”He developed a system that uses barcodes, scanning equipment and computer databases to process returned mail almost entirely automatically. His clients, from financial services companies to marketing companies, generally direct their returned mail to Hungerpiller's company, Return Mail Inc., for processing. Clients can get information about whether the mail was actually correctly addressed and whether thereâ(TM)s a more current address.”
So basically he patented outsourcing? Rather than the client companies doing the verification work, his company did it. All the barcodes seem likely to have done is to make his company’s job easier to automate... and probably accomplished some lock-in.
I’ve got one particular coworker who often emails me a question multiple times over the course of a few months - even though I have almost always already answered the question in a response to her first email. She loses track, and rather than checking whether I’ve already answered... asks the same question again.
Wasting my time with pointless emails like that is far ruder than me not responding with a third or fourth or fifth email containing information I’ve already sent more than once.
And yes, when I answer a repeat I do append the first message and point out that I did answer weeks ago... it doesn’t deter her. She is seriously vapid. Many of us wonder how she has held onto her job (and no, none of the things which probably have popped into your head there can explain this one).
Conservative or Liberal - we need more tech-savvy congressmen and congresswomen who don’t waste everyone’s time dreaming up new rules which will be trivial to circumvent by most eight year olds.
This only will end one way if Google is in charge... ultimately ad blockers will go away, one way or another. They just need to figure out the way to accomplish it that causes the smallest uproar.
Per past experience, I expect we’ll see a series of small, under-the-radar moves over the next 18-24 months which will basically accomplish the same thing. They’ll (rightly) assume inertia will keep the vast majority of users on their platform.
It’s a little known fact that glyphosate kills plants by giving them cancer. It’s a slow, painful death for the plants. If you listen closely you can hear the plants crying.
This actually sounds a bit like the bulk news outlet services which a lot of small newspapers use nowadays - I believe it was covered in an NPR story a few years back. The news items are collected and aggregated overseas, sometimes rewritten slightly to "localize", and then released using a made up "generic white American" name (and sometimes a stock photo) for the byline.
I've always said if Amazon wants to be really beneficial and transformational,...
Stop right there.
Like most companies, Amazon is only interested in maximizing their profit. They won't say that, of course, because their expensive PR teams tell them how stupid it would be. So they spend a few million putting together a BS spiel about being beneficial and transformational - what's a few million against three billion dollars in taxes they won't have to pay?
The real problem is - the local governments buy into the lie hook, line, and sinker. They turn around and tell people Amazon is going to create 25000 jobs, which will be filled by local people. They keep a straight face while they eloquently speak of the billions of tax dollars the local economy will be gaining due to these new positions. Of course it's in their interest to do all this, because they are politicians and need lies like this to prop up their future campaigns.
"The U.S. equivalent would be New York and Utah sharing one time zone. Except that in this case, it also affects more than a billion people -- hundreds of millions of whom live in poverty."
I didn't think that many people actually lived in Utah.../kidding
I have to admit the first thing I thought about, after reading this, was Futurama:
So, this would infect people even if Apple fixes the bug right?
I believe the 2017 security_authtrampoline issue was patched quite some time ago. Assuming that’s the case, this would require some additional social engineering to work. However, as we’ve seen many times before, people are almost always the weakest link in the security chain - so...
There's no point in sending warm wet bodies to Mars: robots prove time and time again that they do a much better job than human beings could ever hope to do, faster, safer and a lot cheaper.
You're drawing conclusions without having comparable data from both options to work with - seems a tad premature.
Opportunity isn't dead, she just got tired of talking to JPL and is now pursuing other opportunities.... er, options.
I'm a little worried the Antags might've gotten her. Someone should check central Africa for a Guru encampment... and, if anything is found, bomb the hell out of it now before they cause any more trouble.
Well, another problem is that even four and five year old smartphones can do pretty much everything most people need - even people whose smartphone is “integrated into their lives”.
So spending large amounts of money on a new, “premium” phone amounts to a large bling factor... and perhaps being able to play a handful (at best) of demanding games which might stutter a bit on older hardware.
Really, it’s very analogous to the laptop/computer market nowadays.
Facebook seems to do very little actual development. They mainly open up their platform to companies like King and Zynga, as well as look for new ways to market your personal data to whomever they can.
"This afternoon, the mega-publisher began notifying those who are being laid off across its various organizations, which include Activision, Blizzard, and King."
Don't worry - I'm sure there are still plenty of iterations of Candy Crush still in the pipeline.
Which is the shorter list - Democratic politicians who are (or are expected to be soon) running for president, or those who are not planning to run for president?
We are given these numbers without useful context - only a meaningless comparison to the total deaths caused by several historically scary diseases.
Taken as a group, surgical patients will probably be sicker, on average, than the population as a whole. What are the measured mortality rates per type of surgery? What are the expected mortality rates of these patients, both with and without surgical intervention? What is the total number of surgeries involved?
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It's that thing where instead of reporting a bug you write a blog post and send it out to news aggregators.
That’s a fairly recent practice - I don’t think it’s set in stone.
”He developed a system that uses barcodes, scanning equipment and computer databases to process returned mail almost entirely automatically. His clients, from financial services companies to marketing companies, generally direct their returned mail to Hungerpiller's company, Return Mail Inc., for processing. Clients can get information about whether the mail was actually correctly addressed and whether thereâ(TM)s a more current address.”
So basically he patented outsourcing? Rather than the client companies doing the verification work, his company did it. All the barcodes seem likely to have done is to make his company’s job easier to automate... and probably accomplished some lock-in.
I’ve got one particular coworker who often emails me a question multiple times over the course of a few months - even though I have almost always already answered the question in a response to her first email. She loses track, and rather than checking whether I’ve already answered... asks the same question again.
Wasting my time with pointless emails like that is far ruder than me not responding with a third or fourth or fifth email containing information I’ve already sent more than once.
And yes, when I answer a repeat I do append the first message and point out that I did answer weeks ago... it doesn’t deter her. She is seriously vapid. Many of us wonder how she has held onto her job (and no, none of the things which probably have popped into your head there can explain this one).
I don’t know about you, but I was sure glad I happened to be sitting down when I read this shocking headline!
Conservative or Liberal - we need more tech-savvy congressmen and congresswomen who don’t waste everyone’s time dreaming up new rules which will be trivial to circumvent by most eight year olds.
This only will end one way if Google is in charge... ultimately ad blockers will go away, one way or another. They just need to figure out the way to accomplish it that causes the smallest uproar.
Per past experience, I expect we’ll see a series of small, under-the-radar moves over the next 18-24 months which will basically accomplish the same thing. They’ll (rightly) assume inertia will keep the vast majority of users on their platform.
Well, Barbara Bain is still around - we just need to make sure she’s up there to solve any problems.
If it’s him, you’ll be solving OUR problem as well...
It’s a little known fact that glyphosate kills plants by giving them cancer. It’s a slow, painful death for the plants. If you listen closely you can hear the plants crying.
Unlike MongoDB, Nginx apparently isn't web scale.
This actually sounds a bit like the bulk news outlet services which a lot of small newspapers use nowadays - I believe it was covered in an NPR story a few years back. The news items are collected and aggregated overseas, sometimes rewritten slightly to "localize", and then released using a made up "generic white American" name (and sometimes a stock photo) for the byline.
I've always said if Amazon wants to be really beneficial and transformational, ...
Stop right there.
Like most companies, Amazon is only interested in maximizing their profit. They won't say that, of course, because their expensive PR teams tell them how stupid it would be. So they spend a few million putting together a BS spiel about being beneficial and transformational - what's a few million against three billion dollars in taxes they won't have to pay?
The real problem is - the local governments buy into the lie hook, line, and sinker. They turn around and tell people Amazon is going to create 25000 jobs, which will be filled by local people. They keep a straight face while they eloquently speak of the billions of tax dollars the local economy will be gaining due to these new positions. Of course it's in their interest to do all this, because they are politicians and need lies like this to prop up their future campaigns.
"The U.S. equivalent would be New York and Utah sharing one time zone. Except that in this case, it also affects more than a billion people -- hundreds of millions of whom live in poverty."
I didn't think that many people actually lived in Utah... /kidding
I have to admit the first thing I thought about, after reading this, was Futurama:
Mars was a dreary uninhabitable wasteland much like Utah. But unlike Utah, it was eventually made livable.
So, this would infect people even if Apple fixes the bug right?
I believe the 2017 security_authtrampoline issue was patched quite some time ago. Assuming that’s the case, this would require some additional social engineering to work. However, as we’ve seen many times before, people are almost always the weakest link in the security chain - so...
After all, they had to devote significant time into coming up with that acronym.
There's no point in sending warm wet bodies to Mars: robots prove time and time again that they do a much better job than human beings could ever hope to do, faster, safer and a lot cheaper.
You're drawing conclusions without having comparable data from both options to work with - seems a tad premature.
Opportunity isn't dead, she just got tired of talking to JPL and is now pursuing other opportunities .... er, options.
I'm a little worried the Antags might've gotten her. Someone should check central Africa for a Guru encampment... and, if anything is found, bomb the hell out of it now before they cause any more trouble.
I hope Matt Damon can one day use one of them to phone home.
I'm really hoping we don't hear from Matt Damon for a long, long while...
“And God said, ‘thou shalt Subscribe & Save to many items.’”
Well, another problem is that even four and five year old smartphones can do pretty much everything most people need - even people whose smartphone is “integrated into their lives”.
So spending large amounts of money on a new, “premium” phone amounts to a large bling factor... and perhaps being able to play a handful (at best) of demanding games which might stutter a bit on older hardware.
Really, it’s very analogous to the laptop/computer market nowadays.
And I'm pretty sure Candy*rush(tm) is from another publisher, I think is from Facebook,
Nope, it's King.
Facebook seems to do very little actual development. They mainly open up their platform to companies like King and Zynga, as well as look for new ways to market your personal data to whomever they can.
"This afternoon, the mega-publisher began notifying those who are being laid off across its various organizations, which include Activision, Blizzard, and King."
Don't worry - I'm sure there are still plenty of iterations of Candy Crush still in the pipeline.
Which is the shorter list - Democratic politicians who are (or are expected to be soon) running for president, or those who are not planning to run for president?
Sometimes even incredibly intelligent people are capable of horrible foolishness.
Intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing. I'm not sure there's even a strong correlation between the two.
We are given these numbers without useful context - only a meaningless comparison to the total deaths caused by several historically scary diseases.
Taken as a group, surgical patients will probably be sicker, on average, than the population as a whole. What are the measured mortality rates per type of surgery? What are the expected mortality rates of these patients, both with and without surgical intervention? What is the total number of surgeries involved?