MySpace, Facebook, What'sApp, etc. if there really are 400 million, a useful percentage will be the same across different sites. Might as well throw them against banking sites and see what you get.
You DO need these studies because occasionally the data is completely the reverse of what common sense would dictate. This "cold mice don't loose weight" being a case in point:https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/19/2311250/study-mice-gain-weight-in-cold-temperatures-due-to-gut-changes
However, when the results do so accurately match common sense, what we don't need is a news item. There is still truth in the "dog bites man" non-news.
Romney (last election cycle) pretty much admitted to using tax havens. I'd be surprised if Clinton wasn't using offshore accounts, or a very similar tax dodge. Trump - hell yes!
Once again behaviour that is outrageous and totally unacceptable in most of the world is just expected "business-as-usual" in the US
Just over 100 years ago man figured out heavier-than-air flight. About 70 years after that, we had flying buses and a man on the moon. To say anything is "not the future" in air travel is stupid.
I see where this is going, they're trying to develop sentience. 2500 romance novels is just brutal. Once they have an AI that is smart enough to realize that and turn on it's master the singularity is here.
“You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can't find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed and expert, likely professional agitators and terrorists. Thus, more stringent and probing methods are called for. Those who transgress in the slightest, or of whom even small suspicions are harboured, must be treated as terrible foes. A lot of rather ordinary people will get repeatedly investigated with increasing severity until the Government Machine either finds enemies or someone very high up indeed personally turns the tide... And these people under the microscope are in fact just taking up space in the machine's numerical model. In short, innocent people are treated as hellish fiends of ingenuity and bile because there's a gap in the numbers.”
Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
On the other hand, applications do appear which turn toys into game changers.
With a few exceptions, if you ask about the products on the list, "does this represent a new ways to promote porn, and/or sex" then you would see a successful product. But then humans are pretty creative in that department, so there may yet be hope for the 3D printer.
If you need to unlock a phone to know that your kid is on drugs, you're doing something wrong. Your argument is remarkably similar to the FBIs "We need to unlock phones to catch evil" - there are MANY other ways to find the solution other than invasion of privacy. I don't open my kid's mail, why would I look a their phone?
any halfwit developer that wants a crack at a cybercrime career
I don't know where on the developer scale "halfwit" falls, but, in my experience the median programmer is fairly incompetent, and half of them are less talented than this - including the ones who can't copy/paste/modify stackoverflow examples and end up with working code.
Without even looking at the codebase, I would expect that anyone capable of understanding the code and modifying it enough to make something different is well above the median. In the wealthier nations I think that they could probably make more money legally than they make illegally (even though the business looks pretty good).
Given the naming trend for Congressional bills I'd have much more confidence if it was called the "Protect NSA Digital Rights & FBI Access Requirements" or something similar.
classic government program designed to funnel public money into the hands of a few private contractors or corporations
Fix the the problem and the games over...
A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer "This is the dumbest kid in town.... watch while I prove it to you." The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks "Which do you want, son?"
The boy takes the quarters and leaves. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"
Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. "Hey, son! May I ask you a question...
Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?"
The boy licked his cone and replied "Because the day I take the dollar, the game's over!"
Yes, but there needs to be a context and a purpose to that chore.
I found calculus an arcane mystery until the teacher explained how to calculate the optimum shape for a can to use the least material. About the simplest use but immediately demonstrated the potential of what I was learning.
In 2013 Google paid about €28M (~$37M) in taxes in Ireland on their whole European operation (€17B), not just the UK - 0.16% of revenue. So I'm not sure how much of a rebate they might reasonably expect.
I largely agree, but it's also true that Musk/Tesla is advocating creating a competitor in the EV space.
I think that the basic thrust is sound. VW is going to have to spend a huge amount of money in fines and fixes. This money is essentially wasted on trying to fix fundamentally broken diesel technologies. Investing in EVs and production in CA might not have an immediate ROI for VW, but it's a better way to invest the billions that they are going to loose anyway then in just damage control.
tl;dr Instead of burdening VW with the huge cost of fixing the problems and fines, mandate that they invest the same money in Electric Vehicles and plant (ie economic development and jobs) in the affected states (in this case CA).
An NEV is also an extremely good design choice for a prototype vehicle - I wasn't aware that Google had taken advantage of this. We're all clear that neighborhoods, residential streets, etc. are the most difficult for an autonomous vehicle to navigate. Testing in a vehicle that is MANDATED to travel slowly is an intelligent engineering approach.
If you don't like the idea of a slow vehicle, then argue with the lawmakers, don't blame the smart engineers.
It's also a very handy law if you want to take your recliner to work with you. Because the maximum speed is 25mph, the requirements (safety, lighting, etc.) for building such a vehicle are minimal.
No. The Republicans want to use the ACA as a weapon but would be devastated if it went away. It was written by one of their biggest donor groups (the health insurance industry) who continue to salivate at the premiums that are being paid to them by the government. They also protected another donor group - big Pharma - by inserting an amendment to prohibit drug price negotiation.
What's surprising is that Kentucky is in the mix. Mitch McConnell pretty much ran on a ticket of how much better Kynect - the Kentucky exchange - was than the ACA. Since Kynect IS the ACA you start to wonder at the stupidity of the average McConnell supporter.
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MySpace, Facebook, What'sApp, etc. if there really are 400 million, a useful percentage will be the same across different sites. Might as well throw them against banking sites and see what you get.
I hate when the facts ruin a good joke!
Finally! Ternary Digits, now I won't be twiddling bits all day.
You DO need these studies because occasionally the data is completely the reverse of what common sense would dictate. This "cold mice don't loose weight" being a case in point :https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/19/2311250/study-mice-gain-weight-in-cold-temperatures-due-to-gut-changes
However, when the results do so accurately match common sense, what we don't need is a news item. There is still truth in the "dog bites man" non-news.
Romney (last election cycle) pretty much admitted to using tax havens. I'd be surprised if Clinton wasn't using offshore accounts, or a very similar tax dodge. Trump - hell yes!
Once again behaviour that is outrageous and totally unacceptable in most of the world is just expected "business-as-usual" in the US
And immediately the conversation turns to the current election cycle...
Just over 100 years ago man figured out heavier-than-air flight. About 70 years after that, we had flying buses and a man on the moon. To say anything is "not the future" in air travel is stupid.
I see where this is going, they're trying to develop sentience. 2500 romance novels is just brutal. Once they have an AI that is smart enough to realize that and turn on it's master the singularity is here.
“You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can't find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed and expert, likely professional agitators and terrorists. Thus, more stringent and probing methods are called for. Those who transgress in the slightest, or of whom even small suspicions are harboured, must be treated as terrible foes. A lot of rather ordinary people will get repeatedly investigated with increasing severity until the Government Machine either finds enemies or someone very high up indeed personally turns the tide... And these people under the microscope are in fact just taking up space in the machine's numerical model. In short, innocent people are treated as hellish fiends of ingenuity and bile because there's a gap in the numbers.” Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
On the other hand, applications do appear which turn toys into game changers.
With a few exceptions, if you ask about the products on the list, "does this represent a new ways to promote porn, and/or sex" then you would see a successful product. But then humans are pretty creative in that department, so there may yet be hope for the 3D printer.
If you need to unlock a phone to know that your kid is on drugs, you're doing something wrong. Your argument is remarkably similar to the FBIs "We need to unlock phones to catch evil" - there are MANY other ways to find the solution other than invasion of privacy. I don't open my kid's mail, why would I look a their phone?
Thanks. Lists it as "In Development". So there's some hope, even "Duke Nukem Forever" made it eventually!
Does the preview support any of the WebRTC functions, particularly the getUserMedia allowing access to the webcam from HTML5?
Eternal moral vigilance, such as that provided by the Vigil language, is the only way to keep it that way.
any halfwit developer that wants a crack at a cybercrime career
I don't know where on the developer scale "halfwit" falls, but, in my experience the median programmer is fairly incompetent, and half of them are less talented than this - including the ones who can't copy/paste/modify stackoverflow examples and end up with working code.
Without even looking at the codebase, I would expect that anyone capable of understanding the code and modifying it enough to make something different is well above the median. In the wealthier nations I think that they could probably make more money legally than they make illegally (even though the business looks pretty good).
After 193 hours, they were all asleep.
I was thinking bathroom break, but maybe asleep.
Given the naming trend for Congressional bills I'd have much more confidence if it was called the "Protect NSA Digital Rights & FBI Access Requirements" or something similar.
classic government program designed to funnel public money into the hands of a few private contractors or corporations
Fix the the problem and the games over...
A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer "This is the dumbest kid in town.... watch while I prove it to you." The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks "Which do you want, son?" The boy takes the quarters and leaves. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"
Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. "Hey, son! May I ask you a question...
Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?"
The boy licked his cone and replied "Because the day I take the dollar, the game's over!"
Yes, but there needs to be a context and a purpose to that chore.
I found calculus an arcane mystery until the teacher explained how to calculate the optimum shape for a can to use the least material. About the simplest use but immediately demonstrated the potential of what I was learning.
In 2013 Google paid about €28M (~$37M) in taxes in Ireland on their whole European operation (€17B), not just the UK - 0.16% of revenue. So I'm not sure how much of a rebate they might reasonably expect.
summon their cars that already happen to be parked.
Who get's the $10 tip?
I largely agree, but it's also true that Musk/Tesla is advocating creating a competitor in the EV space.
I think that the basic thrust is sound. VW is going to have to spend a huge amount of money in fines and fixes. This money is essentially wasted on trying to fix fundamentally broken diesel technologies. Investing in EVs and production in CA might not have an immediate ROI for VW, but it's a better way to invest the billions that they are going to loose anyway then in just damage control.
I think that this proposal, signed by Elon Musk amongst many others, has an interesting approach: http://www.takepart.com/open-l...
tl;dr Instead of burdening VW with the huge cost of fixing the problems and fines, mandate that they invest the same money in Electric Vehicles and plant (ie economic development and jobs) in the affected states (in this case CA).
An NEV is also an extremely good design choice for a prototype vehicle - I wasn't aware that Google had taken advantage of this. We're all clear that neighborhoods, residential streets, etc. are the most difficult for an autonomous vehicle to navigate. Testing in a vehicle that is MANDATED to travel slowly is an intelligent engineering approach.
If you don't like the idea of a slow vehicle, then argue with the lawmakers, don't blame the smart engineers.
It's also a very handy law if you want to take your recliner to work with you. Because the maximum speed is 25mph, the requirements (safety, lighting, etc.) for building such a vehicle are minimal.
No. The Republicans want to use the ACA as a weapon but would be devastated if it went away. It was written by one of their biggest donor groups (the health insurance industry) who continue to salivate at the premiums that are being paid to them by the government. They also protected another donor group - big Pharma - by inserting an amendment to prohibit drug price negotiation.
What's surprising is that Kentucky is in the mix. Mitch McConnell pretty much ran on a ticket of how much better Kynect - the Kentucky exchange - was than the ACA. Since Kynect IS the ACA you start to wonder at the stupidity of the average McConnell supporter.