Delta has demonstrated that it, one of the world's largest airlines, doesn't co-locate it's critical infrastructure in redundant data centers with fail-over mechanisms. Delta's inability to operate has ripple effects in the operations of other airlines as well.
Now criminals know that Atlanta is an Achilles' heel, and to cripple the world's air transportation systems, they need only attack it's power grid.
Obviously, market incentives are not sufficient to make them have a more robust infrastructure. I think the FAA needs to step in here and regulate a little sanity into the system.
If the proprietor provides an emergency telephone and clearly posts for all to see where this telephone is, then nobody has had their ability to make an emergency call "interfered" with.
What's next? Would you suggest that soundproofing a building to keep bar noise in or street noise out should be illegal, because someone inside might not hear someone outside calling for help?
Maybe curtains, blinds and window treatments should be illegal, too. The privacy they afford might stop a law enforcement officer from witnessing a crime, which probably outweighs the benefit of filtering out too much sunlight.
If the owner wants to shield his premises from some sort of radiation, so be it. As long as adequate provision for the safety of the customers (see my earlier post), then I'm satisfied. In my state, towns are allowed to make ordinances for the health and welfare of the public. Making laws to make SMS and data junkies happy doesn't meet the standard in my opinion.
I direct a Boy Scouts of America-accredited Cub Scout Day Camp. We operate our camp in an area with no cellular phone coverage. There are POTS phones, however, and we post a list of emergency phone numbers and directions to the nearest emergency phone in each program area.
I suspect this guy has a POTS or VOIP telephone somewhere in the bar. The prudent thing to do in a place of public accommodation where cellular telephone service is not available is to post a notice that a telephone is available for emergencies and state where it is. It's that simple. He probably already has a posted map to the fire exits in the main dining room/bar already, if fire safety regulations there are anything like what they are here.
I think if the guy were to post "EMERGENCY TELEPHONE BEHIND BAR - DIAL 911" (substitute whatever the dispatcher number is in the UK is) on the door underneath his business hours, he'd be doing his due.
B does not solve the problem. Analyzing the video stream for the do-not-film IR signal is non-trivial; it will require CPU cycles (thus, energy) to do this, and that means that this "feature" will make your battery last not as long as it otherwise would when you are using your camera.
This is a real shame, because the actual solution to the problem is people not taking their cameras into the movie theater, or those Yonder things...
see https://www.washingtonpost.com... .
Now, get off my lawn...
I firmly believe that any two adults should have the right to communicate privately as long as they are not convicted felons. I'm a mathematician. It blows my mind that anyone thinks it's reasonable to prohibit the use of math in speech.
That said, I would love it if I could buy a phone which would allow me, a parent, to read the communications between my children and other people - not to keep them from becoming terrorists, but to protect them. Children don't have the same rights as adults for good reasons.
Looking at domestic cases of terrorism (Dylan Roof, James Holmes, the Tsarnaevs, etc..), most of them either were too old to be parented per say, or they had parents who weren't really in control of them, or even parents who may have sympathized with them (e.g. the Tsarnaevs).
So they are essentially turning into a pseudo-coop. Companies whose customers are shareholders tend to have reduced conflicts of interest. This is good for all involved. The non-customer shareholders will also benefit from a more valuable company.
As of right now, the stock is down 1.28% for the day. Normally, a share buy-back causes prices to inch up... I wonder why investors are behaving strangely.
I am a senior developer at a POS software company, but not the one related to this story.
My take from TFA is that the criminals impersonated support folks from the POS vendor, but didn't actually compromise the vendor's network.
The PCI DSS has all sorts of requirements for merchants to follow that would have prevented this. For example, the merchants should not let computers in their cardholder data environment have unfettered access to the Internet, all remote access to the CDE must be multi-factor authenticated, and vendor accounts have to be enabled on an as-needed-only basis.
This is probably a case of a criminal calling CiCi's store 2348, getting a franchisee-trained manager on the phone, and telling her "Hi, I'm from ACME POS, your POS vendor. We are calling to install updates to make the chip readers you aren't using yet work later on... and we need access to the workstation in the back of the store. Can you please open a browser and go to www.getmein.com?...". I doubt the defacing of the POS vendor's website has squat to do with it.
Of course, the franchisee is running a consumer-grade router with no outbound filtering on it whatsoever... because they are in a low-margin business and they needed something cheap. The computer died in the back about 6 months ago, so they dropped in a replacement PC from Wal-Mart and promptly disabled UAC, etc.
The manager isn't knowledgeable enough to notice that the domain he is being asked to go to is wrong, the caller ID is wrong, etc. He or she needs to worry about the 73 kids in the restaurant who are dropping pizza on the floor that the new guy isn't cleaning fast enough, the 8 pizzas on the stuck upper belt in the oven, and the bathroom with the overflowing commode. Not to mention the health inspector waiting up front. Trough-style kid's restaurants are a nightmare.
I wish POS software could be handled completely as a service and reside in a VPC managed by the POS vendor. In reality though, the Internet is just not reliable enough for that in many (most) most places, and controlling POS peripherals from a cloud app is not really feasible.
An internet is any computer network which is addressed by Internet Protocol.
The Internet is the large super-network of a bunch of interconnected internets.
RFC-1918 is the perfect example of these distinct uses. I firmly believe that since the second aforementioned use is a particular collection of internets, that the correct usage is as a proper noun. You can connect multiple private internets, but that would not constitute the Internet.
There are four factors to consider when determining if the copying is "fair use":
1. Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
Google's use of the Java interfaces is to educate other pieces of code about what the implementation does. Interfaces are essentially documentative in nature, not creative...
2. Nature of the copyrighted work
Interfaces are not very creative. All they really do is document the input and output of an implementation. The implementation is where the creativity of the work is expressed.
3. Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
I bet the interfaces are less than 3% of the code base. If not, we have an over-architected language on our hands here..
4. Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work
Oracle didn't lose a dime over this until they started paying lawyers to sue Google. If anything, Google's use of the Java interfaces made Java more valuable, because it brought more developers into the Java fold.
This comment shamelessly copies content from http://www.copyright.gov/fair-...... a work of the United States Government not subject to copyright protection.
As a parent, it's particularly aggravating that if I buy a copy of The Hobbit, for example, for one of my children, he or she cannot then loan it or pass it down to a younger sibling.
Paperback books usually last long enough to get through one or two reads by all four of my kids. To reach price parity, an unsharable e-book has to be about 16% of the cost of a paper book. Currently, the Kindle edition of the book is $9.99 and the paperback is $8.31 on Amazon. Therefore, paper is a better deal for me.
Of course, digital copies never "degrade", so allowing transfer would kill a natural source of recurring revenue down the line. Bah. Copyright terms are too long. I bet most books make most of their money in the first 5 years.
He has a legitimate point. It's news for nerds, but perhaps not stuff that matters. "Stuff that matters" is pretty subjective though. It might matter to someone.
There is a risk market for earthquakes. Actuaries would love to have better predictability for earthquakes to better calculate the risk so that insurance products can be priced more accurately. If someone is going to fund earthquake research, real property insurers are your best bet.
I thought the point of the dryer was to dry the rinse water off of your hands after you thoroughly wash them, eliminating most of the pathogens.
That said, the problem here isn't the dryer. It's the idoits who don't know how to wash their hands. Perhaps in a hospital, we could make smart sinks that detect when you haven't washed your hands thoroughly enough and then curse at you or something... maybe the "red alert" sound. If it's obnoxious enough to get the attention of others in the room, then people will not ignore it so easily.
Or maybe they need to eliminate the sink, and just put the hand washing function into the dryer. I'm sure Dyson could power-wash the skin off of your hands. Wait, then blood-borne pathogens would get everywhere. Unless you cauterize the flesh after you take off the skin.
Maybe we should eliminate the sink and the dryer, and the bidet for those of you that like that sort of thing, and the toilet paper, and have an all-in-one commode that you sit on your hands on that washes, sanitizes, and drys your ass and your hands after you defecate. Ah, it'd feel sooo clean.
Or maybe we should just shit, wipe, flush, wash and dry like responsible people with what we've got.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if tens of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something inconsequential has happened.
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <!-- Free "atomic" clock Author: Matthew Mellon <Slashdot user 51228> Copyright: This code is released to the public domain Usage: Open this in a Web Browser. It will display a pretty darn close approximation to actual local time (adjusted for the difference in your CPU clock from reality). You could use this to turn an old phone into an "atomic clock" (emphasis on the quotes). The offset is re-checked hourly. Notes: You might want to make this pretty using one of those new-fangled Cascading Style Sheets, or maybe you could display an SVG image of an analog clock and use a bit of scripting to update it. This step is left as an exercise to the reader. --> <head> <title>Time</title> <script> // <!-- var difference = 0; var syncTimer; var updateTimer = setInterval(updateTime,13); var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); function setTimers() { syncTimer = setInterval(sync,1000*60*60); updateTimer = setInterval(updateTime,13); } function sync() { req.open("GET", "http://www.timeapi.org/utc/now", true); req.onreadystatechange = function() { if (req.readyState == 4 && req.status == 200) { lastFetchedTime = Date.parse(req.responseText); lastSystemTime = Date.now(); difference = lastFetchedTime - lastSystemTime; echo(lastFetchedTime); } } } function updateTime() { ts = new Date(); ts.setMilliseconds(ts.getMilliseconds() + difference); document.body.innerHTML = ts; } // --> </script> </head> <body onload="setTimers(); sync(); updateTime();"> </body> </html>
The government opposing currently-undefeatable encryption is incongruous with the supposed constitutional right to privacy (which, by the way, isn't there, but the Supreme Court said it is).
Consider the following excerpt from the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade:
The principal thrust of appellant's attack on the Texas statutes is that they improperly invade a right, said to be possessed by the pregnant woman, to choose to terminate her pregnancy. Appellant would discover this right in the concept of personal "liberty" embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause; or in personal, marital, familial, and sexual privacy said to be protected by the Bill of Rights or its penumbras.
The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. [T]he Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution. This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Specific and direct harm medically diagnosable even in early pregnancy may be involved. Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care. There is also the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma of unwed motherhood may be involved. All these are factors the woman and her responsible physician necessarily will consider in consultation.
Apply the same reasoning, and you'd have:
The principal thrust of appellant's attack on the application of the All Writs Act is that it improperly invades a right, said to be possessed by the owner of the smartphone, to choose to erase his or her data. Appellant would discover this right in the concept of personal "liberty" embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause; or in personal, marital, familial, and sexual privacy said to be protected by the Bill of Rights or its penumbras.
The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. [T]he Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution. This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a person's decision whether or not to erase data stored on his or her computing devices. The detriment that the State would impose upon the device owner by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Specific and direct harm may be involved. Data, or even the disclosure of personal contact information, may force upon the owner a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by the damage done to interpersonal relationships. There is also the distress, for all concerned, associated with the data, and there is the problem of removing the data, once disclosed by a third party, from a world of interconnected computing devices designed for data retention. In other cases, as in online dating service users, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma of adultery may be involved. All these are factors the device owner should consider when configuring his device.
The court has already established a precedent here that saving a life is subordinate to the right to privacy.
Who knows what is in their contracts with Samsung? Not I, said the little red hen.
Samsung might have something in the contract akin to "By virtue of thy revenue that thou dost receive from the users of Our own devices, thou, O Google, shalt let Us distribute whatever We shall want in thy Play Store. Buhahahaha."
Contracts between behemoths are generally closely held secrets.
Part of the problem is that most scientists are not journalists, and most journalists are not scientists. If a journalist takes enough time to become an expert in the scientific field he is reporting on, it isn't likely that he will ever come to market with his product, the reports, in a timely enough fashion to actually make a living on it.
Part of the problem is that many scientists lack the literary skill to communicate effectively with laypeople, and have to rely too much on journalists who don't have the competence needed to report on the subject material.
Another problem is that the proletariat crave the truth... the conclusions. As a mathematician, I reject the notion that empirical science determines truth. Yes, you can craft an experiment with reproducible results, but your results will still be just empirical observations. If you do a study, and find out that there is approximately a 78% correlation between wearing blue sweaters and getting hives, and that this result was reproduced three times given blah blah , then report that. Don't report that blue sweaters cause hives. Oh wait, the only thing the public cares about is what caused the hives... they have no appreciation for the results being what they are. The public wants to extrapolate conclusions only.
I like mathematics. Assuming a few axioms, prove something. What you then have is truth.
I spent part of the last 3 years (about 20% of it) developing and maintaining an iOS app (hybrid web app - UIWebView + a GWT/Java server side). It predated Swift. I come from a Pascal/C/C++/Java/C# background, and I hated every day of Objective C. I recently got a taste of Swift, but... why the hell can't Apple use a language with more typical syntaxes?
We did iOS first, because among our particular customers, they had better than 80% market share.
The business case recently came up to need to port it to Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld to support a couple of particular devices. WHAT A JOY. I had this app up and running on two real devices in four hours. C#, Visual Studio Community 2015... no Xcode developer profile / provisioning profile / whatever issues. I can debug the app and use the barcode scanner at the same time because, unlike iThings, the device will debug and let you use a wired peripheral AT THE SAME TIME (haven't been able to do that since Lightning).
The sad truth, though, is that Microsoft is late to the party. It was already too late when Steve started chanting "developers". They were already gone.
Microsoft is going to have to do something very wine-esque to just get apps on their platform. They have single-digit market share.
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Yes, I am willing to pay a little more to decrease catastrophic risk. We already do that with many other products.
Delta has demonstrated that it, one of the world's largest airlines, doesn't co-locate it's critical infrastructure in redundant data centers with fail-over mechanisms. Delta's inability to operate has ripple effects in the operations of other airlines as well. Now criminals know that Atlanta is an Achilles' heel, and to cripple the world's air transportation systems, they need only attack it's power grid. Obviously, market incentives are not sufficient to make them have a more robust infrastructure. I think the FAA needs to step in here and regulate a little sanity into the system.
So is it essentially a new POSIX interface? Why don't they just call it that?
If the proprietor provides an emergency telephone and clearly posts for all to see where this telephone is, then nobody has had their ability to make an emergency call "interfered" with. What's next? Would you suggest that soundproofing a building to keep bar noise in or street noise out should be illegal, because someone inside might not hear someone outside calling for help?
Maybe curtains, blinds and window treatments should be illegal, too. The privacy they afford might stop a law enforcement officer from witnessing a crime, which probably outweighs the benefit of filtering out too much sunlight.
If the owner wants to shield his premises from some sort of radiation, so be it. As long as adequate provision for the safety of the customers (see my earlier post), then I'm satisfied. In my state, towns are allowed to make ordinances for the health and welfare of the public. Making laws to make SMS and data junkies happy doesn't meet the standard in my opinion.
I direct a Boy Scouts of America-accredited Cub Scout Day Camp. We operate our camp in an area with no cellular phone coverage. There are POTS phones, however, and we post a list of emergency phone numbers and directions to the nearest emergency phone in each program area.
I suspect this guy has a POTS or VOIP telephone somewhere in the bar. The prudent thing to do in a place of public accommodation where cellular telephone service is not available is to post a notice that a telephone is available for emergencies and state where it is. It's that simple. He probably already has a posted map to the fire exits in the main dining room/bar already, if fire safety regulations there are anything like what they are here.
I think if the guy were to post "EMERGENCY TELEPHONE BEHIND BAR - DIAL 911" (substitute whatever the dispatcher number is in the UK is) on the door underneath his business hours, he'd be doing his due.
program Woosh(input, output);
begin
println("Woosh.")
end.
B does not solve the problem. Analyzing the video stream for the do-not-film IR signal is non-trivial; it will require CPU cycles (thus, energy) to do this, and that means that this "feature" will make your battery last not as long as it otherwise would when you are using your camera. This is a real shame, because the actual solution to the problem is people not taking their cameras into the movie theater, or those Yonder things... see https://www.washingtonpost.com... . Now, get off my lawn...
I firmly believe that any two adults should have the right to communicate privately as long as they are not convicted felons. I'm a mathematician. It blows my mind that anyone thinks it's reasonable to prohibit the use of math in speech. That said, I would love it if I could buy a phone which would allow me, a parent, to read the communications between my children and other people - not to keep them from becoming terrorists, but to protect them. Children don't have the same rights as adults for good reasons. Looking at domestic cases of terrorism (Dylan Roof, James Holmes, the Tsarnaevs, etc..), most of them either were too old to be parented per say, or they had parents who weren't really in control of them, or even parents who may have sympathized with them (e.g. the Tsarnaevs).
So they are essentially turning into a pseudo-coop. Companies whose customers are shareholders tend to have reduced conflicts of interest. This is good for all involved. The non-customer shareholders will also benefit from a more valuable company. As of right now, the stock is down 1.28% for the day. Normally, a share buy-back causes prices to inch up... I wonder why investors are behaving strangely.
I am a senior developer at a POS software company, but not the one related to this story. My take from TFA is that the criminals impersonated support folks from the POS vendor, but didn't actually compromise the vendor's network. The PCI DSS has all sorts of requirements for merchants to follow that would have prevented this. For example, the merchants should not let computers in their cardholder data environment have unfettered access to the Internet, all remote access to the CDE must be multi-factor authenticated, and vendor accounts have to be enabled on an as-needed-only basis.
This is probably a case of a criminal calling CiCi's store 2348, getting a franchisee-trained manager on the phone, and telling her "Hi, I'm from ACME POS, your POS vendor. We are calling to install updates to make the chip readers you aren't using yet work later on... and we need access to the workstation in the back of the store. Can you please open a browser and go to www.getmein.com?...". I doubt the defacing of the POS vendor's website has squat to do with it.
Of course, the franchisee is running a consumer-grade router with no outbound filtering on it whatsoever... because they are in a low-margin business and they needed something cheap. The computer died in the back about 6 months ago, so they dropped in a replacement PC from Wal-Mart and promptly disabled UAC, etc.
The manager isn't knowledgeable enough to notice that the domain he is being asked to go to is wrong, the caller ID is wrong, etc. He or she needs to worry about the 73 kids in the restaurant who are dropping pizza on the floor that the new guy isn't cleaning fast enough, the 8 pizzas on the stuck upper belt in the oven, and the bathroom with the overflowing commode. Not to mention the health inspector waiting up front. Trough-style kid's restaurants are a nightmare.
I wish POS software could be handled completely as a service and reside in a VPC managed by the POS vendor. In reality though, the Internet is just not reliable enough for that in many (most) most places, and controlling POS peripherals from a cloud app is not really feasible.
No, actually, it is specifically titled Address Allocation for Private Internets.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf... .
An internet is any computer network which is addressed by Internet Protocol.
The Internet is the large super-network of a bunch of interconnected internets.
RFC-1918 is the perfect example of these distinct uses. I firmly believe that since the second aforementioned use is a particular collection of internets, that the correct usage is as a proper noun. You can connect multiple private internets, but that would not constitute the Internet.
There are four factors to consider when determining if the copying is "fair use":
... a work of the United States Government not subject to copyright protection.
1. Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
Google's use of the Java interfaces is to educate other pieces of code about what the implementation does. Interfaces are essentially documentative in nature, not creative...
2. Nature of the copyrighted work
Interfaces are not very creative. All they really do is document the input and output of an implementation. The implementation is where the creativity of the work is expressed.
3. Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
I bet the interfaces are less than 3% of the code base. If not, we have an over-architected language on our hands here..
4. Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work
Oracle didn't lose a dime over this until they started paying lawyers to sue Google. If anything, Google's use of the Java interfaces made Java more valuable, because it brought more developers into the Java fold.
This comment shamelessly copies content from http://www.copyright.gov/fair-...
As a parent, it's particularly aggravating that if I buy a copy of The Hobbit, for example, for one of my children, he or she cannot then loan it or pass it down to a younger sibling. Paperback books usually last long enough to get through one or two reads by all four of my kids. To reach price parity, an unsharable e-book has to be about 16% of the cost of a paper book. Currently, the Kindle edition of the book is $9.99 and the paperback is $8.31 on Amazon. Therefore, paper is a better deal for me. Of course, digital copies never "degrade", so allowing transfer would kill a natural source of recurring revenue down the line. Bah. Copyright terms are too long. I bet most books make most of their money in the first 5 years.
He has a legitimate point. It's news for nerds, but perhaps not stuff that matters. "Stuff that matters" is pretty subjective though. It might matter to someone.
There is a risk market for earthquakes. Actuaries would love to have better predictability for earthquakes to better calculate the risk so that insurance products can be priced more accurately. If someone is going to fund earthquake research, real property insurers are your best bet.
I thought the point of the dryer was to dry the rinse water off of your hands after you thoroughly wash them, eliminating most of the pathogens.
That said, the problem here isn't the dryer. It's the idoits who don't know how to wash their hands. Perhaps in a hospital, we could make smart sinks that detect when you haven't washed your hands thoroughly enough and then curse at you or something... maybe the "red alert" sound. If it's obnoxious enough to get the attention of others in the room, then people will not ignore it so easily.
Or maybe they need to eliminate the sink, and just put the hand washing function into the dryer. I'm sure Dyson could power-wash the skin off of your hands. Wait, then blood-borne pathogens would get everywhere. Unless you cauterize the flesh after you take off the skin.
Maybe we should eliminate the sink and the dryer, and the bidet for those of you that like that sort of thing, and the toilet paper, and have an all-in-one commode that you sit on your hands on that washes, sanitizes, and drys your ass and your hands after you defecate. Ah, it'd feel sooo clean.
Or maybe we should just shit, wipe, flush, wash and dry like responsible people with what we've got.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if tens of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something inconsequential has happened.
Come on... surely that at least gets at least a +1 funny...
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
// <!-- ;
// -->
<html>
<!--
Free "atomic" clock
Author: Matthew Mellon <Slashdot user 51228>
Copyright: This code is released to the public domain
Usage: Open this in a Web Browser. It will display a pretty darn close approximation to actual local time (adjusted for the difference in your CPU clock from reality). You could use this to turn an old phone into an "atomic clock" (emphasis on the quotes). The offset is re-checked hourly.
Notes: You might want to make this pretty using one of those new-fangled Cascading Style Sheets, or maybe you could display an SVG image of an analog clock and use a bit of scripting to update it. This step is left as an exercise to the reader.
-->
<head>
<title>Time</title>
<script>
var difference = 0;
var syncTimer
var updateTimer = setInterval(updateTime,13);
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
function setTimers()
{
syncTimer = setInterval(sync,1000*60*60);
updateTimer = setInterval(updateTime,13);
}
function sync()
{
req.open("GET", "http://www.timeapi.org/utc/now", true);
req.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (req.readyState == 4 && req.status == 200)
{
lastFetchedTime = Date.parse(req.responseText);
lastSystemTime = Date.now();
difference = lastFetchedTime - lastSystemTime;
echo(lastFetchedTime);
}
}
}
function updateTime()
{
ts = new Date();
ts.setMilliseconds(ts.getMilliseconds() + difference);
document.body.innerHTML = ts;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="setTimers(); sync(); updateTime();">
</body>
</html>
Apply the same reasoning, and you'd have:
The court has already established a precedent here that saving a life is subordinate to the right to privacy.
Who knows what is in their contracts with Samsung? Not I, said the little red hen.
Samsung might have something in the contract akin to "By virtue of thy revenue that thou dost receive from the users of Our own devices, thou, O Google, shalt let Us distribute whatever We shall want in thy Play Store. Buhahahaha."
Contracts between behemoths are generally closely held secrets.
Base frequency of 1.2 Hz? I have a calculator from 1983 that can run circles around that.
Part of the problem is that most scientists are not journalists, and most journalists are not scientists. If a journalist takes enough time to become an expert in the scientific field he is reporting on, it isn't likely that he will ever come to market with his product, the reports, in a timely enough fashion to actually make a living on it.
Part of the problem is that many scientists lack the literary skill to communicate effectively with laypeople, and have to rely too much on journalists who don't have the competence needed to report on the subject material.
Another problem is that the proletariat crave the truth... the conclusions. As a mathematician, I reject the notion that empirical science determines truth. Yes, you can craft an experiment with reproducible results, but your results will still be just empirical observations. If you do a study, and find out that there is approximately a 78% correlation between wearing blue sweaters and getting hives, and that this result was reproduced three times given blah blah , then report that. Don't report that blue sweaters cause hives. Oh wait, the only thing the public cares about is what caused the hives... they have no appreciation for the results being what they are. The public wants to extrapolate conclusions only.
I like mathematics. Assuming a few axioms, prove something. What you then have is truth.
I spent part of the last 3 years (about 20% of it) developing and maintaining an iOS app (hybrid web app - UIWebView + a GWT/Java server side). It predated Swift. I come from a Pascal/C/C++/Java/C# background, and I hated every day of Objective C. I recently got a taste of Swift, but... why the hell can't Apple use a language with more typical syntaxes?
We did iOS first, because among our particular customers, they had better than 80% market share.
The business case recently came up to need to port it to Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld to support a couple of particular devices. WHAT A JOY. I had this app up and running on two real devices in four hours. C#, Visual Studio Community 2015... no Xcode developer profile / provisioning profile / whatever issues. I can debug the app and use the barcode scanner at the same time because, unlike iThings, the device will debug and let you use a wired peripheral AT THE SAME TIME (haven't been able to do that since Lightning).
The sad truth, though, is that Microsoft is late to the party. It was already too late when Steve started chanting "developers". They were already gone.
Microsoft is going to have to do something very wine-esque to just get apps on their platform. They have single-digit market share.