That’s not unreasonable. Legislators (especially here in Europe) are increasingly leaning on online platforms to apply filtering of 3rd party content. Mostly to address copyright violations, but also against undesirable opinions (“hate speech”). And those platforms will be held responsible for anything that gets through.
I am opposed to such a priori censorship, but if we’re going to apply it, I don’t see why it shouldn’t extend to ads and code. In fact since the case for up front filtering is the “far reaching consequences and extensive damage resulting from publication”, I hold that it should be applied not to opinion but to code.
Rubbish. I do hope you know the difference between a regular RPG (even a multiplayer one) and an MMO, both from a technical and a gameplay perspective. The difference is a bit more than the requirement to be online and a monthly fee.
Hosting and running an MMO costs money. And companies have found that developing an MMO costs serious money too, something that isn’t always reflected in the purchase price. They’d rather charge a reasonable fee for the game plus a monthly subscription (typically $10/month or so, which is great value if you’re serious about the game). And once they’ve recouped the investment, a lot of these games drop the monthly fee for the base game, so you can try it and see if it’s something for you. If you think MMOs should be free because Nethack was free, I suggest you go back to playing that.
Bands evolve, and so do movie franchises, but I would the next album from any band to at least be more or less the same genre as the last ones. Not Kate Bush doing death metal, or the Dire Straits doing a rap album.
Why even bother with suicide missions, simply have a droid drive the ship. Or build FTL torpedoes. As impressive as the scene was, it invalidated pretty much everything we have learned about space battle tactics and strategy from the other movies. That’s one thing people disliked about the new Disney movies. The midichlorian rubbish was bad but at least is was an attempt to explain what we were already familiar with, instead of totally ignoring it.
Still, all of this is still a sight better than Lucas’ pitch for the 3rd trilogy. I mean, it might conceivably result in halfway decent movies, but would it still be Star Wars? Ideally you’d want these trilogies tied together by the universe and a long story arc, with some overlap in characters. Not set in a completely different environment, with the only tie-in being the characters and some plot points the got shoehorned in. At least that’s what his pitch sounded like.
It's not just about anonymity but also privacy. And the inevitable temptation to start using this system for additional things. Picking your nose, making out in the corner behind the lockers, not showering after gym class, automatically detected and earning you an invitation to the principal's office. Maybe the creepy janitor will be following students around on the security monitors. A student is caught with some pot, investigators go over the recorded camera footage and notice you behaving oddly around your locker several times a day, so you are now suspected of dealing.
Suppose you have a system that works like: [Cameras] -> [Unbreakable black box that doesn't record anything and only interprets the feeds] -> [Attendance records, notices of students being out of bounds, alerts if someone is spotted who doesn't belong]. Something that can only be used for the stated purpose (the lists it produces), cannot be used to track people beyond some basic info (X was present at start of class), doesn't provide live video, and poses only a very limited breach of privacy if the generated info actually gets out. That's a decent start for a system that respects your privacy. But even then, how do you know if the black box hasn't been given additional tasks? The school might want that.
This was much like one of the first systems proposed to issue speeding tickets by using cameras and image recognition around our city. The proposed system would not store images of cars, it would store a hash of the car and license plate characteristics, and discard all data if the car wasn't found to be speeding. Only if it was speeding would it store an actual image of the car, and peform image recognition on the license plate. Of course this proposal was rejected because it was "too limited" (i.e. it couldn't be used to track everyone), even though it performed 100% of its assigned tasks (catch speeding drivers)
It depends on what you actually have to do to unlock your car with your phone. An increasingly common way to steal cars that have radio keys relying solely on proximity, is a relay attack. One guy stays at the car with a relay device, the other walks around your house with a device sniffing for your car key. Once the key is found, the devices link up over radio to relay the handshake between your car and your key. The car opens and starts, and off they go.
It still resulted in bad publicity for SpaceX. If taking on this responsibility increases the chance of success for a mission, they might well be interested in doing it.
He's also right. I agree that there's still a need to reboot iPhones every now and then, but my experience is that these devices hold up very well under normal use. In the past couple of years I have rebooted our iPhones and iPad several times, but in almost all cases this was a mandatory (automatic) reboot following an OS update. I have had to reboot due to a crash or some other problem maybe 2 or 3 times in years. These things are as stable as premium Android devices (of which I have a few as well), maybe more stable.
Maybe the case is different undear heavy use, such as in a kiosk or when running a crapload of heavy apps.
At my father's work was a small plaque above The phone saying "Express yourself in brevity".
Our phones are different now but we have kept that sentiment. After all we use smileys and abbreviations or contractions like "LOL" or "ur" instead of "your" in texts.
Cute... "[Facebook] said the change was only carried out “because EU law requires specific language” in mandated privacy notices, which US law does not." In other words, we can't weasel out of the GDPR but we can out of our own legalese. Apparently LinkedIn and some others did the same. One would almost think that the GDPR forbids them to do certain things with our data that they'd really like doing.
Agreed. In addition, this solution is a bus which greatly simplifies wiring. Wiring your home with Cat5/RJ45 on the scale demanded by typical home automation installations - with potentially dozens of devices per room - is going to be a huge pain in the rear end. Running a couple of 4 wire buses around the house (1, maybe 2 per room) is going to be much easier.
Most of the stuff in my house communicates by Z-Wave, and reliability, range or interference never have been issues. Battery life on these devices is getting better too: I have some flood sensors the size of an Oreo that run for 2-3 years on a single battery. Even so this might make a nice additional protocol for devices that have too much power draw to give long battery life, or are placed outside where batteries generally don't last very long due to low temperatures. I could run a single cable to hook up all the temperature, rain and soil sensor in the garden with this. It's not exactly a new idea either, I have a couple of AXA motorized window openers that can be daisy chained on a 3 wire cable providing power and data, using a LIN bus.
The market for EVs may already have been there, but Tesla certainly has been instrumental in making the rest of the industry take notice. The model S was the first EV that even petrolheads actually got exited about: a practical vehicle with good range, performance and looks, rather than something only a tree hugger would want to drive.
I also doubt that politicians would have declared the EV to be sufficiently mature to set a timeline for phasing out IC vehicles, if it wasn’t for Tesla. That may still be a bit premature, but that’s on the other auto makers who still aren’t exactly ambitious about modern EVs.
Tesla didn’t lose because the judge found that Clarkson had performed a fair test of their car. They lost because Clarkson argued that his show shouldn’t be considered a serious car review, but light entertainment meant to amuse rather than inform. And in that case you don’t have to be truthful.
Or maybe it really is the piracy filters. With increasingly onerous laws around copyright and free speech, where simply responding to a takedown notice doesn't cut it any more, and where the consequences of non-compliance get more serious as well, I can imagine that companies like Google are cranking the criteria on their automatic filters up a notch or two.
Pushing it onto 3 year old kids is child abuse. Thankfully in the vast majority of cases in normal countries, nothing is being "pushed onto" these kids. Before these kids - and most adults as well - get anywhere near medicine, treatment or surgery, there's plenty of psychological evaluation, and the experts are very well capable of separating deluded cross dressers and kids with weird flights of fancy from those suffering from actual gender dysphoria. And those who actually do go through with the treatment are well motivated: this is not a journey you'll complete on a whim.
In normal cases, kids are being taught that the condition is an exception rather than the norm, but that there's nothing bad about it... and that it's a genuine condition that can manifest itself at a very early age, not some attention seeking crap from a neglected millenial. The best thing for such kids is recognition, diagnosis and if necessary the start of the process, not attempts to dismiss their condition or "pray the gay away" boot camps.
This generation of fucked up people will not spring up because kids are being taught about gender dysphoria. Where things go wrong is people catering to the attention seeking crap. People who added god nows how many letters now to LGBT or demanded that 3rd type of bathroom. The kind of people who demand that every flight of fancy is valid, to be accepted and recognized. And if that kind of thinking results in real or made up conditions being pushed on kids who aren't really suffering from them, then by all means treat that as the child abuse it is. But don't think that there are no children who genuinely have gender dysphoria, who'd benefit from early diagnosis and treatment.
Now if only they could sort out the shambolic accident magnet that is the remodelled A4 highway near Leiden. And the Schiphol rail tunnel. And the Nieuwe Botlek bridge. And all infrastructure around Utrecht. Sometimes we need to apply less attention to detail and more to just getting the basics right.
Because despite the shortcomings of whatever country they come from, they are proud of their heritage and they still identify with that country. People have a strong need for identity, and for emigrants, their culture and heritage provides that. Especially in countries that sometimes make them feel less than welcome.
You're lucky. In a slightly more serious situation, mr. Good Cop might have well backed up the story of mr. Bad Cop, as they (and those in some other professions in similar situations) often do when faced with serious accusations from an outsider. Then you're facing 2 corroborating testimonies from cops in court, before a judge who has doubtlessly seen the other side of this: someone "obviously screaming in pain" because of "extreme police brutality" while being arrested, when later video and medical evidence show that nothing but play-acting was going on during the arrest.
What I kind of would expect in this kind of situation, when it is pretty clear that the cop gave false testimony in court, is a followup investigation into his integrity. That should be a standard evaluation in such cases, part of the job, and not subject to you filing charges against him. This is an extremely serious matter precisely because of the weight usually given to cops' testimonies.
In common parlance, hacking (in the sense of breaking into a computer system) includes phishing or other social engineering tricks, brute-forcing a password file obtained elsewhere and trying passwords used on other sites, etc. None of that manipulates the system under attack.
The data was spans more than 4 decades. Maybe the Norwegians started to insulate their homes during that period, to suffocating levels. I doubt it though...
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That’s not unreasonable. Legislators (especially here in Europe) are increasingly leaning on online platforms to apply filtering of 3rd party content. Mostly to address copyright violations, but also against undesirable opinions (“hate speech”). And those platforms will be held responsible for anything that gets through.
I am opposed to such a priori censorship, but if we’re going to apply it, I don’t see why it shouldn’t extend to ads and code. In fact since the case for up front filtering is the “far reaching consequences and extensive damage resulting from publication”, I hold that it should be applied not to opinion but to code.
Rubbish. I do hope you know the difference between a regular RPG (even a multiplayer one) and an MMO, both from a technical and a gameplay perspective. The difference is a bit more than the requirement to be online and a monthly fee.
Hosting and running an MMO costs money. And companies have found that developing an MMO costs serious money too, something that isn’t always reflected in the purchase price. They’d rather charge a reasonable fee for the game plus a monthly subscription (typically $10/month or so, which is great value if you’re serious about the game). And once they’ve recouped the investment, a lot of these games drop the monthly fee for the base game, so you can try it and see if it’s something for you. If you think MMOs should be free because Nethack was free, I suggest you go back to playing that.
Bands evolve, and so do movie franchises, but I would the next album from any band to at least be more or less the same genre as the last ones. Not Kate Bush doing death metal, or the Dire Straits doing a rap album.
Why even bother with suicide missions, simply have a droid drive the ship. Or build FTL torpedoes. As impressive as the scene was, it invalidated pretty much everything we have learned about space battle tactics and strategy from the other movies. That’s one thing people disliked about the new Disney movies. The midichlorian rubbish was bad but at least is was an attempt to explain what we were already familiar with, instead of totally ignoring it.
Still, all of this is still a sight better than Lucas’ pitch for the 3rd trilogy. I mean, it might conceivably result in halfway decent movies, but would it still be Star Wars? Ideally you’d want these trilogies tied together by the universe and a long story arc, with some overlap in characters. Not set in a completely different environment, with the only tie-in being the characters and some plot points the got shoehorned in. At least that’s what his pitch sounded like.
Replace the desalinated water with Brawndo
It's not just about anonymity but also privacy. And the inevitable temptation to start using this system for additional things. Picking your nose, making out in the corner behind the lockers, not showering after gym class, automatically detected and earning you an invitation to the principal's office. Maybe the creepy janitor will be following students around on the security monitors. A student is caught with some pot, investigators go over the recorded camera footage and notice you behaving oddly around your locker several times a day, so you are now suspected of dealing.
Suppose you have a system that works like: [Cameras] -> [Unbreakable black box that doesn't record anything and only interprets the feeds] -> [Attendance records, notices of students being out of bounds, alerts if someone is spotted who doesn't belong]. Something that can only be used for the stated purpose (the lists it produces), cannot be used to track people beyond some basic info (X was present at start of class), doesn't provide live video, and poses only a very limited breach of privacy if the generated info actually gets out. That's a decent start for a system that respects your privacy. But even then, how do you know if the black box hasn't been given additional tasks? The school might want that.
This was much like one of the first systems proposed to issue speeding tickets by using cameras and image recognition around our city. The proposed system would not store images of cars, it would store a hash of the car and license plate characteristics, and discard all data if the car wasn't found to be speeding. Only if it was speeding would it store an actual image of the car, and peform image recognition on the license plate. Of course this proposal was rejected because it was "too limited" (i.e. it couldn't be used to track everyone), even though it performed 100% of its assigned tasks (catch speeding drivers)
It depends on what you actually have to do to unlock your car with your phone. An increasingly common way to steal cars that have radio keys relying solely on proximity, is a relay attack. One guy stays at the car with a relay device, the other walks around your house with a device sniffing for your car key. Once the key is found, the devices link up over radio to relay the handshake between your car and your key. The car opens and starts, and off they go.
It still resulted in bad publicity for SpaceX. If taking on this responsibility increases the chance of success for a mission, they might well be interested in doing it.
He's also right. I agree that there's still a need to reboot iPhones every now and then, but my experience is that these devices hold up very well under normal use. In the past couple of years I have rebooted our iPhones and iPad several times, but in almost all cases this was a mandatory (automatic) reboot following an OS update. I have had to reboot due to a crash or some other problem maybe 2 or 3 times in years. These things are as stable as premium Android devices (of which I have a few as well), maybe more stable.
Maybe the case is different undear heavy use, such as in a kiosk or when running a crapload of heavy apps.
At my father's work was a small plaque above The phone saying "Express yourself in brevity".
Our phones are different now but we have kept that sentiment. After all we use smileys and abbreviations or contractions like "LOL" or "ur" instead of "your" in texts.
If your burger requires "harsh chewing", you seriously need to start frequenting a different burger joint.
Cute... "[Facebook] said the change was only carried out “because EU law requires specific language” in mandated privacy notices, which US law does not." In other words, we can't weasel out of the GDPR but we can out of our own legalese. Apparently LinkedIn and some others did the same. One would almost think that the GDPR forbids them to do certain things with our data that they'd really like doing.
Agreed. In addition, this solution is a bus which greatly simplifies wiring. Wiring your home with Cat5/RJ45 on the scale demanded by typical home automation installations - with potentially dozens of devices per room - is going to be a huge pain in the rear end. Running a couple of 4 wire buses around the house (1, maybe 2 per room) is going to be much easier.
Most of the stuff in my house communicates by Z-Wave, and reliability, range or interference never have been issues. Battery life on these devices is getting better too: I have some flood sensors the size of an Oreo that run for 2-3 years on a single battery. Even so this might make a nice additional protocol for devices that have too much power draw to give long battery life, or are placed outside where batteries generally don't last very long due to low temperatures. I could run a single cable to hook up all the temperature, rain and soil sensor in the garden with this. It's not exactly a new idea either, I have a couple of AXA motorized window openers that can be daisy chained on a 3 wire cable providing power and data, using a LIN bus.
The market for EVs may already have been there, but Tesla certainly has been instrumental in making the rest of the industry take notice. The model S was the first EV that even petrolheads actually got exited about: a practical vehicle with good range, performance and looks, rather than something only a tree hugger would want to drive.
I also doubt that politicians would have declared the EV to be sufficiently mature to set a timeline for phasing out IC vehicles, if it wasn’t for Tesla. That may still be a bit premature, but that’s on the other auto makers who still aren’t exactly ambitious about modern EVs.
Tesla didn’t lose because the judge found that Clarkson had performed a fair test of their car. They lost because Clarkson argued that his show shouldn’t be considered a serious car review, but light entertainment meant to amuse rather than inform. And in that case you don’t have to be truthful.
Or maybe it really is the piracy filters. With increasingly onerous laws around copyright and free speech, where simply responding to a takedown notice doesn't cut it any more, and where the consequences of non-compliance get more serious as well, I can imagine that companies like Google are cranking the criteria on their automatic filters up a notch or two.
Pushing it onto 3 year old kids is child abuse. Thankfully in the vast majority of cases in normal countries, nothing is being "pushed onto" these kids. Before these kids - and most adults as well - get anywhere near medicine, treatment or surgery, there's plenty of psychological evaluation, and the experts are very well capable of separating deluded cross dressers and kids with weird flights of fancy from those suffering from actual gender dysphoria. And those who actually do go through with the treatment are well motivated: this is not a journey you'll complete on a whim.
In normal cases, kids are being taught that the condition is an exception rather than the norm, but that there's nothing bad about it... and that it's a genuine condition that can manifest itself at a very early age, not some attention seeking crap from a neglected millenial. The best thing for such kids is recognition, diagnosis and if necessary the start of the process, not attempts to dismiss their condition or "pray the gay away" boot camps.
This generation of fucked up people will not spring up because kids are being taught about gender dysphoria. Where things go wrong is people catering to the attention seeking crap. People who added god nows how many letters now to LGBT or demanded that 3rd type of bathroom. The kind of people who demand that every flight of fancy is valid, to be accepted and recognized. And if that kind of thinking results in real or made up conditions being pushed on kids who aren't really suffering from them, then by all means treat that as the child abuse it is. But don't think that there are no children who genuinely have gender dysphoria, who'd benefit from early diagnosis and treatment.
Keeping you awake is a good thing if you're on the road. Less so if you happen to live near the road.
Now if only they could sort out the shambolic accident magnet that is the remodelled A4 highway near Leiden. And the Schiphol rail tunnel. And the Nieuwe Botlek bridge. And all infrastructure around Utrecht. Sometimes we need to apply less attention to detail and more to just getting the basics right.
Because despite the shortcomings of whatever country they come from, they are proud of their heritage and they still identify with that country. People have a strong need for identity, and for emigrants, their culture and heritage provides that. Especially in countries that sometimes make them feel less than welcome.
She probably checked the calendar and made a mad dash for the Soyuz capsule just to avoid that fate.
Well, that and being subsequently ejected from the force.
You're lucky. In a slightly more serious situation, mr. Good Cop might have well backed up the story of mr. Bad Cop, as they (and those in some other professions in similar situations) often do when faced with serious accusations from an outsider. Then you're facing 2 corroborating testimonies from cops in court, before a judge who has doubtlessly seen the other side of this: someone "obviously screaming in pain" because of "extreme police brutality" while being arrested, when later video and medical evidence show that nothing but play-acting was going on during the arrest.
What I kind of would expect in this kind of situation, when it is pretty clear that the cop gave false testimony in court, is a followup investigation into his integrity. That should be a standard evaluation in such cases, part of the job, and not subject to you filing charges against him. This is an extremely serious matter precisely because of the weight usually given to cops' testimonies.
In common parlance, hacking (in the sense of breaking into a computer system) includes phishing or other social engineering tricks, brute-forcing a password file obtained elsewhere and trying passwords used on other sites, etc. None of that manipulates the system under attack.
The data was spans more than 4 decades. Maybe the Norwegians started to insulate their homes during that period, to suffocating levels. I doubt it though...