If this synthetic alcohol becomes popular, maybe it’ll drive the price of good whiskey down a bit. And maybe I’ll finally be able to find a bottle of Ol’ Pappy.
I have an iPhone 6S on iOS 11.1 beta - and this bug is damn easy to reproduce. Why on earth does a freaking animation get precedence over a button push? More importantly, why is it even blocking at all?
I'm old enough to remember typing on remote CRT terminals which were connected to a central computer over a 300 baud line (or maybe it was 110? This was back ~ 1980-1981). Back then, if you typed reasonably fast you could get ahead of the terminal's display by a few characters... but even way back then, this was a solved problem, those additional characters didn't get lost.
People spew their life's intimate and sordid details onto Facebook all the time... but they get up in arms that Facebook might be using the microphone to record them?
This is almost as bizarre as those people who demand the government take away constitutional rights due of terror attacks which kill at most a few dozen people a year, yet don't bat an eye at the ~ 9,000 annually who die due to drunken driving.
Given the claim at the end of the summary, I went to RTFA to see if these were el-cheaply phones or the kind of phone manufacturers actually would want to sell. Unfortunately Tech Crunch’s site seems to be totally borked on my smartphone’s display... so I still don’t know the answer.
As I recall, departments (or universities) can skim 50% or more from grants as overhead. Under the system you describe, this would have to stop, right?
Executive summary: No, that's completely orthogonal.
Longer answer:
If you've ever been involved with writing a grant, you know that overhead is a specific, separate entry on grant applications. You basically add up all the line items in your grant request, and then multiply that total by your university's overhead rate and add that to the request ON TOP OF the research costs you are asking the granting agency to cover. It's not in any way a "skim" or "cut" of a person's research funds.
It amounts to a direct payment from the granting agency to the university to cover general operations - administrative support, infrastructure, etc. When you write a grant, you don't generally have line items for "I need $150 of electricity over the next three years", or "I need 10% of a secretary's time" - or, for that matter, "I need to lease 3000 square feet of lab space in my academic department's building". Basically "overhead" is intended to save you, as a faculty member, from having to track a lot of tedious minutia which you probably don't want to spend time doing.
I work in a STEM department at a US university, and it is my opinion that tenure needs to die. Faculty should get a generous stipend during those quarters when they teach... but otherwise they should have to support themselves from their research funding, and pay into retirement like “normal” people (university funds pay our emeritus faculty, at least).
Many of our faculty pull in lots of money and stay active in research; but there are a few who seem to think getting a big salary for doing next to nothing is a god-given right for reaching full professor. I’ve watched several chairs attempt to “fix” this, e.g. by requiring non-funded faculty to teach more - but political pressure always kills any reforms.
Alternatively, I suppose tenure could stay if the rights to all publicly-funded research were given back to the public - meaning, for example, if you get a multi-million-dollar patent, or if you commercialize a company and a VC buys it, that money goes back to NSF or ONR or whatever agency provided the funding.
I'm as happy as the next guy to hate on Elon - and have done it here, more than once - but it's hard to argue this isn't a good thing regardless of his motivation.
It's just doing its job. Obviously on the data it was trained, "gay" and "jew" were used as derogatory terms.
Tim Cook is gay; Phil Schiller is Jewish. Google's AI is obviously just extrapolating from the fact that the company's leadership sees Apple as the enemy.
The anonymous submitter basically took the title from the Vanity Fair variant of the article and used it for his Slashdot admission. But despite the obvious outrage in this story, what little actual information we're presented doesn't lend itself to drawing an informed opinion on the subject.
One big wildcard here is what, exactly, this rather vague statement means: "Shafer, who has a history of spotting weak encryption and drawing attention to it". Neither linked article explains it (actually, one is basically a republished version of the other; they are not independent articles). Does he contact the business and say "hey, I noticed that your encryption may leave your records vulnerable"; does he break in and leave snarky messages on people's computer desktops; does he change their wifi passwords,...?
At a minimum it's apparent he's a bit of a jerk, given he took issue with someone being arrested for trying to trigger an epileptic seizure in a journalist.
Claiming performance reasons without performance review or HR documentation of performance problems can be basis for lawsuit in many states.
The claim is that Tesla hasn’t done any new performance reviews since they acquired Solar City. These folks may very well have been reviewed prior to the acquisition, in which case Tesla may be using those reviews as a basis for these firings... although at this point those reviews would be at least a year old, which would seem problematic if there hasn’t been any follow-up.
Problem is, we're at a point where any reasonably recent smartphone has plenty of processing power to do pretty much everything the average consumer wants.
Apple, Google, Samsung, and others are struggling to come up with ways to distinguish their own hardware and keep people from treating their products as commodities, which would be a disaster for the companies' bottom lines.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
Another option is to buy a Mac, since Apple’s products do not have the IME enabled.
... assuming you can live without ports, anyway.
“A waste of good gin.”
I kid, I kid...
If this synthetic alcohol becomes popular, maybe it’ll drive the price of good whiskey down a bit. And maybe I’ll finally be able to find a bottle of Ol’ Pappy.
”Captain Crunch (and Steve Wozniak) Write New Book: 'Beyond the Little Blue Box'”
I didn’t realize it was so easy to get author credit.
They moved the tags closer to the floor.
Why do they hate America and Freedom so much?
Some of us earn $50,000 a year in IT in Silicon Valley. We aren't all millionaires here.
At least you're not still on a 9600 baud dial-up connection in Seattle, you Silicon Valley showoffs with your high salaries and your fast internets...
I have an iPhone 6S on iOS 11.1 beta - and this bug is damn easy to reproduce. Why on earth does a freaking animation get precedence over a button push? More importantly, why is it even blocking at all?
I'm old enough to remember typing on remote CRT terminals which were connected to a central computer over a 300 baud line (or maybe it was 110? This was back ~ 1980-1981). Back then, if you typed reasonably fast you could get ahead of the terminal's display by a few characters... but even way back then, this was a solved problem, those additional characters didn't get lost.
People spew their life's intimate and sordid details onto Facebook all the time... but they get up in arms that Facebook might be using the microphone to record them?
This is almost as bizarre as those people who demand the government take away constitutional rights due of terror attacks which kill at most a few dozen people a year, yet don't bat an eye at the ~ 9,000 annually who die due to drunken driving.
It's sad how some non-Americans have never developed a sense of humor.
Given the claim at the end of the summary, I went to RTFA to see if these were el-cheaply phones or the kind of phone manufacturers actually would want to sell. Unfortunately Tech Crunch’s site seems to be totally borked on my smartphone’s display... so I still don’t know the answer.
It’s a garbage pod!
If you want reddit to be a platform for hate you should have no issue with any social media being a platform for ISIS or literal nazis
I draw the line at figurative nazis.
As I recall, departments (or universities) can skim 50% or more from grants as overhead. Under the system you describe, this would have to stop, right?
Executive summary: No, that's completely orthogonal.
Longer answer:
If you've ever been involved with writing a grant, you know that overhead is a specific, separate entry on grant applications. You basically add up all the line items in your grant request, and then multiply that total by your university's overhead rate and add that to the request ON TOP OF the research costs you are asking the granting agency to cover. It's not in any way a "skim" or "cut" of a person's research funds.
It amounts to a direct payment from the granting agency to the university to cover general operations - administrative support, infrastructure, etc. When you write a grant, you don't generally have line items for "I need $150 of electricity over the next three years", or "I need 10% of a secretary's time" - or, for that matter, "I need to lease 3000 square feet of lab space in my academic department's building". Basically "overhead" is intended to save you, as a faculty member, from having to track a lot of tedious minutia which you probably don't want to spend time doing.
No, Twitter's been overrated for far longer than that...
I work in a STEM department at a US university, and it is my opinion that tenure needs to die. Faculty should get a generous stipend during those quarters when they teach... but otherwise they should have to support themselves from their research funding, and pay into retirement like “normal” people (university funds pay our emeritus faculty, at least).
Many of our faculty pull in lots of money and stay active in research; but there are a few who seem to think getting a big salary for doing next to nothing is a god-given right for reaching full professor. I’ve watched several chairs attempt to “fix” this, e.g. by requiring non-funded faculty to teach more - but political pressure always kills any reforms.
Alternatively, I suppose tenure could stay if the rights to all publicly-funded research were given back to the public - meaning, for example, if you get a multi-million-dollar patent, or if you commercialize a company and a VC buys it, that money goes back to NSF or ONR or whatever agency provided the funding.
(Let’s see if I still have a job tomorrow, haha)
I'm as happy as the next guy to hate on Elon - and have done it here, more than once - but it's hard to argue this isn't a good thing regardless of his motivation.
It's just doing its job. Obviously on the data it was trained, "gay" and "jew" were used as derogatory terms.
Tim Cook is gay; Phil Schiller is Jewish. Google's AI is obviously just extrapolating from the fact that the company's leadership sees Apple as the enemy.
The anonymous submitter basically took the title from the Vanity Fair variant of the article and used it for his Slashdot admission. But despite the obvious outrage in this story, what little actual information we're presented doesn't lend itself to drawing an informed opinion on the subject.
One big wildcard here is what, exactly, this rather vague statement means: "Shafer, who has a history of spotting weak encryption and drawing attention to it". Neither linked article explains it (actually, one is basically a republished version of the other; they are not independent articles). Does he contact the business and say "hey, I noticed that your encryption may leave your records vulnerable"; does he break in and leave snarky messages on people's computer desktops; does he change their wifi passwords, ...?
At a minimum it's apparent he's a bit of a jerk, given he took issue with someone being arrested for trying to trigger an epileptic seizure in a journalist.
Claiming performance reasons without performance review or HR documentation of performance problems can be basis for lawsuit in many states.
The claim is that Tesla hasn’t done any new performance reviews since they acquired Solar City. These folks may very well have been reviewed prior to the acquisition, in which case Tesla may be using those reviews as a basis for these firings... although at this point those reviews would be at least a year old, which would seem problematic if there hasn’t been any follow-up.
He could already do that, thanks to the ill-conceived PawID.
Problem is, we're at a point where any reasonably recent smartphone has plenty of processing power to do pretty much everything the average consumer wants.
Apple, Google, Samsung, and others are struggling to come up with ways to distinguish their own hardware and keep people from treating their products as commodities, which would be a disaster for the companies' bottom lines.
Not Brad Pitt - Earl Pitts.
AAAAnnnnddddd.... Three code monkeys just cut and pasted that function. Thanks.
capcha: exorcism
To be fair, the AC found the code on Stack Overflow.