"They fucked up majorly to the point where we sued them, but then offered us some more of the software they fucked up for free, and we can tie ourselves into them more, so we thought that's a great deal and a good use of taxpayer's money!"
Because they breed like fuck and therefore are classified as pests (the rest of the list isn't).
It makes them extremely prevalent, very hard to eliminate, and they can adapt to the traps and poisons quicker than we can make them.
This means that animals that are able to penetrate households are able to become real pests, contaminate all the food and surfaces, shit everywhere, bite children and become almost impossible to stop doing that. Again, I don't have wild deer running through my house.
Foxes are the same. I have nothing against foxes. But they are pests that cause damage, injury, disease and nuisance and are not afraid of wandering into people's houses in search of food. They are also so prevalent and elusive that they are hard to eliminate.
There's no way we'll kill all the rats. It won't happen. But they are classified as pests for a reason. Even cats - which can go feral, breed in the wild, etc. - aren't classified as pests because they rarely invade homes and certainly not in enough numbers to warrant the classification.
But get rats in your neighbourhood and you can be sure they'll keep turning up for years.
My cats have killed several dozen rats from neighbouring gardens over the last few months. I'm quite glad as my previous cat did nothing. But if there are rats around, you're going to want to kill them before they start getting into your house.
Put 100 clients all downloading 1Gbyte at max speed on any AP of any brand.
Now make that download fail easily and retry from start when it fails (no resume).
Watch as whatever wireless you have dies a death and starts rate-limiting those clients, even if it allows other users to carry on at a limited rate.
It doesn't matter what you do, you either knock genuine clients for six, or you end up in a worse situation for even longer as you start limiting their ability to do that.
(note: 500 iPads, 200+ other devices, 30+ APs spread over a site 400m x 200m. Sure, you can surf. But you try doing anything heavy. And the backend network is running along just fine, Gigabit to every workstation / AP and multi-gigabit to every server).
You either keep someone up year after year or you leave it alone after a hiatus. Coming back after so many years was a mistake, it didn't work.
Now if they CAN get back into the flow for two entire series, well done. But I've never seen it happen on any series ever.
Same with all the other recent BBC remakes - we can't make anything original (without selling it off to Channel 4 apparently), so we'll just bring back actors from 20 years ago and re-try what we did back then. Everything from Open All Hours to Only Fools and Horses, Yes Minister to Porridge. They've all been "re-visited" recently.
Strange, because the primary complaint about those programs is that the re-runs are shown ENDLESSLY on other channels. I guarantee I could watch one of them right now if I was to channel-surf.
"Despite a rough start, iOS 10 adoption was at nearly 15 percent after just 24 hours, and is currently at 21 perfect nearly two days after availability according to Mixpanel."
Or:
"48 hours after an all-but-enforced update for almost every one of their products, 80% of device owners still hadn't wanted - or managed - to install it."
500+ iPads on-site. 1/3 not eligible for the update. Local update caching MacOS server. High-end wireless network has fallen over for the last two days as they all try to get 1Gb update from local network, fail, retry, fail, retry.
Lucky we've got the caching server or they'd totally fuck the 100Mbps leased line connecting us to the world.
I'd get ten times the amount of critical information from a compromise from a microphone than I would a webcam.
And almost all webcams are microphones too and/or require no more effort to compromise. If you can see down the webcam without the user noticing, you can silently record the microphone too.
Dumb security advice from a guy who doesn't understand IT.
"Overhead signs or bridges can also be misinterpreted if the road dips. To combat this, Tesla cars are going to be used to âoelearnâ about the road. Initially, the vehicle fleet will take no action except to note the position of road signs, bridges and other stationary objects, mapping the world according to radar,â Mr Musk wrote. "The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database. If several cars drive safely past a given radar object, whether Autopilot is turned on or off, then that object is added to the geocoded whitelist.â
I didn't think they could make Autopilot even more dangerous but they've managed it.
Whitelisting locations where the radar "always" detects objects and then just ignoring objects in those locations. Kill me now. If you're in a Tesla you may as well, it would only save time.
If Samsung, say, were paying the taxes they were supposed to, Apple will be unable to compete with them on price if they start paying tax and consider just pushing that "expense" to users.
This will inevitably result in a drop in Apple sales, or them having to pay taxes AND charge a reasonable price.
The consumer does not win while people aren't paying taxes. The market wins when they do. This means the same devices for the same prices from a range of people.
Same thing with Starbucks / Costa Coffee in the UK. The first paid no tax. The latter paid full UK tax. Both compete in the same high-street. Maybe Starbucks pay tax just made Costa a hero and Starbucks the villain, got tax into the country, and they both still charge the same for a cup of coffee.
Sorry, I judge you just as much as your boss for tolerating it. "First 2 years" I take to mean that you were there for longer than that? Far too long.
Your boss, however, got tons of excellent work out of you for almost no extra compensation without ever taking any responsibility. He's laughing all the way to the bank.
I swear half the problem with bad workplaces and bosses is people never saying "Fuck off" (or equivalent) to their stupid demands.
Dolphins show little or no interest in actually teaching us their language, so it's more akin to learning a dead language from the last native speaker - one who hates your guts. It's not simple thing.
Then there's the assumption that we can have any kind of meaningful discourse with them, that they think in any way similar to us. That's just unproven.
Then there's the assumption that just listening is enough to learn anything at all. Even listening-and-playing-back does nothing. The dolphins know it's a recording and don't respond in the same way, even if they show interest.
To be honest, I see little point in trying. Dolphins aren't sitting those solving the maths equations that we can't. They are probably talking about where the fish are, where their friends are, and where the danger is. Not something we can usefully use, especially if they are bright enough to know recordings and ignore them.
The reason we don't yet have communications is because it's a lot of effort for almost zero gain.
The EU are the ones harmed. Ireland chose to harm itself.
It's more akin to Ireland choosing to sell products in its supermarket at zero profit, thus not paying EU tax due on it and putting the EU supermarket providers at an disadvantage when competing. It's anti-competitive, not theft.
As such, Ireland aren't the ones directly harmed - they chose to do it voluntarily - but the EU sellers who had no idea this was happening and could not compete, were harmed and will be compensated.
The Irish people, however, have also been billions of pounds out of pocket for over a decade and their country is arguing that Apple should keep those billions. I'd be mighty pissed off about that if I lived in Ireland.
The taxes were due to Ireland, and a portion of those were then due to the EU. The EU never received them but the EU do want them. Ireland never received them BECAUSE they don't want them. And it was Ireland that hid them.
It's like Ireland told Apple "I'm supposed to give 10% of that to the EU taxman, but never mind, forget about it". The EU taxman wants his money, whether Ireland want to collect the rest of it or not, and Ireland have no authorisation to NOT collect taxes due to them and to the EU.
The EU courts DECIDED that these rules are basically unfair, just after Ireland rearranged them to comply with "international best practice", after granting amnesties to companies who were using them.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE EU ARE SAYING WAS ILLEGAL ALL ALONG and why Apple have to pay back SO MUCH money.
Ireland made up laws that let certain companies off of paying tax, only in Ireland, against international laws.
And Apple didn't even then pay the tax in Ireland on the Irish taxes, because it paid 0.005% not 12.5% because of "deals" that Ireland gave them.
It's illegal state aid, no matter what the rules said in Ireland (EU law trumps that), and especially when Apple are not even being properly taxed on the bit that their schemes DOES tax.
Apple pay, to quote Brussels ministers, "less tax than a sausage stall" despite doing billions of business in the EU. However you cut that, whoever said "it was okay", that's unfair to every other company trading in the EU that doesn't have a) IP it can license to itself, b) offshore companies it can push tax through and c) "friend-rate" taxation because of its deal with Ireland.
"There are no records since 1981 of any person being infected as a result of disturbing soil for building or any other purpose." (35 years, and that's probably only because there were no records kept before that)
"There is no evidence of any worker or member of the public being infected with anthrax as the results of development of brownfield sites including abattoirs and tanneries, areas traditionally associated with anthrax, or greenfield sites previously used for livestock."
The others are all pretty much the same, you only have to do a bit of Googling.
Or you could use your brain and say "I have no fucking idea where the soil in my garden has come from, what it might have had, who it might have been buried with over millions of years of diseases and plagues, and yet I don't die whenever I turn it over".
Sure, eating that shit probably isn't a great idea because there are all kinds of fungi, spores and bacteria in it. But no less in plague pits from hundreds of years ago than in a bag you get from B&Q today. Fuck, most of the peat we use is tens of thousands of years old.
If that's the real reason, rather than preserving those sites (if they are scheduled sites for archaeology, for example), then Edinburgh need to hire some fucking scientists. If only they had a university...
If you can catch it from the soil, it's still active and killing people in the local area every day. That's not what's happening. Disturbing soil a couple of hundreds years old is like the crap that the pyramid had curses and diseases in them. Absolute bollocks. After that period of time, anything that can infect a host would have been without hosts for hundreds of years, and would have died at the first winter.
Yeah, free dental care up to the age of 18, plus free dental care to those who can't afford it after that, and free dental care to those over 65.
What fucking bastards. Looking after people's teeth. For free! I mean, what fucks?! They should be paying a third-party for-profit company at least a thousand dollars a year for that, right?!
Fucking nanny states, making sure we're looked after, get to a dentists, have dentistry work and orthodontics that would cost tens of thousands in other countries, and that we get it for free. Almost like a... well, a nanny. Who cares for our kids.
Who needs high-speed here? If you had a camera on the gantry, you could instantly eliminate entire classes of problem. Like all those NASA launches from the 60's (when cameras were MUCH more expensive!) where you see the rocket go past the camera mounted on the gantries.
Then maybe the conspiracy theory bullshit artists (fucking 9/11 article on here too!) would see the leak round the back, or whatever, instead of footage filmed from SO FAR AWAY THAT THE SOUND IS MANY SECONDS BEHIND as their best data.
I can't believe they fuelled up a multi-million dollar vessel -whether about to launch or not - without having some better way to see if the fuelling was going alright than filming it from KILOMETRES away.
A $30 CCTV camera from Amazon would have provided more useful footage.
God, the sheer fucking waste of human time with amateurs "analysing" this kind of crap.
If this set of comments in any way reflects real-world proportions, we're fucked.
Hey, everyone, Princess Diana was killed in a royal conspiracy! That was 19 years ago, let's continue to make up bollocks about that too!
This is also my biggest problem with YouTube. If you have time to piss about editing hours of video and "analysing" it by looking at blocky MPEG frames, you really need to be given community service to get you doing something more productive.
This site used to be full of insightful and rigorous discussion and technical info. I think I'm done.
The phones are already compasses, spirit levels, sat-navs, cameras, gaming machines, VR displays, heartbeat sensors, fingerprint sensors, etc. etc. etc.
They are literally grasping for anything practical and waterproofing doesn't take up battery life, much space, or much cost (rubber seal, tight case, done).
Remember that kid in class that had the calculator-watch, which was also a stopwatch, and an alarm, and a countdown timer, etc. etc. etc.? Same thing. Nobody really used those extra bits much but they are all there because they don't cost much to add and you can sell them as a feature.
Gorilla Glass was another. Now they all have that. Curved edges. Now they all have that. Waterproofing. Now they all have that. Wireless charging. Now they all have that. NFC. Now they all have that.
You'll start to see even more junk now that it's getting harder. Integrated stands into the phone case itself. Miniature projector (or have I seen that in the market already?). Gesture control. God knows what else.
Basically any tacky gimmick that one company can claim is a one-up on the competition. And next devices from all companies will all have it.
Slashdot Mirror
"They fucked up majorly to the point where we sued them, but then offered us some more of the software they fucked up for free, and we can tie ourselves into them more, so we thought that's a great deal and a good use of taxpayer's money!"
Because they breed like fuck and therefore are classified as pests (the rest of the list isn't).
It makes them extremely prevalent, very hard to eliminate, and they can adapt to the traps and poisons quicker than we can make them.
This means that animals that are able to penetrate households are able to become real pests, contaminate all the food and surfaces, shit everywhere, bite children and become almost impossible to stop doing that. Again, I don't have wild deer running through my house.
Foxes are the same. I have nothing against foxes. But they are pests that cause damage, injury, disease and nuisance and are not afraid of wandering into people's houses in search of food. They are also so prevalent and elusive that they are hard to eliminate.
There's no way we'll kill all the rats. It won't happen. But they are classified as pests for a reason. Even cats - which can go feral, breed in the wild, etc. - aren't classified as pests because they rarely invade homes and certainly not in enough numbers to warrant the classification.
But get rats in your neighbourhood and you can be sure they'll keep turning up for years.
My cats have killed several dozen rats from neighbouring gardens over the last few months. I'm quite glad as my previous cat did nothing. But if there are rats around, you're going to want to kill them before they start getting into your house.
Dave is owned by UKTV
UKTV is "jointly owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive"
Why do you think they have basically nothing but wall-to-wall repeats of BBC content?
Do the same again with a quote from anything past Series 8.
Go on. See how difficult it is to do, and then see how many other people get it.
Put 100 clients all downloading 1Gbyte at max speed on any AP of any brand.
Now make that download fail easily and retry from start when it fails (no resume).
Watch as whatever wireless you have dies a death and starts rate-limiting those clients, even if it allows other users to carry on at a limited rate.
It doesn't matter what you do, you either knock genuine clients for six, or you end up in a worse situation for even longer as you start limiting their ability to do that.
(note: 500 iPads, 200+ other devices, 30+ APs spread over a site 400m x 200m. Sure, you can surf. But you try doing anything heavy. And the backend network is running along just fine, Gigabit to every workstation / AP and multi-gigabit to every server).
I couldn't watch it after the first part.
You either keep someone up year after year or you leave it alone after a hiatus. Coming back after so many years was a mistake, it didn't work.
Now if they CAN get back into the flow for two entire series, well done. But I've never seen it happen on any series ever.
Same with all the other recent BBC remakes - we can't make anything original (without selling it off to Channel 4 apparently), so we'll just bring back actors from 20 years ago and re-try what we did back then. Everything from Open All Hours to Only Fools and Horses, Yes Minister to Porridge. They've all been "re-visited" recently.
Strange, because the primary complaint about those programs is that the re-runs are shown ENDLESSLY on other channels. I guarantee I could watch one of them right now if I was to channel-surf.
Red Dwarf was great. Correct tense.
"Despite a rough start, iOS 10 adoption was at nearly 15 percent after just 24 hours, and is currently at 21 perfect nearly two days after availability according to Mixpanel."
Or:
"48 hours after an all-but-enforced update for almost every one of their products, 80% of device owners still hadn't wanted - or managed - to install it."
500+ iPads on-site. 1/3 not eligible for the update. Local update caching MacOS server. High-end wireless network has fallen over for the last two days as they all try to get 1Gb update from local network, fail, retry, fail, retry.
Lucky we've got the caching server or they'd totally fuck the 100Mbps leased line connecting us to the world.
And what about the microphone in it?
I'd get ten times the amount of critical information from a compromise from a microphone than I would a webcam.
And almost all webcams are microphones too and/or require no more effort to compromise. If you can see down the webcam without the user noticing, you can silently record the microphone too.
Dumb security advice from a guy who doesn't understand IT.
Yep.
Between this and drones, I'm just waiting for the inevitable.
Even if they only run misdirection, you could make people petrified and get them banned overnight.
The same way that because of something that happened 15 years ago, we still can't carry a can of Coke onto a plane.
"Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists"
Those people? If they can be bought, they're not scientists. Just for the record.
Harvard or not.
However, whether sugar is actually detrimental? That's not such an easy statement to make.
According to the BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...
"Overhead signs or bridges can also be misinterpreted if the road dips. To combat this, Tesla cars are going to be used to âoelearnâ about the road. Initially, the vehicle fleet will take no action except to note the position of road signs, bridges and other stationary objects, mapping the world according to radar,â Mr Musk wrote.
"The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database. If several cars drive safely past a given radar object, whether Autopilot is turned on or off, then that object is added to the geocoded whitelist.â
I didn't think they could make Autopilot even more dangerous but they've managed it.
Whitelisting locations where the radar "always" detects objects and then just ignoring objects in those locations.
Kill me now. If you're in a Tesla you may as well, it would only save time.
Except:
If Samsung, say, were paying the taxes they were supposed to, Apple will be unable to compete with them on price if they start paying tax and consider just pushing that "expense" to users.
This will inevitably result in a drop in Apple sales, or them having to pay taxes AND charge a reasonable price.
The consumer does not win while people aren't paying taxes. The market wins when they do. This means the same devices for the same prices from a range of people.
Same thing with Starbucks / Costa Coffee in the UK. The first paid no tax. The latter paid full UK tax. Both compete in the same high-street. Maybe Starbucks pay tax just made Costa a hero and Starbucks the villain, got tax into the country, and they both still charge the same for a cup of coffee.
PTO = paid time off?
Sorry, I judge you just as much as your boss for tolerating it. "First 2 years" I take to mean that you were there for longer than that? Far too long.
Your boss, however, got tons of excellent work out of you for almost no extra compensation without ever taking any responsibility. He's laughing all the way to the bank.
I swear half the problem with bad workplaces and bosses is people never saying "Fuck off" (or equivalent) to their stupid demands.
To converse, both sides have to want to talk.
Dolphins show little or no interest in actually teaching us their language, so it's more akin to learning a dead language from the last native speaker - one who hates your guts. It's not simple thing.
Then there's the assumption that we can have any kind of meaningful discourse with them, that they think in any way similar to us. That's just unproven.
Then there's the assumption that just listening is enough to learn anything at all. Even listening-and-playing-back does nothing. The dolphins know it's a recording and don't respond in the same way, even if they show interest.
To be honest, I see little point in trying. Dolphins aren't sitting those solving the maths equations that we can't. They are probably talking about where the fish are, where their friends are, and where the danger is. Not something we can usefully use, especially if they are bright enough to know recordings and ignore them.
The reason we don't yet have communications is because it's a lot of effort for almost zero gain.
The EU are the ones harmed. Ireland chose to harm itself.
It's more akin to Ireland choosing to sell products in its supermarket at zero profit, thus not paying EU tax due on it and putting the EU supermarket providers at an disadvantage when competing. It's anti-competitive, not theft.
As such, Ireland aren't the ones directly harmed - they chose to do it voluntarily - but the EU sellers who had no idea this was happening and could not compete, were harmed and will be compensated.
The Irish people, however, have also been billions of pounds out of pocket for over a decade and their country is arguing that Apple should keep those billions. I'd be mighty pissed off about that if I lived in Ireland.
The taxes were due to Ireland, and a portion of those were then due to the EU. The EU never received them but the EU do want them. Ireland never received them BECAUSE they don't want them. And it was Ireland that hid them.
It's like Ireland told Apple "I'm supposed to give 10% of that to the EU taxman, but never mind, forget about it". The EU taxman wants his money, whether Ireland want to collect the rest of it or not, and Ireland have no authorisation to NOT collect taxes due to them and to the EU.
Read what you post.
The EU courts DECIDED that these rules are basically unfair, just after Ireland rearranged them to comply with "international best practice", after granting amnesties to companies who were using them.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE EU ARE SAYING WAS ILLEGAL ALL ALONG and why Apple have to pay back SO MUCH money.
Ireland made up laws that let certain companies off of paying tax, only in Ireland, against international laws.
And Apple didn't even then pay the tax in Ireland on the Irish taxes, because it paid 0.005% not 12.5% because of "deals" that Ireland gave them.
It's illegal state aid, no matter what the rules said in Ireland (EU law trumps that), and especially when Apple are not even being properly taxed on the bit that their schemes DOES tax.
Apple pay, to quote Brussels ministers, "less tax than a sausage stall" despite doing billions of business in the EU. However you cut that, whoever said "it was okay", that's unfair to every other company trading in the EU that doesn't have a) IP it can license to itself, b) offshore companies it can push tax through and c) "friend-rate" taxation because of its deal with Ireland.
You're a moron:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
"There are no records since 1981 of any person being infected as a result of disturbing soil for building or any other purpose." (35 years, and that's probably only because there were no records kept before that)
"There is no evidence of any worker or member of the public being infected with anthrax as the results of development of brownfield sites including abattoirs and tanneries, areas traditionally associated with anthrax, or greenfield sites previously used for livestock."
The others are all pretty much the same, you only have to do a bit of Googling.
Or you could use your brain and say "I have no fucking idea where the soil in my garden has come from, what it might have had, who it might have been buried with over millions of years of diseases and plagues, and yet I don't die whenever I turn it over".
Sure, eating that shit probably isn't a great idea because there are all kinds of fungi, spores and bacteria in it. But no less in plague pits from hundreds of years ago than in a bag you get from B&Q today. Fuck, most of the peat we use is tens of thousands of years old.
If that's the real reason, rather than preserving those sites (if they are scheduled sites for archaeology, for example), then Edinburgh need to hire some fucking scientists. If only they had a university...
If you can catch it from the soil, it's still active and killing people in the local area every day. That's not what's happening. Disturbing soil a couple of hundreds years old is like the crap that the pyramid had curses and diseases in them. Absolute bollocks. After that period of time, anything that can infect a host would have been without hosts for hundreds of years, and would have died at the first winter.
Yeah, free dental care up to the age of 18, plus free dental care to those who can't afford it after that, and free dental care to those over 65.
What fucking bastards. Looking after people's teeth. For free! I mean, what fucks?! They should be paying a third-party for-profit company at least a thousand dollars a year for that, right?!
Fucking nanny states, making sure we're looked after, get to a dentists, have dentistry work and orthodontics that would cost tens of thousands in other countries, and that we get it for free. Almost like a... well, a nanny. Who cares for our kids.
Fucking moron.
Ireland can set any tax rate it likes. So long as it doesn't let one company off of paying that tax rate for no real reason.
That's called state-aid, and that has to be declared.
If France were charging Ireland twice as much tax for milk as they charge other EU countries, you'd be up in fucking arms about it.
When Ireland does it to the EU, that's alright, though?
When the insurer's say "What caused the problem?" and you say "Nobody will ever know", see how willing they are to pay out.
You think that spacecraft insurance is somehow inherently different to EVERY OTHER insurance out there?
What?
Who needs high-speed here? If you had a camera on the gantry, you could instantly eliminate entire classes of problem. Like all those NASA launches from the 60's (when cameras were MUCH more expensive!) where you see the rocket go past the camera mounted on the gantries.
Then maybe the conspiracy theory bullshit artists (fucking 9/11 article on here too!) would see the leak round the back, or whatever, instead of footage filmed from SO FAR AWAY THAT THE SOUND IS MANY SECONDS BEHIND as their best data.
I can't believe they fuelled up a multi-million dollar vessel -whether about to launch or not - without having some better way to see if the fuelling was going alright than filming it from KILOMETRES away.
A $30 CCTV camera from Amazon would have provided more useful footage.
God, the sheer fucking waste of human time with amateurs "analysing" this kind of crap.
If this set of comments in any way reflects real-world proportions, we're fucked.
Hey, everyone, Princess Diana was killed in a royal conspiracy! That was 19 years ago, let's continue to make up bollocks about that too!
This is also my biggest problem with YouTube. If you have time to piss about editing hours of video and "analysing" it by looking at blocky MPEG frames, you really need to be given community service to get you doing something more productive.
This site used to be full of insightful and rigorous discussion and technical info. I think I'm done.
Cost of a bunch of CCTV on the launchpad, on the towers, etc.? A few thousand dollars, surely?
Cost of not knowing why you're $200m out of pocket? Surely a high potential of another $200m.
In other words, it's a one-button jumper because they realised anything else on an entirely-touchscreen phone would suck.
They're running out of gimmicks.
The phones are already compasses, spirit levels, sat-navs, cameras, gaming machines, VR displays, heartbeat sensors, fingerprint sensors, etc. etc. etc.
They are literally grasping for anything practical and waterproofing doesn't take up battery life, much space, or much cost (rubber seal, tight case, done).
Remember that kid in class that had the calculator-watch, which was also a stopwatch, and an alarm, and a countdown timer, etc. etc. etc.? Same thing. Nobody really used those extra bits much but they are all there because they don't cost much to add and you can sell them as a feature.
Gorilla Glass was another. Now they all have that.
Curved edges. Now they all have that.
Waterproofing. Now they all have that.
Wireless charging. Now they all have that.
NFC. Now they all have that.
You'll start to see even more junk now that it's getting harder. Integrated stands into the phone case itself. Miniature projector (or have I seen that in the market already?). Gesture control. God knows what else.
Basically any tacky gimmick that one company can claim is a one-up on the competition. And next devices from all companies will all have it.