People pretty much will collect anything and everything if possible. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there would be folks who collect data. The interesting part is going to be what happens to that data when they pass away?
Same thing that happens to the book collection(s) of folks who pass away - someone else might pick it up (books with any actual value at a yard/estate sale, data by way of "...oh, a pile of disk drives for a buck? Sure, what the hell? I can make a cheap NAS out of it or something..." at the same estate sale.)
Similarly, the kids/heirs might scrounge through that data if they see value in it (hypothetical: "oh shit - DeadGrandpa mentioned that he had mined quite a bit of $RandoCoin back in the day, and it's worth $3k a coin now! Quick, honey, kids! Go through the *entire* effing house - grab every geek stick, mSD-Card and disk drive you can find, and don't forget to check all the outlets for Raspberry Pis!"... Okay, a more realistic hypothetical? No problem: Scrounging DeadGrandpa's storage media for photos, legal documents, etc.)
Either way, again, it'll be like books and other paper documents - a lot of it will be scrounged and saved by the kids if they find worth in it, dumped off into the trash (or ether) and destroyed if not.
To be fair, even if you never archived or organized any data, most competent OSes have file indexing that allows you to still search through a pile of random crap and still have a half-assed chance of finding it... doubly so if that crap is ASCII/text-based.
One time, that indexing even saved my bacon, allowing me to reconstruct roughly 180GB of suddenly disorganized-by-filesystem-error-then-recovered CG asset (Poser-readable) files. I still keep that directory hanging around today, as it contains stuff with vintages reaching back to 1997 or so - it's fun to mount it into DAZ Studio and fart around with it (and sometimes resurrect some of that stuff thanks to SubD, CollisionDetection and Shader-baking, neither of which existed on a real practical level back in the day.)
Also, that pile of disorganized digital crap never rots, never molds, never gets infested with (or crapped on by) mice, degrades from plumbing leaks, etc. This allows for the possibility of future re-organization into something useful, as long as you have a means to read those files (like in my example, as long as I have something that can import Poser's ASCII-based.cr2/.pz3/pz2/cm2 and Wavefront.obj files, I'm golden. Otherwise, I'll have to mass-convert it all by batch, which I'm probably going to do before the end of this year...)
There is of course the risk of data and filesystem corruption, but compared to the piles of random crap a physical hoarder keeps laying around the house in mass quantities? Two different animals altogether.
Newsflash: I never mentioned the content itself, nor did I mention what it may or may not do to one's emotions, though truth is, given that it's Facebook? Most likely the vast majority of that crap is some shithead who got their feelings hurt so they reported the other shithead's emotion-bruising post, or shoving some poor dumbass on a temporary hate-speech ban for something like calling someone else a "fag" in his or her post.
The vast majority of the stress is the same shit that Telemarketers had to deal with - semi-competent (or worse) "managers", unrealistic goals, fake-as-hell motivational atmosphere, the usual stuff, if you've ever had to deal with that world.
What I did mention however is the skill level for the job - specifically, none to speak of. A glorified python script could almost do it, and in all honesty, maybe they should just write one and be done with it. It's not like Facebook contributes any actual worth to humanity?
Bad news, little man: I don't subscribe to the Dem/Rep Duopoly. I'm not registered with any party.
Good luck pigeonholing in the future.
PS: Even though I never voted for him, watching OrangeMan tear holes in your psyche's rectum is rather enjoyable to watch. Please continue under your normal pseudonym, if you have the spine for it.;)
Not to mention the copyright implications of re-using code willy nilly like this. That's just screaming for a lawsuit...
Copyright issues, security issues(!), structural issues, efficiency/bloat/spaghetti issues, orphaned crap laying around (that the Copypasta Coder is not experienced enough to know whether to pitch or keep) issues, (remote but still) potential for patent issues...
Depending on how much and how easy it is to decompile/examine, it's kinda ugly from damned near every angle, really. But then, a lot of it does depend on the skill level of the guy copying all this stuff...
Okay for little scripting crap I guess, but not so okay for actual software.
Lets do it _after_ the boom when the market calms down and everyone has made their money. Brilliant, lets impose taxes and watchdogging after the monopolies have been established.
Depends on what they do.
If they make a bunch of obfuscating rules that nibbles at the edges, it's worthless.
If they take a tech monopoly's patent portfolio and forces it to be FRAND-licensed at a pittance or at-best-symbolic price, then said monopoly loses a significant source of income and protection from upstarts.
If they actually start breaking up monopolies or regulate every little thing they do (a'la AT&T in the good old days before the Baby Bells), then it's probably strong enough to eventually break such monopolies."
Incidentally, the majority of Zuck's assets are tied up in FB stock, just like the majority of Bezos' stock is tied up in AMZN... cheapen that, and you start taking money away from them.
Not advocating for or against, just stating possibilities.
Depends - are we talking social-media influence, or are we talking about modifying actual votes/ballots? The latter could be more easily hidden on Election Day during the crush of votes cast then (and in some cases, such as Oregon which uses computer-counted mail-in paper votes, it's likely the only day you could get any such thing done...)
Republicans don't seem to care at all about this, since the russians helped their team win.
You'd think there would be evidence of this somewhere... after all, There's been an independent counsel running for around two years now, and so far they've found approximately bupkis (well, they found a pack of Russkies who bought $100k of Facebook ads, and a couple of idiots who got roped into pleading to unrelated process crimes... but strangely enough, no actual evidence of Russkie-Trump collusatory involvement, let alone electoral hacking of any kind...)
Guess we'll find out for certain in a week or three once that report comes out, but in all honesty, if there were evidence that didn't sit firmly in fever-ridden and overstretched speculation, it would have come out long, long before now. I'm willing to be wrong, though. Question is, are the Donks?
I am curious though - what will a lot of the media do with the news, given that they've often breathlessly preached that impeachment/removal of the president '...is just around the corner - any day now!' from a man (Mueller) whom they painted as some sort of avenging angel to smite OrangeMan to the Outer Pits of Hell (or Nebraska, whichever is closer), etc...
But then, I believe I can already see the narrative shaping up for that as well, given the (newly Democrat) House Judiciary Committee's ramping up of a possible subpoena (and investigation/prosecution?) of the independent counsel, who in turn seems about to fail at delivering what the Democrats were hoping for so badly... It's almost like they have no clue what an independent counsel actually is or does...
Either way, my shipment of popcorn (and a spare microwave to make big batches of it) should arrive before the end of the week, so if Mueller can hold out for at least that long....
So, bring the knee-jerk down-mods, but you know I'm right, campers.
They could, but maintaining a microkernel OS for PPC and X86 architectures at the same time would appear to be a pain in the ass. Doable, but a great big PITA.
(Assuming XBox is still using PPC chips, yes?)
Yes, I know Windows used to come out for multiple architectures, but that hadn't happened since when, Windows NT 4?
(...times like this I wish I had mod points, if only to give a fellow graybeard some recognition for dragging that one out of the mists of time. Cheers!)
Depends on where you live... $28k/yr is somewhat pretty decent entry-level money in Mississippi, parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, even bits of Florida...
Not a single person that is hanging the chickens upside down by their legs is sober. And nobody cares.
...Hell, none of those folks had a green card, let alone sobriety.;)
(Guess where I worked while putting myself through school?)
However, you do bring up a good point: There are shit jobs everywhere. You do it and cash the paychecks while busting your ass to find something better (or you do it to get some sort of income until you graduate). Only the terminally lazy or incompetent stay at such a job for very long, and high turnover is not only endured, but expected. Think of it as the Telemarketer job, only you don't have to talk to people this time.
TFA's job doesn't take much in the way of skill - look at stuff, click buttons, move on. It's not as if Facebook has anything approaching QA for it - I mean, outside of a few (highly publicized) cases involving important people, what is the victim of bad/false Facebook moderation going to do - demand his money back? Given the tsunami of complaints about posts every day, you could simply nuke every post in your queue from orbit, and it would make approximately no difference. *shrug*
It's not necessarily the timing but a life safety issue. This needs government regulation and the governments are wary as are the insurance providers. Until someone can demonstrate that they cars won't cause accidents...
Well, until someone can demonstrate that self-driving cars operate accident-free at the same or better rate than human drivers. That's going to take a bit of time to gather data on and prove.
What happens when one kills someone like the Uber in Arizona? Is it the driver's fault? The Owners? The Software provider? The Car company? The Sensor company? Absolutely none of this has been decided.
What happens when a car you let your girlfriend borrow gets in a hit-and-run thanks to her actions? The cops chase the plate and as the owner, you're on-deck for liability first and foremost. Even if they arrest her (after you sufficiently prove that you weren't in the car at the time), the victim is still going to chase you and your insurance policy as the liable party.
I figure self-driving cars would work the same - the owner and/or the owner's insurance policy is financially liable no matter who is in it at the time. Whether or not you (as the owner) decide to chase the manufacturer in a lawsuit becomes your problem - same as whether or not the manufacturer chases the part(s) vendor(s) to recoup its costs.
Well that, and the fact that Kodak had one hell of a tidy business in selling and developing film; a digital camera would eliminate that (most profitable) bit of the business. So, Kodak decided to stuff it under a metaphorical rug.
It would be like Gillette making and selling a razor with eternally-sharp blades.
Any bureaucracy is going to spring forth from any new entity created within government. That much is a given.
However, the USAF can focus on everything in the atmosphere. Satellites (and let's not forget the two space shuttles the USAF has) can go to its own branch and not cause too much of an issue. With its own Chain, the Space Force can bypass the pilot-heavy-to-the-point-of-religion circle-jerk that Big Blue's chain of command has always been, and get its initiatives through without having to fight a metric shitload of "geez, can't we just buy a more expensive fighter instead?" officer corps.
As it stands now, the only way to get around that is to have the project be a Black one, where it avoids having to deal with all the bullshit politics found in the normal channels (see also those two space shuttles I mentioned earlier.) With its own branch, they can set themselves up to be more efficient towards their own initiatives... which has the hopeful happy side effect of helping to expand human entry into space (and if not, at least helping NASA out a bit more, considering the near-starvation budgeted political plaything that NASA has become.)
Incidentally, there is still that little treaty every superpower signed back in the 1960s that prohibits (physical) weaponization of space, so any new initiatives will have to have a reconnaissance role, or at least a veneer of peaceful human/scientific endeavor.
Answers are never that important to me as an interviewer unless I am verifying they possess a certain skill. I am much more interested in how conscientious a candidate is in looking for the right answer. It is predictive of how they will solve real problems when they are unsupervised later after being hired.
Quoted in full for emphasis.
It's not always important to have a problem answered fully or correctly in the allotted time. It is far more important to see *how* the candidate tackles the issue, what steps they take, what mental tools they bring to bear, and most important of all, knowing when to ask for more information and/or assistance (and then paying attention to what they're asking for, and the reasons they state as to why.)
I used to do this back when I dealt with just sysadmins. One of the fun bits was to chattr +i a config file, but then have them alter it as part of the testing (but not give them the permissions to fully do that).
The point wasn't to torture anyone, but to see how they handle non-ordinary problems. To watch how they tackle it, how they determine what's going on, then know whether or not to ask for help - and to see if that request for help is specific ("you'll have to change the attributes back before I can update it"), or if it was vague.
That told me more about the skills of the candidate than whether or not they successfully knocked out a problem.
If you understood the ecological hazards of some mining operations, you'd realize that, at least on an environmental basis, yeah, it would make sense - at least on that level.
Just because you (the average consumer) can't use it on a phone you got from $carrier, doesn't mean that others can't put it to use.
That's not meant to be an insult, by the way... unlocked phones (that are truly unlocked, not just 'unlocked' to allow a different carrier w/ the same tech) can be loaded with the ROM and taken to town.
re. 1. : No, seriously, no. Why is it up to the browser to accommodate shitty code (outside of gracefully aborting the load and kicking up the appropriate error code - is that what you meant?) I also don't really buy the 'brilliant-code-caught-in-the-trap' argument, either; exploiting ugly standards-sloppy interpreter loopholes to do something awesome is cool, but the true innovation is to do it in a way that doesn't cause the browser to puke whenever the browser makers fix the bug you exploited for that 'innovation' in the first place.
Obama could have simply appointed Garland to sit on the USSC, but it would have been temporary, and Mr. Garland would have been removed the say that the Senate reconvened in 2017. Constitution says the Senate has to advise and consent, and without that, any appointment by the executive is temporary at best.
Also, note that Garland was nominated in the beginning of election season (which started in Jan. 2016 with the Iowa Caucus), so the Senate was well within its rights to postpone confirmation until whoever won in November 2016 took office. What the Senate did was perfectly constitutional, actually made sense, and even in retrospect, was completely non-partisan - remember, nobody knew at the time who would win in 2016.
PS: The vetting process is intentionally vague outside of what was written, because due to time and social/political/technological evolution, 230+ years later, anything specific then would be way obsolete by now. Same story in the future if we set one now.
I do agree on limited terms, though I suspect that many on the leftward side of the ideological spectrum would be screaming against it now, considering Justice Bader-Ginsberg's advanced age, health issues, occasional narcolepsy at events (and rumor says on the bench), etc.
The "E" is how they escape FTC scrutiny... if anyone gets pissy about it, they'll both point to that "E", calling it a differentiator that denotes that it's not "true" 5G, just that they're "preparing for the arrival of 5G before anyone else", because they're so "forward-looking" and stuff.
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People pretty much will collect anything and everything if possible. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there would be folks who collect data. The interesting part is going to be what happens to that data when they pass away?
Same thing that happens to the book collection(s) of folks who pass away - someone else might pick it up (books with any actual value at a yard/estate sale, data by way of "...oh, a pile of disk drives for a buck? Sure, what the hell? I can make a cheap NAS out of it or something..." at the same estate sale.)
Similarly, the kids/heirs might scrounge through that data if they see value in it (hypothetical: "oh shit - DeadGrandpa mentioned that he had mined quite a bit of $RandoCoin back in the day, and it's worth $3k a coin now! Quick, honey, kids! Go through the *entire* effing house - grab every geek stick, mSD-Card and disk drive you can find, and don't forget to check all the outlets for Raspberry Pis!" ... Okay, a more realistic hypothetical? No problem: Scrounging DeadGrandpa's storage media for photos, legal documents, etc.)
Either way, again, it'll be like books and other paper documents - a lot of it will be scrounged and saved by the kids if they find worth in it, dumped off into the trash (or ether) and destroyed if not.
To be fair, even if you never archived or organized any data, most competent OSes have file indexing that allows you to still search through a pile of random crap and still have a half-assed chance of finding it... doubly so if that crap is ASCII/text-based.
One time, that indexing even saved my bacon, allowing me to reconstruct roughly 180GB of suddenly disorganized-by-filesystem-error-then-recovered CG asset (Poser-readable) files. I still keep that directory hanging around today, as it contains stuff with vintages reaching back to 1997 or so - it's fun to mount it into DAZ Studio and fart around with it (and sometimes resurrect some of that stuff thanks to SubD, CollisionDetection and Shader-baking, neither of which existed on a real practical level back in the day.)
Also, that pile of disorganized digital crap never rots, never molds, never gets infested with (or crapped on by) mice, degrades from plumbing leaks, etc. This allows for the possibility of future re-organization into something useful, as long as you have a means to read those files (like in my example, as long as I have something that can import Poser's ASCII-based .cr2/.pz3/pz2/cm2 and Wavefront .obj files, I'm golden. Otherwise, I'll have to mass-convert it all by batch, which I'm probably going to do before the end of this year...)
There is of course the risk of data and filesystem corruption, but compared to the piles of random crap a physical hoarder keeps laying around the house in mass quantities? Two different animals altogether.
Newsflash: I never mentioned the content itself, nor did I mention what it may or may not do to one's emotions, though truth is, given that it's Facebook? Most likely the vast majority of that crap is some shithead who got their feelings hurt so they reported the other shithead's emotion-bruising post, or shoving some poor dumbass on a temporary hate-speech ban for something like calling someone else a "fag" in his or her post.
The vast majority of the stress is the same shit that Telemarketers had to deal with - semi-competent (or worse) "managers", unrealistic goals, fake-as-hell motivational atmosphere, the usual stuff, if you've ever had to deal with that world.
What I did mention however is the skill level for the job - specifically, none to speak of. A glorified python script could almost do it, and in all honesty, maybe they should just write one and be done with it. It's not like Facebook contributes any actual worth to humanity?
Bad news, little man: I don't subscribe to the Dem/Rep Duopoly. I'm not registered with any party.
Good luck pigeonholing in the future.
PS: Even though I never voted for him, watching OrangeMan tear holes in your psyche's rectum is rather enjoyable to watch. Please continue under your normal pseudonym, if you have the spine for it. ;)
Not to mention the copyright implications of re-using code willy nilly like this. That's just screaming for a lawsuit...
Copyright issues, security issues(!), structural issues, efficiency/bloat/spaghetti issues, orphaned crap laying around (that the Copypasta Coder is not experienced enough to know whether to pitch or keep) issues, (remote but still) potential for patent issues...
Depending on how much and how easy it is to decompile/examine, it's kinda ugly from damned near every angle, really. But then, a lot of it does depend on the skill level of the guy copying all this stuff...
Okay for little scripting crap I guess, but not so okay for actual software.
Lets do it _after_ the boom when the market calms down and everyone has made their money. Brilliant, lets impose taxes and watchdogging after the monopolies have been established.
Depends on what they do.
If they make a bunch of obfuscating rules that nibbles at the edges, it's worthless.
If they take a tech monopoly's patent portfolio and forces it to be FRAND-licensed at a pittance or at-best-symbolic price, then said monopoly loses a significant source of income and protection from upstarts.
If they actually start breaking up monopolies or regulate every little thing they do (a'la AT&T in the good old days before the Baby Bells), then it's probably strong enough to eventually break such monopolies."
Incidentally, the majority of Zuck's assets are tied up in FB stock, just like the majority of Bezos' stock is tied up in AMZN... cheapen that, and you start taking money away from them.
Not advocating for or against, just stating possibilities.
Depends - are we talking social-media influence, or are we talking about modifying actual votes/ballots? The latter could be more easily hidden on Election Day during the crush of votes cast then (and in some cases, such as Oregon which uses computer-counted mail-in paper votes, it's likely the only day you could get any such thing done...)
Republicans don't seem to care at all about this, since the russians helped their team win.
You'd think there would be evidence of this somewhere... after all, There's been an independent counsel running for around two years now, and so far they've found approximately bupkis (well, they found a pack of Russkies who bought $100k of Facebook ads, and a couple of idiots who got roped into pleading to unrelated process crimes... but strangely enough, no actual evidence of Russkie-Trump collusatory involvement, let alone electoral hacking of any kind...)
Guess we'll find out for certain in a week or three once that report comes out, but in all honesty, if there were evidence that didn't sit firmly in fever-ridden and overstretched speculation, it would have come out long, long before now. I'm willing to be wrong, though. Question is, are the Donks?
I am curious though - what will a lot of the media do with the news, given that they've often breathlessly preached that impeachment/removal of the president '...is just around the corner - any day now!' from a man (Mueller) whom they painted as some sort of avenging angel to smite OrangeMan to the Outer Pits of Hell (or Nebraska, whichever is closer), etc...
But then, I believe I can already see the narrative shaping up for that as well, given the (newly Democrat) House Judiciary Committee's ramping up of a possible subpoena (and investigation/prosecution?) of the independent counsel, who in turn seems about to fail at delivering what the Democrats were hoping for so badly... It's almost like they have no clue what an independent counsel actually is or does...
Either way, my shipment of popcorn (and a spare microwave to make big batches of it) should arrive before the end of the week, so if Mueller can hold out for at least that long....
So, bring the knee-jerk down-mods, but you know I'm right, campers.
They could, but maintaining a microkernel OS for PPC and X86 architectures at the same time would appear to be a pain in the ass. Doable, but a great big PITA.
(Assuming XBox is still using PPC chips, yes?)
Yes, I know Windows used to come out for multiple architectures, but that hadn't happened since when, Windows NT 4?
(...times like this I wish I had mod points, if only to give a fellow graybeard some recognition for dragging that one out of the mists of time. Cheers!)
Depends on where you live... $28k/yr is somewhat pretty decent entry-level money in Mississippi, parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, even bits of Florida...
Not a single person that is hanging the chickens upside down by their legs is sober. And nobody cares.
...Hell, none of those folks had a green card, let alone sobriety. ;)
(Guess where I worked while putting myself through school?)
However, you do bring up a good point: There are shit jobs everywhere. You do it and cash the paychecks while busting your ass to find something better (or you do it to get some sort of income until you graduate). Only the terminally lazy or incompetent stay at such a job for very long, and high turnover is not only endured, but expected. Think of it as the Telemarketer job, only you don't have to talk to people this time.
TFA's job doesn't take much in the way of skill - look at stuff, click buttons, move on. It's not as if Facebook has anything approaching QA for it - I mean, outside of a few (highly publicized) cases involving important people, what is the victim of bad/false Facebook moderation going to do - demand his money back? Given the tsunami of complaints about posts every day, you could simply nuke every post in your queue from orbit, and it would make approximately no difference. *shrug*
What if your subject wears a long (floor-length) dress with large sleeves? I suspect this will become a fashion thing before long if this takes off...
It's not necessarily the timing but a life safety issue. This needs government regulation and the governments are wary as are the insurance providers. Until someone can demonstrate that they cars won't cause accidents...
Well, until someone can demonstrate that self-driving cars operate accident-free at the same or better rate than human drivers. That's going to take a bit of time to gather data on and prove.
What happens when one kills someone like the Uber in Arizona? Is it the driver's fault? The Owners? The Software provider? The Car company? The Sensor company? Absolutely none of this has been decided.
What happens when a car you let your girlfriend borrow gets in a hit-and-run thanks to her actions? The cops chase the plate and as the owner, you're on-deck for liability first and foremost. Even if they arrest her (after you sufficiently prove that you weren't in the car at the time), the victim is still going to chase you and your insurance policy as the liable party.
I figure self-driving cars would work the same - the owner and/or the owner's insurance policy is financially liable no matter who is in it at the time. Whether or not you (as the owner) decide to chase the manufacturer in a lawsuit becomes your problem - same as whether or not the manufacturer chases the part(s) vendor(s) to recoup its costs.
Well that, and the fact that Kodak had one hell of a tidy business in selling and developing film; a digital camera would eliminate that (most profitable) bit of the business. So, Kodak decided to stuff it under a metaphorical rug.
It would be like Gillette making and selling a razor with eternally-sharp blades.
Yes and no.
Any bureaucracy is going to spring forth from any new entity created within government. That much is a given.
However, the USAF can focus on everything in the atmosphere. Satellites (and let's not forget the two space shuttles the USAF has) can go to its own branch and not cause too much of an issue. With its own Chain, the Space Force can bypass the pilot-heavy-to-the-point-of-religion circle-jerk that Big Blue's chain of command has always been, and get its initiatives through without having to fight a metric shitload of "geez, can't we just buy a more expensive fighter instead?" officer corps.
As it stands now, the only way to get around that is to have the project be a Black one, where it avoids having to deal with all the bullshit politics found in the normal channels (see also those two space shuttles I mentioned earlier.) With its own branch, they can set themselves up to be more efficient towards their own initiatives... which has the hopeful happy side effect of helping to expand human entry into space (and if not, at least helping NASA out a bit more, considering the near-starvation budgeted political plaything that NASA has become.)
Incidentally, there is still that little treaty every superpower signed back in the 1960s that prohibits (physical) weaponization of space, so any new initiatives will have to have a reconnaissance role, or at least a veneer of peaceful human/scientific endeavor.
Maybe you could talk to them, instead of trying to deceive them?
You don't have to deceive them entirely - just emulate a problem or two to see how they handle it.
Answers are never that important to me as an interviewer unless I am verifying they possess a certain skill. I am much more interested in how conscientious a candidate is in looking for the right answer. It is predictive of how they will solve real problems when they are unsupervised later after being hired.
Quoted in full for emphasis.
It's not always important to have a problem answered fully or correctly in the allotted time. It is far more important to see *how* the candidate tackles the issue, what steps they take, what mental tools they bring to bear, and most important of all, knowing when to ask for more information and/or assistance (and then paying attention to what they're asking for, and the reasons they state as to why.)
I used to do this back when I dealt with just sysadmins. One of the fun bits was to chattr +i a config file, but then have them alter it as part of the testing (but not give them the permissions to fully do that).
The point wasn't to torture anyone, but to see how they handle non-ordinary problems. To watch how they tackle it, how they determine what's going on, then know whether or not to ask for help - and to see if that request for help is specific ("you'll have to change the attributes back before I can update it"), or if it was vague.
That told me more about the skills of the candidate than whether or not they successfully knocked out a problem.
Yes. It makes sense to mine asteroids.
If you understood the ecological hazards of some mining operations, you'd realize that, at least on an environmental basis, yeah, it would make sense - at least on that level.
Just because you (the average consumer) can't use it on a phone you got from $carrier, doesn't mean that others can't put it to use.
That's not meant to be an insult, by the way... unlocked phones (that are truly unlocked, not just 'unlocked' to allow a different carrier w/ the same tech) can be loaded with the ROM and taken to town.
PS: If you're gonna talk about it, then be kind and provide a link to LineageOS, mm'kay? :)
re. 1. :
No, seriously, no. Why is it up to the browser to accommodate shitty code (outside of gracefully aborting the load and kicking up the appropriate error code - is that what you meant?) I also don't really buy the 'brilliant-code-caught-in-the-trap' argument, either; exploiting ugly standards-sloppy interpreter loopholes to do something awesome is cool, but the true innovation is to do it in a way that doesn't cause the browser to puke whenever the browser makers fix the bug you exploited for that 'innovation' in the first place.
Define "crap web code"
It usually ends in *.php
(/me ducks and runs, laughing maniacally.)
Obama could have simply appointed Garland to sit on the USSC, but it would have been temporary, and Mr. Garland would have been removed the say that the Senate reconvened in 2017. Constitution says the Senate has to advise and consent, and without that, any appointment by the executive is temporary at best.
Also, note that Garland was nominated in the beginning of election season (which started in Jan. 2016 with the Iowa Caucus), so the Senate was well within its rights to postpone confirmation until whoever won in November 2016 took office. What the Senate did was perfectly constitutional, actually made sense, and even in retrospect, was completely non-partisan - remember, nobody knew at the time who would win in 2016.
PS: The vetting process is intentionally vague outside of what was written, because due to time and social/political/technological evolution, 230+ years later, anything specific then would be way obsolete by now. Same story in the future if we set one now.
I do agree on limited terms, though I suspect that many on the leftward side of the ideological spectrum would be screaming against it now, considering Justice Bader-Ginsberg's advanced age, health issues, occasional narcolepsy at events (and rumor says on the bench), etc.
Correct, which is why FDR's plan to pack the court in 1937 failed (because Congress tossed his proposal into committee and left it to it die there.)
The "E" is how they escape FTC scrutiny... if anyone gets pissy about it, they'll both point to that "E", calling it a differentiator that denotes that it's not "true" 5G, just that they're "preparing for the arrival of 5G before anyone else", because they're so "forward-looking" and stuff.