And, why? Because courts are only slightly better than spinning a roulette wheel because they face no competitive pressure to improve, ever, being a monopoly.
What they should have done here - and every REAL mutual contract does this - is to give the employees a choice of a dozen different arbiters that Google feels are fair players, and let those arbiters fight it out for employee preference by competing on the most fair dealings for employees, and let them pick a new one every n months.
When you have mutually-agreed-upon arbiters then you have a real contract. If people are signing employment contracts without ever having qualified their potential arbiter ahead of time, then due diligence cannot be said to have taken place. But many employees would rather be treated like children than do that kind of research, so perhaps even at Google it's unlikely. We can't have nice things without humans accepting adult responsibility for themselves.
Who cares about upgrades... I can adjust all of the controls in my Honda by touch, without taking my eyes off the damn road.
I know, I know, one more year and you won't need to drive them anymore.
The popout screen on the Model 3 is just garish to me, but when they have a HUD instead I might well reconsider. The screen-based UI for cars will seem just "so 2010's" once a real car UI is developed.
She said the system uses cryptographic solutions that are fairly new to the field and that have to be implemented in very specific ways to make the system auditable, but the design the programmers chose thwarts this
One way to interpret this is "our auditors don't understand what's going on in this code".
Ffkom, so if Huawei DOES turn out to have operated a subsidiary shell corporation to evade US sanctions law.. does that mean YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY, IN FACT, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS?
Found the CIA shill.
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When goods don't cross borders, armies will. - Otto T. Mallery
yeah you know except for the whole ICBM program created by captured germans
And Werner Von Braun hanged the five slowest Jewish slaves in front of his rocket factory to get them to work faster cite. Skip forward a few years and he's the Director of Marshall Spaceflight and Huntsville is naming their civic center after him.
Buying a ride from Elon is a bullshit claim to be in the group of countries who actually built rockets that went to the moon, but there is a certain value to doing it, long after the Nazis are all dead.
I guess what I find really amusing is, Disney, Nestle, and Others would seem to be pedos as well. I mean, their whole market is to like kids.
Disney is famous for hypersexualizing young girls (Lyndsey Lohan, Brittany Spears, Miley Cyrus, et. al.) which fucks them up in young adulthood, and even paid for lawyers at Mirimax to defend Harvey Weinstein when he was diddling young gals on his casting couch.
I'm just sitting here laughing because, as crazy as that bastard is, YouTube proudly deplatformed Alex Jones who is constantly railing against child sex-trafficking rings.
And all the while it turned out that YouTube was the one promoting such things with its technology and/or lack of care.
Not that I'm expecting one single moment of introspection from YouTube.
The last thing I need is to worry about outages on my thermostat. Jesus, the 4-cycle programmable gizmo I picked up at Home Depot in 1994 for $17.50 works fine - I feed it for AA batteries every two years and we don't argue.
I guess when I have more houses than a Socialist politician I'll start to fret about such things.
The patent is absurd, granted, but Qualcomm is using the US Patent System exactly as designed.
I don't want to say, "hate the game, not the player", because Qualcomm engages in some repugnant behavior, but this is only possible because of the whiners who think they need Big Daddy Government to protect "their" inventions.
The reality is the big corporations just accumulate warchests of offensive patents and then go after each other and small competitors with them, to keep those very small inventors out of the marketplace.
I say go ahead and put the embargo in place - Apple does seem in violation of this dumb, legal, patent. Maybe then, when the politicians can't buy their next stupid iPhone, they might start to think the USPTO is not such a good idea. It's not like logic or data are ever going to work on these morons.
My son's online curriculum automatically adapts to wrong answers, gives him extra questions where he needs practice, and gives me detailed reports of problem areas. But it's good enough that I rarely need to intercede and he's performing at about 97th percentile (the public school wanted to "code" him).
The problem teachers have is they're not exploring solutions that allow for the possibility that the teaching role is obsolete.
Frankly this is merely a return to the "one-room-schoolhouse" primer model but they're too wed to the Prussian System to allow for it.
I pay about 1/1000th of what a public school classroom costs.
Gates can pay for a Starlink to each school in a few years. Maybe also for some solar panels and a battery to keep it running. (They're already working on clean water and mosquito nets.)
This won't be a bottleneck very soon so it makes sense to overlook connectivity problems now when planning for the future.
eh, I have most of those, and while I've ripped the DVD's to NAS and digitized the laserdiscs already I only own a few Blu-rays and those are just for the works of photography that also happen to have a story associated with it.
For most rentals, streaming SD is fine. There are some young kids who are nerds for quality too.
Same with audio - my subwoofer has enough power to shake the house but very few films use it. It's nice when a dinosaur walks across the screen, and even young kids appreciate that.
Truth be told, only AV nerds ever owned laserdisc players anyway (though we do have the only real release of Star Wars). The earbud crew had 240i VHS decks with misaligned tracking and they didn't notice a problem.
Neither collectivizing nor generalizing usually add value.
No, nobody forces phone repair companies to fix the phones of people who can't pay for free. And so far nobody prevents competing phone repair companies from forming. Economics may be safe, for now.
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Exactly this! I'm more creeped out that she's trying to monetize her 5 year old this way
Are you creeped out that some big corporation will make the ad revenue on her son's gymnastics video (to the extent that she doesn't)?
Did you castigate America's Funniest Home Videos when they'd send somebody $100 for a tape? What's the objective criteria here?
Why would forced arbitration even be legal?
It's not forced, it's agreed upon contractually.
And, why? Because courts are only slightly better than spinning a roulette wheel because they face no competitive pressure to improve, ever, being a monopoly.
What they should have done here - and every REAL mutual contract does this - is to give the employees a choice of a dozen different arbiters that Google feels are fair players, and let those arbiters fight it out for employee preference by competing on the most fair dealings for employees, and let them pick a new one every n months.
When you have mutually-agreed-upon arbiters then you have a real contract. If people are signing employment contracts without ever having qualified their potential arbiter ahead of time, then due diligence cannot be said to have taken place. But many employees would rather be treated like children than do that kind of research, so perhaps even at Google it's unlikely. We can't have nice things without humans accepting adult responsibility for themselves.
My left shoe won't even reboot...
You're in the wrong runlevel.
Because you won't jail them.
And who, pray tell, is going to do that? The bought and paid for politicians?
People need to let go of the fantasy that governments are their daddy. Defend your own privacy if you actually value it, like an adult.
Who cares about upgrades ... I can adjust all of the controls in my Honda by touch, without taking my eyes off the damn road.
I know, I know, one more year and you won't need to drive them anymore.
The popout screen on the Model 3 is just garish to me, but when they have a HUD instead I might well reconsider. The screen-based UI for cars will seem just "so 2010's" once a real car UI is developed.
She said the system uses cryptographic solutions that are fairly new to the field and that have to be implemented in very specific ways to make the system auditable, but the design the programmers chose thwarts this
One way to interpret this is "our auditors don't understand what's going on in this code".
Is the spec public?
They are appeal-able as this proves. The system works.
Did you even read the summary? This wasn't appealed.
Ffkom, so if Huawei DOES turn out to have operated a subsidiary shell corporation to evade US sanctions law.. does that mean YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY, IN FACT, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS?
Found the CIA shill.
Related:
yeah you know except for the whole ICBM program created by captured germans
And Werner Von Braun hanged the five slowest Jewish slaves in front of his rocket factory to get them to work faster cite. Skip forward a few years and he's the Director of Marshall Spaceflight and Huntsville is naming their civic center after him.
Buying a ride from Elon is a bullshit claim to be in the group of countries who actually built rockets that went to the moon, but there is a certain value to doing it, long after the Nazis are all dead.
I guess what I find really amusing is, Disney, Nestle, and Others would seem to be pedos as well. I mean, their whole market is to like kids.
Disney is famous for hypersexualizing young girls (Lyndsey Lohan, Brittany Spears, Miley Cyrus, et. al.) which fucks them up in young adulthood, and even paid for lawyers at Mirimax to defend Harvey Weinstein when he was diddling young gals on his casting couch.
YouTube is, at a minimum, competition for Disney.
I'm just sitting here laughing because, as crazy as that bastard is, YouTube proudly deplatformed Alex Jones who is constantly railing against child sex-trafficking rings.
And all the while it turned out that YouTube was the one promoting such things with its technology and/or lack of care.
Not that I'm expecting one single moment of introspection from YouTube.
I'm pretty sure when he said 'founding the world's largest Internet payments company aside' that was sarcasm.
your nest thermostat
The last thing I need is to worry about outages on my thermostat. Jesus, the 4-cycle programmable gizmo I picked up at Home Depot in 1994 for $17.50 works fine - I feed it for AA batteries every two years and we don't argue.
I guess when I have more houses than a Socialist politician I'll start to fret about such things.
F**k Qualcomm.
The patent is absurd, granted, but Qualcomm is using the US Patent System exactly as designed.
I don't want to say, "hate the game, not the player", because Qualcomm engages in some repugnant behavior, but this is only possible because of the whiners who think they need Big Daddy Government to protect "their" inventions.
The reality is the big corporations just accumulate warchests of offensive patents and then go after each other and small competitors with them, to keep those very small inventors out of the marketplace.
I say go ahead and put the embargo in place - Apple does seem in violation of this dumb, legal, patent. Maybe then, when the politicians can't buy their next stupid iPhone, they might start to think the USPTO is not such a good idea. It's not like logic or data are ever going to work on these morons.
I like how I can't post a code snippet here but the lameness filter allows this.
My son's online curriculum automatically adapts to wrong answers, gives him extra questions where he needs practice, and gives me detailed reports of problem areas. But it's good enough that I rarely need to intercede and he's performing at about 97th percentile (the public school wanted to "code" him).
The problem teachers have is they're not exploring solutions that allow for the possibility that the teaching role is obsolete.
Frankly this is merely a return to the "one-room-schoolhouse" primer model but they're too wed to the Prussian System to allow for it.
I pay about 1/1000th of what a public school classroom costs.
Gates can pay for a Starlink to each school in a few years. Maybe also for some solar panels and a battery to keep it running. (They're already working on clean water and mosquito nets.)
This won't be a bottleneck very soon so it makes sense to overlook connectivity problems now when planning for the future.
Not every good coder is adept at human relations. I know, crazy talk.
cf. "Education".
> Linux is only free if your time has no value
I definitely prefer the solutions that don't require time (or Money).
The summary says Panasonic.
eh, I have most of those, and while I've ripped the DVD's to NAS and digitized the laserdiscs already I only own a few Blu-rays and those are just for the works of photography that also happen to have a story associated with it.
For most rentals, streaming SD is fine. There are some young kids who are nerds for quality too.
Same with audio - my subwoofer has enough power to shake the house but very few films use it. It's nice when a dinosaur walks across the screen, and even young kids appreciate that.
Truth be told, only AV nerds ever owned laserdisc players anyway (though we do have the only real release of Star Wars). The earbud crew had 240i VHS decks with misaligned tracking and they didn't notice a problem.
Neither collectivizing nor generalizing usually add value.
You will be punished for embarrassing powerful people. The crime will be discovered to fit the punishment.
No, nobody forces phone repair companies to fix the phones of people who can't pay for free. And so far nobody prevents competing phone repair companies from forming. Economics may be safe, for now.
I thought Legends was legendary for this?
Maybe just among people who follow crypto tech.
I got my daughter the X4. Fabulous camera, excellent phone. My PH1 has a 1997 camera by comparison (just a bit jealous).