> "this may somehow hurt our profits or hurt our 'brand' (which will hurt our profits), therefore it must not be allowed".
You figure they don't want something to hurt the brand, and I think you're right. If they get a bunch of letters from fans (customers) telling them that the law suit is hurting their brand...
Neither side hires one. They are assigned by the American Arbitration Association. Google's terms are that the association should choose an arbitrator in the consumer's local area.
Google is bound by the arbitration, and they have to pay the American Arbitration Association to cover the costs. If you think Google Fiber owes you $400, you can have the case heard by a professional arbitrator at no cost to you.
Without an arbitration clause, figure about $5,000 in legal fees and court costs just to get started.
My first thought was the same as yours. On our last PCI ASV test we found something like 8,000 exposures or more. But then I remembered the Pentagon thing is only for specific web pages. Also 138 UNIQUE ones - five instances of similar injections exposures count as one.
The arbitrator is assigned by the American Arbitration Association. You can read all the details at https://www.adr.org/ . Basically, AAA assigns at arbitrator in your geographical area (not Google's) with knowledge of the subject matter, and an administrator to handle the initial paperwork such as listing the points on which both parties agree. A different arbitrator can be assigned by agreement of both parties - neither party gets to unilaterally choose who the arbitrator will be.
True, by choosing arbitration when you enter a contract, you are limiting certain things. Importantly, you're limiting the expense and the time that a dispute can eat up.
The last significant contract I did, it took nearly a year to negotiate the exact words of the contract, mostly because the other guy is a PITA. That cost tens of thousands of dollars. I darn sure wouldn't want to fight a law suit about it with that guy. Winning would probably cost me $100,000 and three years.
Yes, it's certainly possible for both parties to agree to arbitration after a dispute arises, but that's unlikely in the situations and with the kind of people you worry about. If the other guy is pissed off and determined to beat you no matter what, he's not going to agree to arbitration - unless he already agreed to it beforehand, when feelings were friendly.
Courts are a PITA. I don't mind at all having arbitration clauses. Google's is quite a bit better than Comcast's - Google gives up the right to sue you, too, subjecting themselves to binding arbitration. Also, Google pays the fees. (Except claims over $75,000 have a fee up to $200 in some states).
Obviously this doesn't effect your main recourse, filing complaints with the FCC and FTC, or canceling the service.
Another bit of arithmetic. T-Mobile charges about $50 per line, depending on how many lines you have. Every Tuesday, each line gets about $15 of free stuff. That's $60 in free stuff, $50 in revenue. Plus the costs of providing the phone service...
In about 1982, when I was seven years old, my grandpa told me to study computers and robotics, because that's where the jobs would be when I grew up. He was not wrong.
LOL, when my brain tried to type "grew", my fingers, out of habit, typed "grep". It seems I HAVE been working with computers a lot.
That's very interesting, thank you. Sometime I might use -fsanitize=undefined. Since most software is network-bound or IO-bound, I suppose the cost would be minimal?
> I know, because I fixed this for gcc because it wasn't working.
It's always good to hear from someone who definitely knows.
> It was meant to illustrate how we incorrectly assign the poor as being more criminal
Lower income DOES force people to become criminals. It's not their fault that they are committing armed robbery. If we take more money from people who earned it and give it to street thugs, they'll stop being thugs.
Please report to the Democrat re-education camp at once.
> You get people who are overly concerned with audits and compliance
In experience (20 years in the field), that's more coming from management. It frustrates those of us in the field, and we laugh at it, but we do have have to provide the executives documentation that they can use it court when the company is sued. Plus of course PCI and such is required by external contracts.
I hope you enjoy your studies and get some good use of them. For me, my degree is in the field with the fastest-growing salaries of all, information security. Each of my last two job changes doubled my salary, so I'm not worried about the future of my field before I retire.
That declares that ptr is a pointer to a character, and reserves memory at that address for 256 characters. It does NOT prevent one from accessing ptr[312] . (Though a compiler MIGHT catch it if 312 were a literal.) By the C standard, the behavior when attempting to access ptr[312] is undefined, put it would normaly access whatever happens to be at a memory address 66 characters past the end of the ptr array.
The Microsoft extension adds a type with run-time bounds checking, so trying to access ptr[312] will always give an array-out-of-bounds erroe.
Correcting myself. I said "they also bought Bentley." In fact, RR bought Bentley back in the 1940s, and they produced virtually identical cars with both namesplates. When VW bought the RR company, the Bentley brand was included. The RR brand name, however, was sold to BMW, who had been making the engines for RR cars.
> I would bet by 2040 Rolls Royce will be a division of Fiat
The Rolls Royce company was sold to Volkswagen a long time ago. They also bought Bentley. Later, the Rolls Royce brand name was sold to BMW. So what was Rolls Royce is now part of Volkswagen, making cars branded Bentley.
Cars with the Rolls Royce brand are made by BMW, and there's no relation to the original RR company other than the name.
They allow for both by introducing a "bounded pointer" type in addition to the old style pointer. If you want to, you can still create a buffer overflow using a char *. Or, you can choose to a char 256* and access to it won't overflow 256, it'll generate an error.
I can only think this has to be a joke. Trademarks don't work that way.
Someone tell me I've been on a huge practical joke TV show and this isn't real, we're not really choosing between a reality TV personality vs a felon for president, and Disney World doesn't really have alligators eating their guests.
Yeah, it was created by 19 state governors . In some (all?) participating states, it's a state school just like University of Texas or Texas A&M.
Something unusual is that they don't charge per credit. Instead, you pay based on time. If you complete 24 credits in one term, it doesn't cost you any more.
Their technical courses are fairly rigorous. Using the network (CCNA) example, the new CNNA covers most of what CCNP used to cover.
The "general education" humanities type courses are more easy credit. I happen to like that. I'm more interested in tech than the arts.
You can transfer in certifications. If you already have your CCNA, congrats you just passed Networking. Had I planned better, I would have delayed enrolling (paying tuition) and got a few certs first, to transfer in.
Since you are learning the material anyway, and don't have a college degree, have a look at Western Governors' University. For most courses, you only need to pass a test to complete the class, and where applicable they are industry certification tests. For example, I'm currently doing a networking course which consists of passing the Cisco CCNA .
You can study as much as you want before enrolling and paying the (low) tuition. It's a really good setup for people who like self-study. They ALSO include study materials included with the tuition, such as Cisco ebooks and the Cisco simulator for the networking class. You end up knowing the material, having a degree, AND having a stack of industry certifications.
If you don't show up to tell your side of the story when ordered to, so the judge only hears one side, what do you expect would happen?
A default judgement isn't quite automatic - the plaintiff needs to put forth a reasonable claim in the written filing, and typically the judge takes a couple of minutes at trial time to see that the claim appears somewhat reasonable.
My divorce is a good example. My ex-wife signed showing that she knew about the hearing and choose not to attend. I presented a division of property which I said my wife and I had agreed to. The judge asked maybe five or six questions to see if there was any clear unfairness, which took five or six minutes, and it was done. If my ex wanted to dispute it, she had the opportunity to do so. She choose not to speak, to have the judge hear only from me.
In fact I was fair to my ex-wife, but how can the judge be sure if she chooses to not show up? Should the judge waste more of her time on it if my ex decided it wasn't worth taking two hours to show up?
I'm all for text for text. I'm on Slashdot right now, a text-based site. I use a CLI text interface for most of my work on the computer. That said:
> when PC keyboards are abandoned for cameras That happened a few years ago. Most computing hardware sold today comes with two cameras and no keyboard hardware, only a fake virtual on-screen keyboard.
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> "this may somehow hurt our profits or hurt our 'brand' (which will hurt our profits), therefore it must not be allowed".
You figure they don't want something to hurt the brand, and I think you're right. If they get a bunch of letters from fans (customers) telling them that the law suit is hurting their brand ...
The moderator is assigned by the American Arbitration Association. Google's terms specify that the moderator be in the consumer's local area.
> arbitration is binding on whom?
It's binding on both parties.
> A smart customer will hire an arbiter
Neither side hires one. They are assigned by the American Arbitration Association. Google's terms are that the association should choose an arbitrator in the consumer's local area.
> What's the incentive to NOT opt out?
Google is bound by the arbitration, and they have to pay the American Arbitration Association to cover the costs. If you think Google Fiber owes you $400, you can have the case heard by a professional arbitrator at no cost to you.
Without an arbitration clause, figure about $5,000 in legal fees and court costs just to get started.
My first thought was the same as yours. On our last PCI ASV test we found something like 8,000 exposures or more. But then I remembered the Pentagon thing is only for specific web pages. Also 138 UNIQUE ones - five instances of similar injections exposures count as one.
Security the the fastest growing field in IT in the US, and one of the fastest growing overall. My salary is four times what it was five years ago.
The arbitrator is assigned by the American Arbitration Association. You can read all the details at https://www.adr.org/ . Basically, AAA assigns at arbitrator in your geographical area (not Google's) with knowledge of the subject matter, and an administrator to handle the initial paperwork such as listing the points on which both parties agree. A different arbitrator can be assigned by agreement of both parties - neither party gets to unilaterally choose who the arbitrator will be.
> The arbitrator is picked by the company.
Uhm, no. The arbitrator is assigned by the American Arbitration Association. https://www.adr.org/
Nobody would ever use arbitration if the other party got to choose the arbitrator.
If you'd like to see the terms rather than making wild guesses, you can read them here:
https://fiber.google.com/legal...
True, by choosing arbitration when you enter a contract, you are limiting certain things. Importantly, you're limiting the expense and the time that a dispute can eat up.
The last significant contract I did, it took nearly a year to negotiate the exact words of the contract, mostly because the other guy is a PITA. That cost tens of thousands of dollars. I darn sure wouldn't want to fight a law suit about it with that guy. Winning would probably cost me $100,000 and three years.
Yes, it's certainly possible for both parties to agree to arbitration after a dispute arises, but that's unlikely in the situations and with the kind of people you worry about. If the other guy is pissed off and determined to beat you no matter what, he's not going to agree to arbitration - unless he already agreed to it beforehand, when feelings were friendly.
Courts are a PITA. I don't mind at all having arbitration clauses. Google's is quite a bit better than Comcast's - Google gives up the right to sue you, too, subjecting themselves to binding arbitration. Also, Google pays the fees. (Except claims over $75,000 have a fee up to $200 in some states).
Obviously this doesn't effect your main recourse, filing complaints with the FCC and FTC, or canceling the service.
Another bit of arithmetic. T-Mobile charges about $50 per line, depending on how many lines you have. Every Tuesday, each line gets about $15 of free stuff. That's $60 in free stuff, $50 in revenue. Plus the costs of providing the phone service ...
In about 1982, when I was seven years old, my grandpa told me to study computers and robotics, because that's where the jobs would be when I grew up. He was not wrong.
LOL, when my brain tried to type "grew", my fingers, out of habit, typed "grep". It seems I HAVE been working with computers a lot.
That's very interesting, thank you. Sometime I might use -fsanitize=undefined. Since most software is network-bound or IO-bound, I suppose the cost would be minimal?
> I know, because I fixed this for gcc because it wasn't working.
It's always good to hear from someone who definitely knows.
> It was meant to illustrate how we incorrectly assign the poor as being more criminal
Lower income DOES force people to become criminals. It's not their fault that they are committing armed robbery. If we take more money from people who earned it and give it to street thugs, they'll stop being thugs.
Please report to the Democrat re-education camp at once.
> You get people who are overly concerned with audits and compliance
In experience (20 years in the field), that's more coming from management. It frustrates those of us in the field, and we laugh at it, but we do have have to provide the executives documentation that they can use it court when the company is sued. Plus of course PCI and such is required by external contracts.
I hope you enjoy your studies and get some good use of them. For me, my degree is in the field with the fastest-growing salaries of all, information security. Each of my last two job changes doubled my salary, so I'm not worried about the future of my field before I retire.
That declares that ptr is a pointer to a character, and reserves memory at that address for 256 characters. It does NOT prevent one from accessing ptr[312] . (Though a compiler MIGHT catch it if 312 were a literal.) By the C standard, the behavior when attempting to access ptr[312] is undefined, put it would normaly access whatever happens to be at a memory address 66 characters past the end of the ptr array.
The Microsoft extension adds a type with run-time bounds checking, so trying to access ptr[312] will always give an array-out-of-bounds erroe.
Correcting myself. I said "they also bought Bentley." In fact, RR bought Bentley back in the 1940s, and they produced virtually identical cars with both namesplates. When VW bought the RR company, the Bentley brand was included. The RR brand name, however, was sold to BMW, who had been making the engines for RR cars.
> I would bet by 2040 Rolls Royce will be a division of Fiat
The Rolls Royce company was sold to Volkswagen a long time ago. They also bought Bentley. Later, the Rolls Royce brand name was sold to BMW. So what was Rolls Royce is now part of Volkswagen, making cars branded Bentley.
Cars with the Rolls Royce brand are made by BMW, and there's no relation to the original RR company other than the name.
They allow for both by introducing a "bounded pointer" type in addition to the old style pointer. If you want to, you can still create a buffer overflow using a char *. Or, you can choose to a char 256* and access to it won't overflow 256, it'll generate an error.
I can only think this has to be a joke. Trademarks don't work that way.
Someone tell me I've been on a huge practical joke TV show and this isn't real, we're not really choosing between a reality TV personality vs a felon for president, and Disney World doesn't really have alligators eating their guests.
Yeah, it was created by 19 state governors . In some (all?) participating states, it's a state school just like University of Texas or Texas A&M.
Something unusual is that they don't charge per credit. Instead, you pay based on time. If you complete 24 credits in one term, it doesn't cost you any more.
Their technical courses are fairly rigorous. Using the network (CCNA) example, the new CNNA covers most of what CCNP used to cover.
The "general education" humanities type courses are more easy credit. I happen to like that. I'm more interested in tech than the arts.
You can transfer in certifications. If you already have your CCNA, congrats you just passed Networking. Had I planned better, I would have delayed enrolling (paying tuition) and got a few certs first, to transfer in.
Since you are learning the material anyway, and don't have a college degree, have a look at Western Governors' University. For most courses, you only need to pass a test to complete the class, and where applicable they are industry certification tests. For example, I'm currently doing a networking course which consists of passing the Cisco CCNA .
You can study as much as you want before enrolling and paying the (low) tuition. It's a really good setup for people who like self-study. They ALSO include study materials included with the tuition, such as Cisco ebooks and the Cisco simulator for the networking class. You end up knowing the material, having a degree, AND having a stack of industry certifications.
If you don't show up to tell your side of the story when ordered to, so the judge only hears one side, what do you expect would happen?
A default judgement isn't quite automatic - the plaintiff needs to put forth a reasonable claim in the written filing, and typically the judge takes a couple of minutes at trial time to see that the claim appears somewhat reasonable.
My divorce is a good example. My ex-wife signed showing that she knew about the hearing and choose not to attend. I presented a division of property which I said my wife and I had agreed to. The judge asked maybe five or six questions to see if there was any clear unfairness, which took five or six minutes, and it was done. If my ex wanted to dispute it, she had the opportunity to do so. She choose not to speak, to have the judge hear only from me.
In fact I was fair to my ex-wife, but how can the judge be sure if she chooses to not show up? Should the judge waste more of her time on it if my ex decided it wasn't worth taking two hours to show up?
I'm all for text for text. I'm on Slashdot right now, a text-based site. I use a CLI text interface for most of my work on the computer. That said:
> when PC keyboards are abandoned for cameras
That happened a few years ago. Most computing hardware sold today comes with two cameras and no keyboard hardware, only a fake virtual on-screen keyboard.