It's probably a thing with some companies. I've been laid off three times. The third time involved a hundred or so fellow employees. We were all given several weeks notice, all told we were going to get a severance (not a great severance, but one nonetheless), and were going to be given help finding employment elsewhere.
No armed security present or needed. I think you have to be a pretty shitty company both to need armed security in a layoff situation, and to feel the need to deploy it.
Why has Apple gone off the rails, and why haven't Android phone makers noticed and stopped copying them?
I was never impressed by the iPhone, but can understand why people were and certainly appreciate many technologies the iPhone popularized. However, the last few years have been completely absurd. The iPhone has lost its headphone jack, there's no good reason for the notch, and it still doesn't follow accepted industry standards even though now there's no reason for it not to - USB C in particular.
What has happened to Apple? Steve Jobs' departure should have been an opportunity to throw out the less optimal things Apple was doing solely because Jobs was insisting on it: instead, they seem to have thrown out Jobs' obsessions with elegance and simplicity and adopted his very worst quirks.
What is the non-dumb move that fixes the problem then?
Is this really what you're asking? You're saying we should do a dumb thing that doesn't fix a problem because the people pointing out it's dumb haven't mentioned something that would fix the problem?
This is why Congress keeps passing stupid laws. You're the problem.
Are you under the impression Facebook manually scans each message, each being reviewed by a human being?
Or are you defining "A message being scanned by a computer who will do nothing except allow it to be sent to its recipient or reject it with an error message" as an invasion of privacy? Because that's a pretty wide net.
Facebook has done some invasive things, but this isn't one of them.
Some people reacted with concern on Twitter: "Was Facebook reading messages more generally?"
The answer is yes. Every single Messenger message you sent is routed through Zuckerberg's office. He personally scans each one, and hits an "Approve" or "Reject" button. He also has a copy of Notepad open on his desktop, and he pastes more interesting messages into the document for later use.
Source: I work for Google.
(Sorry, I should explain, our Google Analytics software has some cool features we use internally, that's why I know what's on Zuckerberg's desktop.)
(Also, close that porn window, your boss just locked his screen and he's coming over to talk to you. You're welcome.)
There are ways of verifying, but all parties have to agree on the method of verification and how that is done depends on whether you're Yahoo, Microsoft or Google
I was under the impression pretty much everyone recognizes SPF these days.
Well, the i5-4660 doesn't actually exist. The 4660 is a Xeon. There is an i5-4460 though.
The i5-4460 is a Haswell. Haswell is covered in the document, it's just instead of listing by four digit number, for Haswell they list by product families.
It's the first entry on page 9. FWIW, the Xeon E5-4660 is also listed directly by four digit number, that's in the third row on the same page, just in the improbable event you actually do have a Xeon in your gaming PC.
So, other than the veganism (and maybe the being-female, Slashdot does seem to skew male), she's basically what you'd get if you put all Slashdot commenters into a blender and hit the button.
All we need now is to find out she hates copyrights and wrote rants on the "MAFIAAAAA" and we're all set.
Interesting point, but the experience in Europe is that country wide gun control does seem to reduce guns in circulation even though, like the US, weed is both banned and freely available
I'd suggest several factors:
1. Weed is relatively easy to grow, whereas guns are somewhat difficult to make and require ammunition to be effective.
2. Weed is distributed on the back of a large criminal enterprise aimed at using it as a gateway drug to addictive drugs. Guns are not addictive or a gateway to a more addictive product.
3. The industry that pushes weed knows that even if it's unable to get people addicted to other drugs, weed users will buy again. Most people will not ever need more than one gun.
4. Guns are expensive. You can sell a useful amount of weed for $10 (and probably costs a fraction of that.) A legal pistol will set you back $250 or more (and those selling illegal guns will want a much larger margin on that to cover their risks.) That limits the market considerably.
5. You can use weed in the comfort and privacy of your own home. Guns are kinda hard to use in a concealed, quiet, way that doesn't attract law enforcement.
In conclusion, it's probably far easier to police guns than weed.
London's murder rate is roughly the same as it always was. New York has managed to dip below London's rate. What you just said is technically correct in the same way as "The ocean has just risen to a level higher than the Titanic" would be.
California is surrounded by states without strict gun laws, and has no way to prevent illegal guns from being smuggled in. Kinda like Chicago. Hence the desire by many who advocate stronger gun laws to do so at a Federal level, where they can't be easily bypassed.
The UI code would run differently, but that's not the hard part of the code, and part that has limited room for optimization
The CPU hasn't really been the "hard part" since the mid-nineties, perhaps even earlier. Most applications have been written in high level languages since the late eighties, and the major problem until the mid-nineties were assumptions over endianisms.
If it's easier to write platform independent code now, it's because of changes in development practices combined with the fact Mac OS X runs a hell of a lot more like other mainstream operating systems than Mac OS ever did. OS X and Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10... (and 95-Me) both have the same fundamental model of how computers work and how resources should be allocated, which means high level code works in a similar way on both.
But compiling for a different CPU, well, that's just a compiler option. That's literally been a compiler option since the 1970s. And the compilers that support those options have been in common, mainstream, use since the late 1980s.
I'm guessing that will include an all expense paid trip to the USA and any number of federal prisons for the majority of his remaining life
There's not even an extradition warrant for him, why would the UK send him to the US? Why would the US even want him? Yes, he's damaged the US, but he hasn't broken any US laws.
The only outstanding charge against Assange is related to evading arrest over the extradition to Sweden. He wont even be extradited to Sweden, he'll just have to pay a fine. The only "prison time" he'll do will be the few hours between being arrested and being released on bail.
Honestly, at this point his reasons for not leaving the embassy amount to extreme paranoia on his part.
It makes Windows usable for those of us that must use Windows - admittedly though in a way that Cygwin has done for a long time as well. (Cygwin is better integrated though, while WSL seems more natively Unixy and has proper, familiar, package management with a much greater set of packages available.)
I end up using all three.
(Yes, I said three, there's also the MingW, which is usually the shell used around git on Windows, Microsoft even bundles it with their IDEs.)
The term "Open Source" dates to the late 1990s, Microsoft to the late 1970s. Free software, which is usually considered "The same outcome as with open source but for different reasons" certainly predates Microsoft, maybe that's what you meant?
Hey, let's get them to make an operating system that doesn't uncontrollably reboot every few days, sometimes insulting you in the process, before we start treating them as good people...
Very relevant. Most medium to large websites use CDNs to host images, videos, and other non-dynamic data. It sounds as if, from your last statement, you think they're only used to host Javascript libraries, i don't know why you would think that.
The major innovation here is that it'll soon become possible to render, in real time, silver balls, cones, and cubes floating above a checkerboard, something that's just not possible with regular 3D graphics.
Your point is what exactly? That because Facebook tells you one of the reasons why it "needs" those rights users are entirely protected from abuse?
This is pure outrage by people who don't read the first screen that pops up when they hit the little message button.
No, it's pure outrage by people who felt like they could trust a company like Facebook with the data they were giving it only to find that at every level, from call history (regardless of whether they used the Facebook app's dialer or not) to private SMS messages, Facebook was vacuuming up their data and sharing at least some of it with third parties.
What's broken here is trust. Google built an operating system where you pretty much have two options - trust the authors of an app, or do not install it. Facebook built a service where they require so much personal information that trust becomes a necessity. And then they're betrayed. And out-of-touch nerds then blame the victims because, hey, they should have read the small print, ignoring the fact the small print was read, that it didn't cover everything Facebook did, and that this fiasco is built upon deception.
If the UK court wanted to really make a point about the UK's jurisdiction and sovereignty, it could do something about all the people being assassinated by Russia inside the UK
And just how the fuck is a high court judge supposed to prevent Russian assassins from operating in the UK? Are you high? It might make for a great TV show, but that's completely insane in the real world.
"To everyone he's just an ordinary judge, spending the day handing out fines and sentencing serious criminals to prison. But by night, Justice Ashcroft Blunderbuss Cumberbach Caruthers is.. the Judginator, hunting down Russian assassins, spies, and people who post pro-Trump trolls on Slashdot in an effort to divide an already horrifically divided country under the pay of arch-nemesis Vlad "Clearly a closet case" Putin" (Shot of Caruthers swinging out of a window, as an angry balding bare chested Russian with no chin runs to the window, shaking his fist at the grinning superspy.)
Yahoo (OK, they may be going away, and their offerings in this space aren't terribly up to date) and Google for the most part. Why do you ask?
Forums: Yahoo Groups, Google Groups
Websites and web pages: Google Sites?
Blogs: Blogspot is pretty good (Google runs it), and Yahoo has Tumblr. Other (Non Googoo options) would be Wordpress.com and LiveJournal.
I had to join Facebook as part of my job, as they wanted me to write a Facebook app and at one point help manage a company Facebook page or three. I pretty much never post to my timeline, I only access FB via a web browser, have never given it access to my accounts, and at worst I occasionally post comments on some hobby pages I'm interested in.
What you need to think in terms of is "What is the minimum I need to do to ensure my fans can interact with me", and cut your access to that.
It's entirely possible that a separate group of IRA members, different from those the GP was talking about, were not extradited for that reason, though I find it unlikely that the UK would have allowed Gerry Adams or Martin McGuinness to roam free while seeking the extradition of non-violent IRA supporters in the US.
But the GP is talking about actual terrorists, people who were directly involved in killing others, and yes, he's right, they weren't extradited. No, there's no precedent in UK case law that says it's not murder if you did it for political reasons, that would be an astonishingly low bar and would mean that laws against terrorism are automatically invalid.
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It's probably a thing with some companies. I've been laid off three times. The third time involved a hundred or so fellow employees. We were all given several weeks notice, all told we were going to get a severance (not a great severance, but one nonetheless), and were going to be given help finding employment elsewhere.
No armed security present or needed. I think you have to be a pretty shitty company both to need armed security in a layoff situation, and to feel the need to deploy it.
Why has Apple gone off the rails, and why haven't Android phone makers noticed and stopped copying them?
I was never impressed by the iPhone, but can understand why people were and certainly appreciate many technologies the iPhone popularized. However, the last few years have been completely absurd. The iPhone has lost its headphone jack, there's no good reason for the notch, and it still doesn't follow accepted industry standards even though now there's no reason for it not to - USB C in particular.
What has happened to Apple? Steve Jobs' departure should have been an opportunity to throw out the less optimal things Apple was doing solely because Jobs was insisting on it: instead, they seem to have thrown out Jobs' obsessions with elegance and simplicity and adopted his very worst quirks.
Is this really what you're asking? You're saying we should do a dumb thing that doesn't fix a problem because the people pointing out it's dumb haven't mentioned something that would fix the problem?
This is why Congress keeps passing stupid laws. You're the problem.
Are you under the impression Facebook manually scans each message, each being reviewed by a human being?
Or are you defining "A message being scanned by a computer who will do nothing except allow it to be sent to its recipient or reject it with an error message" as an invasion of privacy? Because that's a pretty wide net.
Facebook has done some invasive things, but this isn't one of them.
The answer is yes. Every single Messenger message you sent is routed through Zuckerberg's office. He personally scans each one, and hits an "Approve" or "Reject" button. He also has a copy of Notepad open on his desktop, and he pastes more interesting messages into the document for later use.
Source: I work for Google.
(Sorry, I should explain, our Google Analytics software has some cool features we use internally, that's why I know what's on Zuckerberg's desktop.)
(Also, close that porn window, your boss just locked his screen and he's coming over to talk to you. You're welcome.)
I was under the impression pretty much everyone recognizes SPF these days.
Well, the i5-4660 doesn't actually exist. The 4660 is a Xeon. There is an i5-4460 though.
The i5-4460 is a Haswell. Haswell is covered in the document, it's just instead of listing by four digit number, for Haswell they list by product families. It's the first entry on page 9. FWIW, the Xeon E5-4660 is also listed directly by four digit number, that's in the third row on the same page, just in the improbable event you actually do have a Xeon in your gaming PC.
So, other than the veganism (and maybe the being-female, Slashdot does seem to skew male), she's basically what you'd get if you put all Slashdot commenters into a blender and hit the button.
All we need now is to find out she hates copyrights and wrote rants on the "MAFIAAAAA" and we're all set.
Interesting point, but the experience in Europe is that country wide gun control does seem to reduce guns in circulation even though, like the US, weed is both banned and freely available
I'd suggest several factors:
1. Weed is relatively easy to grow, whereas guns are somewhat difficult to make and require ammunition to be effective.
2. Weed is distributed on the back of a large criminal enterprise aimed at using it as a gateway drug to addictive drugs. Guns are not addictive or a gateway to a more addictive product.
3. The industry that pushes weed knows that even if it's unable to get people addicted to other drugs, weed users will buy again. Most people will not ever need more than one gun.
4. Guns are expensive. You can sell a useful amount of weed for $10 (and probably costs a fraction of that.) A legal pistol will set you back $250 or more (and those selling illegal guns will want a much larger margin on that to cover their risks.) That limits the market considerably.
5. You can use weed in the comfort and privacy of your own home. Guns are kinda hard to use in a concealed, quiet, way that doesn't attract law enforcement.
In conclusion, it's probably far easier to police guns than weed.
London's murder rate is roughly the same as it always was. New York has managed to dip below London's rate. What you just said is technically correct in the same way as "The ocean has just risen to a level higher than the Titanic" would be.
California is surrounded by states without strict gun laws, and has no way to prevent illegal guns from being smuggled in. Kinda like Chicago. Hence the desire by many who advocate stronger gun laws to do so at a Federal level, where they can't be easily bypassed.
Cool story bro.
The CPU hasn't really been the "hard part" since the mid-nineties, perhaps even earlier. Most applications have been written in high level languages since the late eighties, and the major problem until the mid-nineties were assumptions over endianisms.
If it's easier to write platform independent code now, it's because of changes in development practices combined with the fact Mac OS X runs a hell of a lot more like other mainstream operating systems than Mac OS ever did. OS X and Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10... (and 95-Me) both have the same fundamental model of how computers work and how resources should be allocated, which means high level code works in a similar way on both.
But compiling for a different CPU, well, that's just a compiler option. That's literally been a compiler option since the 1970s. And the compilers that support those options have been in common, mainstream, use since the late 1980s.
That's true with Google too. Read the summary again, Google are just removing Kodi from autocomplete, not from their search listings.
There's not even an extradition warrant for him, why would the UK send him to the US? Why would the US even want him? Yes, he's damaged the US, but he hasn't broken any US laws.
The only outstanding charge against Assange is related to evading arrest over the extradition to Sweden. He wont even be extradited to Sweden, he'll just have to pay a fine. The only "prison time" he'll do will be the few hours between being arrested and being released on bail.
Honestly, at this point his reasons for not leaving the embassy amount to extreme paranoia on his part.
It makes Windows usable for those of us that must use Windows - admittedly though in a way that Cygwin has done for a long time as well. (Cygwin is better integrated though, while WSL seems more natively Unixy and has proper, familiar, package management with a much greater set of packages available.)
I end up using all three.
(Yes, I said three, there's also the MingW, which is usually the shell used around git on Windows, Microsoft even bundles it with their IDEs.)
The term "Open Source" dates to the late 1990s, Microsoft to the late 1970s. Free software, which is usually considered "The same outcome as with open source but for different reasons" certainly predates Microsoft, maybe that's what you meant?
Hey, let's get them to make an operating system that doesn't uncontrollably reboot every few days, sometimes insulting you in the process, before we start treating them as good people...
Very relevant. Most medium to large websites use CDNs to host images, videos, and other non-dynamic data. It sounds as if, from your last statement, you think they're only used to host Javascript libraries, i don't know why you would think that.
The major innovation here is that it'll soon become possible to render, in real time, silver balls, cones, and cubes floating above a checkerboard, something that's just not possible with regular 3D graphics.
Your point is what exactly? That because Facebook tells you one of the reasons why it "needs" those rights users are entirely protected from abuse?
No, it's pure outrage by people who felt like they could trust a company like Facebook with the data they were giving it only to find that at every level, from call history (regardless of whether they used the Facebook app's dialer or not) to private SMS messages, Facebook was vacuuming up their data and sharing at least some of it with third parties.
What's broken here is trust. Google built an operating system where you pretty much have two options - trust the authors of an app, or do not install it. Facebook built a service where they require so much personal information that trust becomes a necessity. And then they're betrayed. And out-of-touch nerds then blame the victims because, hey, they should have read the small print, ignoring the fact the small print was read, that it didn't cover everything Facebook did, and that this fiasco is built upon deception.
And just how the fuck is a high court judge supposed to prevent Russian assassins from operating in the UK? Are you high? It might make for a great TV show, but that's completely insane in the real world.
"To everyone he's just an ordinary judge, spending the day handing out fines and sentencing serious criminals to prison. But by night, Justice Ashcroft Blunderbuss Cumberbach Caruthers is.. the Judginator, hunting down Russian assassins, spies, and people who post pro-Trump trolls on Slashdot in an effort to divide an already horrifically divided country under the pay of arch-nemesis Vlad "Clearly a closet case" Putin" (Shot of Caruthers swinging out of a window, as an angry balding bare chested Russian with no chin runs to the window, shaking his fist at the grinning superspy.)
Yahoo (OK, they may be going away, and their offerings in this space aren't terribly up to date) and Google for the most part. Why do you ask?
Forums: Yahoo Groups, Google Groups
Websites and web pages: Google Sites?
Blogs: Blogspot is pretty good (Google runs it), and Yahoo has Tumblr. Other (Non Googoo options) would be Wordpress.com and LiveJournal.
I had to join Facebook as part of my job, as they wanted me to write a Facebook app and at one point help manage a company Facebook page or three. I pretty much never post to my timeline, I only access FB via a web browser, have never given it access to my accounts, and at worst I occasionally post comments on some hobby pages I'm interested in.
What you need to think in terms of is "What is the minimum I need to do to ensure my fans can interact with me", and cut your access to that.
It's entirely possible that a separate group of IRA members, different from those the GP was talking about, were not extradited for that reason, though I find it unlikely that the UK would have allowed Gerry Adams or Martin McGuinness to roam free while seeking the extradition of non-violent IRA supporters in the US.
But the GP is talking about actual terrorists, people who were directly involved in killing others, and yes, he's right, they weren't extradited. No, there's no precedent in UK case law that says it's not murder if you did it for political reasons, that would be an astonishingly low bar and would mean that laws against terrorism are automatically invalid.