Look, Uber can die in a fire for all I care. But unless, for some bizarre reason, UBI recipients are required to give some percentage of their income specifically to Uber, dropping that company into this discussion is so disconnected from the topic at hand that it doesn’t even deserve to be called a straw man.
Typical practice is to first submit to the prestige journals like Science or Nature, since those give you more points towards tenure and also look better on future grant applications. Then, when that get rejected, you rewrite slightly and submit to the next tier. Lather, rinse, repeat...
Given that the comparisons you’re drawing are all decades old... the lack of pilot deaths with a newer plane could very well be due to stricter limits on the pilots’ flight time versus down time.
Just curious for those who have been using DuckDuckGo - how's the quality of the search results?
Works well for me.
When I’m searching, most often I’m looking to resolve some coding issue or another. DDG seems to do a pretty good job returning helpful results for that. On the occasions it doesn’t, I haven’t found Google to provide anything substantively better.
From what I’ve seen, most store receipts are thermally printed. It’s also why the receipts fade over time.
Incidentally, a research lab I worked at long ago printed out its raw experimental results using an (HP?) thermal printer. The measurements were also stored on a disk, since the equipment was controlled by an old HP minicomputer... but the boss wanted the paper records for backup, for whatever reason (there was no way that raw data was ever going to be re-entered by hand - there were tens of thousands of pages). He was cheap, so there was no talking him into a better system.
Anyway, one day I pulled out one of the older books, just for the heck of it... and every page was blank. Pulled out another one... ditto. Probably a decade’s worth of these “backups” were gone, and the more recent stuff was demonstrably fading.
We still didn’t get a real backup system after that... but we at least got a new printer.
I tuned in and saw this rather tall, thin guy reading the news from a desk on the beach for some reason. The newsreader said “and now for something completely different”, then they shifted to coverage of some bizarre event where people attempted to summarize Proust.
Well, at a minimum Google has shown they have absolutely no credibility when they talk about protecting the massive amount of information they gather about their users.
They could be knowingly leaking it all over the place and you’ll never know.
I know we’re a cynical lot here, but - I can’t picture most “normal” people buying this, even if they’re enameled of Facebook. They’ve already got the app on their phones and tablets.
And the camera follows you around, keeping everyone in focus.... not creepy at all.
(I suppose this is where I sneakily mention deleting my Facebook account 4 or so years ago)
First - given the unusually specific, no-bones-about-it wording used by Apple in their denial, I believe their statement. Some of the other companies, though, seemed to be giving themselves a bit of maneuvering room.
But both the UK’s and US’s spy agency statements basically just say “we have seen no evidence as of yet”. It’s a very careful statement which doesn’t really mean much.
1. An Apple Watch may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. An Apple Watch must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. An Apple Watch must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
These are the rich - they don’t use the phones themselves, they tell Jeeves to do it. But Jeeves’ hands were full holding Missus’ half caff, half decaf venti soy dulche cappuccino and a biscotti.
If it's immoral to do the best you can with what you have for your family, well...it gets complex fast, doesn't it.
To quote Jerry Seinfeld: “We’re trying to have a civilization here...”
I believe we need to be looking at the bigger picture and that we have some level of responsibility to the other folks around us. But even if someone doesn’t give a rat’s ass for anyone who doesn’t share their same name - they need to consider the world their offspring will be living in, 40 or 50 years down the road. Letting Amazon do whatever it wants now may not be in their best interest.
But I suppose we can’t expect Google to attack the real speed killer - the calling and loading of sometimes dozens of third-party trackers and advertisements on a web page.
Slashdot Mirror
If this device is detecting hand positions... why not just use the letter signs from ASL (American Sign Language)? Lots of people already know it.
In other countries they’d use the local equivalents, of course.
Look, Uber can die in a fire for all I care. But unless, for some bizarre reason, UBI recipients are required to give some percentage of their income specifically to Uber, dropping that company into this discussion is so disconnected from the topic at hand that it doesn’t even deserve to be called a straw man.
Typical practice is to first submit to the prestige journals like Science or Nature, since those give you more points towards tenure and also look better on future grant applications. Then, when that get rejected, you rewrite slightly and submit to the next tier. Lather, rinse, repeat...
Given that the comparisons you’re drawing are all decades old... the lack of pilot deaths with a newer plane could very well be due to stricter limits on the pilots’ flight time versus down time.
I use my dog's face to unlock my phone.
Sounds good - can I borrow your dog?
It sounds like it's all coming from Benioff's side, and Dorsey hasn't risen to the bait. So in what sense is this a "spat"?
Just curious for those who have been using DuckDuckGo - how's the quality of the search results?
Works well for me.
When I’m searching, most often I’m looking to resolve some coding issue or another. DDG seems to do a pretty good job returning helpful results for that. On the occasions it doesn’t, I haven’t found Google to provide anything substantively better.
Wait a second while I grab my popcorn.
From what I’ve seen, most store receipts are thermally printed. It’s also why the receipts fade over time.
Incidentally, a research lab I worked at long ago printed out its raw experimental results using an (HP?) thermal printer. The measurements were also stored on a disk, since the equipment was controlled by an old HP minicomputer... but the boss wanted the paper records for backup, for whatever reason (there was no way that raw data was ever going to be re-entered by hand - there were tens of thousands of pages). He was cheap, so there was no talking him into a better system.
Anyway, one day I pulled out one of the older books, just for the heck of it... and every page was blank. Pulled out another one... ditto. Probably a decade’s worth of these “backups” were gone, and the more recent stuff was demonstrably fading.
We still didn’t get a real backup system after that... but we at least got a new printer.
The headline here said "President Trump Signs" but who among you would claim it would be any different had Hillary been elected?
Hillary, no. Obama, yes.
If Obama were still in office, his signature on this law would slope differently because he is left-handed.
Just Google offering access to the information it collects from its users to its actual customers. Yeah, that makes it all better.
Let’s remember this the next time Project Zero broadcasts the shortcomings of some other companies’ products.
I tuned in and saw this rather tall, thin guy reading the news from a desk on the beach for some reason. The newsreader said “and now for something completely different”, then they shifted to coverage of some bizarre event where people attempted to summarize Proust.
Ye gods, no, please, not all your advice. Only get all your LEGAL advice from Slashdot.
Also advice on women. Slashdot’s got a lot of users knowledgeable regarding women.
You'll never get bothered with pesky announcements about security breaches affecting your data!
Well, at a minimum Google has shown they have absolutely no credibility when they talk about protecting the massive amount of information they gather about their users.
They could be knowingly leaking it all over the place and you’ll never know.
I know we’re a cynical lot here, but - I can’t picture most “normal” people buying this, even if they’re enameled of Facebook. They’ve already got the app on their phones and tablets.
And the camera follows you around, keeping everyone in focus.... not creepy at all.
(I suppose this is where I sneakily mention deleting my Facebook account 4 or so years ago)
First - given the unusually specific, no-bones-about-it wording used by Apple in their denial, I believe their statement. Some of the other companies, though, seemed to be giving themselves a bit of maneuvering room.
But both the UK’s and US’s spy agency statements basically just say “we have seen no evidence as of yet”. It’s a very careful statement which doesn’t really mean much.
I doubt most of the scientists I’ve met would even know what a three-way is.
1. An Apple Watch may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. An Apple Watch must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. An Apple Watch must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Are you using a Google Apps for Education/Business account? The “smart” compose feature probably hasn’t been deployed to you.
I noticed my work email, which is on Google Apps for Edu, does not have this - but my personal Gmail (which I generally avoid using) does.
These are the rich - they don’t use the phones themselves, they tell Jeeves to do it. But Jeeves’ hands were full holding Missus’ half caff, half decaf venti soy dulche cappuccino and a biscotti.
That Purple Haze - its all in your brain. It’s just that lately things don’t seem the same.
We usually buy Hebrew National - those come seven to a package.
If it's immoral to do the best you can with what you have for your family, well...it gets complex fast, doesn't it.
To quote Jerry Seinfeld: “We’re trying to have a civilization here...”
I believe we need to be looking at the bigger picture and that we have some level of responsibility to the other folks around us. But even if someone doesn’t give a rat’s ass for anyone who doesn’t share their same name - they need to consider the world their offspring will be living in, 40 or 50 years down the road. Letting Amazon do whatever it wants now may not be in their best interest.
But I suppose we can’t expect Google to attack the real speed killer - the calling and loading of sometimes dozens of third-party trackers and advertisements on a web page.