Skimming over the links provided, it seems that the main problem is that DNS protocol isn't being used just for DNS. And if you're running a DNS resolver that just understands how to return IPs for host names, you're an impediment to the ultimate goal, to be able to implement emacs over DNS.
There are other "root causes". Let's just say "poor life choices" is one of them, because it incorporates quite a few variations.
Around here, those without shelter primarily consist of people who have rejected shelter being offered to them, because there are too many "restrictions" attached... Like giving up drugs (including alcohol) while in the shelter. There are multiple unfilled, low-skill jobs available... but all of them require that you show up regularly for them, and many require drug testing.
Counseling is available for those who need it... but many refuse it.
These issues won't be dealt with by building more buildings.
And the debt liability is still his. He's structured it so that the company doesn't take on a tremendous debt while attempting to grow.
If Cook used insider knowledge from Apple (publicly traded, not closely held) to buy other companies, that is already covered by laws. That is that, and this is this.
So, Neumann takes on the debt of buying the building, rather than WeWork, while providing the stability that WeWork won't lose their lease because the building owners don't like them, or get a better offer.
I've thought it comical that updating Flash shuts off the "Disabling the insecure version of Adobe Flash" warning in FF, because EVERY version of Adobe Flash is insecure.
It just takes a few weeks for someone to notice the top 10 current vulnerabilities, and turn the alarm back on.
One of the things that pops up in regular security audits is that the version of PHP or SQL we use "has bugs", and we should update immediately. When pressed to tell us which bugs make it insecure, we get a list... which does not include any features we use. And when they try to exploit the vulnerability, they find that it doesn't work... since they can't trigger something that isn't there.
It doesn't mean we do not move forward - just that, if you write good code to begin with, the bugs are not a factor.
It also means that we do not use ANY outside libraries, because we cannot control how well THEY were written. Hence, no Wordpress on any of our servers!
So, what's the ratio of homeless in the US vs. the people who died in the old Soviet Union when they were doing "a better job of providing for the well-being of the population"?
In the old days, people chose tools according to what they needed to do.
Now, the tool is designed by someone who studied user interfaces, instead of how users interface with the tools, so they feel no compulsion to make it work the way users normally work.
"rapid-fire discussion threads" tend to be unfocused explosions of verbosity, so that is a bad user interface to model.
... and it will absorb it. It may or may not do what you intended the money to accomplish, but the money will be absorbed. Especially when you also start imposing restrictions that must be administered as part of throwing the money.
The US has Title IX, which imposes a LOT of overhead on any educational institution that accepts federal funding. When you work for such an institution, you are required to take Title IX education each year. The only rational take-away from Title IX training is, "Don't Take Federal Money!"
Why do Slashdot editors insist on making headlines into questions that aren't answered in the article? A headline is a super-short summary the story. The story isn't a question, so the headline shouldn't be, either.
The story is, "Researchers believe new metal-air transistors could continue Moore's Law". It isn't a debate on this belief of those researchers.
Oh, wait - this is a click bait tactic used to make something seem more interesting than it really is...
People want to have what they say heard. As the background noise goes up, they talk louder. That brings the background noise level up for others, so they talk louder,
For years, our company held an employee Christmas party at a steak house. The last two years, though, we employees said forget it... the noise level was too high to socialize, even though we all loved the food.
I'm not so sure it isn't the RIGHT call for Sony, especially if they DETAIL the tax on their billing.
I do not see where there is much of a legal argument that Chicago cannot assess taxes like this on their residents You would first have to prove that the basic tax itself was illegal, as applied to what it originally taxed - tickets to concerts, sports events, etc. Those have been largely held up to be legal; the precedent has been established, and only the definition broadened.
So the industry is tilting windmills trying to fight the legality.
What needs to be fought are the people who imposed the tax, and that requires votes. Which is why the city doesn't send bills to the tax payers, but to the corporations. The penny-per-ounce "soda tax" (that applied to anything other than water) in Cook County only went away when the politicians learned that the voters were going to rebel and vote them out of office.
And governments work to make those corporations HIDE the tax on their bills, so no one notices it as anything more than an evil corporation raising prices. One of the local utilities broke out a particularly obnoxious tax as a separate line item a few years ago, and the agency that imposed it took them to court over it. The tax is now part of a general "taxes" line item again.
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Skimming over the links provided, it seems that the main problem is that DNS protocol isn't being used just for DNS. And if you're running a DNS resolver that just understands how to return IPs for host names, you're an impediment to the ultimate goal, to be able to implement emacs over DNS.
There are other "root causes". Let's just say "poor life choices" is one of them, because it incorporates quite a few variations.
Around here, those without shelter primarily consist of people who have rejected shelter being offered to them, because there are too many "restrictions" attached... Like giving up drugs (including alcohol) while in the shelter. There are multiple unfilled, low-skill jobs available... but all of them require that you show up regularly for them, and many require drug testing.
Counseling is available for those who need it... but many refuse it.
These issues won't be dealt with by building more buildings.
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
And the debt liability is still his. He's structured it so that the company doesn't take on a tremendous debt while attempting to grow.
If Cook used insider knowledge from Apple (publicly traded, not closely held) to buy other companies, that is already covered by laws. That is that, and this is this.
This seems to be a damn sweet deal for WeWork!
But you'll have greater hope that it can be removed completely.
It's so much more satisfying to crush people's hope right after you increase it....
So, Neumann takes on the debt of buying the building, rather than WeWork, while providing the stability that WeWork won't lose their lease because the building owners don't like them, or get a better offer.
What's the problem?
I've thought it comical that updating Flash shuts off the "Disabling the insecure version of Adobe Flash" warning in FF, because EVERY version of Adobe Flash is insecure.
It just takes a few weeks for someone to notice the top 10 current vulnerabilities, and turn the alarm back on.
One of the things that pops up in regular security audits is that the version of PHP or SQL we use "has bugs", and we should update immediately. When pressed to tell us which bugs make it insecure, we get a list... which does not include any features we use. And when they try to exploit the vulnerability, they find that it doesn't work... since they can't trigger something that isn't there.
It doesn't mean we do not move forward - just that, if you write good code to begin with, the bugs are not a factor.
It also means that we do not use ANY outside libraries, because we cannot control how well THEY were written. Hence, no Wordpress on any of our servers!
Doesn't seem to be working very well...
As access to something becomes increasingly available, use of that something increases as well.
When you didn't have the means to stream video and music, it was, necessarily, limited.
> You cannot ban the export of software; it's simply not possible.
Yes, it IS possible to ban software export.
Of course, in reality, such a ban will be worthless, but you can still ban it.
Just like murder; banned in almost all the world, but it still happens.
So, what's the ratio of homeless in the US vs. the people who died in the old Soviet Union when they were doing "a better job of providing for the well-being of the population"?
they want to suggest new ones?
Are the new ones from sources that donated money to Mozilla?
Yes, a "better opportunity" may exist, but "good enough" also has its advantages.
In the old days, people chose tools according to what they needed to do.
Now, the tool is designed by someone who studied user interfaces, instead of how users interface with the tools, so they feel no compulsion to make it work the way users normally work.
"rapid-fire discussion threads" tend to be unfocused explosions of verbosity, so that is a bad user interface to model.
... and it will absorb it. It may or may not do what you intended the money to accomplish, but the money will be absorbed. Especially when you also start imposing restrictions that must be administered as part of throwing the money.
The US has Title IX, which imposes a LOT of overhead on any educational institution that accepts federal funding. When you work for such an institution, you are required to take Title IX education each year. The only rational take-away from Title IX training is, "Don't Take Federal Money!"
Correction - Nobody you would WANT to do that job will want that job.
There are, however, a large number of people YEARNING to be a "perverted authority figure".
And they are the biggest proponents of "Code of Conducts", so as to make it possible for them to do "that job".
Why do Slashdot editors insist on making headlines into questions that aren't answered in the article? A headline is a super-short summary the story. The story isn't a question, so the headline shouldn't be, either.
The story is, "Researchers believe new metal-air transistors could continue Moore's Law". It isn't a debate on this belief of those researchers.
Oh, wait - this is a click bait tactic used to make something seem more interesting than it really is...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
People want to have what they say heard. As the background noise goes up, they talk louder. That brings the background noise level up for others, so they talk louder,
For years, our company held an employee Christmas party at a steak house. The last two years, though, we employees said forget it... the noise level was too high to socialize, even though we all loved the food.
If no one can log in with MFA, no one can be hacked, can they?
... you didn't answer the question about what law(s) were broken, only exclaim that you're happy when government changes the rules.
Reminds me of the Monty Python skit where the defendant was charged with "conspiracy to commit acts not normally considered illegal".
I'm not so sure it isn't the RIGHT call for Sony, especially if they DETAIL the tax on their billing.
I do not see where there is much of a legal argument that Chicago cannot assess taxes like this on their residents You would first have to prove that the basic tax itself was illegal, as applied to what it originally taxed - tickets to concerts, sports events, etc. Those have been largely held up to be legal; the precedent has been established, and only the definition broadened.
So the industry is tilting windmills trying to fight the legality.
What needs to be fought are the people who imposed the tax, and that requires votes. Which is why the city doesn't send bills to the tax payers, but to the corporations. The penny-per-ounce "soda tax" (that applied to anything other than water) in Cook County only went away when the politicians learned that the voters were going to rebel and vote them out of office.
And governments work to make those corporations HIDE the tax on their bills, so no one notices it as anything more than an evil corporation raising prices. One of the local utilities broke out a particularly obnoxious tax as a separate line item a few years ago, and the agency that imposed it took them to court over it. The tax is now part of a general "taxes" line item again.
Hacking the stupid is always easy.
AI should be better at art than people.