Have you read much about Roman culture? You can pull out bits that are similar (like the timeless complaint about decay of family values you mention), but by and large the societies seem quite foreign to me.
Until Hughes bought it, for the previous few decades it had been controlled by Marty Peretz, and was to some extent reflective of his views, which are an odd idiosyncratic mix of left-wing and right-wing ideas. He's socially liberal but a defense hawk, among other positions. Which explains why TNR was liberal on things like gay marriage, but neoconservative on things like the Iraq War.
The SDS splintered years before Nixon ended the draft, so your chronology seems a bit off. The bulk of them went into anti-prison and anti-racism activism, as far as I can tell, not environmentalism.
Especially because it's highly likely that there is a lot of self-interested money on both sides here. If your heuristic is that the side funded by someone unsavory must be wrong, might want to look into where Romanian politicians are getting their money from.
It's definitely a risk, but I would be surprised if they're going to be using their latest-gen technologies there, partly for that reason. So Foxconn will be able to pilfer some older tech which is by that point less secret to begin with.
Intel already has one fab in China, in Dalian, but it's on a 65nm process, several generations behind the 14, 22, 32, and 45nm processes that they use in their American fabs.
I don't think anyone's being "ordered" to get it. I got an email that they were giving free vaccinations at my workplace last month. I could go to a certain room between 1pm and 2pm and get one, or I could choose not go to that room and not get one.
Reasons healthy adults might want to get one: 1) your risk of dying from the flu is quite low, but your risk of falling ill for 1-3 weeks is much higher; and 2) higher levels of vaccination in the population are protective of more vulnerable members of the population as well. This works on both a local scale (less chance of passing on influenza to other household members, like kids or grandparents), as well as on a community scale.
From what I can tell, what's being claimed isn't that Apple is specifically wiping the files, but rather that: 1) users are told to factory-reset their device; and 2) this wipes all files; except that 3) after factory reset, iTunes restores the iTunes-purchased files from Apple.
#2 and #3 don't seem particularly nefarious on their own. You'd expect a factory reset to wipe the device, and you'd expect a cloud service like iTunes to support restoring your purchases from (and only from) that service. So what it seems to boil down to is: was situation #1 popping up nefariously, i.e. Apple is purposely triggering an unnecessary "please factory reset your device" request even when there is nothing wrong with the device and no need to factory-reset it? And furthermore, that Apple is doing this based on detecting competitors' services on the device? That seems... surprisingly blatant if true.
Another possibility, which Apple seems to be hinting at, is that some kind of "tamper-detection" DRM is setting off reset-your-device false positives.
Eh, if people widely thought it was significant and it's entered historical narratives that way, I think it counts as at least vaguely interesting if one of the people involved has another story.
At least the major cable guys offer unlimited data a month...
That's on its way out. Comcast recently started rolling out data caps in several major markets, and plans to expand them nationwide over the next five years. Time Warner will probably match them soon.
Generally that's not the case if you earn income as an employee. If you're self-employed you can deduct business expenses from your self-employment income, but if you have a job, you generally pay tax on the gross income from the job, not the income net of expenses. See e.g. these instructions:
Daily transportation expenses you incur while traveling from home to one or more regular places of business are generally nondeductible commuting expenses.
Most other things aren't deductible either: cost of your work clothes is only deductible if it's a specific uniform required by the employer, and distinct from "normal wear". So if you have to wear a McDonald's uniform at work, you can deduct that cost; but if you have to wear a suit to work, you cannot deduct that cost. You also cannot deduct the cost of a car, even if you only need and use it for commuting. In most cases you cannot deduct the cost of training either: if you pay to get a certification, you can't deduct that from the income you earn using the certification. In all those cases, a business can deduct them as costs.
The benefits of vertical integration seem pretty strong in this case; especially a lot of casual streaming will end up being easier via Steam since it's just built in. Managing non-public streams will also be easier since people already have Steam friends and can just use that same friends list for access control.
Big tournaments with more money at stake will probably still negotiate deals with a specific streamer, but a lot of just regular streaming, I would guess, will migrate off twitch.
Whoever runs the main website hasn't been updating in a while, yeah, but most of the activity is in the network of local sites. The "global" site's idea was mostly just to repost/link to local sites anyway. Spot-checking a few, they look active, e.g. argentina, germany, athens.
And I believe the oldest still-operating one is Indymedia, which was founded in the late '90s. It's unapologetically aimed at being activist grassroots media, though, not aiming at event-handed mainstream news coverage.
The software being open source is definitely a good step, especially since it means there can now be open research on improving the system, whereas much of the previous research was done on proprietary systems.
Does anyone know much about the hardware side, though? E.g. are we talking $10k of equipment, $100k of equipment, or some entirely custom special-ordered system?
Hard to say at this point. I'd classify this under "basic science". We have a lot of scientific models that this research touches on: models of what the earth's interior looks like, of how rocks change under pressure, of crystal structures, etc. And in turn, a lot of practical work is based at least in part on current scientific understanding material science. So improving our understanding of basic geology is probably good for practical applications in the long term. But it's not directly applicable in the near term, as some kind of breakthrough where you're going to find houses or shoes built out of wonder-material "bridgmanite".
I've seen a version of that in a handyman shop also, allowed for compact storage of shelves and shelves of tools and parts. It's not good for throughput, though: since you can only have one aisle at a time "open", it's good for things like tools or library books where you have a large archive but only rarely retrieve any individual item. Not sure it'd work great for a delivery-staging warehouse.
Ah thanks, that makes sense. I guess the videos I've seen were probably of warehouses with at least semi-standardized items, e.g. distribution centers for one company's production.
Yeah that was my thought as well: it's not just that it's quite a bit east of Austin, but also that going the "regular" way is free, while the bypass is neither free nor particularly cheap. According to their online calculator, if you take it the entire length, the toll is $6.98 if you have a TxTag sticker, or $9.28 if you don't.
The other problem is that the main people who really want to bypass Austin are people not from Austin, who are less likely to know the road is faster in the first place: just taking I-35 straight through looks more direct, and in many cities the "through" route is either faster than or at least no worse than the suburban-traffic-clogged beltways (e.g. in Houston, bypassing on either 8 or 610 is often a net loss). The through route is also what Google Maps suggests (it doesn't even give the SH130 bypass as a suggested alternate route), which probably further reduces how many people from out of town take it.
That actually sounds pretty reasonable. Presumably a doctor isn't looking for medical advice on Slashdot or Quora or whatever, so just providing them the high-quality sources with an airgap provides one less means for something stupid to happen. In general I cringe whenever stuff in a remotely sensitive setting is routinely on the internet, because in some percentage of those cases you're going to end up with a bunch of malware-infested tablets uploading private data that had no business being connected to the internet in the first place.
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Have you read much about Roman culture? You can pull out bits that are similar (like the timeless complaint about decay of family values you mention), but by and large the societies seem quite foreign to me.
Until Hughes bought it, for the previous few decades it had been controlled by Marty Peretz, and was to some extent reflective of his views, which are an odd idiosyncratic mix of left-wing and right-wing ideas. He's socially liberal but a defense hawk, among other positions. Which explains why TNR was liberal on things like gay marriage, but neoconservative on things like the Iraq War.
The SDS splintered years before Nixon ended the draft, so your chronology seems a bit off. The bulk of them went into anti-prison and anti-racism activism, as far as I can tell, not environmentalism.
Especially because it's highly likely that there is a lot of self-interested money on both sides here. If your heuristic is that the side funded by someone unsavory must be wrong, might want to look into where Romanian politicians are getting their money from.
It's definitely a risk, but I would be surprised if they're going to be using their latest-gen technologies there, partly for that reason. So Foxconn will be able to pilfer some older tech which is by that point less secret to begin with.
Intel already has one fab in China, in Dalian, but it's on a 65nm process, several generations behind the 14, 22, 32, and 45nm processes that they use in their American fabs.
I believe this is one part of the "Node Forward" project.
I don't think anyone's being "ordered" to get it. I got an email that they were giving free vaccinations at my workplace last month. I could go to a certain room between 1pm and 2pm and get one, or I could choose not go to that room and not get one.
Reasons healthy adults might want to get one: 1) your risk of dying from the flu is quite low, but your risk of falling ill for 1-3 weeks is much higher; and 2) higher levels of vaccination in the population are protective of more vulnerable members of the population as well. This works on both a local scale (less chance of passing on influenza to other household members, like kids or grandparents), as well as on a community scale.
That's true as far as the NSA goes, but this is about the FBI, which was set up from the beginning to spy on Americans.
Are you sure the average Kmart customer is who you think it is? Their target demographics aren't exactly the same as the demographics of Steam users.
From what I can tell, what's being claimed isn't that Apple is specifically wiping the files, but rather that: 1) users are told to factory-reset their device; and 2) this wipes all files; except that 3) after factory reset, iTunes restores the iTunes-purchased files from Apple.
#2 and #3 don't seem particularly nefarious on their own. You'd expect a factory reset to wipe the device, and you'd expect a cloud service like iTunes to support restoring your purchases from (and only from) that service. So what it seems to boil down to is: was situation #1 popping up nefariously, i.e. Apple is purposely triggering an unnecessary "please factory reset your device" request even when there is nothing wrong with the device and no need to factory-reset it? And furthermore, that Apple is doing this based on detecting competitors' services on the device? That seems... surprisingly blatant if true.
Another possibility, which Apple seems to be hinting at, is that some kind of "tamper-detection" DRM is setting off reset-your-device false positives.
Eh, if people widely thought it was significant and it's entered historical narratives that way, I think it counts as at least vaguely interesting if one of the people involved has another story.
I hope the test case is Dice suing someone over a "Slashdot Beta Sucks!" comment.
At least the major cable guys offer unlimited data a month...
That's on its way out. Comcast recently started rolling out data caps in several major markets, and plans to expand them nationwide over the next five years. Time Warner will probably match them soon.
The approver must have been drunk or what
I believe this is Dice corporate policy!
Generally that's not the case if you earn income as an employee. If you're self-employed you can deduct business expenses from your self-employment income, but if you have a job, you generally pay tax on the gross income from the job, not the income net of expenses. See e.g. these instructions:
Most other things aren't deductible either: cost of your work clothes is only deductible if it's a specific uniform required by the employer, and distinct from "normal wear". So if you have to wear a McDonald's uniform at work, you can deduct that cost; but if you have to wear a suit to work, you cannot deduct that cost. You also cannot deduct the cost of a car, even if you only need and use it for commuting. In most cases you cannot deduct the cost of training either: if you pay to get a certification, you can't deduct that from the income you earn using the certification. In all those cases, a business can deduct them as costs.
The benefits of vertical integration seem pretty strong in this case; especially a lot of casual streaming will end up being easier via Steam since it's just built in. Managing non-public streams will also be easier since people already have Steam friends and can just use that same friends list for access control.
Big tournaments with more money at stake will probably still negotiate deals with a specific streamer, but a lot of just regular streaming, I would guess, will migrate off twitch.
The I-131 is mostly gone by now, but high concentrations of Cs-137 are still there, which is s significant carcinogen.
Whoever runs the main website hasn't been updating in a while, yeah, but most of the activity is in the network of local sites. The "global" site's idea was mostly just to repost/link to local sites anyway. Spot-checking a few, they look active, e.g. argentina, germany, athens.
And I believe the oldest still-operating one is Indymedia, which was founded in the late '90s. It's unapologetically aimed at being activist grassroots media, though, not aiming at event-handed mainstream news coverage.
The software being open source is definitely a good step, especially since it means there can now be open research on improving the system, whereas much of the previous research was done on proprietary systems.
Does anyone know much about the hardware side, though? E.g. are we talking $10k of equipment, $100k of equipment, or some entirely custom special-ordered system?
Hard to say at this point. I'd classify this under "basic science". We have a lot of scientific models that this research touches on: models of what the earth's interior looks like, of how rocks change under pressure, of crystal structures, etc. And in turn, a lot of practical work is based at least in part on current scientific understanding material science. So improving our understanding of basic geology is probably good for practical applications in the long term. But it's not directly applicable in the near term, as some kind of breakthrough where you're going to find houses or shoes built out of wonder-material "bridgmanite".
I've seen a version of that in a handyman shop also, allowed for compact storage of shelves and shelves of tools and parts. It's not good for throughput, though: since you can only have one aisle at a time "open", it's good for things like tools or library books where you have a large archive but only rarely retrieve any individual item. Not sure it'd work great for a delivery-staging warehouse.
Ah thanks, that makes sense. I guess the videos I've seen were probably of warehouses with at least semi-standardized items, e.g. distribution centers for one company's production.
Yeah that was my thought as well: it's not just that it's quite a bit east of Austin, but also that going the "regular" way is free, while the bypass is neither free nor particularly cheap. According to their online calculator, if you take it the entire length, the toll is $6.98 if you have a TxTag sticker, or $9.28 if you don't.
The other problem is that the main people who really want to bypass Austin are people not from Austin, who are less likely to know the road is faster in the first place: just taking I-35 straight through looks more direct, and in many cities the "through" route is either faster than or at least no worse than the suburban-traffic-clogged beltways (e.g. in Houston, bypassing on either 8 or 610 is often a net loss). The through route is also what Google Maps suggests (it doesn't even give the SH130 bypass as a suggested alternate route), which probably further reduces how many people from out of town take it.
That actually sounds pretty reasonable. Presumably a doctor isn't looking for medical advice on Slashdot or Quora or whatever, so just providing them the high-quality sources with an airgap provides one less means for something stupid to happen. In general I cringe whenever stuff in a remotely sensitive setting is routinely on the internet, because in some percentage of those cases you're going to end up with a bunch of malware-infested tablets uploading private data that had no business being connected to the internet in the first place.