We don't need the government regulating IoT devices. What we do need is legal recourse when IoT devices fail.
A EULA should never indemnify the manufacturer from the liability of manufacturing a defective product. A EULA should not be permitted to restrict your rights to sue for damages.
This is how IoT gets fixed. Hold manufacturers responsible for the crap they produce.
Our school moved to Google Apps and Chrome OS about 3 years ago. Microsoft, at the time, did not have a comprehensive cloud/local strategy that could compete with the ease of use and cost (free) of Google Apps.
Recently Microsoft has started giving away Office 365 with a local installed copy of Office for education customers. That's nice, but we are very entrenched in the Google Apps/Chrome OS ecosystem - so switching back at this point would cause lots of pain for little benefit.
So in a period of 3 years we went from buying Office licenses for our all of our students and staff, to a totally free solution. I'm sure many other schools did the same.
This is the stuff we know about - I'm sure there are a ton of security initiatives inside Google that we outsiders know nothing about.
It's hard to imagine an SMB network that equals Google's commitment to security and compliance. I would trust Google over the server farm stuffed in a closet in your average SMB.
If a high starting salary warrants a higher loan amount - then colleges will raise the price of that course of study (why leave money on the table?). A lower starting salary would result in a lower loan amount - this would force colleges to lower the cost of those degree programs - or lose enrollment numbers in those degree programs.
I doubt a policy like this would push an English major to study medicine.
What this will do is prevent colleges from charging the same amounts for English and medical courses of study.
Education should be free - it's a country's investment in its citizens and its future.
However, if we are going to have people pay for their education, then the cost of that education should reflect both the costs of supplying that education and the loan amounts should be indexed to starting salaries for work requiring that education. Lower starting salaries should mean lower loan amounts available for a particular degree program.
The indexing part is important - that's the feedback mechanism by which the market can signal what educational programs are required by society. Also, this would help reduce the risk of someone paying too much for a degree with little market value.
These policies would force colleges to reduce the cost of degree programs that have little market value.
None of this would prevent an individual from self-funding their education independent of the market, or prevent a college or university from using endowment money to subsidize less popular degree programs.
"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received."
Comey decided that Clinton did commit a crime - but did so without intent to commit a crime. The public saw right through this as one set of rules for us and another set of rules for the Clintons.
Clinton lost because she is corrupt, she is a criminal, and her policies sucked - and she lost to a real-estate developer/reality TV star with NO government experience at all.
That should tell you how terrible a candidate she really was.
You think the cost structure of the medical industry is similar to firefighters, police, and the military?
Do you honestly think it's just as easy to train and retain doctors as those other comparatively low-skill professions?
If you believe that you are a fool.
Do you honestly think that if the tax payer pays to educate doctors that the cost of that education will go down? What happened to the cost of college after the government started lending money to anyone for that?
You're living in a typical liberal dream world detached from the realities of economic supply and demand.
Take an Econ 101 course - the government will even loan you the money to do so.
Healthcare is a good. How can one have a right to a good?
We abolished slavery long ago. What do you call a doctor who is forced by the government to treat patients? If we ever encounter a doctor shortage - would you use the power of Government to force doctors out of retirement to treat patients?
The people that provide our healthcare are not the slaves of those that need medical care. They are laborers and should sell their labor as every other laborer does.
Forcing everyone to pay for this is only one side of the coin - to declare healthcare an inalienable human right - you need to enslave doctors.
Apple is also losing the battle in education. There are almost 100,000 schools in the US and until about 5 years ago, many ran Apple computers in their classrooms.
Chromebooks have eaten Apple's lunch almost entirely in that space.
Cutting Tim Cook's pay is not enough - Microsoft put a tech guy in charge of the company - it's time for Apple to do the same.
"The report estimates that the Affordable Care Act is working to reduce long-standing racial disparities in cancer rates."
Has the ACA been around long enough to impact cancer rates? The law was passed in 2010 and it took quite a while to get the exchanges up and running, get people enrolled, and then get them to actually see a doctor.
I have a hard time believing that in a few short years, the ACA could have a meaningful impact on cancer rates.
I'm an IT guy - I'm perfectly capable of servicing any of the Macs in my possession - just like I am perfectly capable of changing my own oil.
The truth is, I like many, simply do not do these things. It's easier and more convenient to simply let the manufacturer do it. Sure, I was once a poor college kid and replaced my own hard drives and engine oil - but at that time I was neither a Mac owner or a German car owner.
The H1B visa was designed to enable companies to recruit the rarest, most sought-after skilled workers. Therefore, I propose an H1B visa minimum wage of $150,000/year - and increases annually with CPI.
This would fix the H1B visa abuse problem immediately.
It's not cheap if you have to replace it annually when the manufacturer stops supporting the software on the device.
There are plenty of small business products from reputable network companies - yes they cost more than $199 - and you can't buy them at Walmart and Best Buy - but they are FAR better than the crap stocked at those stores.
If you can't afford a decent router from a decent company - then rent one from your ISP. At least then security and support issues will be your ISP's problem.
There are plenty of ways to limit ticket sales to the actual consumer of the ticket. Airlines do it all the time. The fact that ticket agencies haven't bothered to take steps against scalpers and bots tells me they aren't really interested in solving the problem.
If the companies selling the tickets don't care, why should government?
Anyone who thinks this is a healthy job market is a fool.
Yes, I know anecdotes are simply anecdotes, but I still hear far too many people complaining about underemployment. We have too many college grads working as baristas and bartenders - and we have far too many STEM people competing against a flood of H1B visa holders.
The U3 number is far too simplistic to show the real difficulties in the job market.
if the reported behavior is one-sided or includes threats
The POTUS can prohibit immigration to the US for almost any reason. If the POTUS decides to post intent to do this via Twitter, it could conceivably violate the above rule.
So yes, Twitter is banning certain types of speech by creating user rules against certain types of speech.
That said, they would be utterly stupid to ban Trump. If he moves to another service, it will be very harmful to Twitter.
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We don't need the government regulating IoT devices. What we do need is legal recourse when IoT devices fail.
A EULA should never indemnify the manufacturer from the liability of manufacturing a defective product. A EULA should not be permitted to restrict your rights to sue for damages.
This is how IoT gets fixed. Hold manufacturers responsible for the crap they produce.
Our school moved to Google Apps and Chrome OS about 3 years ago. Microsoft, at the time, did not have a comprehensive cloud/local strategy that could compete with the ease of use and cost (free) of Google Apps.
Recently Microsoft has started giving away Office 365 with a local installed copy of Office for education customers. That's nice, but we are very entrenched in the Google Apps/Chrome OS ecosystem - so switching back at this point would cause lots of pain for little benefit.
So in a period of 3 years we went from buying Office licenses for our all of our students and staff, to a totally free solution. I'm sure many other schools did the same.
Google's cloud services comply with many industry audit standards:
https://cloud.google.com/secur...
Google also has many large security teams looking for zero day vulnerabilities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is the stuff we know about - I'm sure there are a ton of security initiatives inside Google that we outsiders know nothing about.
It's hard to imagine an SMB network that equals Google's commitment to security and compliance. I would trust Google over the server farm stuffed in a closet in your average SMB.
President Trump and Putin are cultivating a bromance and somehow that puts us closer to nuclear war?
This stinks of propaganda.
Look for NPR's reporting to become more desperate as their funding becomes threatened.
It probably won't affect the choice of degree.
If a high starting salary warrants a higher loan amount - then colleges will raise the price of that course of study (why leave money on the table?). A lower starting salary would result in a lower loan amount - this would force colleges to lower the cost of those degree programs - or lose enrollment numbers in those degree programs.
I doubt a policy like this would push an English major to study medicine.
What this will do is prevent colleges from charging the same amounts for English and medical courses of study.
Education should be free - it's a country's investment in its citizens and its future.
However, if we are going to have people pay for their education, then the cost of that education should reflect both the costs of supplying that education and the loan amounts should be indexed to starting salaries for work requiring that education. Lower starting salaries should mean lower loan amounts available for a particular degree program.
The indexing part is important - that's the feedback mechanism by which the market can signal what educational programs are required by society. Also, this would help reduce the risk of someone paying too much for a degree with little market value.
These policies would force colleges to reduce the cost of degree programs that have little market value.
None of this would prevent an individual from self-funding their education independent of the market, or prevent a college or university from using endowment money to subsidize less popular degree programs.
We are a family of four - we have a few TVs in the house and none are capable of playing anything that looks like a shiny disc.
The streaming genie is out of the bottle and there is no way to put it back.
...and zero sources.
Putting your opinions in parenthesis after your assertions doesn't count as sources to prove your assertions.
Frankly - Comey DID find that Clinton mishandled classified data in a criminal manner.
Here's my source:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press...
And for the lazy:
"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received."
Comey decided that Clinton did commit a crime - but did so without intent to commit a crime. The public saw right through this as one set of rules for us and another set of rules for the Clintons.
Clinton lost because she is corrupt, she is a criminal, and her policies sucked - and she lost to a real-estate developer/reality TV star with NO government experience at all.
That should tell you how terrible a candidate she really was.
Living near busy roads is bad for you too:
http://www.lung.org/our-initia...
Maybe this is why people like living in the suburbs?
You think the cost structure of the medical industry is similar to firefighters, police, and the military?
Do you honestly think it's just as easy to train and retain doctors as those other comparatively low-skill professions?
If you believe that you are a fool.
Do you honestly think that if the tax payer pays to educate doctors that the cost of that education will go down? What happened to the cost of college after the government started lending money to anyone for that?
You're living in a typical liberal dream world detached from the realities of economic supply and demand.
Take an Econ 101 course - the government will even loan you the money to do so.
Bunker busters - lots of them.
Level one of them and I guarantee the rest will find more honest ways of making a living.
Healthcare is a good. How can one have a right to a good?
We abolished slavery long ago. What do you call a doctor who is forced by the government to treat patients? If we ever encounter a doctor shortage - would you use the power of Government to force doctors out of retirement to treat patients?
The people that provide our healthcare are not the slaves of those that need medical care. They are laborers and should sell their labor as every other laborer does.
Forcing everyone to pay for this is only one side of the coin - to declare healthcare an inalienable human right - you need to enslave doctors.
Apple is also losing the battle in education. There are almost 100,000 schools in the US and until about 5 years ago, many ran Apple computers in their classrooms.
Chromebooks have eaten Apple's lunch almost entirely in that space.
Cutting Tim Cook's pay is not enough - Microsoft put a tech guy in charge of the company - it's time for Apple to do the same.
"The report estimates that the Affordable Care Act is working to reduce long-standing racial disparities in cancer rates."
Has the ACA been around long enough to impact cancer rates? The law was passed in 2010 and it took quite a while to get the exchanges up and running, get people enrolled, and then get them to actually see a doctor.
I have a hard time believing that in a few short years, the ACA could have a meaningful impact on cancer rates.
This smells like propaganda.
BMW figured this out a long time ago when they removed the oil dipsticks from their engines:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...
I'm an IT guy - I'm perfectly capable of servicing any of the Macs in my possession - just like I am perfectly capable of changing my own oil.
The truth is, I like many, simply do not do these things. It's easier and more convenient to simply let the manufacturer do it. Sure, I was once a poor college kid and replaced my own hard drives and engine oil - but at that time I was neither a Mac owner or a German car owner.
By every other measure Trump won in a landslide.
http://www.investors.com/polit...
Number of states won:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
Trump: +10
Number of electoral votes won:
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
Trump: + 68
Ave. margin of victory in winning states:
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
Trump: + 2.5 points
Popular vote total:
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
Clinton: + 2.8 million
Popular vote total outside California:
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
Trump: + 1.4 million
We are a union of independent states. You must win a preponderance of states to win the presidency. All states matter.
Fixing defective software is not a "maintenance thing" like changing the oil in your car. It should not be treated as such.
IoT vendors need to take responsibility for the awful code running in their products.
http://freakonomics.com/podcas...
Interesting stuff.
The H1B visa was designed to enable companies to recruit the rarest, most sought-after skilled workers. Therefore, I propose an H1B visa minimum wage of $150,000/year - and increases annually with CPI.
This would fix the H1B visa abuse problem immediately.
It's not cheap if you have to replace it annually when the manufacturer stops supporting the software on the device.
There are plenty of small business products from reputable network companies - yes they cost more than $199 - and you can't buy them at Walmart and Best Buy - but they are FAR better than the crap stocked at those stores.
If you can't afford a decent router from a decent company - then rent one from your ISP. At least then security and support issues will be your ISP's problem.
There are plenty of ways to limit ticket sales to the actual consumer of the ticket. Airlines do it all the time. The fact that ticket agencies haven't bothered to take steps against scalpers and bots tells me they aren't really interested in solving the problem.
If the companies selling the tickets don't care, why should government?
I'd love to see the day where Google says fine - we can't agree on a price therefore, we will remove all your copyrighted content from Youtube.
The best way to handle a bully is to stand up to them. The RIAA needs Google far worse than Google needs the RIAA.
Anyone who thinks this is a healthy job market is a fool.
Yes, I know anecdotes are simply anecdotes, but I still hear far too many people complaining about underemployment. We have too many college grads working as baristas and bartenders - and we have far too many STEM people competing against a flood of H1B visa holders.
The U3 number is far too simplistic to show the real difficulties in the job market.
From "The Twitter Rules"
if the reported behavior is one-sided or includes threats
The POTUS can prohibit immigration to the US for almost any reason. If the POTUS decides to post intent to do this via Twitter, it could conceivably violate the above rule.
So yes, Twitter is banning certain types of speech by creating user rules against certain types of speech.
That said, they would be utterly stupid to ban Trump. If he moves to another service, it will be very harmful to Twitter.
Asia's enormous and growing carbon footprint has nothing at all to do with it:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...