Lots of companies do this. Keep track of disgruntled ex-employees or those who make threats against the company or its personnel. And if the threat begins to look credible, they turn that information over to law enforcement authorities to act on it.
That's not unreasonable. But the potential for abuse is a lot less. Most companies will only have your name, address, SSN, and some additional info in your personnel file. FB however is sneaking and peeking all the time. So Imagine a company that has already built up a social profile about you, knows your sexual preferences, tracks what you buy, where you go and where you are, what sites you visit and what news you read, who your friends are, and what your online aliases are... and you are on that company's shit list. That cannot be a comfortable thought.
opposition by politicians who claim current e-voting systems are insecure, expensive, and prone to manipulation
How about intransparent? Manipulation isn't the issue, the problem is that there's no way for laymen to verify that no manipulation has taken place. A transparent voting and tally system like paper ballot allows for audits "for the people, by the people". To audit an e-voting system, you need experts.
Depends. If it's just news like we get now for free (headlines and short articles), there's no point in paying for it. But what if you got access to everything, the big background articles, the editorials? And what if it also covered full articles from publications like the Economist? There's plenty of stuff that I'd want to read but it's all paywalled, and there's not quite enough to justify a full subscription, certainly not to all publications in which I am interested. A pay-per-view or Netflix model might suit me just fine... even if I don't see why 50% of my money should go to Apple for that.
New Federal regulations actually make it easier to run lightly-modified European train cars in the US
Whatever you do, don't buy them from Italy like we did. We wanted high speed trains to run on our shiny new track, but of course the people with experience in high speed rolling stock - France, Germany and Japan - weren't up to spec or deemed too expensive, so we went with a firm with zero experience in high speed rail, but with a track record (ha ha) of delivering trams and trains that break down in icy conditions. We got our trains, and they broke down when it got cold. Now we have rail but nothing to run on it.
To add for fairness sake: it seems the guy actually did make a verbal threat towards the victim's wife. It didn't say how credible the threat was, or if it was more like blurting something out in a heated phone call (which, at least over here, makes a big difference in sentencing or even which article of law applies)
It was added because of bullcrap charges that they somehow made stick. "Organized criminal activity" and "a threat to a family member of the victim"? Come on... This sort of sentencing doesn't seem uncommon in US justice, so I wouldn't say it's because of who the victim was, but even so it is hardly just. Charge him with the scam and hand down a stiff sentence for that, don't add a couple of extra years for so called organized crime or posing a threat. If you think the sentencing for scams like this is too low, petition to have the laws changed.
First, you make sure your "fuck you" fund is kept at at least a year's salary.
This makes all the difference. It's not just a security for when you get laid off; it also enables you to take the initiative to quit yourself, not when you finally reach the point where you really cannot take it anymore, but way before that. Hence the name of that fund. When I quit my job and started contracting, I made myself a promise that I would never again work for asshole bosses, and I built up my "fuck you" fund so I could keep that promise. It allows me to pick the assignments I like, and quit those that somehow changed into awful ones. It has also changed my attitude towards work, in a positive sense, to the benefit of myself and of my clients.
As an Apple user I have to agree that there are not many compelling reasons left to upgrade. With many of the older models, Apple brought something exciting that was worth having: good performance upgrades, a convenient and secure (compared to the competition) fingerprint scanner, nice designs, better cameras... not necessarily being ahead of Android competitors, but still good reasons to get a new phone if you prefer iOS like I do. But the last few years have brought very little that I want. The phones are the same except for one new larger model, though they make 'em out of different material since the iPhone 7 IIRC, so trying to hold on to the newer ones feels like trying to hold a very thin wet bar of soap.
Moving to a standard USB-C connector would be nice though. Not enough reason in itself to upgrade the phone, but it would help. Now just be brave, end the thinness war, add a physical home button again with fingerprint scanner, give us a bezel instead of a notch, or just drop the front-facing camera completely (along with the inane face unlock) and add a small screen to the back of the phone for taking selfies. A lot of the recent stuff they have done such as the notch, dropping the headphone jack, face unlock, all feel like they are rather clumsy workarounds.
The great thing about cryptocurrency is that we no longer need centralized entities such as banks or exchanges. Why not keep all that digital cash in one or several wallets that you control? What would possess someone to send it instead to a completely unregulated, unsupervised and unvetted exchange that turned out to be one guys server? I'd get nervous about moving a couple 100k between banks - proper banks.
For almost all websites, it is very easy to comply with the GDPR. So far I have only seen one site that actually blocks people from the EU (one attached to the earlier./ article about Google Fiber).
That doesn't mean that this copyright act is a monumentally stupid idea. Brought to you by the people who came up with that other horrible mess: the cookie law.
Being pulled over is never a big deal here even as a minority. As a minority you may be pulled over more often (as my wife can attest) but you'll be treated the same. There is the occasional case of police brutality, but all of these will be investigated, and in general cops are not at all likely to use violence.
Actually yes, there was a recent study done here in NL. Turns out few people have problems driving closely within the speed limit, even where your average speed is measured over a long stretch of road... and fines are issued even for small infractions (5km/h over). People do break when they see police, whether they are running a speed trap or dealing with an accident, and while this may cause a traffic jam in busy traffic, it rarely causes accidents.
Plenty of people have requested such info under the freedom of information act, but as far as I know all have been denied. There's a lot of such request, I remember in NL someone requested the name and address of all registered gun owners in the country.
The ultimate goal is to slow people down to the speed limit. To try and accomplish that, the police issue fines: “you don’t want to pay that every time you drive too fast”, and to instill the idea that the likelihood of getting a fine when speedin is quite high: “we are watching”. For the second point, the police over here actually do publish the locations of speed traps themselves... just not all of them. A study suggests that it actually helps; people don’t keep checking the mile markers to see if they are near the speed trap, they tend to stick to the limit for a far larger stretch rather than keep speeding (and slamming the brakes as soon as they spot the camera).
In some other European countries it is illegal to announce the location of speed traps. One radio station got around that by reporting incidences of “falling stars” instead.
As they say: data is the new oil. I prefer to think of data as the new ivory: you can do a lot of nice thinks with it, but obtaining it causes serious harm, and perhaps trafficking in it ought to be outlawed. Some entities will stop at nothing to obtain it.
Nope. Men were more likely to inflict injury when they resorted to violence, but more women resorted to violence way more often. The resulting ratio value of battered husbands vs battered wives tips slightly in the favour of women (the men being the more battered ones)
Counselling, as in a couple of sessions with a shrink or adviser? Not that either. Because there’s nothing wrong with that kid; other kids that age have a similar lack of judgment even not everything they get up to results in a scare like this one. He just needs to be taught. Have a cop come to his home or take him to the station and give him a good talking to. Maybe also have a talk with the principal. The last thing anyone needs is to make this into a big deal, so think education rather than the punishment that everyone seems so eager to dole out.
How does the Ioniq compare to the Tesla Model 3? Hyundai have announced that they will increase the range a little on 2019 models, bringing it close to the mid range model 3, and a fully loaded one costs about the same as the Model 3 base price. No idea how these cars compare on room or trim, but the one thing Tesla still has going for it is their charging tech, which they got right the first time. Still, it looks like the mid range Model 3 already has some competition going...
The Kona sits in a somewhat different market, the price is between the mid range and long range Model 3s. It is a very nice car (I did a test drive in one), and at the moment they are being snapped up by people who want longer range but cannot afford the much pricier long range Tesla 3. Delivery times already exceed 18 months in a country that Hyundai has given priority to. That's another thing to remember: Tesla produces more Model 3s in a month than the number of Konas Hyundai is expected to make in a year. Hyundai is expected to ramp up production a bit though... to about 1/5th of the Model 3 volume.
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Lots of companies do this. Keep track of disgruntled ex-employees or those who make threats against the company or its personnel. And if the threat begins to look credible, they turn that information over to law enforcement authorities to act on it.
That's not unreasonable. But the potential for abuse is a lot less. Most companies will only have your name, address, SSN, and some additional info in your personnel file. FB however is sneaking and peeking all the time. So Imagine a company that has already built up a social profile about you, knows your sexual preferences, tracks what you buy, where you go and where you are, what sites you visit and what news you read, who your friends are, and what your online aliases are... and you are on that company's shit list. That cannot be a comfortable thought.
Got one that seemed to have an earring embedded in her cheek...
Maybe the continent could use some of that
Answer: "We're willing to try and get you to Mars by the end of your term"
opposition by politicians who claim current e-voting systems are insecure, expensive, and prone to manipulation
How about intransparent? Manipulation isn't the issue, the problem is that there's no way for laymen to verify that no manipulation has taken place. A transparent voting and tally system like paper ballot allows for audits "for the people, by the people". To audit an e-voting system, you need experts.
Depends. If it's just news like we get now for free (headlines and short articles), there's no point in paying for it. But what if you got access to everything, the big background articles, the editorials? And what if it also covered full articles from publications like the Economist? There's plenty of stuff that I'd want to read but it's all paywalled, and there's not quite enough to justify a full subscription, certainly not to all publications in which I am interested. A pay-per-view or Netflix model might suit me just fine... even if I don't see why 50% of my money should go to Apple for that.
New Federal regulations actually make it easier to run lightly-modified European train cars in the US
Whatever you do, don't buy them from Italy like we did. We wanted high speed trains to run on our shiny new track, but of course the people with experience in high speed rolling stock - France, Germany and Japan - weren't up to spec or deemed too expensive, so we went with a firm with zero experience in high speed rail, but with a track record (ha ha) of delivering trams and trains that break down in icy conditions. We got our trains, and they broke down when it got cold. Now we have rail but nothing to run on it.
Isn't $3.5B more or less the amount Trump still needs to build his Wall? This is going to be a fun fight...
To add for fairness sake: it seems the guy actually did make a verbal threat towards the victim's wife. It didn't say how credible the threat was, or if it was more like blurting something out in a heated phone call (which, at least over here, makes a big difference in sentencing or even which article of law applies)
It was added because of bullcrap charges that they somehow made stick. "Organized criminal activity" and "a threat to a family member of the victim"? Come on... This sort of sentencing doesn't seem uncommon in US justice, so I wouldn't say it's because of who the victim was, but even so it is hardly just. Charge him with the scam and hand down a stiff sentence for that, don't add a couple of extra years for so called organized crime or posing a threat. If you think the sentencing for scams like this is too low, petition to have the laws changed.
First, you make sure your "fuck you" fund is kept at at least a year's salary.
This makes all the difference. It's not just a security for when you get laid off; it also enables you to take the initiative to quit yourself, not when you finally reach the point where you really cannot take it anymore, but way before that. Hence the name of that fund. When I quit my job and started contracting, I made myself a promise that I would never again work for asshole bosses, and I built up my "fuck you" fund so I could keep that promise. It allows me to pick the assignments I like, and quit those that somehow changed into awful ones. It has also changed my attitude towards work, in a positive sense, to the benefit of myself and of my clients.
Seriously, start saving and do this.
Perhaps Reddit is less inclined to peddle its users’ privacy for profit. After all that’s where all of these companies derive their “value” from.
No, it is not.
As an Apple user I have to agree that there are not many compelling reasons left to upgrade. With many of the older models, Apple brought something exciting that was worth having: good performance upgrades, a convenient and secure (compared to the competition) fingerprint scanner, nice designs, better cameras... not necessarily being ahead of Android competitors, but still good reasons to get a new phone if you prefer iOS like I do. But the last few years have brought very little that I want. The phones are the same except for one new larger model, though they make 'em out of different material since the iPhone 7 IIRC, so trying to hold on to the newer ones feels like trying to hold a very thin wet bar of soap.
Moving to a standard USB-C connector would be nice though. Not enough reason in itself to upgrade the phone, but it would help. Now just be brave, end the thinness war, add a physical home button again with fingerprint scanner, give us a bezel instead of a notch, or just drop the front-facing camera completely (along with the inane face unlock) and add a small screen to the back of the phone for taking selfies. A lot of the recent stuff they have done such as the notch, dropping the headphone jack, face unlock, all feel like they are rather clumsy workarounds.
The great thing about cryptocurrency is that we no longer need centralized entities such as banks or exchanges. Why not keep all that digital cash in one or several wallets that you control? What would possess someone to send it instead to a completely unregulated, unsupervised and unvetted exchange that turned out to be one guys server? I'd get nervous about moving a couple 100k between banks - proper banks.
For almost all websites, it is very easy to comply with the GDPR. So far I have only seen one site that actually blocks people from the EU (one attached to the earlier ./ article about Google Fiber).
That doesn't mean that this copyright act is a monumentally stupid idea. Brought to you by the people who came up with that other horrible mess: the cookie law.
Being pulled over is never a big deal here even as a minority. As a minority you may be pulled over more often (as my wife can attest) but you'll be treated the same. There is the occasional case of police brutality, but all of these will be investigated, and in general cops are not at all likely to use violence.
Actually yes, there was a recent study done here in NL. Turns out few people have problems driving closely within the speed limit, even where your average speed is measured over a long stretch of road... and fines are issued even for small infractions (5km/h over). People do break when they see police, whether they are running a speed trap or dealing with an accident, and while this may cause a traffic jam in busy traffic, it rarely causes accidents.
Plenty of people have requested such info under the freedom of information act, but as far as I know all have been denied. There's a lot of such request, I remember in NL someone requested the name and address of all registered gun owners in the country.
The ultimate goal is to slow people down to the speed limit. To try and accomplish that, the police issue fines: “you don’t want to pay that every time you drive too fast”, and to instill the idea that the likelihood of getting a fine when speedin is quite high: “we are watching”. For the second point, the police over here actually do publish the locations of speed traps themselves... just not all of them. A study suggests that it actually helps; people don’t keep checking the mile markers to see if they are near the speed trap, they tend to stick to the limit for a far larger stretch rather than keep speeding (and slamming the brakes as soon as they spot the camera).
In some other European countries it is illegal to announce the location of speed traps. One radio station got around that by reporting incidences of “falling stars” instead.
As they say: data is the new oil. I prefer to think of data as the new ivory: you can do a lot of nice thinks with it, but obtaining it causes serious harm, and perhaps trafficking in it ought to be outlawed. Some entities will stop at nothing to obtain it.
Nope. Men were more likely to inflict injury when they resorted to violence, but more women resorted to violence way more often. The resulting ratio value of battered husbands vs battered wives tips slightly in the favour of women (the men being the more battered ones)
Counselling, as in a couple of sessions with a shrink or adviser? Not that either. Because there’s nothing wrong with that kid; other kids that age have a similar lack of judgment even not everything they get up to results in a scare like this one. He just needs to be taught. Have a cop come to his home or take him to the station and give him a good talking to. Maybe also have a talk with the principal. The last thing anyone needs is to make this into a big deal, so think education rather than the punishment that everyone seems so eager to dole out.
How does the Ioniq compare to the Tesla Model 3? Hyundai have announced that they will increase the range a little on 2019 models, bringing it close to the mid range model 3, and a fully loaded one costs about the same as the Model 3 base price. No idea how these cars compare on room or trim, but the one thing Tesla still has going for it is their charging tech, which they got right the first time. Still, it looks like the mid range Model 3 already has some competition going...
The Kona sits in a somewhat different market, the price is between the mid range and long range Model 3s. It is a very nice car (I did a test drive in one), and at the moment they are being snapped up by people who want longer range but cannot afford the much pricier long range Tesla 3. Delivery times already exceed 18 months in a country that Hyundai has given priority to. That's another thing to remember: Tesla produces more Model 3s in a month than the number of Konas Hyundai is expected to make in a year. Hyundai is expected to ramp up production a bit though... to about 1/5th of the Model 3 volume.
Pantheon! Damn spell checker.