Do the social democracies like Germany or Norway invent amazing new technologies like the Internet or smartphones? No, that was the US,
Germany invented the first programmable computer, I'd like to see how your internet and smartphones would have worked without that. Also the smartcard, the first oscilloscope, SMS for cell phones, morphine, x-rays, etc. Norway's inventions include things like Object Oriented Programming.
Do your social democracies like the UK have the best health outcomes? No, that's the US - be chance of survival for infants, cancer, heart disease, HIV...
Despite the US spending nearly three times the amount per capita on health care as the UK (and even ignoring private money the US government spends almost 25% more than the UK on health care), the average life expectancy in the UK is 3 years longer than in the US, all cause mortality in the UK is lower than in the US, and specifically the UK has lower mortality rates for cancer and heart disease, and has half the infant mortality rate of the US. (I didn't immediately see figures for HIV)
Do you social democracies like France or Sweden perform huge amounts of medical R&D? No, that's the US, which provides half of the entire world's medical R&D.
Sweden spends more money per capita on medical research than the US. And in per-capita spending, the US is behind even such countries as Signapore and South Korea.
for example AWS allows the account owner to set the password policy strength: Options are: Minimum password length: [8] [X] Require at least one uppercase letter [X] Require at least one lowercase letter [X] Require at least one number [X] Require at least one non-alphanumeric character [ ] Allow users to change their own password [X] Enable password expiration Password expiration period (in days): [1] [X] Prevent password reuse Number of passwords to remember: [32000] [X] Password expiration requires administrator reset
*sigh* if only sites didn't chose options like this so I can read their useless blog...
This is the biggest thing about security of websites. If your site doesn't handle my money, or my real life reputation, then it doesn't need a secure password. Imagine if every single store you ever visited required you to sign up with all your personal details and carry around a user card before you could walk in the door? Sure you'd put up with it for your favourite grocery store, the local hardware store, and maybe 1-2 others, but you'd quickly say enough is enough and just avoid the mall. The web is increasingly like this, every site wants all your personal details, and for you to remember a username and password just for their site, a site you may not ever visit again. It's insane.
If a streaming video provider doesn't need a strong password, that's fine, the worst case is someone else watches a TV show instead of me, oh the horror! If my bank doesn't require a strong password, that's a problem, but for the rest, give it a rest!
Yup, I have a lot of sites where my password is simply to hit the "forgot password" link. There's no point in even trying to remember the password on any site where the password expiry is more frequent than my visits to the site, or where I visit the site less frequently than once every 6 months or so. I'll use a strong password, that I can re-type once when entering it, after that it's gone from my memory.
And of course there's the sheer stupidity of storing all your passwords in one place, especially one accessible by multiple devices over the internet....
I've seen sites where they had a maximum password length, usually like 8 characters. Seriously, WTF. You are _intentionally_ making your passwords insecure???
I know a specific bank that has the following password rules for their online banking: - must be all numeric - must be between 4 and 6 digits long
And this is a BANK!!!!
Even better was when they sent out a newsletter which included a section on "staying safe online" which specified that you should always use a strong password of greater than 8 characters mixed upper and lowercase with numbers and symbols. I found that pretty ironic from a bank that won't let you use those very passwords on their own site.
This!, I'm getting tired of being told that / isn't a special character, or that my truly random password only had 1 uppercase and 2 numbers, but needs 2 uppercase and 3 numbers, or that my random password can't have the same character twice in a row, etc.
Not in the UK, and we have no £3,600 exclusion, however I do get given shares, and I am not allowed to sell them before the end of the year (I don't think it's contingent on how long I work for the company, just that I have to hold them for a specific length of time before selling)
That's not a problem with progressive taxation, it's a problem with complicated taxation rules. The rules are designed by the rich to make it easy for the rich to circumvent. If the tax code wasn't thousands of pages long, the odds are the loopholes wouldn't exist.
Communism isn't all or nothing. The most successful countries on the planet have publicly funded healthcare, that doesn't suddenly make them Cuba or the USSR.
Or is your argument that anything that Cuba has must be bad, simply because it's Cuba? In that case I recommend you stop eating food, because communist countries have that too.
The article says Amazon is giving their employees shares, not share options, but then says the employees can't benefit from the shares for one to three years. That suggests they're really getting share options, but the reporter doesn't understand the difference, or doesn't feel like trying to explain it. (I've been given share options a few times, and have always struggled to explain them to anyone who hasn't worked for a company that gave them.)
Not necessarily, there are various ways of doing this, and my employer does in fact provide me with un-vested shares, not options. This is preferable to options in that regardless of if the stock goes up, down, or stays flat, I still get something (the new share value), additionally I get dividends on them even before they vest, whereas with options you'd get nothing until they vest, and even then only if the shares went up. I have also received options in the past, but those are given out as one time special grants as opposed to the un-vested shares which are part of every paycheque (they vest annually at the end of the year and from that point on I can chose to hold or sell them)
I may have been less clear than I intended on that point, I meant to make it clear that I find the Microsoft mice more ergonomic than the Logitech mice, but that they are otherwise very similar quality products. I will note however that ergonomics is somewhat subjective, I have a co-worker who swears by her Logitech mouse, whereas I find it too small, of course she's also a full foot shorter than I am, and likely has somewhat smaller hands too, so that may account for the different preference.
I agree, I also loved their ergonomic keyboards. As a general rule I find MS to be quite good at hardware. Too bad they pretend to be a software company, because that's obviously not their strong suit.
Having used both, I disagree. Microsoft mice are pretty much exactly on par with Logitech (though I find them a bit more ergonomic) they won't compete with a custom high end brand, but they're good solid consumer grade stuff. Microsoft's ergonomic keyboards on the other hand were top notch, better than what Logitech puts out.
(as I sadly type this on a horrible Dell keyboard, but at least I have a Microsoft mouse)
As a general rule I've found Microsoft to be pretty good at hardware, even if they couldn't code themselves out of a wet paper bag.
Don't worry, all past temperature measurements have been "corrected" to account for their inaccuracy. Ignore the fact that every thermometer in the past was deemed to be measuring high and had to be lowered (and the further back, the more it had to be lowered) and that none of the inaccuracy happened to be on the high side. Also any descriptions of warm events anywhere in history are just "weather" and should not be used to contradict "climate"
Either way if you actually look at the long term it will be very cold indeed, "toasted to a crisp" is pretty short term if looking at the whole of existence.
No, he actually believes it. He also sincerely believes that the Arctic ice cap no longer exists, having melted completely over a decade ago.
I don't think you understand how climate science works. You never deny the current state of the world. You simply change all the past data to fit your prediction. Instead of believing that the ice caps have already melted, they revise the past claim and state that they never predicted that, or they revise the past data to show that the ice caps 20 years ago extended almost to the equator, and therefore we've already effectively lost them.
Another couple of years and I'll learn that at the time of my birth at the start of August there were 8 feet of snow on the ground. (The picture my parents have of them in shorts on the front lawn will be dismissed as "weather is not climate")
No, my battery is NOT software limited, it is quite simply less than 85kWh. They lied about the capacity. This has been confirmed by people disassembling the battery, and testing the individual cells. This is NOT a software limit, this is false advertising.
The horsepower output of the motors isn't relevant if the battery can't output it. Why don't normal car manufacturers say that their axles are capable of 50,000 horsepower then? because it would be stupid to quote the horespower of a part that isn't the limiting factor. Again, Tesla lied and used false advertising. sure it can be higher than 463, but it can not, under any circumstance even come close to the advertised number.
I love how you think the ludicrous mode complaint is irrelevant now because Tesla was caught, and after much arguing, finally relented under threat of many lawsuits and now allows people to access what they paid for. That's not Tesla being right, that's Tesla being caught! They never advertised any limits to ludicrous mode, they simply quoted the performance numbers and took money. That's called fraud and false advertising. They were caught and had to back track, how ethical of them.
The changes in AP nags do exactly ZERO to enhance safety, what they do is allow Tesla's PR department (the only part of the company Tesla cares about) to claim a few wins. It's still illegal, unethical, and fraudulent behaviour to remove functionality after purchase. If they regretted their decision they could have stopped selling the feature to new customers, but you can't retroactively change the terms of a sale after it is complete.
And, no, I'm not expecting Tesla to qualify every statement, I'm asking (not expecting) them to stop LYING TO CUSTOMERS and to stop TAKING MONEY BY FRAUDULENT MEANS.
They are the least ethical company on the entire planet. And that takes a LOT of doing.
It's all part of a pattern. My 85kWh battery is only 77kWh, the P85D's 691 horespower is only 463, Ludicrous mode batteries had a counter in them to neuter the acceleration after a set number of launches, The list goes on. These are not the actions of a reputable company.
As for the Mobileye thing, that had no bearing on many of Tesla's actions. For instance, the AP1 cars have nags if you take your hands off the wheel, originally they only occurred in turns, now they occur every 30 seconds, and if they happen 3 times you have to pull over and park before you can use the system again. It originally worked at any speed on any road, now it works only to 5mph over the random number the car picks that it incorrectly thinks the speed limit is on many roads. Mobileye didn't enforce that, Tesla did, and tellingly, they did it AFTER delivery of the cars. In other words, they removed functionality AFTER sale, that's illegal in most of the world.
Never mind that Tesla never said that these features "might" happen, or "may" happen, they didn't use any qualifiers, and they DID take money based on the promises. If it's only something that "might" happen, maybe they shouldn't have taken anyone's money until it did? Or when it didn't happen maybe they should have refunded the money that they took from people through fraudulent means?
And now of course, AP2 still hasn't caught up to where AP1 was in October of 2015, and yet we're supposed to believe that AP2 will be full self driving at some point in the future if we just fork over the money and wait. How big a sucker would you have to be?
The car can't look around the dirt on the camera. You can. Thinking of which, Tesla's AP cameras (with the exception of the front one) have no way of cleaning dirt or even rain off of them. They won't work in inclement weather.
"full self driving" is just as honest as "hands free on-ramp to off-ramp" was on AP1, or how about "will come to you anywhere you are on private property" remember that lie? how about "recognizes stop signs and traffic lights"? AP 1 was going to do that too. in fact of all the claims Elon made about AP during the D event, I can't actually find ANY that it has delivered on.
Tesla has been given a free pass on all their lies so far, they see no reason to start telling the truth now.
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Do the social democracies like Germany or Norway invent amazing new technologies like the Internet or smartphones? No, that was the US,
Germany invented the first programmable computer, I'd like to see how your internet and smartphones would have worked without that. Also the smartcard, the first oscilloscope, SMS for cell phones, morphine, x-rays, etc. Norway's inventions include things like Object Oriented Programming.
Do your social democracies like the UK have the best health outcomes? No, that's the US - be chance of survival for infants, cancer, heart disease, HIV...
Despite the US spending nearly three times the amount per capita on health care as the UK (and even ignoring private money the US government spends almost 25% more than the UK on health care), the average life expectancy in the UK is 3 years longer than in the US, all cause mortality in the UK is lower than in the US, and specifically the UK has lower mortality rates for cancer and heart disease, and has half the infant mortality rate of the US. (I didn't immediately see figures for HIV)
Do you social democracies like France or Sweden perform huge amounts of medical R&D? No, that's the US, which provides half of the entire world's medical R&D.
Sweden spends more money per capita on medical research than the US. And in per-capita spending, the US is behind even such countries as Signapore and South Korea.
I think you missed the first bit of my comment that specified I wasn't in the UK.
for example AWS allows the account owner to set the password policy strength:
Options are:
Minimum password length: [8]
[X] Require at least one uppercase letter
[X] Require at least one lowercase letter
[X] Require at least one number
[X] Require at least one non-alphanumeric character
[ ] Allow users to change their own password
[X] Enable password expiration
Password expiration period (in days): [1]
[X] Prevent password reuse
Number of passwords to remember: [32000]
[X] Password expiration requires administrator reset
*sigh* if only sites didn't chose options like this so I can read their useless blog...
This is the biggest thing about security of websites. If your site doesn't handle my money, or my real life reputation, then it doesn't need a secure password.
Imagine if every single store you ever visited required you to sign up with all your personal details and carry around a user card before you could walk in the door? Sure you'd put up with it for your favourite grocery store, the local hardware store, and maybe 1-2 others, but you'd quickly say enough is enough and just avoid the mall. The web is increasingly like this, every site wants all your personal details, and for you to remember a username and password just for their site, a site you may not ever visit again. It's insane.
If a streaming video provider doesn't need a strong password, that's fine, the worst case is someone else watches a TV show instead of me, oh the horror! If my bank doesn't require a strong password, that's a problem, but for the rest, give it a rest!
Yup, I have a lot of sites where my password is simply to hit the "forgot password" link. There's no point in even trying to remember the password on any site where the password expiry is more frequent than my visits to the site, or where I visit the site less frequently than once every 6 months or so. I'll use a strong password, that I can re-type once when entering it, after that it's gone from my memory.
And of course there's the sheer stupidity of storing all your passwords in one place, especially one accessible by multiple devices over the internet....
I've seen sites where they had a maximum password length, usually like 8 characters. Seriously, WTF. You are _intentionally_ making your passwords insecure???
I know a specific bank that has the following password rules for their online banking:
- must be all numeric
- must be between 4 and 6 digits long
And this is a BANK!!!!
Even better was when they sent out a newsletter which included a section on "staying safe online" which specified that you should always use a strong password of greater than 8 characters mixed upper and lowercase with numbers and symbols. I found that pretty ironic from a bank that won't let you use those very passwords on their own site.
This!, I'm getting tired of being told that / isn't a special character, or that my truly random password only had 1 uppercase and 2 numbers, but needs 2 uppercase and 3 numbers, or that my random password can't have the same character twice in a row, etc.
Not in the UK, and we have no £3,600 exclusion, however I do get given shares, and I am not allowed to sell them before the end of the year (I don't think it's contingent on how long I work for the company, just that I have to hold them for a specific length of time before selling)
That's not a problem with progressive taxation, it's a problem with complicated taxation rules.
The rules are designed by the rich to make it easy for the rich to circumvent. If the tax code wasn't thousands of pages long, the odds are the loopholes wouldn't exist.
Communism isn't all or nothing. The most successful countries on the planet have publicly funded healthcare, that doesn't suddenly make them Cuba or the USSR.
Or is your argument that anything that Cuba has must be bad, simply because it's Cuba? In that case I recommend you stop eating food, because communist countries have that too.
The article says Amazon is giving their employees shares, not share options, but then says the employees can't benefit from the shares for one to three years. That suggests they're really getting share options, but the reporter doesn't understand the difference, or doesn't feel like trying to explain it. (I've been given share options a few times, and have always struggled to explain them to anyone who hasn't worked for a company that gave them.)
Not necessarily, there are various ways of doing this, and my employer does in fact provide me with un-vested shares, not options. This is preferable to options in that regardless of if the stock goes up, down, or stays flat, I still get something (the new share value), additionally I get dividends on them even before they vest, whereas with options you'd get nothing until they vest, and even then only if the shares went up.
I have also received options in the past, but those are given out as one time special grants as opposed to the un-vested shares which are part of every paycheque (they vest annually at the end of the year and from that point on I can chose to hold or sell them)
I may have been less clear than I intended on that point, I meant to make it clear that I find the Microsoft mice more ergonomic than the Logitech mice, but that they are otherwise very similar quality products. I will note however that ergonomics is somewhat subjective, I have a co-worker who swears by her Logitech mouse, whereas I find it too small, of course she's also a full foot shorter than I am, and likely has somewhat smaller hands too, so that may account for the different preference.
Now we get in to philosophy rather than science... if the temperature drops and nobody is around to feel it, is it still cold?
Keyboards and mice. They're top notch.
I agree, I also loved their ergonomic keyboards. As a general rule I find MS to be quite good at hardware. Too bad they pretend to be a software company, because that's obviously not their strong suit.
Having used both, I disagree. Microsoft mice are pretty much exactly on par with Logitech (though I find them a bit more ergonomic) they won't compete with a custom high end brand, but they're good solid consumer grade stuff.
Microsoft's ergonomic keyboards on the other hand were top notch, better than what Logitech puts out.
(as I sadly type this on a horrible Dell keyboard, but at least I have a Microsoft mouse)
As a general rule I've found Microsoft to be pretty good at hardware, even if they couldn't code themselves out of a wet paper bag.
Don't worry, all past temperature measurements have been "corrected" to account for their inaccuracy. Ignore the fact that every thermometer in the past was deemed to be measuring high and had to be lowered (and the further back, the more it had to be lowered) and that none of the inaccuracy happened to be on the high side. Also any descriptions of warm events anywhere in history are just "weather" and should not be used to contradict "climate"
Either way if you actually look at the long term it will be very cold indeed, "toasted to a crisp" is pretty short term if looking at the whole of existence.
Because that's what people have been doing since the dawn of time?
No, he actually believes it. He also sincerely believes that the Arctic ice cap no longer exists, having melted completely over a decade ago.
I don't think you understand how climate science works. You never deny the current state of the world. You simply change all the past data to fit your prediction.
Instead of believing that the ice caps have already melted, they revise the past claim and state that they never predicted that, or they revise the past data to show that the ice caps 20 years ago extended almost to the equator, and therefore we've already effectively lost them.
Another couple of years and I'll learn that at the time of my birth at the start of August there were 8 feet of snow on the ground. (The picture my parents have of them in shorts on the front lawn will be dismissed as "weather is not climate")
Wow... Stockholm syndrome much?
No, my battery is NOT software limited, it is quite simply less than 85kWh. They lied about the capacity. This has been confirmed by people disassembling the battery, and testing the individual cells. This is NOT a software limit, this is false advertising.
The horsepower output of the motors isn't relevant if the battery can't output it. Why don't normal car manufacturers say that their axles are capable of 50,000 horsepower then? because it would be stupid to quote the horespower of a part that isn't the limiting factor. Again, Tesla lied and used false advertising. sure it can be higher than 463, but it can not, under any circumstance even come close to the advertised number.
I love how you think the ludicrous mode complaint is irrelevant now because Tesla was caught, and after much arguing, finally relented under threat of many lawsuits and now allows people to access what they paid for. That's not Tesla being right, that's Tesla being caught! They never advertised any limits to ludicrous mode, they simply quoted the performance numbers and took money. That's called fraud and false advertising. They were caught and had to back track, how ethical of them.
The changes in AP nags do exactly ZERO to enhance safety, what they do is allow Tesla's PR department (the only part of the company Tesla cares about) to claim a few wins. It's still illegal, unethical, and fraudulent behaviour to remove functionality after purchase. If they regretted their decision they could have stopped selling the feature to new customers, but you can't retroactively change the terms of a sale after it is complete.
And, no, I'm not expecting Tesla to qualify every statement, I'm asking (not expecting) them to stop LYING TO CUSTOMERS and to stop TAKING MONEY BY FRAUDULENT MEANS.
They are the least ethical company on the entire planet. And that takes a LOT of doing.
It's all part of a pattern.
My 85kWh battery is only 77kWh,
the P85D's 691 horespower is only 463,
Ludicrous mode batteries had a counter in them to neuter the acceleration after a set number of launches,
The list goes on. These are not the actions of a reputable company.
As for the Mobileye thing, that had no bearing on many of Tesla's actions. For instance, the AP1 cars have nags if you take your hands off the wheel, originally they only occurred in turns, now they occur every 30 seconds, and if they happen 3 times you have to pull over and park before you can use the system again. It originally worked at any speed on any road, now it works only to 5mph over the random number the car picks that it incorrectly thinks the speed limit is on many roads. Mobileye didn't enforce that, Tesla did, and tellingly, they did it AFTER delivery of the cars. In other words, they removed functionality AFTER sale, that's illegal in most of the world.
Never mind that Tesla never said that these features "might" happen, or "may" happen, they didn't use any qualifiers, and they DID take money based on the promises. If it's only something that "might" happen, maybe they shouldn't have taken anyone's money until it did? Or when it didn't happen maybe they should have refunded the money that they took from people through fraudulent means?
And now of course, AP2 still hasn't caught up to where AP1 was in October of 2015, and yet we're supposed to believe that AP2 will be full self driving at some point in the future if we just fork over the money and wait. How big a sucker would you have to be?
The car can't look around the dirt on the camera. You can. Thinking of which, Tesla's AP cameras (with the exception of the front one) have no way of cleaning dirt or even rain off of them. They won't work in inclement weather.
"full self driving" is just as honest as "hands free on-ramp to off-ramp" was on AP1, or how about "will come to you anywhere you are on private property" remember that lie? how about "recognizes stop signs and traffic lights"? AP 1 was going to do that too. in fact of all the claims Elon made about AP during the D event, I can't actually find ANY that it has delivered on.
Tesla has been given a free pass on all their lies so far, they see no reason to start telling the truth now.