how are they going to verify that it was not a hands-free call or text?
When was the last time Bluetooth was enabled and paired with the car? I'll bet this is logged somewhere. When was the last time speech-to-text was used? I'll bet this leaves traces as well. In case of Google Assistant, it actually stores and timestamps all your verbal commands on the cloud. I'm not saying this technology is going to be perfect initially, but I'll bet all these issues can be solved after a little while.
Actually, I read the full article. You may have read a different article.
In any case, even the article seems to be contradicting itself. It shows a picture of the robot taken by the actual family, but in that picture, there is someone in blue with a stethoscope standing behind the robot. So the hospital seems to think that their policy was violated and they're apologizing for it, but based on the picture alone, that doesn't seem to really be the case.
So you may be right about "Their gripe is that the original doctor wasn't the one." It's just that you must have picked up this fact in a different article because that fact is not in the original BBC article referenced.
Maybe it was just pragmatism, not cowardice. The patient died the very next day. It's very possible that the patient was already in hospice care and that the doctor couldn't get to the patient in time to tell him the diagnosis in person.
In the case of my mother, the homecare hospice nurse is the one that told us that she only had three days left to live (based on the discoloration of her skin). And her prediction was remarkably accurate. She had been battling lung cancer for the last three years, so it's not like this came as a surprise to any of us. But the headsup from the nurse is what allowed my brother to fly in to see her one very last time.
There are no norms. That's part of the problem actually.
In the US, the police isn't centralized, it's more a patchwork of overlapping responsibilities and jurisdictions. Even the police academies are not uniform. So you can have one town with perfectly reasonable and well trained police officers, but another town just next to it with police officers that are power hungry and/or complete idiots.
Well, he was hand-picked by Samsung to receive the device and write a review on it before everyone else, even before other reviewers and other journalists.
Apple does the exact same thing. Now others may have received the device, but those other people are still under NDA. And that should tell you everything you need to know about his particular review. There is no way in hell his review can be objective, not even a little bit.
unless the student signed into a social media, or other account, using the email or credentials the school provided
Tell me. If you create a private social media account online using your work email address, do you expect your work to reset your password and access that private online account you created? No, right? At least, not unless that account was work related.
If anyone should have access to that secondary account, it should be the parents, not the school.
Remember that incident where the school would spy on their students using the camera of the school issued laptops while the kids were in the privacy of their own bedrooms. If that incident taught me anything, and numerous other incidents like that one, it's that school administrators/staff are not properly trained to handle the private information of their pupils and also they're definitely not mature enough to handle that information professionally.
By connecting unique advertisements to unique phone numbers, Google can track how effective the ads are.
Also, because those phone numbers are owned by Google, not the locksmiths. And since Google Ad Words has auctions to determine how much its advertisements should cost. Google can effectively fire existing customers who do not pay them enough money, forcibly take their assigned phone number(s), and reassign any incoming leads to other local locksmiths who are willing to pay Google more money.
As a low-level peon I fall to understand how this happens. How do you get a contract signed at hiring that says "if I leave or am fired for misconduct you must give me a parachute of $500,000"?
In 2005, Google bought Android from Andy Rubin for 50 million dollars. Andy Rubin was at the helm of Android until December 2012 (basically, Android had already taken over the World by then).
In 2016, an Oracle lawyer leaked court documents that said that Google had made 22 billion dollars in profit from the Android operating system.
The correct way of doing it is to sue everyone. By suing the company, the company will do everything it can to point the finger at the original harasser.
In other words, by suing the company, the plaintiff is assuring the maximum cooperation of the company. And yes, the DA can get the cooperation of the company too, but the effectiveness of a DA is not always guaranteed.
I recall when I was a Student my dorm as most academic halls had these things that have been around forever, called coin-operated machines.
Times are changing. Some high schools and Universities are forcing vending machines to stock unpopular healthy foods in them, resulting in lower sales.
This would be the perfect workaround for those locations. In addition to that, they could probably skip giving the school a cut of their profit since they wouldn't be renting their space anymore.
Until real-time lip reading becomes reliable, I'd use video communication with him. This way, you can read his lips, read the expressions on his face, and he can even sign to you or point his camera to objects as a secondary mode of communication.
Also, I wouldn't discount any app that requires GPS location. Any good assistive app should be able to share your location at the press of the button, especially if the person on the other end can't hear you and is trying to find you.
And last but not least, I would sign him up for TTY services. If he's in the US, it's free I think. This way, he can type what he wants and the person on the other end, an actual human being, will voice what he's typing.
Mr. Modi has increasingly sought to bolster Indian firms and curb foreign ones through new policies, including one that requires foreign companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express to store all data about Indians on computers inside the country.
Actually, implementing such a policy isn't protectionist. It is just common sense. After all, as an American living in the US, I wouldn't want my US financial data being stored anywhere else but the US.
Imagine if the driver who plowed into the crowd at Charlotteville would have been pulled out of his car and killed on the spot, that wouldn't have been good. Mob justice rarely gets us the answers we're looking for.
All popular CMSs - and even many unpopular CMSs - have had security issues. The open source ones tend to get fixed super quickly.
One problem with WordPress is that it allows plugins from pretty much anyone.
So in that sense, it's not just a blog/CMS, it's a full-blown platform, and full-blown platforms are much more vulnerable than standalone pieces of software.
The only people that should be embarrassed are the original brand owners of "Supreme". Supreme is a generic word. That's why it couldn't be protected in Italy against "Supreme Italy". If "Supreme" had won that case, there now would be a run on generic brand names like "Nice" or "Great".
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I could be technical problems.
Facebook, Google, and Uber had technical problems recently.
how are they going to verify that it was not a hands-free call or text?
When was the last time Bluetooth was enabled and paired with the car? I'll bet this is logged somewhere. When was the last time speech-to-text was used? I'll bet this leaves traces as well. In case of Google Assistant, it actually stores and timestamps all your verbal commands on the cloud. I'm not saying this technology is going to be perfect initially, but I'll bet all these issues can be solved after a little while.
Why are we focusing on Amazon?
Amazon doesn't even figure as one of the top 10 lobbyists in the United States.
https://www.opensecrets.org/lo...
Of course, these stats don't even take into account the Super PACs
Actually, I read the full article. You may have read a different article.
In any case, even the article seems to be contradicting itself. It shows a picture of the robot taken by the actual family, but in that picture, there is someone in blue with a stethoscope standing behind the robot. So the hospital seems to think that their policy was violated and they're apologizing for it, but based on the picture alone, that doesn't seem to really be the case.
So you may be right about "Their gripe is that the original doctor wasn't the one." It's just that you must have picked up this fact in a different article because that fact is not in the original BBC article referenced.
Maybe it was just pragmatism, not cowardice. The patient died the very next day. It's very possible that the patient was already in hospice care and that the doctor couldn't get to the patient in time to tell him the diagnosis in person.
In the case of my mother, the homecare hospice nurse is the one that told us that she only had three days left to live (based on the discoloration of her skin). And her prediction was remarkably accurate. She had been battling lung cancer for the last three years, so it's not like this came as a surprise to any of us. But the headsup from the nurse is what allowed my brother to fly in to see her one very last time.
Is that really the norm these days?
There are no norms. That's part of the problem actually.
In the US, the police isn't centralized, it's more a patchwork of overlapping responsibilities and jurisdictions. Even the police academies are not uniform. So you can have one town with perfectly reasonable and well trained police officers, but another town just next to it with police officers that are power hungry and/or complete idiots.
Well, he was hand-picked by Samsung to receive the device and write a review on it before everyone else, even before other reviewers and other journalists.
Apple does the exact same thing. Now others may have received the device, but those other people are still under NDA. And that should tell you everything you need to know about his particular review. There is no way in hell his review can be objective, not even a little bit.
unless the student signed into a social media, or other account, using the email or credentials the school provided
Tell me. If you create a private social media account online using your work email address, do you expect your work to reset your password and access that private online account you created? No, right? At least, not unless that account was work related.
If anyone should have access to that secondary account, it should be the parents, not the school.
Remember that incident where the school would spy on their students using the camera of the school issued laptops while the kids were in the privacy of their own bedrooms. If that incident taught me anything, and numerous other incidents like that one, it's that school administrators/staff are not properly trained to handle the private information of their pupils and also they're definitely not mature enough to handle that information professionally.
No shit, Sherlock. Why not just say "Many web sites run proprietary JavaScript..."? Why call out dating sites?
Obviously, the article was trying to ride the wave of Valentine's Day-related news.
It actually has nothing to do with dating at all.
Can't be done. Visa, Mastercard, and Amex all have clauses forbidding those cash discounts, which can cause a merchant's account to be pulled.
What are you talking about?
It is being done right now in the majority of the States.
https://www.creditcards.com/cr...
And even in my State, which bans sur-charges, this issue is still being litigated as we speak.
So am I out to lunch here? Can someone explain why this should actually even be a thing?
Seriously, you need someone to explain "the birds and the bees" to you?
..but as your sig so fortuitously put it... well, people are stupid.
Yes, it could be that.
But let's remember, Uber gave the exact same excuse.
We haven't been hacked. It's our users who have been re-using the same passwords.
And two years later, it turns out that Uber did have a massive breach that they knew about, but that they didn't want to admit to anybody.
that works out to 83 seconds between edits if he did nothing but edit Wikipedia during his free time for 18 years.
For his own sake, I hope many of those contributions were his own custom bots correcting spelling or formatting mistakes.
You're making this too complicated.
By connecting unique advertisements to unique phone numbers, Google can track how effective the ads are.
Also, because those phone numbers are owned by Google, not the locksmiths. And since Google Ad Words has auctions to determine how much its advertisements should cost. Google can effectively fire existing customers who do not pay them enough money, forcibly take their assigned phone number(s), and reassign any incoming leads to other local locksmiths who are willing to pay Google more money.
As a low-level peon I fall to understand how this happens. How do you get a contract signed at hiring that says "if I leave or am fired for misconduct you must give me a parachute of $500,000"?
In 2005, Google bought Android from Andy Rubin for 50 million dollars. Andy Rubin was at the helm of Android until December 2012 (basically, Android had already taken over the World by then).
In 2016, an Oracle lawyer leaked court documents that said that Google had made 22 billion dollars in profit from the Android operating system.
So you do the math.
The correct person to sue is his harasser.
The correct way of doing it is to sue everyone. By suing the company, the company will do everything it can to point the finger at the original harasser.
In other words, by suing the company, the plaintiff is assuring the maximum cooperation of the company. And yes, the DA can get the cooperation of the company too, but the effectiveness of a DA is not always guaranteed.
I recall when I was a Student my dorm as most academic halls had these things that have been around forever, called coin-operated machines.
Times are changing. Some high schools and Universities are forcing vending machines to stock unpopular healthy foods in them, resulting in lower sales.
This would be the perfect workaround for those locations. In addition to that, they could probably skip giving the school a cut of their profit since they wouldn't be renting their space anymore.
Until real-time lip reading becomes reliable, I'd use video communication with him. This way, you can read his lips, read the expressions on his face, and he can even sign to you or point his camera to objects as a secondary mode of communication.
Also, I wouldn't discount any app that requires GPS location. Any good assistive app should be able to share your location at the press of the button, especially if the person on the other end can't hear you and is trying to find you.
And last but not least, I would sign him up for TTY services. If he's in the US, it's free I think. This way, he can type what he wants and the person on the other end, an actual human being, will voice what he's typing.
Mr. Modi has increasingly sought to bolster Indian firms and curb foreign ones through new policies, including one that requires foreign companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express to store all data about Indians on computers inside the country.
Actually, implementing such a policy isn't protectionist. It is just common sense. After all, as an American living in the US, I wouldn't want my US financial data being stored anywhere else but the US.
Not only that, but now the little white lie "It's ok, I'm Canadian." won't work anymore.
Imagine if the driver who plowed into the crowd at Charlotteville would have been pulled out of his car and killed on the spot, that wouldn't have been good. Mob justice rarely gets us the answers we're looking for.
No government needs to control what its citizens can read and write unless it has totalitarian aims.
Or unless they're trying to prevent a lynching based on false information.
All popular CMSs - and even many unpopular CMSs - have had security issues. The open source ones tend to get fixed super quickly.
One problem with WordPress is that it allows plugins from pretty much anyone.
So in that sense, it's not just a blog/CMS, it's a full-blown platform, and full-blown platforms are much more vulnerable than standalone pieces of software.
The only people that should be embarrassed are the original brand owners of "Supreme". Supreme is a generic word. That's why it couldn't be protected in Italy against "Supreme Italy". If "Supreme" had won that case, there now would be a run on generic brand names like "Nice" or "Great".
What is really news here? A worker with a forklift could do this just as easily and readily as a robot.
The news here is that Amazon didn't hesitate in calling 911 and getting 7 ambulances for their workers.
Lucky for them they weren't at a Tesla plant. Tesla prohibits its employees from calling 911, even for much more serious incidents than bear spray.