Elon is gonna become the biggest defense contractor on earth
Like he wasn't already working on that. If you think Musk's business plan didn't include as much defense work as he can get, you are way behind the power curve here.
We can only hope.. I don't drive for Uber because I did the math, there is zero chance I'm going to make enough money to cover all my expenses (insurance, gas, maintenance, depreciation on my vehicle) and take home enough money per hour to be worth it.
What most of these people are really doing is working for cash flow, trading the depreciation of their vehicle due to mileage for some change in their pockets. They really are not making all that much, but they do see a lot of cash flowing through their hands, which for some, is helpful in the short term. Long term, it's not very good.
My father in law used to drive foster kids around for the state. They paid him per mile. He had just purchased a new car and he was trying to pay it off with the extra income. Problem was, that after he paid for gas and maintenance, nearly every penny went into the car payments. When he finally paid off the car, it was worth about what his down payment had been due to the mileage he put on it. He basically only really got to use the car for personal use for "free" by driving the kids around. Hardly worth it when you calculate out the per/hour returns.
Citation please? Uber markets themselves as a part time side hustle, a way to make quick cash by driving folks around in your free time, at least around here. Are you saying the average Uber driver in NYC is working full time? You got statistics on this?
Really. It's a great city - and I say that as a Brit. Don't let your prejudices deter you!
It's not a prejudice in this case but preference. I was raised in the country and don't like cities or suburban spaces much. I'd rather spend my free time away from large groups of people and in the fresh air. So I don't feel the pull to "visit" the big city, or any city, but feel pulled away from the hassles you have to put up with in large groups of people. Give me a secluded beach, a hiking trail, a mountain side, or drive though the country.
BTW, I visited Manchester once. Found a love for English teas and Curry take away there and cannot find anything like it here in the states. But my favorite part of that trip was a train ride to Chester and walking around that little town. It was an enchanting place and lovely countryside. THAT's the kind of thing I'm going to do with my free time.
Engineers often times over design things, but I'm not so sure that a scarecrow is going to work here.
I actually think it's an interesting idea, though I'm a bit aghast at the prospect of an aircraft / drone collision. Like it or not, a drone can do some serious damage to a commercial airliner. This drone will require significant supervision and coordination with air traffic too. This just gets complicated quickly.
Not to mention that I think there might be better solutions out there. Propane cannon noise makers and having falcons flying a couple times a week during the day are really effective and cheap.
Then there is the scarecrow idea of yours. Given it's cost and lack of side issues, I'd be willing to give it a try and see if it works or not, but I don't think it's very effective.
I came here to post exactly this. There was no "learning" by the drone.
They didn't take the drone, put it though "training" regime where it learned anything. They programed specific actions, nothing more. The device isn't modifying its behavior or it's response to stimuli based on it's experiences trying to heard birds.
minimum "wage" also means over time pay... also it would then allow for benefits and holiday pay and such things. Uber Disrupted.
Uber just says that nobody can work full time, much less overtime. Then, all they need to do is stop sending you fares when your work hours are up for the week. Zero over time, Zero benefits, zero issues with the law.
So, what your saying is that Uber riders have to pay more, and my taxes no longer subsidize their drivers (through food stamps, etc.)? The free market gets to work?
How cute, you think that "minimum wage" will get Uber drivers off food stamps and Medicaid... Maybe a few will, but I doubt it will be many.
Just a guess, but I'm thinking that the bulk of Uber's drivers are just doing side hustles anyway. It's a way to increase cash flow in your spare time using your car. I'm also going to guess that very few of their drivers actually live in NYC, but end up driving there for fares because that's where the demand is and thus where you go to make money fastest. Finally, I'm going to say that owning a car in NYC pretty much assures me that you don't have a chance to collect food stamps or Medicaid.
But, this is just a guess... I don't live anyplace near NYC and don't plan to ever go there.
As a gesture of goodwill, the Trump administration is sending 40,000,000 wearable fitness trackers to North Korea to help improve the health of their civilian and military population.
With a *really* nice one for Kim... Gold plated, comfort band and a calorie counter that halves the input and doubles the expended numbers.
Citation? Remember, you have to prove they knew the truth when they made the statements or you are doing exactly the thing you accuse them of and are calling them liars for. You cannot just say "Because I believe they are liars they are" you need to prove it, or you become the very thing you deride Logic is a tough task master, but you really need to apply some here or risk being a hypocrite. But that's how political games are played these days, So it's up to you.
So if 92% are admitting to having trouble the other 8% are just lying to themselves and others about it.
Security is ALWAYS a struggle and if you are committed to creating secure software and systems you will soon realize that you can never really call the security job done. So, if you are saying you have arrived, your security efforts have been successful, you are either out of business or you are destine to fail in your task because you quit working on it, having arrived.
I think you mean that they are using someone who has been gone for a year as a scapegoat to hide their blatant lies.
Let's call it blaming the mis-information on an Ex-Employee. Happens all the time.
BTW - A lie is "an intentionally false statement" so please step back from calling somebody a liar until you can prove they knew what they where saying wasn't true and they indented to mislead when they made it. Being mis-informed and making a statement that turns out to be false, does not make one a liar, nor does saying something that can be interpreted in a way that makes it untrue. In order to call someone a liar you have to prove that the INTENT was to mislead, in which case, even a TRUE statement can be a lie if it omits contextual information necessary to understand the actual truth.
We aren't fucking idiots Pai. We know it was never hacked.
Because it's not his JOB to keep the IT infrastructure from being hacked, he's just a commissioner. He's just the appointed chairman of the FCC, it's similar to being on the chairman of the board of a company. He just has a vote in the hiring and firing decisions of the executives.
Taking a page right out of Trump's book... blame the guy who came before you.
There's a joke that goes with that...
A new hire manager type was starting a new job and knowing the previous manager was highly praised showed up the day the previous manager was scheduled to leave to ask his advice and find out the secrets of the job if he could. The exiting manager was just walking out when he arrived and told him "I left you instructions in what's now your desk. Just look in the top drawer. Everything you need to know is in those but follow the instructions carefully. Good Luck!" and he left claiming he had an appointment to keep.
The next work day, the new manager couldn't wait to see what the instructions where so he arrived early and got though the onboarding process as quickly as he could. At noon, just after meeting his new team he was finally shown his desk and allowed to settle in and get to work. He sat down, opening the desk drawer and found three separate envelops. One was labeled "Open Now", another was labeled "Open in 12 months" and the final one was labeled "Open in 24 months" which seemed weird but taking the letter opener out he opened the first one.
"Welcome to your new job. I hope you have the same success I did. Here is what I recommend you do. For the next 12 months you should keep things mostly as they are. Any problems you have with the system or the individuals on the team you can blame on me. Tell management that you have identified the problem and it was the previous manager's fault."
So that's what he did. For 12 moths, any problems where blamed on the previous manager and it worked. He was getting good performance reviews, people thought he was effective, everybody was happy with him. He couldn't wait to see the advice in the next envelop.
At 12 months, he went into his office, closed the door, and opened the second letter. "Reorganize the whole department. Scramble every job, rewrite every process. Call it process improvement, business to process alignment, what ever you want. Tell everybody you are fixing the issues that have plagued you for the last 12 months. Now you must stop blaming me, but you can now blame all problems on the team and the reorganization and rewrite of the process. 'We are all learning the new process and working out the kinks while we learn our new responsibilities' is now your theme." So that's what he did. It was bumpy, filled with problems that he blamed on the reorganization but everybody like him still and his performance appraisals where again excellent that year.
As 24 months approached, the wisdom of the previous manager was apparent and his advice was working really well. People where singing the current managers abilities and hard work. There where lots of problems, but the belief was the new guy was working those out and everybody was happy. Again, as the 24th month started, the new manager entered his office, closed the door, took a deep breath as he slipped the last envelop out of his desk drawer to read it and find out what pearls of wisdom he was about to get and how this would again advance his career. The pervious manager was AMAZING!
He opens the last letter and it says only this: "Write three letters.. "
I don't see this as "worse". They former CIO who made the improper report has been let go and after the GAO investigation the record is being set straight.
This is how things like this should be handled. If you cannot do your job, you get canned. So if you report that you got hacked, when it wasn't a hack that caused the problem, you get canned. Just like you'd get canned if you got hacked because you didn't secure your system per standard industry practice.
Ah yes, the monthly payment shoppers are responsible for this...
How many people pay attention to the total cost of that shiny brand new phone with all the bells and whistles? They are sold on MONTHLY price for the most part, and usually sold though the cell phone carrier. These folks look at that $25/month and say WOW! That's cheap, never mind it's for 60 months and that shiny phone will be replaced with a newer model in 24 months and they haven't yet paid for half of it.
This is what happened to cars too. Go talk to a car salesman and I guarantee that you will get the "It's only XX per month!" pitch, no mention of interest rates or payment terms. Most folks don't care and don't find out what that interest rate is or the number of months they will be paying until they are in the finance office. Even then, it's all about the monthly cost, forget what I'm actually paying for this because I get to drive that shiny new car..
So, us strange folks, who actually look at the total costs of financing and are ready and willing to pay cash up front to save bucks when we can, get to look at the "buy it outright" costs and think "who's going to pay that?" Well, I assure you, a whole bunch of folks will if you break it down into small enough monthly payments and that's what carriers and device makers are doing. I don't blame them for doing it and making more money, why not? If people are willing to be sold this way, so be it, just don't expect me to be happy about the prices I have to pay because of it.
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Elon is gonna become the biggest defense contractor on earth
Like he wasn't already working on that. If you think Musk's business plan didn't include as much defense work as he can get, you are way behind the power curve here.
Samsung is likely working on an update for this very reason. My Note 5 got a couple of Android versions though the years I owned it.
or you can buy Kindle Filre 8.9" for $60 that does 90% of things Note does.
But, I WANT the actual "fire" feature from my phone.
Sorry, couldn't resist..
Depends on your carrier and what they chose to force into the image.
How are they going to fit two whales inside that thing?
The same way they deal with the "Transparent aluminum" problem. "Laddie, shall I just punch up clear?"
We can only hope.. I don't drive for Uber because I did the math, there is zero chance I'm going to make enough money to cover all my expenses (insurance, gas, maintenance, depreciation on my vehicle) and take home enough money per hour to be worth it.
What most of these people are really doing is working for cash flow, trading the depreciation of their vehicle due to mileage for some change in their pockets. They really are not making all that much, but they do see a lot of cash flowing through their hands, which for some, is helpful in the short term. Long term, it's not very good.
My father in law used to drive foster kids around for the state. They paid him per mile. He had just purchased a new car and he was trying to pay it off with the extra income. Problem was, that after he paid for gas and maintenance, nearly every penny went into the car payments. When he finally paid off the car, it was worth about what his down payment had been due to the mileage he put on it. He basically only really got to use the car for personal use for "free" by driving the kids around. Hardly worth it when you calculate out the per/hour returns.
Citation please? Uber markets themselves as a part time side hustle, a way to make quick cash by driving folks around in your free time, at least around here. Are you saying the average Uber driver in NYC is working full time? You got statistics on this?
Really. It's a great city - and I say that as a Brit. Don't let your prejudices deter you!
It's not a prejudice in this case but preference. I was raised in the country and don't like cities or suburban spaces much. I'd rather spend my free time away from large groups of people and in the fresh air. So I don't feel the pull to "visit" the big city, or any city, but feel pulled away from the hassles you have to put up with in large groups of people. Give me a secluded beach, a hiking trail, a mountain side, or drive though the country.
BTW, I visited Manchester once. Found a love for English teas and Curry take away there and cannot find anything like it here in the states. But my favorite part of that trip was a train ride to Chester and walking around that little town. It was an enchanting place and lovely countryside. THAT's the kind of thing I'm going to do with my free time.
Engineers often times over design things, but I'm not so sure that a scarecrow is going to work here.
I actually think it's an interesting idea, though I'm a bit aghast at the prospect of an aircraft / drone collision. Like it or not, a drone can do some serious damage to a commercial airliner. This drone will require significant supervision and coordination with air traffic too. This just gets complicated quickly.
Not to mention that I think there might be better solutions out there. Propane cannon noise makers and having falcons flying a couple times a week during the day are really effective and cheap.
Then there is the scarecrow idea of yours. Given it's cost and lack of side issues, I'd be willing to give it a try and see if it works or not, but I don't think it's very effective.
I came here to post exactly this. There was no "learning" by the drone.
They didn't take the drone, put it though "training" regime where it learned anything. They programed specific actions, nothing more. The device isn't modifying its behavior or it's response to stimuli based on it's experiences trying to heard birds.
minimum "wage" also means over time pay... also it would then allow for benefits and holiday pay and such things. Uber Disrupted.
Uber just says that nobody can work full time, much less overtime. Then, all they need to do is stop sending you fares when your work hours are up for the week. Zero over time, Zero benefits, zero issues with the law.
But, what happens when the major NYC cab companies experience totally coincidental and nearly simultaneous fires that destroy their garages and cars?
NYC finest are going to come looking for you to charge you with arson. That's what happens.
So, what your saying is that Uber riders have to pay more, and my taxes no longer subsidize their drivers (through food stamps, etc.)? The free market gets to work?
How cute, you think that "minimum wage" will get Uber drivers off food stamps and Medicaid... Maybe a few will, but I doubt it will be many.
Just a guess, but I'm thinking that the bulk of Uber's drivers are just doing side hustles anyway. It's a way to increase cash flow in your spare time using your car. I'm also going to guess that very few of their drivers actually live in NYC, but end up driving there for fares because that's where the demand is and thus where you go to make money fastest. Finally, I'm going to say that owning a car in NYC pretty much assures me that you don't have a chance to collect food stamps or Medicaid.
But, this is just a guess... I don't live anyplace near NYC and don't plan to ever go there.
54.5 cents per mile + NY MINWAGE + full insurance will hurt them big time.
Which is why the Taxi Companies pushed so hard for this.
As a gesture of goodwill, the Trump administration is sending 40,000,000 wearable fitness trackers to North Korea to help improve the health of their civilian and military population.
With a *really* nice one for Kim... Gold plated, comfort band and a calorie counter that halves the input and doubles the expended numbers.
Citation? Remember, you have to prove they knew the truth when they made the statements or you are doing exactly the thing you accuse them of and are calling them liars for. You cannot just say "Because I believe they are liars they are" you need to prove it, or you become the very thing you deride Logic is a tough task master, but you really need to apply some here or risk being a hypocrite. But that's how political games are played these days, So it's up to you.
So if 92% are admitting to having trouble the other 8% are just lying to themselves and others about it.
Security is ALWAYS a struggle and if you are committed to creating secure software and systems you will soon realize that you can never really call the security job done. So, if you are saying you have arrived, your security efforts have been successful, you are either out of business or you are destine to fail in your task because you quit working on it, having arrived.
I think you mean that they are using someone who has been gone for a year as a scapegoat to hide their blatant lies.
Let's call it blaming the mis-information on an Ex-Employee. Happens all the time.
BTW - A lie is "an intentionally false statement" so please step back from calling somebody a liar until you can prove they knew what they where saying wasn't true and they indented to mislead when they made it. Being mis-informed and making a statement that turns out to be false, does not make one a liar, nor does saying something that can be interpreted in a way that makes it untrue. In order to call someone a liar you have to prove that the INTENT was to mislead, in which case, even a TRUE statement can be a lie if it omits contextual information necessary to understand the actual truth.
We aren't fucking idiots Pai. We know it was never hacked.
Because it's not his JOB to keep the IT infrastructure from being hacked, he's just a commissioner. He's just the appointed chairman of the FCC, it's similar to being on the chairman of the board of a company. He just has a vote in the hiring and firing decisions of the executives.
Taking a page right out of Trump's book... blame the guy who came before you.
There's a joke that goes with that...
A new hire manager type was starting a new job and knowing the previous manager was highly praised showed up the day the previous manager was scheduled to leave to ask his advice and find out the secrets of the job if he could. The exiting manager was just walking out when he arrived and told him "I left you instructions in what's now your desk. Just look in the top drawer. Everything you need to know is in those but follow the instructions carefully. Good Luck!" and he left claiming he had an appointment to keep.
The next work day, the new manager couldn't wait to see what the instructions where so he arrived early and got though the onboarding process as quickly as he could. At noon, just after meeting his new team he was finally shown his desk and allowed to settle in and get to work. He sat down, opening the desk drawer and found three separate envelops. One was labeled "Open Now", another was labeled "Open in 12 months" and the final one was labeled "Open in 24 months" which seemed weird but taking the letter opener out he opened the first one.
"Welcome to your new job. I hope you have the same success I did. Here is what I recommend you do. For the next 12 months you should keep things mostly as they are. Any problems you have with the system or the individuals on the team you can blame on me. Tell management that you have identified the problem and it was the previous manager's fault."
So that's what he did. For 12 moths, any problems where blamed on the previous manager and it worked. He was getting good performance reviews, people thought he was effective, everybody was happy with him. He couldn't wait to see the advice in the next envelop.
At 12 months, he went into his office, closed the door, and opened the second letter. "Reorganize the whole department. Scramble every job, rewrite every process. Call it process improvement, business to process alignment, what ever you want. Tell everybody you are fixing the issues that have plagued you for the last 12 months. Now you must stop blaming me, but you can now blame all problems on the team and the reorganization and rewrite of the process. 'We are all learning the new process and working out the kinks while we learn our new responsibilities' is now your theme." So that's what he did. It was bumpy, filled with problems that he blamed on the reorganization but everybody like him still and his performance appraisals where again excellent that year.
As 24 months approached, the wisdom of the previous manager was apparent and his advice was working really well. People where singing the current managers abilities and hard work. There where lots of problems, but the belief was the new guy was working those out and everybody was happy. Again, as the 24th month started, the new manager entered his office, closed the door, took a deep breath as he slipped the last envelop out of his desk drawer to read it and find out what pearls of wisdom he was about to get and how this would again advance his career. The pervious manager was AMAZING!
He opens the last letter and it says only this: "Write three letters.. "
You did catch that this was blamed on the former CTO right? Seems that the person responsible no longer works at the FCC, which is as it should be.
I don't see this as "worse". They former CIO who made the improper report has been let go and after the GAO investigation the record is being set straight.
This is how things like this should be handled. If you cannot do your job, you get canned. So if you report that you got hacked, when it wasn't a hack that caused the problem, you get canned. Just like you'd get canned if you got hacked because you didn't secure your system per standard industry practice.
Isn't it? Well?
Somebody messed up and he got himself canned at least.
Ah yes, the monthly payment shoppers are responsible for this...
How many people pay attention to the total cost of that shiny brand new phone with all the bells and whistles? They are sold on MONTHLY price for the most part, and usually sold though the cell phone carrier. These folks look at that $25/month and say WOW! That's cheap, never mind it's for 60 months and that shiny phone will be replaced with a newer model in 24 months and they haven't yet paid for half of it.
This is what happened to cars too. Go talk to a car salesman and I guarantee that you will get the "It's only XX per month!" pitch, no mention of interest rates or payment terms. Most folks don't care and don't find out what that interest rate is or the number of months they will be paying until they are in the finance office. Even then, it's all about the monthly cost, forget what I'm actually paying for this because I get to drive that shiny new car..
So, us strange folks, who actually look at the total costs of financing and are ready and willing to pay cash up front to save bucks when we can, get to look at the "buy it outright" costs and think "who's going to pay that?" Well, I assure you, a whole bunch of folks will if you break it down into small enough monthly payments and that's what carriers and device makers are doing. I don't blame them for doing it and making more money, why not? If people are willing to be sold this way, so be it, just don't expect me to be happy about the prices I have to pay because of it.