What soccer needs are post game flop analysis and actual punishments if it's deemed you flopped
Exactly this. A dive should be treated as a red card offense- and it should be allowed to be awarded after the game too- so the player is banned from the next fixture. 3 dives in a season and you are banned for one calendar year.
They should institute caning. After 3 dives, a player could elect to receive 12 strokes to regain eligibility. Alternatively, they could find a new job.
What is the problem with being able to review a decision so you make the right call?
Nothing, so long as the game clock continues to tick while all that mess goes on. I guess for people who bothered to attend the game it would still suck since it's that much less game they get to watch.
And if you were to file a FOIA request, asking the CIA if they had any documents related to Daniel Oberhaus (the author of this silly story) - you would get the exact same response.
One would hope this incident would be in the file even if nothing else was.
4K is already way beyond the ability of a average consumer to discern it's quality.
Uh-huh. I remember hearing that junk when we were talking about going from SD to HD for video. Then again a similar argument for framerates. It's easy for anyone who does not have vision problems to discern 1080p from 4k video. Maybe you're thinking of a situation where someone is watching 4k content on a 1080p display. Maybe you're thinking of someone watching 1080p content on a 4k display. Maybe you're talking about a situation where the video has been poorly compressed and degraded to a point where it looks bad no matter what. Maybe you're just trolling.
I agree with the rest of your post. Especially the part about:
There is no science in this article. It's just marketing.
Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table?
Yes, as a matter of fact it does.
It works.
Unlike the "System Formerly Known as Lync".
I don't think skype and lync are really related. Lync was a copycat product made by Microsoft just as facetime is a copycat product made by Apple. Neither of them brought anything interesting to the table. If "it's better than LYNC" is all that Facetime has going for it... that doesn't bode well for the future of facetime on platforms where users have a choice.
"A Skype-killing video chat service that worked on Mac, iOS *and* Windows, Android and the open web? That's something I bet companies would be happy to pay for, too."
Why would anyone think that facetime would kill the market leader if they ever stepped it up and delivered almost what compteitors were already delivering. Skype already works on Windows, UWP, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, WatchOS, Windows Phone, HoloLens, Xbox One... It does hd video, hd group video, audio, messaging... I mean I understand the need for competition but we've already got that in spades. Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table? I was under the impression that it was just a "me too" videoconference app that is limited to apple only so that Apple could continue to have their walled garden. Does it actually have some valuable and unique feature that I should be coveting?
Actually a large percentage of electric vehicles are coal powered. Electric is only good for the environment if your electric power comes from non-fossil fuel sources.
Only if you live someplace shitty that doesn't have a nuke plant.
Battle Royale is the genre term but it pretty much got its idea from the hunger games
If you're talking about the movies, the setup was just a basic 24 man team deathmatch with two man teams. I think we had that back in the Quake 2 (maybe 1, but I can't remember) days. I've never heard PUBG/Fortnite equated with hunger games myself. "battle royale" seems to be the new term for 100 person FFA.
They won't be able to build windfarms that close to Marthas Vineyard. If you have ever been there, you know why.
I'm honestly surprised it's legal. In my home city, wind power is illegal. What little information I found on the subject when I looked into it pointed to lobbying by special interest groups interested in protecting birds.
We will be required on pain of imprisonment to watch Hillary (or her successor) win the "20/20" election on any display, glasses, screen, projector or display!
Updated with the more likely scenario should that extremist regime come back to power.
I'm really not one of those people who fear new technology or anything of the sort. However, how can it not eventually go horribly wrong when you plant recording devices in your own house that are designed specifically record and send the audio offsite. Eventually, there will be mistakes made with the audio or a hack, or something you said will violate some law "forcing" the company who has the recording to do some particular thing with it.
I'm all for new technology, but these things should have bad idea written all over them in bold print.... and I don't mean that to be specific to Amazon, either. Apple and Google's take on the things are just as bad.
More people should make an effort to understand what their personal electronics actually do before purchasing. We (as a society) need to incorporate classes on this sort of thing into primary education classes.
Sure, but maybe we should be more careful with deployment than Tesla and Uber. See Waymo (or I am sure there are others) for example, I don't know of any fatal incident there. Also studies comparing accidents of driver-less/normal cars would be useful.
Why? Fast deployment by Uber and Tesla is still going to make the roads safer than they are today. Even though their track record isn't perfect, it's orders of magnitude better than that of human driven vehicles. We should be pushing for subsidies on self driven cars and perhaps an added tax on human driven ones to dissuade customers from buying them.
It's obviously Microsoft BOB. It was a very sophisticated piece of "work." Don't confuse sophisticated with good or anything like that, but I would maintain it was "sophisticated."
Californians get to suffer a little more because of their legal stupidity. I hope manufacturers will be good enough to use stickers or make California specific packaging (or just stop selling in California) rather than subjecting the rest of us to this lunacy. Personally, I think if it's such a problem then California should just ban Coffee outright.;)
Twitter will be censoring certain users and accounts from appearing prominently in any feeds, unless explicitly searched for.
Which is fine, I'm all for stepping on the trolls, but then I remembered, censorship is bad, even in this situation. Who decides what gets published and what gets buried? That's what bothers me.
If it's an algorithm, then I gotta ask, who wrote the algorithm? Explain it to us, in all the gritty details, because otherwise, it's just censorship based on some unknown criteria. Censorship is bad enough, but censorship without an obvious target? Scary.
Twitter's been censoring the site for quite some time. Probably since its inception. It's notorious for censoring accounts that share opinions the management disagrees with. When it comes up in the news, they label the censored account some nasty thing and smile.
Seriously. Silcon valley liberals think silencing non-politicallycorrect non-leftist posts will help their side? They will just reinforce their leftist bubble of estrangement from the rest of the country and this will possibly lead to even greater election defeats.
Prior to the 2016 election I had some arguments with friends in that bubble. Trying to explain to them that the "blue wall" of the industrial states was nonsense. That many blue collar "democrats" are moderate non-ideologues who are not necessary loyal to the party, they have a certain independence. All things being equal a democratic candidate may have an advantage but if a republican candidate can deliver a "better" message to them they will consider voting for the republican candidate. Ex: the "Reagan Democrats". But no, to the silicon valley types the blue wall was impenetrable, no one could ever vote for a republican, no one could ever let economic fears and concerns be their deciding factor. And on election day they learned how wrong they were.
This twitter feature will just silence those outside the bubble, and those inside the bubble will hear fewer "warnings" from outside and have an even deeper sense of false security in the future.
Any sane lawyer could sue all these telecom companies under both the EU GPDR and the US/Canada data treaties.
Your rights don't end at the border, unless you're only an American.
Umm.. wait, what? "Rights" are a concept granted by the country you're in. They do, literally, end at the border. "Your Rights" become whatever the rights are that are granted to foreigners in the new country you entered if the new country does grant such rights. Do all countries even have the concept of individual rights? If you go to China for Example with the 9mm pistol your home country gives you the right to carry you aren't going to have a good day. If you go to North Korea running your mouth about how their emperor sucks badly... same thing - they don't care about the rights you had when you were in your "home" country. They do care that foreign nationals in those countries don't have the right to do those things.
Investgate != regulate. An investigation will allow the FTC to determine if there is a problem and if so then they can regulate. If there is no problem then no harm was done. Other than the cost of the investigation, it seems like a no brainier. Investigate away and make a decision. Maybe investigate again later if something changes. It's simple, and should be common enough that it doesn't register as news.
But how much productivity is lost because I need to use my personal laptop to transfer screenshots from a spectrum analyzer (USB port only!) via emailing to myself?
My company does basically the same thing, and as an electronics engineer that spends a bunch of time at a test bench, this SUCKS!
We have had a similar policy to IBM's for a few years. A person who needs to use usb storage devices for things like you're talking about have to apply for security exceptions. Even if your employer grants a few thousand legitimate exceptions for stuff like this, they have still minimized risk by eliminating USB use by the other 200,000 employees. It does involve some overhead and time wasted when you first apply for your exception. In my opinion the benefit outweighs the drawback.
It's a lot like changing a default security policy to DENY and only ALLOWing things you really want. Minor inconvenience in exchange for greatly improved security.
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What soccer needs are post game flop analysis and actual punishments if it's deemed you flopped
Exactly this. A dive should be treated as a red card offense- and it should be allowed to be awarded after the game too- so the player is banned from the next fixture. 3 dives in a season and you are banned for one calendar year.
They should institute caning. After 3 dives, a player could elect to receive 12 strokes to regain eligibility. Alternatively, they could find a new job.
What is the problem with being able to review a decision so you make the right call?
Nothing, so long as the game clock continues to tick while all that mess goes on. I guess for people who bothered to attend the game it would still suck since it's that much less game they get to watch.
And if you were to file a FOIA request, asking the CIA if they had any documents related to Daniel Oberhaus (the author of this silly story) - you would get the exact same response.
One would hope this incident would be in the file even if nothing else was.
4K is already way beyond the ability of a average consumer to discern it's quality.
Uh-huh. I remember hearing that junk when we were talking about going from SD to HD for video. Then again a similar argument for framerates. It's easy for anyone who does not have vision problems to discern 1080p from 4k video. Maybe you're thinking of a situation where someone is watching 4k content on a 1080p display. Maybe you're thinking of someone watching 1080p content on a 4k display. Maybe you're talking about a situation where the video has been poorly compressed and degraded to a point where it looks bad no matter what. Maybe you're just trolling.
I agree with the rest of your post. Especially the part about:
There is no science in this article. It's just marketing.
True enough. Nail meet hammerhead.
liquid cooled and running at 50Mhz with an overdrive chip
Or any of the many many others they made after that.
It's pretty obvious that Ryan Shrout just doesn't know what he's writing about.
Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table?
Yes, as a matter of fact it does.
It works.
Unlike the "System Formerly Known as Lync".
I don't think skype and lync are really related. Lync was a copycat product made by Microsoft just as facetime is a copycat product made by Apple. Neither of them brought anything interesting to the table. If "it's better than LYNC" is all that Facetime has going for it... that doesn't bode well for the future of facetime on platforms where users have a choice.
"A Skype-killing video chat service that worked on Mac, iOS *and* Windows, Android and the open web? That's something I bet companies would be happy to pay for, too."
Why would anyone think that facetime would kill the market leader if they ever stepped it up and delivered almost what compteitors were already delivering. Skype already works on Windows, UWP, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, WatchOS, Windows Phone, HoloLens, Xbox One... It does hd video, hd group video, audio, messaging... I mean I understand the need for competition but we've already got that in spades. Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table? I was under the impression that it was just a "me too" videoconference app that is limited to apple only so that Apple could continue to have their walled garden. Does it actually have some valuable and unique feature that I should be coveting?
Actually a large percentage of electric vehicles are coal powered. Electric is only good for the environment if your electric power comes from non-fossil fuel sources.
Only if you live someplace shitty that doesn't have a nuke plant.
Battle Royale is the genre term but it pretty much got its idea from the hunger games
If you're talking about the movies, the setup was just a basic 24 man team deathmatch with two man teams. I think we had that back in the Quake 2 (maybe 1, but I can't remember) days. I've never heard PUBG/Fortnite equated with hunger games myself. "battle royale" seems to be the new term for 100 person FFA.
I've seen Temple of Doom. EVERYONE at that table was HINDU.
I would rather have the chilled monkey brains.
Wouldn't milking cockroaches be the ultimate labor-intensive job? I suppose we could make it a task for prisoners.
Dude, monkey brains are delicious. If you haven't tried them then you're missing out!
They won't be able to build windfarms that close to Marthas Vineyard. If you have ever been there, you know why.
I'm honestly surprised it's legal. In my home city, wind power is illegal. What little information I found on the subject when I looked into it pointed to lobbying by special interest groups interested in protecting birds.
We will be required on pain of imprisonment to watch Hillary (or her successor) win the "20/20" election on any display, glasses, screen, projector or display!
Updated with the more likely scenario should that extremist regime come back to power.
I'm really not one of those people who fear new technology or anything of the sort. However, how can it not eventually go horribly wrong when you plant recording devices in your own house that are designed specifically record and send the audio offsite. Eventually, there will be mistakes made with the audio or a hack, or something you said will violate some law "forcing" the company who has the recording to do some particular thing with it.
I'm all for new technology, but these things should have bad idea written all over them in bold print.... and I don't mean that to be specific to Amazon, either. Apple and Google's take on the things are just as bad.
More people should make an effort to understand what their personal electronics actually do before purchasing. We (as a society) need to incorporate classes on this sort of thing into primary education classes.
Or maybe we could pay people to provide evidence of wrongdoing?
We, or more specifically the DNC, has already paid Fusion GPS to have that evidence fabricated. Where have you been?
Sure, but maybe we should be more careful with deployment than Tesla and Uber. See Waymo (or I am sure there are others) for example, I don't know of any fatal incident there. Also studies comparing accidents of driver-less/normal cars would be useful.
Why? Fast deployment by Uber and Tesla is still going to make the roads safer than they are today. Even though their track record isn't perfect, it's orders of magnitude better than that of human driven vehicles. We should be pushing for subsidies on self driven cars and perhaps an added tax on human driven ones to dissuade customers from buying them.
It's obviously Microsoft BOB. It was a very sophisticated piece of "work." Don't confuse sophisticated with good or anything like that, but I would maintain it was "sophisticated."
Californians get to suffer a little more because of their legal stupidity. I hope manufacturers will be good enough to use stickers or make California specific packaging (or just stop selling in California) rather than subjecting the rest of us to this lunacy. Personally, I think if it's such a problem then California should just ban Coffee outright. ;)
Twitter will be censoring certain users and accounts from appearing prominently in any feeds, unless explicitly searched for.
Which is fine, I'm all for stepping on the trolls, but then I remembered, censorship is bad, even in this situation. Who decides what gets published and what gets buried? That's what bothers me.
If it's an algorithm, then I gotta ask, who wrote the algorithm? Explain it to us, in all the gritty details, because otherwise, it's just censorship based on some unknown criteria. Censorship is bad enough, but censorship without an obvious target? Scary.
Twitter's been censoring the site for quite some time. Probably since its inception. It's notorious for censoring accounts that share opinions the management disagrees with. When it comes up in the news, they label the censored account some nasty thing and smile.
Twitters new group think reinforcement feature!
Seriously. Silcon valley liberals think silencing non-politicallycorrect non-leftist posts will help their side? They will just reinforce their leftist bubble of estrangement from the rest of the country and this will possibly lead to even greater election defeats. Prior to the 2016 election I had some arguments with friends in that bubble. Trying to explain to them that the "blue wall" of the industrial states was nonsense. That many blue collar "democrats" are moderate non-ideologues who are not necessary loyal to the party, they have a certain independence. All things being equal a democratic candidate may have an advantage but if a republican candidate can deliver a "better" message to them they will consider voting for the republican candidate. Ex: the "Reagan Democrats". But no, to the silicon valley types the blue wall was impenetrable, no one could ever vote for a republican, no one could ever let economic fears and concerns be their deciding factor. And on election day they learned how wrong they were. This twitter feature will just silence those outside the bubble, and those inside the bubble will hear fewer "warnings" from outside and have an even deeper sense of false security in the future.
I never found twitter useful personally, but for those that do there are several alternatives. Maybe one will come up as the popular replacement. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twitter-alternative-social-networks
Any sane lawyer could sue all these telecom companies under both the EU GPDR and the US/Canada data treaties.
Your rights don't end at the border, unless you're only an American.
Umm.. wait, what? "Rights" are a concept granted by the country you're in. They do, literally, end at the border. "Your Rights" become whatever the rights are that are granted to foreigners in the new country you entered if the new country does grant such rights. Do all countries even have the concept of individual rights? If you go to China for Example with the 9mm pistol your home country gives you the right to carry you aren't going to have a good day. If you go to North Korea running your mouth about how their emperor sucks badly... same thing - they don't care about the rights you had when you were in your "home" country. They do care that foreign nationals in those countries don't have the right to do those things.
the information flowing through these “free” access points isn’t going to be collected and monetized
Trust your VPN, not your ISP.
Uh-huh.. because VPN ISP's would never "monetize" your information or your bandwidth, right?
Investgate != regulate. An investigation will allow the FTC to determine if there is a problem and if so then they can regulate. If there is no problem then no harm was done. Other than the cost of the investigation, it seems like a no brainier. Investigate away and make a decision. Maybe investigate again later if something changes. It's simple, and should be common enough that it doesn't register as news.
They sort of have to. How else do you expect calls to be routed to you? Magic?
Yes, obviously. Didn't you know modern cell phones operate almost exclusively on magic?
What happens when you insert a device that tells the system it's a keyboard?
Windows loads a keyboard driver instead of a USB mass storage driver and the device fails to function? Just guessing here.
But how much productivity is lost because I need to use my personal laptop to transfer screenshots from a spectrum analyzer (USB port only!) via emailing to myself? My company does basically the same thing, and as an electronics engineer that spends a bunch of time at a test bench, this SUCKS!
We have had a similar policy to IBM's for a few years. A person who needs to use usb storage devices for things like you're talking about have to apply for security exceptions. Even if your employer grants a few thousand legitimate exceptions for stuff like this, they have still minimized risk by eliminating USB use by the other 200,000 employees. It does involve some overhead and time wasted when you first apply for your exception. In my opinion the benefit outweighs the drawback.
It's a lot like changing a default security policy to DENY and only ALLOWing things you really want. Minor inconvenience in exchange for greatly improved security.