It happened innocently enough, when a widely anticipated El Nino failed to materialize over the Pacific Ocean.
El Nino and La Nina cycles are typically an average of 5 years(2-7ish years). The last El Nino was in 2015-2016. We are currently in a La Nina. I'm not sure what El Nino they were expecting but it isn't due for at least a little while longer.
This is not a copyright issue. This is a CFAA issue. It's been long determined that you cannot copyright facts. The CFAA deals with unauthorized access to computer systems. LinkedIn told these companies to stop doing it and they kept doing it That's a pretty clear case of unauthorized access.
Here they don't even bother labeling produce. You just grab what you want and the cashier or you at a self checkout lane enters in what it is, how many and the register weighs it to make sure everything is good. Of course people can game the system by saying their super organic gmo free fruit is just regular cheap fruit but as far as I can see most places operate on the honor system in that regard and everything works out fine.
details a mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and search terms
it could compare the requested content to what's offered in-store and then send price comparison information or a coupon to your browser instead.
With HTTPS this is impossible. With HTTPS connections the only thing Amazon could tell is what address you were connecting to and everything from there is encrypted. According to the article whether or not HTTPS is used is very relevant to the system employed in this patent.
Where is all that carbon the moss is sequestering going? 240 metric tons of carbon doesn't just poof into nothingness. 240 metric tons a year is just under a ton a day. Based on the size of these things they should weigh somewhere between 4-8 metric tons. With the figures given they would be doubling in weight every 1-2 weeks from just the carbon. That doesn't sound very autonomous or low maintenance.
"The FAA has rules and regulations in place to prevent this exact type of incident from happening,"
Whiles technically true this is ultimately a meaningless statement. From what I gather from the article the only regulation not being followed was flying within 5 miles of an airport and that had absolutely no impact on the crash at all. The drone could just have easily been far enough away from an airport following all the regulations and still crashed into a power line due to any number of reasons. It's true that breaking that regulation can cause accidents to happen but it didn't cause this accident.
They could just have easily said if drones didn't exist there would be zero drone accidents.
Automation saves the company money. They have to pay taxes on that increased revenue. Since that extra revenue is tagged onto their existing revenue the money gets taxed at a higher level than if it was going to employees.
This has been going on long before the internet and still continues today in regular brick and mortar stores. I can walk into a convenience store in a poor neighborhood and they'll perpetually have some items on sale at a pretty competitive price regionally and then go to another location owned by the same owner in a wealthy neighborhood and it's perpetually marked up 300%.
They were pretty handy at the school I worked at. Getting new equipment was a red tape nightmare and we needed some more barcode scanners in the library. Hooray for CueCat.
I like the concept but regulations likes these are historically the domain of the State. Does the Federal government even have the authority to regulate how roads are constructed?
And of course there are many that will suffer from losing explanatory notes.
That's probably the best use for annotations. It can be annoying when you don't discover an error in a video until well after it's been uploaded. Annotations provided a nice way to correct factual errors without having to redo the video and re-upload. It would be pretty useful if they provided a way to bake text only annotations like this into the video after the fact for things like corrections.
OS support isn't the issue here. Some laptop manufacturers actually put checks in the BIOS to only boot if a preapproved wifi adapter is installed. Try to use an unapproved wifi adapter and the system refuses to run at all.
as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.
What the hell for? Let's get everything fully automated as soon as possible so we can get the basic income uprising out of the way and we can all do whatever we want instead of what we feel we have to do.
Without the psychological aspect of staring your opponents in the face it's just a calculation of odds. Takes most of what makes poker poker out of the equation.
You're only thinking about trying to get the iron back to Earth to use here. Imagine a market where nations and/or corporations are building things in space. All of a sudden whoever has control of raw materials that are already in space and don't have to be shot of Earth's gravity well are very rich.
Seeing as Straight Talk and similar providers merely piggyback on AT&T's towers if AT&T no longer accept 2G connections that would also cut off carriers like Straight Talk. Interestingly T-Mobile has offered 2G AT&T customers a home until 2020. https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/...
If this other employee is changing computer files and settings then all the documentation he needs should be in the logs unless the company's setup is completely stupid and all the employees share the same login or something. In that case he should probably bail as soon as he can.
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It happened innocently enough, when a widely anticipated El Nino failed to materialize over the Pacific Ocean.
El Nino and La Nina cycles are typically an average of 5 years(2-7ish years). The last El Nino was in 2015-2016. We are currently in a La Nina. I'm not sure what El Nino they were expecting but it isn't due for at least a little while longer.
This is not a copyright issue. This is a CFAA issue. It's been long determined that you cannot copyright facts. The CFAA deals with unauthorized access to computer systems. LinkedIn told these companies to stop doing it and they kept doing it That's a pretty clear case of unauthorized access.
Here they don't even bother labeling produce. You just grab what you want and the cashier or you at a self checkout lane enters in what it is, how many and the register weighs it to make sure everything is good. Of course people can game the system by saying their super organic gmo free fruit is just regular cheap fruit but as far as I can see most places operate on the honor system in that regard and everything works out fine.
details a mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and search terms
it could compare the requested content to what's offered in-store and then send price comparison information or a coupon to your browser instead.
With HTTPS this is impossible. With HTTPS connections the only thing Amazon could tell is what address you were connecting to and everything from there is encrypted. According to the article whether or not HTTPS is used is very relevant to the system employed in this patent.
...if they promise not to use it?
Where is all that carbon the moss is sequestering going? 240 metric tons of carbon doesn't just poof into nothingness. 240 metric tons a year is just under a ton a day. Based on the size of these things they should weigh somewhere between 4-8 metric tons. With the figures given they would be doubling in weight every 1-2 weeks from just the carbon. That doesn't sound very autonomous or low maintenance.
"The FAA has rules and regulations in place to prevent this exact type of incident from happening,"
Whiles technically true this is ultimately a meaningless statement. From what I gather from the article the only regulation not being followed was flying within 5 miles of an airport and that had absolutely no impact on the crash at all. The drone could just have easily been far enough away from an airport following all the regulations and still crashed into a power line due to any number of reasons. It's true that breaking that regulation can cause accidents to happen but it didn't cause this accident.
They could just have easily said if drones didn't exist there would be zero drone accidents.
Wouldn't this give us the authority to hack all those government agencies that have been hacking us for decades now?
Automation saves the company money. They have to pay taxes on that increased revenue. Since that extra revenue is tagged onto their existing revenue the money gets taxed at a higher level than if it was going to employees.
They can all become robot programmers now!
This has been going on long before the internet and still continues today in regular brick and mortar stores. I can walk into a convenience store in a poor neighborhood and they'll perpetually have some items on sale at a pretty competitive price regionally and then go to another location owned by the same owner in a wealthy neighborhood and it's perpetually marked up 300%.
They were pretty handy at the school I worked at. Getting new equipment was a red tape nightmare and we needed some more barcode scanners in the library. Hooray for CueCat.
This wouldn't be that big of a problem if web designers would properly declare the size attributes on images.
But none of that prior art was an Apple product. Everything Apple makes is innovative and new therefore worthy of a patent.
I like the concept but regulations likes these are historically the domain of the State. Does the Federal government even have the authority to regulate how roads are constructed?
And of course there are many that will suffer from losing explanatory notes.
That's probably the best use for annotations. It can be annoying when you don't discover an error in a video until well after it's been uploaded. Annotations provided a nice way to correct factual errors without having to redo the video and re-upload. It would be pretty useful if they provided a way to bake text only annotations like this into the video after the fact for things like corrections.
One way you could get around it with Kaby Lake processors is to pop in a Skylake processor when you want to update.
OS support isn't the issue here. Some laptop manufacturers actually put checks in the BIOS to only boot if a preapproved wifi adapter is installed. Try to use an unapproved wifi adapter and the system refuses to run at all.
What's going on here?
Traditional colleges have shied away from checking online course content before going live, citing academic freedom.
What the hell sense does that make? That's like saying I don't check my texts for errors before hitting send because "Freedom of Speech, bitch!"
as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.
What the hell for? Let's get everything fully automated as soon as possible so we can get the basic income uprising out of the way and we can all do whatever we want instead of what we feel we have to do.
Without the psychological aspect of staring your opponents in the face it's just a calculation of odds. Takes most of what makes poker poker out of the equation.
You're only thinking about trying to get the iron back to Earth to use here. Imagine a market where nations and/or corporations are building things in space. All of a sudden whoever has control of raw materials that are already in space and don't have to be shot of Earth's gravity well are very rich.
Seeing as Straight Talk and similar providers merely piggyback on AT&T's towers if AT&T no longer accept 2G connections that would also cut off carriers like Straight Talk. Interestingly T-Mobile has offered 2G AT&T customers a home until 2020. https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/...
If this other employee is changing computer files and settings then all the documentation he needs should be in the logs unless the company's setup is completely stupid and all the employees share the same login or something. In that case he should probably bail as soon as he can.