Very true. The business model of monetizing via (often poorly) targeted advertising is a net negative for society.
It is almost the worst system you can design. You often get poorly targeted advertisements or exceptionally targeted content that stokes outrage. Then, on top of that, the advertising system provides a mechanism for malicious content to execute on your browser.
One can make that argument about any entertainment activity. Some people enjoy watching eSports, which seems absolutely boring to me. Other people enjoy opera. I don't see a problem having a diversity of entertainment options.
The issue for me is using tax dollars or issuing municipal bonds to subsidize profit-making sports teams. They should go to the corporate bond market if they need money.
It will be interesting to see how they end up funding the change given the other large obligations that the city and county have. In particular they are facing a steep pension funding shortfall. Raising taxes will probably increase the rate of high earners leaving the area. They could try to reduce pension benefits, but I'm not sure how much traction that will get. I guess there is always the bond market...
I hope you are not a financial analyst. You made two errors in your profit analysis. First the 25 billion is the development cost and does not include production costs. A large part of the revenue from a sale goes to covering the cost of production. Second, it is unlikely that the A380 ever sold at list price.
Over the life the program, Airbus took a loss on production--they got to having "digestible losses" and were forecasting being revenue positive on production costs. They did not achieve any positive return on their investment
Congress approve the funds for the Judiciary. Collected fees generally go to the Treasury and are appropriated via the annual appropriations acts. Some fees go to fund specific activities (via permanent accounts) or to mandatory expenditures.
If the Judiciary has large unobligated balances that they are using as a "slush" fund, then Congress should take action.
Provided that the pay service performs demonstrably better.
I don't have anything against advertising, but I think it is irresponsible that businesses outsource advertising. Not only have they handed over their revenue generation to someone else, but they have no control over the buffoonery in the ads.
I know Facebook has lost some traction and they feel the need to copy their competitors, but you would think they could do some better than copying Google's penchant for cancelling services.
While Android is open source, there is no guarantee that Samsung has not modified the source to change the behavior on their phones.
Bottom line, either you trust them or you don't.
I can appreciate the logic if you developing an web-based application like Gmail. An advertisement hijacking the webpage is not an application, it's scammy and evil.
I don't know what is worse scammy hijack advertisers or sites that allow them and offer a paid ad-free subscription. I have nothing against paid subscriptions (I even have some), but making your ad-supported version user hostile is also evil.
The demarc point for Verizon is the ONT not the router. Usually Verizon provides a router that has MOCA (so they only need to run coax into the premises) but they are more than willing to provide Ethernet over twisted pair.
Usually not in this case. I looked into getting a static IP and all the providers required their equipment on the customer premises for their standard offerings. I'm sure you can customize the contract to avoid that, but that takes time and probably smart to involve a lawyer.
That is usually due to the fact that there is an SLA and therefore they are providing connectivity at a guaranteed level. If there is any disruptions due to hardware failure, they will replace it. Businesses that want static IPs generally are sensitive to outages, hence the SLA. The marginal higher cost associated with a SLA is usually negligible compared to the revenue being generated.
I'm not a Comcast fan, but this practice makes total sense and is the norm for the industry.
is the false positive or false negative rates for these machine learning algorithms. While many people would argue that the consequence of an error in this case is zero, some Instagram accounts are making serious money (> $10,000 per post) according to a story on Wired (may be paywalled, sorry).
How do you deal with the PITA that is switched digital video? There is some bug between the Tivo, the cable card, and the SDV box that results in a "all timers are in use error". We end up having to reboot the sdv box and/or the TiVo to get everything working again.
It is newsworthy. Google and other tech companies argue that they should not be liable for content on their servers because they do not exercise editorial control. An employee suggests that they should exercise such editorial control, which will put the company in legal jeopardy. How is that not newsworthy?
Why don't you run a squeeze server in your home? I still use my squeezebox and also a squeeze client on a raspi (with an external DAC) and it works great.
Right. I cannot figure out why the calendar starts at 1970â"the universe didnâ(TM)t exist before. Did they pick a random number as a compromise to avoid the argument of 0 vs 1? (jj)
TiVo is another example of this bad behavior. The only way to remove a device is to call customer support. There is no online option and you cannot do it over chat. You have to do over the phone. If a company provides online activation they should provide online deactivation.
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That works great if you live and work in your Mom's basement.
In all seriousness, street addressing for PO Boxes or mailbox providers is in the only reliable way to go if nobody is typically home.He is the quintessential hacker, albeit in the aureal sense rather than computer sense.
It is almost the worst system you can design. You often get poorly targeted advertisements or exceptionally targeted content that stokes outrage. Then, on top of that, the advertising system provides a mechanism for malicious content to execute on your browser.
The issue for me is using tax dollars or issuing municipal bonds to subsidize profit-making sports teams. They should go to the corporate bond market if they need money.
It will be interesting to see how they end up funding the change given the other large obligations that the city and county have. In particular they are facing a steep pension funding shortfall. Raising taxes will probably increase the rate of high earners leaving the area. They could try to reduce pension benefits, but I'm not sure how much traction that will get. I guess there is always the bond market...
I hope you are not a financial analyst. You made two errors in your profit analysis. First the 25 billion is the development cost and does not include production costs. A large part of the revenue from a sale goes to covering the cost of production. Second, it is unlikely that the A380 ever sold at list price. Over the life the program, Airbus took a loss on production--they got to having "digestible losses" and were forecasting being revenue positive on production costs. They did not achieve any positive return on their investment
Congress approve the funds for the Judiciary. Collected fees generally go to the Treasury and are appropriated via the annual appropriations acts. Some fees go to fund specific activities (via permanent accounts) or to mandatory expenditures. If the Judiciary has large unobligated balances that they are using as a "slush" fund, then Congress should take action.
Provided that the pay service performs demonstrably better. I don't have anything against advertising, but I think it is irresponsible that businesses outsource advertising. Not only have they handed over their revenue generation to someone else, but they have no control over the buffoonery in the ads.
Blind? Deaf? Skin color? Sexual orientation?
I know Facebook has lost some traction and they feel the need to copy their competitors, but you would think they could do some better than copying Google's penchant for cancelling services.
As other have pointed out, I guess Google doesn't like the competition.
While Android is open source, there is no guarantee that Samsung has not modified the source to change the behavior on their phones. Bottom line, either you trust them or you don't.
I can appreciate the logic if you developing an web-based application like Gmail. An advertisement hijacking the webpage is not an application, it's scammy and evil. I don't know what is worse scammy hijack advertisers or sites that allow them and offer a paid ad-free subscription. I have nothing against paid subscriptions (I even have some), but making your ad-supported version user hostile is also evil.
Wireless charging--works great. There are even battery packs that have wireless charging.
And residential static IP service does not have a SLA. They don't guarantee any level of service.
And, yes, Verizon FIOS is much better than Comcast
The demarc point for Verizon is the ONT not the router. Usually Verizon provides a router that has MOCA (so they only need to run coax into the premises) but they are more than willing to provide Ethernet over twisted pair.
Usually not in this case. I looked into getting a static IP and all the providers required their equipment on the customer premises for their standard offerings. I'm sure you can customize the contract to avoid that, but that takes time and probably smart to involve a lawyer.
I'm not a Comcast fan, but this practice makes total sense and is the norm for the industry.
is the false positive or false negative rates for these machine learning algorithms. While many people would argue that the consequence of an error in this case is zero, some Instagram accounts are making serious money (> $10,000 per post) according to a story on Wired (may be paywalled, sorry).
How do you deal with the PITA that is switched digital video? There is some bug between the Tivo, the cable card, and the SDV box that results in a "all timers are in use error". We end up having to reboot the sdv box and/or the TiVo to get everything working again.
It is newsworthy. Google and other tech companies argue that they should not be liable for content on their servers because they do not exercise editorial control. An employee suggests that they should exercise such editorial control, which will put the company in legal jeopardy. How is that not newsworthy?
Why don't you run a squeeze server in your home? I still use my squeezebox and also a squeeze client on a raspi (with an external DAC) and it works great.
Right. I cannot figure out why the calendar starts at 1970â"the universe didnâ(TM)t exist before. Did they pick a random number as a compromise to avoid the argument of 0 vs 1? (jj)
TiVo is another example of this bad behavior. The only way to remove a device is to call customer support. There is no online option and you cannot do it over chat. You have to do over the phone. If a company provides online activation they should provide online deactivation.