Interesting, over here in the Czech Rep. the amount of spam calls is very small. I get one in a month, maybe two.
Spammers tend to be behind the times on such things as service changes. The Indians are probably still all dialing Communist Czechoslovakia, so your phone company is sending them to its trash folder.
You mean the perennial search of artists for recognition and sponsorship? The way in which this was done has changed since an artist's lifetime job was buttering up the Medicis, but it has changed several times and artists have always been able to keep up.
We DO have laws against these sorts of spam calls in the US. We also have laws against people sending email spam too. Actually managing to enforce these laws is a different matter entirely.
Our justice system is great at nailing people on pin-eyed technicality bullshit like sending Matthew Charles to prison a second time for a crime he already served his time for. And exactly what was it that Martha Stewart did?
Unfortunately, the same system also allows real criminals to get away with it over and over again.
Certainly. But Germany's problem is that its industrial baseload is becoming dirtier, not cleaner, as it gives up modern carbon-free sources of power. As a bonus, the coal it is falling back on the dirtiest, lowest energy density kind. Their anthracite is all gone.
Lead and zinc pigment was gradually realized as being a problem with those specific elements, leading to different formulations for getting the same colors. Nobody wrung their hands about the medium of paints and canvas.
Currently insurance companies have to act as our collective heathcare bargaining agencies, because we are forbidden from forming buyer clubs to do the negotiating ourselves. In an open market, we would be able to do so.
What you mean is that the health care system will always include a charity and governmental sector for indigents, people who have paid into pension systems, and those with catastrophic conditions.
All of these groups, and the private insurance companies that serve the middle class, would be helped by:
1. Being able to negotiate as a group for contracted rates on services, as private insurance does; 2. Being able to buy drugs in bulk, and on the world market, just as we buy processors and RAM; 3. Being able to allow their fully informed patients to try drugs that are in the FDA pipeline, but which are still in trials. We now have this right for terminal patients as of yesterday, which is a start.
Yeah I can't afford to hire a lawyer for 5-9 hours every time I install an app
I propose an app that captures the terms and conditions for an app you wish to install, and sends it to an AI server that does the 5-9 hours of lawyering for you at processor speed. It would then come back with a go/no go decision on installing the app.
But is FDA going to be forthright about its 'questions' right away so that a corrected trial can begin without undue delay, or is it going to drag its feet until we see this tech changing lives on other continents?
You can't impose a monopoly in an open-market economy unless you do something like buy up a region's sewer system (hence our special treatment of networked utilities). You have to do what medical providers do - convince lawmakers to pass laws forcing consumers to buy under the terms you dictate.
This is the fundamental difference between the medical industry and the electronics industry.
If the US health system were capitalistic, with producers open to competition in the global market and consumers free to form buying associations of whatever kind they wanted and buy from wherever they wanted, we would be much better off. Instead, we have this interlocking cartel of medieval guilds whose goal is to maximize the number of doubloons extracted from the peasants.
Meanwhile, in 2003 and in 2013 China made ground-up reforms to its medical regulatory system. Could we be seeing the first effects of this in healthcare delivery?
Intentionally throwing away the key was a totally stupid decision, because they had nothing to lose by just writing the key on a Post-It and stashing it in the bank. Journalistic integrity would not have been compromised had they openly acknowledged mining the coin.As as mentioned in teh article, they could have given the key to charity or set up a scholarship fund with it.
In fact, because throwing away a key benefits all other Bitcoin owners by reducing the money supply, that action actually makes the bad effects of Bitcoin worse.
The hotel chain has been pushing the idea of electronic locks for several years. The 1700 Hilton properties that currently use these locks allow you to unlock doors as a feature of their reservation app. It's a nice feature, but will get a lot more useful when it operates from NFC directly, rather than having you go into the app and bring up the Digital Kay tab. An NFC implementation would allow you to open doors hands-free, which would be nice to have at conferences when you're always carrying miscellaneous things.
YOU read what I typed: we're better off if plastic waste falling into the water stays near its source, identifying where it came from, rather than turning up anonymously in the ocean.
Why not just require that plasticware and straws be dense enough to sink in seawater? This wouldn't prevent people from littering, but if a pile of plastic waste accumulates near to a waterfront park on the Danube, it's a lot easier to identify miscreants than if those plastic knives and forks weren't found until they showed up in an ocean gyre.
I for one am not the kind of person who uses the Offtopic mod to mean "I disagree politically." Your comment is totally clear and applicable to the discussion: any scheme for raising revenue that cannot be made simple and automatic deserves all the cheaters it attracts.
As China tires of dealing with Oracle, it will develop its own implementation of SQL, which it will then sell to the world at a discount. Oracle goes poof.
For any software company, product licensing should be bulletproof and transparent to the user, as with Adobe. When you install any of the company's products it should be obvious what your legal status is, because an unlicensed product won't install and an expired license should make the product unusable.
If you're a database vendor (a database vendor!) and your user has to submit 23,000 pages of documentation to prove that it's using your product in a valid way, and then you're still not sure, Oracle's board ought to be horsewhipped.
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Interesting, over here in the Czech Rep. the amount of spam calls is very small. I get one in a month, maybe two.
Spammers tend to be behind the times on such things as service changes. The Indians are probably still all dialing Communist Czechoslovakia, so your phone company is sending them to its trash folder.
You mean the perennial search of artists for recognition and sponsorship? The way in which this was done has changed since an artist's lifetime job was buttering up the Medicis, but it has changed several times and artists have always been able to keep up.
We DO have laws against these sorts of spam calls in the US. We also have laws against people sending email spam too. Actually managing to enforce these laws is a different matter entirely.
Our justice system is great at nailing people on pin-eyed technicality bullshit like sending Matthew Charles to prison a second time for a crime he already served his time for. And exactly what was it that Martha Stewart did?
Unfortunately, the same system also allows real criminals to get away with it over and over again.
Certainly. But Germany's problem is that its industrial baseload is becoming dirtier, not cleaner, as it gives up modern carbon-free sources of power. As a bonus, the coal it is falling back on the dirtiest, lowest energy density kind. Their anthracite is all gone.
Lead and zinc pigment was gradually realized as being a problem with those specific elements, leading to different formulations for getting the same colors. Nobody wrung their hands about the medium of paints and canvas.
The electric motors are as efficient as all hell, but the charging engine burns coal.
But nobody blamed oil paints and canvas for the mental problems of artists.
Wow, that narrows it down to only three billion people! Great detective work.
Currently insurance companies have to act as our collective heathcare bargaining agencies, because we are forbidden from forming buyer clubs to do the negotiating ourselves. In an open market, we would be able to do so.
What you mean is that the health care system will always include a charity and governmental sector for indigents, people who have paid into pension systems, and those with catastrophic conditions.
All of these groups, and the private insurance companies that serve the middle class, would be helped by:
1. Being able to negotiate as a group for contracted rates on services, as private insurance does;
2. Being able to buy drugs in bulk, and on the world market, just as we buy processors and RAM;
3. Being able to allow their fully informed patients to try drugs that are in the FDA pipeline, but which are still in trials. We now have this right for terminal patients as of yesterday, which is a start.
A store sells nothing but rotten apples. You can only buy rotten apples, nothing but rotten apples.
But eventually the supply of iPhone 5Cs would run out, and you would be able to buy a better model.
Yeah I can't afford to hire a lawyer for 5-9 hours every time I install an app
I propose an app that captures the terms and conditions for an app you wish to install, and sends it to an AI server that does the 5-9 hours of lawyering for you at processor speed. It would then come back with a go/no go decision on installing the app.
FDA once in a while does its job, amazing
But is FDA going to be forthright about its 'questions' right away so that a corrected trial can begin without undue delay, or is it going to drag its feet until we see this tech changing lives on other continents?
You can't impose a monopoly in an open-market economy unless you do something like buy up a region's sewer system (hence our special treatment of networked utilities). You have to do what medical providers do - convince lawmakers to pass laws forcing consumers to buy under the terms you dictate.
This is the fundamental difference between the medical industry and the electronics industry.
If the US health system were capitalistic, with producers open to competition in the global market and consumers free to form buying associations of whatever kind they wanted and buy from wherever they wanted, we would be much better off. Instead, we have this interlocking cartel of medieval guilds whose goal is to maximize the number of doubloons extracted from the peasants.
Meanwhile, in 2003 and in 2013 China made ground-up reforms to its medical regulatory system. Could we be seeing the first effects of this in healthcare delivery?
Intentionally throwing away the key was a totally stupid decision, because they had nothing to lose by just writing the key on a Post-It and stashing it in the bank. Journalistic integrity would not have been compromised had they openly acknowledged mining the coin.As as mentioned in teh article, they could have given the key to charity or set up a scholarship fund with it.
In fact, because throwing away a key benefits all other Bitcoin owners by reducing the money supply, that action actually makes the bad effects of Bitcoin worse.
Your Android phone has also been exposed to malware since at least then. Not a good idea to have malware that can open doors.
The hotel chain has been pushing the idea of electronic locks for several years. The 1700 Hilton properties that currently use these locks allow you to unlock doors as a feature of their reservation app. It's a nice feature, but will get a lot more useful when it operates from NFC directly, rather than having you go into the app and bring up the Digital Kay tab. An NFC implementation would allow you to open doors hands-free, which would be nice to have at conferences when you're always carrying miscellaneous things.
YOU read what I typed: we're better off if plastic waste falling into the water stays near its source, identifying where it came from, rather than turning up anonymously in the ocean.
Why not just require that plasticware and straws be dense enough to sink in seawater? This wouldn't prevent people from littering, but if a pile of plastic waste accumulates near to a waterfront park on the Danube, it's a lot easier to identify miscreants than if those plastic knives and forks weren't found until they showed up in an ocean gyre.
I for one am not the kind of person who uses the Offtopic mod to mean "I disagree politically." Your comment is totally clear and applicable to the discussion: any scheme for raising revenue that cannot be made simple and automatic deserves all the cheaters it attracts.
Not sure how this news relates to China. But Oracle has a huge presence in China and earn a lot revenue from there. Don't get brainwashed by Western media.
As China tires of dealing with Oracle, it will develop its own implementation of SQL, which it will then sell to the world at a discount. Oracle goes poof.
For any software company, product licensing should be bulletproof and transparent to the user, as with Adobe. When you install any of the company's products it should be obvious what your legal status is, because an unlicensed product won't install and an expired license should make the product unusable.
If you're a database vendor (a database vendor!) and your user has to submit 23,000 pages of documentation to prove that it's using your product in a valid way, and then you're still not sure, Oracle's board ought to be horsewhipped.
To take a cue from the adjacent article, a spaying program for millennials would minimize their threat to endangered species.
Shoot...any PETA/warmist/SJW/snowflake/bleeding-heart that comes close. BOOM ! Issue(s) resolved.
No need to. Their heads are already exploding as they try to decide whether to support the cats or the owls.