I've seen people in Texas driving slow who will pull over to the side to allow faster traffic to go by. This sort of courtesy may just blow the autonomous cars' circuitry after dealing with California drivers.
I expect that the human backup drivers are still from California, so it is unlikely they will be able to take over in that situation either.
if you where on on $100,000 per year and threatened with a $300 (tax deductible) fine would even blink? Ok maybe blink but wouldn't be of significant concern, especially if that violation was making you money.
In my neck of the woods, $300 is about the cost of a speeding ticket with mandatory court costs and clerk fees (even if found not guilty). I make in the neighborhood of $100k when I am working and would definitely change my behavior in order to avoid a speeding ticket. I can't afford another $300 fine in my life. $300 is definitely a big deal to me.
The difference being that if I was an Apple, then speeding would make me an addition $600, and the $300 fine wouldn't be as bad then.
I have 148 Steam games, only 11 of which are installed due to lack of space. I regularly have to run with less than 500MB left on my 1TB budget laptop harddrive. I figure we download about 200-300GB of data every month that is deleted once consumed/needed for something higher priority.
Wow, I'm not sure if I have played 148 different video games in my lifetime. But then, I am only 45 years old and I only spent most of my free time in my youth playing video games. I just finished playing Lego Jurassic Park and it took about 40 hours. Games like Skyrim I have not even gotten completed, but have hundreds of hours invested.
I've got Civ 5 (5 GB) on my system, and Flight Simulator X (25 GB) , Simcity 4 (1 GB) , Simcity 5 (3 GB), several Railroad Tycoons, Age of Empires, Zoo Tycoons, GTA IV, several versions of Tropico, plus I have Tomcat, IIS and SQL Server, and a complete backup of my previous system (which has a previous backup of my previous previous system, ad infinitum). My whole system uses about 375 GB.
Per-student spending for K-12 has tripled in real terms over the last 40 years, with no improvement in academic outcomes. During periods where school spending decreased, there were no changes in academic ability either.
That's because school spending has not increased in the classroom itself. All of the increased spending has been to increase the number of administrative staff. In some districts the administrator to student ratio is lower than the teacher to student ratio.
In the school district where I went to school, the administrative staff consisted of a principal and 2 or 3 secretaries per school. Now, there is an entire separate building to house the administration for the school district. The number of students in the district has not changed, but the number of administrative staff has expanded by at least a factor of 10. As far as I can tell, they don't do anything other than prevent progress, as it is always the administration that stops any good ideas from getting through. But they do come up with cost savings ideas like making sure no teachers are wasting tens of dollars a month on personal refrigerators. Nobody ever comes up with the idea of how we could save hundreds of thousands of dollars a month by getting rid of the administrators.
I can't recall ever seeing google post a job ad on my browser. I do notice Dice ads on the side of slashdot from time to time, but I don't pay any attention to them because they are ads and nobody pays attention to ads on the internet.
Sign me up, too. At $1500 per call, I will make on average about $9,000 per day from illegal telemarketing calls. I am on the DNC list, both my home phone and my cell phone and I get calls on both every single day from telemarketers. It is not my duty to tell them I am on that list. It is their duty to check that list. I report them to the FCC from time to time but most of the time they are caller ID spoofing and the FCC never does anything about it. However, it ought to be easy enough to follow the money. You can be sure they are not bank account spoofing.
I've had similar happen to me. When I was let go they did not make me sign a non-compete, but when I was in talks with another company that was a possible competitor to them, they claimed (wrongly) that I had possession of their intellectual property and called in the lawyers demanding that I give it back. I didn't have any, so I was unable to do so. But then reading more carefully, what they were saying is that they gave me education on my particular area of expertise which I had been doing for 6 years before they hired me specifically for that knowledge and now they are claiming all of my knowledge in that area and claiming that I cannot work for a competitor because all of the knowledge I have belongs to them merely because they augmented it in some small way.
Implied buttons must be the peak incompetence of UI design.
And yet mobile app developers think it is the pinnacle of UI design. White words on a black background, and four or five of them are live links, but you can't tell which ones without clicking on them. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
You know you matter when you get mentioned in a list of people who don't matter. People who don't matter don't even make THAT list ( in other words, the other 7 billion people in the world).
I do not suspect so. People are used to getting Windows bundled with their computers. If those people suddenly have to start paying for Windows, they would get annoyed and start digging deeper for free alternatives. Eventually they would find Ubuntu and that would begin to hurt Microsoft's business.
The only way linux is ever going to hurt Microsoft's business is if people start releasing software on linux instead of Windows. WINE isn't going to cut it. Too much overhead.
If the researcher is not being arrested its not "kill the messenger". Impounding his equipment, the "evidence", is just a very rude way of getting his data on vulnerabilities and attacks. They could have asked. Then again perhaps they feared the "evidence" being tampered with, confidential sources and all that sort of thing. Again, rude, but a plausible path if such concerns were warranted.
In the U.S., they can take all of your stuff if they arrest. Well, technically they can't, because that would be unconstitutional and illegal, but they DO. So how much worse is it when they can take all of your stuff without even arresting you?
It's almost as if I don't understand what the phrase "the system will check for blinking" means. So does it check to make sure the selfie IS blinking or IS NOT blinking? I fail to come up with any situation in which the last line of the summary makes any sense or bolsters the lack of security in this process. The article goes no further in any attempt to explain it.
How does Mastercard get any original photo of my face in the first place? What if I don't want them to have one? What if I don't want to spend megabytes of my data plan every time I make a purchase instead of putting the onus on the merchant to put 300 bytes of information across the network in a traditional swipe transaction. What if the long line of customers behind me beats my face to a bloody pulp for spending 5 minutes trying to do a transaction instead of just doing a card swipe and entering a password?
Giant leap backward from every angle I look at it. 1000 times increase in bandwidth. 1000 times increase in time. Decrease in security. Decrease in convenience. Can't think of any positives at all.
To the contrary, in my experience most things that have a catchy name before they are implemented go nowhere. Multicasting, Named Data Networking, Internet of Things, OLP, Web Ontology, Neural Networks, etc. The project is more focused in sounding trending than in finding reasons why things want to access the internet (presumably so that your toaster can watch youtube videos while you are away?)
Successful projects usually start from the other end. People first create a small iteration of the thing that proves the concept, it starts to catch up (fancy name might be created here but this is entirely optional) and one day you turn around and its taken over the world.
On the other hand, if IoT does take off, then about 3 to 5 years after that I'm going to start a new company and sell products with the exciting label of "Not Internet Connected!", and I'll make billions.
It - like the military itself - is kind of a Federal jobs program. If you keep your existing jets and don't build new ones, then you lose the employees with the skills and experience needed to do the job. (Kind of like we may not be able to build new nuclear weapons if we wanted them because we haven't made them for so long and everyone with any experience has retired.)
I find it interesting that we have to have the latest and greatest fighters out there, while our AWACS are 50 years old and our bombers are 60 years old. Neither system has been replaced, at least not with anything that lasted more than two decades and then got replaced or shelved.
Heck, the F-16 itself is still in use 40 years later having seen newer fighters come and go. Apparently, the F-16 can hold it's own against an F-35. Imagine what 3 1/2 of them could do against one F-35.
I thought our national health insurance system was supposed to have solved all problems of this nature by now.
Why the fuck, in 2015, are Americans still relying on private insurance companies for health care? So much sigh.
Because insurance is not healthcare. All Obamacare did is require everybody to pay money to the insurance company. It didn't do anythign at all about healthcare. If anything, healthcare will suffer because now people who previously could at least afford to go to the doctor now have to pay for insurance instead and can't also afford to go to the doctor.
... just remember: sometimes you need lobbyists to protect yourself from government.
This is an example of it: a social app's userbase is trying to protect themselves from the rent-seeking taxi cartels.
They have more lobbyists than Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart obeys the law. Uber is operating illegally and so they must use lobbyists to try to get the laws changed so that Uber will be legal.
They are trying to protect themselves from the government, but only because they started out being on the wrong side of the law. I don't see any social justice here.
Why refer to taxi companies as cartels? It wasn't their idea to institute medallions. It was the governments, due to overpopulation of taxis. The only thing that the taxi companies are trying to protect is that they had to pay cash up front and operate within the law in order to provide services, but Uber is getting away with operating illegally and not paying for the proper authority needed for them to operate.
Here is a helpful hint for google's algorithm to determine if the click was accidental:
If I clicked it, it was accidental.
If I did not click it, that was intentional.
The only time I ever click on an ad is when I got suckered in by a deceitful company trying to appear to be a legitimate news article. For example, I got suckered in by "New Law has Insurance Customers Fuming" headline...once. A company that has to fool people into clicking on it's links does not deserve to be in business and should have their IP blacklisted so that no one else will ever accidentally visit their site.
Taxi companies don't want to compete with Uber though, they just want to outlaw them and go back to their monopoly.
They don't want or need to outlaw Uber. Uber is already illegal. All the taxis want is for the competition to have obey the same laws, which legally they do. In practice, Uber chooses not to obey the law.
In other words, it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, and none seem to be around during duck season. Sure seems like what we have here is duck.
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Are Texan Drivers worse than Californian Drivers?
I've seen people in Texas driving slow who will pull over to the side to allow faster traffic to go by. This sort of courtesy may just blow the autonomous cars' circuitry after dealing with California drivers.
I expect that the human backup drivers are still from California, so it is unlikely they will be able to take over in that situation either.
if you where on on $100,000 per year and threatened with a $300 (tax deductible) fine would even blink? Ok maybe blink but wouldn't be of significant concern, especially if that violation was making you money.
In my neck of the woods, $300 is about the cost of a speeding ticket with mandatory court costs and clerk fees (even if found not guilty). I make in the neighborhood of $100k when I am working and would definitely change my behavior in order to avoid a speeding ticket. I can't afford another $300 fine in my life. $300 is definitely a big deal to me.
The difference being that if I was an Apple, then speeding would make me an addition $600, and the $300 fine wouldn't be as bad then.
I have 148 Steam games, only 11 of which are installed due to lack of space. I regularly have to run with less than 500MB left on my 1TB budget laptop harddrive. I figure we download about 200-300GB of data every month that is deleted once consumed/needed for something higher priority.
Wow, I'm not sure if I have played 148 different video games in my lifetime. But then, I am only 45 years old and I only spent most of my free time in my youth playing video games. I just finished playing Lego Jurassic Park and it took about 40 hours. Games like Skyrim I have not even gotten completed, but have hundreds of hours invested.
Who needs local storage? We use the cloud now.
Local storage is cloud storage for people who care about their data and their privacy.
I've got Civ 5 (5 GB) on my system, and Flight Simulator X (25 GB) , Simcity 4 (1 GB) , Simcity 5 (3 GB), several Railroad Tycoons, Age of Empires, Zoo Tycoons, GTA IV, several versions of Tropico, plus I have Tomcat, IIS and SQL Server, and a complete backup of my previous system (which has a previous backup of my previous previous system, ad infinitum). My whole system uses about 375 GB.
Clearly you're not a gamer. 60 GB installs are the norm these days.
How does that work? Multiple Blurays?
Wot? You don't have an Oracle Server running on your laptop?
No, but I have IIS, Tomcat and SQL Server. I think the bitcoin blockchain takes up more space than anything other individual thing on my system.
Finally we have a reasonably sized SSD... now it's just got to come down in price 80-90%
Reasonably sized? It's 5 times the size of all data on my system.
Per-student spending for K-12 has tripled in real terms over the last 40 years, with no improvement in academic outcomes. During periods where school spending decreased, there were no changes in academic ability either.
That's because school spending has not increased in the classroom itself. All of the increased spending has been to increase the number of administrative staff. In some districts the administrator to student ratio is lower than the teacher to student ratio.
In the school district where I went to school, the administrative staff consisted of a principal and 2 or 3 secretaries per school. Now, there is an entire separate building to house the administration for the school district. The number of students in the district has not changed, but the number of administrative staff has expanded by at least a factor of 10. As far as I can tell, they don't do anything other than prevent progress, as it is always the administration that stops any good ideas from getting through. But they do come up with cost savings ideas like making sure no teachers are wasting tens of dollars a month on personal refrigerators. Nobody ever comes up with the idea of how we could save hundreds of thousands of dollars a month by getting rid of the administrators.
I can't recall ever seeing google post a job ad on my browser. I do notice Dice ads on the side of slashdot from time to time, but I don't pay any attention to them because they are ads and nobody pays attention to ads on the internet.
Sign me up, too. At $1500 per call, I will make on average about $9,000 per day from illegal telemarketing calls. I am on the DNC list, both my home phone and my cell phone and I get calls on both every single day from telemarketers. It is not my duty to tell them I am on that list. It is their duty to check that list. I report them to the FCC from time to time but most of the time they are caller ID spoofing and the FCC never does anything about it. However, it ought to be easy enough to follow the money. You can be sure they are not bank account spoofing.
I've had similar happen to me. When I was let go they did not make me sign a non-compete, but when I was in talks with another company that was a possible competitor to them, they claimed (wrongly) that I had possession of their intellectual property and called in the lawyers demanding that I give it back. I didn't have any, so I was unable to do so. But then reading more carefully, what they were saying is that they gave me education on my particular area of expertise which I had been doing for 6 years before they hired me specifically for that knowledge and now they are claiming all of my knowledge in that area and claiming that I cannot work for a competitor because all of the knowledge I have belongs to them merely because they augmented it in some small way.
Implied buttons must be the peak incompetence of UI design.
And yet mobile app developers think it is the pinnacle of UI design. White words on a black background, and four or five of them are live links, but you can't tell which ones without clicking on them. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Yeah, but it's not like you just give up and stop using a computer when Google plays "where's the send button now?" with gmail.
Or when Slashdot plays the "what do I click to read the comments" game?
Hell, a while back slashdot's own Rob Malda made CNN's list of 10 people who don't matter.
You know you matter when you get mentioned in a list of people who don't matter. People who don't matter don't even make THAT list ( in other words, the other 7 billion people in the world).
I do not suspect so. People are used to getting Windows bundled with their computers. If those people suddenly have to start paying for Windows, they would get annoyed and start digging deeper for free alternatives. Eventually they would find Ubuntu and that would begin to hurt Microsoft's business.
The only way linux is ever going to hurt Microsoft's business is if people start releasing software on linux instead of Windows. WINE isn't going to cut it. Too much overhead.
If the researcher is not being arrested its not "kill the messenger". Impounding his equipment, the "evidence", is just a very rude way of getting his data on vulnerabilities and attacks. They could have asked. Then again perhaps they feared the "evidence" being tampered with, confidential sources and all that sort of thing. Again, rude, but a plausible path if such concerns were warranted.
In the U.S., they can take all of your stuff if they arrest. Well, technically they can't, because that would be unconstitutional and illegal, but they DO. So how much worse is it when they can take all of your stuff without even arresting you?
It's almost as if I don't understand what the phrase "the system will check for blinking" means. So does it check to make sure the selfie IS blinking or IS NOT blinking? I fail to come up with any situation in which the last line of the summary makes any sense or bolsters the lack of security in this process. The article goes no further in any attempt to explain it.
How does Mastercard get any original photo of my face in the first place? What if I don't want them to have one? What if I don't want to spend megabytes of my data plan every time I make a purchase instead of putting the onus on the merchant to put 300 bytes of information across the network in a traditional swipe transaction. What if the long line of customers behind me beats my face to a bloody pulp for spending 5 minutes trying to do a transaction instead of just doing a card swipe and entering a password?
Giant leap backward from every angle I look at it. 1000 times increase in bandwidth. 1000 times increase in time. Decrease in security. Decrease in convenience. Can't think of any positives at all.
The internet-of-things is here to stay.
To the contrary, in my experience most things that have a catchy name before they are implemented go nowhere. Multicasting, Named Data Networking, Internet of Things, OLP, Web Ontology, Neural Networks, etc. The project is more focused in sounding trending than in finding reasons why things want to access the internet (presumably so that your toaster can watch youtube videos while you are away?)
Successful projects usually start from the other end. People first create a small iteration of the thing that proves the concept, it starts to catch up (fancy name might be created here but this is entirely optional) and one day you turn around and its taken over the world.
On the other hand, if IoT does take off, then about 3 to 5 years after that I'm going to start a new company and sell products with the exciting label of "Not Internet Connected!", and I'll make billions.
It - like the military itself - is kind of a Federal jobs program. If you keep your existing jets and don't build new ones, then you lose the employees with the skills and experience needed to do the job. (Kind of like we may not be able to build new nuclear weapons if we wanted them because we haven't made them for so long and everyone with any experience has retired.)
I find it interesting that we have to have the latest and greatest fighters out there, while our AWACS are 50 years old and our bombers are 60 years old. Neither system has been replaced, at least not with anything that lasted more than two decades and then got replaced or shelved.
Heck, the F-16 itself is still in use 40 years later having seen newer fighters come and go. Apparently, the F-16 can hold it's own against an F-35. Imagine what 3 1/2 of them could do against one F-35.
I thought our national health insurance system was supposed to have solved all problems of this nature by now.
Why the fuck, in 2015, are Americans still relying on private insurance companies for health care? So much sigh.
Because insurance is not healthcare. All Obamacare did is require everybody to pay money to the insurance company. It didn't do anythign at all about healthcare. If anything, healthcare will suffer because now people who previously could at least afford to go to the doctor now have to pay for insurance instead and can't also afford to go to the doctor.
... just remember: sometimes you need lobbyists to protect yourself from government.
This is an example of it: a social app's userbase is trying to protect themselves from the rent-seeking taxi cartels.
They have more lobbyists than Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart obeys the law. Uber is operating illegally and so they must use lobbyists to try to get the laws changed so that Uber will be legal.
They are trying to protect themselves from the government, but only because they started out being on the wrong side of the law. I don't see any social justice here.
Why refer to taxi companies as cartels? It wasn't their idea to institute medallions. It was the governments, due to overpopulation of taxis. The only thing that the taxi companies are trying to protect is that they had to pay cash up front and operate within the law in order to provide services, but Uber is getting away with operating illegally and not paying for the proper authority needed for them to operate.
Here is a helpful hint for google's algorithm to determine if the click was accidental:
If I clicked it, it was accidental.
If I did not click it, that was intentional.
The only time I ever click on an ad is when I got suckered in by a deceitful company trying to appear to be a legitimate news article. For example, I got suckered in by "New Law has Insurance Customers Fuming" headline...once. A company that has to fool people into clicking on it's links does not deserve to be in business and should have their IP blacklisted so that no one else will ever accidentally visit their site.
Taxi companies don't want to compete with Uber though, they just want to outlaw them and go back to their monopoly.
They don't want or need to outlaw Uber. Uber is already illegal. All the taxis want is for the competition to have obey the same laws, which legally they do. In practice, Uber chooses not to obey the law.
In other words, it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, and none seem to be around during duck season. Sure seems like what we have here is duck.