Personally, I'd happily work for free to build the technology to put every man, woman, and child on the planet out of work. In fact, I currently do.
You work for free? Do you realize that not everyone has that option?
I work on large numbers of projects. The only people who don't have that option are those that have to work 14+ hours a day just to subsist. If you work any less than that, you tend to have at least 6 hours discretionary time on weekdays, and 14 on weekends. That's 44 hours a week, and if you are working 40 hours a week (the standard work week), then you have the time.
Not my fault if you use that time for television, video games, etc., rather than on long term projects to benefit humanity. I don't waste it.
Bullshit. It's not the unions that decide what the road specs are, who the suppliers of the raw materials are (and their quality or lack thereof), or how much time is spent on preparation. The unions only supply the labour [...]
Sorry, Barbara, but I'm going to guess from you spelling it "labour" instead of "labor" that you are from a Commonwealth country, or you would be using the American English spelling instead.
This is not how unions work in the United States. The U.K. and Canada, Australia, etc., have very different labor laws from those of Commonwealth countries.
In the U.S., the unions and the government are not adversaries, they are most frequently collaborators.
If Google pays the fine, they admit the Russian court has jurisdiction. If Google fights the fine in court, they admit the Russian court has jurisdiction.
It's a camel's nose in the jurisdictional tent, since they could just waltz into court, and say "The only reason they have the apps installed is because they want to use the 'Android' trademark; fine: call it 'Robotizirovannyy' or whatever the hell else you want to call it other than the trademark, and you're good to go".
This is about Russia's recent laws on cryptographic communications being required to be able to be eavesdropped upon by the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) and SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service), and about device data being decryptable.
The apps are relevant because the browser includes HTTPS, and GMail, YouTube, and other apps use strong encryption.
They are basically trying to force the strong cryptography "gone", or (minimally) force it "off by default", or (preferably) backdoor the hell out of it.
There's a reason that Google closed down the Chrome/ChromeOS group in Moscow on 14 Dec 2014.
It's very very difficult to overcome the western idea that "you've got to have something to trade" in this situation - people don't see trading their stuff (tax dollars) for lack of destitution as "getting something" - that is - paying less for something in the long run is rarely seen as a "something" to get. Or alternatively, paying a little for something now rather than a lot for it later is also not seen as as a good "trade".
Practically and very cold-bloodedly speaking, the cost of someone who dies of exposure is a lot less in the long run than, say, maintaining an alcoholic.
On one hand, you have the collection and disposal costs, and on the other hand, you have periodic trips to the ER over many years or decades, emergency services personnel, loading of hospital costs onto non-indigent patients, and so forth.
If you're someone who thinks the planet already has too many people, then not providing services is like asking for volunteers to leave an overcrowded lifeboat.
And yeah, I think that's callous, too, but it's hard to save people who are aggressively opposed to being saved.
Through technology, Republicans are destroying jobs. They're going to leave most of humanity starving and homeless.
Funny; at almost every technology company I've ever worked at, the CEO or one of the other executives has taken it upon themselves to send an email to all employees urging them to vote for the Democratic candidate.
I saved the ones I received from Steve Jobs, while working at Apple.
These same companies tend to donate to the specific Democratic campaign or party in general as well, to the limits allowed by law.
Personally, I'd happily work for free to build the technology to put every man, woman, and child on the planet out of work. In fact, I currently do.
Roads do not need a lot of maintenance if they are built correctly.
Union labor tends to build roads in such a way that maintenance requirements on the roads are high enough to require them to remain employed in perpetuity. In other words, the roads are a jobs program first, and actually function as roads, second.
Hire Germans or Romans to build your roads, and this ends up not being a big problem. In Germany, the road goes up for public bid, and the bidder who offers the longest warranty wins. They do not need to resurface them every 3 years after that, like you have to do with roads built by CDOT or whatever they call the state roads commission in other states.
This seems like exactly the sort of situation lane assist should handle. And if "auto pilot" was engaged, shouldn't it have prevented the driver from following too closely, as Musk is implying was the case?
In China, "in the same prefecture as another vehicle" is synonymous with "following too closely".
By test, it takes me 15-20 seconds to go from nothing up to getting the result of adding two more or less random 4-digit numbers. So, if I can do it in my head in 5 seconds, I'm using mental effort to save 10-15 seconds in an addition.
I said "product", not "sum"; you are supposed to multiply, not add.
I don't know any literate adult who can't sound out a word efficiently, and I encounter more new words by reading than by listening. This could be a problem with a second grader, but second graders are not normally judged for employability.
You apparently do not know any adults who were in first grade in the early 1980's in California, or in the early 1990's elsewhere.
It wasn't until 1998/2000 that things changed back to favor phonics.
Basically there's a group of adults anywhere between the ages of 20 and 40 (30 and 40, outside California) that appear to be idiots to the rest of us, because they do not read for pleasure, or generally at all, unless they absolutely have to:
Two large-scale efforts, in 1998 by the United States National Research Council's Commission on Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children and in 2000 by the United States National Reading Panel, catalogued the most important elements of a reading program. While proponents of whole language find the latter to be controversial, both panels found that phonics instruction of varying kinds, especially analytic and Synthetic Phonics, contributed positively to students' ability to read words on tests of reading words in isolation. Both panels also found that embedded phonics and no phonics contributed to lower rates of achievement for most populations of students when measured on test of reading words in isolation.
If it takes ten seconds to multiply two four-digit numbers in your head, you're wasting effort.
I'll agree with you there: you should be able to do it faster than it takes you to get a calculator up on your phone or your computer screen and type in the numbers, the operator, and the "=" sign, if the calculator requires that. Most people can't do that in 10 seconds unless they have a desk calculator, or they walk around with their cell phone unlocked all the time, and have the calculator app on the home screen.
I've known no halfway intelligent people who can't learn words and sound them out. It isn't the most efficient way of reading, but it's always a technique.
In order to do this, you have to know the possible noises the letters make; that's exactly what phonetics is. If you learned via the whole word method, the words are basically ideograms for you. You can read the words you already know very quickly, but the ones you have not encountered written before are gibberish.
There's a reason it takes a damn long time to get proficient in reading Kanji at a college level: ideogrammatic languages are information dense per character, but the also require a lot of rote memorization, and they are something of a bitch to type on a keyboard, because your average keyboard doesn't have 30,000 characters. Instead, you type them in Kana, and rely on the computer to "fix them so they are Kanji".
Alphabetic languages are simply a better option for keyboard based input.
If you can't multiply two 4 digit numbers in your head and give an answer in 10 seconds or less, I'm sorry, but your education system has failed you.
If you learned to read via the "whole word method" instead of phonetically, such that you can read words you've heard spoken, but never seen written before, once again, I'm sorry, but your education system has failed you.
Not being able to do these things really limits your ability and your usefulness to an employer. And that's just the simple stuff you should have mastered b 4th grade or so.
Unfortunately it will not solve the "bus problem".
A bus exists to obstruct traffic to the point that you never get anywhere any faster than had you taken the bus. This encourages the use of public transportation.
A bus that you can drive under thwarts this purpose for busses, which also means that it's impossible to shut down a section of public transportation, in the same way that BART shut down services to a station, and cell phone services to thwart protests: http://www.sfgate.com/news/art...
If your intent is to use public transportation as a means of government control, you are kind of screwing the pooch if you make it less inconvenient to not take it.
Professor Michael Delp, one of the researchers, said: "We know very little about the effects of deep space radiation on human health, particularly on the cardiovascular system."
We do however know a lot about the effects of terrestrial radiation on human heath...
Given the recent UN reports on cell phone "radiation", deep space is probably a 1:1 tradeoff at this point...
Trip to the Moon is four days and measurably increases the risk of heart disease. What would a six month trip to Mars do?
Nothing? You'd need to bring a hell of a lot of water with you to Mars, so you'd just put it all around the outside of the crew capsule, and it;d be suffucient shield for everything but something like a flare that'd send you to the "storm shelter" anyway.
"...no evidence that political robocalls prevent emergency communications..."
Of course not... everyone who could complain died in the fires that weren't put out, or before the could successfully call for an ambulance to save them from their heart attack, or because their phone rang while they were hiding under the bed as the killer searched their room while they were waiting to press "send" on their 911 call...
DA: "We have the decryption keys; but that's not enough." Person: "Why not?" DA: "It's an asymmetric cypher." Person: "So? You can decrypt it, and read what's there; what more do you want?" DA: "We also need the encryption keys." Person: "Why?" DA: "With the decryption keys, we can only find what's there; we can't find what's not there... yet."
The council couldn't take them even when they were taking plastic in.
There's your problem: If you have "the council", then you live in the UK, where they lack both Euros and technology. The rest of us have no problems recycling plastic. We could teach you how, all it requires is some electricity... er... does the UK have electricity?
Yes, Google assures me that 31% of their electrical grid is powered by coal, and another 31% is powered by gas. The UK has electricity. They are in theory capable of recycling plastic.
But if you insist on having reusable shopping bags, I have some made from recycled material I would be willing to sell you.
Er... the recycled material is the kevlar racing sails from America's cup boats. Those fuckers aren't going to decompose for a good 5,000-10,000 years, unless you have lasers, or are willing to use extensive chemical processes. General Urko will probably make his battle armor out of them, after the apes take over the planet.
I make a point of mentioning that fact, any time someone says "Hey, cool bag! Where did you get it?". I especially like talking about it in front of the city officials who voted to ban plastic bags, as if I don't recognize them a couple people back in line. They get to just put up with me showing the idiocy of their policies to the interested person.
But that's better than plastic bags, which degrade quickly to useful materials when exposed to U.V., right?
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Personally, I'd happily work for free to build the technology to put every man, woman, and child on the planet out of work. In fact, I currently do.
You work for free? Do you realize that not everyone has that option?
I work on large numbers of projects. The only people who don't have that option are those that have to work 14+ hours a day just to subsist. If you work any less than that, you tend to have at least 6 hours discretionary time on weekdays, and 14 on weekends. That's 44 hours a week, and if you are working 40 hours a week (the standard work week), then you have the time.
Not my fault if you use that time for television, video games, etc., rather than on long term projects to benefit humanity. I don't waste it.
Bullshit. It's not the unions that decide what the road specs are, who the suppliers of the raw materials are (and their quality or lack thereof), or how much time is spent on preparation. The unions only supply the labour [...]
Sorry, Barbara, but I'm going to guess from you spelling it "labour" instead of "labor" that you are from a Commonwealth country, or you would be using the American English spelling instead.
This is not how unions work in the United States. The U.K. and Canada, Australia, etc., have very different labor laws from those of Commonwealth countries.
In the U.S., the unions and the government are not adversaries, they are most frequently collaborators.
This isn't about antitrust.
If Google pays the fine, they admit the Russian court has jurisdiction.
If Google fights the fine in court, they admit the Russian court has jurisdiction.
It's a camel's nose in the jurisdictional tent, since they could just waltz into court, and say "The only reason they have the apps installed is because they want to use the 'Android' trademark; fine: call it 'Robotizirovannyy' or whatever the hell else you want to call it other than the trademark, and you're good to go".
This is about Russia's recent laws on cryptographic communications being required to be able to be eavesdropped upon by the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) and SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service), and about device data being decryptable.
The apps are relevant because the browser includes HTTPS, and GMail, YouTube, and other apps use strong encryption.
They are basically trying to force the strong cryptography "gone", or (minimally) force it "off by default", or (preferably) backdoor the hell out of it.
There's a reason that Google closed down the Chrome/ChromeOS group in Moscow on 14 Dec 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
I don't care where "away" is, but preferably somewhere far, far from civilization.
Baltimore, Fergusson, and Detroit it is, then!
It's very very difficult to overcome the western idea that "you've got to have something to trade" in this situation - people don't see trading their stuff (tax dollars) for lack of destitution as "getting something" - that is - paying less for something in the long run is rarely seen as a "something" to get. Or alternatively, paying a little for something now rather than a lot for it later is also not seen as as a good "trade".
Practically and very cold-bloodedly speaking, the cost of someone who dies of exposure is a lot less in the long run than, say, maintaining an alcoholic.
On one hand, you have the collection and disposal costs, and on the other hand, you have periodic trips to the ER over many years or decades, emergency services personnel, loading of hospital costs onto non-indigent patients, and so forth.
If you're someone who thinks the planet already has too many people, then not providing services is like asking for volunteers to leave an overcrowded lifeboat.
And yeah, I think that's callous, too, but it's hard to save people who are aggressively opposed to being saved.
... they want to make us have to work.
And the problem with that is??????
Through technology, Republicans are destroying jobs. They're going to leave most of humanity starving and homeless.
Funny; at almost every technology company I've ever worked at, the CEO or one of the other executives has taken it upon themselves to send an email to all employees urging them to vote for the Democratic candidate.
I saved the ones I received from Steve Jobs, while working at Apple.
These same companies tend to donate to the specific Democratic campaign or party in general as well, to the limits allowed by law.
Personally, I'd happily work for free to build the technology to put every man, woman, and child on the planet out of work. In fact, I currently do.
So tolls then.
Roads do not need a lot of maintenance if they are built correctly.
Union labor tends to build roads in such a way that maintenance requirements on the roads are high enough to require them to remain employed in perpetuity. In other words, the roads are a jobs program first, and actually function as roads, second.
Hire Germans or Romans to build your roads, and this ends up not being a big problem. In Germany, the road goes up for public bid, and the bidder who offers the longest warranty wins. They do not need to resurface them every 3 years after that, like you have to do with roads built by CDOT or whatever they call the state roads commission in other states.
I've always had a hard time visualizing an intermediate step between fully automatic and fully manual driving; and it appears that's coming true.
Drive a car with antilock brakes in slippery conditions.
When it kicks the bottom of your foot to indicate it's working, you will be able to visualize the intermediate step.
This seems like exactly the sort of situation lane assist should handle. And if "auto pilot" was engaged, shouldn't it have prevented the driver from following too closely, as Musk is implying was the case?
In China, "in the same prefecture as another vehicle" is synonymous with "following too closely".
Why don't they just disable it if you take you hands from the wheel?
People pick their noses. Unless they are extremely bendy, this generally does not involve use of feet or genitalia.
By test, it takes me 15-20 seconds to go from nothing up to getting the result of adding two more or less random 4-digit numbers. So, if I can do it in my head in 5 seconds, I'm using mental effort to save 10-15 seconds in an addition.
I said "product", not "sum"; you are supposed to multiply, not add.
I don't know any literate adult who can't sound out a word efficiently, and I encounter more new words by reading than by listening. This could be a problem with a second grader, but second graders are not normally judged for employability.
You apparently do not know any adults who were in first grade in the early 1980's in California, or in the early 1990's elsewhere.
It wasn't until 1998/2000 that things changed back to favor phonics.
Basically there's a group of adults anywhere between the ages of 20 and 40 (30 and 40, outside California) that appear to be idiots to the rest of us, because they do not read for pleasure, or generally at all, unless they absolutely have to:
Read in context at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
NB: Obviously, this applies mostly to public schools.
If it takes ten seconds to multiply two four-digit numbers in your head, you're wasting effort.
I'll agree with you there: you should be able to do it faster than it takes you to get a calculator up on your phone or your computer screen and type in the numbers, the operator, and the "=" sign, if the calculator requires that. Most people can't do that in 10 seconds unless they have a desk calculator, or they walk around with their cell phone unlocked all the time, and have the calculator app on the home screen.
I've known no halfway intelligent people who can't learn words and sound them out. It isn't the most efficient way of reading, but it's always a technique.
In order to do this, you have to know the possible noises the letters make; that's exactly what phonetics is. If you learned via the whole word method, the words are basically ideograms for you. You can read the words you already know very quickly, but the ones you have not encountered written before are gibberish.
There's a reason it takes a damn long time to get proficient in reading Kanji at a college level: ideogrammatic languages are information dense per character, but the also require a lot of rote memorization, and they are something of a bitch to type on a keyboard, because your average keyboard doesn't have 30,000 characters. Instead, you type them in Kana, and rely on the computer to "fix them so they are Kanji".
Alphabetic languages are simply a better option for keyboard based input.
If you can't multiply two 4 digit numbers in your head and give an answer in 10 seconds or less, I'm sorry, but your education system has failed you.
If you learned to read via the "whole word method" instead of phonetically, such that you can read words you've heard spoken, but never seen written before, once again, I'm sorry, but your education system has failed you.
Not being able to do these things really limits your ability and your usefulness to an employer. And that's just the simple stuff you should have mastered b 4th grade or so.
Team rocket, blasting off agaaaaaaiiiiinnnn!
They don't want any videos of people with Zika getting out.
Conversation overheard in Syria in 2028...
"Who wants to go to the U.S.?"
"Not me. I hear that hyper religious shithole still has people who have Type 1 diabetes and Huntington's disease... can't you freaking imagine?"
Unfortunately it will not solve the "bus problem".
A bus exists to obstruct traffic to the point that you never get anywhere any faster than had you taken the bus. This encourages the use of public transportation.
A bus that you can drive under thwarts this purpose for busses, which also means that it's impossible to shut down a section of public transportation, in the same way that BART shut down services to a station, and cell phone services to thwart protests: http://www.sfgate.com/news/art...
If your intent is to use public transportation as a means of government control, you are kind of screwing the pooch if you make it less inconvenient to not take it.
I already have a plan in place...
I'm going to just XOR all my data streams with a repeated 0x46 0x75 0x63 0x6b 0x20 0x4f 0x66 0x66.
If they figure it out, they're liable for violating the DMCA rules on anticircumvention...
FTFA:
We do however know a lot about the effects of terrestrial radiation on human heath...
Given the recent UN reports on cell phone "radiation", deep space is probably a 1:1 tradeoff at this point...
Trip to the Moon is four days and measurably increases the risk of heart disease. What would a six month trip to Mars do?
Nothing? You'd need to bring a hell of a lot of water with you to Mars, so you'd just put it all around the outside of the crew capsule, and it;d be suffucient shield for everything but something like a flare that'd send you to the "storm shelter" anyway.
"...no evidence that political robocalls prevent emergency communications..."
Of course not... everyone who could complain died in the fires that weren't put out, or before the could successfully call for an ambulance to save them from their heart attack, or because their phone rang while they were hiding under the bed as the killer searched their room while they were waiting to press "send" on their 911 call...
Summary is Wrong: It's Not Applicable to Mars.
Their sample group only includes people who went to deep space, and then came back to Earth.
It excludes people who went to deep space and stayed there, and people who went to deep space and landed on Mars, rather than coming back to Earth.
For completeness sake, we'd also need: Earth -> deep space -> Mars -> deep space, and: Earth -> deep space -> Mars -> deep space -> Earth.
The rest of you monkeys can be the control group.
Next request...
DA: "We have the decryption keys; but that's not enough."
Person: "Why not?"
DA: "It's an asymmetric cypher."
Person: "So? You can decrypt it, and read what's there; what more do you want?"
DA: "We also need the encryption keys."
Person: "Why?"
DA: "With the decryption keys, we can only find what's there; we can't find what's not there... yet."
The council couldn't take them even when they were taking plastic in.
There's your problem: If you have "the council", then you live in the UK, where they lack both Euros and technology. The rest of us have no problems recycling plastic. We could teach you how, all it requires is some electricity... er... does the UK have electricity?
Yes, Google assures me that 31% of their electrical grid is powered by coal, and another 31% is powered by gas. The UK has electricity. They are in theory capable of recycling plastic.
But if you insist on having reusable shopping bags, I have some made from recycled material I would be willing to sell you.
Er... the recycled material is the kevlar racing sails from America's cup boats. Those fuckers aren't going to decompose for a good 5,000-10,000 years, unless you have lasers, or are willing to use extensive chemical processes. General Urko will probably make his battle armor out of them, after the apes take over the planet.
I make a point of mentioning that fact, any time someone says "Hey, cool bag! Where did you get it?". I especially like talking about it in front of the city officials who voted to ban plastic bags, as if I don't recognize them a couple people back in line. They get to just put up with me showing the idiocy of their policies to the interested person.
But that's better than plastic bags, which degrade quickly to useful materials when exposed to U.V., right?
This DA seems to be implying that pre-iPhone, his predecessors closed all their cases.
"Look! A squirrel!"
(Sneaks quietly away from the podium, as all the domesticated grows look around wildly to see past their cones of shame...)