because the stick can still move to the corners, but I found that if it always switches to the "new" direction and and ignores the old (e.g. right to up/right corner produces up only) it felt natural.
PacMan is ideal for this kind of thing because although it has some "twitch" elements, you can actually buffer inputs heavily, e.g. you can push to take a corner long before you reach the corner and the game will be fine with it.
Spoken like a true cunt.
I know I tried to endorse the GNU Kind Communications guidelines, but... AC is right.
Interesting, what triggered a poor moderator in this post? My guess would be suggesting that something Chinese isn't just a cheap rip-off of an American product, but it could also be an Apple fanboy.
This is one of the reasons why there was a move towards coursework instead of exams back in the 90s. Measure performance over a longer period of time, factoring in things like the student's willingness to learn and fill in gaps in their knowledge when required. Also helps prevent transient problems like illness causing life-long disadvantage or a culture of re-sits.
The oft cited problem is that it's very easy to cheat on coursework, but there are ways to handle that.
What is a good solution for Windows?
Chocolatey seems to be the most popular, but it's support for portable apps is quite poor.
India and China are huge and rapidly developing markets. Someone is going to get in early and dominate them, and everyone wants to be that someone.
China has issues with foreign companies being banned because they refuse to censor. Microsoft and Apple operate there, but Google doesn't and it's created a huge opportunity for companies like Tencent and Huawei to develop their own assistants and language processing tech.
India is more open but hasn't developed the local talent to quite the extent that China has, so it's harder for companies to offer really good services in Indian's native languages. Thus far most have been offering services in English to get established, but that's going to have to change soon if they want to stay on top.
To be fair the year-on-year decrease in sales from 1753 was 0%, which is lower than 4.1%.
1999 was the best year, when smartphone sales increased from 0% to NaN%.
Until recently there was a big difference between cheaper phone's cameras and the high end ones. Now that gap has narrowed considerably, especially due to some really good mid range Chinese devices pushing up expectations.
The industry is hoping that foldable displays are the next big thing, but so far no-one has demonstrated one that looked much good. They all tend to be a bit thick and a bit naff looking around the hinge.
The only other thing at the moment is getting rid of the notch. Many phones are going to pin holes now, which are better but still not perfect. Some are going to sliders which seem to work surprisingly well.
Google gave up on 3D scanning, seems like Apple may have a crack at it but it's not clear what the market is.
Reliability probably depends on a lot of different factors. The quality of the device you are talking to, the environment (even if it's a quiet room the acoustics can have a lot of reverberation etc.) and your accent.
One thing my wife has found is that she sometimes needs to speak a little more loudly with her phone. Not shouting, just making a little effort to project. My phone is fine, even in the car.
A fine idea but consumer expectations have changed since then, which is part of the problem. Remember when fruit used to be bruised and maybe a bit ripe at the supermarket? These days they discard all the cosmetically imperfect ones.
Consumers want convenient and high quality goods, so it's hard to convince them to take used bottles to a special location for recycling, or to clean and bring their own for refilling. Starbucks tried it, offering a discount if you brought your own mug, and most people ignored it.
This is the unfortunate reality we live in, so the plan has to be either to change consumer expectations or to change recycling to meet them.
It's not all bad though, many countries got rid of free plastic bags and people have mostly been okay with it.
They are web sites for people who think they need an app.
The rational is that users think they need an app, and go looking for one in the Play store. Rather than just go to Facebook.com, they think they have to have the Facebook app. So to save time and money, you can make a Facebook app that is just a wrapper for Facebook.com.
Well, you could do that before, but now it's a bit more "native" and benefits from using the browser that is already loaded into memory etc.
PWAs use a new "API" in Chrome, really just some basic hooks that tell it to open without the usual address bar and other controls. They are all published and available for other browsers to implement, which doesn't see to be a lot of work.
Google's speech recognition is excellent. It supports multiple languages at the same time, so my wife or I can talk to it in English, Japanese or Chinese and it responds in the same. It does incredibly well with tricky things like place names too.
It's very handy when one of us can't remember the right word or phrase in our non-native languages. Just ask it "how do I say X in Japanese".
You can't really use other people's computers to mine bitcoin, they are too slow to do any useful work. You need dedicated, application specific hardware. The various web based stuff focuses on lighter, easier to mine coins, most of which are just scams anyway.
This story is good news. It might stop people wasting energy on bitcoin, and it means that there will be more cheap GPUs on the second hand market. You can pick up a cheap Geforce 1060 class mining card for $70 on AliExpress. It doesn't have any connections for monitors but with a simple modification to the driver you can use it along with an on-board GPU (e.g. Intel) with only a minimal performance loss, or even in SLI with another Nvidia card.
Or are Tesla's simply so unreliable?
Yes. Especially the older ones, but even the new Model 3 isn't that great and is causing massive delays at service centres.
A guy in Norway recently booked his X in for 200k km service. It's already had IIRC two new drive units, a new battery and many, many other things fixed on it. First there was a 3 month wait to get a service done. Then they took it in but had no loaners, and a month later started work on it. I don't think he has it back yet.
This is causing knock-on problems for Tesla. They stopped selling certified pre-owned (CPO) cars and now just sell used cars. Don't even clean them, just hand them to you in whatever state the previous owner left them with a promise to fix any mechanical problems that arise, because they don't have the service capacity to fix all the stuff wrong with them or even hoover them out.
So we should probably support Google Analytics because it's easy to block, unlikely self-hosted solutions which don't offer an easy to kill domain name.