They do sell Arduinos and gear. The problem is the markup is way too high, so the only reason you go there is because you need it RIGHT NOW and don't want to wait/pay for expedited shipping.
Wait, towns that protect incumbents, then want to throw those incumbents out to run their own service...huh?
How about this: government is the provider of last resort (it kinda works this way already for a bunch of other services). If the local telcos or ISPs thought it was profitable, then they would have already done it. But they didn't. So it's up to the local government to step in and work to improve their community. One of the reasons we're in the house (and town) we're in now was because back in 1998 there was Cable Internet service available. These days I'm fairly certain that a house without access to high speed Internet service will sell for far less than a house that does have access to it. Higher house prices equals higher taxes. It's in their interest to make the tax base as wide and high as possible.
But it makes the town a better place to live, so more people (and businesses) move there, increasing the number of subscribers and lowering the cost for everyone. Hey, it could happen.
It's an acknowledgement that there are risks to vaccines, but the risks are far less of an effect on society as a whole than if the population were not vaccinated. It's a sad reality, and one that wouldn't need to be there if we had completely wiped out these diseases decades ago.
In a lot of places it is a choice. You can choose to be vaccinated, or you can remove yourself from society. I don't see the government pointing a gun at people forcing them to be vaccinated.
I'm watching this now and I've been following digital music for almost 20 years so I'm fairly certain where he's going with this. But given engineers like him gave us the loudness wars and ruined music for most of a generation (and screwed up music from past generations), his opinions on what is 'HD quality' is a bit suspect.
All in all this smells like a mathematicians solution to the problem, largely unbounded by real life concerns.
I had the same thought. There's a few realities of storage that are missed here: storage use always increases, disks aren't the only things that fail, rack space isn't free, you usually have staff available already....
This is an interesting idea if your storage is in a place where it can't be reached at all for some reason, but I think NASA and ESA have already done a good bit of research on that.
My Nexus 7 is used every day while the iPad is somewhere probably with a dead battery. The Mini seems to be a better size for reading, but it's just too large for anything other than a TV replacement.
Yes and no. In a practical sense you're right and I said as much in the second paragraph. As for the legal definition of PII:
NIST Special Publication 800-122 defines PII as "any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual‘s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother‘s maiden name, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information."
Part 2 is pretty much met given the data that's being sent to doubleclick. But Part 1 isn't being met. This is an AND statement, so for this to be PII, both parts have to be true.
It gives the impression that a high-paying job is relatively easy to get, and that's just not true.
My FIL hired developers out of the local community college for his business. AFAIK they were paid well enough (this was upstate NY) and they were using COBOL, but they did a good job and his business grew. Not every coding position means you'll get $90,000 and options.
But your larger point is still true. Maybe he should have said 'higher paying', but it's all relative.
The example that the EFF gave listed general information about a person, but there's nothing that would directly identify the person. No SSN, no address, no name.
Yes, doubleclick and others could use that with other information they already have and determine with some probability who the person is. But that's a separate discussion on expanding what PII is or limiting what kind of data can be stored about a person, either of which I'd be in favor of.
1) a stepping stone to a college they might not have been able to get in before 2) a way of getting two low-cost years, then move to a better school and only pay for two more expensive years 3) two more years of education
We have an awesome tech school near my house. Nobody thinks that the graduates are going to become astronauts and doctors, but not everyone has to be a doctor or astronaut. We still need plumbers/electricians/carpenters/mechanics/welders in this country and those kinds of jobs should pay well enough to put a family in the middle class.
I got CE for like $30 or $40 back in the day/ Even accounting for inflation, AA is WAY MORE EXPENSIVE. Even after the purchase by Adobe, I think the cost to existing CE users was in the hundreds of dollars. They may have added cool things for power users but for casual users I'd rather wrestle with Audacity.
Quit making these dumbass comparisons between everyday products and something scientific unless there's really something to be concerned about. Crap like this leads to people like Foodbabe telling us that the same ingredients in water are also used to degrade iron. It's true, but the fact it's true doesn't mean that water will cause us to rust.
If you don't know who those people are (and I'll admit I don't) then this isn't for you. It's about getting younger people involved and voting. Older people already vote more regularly, with people in their teens and 20s not voting with much regularity (see 2014). If Obama can reach those voters and get them interested in the process, then he's laying a base for Democrats going forward.
As for the 'all other problems being solved' nonsense, take a look at the schedule for Congress over the past few years and see what tough issues they spent their time working on.
AMD was the only company directly competing with Intel on the desktop/server markets. NVidia and ARM were embedded or other and thus didn't compete directly. Remember that the only reason we're still using x86 hardware instead of Itanium is because AMD bolted 64-bit on and it became a hit. Enough so that Intel uses it now.
AMD likely has (well had) cash from all the other things they did, just like other chipmakers.
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They do sell Arduinos and gear. The problem is the markup is way too high, so the only reason you go there is because you need it RIGHT NOW and don't want to wait/pay for expedited shipping.
The Radio Shack in the mall near me has been having a 25% off just about everything sale for the past few weeks.
Wait, towns that protect incumbents, then want to throw those incumbents out to run their own service...huh?
How about this: government is the provider of last resort (it kinda works this way already for a bunch of other services). If the local telcos or ISPs thought it was profitable, then they would have already done it. But they didn't. So it's up to the local government to step in and work to improve their community. One of the reasons we're in the house (and town) we're in now was because back in 1998 there was Cable Internet service available. These days I'm fairly certain that a house without access to high speed Internet service will sell for far less than a house that does have access to it. Higher house prices equals higher taxes. It's in their interest to make the tax base as wide and high as possible.
But it makes the town a better place to live, so more people (and businesses) move there, increasing the number of subscribers and lowering the cost for everyone. Hey, it could happen.
It's an acknowledgement that there are risks to vaccines, but the risks are far less of an effect on society as a whole than if the population were not vaccinated. It's a sad reality, and one that wouldn't need to be there if we had completely wiped out these diseases decades ago.
In a lot of places it is a choice. You can choose to be vaccinated, or you can remove yourself from society. I don't see the government pointing a gun at people forcing them to be vaccinated.
Pretty much this
I'm watching this now and I've been following digital music for almost 20 years so I'm fairly certain where he's going with this. But given engineers like him gave us the loudness wars and ruined music for most of a generation (and screwed up music from past generations), his opinions on what is 'HD quality' is a bit suspect.
All in all this smells like a mathematicians solution to the problem, largely unbounded by real life concerns.
I had the same thought. There's a few realities of storage that are missed here: storage use always increases, disks aren't the only things that fail, rack space isn't free, you usually have staff available already....
This is an interesting idea if your storage is in a place where it can't be reached at all for some reason, but I think NASA and ESA have already done a good bit of research on that.
IIRC XFS/SGIs had this built in that there was just enough juice to flush buffers to disk while everything was spinning down.
That's not long term. That's the normal life of a storage array. Long term is like 8-10 years.
What? I was assured that THIS was the year of the Linux Desktop!
My Nexus 7 is used every day while the iPad is somewhere probably with a dead battery. The Mini seems to be a better size for reading, but it's just too large for anything other than a TV replacement.
Yes and no. In a practical sense you're right and I said as much in the second paragraph. As for the legal definition of PII:
NIST Special Publication 800-122 defines PII as "any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual‘s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother‘s maiden name, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information."
Part 2 is pretty much met given the data that's being sent to doubleclick. But Part 1 isn't being met. This is an AND statement, so for this to be PII, both parts have to be true.
Not everyone goes to college to learn how to code. Believe me, I worked at a university for a number of years and nobody there could write code.
It gives the impression that a high-paying job is relatively easy to get, and that's just not true.
My FIL hired developers out of the local community college for his business. AFAIK they were paid well enough (this was upstate NY) and they were using COBOL, but they did a good job and his business grew. Not every coding position means you'll get $90,000 and options.
But your larger point is still true. Maybe he should have said 'higher paying', but it's all relative.
The example that the EFF gave listed general information about a person, but there's nothing that would directly identify the person. No SSN, no address, no name.
Yes, doubleclick and others could use that with other information they already have and determine with some probability who the person is. But that's a separate discussion on expanding what PII is or limiting what kind of data can be stored about a person, either of which I'd be in favor of.
Community college gives a few things:
1) a stepping stone to a college they might not have been able to get in before
2) a way of getting two low-cost years, then move to a better school and only pay for two more expensive years
3) two more years of education
We have an awesome tech school near my house. Nobody thinks that the graduates are going to become astronauts and doctors, but not everyone has to be a doctor or astronaut. We still need plumbers/electricians/carpenters/mechanics/welders in this country and those kinds of jobs should pay well enough to put a family in the middle class.
I got CE for like $30 or $40 back in the day/ Even accounting for inflation, AA is WAY MORE EXPENSIVE. Even after the purchase by Adobe, I think the cost to existing CE users was in the hundreds of dollars. They may have added cool things for power users but for casual users I'd rather wrestle with Audacity.
I hear it's involved in the production of nuclear weapons. How terrible is it? Hitler was addicted to the stuff.
Quit making these dumbass comparisons between everyday products and something scientific unless there's really something to be concerned about. Crap like this leads to people like Foodbabe telling us that the same ingredients in water are also used to degrade iron. It's true, but the fact it's true doesn't mean that water will cause us to rust.
If you don't know who those people are (and I'll admit I don't) then this isn't for you. It's about getting younger people involved and voting. Older people already vote more regularly, with people in their teens and 20s not voting with much regularity (see 2014). If Obama can reach those voters and get them interested in the process, then he's laying a base for Democrats going forward.
As for the 'all other problems being solved' nonsense, take a look at the schedule for Congress over the past few years and see what tough issues they spent their time working on.
AMD was the only company directly competing with Intel on the desktop/server markets. NVidia and ARM were embedded or other and thus didn't compete directly. Remember that the only reason we're still using x86 hardware instead of Itanium is because AMD bolted 64-bit on and it became a hit. Enough so that Intel uses it now.
AMD likely has (well had) cash from all the other things they did, just like other chipmakers.
So who serves on juries of those who are mentally unstable, or politicians (or am I repeating myself?)
They help go toward intent and mood of the conversation. There's a difference between "I'll kill you" and "I'll kill you :)" as part of a conversation.