In addition it is fairly easy to implement pinning yourself. You can do this in case you don't want to include the certificate in the app bundle, or in cases where you don't know the certificate or even the issuing authority up front (like connecting to user-owned devices with self signed certs).
So despite all ad blocking efforts from the user, this API provides a great pathway to do some digital fingerprinting and establish a cross-site identity. And if you happen to log in on certain sites that use this, they will be able to establish your real identity on any other site from there on in as well.
That was my thought as well. And even if they actually do have something creative or insightful to contribute, hire them as a consultant to take part in focus groups or steering committees. Naming them director of anything is an insult to any of the other employees who do make a meaningful contribution. And to the other directors.
I think everyone should at least be taught basic coding, just as everyone should be taught basic calculus, art, biography, poetry, some foreign language or two, music, physics, shop, etcetera. Enough to know what it's about, and enough to find out if you might like learning more or even be good at it. The goal is not to become good at it, at this stage, but to become well rounded as you state. Learning a little coding is definitely part of that in this day and age.
I'm not sure if schools should be serious about offering in-depth follow-up courses for coding, though. And coding should certainly not replace language classes or credits.
People go to cinemas and arcades because they offer something people can't get at home. Or for social reasons, to have a night out with friends or family. What cinemas offer is movies that aren't released on Bluray yet, working 3D, and a big screen. Arcades? I suppose what they offer over home setups is those games with a physical aspect: a tilting platform or some weird haptic interface. So what aspect of VR would make me come to the cinema or an arcade, because I can't have it at home? Sitting with a helmet on that completely isolates my vision and hearing from my surroundings is the same experience even if I'm homeless sitting under a bridge. Unless there is some exotic or expensive infrastructure required (like ulttra high bandwidth streaming for VR movies), the nature of VR makes it more suitable to use in the comfort and privacy of your own home.
I can see this work in arcades as a demonstrator, to get the technology out there and show people what is possible. But we're past that point. Why not demo VR in shops, where you can buy the headset straight away if you like it?
It's not a rant and it doesn't spoil anything, I just wish my government would follow through in a like manner, with money as well as actual plans that recognize that there is no silver bullet (which could mean taking another look at nuclear). As it is, we're not going to meet even our unambitious goals, which serves as an example that good intentions and targets by themselves aren't enough.
So is there a plan, a roadmap, or is this just a pledge? My own country has similar (but way less ambitious) targets, but very little in the way of actual plans or even policies to make it happen. "Over the next x years we will invest €y in green tech" means bugger all, but if you instead state "We will build an offshore wind farm producing x MW to offset the coal fired plants we're shutting down", then at least there's a concrete and measurable result. And the first steps are the easiest; you'll need a good plan to get that last 20% of emissions. As you go along it'll get more expensive and harder, some stuff (like airplanes) doesn't have many green alternatives, and at some point you'll find that it's hard to get reliable baseload power from renewables if you don't have access to geo or hydro options. All that doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but it takes more than targets and money.
Cheap/low end doesn't have to mean sucky and dangerous.
Look at what happened in IT. When I started, many IT guys were strong generalists, capable at a wide variety of tasks. It was not uncommon to see a single team handle design and architecture, development, testing, requirements gathering, deployment,and support. However those guys were fairly expensive and managers figured that it would be better to compartmentalize the work and hand it either to specialists for improved quality (or at least repeatable mediocrity), or to lower paid workers to handle the simpler tasks like 1st line support.
The same has already happened to some degree in health care. In the old days, dentists took care of all parts of a procedure, even cleaning off scale. Nowadays when I go to the dentist, the guy takes a look to see if there are any issues, then lets an oral hygienist take care of the simple stuff while he pops into another fully kitted treatment room where the next patient has already been prepped. He hands off work to "cheap & low end" technicians to save costs and treat more patients in the same time. Same in hospitals, where there are a few things, formerly considered the domain of MDs, being handled by medical techs.
That may be how the law works out in practice, but it's probably not the intent. I suspect that the law, like in most other countries, chiefly concerns itself with the rights of citizens and to a lesser degree with residents of the country. If a travel ban causes harm to aliens, law says "meh". However if it causes harm to citizens (and by extension: to corporations), then apparently the law states that the pros and cons have to be weighed against each other. Maybe there are laws that govern how visa and green card holders are to be treated, but those are different laws and that would be a different case.
I agree with the sentiment, though. Even if these people aren't US citizens, you'd think that the government would treat valid visas and green cards as a sort of contract, and that they would have an obligation at least to continue to honour it once issued. Unless there are immediate and substantial reasons not to. To be honest, I don't see any of the stated reasons for the ban either as valid or of sufficient consequence to warrant immediate action.
So: a tenth. Go metric already! Come to think of it, 750ml bottles are sometimes referred to as a "metric fifth", this is probably the bottle your whiskey came in. Looking at my own bottles of whisky I can't help but noticing that they are all 700ml. What gives? It would not surprise me one bit if our government is behind this, withholding an additional "angels' share" for themselves. Probably for the benefit of Juncker. Hmm. I better have another one.
Not just safer. Manual voting, counting and the applicable oversight all consist of transparent processes that pretty much any idiot can understand and take part in, as voter, counter or auditor. And that makes people's confidence in the results that much greater. Which is pretty important. "No shadow can be allowed to hang over the result" means the entire process must be transparent and auditable by laymen, which pretty much precludes the use of computers.
Never heard of it, so I looked it up. Available for €14.99. Isn't it unbelievable that such a thing is available for the price of a couple of cups of coffee? We live in fascinating times.
Use that to your advantage, and bet according to the odds based on a hands of cards you don't have (but might have as far as the other players know). Your opponents will do the math, work out which cards you ought to be holding based on that false information, and act accordingly. That is bluffing. As some players say: it can be hard bluffing effectively against a beginner, because they don't do the math but make wild assumtions instead.
In other words: IT fire drills. Smart companies conduct them... but somehow I have never seen them done, or even seen companies asking their outsourcing partners to produce some proof of recovery procedures having been tested. No, "they are ISO-over-9000 and that is good enough for us". Good enough to cover your arse when things go south, sure.
The difference is that individuals and small businesses have very few means to evade taxes. I did not state that I hate it when "anyone else" (like my neighbour) evades taxes, but when only certain entities are allowed or able to do so, creating unfair competition. I also think that companies (or persons) making use of these loopholes is not necessarily immoral, but allowing these loopholes to exist is.
I'll buy that (pun intended) when that AI really is a personal assistant. My personal assistant, not yours. So that my data and my personal life is safe from the clutches of marketing firms who sell my data to help others bring me more relevant offers (which to date isn't working at all). When I have a personal AI, you no longer have to try and convince me that you have something worth listening to, you can simply send everything to my AI, all your ads and product info. And my AI will select what it thinks I will want to see.
Of course you or your AI may be able to find some SEO-like tricks to get past my assistant, in which case I'll treat all subsequent communication like I treat companies that use unsollicited email, ad blocker circumvention or roll over videos: as spam, to be forever ignored.
And that's why such tax evasion is a bad thing: it's unfair competition. I hate taxes as much as the next guy and I would like to "avoid" them where I can. But in practise tax evasion and the secret tax rulings that are so popular in my country (which puts the Dutch in the Double Dutch Sandwich) are accessible only to large entities. As a small business owner paying 25-50% tax, how are you supposed to compete against companies that end up paying 0.005%?
A patent on a particular type of LCD panel, sure. But a patent on a particular application of one, how is that even possible? How is this not blatantly obvious to anyone "skilled or (even unskilled) in the arts"? This would be as ludicrous as, say, a patent on making online purchases using a single click, or messing with your cat using a laser pointer.
Oh wait...
Though I do wonder if this isn't one of those stories like "oil companies have an engine that runs on water and are keeping it a secret"
This! I don't want vinyl, what I want is a digital download of the master used to produce the vinyl. The one that doesn't have to compete in the loudness wars and isn't compressed all to hell.
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In addition it is fairly easy to implement pinning yourself. You can do this in case you don't want to include the certificate in the app bundle, or in cases where you don't know the certificate or even the issuing authority up front (like connecting to user-owned devices with self signed certs).
So despite all ad blocking efforts from the user, this API provides a great pathway to do some digital fingerprinting and establish a cross-site identity. And if you happen to log in on certain sites that use this, they will be able to establish your real identity on any other site from there on in as well.
That was my thought as well. And even if they actually do have something creative or insightful to contribute, hire them as a consultant to take part in focus groups or steering committees. Naming them director of anything is an insult to any of the other employees who do make a meaningful contribution. And to the other directors.
I think everyone should at least be taught basic coding, just as everyone should be taught basic calculus, art, biography, poetry, some foreign language or two, music, physics, shop, etcetera. Enough to know what it's about, and enough to find out if you might like learning more or even be good at it. The goal is not to become good at it, at this stage, but to become well rounded as you state. Learning a little coding is definitely part of that in this day and age.
I'm not sure if schools should be serious about offering in-depth follow-up courses for coding, though. And coding should certainly not replace language classes or credits.
People go to cinemas and arcades because they offer something people can't get at home. Or for social reasons, to have a night out with friends or family. What cinemas offer is movies that aren't released on Bluray yet, working 3D, and a big screen. Arcades? I suppose what they offer over home setups is those games with a physical aspect: a tilting platform or some weird haptic interface. So what aspect of VR would make me come to the cinema or an arcade, because I can't have it at home? Sitting with a helmet on that completely isolates my vision and hearing from my surroundings is the same experience even if I'm homeless sitting under a bridge. Unless there is some exotic or expensive infrastructure required (like ulttra high bandwidth streaming for VR movies), the nature of VR makes it more suitable to use in the comfort and privacy of your own home.
I can see this work in arcades as a demonstrator, to get the technology out there and show people what is possible. But we're past that point. Why not demo VR in shops, where you can buy the headset straight away if you like it?
It's not a rant and it doesn't spoil anything, I just wish my government would follow through in a like manner, with money as well as actual plans that recognize that there is no silver bullet (which could mean taking another look at nuclear). As it is, we're not going to meet even our unambitious goals, which serves as an example that good intentions and targets by themselves aren't enough.
So is there a plan, a roadmap, or is this just a pledge? My own country has similar (but way less ambitious) targets, but very little in the way of actual plans or even policies to make it happen. "Over the next x years we will invest €y in green tech" means bugger all, but if you instead state "We will build an offshore wind farm producing x MW to offset the coal fired plants we're shutting down", then at least there's a concrete and measurable result. And the first steps are the easiest; you'll need a good plan to get that last 20% of emissions. As you go along it'll get more expensive and harder, some stuff (like airplanes) doesn't have many green alternatives, and at some point you'll find that it's hard to get reliable baseload power from renewables if you don't have access to geo or hydro options. All that doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but it takes more than targets and money.
On a side note: that's one angry looking lady...
Sod game consoles, what about Windows 10? Forced upgrqades, no way to downgrade, and upgrades breaking random stuff. Sounds like we'd have a case.
Cheap/low end doesn't have to mean sucky and dangerous.
Look at what happened in IT. When I started, many IT guys were strong generalists, capable at a wide variety of tasks. It was not uncommon to see a single team handle design and architecture, development, testing, requirements gathering, deployment,and support. However those guys were fairly expensive and managers figured that it would be better to compartmentalize the work and hand it either to specialists for improved quality (or at least repeatable mediocrity), or to lower paid workers to handle the simpler tasks like 1st line support.
The same has already happened to some degree in health care. In the old days, dentists took care of all parts of a procedure, even cleaning off scale. Nowadays when I go to the dentist, the guy takes a look to see if there are any issues, then lets an oral hygienist take care of the simple stuff while he pops into another fully kitted treatment room where the next patient has already been prepped. He hands off work to "cheap & low end" technicians to save costs and treat more patients in the same time. Same in hospitals, where there are a few things, formerly considered the domain of MDs, being handled by medical techs.
That may be how the law works out in practice, but it's probably not the intent. I suspect that the law, like in most other countries, chiefly concerns itself with the rights of citizens and to a lesser degree with residents of the country. If a travel ban causes harm to aliens, law says "meh". However if it causes harm to citizens (and by extension: to corporations), then apparently the law states that the pros and cons have to be weighed against each other. Maybe there are laws that govern how visa and green card holders are to be treated, but those are different laws and that would be a different case.
I agree with the sentiment, though. Even if these people aren't US citizens, you'd think that the government would treat valid visas and green cards as a sort of contract, and that they would have an obligation at least to continue to honour it once issued. Unless there are immediate and substantial reasons not to. To be honest, I don't see any of the stated reasons for the ban either as valid or of sufficient consequence to warrant immediate action.
I've already had half a fifth
So: a tenth. Go metric already! Come to think of it, 750ml bottles are sometimes referred to as a "metric fifth", this is probably the bottle your whiskey came in. Looking at my own bottles of whisky I can't help but noticing that they are all 700ml. What gives? It would not surprise me one bit if our government is behind this, withholding an additional "angels' share" for themselves. Probably for the benefit of Juncker. Hmm. I better have another one.
Not just safer. Manual voting, counting and the applicable oversight all consist of transparent processes that pretty much any idiot can understand and take part in, as voter, counter or auditor. And that makes people's confidence in the results that much greater. Which is pretty important. "No shadow can be allowed to hang over the result" means the entire process must be transparent and auditable by laymen, which pretty much precludes the use of computers.
By "film industry" they probably mean distributors and/or cinema operators.
Screw warehouse work, just turn that sucker into a Segway-like robot that can carry me. Now jump!
Never heard of it, so I looked it up. Available for €14.99. Isn't it unbelievable that such a thing is available for the price of a couple of cups of coffee? We live in fascinating times.
What's the battery life on that thing?
Use that to your advantage, and bet according to the odds based on a hands of cards you don't have (but might have as far as the other players know). Your opponents will do the math, work out which cards you ought to be holding based on that false information, and act accordingly. That is bluffing. As some players say: it can be hard bluffing effectively against a beginner, because they don't do the math but make wild assumtions instead.
In other words: IT fire drills. Smart companies conduct them... but somehow I have never seen them done, or even seen companies asking their outsourcing partners to produce some proof of recovery procedures having been tested. No, "they are ISO-over-9000 and that is good enough for us". Good enough to cover your arse when things go south, sure.
We had plenty of actual fire drills, though.
The difference is that individuals and small businesses have very few means to evade taxes. I did not state that I hate it when "anyone else" (like my neighbour) evades taxes, but when only certain entities are allowed or able to do so, creating unfair competition. I also think that companies (or persons) making use of these loopholes is not necessarily immoral, but allowing these loopholes to exist is.
Thanks, that was as depressing as it was informative.
I'll buy that (pun intended) when that AI really is a personal assistant. My personal assistant, not yours. So that my data and my personal life is safe from the clutches of marketing firms who sell my data to help others bring me more relevant offers (which to date isn't working at all). When I have a personal AI, you no longer have to try and convince me that you have something worth listening to, you can simply send everything to my AI, all your ads and product info. And my AI will select what it thinks I will want to see.
Of course you or your AI may be able to find some SEO-like tricks to get past my assistant, in which case I'll treat all subsequent communication like I treat companies that use unsollicited email, ad blocker circumvention or roll over videos: as spam, to be forever ignored.
Batteries can store and discharge about 6-10 times the energy required to create them in their lifetimes.
That number seems very low. Got a source?
And that's why such tax evasion is a bad thing: it's unfair competition. I hate taxes as much as the next guy and I would like to "avoid" them where I can. But in practise tax evasion and the secret tax rulings that are so popular in my country (which puts the Dutch in the Double Dutch Sandwich) are accessible only to large entities. As a small business owner paying 25-50% tax, how are you supposed to compete against companies that end up paying 0.005%?
A patent on a particular type of LCD panel, sure. But a patent on a particular application of one, how is that even possible? How is this not blatantly obvious to anyone "skilled or (even unskilled) in the arts"? This would be as ludicrous as, say, a patent on making online purchases using a single click, or messing with your cat using a laser pointer.
Oh wait...
Though I do wonder if this isn't one of those stories like "oil companies have an engine that runs on water and are keeping it a secret"
Whatever. I thought that was what they called the master.
This! I don't want vinyl, what I want is a digital download of the master used to produce the vinyl. The one that doesn't have to compete in the loudness wars and isn't compressed all to hell.