Excuse me! That would be just the Nobel Peace and Literature prizes. The real Nobel prizes are awarded for science, not politics. Of course the science prizes are outdated. e.g. the era of individuals making breakthroughs in physics has gone.
Actually, if you are actually running Waze or other navigation, the phone will already be alerting you that you missed the turn-off to day-care and are on auto-pilot to the office. That seems to be the most common way for babies to be forgotten. Stressing over work, your wife/husband asks you to drop the baby off at the last minute - its not part of your normal routine.
I can understand it. It happened near here 3 years ago: the dad went to pickup baby from daycare after work, was told the baby had not been dropped off. The horror of realisation, running back to the car, and finding the baby who had been in there all day.
Plenty of good articles have been written on this awful subject. I doubt any of us here can do better. But start with Gene Weingarten's Pulitzer-Winning Feature, 'Fatal Distraction' from 2009:
Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child . . . well, who can blame them? What kind of person forgets a baby?
The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist....
Look at the hacks on US infrastructure right now - they're even breaking into presidential correspondence. If they can't protect secure communications inside the government
That was a non-secure political-party mail server, not internal government communications (which would be secured by the NSA). I think you are confused.
In the case of census results, it is much easier. When a complete form is submitted online, it is instantly encrypted using a asymmetric cipher, and forwarded to multiple processing sites. Batches of forms are transferred across an air-gap to an offline processing system, which holds the decryption key.
The vulnerability would be in partially completed forms held on a database connected to the web server.
So if a person is more than 10 days late in submitting the form,...
No, no fine. You will get a friendly knock on the door, asking how many persons were home, or not counted elsewhere, on census night. They will offer you a paper form, or replacement online access code, and leave a card with a help-line number.
If the person ignores multiple reminders and offers of help, they may receive a formal direction to submit. It rarely comes to that, and even more rarely to any sort of prosecution. It was around one in a 100,000 households last time.
Compulsory voting attendance is a good thing. It means political campaigns are aimed at the centre, the swinging voter. In some other countries, the politics becomes extreme, with candidates aiming to demonise the opposition, and scare their support base into voting. We do not want that.
Much as I dislike Monsanto, that story is bullshit. No farmers have been sued for inadvertently using GMO seed. They did it quite deliberately, without paying. Its a hypothetical. Even if farmers repeatedly used saved seed, and over time the GMO strains blown in came to dominate, the patents are already expiring.
No doubt mobile-related deaths are much higher per capita, but I think less as a percentage of road deaths. Hard to know though. If you look for data on "alcohol-related" deaths in the West, it tends to include every death with a measurable amount of alcohol. Do you count every death where the driver was talking on his phone, even if he was overtaking on a blind potholed curve with bald tires and bad brakes and a selection of gods partly obscuring the windshield?
I think you are extrapolating developed-country observations to 3rd world countries. Most of the road deaths are in third world countries where drivers have a very different attitude and accident modes. (to put it politely)
Coal-fired power stations are sometimes built near the mines, and sometimes on the other side of the world. Lithium ore is worth a hundred times as much as coal per tonne, so freight costs for extra distance is not a big deal. Where are the ore refineries? (not that it matters much)
Context bro! After all the crimes of recent and current administrations - mass surveillance at home, invading foreign countries, countless thousands dead,... partisan interests are obsessing over one email server? The crimes are real, but the narrow obsession is insane.
The location is fine, though I think the main reason for choosing Nevada was Tax avoidance. I just can't see why it all needs to be in the one location. Maybe that too comes down to accounting reasons - they can negotiate better taxpayer subsidies if its one big factory.
(And I apologise to anyone offended by my penis metaphor for a vanity project.)
Spying is expected. Publishing the data is not. If the Kremlin is behind this, it may be because they blame the US administration for recent leaks that have embarrassed Putin and allies.
Snowden is snubbing someone for not properly curating a leak, given that he released classified documents that were far more sensitive without usefully curating them.
Snowden released documents to trusted journalists, he did not dump anything on the internet.
Feel free to dig up illegal activities by Trump and send them to Wikileaks if you can.
To quote the man himself, " I could shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters. " Unless you have photos of Trump with an underage rent boy, his supporters don't care what he has done.
A lot of eggs in one basket! How much does that save over having a few smaller factories in different locations? Have we learned nothing from the 2011 Thailand floods leading to a global hard drive shortage? And that was multiple factories in the same area. The benefits of scale are not obvious like the Boeing Everett factory.
Are there sound technical reasons for this concentration, or is it just compensation for Elon Musk's small penis?
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Trump alone can fix it.
Yeah. Sorry I forgot to put quotes around "real" . Would that have conveyed an appropriate tone better?
just like the Nobel Prizes.
Excuse me! That would be just the Nobel Peace and Literature prizes. The real Nobel prizes are awarded for science, not politics.
Of course the science prizes are outdated. e.g. the era of individuals making breakthroughs in physics has gone.
Actually, if you are actually running Waze or other navigation, the phone will already be alerting you that you missed the turn-off to day-care and are on auto-pilot to the office. That seems to be the most common way for babies to be forgotten. Stressing over work, your wife/husband asks you to drop the baby off at the last minute - its not part of your normal routine.
I can understand it. It happened near here 3 years ago: the dad went to pickup baby from daycare after work, was told the baby had not been dropped off. The horror of realisation, running back to the car, and finding the baby who had been in there all day.
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
Yes really. Ignore the ignorant judgemental AC.
Plenty of good articles have been written on this awful subject. I doubt any of us here can do better.
But start with Gene Weingarten's Pulitzer-Winning Feature, 'Fatal Distraction' from 2009:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child . . . well, who can blame them? What kind of person forgets a baby?
The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist....
> Re:Apparently census takers can use personal tablets
OMG, calm down - the ABS is not stupid! There will be no sensitive data on those personal tablets.
It has: list of properties to visit with reminder cards, notes on hazards such as dogs or abusive nutters, ...
And it will fail.
Look at the hacks on US infrastructure right now - they're even breaking into presidential correspondence. If they can't protect secure communications inside the government
That was a non-secure political-party mail server, not internal government communications (which would be secured by the NSA). I think you are confused.
In the case of census results, it is much easier. When a complete form is submitted online, it is instantly encrypted using a asymmetric cipher, and forwarded to multiple processing sites.
Batches of forms are transferred across an air-gap to an offline processing system, which holds the decryption key.
The vulnerability would be in partially completed forms held on a database connected to the web server.
So if a person is more than 10 days late in submitting the form,...
No, no fine. You will get a friendly knock on the door, asking how many persons were home, or not counted elsewhere, on census night.
They will offer you a paper form, or replacement online access code, and leave a card with a help-line number.
If the person ignores multiple reminders and offers of help, they may receive a formal direction to submit. It rarely comes to that, and even more rarely to any sort of prosecution. It was around one in a 100,000 households last time.
Compulsory voting attendance is a good thing. It means political campaigns are aimed at the centre, the swinging voter.
In some other countries, the politics becomes extreme, with candidates aiming to demonise the opposition, and scare their support base into voting. We do not want that.
Much as I dislike Monsanto, that story is bullshit.
No farmers have been sued for inadvertently using GMO seed. They did it quite deliberately, without paying.
Its a hypothetical. Even if farmers repeatedly used saved seed, and over time the GMO strains blown in came to dominate, the patents are already expiring.
In unrelated news, Bill Gates is set to release his own memoirs in a few days.
No doubt mobile-related deaths are much higher per capita, but I think less as a percentage of road deaths.
Hard to know though. If you look for data on "alcohol-related" deaths in the West, it tends to include every death with a measurable amount of alcohol.
Do you count every death where the driver was talking on his phone, even if he was overtaking on a blind potholed curve with bald tires and bad brakes and a selection of gods partly obscuring the windshield?
I think you are extrapolating developed-country observations to 3rd world countries.
Most of the road deaths are in third world countries where drivers have a very different attitude and accident modes.
(to put it politely)
They will not really be swimming, just going through the motions*.
*("movements" in US English)
Your write-up lacks synergy.
Uh oh. Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
the main "leave" campaign guys are now running away and officially stating that they have no idea what they actually planned
Planning is highly overrated. Did the Coalition of the Willing need a plan? OK - bad example.
https://youtu.be/K0hrEjqtFvE
Who cares? It is all so trivial compared to the massive scale of crimes and abuse of power by our governments that he has exposed.
Coal-fired power stations are sometimes built near the mines, and sometimes on the other side of the world.
Lithium ore is worth a hundred times as much as coal per tonne, so freight costs for extra distance is not a big deal.
Where are the ore refineries? (not that it matters much)
Context bro! After all the crimes of recent and current administrations - mass surveillance at home, invading foreign countries, countless thousands dead, ...
partisan interests are obsessing over one email server? The crimes are real, but the narrow obsession is insane.
The location is fine, though I think the main reason for choosing Nevada was Tax avoidance.
I just can't see why it all needs to be in the one location. Maybe that too comes down to accounting reasons - they can negotiate better taxpayer subsidies if its one big factory.
(And I apologise to anyone offended by my penis metaphor for a vanity project.)
Spying is expected. Publishing the data is not. If the Kremlin is behind this, it may be because they blame the US administration for recent leaks that have embarrassed Putin and allies.
Snowden is snubbing someone for not properly curating a leak, given that he released classified documents that were far more sensitive without usefully curating them.
Snowden released documents to trusted journalists, he did not dump anything on the internet.
Feel free to dig up illegal activities by Trump and send them to Wikileaks if you can.
To quote the man himself, " I could shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters. "
Unless you have photos of Trump with an underage rent boy, his supporters don't care what he has done.
A lot of eggs in one basket!
How much does that save over having a few smaller factories in different locations?
Have we learned nothing from the 2011 Thailand floods leading to a global hard drive shortage? And that was multiple factories in the same area.
The benefits of scale are not obvious like the Boeing Everett factory.
Are there sound technical reasons for this concentration, or is it just compensation for Elon Musk's small penis?
Except that's not a free market, it's a very tightly regulated market with very strict rules (and presumably very harsh penalties for breaking them).
That's what we have right now with current laws, oligopoly middle men, and the RIAA/MPAA etc.