As soon as they said, "do no evil," you knew they were doing evil, or should have. Corporations are like politicians, what they say they are is the opposite of what they are, and what they say they are going to do is the opposite of what they actually do. And what they accuse their opponents of are what they themselves are doing. And any time they name something, you can bet the name is the opposite of what that something is, like the "Patriot Act", or "Freedom act" which are anti-patriotic and anti-freedom, etc.
I have an IP phone landline equivalent with an answering machine that won't record a message without an incoming ring signal. And it has a spam screener. I don't give out my cel number, usually have it turned off, and don't ever listen to its voicemail, since anyone who knows me knows I don't listen to it and in fact, won't even have the phone number, since I don't give it out-- I forward or simulring my "landline" to my cel if I want to receive calls when travelling. This plan is stupid and only underscores the Republican's complete disrespect for the voter's interests (which the Democrats also do, in other ways). All politicians working on such a scheme should be voted OUT.
I'd love to have such an app, but I don't have an iPhone nor am I going to be buying an iPhone. The data plans are prohibitively expensive and I don't need mobile calling or texting at that cost, when I can get it with pay-as-you go for $5/mo on a flip phone. I do have an iPad with Wifi though, so if the Apple Watch ever works with those, this app would be enough to make me want to buy one.
The problem is, a "realistic view" is nearly impossible. You can't predict how long you are going to live, how much medical care you are going to need, and what might happen to social services such as Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, and consequently, how much money is "enough."
The solution is not to *impose* a schedule, but let the developers who are going to do the work make the estimate, and don't argue their estimate down. Others who have suggested multiplying by some factor might be a good idea as well-- but unless the developer has his own credibility on the line for the estimate, he won't put in the extra work to try to make up for a schedule overrun.
1. Customers buy your insecure IoT devices.
2. BrickerBot renders them nonfunctional.
3. Customers no longer have a working IoT device, so they're in the market for a replacement.
4. Profit!
For no reason of copyright, I block some cloudflare address ranges in my router, because I was getting persistent hack attempts from them. My tolerance for that sort of thing is low. Never might the piracy, it's the script kiddies & other ne'er do wells that I want to see shut down.
I want CROSS APPLICATION tabbing, which we already have in Windows. I prefer to organize elements based on functionality, not based on what app is being used. A single project may include multiple elements that are not all word documents or excel spreadsheets but combine disparate applications. Hiding stuff within an apps tabs such that you have to drill down into the app to find stuff is counterproductive. I happen to like the Windows taskbar, though I put it on the side so that I can stack up more "tabs" and be able to tell what they are, and that works fine. What I hate is when individual instances are collapsed into a single entry, as then I can't go directly from one to another without fishing for the instance.... Spare me the tabs, that's the first thing I want to turn off in any browser...
That's fine until you get to be a little older and have a bad back, or bad knees, or what-have-you health issues that make it impossible for you to climb 1800ft towers, etc...
I wouldn't argue that point. However, they're already doing it-- my major carrier employer healthcare plan for example, offers a discount if you buy a FitBit and meet certain goals with it. Goals that, according to some fellow employees who've attempted to meet them, are next to impossible to achieve. No one ever said it was going to be "sane."
The economic productivity problem is being solved via the use of robot slaves. The real problem is the fact that more and more at the bottom of the ladder have got less and less important to do with themselves but make trouble for those at the top of the ladder. Idle hands, and all that.
They didn't quit to go work somewhere else unless that "somewhere else" either paid more, or wasn't such a slave driver, don't be ridiculous. How many actually quit to just lounge away by the pool? Not many, I'll wager...
... why we use asterisk and slash for multiply and divide instead of more relevant (to mathematics) symbols.
The answer is your homework assignment, grasshopper...
So what I want to see is a text analyzer that will take the output of such a chatbot, and generate automated replies designed to get it stuck in an endless loop-- or possibly, figure out how to get two chatbots stuck on replying to each other endlessly. Or an analyzer that can tell us how closely it aligns to various partisan positions, in order to figure out their source. Also, carefully worded nonsense replies might cause a chatbot to reply to them as if they made sense, thereby revealing their automated nature.
The ONLY reason the real creator of bitcoin would want to reveal himself at this point is to capitalize on the notoriety. I mean, the technology is out there, it's not like he's going to ask for it all back. What possible reason would anyone have for proving he was the creator other than to put it on his resume and/or establish some credibility for a new enterprise. If that's what he wanted it for, he should have thought of that a long time ago and never gone stealth about it in the first place. So if this guy IS the creator of bitcoin, other than the creation of bitcoin itself, he's a moron. And I'd start to wonder if his idea regarding bitcoin was just a lucky fluke.
And don't forget, reduce the options of what films you can watch to about a dozen lame new releases. If I want to watch an Ingmar Bergman film, the opportunities to do that in a movie theater are vanishingly small.
I've replaced my broadcast AND movie going with DVDs in various ways-- library check-outs, rentals, Netflix, etc. Here's the thing-- I'm not interested in "Sports Coverage," News coverage is horribly biased towards useless sensationalism, equivalent to click-bait. There are way better sources of news that don't include the sensationalism (or the click-bait, which is my gauge of a serious site vs a crapvertizer). Movie theater experience is useless because all that is available is a narrow set of recent crap releases. Why would I want any of that?
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As soon as they said, "do no evil," you knew they were doing evil, or should have. Corporations are like politicians, what they say they are is the opposite of what they are, and what they say they are going to do is the opposite of what they actually do. And what they accuse their opponents of are what they themselves are doing. And any time they name something, you can bet the name is the opposite of what that something is, like the "Patriot Act", or "Freedom act" which are anti-patriotic and anti-freedom, etc.
I have an IP phone landline equivalent with an answering machine that won't record a message without an incoming ring signal. And it has a spam screener. I don't give out my cel number, usually have it turned off, and don't ever listen to its voicemail, since anyone who knows me knows I don't listen to it and in fact, won't even have the phone number, since I don't give it out-- I forward or simulring my "landline" to my cel if I want to receive calls when travelling. This plan is stupid and only underscores the Republican's complete disrespect for the voter's interests (which the Democrats also do, in other ways). All politicians working on such a scheme should be voted OUT.
I'd love to have such an app, but I don't have an iPhone nor am I going to be buying an iPhone. The data plans are prohibitively expensive and I don't need mobile calling or texting at that cost, when I can get it with pay-as-you go for $5/mo on a flip phone. I do have an iPad with Wifi though, so if the Apple Watch ever works with those, this app would be enough to make me want to buy one.
The problem is, a "realistic view" is nearly impossible. You can't predict how long you are going to live, how much medical care you are going to need, and what might happen to social services such as Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, and consequently, how much money is "enough."
The solution is not to *impose* a schedule, but let the developers who are going to do the work make the estimate, and don't argue their estimate down. Others who have suggested multiplying by some factor might be a good idea as well-- but unless the developer has his own credibility on the line for the estimate, he won't put in the extra work to try to make up for a schedule overrun.
1. Customers buy your insecure IoT devices.
2. BrickerBot renders them nonfunctional.
3. Customers no longer have a working IoT device, so they're in the market for a replacement.
4. Profit!
I just want to keep collecting interest on my bank account after I die-- until my avatar owns everything and rules the world.
Or some mechanism in the sugar industry's pocketbook that would motivate them to create a study to undermine their competition as a whole...
Soldered every joint in it myself. Still have it and it still works.
For no reason of copyright, I block some cloudflare address ranges in my router, because I was getting persistent hack attempts from them. My tolerance for that sort of thing is low. Never might the piracy, it's the script kiddies & other ne'er do wells that I want to see shut down.
I want CROSS APPLICATION tabbing, which we already have in Windows. I prefer to organize elements based on functionality, not based on what app is being used. A single project may include multiple elements that are not all word documents or excel spreadsheets but combine disparate applications. Hiding stuff within an apps tabs such that you have to drill down into the app to find stuff is counterproductive. I happen to like the Windows taskbar, though I put it on the side so that I can stack up more "tabs" and be able to tell what they are, and that works fine. What I hate is when individual instances are collapsed into a single entry, as then I can't go directly from one to another without fishing for the instance.... Spare me the tabs, that's the first thing I want to turn off in any browser...
That's fine until you get to be a little older and have a bad back, or bad knees, or what-have-you health issues that make it impossible for you to climb 1800ft towers, etc...
Robots may be cheaper, but they will put themselves out of business-- because they don't buy stuff...
Not in any sane medical system
I wouldn't argue that point. However, they're already doing it-- my major carrier employer healthcare plan for example, offers a discount if you buy a FitBit and meet certain goals with it. Goals that, according to some fellow employees who've attempted to meet them, are next to impossible to achieve. No one ever said it was going to be "sane."
What it does do is allow your health insurance to charge you more if you ignore your monitoring device's encouragement to exercise.
The economic productivity problem is being solved via the use of robot slaves. The real problem is the fact that more and more at the bottom of the ladder have got less and less important to do with themselves but make trouble for those at the top of the ladder. Idle hands, and all that.
Just don't let Google do it...
Yeah, but keypunch operators.... sigh...
They didn't quit to go work somewhere else unless that "somewhere else" either paid more, or wasn't such a slave driver, don't be ridiculous. How many actually quit to just lounge away by the pool? Not many, I'll wager...
... why we use asterisk and slash for multiply and divide instead of more relevant (to mathematics) symbols. The answer is your homework assignment, grasshopper...
So what I want to see is a text analyzer that will take the output of such a chatbot, and generate automated replies designed to get it stuck in an endless loop-- or possibly, figure out how to get two chatbots stuck on replying to each other endlessly. Or an analyzer that can tell us how closely it aligns to various partisan positions, in order to figure out their source. Also, carefully worded nonsense replies might cause a chatbot to reply to them as if they made sense, thereby revealing their automated nature.
The ONLY reason the real creator of bitcoin would want to reveal himself at this point is to capitalize on the notoriety. I mean, the technology is out there, it's not like he's going to ask for it all back. What possible reason would anyone have for proving he was the creator other than to put it on his resume and/or establish some credibility for a new enterprise. If that's what he wanted it for, he should have thought of that a long time ago and never gone stealth about it in the first place. So if this guy IS the creator of bitcoin, other than the creation of bitcoin itself, he's a moron. And I'd start to wonder if his idea regarding bitcoin was just a lucky fluke.
That was your first mistake, giving Microsoft your CC number...
And don't forget, reduce the options of what films you can watch to about a dozen lame new releases. If I want to watch an Ingmar Bergman film, the opportunities to do that in a movie theater are vanishingly small.
I've replaced my broadcast AND movie going with DVDs in various ways-- library check-outs, rentals, Netflix, etc. Here's the thing-- I'm not interested in "Sports Coverage," News coverage is horribly biased towards useless sensationalism, equivalent to click-bait. There are way better sources of news that don't include the sensationalism (or the click-bait, which is my gauge of a serious site vs a crapvertizer). Movie theater experience is useless because all that is available is a narrow set of recent crap releases. Why would I want any of that?