It's actually worse than that. She could (plausibly) claim that some were mistakenly deleted. Mistakes happen. The real trouble is that some were *partially* deleted/redacted by her team, which requires positive action. How does one *accidentally* delete one paragraph from an email chain?
And is that so wrong? I liken it to your favorite grocery store changing up where all the products are located every few months. They may have all the studies in the world that say it's a better flow of people to have Product A and Product C right next to each other, but if nobody is looking there, because that's never where it's been before, it's a poor design.
"But you can change all the options..." if you can find them. Changing the finer points of the visuals such as Icon Spacing and Title Bar font used to be behind Desktop / Properties / Appearance. Now it's Desktop / Personalize / Window Color. That's...less intuitive.
Every new version of Windows since 2000->XP has suffered from the unnecessary moving of options and screens. They've all been focused on the dwindling number of people who have never used a computer at the expense of the other 99%. Maybe the new layout makes more logical sense if you have no muscle memory or expectations. Then as soon as everybody gets used to the new layout, they go and fuck it all up again.
This.
Adding multi-column support will only encourage poorly designed websites to USE it. It may work in a few select scenarios, but most of the time, it will encourage one of two bad designs:
A. Two columns that both extend down the page "below the fold," such that you have to scroll down to finish the first column, then back to the top to read the second. Ugh.
B. Cutting off page content "at the fold" and forcing a slideshow on any content that extends beyond what's visible on one screen.
Multi-columns might be useful for short content that's visible on a single screen, or two columns of independent content, but for the vast majority of what's out there, a single scrolling column with plenty of whitespace on both sides is the best layout.
"in fact, it's the only tool legislators have after they've rooted out real corruption"
Phew, I thought for a minute that they have to be hypocritical, but if it's only a last resort AFTER they've rooted out corruption, they must still have plenty of other tools available.
This smacks of "the most transparent administration in history" offering a solution that can be trumped up as transparency, but is actually intended to reduce the number of FOIA requests to begin with.
If they are truly committed to transparency in this area, the real solution is fairly clear: Offer the requester a choice. For no filing fee, the requested documents will be released online in a central repository for everybody to see. Or for a fee, the response will be completed as it is now. Reporters get their story (the whole intent of which is to release the information anyway), and the public gets to see all the information made by other parties immediately.
Costs go up slightly as requests are filled with no payments coming in to offset, but this seems like something that a government should be doing anyway.
Bingo
Wasn't it just yesterday TWC was fined over $200k for not taking a person off their call list when they said they were (mistaken identity)? Including over 70 calls AFTER the lawsuit was filed.
Cable companies are the scum of the earth. Just because they say they've changed the wife's details in the system doesn't mean jack shit.
If it's just a count of objects, "1%" doesn't mean much anyway. We should be much more interested in mapping Mass. A 1kg asteroid is mostly harmless (to Earth, though it could be catastrophic for man-made satellites). This may be a faulty assumption, but I would think the larger, more dangerous objects would be detected first. If so, 1% of the total number may represent something like 50% of the total mass of all NEAs. If that's true, it's far less ominous than saying "99% of potential Earth-impacting asteroids are currently hidden!!!1!"
I wouldn't go that far. No issue is ever completely off the table unless we can get (essentially) everybody supporting one side. This certainly SHOULD be off the table, but SCOTUS has reversed itself before, so nothing is written in stone. Hell, there's still an abortion debate (not that I want to open that can of worms here), and that was "settled" 42 years ago with a stronger majority in the court.
I'd like to see somebody make a decent case using UCC Article 2: " 2-314. Implied Warranty: Merchantability; Usage of Trade
(2) Goods to be merchantable must be at least such as
(c) are fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used."
Laptops are ordinarily used to go online, but any model with this particular hack is not fit to do so. It could be argued that, even in the face of the EULA, Samsung has violated the implied warranty. It's like (obligatory car analogy) advertising that your car has a top speed of 200mph, but then hidden deep within the manual is a disclaimer that the tires will blow up if you go over 60.
I've never used any of the services, so honest question here...
Does Uber (just to use one example) set the schedule, or do drivers come and go as they please? An employer-employee relationship gives a lot more power to the employer. Any drivers fighting to be an employee might end up regretting it later.
1. Promise AAA game in 10 months.
2. Scope out 16 months worth of work with the resources available.
3. Work a bunch of young, eager (i.e. cheap) developers to the bone.
4. Profit.
You say bad project management, but it sounds pretty lucrative for the folks who are actually in management.
Note that while there are three patents discussed, the D'775 patent is the most heavily referenced. Design patents have a much lower bar to entry, as they act more like trademarks than patents. It's the same thing as Apple's "rounded corners" patent, D'286.
The idea is that the form (rather than the function) is so iconic that it represents a singular entity instead of being a market standard.
And where will all the employees for this "new" corporation come from? Perhaps Russia has a bigger space exploration industry than I'm giving it credit for, but my guess is Roscosmos.
So to sum up, this reorganization will keep the same name, operate out of the same facilities, and (likely) keep a substantial amount of the same employees. The only difference(?) is that instead of a state-run agency, it will be a state-run corporation. Oh and magically all the corruption will stop.
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It's actually worse than that. She could (plausibly) claim that some were mistakenly deleted. Mistakes happen. The real trouble is that some were *partially* deleted/redacted by her team, which requires positive action. How does one *accidentally* delete one paragraph from an email chain?
If 60% larger is "Earth-Sized," call me when they find something "Mars-Sized."
And is that so wrong? I liken it to your favorite grocery store changing up where all the products are located every few months. They may have all the studies in the world that say it's a better flow of people to have Product A and Product C right next to each other, but if nobody is looking there, because that's never where it's been before, it's a poor design.
"But you can change all the options..." if you can find them. Changing the finer points of the visuals such as Icon Spacing and Title Bar font used to be behind Desktop / Properties / Appearance. Now it's Desktop / Personalize / Window Color. That's...less intuitive.
Every new version of Windows since 2000->XP has suffered from the unnecessary moving of options and screens. They've all been focused on the dwindling number of people who have never used a computer at the expense of the other 99%. Maybe the new layout makes more logical sense if you have no muscle memory or expectations. Then as soon as everybody gets used to the new layout, they go and fuck it all up again.
This.
Adding multi-column support will only encourage poorly designed websites to USE it. It may work in a few select scenarios, but most of the time, it will encourage one of two bad designs:
A. Two columns that both extend down the page "below the fold," such that you have to scroll down to finish the first column, then back to the top to read the second. Ugh.
B. Cutting off page content "at the fold" and forcing a slideshow on any content that extends beyond what's visible on one screen.
Multi-columns might be useful for short content that's visible on a single screen, or two columns of independent content, but for the vast majority of what's out there, a single scrolling column with plenty of whitespace on both sides is the best layout.
Funny how anti-States-Rights some congress-folk get when the States are impacting campaign donors.
"in fact, it's the only tool legislators have after they've rooted out real corruption"
Phew, I thought for a minute that they have to be hypocritical, but if it's only a last resort AFTER they've rooted out corruption, they must still have plenty of other tools available.
This smacks of "the most transparent administration in history" offering a solution that can be trumped up as transparency, but is actually intended to reduce the number of FOIA requests to begin with.
If they are truly committed to transparency in this area, the real solution is fairly clear: Offer the requester a choice. For no filing fee, the requested documents will be released online in a central repository for everybody to see. Or for a fee, the response will be completed as it is now. Reporters get their story (the whole intent of which is to release the information anyway), and the public gets to see all the information made by other parties immediately.
Costs go up slightly as requests are filled with no payments coming in to offset, but this seems like something that a government should be doing anyway.
Bingo
Wasn't it just yesterday TWC was fined over $200k for not taking a person off their call list when they said they were (mistaken identity)? Including over 70 calls AFTER the lawsuit was filed.
Cable companies are the scum of the earth. Just because they say they've changed the wife's details in the system doesn't mean jack shit.
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If it's just a count of objects, "1%" doesn't mean much anyway. We should be much more interested in mapping Mass. A 1kg asteroid is mostly harmless (to Earth, though it could be catastrophic for man-made satellites). This may be a faulty assumption, but I would think the larger, more dangerous objects would be detected first. If so, 1% of the total number may represent something like 50% of the total mass of all NEAs. If that's true, it's far less ominous than saying "99% of potential Earth-impacting asteroids are currently hidden!!!1!"
Doesn't Apple even check for trademarks? "Force Touch" has, for decades, belonged to Bill Cosby.
I wouldn't go that far. No issue is ever completely off the table unless we can get (essentially) everybody supporting one side. This certainly SHOULD be off the table, but SCOTUS has reversed itself before, so nothing is written in stone. Hell, there's still an abortion debate (not that I want to open that can of worms here), and that was "settled" 42 years ago with a stronger majority in the court.
And some may consider it judicial correction for failing to follow the legislative action taken on July 9, 1868.
I'd like to see somebody make a decent case using UCC Article 2:
" 2-314. Implied Warranty: Merchantability; Usage of Trade
(2) Goods to be merchantable must be at least such as
(c) are fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used."
Laptops are ordinarily used to go online, but any model with this particular hack is not fit to do so. It could be argued that, even in the face of the EULA, Samsung has violated the implied warranty. It's like (obligatory car analogy) advertising that your car has a top speed of 200mph, but then hidden deep within the manual is a disclaimer that the tires will blow up if you go over 60.
We don't really have to. The FDA already has:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=101.22
Right at the top. (a)(1).
But we DO have Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.
I've never used any of the services, so honest question here...
Does Uber (just to use one example) set the schedule, or do drivers come and go as they please? An employer-employee relationship gives a lot more power to the employer. Any drivers fighting to be an employee might end up regretting it later.
VLC is still available, too.
Newsflash: Unless your profession, hobbies and all other interests are based entirely around basic life sustenance, everything you do is pointless.
Yeah, this sounds like little more than a Markov bot. You can find them online. No "AI" needed.
"Hyatt, Ross, Hewitt and Chanial developed their browser to combat the software bloat of the Mozilla Suite"
Time for Firefox to Fork Off.
1. Promise AAA game in 10 months.
2. Scope out 16 months worth of work with the resources available.
3. Work a bunch of young, eager (i.e. cheap) developers to the bone.
4. Profit.
You say bad project management, but it sounds pretty lucrative for the folks who are actually in management.
‘We kill people based on metadata.’ - Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA
The idea is that the form (rather than the function) is so iconic that it represents a singular entity instead of being a market standard.
But IANAL.
And where will all the employees for this "new" corporation come from? Perhaps Russia has a bigger space exploration industry than I'm giving it credit for, but my guess is Roscosmos.
So to sum up, this reorganization will keep the same name, operate out of the same facilities, and (likely) keep a substantial amount of the same employees. The only difference(?) is that instead of a state-run agency, it will be a state-run corporation. Oh and magically all the corruption will stop.