There's no way he's ending up with a million. His financial advisors are going to milk the crap out of that. The kid has a 9th grade education. He's not going to know better. There would be hope that the parents would be able to keep tabs on that, but come on...they're letting him drop out in 9th grade. There no chance anyone in this family is going to be able to protect his interests against the sharks
Yep, being a professional gamer is certainly a dream job. And do you know what else is a dream job? Being a financial advisor to someone with a crapload of money and a 9th grade education (yeah yeah, he's going to continue by taking online courses..I'm sure that will work well in the priority list along side his 18 hours per day of fortnite)
I fully expect the rolling coal sort of people to start visiting CVS and buying a ton of the cheapest item they can find, all on separate transactions...with paper receipts, of course
Isn't that a brand of low-cost kitchen appliances?
Oh, Master Chief. Excuse me while I go make coffee...
While you are doing that, take a look at the name tag on your coffee maker and you'll realize you were thinking of Magic Chef. Master Chef is a TV show.
You could absolutely simulate a USB cassette. We've already got the tech to transfer audio to the player via those CD to cassette adapters. So now you have to make those wheels do something. Turning them powers the internal electronics. The rate and direction they turn, along with which one is turning, tells you whether to fast forward or rewind and which side of the tape is being played. The last thing you need to simulate is a mechanism to lock the wheel when you reach the end (making sure to pad the shorter of the 2 sides with enough white noise to make the sides equal length) so that the player can auto-reverse to play the entire cassette, both sides, without intervention.
So I suppose if you lost $10k or more in the hack, you be happy to say "oh that's alright...at least they shut it down pretty swiftly and with minimal to no loss", right?
Exactly. Normally I would be inclined to agree with this philosopher, but when you take a colored canvas with a stripe, a white canvas with some paint splatters, or even just a solid white canvas, and you can call it art, then I'm willing to give AI the benefit of the doubt on this one
Pretty much every form of insurance is not gambling. The idea with gambling is that if things go the way you planned, you come out a winner. But generally with insurance, you don't come away feeling like a winner.
Car insurance: You get into a car accident, and your car insurance pays for replairs. But generally you are still at a loss. You've lost significant time dealing with it. Repaired cars with any significant damage are often not quite the same. When you go to sell the car you are likely to get less for it (and insurance rarely compensates you, fully or even at all, for diminished value. And there's a good chance you'll end up paying more in insurance in the future
House insurance: Your house burns down, and it's a gigantic life disruption. Depending on how extensive the damage and other circumstances, you could be spending more than a year living out of a hotel or rental. Your insurance will pay for a lot of your stuff, but realistically there will be so many things not covered and that you don't even remember to claim. Anything of sentimental value is impossible to replace. It's pretty much impossible to be made whole. In lesser cases, like where you just have a water leak, insurers are fearful of mold so you could end up getting dropped and find your house nearly uninsurable except for the most expensive policies. It can even affect you went you go do sell and the buyer finds nobody wants to insure the house.
Life insurance: If you have a very high value policy, then even with all your expenses incurred it may be possible to come out financially better off...but come on, someone you love has died, which can just destroy your life (especially if kids are invovled...for their entire life they'll never be quite the same). But realistically, in many cases you don't even come out financially positive in the long run when the big money earner is gone from the picture and year after year you chip away at the insurance payout
Medical insurance: Considering the cost of premiums, the only way for medical insurance to not be a negative value investment is to have a lot of medical bills, which generally means someone is pretty sick.
Sports player insurance: I still get to go to the game and still get to enjoy it, but maybe get 90% of my cost of the ticket refunded. And note that unlike other insurances, here I was already happy to pay 100% of the value to do that. So this is really like a positive value return when the insurance kicks in (as opposed to all the above examples, where you pretty much always lose out)
I don't think "profit-saving" is even accurate either. It would be more accurate to say profit-generating measure. And with their new wireless charging pad being released this year, what better reason to "upgrade" to that latest (expensive) accessory and help them generate even more profit
And why did I put "upgrade" in quotes? Because wireless charging isn't much of an upgrade. Sure you don't have to plug in a wire, but it's slow. Even slower than the basic charger that comes in the box with your phone. But wait a minute....what if the charger that came with your phone was actually even SLOWER than the wireless charger? Then it truly would be an upgrade.
No, that's not "literally law regarding tips". You are thinking of the legally mandated minimum wage. That's not what this is about. This is about how (as it states in the summary) "Amazon guarantees third-party drivers for its Flex program a minimum of $18 to $25 per hour". There is no law regarding tips that concerns anything amazon has guaranteed over the minimum wage. That comes purely down to contract law...what are the terms of the "guarantee" in the employment contract.
Simple solution, Amazon: stop comingling the damn inventory from 3rd party sellers. True, you won't be able to prevent
from selling counterfeit items, but you'll be able to trace back who sold it, and when sellers know they can be identified, they won't be as willing to risk it
Don't think this is possible, hence not something that can go wrong.
At our current level of tech and knowledge, I agree. But I wouldn't outright say it isn't possible. Unless you believe in some spiritual essence being responsible for intelligence, it would seam to reason that all of the physical attributes that make a brain work can eventually be figured out and duplicated.
It doesn't matter if FDIC can't insure it all, the point still stands. To truly "steal" the money, you have to get it out of the system before they noticed it and get it into your control in a form that can't be clawed back. For tens of thousands of dollars, that's fairly easy. For a millions of dollars, that starts getting a bit difficult. For a hundred million, that's going to be extremely difficult. As of a few years ago, the FDIC fund stood at $72.6 billion.
Wow, perfect. So not only does it look more bland**, but now that phones are beginning to move to oleds we get MORE white in the UI? Good thinking!!!
**not sure why everyone seems to think it's good to not having lines denoting the borders of anything, whether it be separators between emails or the edges of a button.
The mouse is more intuitive for the person who is unskilled at the software they are using. The keyboard is more efficient for everyone else, sometimes substantially so. It's astonishing how much software intended for repetitive data entry is not designed better around the keyboard.
Wrong. Some things are infinitely better with a mouse (the author of the article even says so). Some things are infinitely better with keyboard shortcuts. I'd venture to say that most things are BEST with a healthy combination of the two.
The author is like a guy who has used a hammer as his only tool for his whole life. Suddenly he discover a screwdriver and realizes screws go in so much easier and cleaner than with a hammer, and suddenly says "get the fuck out of here, Mr Hammer" and proceeds living life with a screwdriver as his only tool.
No barrier is perfectly effective. People break out of prisons on occasion - that doesn't discount the utility of prisons in general.
Seriously? You are comparing a wall that spans over 1000 miles and where the response time is measured in hours with a prison wall where 1 person can see from one side to the other, and that has guards with machine guns every couple hundred feet ready to open fire the second someone begins climbing?
As I've said previously on this topic, physical barriers only work when the delay they add is proportional to the response time, or when the barrier improves the response time. Out in the desert, even if you know the exact moment that someone breaches the border, the response time can be hours. Adding 5 or 10 minutes for someone to scale the wall is trivial. If you can track down and intercept someone who breached the border 1 hour 50 minutes ago, you can almost surely track down someone who breached the border 2 hours ago.
Remember that the 51% doesn't allow you to steal people's money: it only allows you rollback transactions that already happened. You still need to figure out how to execute the second half of the scam.
1) Complete transaction of X merchandise in exchange for cryptocurrency 2) Roll back transaction 3) Profit
Except that Remind actually IS NOT spamming. I'm not sure how often this is used to communicate directly with students in upper grades or college. My experience is with it used in elementary school for the teachers to send information to the parents. It also allows parents to respond back to the group, and one parent to respond to any other parent in the class. And it does this without anyone having to share their email address or phone number with each other. The parents voluntarily sign up for the list, so it's not spam even if you don't like the messages being sent.
Is that what your extensive research tells you? Because my extensive research (which consisted of googling "do any animals eat mistletoe" and reading the google highlighted summary at the top of the results) says:
Researchers have documented that animals such as elk, cattle and deer eat mistletoe during winter when fresh foliage is rare.... Other mammals that eat mistletoe include squirrels, chipmunks, and even porcupines, some of which are deliriously fond of the plant.
The full article (https://www.usgs.gov/news/not-just-kissing-mistletoe-and-birds-bees-and-other-beasts-0) also documents species of birds that eat the berries
Physical barriers only work when the delay they add is proportional to the response time, or when the barrier improves the response time.
Police response time to your house is often only a matter of minutes. A door lock works because either it adds a few minutes of delay for the thief trying to bypass it stealthily (giving neighbors or homeowners a chance to spot the intrusion and call police) , or because it draws attention if you bypass it quickly (neighbors or homeowner hear door kicked in or window being broken). Even a 15 second delay may be all it takes for a homeowner to run and retrieve a gun from a safe.
Walls/fences work in urban areas because they prevent casual flow of people back and forth, and because they are well monitored. The 15 seconds it takes someone to scale a fence is plenty of time to mobilize the guards and intercept. These are the areas where we already have walls/fences built.
Out in the desert, even if you know the exact moment that someone breaches the border, the response time can be hours. Adding 5 or 10 minutes for someone to scale the wall is trivial. If you can track down and intercept someone who breached the border 1 hour 50 minutes ago, you can almost surely track down someone who breached the border 2 hours ago.
I'm confused. Why would nVidia want ANY game to perform less than 100% on their hardware? Crippling any given game on nVidia hardware doesn't in any way hurt their competition (ATI)...just the opposite, actually. And as far as I'm aware, they don't have any ownership interest in any game development or publishing company. So I fail to see what the upside is for them to do so.
This is the same CEO of the company who came to fame by crushing 3dfx and Matrox in the graphics card wars of the late 1990's and 2000's... right?
While my memory of that period may not be as clear 20+ year later, I think Nvidia was actually breaking new ground back then. Matrox made some wickedly fast 2d accelerated cards, but I don't seem to recall them ever having anything particularly compelling in the 3d market (the attempts they did make were either slow, poor quality, or both). 3dfx had some killer 3d performance, but every one of their cards was neutered in some form or another (required separate 2D card, limited resolution, only 16-bit color, 2D+3D in one card sacrificed performance).
Nvidia sort of created the perfect middle ground. A single card that could perform extremely good at both 2D and 3D (though not top of the line at either), great image quality, and not too pricey. And though my memory is less certain on this, I feel like they were earlier to have full opengl and better support for new direct3d features. And when the GeForce cards came out with the first implementations of programmable transform/lighting pipelines, that was the final nail in the coffin for most of the competition...you could have your cake AND eat it, and they'd even throw some extra sprinkles on the top for good measure.
Another example is Tile, the handy little device that helps you find your keys using your phone, or find your cell phone using your keys. It's a nice little piece of tech that I've liked very much. However, after seeing stories recently how some seemingly trustworthy apps are selling "anonymized" location data which can trivially be reidentified simply by looking where you spend your evenings and where you spend your work hours, I started locking down location data for all my apps. And when I did, wouldn't you know it...the Tile doesn't function at all anymore without location services. I understand they want location data to enable their crowdsourced location feature, but I don't want that. I just want to find my keys in my house.
Aren't they a bit late in this hack? Just a few months ago we had this story about how google is redesigning the recaptcha to not even require user interaction anymore: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
So it sounds like they are hacking an old version that is already in the process of being retired.
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There's no way he's ending up with a million. His financial advisors are going to milk the crap out of that. The kid has a 9th grade education. He's not going to know better. There would be hope that the parents would be able to keep tabs on that, but come on...they're letting him drop out in 9th grade. There no chance anyone in this family is going to be able to protect his interests against the sharks
Yep, being a professional gamer is certainly a dream job. And do you know what else is a dream job? Being a financial advisor to someone with a crapload of money and a 9th grade education (yeah yeah, he's going to continue by taking online courses ..I'm sure that will work well in the priority list along side his 18 hours per day of fortnite)
I fully expect the rolling coal sort of people to start visiting CVS and buying a ton of the cheapest item they can find, all on separate transactions...with paper receipts, of course
Isn't that a brand of low-cost kitchen appliances?
Oh, Master Chief. Excuse me while I go make coffee...
While you are doing that, take a look at the name tag on your coffee maker and you'll realize you were thinking of Magic Chef. Master Chef is a TV show.
You could absolutely simulate a USB cassette. We've already got the tech to transfer audio to the player via those CD to cassette adapters. So now you have to make those wheels do something. Turning them powers the internal electronics. The rate and direction they turn, along with which one is turning, tells you whether to fast forward or rewind and which side of the tape is being played. The last thing you need to simulate is a mechanism to lock the wheel when you reach the end (making sure to pad the shorter of the 2 sides with enough white noise to make the sides equal length) so that the player can auto-reverse to play the entire cassette, both sides, without intervention.
So I suppose if you lost $10k or more in the hack, you be happy to say "oh that's alright...at least they shut it down pretty swiftly and with minimal to no loss", right?
Exactly. Normally I would be inclined to agree with this philosopher, but when you take a colored canvas with a stripe, a white canvas with some paint splatters, or even just a solid white canvas, and you can call it art, then I'm willing to give AI the benefit of the doubt on this one
Pretty much every form of insurance is not gambling. The idea with gambling is that if things go the way you planned, you come out a winner. But generally with insurance, you don't come away feeling like a winner.
Car insurance: You get into a car accident, and your car insurance pays for replairs. But generally you are still at a loss. You've lost significant time dealing with it. Repaired cars with any significant damage are often not quite the same. When you go to sell the car you are likely to get less for it (and insurance rarely compensates you, fully or even at all, for diminished value. And there's a good chance you'll end up paying more in insurance in the future
House insurance: Your house burns down, and it's a gigantic life disruption. Depending on how extensive the damage and other circumstances, you could be spending more than a year living out of a hotel or rental. Your insurance will pay for a lot of your stuff, but realistically there will be so many things not covered and that you don't even remember to claim. Anything of sentimental value is impossible to replace. It's pretty much impossible to be made whole. In lesser cases, like where you just have a water leak, insurers are fearful of mold so you could end up getting dropped and find your house nearly uninsurable except for the most expensive policies. It can even affect you went you go do sell and the buyer finds nobody wants to insure the house.
Life insurance: If you have a very high value policy, then even with all your expenses incurred it may be possible to come out financially better off...but come on, someone you love has died, which can just destroy your life (especially if kids are invovled...for their entire life they'll never be quite the same). But realistically, in many cases you don't even come out financially positive in the long run when the big money earner is gone from the picture and year after year you chip away at the insurance payout
Medical insurance: Considering the cost of premiums, the only way for medical insurance to not be a negative value investment is to have a lot of medical bills, which generally means someone is pretty sick.
Sports player insurance: I still get to go to the game and still get to enjoy it, but maybe get 90% of my cost of the ticket refunded. And note that unlike other insurances, here I was already happy to pay 100% of the value to do that. So this is really like a positive value return when the insurance kicks in (as opposed to all the above examples, where you pretty much always lose out)
I don't think "profit-saving" is even accurate either. It would be more accurate to say profit-generating measure. And with their new wireless charging pad being released this year, what better reason to "upgrade" to that latest (expensive) accessory and help them generate even more profit
And why did I put "upgrade" in quotes? Because wireless charging isn't much of an upgrade. Sure you don't have to plug in a wire, but it's slow. Even slower than the basic charger that comes in the box with your phone. But wait a minute....what if the charger that came with your phone was actually even SLOWER than the wireless charger? Then it truly would be an upgrade.
No, that's not "literally law regarding tips". You are thinking of the legally mandated minimum wage. That's not what this is about. This is about how (as it states in the summary) "Amazon guarantees third-party drivers for its Flex program a minimum of $18 to $25 per hour". There is no law regarding tips that concerns anything amazon has guaranteed over the minimum wage. That comes purely down to contract law...what are the terms of the "guarantee" in the employment contract.
Simple solution, Amazon: stop comingling the damn inventory from 3rd party sellers. True, you won't be able to prevent
from selling counterfeit items, but you'll be able to trace back who sold it, and when sellers know they can be identified, they won't be as willing to risk it
Don't think this is possible, hence not something that can go wrong.
At our current level of tech and knowledge, I agree. But I wouldn't outright say it isn't possible. Unless you believe in some spiritual essence being responsible for intelligence, it would seam to reason that all of the physical attributes that make a brain work can eventually be figured out and duplicated.
It doesn't matter if FDIC can't insure it all, the point still stands. To truly "steal" the money, you have to get it out of the system before they noticed it and get it into your control in a form that can't be clawed back. For tens of thousands of dollars, that's fairly easy. For a millions of dollars, that starts getting a bit difficult. For a hundred million, that's going to be extremely difficult. As of a few years ago, the FDIC fund stood at $72.6 billion.
Wow, perfect. So not only does it look more bland**, but now that phones are beginning to move to oleds we get MORE white in the UI? Good thinking!!!
**not sure why everyone seems to think it's good to not having lines denoting the borders of anything, whether it be separators between emails or the edges of a button.
That's a really good question. Who DOES care whether or not you've heard of Metroid?
The mouse is more intuitive for the person who is unskilled at the software they are using. The keyboard is more efficient for everyone else, sometimes substantially so. It's astonishing how much software intended for repetitive data entry is not designed better around the keyboard.
Wrong. Some things are infinitely better with a mouse (the author of the article even says so). Some things are infinitely better with keyboard shortcuts. I'd venture to say that most things are BEST with a healthy combination of the two.
The author is like a guy who has used a hammer as his only tool for his whole life. Suddenly he discover a screwdriver and realizes screws go in so much easier and cleaner than with a hammer, and suddenly says "get the fuck out of here, Mr Hammer" and proceeds living life with a screwdriver as his only tool.
No barrier is perfectly effective. People break out of prisons on occasion - that doesn't discount the utility of prisons in general.
Seriously? You are comparing a wall that spans over 1000 miles and where the response time is measured in hours with a prison wall where 1 person can see from one side to the other, and that has guards with machine guns every couple hundred feet ready to open fire the second someone begins climbing?
As I've said previously on this topic, physical barriers only work when the delay they add is proportional to the response time, or when the barrier improves the response time. Out in the desert, even if you know the exact moment that someone breaches the border, the response time can be hours. Adding 5 or 10 minutes for someone to scale the wall is trivial. If you can track down and intercept someone who breached the border 1 hour 50 minutes ago, you can almost surely track down someone who breached the border 2 hours ago.
Remember that the 51% doesn't allow you to steal people's money: it only allows you rollback transactions that already happened. You still need to figure out how to execute the second half of the scam.
1) Complete transaction of X merchandise in exchange for cryptocurrency
2) Roll back transaction
3) Profit
Except that Remind actually IS NOT spamming. I'm not sure how often this is used to communicate directly with students in upper grades or college. My experience is with it used in elementary school for the teachers to send information to the parents. It also allows parents to respond back to the group, and one parent to respond to any other parent in the class. And it does this without anyone having to share their email address or phone number with each other. The parents voluntarily sign up for the list, so it's not spam even if you don't like the messages being sent.
Not true. No animal eats mistletoe
Is that what your extensive research tells you? Because my extensive research (which consisted of googling "do any animals eat mistletoe" and reading the google highlighted summary at the top of the results) says:
Researchers have documented that animals such as elk, cattle and deer eat mistletoe during winter when fresh foliage is rare. ... Other mammals that eat mistletoe include squirrels, chipmunks, and even porcupines, some of which are deliriously fond of the plant.
The full article (https://www.usgs.gov/news/not-just-kissing-mistletoe-and-birds-bees-and-other-beasts-0) also documents species of birds that eat the berries
Physical barriers only work when the delay they add is proportional to the response time, or when the barrier improves the response time.
Police response time to your house is often only a matter of minutes. A door lock works because either it adds a few minutes of delay for the thief trying to bypass it stealthily (giving neighbors or homeowners a chance to spot the intrusion and call police) , or because it draws attention if you bypass it quickly (neighbors or homeowner hear door kicked in or window being broken). Even a 15 second delay may be all it takes for a homeowner to run and retrieve a gun from a safe.
Walls/fences work in urban areas because they prevent casual flow of people back and forth, and because they are well monitored. The 15 seconds it takes someone to scale a fence is plenty of time to mobilize the guards and intercept. These are the areas where we already have walls/fences built.
Out in the desert, even if you know the exact moment that someone breaches the border, the response time can be hours. Adding 5 or 10 minutes for someone to scale the wall is trivial. If you can track down and intercept someone who breached the border 1 hour 50 minutes ago, you can almost surely track down someone who breached the border 2 hours ago.
I'm confused. Why would nVidia want ANY game to perform less than 100% on their hardware? Crippling any given game on nVidia hardware doesn't in any way hurt their competition (ATI)...just the opposite, actually. And as far as I'm aware, they don't have any ownership interest in any game development or publishing company. So I fail to see what the upside is for them to do so.
This is the same CEO of the company who came to fame by crushing 3dfx and Matrox in the graphics card wars of the late 1990's and 2000's... right?
While my memory of that period may not be as clear 20+ year later, I think Nvidia was actually breaking new ground back then. Matrox made some wickedly fast 2d accelerated cards, but I don't seem to recall them ever having anything particularly compelling in the 3d market (the attempts they did make were either slow, poor quality, or both). 3dfx had some killer 3d performance, but every one of their cards was neutered in some form or another (required separate 2D card, limited resolution, only 16-bit color, 2D+3D in one card sacrificed performance).
Nvidia sort of created the perfect middle ground. A single card that could perform extremely good at both 2D and 3D (though not top of the line at either), great image quality, and not too pricey. And though my memory is less certain on this, I feel like they were earlier to have full opengl and better support for new direct3d features. And when the GeForce cards came out with the first implementations of programmable transform/lighting pipelines, that was the final nail in the coffin for most of the competition...you could have your cake AND eat it, and they'd even throw some extra sprinkles on the top for good measure.
Another example is Tile, the handy little device that helps you find your keys using your phone, or find your cell phone using your keys. It's a nice little piece of tech that I've liked very much. However, after seeing stories recently how some seemingly trustworthy apps are selling "anonymized" location data which can trivially be reidentified simply by looking where you spend your evenings and where you spend your work hours, I started locking down location data for all my apps. And when I did, wouldn't you know it...the Tile doesn't function at all anymore without location services. I understand they want location data to enable their crowdsourced location feature, but I don't want that. I just want to find my keys in my house.
Aren't they a bit late in this hack? Just a few months ago we had this story about how google is redesigning the recaptcha to not even require user interaction anymore:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
So it sounds like they are hacking an old version that is already in the process of being retired.