Having done both - I actually prefer living in smaller towns rather than big cities. But I do sometimes miss the restaurants (we're 40 miles outside of Seattle, which is a bit far to drive for dinner except for anniversaries or whatnot).
yeah, if you ignore that his narrow victory was clearly pushed over the top by the illegal interference in the election by the head of the FBI, who was using as ammunition against the Democrat contender a set of emails related to emails which were originally made public by illegal hacking of Democrat computer systems by agents of a foreign power.
This seems almost as silly as the crap Trump says.
Hillary is a thoroughly unlikeable person...and her own worst enemy. Even now, she somehow polls more unfavorably than Trump. Like a lot of people, I held my nose and voted for her, given the alternative - but let's not pretend she was adored by the masses. Even without the emails the Russians hacked and released, Trump still might have won the Electoral College.
My question is - who funded the particular research which resulted in these patents?
If the answer is a US government entity, I don't think a university and/or faculty member should be able to hold the patents. If anything, the rights should go to some sort of trust which would license the tech out and then use the proceeds to either repay the government or else make additional funds available for research grants.
There have been processes for behavioral tracking for years now. The trick is to root the device, yank the Chinese certificates out of your root CA store [1], add outgoing blocks on the iptables level to ensure that it doesn't phone home, add some ad blocking, and you will have a decent phone for a cheap price. Ideally, install an OS like LineageOS (if available.)
All higher-profile entities make these sorts of claims. Large companies like Apple or Boeing or Walmart; sports franchises; even public universities like the one which employs me - they all claim that their presence in a local economy adds tens of thousands of ancillary jobs and introduces millions or billions of additional dollars into the local and/or regional economy. Usually when they do it, they're lobbying for tax breaks ("we'll build our new factory here if")... but it is also perfect fodder for politicians.
In my local (Puget Sound) area: Given the number of Seattle-area jobs, direct or ancillary, which are claimed to be due to the mere presence of Boeing, Amazon, U of W, etc. - I guess we're each unknowingly working full time at four or five places and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. That's the only way the numbers could possibly work..
Our local Costco has started carrying Roombas recently, and the price is decent. The last two times I was there, I toyed with getting one.
Now I am not going to buy one under any circumstances. I don't care if the CEO backtracks later - he's just proven why these sorts of devices should not be owned by anyone with any sort of intelligence.
Because it works spectacularly, and the video quality is superb.
MLBAM's iOS apps also "work spectacularly, and the video quality is superb" - without Flash. They obviously know how to accomplish this without using out-of-date, malware-prone technologies... they just need to invest a small amount of that pile of cash they've been collecting from subscribers like me.
Both of you have iOS and Android apps which don't use Flash... so you apparently have (or know where to find) at least one or two people whose skill sets are less than a decade out of date.
It's not a particularly hard problem... so what's the holdup?
It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. On the iPhone you can enable or disable notifications on an app by app basis. And, for most apps, you can even control how intrusively that app will be allowed to notify you.
Heck, you even get prompted "allow notifications from xxxxxxx?" before the app is allowed to bother you. Remember - just because they want to do it doesn't mean you have to allow them to do it.
Also - if an app behaves badly, don't allow it to run in the background: Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh
Really, this seems like more of an user education problem than anything else.
In the US, there are many metrics that are reported and that help understanding the state of the labor force. Called U-1, U-2,... U-6 which represent different aspect of the questions.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also calculates six alternate measures of unemployment, U1 through U6, that measure different aspects of unemployment:
U1: Percentage of labor force unemployed 15 weeks or longer. U2: Percentage of labor force who lost jobs or completed temporary work. U3: Official unemployment rate per the ILO definition occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively looked for work within the past four weeks. U4: U3 + "discouraged workers", or those who have stopped looking for work because current economic conditions make them believe that no work is available for them. U5: U4 + other "marginally attached workers", or "loosely attached workers", or those who "would like" and are able to work, but have not looked for work recently. U6: U5 + Part-time workers who want to work full-time, but cannot due to economic reasons (underemployment).
--There are numerous movies and sci-fi stories reiterating the notion that making killbots is a BAD IDEA.
The obvious solution is to require killbots be designed with a preset kill limit - then they can easily be defeated just by sending wave after wave of men after them.
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Having done both - I actually prefer living in smaller towns rather than big cities. But I do sometimes miss the restaurants (we're 40 miles outside of Seattle, which is a bit far to drive for dinner except for anniversaries or whatnot).
Downtown Woodstock, GA - the city that never sleeps.
It really didn't work for that guy, he was murdered by someone.
No, it did work, mostly... he just didn't live to see the victory.
yeah, if you ignore that his narrow victory was clearly pushed over the top by the illegal interference in the election by the head of the FBI, who was using as ammunition against the Democrat contender a set of emails related to emails which were originally made public by illegal hacking of Democrat computer systems by agents of a foreign power.
This seems almost as silly as the crap Trump says.
Hillary is a thoroughly unlikeable person...and her own worst enemy. Even now, she somehow polls more unfavorably than Trump. Like a lot of people, I held my nose and voted for her, given the alternative - but let's not pretend she was adored by the masses. Even without the emails the Russians hacked and released, Trump still might have won the Electoral College.
My question is - who funded the particular research which resulted in these patents?
If the answer is a US government entity, I don't think a university and/or faculty member should be able to hold the patents. If anything, the rights should go to some sort of trust which would license the tech out and then use the proceeds to either repay the government or else make additional funds available for research grants.
My initial question was actually intended as a Blofeld (James Bond arch-villain) reference.
There have been processes for behavioral tracking for years now. The trick is to root the device, yank the Chinese certificates out of your root CA store [1], add outgoing blocks on the iptables level to ensure that it doesn't phone home, add some ad blocking, and you will have a decent phone for a cheap price. Ideally, install an OS like LineageOS (if available.)
It's so easy, anyone can do it!
And a separate study came to a significantly different conclusion - that chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a leading cause of organ donation.
Does Sergei Brin own a cat?
Google's corporate attention span is roughly equivalent to that of a hyperactive two year old.
All higher-profile entities make these sorts of claims. Large companies like Apple or Boeing or Walmart; sports franchises; even public universities like the one which employs me - they all claim that their presence in a local economy adds tens of thousands of ancillary jobs and introduces millions or billions of additional dollars into the local and/or regional economy. Usually when they do it, they're lobbying for tax breaks ("we'll build our new factory here if")... but it is also perfect fodder for politicians.
In my local (Puget Sound) area: Given the number of Seattle-area jobs, direct or ancillary, which are claimed to be due to the mere presence of Boeing, Amazon, U of W, etc. - I guess we're each unknowingly working full time at four or five places and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. That's the only way the numbers could possibly work..
Our local Costco has started carrying Roombas recently, and the price is decent. The last two times I was there, I toyed with getting one.
Now I am not going to buy one under any circumstances. I don't care if the CEO backtracks later - he's just proven why these sorts of devices should not be owned by anyone with any sort of intelligence.
Because it works spectacularly, and the video quality is superb.
MLBAM's iOS apps also "work spectacularly, and the video quality is superb" - without Flash. They obviously know how to accomplish this without using out-of-date, malware-prone technologies... they just need to invest a small amount of that pile of cash they've been collecting from subscribers like me.
Update your damn websites.
Both of you have iOS and Android apps which don't use Flash... so you apparently have (or know where to find) at least one or two people whose skill sets are less than a decade out of date.
It's not a particularly hard problem... so what's the holdup?
Sincerely,
A Paying Customer
You, on the other hand, don't recognize Monty Python references. :-)
As if millions of comic-book nerds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful telephøne system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic møøse.
This story is more fun if, in your head, you read the summary using a Swedish accent.
It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. On the iPhone you can enable or disable notifications on an app by app basis. And, for most apps, you can even control how intrusively that app will be allowed to notify you.
Heck, you even get prompted "allow notifications from xxxxxxx?" before the app is allowed to bother you. Remember - just because they want to do it doesn't mean you have to allow them to do it.
Also - if an app behaves badly, don't allow it to run in the background: Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh
Really, this seems like more of an user education problem than anything else.
In the US, there are many metrics that are reported and that help understanding the state of the labor force. Called U-1, U-2, ... U-6 which represent different aspect of the questions.
To pad this out - from Wikipedia:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also calculates six alternate measures of unemployment, U1 through U6, that measure different aspects of unemployment:
U1: Percentage of labor force unemployed 15 weeks or longer.
U2: Percentage of labor force who lost jobs or completed temporary work.
U3: Official unemployment rate per the ILO definition occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively looked for work within the past four weeks.
U4: U3 + "discouraged workers", or those who have stopped looking for work because current economic conditions make them believe that no work is available for them.
U5: U4 + other "marginally attached workers", or "loosely attached workers", or those who "would like" and are able to work, but have not looked for work recently.
U6: U5 + Part-time workers who want to work full-time, but cannot due to economic reasons (underemployment).
Because the poster has some weird ideology they're trying to push on us.
This has something to do with Bitcoin, doesn't it?
=What do you use when you need a hammer?
A large wrench, side-on, works pretty well.
--There are numerous movies and sci-fi stories reiterating the notion that making killbots is a BAD IDEA.
The obvious solution is to require killbots be designed with a preset kill limit - then they can easily be defeated just by sending wave after wave of men after them.
RIGHT MEN?!
Oh, that would make sense.
Which.