I've never met a software developer, musician, or artist who didn't have a side project of some sort in addition to their "day job".
What?!?
You're putting software developer in the same category as musician or artist?!?
Which one of these things doesn't belong?
Writing software is considered a creative act.
I was one of the participants in the Department Of Labor study that decided that,
Jobs that are more than 50% creative are exempt from overtime pay requirements. Software engineering, unless you are job-shopping it as a contractor is considered more than 50% creative. Which means that if you are salaried, you don't get overtime pay.
Personally, when I write software, it's being processed in the part of my brain that processes music. Meaning I literally can't write software if there's music playing at the same time.
We have no idea what would lead Jeremy Archibald Plevin of 2217 Sand Fort Terrace, Blivet Michigan, whose social security number is 555-666-7777, and who only has $9,472 in his bank account and that $100 savings bond his grandfather gave him when he turned 13, and tends to watch an average of 17.3 cat videos per month, and whose favorite search term is 'midget porn' (seriously, Jeremy?1?) to make such unfounded accusations. However, we'd like to assure you, they are unfounded.
Who gets to be the first to sue McDonalds or Starbucks for not preventing a piece of porn from getting through, since they're now taking explicit responsibility for the content served over their computer networks?
Obama and friends have been trying to make Internet service regulated as a utility for several years now, but of course, the Republicans have stopped that so that they can continue to get their bribes.
Why do the Republicans want "they" (Obama and friends) to continue to get bribes?
I'm OK if they are forced to use it for >= 5G... if they won't provide 5G willingly, and are holding it hostage to a crippled net neutrality: sorry: I guess you don't get new spectrum.
They don't enable it by default because it absolves them of legal responsibility where the users are not legally allowed to turn it on, and do so anyway.
It's not only Apple. My Nexus from Google doesn't have a memory slot either. Why!?
You got sent the one without the slot because you are on the "don't slot list". You probably dropped you phone in the toilet while in a drunken stupor at some point in the past (that's how most people end up on the "don't slot list").
I see it as a play to make sure all those ISPs give google a node on their network, so it will continue to be a device to ISP network test. Google can throw the speed test into Android and pretty much guarantee that they have nodes in all ISPs and make it mighty hard for a competitor (search, ads or youtube) to enter the market.
I think your idea is fundamentally flawed.
A single speed test node on an ISP network would have exactly the same effect as the ISP's current configuration of having a speed test node on their own network.
Further, a single Google node or even a full two racks aren't enough to provide local to the ISP's network all of the Google services, let alone all the Google services used by all the ISP's customers. A "unit of Google" is far too large to fit anywhere short of a full datacenter.
Finally, Google actually runs its own Internet, including transatlantic and other undersea fiber lines. The only place it touches the actual Internet is at peering locations, in order to externalize the services it provides to consumers.
So there really is no benefit to Google for the architecture you are suggesting they are trying to emplace.
Mostly it's major ISPs that offer speed testing, e.g. Comcast.
The trick is that they offer the test from a customer node within their network, to a test server node also within their network, which avoids crossing one or more peering points.
That actually only gives you "last mile" speeds, which don't represent real world expected performance.
A lawsuit would make this information very "in your face" for the general public, and stir up the whole NetFlix/peering controversy again, and that has to be the absolutely last thing a broadband provider wants to see happen.
The primary issue for the tech sector will be that the UK can no longer be used to take advantage of "the final assembly tariff loophole".
This is where you do all but the final assembly elsewhere, and then ship the parts to some EU country for final assembly, making it therefore "Manufactured in the EU". This exempts the product from a number of tariffs, and additional VAT.
This is the European equivalent of "the NAFTA loophole", where you ship the parts to a Maquiladora to avoid a U.S. tariff,and then assemble them as "a product of Mexico". The "assembly" sometimes means taking a pallet of boxes, and a pallet of items, cutting the shrink wrap, putting the China-printed "Made in Mexico" sticker on the item, putting the items in the boxes, putting the "completed items" on three pallets instead of two, and trucking them to the U.S.. Et Voila! No Tariff!
AFAIK, Apple moved their operations like this out of Ireland and into an EU country that's former Eastern Block (read: cheap factory labor) several years ago. I have no idea how many companies are using the UK to gateway like this these days, but my guess is: "not many"; meaning it's the primary issue, but as things go, it's mostly meaningless.
Security is always a tension between making the data safe vs. making it usable.
In the case of health care, if the data isn't usable: people die.
So in any situation where a human may route around security so that someone doesn't die: they do so. It leaves the system riddled with security holes, but on whole: functional for the intended purpose of keeping people alive.
Keeping the data useful is also why these companies are fairly quick to pay the ransoms, and (I'd like to think) why the ransomers are willing to take pennies on the dollar from them, but not from, say, a bank.
This[1] article says almost $100 million per year for the Hubble. So they'll have to compare how much science they could get per year for $100 million if they spent it on other projects.
But as long as it's fairly functional I imagine they'll keep it up there.
If the U.S. does not intend to keep it flying, then at some point we should really consider giving it away to another country, such as Dubai, which has expressed an interest in having a space program, so long as the thing has operational life left in it.
I suspect at some point in the near future, SpaceX will have the capability of performing a service mission to recharge the expendables, and update an instrument package or two. An inability to do that, for lack of a shuttle, is one of the primary driving factors in a shutdown/deorbit decision.
Hell, give it to Alphabet! They're interested in staring at nearby rocks they might want to mine, and can easily afford to operate the thing, an many of the instrument packages you'd use to look for rocks are good for another 40+ years.
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Apple, Google want New York DA to roll back police shootings.
Guess neither of them gets what they want, right?
I've never met a software developer, musician, or artist who didn't have a side project of some sort in addition to their "day job".
What?!?
You're putting software developer in the same category as musician or artist?!?
Which one of these things doesn't belong?
Writing software is considered a creative act.
I was one of the participants in the Department Of Labor study that decided that,
Jobs that are more than 50% creative are exempt from overtime pay requirements. Software engineering, unless you are job-shopping it as a contractor is considered more than 50% creative. Which means that if you are salaried, you don't get overtime pay.
Personally, when I write software, it's being processed in the part of my brain that processes music. Meaning I literally can't write software if there's music playing at the same time.
Good luck with the gender thing.
Most 56 year old FBI agents show up as 12 year old girls.
"Microsoft responds..."
We have no idea what would lead Jeremy Archibald Plevin of 2217 Sand Fort Terrace, Blivet Michigan, whose social security number is 555-666-7777, and who only has $9,472 in his bank account and that $100 savings bond his grandfather gave him when he turned 13, and tends to watch an average of 17.3 cat videos per month, and whose favorite search term is 'midget porn' (seriously, Jeremy?1?) to make such unfounded accusations. However, we'd like to assure you, they are unfounded.
If they block WhatsApp... how is my Uber driver going to tell me they're running late?
This is so absolutely cool!
Who gets to be the first to sue McDonalds or Starbucks for not preventing a piece of porn from getting through, since they're now taking explicit responsibility for the content served over their computer networks?
How long after this is feasible... will there be places you can buy "people steaks"?
Would it be unethical, if the person who provided the cell line was still alive?
One question...
Is the data capped at 64K a month?
Obama and friends have been trying to make Internet service regulated as a utility for several years now, but of course, the Republicans have stopped that so that they can continue to get their bribes.
Why do the Republicans want "they" (Obama and friends) to continue to get bribes?
I'm OK if they are forced to use it for >= 5G... if they won't provide 5G willingly, and are holding it hostage to a crippled net neutrality: sorry: I guess you don't get new spectrum.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
And yes, I'm aware, that most of the asses in the /. article are European, but some of them are the same companies in both the U.S. and Europe.
They don't enable it by default because it absolves them of legal responsibility where the users are not legally allowed to turn it on, and do so anyway.
Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Mobile Will Continue... whether you want it or not.
So private prisons are exempt too? After all, they are government contractors.
Because it's pretty popular to use prisoners for outbound telesales calls...
"became more sophisticated and ate more storage"
I think you meant to say that Apps are more poorly written today, and thus take more storage.
It's not only Apple. My Nexus from Google doesn't have a memory slot either. Why!?
You got sent the one without the slot because you are on the "don't slot list". You probably dropped you phone in the toilet while in a drunken stupor at some point in the past (that's how most people end up on the "don't slot list").
"Can Now Order Millions of Prime Products For You" whether you want it to or not.
I see it as a play to make sure all those ISPs give google a node on their network, so it will continue to be a device to ISP network test. Google can throw the speed test into Android and pretty much guarantee that they have nodes in all ISPs and make it mighty hard for a competitor (search, ads or youtube) to enter the market.
I think your idea is fundamentally flawed.
A single speed test node on an ISP network would have exactly the same effect as the ISP's current configuration of having a speed test node on their own network.
Further, a single Google node or even a full two racks aren't enough to provide local to the ISP's network all of the Google services, let alone all the Google services used by all the ISP's customers. A "unit of Google" is far too large to fit anywhere short of a full datacenter.
Finally, Google actually runs its own Internet, including transatlantic and other undersea fiber lines. The only place it touches the actual Internet is at peering locations, in order to externalize the services it provides to consumers.
So there really is no benefit to Google for the architecture you are suggesting they are trying to emplace.
I doubt legal action.
Mostly it's major ISPs that offer speed testing, e.g. Comcast.
The trick is that they offer the test from a customer node within their network, to a test server node also within their network, which avoids crossing one or more peering points.
That actually only gives you "last mile" speeds, which don't represent real world expected performance.
A lawsuit would make this information very "in your face" for the general public, and stir up the whole NetFlix/peering controversy again, and that has to be the absolutely last thing a broadband provider wants to see happen.
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" reference.
Due to how VAT works, that's not been a loop hole in the EU for import taxes.
I think you missed the part where the device is (finger quote)made in Europe(finger quote), and therefore not imported.
Not sure how having sex is destructive to your body, but whatever justification works I suppose...
"You're holding it wrong."
Too much religion of any flavor is a bad thing.
Agreed. Poor Spock... too much LDS in the 60's...
The primary issue for the tech sector will be that the UK can no longer be used to take advantage of "the final assembly tariff loophole".
This is where you do all but the final assembly elsewhere, and then ship the parts to some EU country for final assembly, making it therefore "Manufactured in the EU". This exempts the product from a number of tariffs, and additional VAT.
This is the European equivalent of "the NAFTA loophole", where you ship the parts to a Maquiladora to avoid a U.S. tariff,and then assemble them as "a product of Mexico". The "assembly" sometimes means taking a pallet of boxes, and a pallet of items, cutting the shrink wrap, putting the China-printed "Made in Mexico" sticker on the item, putting the items in the boxes, putting the "completed items" on three pallets instead of two, and trucking them to the U.S.. Et Voila! No Tariff!
AFAIK, Apple moved their operations like this out of Ireland and into an EU country that's former Eastern Block (read: cheap factory labor) several years ago. I have no idea how many companies are using the UK to gateway like this these days, but my guess is: "not many"; meaning it's the primary issue, but as things go, it's mostly meaningless.
Because of the slope of the tradeoffs.
Security is always a tension between making the data safe vs. making it usable.
In the case of health care, if the data isn't usable: people die.
So in any situation where a human may route around security so that someone doesn't die: they do so. It leaves the system riddled with security holes, but on whole: functional for the intended purpose of keeping people alive.
Keeping the data useful is also why these companies are fairly quick to pay the ransoms, and (I'd like to think) why the ransomers are willing to take pennies on the dollar from them, but not from, say, a bank.
Why not use it until it's completely broken?
This[1] article says almost $100 million per year for the Hubble. So they'll have to compare how much science they could get per year for $100 million if they spent it on other projects.
But as long as it's fairly functional I imagine they'll keep it up there.
If the U.S. does not intend to keep it flying, then at some point we should really consider giving it away to another country, such as Dubai, which has expressed an interest in having a space program, so long as the thing has operational life left in it.
I suspect at some point in the near future, SpaceX will have the capability of performing a service mission to recharge the expendables, and update an instrument package or two. An inability to do that, for lack of a shuttle, is one of the primary driving factors in a shutdown/deorbit decision.
Hell, give it to Alphabet! They're interested in staring at nearby rocks they might want to mine, and can easily afford to operate the thing, an many of the instrument packages you'd use to look for rocks are good for another 40+ years.