"A [contract form] provision shall not be considered void under this bill to the extent that it prohibits disclosure or submission of, or reserves the right of a person or business that hosts online consumer reviews or comments to remove, certain: [...] (3) law enforcement records;
Since everything on the internet is now a de-facto "law enforcement record", it follows that a contract provision is not void if it prohibits any disclosures on the internet. Right?:D
to get the same amount of sugar while consuming even more fat than before the change since that wasn't reduced. Therefore the total calories consumed will increase despite eating the same amount of sugar. Most importantly, though, Nestle will have higher sales volume.
The publics ability to neglect the reactions in active systems never ceases to amaze, but the corporate world's ability to take advantage of it is even more astonishing.
And the sad thing is, I don't doubt it. Every time I post something on the internet today that speaks or even just jokes against the continuance of this fear-based drive to give more power to the establishment, I hesitate to press "submit". I have canceled more things than I've submitted for that exact reason.
Rest easy, it is not an order to hack systems, only an allowance to do so when absolutely necessary. Under Trump's watch, capabilities like this will only be used with "people that have to be tracked". These are neither the laws you should be afraid of or the droids you're looking for.
Wow. Just spotted this response, and can't help but replying.
All hand labor, no. That hand labor is critical to the product's profitability, yes. Could we produce the exact same product at that volume in this country without a heavy cost increase, no. We would change the product and produce it with virtually no employees. It would employ a lot of construction folks up front and a smattering of maintenance folks during its operation.
First of all, 200 million widgets, even as complex as smartphones, can be built by a few thousand people today, easily. Foxconn is the tenth largest employer in the world because they use people as robots.
They now work diligently to keep the extent of that secret, but it was clearly reported as recently as 2012. I can't find the detailed engineering analysis I read a couple of years ago showing why the iPhone design required hand assembly whereas others could be assembled entirely without human hands. Too bad, it was much more technical than the following two links on the work conditions required to produce iPhones at such a high profit level - though you might notice the following statement in the first.
"Both the iPhone and the iPad are assembled almost entirely by hand. Three hundred and twenty-five pairs of hands per device, to be precise, over a period of five days."
So, the implication here is that these are serious side effects compared to the benefit that the users get. Note that it's easily proven that sugar and salt harm, often fatally, far more people but we tolerate them due to the benefit.
Let's try a little word substitution to make a point.
State level sex legalization efforts across the U.S. have been gaining traction driven by the folk wisdom that sex is both a harmless recreational activity and a useful medical treatment for many ailments. However, some cracks have appeared in that story with indications that sexual activity is associated with the development of mental disorders and the long-term blunting of the brain's reward system of dopamine levels. A new study has found that sexual activity appears to have a widespread effect on blood flow in the brain. EurekAlert reports: "Published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, researchers using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a sophisticated imaging study that evaluates blood flow and activity patterns, demonstrated abnormally low blood flow in virtually every area of the brain studies in nearly 1,000 sexually active adolescent males compared to healthy controls, including areas known to be affected by Alzheimer's pathology such as the hippocampus. According to Daniel Amen, M.D., 'Our research demonstrates that sexual activity can have significant negative effects on brain function. The media has given the general impression that sex is a normal and safe recreational activity, this research directly challenges that notion. In another new study just released, researchers showed that extensive sexual activity tripled the risk of psychosis. Caution is clearly in order.'"
Purchasing Power Parity. Basically, being able to afford a nearly equivalent lifestyle if it is available in the area and a fair translation of our equivalent worker's lifestyle if not.
No because E85 is about 35% cheaper than gasoline.
Only due to the subsidies. Ethanol costs more to produce per unit of energy delivered to the axle than gasoline. This is why we have the subsidies.
If we allow the free market to work and take away all subsidies - including the subsidies and incentives and allowances for not fully cleaning up their messes that we give to the petroleum industry - the electric solution is going to start winning very soon purely on the basis of costs.
Ethanol will be a no-go in the long run. It is simply too inefficient to convert sunlight-per-square-unit-of-land to power-at-the-axle via the grow corn / produce ethanol / combust in engine path. The losses during the various conversions are too great.
just bat$h!t crazy. I'm serious. These guys are on another plane of reality. I can't even call it psycho because it psycho is never funny. Kooky. The house is empty. Batty. Loony. Bonkers. Loopy. Mad as a hatter.
Exactly. Every service on its own net. But for the sake of cost, I'm simply saying it is just as good to virtually segment it using a VPN and closing every other port.
A really smart attacker gets in, installs a piece of code that automatically activates if it senses that it has become active after a restoration, and waits a couple of months before they do anything overt so that they are sure they've infected the backups.
So, for a backup to really help, it has to carefully separate code and data so that you can wipe the system, install fresh code (not from a backup), and restore data only. Also, in this case, you don't want to lose even an hours worth of data, so the data needs to be a near live off-site backup. Few backups are this good and even fewer have actually tested the restoration process.
These attacks need to be stopped before they happen, not recovered from.
This isn't about what OS you're using. All OSes are vulnerable given enough access. That's the key,,, access. Don't just lock the doors, eliminate them.
It isn't reasonable to have all of these devices fully air-gapped from the public internet infrastructure, but it is very reasonable to have the entire system on its own VPN with NO other ports open. That combined with heavily limited access to the main servers that the devices connect to and NO installation of user tools like email clients on the servers stops these kinds of attacks in their tracks. And those measures can even be taken with Windoze.
A more humane approach to foreign trade issues across the board (both labor trade and trade of goods) would be to require equality of labor pay. In the past, we didn't have the big data skills to make this practical. I think we now do.
Basically, if you offshore labor, import labor, or import goods, simply require that the workers involved in providing the labor or creating the goods (at all levels of the vertical chain required to create the goods, i.e. all the way down to the raw material mining) get at least 95% of the going pay rate for Americans performing the same tasks.
This is not at all like a tariff which never helps to cure the underlying problems.
In one fell swoop, this would restore the competitiveness of our workers for our own jobs and tell the people (not the governments) of the other countries that they have equal value to all other people. Awesome.
The "common cold" is really just a set of symptoms that might be related to any of over 200 viruses. The vaccine mentioned in the article is for one of those, RSV.
I can't find precise numbers, but according to this article, RSV causes less than 20% of colds. Interestingly, the number in this article has apparently recently been adjusted upwards from 10% as that number is still appearing in google caches.
So, this vaccine will not help for >80% of the cases of common cold. On the plus side, RSV is really bad in babies. So it still has value.
Teslas are 13x less likely to be stolen than an average car according to Teslas are hard to steal.
The reasons are multifold. Starting the car and driving it off is the easy part. The few Teslas stolen to date have been largely due to what might be considered extreme negligence on the owners part - like leaving the doors open and the fob inside.
But is that negligence? The car is totally connected and obscenely trackable. Getting away with stealing a Tesla would mean disconnecting it forever and thus losing a lot of its value. For example, you could never get a free recharge. I wonder how many of those few cars stolen have been recovered. I'd bet the number is high.
So, you steal it for parts? Wrong! There is virtually no used parts market. Tesla owners tend to buy their parts new.
It seems that the best you could hope for is likely a very quick joyride.
My question is "why this article now"? It is very sensationalist. I'm not questioning the efforts of those who found and reported the attack route. But why widely disseminate it to the general public without noting that Teslas are amongst the least likely to be stolen cars in the world. Is this an attack piece?
Won't matter. Last I saw, it was requiring a few hundred thousand with small hands, excellent fine motor skills, and the ability to do meticulous work for long hours. That isn't an American resource.
Either Apple will have to compromise their design to make it robot friendly, or we'll have to import the workers.
Tax cuts ARE costs. So you're saying that the majority of Americans who care nothing about iPhones with their 15% market share should be supplementing the Apple fandom?
So, now I'm driving and am distracted by the need to look down and click OK to tell the phone that I'm not? Sounds even more dangerous to me.
People use the phone while driving because they want to. There is no lack of consideration going on. They have decided that they are better than all of those who have the accidents and can take the chance. Making it harder for them just increases the distraction.
Only one thing will fix distracted driving - especially now that we know there are similar issues involved in nothing more than talking to a fellow passenger while driving. AUTONOMOUS CARS! The number of young people really wanting to drive has been plummeting for a reason - they now have something they want to do more than driving.
Actually, their market share has been running in the 15% range, not 40 (http://bgr.com/2016/05/23/smartphone-market-share-q1-2016/).
This implies that they are making on the order of six times as much profit on each phone. This isn't a cost efficiency due to size issue. Their hardware is simply cheaper to make.
So, yeh, people are paying a whole lot for pure vanity.
Google's results are not the same for every searcher in every locale. They are dependent on what you've searched for in the past, where you're at, what is in the news at the moment, etc.
In other words, they are quite intentionally biased to meet the likely desires of the user. This article has no basis in science, though it cloaks itself in that fashion to those who know nothing about science, and is far more biased than Google's search results.
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The article is not talking about that lock. It is talking about the lock that is placed on your device when you mark it as lost.
Near the end it states:
"A [contract form] provision shall not be considered void under this bill to the extent that it prohibits disclosure or submission of, or reserves the right of a person or business that hosts online consumer reviews or comments to remove, certain: [...] (3) law enforcement records;
Since everything on the internet is now a de-facto "law enforcement record", it follows that a contract provision is not void if it prohibits any disclosures on the internet. Right? :D
In Russia, a planned publicity stump costs exactly 2 Billion rubles because that is almost certainly exactly what this was.
to get the same amount of sugar while consuming even more fat than before the change since that wasn't reduced. Therefore the total calories consumed will increase despite eating the same amount of sugar. Most importantly, though, Nestle will have higher sales volume.
The publics ability to neglect the reactions in active systems never ceases to amaze, but the corporate world's ability to take advantage of it is even more astonishing.
And the sad thing is, I don't doubt it. Every time I post something on the internet today that speaks or even just jokes against the continuance of this fear-based drive to give more power to the establishment, I hesitate to press "submit". I have canceled more things than I've submitted for that exact reason.
Rest easy, it is not an order to hack systems, only an allowance to do so when absolutely necessary. Under Trump's watch, capabilities like this will only be used with "people that have to be tracked". These are neither the laws you should be afraid of or the droids you're looking for.
I'd give you a +1 "funny", but, in the current environment, there are a large number of readers who are likely saying "exactly!"
And that is how history repeats itself.
Wow. Just spotted this response, and can't help but replying.
All hand labor, no. That hand labor is critical to the product's profitability, yes. Could we produce the exact same product at that volume in this country without a heavy cost increase, no. We would change the product and produce it with virtually no employees. It would employ a lot of construction folks up front and a smattering of maintenance folks during its operation.
First of all, 200 million widgets, even as complex as smartphones, can be built by a few thousand people today, easily. Foxconn is the tenth largest employer in the world because they use people as robots.
They now work diligently to keep the extent of that secret, but it was clearly reported as recently as 2012. I can't find the detailed engineering analysis I read a couple of years ago showing why the iPhone design required hand assembly whereas others could be assembled entirely without human hands. Too bad, it was much more technical than the following two links on the work conditions required to produce iPhones at such a high profit level - though you might notice the following statement in the first.
"Both the iPhone and the iPad are assembled almost entirely by hand. Three hundred and twenty-five pairs of hands per device, to be precise, over a period of five days."
So, the implication here is that these are serious side effects compared to the benefit that the users get. Note that it's easily proven that sugar and salt harm, often fatally, far more people but we tolerate them due to the benefit.
Let's try a little word substitution to make a point.
State level sex legalization efforts across the U.S. have been gaining traction driven by the folk wisdom that sex is both a harmless recreational activity and a useful medical treatment for many ailments. However, some cracks have appeared in that story with indications that sexual activity is associated with the development of mental disorders and the long-term blunting of the brain's reward system of dopamine levels. A new study has found that sexual activity appears to have a widespread effect on blood flow in the brain. EurekAlert reports: "Published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, researchers using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a sophisticated imaging study that evaluates blood flow and activity patterns, demonstrated abnormally low blood flow in virtually every area of the brain studies in nearly 1,000 sexually active adolescent males compared to healthy controls, including areas known to be affected by Alzheimer's pathology such as the hippocampus. According to Daniel Amen, M.D., 'Our research demonstrates that sexual activity can have significant negative effects on brain function. The media has given the general impression that sex is a normal and safe recreational activity, this research directly challenges that notion. In another new study just released, researchers showed that extensive sexual activity tripled the risk of psychosis. Caution is clearly in order.'"
Very true. Ethanol is not an improvement though. The shifting of so much land to non-food or forest application is of serious concern.
Purchasing Power Parity. Basically, being able to afford a nearly equivalent lifestyle if it is available in the area and a fair translation of our equivalent worker's lifestyle if not.
No because E85 is about 35% cheaper than gasoline.
Only due to the subsidies. Ethanol costs more to produce per unit of energy delivered to the axle than gasoline. This is why we have the subsidies.
If we allow the free market to work and take away all subsidies - including the subsidies and incentives and allowances for not fully cleaning up their messes that we give to the petroleum industry - the electric solution is going to start winning very soon purely on the basis of costs.
Ethanol will be a no-go in the long run. It is simply too inefficient to convert sunlight-per-square-unit-of-land to power-at-the-axle via the grow corn / produce ethanol / combust in engine path. The losses during the various conversions are too great.
just bat$h!t crazy. I'm serious. These guys are on another plane of reality. I can't even call it psycho because it psycho is never funny. Kooky. The house is empty. Batty. Loony. Bonkers. Loopy. Mad as a hatter.
Could you rent the net and sneak in code to wipe the machines?
Exactly. Every service on its own net. But for the sake of cost, I'm simply saying it is just as good to virtually segment it using a VPN and closing every other port.
A really smart attacker gets in, installs a piece of code that automatically activates if it senses that it has become active after a restoration, and waits a couple of months before they do anything overt so that they are sure they've infected the backups.
So, for a backup to really help, it has to carefully separate code and data so that you can wipe the system, install fresh code (not from a backup), and restore data only. Also, in this case, you don't want to lose even an hours worth of data, so the data needs to be a near live off-site backup. Few backups are this good and even fewer have actually tested the restoration process.
These attacks need to be stopped before they happen, not recovered from.
This isn't about what OS you're using. All OSes are vulnerable given enough access. That's the key,,, access. Don't just lock the doors, eliminate them.
It isn't reasonable to have all of these devices fully air-gapped from the public internet infrastructure, but it is very reasonable to have the entire system on its own VPN with NO other ports open. That combined with heavily limited access to the main servers that the devices connect to and NO installation of user tools like email clients on the servers stops these kinds of attacks in their tracks. And those measures can even be taken with Windoze.
A more humane approach to foreign trade issues across the board (both labor trade and trade of goods) would be to require equality of labor pay. In the past, we didn't have the big data skills to make this practical. I think we now do.
Basically, if you offshore labor, import labor, or import goods, simply require that the workers involved in providing the labor or creating the goods (at all levels of the vertical chain required to create the goods, i.e. all the way down to the raw material mining) get at least 95% of the going pay rate for Americans performing the same tasks.
This is not at all like a tariff which never helps to cure the underlying problems.
In one fell swoop, this would restore the competitiveness of our workers for our own jobs and tell the people (not the governments) of the other countries that they have equal value to all other people. Awesome.
The "common cold" is really just a set of symptoms that might be related to any of over 200 viruses. The vaccine mentioned in the article is for one of those, RSV.
I can't find precise numbers, but according to this article, RSV causes less than 20% of colds. Interestingly, the number in this article has apparently recently been adjusted upwards from 10% as that number is still appearing in google caches.
So, this vaccine will not help for >80% of the cases of common cold. On the plus side, RSV is really bad in babies. So it still has value.
Teslas are 13x less likely to be stolen than an average car according to Teslas are hard to steal.
The reasons are multifold. Starting the car and driving it off is the easy part. The few Teslas stolen to date have been largely due to what might be considered extreme negligence on the owners part - like leaving the doors open and the fob inside.
But is that negligence? The car is totally connected and obscenely trackable. Getting away with stealing a Tesla would mean disconnecting it forever and thus losing a lot of its value. For example, you could never get a free recharge. I wonder how many of those few cars stolen have been recovered. I'd bet the number is high.
So, you steal it for parts? Wrong! There is virtually no used parts market. Tesla owners tend to buy their parts new.
It seems that the best you could hope for is likely a very quick joyride.
My question is "why this article now"? It is very sensationalist. I'm not questioning the efforts of those who found and reported the attack route. But why widely disseminate it to the general public without noting that Teslas are amongst the least likely to be stolen cars in the world. Is this an attack piece?
Won't matter. Last I saw, it was requiring a few hundred thousand with small hands, excellent fine motor skills, and the ability to do meticulous work for long hours. That isn't an American resource.
Either Apple will have to compromise their design to make it robot friendly, or we'll have to import the workers.
Tax cuts ARE costs. So you're saying that the majority of Americans who care nothing about iPhones with their 15% market share should be supplementing the Apple fandom?
So, now I'm driving and am distracted by the need to look down and click OK to tell the phone that I'm not? Sounds even more dangerous to me.
People use the phone while driving because they want to. There is no lack of consideration going on. They have decided that they are better than all of those who have the accidents and can take the chance. Making it harder for them just increases the distraction.
Only one thing will fix distracted driving - especially now that we know there are similar issues involved in nothing more than talking to a fellow passenger while driving. AUTONOMOUS CARS! The number of young people really wanting to drive has been plummeting for a reason - they now have something they want to do more than driving.
Actually, their market share has been running in the 15% range, not 40 (http://bgr.com/2016/05/23/smartphone-market-share-q1-2016/).
This implies that they are making on the order of six times as much profit on each phone. This isn't a cost efficiency due to size issue. Their hardware is simply cheaper to make.
So, yeh, people are paying a whole lot for pure vanity.
Google's results are not the same for every searcher in every locale. They are dependent on what you've searched for in the past, where you're at, what is in the news at the moment, etc.
In other words, they are quite intentionally biased to meet the likely desires of the user. This article has no basis in science, though it cloaks itself in that fashion to those who know nothing about science, and is far more biased than Google's search results.