Yes, that's what the Navy claims in its official answer to the claims by the plaintiffs.
15. [...] Defendant denies that the licenses were limited to installation of BS Contact Geo on a total of 38 Navy personal computers, and Defendant further avers that the Navy procured concurrent-use network-installation licenses of BS Contact Geo.
By the way, avers means asserts. So the sentence should read as "Defendant further asserts that the Navy procured concurrent-use network-installation licenses...".
Even if you cancel right away, you may need to prove breach of contract or false advertising, unless you can find a customer service person who is willing to waive that early termination fee for you.
Facebook supplies the racial affinity of a user to its advertisers, for the purpose of exclusion.
On the other hand, Uber supplies the first name of a passenger to its self-employed drivers, for the purpose of picking them up.
What do you want Uber to do? Assign a randomly generated nickname or password to each passenger. And even then, that wouldn't prevent an Uber driver from visually noticing that a passenger he/she is picking up is black and male.
And if ad targeting is discriminatory for a specific product, then it's the advertiser, not the publisher, that's at fault.
By forcing the publisher to defend itself, the lawsuit is probably hoping that Facebook will be forced to disclose which advertisers are doing the same thing. After which, the lawsuit against Facebook can stop and the advertisers in question can be sued instead.
But it's not in Facebook's financial interest to throw their own customers (their real customers, their advertisers) under the bus.
Yes, the Sunnis are against Assad. Please tell me, when did I ever say otherwise?
My point was about why the US was arming and supporting religious extremists against Assad.
And whoever downvoted me, don't take my comment as an indirect support of Trump. It is absolutely not. When you've personally helped a drug trafficker escape justice thanks to your sister's professional connections as a judge, then you can't claim the moral high ground on drugs anymore.
I am surprised to read that Europe is dependent on Russian gas - I have read so many stories here on/. on how European countries have excess solar capacity and can't figure out how to consume all of it. Maybe run their grid right up to places like Kharkiv, Tallinin and so on and get as many Teslas into those countries as possible
In Europe, the goal is to replace natural gas energy with solar power (and other renewable energies).
But don't confuse that goal with the reality. The reality is that in Germany at least, solar power must not only replace natural gas, but solar power (and other renewables like wind power) must also replace nuclear power (which Germany has planned to have completely phased out within its border by 2022).
70% of the natural gas consumed in Europe comes from Russia. In Germany, that figure is more like 35% (with most of its own natural gas coming from Norway). But even that is not a closed system. If the Russian natural gas stopped coming into Europe, everyone would start bidding on the natural gas from Norway, and what little comes from Ukraine and Qatar (driving up those prices). And the same goes for the decision to abandon nuclear energy by Germany. The amount of energy that Germany can't replace from nuclear will have to either disappear or be imported from its close neighbors (driving up those prices). After all, solar power is great (and so is wind power), and so is the "Tesla" ( by the way, I hope you were joking on that one), but the excesses that you're talking won't come during winter nights, nor will they be able to serve all European power grids and all European cities equally.
This post completely misses the point that we're supporting the extremist jihadist rebellion in Syria against the more secular Assad specifically because he refused in 2009 to allow the Qatar to Europe gas pipeline to be built through Syria (citing his allegiance with Russia).
And yes, NATO is out of date, the USSR is gone, but that doesn't mean we ended our conflicts with Russia. And ISIS is just not a priority right now. After all, our government knows what the effect of supporting religious extremists in Syria is going to do in the long run, but it doesn't really care. Stopping the dependency of Europe on Russian gas is our top priority right now.
PS: This is not to say that I will vote for Trump. In my opinion, Trump is for sale as much as Clinton is.
Whatever side of the Clinton email thing you're on, how would you feel about having the last 10 years of your private communication dumped out in an investigation?
I don't have to imagine. I already know. My employer already has access to my work emails.
And whoever takes over my job one day will have access to my work email (both what's in my inbox and what I've sent over the years from it, not to mention the emails I've deleted since everything is on backups).
And if anything, if I took my work home, and maintained a separate email address, a separate addressbook, separate financial books, or separate meeting minutes, I would expect to raise red flags with my employer and possibly trigger an internal investigation, because by doing so, I would be cutting off my employer from its own records and ultimately breaking the continuity of my office (and/or department).
That being said, I would add that if you're Warren Buffet, you're going to have everyone try to impress you with unsolicited insider trading knowledge. So that's another reason you wouldn't want a work email address for him.
Because what happens when you receive insider information by email about a company you were already going to invest in? If the inside information only confirms that you should buy their stock, do you cancel your original plan to buy their stock now because you would seem guilty of insider trading? Or do you stick to the original plan of buying the stock and try to prove to the Feds that you didn't make the buying decision using the information you received?
How the hell is working FOR Uber entrepreneurship. [...] Can you Also deal with competing Companies?
Yes. I know some people who've worked for Uber, Lyft, Postmates, TaskRabbit, and Caviar, all at the same time.
They go online on all the apps. Then they accept requests from the highest bidder. So if Uber is surging, they shut off all their other apps. Or vice versa, if Lyft is having special boost, they shut off the Uber app. Or if TaskRabbit needs a phone repair near where they're located, they'll go do that instead because it usually pays better than Uber (assuming it's not too far).
Deal Direct with Customers?
For that, you'd need your own commercial insurance.
Uber covers you with its commercial insurance, but I doubt they would cover you if you started giving rides to people for money without going through them. The same with Lyft and all the other ones. It makes sense that they would only cover you during the time you accept requests from them.
Offer them other services?
You can give an Uber customer in your car a $50 Lyft promo code, or a Juno promo code.
Uber can't complain about that. Initially, Uber tried deactivating a driver over that, but after a lawsuit, it was found that Uber couldn't interfere since its drivers were self-employed. The same goes for tips. Uber is not longer allowed to say "No Tips Necessary" on the app for that very reason.
WTF would I want this? If I am an android user why would I want to install iMessage?
You don't need to want it.
If you're a Mac user, iMessage is forced on you. I am an android phone user. I never had an iPhone, nor an iPad. And yet, when I signed up for two-factor authentication with my Apple/iCloud account (for my Mac) and confirmed my cell phone number, all the texts that were sent to me from iPhone users would get intercepted by Apple and sent to iMessage instead (effectively depriving me from the messages on my phone until I could figure out what was going on and change the settings with Apple).
I disagree with that. Spending money on developer engagement wasn't their problem. Their developer tools were great and they are still great. Plus, they spent a ton of money on developers (which I was one of).
One problem was that when their app store came out, they modeled it after the iOS App store. For instance, they wanted to charge $99 a year for a developer account (although, that fee was waived initially). They locked down their platform, as they wanted everything to be published and only available through their app store so they could charge a 30% commission on it.
At the very same time, Android was already growing like crazy, and Google didn't have any of those developer demands attached to it. A developer account on the Android Market/Google Play had/has a one-time fee (not a yearly fee) of $25 (for as many apps as you want). Google didn't force you to pass through their app store to publish your application (in that way, it was a lot like the old Windows Mobile store). And the 32% commission (not 30%) it extracted from applications published on its app store went to the carriers (technically, 30% went to the carriers and only 2% went to Google if Google Wallet was used instead of carrier billing). So as a mobile app developer, you knew that carriers would keep on recommending Android phones to its customers and that the market share of Android was only going to grow even more (even if the iPhone was arguably a much better phone at the time).
I would sell these guns to prisons and court houses where guards are often overpowered by the prisoners in close quarters. But of course, I'd still require the guards at the main entrance to carry normal guns.
These was none of this navel gazing when Sarah Palin's emails were stolen. In fact, the press crowdsourced reading them in their search for dirt on her. Why would this be any different for Hillary Clint..... Oh, party affiliation. Forgot. Carry on, then.
What you're experiencing is selective bias. That's one of the reasons you're not even thinking of the Connie Chung incident.
Mrs. Gingrich said she could not say what her son thought about First Lady Hillary Clinton on the air. Chung asked Mrs. Gingrich to "just whisper it to me, just between you and me," and Mrs. Gingrich replied that her son thought of Clinton as a "bitch."
No one blamed Newt Gingrich for his private view. And Connie Chung was an idiot, her career pretty much went downhill after that.
And what you perceive as navel gazing is actually just more gossiping by Steven Levy (in the form of fake journalistic outrage). It's the same reason all journalists criticized Connie Chung after her breach of confidence, not because they had journalistic integrity, but because it gave them the excuse to continue spreading the gossip that Hillary was thought as a bitch by the leader of the opposition party.
If your mouse occasionally sent an erroneous input to the computer no matter how careful you were, you wouldnt use it so much.
Wrong example. Mouse usability requires constant visual feedback and almost constant human correction. That is the reason why we can't really use a mouse without looking directly at the screen.
In any case, flawless transcription accuracy of one single human voice out of 7.5 billion voices already happens with Google Voice. The problem occurs when Google Voice is not tuned to the voices of the other 7.49999 billion people. Do you think that's what Microsoft is using in the backend this second time around?
however, so the FBI would go after Google's deep pockets rather than try to pin the crime on an individual. The employee should be safe from criminal charges, though not, presumably, from Google discipline.
How do you know that? If the approval process for publishing something wasn't followed, Google could claim it was hacked internally by an employee and could insist that charges be filed against said employee.
I think it's all about the low barrier to entry and the fact that doing one of these jobs won't prevent you from looking for another job and attending job interviews when they come up. So if the choice is between looking for a job and staying at home in your underwear watching movies the rest of the time, or looking for a job and driving a little bit so you can pay your rent while you're still job-hunting. The choice is pretty easy.
There is also the language factor, I know someone who got a low rating on Uber for not being fluent in English (but I have no idea how common this is). He got temporarily suspended for his low rating. He took an online English test supplied by Uber. He got 80% on the test (most likely because a family member helped him), so he got reactivated, but then he got permanently deactivated the second time around because his rating didn't improve and the customer complaints about his English were coming in the same as before.
but if your facility was the one lined up to make the Note 7 while the rest of the facilities already cover production for the other phones, guess which facility gets voted "Most Likely to Be Shut Down"?
That's not how globalization works.
Samsung has already been shutting down plants in Malaysia and China while at the same time opening new plants in Vietnam. If any plant is on the chopping block, it's the plants in Malaysia and China.
And if anybody is going to be laid off, it's the older workers with families, carpel tunnel syndrome, and higher wages, not the newbies that are still ecstatic to be making $150 a week for 80 hours of work (which used to be a yearly wage three to four years ago).
You want to view them at home, from your HTPC where you won't be bothered by other people, people you consider dumb, rude, loud, too young, always on their phones and generally needing to get off your lawn.
Speak for yourself.
The people I consider dumb, rude, loud, too young, and always on their phones are already at my home. That's the reason I go to the movie theater, to take a break from them for a few hours.
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Yes, that's what the Navy claims in its official answer to the claims by the plaintiffs.
15. [...] Defendant denies that the licenses were limited to installation of BS
Contact Geo on a total of 38 Navy personal computers, and Defendant further avers that the
Navy procured concurrent-use network-installation licenses of BS Contact Geo.
By the way, avers means asserts. So the sentence should read as "Defendant further asserts that the Navy procured concurrent-use network-installation licenses...".
Even if you cancel right away, you may need to prove breach of contract or false advertising, unless you can find a customer service person who is willing to waive that early termination fee for you.
This is a non issue on desktops, really.
Correction: I think you meant to say this is a non-issue on desktops that are not using solid state drives.
No, that's not the objection I was going for.
It doesn't matter if there is an occasional name collision, or if someone left a blank field as their first name.
My point was about convenience during pickups. The system doesn't need to be perfect.
If the system takes an extra minute or two for finding a passenger once in a while, it's not the end of the world.
Not a bad idea. And it adds a bit of privacy for the user.
Only the first name is being transmitted to the driver, and the passenger can already change that first name to whatever they wish.
That's enough privacy I think.
The driver doesn't need to know the name.
Knowing a first name does make pickups in front of crowded night clubs/bars easier.
People who take Ubers are not always sober, nor always fluent in English, but at least they know their own first name.
Facebook supplies the racial affinity of a user to its advertisers, for the purpose of exclusion.
On the other hand, Uber supplies the first name of a passenger to its self-employed drivers, for the purpose of picking them up.
What do you want Uber to do? Assign a randomly generated nickname or password to each passenger. And even then, that wouldn't prevent an Uber driver from visually noticing that a passenger he/she is picking up is black and male.
And if ad targeting is discriminatory for a specific product, then it's the advertiser, not the publisher, that's at fault.
By forcing the publisher to defend itself, the lawsuit is probably hoping that Facebook will be forced to disclose which advertisers are doing the same thing. After which, the lawsuit against Facebook can stop and the advertisers in question can be sued instead.
But it's not in Facebook's financial interest to throw their own customers (their real customers, their advertisers) under the bus.
Yes, the Sunnis are against Assad. Please tell me, when did I ever say otherwise?
My point was about why the US was arming and supporting religious extremists against Assad.
And whoever downvoted me, don't take my comment as an indirect support of Trump. It is absolutely not. When you've personally helped a drug trafficker escape justice thanks to your sister's professional connections as a judge, then you can't claim the moral high ground on drugs anymore.
I am surprised to read that Europe is dependent on Russian gas - I have read so many stories here on /. on how European countries have excess solar capacity and can't figure out how to consume all of it. Maybe run their grid right up to places like Kharkiv, Tallinin and so on and get as many Teslas into those countries as possible
In Europe, the goal is to replace natural gas energy with solar power (and other renewable energies).
But don't confuse that goal with the reality. The reality is that in Germany at least, solar power must not only replace natural gas, but solar power (and other renewables like wind power) must also replace nuclear power (which Germany has planned to have completely phased out within its border by 2022).
70% of the natural gas consumed in Europe comes from Russia. In Germany, that figure is more like 35% (with most of its own natural gas coming from Norway). But even that is not a closed system. If the Russian natural gas stopped coming into Europe, everyone would start bidding on the natural gas from Norway, and what little comes from Ukraine and Qatar (driving up those prices). And the same goes for the decision to abandon nuclear energy by Germany. The amount of energy that Germany can't replace from nuclear will have to either disappear or be imported from its close neighbors (driving up those prices). After all, solar power is great (and so is wind power), and so is the "Tesla" ( by the way, I hope you were joking on that one), but the excesses that you're talking won't come during winter nights, nor will they be able to serve all European power grids and all European cities equally.
This post completely misses the point that we're supporting the extremist jihadist rebellion in Syria against the more secular Assad specifically because he refused in 2009 to allow the Qatar to Europe gas pipeline to be built through Syria (citing his allegiance with Russia).
And yes, NATO is out of date, the USSR is gone, but that doesn't mean we ended our conflicts with Russia. And ISIS is just not a priority right now. After all, our government knows what the effect of supporting religious extremists in Syria is going to do in the long run, but it doesn't really care. Stopping the dependency of Europe on Russian gas is our top priority right now.
PS: This is not to say that I will vote for Trump. In my opinion, Trump is for sale as much as Clinton is.
Whatever side of the Clinton email thing you're on, how would you feel about having the last 10 years of your private communication dumped out in an investigation?
I don't have to imagine. I already know. My employer already has access to my work emails.
And whoever takes over my job one day will have access to my work email (both what's in my inbox and what I've sent over the years from it, not to mention the emails I've deleted since everything is on backups).
And if anything, if I took my work home, and maintained a separate email address, a separate addressbook, separate financial books, or separate meeting minutes, I would expect to raise red flags with my employer and possibly trigger an internal investigation, because by doing so, I would be cutting off my employer from its own records and ultimately breaking the continuity of my office (and/or department).
You are completely right of course.
That being said, I would add that if you're Warren Buffet, you're going to have everyone try to impress you with unsolicited insider trading knowledge. So that's another reason you wouldn't want a work email address for him.
Because what happens when you receive insider information by email about a company you were already going to invest in? If the inside information only confirms that you should buy their stock, do you cancel your original plan to buy their stock now because you would seem guilty of insider trading? Or do you stick to the original plan of buying the stock and try to prove to the Feds that you didn't make the buying decision using the information you received?
How the hell is working FOR Uber entrepreneurship.
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Can you Also deal with competing Companies?
Yes. I know some people who've worked for Uber, Lyft, Postmates, TaskRabbit, and Caviar, all at the same time.
They go online on all the apps. Then they accept requests from the highest bidder. So if Uber is surging, they shut off all their other apps. Or vice versa, if Lyft is having special boost, they shut off the Uber app. Or if TaskRabbit needs a phone repair near where they're located, they'll go do that instead because it usually pays better than Uber (assuming it's not too far).
Deal Direct with Customers?
For that, you'd need your own commercial insurance.
Uber covers you with its commercial insurance, but I doubt they would cover you if you started giving rides to people for money without going through them. The same with Lyft and all the other ones. It makes sense that they would only cover you during the time you accept requests from them.
Offer them other services?
You can give an Uber customer in your car a $50 Lyft promo code, or a Juno promo code.
Uber can't complain about that. Initially, Uber tried deactivating a driver over that, but after a lawsuit, it was found that Uber couldn't interfere since its drivers were self-employed. The same goes for tips. Uber is not longer allowed to say "No Tips Necessary" on the app for that very reason.
What are you talking about?
He wanted to dial 912 in his code, but his finger slipped and he typed 911 instead.
That was just an innocent mistake.
3D touch? What is that?
WTF would I want this? If I am an android user why would I want to install iMessage?
You don't need to want it.
If you're a Mac user, iMessage is forced on you. I am an android phone user. I never had an iPhone, nor an iPad. And yet, when I signed up for two-factor authentication with my Apple/iCloud account (for my Mac) and confirmed my cell phone number, all the texts that were sent to me from iPhone users would get intercepted by Apple and sent to iMessage instead (effectively depriving me from the messages on my phone until I could figure out what was going on and change the settings with Apple).
PS: When I wrote "Plus, they spent a ton of money on developers (which I was one of)". I meant third party mobile app developers.
I disagree with that. Spending money on developer engagement wasn't their problem. Their developer tools were great and they are still great. Plus, they spent a ton of money on developers (which I was one of).
One problem was that when their app store came out, they modeled it after the iOS App store. For instance, they wanted to charge $99 a year for a developer account (although, that fee was waived initially). They locked down their platform, as they wanted everything to be published and only available through their app store so they could charge a 30% commission on it.
At the very same time, Android was already growing like crazy, and Google didn't have any of those developer demands attached to it. A developer account on the Android Market/Google Play had/has a one-time fee (not a yearly fee) of $25 (for as many apps as you want). Google didn't force you to pass through their app store to publish your application (in that way, it was a lot like the old Windows Mobile store). And the 32% commission (not 30%) it extracted from applications published on its app store went to the carriers (technically, 30% went to the carriers and only 2% went to Google if Google Wallet was used instead of carrier billing). So as a mobile app developer, you knew that carriers would keep on recommending Android phones to its customers and that the market share of Android was only going to grow even more (even if the iPhone was arguably a much better phone at the time).
I would sell these guns to prisons and court houses where guards are often overpowered by the prisoners in close quarters. But of course, I'd still require the guards at the main entrance to carry normal guns.
These was none of this navel gazing when Sarah Palin's emails were stolen. In fact, the press crowdsourced reading them in their search for dirt on her. Why would this be any different for Hillary Clint..... Oh, party affiliation. Forgot. Carry on, then.
What you're experiencing is selective bias. That's one of the reasons you're not even thinking of the Connie Chung incident.
Mrs. Gingrich said she could not say what her son thought about First Lady Hillary Clinton on the air. Chung asked Mrs. Gingrich to "just whisper it to me, just between you and me," and Mrs. Gingrich replied that her son thought of Clinton as a "bitch."
No one blamed Newt Gingrich for his private view. And Connie Chung was an idiot, her career pretty much went downhill after that.
And what you perceive as navel gazing is actually just more gossiping by Steven Levy (in the form of fake journalistic outrage). It's the same reason all journalists criticized Connie Chung after her breach of confidence, not because they had journalistic integrity, but because it gave them the excuse to continue spreading the gossip that Hillary was thought as a bitch by the leader of the opposition party.
This is the same for any Android phone that has fingerprint recognition.
If your mouse occasionally sent an erroneous input to the computer no matter how careful you were, you wouldnt use it so much.
Wrong example. Mouse usability requires constant visual feedback and almost constant human correction. That is the reason why we can't really use a mouse without looking directly at the screen.
In any case, flawless transcription accuracy of one single human voice out of 7.5 billion voices already happens with Google Voice. The problem occurs when Google Voice is not tuned to the voices of the other 7.49999 billion people. Do you think that's what Microsoft is using in the backend this second time around?
however, so the FBI would go after Google's deep pockets rather than try to pin the crime on an individual. The employee should be safe from criminal charges, though not, presumably, from Google discipline.
How do you know that? If the approval process for publishing something wasn't followed, Google could claim it was hacked internally by an employee and could insist that charges be filed against said employee.
I think it's all about the low barrier to entry and the fact that doing one of these jobs won't prevent you from looking for another job and attending job interviews when they come up. So if the choice is between looking for a job and staying at home in your underwear watching movies the rest of the time, or looking for a job and driving a little bit so you can pay your rent while you're still job-hunting. The choice is pretty easy.
There is also the language factor, I know someone who got a low rating on Uber for not being fluent in English (but I have no idea how common this is). He got temporarily suspended for his low rating. He took an online English test supplied by Uber. He got 80% on the test (most likely because a family member helped him), so he got reactivated, but then he got permanently deactivated the second time around because his rating didn't improve and the customer complaints about his English were coming in the same as before.
but if your facility was the one lined up to make the Note 7 while the rest of the facilities already cover production for the other phones, guess which facility gets voted "Most Likely to Be Shut Down"?
That's not how globalization works.
Samsung has already been shutting down plants in Malaysia and China while at the same time opening new plants in Vietnam. If any plant is on the chopping block, it's the plants in Malaysia and China.
And if anybody is going to be laid off, it's the older workers with families, carpel tunnel syndrome, and higher wages, not the newbies that are still ecstatic to be making $150 a week for 80 hours of work (which used to be a yearly wage three to four years ago).
You want to view them at home, from your HTPC where you won't be bothered by other people, people you consider dumb, rude, loud, too young, always on their phones and generally needing to get off your lawn.
Speak for yourself.
The people I consider dumb, rude, loud, too young, and always on their phones are already at my home. That's the reason I go to the movie theater, to take a break from them for a few hours.