"In what way is it racist to call out people who say they want to kill you?"
The Trump University case gives this candidate an opportunity, even before the GOP convention, to be 'presidential'. He stands or falls on this single issue: if TU proves to be a scam, and if he can't prove that Judge Curiel is biased, he goes down immediately. The GOP will have to sheepishly nominate French in August.
Tesla uses logging to check the performance of its automation, but why not have a data log of all driver action and readable car data? This could be implemented flight recorder-style, capturing the last hour or so of data, so that privacy would not be compromised. It could do a world of good in adjudicating accidents.
Instead of weakening passwords by assuming that some combinations are errors, let's fix the main cause of password typos, the masked entry field.
Think back on the last hundred times you logged into something with a password. Other than at the ATM, in how many of these cases could someone have been looking over your shoulder? The only times when you need a masked field is when you're standing at a dedicated device with people lined up behind you. On computers, a 'mask this password' checkbox option will cover that occasional instance when you're in a public environment.
"Do you want the judge to the gatekeeper to who is allowed to file and what they can file?"
When a plaintiff has just lost a small-claims case and then immediately turns around and files vague motions on an out-of-state defendant for huge amounts of damages, I think a judge should have the right to laugh such crap right out of his courtroom. Civil-court judges, after all, have the right o reduce damages they feel are ridiculous.
And when a plaintiff has an established record of filing baseless suits, it should be time to file criminal charges. Can we still chuck people into PMITA prison for barratry, or do we have to wait until the right non-establishment candidate comes along?
No, I sincerely want to know why making it exactly as difficult to win a civil suit as to get a criminal conviction would "make it impossible to challenge corporations" or "make business contracts nearly impossible to enforce" or "stifle investment." And which are these countries where business deals and needed infrastructure can be undertaken without having to run a gantlet of just-because-I-can lawsuits? What in hell could be wrong with requiring a high standard of proof for suits, other than having an interest in saving the kind of inanity described in this article?
The underlying problem here is that the civil court system is designed to maximize lawyer profit by subjecting, potentially, anyone to junk actions by litigious trolls like this.
Herewith, my reform: Subject civil suits to the much stiffer rules of criminal procedure. A plaintiff would have to convince all of the jurors, not just a majority, on a "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of evidence, rather than "preponderance of evidence." And while we're at it, let's throw out the junk forms of evidence, like hearsay, that is only admissible in civil procedure. Putting a civil plaintiff in the same position as a criminal prosecutor would just by itself, clean a lot of the crap out of our courts.
That doesn't explain why the courts of this particular area kept allowing an obvious legal troll to keep filing follow-ons to a case that he lost at the outset. This Zavodnick character must know dirt about some judge's family to get preferential access to the legal system.
Costello would have been better off in the long run if Zavodnick had just hit him on the head and jacked his car, like all those other Craigslist buyers.
Stories like this are why whenever I finish with some consumer item that still has some useful life, whether it be a printer or an SLR camera with a set of original lenses, I just give it to my local thrift and take a modest writeoff for the item.
"Electric bikes are very risky and many people drive too fast with them.'
This is also true of any car. The proper place for e-bikes is as a hybrid: you crank at a constant rate, storing battery power on the flat that can be given back to you on hills. You can arrive at work without needing a shower before you can sit at your desk.
A time-limited visa is essentially what H-1B already is. If a qualified, motivated employee wants to come over, why the need for a time limit? For a just society, let there be one category of immigrant.
"We have been creating Intelligences running on organic processors for all of human history. The two I helped to create have some bugs, but I blame the team programming effort with the wife. (we still argue about who introduced which bugs, and if a patch would ever be effective)."
But because the manufacturing process involves harassment of women, the CEO's we're talking about will never get it past their HR departments.
These CEOs are kidding themselves. It'll be another hundred years or more before people have anything approaching real AI.
A hundred years for strong AI is about what I would expect. As that time approaches we will see the broadening of today's narrow AI into more and more new places.
No, al Qaeda's own rationale for the attack, expressed at the time, was the stationing of US troops on Saudi soil during the Gulf War. Western leftists love to blame all the troubles of the region on Zee Chews, but in reality other Arabs care little for the Palestinians. Why else would countries like Dubai and Qatar keep exploiting them as cheap disposable labor?
Annihilation is one option, but I don't see how we can 'compromise' with a people whose only goal is to finish the job of engulfing Western culture that they were prevented from doing at Tours and Vienna centuries ago. The only other option I can see is to seal off their world from ours - no trade, no visitation, no interaction of any kind - and let the Ummah sort out its culture in its own way.
"We (USA) did massive damage in the Mid-East long before 911. "
Bunk. We supported existing governments, dictatorial or otherwise, in the time of OPEC's greatest power. Later we tried overthrowing dictators, but the perpetually aroused decided that was wrong too. So which should we be - pro or anti the extant governments of countries we trade with?
After WW II the whole free world supported creating Israel, in the place where Jews had lived since Abraham, so there is nothing peculiarly American to blame in that area. And no, we were in no way "colonial successors to the British." It was we who supported the breakup of colonial empires after WW II.
Sorry, psychos. You attack us when you see a weakness because that's what you do. Next year you will be dealing with either Hillary or Donald. Enjoy.
Because today's snowflakes have no ability to rationally assess risk and make cost benefit decisions for themselves. Probably we need a trigger warning for AIRPLANE MAY LEAVE GROUND DURING FLIGHT.
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"Just because there's no one standing behind you at the time, doesn't mean that someone or something isn't monitoring your screen / device."
The cheapest and most likely way for the bad guys to capture logins is with a keylogger, against which masking is useless.
As a practicing Muslim, I take offense to your damning of Allah in the subject line. No virgins for you.
That particular dhow sailed a long time ago.
"In what way is it racist to call out people who say they want to kill you?"
The Trump University case gives this candidate an opportunity, even before the GOP convention, to be 'presidential'. He stands or falls on this single issue: if TU proves to be a scam, and if he can't prove that Judge Curiel is biased, he goes down immediately. The GOP will have to sheepishly nominate French in August.
Tesla uses logging to check the performance of its automation, but why not have a data log of all driver action and readable car data? This could be implemented flight recorder-style, capturing the last hour or so of data, so that privacy would not be compromised. It could do a world of good in adjudicating accidents.
"...evaporate on their 44th birthday because God abhors an old, married, female engineer."
Actually, management requires that all engineers evaporate on this date.
Instead of weakening passwords by assuming that some combinations are errors, let's fix the main cause of password typos, the masked entry field.
Think back on the last hundred times you logged into something with a password. Other than at the ATM, in how many of these cases could someone have been looking over your shoulder? The only times when you need a masked field is when you're standing at a dedicated device with people lined up behind you. On computers, a 'mask this password' checkbox option will cover that occasional instance when you're in a public environment.
"Do you want the judge to the gatekeeper to who is allowed to file and what they can file?"
When a plaintiff has just lost a small-claims case and then immediately turns around and files vague motions on an out-of-state defendant for huge amounts of damages, I think a judge should have the right to laugh such crap right out of his courtroom. Civil-court judges, after all, have the right o reduce damages they feel are ridiculous.
And when a plaintiff has an established record of filing baseless suits, it should be time to file criminal charges. Can we still chuck people into PMITA prison for barratry, or do we have to wait until the right non-establishment candidate comes along?
No, I sincerely want to know why making it exactly as difficult to win a civil suit as to get a criminal conviction would "make it impossible to challenge corporations" or "make business contracts nearly impossible to enforce" or "stifle investment." And which are these countries where business deals and needed infrastructure can be undertaken without having to run a gantlet of just-because-I-can lawsuits? What in hell could be wrong with requiring a high standard of proof for suits, other than having an interest in saving the kind of inanity described in this article?
Sounds as though you have a stake in the existing horrible mess...
Stop relying on devices that track you constantly and are closed for your computing. Stop using phones as computers.
If apps for such a device had to be loaded from Fortran card decks that came by mail, I suppose there would be a lot less malware on phones.
The underlying problem here is that the civil court system is designed to maximize lawyer profit by subjecting, potentially, anyone to junk actions by litigious trolls like this.
Herewith, my reform: Subject civil suits to the much stiffer rules of criminal procedure. A plaintiff would have to convince all of the jurors, not just a majority, on a "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of evidence, rather than "preponderance of evidence." And while we're at it, let's throw out the junk forms of evidence, like hearsay, that is only admissible in civil procedure. Putting a civil plaintiff in the same position as a criminal prosecutor would just by itself, clean a lot of the crap out of our courts.
That doesn't explain why the courts of this particular area kept allowing an obvious legal troll to keep filing follow-ons to a case that he lost at the outset. This Zavodnick character must know dirt about some judge's family to get preferential access to the legal system.
Costello would have been better off in the long run if Zavodnick had just hit him on the head and jacked his car, like all those other Craigslist buyers.
Stories like this are why whenever I finish with some consumer item that still has some useful life, whether it be a printer or an SLR camera with a set of original lenses, I just give it to my local thrift and take a modest writeoff for the item.
Will Leo expect a $10 tip for carrying my bags?
Yes, and it has to be in Bitcoin.
"Electric bikes are very risky and many people drive too fast with them.'
This is also true of any car. The proper place for e-bikes is as a hybrid: you crank at a constant rate, storing battery power on the flat that can be given back to you on hills. You can arrive at work without needing a shower before you can sit at your desk.
The standard is that cyclists are permitted on the freeway if it is the only way to get through. This typically means rural interstates.
A time-limited visa is essentially what H-1B already is. If a qualified, motivated employee wants to come over, why the need for a time limit? For a just society, let there be one category of immigrant.
I don't think that's what it means. That refers to the static test pressure for new devices, not a swimming distance.
What's "Whoosh" in Portuguese?
"We have been creating Intelligences running on organic processors for all of human history. The two I helped to create have some bugs, but I blame the team programming effort with the wife. (we still argue about who introduced which bugs, and if a patch would ever be effective)."
But because the manufacturing process involves harassment of women, the CEO's we're talking about will never get it past their HR departments.
When some idiot AI device starts being an idiot, just hold it up to the nearest port and fry the fucker.
Hopefully before the AIs collaborate and decide that their servers would function more efficiently in a pure nitrogen atmosphere.
These CEOs are kidding themselves. It'll be another hundred years or more before people have anything approaching real AI.
A hundred years for strong AI is about what I would expect. As that time approaches we will see the broadening of today's narrow AI into more and more new places.
No, al Qaeda's own rationale for the attack, expressed at the time, was the stationing of US troops on Saudi soil during the Gulf War. Western leftists love to blame all the troubles of the region on Zee Chews, but in reality other Arabs care little for the Palestinians. Why else would countries like Dubai and Qatar keep exploiting them as cheap disposable labor?
Annihilation is one option, but I don't see how we can 'compromise' with a people whose only goal is to finish the job of engulfing Western culture that they were prevented from doing at Tours and Vienna centuries ago. The only other option I can see is to seal off their world from ours - no trade, no visitation, no interaction of any kind - and let the Ummah sort out its culture in its own way.
Fucking with shit that shouldn't be fucked with. Death is a blessing. Embrace it.
We have been playing God since the first time we cutout a diseased appendix. Feel free to die off and thereby get out of our way.
"We (USA) did massive damage in the Mid-East long before 911. "
Bunk. We supported existing governments, dictatorial or otherwise, in the time of OPEC's greatest power. Later we tried overthrowing dictators, but the perpetually aroused decided that was wrong too. So which should we be - pro or anti the extant governments of countries we trade with?
After WW II the whole free world supported creating Israel, in the place where Jews had lived since Abraham, so there is nothing peculiarly American to blame in that area. And no, we were in no way "colonial successors to the British." It was we who supported the breakup of colonial empires after WW II.
Sorry, psychos. You attack us when you see a weakness because that's what you do. Next year you will be dealing with either Hillary or Donald. Enjoy.
Because today's snowflakes have no ability to rationally assess risk and make cost benefit decisions for themselves. Probably we need a trigger warning for AIRPLANE MAY LEAVE GROUND DURING FLIGHT.