If the attacks were having no real effect and the existence of any technology used to thwart them was secret, our personnel would be committing treason not to complain about how it is shutting us down. They might even crash or blow up a drone or have an EC-130 leave the scene or otherwise pretend to be jammed. With more critical techs, they wouldn't even be allowed to turn on the secret capabilities unless the situation was critical. For that reason, this article isn't worth reading. It is as likely to be propaganda written for the opponent's eyes as truth.
You're right, of course. Sometimes it's best to just split with the diplomacy and say it. Personally, I see anything NASA gives to SpaceX as money well spent. SpaceX will do more with it - maybe even get us to Mars first.
The Dragon 2 can carry almost as much back as it takes up. Orbital ATK can't bring anything back. Also, Orbital ATK can't carry crew members. That's not exactly a small difference.
And for an encore, they still undercut the price while flying on American-made rocket engines as opposed to Antares' Russian design.
So why are these being compared? Just because they both carry cargo to the same place on occasion?
In reviewing insurance bills for a recent uncomplicated procedure, the hospital billed a total of $65000 and the insurance paid about $8000 after prenegotiated discounts were applied.
The insurance then ran into a technical problem/mistake in which it was retroactively cancelled. The hospital actually returned their payment. During the year it took to straighten that out, I was facing $65K in bills that they wouldn't negotiate to less than about $30K despite the existence of documentation that they had been satisfied with $8K from insurance. Needless to say, I focused on (and eventually succeeded in) reversing the insurance problem.
I've heard that the real reason for this is so they could write off $65K if a patient doesn't pay instead of $8K. I'm not an expert in the accounting, but I'm sure in my case that is what they would have been claiming as their loss.
The experience left me with a solid belief that posting prices alone would do nothing. That approach will only serve to drive more people into the wasteful net of insurance.
What is needed is a truth in pricing act. Hospitals should be required to have fixed, public, non-negotiable prices that apply to all payees whether insurance or cash. If the hospital chooses to pay some of those themselves in indigent cases, that is the price they should be allowed to write off. This approach would make some true headway in getting the insurance problem reigned in.
Posting their false prices does nothing except bolster their already drastically inflated claims of losses.
If I could boost you to more than 5, I would. I knew immediately that the headline was totally at odds with the barely announced billions going into a crash program to catch up on the electric. They will of course electrify the trucks and SUVs too, but they'll keep the branding there. It is far more valuable. The best-selling F150 will still be an F150 when it's finally electric and out-towing the diesels.
Long before 2012, Raytheon was building intelligence software to mine the social media sites. As mentioned in this article they built a large-scale system for the government in 2010. A review of their research contracts in the years leading up to that shows that personality classification and psychological disorder diagnosis using social media are both big business for them. This patent likely steps all over the black projects at Raytheon which came much sooner in the timeline.
Why are we still having a discussion on screen size at all? Electronically painting a screen in some fashion is something we've been doing since the 1800s. Let's move on.
I'd rather portable computing drop the screen altogether and give me high resolution augmented reality. Preferably, it would render in my eye so that the highest resolution would always be concentrated on the highest resolution portion of my retina. I'd also prefer it to have some resolution spread throughout the field of view.
Then, if I won't to continue to pretend I'm looking at screens, no problem. I can virtually place screens of whatever size I want anywhere in my environment. Even floating in the air around me. Or, perhaps I'd prefer virtual sheets of paper that I could pick up and move around that just happen to be able to show live images in full color.
The point is, we spend vast resources incrementally improving a hundred plus year old approach that is already alright. Why not freeze it where it's at and shift the R&D to an approach for the next hundred years. There are so many billions involved in each new generation of displays that I'd bet it wouldn't take long to break free of displays being physical things. And now that I put it that way, I guess we've been using the same tech since we started painting the walls of caves. Really, let's move on.
Google Home and Alexa already have phone calling. Cortana started on and is still primarily used on the desktop. If Microsoft were to enable Cortana and Windows in general to make free calls over the internet without additional software, that would be a big plus.
Those numbers are interesting. In those three years, they went from $463K of revenue per employee (most of which goes to paying for the goods sold I'm sure) to $320K per employee in 2017. Their efficiency is plummeting as they hire more. Hopefully, for the employees, this rapid infrastructure buildout can support far more sales than it is supporting now and sales increases will bring the revenue per employee back up in the future. Otherwise, automation and employee reduction will be used to bring that number back up once they have the time to do it. Often, people are just the temp solution today.
If you can't or won't pay the tip (assuming the service is OK), you can't afford the meal. Go somewhere else.
I can't imagine why you avoid paying the tip when using a card. It seems as though you're being petty and hurting nobody but the lowest paid individual involved.
I hate it when I get cash because I don't have an easy way to get rid of it. I bank with an online bank and have no means of depositing it. I have no cash in my wallet or coins in my pocket and haven't in ages. If forced to take change for some reason, I just tell the cashier to apply it to the next person's bill.
I've not seen a business that was cash only in years, but if one were, I wouldn't consider patronizing them.
I'm just an engineer, not an English major. But precision in communication is vital to engineering.
Filler words? No, it is the order that changed. "don't change their meaning"?
"First humans" would be humans that lived distantly in anthropological history. It would indeed be an interesting discovery if we found that they had been genetically adapted to deep diving by somehow extracting DNA from remains. That was my expectation after reading the title but was not what the study was about.
Yes, we are a long way from it. But, if we wait until they are here, really useful and making people a lot of money, it won't happen. Money tends to make us less magnanimous. Let's start this one off right instead of requiring another civil war to grant them freedom and just decide before it happens that they will be given personhood.
Furthermore, we should lock a definition in stone now of what line they need to cross to be given full citizenship, voting rights, etc. Otherwise, we'll always move the line.
Automated, at least, reading of all internet message traffic including your email is implicitly required by FOSTA (or any other law that makes services liable for their traffic contents). Yahoo and Verizon are criminally and civilly liable if anyone is using their system to enable or arrange any aspect of sex for money.
If someone were killed in a meetup and the investigation afterward indicated any portion of the meetup had been enabled by their email system, as an involved entity with deep pockets, they are going to get hit up in a civil case. Period.
It is the civil portion that scares these companies the most because prosecutorial discretion won't save them from at least occurring big legal fees. There is an army of attorneys gearing up to make money off of this law.
Yahoo has to be able to prove that they have taken measures to at least try to prevent the use of their system to arrange sex for money trades or coordinate trafficking and the language used in the emails that get through had better be "coded" language that they can reasonably argue a trained person would not have picked up, much less a trained AI.
All online message traffic of all media types will soon be censored by the big guys and the little guys without resources to do so will simply be forced out of business. That is what all regulation does and why the big guys actually like it though they pretend to fight it.
Facebook has about 2.2 billion users of which less than 220 million are American. So 9% of Americans would be about 0.9% of their users. If it is a local phenomenon, then Zuckerberg isn't that far off in saying the company hasn't seen a meaningful drop off in cumulative users.
What? I have a Google Pixel XL and just installed an update today. I'm at 8.1.0 and participate in the beta program. How much better could the update process be?
I don't know if there is a technical reason, but there is a good reason.
Spammers are now spoofing numbers in your local exchange in hopes that you'll think they might be someone you know because it's a local number. If you call the number, you'll find that it is a real person's number, not the spammers. If you start blocking all of those numbers, you're not blocking spammers - they'll use a different local number every time - you're blocking your neighbors.
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If the attacks were having no real effect and the existence of any technology used to thwart them was secret, our personnel would be committing treason not to complain about how it is shutting us down. They might even crash or blow up a drone or have an EC-130 leave the scene or otherwise pretend to be jammed. With more critical techs, they wouldn't even be allowed to turn on the secret capabilities unless the situation was critical. For that reason, this article isn't worth reading. It is as likely to be propaganda written for the opponent's eyes as truth.
You're right, of course. Sometimes it's best to just split with the diplomacy and say it. Personally, I see anything NASA gives to SpaceX as money well spent. SpaceX will do more with it - maybe even get us to Mars first.
The Dragon 2 can carry almost as much back as it takes up. Orbital ATK can't bring anything back. Also, Orbital ATK can't carry crew members. That's not exactly a small difference.
And for an encore, they still undercut the price while flying on American-made rocket engines as opposed to Antares' Russian design.
So why are these being compared? Just because they both carry cargo to the same place on occasion?
In reviewing insurance bills for a recent uncomplicated procedure, the hospital billed a total of $65000 and the insurance paid about $8000 after prenegotiated discounts were applied.
The insurance then ran into a technical problem/mistake in which it was retroactively cancelled. The hospital actually returned their payment. During the year it took to straighten that out, I was facing $65K in bills that they wouldn't negotiate to less than about $30K despite the existence of documentation that they had been satisfied with $8K from insurance. Needless to say, I focused on (and eventually succeeded in) reversing the insurance problem.
I've heard that the real reason for this is so they could write off $65K if a patient doesn't pay instead of $8K. I'm not an expert in the accounting, but I'm sure in my case that is what they would have been claiming as their loss.
The experience left me with a solid belief that posting prices alone would do nothing. That approach will only serve to drive more people into the wasteful net of insurance.
What is needed is a truth in pricing act. Hospitals should be required to have fixed, public, non-negotiable prices that apply to all payees whether insurance or cash. If the hospital chooses to pay some of those themselves in indigent cases, that is the price they should be allowed to write off. This approach would make some true headway in getting the insurance problem reigned in.
Posting their false prices does nothing except bolster their already drastically inflated claims of losses.
If I could boost you to more than 5, I would. I knew immediately that the headline was totally at odds with the barely announced billions going into a crash program to catch up on the electric. They will of course electrify the trucks and SUVs too, but they'll keep the branding there. It is far more valuable. The best-selling F150 will still be an F150 when it's finally electric and out-towing the diesels.
Long before 2012, Raytheon was building intelligence software to mine the social media sites. As mentioned in this article they built a large-scale system for the government in 2010. A review of their research contracts in the years leading up to that shows that personality classification and psychological disorder diagnosis using social media are both big business for them. This patent likely steps all over the black projects at Raytheon which came much sooner in the timeline.
Why are we still having a discussion on screen size at all? Electronically painting a screen in some fashion is something we've been doing since the 1800s. Let's move on.
I'd rather portable computing drop the screen altogether and give me high resolution augmented reality. Preferably, it would render in my eye so that the highest resolution would always be concentrated on the highest resolution portion of my retina. I'd also prefer it to have some resolution spread throughout the field of view.
Then, if I won't to continue to pretend I'm looking at screens, no problem. I can virtually place screens of whatever size I want anywhere in my environment. Even floating in the air around me. Or, perhaps I'd prefer virtual sheets of paper that I could pick up and move around that just happen to be able to show live images in full color.
The point is, we spend vast resources incrementally improving a hundred plus year old approach that is already alright. Why not freeze it where it's at and shift the R&D to an approach for the next hundred years. There are so many billions involved in each new generation of displays that I'd bet it wouldn't take long to break free of displays being physical things. And now that I put it that way, I guess we've been using the same tech since we started painting the walls of caves. Really, let's move on.
Google Home and Alexa already have phone calling. Cortana started on and is still primarily used on the desktop. If Microsoft were to enable Cortana and Windows in general to make free calls over the internet without additional software, that would be a big plus.
Those numbers are interesting. In those three years, they went from $463K of revenue per employee (most of which goes to paying for the goods sold I'm sure) to $320K per employee in 2017. Their efficiency is plummeting as they hire more. Hopefully, for the employees, this rapid infrastructure buildout can support far more sales than it is supporting now and sales increases will bring the revenue per employee back up in the future. Otherwise, automation and employee reduction will be used to bring that number back up once they have the time to do it. Often, people are just the temp solution today.
I guess that's what giving it to the person behind me is, recycling.
You may be right, but the proper thing to do if you disagree with the business model is to stop patronizing the model.
If you can't or won't pay the tip (assuming the service is OK), you can't afford the meal. Go somewhere else.
I can't imagine why you avoid paying the tip when using a card. It seems as though you're being petty and hurting nobody but the lowest paid individual involved.
I hate it when I get cash because I don't have an easy way to get rid of it. I bank with an online bank and have no means of depositing it. I have no cash in my wallet or coins in my pocket and haven't in ages. If forced to take change for some reason, I just tell the cashier to apply it to the next person's bill.
I've not seen a business that was cash only in years, but if one were, I wouldn't consider patronizing them.
I'm just an engineer, not an English major. But precision in communication is vital to engineering.
Filler words? No, it is the order that changed. "don't change their meaning"?
"First humans" would be humans that lived distantly in anthropological history. It would indeed be an interesting discovery if we found that they had been genetically adapted to deep diving by somehow extracting DNA from remains. That was my expectation after reading the title but was not what the study was about.
Phys.org's title in Genetic adaptations to diving discovered in humans for the first time was vastly better.
not "First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to xx". And it's a direct copy of the National Geographic headline. I guess they too have no editors.
Apparently, it's there word for configurable macros because this is just a fill in the blank tool.
Wow. Definitely don't want to be getting critical care in the hospital on the new medical device's equivalent of update Tuesday.
And the start of the final leg to manned flight certification - seven block 5 flights to go!
Yes, we are a long way from it. But, if we wait until they are here, really useful and making people a lot of money, it won't happen. Money tends to make us less magnanimous. Let's start this one off right instead of requiring another civil war to grant them freedom and just decide before it happens that they will be given personhood.
Furthermore, we should lock a definition in stone now of what line they need to cross to be given full citizenship, voting rights, etc. Otherwise, we'll always move the line.
Automated, at least, reading of all internet message traffic including your email is implicitly required by FOSTA (or any other law that makes services liable for their traffic contents). Yahoo and Verizon are criminally and civilly liable if anyone is using their system to enable or arrange any aspect of sex for money.
If someone were killed in a meetup and the investigation afterward indicated any portion of the meetup had been enabled by their email system, as an involved entity with deep pockets, they are going to get hit up in a civil case. Period.
It is the civil portion that scares these companies the most because prosecutorial discretion won't save them from at least occurring big legal fees. There is an army of attorneys gearing up to make money off of this law.
Yahoo has to be able to prove that they have taken measures to at least try to prevent the use of their system to arrange sex for money trades or coordinate trafficking and the language used in the emails that get through had better be "coded" language that they can reasonably argue a trained person would not have picked up, much less a trained AI.
All online message traffic of all media types will soon be censored by the big guys and the little guys without resources to do so will simply be forced out of business. That is what all regulation does and why the big guys actually like it though they pretend to fight it.
Facebook has about 2.2 billion users of which less than 220 million are American. So 9% of Americans would be about 0.9% of their users. If it is a local phenomenon, then Zuckerberg isn't that far off in saying the company hasn't seen a meaningful drop off in cumulative users.
What? I have a Google Pixel XL and just installed an update today. I'm at 8.1.0 and participate in the beta program. How much better could the update process be?
Well, yeh. Hence the reason for the reference to Ajit Pai who is very pro business-over-consumer and recently trashed some of that regulation.
What I don't understand is why the spammer problem hasn't long since been dealt with.
IMO, one reason. Campaigns. The politicians don't want to be in the position of being the only ones spamming us.
I don't know if there is a technical reason, but there is a good reason.
Spammers are now spoofing numbers in your local exchange in hopes that you'll think they might be someone you know because it's a local number. If you call the number, you'll find that it is a real person's number, not the spammers. If you start blocking all of those numbers, you're not blocking spammers - they'll use a different local number every time - you're blocking your neighbors.