If Apple was truly concerned they would issue a spec for free.
Why bother releasing a spec for what is essentially a glorified rectifier? Fuck sakes, any *competent* EE student can make a clone-off charger from a working genuine one.
The problem arises when you get cheap fly-by-night little Chinese "shops" that pop up on Alibaba selling untested and shoddily-produced (and barely 'designed') crap for like $1/lb. Sure, occasionally someone shuts one down, but three more will await you the next morning. Buy a big box of the ones that look passably genuine, sell them on Amazon for $20/ea... profit!
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of professional liability. When you, as a trained professional in a field, give false or misleading information - you're employer can be held liable for any harm that results.
Then it is up to the employer (and/or jury if it gets that far) to make that determination and set liability... and not government edict.
They can do. Just not while they're pretending to be health care professionals.
So you think there is to be only one government-approved guide to all healthcare decisions, right?
Mind, I'm not an "anti-vaxxer", but I am pro-speech. The vaccination controversy, no matter how well/poorly-founded, does exist, and trying to end it by government force is not only a stupid tactic, but sets a very, very, VERY bad precedent.
(also, Nurses *are* health care professionals, for fuck sakes... you don't get to disqualify them as such just because you don't like what they say.)
It is not up to you to prove your innocence, it is up to the police to prove (or at least show reasonable evidence of) your guilt.
Now in this case,yes a dude with an outstanding warrant is going to raise suspicion, but honestly, it wouldn't have taken too much effort to, oh I dunno, hold the cards for 72 hours and then get a fucking court order. The cards can be returned after 72 hours if no order comes forth.
Huh? I went through Chapter 13 awhile back, in tech, and still managed during that 5-year period to move up through 4 different employers (one of which was a 6-month contract-to-hire that I eventually declined), and raised my salary (and skillset) by ~175% along the way....one of those employers worked in the banking industry.
Mind, Chapter 13 is way different than Chapter 7 (because in Ch. 13, you're paying back part of the debt - yay hospital bills!), but bankruptcy is bankruptcy... and few tech companies seemed to give a damn.
Getting charged roughly $50/month/VM is a massive waste of money...
*Only* $50/month? Heh. Welcome to the wonderful world of being charged per GB/hour for storage, charged for every 1,000 PUTs, every 10,000 GETs, every CPU/hr, etc etc etc...
I saw an AWS rig with four servers - that a previous employer wound up paying $20k/mo for until I cleaned it the hell up for them (and even then got it down to $4k/mo before I started asking them why the hell we don't just drag the VMs into our existing datacenter)...
Why would he start supporting VR now, they are late to the bus.
...because VR is still in its (relative) infancy.
When VR gets good enough for on-the-fly 4k photorealistic resolution, and on-the-fly surround sound (forget taste/touch/smell for now), then we'll talk about who is late to the bus.;)
(seriously - you can't even get HD-quality on-the-fly video on a pro user's desktop right now without using a frig-ton of I/O/CPU/RAM and pre-digested animations... and it'll still look canned. A typical photorealistic render viz. LuxRender, iRay or similar will easily eat 30 minutes *per frame* in a high-spec render-farm server.)
VR (currently) can only emulate/connect with two of the five senses. There's more to the human-world interface than just sight and sound, you know.;)
(You would basically have to wear a fully self-contained suit loaded with a ton of sensors, chemicals, and other gear to get taste, smell, and touch involved - at least, until they work out a device-brain interface spec that works and doesn't involve risk-heavy surgery...)
True - wish that "M" was a "B", which would damned sure get their attention...
Seriously, when a corporation gets over a certain size (in terms of market cap/cash on hand/etc), they really should jack the fines up by at least an order of magnitude, if only to prevent the 'fines are the cost of doing business' tactic.
Crippling a company that way has a bonus... the CxO suite is no longer praised for jacking value by any means necessary, but instead tarred and feathered (and likely sued into oblivion) by pissed-off shareholders who just saw their investment go to shit overnight.
1) form new shell company 2) make website that throws up stupid quizzes and such with topics that appeal highly to people you want to monitor 3) hoover up every ounce of data you can suck out of the FB API 4) sell results to law enforcement, advertisers, etc etc 5) profit! (notice the lack of "?" yeah, me too.)
If discovered and rejected/blocked by FB, restart at step 1), with the bonus of having the existing databases to plug the new website into.
Isn't that why the FICO score (and credit rating) was formed (that is, to provide a more objective means of reporting the creditworthiness of an individual)?
To be fair, there used to be a practice called redlining, which was an indirect but highly effective means of overt discrimination. Now as to whether the cause for discrimination was supported by statistical history of creditworthiness (or was born of just plain hatred/bigotry/etc) is another story.
* The usable Jovian/Saturnian moons are too close to their respective planets, which pump out more radiation than current or near-future technology could handle.
* Dumping excess heat (and, well solar radiation of all kinds) on Mercury is also a bit too prohibitive for current/near-future technology. Sure you could park on the terminus (or even the dark side), but, well that tends to move in a 176-day cycle.
* The Moon is a nice idea (extremely small gravity well, conveniently located, etc), but it has pretty much nothing when compared to Mars - Mars has far more water that can be mined w/o a lot of processing, an actual atmosphere to brake in and provide at least partial pressure (albeit thin as hell), and with the (somewhat) greater gravity, won't wreck human health as fast.
Personally, I'd much prefer that we just bit the (financial) bullet and use the Moon (and Earth) as a source of material to build something similar to a Dyson or O'Neill type colony. Yeah, pricey as hell up-front, but the results are friendlier to human life and can give us a Zero-G platform from which to build and launch anything further out into the Solar System.
* the GOP at the time was about as popular as catching syphilis (Fairly or not, Herbert Hoover presided over what became The Great Depression, he and his party got the blame, so...)
* media at the time was almost exclusively run by newspapers and radio, and news stories that made it to these media were controlled by a relative select cabal
* much of the scandal (and pretty much all of the evidence) was quashed even before it could make its way to the media, and most of it wasn't really studied or verified until after his death.
* most of the country was a bit preoccupied - either with the Great Depression, or WWII.
* During WWII, any further mention of the scandal would be instantly dismissed as Nazi propaganda (whether it was true or not).
* rumors like this about presidential candidates were as common as white on rice (and was pretty tame compared to the mud they used to sling at each other), so at the time most of it was almost instantly dismissed unless corroborating evidence was present, undeniable, and obvious.
Dude, I'm not the biggest fan of taxation, but I have dealt with the IRS before, and they have always been polite, and in the last case I'd dealt with them, they actually erred on my side, finding an error on my part and causing me to actually get a sizable refund (instead of my making a payment like I had expected).
Hell, I remember last year going to the IRS office (Portland, OR), and being informed that I had to make an appointment first by phone (or online), but the receptionist saying immediately afterwards "...but no worries, Sir - we just changed this policy last week, so let's see if we can fit you in since you're here anyway." I was in and out less than 30 minutes later.
The IRS may be many things (and in some cases has been used rather viciously as an illegal political weapon by our current president), but the ordinary citizen usually gets polite, fair, and courteous treatment - so long as he isn't obviously trying to scam anyone or screw the gov out of paying what he owes.
Can you explain what would be wrong with McDonald's offering free lunches to some people?
...because it starts out that way, quickly followed by Mickey D's stating "Oh, we can't keep up with the ballooning costs! Help us Uncle Sam!" Of course, no politician wants to be seen as taking free food away from starving children' mouths, so of course a big appropriations bill will be launched, then objectors will be bullied until it gets signed into law.
About a year or two after that, the taxpayers end up covering 150-200% of the initial cost, as Mickey D's sends massively inflated invoices to Washington DC... you know, to "cover the increased costs of compliance."
Now - how much do you want to bet that TFA ends up doing the same thing with 'free' Internet, given a couple of years and the never-satiated demand for YoY growth by shareholders?
Betting the acronym TANSTAAFL never even thinks of coming close to these discussions...
(or if they do, the sentence "We'll tell 'em that e're gonna make the one-percenters will pay for it!" will be uttered, followed by a lot of laughter...)
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If Apple was truly concerned they would issue a spec for free.
Why bother releasing a spec for what is essentially a glorified rectifier? Fuck sakes, any *competent* EE student can make a clone-off charger from a working genuine one.
The problem arises when you get cheap fly-by-night little Chinese "shops" that pop up on Alibaba selling untested and shoddily-produced (and barely 'designed') crap for like $1/lb. Sure, occasionally someone shuts one down, but three more will await you the next morning. Buy a big box of the ones that look passably genuine, sell them on Amazon for $20/ea... profit!
...and #2 is going to become a *lot* more common, thanks to growth in IoT. :/
Wish they'd have paid more attention to crap like this back in the late 90's when the whole idea first surfaced on a serious note (e.g. JINI).
If they do it on social media, it's their perfect right to do so. Your point?
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of professional liability. When you, as a trained professional in a field, give false or misleading information - you're employer can be held liable for any harm that results.
Then it is up to the employer (and/or jury if it gets that far) to make that determination and set liability... and not government edict.
They can do. Just not while they're pretending to be health care professionals.
So you think there is to be only one government-approved guide to all healthcare decisions, right?
Mind, I'm not an "anti-vaxxer", but I am pro-speech. The vaccination controversy, no matter how well/poorly-founded, does exist, and trying to end it by government force is not only a stupid tactic, but sets a very, very, VERY bad precedent.
(also, Nurses *are* health care professionals, for fuck sakes... you don't get to disqualify them as such just because you don't like what they say.)
Larry Ellison could have been on that list (shudder!)
What sibling said.
It is not up to you to prove your innocence, it is up to the police to prove (or at least show reasonable evidence of) your guilt.
Now in this case,yes a dude with an outstanding warrant is going to raise suspicion, but honestly, it wouldn't have taken too much effort to, oh I dunno, hold the cards for 72 hours and then get a fucking court order. The cards can be returned after 72 hours if no order comes forth.
Huh? I went through Chapter 13 awhile back, in tech, and still managed during that 5-year period to move up through 4 different employers (one of which was a 6-month contract-to-hire that I eventually declined), and raised my salary (and skillset) by ~175% along the way. ...one of those employers worked in the banking industry.
Mind, Chapter 13 is way different than Chapter 7 (because in Ch. 13, you're paying back part of the debt - yay hospital bills!), but bankruptcy is bankruptcy... and few tech companies seemed to give a damn.
Getting charged roughly $50/month/VM is a massive waste of money...
*Only* $50/month? Heh. Welcome to the wonderful world of being charged per GB/hour for storage, charged for every 1,000 PUTs, every 10,000 GETs, every CPU/hr, etc etc etc...
I saw an AWS rig with four servers - that a previous employer wound up paying $20k/mo for until I cleaned it the hell up for them (and even then got it down to $4k/mo before I started asking them why the hell we don't just drag the VMs into our existing datacenter)...
A tenth as many architects, since it's all in one place, on one platform, and managed using repeatable and low-effort techniques.
Yes and No.
That's fine and dandy if all you do is use AWS, or all you do is use Azure, or all you do is...
Now, if you want to actually have some vendor redundancy (and what CxO with a brain doesn't?), that's where it gets a bit hinkey.
(cue someone shouting "but teh Docker! Docker will save us all!!!111!!")
Well, the "R" in VR does stand for "reality" ;)
Why would he start supporting VR now, they are late to the bus.
...because VR is still in its (relative) infancy.
When VR gets good enough for on-the-fly 4k photorealistic resolution, and on-the-fly surround sound (forget taste/touch/smell for now), then we'll talk about who is late to the bus. ;)
(seriously - you can't even get HD-quality on-the-fly video on a pro user's desktop right now without using a frig-ton of I/O/CPU/RAM and pre-digested animations... and it'll still look canned. A typical photorealistic render viz. LuxRender, iRay or similar will easily eat 30 minutes *per frame* in a high-spec render-farm server.)
VR (currently) can only emulate/connect with two of the five senses. There's more to the human-world interface than just sight and sound, you know. ;)
(You would basically have to wear a fully self-contained suit loaded with a ton of sensors, chemicals, and other gear to get taste, smell, and touch involved - at least, until they work out a device-brain interface spec that works and doesn't involve risk-heavy surgery...)
I'm kind of not looking forward to that...
True - wish that "M" was a "B", which would damned sure get their attention...
Seriously, when a corporation gets over a certain size (in terms of market cap/cash on hand/etc), they really should jack the fines up by at least an order of magnitude, if only to prevent the 'fines are the cost of doing business' tactic.
Crippling a company that way has a bonus... the CxO suite is no longer praised for jacking value by any means necessary, but instead tarred and feathered (and likely sued into oblivion) by pissed-off shareholders who just saw their investment go to shit overnight.
1) form new shell company
2) make website that throws up stupid quizzes and such with topics that appeal highly to people you want to monitor
3) hoover up every ounce of data you can suck out of the FB API
4) sell results to law enforcement, advertisers, etc etc
5) profit! (notice the lack of "?" yeah, me too.)
If discovered and rejected/blocked by FB, restart at step 1), with the bonus of having the existing databases to plug the new website into.
Isn't that why the FICO score (and credit rating) was formed (that is, to provide a more objective means of reporting the creditworthiness of an individual)?
To be fair, there used to be a practice called redlining, which was an indirect but highly effective means of overt discrimination. Now as to whether the cause for discrimination was supported by statistical history of creditworthiness (or was born of just plain hatred/bigotry/etc) is another story.
* The usable Jovian/Saturnian moons are too close to their respective planets, which pump out more radiation than current or near-future technology could handle.
* Dumping excess heat (and, well solar radiation of all kinds) on Mercury is also a bit too prohibitive for current/near-future technology. Sure you could park on the terminus (or even the dark side), but, well that tends to move in a 176-day cycle.
* The Moon is a nice idea (extremely small gravity well, conveniently located, etc), but it has pretty much nothing when compared to Mars - Mars has far more water that can be mined w/o a lot of processing, an actual atmosphere to brake in and provide at least partial pressure (albeit thin as hell), and with the (somewhat) greater gravity, won't wreck human health as fast.
Personally, I'd much prefer that we just bit the (financial) bullet and use the Moon (and Earth) as a source of material to build something similar to a Dyson or O'Neill type colony. Yeah, pricey as hell up-front, but the results are friendlier to human life and can give us a Zero-G platform from which to build and launch anything further out into the Solar System.
Whatever became of the whole helium-3 thing?
Guessing it's because the whole 'Tokamak will give us cheap fusion in 5 years!' hype/promise/whatever never really materialized.
You could have a herd of unicorns that piss the stuff hourly, but unless you have a means to actually use it...
Like the sex scandals destroyed FDR?
Apples/Oranges comparison... here's why:
* no social media, no Internet
* the GOP at the time was about as popular as catching syphilis (Fairly or not, Herbert Hoover presided over what became The Great Depression, he and his party got the blame, so...)
* media at the time was almost exclusively run by newspapers and radio, and news stories that made it to these media were controlled by a relative select cabal
* much of the scandal (and pretty much all of the evidence) was quashed even before it could make its way to the media, and most of it wasn't really studied or verified until after his death.
* most of the country was a bit preoccupied - either with the Great Depression, or WWII.
* During WWII, any further mention of the scandal would be instantly dismissed as Nazi propaganda (whether it was true or not).
* rumors like this about presidential candidates were as common as white on rice (and was pretty tame compared to the mud they used to sling at each other), so at the time most of it was almost instantly dismissed unless corroborating evidence was present, undeniable, and obvious.
What does Yahoo have that Verizon needs and couldn't build for less than the $3BN it is offering for Yahoo?
Patents?
Dude, I'm not the biggest fan of taxation, but I have dealt with the IRS before, and they have always been polite, and in the last case I'd dealt with them, they actually erred on my side, finding an error on my part and causing me to actually get a sizable refund (instead of my making a payment like I had expected).
Hell, I remember last year going to the IRS office (Portland, OR), and being informed that I had to make an appointment first by phone (or online), but the receptionist saying immediately afterwards "...but no worries, Sir - we just changed this policy last week, so let's see if we can fit you in since you're here anyway." I was in and out less than 30 minutes later.
The IRS may be many things (and in some cases has been used rather viciously as an illegal political weapon by our current president), but the ordinary citizen usually gets polite, fair, and courteous treatment - so long as he isn't obviously trying to scam anyone or screw the gov out of paying what he owes.
Can you explain what would be wrong with McDonald's offering free lunches to some people?
...because it starts out that way, quickly followed by Mickey D's stating "Oh, we can't keep up with the ballooning costs! Help us Uncle Sam!" Of course, no politician wants to be seen as taking free food away from starving children' mouths, so of course a big appropriations bill will be launched, then objectors will be bullied until it gets signed into law.
About a year or two after that, the taxpayers end up covering 150-200% of the initial cost, as Mickey D's sends massively inflated invoices to Washington DC... you know, to "cover the increased costs of compliance."
Now - how much do you want to bet that TFA ends up doing the same thing with 'free' Internet, given a couple of years and the never-satiated demand for YoY growth by shareholders?
Betting the acronym TANSTAAFL never even thinks of coming close to these discussions...
(or if they do, the sentence "We'll tell 'em that e're gonna make the one-percenters will pay for it!" will be uttered, followed by a lot of laughter...)