How about they implement blocking autorun of all videos by default unless you whitelist a site.
I agree. Google automatically white-listing certain sites based on an arbitrary size of those sites seems highly illegal and like a conflict of interests.
I say illegal, because the Chrome browser has recently reached the threshold of the biggest marketshare of all browsers on the desktop (to say nothing of their marketshare of the Chrome browser on mobile devices like Android phones and tablets).
After all, if manual white listing is good enough for the other smaller video sites, why isn't it good enough for YouTube? And yes, I realize that Youtube supports HTML5, but I assume there is a reason they still want Youtube to work with Flash on Chrome (otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered with whitelisting their own site).
If they really want to test their self-driving cars, they should hire unemployed "software engineers" to lay down in the road in front of a fleet of self-driving cars. That's the test that matters.
That test has already been passed.
Hundreds of little 2-seater Google self-driving cars can already be seen driving everywhere in Santa Clara and Mountain View.
Those cars look like little Disney rides with hats.
And so far, they haven't run over any of the pedestrian software engineers crossing the streets, nor any of the numerous children who run in front of them for hugs because they think they're Disney characters.
So did that thing just accidentally pass the Turing test?
Pretty much.
Here is an actual transcript of the winning entry.
Student: Where is the homework? I couldn't find it. TA: That answer is in the Syllabus. Did you not read it?
Student: Ah ok, I found it. I couldn't find the homework in time yesterday. Can I turn in my homework late? TA: That answer is in the Syllabus. Did you not read it?
Student: I did read it, but I was wondering if you could make an exception. TA: That answer is in the Syllabus. Did you not read it?
Student: Ok, ok. Thanks anyway. TA: You're welcome.
I've read on the website that the battery cannot be replaced or recharged and that the life expectation is around 1000 button presses.
It's fine if you only push the button once a week to order something regularly (lasts a bit over 19 years) but for IoT usage it's not going to last nearly long enough for anything useful.
The solution is easy. You get yourself a meta button, basically a second button to order new buttons.
And voila, you have yourself a self-sustaining recursive solution.
It does sound like a term the NSA/CIA would use. It would be like an always-on surveillance device, but it would be an all-in-one solution that could also take out an entire living room and all its occupants should someone ever try to fast-forward through an FBI copyright warning on a movie.
I'm sure Google will sue the programmer of the other software.... even though he had it first.
Please calm down and put that pitchfork away.
Chirp is a cutesy name that is only used internally. Besides, I doubt very much that even Google would officially market that device under a name that reminds people of a smoke detector running low on battery.
Also, Netflix runs ads for its own content before shows and after shows.
Of course, the CEO of Netflix states categorically that these previews Netflix forces you to watch (before being able to watch your own shows, or during the rolling of the credits) are not ads, but I don't think the idiot realizes that this kind of rhetoric doesn't help.
As a customer, I can withstand ads of internal content, after all, they're not that bad, but having an asshole lie straight to my face over and over again and insult my intelligence every time he tries to deny the obvious really infuriates me to no end.
No, what's really amazing is that this is your first post as a Slashdot user and that all your posts are only discussing this particular topic. Another AMAZING thing is that you're calling a blogger on Tech Republic an actual reporter. Yeah, that's a good one.
Now never mind that you can edit your blog on Tech Republic anytime you want without changing the publishing date, or that this Yahoo quote is completely made up:
According to Yahoo, "Unanimous spent the last two years building a swarm intelligence platform called UNU that enables groups to get together as online swarms -- combing their thoughts, opinions, and intuitions in real-time to answer questions, make predictions, reach decisions, and even play games as a unified collective intelligence."
Who is this "Unanimous" anyway? Is that a play on words with "Anonymous"? Seriously?
And who is this particular "Yahoo" anyway, a blogger friend of yours on Yahoo? Your friend obviously forgot to publish his blog on Yahoo because it's not indexed anywhere. Also, thank you very much for confounding the terms "swarm intelligence" or "AI" with "wisdom of crowds".
That's what the world needs right now, more misinformation layered unto more misinformation. Congratulations on your click-baiting skills.
Why is there such a price difference? And why has not a cunny capitalist set up a book (re)selling shop — ordering on Amazon for $15 and selling locally for $16?
Ok, maybe $1 is too optimistic, but $27 seems too much for a free country. And if it is not free, then they have a much bigger problem, than book-prices...
Yes, $1 would be overly optimistic.
In the US alone, Amazon usually charges $3.99 for shipping a $15 book.
I don't know what shipping costs from the US to Uganda, or from Europe to Uganda, but I assume it has to cost more than $4 (unless you ship by boat through third or fourth class mail, which may take several months). Also since most peoples homes in Uganda are on streets with no name and have no number on their house, I assume that will add to the cost if they have to go through these private intermediaries with pick up locations with lockers
Duty Rates Uganda applies duties and tariffs of the East African Community (EAC) Common External Tariff. Customs duty is levied at rates between 0% and 100%, with an average rate of 25%. Sales Tax Imports into Uganda are subject to a standard VAT rate of 18%, levied on the sum of the CIF value, duty, and other applicable taxes. Minimum thresholds There is no minimum threshold for imports into Uganda; therefore duty and taxes are payable regardless of the value. http://www.dutycalculator.com/...
So with a duty of 25% and VAT of 18%, that makes a surcharge of 43%. Add to that the cost of insurance for the total value + total taxes. Let's say another $4 for that insurance (but it could be worse if the postal service in Uganda has a bad reputation).
Which brings me to my next point. By this point, the customer in Uganda has contacted you several times and told you not to use insurance and told you to declare the book as a gift having $0 value, which really puts you in a difficult bind. The customer assures you that the package won't be stopped by customs if nothing of value is declared, and that everybody does the same thing and that it's perfectly fine. But the fact is, there is always a chance that the package will be stopped and confiscated by customs for having lied on the customs.
Now I don't know what that rate is in Uganda. I have never shipped anything to Uganda, but I can tell you that the rate in France 10 years ago was around of 7%. So ten years ago, when my customers residing in France would beg me to send them an item from the US without declaring its value to avoid the 20-40% customs surcharge that came for some of the items I was shipping, the package would get intercepted and confiscated by customs roughly 7% of the time.
And of course, the customer in France would get really upset when that happened and would rate me poorly if I didn't eat the cost and try again. And of course, the customer would rate me negatively as well if I did declare the full value and insured things properly without paying the customs and tax, because in the end the customer would get hit with a large customs and tax fee upon delivery.
In 2007, Apple didn't even own the trademark "iPhone". Cisco even filed for an injunction against Apple right after the iPhone launched in 2007.
At least, the Chinese company registered the trademark before it used the name, which is a lot more than can be said of Apple. Should the Chinese company be penalized because Apple chose to completely ignore trademark law when it suited them. I sure hope not.
1) My paper has never experienced a fault while on the move.
Lucky you, my paper maps have suffered chocolate stains, insect damage (possibly related to the chocolate stains), a serious lack of updates, and darkness during the night because my driver refuses turn on the light inside the car while driving (or to stop the car to even look at the map).
Also, currently the hotel chain is only offering him 300 euros for having erased his name as the main copyright holder, claiming the copyright ownership themselves (which was not part of the original contract), and given permission to 170 architecture and travel publications (including the New York Times, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times) to have reprinted his photographs without attribution.
So is this worth 3 million euros? Probably not. But it certainly isn't worth 300 euros either.
Both parties behaving like assholes is standard negotiation practice. It doesn't mean that either party will get what they ask for. It just means that negotiation has just begun.
If you have an issue you should be able to contact your local congressperson and if legitimate, have them represent your views at a higher level.
Since mainstream broadcasters play such a critical role in which candidate gets airtime and which candidate doesn't, I believe Members of Congress are beholden to their interests.
I don't think the complaints about pirate radio stations are legitimate, but then I pick the battles I can win.
This is precisely how democracy is supposed to work and you are complaining about it?
I vote. I write letters. And I also complain.
That being said, not every issue I care about has critical mass enough to have forward momentum.
Who are these lucky constituents that won't have to worry about false advertising anymore?
You have to admire those Members of Congress, they go after the most hard-to-find targets first. It doesn't matter if those "pirate" radio stations only reach 0.0005% of their own constituency or operate just a couple of hours a month with little or no advertising of any kind. You have to admire the kind of motivation those Members of Congress have at wanting to stamp out those tiny little cockroaches.
If I were the shopping channel network, or ABC, or an internet advertising agency, I would be shaking in my boots right now. After all, if those Members of Congress spend so much of their time and energy going after those little guys, it's only a matter of time before they start noticing all the false advertising going on the biggest licensed television and radio networks, with diamond dealers, phone carriers, cable providers, weight loss products, Duracell batteries, and the list goes on...
May be, they did. In the case of VW, my understanding is that they didn't cheat on the measurement itself. They cheated by making modified cars specifically for the test. And of course, none of those modified cars were the same as the ones meant for production. Also, I think this kind of cheating is indeed quite widespread in other industries.
If you buy an energy-rated television, the television has the energy star setting turned off when it is being displayed on the sales floor, and it's definitely brighter and more vibrant when that setting is turned off. Or if you do an internet speed test on your own ISP, your URL just needs to include is the word test in it, and you will get better latency and better speed than if you didn't have that word test in there.
And in the case of Microsoft and Samsung, but I'm sure this is being done by other tech companies as well (so don't think that I am singling them out). It's very common for journalists and tech reviewers to get review devices that are overpowered, and then for the exact same model of device to get silently downgraded in hardware once all the reviews have been written and the press is writing about something else.
People don't use services like GMail or... because of the web UIs. They use them in spite of the web UIs!
There are an unlimited number of native POP/IMAP email clients that you can use for gmail. Which one do you personally use? Or is your argument limited to mobile or touch devices only? If you're talking about checking email on your phone or tablet, then yes, I totally agree with you. Native apps are so much better on mobile devices.
That being said, if your argument is about using gmail on desktops or laptops, I have to wonder why you're not using a native client on those. Or are you?
From the screenshot of this I saw earlier today they want to charge you $4 to rent Kill Bill 2 for 48 hours and you'll have to watch it on a computer...
Kill Bill 2 is a bad example. Lionsgate didn't make that movie, nor does it have the right to distribute it. Miramax does.
Slashdot Mirror
There are no pedestrians in Santa Clara or Mountain View. I'm serious.
Clearly, you were not stuck in traffic yesterday during the two conventions and the game.
How about they implement blocking autorun of all videos by default unless you whitelist a site.
I agree. Google automatically white-listing certain sites based on an arbitrary size of those sites seems highly illegal and like a conflict of interests.
I say illegal, because the Chrome browser has recently reached the threshold of the biggest marketshare of all browsers on the desktop (to say nothing of their marketshare of the Chrome browser on mobile devices like Android phones and tablets).
After all, if manual white listing is good enough for the other smaller video sites, why isn't it good enough for YouTube? And yes, I realize that Youtube supports HTML5, but I assume there is a reason they still want Youtube to work with Flash on Chrome (otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered with whitelisting their own site).
If they really want to test their self-driving cars, they should hire unemployed "software engineers" to lay down in the road in front of a fleet of self-driving cars. That's the test that matters.
That test has already been passed.
Hundreds of little 2-seater Google self-driving cars can already be seen driving everywhere in Santa Clara and Mountain View.
Those cars look like little Disney rides with hats.
And so far, they haven't run over any of the pedestrian software engineers crossing the streets, nor any of the numerous children who run in front of them for hugs because they think they're Disney characters.
Whoooosh!!!
So did that thing just accidentally pass the Turing test?
Pretty much.
Here is an actual transcript of the winning entry.
Student: Where is the homework? I couldn't find it.
TA: That answer is in the Syllabus. Did you not read it?
Student: Ah ok, I found it. I couldn't find the homework in time yesterday. Can I turn in my homework late?
TA: That answer is in the Syllabus. Did you not read it?
Student: I did read it, but I was wondering if you could make an exception.
TA: That answer is in the Syllabus. Did you not read it?
Student: Ok, ok. Thanks anyway.
TA: You're welcome.
I've read on the website that the battery cannot be replaced or recharged and that the life expectation is around 1000 button presses.
It's fine if you only push the button once a week to order something regularly (lasts a bit over 19 years) but for IoT usage it's not going to last nearly long enough for anything useful.
The solution is easy. You get yourself a meta button, basically a second button to order new buttons.
And voila, you have yourself a self-sustaining recursive solution.
What? Sleeper hit?
It does sound like a term the NSA/CIA would use. It would be like an always-on surveillance device, but it would be an all-in-one solution that could also take out an entire living room and all its occupants should someone ever try to fast-forward through an FBI copyright warning on a movie.
I'm sure Google will sue the programmer of the other software.... even though he had it first.
Please calm down and put that pitchfork away.
Chirp is a cutesy name that is only used internally. Besides, I doubt very much that even Google would officially market that device under a name that reminds people of a smoke detector running low on battery.
It is also handy to turn off the lamp by telling it to turn on.
Is this a typo? Or did you mean to write this?
Except for the novelty, how is this better than a clapper? or a motion sensor attached to a light?
I don't think you are.
But the guy who submitted this fake news report seems to refer to himself as a "Slashdot editor".
So this would explain why the initial upvotes on my post later got reversed.
Our son *never* sees commercials.
Unless you homeschool your son and your son doesn't have any friend or classmate, this protection won't last long.
Commercials and the influence they wield will get to him eventually.
Also, Netflix runs ads for its own content before shows and after shows.
Of course, the CEO of Netflix states categorically that these previews Netflix forces you to watch (before being able to watch your own shows, or during the rolling of the credits) are not ads, but I don't think the idiot realizes that this kind of rhetoric doesn't help.
As a customer, I can withstand ads of internal content, after all, they're not that bad, but having an asshole lie straight to my face over and over again and insult my intelligence every time he tries to deny the obvious really infuriates me to no end.
Yes, it is. Thanks for stating the obvious.
But you're missing my point, in this case the original person who created this hoax was using "Unanimous" as the name of an organization.
That's the amazing thing...
They placed ONE BET and it was done in response to a challenge by a reporter at TECH REPUBLIC, who published their pick in advance - ONE PICK.
This is the article that Tech Republic published 2 days before the race:
http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...
No, what's really amazing is that this is your first post as a Slashdot user and that all your posts are only discussing this particular topic. Another AMAZING thing is that you're calling a blogger on Tech Republic an actual reporter. Yeah, that's a good one.
Now never mind that you can edit your blog on Tech Republic anytime you want without changing the publishing date, or that this Yahoo quote is completely made up:
According to Yahoo, "Unanimous spent the last two years building a swarm intelligence platform called UNU that enables groups to get together as online swarms -- combing their thoughts, opinions, and intuitions in real-time to answer questions, make predictions, reach decisions, and even play games as a unified collective intelligence."
Who is this "Unanimous" anyway? Is that a play on words with "Anonymous"? Seriously?
And who is this particular "Yahoo" anyway, a blogger friend of yours on Yahoo? Your friend obviously forgot to publish his blog on Yahoo because it's not indexed anywhere. Also, thank you very much for confounding the terms "swarm intelligence" or "AI" with "wisdom of crowds".
That's what the world needs right now, more misinformation layered unto more misinformation. Congratulations on your click-baiting skills.
Why is there such a price difference? And why has not a cunny capitalist set up a book (re)selling shop — ordering on Amazon for $15 and selling locally for $16?
Ok, maybe $1 is too optimistic, but $27 seems too much for a free country. And if it is not free, then they have a much bigger problem, than book-prices...
Yes, $1 would be overly optimistic.
In the US alone, Amazon usually charges $3.99 for shipping a $15 book.
I don't know what shipping costs from the US to Uganda, or from Europe to Uganda, but I assume it has to cost more than $4 (unless you ship by boat through third or fourth class mail, which may take several months). Also since most peoples homes in Uganda are on streets with no name and have no number on their house, I assume that will add to the cost if they have to go through these private intermediaries with pick up locations with lockers
Duty Rates
Uganda applies duties and tariffs of the East African Community (EAC) Common External Tariff. Customs duty is levied at rates between 0% and 100%, with an average rate of 25%.
Sales Tax
Imports into Uganda are subject to a standard VAT rate of 18%, levied on the sum of the CIF value, duty, and other applicable taxes.
Minimum thresholds
There is no minimum threshold for imports into Uganda; therefore duty and taxes are payable regardless of the value.
http://www.dutycalculator.com/...
So with a duty of 25% and VAT of 18%, that makes a surcharge of 43%. Add to that the cost of insurance for the total value + total taxes. Let's say another $4 for that insurance (but it could be worse if the postal service in Uganda has a bad reputation).
Which brings me to my next point. By this point, the customer in Uganda has contacted you several times and told you not to use insurance and told you to declare the book as a gift having $0 value, which really puts you in a difficult bind. The customer assures you that the package won't be stopped by customs if nothing of value is declared, and that everybody does the same thing and that it's perfectly fine. But the fact is, there is always a chance that the package will be stopped and confiscated by customs for having lied on the customs.
Now I don't know what that rate is in Uganda. I have never shipped anything to Uganda, but I can tell you that the rate in France 10 years ago was around of 7%. So ten years ago, when my customers residing in France would beg me to send them an item from the US without declaring its value to avoid the 20-40% customs surcharge that came for some of the items I was shipping, the package would get intercepted and confiscated by customs roughly 7% of the time.
And of course, the customer in France would get really upset when that happened and would rate me poorly if I didn't eat the cost and try again. And of course, the customer would rate me negatively as well if I did declare the full value and insured things properly without paying the customs and tax, because in the end the customer would get hit with a large customs and tax fee upon delivery.
I would think Cloakroom was the one thing being targeted, because the House or Representatives doesn't want anonymous leaks.
The article is a bit misleading.
In 2007, Apple didn't even own the trademark "iPhone". Cisco even filed for an injunction against Apple right after the iPhone launched in 2007.
At least, the Chinese company registered the trademark before it used the name, which is a lot more than can be said of Apple. Should the Chinese company be penalized because Apple chose to completely ignore trademark law when it suited them. I sure hope not.
Don't buy products made in China. It's the single most effective means to give them the middle finger.
Don't buy iPhones.
Is that the lesson you got from this story?
1) My paper has never experienced a fault while on the move.
Lucky you, my paper maps have suffered chocolate stains, insect damage (possibly related to the chocolate stains), a serious lack of updates, and darkness during the night because my driver refuses turn on the light inside the car while driving (or to stop the car to even look at the map).
Also, currently the hotel chain is only offering him 300 euros for having erased his name as the main copyright holder, claiming the copyright ownership themselves (which was not part of the original contract), and given permission to 170 architecture and travel publications (including the New York Times, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times) to have reprinted his photographs without attribution.
So is this worth 3 million euros? Probably not. But it certainly isn't worth 300 euros either.
Both parties behaving like assholes is standard negotiation practice. It doesn't mean that either party will get what they ask for. It just means that negotiation has just begun.
How do you expect this to work?
If you have an issue you should be able to contact your local congressperson and if legitimate, have them represent your views at a higher level.
Since mainstream broadcasters play such a critical role in which candidate gets airtime and which candidate doesn't, I believe Members of Congress are beholden to their interests.
I don't think the complaints about pirate radio stations are legitimate, but then I pick the battles I can win.
This is precisely how democracy is supposed to work and you are complaining about it?
I vote. I write letters. And I also complain.
That being said, not every issue I care about has critical mass enough to have forward momentum.
Who are these lucky constituents that won't have to worry about false advertising anymore?
You have to admire those Members of Congress, they go after the most hard-to-find targets first. It doesn't matter if those "pirate" radio stations only reach 0.0005% of their own constituency or operate just a couple of hours a month with little or no advertising of any kind. You have to admire the kind of motivation those Members of Congress have at wanting to stamp out those tiny little cockroaches.
If I were the shopping channel network, or ABC, or an internet advertising agency, I would be shaking in my boots right now. After all, if those Members of Congress spend so much of their time and energy going after those little guys, it's only a matter of time before they start noticing all the false advertising going on the biggest licensed television and radio networks, with diamond dealers, phone carriers, cable providers, weight loss products, Duracell batteries, and the list goes on...
May be, they did. In the case of VW, my understanding is that they didn't cheat on the measurement itself. They cheated by making modified cars specifically for the test. And of course, none of those modified cars were the same as the ones meant for production. Also, I think this kind of cheating is indeed quite widespread in other industries.
If you buy an energy-rated television, the television has the energy star setting turned off when it is being displayed on the sales floor, and it's definitely brighter and more vibrant when that setting is turned off. Or if you do an internet speed test on your own ISP, your URL just needs to include is the word test in it, and you will get better latency and better speed than if you didn't have that word test in there.
And in the case of Microsoft and Samsung, but I'm sure this is being done by other tech companies as well (so don't think that I am singling them out). It's very common for journalists and tech reviewers to get review devices that are overpowered, and then for the exact same model of device to get silently downgraded in hardware once all the reviews have been written and the press is writing about something else.
People don't use services like GMail or... because of the web UIs. They use them in spite of the web UIs!
There are an unlimited number of native POP/IMAP email clients that you can use for gmail. Which one do you personally use? Or is your argument limited to mobile or touch devices only? If you're talking about checking email on your phone or tablet, then yes, I totally agree with you. Native apps are so much better on mobile devices.
That being said, if your argument is about using gmail on desktops or laptops, I have to wonder why you're not using a native client on those. Or are you?
From the screenshot of this I saw earlier today they want to charge you $4 to rent Kill Bill 2 for 48 hours and you'll have to watch it on a computer...
Kill Bill 2 is a bad example. Lionsgate didn't make that movie, nor does it have the right to distribute it. Miramax does.
A better example would be Compadres - Sort of Armed. Kind of Dangerous