I don't call 350EUR (the registering fee of the taxi license, YMMV) "a lot of money". And by the "indirect" ways of making money, are you implying everyone in the taxi business is corrupt, at least on the regulators' side?
Besides, since the rides compensated are clearly restricted and targeted to the commute traffic, and nobody I know commutes with taxis (do you know such people?), the true victims of this new idea are the suburban busslines that drive around almost empty, because the law mandates the municipalities to provide the service. Why would taxi unions object to that? If anything, they should embrace this new idea of "teaching" people to use taxis more.
I guess I need that map. Why don't you provide it, instead of beating around the bush?
We talked about this a few years ago, but the science has come a long way since then
Science doesn't progress at such a pace. There is absolutely no solid scientific evidence to prove anything of what is posted above [1]. Anthropocentric backpains do not result from chairs, but from the people using them!
[1] At least you failed to link such a study. Typical alarmist article.
Strawman; of course we are humans. But this site's slogan is is news for nerds. What interest do nerds have of news about marriage rites?
And I don't mean the hipster neo-nerds who actually might grok sex or relationships. Not this site, no sirree. This site looks like it was designed in the 1990's. The upgrade to something looking like it was designed in the previous decade was shouted down. This is the last bastion of the honest-to-$DEITY, assembly-writing, coke-drinking, beer-bottle-bottom-spectacled elite. I for one find people's preference in $EDITOR infinately more important and fascinating than their private social life (or, goes without saying, sexual preferences).
Sampling a few of the device's in your link, GP's claim that the devices can't be bought still seems to hold true, mostly. For example, of the devices on the first page you link to:
Can't ship out of the US: -Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311-T1UU -Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311-T7NN -NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet -EVGA Tegra Note 7 -Nabi Big Tab (24")
Can be bought: -NVIDIA SHIELD Portable -Google Nexus 9
Dead link: -HP Chromebook 14 G3
No wonder nVidia can't sell them, if people cannot buy them... I wonder if there is something in the Tegra itself that causes this, or if the link provided was just a happy coincidence to confirm GP's gut feel.
I know if everything were still under wraps the spying might not have cost tech companies anything in lost sales, but it seems unfair to suggest that Snowden is partly responsible
Everyone knew about the spying even before Snowdens leaks. Spies spy. This is not news. With the patriotism that seems to plague the USA, it is not a big stretch of the imagination to see how the secret police influences the industry. Closed source can't easily be audited, and every engineer knows how easy it is to hide backdoors in gadgets. Comms equipment standards (public, international ones) even mandate "lawful intercept" capabilities. Why would the secret police not utilize these, in secret? That they do it was not surprising, only the sheer volume and spectrum of what NSA can do was news.
What really is causing the shit to hit the fan - internationally - is not the spying. Its not even the proof Snowden showed that it is happening. Its the reaction from the press and politicians in the USA. The knee-jerk reaction was to say "but we don't spy on americans". I'm sure this sort of thinking is common in the USA, but it usually don't hit international news headlines.
Many people still thought of USA as "us", not "them", before this uproar. But piss on your customers, and they might want to go elsewhere.
Sure, Snowden's whistleblowing was as important in the causal chain to this perceived loss to the US industry. But so was NSA doing the spying in the fist place. Neither of them are to blame for the losses, though.
That can't be it, I've never heard of any of the USA presidents until they became presidents. Except Geroge Bush, of course. And I hear that if the Democrats win this time, its going to be Clinton again.
the Debian developers and the security research community advised everyone who was possibly affected at the time to regenerate their keys.
However, it seems that a lot of people didn't listen and those weak keys are still used today
Didn't listen? How about that for a elitistic attitude! This is the main problem and cause for computer insecurities. I would give long odds that the number of people who both herad AND understood the warning, yet failed to take action can be counted with your fingers without even using base-2.
We end-users need to be spoon-fed (force-fed) the security. The correct action here would have been for (e.g. Github) to revoke these sort of keys already back then. Because while it is unreasonable to expect all end-users to take action, it is reasonable to expect (e.g. Github) to have a security professional to be alert and make that descision for us. Well, better late than never, and slip-ups happen sometimes. Lets hope there wasn't too much damage.
Personally though, I hate both your attitudes because your emotions and politics get in the way of rational, logical evolution of the science behind the issue.
I sort of agree, but then, do we have time to wait for the 'logical evolution of the science'? Most science is done by making observations that prove hypotheses. In this case there is a slight problem with this way of making science. Once the observations are indisputable, its a bit too late to change things.
That is why I back 100% the hypothesis that leads the human race to clean up their act and (I hope) create technology that ultimately leads to a Star Trek sort of socialist utopia. Even if it costs current-day industrialists their last million in bonuses.
Is it? "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these" (the Bible, Mark 12:31) On the other hand, if we allow a bit of forward-looking, soon there will be a lot more neighbours to love. And "the need of the many outweigh the need of the few" (that other Star* series).
I guess developing an area for its zoned purpose can't really be thought of like any sort of "revenge" by any sane person. Seems like there isn't going to be tower blocks built there...
What T.Cook says or doesn't say is insignificant compared to what the influx of the american (western) culture that comes from selling the Apple (and similar) stuff does to these countries' human (and similar) rights. It might not be evident instantly, but the base currents are changing.
I've never been to Indiana, but I guess the case is pretty different there, so a more direct approach might be needed.
Just one car per terrorist attack, surely. An autonomous car involved in such an accident could surely inform others cars locally to yield control to their human overlords. Or just stop.
Still, probably easier to develop the AI of the cars to not rely on such lane markings in the first place. And cheaper in the long run.
Religously fundamentalist mathematician? An Engineer who thinks the earth is just that 6000 years old?
These suggestsions sound so idiotic, axiamatically & obviously false, that I thought I should just mod parent down. But since someone has already modded parent up, I ask instead: please link *anything* that suggests STEM education correlates with fundamentalism. This can't be true.
I bow to my master. I didn't realize what was happening untill the next sentence:
There's legit concern that tech is run-amok with 'brogrammers' that make women programmers feel unwelcome.
During my soon 20 year carreer in IT, I've not met such a 'brogrammer'. Not once. They are really scarce, I find. And why? Because it looks unprofessional. If the README is full of jokes, the most likely explanation is that this is because the code is full of shit. One, perhaps two dick-jokes in the README, and my BS detector might not beep. But as it is now, I would not want to touch DICSS.
Just to put this in context, I am an completely average instantiation of the 'male programmer' stereotype. (white, hetero, soon-to-be middle-aged). And I did find the DICSS README funny.
"exceedingly well known"? How I hate the smell of elitism this late in the evening. Untill 1 minute ago, I had never heard of the 'china syndrome' either.
No. English is a terrible language to convey ideas in. It is more imprecise and ambiguous than any other language I know, save mandarin. English sort of works for art where these values are at a premium, and prose is where it fits best. I don't think it is a coincidence that the worlds most famous bard was English.
With HW going open source, shall we now start hating HW patenting similar to how we hate SW patenting?
What is the fundamental difference between e.g. python and pyhdl http://pyhdl.net/? Or have we (secretly) hated HW patenting all along, just as bad as SW patenting? Or is it just the current setup of the patent system that is the problem?
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.... And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place.
Zoidbergs win.
Why is it so much easier to be mean than polite? Or to slip into (the passive-agressiveness of) political correctness? Some design flaw there in the human brain/soul.
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I don't call 350EUR (the registering fee of the taxi license, YMMV) "a lot of money".
And by the "indirect" ways of making money, are you implying everyone in the taxi business is corrupt, at least on the regulators' side?
Besides, since the rides compensated are clearly restricted and targeted to the commute traffic, and nobody I know commutes with taxis (do you know such people?), the true victims of this new idea are the suburban busslines that drive around almost empty, because the law mandates the municipalities to provide the service. Why would taxi unions object to that? If anything, they should embrace this new idea of "teaching" people to use taxis more.
I guess I need that map. Why don't you provide it, instead of beating around the bush?
You don't know much about taxi unions or city regulatory agencies, do you?
And neither do I. Even after reading you comment.
We talked about this a few years ago, but the science has come a long way since then
Science doesn't progress at such a pace.
There is absolutely no solid scientific evidence to prove anything of what is posted above [1]. Anthropocentric backpains do not result from chairs, but from the people using them!
[1] At least you failed to link such a study. Typical alarmist article.
85 of the top 100 websites
So the 15 out of a 100 websites:
-destroy your data upon merger/bankrupsy/...
-don't collect any data about you
-lie
The level generator was tested with the original Super Mario? Has it been open sourced?
Or do we finally have an explanation for what sort of twisty brain wrote the "cat mario"/syobon levels?
Strawman; of course we are humans.
But this site's slogan is is news for nerds . What interest do nerds have of news about marriage rites?
And I don't mean the hipster neo-nerds who actually might grok sex or relationships. Not this site, no sirree. This site looks like it was designed in the 1990's. The upgrade to something looking like it was designed in the previous decade was shouted down. This is the last bastion of the honest-to-$DEITY, assembly-writing, coke-drinking, beer-bottle-bottom-spectacled elite.
I for one find people's preference in $EDITOR infinately more important and fascinating than their private social life (or, goes without saying, sexual preferences).
Sampling a few of the device's in your link, GP's claim that the devices can't be bought still seems to hold true, mostly.
For example, of the devices on the first page you link to:
Can't ship out of the US:
-Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311-T1UU
-Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311-T7NN
-NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet
-EVGA Tegra Note 7
-Nabi Big Tab (24")
Can be bought:
-NVIDIA SHIELD Portable
-Google Nexus 9
Dead link:
-HP Chromebook 14 G3
No wonder nVidia can't sell them, if people cannot buy them... I wonder if there is something in the Tegra itself that causes this, or if the link provided was just a happy coincidence to confirm GP's gut feel.
. "I think in general we haven't done enough to reach out and show young women that it's cool to do it [tech] and how much fun it can be,"
Do "we" reach out for the young men?
Nobody ever "reached out" for me, yet here I am. Have I just been living under a rock?
I know if everything were still under wraps the spying might not have cost tech companies anything in lost sales, but it seems unfair to suggest that Snowden is partly responsible
Everyone knew about the spying even before Snowdens leaks. Spies spy. This is not news. With the patriotism that seems to plague the USA, it is not a big stretch of the imagination to see how the secret police influences the industry. Closed source can't easily be audited, and every engineer knows how easy it is to hide backdoors in gadgets. Comms equipment standards (public, international ones) even mandate "lawful intercept" capabilities. Why would the secret police not utilize these, in secret? That they do it was not surprising, only the sheer volume and spectrum of what NSA can do was news.
What really is causing the shit to hit the fan - internationally - is not the spying. Its not even the proof Snowden showed that it is happening. Its the reaction from the press and politicians in the USA. The knee-jerk reaction was to say "but we don't spy on americans". I'm sure this sort of thinking is common in the USA, but it usually don't hit international news headlines.
Many people still thought of USA as "us", not "them", before this uproar. But piss on your customers, and they might want to go elsewhere.
Sure, Snowden's whistleblowing was as important in the causal chain to this perceived loss to the US industry. But so was NSA doing the spying in the fist place. Neither of them are to blame for the losses, though.
That can't be it, I've never heard of any of the USA presidents until they became presidents.
Except Geroge Bush, of course. And I hear that if the Democrats win this time, its going to be Clinton again.
TFA:
the Debian developers and the security research community advised everyone who was possibly affected at the time to regenerate their keys.
However, it seems that a lot of people didn't listen and those weak keys are still used today
Didn't listen? How about that for a elitistic attitude! This is the main problem and cause for computer insecurities. I would give long odds that the number of people who both herad AND understood the warning, yet failed to take action can be counted with your fingers without even using base-2.
We end-users need to be spoon-fed (force-fed) the security. The correct action here would have been for (e.g. Github) to revoke these sort of keys already back then. Because while it is unreasonable to expect all end-users to take action, it is reasonable to expect (e.g. Github) to have a security professional to be alert and make that descision for us.
Well, better late than never, and slip-ups happen sometimes. Lets hope there wasn't too much damage.
Personally though, I hate both your attitudes because your emotions and politics get in the way of rational, logical evolution of the science behind the issue.
I sort of agree, but then, do we have time to wait for the 'logical evolution of the science'? Most science is done by making observations that prove hypotheses. In this case there is a slight problem with this way of making science. Once the observations are indisputable, its a bit too late to change things.
That is why I back 100% the hypothesis that leads the human race to clean up their act and (I hope) create technology that ultimately leads to a Star Trek sort of socialist utopia.
Even if it costs current-day industrialists their last million in bonuses.
Of course half the population in the USA hate him.
FTFY.
I challenge you to find two people outside of the USA who hate Snowden.
Matlab? Dreaded? Why?
I don't like it. But its good for its purpose, I find.
Is it? "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these" (the Bible, Mark 12:31) On the other hand, if we allow a bit of forward-looking, soon there will be a lot more neighbours to love. And "the need of the many outweigh the need of the few" (that other Star* series).
I guess developing an area for its zoned purpose can't really be thought of like any sort of "revenge" by any sane person. Seems like there isn't going to be tower blocks built there...
If I'd happen to work in the Swedish puvblic sector, what I'd want to know first is:
does it run systemd?
What T.Cook says or doesn't say is insignificant compared to what the influx of the american (western) culture that comes from selling the Apple (and similar) stuff does to these countries' human (and similar) rights. It might not be evident instantly, but the base currents are changing.
I've never been to Indiana, but I guess the case is pretty different there, so a more direct approach might be needed.
Just one car per terrorist attack, surely. An autonomous car involved in such an accident could surely inform others cars locally to yield control to their human overlords. Or just stop.
Still, probably easier to develop the AI of the cars to not rely on such lane markings in the first place. And cheaper in the long run.
GP does make a point, unlike you.
You don't even make a counter-point.
But then, what do we expect from an AC?
Religously fundamentalist mathematician?
An Engineer who thinks the earth is just that 6000 years old?
These suggestsions sound so idiotic, axiamatically & obviously false, that I thought I should just mod parent down. But since someone has already modded parent up, I ask instead: please link *anything* that suggests STEM education correlates with fundamentalism. This can't be true.
I bow to my master. I didn't realize what was happening untill the next sentence:
There's legit concern that tech is run-amok with 'brogrammers' that make women programmers feel unwelcome.
During my soon 20 year carreer in IT, I've not met such a 'brogrammer'. Not once. They are really scarce, I find.
And why? Because it looks unprofessional. If the README is full of jokes, the most likely explanation is that this is because the code is full of shit. One, perhaps two dick-jokes in the README, and my BS detector might not beep. But as it is now, I would not want to touch DICSS.
Just to put this in context, I am an completely average instantiation of the 'male programmer' stereotype. (white, hetero, soon-to-be middle-aged). And I did find the DICSS README funny.
"exceedingly well known"? How I hate the smell of elitism this late in the evening. Untill 1 minute ago, I had never heard of the 'china syndrome' either.
But seems I am alone in my ignorance :)
No. English is a terrible language to convey ideas in. It is more imprecise and ambiguous than any other language I know, save mandarin.
English sort of works for art where these values are at a premium, and prose is where it fits best. I don't think it is a coincidence that the worlds most famous bard was English.
With HW going open source, shall we now start hating HW patenting similar to how we hate SW patenting?
What is the fundamental difference between e.g. python and pyhdl http://pyhdl.net/?
Or have we (secretly) hated HW patenting all along, just as bad as SW patenting?
Or is it just the current setup of the patent system that is the problem?
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. ...
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place.
Zoidbergs win.
Why is it so much easier to be mean than polite? Or to slip into (the passive-agressiveness of) political correctness? Some design flaw there in the human brain/soul.