There's a giant "I disagree with this Zestimate" right under the Zestimate. It allows you to offer a real appraisal (which generally costs money -- in Northern California it's around $400) through an agent.
And the Zestimate is going to go up and down, just like any other estimate. If the house next to yours sells for $100,000 less than you might have thought, your house will likely drop in value. Your house might sell for a lot more, but the value will drop regardless as neighborhoods count towards your appraisal.
But yes, the Zestimate is inaccurate at best. But then, most appraisals, even the $400 ones, are just best guesses -- they look at your house, comparable sales if any, the neighborhood trend. Our house was appraised at $30K more than we expected -- more than the realtor expected too (appraisals in NorCal are independent of realtors for obvious reasons). But this magically put us above water on the home and we were able to refinance -- just because of a best guess at the value of our house by a "professional".
I wonder how long we'll have to wait before a proper new and original franchise star up.
There was Firefly and Serenity. And I believe the Kingkiller Chronicles have been optioned. The Expanse is a TV show. Movies, in general, do the subject matter little justice -- either too little character development time or too little Sci Fi/Fantasy time.
Just so long as they don't remake the Princess Bride. I'll quit TV then.
Slashdot has declined in this regard since I joined a decade or so ago. Maybe because most people here were here for the discussions and not...well...whatever the first half of the posts above are here for.
But I'll tell you that aggressive people on the internet isn't a new fad. Gaming forums from the 90s had it too. My guess:
1) without a way to call someone out, people will say anything. Anonymous cowards -- you can't point to an old post and say they've done a turnabout, etc.
2) more people, more anonymous people and the culture has changed. Politeness is rare on forums that everyday people inhabit -- and now there are a lot more people on the internet and they've grown up in a culture of saying whatever you want on the internet.
All I can say is good luck and ignore most things.
If the IT team grabs the equipment after the game, they have a whole week (at least 4 days) to reconfigure and test. And I imagine, given how much the NFL spends on things, they have their "Field communications equipment IT Team" to deal with the Surfaces alone, never mind the headsets and such which fall under the "Field Audio Equipment Team". There's always a chance they've skimped on IT and spent it on extra gatorade bottle holders, but that would surprise me.
It's pointless to try to remove someone's internet access and ridiculous to assume that an ISP is in any way liable. It's a lot like driving -- the DMV can revoke a license but it doesn't stop people from driving, and you can't call the Dept of Public Transportation and blame them.
Lawsuit should be against the single user.
Gosh, I thought this whole copyright infringement nonsense was settled with iTunes "pay 30 cents more, share it with whomever you like" policy from 5 years ago.
Like many posters above, I'm a little dismayed this made news. The title of the article is clickbait. We share passwords all the time at work -- heck, we have a password sharing application to make it easy to do so. But we only share passwords with people authorized to use them. If someone who wasn't authorized to use them is given one to access services, and is caught, then both that person and the person who gave the password to an unauthorized user broke the rules.
Dumbest quote: The question that legal scholars, groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and dissenting judge Stephen Reinhardt ask is an important one: Authorization from who?"
The question is asked as if it's a mystery fit for Sherlock Holmes. To pretty much everyone involved in every scenario...ever...they know who authorizes access. My house? Me. My company's financial records? CFO. My company's file server at work? Probably a bunch of people for different pieces of it (depending on the groups who are accessing: HR, Finance, Accounting, etc) and not the IT guys. Sure, the IT guys HAVE access (usually to the whole thing), and you could even say they hand out the keys. But someone authorizes them to do so.
So this is dumb. Guy is not authorized to access his old company's servers. Some friend who IS authorized gives him his password. Both should be penalized. And both are technically hackers as they are allowing unauthorized access to data.
"The court finds that Defendant possessed no reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer's IP address, so the Government's acquisition of the IP address did not represent a prohibited Forth Amendment search."
"The court cautioned, however, that its decision was limited to the fact that the researchers 'obtained the defendant's IP address while he was using the Tor network and [the researchers were] operating nodes on that network, and not by any access to his computer.'"
The defendant was claiming the warrant was invalid, which it was deemed not to be, but finding the IP address of the person's computer was not something that required a warrant.
That was...that was like the Onion or something. That's like saying Subway saying they're nervous about the pizza place because the pizza place doesn't use buns. Oil companies don't care how gas is distributed -- and they certainly don't care how hydrogen is distributed, as long as there is gas involved somewhere.
Fuel cell cars have been "on the verge" since the mid 90s -- I worked with a couple people who eventually were employed by Nissan and Honda. There are FCVs out there -- but they aren't efficient, there isn't a hydrogen infrastructure, etc. The idea of an FCV is nice: no giant battery, no pollution from the car...but like the Tesla employee said, there's a cost to getting hydrogen into the cars -- the whole cycle is a challenge to make efficient. Ideally, it may be cleaner than giant batteries from cradle to grave...but even after decades of work, it's still not there yet.
I think of the idea of roads that charge the cars as they drive...but that's not too far from just having cars get loaded onto a train for long distances. The US, at least in its populous areas, should think more about mass transit. Futuristic mass transit (think Asimov) Heck, even Uber and Lyft are making a dent in everyone using their car all the time.
Supernatural, SHIELD, Supergirl, anything MMA, that crazy show by Cold Stone Steve Austin where people wrestle over rope, American Ninja Warrior, Game of Thrones(!), Ash vs the Evil Dead...pretty much anything on the SyFy channel...
Even though Netflix has twice as many subscribers, doesn't the average Comcast customer pay near $100/month? Compared to $10-$15 for Netflix.
I have Comcast now and actually have never really had an issue with them aside from how much they charge. And that when you drop a package from their Double or Triple play deals, you end up paying almost as much for one less...
I'm kind of on the side of the GP: "I think you need to distinguish between an idealized free market system and a free market system with some controls and moderation that actually works to reduce the kinds of societal tensions that can really be disruptive and destructive to people's lives."
This is kind of important and kind of what civilization is bringing us to. The combination of the free market and the laws that favor ownership is a bit barbaric for a country that is flush with money. It caters to the wealthy and actively keeps other down, so long as everyone plays by the rules that favor the rich. It's like a game where the more times you win, the stronger you get, and the weaker your opponent gets. Those are dumb rules, but it seems to be the rules we're currently playing by.
The idea of the 99% movement was to say you can't have it both ways. You can't be rich, however you got there, and then actively try to keep other people from getting rich too. That's only "competition" when the rules aren't skewed in the wealthy people's favor. Don't get me wrong...they've ALWAYS been skewed in that direction. I think it's time to change that. The wealthy live on the backs of the poor and middle class: it's a simple task to say: "Anyone making over $200,000 per year will pay 30% in federal taxes, which will go towards education, infrastructure, and pretty much anything but the military which has enough money. Sales of stock and funds included."
Executives will be more willing to spread the wealth to their employees. Minimum wages might rise on their own, but they'll also be capped on their own which should serve to keep the prices of goods at a reasonable level. SF is expensive because the salaries they pay are so high. Cap the salaries, prices should come down./off soapbox//definitely voting for Bernie in the primary
Im pretty sure back in the 1800s and early 1900s, before TV and decent radio, the masses were fairly ignorant of current events outside the town fair. Knowledge of anything besides the absolutely practical for surviving the month was hard won and often the privilege of the wealthy or well-reputed.
I'll trade that for having to shove aside Kanye West infotainment to gain easy access to pretty much anything I want to know about without moving my thumb more than 4 inches at a time.
Musk is smart. The more competition he has in electric car manufacturers, the less is his share in the infrastructure of recharging stations, battery building, and the research and tech behind it all. The more companies that jump on the electric car path, the easier it is for him to sell cars (though he seems a little more high minded than that which is why I like him).
Graphics card isn't important? I guess if you're playing Zork, it's not. GPU and CPU handle different parts of the game . Case in point: Battle for Middle Earth. A good GPU allowed one to play with the best graphics, but it was the CPU that allowed a greater number of units in the game. Disk access is also important these days but you still don't require an SSD for great gameplay.
I was in NYC for a taxi strike in the 90s. For a person who walked and took the subway, it was heaven. Half the cars disappeared from the streets. So much quieter.
You have no history of repaying debt. So yes, you're more of a risk than someone with a mortgage or credit card payments. If I didn't know you, I'd consider long and hard before loaning you money too. Perhaps the reason you have so much cash on hand is because you don't pay it back.:-)
I suppose it matters less for the amount of code you'll get for $4000 with government standards, but having a contract with the developers for bug fixes, improvements, etc is useful if you don't have your own team. A $4000 application with no updates is, well, not worth the money.
The problem, I think you'll find with safety training, is that people who are killing other people aren't in what most of us would call a right mind. Gearing up half a campus of kids (which are legally adults but in general kids) is asking to exacerbate the problem you're trying to solve -- gun deaths. Alcohol, high emotions, stress, crazy: all these negate any safety training and pretty much all are available in spades on a college campus. I'd be happier if I wasn't surrounded by armed students all day long on the off chance some complete nutter who is not a student decides to rampage.
Porsche doesn't compete with non-performance cars. From appearance and probably stats, this will be more in the supercar arena: Audi R8, BMW i8, Ferraris, Lamborghinis. My guess, if it's up to Porsche standards, one will be required to find at least $150,000 to afford this. Which, according to reports, is how much a fully loaded Tesla Model X will run (the price range is...large on that one: mid $70s to mid $100s).
I drive a Civic. I had a Porsche for a weekend earlier this year -- 911 Carrera S. I imagine it to be a land-based version of a fighter jet. I haven't driven a Tesla -- I hear they are very very nice, very fast off the line...but I wonder how their sport handling compares to a 911. Hmm...need to find me some Youtube comparisons...
Oh, and will someone explain what BMW is doing with the i3? When I think BMW, I think sport sedan. That thing has the specs of a Nissan Leaf and the looks of a Scion Cube. I'd expected something Tesla-ish.
Agree with above. Architect is a strategic position. You're not moving the Legos yourself anymore -- you bring in your team to give high level overviews to you, you listen to where they feel improvements could be made, and you use that as leverage to make even more significant improvements. You don't need access to AD --- you get people to talk about it and you discuss possible enhancements.
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There's a giant "I disagree with this Zestimate" right under the Zestimate. It allows you to offer a real appraisal (which generally costs money -- in Northern California it's around $400) through an agent.
And the Zestimate is going to go up and down, just like any other estimate. If the house next to yours sells for $100,000 less than you might have thought, your house will likely drop in value. Your house might sell for a lot more, but the value will drop regardless as neighborhoods count towards your appraisal.
But yes, the Zestimate is inaccurate at best. But then, most appraisals, even the $400 ones, are just best guesses -- they look at your house, comparable sales if any, the neighborhood trend. Our house was appraised at $30K more than we expected -- more than the realtor expected too (appraisals in NorCal are independent of realtors for obvious reasons). But this magically put us above water on the home and we were able to refinance -- just because of a best guess at the value of our house by a "professional".
They'd probably create an entire film around The Deliverator and stop there. Played by Nicholas Cage of course.
I wonder how long we'll have to wait before a proper new and original franchise star up.
There was Firefly and Serenity. And I believe the Kingkiller Chronicles have been optioned. The Expanse is a TV show. Movies, in general, do the subject matter little justice -- either too little character development time or too little Sci Fi/Fantasy time.
Just so long as they don't remake the Princess Bride. I'll quit TV then.
Slashdot has declined in this regard since I joined a decade or so ago. Maybe because most people here were here for the discussions and not...well...whatever the first half of the posts above are here for.
But I'll tell you that aggressive people on the internet isn't a new fad. Gaming forums from the 90s had it too. My guess:
1) without a way to call someone out, people will say anything. Anonymous cowards -- you can't point to an old post and say they've done a turnabout, etc.
2) more people, more anonymous people and the culture has changed. Politeness is rare on forums that everyday people inhabit -- and now there are a lot more people on the internet and they've grown up in a culture of saying whatever you want on the internet.
All I can say is good luck and ignore most things.
Slack.
If the IT team grabs the equipment after the game, they have a whole week (at least 4 days) to reconfigure and test. And I imagine, given how much the NFL spends on things, they have their "Field communications equipment IT Team" to deal with the Surfaces alone, never mind the headsets and such which fall under the "Field Audio Equipment Team". There's always a chance they've skimped on IT and spent it on extra gatorade bottle holders, but that would surprise me.
It's pointless to try to remove someone's internet access and ridiculous to assume that an ISP is in any way liable. It's a lot like driving -- the DMV can revoke a license but it doesn't stop people from driving, and you can't call the Dept of Public Transportation and blame them.
Lawsuit should be against the single user.
Gosh, I thought this whole copyright infringement nonsense was settled with iTunes "pay 30 cents more, share it with whomever you like" policy from 5 years ago.
Like many posters above, I'm a little dismayed this made news. The title of the article is clickbait. We share passwords all the time at work -- heck, we have a password sharing application to make it easy to do so. But we only share passwords with people authorized to use them. If someone who wasn't authorized to use them is given one to access services, and is caught, then both that person and the person who gave the password to an unauthorized user broke the rules.
Dumbest quote: The question that legal scholars, groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and dissenting judge Stephen Reinhardt ask is an important one: Authorization from who?"
The question is asked as if it's a mystery fit for Sherlock Holmes. To pretty much everyone involved in every scenario...ever...they know who authorizes access. My house? Me. My company's financial records? CFO. My company's file server at work? Probably a bunch of people for different pieces of it (depending on the groups who are accessing: HR, Finance, Accounting, etc) and not the IT guys. Sure, the IT guys HAVE access (usually to the whole thing), and you could even say they hand out the keys. But someone authorizes them to do so.
So this is dumb. Guy is not authorized to access his old company's servers. Some friend who IS authorized gives him his password. Both should be penalized. And both are technically hackers as they are allowing unauthorized access to data.
"The court finds that Defendant possessed no reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer's IP address, so the Government's acquisition of the IP address did not represent a prohibited Forth Amendment search."
"The court cautioned, however, that its decision was limited to the fact that the researchers 'obtained the defendant's IP address while he was using the Tor network and [the researchers were] operating nodes on that network, and not by any access to his computer.'"
The defendant was claiming the warrant was invalid, which it was deemed not to be, but finding the IP address of the person's computer was not something that required a warrant.
Case...dismissed?
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If they aren't using Monster cables, I'm not buying it.
That was...that was like the Onion or something. That's like saying Subway saying they're nervous about the pizza place because the pizza place doesn't use buns. Oil companies don't care how gas is distributed -- and they certainly don't care how hydrogen is distributed, as long as there is gas involved somewhere.
Fuel cell cars have been "on the verge" since the mid 90s -- I worked with a couple people who eventually were employed by Nissan and Honda. There are FCVs out there -- but they aren't efficient, there isn't a hydrogen infrastructure, etc. The idea of an FCV is nice: no giant battery, no pollution from the car...but like the Tesla employee said, there's a cost to getting hydrogen into the cars -- the whole cycle is a challenge to make efficient. Ideally, it may be cleaner than giant batteries from cradle to grave...but even after decades of work, it's still not there yet.
I think of the idea of roads that charge the cars as they drive...but that's not too far from just having cars get loaded onto a train for long distances. The US, at least in its populous areas, should think more about mass transit. Futuristic mass transit (think Asimov) Heck, even Uber and Lyft are making a dent in everyone using their car all the time.
5: Funny, maybe. But insightful?
Supernatural, SHIELD, Supergirl, anything MMA, that crazy show by Cold Stone Steve Austin where people wrestle over rope, American Ninja Warrior, Game of Thrones(!), Ash vs the Evil Dead...pretty much anything on the SyFy channel...
Even though Netflix has twice as many subscribers, doesn't the average Comcast customer pay near $100/month? Compared to $10-$15 for Netflix.
I have Comcast now and actually have never really had an issue with them aside from how much they charge. And that when you drop a package from their Double or Triple play deals, you end up paying almost as much for one less...
I'm kind of on the side of the GP: "I think you need to distinguish between an idealized free market system and a free market system with some controls and moderation that actually works to reduce the kinds of societal tensions that can really be disruptive and destructive to people's lives."
This is kind of important and kind of what civilization is bringing us to. The combination of the free market and the laws that favor ownership is a bit barbaric for a country that is flush with money. It caters to the wealthy and actively keeps other down, so long as everyone plays by the rules that favor the rich. It's like a game where the more times you win, the stronger you get, and the weaker your opponent gets. Those are dumb rules, but it seems to be the rules we're currently playing by.
The idea of the 99% movement was to say you can't have it both ways. You can't be rich, however you got there, and then actively try to keep other people from getting rich too. That's only "competition" when the rules aren't skewed in the wealthy people's favor. Don't get me wrong...they've ALWAYS been skewed in that direction. I think it's time to change that. The wealthy live on the backs of the poor and middle class: it's a simple task to say: "Anyone making over $200,000 per year will pay 30% in federal taxes, which will go towards education, infrastructure, and pretty much anything but the military which has enough money. Sales of stock and funds included."
Executives will be more willing to spread the wealth to their employees. Minimum wages might rise on their own, but they'll also be capped on their own which should serve to keep the prices of goods at a reasonable level. SF is expensive because the salaries they pay are so high. Cap the salaries, prices should come down. /off soapbox //definitely voting for Bernie in the primary
Those white lines do a good job of keeping you steering in the right direction on a dark and stormy night.
Im pretty sure back in the 1800s and early 1900s, before TV and decent radio, the masses were fairly ignorant of current events outside the town fair. Knowledge of anything besides the absolutely practical for surviving the month was hard won and often the privilege of the wealthy or well-reputed.
I'll trade that for having to shove aside Kanye West infotainment to gain easy access to pretty much anything I want to know about without moving my thumb more than 4 inches at a time.
Musk is smart. The more competition he has in electric car manufacturers, the less is his share in the infrastructure of recharging stations, battery building, and the research and tech behind it all. The more companies that jump on the electric car path, the easier it is for him to sell cars (though he seems a little more high minded than that which is why I like him).
Graphics card isn't important? I guess if you're playing Zork, it's not. GPU and CPU handle different parts of the game . Case in point: Battle for Middle Earth. A good GPU allowed one to play with the best
graphics, but it was the CPU that allowed a greater number of units in the game. Disk access is also important these days but you still don't require an SSD for great gameplay.
I was in NYC for a taxi strike in the 90s. For a person who walked and took the subway, it was heaven. Half the cars disappeared from the streets. So much quieter.
You have no history of repaying debt. So yes, you're more of a risk than someone with a mortgage or credit card payments. If I didn't know you, I'd consider long and hard before loaning you money too. Perhaps the reason you have so much cash on hand is because you don't pay it back. :-)
I suppose it matters less for the amount of code you'll get for $4000 with government standards, but having a contract with the developers for bug fixes, improvements, etc is useful if you don't have your own team. A $4000 application with no updates is, well, not worth the money.
The problem, I think you'll find with safety training, is that people who are killing other people aren't in what most of us would call a right mind. Gearing up half a campus of kids (which are legally adults but in general kids) is asking to exacerbate the problem you're trying to solve -- gun deaths. Alcohol, high emotions, stress, crazy: all these negate any safety training and pretty much all are available in spades on a college campus. I'd be happier if I wasn't surrounded by armed students all day long on the off chance some complete nutter who is not a student decides to rampage.
Porsche doesn't compete with non-performance cars. From appearance and probably stats, this will be more in the supercar arena: Audi R8, BMW i8, Ferraris, Lamborghinis. My guess, if it's up to Porsche standards, one will be required to find at least $150,000 to afford this. Which, according to reports, is how much a fully loaded Tesla Model X will run (the price range is...large on that one: mid $70s to mid $100s).
I drive a Civic. I had a Porsche for a weekend earlier this year -- 911 Carrera S. I imagine it to be a land-based version of a fighter jet. I haven't driven a Tesla -- I hear they are very very nice, very fast off the line...but I wonder how their sport handling compares to a 911. Hmm...need to find me some Youtube comparisons...
Oh, and will someone explain what BMW is doing with the i3? When I think BMW, I think sport sedan. That thing has the specs of a Nissan Leaf and the looks of a Scion Cube. I'd expected something Tesla-ish.
Agree with above. Architect is a strategic position. You're not moving the Legos yourself anymore -- you bring in your team to give high level overviews to you, you listen to where they feel improvements could be made, and you use that as leverage to make even more significant improvements. You don't need access to AD --- you get people to talk about it and you discuss possible enhancements.
Education isn't only a path to higher paying jobs. There's more to life than a bigger salary.