From the article: "Among formerly incarcerated Bard students who earned degrees while in custody, fewer than 2% have returned to prison within three years, a standard measurement period for assessing recidivism. This is exceptionally low, when contrasted with the statewide recidivism rate, which has hovered for decades at about 40%."
Ah, that is neat. Unfortunately, from the reviews, everyone seems to say LoopPay works but is clunky, so until Samsung figures out a way to elegantly integrate it into their phones, it's not ready for prime time. This is sort of what I found with tap-to-pay as well. I don't use it anymore (since I stopped getting paid to use it) because swiping my plastic card is just easier, faster, and more reliable.
What would really cool is not only an elegant implementation but also one that selects the correct cashback credit card based on which one gives you the most cashback at the current store!
A while back, merchants won a lawsuit against credit card companies, allowing them to offer discounts for cash payments. This is most visible at gas stations: http://www.washingtonpost.com/... So in essence, the "revolution" could happen now, yet the cash revolution hasn't really caught on.
Why? I don't know. Maybe the merchants like playing this game of marking things up 3% and then earning extra on the debit and cash users? Maybe people like playing the game of juggling around their cashback credit cards whose 5% cashback categories change every quarter?
NFC pay, large screen size, watch, etc - they are just cloning too. Now they have third-party apps on Apple TV (like Android boxes since day 1) and a clone of the MS Surface. They still haven't caught up in waterproofing their phone. The fingerpoint sensor is pretty much their only "first" in the last several years. Let's face it - Apple has stagnated, and the competition has caught up.
What Samsung did with the S6, though, is just pathetic. The microSD slot, the removable battery, and the waterproofing were what made the previous S5 differentiated. Rather than integrate all the improvements in the market, they decided they'd make a truly worse carbon copy of the iPhone. Any news on that modular Google phone?
I had this two years ago on my Samsung S5. It was called ISIS Wallet, and then after the rise of the same-named terror group, was renamed Softcard. Amex had a deal where they'd credit me back $1 per swipe (minimum $1 purchase), up to 50 times per month. Those were good times, if you could figure out where the magic tapping sweet spot was on your phone.
Then, Apple Pay comes out, and it suddenly becomes cool. Except Rite Aid, CVS, etc. changed their machines to no longer accept any of the other payment systems just to block Apple Pay adoption because they planned to launch their own system this year under an alliance led by Walmart (which is still non-existent at this point).
Then, Google bought Softcard, and just killed the service. I guess they just have cash to burn. And now Samsung re-launches the service as Samsung Pay. I feel like I'm back where I was two years ago, except I'm no longer paid to swipe, and there are even less places where I can tap to pay. Pardon me, but *yawn*.
The regulations explicitly define what a defeat device is, that's illegal, and the fines associated with using one. This was a clear violation of the law.
When the requirements of the benchmark are clearly violated, the numbers are similarly revoked. What you are talking about is optimizing for benchmarks, and that's different than outright violating the requirements.
Hey, it's the excuse that athletes use when they caught taking PEDs. The test didn't catch it, so not my fault!
The regulations clearly laid out the requirements, and it explicitly defines what a defeat device is, that it is illegal, and the fines associated with using one. The requirements and the test are not the same. You don't get a pass for breaking the law just because a test didn't catch it at the time.
They caught onto us at our workplace. Now passwords have to be significantly different by some secret algorithm and incrementing a number is not different enough. Of course, that just means people think up other schemes.
It's running on Amazon web services, says the article. Yea, they are making a killing. Makes me wonder why they don't just buy cloud storage themselves instead of through Taser.
A larger power supply consuming more power is a common layman's misconception. A double-the-load power supply being more efficient is a common gamer's misconception that came from a rule of thumb that is no longer true.
For a power supply to get a 80+ gold rating, it must be independently tested to have at least 90% efficiency at 50% load and 87% efficiency at 20% and 100% load. In the past, when I searched for the actual efficiency curves of Seasonic power supplies I was shopping for, I found that in reality, it's a plateau with less than 1% dropoff until almost reaching 100%.
However, the sub-20% load mark is a different story. There is no efficiency requirement here, and most power supplies have very bad efficiency below 20% load. An overly large power supply can cause your idle usage to fall under the 20% mark. If your max load is 500W and idle is 150W, then a 1200W supply is probably at less than 50% efficient at idle (from most efficiency curves I've seen - ymmv), and that's 150W lost. In this case, I would recommend a 600W or 650W power supply. Definitely nothing over 750W.
They concluded that for every 3 new jobs in the tech sector, since 1 went to H1B and 2 went to residents, then that H1B created 2 jobs. I kid you not. It's a short article; you can read it yourself. They totally ignore the real question, which is whether all 3 of those new jobs could have been filled by residents. Likewise all upwards trends in tech, incl. wage increases, are attributed to H1B with absolutely nothing backing that correlation - only pretty graphs showing the jobs and wages going up.
Uhhh... when the gangs and corruption are out-of-control, does the business model really matter? Isn't the problem that the areas are controlled by violent gangs? It seems you have reversed cause and effect.
Is that what the workers are claiming now that they've been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty? Is that the best excuse they could have come up with for abusing animals? Remember, the owners haven't been charged with anything - after this incident, they fired those workers, installed security cameras, and hired an additional supervisor. The video did exactly what it was suppose to do - fixing the problem and putting in those additional controls. This would not have happened w/o the video.
Now, Mercy for Animals wants to put them out of business, but you know what? Bettencourt's customers seem content with the actions taken and are not doing anything. This is the true lesson of free speech - people will make doomsday predictions about what will happen if you let people say whatever they want, but in reality, people make their own decisions based on the facts presented. What is truly dangerous is information control to deny us the facts to make good decisions and right wrongs.
IBM has been for many, many years using their patent portfolio offensively to generate revenue. Their favorite targets are mid-sized companies with enough money to make it worth their while but not enough resources to fight them in a prolonged court case nor the will to risk their business on the result of that. The terms of the contract are never released, so it doesn't make the news, but they are VERY well-known for doing this, and if you search the Internet, you will find many articles from solid sources that talk about it. Their success is the reason Microsoft has joined the fray in litigating their patents, so don't be surprised if you start hearing more about MS legal too.
Even if some component of the computer, say the power supply, ceases to function, the hard drive or flash chip is still technically infected. Rather than making a more accurate statement, what you have done is make a different but also accurate statement that we don't care if it's infected but not in use currently.
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Take something people buy only once every few years and put it on a disposable contact lens so that they have to re-buy every few weeks. Brilliant!
http://www.theonion.com/blogpo...
Don't forget the two power strips.
I didn't know this was a word.
I guess we can thank all the greedy folks at ICANN for the subdomain cash grab that gives typosquatters so many new possiblities.
Someone needs to tell Stanford to stop making donuts.
From the article:
"Among formerly incarcerated Bard students who earned degrees while in custody, fewer than 2% have returned to prison within three years, a standard measurement period for assessing recidivism. This is exceptionally low, when contrasted with the statewide recidivism rate, which has hovered for decades at about 40%."
Sounds like a wonderful program.
Ah, that is neat. Unfortunately, from the reviews, everyone seems to say LoopPay works but is clunky, so until Samsung figures out a way to elegantly integrate it into their phones, it's not ready for prime time. This is sort of what I found with tap-to-pay as well. I don't use it anymore (since I stopped getting paid to use it) because swiping my plastic card is just easier, faster, and more reliable.
What would really cool is not only an elegant implementation but also one that selects the correct cashback credit card based on which one gives you the most cashback at the current store!
A while back, merchants won a lawsuit against credit card companies, allowing them to offer discounts for cash payments. This is most visible at gas stations:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
So in essence, the "revolution" could happen now, yet the cash revolution hasn't really caught on.
Why? I don't know. Maybe the merchants like playing this game of marking things up 3% and then earning extra on the debit and cash users? Maybe people like playing the game of juggling around their cashback credit cards whose 5% cashback categories change every quarter?
NFC pay, large screen size, watch, etc - they are just cloning too. Now they have third-party apps on Apple TV (like Android boxes since day 1) and a clone of the MS Surface. They still haven't caught up in waterproofing their phone. The fingerpoint sensor is pretty much their only "first" in the last several years. Let's face it - Apple has stagnated, and the competition has caught up.
What Samsung did with the S6, though, is just pathetic. The microSD slot, the removable battery, and the waterproofing were what made the previous S5 differentiated. Rather than integrate all the improvements in the market, they decided they'd make a truly worse carbon copy of the iPhone. Any news on that modular Google phone?
I had this two years ago on my Samsung S5. It was called ISIS Wallet, and then after the rise of the same-named terror group, was renamed Softcard. Amex had a deal where they'd credit me back $1 per swipe (minimum $1 purchase), up to 50 times per month. Those were good times, if you could figure out where the magic tapping sweet spot was on your phone.
Then, Apple Pay comes out, and it suddenly becomes cool. Except Rite Aid, CVS, etc. changed their machines to no longer accept any of the other payment systems just to block Apple Pay adoption because they planned to launch their own system this year under an alliance led by Walmart (which is still non-existent at this point).
Then, Google bought Softcard, and just killed the service. I guess they just have cash to burn. And now Samsung re-launches the service as Samsung Pay. I feel like I'm back where I was two years ago, except I'm no longer paid to swipe, and there are even less places where I can tap to pay. Pardon me, but *yawn*.
So you're saying the labs will no longer be able to gouge us for a two dozen different tests on the same blood sample?
But then they might have to pay us overtime.
Not a good analogy.
The regulations explicitly define what a defeat device is, that's illegal, and the fines associated with using one. This was a clear violation of the law.
When the requirements of the benchmark are clearly violated, the numbers are similarly revoked. What you are talking about is optimizing for benchmarks, and that's different than outright violating the requirements.
Hey, it's the excuse that athletes use when they caught taking PEDs. The test didn't catch it, so not my fault!
The regulations clearly laid out the requirements, and it explicitly defines what a defeat device is, that it is illegal, and the fines associated with using one. The requirements and the test are not the same. You don't get a pass for breaking the law just because a test didn't catch it at the time.
They caught onto us at our workplace. Now passwords have to be significantly different by some secret algorithm and incrementing a number is not different enough. Of course, that just means people think up other schemes.
Or Russian secret police
It's running on Amazon web services, says the article. Yea, they are making a killing. Makes me wonder why they don't just buy cloud storage themselves instead of through Taser.
Comcast just officially killed 4k streaming. We'll be stuck in the dark ages of the Comonopoly while the world upgrades.
A larger power supply consuming more power is a common layman's misconception.
A double-the-load power supply being more efficient is a common gamer's misconception that came from a rule of thumb that is no longer true.
For a power supply to get a 80+ gold rating, it must be independently tested to have at least 90% efficiency at 50% load and 87% efficiency at 20% and 100% load. In the past, when I searched for the actual efficiency curves of Seasonic power supplies I was shopping for, I found that in reality, it's a plateau with less than 1% dropoff until almost reaching 100%.
However, the sub-20% load mark is a different story. There is no efficiency requirement here, and most power supplies have very bad efficiency below 20% load. An overly large power supply can cause your idle usage to fall under the 20% mark. If your max load is 500W and idle is 150W, then a 1200W supply is probably at less than 50% efficient at idle (from most efficiency curves I've seen - ymmv), and that's 150W lost. In this case, I would recommend a 600W or 650W power supply. Definitely nothing over 750W.
Well said.
They concluded that for every 3 new jobs in the tech sector, since 1 went to H1B and 2 went to residents, then that H1B created 2 jobs. I kid you not. It's a short article; you can read it yourself. They totally ignore the real question, which is whether all 3 of those new jobs could have been filled by residents. Likewise all upwards trends in tech, incl. wage increases, are attributed to H1B with absolutely nothing backing that correlation - only pretty graphs showing the jobs and wages going up.
So it works better than alcohol!
Don't they know it's not cool nowadays to be associated with gasoline?
Uhhh ... when the gangs and corruption are out-of-control, does the business model really matter? Isn't the problem that the areas are controlled by violent gangs? It seems you have reversed cause and effect.
Are you taking about this?:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Is that what the workers are claiming now that they've been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty? Is that the best excuse they could have come up with for abusing animals? Remember, the owners haven't been charged with anything - after this incident, they fired those workers, installed security cameras, and hired an additional supervisor. The video did exactly what it was suppose to do - fixing the problem and putting in those additional controls. This would not have happened w/o the video.
Now, Mercy for Animals wants to put them out of business, but you know what? Bettencourt's customers seem content with the actions taken and are not doing anything. This is the true lesson of free speech - people will make doomsday predictions about what will happen if you let people say whatever they want, but in reality, people make their own decisions based on the facts presented. What is truly dangerous is information control to deny us the facts to make good decisions and right wrongs.
IBM has been for many, many years using their patent portfolio offensively to generate revenue. Their favorite targets are mid-sized companies with enough money to make it worth their while but not enough resources to fight them in a prolonged court case nor the will to risk their business on the result of that. The terms of the contract are never released, so it doesn't make the news, but they are VERY well-known for doing this, and if you search the Internet, you will find many articles from solid sources that talk about it. Their success is the reason Microsoft has joined the fray in litigating their patents, so don't be surprised if you start hearing more about MS legal too.
If you are a mid-sized cloud company, beware!
Diamonds are... ;)
Even if some component of the computer, say the power supply, ceases to function, the hard drive or flash chip is still technically infected. Rather than making a more accurate statement, what you have done is make a different but also accurate statement that we don't care if it's infected but not in use currently.