Congestion isn't the problem in India (yet). If everyone stayed in their lane and stopped honking their f'ing horns for no reason, the traffic would resemble traffic in most western countries.
Continuing to use the image after the error was discovered is not the same thing as continuing to use the image after finding out that a litagious copycat thinks he has a right to copies of photos of the copy he made.
By "mostly just RIAA/MPAA mafia bullshit", you mean they are engaged in the same thing, right? The charges he is being extradited on are racketeering, fraud and money laundering. These are criminal charges, pursued by the FBI. The civil charges of copyright infringement are not eligible for extradition.
If this requires the parking spot to be a well defined position programmed in advance, like my garage, its a bit of a gimmick with limited practical use. A lot of people have a door straight through to their house from the garage, and in hot or cold climates they aren't going to want to get in or out of the car outside. What I really want is a car that can drop me at the door of Walmart, then go and find a parking spot by itself. And as I pull my phone out to pay at the checkout I can summon it to come and pick me up from the door again. This requires significantly better autonomous driving skills - a supermarket carpark has a lot more pedestrians stepping out from between cars than your average suburban neighborhood, and the AI needs to recognise the difference between a vacant parking spot and a lane between two blocks of parking, and it needs to make that recognition even when some asshole has already parked in half that lane. Probably a good strategy would be to drive to the outer limit of the carpark where it is generally empty except for staff cars, which would also limit the outrage from the general public about unsupervised cars driving around the lot and stealing their parks.
If salespeople are dropping the ball during a long sales process and letting others step in and take the credit for the sale, then they have no one to blame but themselves. The sales person who rescued the deal and closes it deserves the credit, because without them following up, the sale would have been lost. If this guy has been fired because young millenials with the attention span of a gnat are complaining about him stealing credit for rescuing their lost sales, then IBM is going to end up feeling this in their bottom line.
It's pretty easy to measure the productivity of sales staff. The sales they close is what matters, not how much they go out and talk, and pretty much any business rewards them directly based on that. In other positions, it may be easy to cover up poor performance by bullshitting, but not sales.
In my experience, you don't get to be too expensive by staying at the same company for 24 years. The annual increment for staying in a big company like IBM is generally slightly lower than the increment in the external market rate. Hence the other article today about people jumping jobs quicker than ever, and getting 30% more than those who stick around.
My local cinema had subscriptions in the '90s (they called it membership). Pay a monthly subscription and see as many movies as you like. For some popular movies, they made you pay for evening showings during the first week, or up until the first Sunday at least, but at a heavily discounted rate.
Suppose you manage a large vehicle fleet, like UPS, FedEx or a large trucking company. Having something like this would be very handy
I can certainly see how a large fleet could use electronic tags to fraudulently avoid a lot of vehicle tax, but for genuine tracking needs, the Telematics boxes they already use are probably a lot more cost effective. Its been a few years since I checked the specific details, but low bandwidth data plans in bulk for IoT and Telematics usage can be had for less per year than this is charging per month.
They are no longer a startup aiming for eyeballs to increase their "valuation". They were bought, and now they need to figure out how to turn a profit.
I thought there was some pretty obvious prior art for this, but checking the filing date, it seems they got in just in time, 3 weeks before their competitors who actually have devices capable of it started doing this shit in real life.
But really, we need to stop letting companies patent obvious orwellian crap.
True, but in this case, Google is responsible for a large proportion of the software installed on devices using the Linux kernel. But it seems they don't acknowledge that, and are putting their cloud team in charge of the Linux relationship rather than their Android team.
Meanwhile, in the civilised world, the government would be sending in labour inspectors and shutting your employer down if they heard that they gave you 3 weeks vacation, and only after you demanded it.
Substantial portions of their corporate cashflow are laundered through the Channel Islands, so I guess there is a case for them to be classified as a UK company.
So the message to take away from this is that an inept hack will get you more time in prison than stabbing your father with a prison knife (I don't actually get this bit - he was doing his hacking while he and his father were in prison for something else?)
They've been messing with Recent Posts lately as well. First, about a month ago they started switching back to Top Stories automatically between browsing sessions. And starting last week they seem to be randomly making it act like Top Stories anyway, so switching had no effect. Since the news broke to the general public that they were collecting excessive info from their app (Slashdot readers probably figured this out for themselves long ago) they have become more aggressive about degrading the alternative ways of using Facebook in the hope of pushing users back to the app. The mobile website has been degraded for a few years now, but degrading the desktop site as well is new desperation. In their bubble, I guess the developers at Facebook haven't considered the possibility that users will leave if they are treated badly enough.
I can't say I ever noticed it, but Uber shut down in my area a few months ago anyway. What out me off Google maps though is I tried searching for directions from the hotel I'll be staying tonight to where I'll be going tomorrow, and the only thing Google wants to show me is the rates for the room I've already booked.
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Congestion isn't the problem in India (yet). If everyone stayed in their lane and stopped honking their f'ing horns for no reason, the traffic would resemble traffic in most western countries.
I've worked for two different companies that tried manufacturing in India, one in Chennai(south) and another in Lahore (far north).
Sorry grandpa, but your early 20th century experience just isn't relevant anymore.
That's because Britain invented stamps. Britain invented most things, of course. Pretty much everything apart from aircraft.
And the acqueducts?
Continuing to use the image after the error was discovered is not the same thing as continuing to use the image after finding out that a litagious copycat thinks he has a right to copies of photos of the copy he made.
Exactly. Getty sold them a license to an image which apparently they didn't have the rights for.
By "mostly just RIAA/MPAA mafia bullshit", you mean they are engaged in the same thing, right? The charges he is being extradited on are racketeering, fraud and money laundering. These are criminal charges, pursued by the FBI. The civil charges of copyright infringement are not eligible for extradition.
If this requires the parking spot to be a well defined position programmed in advance, like my garage, its a bit of a gimmick with limited practical use. A lot of people have a door straight through to their house from the garage, and in hot or cold climates they aren't going to want to get in or out of the car outside. What I really want is a car that can drop me at the door of Walmart, then go and find a parking spot by itself. And as I pull my phone out to pay at the checkout I can summon it to come and pick me up from the door again. This requires significantly better autonomous driving skills - a supermarket carpark has a lot more pedestrians stepping out from between cars than your average suburban neighborhood, and the AI needs to recognise the difference between a vacant parking spot and a lane between two blocks of parking, and it needs to make that recognition even when some asshole has already parked in half that lane. Probably a good strategy would be to drive to the outer limit of the carpark where it is generally empty except for staff cars, which would also limit the outrage from the general public about unsupervised cars driving around the lot and stealing their parks.
If salespeople are dropping the ball during a long sales process and letting others step in and take the credit for the sale, then they have no one to blame but themselves. The sales person who rescued the deal and closes it deserves the credit, because without them following up, the sale would have been lost. If this guy has been fired because young millenials with the attention span of a gnat are complaining about him stealing credit for rescuing their lost sales, then IBM is going to end up feeling this in their bottom line.
It's pretty easy to measure the productivity of sales staff. The sales they close is what matters, not how much they go out and talk, and pretty much any business rewards them directly based on that. In other positions, it may be easy to cover up poor performance by bullshitting, but not sales.
In my experience, you don't get to be too expensive by staying at the same company for 24 years. The annual increment for staying in a big company like IBM is generally slightly lower than the increment in the external market rate. Hence the other article today about people jumping jobs quicker than ever, and getting 30% more than those who stick around.
My local cinema had subscriptions in the '90s (they called it membership). Pay a monthly subscription and see as many movies as you like. For some popular movies, they made you pay for evening showings during the first week, or up until the first Sunday at least, but at a heavily discounted rate.
In any economy, winners are able to quit.
Ai is actually a very common given name for girls in Chinese, but almost always paired with their other given name.
Suppose you manage a large vehicle fleet, like UPS, FedEx or a large trucking company. Having something like this would be very handy
I can certainly see how a large fleet could use electronic tags to fraudulently avoid a lot of vehicle tax, but for genuine tracking needs, the Telematics boxes they already use are probably a lot more cost effective. Its been a few years since I checked the specific details, but low bandwidth data plans in bulk for IoT and Telematics usage can be had for less per year than this is charging per month.
They are no longer a startup aiming for eyeballs to increase their "valuation". They were bought, and now they need to figure out how to turn a profit.
If you can't afford a real, signed certificate, you can't get your message out
Real signed certificates are affordable to anyone with $0 in their pocket. It isn't really a hurdle at all.
I thought there was some pretty obvious prior art for this, but checking the filing date, it seems they got in just in time, 3 weeks before their competitors who actually have devices capable of it started doing this shit in real life.
But really, we need to stop letting companies patent obvious orwellian crap.
True, but in this case, Google is responsible for a large proportion of the software installed on devices using the Linux kernel. But it seems they don't acknowledge that, and are putting their cloud team in charge of the Linux relationship rather than their Android team.
How do you propose that the Transport Layer be used to provide security for the Data Link Layer?
Meanwhile, in the civilised world, the government would be sending in labour inspectors and shutting your employer down if they heard that they gave you 3 weeks vacation, and only after you demanded it.
Substantial portions of their corporate cashflow are laundered through the Channel Islands, so I guess there is a case for them to be classified as a UK company.
It's only a shortage of foreign artificially fizzy lagers. This should actually be good for the traditional flat , warm, English ale industry.
So the message to take away from this is that an inept hack will get you more time in prison than stabbing your father with a prison knife (I don't actually get this bit - he was doing his hacking while he and his father were in prison for something else?)
They've been messing with Recent Posts lately as well. First, about a month ago they started switching back to Top Stories automatically between browsing sessions. And starting last week they seem to be randomly making it act like Top Stories anyway, so switching had no effect. Since the news broke to the general public that they were collecting excessive info from their app (Slashdot readers probably figured this out for themselves long ago) they have become more aggressive about degrading the alternative ways of using Facebook in the hope of pushing users back to the app. The mobile website has been degraded for a few years now, but degrading the desktop site as well is new desperation. In their bubble, I guess the developers at Facebook haven't considered the possibility that users will leave if they are treated badly enough.
I can't say I ever noticed it, but Uber shut down in my area a few months ago anyway. What out me off Google maps though is I tried searching for directions from the hotel I'll be staying tonight to where I'll be going tomorrow, and the only thing Google wants to show me is the rates for the room I've already booked.