There's no alternative interpretation of this bit of maritime.lae. if the original sea mount isn't above water at high tide then it isn't an island and pouring gravel and concrete on it does not make it an island, at least not for the purposes of extending maritime economic zones.
Yes, but that sea law is trumped by this one:
He can enforce the law gets to decide what it is...
It's like the Rules of the Road. Sure you had the right of way but gross tonnage wins out over your tiny sailboat every time
The parent company is [American], but it has subsidiaries all over the world.
WHY? Why in the fuck would a company be that fucking stupid? What would that gain them except subjection to STUPID laws like this one? Look, I hate Facebook with a vengeance. I wish it would die. But how could any company be that stupid?
Complying with local business registration laws aside, there are advantages to having subsidiaries. For example, it allows companies to decide where profits are booked rather than having all of the money flow back to the US; it also affords them legal protections offered to local firms and can separate liability form the parent and the local company. For companies that sell hard goods it also allows them to setup different warranty schemes and not have to honor a warranty world wide. Complying with local laws is one price they pay for such benefits.
They don't like to employ a lot of people to check posts that were flagged for hatespeech because that takes a lot of time and reduces the amounts of ads they can sell to racists. But if they have to choose between operating slightly less profitable in Germany or not at all, they will likely go for slightly less profitable.
Clearly they need to obey the laws of the countries where they do business, and facebook.de needs to comply. However, they may not need to hire additional staff if they simply automatically delete any flagged post containing certain words; that would mean they only have to check ones that are flagged but do not contain the auto-delete words.Sure it would probably result in deletion of non-offensive material as well but it would be cheaper than adding staff.
. But I never ever have valued tradeoff of thinness at the cost of an unchangable battery. The iPhone would be a massively better product if it was 2mm thicker and came with an interchangable battery.
I am not so sure how it would be better. Sure, you could carry a spare battery but it's just as easy to carry a USB battery to recharge your phone if you use it so much that it goes dead quickly; with the added bonus of no having to worry your battery will accidentally get short circuited in a briefcase or purse. I used to carry a Treo, which had a replaceable battery, but even with tethering I never really needed one. I could see the case where a replaceable battery would be useful for an older phone whose battery is dying; however I wonder what % of iPhone users keep their phone long enough for that to be an issue and even then they can still replace the battery via an authorized service center. One downside I see is a replaceable battery might encourage the proliferation of cheap knockoffs that potentially could cause problems; and Apple getting the blame when people think their "genuine" $5 battery went kablooey.
So, I am curious how the iPhone would be massively better with a user removable battery.
It's his right to do so everywhere in the United States of America, actually. You actually CAN walk around with an assault rifle! A few decades ago, nobody even gave a shit!
Who said it was an assault rifle? Do you know what an assault rifle is?
Actually it doesn't. There are plenty of places in the US where it is illegal. In his case, he was on private property and he has no 2cd amendment right to carry there, he may only do so if the property owner allows it.
People died while being locked in cars.
(snip) people sleeping in a car while owner and friend locked it. The owner came back after a long hot weeken, his friend was dead inside.
Do you have a cite? AFAICR every car I've owned or driven can always be unlocked from within; I've seen cases where someone died because they didn't know has to manually unlock a door, but that isn't the fault of the door lock.
I'm all for things that go boom. I love weird, clever little gadgets. I admire a clever and subtle subversion of a system, even when I don't condone its use.
But geez; this thing is not exactly elegant. It uses a fairly basic circuit to exploit the completely unsurprising fact that the interface isn't designed to handle high voltages.
I'm with you on this one. All someone did was say "Gee, capacitors can hold large charge and dissipate it quickly so it will destroy a circuit whose design spec doesn't call for handling large voltages" and build a small device to do so. BFD. I can build a 120 or 210 power cord with a usb connector, plug it in a to the wall and a usb port; POW sparks fly as well. The "the interface and machines should have been deigned to prevent such an event" is ridiculous since no one expects someone to design a device to deliberate damage the port; and if you did try to do so why stop there? A screwdriver can also physically damage it so doe step spec require it to withstand such an attack? How about if I put my machine in a microwave? Or do we design it in such a way that it performs as intended and the expectation is it will be used in a reasonable manner?
Some people will no doubt think it's funny to use one on unsuspecting victims and when caught say "It's just a joke" and / or "The machine should have been designed not to let that happen;" and be surprised when they are hauled into court. Oh well, you can fix a fried device but you can't fix stupid.
Exactly. I don't see what is stopping these drivers from just buying a $500,000 taxi medallion.
Actually, it was often easier for a driver to get $500,000 medallion than $100 TV on credit. As long as the number o f medallions was limited so no new ones were issued, lending against them was a no brainer. Drivers would make payments to avoid losing it since you could repossess it by simply prying it off the car; as an appreciating asset it was worth more than when you first sold it. It is the driver's best interest not to get behind since if he or she did they lost all the appreciation and the ability to work.
Amazon could solve this issue by only allowing reviews from people who have actually purchased the product on Amazon.
Nope. My daughter writes fake reviews, and she typically charges $20+"price of product" if they want a "verified" review. For more expensive items, she will sometimes charge the difference between what the product costs on Amazon, and what she can resell the NIB product for on eBay or Craigslist, and then she has Amazon drop-ship directly to the secondary customer.
Requiring all reviewers to be verified buyers may help somewhat, but it would be only a partial fix by raising the cost of the fake reviews.
You are correct that Amazon can never fix fake reviews; he best they can do is attempt to minimize their impact. For example, they could only attach verified purchaser status if the review was written at some point in time after recipes, and not do that for any not shipped to the purchasers billing address or one used frequently. They could also look at purchase patterns to see if they are unusual for a particular demographic, but that is less likely to indicate fake reviews. Still, there are ways around anything Amazon can devise, the best thing is to make it so expensive that the cost of getting a fake review exceeds the additional profit.
You could argue that he gave a reason for saying why he won't. But can't means he couldn't even if he wanted to.
Brdly. While won't is probably correct grammatically can't is used to mean won't in common usage; thus Reading his answer as an explanation if why he won't pardon Snowdon under the present circumstances is a reasonable interpretation. Personally, I think Snowden is doomed to live out his life like Philby; ultimately to be forgotten.
Apparently, the reliability of mobile phones is now measured by how often Pokemon Go Android crashes vs Pokemon Go iOS.
Braindead.
Gotta crash them all... Seriously, this study has a number of flaws that make it useless; from calling any app crash a failure, to merely running slowly, to presenting the data in a way that makes comparisons impossible. In addition, there is no mention of sample sizes. I'm surprised they didn't include a "the phone failed to turn on after we left it running for a couple f days..." as a failure to get 100% failure rtes for all phones.
I'm clearly missing the problem here? He has the wrong statistic (literally the opposite quantity), but what part of his statement doesn't make sense?
The question answers itself. He didn't take the time to have the right statistic and is running with a flagrant lie to insinuate something. What part of a civic society is founded on falsities?
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. You can bend a statistic any way you want, the problem is most people don't understand statistics and how they can be used to prove any point; they simply believe those that support their argument and don't understand, or don't want to understand, any counter arguments. As a result, they want to define society on their viewpoint and view an opposing viewpoint not just as wrong but as evil; even when the opposing viewpoint actually points out out how reality benefits them. It's like when the reality is manufacturing is not returning to the US, at least not to the days when you could build a car on sheer manpower alone, so they think those jobs will return, when the reality is if they return it will be in the form of high tech facilities, in non-unions states, that use robots and a few skilled techs running the facility, not 20 union members, with high school educations, turning wrenchs putting together the transmission and another union members 100 building the car. They want to believe those jobs will return ignoring the realities of the market. It just proves the maxim that you can't go broke, or get elected, underestimating the intelligence of the average American or voter.
Is there a way you can use the microsoft hololens? Alternatively perhaps you wear contacts?
Contacts aren't really an option, don't know about the hololens. Given the number of people who use glasses, the inability to use such tech as seamlessly as you do a pair of glasses would limit the market. Taking off your glasses, putting on a different pair to use the AR/VR whatever capabilities, then lather rinse and repeat is not a good user experience.
While I agree on the utility, for those of us that wear prescription glasses they would be useless unless you could get prescription versions. Since that would change the optics I doubt that will be an option.
Yeah, this. OK so I know it's 8AM on the US west coast where my daughter lives, and in Japan where my MIL lives, and in the Czech Republic where my parents are. That still doesn't tell me a damn thing about what time it is over there - can I call them? Are they home? At work?
This is an idiotic solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Not really. We simply add or subtract a fixed mount of time to determine if it's OK, we could even call them Time Zones...
Obviously this is not applicable to all tech workers, but...
In many cases, there's a fairly substantial difference in expectation of work product, both in terms of quality of work produced, and in ability to execute anything more than rote work. While it's true that those qualities may not matter for those organizations who choose to outsource tech labor, there can be a very quantifiable increase in product quality from workers who are more vested in and capable of producing a higher quality product, which can be translated into demand for higher compensation.
I would add productivity, which goes hand and hand with quality, as a key reason for higher wages. More productive workers can command higher wages because it takes fewer of them to do the same amount of work. That is true in any industry, not just tech. My experience with outsourcing work to India is it's fine if you need a simple task done but if it requires any thought by the time you get things right it is cheaper and less painful to do it elsewhere. I have worked with some highly competent Indian tech people, but with the race for absolute cheapest you are not likely to be hiring them; most likely because they are already employed and not going to work for substance wages. In the end you get what you pay for.
Do you want to be "forever alone" or happy with a wife that loves you? You will eventually get old and be unable to obtain dates if you do not take the plunge.
While much of what you say is true, this isn't. I know a number of older men who have no problem getting dates; after their divorce they suddenly have discovered that the are very much in demand.
I tried the Linkin one last night and since it didn't have a drop down menu for the job title, I entered in mine only to be told it was not a valid title. I tried a few different permutations and none were accepted.
Sr Systems Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
So much for that.
[John]
Yea, LinkedIn is ok for digging up past coworkers or colleagues but pretty poor at actually displaying credentials. It thinks my university is the one I got a certification at while working, and my current job is as a director on a volunteer board. There is no way to tell it to change those things, so I get "xx Alumni work here" for a school I did not attend. I also get random "connect" request from people I do not know who have blank profiles, so I'm guessing they are random spammers; as well as some from people who worked at the same company/attended the same school who want to connect and then sell me something. At least MS can't screw it up, they've already done that themselves.
They likely have home insurance and will be reimbursed. If anyone has a right to sue Amazon it will be the insurance company, to reclaim the money they paid out to the homeowners.
It is possible their insurance did not cover the total loss as well as any damages bryond monetary.
The question is: Even though the weaponized code was created deliberately, is it any different than mixing a few chemicals in your backyard just to SEE them blow up, with no intent of ever bombing the local police station? Is it that hard to believe that he wrote the code to say "Hey, I could do that" and then just stashed it somewhere?
I would say it's a question of mens rea or was he criminally negligent. I think yu could argue he had no criminal attempt those possibly his "prank friends" comments could be taken as intent. I would argue he was negligent as he should have known the code would be used if he released it and failed to verify the code he did release was not the 911 version.
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There's no alternative interpretation of this bit of maritime.lae. if the original sea mount isn't above water at high tide then it isn't an island and pouring gravel and concrete on it does not make it an island, at least not for the purposes of extending maritime economic zones.
Yes, but that sea law is trumped by this one:
He can enforce the law gets to decide what it is...
It's like the Rules of the Road. Sure you had the right of way but gross tonnage wins out over your tiny sailboat every time
Look the definition of censure, Herr Comrade
It clearly is censorship but that is the current German law. Views on freedom of speech differ by country.
WHY? Why in the fuck would a company be that fucking stupid? What would that gain them except subjection to STUPID laws like this one? Look, I hate Facebook with a vengeance. I wish it would die. But how could any company be that stupid?
Complying with local business registration laws aside, there are advantages to having subsidiaries. For example, it allows companies to decide where profits are booked rather than having all of the money flow back to the US; it also affords them legal protections offered to local firms and can separate liability form the parent and the local company. For companies that sell hard goods it also allows them to setup different warranty schemes and not have to honor a warranty world wide. Complying with local laws is one price they pay for such benefits.
They don't like to employ a lot of people to check posts that were flagged for hatespeech because that takes a lot of time and reduces the amounts of ads they can sell to racists. But if they have to choose between operating slightly less profitable in Germany or not at all, they will likely go for slightly less profitable.
Clearly they need to obey the laws of the countries where they do business, and facebook.de needs to comply. However, they may not need to hire additional staff if they simply automatically delete any flagged post containing certain words; that would mean they only have to check ones that are flagged but do not contain the auto-delete words.Sure it would probably result in deletion of non-offensive material as well but it would be cheaper than adding staff.
. But I never ever have valued tradeoff of thinness at the cost of an unchangable battery. The iPhone would be a massively better product if it was 2mm thicker and came with an interchangable battery.
I am not so sure how it would be better. Sure, you could carry a spare battery but it's just as easy to carry a USB battery to recharge your phone if you use it so much that it goes dead quickly; with the added bonus of no having to worry your battery will accidentally get short circuited in a briefcase or purse. I used to carry a Treo, which had a replaceable battery, but even with tethering I never really needed one. I could see the case where a replaceable battery would be useful for an older phone whose battery is dying; however I wonder what % of iPhone users keep their phone long enough for that to be an issue and even then they can still replace the battery via an authorized service center. One downside I see is a replaceable battery might encourage the proliferation of cheap knockoffs that potentially could cause problems; and Apple getting the blame when people think their "genuine" $5 battery went kablooey.
So, I am curious how the iPhone would be massively better with a user removable battery.
It's his right to do so everywhere in the United States of America, actually. You actually CAN walk around with an assault rifle! A few decades ago, nobody even gave a shit!
Who said it was an assault rifle? Do you know what an assault rifle is?
Actually it doesn't. There are plenty of places in the US where it is illegal. In his case, he was on private property and he has no 2cd amendment right to carry there, he may only do so if the property owner allows it.
TFA says 84% of sports fans with a DVR...
People died while being locked in cars. (snip) people sleeping in a car while owner and friend locked it. The owner came back after a long hot weeken, his friend was dead inside.
Do you have a cite? AFAICR every car I've owned or driven can always be unlocked from within; I've seen cases where someone died because they didn't know has to manually unlock a door, but that isn't the fault of the door lock.
I'm all for things that go boom. I love weird, clever little gadgets. I admire a clever and subtle subversion of a system, even when I don't condone its use.
But geez; this thing is not exactly elegant. It uses a fairly basic circuit to exploit the completely unsurprising fact that the interface isn't designed to handle high voltages.
I'm with you on this one. All someone did was say "Gee, capacitors can hold large charge and dissipate it quickly so it will destroy a circuit whose design spec doesn't call for handling large voltages" and build a small device to do so. BFD. I can build a 120 or 210 power cord with a usb connector, plug it in a to the wall and a usb port; POW sparks fly as well. The "the interface and machines should have been deigned to prevent such an event" is ridiculous since no one expects someone to design a device to deliberate damage the port; and if you did try to do so why stop there? A screwdriver can also physically damage it so doe step spec require it to withstand such an attack? How about if I put my machine in a microwave? Or do we design it in such a way that it performs as intended and the expectation is it will be used in a reasonable manner?
Some people will no doubt think it's funny to use one on unsuspecting victims and when caught say "It's just a joke" and / or "The machine should have been designed not to let that happen;" and be surprised when they are hauled into court. Oh well, you can fix a fried device but you can't fix stupid.
become a taxi driver.
Exactly. I don't see what is stopping these drivers from just buying a $500,000 taxi medallion.
Actually, it was often easier for a driver to get $500,000 medallion than $100 TV on credit. As long as the number o f medallions was limited so no new ones were issued, lending against them was a no brainer. Drivers would make payments to avoid losing it since you could repossess it by simply prying it off the car; as an appreciating asset it was worth more than when you first sold it. It is the driver's best interest not to get behind since if he or she did they lost all the appreciation and the ability to work.
Amazon could solve this issue by only allowing reviews from people who have actually purchased the product on Amazon.
Nope. My daughter writes fake reviews, and she typically charges $20+"price of product" if they want a "verified" review. For more expensive items, she will sometimes charge the difference between what the product costs on Amazon, and what she can resell the NIB product for on eBay or Craigslist, and then she has Amazon drop-ship directly to the secondary customer.
Requiring all reviewers to be verified buyers may help somewhat, but it would be only a partial fix by raising the cost of the fake reviews.
You are correct that Amazon can never fix fake reviews; he best they can do is attempt to minimize their impact. For example, they could only attach verified purchaser status if the review was written at some point in time after recipes, and not do that for any not shipped to the purchasers billing address or one used frequently. They could also look at purchase patterns to see if they are unusual for a particular demographic, but that is less likely to indicate fake reviews. Still, there are ways around anything Amazon can devise, the best thing is to make it so expensive that the cost of getting a fake review exceeds the additional profit.
You could argue that he gave a reason for saying why he won't. But can't means he couldn't even if he wanted to.
Brdly. While won't is probably correct grammatically can't is used to mean won't in common usage; thus Reading his answer as an explanation if why he won't pardon Snowdon under the present circumstances is a reasonable interpretation. Personally, I think Snowden is doomed to live out his life like Philby; ultimately to be forgotten.
Apparently, the reliability of mobile phones is now measured by how often Pokemon Go Android crashes vs Pokemon Go iOS.
Braindead.
Gotta crash them all... Seriously, this study has a number of flaws that make it useless; from calling any app crash a failure, to merely running slowly, to presenting the data in a way that makes comparisons impossible. In addition, there is no mention of sample sizes. I'm surprised they didn't include a "the phone failed to turn on after we left it running for a couple f days..." as a failure to get 100% failure rtes for all phones.
I'm clearly missing the problem here? He has the wrong statistic (literally the opposite quantity), but what part of his statement doesn't make sense?
The question answers itself. He didn't take the time to have the right statistic and is running with a flagrant lie to insinuate something. What part of a civic society is founded on falsities?
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. You can bend a statistic any way you want, the problem is most people don't understand statistics and how they can be used to prove any point; they simply believe those that support their argument and don't understand, or don't want to understand, any counter arguments. As a result, they want to define society on their viewpoint and view an opposing viewpoint not just as wrong but as evil; even when the opposing viewpoint actually points out out how reality benefits them. It's like when the reality is manufacturing is not returning to the US, at least not to the days when you could build a car on sheer manpower alone, so they think those jobs will return, when the reality is if they return it will be in the form of high tech facilities, in non-unions states, that use robots and a few skilled techs running the facility, not 20 union members, with high school educations, turning wrenchs putting together the transmission and another union members 100 building the car. They want to believe those jobs will return ignoring the realities of the market. It just proves the maxim that you can't go broke, or get elected, underestimating the intelligence of the average American or voter.
Is there a way you can use the microsoft hololens? Alternatively perhaps you wear contacts?
Contacts aren't really an option, don't know about the hololens. Given the number of people who use glasses, the inability to use such tech as seamlessly as you do a pair of glasses would limit the market. Taking off your glasses, putting on a different pair to use the AR/VR whatever capabilities, then lather rinse and repeat is not a good user experience.
While I agree on the utility, for those of us that wear prescription glasses they would be useless unless you could get prescription versions. Since that would change the optics I doubt that will be an option.
It is actually summertime in Germany, too, you moron. And Hitler died 71 years ago, you might want to google for it, fascinating read.
Fortunately, Mel Brooks is still alive...
Yeah, this. OK so I know it's 8AM on the US west coast where my daughter lives, and in Japan where my MIL lives, and in the Czech Republic where my parents are. That still doesn't tell me a damn thing about what time it is over there - can I call them? Are they home? At work?
This is an idiotic solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Not really. We simply add or subtract a fixed mount of time to determine if it's OK, we could even call them Time Zones...
and winter for Poland and France
Obviously this is not applicable to all tech workers, but...
In many cases, there's a fairly substantial difference in expectation of work product, both in terms of quality of work produced, and in ability to execute anything more than rote work. While it's true that those qualities may not matter for those organizations who choose to outsource tech labor, there can be a very quantifiable increase in product quality from workers who are more vested in and capable of producing a higher quality product, which can be translated into demand for higher compensation.
I would add productivity, which goes hand and hand with quality, as a key reason for higher wages. More productive workers can command higher wages because it takes fewer of them to do the same amount of work. That is true in any industry, not just tech. My experience with outsourcing work to India is it's fine if you need a simple task done but if it requires any thought by the time you get things right it is cheaper and less painful to do it elsewhere. I have worked with some highly competent Indian tech people, but with the race for absolute cheapest you are not likely to be hiring them; most likely because they are already employed and not going to work for substance wages. In the end you get what you pay for.
just completely irrational.
And there you have summed up marketing in 3 simple words...
Do you want to be "forever alone" or happy with a wife that loves you? You will eventually get old and be unable to obtain dates if you do not take the plunge.
While much of what you say is true, this isn't. I know a number of older men who have no problem getting dates; after their divorce they suddenly have discovered that the are very much in demand.
I tried the Linkin one last night and since it didn't have a drop down menu for the job title, I entered in mine only to be told it was not a valid title. I tried a few different permutations and none were accepted.
Sr Systems Engineer Senior Systems Engineer Systems Engineer
So much for that.
[John]
Yea, LinkedIn is ok for digging up past coworkers or colleagues but pretty poor at actually displaying credentials. It thinks my university is the one I got a certification at while working, and my current job is as a director on a volunteer board. There is no way to tell it to change those things, so I get "xx Alumni work here" for a school I did not attend. I also get random "connect" request from people I do not know who have blank profiles, so I'm guessing they are random spammers; as well as some from people who worked at the same company /attended the same school who want to connect and then sell me something. At least MS can't screw it up, they've already done that themselves.
They likely have home insurance and will be reimbursed. If anyone has a right to sue Amazon it will be the insurance company, to reclaim the money they paid out to the homeowners.
It is possible their insurance did not cover the total loss as well as any damages bryond monetary.
The question is: Even though the weaponized code was created deliberately, is it any different than mixing a few chemicals in your backyard just to SEE them blow up, with no intent of ever bombing the local police station? Is it that hard to believe that he wrote the code to say "Hey, I could do that" and then just stashed it somewhere?
I would say it's a question of mens rea or was he criminally negligent. I think yu could argue he had no criminal attempt those possibly his "prank friends" comments could be taken as intent. I would argue he was negligent as he should have known the code would be used if he released it and failed to verify the code he did release was not the 911 version.