HR's real function is to make a legally passable showing at following government regulations without actually getting in the way of upper management prejudices. For example, pretending to not discriminate on age by asking precisely selected interview questions.
3% cancellations after a crash of a brand new, unproven edge technology? Malaysia Airlines cancellations peaked at 20% after its two recent accidents involving well-tested conventional technology: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... Moral: people who panic and fly off the handle in response to technological problems don't become the one percenters who can afford a tourist space flight.
Unlike CurrentC, Apple Pay does not involve sending your card information to Apple. You set up cards whose issuing backs have joined the system. When you make a transaction, your phone synthesizes a one-time card number that is all the merchant sees.
That's why even if you have a Near Field Communications equipped card like Chase Freedom, you don't want to use it directly. Scan it once, into Apple Pay, and then use that implementation of the NFC standard to present the card to merchants without having them see your card. Apple's security is added to whatever security the credit card has, and your fingerprint is required to complete the transaction.
That Luddite behavior was not a cause of the accident, but affected NASA's RESPONSE to it. You won't see Branson reacting that way, because as a private hobbyist he is responsible to nobody but those willing to fly his spacecraft. His engineers will figure out a cause, come up with a fix, and life will go on. He doesn't have to file a Congressional report or clear his launches with Greenpeace.
This factor, not mere ideology or efficiency of free markets, is the reason we need to privatize risky technologies. The problem with a government effort is not that it is marginally less 'efficient' than a private one, but that in a Luddite-dominated culture a government effort, unless we can make it military and secret, will be doomed by its inevitable first accident. The Challenger crash caused a two-year delay of NASA's most advanced manned system, and the Columbia crash killed it for good.
The shuttlecock-like folding tail is a key design element in both ApaceShip One and Two: it provides a simple way of decelerating during atmospheric re-entry without the need for complex control electronics. This will be even more important in an orbital design.
If there was ever a government operation that needs to be exposed to public view, it would be this treaty. And because the details are being released to large corporations who fear losing their control over us, it should be comparatively easy to find leakers.
I've been a geek for so long that I was once an actual LabView user. That was something like what I have in mind, but was too specialized for the lab environment.
But a more relevant question would be: can we devise a building-block language that solves today's real-world problems? Such a language should be (1) capable of solving simple problems easily for general users and (2) allow including complex 'blocks' for those willing to climb the learning curve it would take to include some highly specialized function in one's program.
Fortunately there are reports of police forces specifically rejecting applicants with enough neurons to figure this out: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09... This happened in CONNECTICUT.
no it isn't. When the bacon-chompers try to force you to unlock your iPhone with a fingerprint, just use a finger other than the one you trained the device on. When that doesn't work ("It's flaky and my finger is sweaty, you know...") authentication falls back to the passcode you set up for the device. You now have Fifth Amendment protection.
But 1903 came at the end of a century in which risk was an accepted part of exploration of any kind. If the Donner party experience had occurred in the context of today's culture, California would still be unpopulated.
To me the value of private efforts in edge technology has little to do with the financial efficiency of capitalism over socialism. It's the vulnerability of government programs to anti-science nutters like the ones posting today. Though socialists can and historically have been capable of risky adventure (Hoover Dam, the Manhattan Project, Apollo), we live in an anti-science era today. Because our legal system privileges activist political minorities, any government effort of this kind can be derailed by the first accident, as was NASA's orbital development after Challenger and Columbia. Branson, on the other hand, can tell the Luddites to go piss up a rope and move on.
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HR's real function is to make a legally passable showing at following government regulations without actually getting in the way of upper management prejudices. For example, pretending to not discriminate on age by asking precisely selected interview questions.
3% cancellations after a crash of a brand new, unproven edge technology? Malaysia Airlines cancellations peaked at 20% after its two recent accidents involving well-tested conventional technology:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
Moral: people who panic and fly off the handle in response to technological problems don't become the one percenters who can afford a tourist space flight.
Only if you lose your thumb at the same time. Otherwise the stolen phone cannot even be opened.
Unlike CurrentC, Apple Pay does not involve sending your card information to Apple. You set up cards whose issuing backs have joined the system. When you make a transaction, your phone synthesizes a one-time card number that is all the merchant sees.
The highest public AP count I have ever seen on my phone, 34, I once noted as I exited Le Châtelet Metro station in Paris.
Tim Cook only called for sodomy to the MCX Consortium, which does not include any Russian retailers.
I actually have one of these, from REI.
So this is what happens when you use an NFC card while there's a sunspot aimed at us.
That's why even if you have a Near Field Communications equipped card like Chase Freedom, you don't want to use it directly. Scan it once, into Apple Pay, and then use that implementation of the NFC standard to present the card to merchants without having them see your card. Apple's security is added to whatever security the credit card has, and your fingerprint is required to complete the transaction.
When we lived in urban Phoenix, I used to occasionally hear mockingbirds singing the Chinese default car alarm tones.
That Luddite behavior was not a cause of the accident, but affected NASA's RESPONSE to it. You won't see Branson reacting that way, because as a private hobbyist he is responsible to nobody but those willing to fly his spacecraft. His engineers will figure out a cause, come up with a fix, and life will go on. He doesn't have to file a Congressional report or clear his launches with Greenpeace.
So they hate English-speaking Canadians, a rather small demographic in global terms (FWIW, my father used to work for Bombardier).
This factor, not mere ideology or efficiency of free markets, is the reason we need to privatize risky technologies. The problem with a government effort is not that it is marginally less 'efficient' than a private one, but that in a Luddite-dominated culture a government effort, unless we can make it military and secret, will be doomed by its inevitable first accident. The Challenger crash caused a two-year delay of NASA's most advanced manned system, and the Columbia crash killed it for good.
The shuttlecock-like folding tail is a key design element in both ApaceShip One and Two: it provides a simple way of decelerating during atmospheric re-entry without the need for complex control electronics. This will be even more important in an orbital design.
We have Migration Assistant today: that handy utility that makes it easy you transfer your data from any version of Windows to OS X, where it belongs.
So THIS is the Google-flu that people keep claiming they have!
If there was ever a government operation that needs to be exposed to public view, it would be this treaty. And because the details are being released to large corporations who fear losing their control over us, it should be comparatively easy to find leakers.
But a lot of people died to bring aviation to the point where your flights were safe and cheap.
I've been a geek for so long that I was once an actual LabView user. That was something like what I have in mind, but was too specialized for the lab environment.
But a more relevant question would be: can we devise a building-block language that solves today's real-world problems? Such a language should be (1) capable of solving simple problems easily for general users and (2) allow including complex 'blocks' for those willing to climb the learning curve it would take to include some highly specialized function in one's program.
Fortunately there are reports of police forces specifically rejecting applicants with enough neurons to figure this out:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09...
This happened in CONNECTICUT.
no it isn't. When the bacon-chompers try to force you to unlock your iPhone with a fingerprint, just use a finger other than the one you trained the device on. When that doesn't work ("It's flaky and my finger is sweaty, you know...") authentication falls back to the passcode you set up for the device. You now have Fifth Amendment protection.
But 1903 came at the end of a century in which risk was an accepted part of exploration of any kind. If the Donner party experience had occurred in the context of today's culture, California would still be unpopulated.
His exact words were "obviously, a major malfunction."
To me the value of private efforts in edge technology has little to do with the financial efficiency of capitalism over socialism. It's the vulnerability of government programs to anti-science nutters like the ones posting today. Though socialists can and historically have been capable of risky adventure (Hoover Dam, the Manhattan Project, Apollo), we live in an anti-science era today. Because our legal system privileges activist political minorities, any government effort of this kind can be derailed by the first accident, as was NASA's orbital development after Challenger and Columbia. Branson, on the other hand, can tell the Luddites to go piss up a rope and move on.