"We've corrected the software... it now does not assume that everyone using the roads will obey the relevant traffic laws, if it turns out that at the bottom of the hill is a stop sign, and then there is another hill headed upward, since the stop sign, if obeyed, would cause a loss of momentum and necessitate pedaling".
Better for cyclists to just disobey the traffic laws, and keep that momentum up the hill!!!
And yes, I am looking at you, intersection of Claremont an Ulloa in West Portal in San Francisco.
So in practice, officials in a court or tribunal do have some tools available to deal with intermediaries and do have some latitude in how they apply those tools. The mere existence of an intermediary company can't always be relied upon as a shield.
Which mean that your argument turns into this, in the degenerate case:
(1) Google hires a janitorial services company (2) The services company contracts with janitors for services (3) The service company goes out of business (4) The contractors are now magically Google employees
???
Just because it is not easy to thread the needle doesn't mean everyone is going to be so stupid as to mean everyone will be unable to thread it.
Instead, I have a holding company that owns many contracting companies, each with 10 subcontractors.
One of the subcontractors claims "employee!", and that contracting company goes out of business. I make new contracting companies, as needed: they're cheap.
Meanwhile, the person who claimed "employee!" and nine other people are out of a contracting gig, without any having been "wrongfully terminated for being a whistleblower".
What are nine angry people going to do to that one "employee"? Not my problem...
I create a new contracting company that applies peer pressure and automatically self destructs any time someone claims to be its employee. The company going out of business exempts it from the UK employee termination laws, and there are now 9 contractors to the one "employee" who are incredibly pissed at the one "employee" for costing them their livelihood as contractors.
If UK changes their laws to account for this, you simply restructure the business again and again until they get tired, or the 9-on-1 beat-downs take care of everyone who would claim to be an employee getting involved in doing do in the future.
Then instead, I create another franchised company that's a wholly owned subsidiary. I create one of these franchises for every 10 contractors.
I contract with each of those franchise companies to contract with drivers.
Let's say one of these is "subcontracting company #47".
If any of the drivers in subcontracting company #47 claims to be an employee, then subcontracting company #47 goes out of business. As part of the franchise agreement, all assets are forfeited to the company that grants the franchises, so there are no company assets to try to take away as restitution for the drivers.
No one is fired, and it's legal under UK employment law to terminate them as part of the company going out of business.
Now the "employee" has 9 pissed off contractors who just lost their livelihood over them claiming to be an employee.
It drastically lowers the possibility of faking a transponder to cause accidents and shut down traffic, while at the same time make you require a subscription to the public key distribution network to be able to use your car.
Instead, I will have to take two lantern batteries, and rip the transponder with the valid keys out of your new BMW, in order to cause accidents and shut down traffic.
If it worked, engineers pretty much shouldn't care *how* it worked, or *why* it worked, to be able to make it useful.
The UCF studies were, to me, the most interesting ones. However, there was so much criticism heaped on them, and they were electrochemists, not physicists, and they announced it "the wrong way" (which is how most things are announced these days), and... it was not worth tracking any more.
My favorite joke was base on Utah funding the research for "Pons and Fleishman" and ending up with a bunch of cold cream and margarine...
How often do you have to run more than one wash load in a day?
Most people let laundry build up until they need to run a full load of a given type. They do this because wasting electrons is apparently only slightly less of a sin than wasting water, since we don't really do any useful large scale desalination.
Practically speaking, this is easy to do with 3-4 people in a house, particularly if one or more of them is a child.
In any case, this build up over time is how we get the event called "laundry day", as opposed to doing laundry daily.
Most of the time, one wash per night would serve. The occasional times you need to run more than one wash in a day, just run one during daytime.
I think you are perhaps single and male, with not a lot of clothing so that you can build up a laundry backlog without wasting water instead of electricity, and so instead, you waste both by doing daily laundry, and you put everything in together, without separating it by type, fragility, and temperature/cleaner requirements.
That's cool and all, but realize you aren't very representative of the majority of people who need to do laundry.
Silicon Valley and San Francisco are a bike ride away (as shown in The Internship).
They *are*. I have an idiot friend who makes the commute from SF to Facebook via bicycle daily. Only if it's raining does he load his bike on the rack on the bus, in the hopes that it will stop raining later, and he will be able to use the bike to go the other direction, the next time he needs to move from one to the other.
Of course... he's Australian, and they are all crazy.;^)
Probably the only reason no one's selling these already is because there aren't enough lazy people willing to spend the extra dosh to be marginally lazier than before, and the people who would want one haven't built one themselves because, again, they're lazy.
We aren't talking about "being lazy"; we are talking about having to get up a 3AM in the morning to change out loads in order to optimize energy usage.
At some point, we should just say "screw it", and build another nuclear plant. And then any time it drops below peak utilization, you divert the electricity into active desalination; other wise, you use the waste heat for passive desalination, all the time.
Power problem solve, carbon problem solved, drought problem solved.
I've also wondered if the whole smart device thing could end up being a net bonus -- for example, during the cheap hours, freezers/electric water heaters/dishwashers/etc. could do their thing.
Call me when your washing machine moves the load of colors to be washed in warm water to the dryer by itself, and reloads itself with whites and bleach and switches to hot water afterwards.
Until then, while it's not human intensive while running, washing clothes is pretty human intensive before and after a cycle runs, and in the middle, when the washer->dryer transfer needs to happen.
The "FoldiMate" and "Laundroid" just don't cut it yet (and take power themselves).
But it's an error to project an intern's monthly pay over the entire year. The amount they earn is for a small number of months, and has to last them the remaining 9 or 10 until the next time they can intern.
In Apple's case, the trigger messages are not entirely asynchronous, as with systemd, but they may as well be, since the Mac ports being used most frequently do not have peer information available, and are (effectively) just integers.
This leads to what I call the "on behalf of" problem.
Something starts running. And you want to know *why*. Clearly, it;s running because someone requested one or more of the services it provides -- but there's no way to know who it is running "on behalf of" to provide that service.
Say, however, you figure out that service 'C' is running "on behalf of" service 'M'.
Who is service 'M' running "on behalf of"?
In Mac OS X, it's *almost* possible to get the information as to where every thread in everything is pending a response from something else in its stack. But it's not possible to figure out the entity relationship, because you can't trace the other end of a connection.
So I can perhaps figure out that an application is pinwheeling -- that's the cursor that the display server puts up on a Mac OS X application when it's not responding to "are you alive?" chatter from the display server within it's main app loop. It happens when someone does a blocking operation in the main app loop, instead of packaging up the operation that might block, and giving it to a thread delegate instead: it means someone made a coding error, because they expected an operation to never block...and then it blocked.
So I actually want to see where it's blocked (which I can) and see who it's trying to get work from, that's not responding to the work request -- which I can't, because I can't see "the service on the other end".
Both launchd/Mach ports, and systemd suffer from this problem.
But if I were permitted to ask the question... then I could find the next entity in the chain... and I could ask "what are you waiting on?", and follow the chain down to the actual problem.
Automatically.
The display server puts up the pinwheel, I option-click it (or whatever), and a dialog pops up and says:
MagicDraw is hung waiting for RemoteFilerPro, which is hung waiting for access to "remote_filter_cache_file.ca", which is hung in the kernel on a permissions check, which is hung, waiting on DirectoryServices, which is hung, waiting on mDNSResponder, which is hung waiting on a network response from "VPN.bob.net", which is hung waiting on a response from network interface "Wi-Fi2"...which would be frigging useful. Because then I could say to myself "Oh. The VPN is down because the Wi-Fi is out. Better reset the router again."
Social media companies urge UK government to issue national ID cards to everyone over the age of 4.
Social media companies also urge the UK government to implement a back end system so that, given the card, they can verify underage status or not in a government database.
Social media companies further urge that the UK government have plans in place, should the ID card be stolen, for issuing a replacement ID with a different number, and repudiation of the stolen ID, such that it's no longer considered valid ID, by maintaining a revocation status bit in the back end verification database.
Social media companies finally state that the plan can not be implemented without these systems being put in place prior to deployments, and if they are unwilling to get the necessary infrastructure built so that it's even possible to comply, the UK government can go stuff themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
So where do I spend my rooftop?
Do I spend it on solar, or do I spend it on farming?
Is this going to be the next federal spending Solyndra?
The "next generation of farmers" aren't urban.
They are the factory farming companies who take over for the current generation of factory farming companies.
Six million Alexa installs... compared to?
A billion Apple devices with Siri... http://www.theverge.com/2016/1...
Uh, who owns it again?
"We've corrected the software... it now does not assume that everyone using the roads will obey the relevant traffic laws, if it turns out that at the bottom of the hill is a stop sign, and then there is another hill headed upward, since the stop sign, if obeyed, would cause a loss of momentum and necessitate pedaling".
Better for cyclists to just disobey the traffic laws, and keep that momentum up the hill!!!
And yes, I am looking at you, intersection of Claremont an Ulloa in West Portal in San Francisco.
So in practice, officials in a court or tribunal do have some tools available to deal with intermediaries and do have some latitude in how they apply those tools. The mere existence of an intermediary company can't always be relied upon as a shield.
Which mean that your argument turns into this, in the degenerate case:
(1) Google hires a janitorial services company
(2) The services company contracts with janitors for services
(3) The service company goes out of business
(4) The contractors are now magically Google employees
???
Just because it is not easy to thread the needle doesn't mean everyone is going to be so stupid as to mean everyone will be unable to thread it.
I'm saying that it doesn't matter what the tribunal wants to have happen, if legally, the corporations have followed all the rules.
If you don't want people to game the rules, then you need to create ungameable rules. Good luck solving the halting problem.
The problem is that the people making the rules want the, to be such that they are permitted to game them, but you (e.g. Uber) are not.
You can regulate all you want, but a self destructing isolation/"circuit breaker" company is a tried and true method.
"Nation of laws, not employment tribunals"
Then I don't fire you.
Instead, I have a holding company that owns many contracting companies, each with 10 subcontractors.
One of the subcontractors claims "employee!", and that contracting company goes out of business. I make new contracting companies, as needed: they're cheap.
Meanwhile, the person who claimed "employee!" and nine other people are out of a contracting gig, without any having been "wrongfully terminated for being a whistleblower".
What are nine angry people going to do to that one "employee"? Not my problem...
See previous answer.
I create a new contracting company that applies peer pressure and automatically self destructs any time someone claims to be its employee. The company going out of business exempts it from the UK employee termination laws, and there are now 9 contractors to the one "employee" who are incredibly pissed at the one "employee" for costing them their livelihood as contractors.
If UK changes their laws to account for this, you simply restructure the business again and again until they get tired, or the 9-on-1 beat-downs take care of everyone who would claim to be an employee getting involved in doing do in the future.
Then instead, I create another franchised company that's a wholly owned subsidiary. I create one of these franchises for every 10 contractors.
I contract with each of those franchise companies to contract with drivers.
Let's say one of these is "subcontracting company #47".
If any of the drivers in subcontracting company #47 claims to be an employee, then subcontracting company #47 goes out of business. As part of the franchise agreement, all assets are forfeited to the company that grants the franchises, so there are no company assets to try to take away as restitution for the drivers.
No one is fired, and it's legal under UK employment law to terminate them as part of the company going out of business.
Now the "employee" has 9 pissed off contractors who just lost their livelihood over them claiming to be an employee.
You do the math.
I like the security aspects.
It drastically lowers the possibility of faking a transponder to cause accidents and shut down traffic, while at the same time make you require a subscription to the public key distribution network to be able to use your car.
Instead, I will have to take two lantern batteries, and rip the transponder with the valid keys out of your new BMW, in order to cause accidents and shut down traffic.
I took the pragmatic view at the time.
If it worked, engineers pretty much shouldn't care *how* it worked, or *why* it worked, to be able to make it useful.
The UCF studies were, to me, the most interesting ones. However, there was so much criticism heaped on them, and they were electrochemists, not physicists, and they announced it "the wrong way" (which is how most things are announced these days), and ... it was not worth tracking any more.
My favorite joke was base on Utah funding the research for "Pons and Fleishman" and ending up with a bunch of cold cream and margarine...
Leave it to Verizon... to invent the "Vexit".
"...who argued that they were employed..."
That's easy: "You're fired. Anyone else think they are an employee?"
The only thing that would make it better is if all the taxi drivers in London had to dress like Bruce Willis in "The 5th Element".
You realize that it is all about handing over timing decisions to a network?
OK... you really do not want to be there when I land.
How often do you have to run more than one wash load in a day?
Most people let laundry build up until they need to run a full load of a given type. They do this because wasting electrons is apparently only slightly less of a sin than wasting water, since we don't really do any useful large scale desalination.
Practically speaking, this is easy to do with 3-4 people in a house, particularly if one or more of them is a child.
In any case, this build up over time is how we get the event called "laundry day", as opposed to doing laundry daily.
Most of the time, one wash per night would serve. The occasional times you need to run more than one wash in a day, just run one during daytime.
I think you are perhaps single and male, with not a lot of clothing so that you can build up a laundry backlog without wasting water instead of electricity, and so instead, you waste both by doing daily laundry, and you put everything in together, without separating it by type, fragility, and temperature/cleaner requirements.
That's cool and all, but realize you aren't very representative of the majority of people who need to do laundry.
35 miles from Moscone Center on Howard Street in San Francisco to the GooglePlex on Amphitheater Parkway in Mountain view.
As previously noted: I have an idiot friend who bikes this both directions, daily.
Silicon Valley and San Francisco are a bike ride away (as shown in The Internship).
They *are*. I have an idiot friend who makes the commute from SF to Facebook via bicycle daily. Only if it's raining does he load his bike on the rack on the bus, in the hopes that it will stop raining later, and he will be able to use the bike to go the other direction, the next time he needs to move from one to the other.
Of course... he's Australian, and they are all crazy. ;^)
Probably the only reason no one's selling these already is because there aren't enough lazy people willing to spend the extra dosh to be marginally lazier than before, and the people who would want one haven't built one themselves because, again, they're lazy.
We aren't talking about "being lazy"; we are talking about having to get up a 3AM in the morning to change out loads in order to optimize energy usage.
At some point, we should just say "screw it", and build another nuclear plant. And then any time it drops below peak utilization, you divert the electricity into active desalination; other wise, you use the waste heat for passive desalination, all the time.
Power problem solve, carbon problem solved, drought problem solved.
I've also wondered if the whole smart device thing could end up being a net bonus -- for example, during the cheap hours, freezers/electric water heaters/dishwashers/etc. could do their thing.
Call me when your washing machine moves the load of colors to be washed in warm water to the dryer by itself, and reloads itself with whites and bleach and switches to hot water afterwards.
Until then, while it's not human intensive while running, washing clothes is pretty human intensive before and after a cycle runs, and in the middle, when the washer->dryer transfer needs to happen.
The "FoldiMate" and "Laundroid" just don't cut it yet (and take power themselves).
Planet 1991, apparently.
The exemption expired at the end of 1991. Apparently congress didn't renew it.
You can view historical IRS forms here:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pr...
Looks like students can no longer check "exempt" on their W4.
Students are income tax exempt, too.
But it's an error to project an intern's monthly pay over the entire year. The amount they earn is for a small number of months, and has to last them the remaining 9 or 10 until the next time they can intern.
Amusing; four "security theatre" articles today on other sites, and now we have an "It's *not theatre*" article on Slashdot.
Looks like they have some pretty good spin doctors on their payroll...
Apple has the same problem with launchd.
In Apple's case, the trigger messages are not entirely asynchronous, as with systemd, but they may as well be, since the Mac ports being used most frequently do not have peer information available, and are (effectively) just integers.
This leads to what I call the "on behalf of" problem.
Something starts running. And you want to know *why*. Clearly, it;s running because someone requested one or more of the services it provides -- but there's no way to know who it is running "on behalf of" to provide that service.
Say, however, you figure out that service 'C' is running "on behalf of" service 'M'.
Who is service 'M' running "on behalf of"?
In Mac OS X, it's *almost* possible to get the information as to where every thread in everything is pending a response from something else in its stack. But it's not possible to figure out the entity relationship, because you can't trace the other end of a connection.
So I can perhaps figure out that an application is pinwheeling -- that's the cursor that the display server puts up on a Mac OS X application when it's not responding to "are you alive?" chatter from the display server within it's main app loop. It happens when someone does a blocking operation in the main app loop, instead of packaging up the operation that might block, and giving it to a thread delegate instead: it means someone made a coding error, because they expected an operation to never block ...and then it blocked.
So I actually want to see where it's blocked (which I can) and see who it's trying to get work from, that's not responding to the work request -- which I can't, because I can't see "the service on the other end".
Both launchd/Mach ports, and systemd suffer from this problem.
But if I were permitted to ask the question... then I could find the next entity in the chain... and I could ask "what are you waiting on?", and follow the chain down to the actual problem.
Automatically.
The display server puts up the pinwheel, I option-click it (or whatever), and a dialog pops up and says:
MagicDraw is hung waiting for RemoteFilerPro, ...which would be frigging useful. Because then I could say to myself "Oh. The VPN is down because the Wi-Fi is out. Better reset the router again."
which is hung waiting for access to "remote_filter_cache_file.ca",
which is hung in the kernel on a permissions check,
which is hung, waiting on DirectoryServices,
which is hung, waiting on mDNSResponder,
which is hung waiting on a network response from "VPN.bob.net",
which is hung waiting on a response from network interface "Wi-Fi2"
But I can't do that.
Social media companies urge UK government to issue national ID cards to everyone over the age of 4.
Social media companies also urge the UK government to implement a back end system so that, given the card, they can verify underage status or not in a government database.
Social media companies further urge that the UK government have plans in place, should the ID card be stolen, for issuing a replacement ID with a different number, and repudiation of the stolen ID, such that it's no longer considered valid ID, by maintaining a revocation status bit in the back end verification database.
Social media companies finally state that the plan can not be implemented without these systems being put in place prior to deployments, and if they are unwilling to get the necessary infrastructure built so that it's even possible to comply, the UK government can go stuff themselves.