If it was never meant to be carried around, why make it so small?
So it can hang on the back of the monitor/TV instead of adding to the clutter. The form factor I'd be interested in would put the GPU on a 90 degree riser so that it points away from the CPU on a mini ITX board. You'd end up with a slim, pizza box shaped case. For cooling, with a properly positioned vent the GPU would be drawing all of its air from outside the case.
You really want to know why Americans hate so much the French ? By the way it's the same reason the French hate so much the Americans. Because deep deep down where the sun doesn't shine, France and the US of A are the 2 sides of the same coin.
Because both countries have folks professing to hate the other country's culture while spending $$$ on the products of that country's culture?
If 5% of Google's business is in France with French companies then they pay French corporation tax on 5% of their global profits. Doesn't matter where they try to hide them, the bill is the same.
Wouldn't they just organize so that profits all accrue to a company that doesn't do business in France, thus giving Google 0 global profits? Isn't that what most global companies already do w/r/t to the US and the EU?
You don't have any understanding of what is going on here shitbird. Read something before posting. Google is following the law
Some countries (I don't know if France is one) have tax laws stating that if transactions are structured in a particular manner for no reason other than to avoid taxation, the tax avoidance scheme is void. Problem is, laws like those are extremely difficult to enforce effectively and consistently.
Don't worry. In msauve's world his employer will fire him after results from his required genetics test/family history profile threaten to raise their group insurance premiums. After all, what's wrong with pricing insurance based on the risk being taken on?
What about health insurance companies? They could use the data to black ball people who have family histories of certain diseases.I know that people with a family history of certain cancers are routinely asked to under go "screening" which involves detailed questioning about family medical history rather than any sort of clinical testing. What are the ethics of supplying this information about your extended family? What are the privacy guarantees? Health insurance companies only make money by denying claims; they avoid what they perceive as a high risk by denying coverage or making such coverage worthless. The abuse of big data would already be much worse except for the incompetence of those looking to gain from it.
The first part (screening for health insurance based on genetics/family history) has been illegal under GINA since 2009. Ditto for screening during hiring. The second part (giving that info to third parties) is illegal under HIPAA, with some squishiness surrounding who constitutes a "third party".
For health insurance, screening based on genetics and family history has been illegal since 2009 under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. The public has an interest in keeping health insurance pools large.
They can and do, so long as the judge lets them. Usually they don't have to get a consensus from the whole class, they just have to get approval from the judge and the lead plaintiffs (representatives of the class). Members that object can opt out of the settlement. Since the lead plaintiffs are paid a LOT more than other members of the class, their interests are different, especially if the entire class action was the idea of the lawyers and they recruited the lead plaintiffs and asked them to start a lawsuit, as opposed to the other way around.
Actually, it turns out coupon settlements were rained in a bit: Wiki:
"the portion of any attorney’s fee award to class counsel that is attributable to the award of the coupons shall be based on the value to class members of the coupons that are redeemed." 28 U.S.C.A. 1712(a).
That addresses the problem that perhaps 10% of the issued coupons are redeemed, but leaves out the problem that the cash value of the coupons might still be much less than the face value, even amongst members of the class that bothered to redeem them. If the same $10 dollar coupon could be bought on ebay for $1, that's the cash value of that coupon.
The problem is the scale of the incentive for the lawyers becomes meaningless if those lawyers are allowed to pursue their own interests above those of the class they supposedly represent. Compare that to the corporations' lawyers - how well are they rewarded for fucking over their clients? The class's lawyers also don't necessarily perform a service to the public, since settlements usually keep the discovered details of the transgression secret. To prevent that problem the interests of the lawyers should be kept tied so close to those of the class that you can't cut the class without the lawyers needing stitches. Hence rules of parity. I'm all for class action attorneys getting paid a whopping big portion of the payouts, but it should reflect what they have done for the class, not what they have done for themselves. Those are just the suggestions I've come up with - do you have better ones?
Also: often members of the class were injured enough for individual suits to have already been filed; those suits are then combined into a class action suit. The suits that result in nothing but coupons for the class rarely serve any meaningful purpose: the class (except for the lead plaintiffs) receives no meaningful benefits; the transgressors don't pay out enough for it to serve as inducement for better behavior, don't admit to anything, and aren't forced to reveal the evidence showing what they actually did. If as a result of my suggestions fewer lawyers are willing to pursue class actions like those the loss would be outweighed by the gains. The more merit the class action has, the less of a burden the rules would be to the attorneys.
One type of tort reform I would really like to see is parity in rewards between attorneys and the class in class action suits.
1. Parity in time. Lawyers don't get paid til the class gets paid. If it's a medical case and the payout is a trust to pay off medical claims over decades, then the lawyers get paid fractionally as those medical claims are paid. If the lawyers want their money right now they are free to securitize that revenue stream and sell it, probably for 65 cents on the dollar.
2. Parity in kind. If the class receives coupons, services, or goods then the lawyers receive their payment in the same coupons, services or goods. If the lawyers would prefer cash they had better settle for cash; otherwise they can sell their coupons on Ebay for pennies on the dollar.
3. Parity in proportion: The class receives a minimum of 50% of the settlement. Distribution costs don't count toward that 50%.
Private schools also have a higher proportion of administrative costs because their labor costs are lower: low paid teachers. But the public schools in many states are racing them to the bottom; I'm sure that will help the quality of education.
Meanwhile: no need to wait for SCOTUS to decide the fate of Aereo now: ISP/cable companies could start charging Aereo peering fees at least
commensurate with the retransmission fees the cable companies pay broadcasters. Broadcasters would then up the retransmission fees they charge cable/ISPs to recover their share.
VPNs would be a workaround, but not a successful one. For one thing, Aereo defends itself from copyright claims by only delivering TV channels to their own geographic markets. Even if Aereo didn't suggest VPNs to its subscribers, if most of those subscribers are effectively obscuring their locations that argument could fail in the next court case. Plus VPNs are cumbersome and/or cost money, so Aereo would lose subscribers.
The Big Bang question actually conflates 2 questions: "did the universe start with a Big Bang?", and "was it 13.8 billion years ago?" Hell, I would have answered "somewhat confident" to that question because I didn't remember off the top of my head what the current estimate for the age of the universe is.
We tested a sample of 37 cars in an EMP simulation laboratory, with automobile vintages ranging from 1986 through 2002. Automobiles of these vintages include extensive electronics and represent a significant fraction of automobiles on the road today. The testing was conducted by exposing running and nonrunning automobiles to sequentially increasing EMP field intensities. If anomalous response (either temporary or permanent) was observed, the testing of that particular automobile was stopped. If no anomalous response was observed, the testing was continued up to the field intensity limits of the simulation capability (approximately 50 kV/m). Automobiles were subjected to EMP environments under both engine turned off and engine turned on conditions. No effects were subsequently observed in those automobiles that were not turned on during EMP exposure. The most serious effect observed on running automobiles was that the motors in three cars stopped at field strengths of approximately 30 kV/m or above. In an actual EMP exposure, these vehicles would glide to a stop and require the driver to restart them. Electronics in the dashboard of one automobile were damaged and required repair. Other effects were relatively minor. . Twenty-five automobiles exhibited malfunctions that could be considered only a nuisance (e.g., blinking dashboard lights) and did not require driver intervention to correct. Eight of the 37 cars tested did not exhibit any anomalous response. Based on these test results, we expect few automobile effects at EMP field levels below 25 kV/m. Approximately 10 percent or more of the automobiles exposed to higher field levels may experience serious EMP effects, including engine stall, that require driver intervention to correct. We further expect that at least two out of three automobiles on the road will manifest some nuisance response at these higher field levels. The serious malfunctions could trigger car crashes on U.S. highways; the nuisance malfunctions could exacerbate this condition. The ultimate result of automobile EMP exposure could be triggered crashes that damage many more vehicles than are damaged by the EMP, the consequent loss of life, and multiple injuries.
Estimates elsewhere in the thread put the cost of dumping the spent grain at $60 per ton, so a total change of $90 per 2000 gallons of beer, or ~3 cents per sixpack.
Let's assume that it even is possible to maintain control, and glide the plane to some sort of impromptu landing (I don't think it is), this area is so densely populated, anywhere they land, they WILL land on people.
Well if it's like that show Revolution where everything electronic fails utterly and completely all at once, the airplanes will pinwheel out of the sky - with their electronic running lights still lit. Cause it looks cooler that way.
It only takes one explosion. That isn't a nuclear Armageddon. It is returning a major post-industrial computer based society to a horse and wagon based economy in seconds, without having the horses and wagons to do the work not to mention the computers, computer controlled vehicles (engines), and other electronics.
Almost all cars that weren't actually driving at the time would survive an EMP just fine. The most common repair would just be disconnecting the battery for a few seconds.
tests have been done; ECUs did fail and required a reset (disconnecting from the battery) before the car was driveable again.
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/vehicles.html
We tested a sample of 37 cars in an EMP simulation laboratory, with automobile vintages ranging from 1986 through 2002. Automobiles of these vintages include extensive electronics and represent a significant fraction of automobiles on the road today. The testing was conducted by exposing running and nonrunning automobiles to sequentially increasing EMP field intensities. If anomalous response (either temporary or permanent) was observed, the testing of that particular automobile was stopped. If no anomalous response was observed, the testing was continued up to the field intensity limits of the simulation capability (approximately 50 kV/m).
Automobiles were subjected to EMP environments under both engine turned off and engine turned on conditions. No effects were subsequently observed in those automobiles that were not turned on during EMP exposure. The most serious effect observed on running automobiles was that the motors in three cars stopped at field strengths of approximately 30 kV/m or above. In an actual EMP exposure, these vehicles would glide to a stop and require the driver to restart them. Electronics in the dashboard of one automobile were damaged and required repair. Other effects were relatively minor. . Twenty-five automobiles exhibited malfunctions that could be considered only a nuisance (e.g., blinking dashboard lights) and did not require driver intervention to correct. Eight of the 37 cars tested did not exhibit any anomalous response.
Based on these test results, we expect few automobile effects at EMP field levels below 25 kV/m. Approximately 10 percent or more of the automobiles exposed to higher field levels may experience serious EMP effects, including engine stall, that require driver intervention to correct. We further expect that at least two out of three automobiles on the road will manifest some nuisance response at these higher field levels. The serious malfunctions could trigger car crashes on U.S. highways; the nuisance malfunctions could exacerbate this condition. The ultimate result of automobile EMP exposure could be triggered crashes that damage many more vehicles than are damaged by the EMP, the consequent loss of life, and multiple injuries.
Even more accurate: "Web marketers will be able to predict the interactions of people". No need to bring understanding into it, they'll just be getting a list from a black box that tells them which people to spam with which ads at which times.
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If it was never meant to be carried around, why make it so small?
So it can hang on the back of the monitor/TV instead of adding to the clutter. The form factor I'd be interested in would put the GPU on a 90 degree riser so that it points away from the CPU on a mini ITX board. You'd end up with a slim, pizza box shaped case. For cooling, with a properly positioned vent the GPU would be drawing all of its air from outside the case.
it could also be guns, credit card numbers, or exploits
You really want to know why Americans hate so much the French ? By the way it's the same reason the French hate so much the Americans. Because deep deep down where the sun doesn't shine, France and the US of A are the 2 sides of the same coin.
Because both countries have folks professing to hate the other country's culture while spending $$$ on the products of that country's culture?
If 5% of Google's business is in France with French companies then they pay French corporation tax on 5% of their global profits. Doesn't matter where they try to hide them, the bill is the same.
Wouldn't they just organize so that profits all accrue to a company that doesn't do business in France, thus giving Google 0 global profits? Isn't that what most global companies already do w/r/t to the US and the EU?
You don't have any understanding of what is going on here shitbird. Read something before posting. Google is following the law
Some countries (I don't know if France is one) have tax laws stating that if transactions are structured in a particular manner for no reason other than to avoid taxation, the tax avoidance scheme is void. Problem is, laws like those are extremely difficult to enforce effectively and consistently.
Don't worry. In msauve's world his employer will fire him after results from his required genetics test/family history profile threaten to raise their group insurance premiums. After all, what's wrong with pricing insurance based on the risk being taken on?
What about health insurance companies? They could use the data to black ball people who have family histories of certain diseases.I know that people with a family history of certain cancers are routinely asked to under go "screening" which involves detailed questioning about family medical history rather than any sort of clinical testing. What are the ethics of supplying this information about your extended family? What are the privacy guarantees? Health insurance companies only make money by denying claims; they avoid what they perceive as a high risk by denying coverage or making such coverage worthless. The abuse of big data would already be much worse except for the incompetence of those looking to gain from it.
The first part (screening for health insurance based on genetics/family history) has been illegal under GINA since 2009. Ditto for screening during hiring. The second part (giving that info to third parties) is illegal under HIPAA, with some squishiness surrounding who constitutes a "third party".
For health insurance, screening based on genetics and family history has been illegal since 2009 under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. The public has an interest in keeping health insurance pools large.
They can and do, so long as the judge lets them. Usually they don't have to get a consensus from the whole class, they just have to get approval from the judge and the lead plaintiffs (representatives of the class). Members that object can opt out of the settlement. Since the lead plaintiffs are paid a LOT more than other members of the class, their interests are different, especially if the entire class action was the idea of the lawyers and they recruited the lead plaintiffs and asked them to start a lawsuit, as opposed to the other way around.
Actually, it turns out coupon settlements were rained in a bit: Wiki:
"the portion of any attorney’s fee award to class counsel that is attributable to the award of the coupons shall be based on the value to class members of the coupons that are redeemed." 28 U.S.C.A. 1712(a).
That addresses the problem that perhaps 10% of the issued coupons are redeemed, but leaves out the problem that the cash value of the coupons might still be much less than the face value, even amongst members of the class that bothered to redeem them. If the same $10 dollar coupon could be bought on ebay for $1, that's the cash value of that coupon.
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I don't know if a rule could do more good than harm in that type of situation.
The problem is the scale of the incentive for the lawyers becomes meaningless if those lawyers are allowed to pursue their own interests above those of the class they supposedly represent. Compare that to the corporations' lawyers - how well are they rewarded for fucking over their clients? The class's lawyers also don't necessarily perform a service to the public, since settlements usually keep the discovered details of the transgression secret. To prevent that problem the interests of the lawyers should be kept tied so close to those of the class that you can't cut the class without the lawyers needing stitches. Hence rules of parity. I'm all for class action attorneys getting paid a whopping big portion of the payouts, but it should reflect what they have done for the class, not what they have done for themselves. Those are just the suggestions I've come up with - do you have better ones?
Also: often members of the class were injured enough for individual suits to have already been filed; those suits are then combined into a class action suit. The suits that result in nothing but coupons for the class rarely serve any meaningful purpose: the class (except for the lead plaintiffs) receives no meaningful benefits; the transgressors don't pay out enough for it to serve as inducement for better behavior, don't admit to anything, and aren't forced to reveal the evidence showing what they actually did. If as a result of my suggestions fewer lawyers are willing to pursue class actions like those the loss would be outweighed by the gains. The more merit the class action has, the less of a burden the rules would be to the attorneys.
1. Parity in time. Lawyers don't get paid til the class gets paid. If it's a medical case and the payout is a trust to pay off medical claims over decades, then the lawyers get paid fractionally as those medical claims are paid. If the lawyers want their money right now they are free to securitize that revenue stream and sell it, probably for 65 cents on the dollar.
2. Parity in kind. If the class receives coupons, services, or goods then the lawyers receive their payment in the same coupons, services or goods. If the lawyers would prefer cash they had better settle for cash; otherwise they can sell their coupons on Ebay for pennies on the dollar.
3. Parity in proportion: The class receives a minimum of 50% of the settlement. Distribution costs don't count toward that 50%.
job application question #12: Have you ever sued your employer?
Private schools also have a higher proportion of administrative costs because their labor costs are lower: low paid teachers. But the public schools in many states are racing them to the bottom; I'm sure that will help the quality of education.
Well shit, man, why wouldn't you be welding underwater? That sounds AWESOME!
It's dark, there's sharks, bone and joint necrosis, and when the other divers fart in the tank you'll be smelling it for a loooong time.
VPNs would be a workaround, but not a successful one. For one thing, Aereo defends itself from copyright claims by only delivering TV channels to their own geographic markets. Even if Aereo didn't suggest VPNs to its subscribers, if most of those subscribers are effectively obscuring their locations that argument could fail in the next court case. Plus VPNs are cumbersome and/or cost money, so Aereo would lose subscribers.
Pick the country you think has the best set of regulations. How's life there for the median citizen?
The Big Bang question actually conflates 2 questions: "did the universe start with a Big Bang?", and "was it 13.8 billion years ago?" Hell, I would have answered "somewhat confident" to that question because I didn't remember off the top of my head what the current estimate for the age of the universe is.
tests have been done; ECUs did fail and required a reset (disconnecting from the battery) before the car was driveable again.
http://www.futurescience.com/e...
We tested a sample of 37 cars in an EMP simulation laboratory, with automobile vintages ranging from 1986 through 2002. Automobiles of these vintages include extensive electronics and represent a significant fraction of automobiles on the road today. The testing was conducted by exposing running and nonrunning automobiles to sequentially increasing EMP field intensities. If anomalous response (either temporary or permanent) was observed, the testing of that particular automobile was stopped. If no anomalous response was observed, the testing was continued up to the field intensity limits of the simulation capability (approximately 50 kV/m). Automobiles were subjected to EMP environments under both engine turned off and engine turned on conditions. No effects were subsequently observed in those automobiles that were not turned on during EMP exposure. The most serious effect observed on running automobiles was that the motors in three cars stopped at field strengths of approximately 30 kV/m or above. In an actual EMP exposure, these vehicles would glide to a stop and require the driver to restart them. Electronics in the dashboard of one automobile were damaged and required repair. Other effects were relatively minor. . Twenty-five automobiles exhibited malfunctions that could be considered only a nuisance (e.g., blinking dashboard lights) and did not require driver intervention to correct. Eight of the 37 cars tested did not exhibit any anomalous response. Based on these test results, we expect few automobile effects at EMP field levels below 25 kV/m. Approximately 10 percent or more of the automobiles exposed to higher field levels may experience serious EMP effects, including engine stall, that require driver intervention to correct. We further expect that at least two out of three automobiles on the road will manifest some nuisance response at these higher field levels. The serious malfunctions could trigger car crashes on U.S. highways; the nuisance malfunctions could exacerbate this condition. The ultimate result of automobile EMP exposure could be triggered crashes that damage many more vehicles than are damaged by the EMP, the consequent loss of life, and multiple injuries.
Estimates elsewhere in the thread put the cost of dumping the spent grain at $60 per ton, so a total change of $90 per 2000 gallons of beer, or ~3 cents per sixpack.
Let's assume that it even is possible to maintain control, and glide the plane to some sort of impromptu landing (I don't think it is), this area is so densely populated, anywhere they land, they WILL land on people.
Well if it's like that show Revolution where everything electronic fails utterly and completely all at once, the airplanes will pinwheel out of the sky - with their electronic running lights still lit. Cause it looks cooler that way.
It only takes one explosion. That isn't a nuclear Armageddon. It is returning a major post-industrial computer based society to a horse and wagon based economy in seconds, without having the horses and wagons to do the work not to mention the computers, computer controlled vehicles (engines), and other electronics.
Almost all cars that weren't actually driving at the time would survive an EMP just fine. The most common repair would just be disconnecting the battery for a few seconds.
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/vehicles.html
We tested a sample of 37 cars in an EMP simulation laboratory, with automobile vintages ranging from 1986 through 2002. Automobiles of these vintages include extensive electronics and represent a significant fraction of automobiles on the road today. The testing was conducted by exposing running and nonrunning automobiles to sequentially increasing EMP field intensities. If anomalous response (either temporary or permanent) was observed, the testing of that particular automobile was stopped. If no anomalous response was observed, the testing was continued up to the field intensity limits of the simulation capability (approximately 50 kV/m). Automobiles were subjected to EMP environments under both engine turned off and engine turned on conditions. No effects were subsequently observed in those automobiles that were not turned on during EMP exposure. The most serious effect observed on running automobiles was that the motors in three cars stopped at field strengths of approximately 30 kV/m or above. In an actual EMP exposure, these vehicles would glide to a stop and require the driver to restart them. Electronics in the dashboard of one automobile were damaged and required repair. Other effects were relatively minor. . Twenty-five automobiles exhibited malfunctions that could be considered only a nuisance (e.g., blinking dashboard lights) and did not require driver intervention to correct. Eight of the 37 cars tested did not exhibit any anomalous response. Based on these test results, we expect few automobile effects at EMP field levels below 25 kV/m. Approximately 10 percent or more of the automobiles exposed to higher field levels may experience serious EMP effects, including engine stall, that require driver intervention to correct. We further expect that at least two out of three automobiles on the road will manifest some nuisance response at these higher field levels. The serious malfunctions could trigger car crashes on U.S. highways; the nuisance malfunctions could exacerbate this condition. The ultimate result of automobile EMP exposure could be triggered crashes that damage many more vehicles than are damaged by the EMP, the consequent loss of life, and multiple injuries.
Even more accurate: "Web marketers will be able to predict the interactions of people". No need to bring understanding into it, they'll just be getting a list from a black box that tells them which people to spam with which ads at which times.