How are we ignoring the blatent false advertising. They had to have made fiscal projections which show its a money loser over the long term. This was entirely a marketing campaign for Amazon to hook more users onto its service and they should be. I'm so mad that I want to spend my money somewhere else, but it would appear amazon has a monopoly in this online retail market.
its okay because only you and a handful of others are doing that today. what happens tomorrow when everyone and their grandma are trying to stream netflix over mobile?
I'm not saying the marketing is disingenuous, i'm saying you need to be aware of a reality that unlimited data will not fly and throttling and other traffic shaping may become normal as we start tapping on the limits of wireless bandwidth. with that said, in less congested areas like suburbs, unlimited is likely already a reality since the cost of coverage and devices per square mile are much lower than your typical downtown urban environment.
these old laws were in place for a reason. having a new hip company come back at the expense of old slow legislation doesn't fix the problem that skipping the dealer allows the manufacturer to set the price. and they would never fix the price with a defacto monopoly, right? that epipen company is a perfect example of raising prices for reasons of costs. i'm sure tesla would never do such a thing.
I think we are forgetting how Malware and the nastier viruses work. Malware can and will override the OS's function which requires user input and instead returns a jump to its own code, which may do things like paint a fake image on the screen or otherwise make the user think nothing out of the ordinary is happening. Meanwhile your phone is initiating a call or text to E911.
I think that is his point. What UI complexity is added to anyone who doesn't want a divider shown? But dividers doesn't sell more chromecast devices./thread
that is just time spent coding. designing and planning, as well as documentation, should be separate tasks. i.e. you should be tracking time for each. if you are tracking time for each and you are a large enough entity, then why not assign a resource (person) to each? now he or she may be called into planning meetings or clarification meetings with the technical writer but that should be charged to project overhead hours and not actual billable hours.
if you're a developer also acting as architect, also acting as release manager, also acting as technical writer, then you are probably doing it wrong:)
No way. My car will light up and warn me with sounds when the road is curving too much for my speed. If my 3 year old $30k American car can falsely alert me of a truck carrying magnetic gravel as a wall in front of me and slam on my brakes, why the hell can't a $100k Tesla not do the same? Because the developers didn't know how to handle the scenario and decided to code it out.
Also, my dealer ingrained in my head that the auto stop is not magic and requires my constant attention even though I can take my hands and feet completely away from the car. Read that again, my dealer sat down and told me to always pay attention, keep my feet near the pedals and hands on the wheels. My Tesla owning friend was not given the same story.
So if Tesla had done what my primative car doess and mutes the stereo and flashing lights and loud sounds everywhere, I would have raised my head said "oh shit" slammed on the brakes and tried to avoid the trailer. Except my car would have been stopping already. Would I have hit? probably. Would I have a better chance of walking away? probably.
While now is a dubious time to load up on bitcoin (markets are shakey, looks like a price drop is incoming), it may be a good idea to start factoring it into your portfolio for future semi-anonymous payments.
Regardless what people say, you can have some form of anonyminity with bitcoin. It will require the use of a tumbler, but if you don't mind spending $100 on EC2 instances you can create your own very easily or use a decentralized mixing service like coinjoin.
I'm not saying move your life savings to bitcoin, that would be beyond stupid. But having 5% in bitcoin holdings may prove to be helpful if a modified version of this bill is passed in the future
It doesn't need to be clear case of murder to be a tragedy.
We have no idea if this man was really brandishing. From the video all you can establish is that this gentleman did not want to be put in handcuffs. I mean, race aside, would YOU want to be put in handcuffs simply because someone called the police anonymously and claimed you had a gun? Just turned out this man was black so it was justifiable that he may have a gun and he may use it. Because, you know, that's what they all do on rap videos.
As of now, the white man's terrorism is truly unstoppable.
I agree. It's the same problem we faced with the mob mentality in the 1920's, except we are funding this mafia.
Was he though? Or did this anonymous homeless gentleman say something to get this man who wouldn't give him $1 in trouble? Was there even an anonymous homeless gentleman? Finally, in what free American state can anonymous homeless gentlemen simply place an anonymous phone call to have police violate your rights? (hint: it's all of them)
Let me paint a different picture, based on reported facts so far.
Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake were reportedly responding to a 911 call about a man threatening someone with a gun
This is a tough situation. Simply threatening someone has a gun will get a paramilitary response (did you see the officers that responded? they were MMA fighters)
before they arrived, but Muflahi said no one was waving a gun, certainly not Sterling.
Now what. A single phone call from an anonymous man claiming a gun can get a black man shot and killed. Read that again. I could anonymously call saying I saw you waving a gun around and a cop could be justified in shooting you if they find *something* on you that may or may not be a gun (i don't know about you, but I don't know what gun you can pull out of a pocket that you can conceal almost entirely in your hand.. check out the video again, freeze frame when the officer pulls something out of the dead man's pocket and try to tell me if that looks like a gun to you)
Also lets never forget this crucial eye witness testimony that was not even considered by the responding officers
Muflahi walked out the front door when he saw the officers talking to Sterling and said there was no “altercation,” as police claimed, until the cops tasered and tackled Sterling. That’s when Muflahi took out his phone and started recording.
You have the owner of the property telling you there was no altercation and yet here we have officers needing to taser and tackle. We see the gentleman slammed into the car and onto the pavement with the use of a taser as reports indicate. Then we see two big police officers on top of another big gentleman. We *HEAR* the police officers say "HE'S GOT A GUN" and then shots go off.
Let me paint a different picture for you.
Someone, not liking this Sterling gentleman, places an anonymous 911 call from a pay or burner phone. Peace officers arrive and engage in a tense and elevated manner leading to preemptive use of controlling tactics before talking to other witnesses at the scene. Once they have this Sterling gentleman on the ground, they are able to cover and shield his entire body for the safety of others as they claim he has a gun. They fire shots as they think this Sterling gentleman is reaching for a gun which an anonymous homeless person claimed he has previously brandished. The peace officers remove an object from his pocket leaving the sterling gentleman to bleed out and perish in front of said store owner who would call these same peace officers if any trouble occurred at his store (which he said, no such trouble existed at his store).
I will not speculate who this someone was that placed this 911 call, that is an exercise for the reader. But seriously think twice before walking near a homeless man with anything in your pocket, it may end your life. Also don't be black when walking around with things in your pocket.
Seriously if you want an ad, check out HP's zbook ultrabook line. A laptop with a xeon proc, 64gb ecc ram, and 2 drive bays. It's a portable server. THAT, my friend, is high-end.
What's really bothersome is not that they were collecting the data but that he had to prove his innocence instead of the State having to prove his guilt. It's a disturbing trend where we're proving innocence as opposed to relying on the State to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
By a jury of your peers. Most of your peers are gullible and hate baby killers.
During the release in New York they claimed the battery should expect 2 weeks of usage and takes 3 hours to charge. You can always remove the shoe because it defaults to an open circuit (if i interpret the patent correctly, it "ratchets down" the shoe to a snug size. without power you can manually "open" the sneakers)
sounds like you are not in management. back in the day you design your org chart with a plan over the next ten years in case someone left, transferred, or otherwise planned to stay with the company through retirement. today, there is such massive turnover that your org chart today looks completely different tomrorow as the article describes. you need to stay proactive on your business otherwise your entire company or department will suffer. maybe the timelines aren't xx years or xx months, but you cannot really sit here and say that technologies that existed 5 years ago continue to exist today. VoIP was major in the past decade which has been reduced to turnkey solutions that does not require a CCIE to manage. Storage has been ejected to the cloud, why hire multiple SAN engineers and a manager to manage them? Or do you just like to see empty boxes in your org chart? You need to plan, your strategy cannot be in years anymore, it must be in months. Until the cloud technologies are entrenched in our way of life, then we can revert to longer turnover cycles
depends on how smart your cruise control is. typically it switches off because traction control kicked in. the car has no way to detect if you're slipping because of bad road conditions or because you were just hit from a 90 degree angle. what it does know is that cruise control will try to accelerate if you are below speed. when the ecu detects differing speeds on wheels outside of the norm it should disengage as a safety feature. it just so happens the safety feature protects the manufacturer from liability as well.
now in your smarter nissan, maybe it knows to slow down to regain control and, depending on objects around the car, return to original speed. but there are not enough use cases where that would be even remotely safe so better to err on the side of caution.
The problem is us low-uid drones keep coming back and reading (and some of us continue posting to the comment section). Ergo, nothing will change. Just like the anti-beta team that was slowly silenced by the developers forcing the problematic design on us all. Solyent News picked a horrible name and just faded into obscurity (yes they have very similar content but the comment section is desperately lacking). So where else do we have to go.. Reddit? ha. IRC? I know a few that have. But must that I've talked to have just given up. They never login anymore and continue to read slashdot and give into the ad viewership. Which, what is up with that ?autorefresh and waking up to blaring audio ads because I left slashdot open in a tab.
If my ADD didn't need a fix, slashdot would be dead to me now. At least OSNews hasn't strayed from it's path in over 15 years.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of email will not put up with it (X) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems (X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (X) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem (X) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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How are we ignoring the blatent false advertising. They had to have made fiscal projections which show its a money loser over the long term. This was entirely a marketing campaign for Amazon to hook more users onto its service and they should be. I'm so mad that I want to spend my money somewhere else, but it would appear amazon has a monopoly in this online retail market.
-dk
its okay because only you and a handful of others are doing that today. what happens tomorrow when everyone and their grandma are trying to stream netflix over mobile?
I'm not saying the marketing is disingenuous, i'm saying you need to be aware of a reality that unlimited data will not fly and throttling and other traffic shaping may become normal as we start tapping on the limits of wireless bandwidth. with that said, in less congested areas like suburbs, unlimited is likely already a reality since the cost of coverage and devices per square mile are much lower than your typical downtown urban environment.
-dk
these old laws were in place for a reason. having a new hip company come back at the expense of old slow legislation doesn't fix the problem that skipping the dealer allows the manufacturer to set the price. and they would never fix the price with a defacto monopoly, right? that epipen company is a perfect example of raising prices for reasons of costs. i'm sure tesla would never do such a thing.
-dk
because they made an irresistible deal to windows-based companies that bought them in droves.
I think we are forgetting how Malware and the nastier viruses work. Malware can and will override the OS's function which requires user input and instead returns a jump to its own code, which may do things like paint a fake image on the screen or otherwise make the user think nothing out of the ordinary is happening. Meanwhile your phone is initiating a call or text to E911.
Welcome to 1980's phreaking all over again.
-dk
I think that is his point. What UI complexity is added to anyone who doesn't want a divider shown? But dividers doesn't sell more chromecast devices. /thread
-dk
that is just time spent coding. designing and planning, as well as documentation, should be separate tasks. i.e. you should be tracking time for each. if you are tracking time for each and you are a large enough entity, then why not assign a resource (person) to each? now he or she may be called into planning meetings or clarification meetings with the technical writer but that should be charged to project overhead hours and not actual billable hours.
if you're a developer also acting as architect, also acting as release manager, also acting as technical writer, then you are probably doing it wrong :)
I, for one, support our new automated news curated Slashdot overlords
-dk
Drivers that can't do their part should hand in their license and wait for the real self-driving cars.
We have found the 13 year old that has never driven any American roads
No way. My car will light up and warn me with sounds when the road is curving too much for my speed. If my 3 year old $30k American car can falsely alert me of a truck carrying magnetic gravel as a wall in front of me and slam on my brakes, why the hell can't a $100k Tesla not do the same? Because the developers didn't know how to handle the scenario and decided to code it out.
Also, my dealer ingrained in my head that the auto stop is not magic and requires my constant attention even though I can take my hands and feet completely away from the car. Read that again, my dealer sat down and told me to always pay attention, keep my feet near the pedals and hands on the wheels. My Tesla owning friend was not given the same story.
So if Tesla had done what my primative car doess and mutes the stereo and flashing lights and loud sounds everywhere, I would have raised my head said "oh shit" slammed on the brakes and tried to avoid the trailer. Except my car would have been stopping already. Would I have hit? probably. Would I have a better chance of walking away? probably.
While now is a dubious time to load up on bitcoin (markets are shakey, looks like a price drop is incoming), it may be a good idea to start factoring it into your portfolio for future semi-anonymous payments.
Regardless what people say, you can have some form of anonyminity with bitcoin. It will require the use of a tumbler, but if you don't mind spending $100 on EC2 instances you can create your own very easily or use a decentralized mixing service like coinjoin.
I'm not saying move your life savings to bitcoin, that would be beyond stupid. But having 5% in bitcoin holdings may prove to be helpful if a modified version of this bill is passed in the future
It doesn't need to be clear case of murder to be a tragedy.
We have no idea if this man was really brandishing. From the video all you can establish is that this gentleman did not want to be put in handcuffs. I mean, race aside, would YOU want to be put in handcuffs simply because someone called the police anonymously and claimed you had a gun? Just turned out this man was black so it was justifiable that he may have a gun and he may use it. Because, you know, that's what they all do on rap videos.
As of now, the white man's terrorism is truly unstoppable.
I agree. It's the same problem we faced with the mob mentality in the 1920's, except we are funding this mafia.
Was he though? Or did this anonymous homeless gentleman say something to get this man who wouldn't give him $1 in trouble? Was there even an anonymous homeless gentleman? Finally, in what free American state can anonymous homeless gentlemen simply place an anonymous phone call to have police violate your rights? (hint: it's all of them)
Let me paint a different picture, based on reported facts so far.
Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake were reportedly responding to a 911 call about a man threatening someone with a gun
This is a tough situation. Simply threatening someone has a gun will get a paramilitary response (did you see the officers that responded? they were MMA fighters)
before they arrived, but Muflahi said no one was waving a gun, certainly not Sterling.
Now what. A single phone call from an anonymous man claiming a gun can get a black man shot and killed. Read that again. I could anonymously call saying I saw you waving a gun around and a cop could be justified in shooting you if they find *something* on you that may or may not be a gun (i don't know about you, but I don't know what gun you can pull out of a pocket that you can conceal almost entirely in your hand.. check out the video again, freeze frame when the officer pulls something out of the dead man's pocket and try to tell me if that looks like a gun to you)
Also lets never forget this crucial eye witness testimony that was not even considered by the responding officers
Muflahi walked out the front door when he saw the officers talking to Sterling and said there was no “altercation,” as police claimed, until the cops tasered and tackled Sterling. That’s when Muflahi took out his phone and started recording.
You have the owner of the property telling you there was no altercation and yet here we have officers needing to taser and tackle. We see the gentleman slammed into the car and onto the pavement with the use of a taser as reports indicate. Then we see two big police officers on top of another big gentleman. We *HEAR* the police officers say "HE'S GOT A GUN" and then shots go off.
Let me paint a different picture for you.
Someone, not liking this Sterling gentleman, places an anonymous 911 call from a pay or burner phone. Peace officers arrive and engage in a tense and elevated manner leading to preemptive use of controlling tactics before talking to other witnesses at the scene. Once they have this Sterling gentleman on the ground, they are able to cover and shield his entire body for the safety of others as they claim he has a gun. They fire shots as they think this Sterling gentleman is reaching for a gun which an anonymous homeless person claimed he has previously brandished. The peace officers remove an object from his pocket leaving the sterling gentleman to bleed out and perish in front of said store owner who would call these same peace officers if any trouble occurred at his store (which he said, no such trouble existed at his store).
I will not speculate who this someone was that placed this 911 call, that is an exercise for the reader. But seriously think twice before walking near a homeless man with anything in your pocket, it may end your life. Also don't be black when walking around with things in your pocket.
-dk
Seriously if you want an ad, check out HP's zbook ultrabook line. A laptop with a xeon proc, 64gb ecc ram, and 2 drive bays. It's a portable server. THAT, my friend, is high-end.
What's really bothersome is not that they were collecting the data but that he had to prove his innocence instead of the State having to prove his guilt. It's a disturbing trend where we're proving innocence as opposed to relying on the State to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
By a jury of your peers. Most of your peers are gullible and hate baby killers.
During the release in New York they claimed the battery should expect 2 weeks of usage and takes 3 hours to charge. You can always remove the shoe because it defaults to an open circuit (if i interpret the patent correctly, it "ratchets down" the shoe to a snug size. without power you can manually "open" the sneakers)
Let them power the autonomous cars of the future.
FP!
If whipslash brings back cmdrtaco, I think we would all explode
you have a low uid, you should know better
sounds like you are not in management. back in the day you design your org chart with a plan over the next ten years in case someone left, transferred, or otherwise planned to stay with the company through retirement. today, there is such massive turnover that your org chart today looks completely different tomrorow as the article describes. you need to stay proactive on your business otherwise your entire company or department will suffer. maybe the timelines aren't xx years or xx months, but you cannot really sit here and say that technologies that existed 5 years ago continue to exist today. VoIP was major in the past decade which has been reduced to turnkey solutions that does not require a CCIE to manage. Storage has been ejected to the cloud, why hire multiple SAN engineers and a manager to manage them? Or do you just like to see empty boxes in your org chart? You need to plan, your strategy cannot be in years anymore, it must be in months. Until the cloud technologies are entrenched in our way of life, then we can revert to longer turnover cycles
depends on how smart your cruise control is. typically it switches off because traction control kicked in. the car has no way to detect if you're slipping because of bad road conditions or because you were just hit from a 90 degree angle. what it does know is that cruise control will try to accelerate if you are below speed. when the ecu detects differing speeds on wheels outside of the norm it should disengage as a safety feature. it just so happens the safety feature protects the manufacturer from liability as well.
now in your smarter nissan, maybe it knows to slow down to regain control and, depending on objects around the car, return to original speed. but there are not enough use cases where that would be even remotely safe so better to err on the side of caution.
The problem is us low-uid drones keep coming back and reading (and some of us continue posting to the comment section). Ergo, nothing will change. Just like the anti-beta team that was slowly silenced by the developers forcing the problematic design on us all. Solyent News picked a horrible name and just faded into obscurity (yes they have very similar content but the comment section is desperately lacking). So where else do we have to go.. Reddit? ha. IRC? I know a few that have. But must that I've talked to have just given up. They never login anymore and continue to read slashdot and give into the ad viewership. Which, what is up with that ?autorefresh and waking up to blaring audio ads because I left slashdot open in a tab.
If my ADD didn't need a fix, slashdot would be dead to me now. At least OSNews hasn't strayed from it's path in over 15 years.
not constitutional (discrimination)
Hi-rez proof
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
(X) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
(X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(X) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
(X) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!