so that...
- in case if a fire, they know how many people are in the building
- in the case in crime, they can rule you out if you we're not in the building
it's because they have stock in the company that produces Anonymous/Guy Fawkes masks which you'll start wearing whenever your in the building
According to Wikipedia "DirectX 12 was announced by Microsoft at GDC on March 20, 2014".
Really, Microsnot just decided to ignore the Windows 7 user for a bunch of years hoping that they would upgrade, or buy computer with Win10.
It is NOT newsworthy that it happened... and unfortunately, it's not even newsworthy any-more that Microsnot doesn't give a crap about their customers.
I can't walk in to a single shop in Copenhagen area an expect to be asked...
"So, would you like that computer with, or with-out Windows?"
We all know that Microsoft didn't become wealthy giving away software, so even if it doesn't specify a cost on the purchase receipt next to VAT... I'm paying for Windows when I buy a computer even-though it will never be used.
I'll might start to believe in a "Linux take-over" when EVERY piece of computer hardware I buy has a "Works with Linux" label, and I won't have to worry about that manufacturer looses interest in maintaining Linux drivers immediately after I open the box.
1) We consider the self-driving car to be a "robot"
2) We consider the willing passengers"part of the robot", as they chose to be there.
Therefore the law ("A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm") only should apply to those parties who didn't consent to having a "robot" interact with them.
Thus... the willing passengers inside the car should be sacrificed.
...before installing an app/program "nobody" has any idea what they are consenting to.
The average person could be giving up their rights to their first born children every time they install a program/app.
Many installations want consent for collecting data to "improve the product" or "improve customer experience"... theoretically, giving all ones data to the NSA to help prevent terrorism is an improvement for the customer.
Social media is a system by which idiot will pay(with their time) to give their personal information to a company which(like all companies) main goal is to make their stockholders some money.
Knowledge is power.
...five-year old kid made an illegal blind merge.
As far as I know, there isn't a country in the world that holds five-year old's legal "responsibly", so they can't make illegal blind merges.
The case with the car would correspond to that if a parent was leading the kid.
Even though the kid has a mind of it's own, the parent is responsible.
I hope that we never get to a point where driverless(accountability-less) vehicles share the same roads as "the rest of us". They should at least have their own lanes, separated by concrete blocks.
The fact that the operator/driver wasn't paying attention to their surrounding does not "exempt" the operator/driver from the vehicular homicide.
No matter what the law says, the truth is that some idiot trusted the software for do that they should have been doing, which is paying attention and giving a crap.
What the law will figure out... who knows. The person who initiated the drive is at fault of negligent homicide.
1. All employees must wear a grey burqa
2. Electronic "voice scrambling" devices will be issued to all employees, their use will be mandatory
3. One will refer to each other by ones Employee ID nr. as ones names generally gender specific
4. No one may be refereed to by a gender specific pronoun
5. Employees will be issues with a gender neutral deodorant. Other scents may not be worn
These statistics are probably skewed by ridiculous rules like:
- If a city has Windows 10 on over 50% of the computer, when they are all considered to be Windows 10 computers.
- Super statisticals: people whose computer usage count as 10,000 users, they're specifically chosen by the company paying for the survey.
Popular in this context is sort of like a "belief" system... just like religion.
- most people believe in "their religion" because that's what their parents/culture brought them up to do
- most people use Windows because that's what their computer came with, and change is scary
Windows 10 is "popular" in the same way the plague was "popular".
The correct word here is "common".
To sound a "real" alarm should be easy, and 99.999% idiot proof.
It should rely on the minimum amount of technology, as we don't want a situation where the alarm can't be sounded because the software crashed or the mouse has dust on the sensor
The activator for the real alarm should be a large red button, which sits in a red box with the instructions:
"break the glass, and hold the button down for 5 seconds",
next to is there should be a white button with which can't be mistaken for the "real" button with the text: "hold the button down for 5 seconds to sound the test alarm" if it is a part of the procedure an alarm cancelled message should be sent automatically
I know and accept that all batteries will loose their capacity over time. Everybody over the age of about 8 should have learnt this. It should be my choice of which action to take.
I could:
1) replace the battery
2) buy a new phone
3) use the phone less
4) have a charger with me and desperately be in search for an power outlet
5) buy a USB power bank to keep the phone charge
6) turn on a power saving mode to extend the battery charge
First of all, this is the advertisers on Facebook who are choosing who should see the ads, all Facebook does is to make this possible.
In the same line of logic that "guns don't kill people, people kill people", "Facebook doesn't discriminate, advertisers discriminate". Facebook is just making it easier.
I would guess that the demographic of people who read the "old-fashion" paper versions of newspapers are getting older.
Would ads only printed "paper newspapers" be considered as discrimination?
The problem is that one has allowed an addiction(nicotine,phones,chewing-gum,finger-spinners) to flourish it is almost impossible for "common sense" to win.
- Students become anxious if they aren't online 24hours a day
- Parents become anxious if they can't "hover" over their children at all times
In not so recent past(relatively speaking), parents would have to call the school office/secretary to contact their kids, and the kids would have to use a payphone(or the office phone in case of emergencies)... WE SURVIVED.
No one will ever tell you that more distractions in school is an advantage.
As long at the curriculum is created at a level where a whole internet's worth of knowledge is not required, then there is no reason for kids to use them.
Also if the cyber bullies can't be online in school time, then school time will be less stressful for the bullies targets. Many(most?) cyberbullies are too scared to confront their targets in person.
Did anyone really expect this to be more than a modern "keypad lock"?
On my first phone, one could lock and unlock the keypad by pressing 0000. This was not security measure, just a way of preventing accidental phone calls.
Face ID is just the modern "keypad lock", the right photo of the person will probably also unlock the phone.
Somewhere in the "terms and conditions" or "end user agreement ", which none of us read but could/should, they probably told us that they were going to use our data(typed or spoken) to improve their products/profit.
Whether it's an OS, browser, communication, chat, VOIP, or on-line game, every program you use or install has a line in the mass of waffle a cryptically written paragraphs which you agree to which states that anything you do with their product is fair game.
no... the headline probably states two true statements:
1: Nicotine increases the risk of heart disease
2: The vaping product, I'm assuming that there are versions without nicotine, does not increase the risk of heart disease
There should in every street vehicle be a person why is responsible/liable the operation of the vehicle.
There should be "driver assistance vehicles" where the driver gets...
- collision detection... warns the driver of obstacles, and possible can apply brakes
- lane change detection... if one crosses lanes without indicating one is "suspected" of not being alert
- blink rate detection... this should warn the driver that they are getting tired, and give the driver a short time to find a save place to park
- male hormone detection... prevents the car from driving more that 60mph
- a "screen light detector"... a camera which point towards the driver and shuts the engine off if it detect a phone/tablet/etc.
Who "forces anyone to use Google"??? Well, it's the "other consumers". If all the "other consumers" use Google, then essentially the businesses are "forced" to use Google... and in turn "you and I" are "forced" to use Google
One could argue that "it's not Googles fault that they make a better product than the consumer", and that is true.
The commission if fining Google because:
- Consumers(stupidly/naively) believe that Google is showing the results that are most relevant to the customer
- Google is NOT doing that
If you search for "cheap shoes", the searcher/customer has a right to expect that they get a fair representation of the best(most relevant) sites that sell cheap shoes.
Google does NOT do this...
- They will sneakily put links to their own store, with out any indication that it is essentially an advert for their own product/store.
The commission is very serious, but unfortunately Google can tie up the process for years/decades.
Intel has been battling the EU commission since 2009 (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/ICT/intel.html), but the EU commission has all the teeth of an earthworm.
Deciding that Google "should" pay money isn't the same as Google actually paying the money.
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... and in relation to the quality of humor, it produces too much CO2
so that...
- in case if a fire, they know how many people are in the building
- in the case in crime, they can rule you out if you we're not in the building
it's because they have stock in the company that produces Anonymous/Guy Fawkes masks which you'll start wearing whenever your in the building
...so doesn't that make him a "Space-Based Weapon" already? He does have access to a rather large military force.
There is a large portion of the world who don't have the money to upgrade their computers every-time a new Windows version is released.
Running a "modern" version of Window on an older computer will make the computer run like crap.
But as Microsoft needs to keep the game creators and users happy, old computers/OS's need newer DirectX versions
According to Wikipedia "DirectX 12 was announced by Microsoft at GDC on March 20, 2014".
Really, Microsnot just decided to ignore the Windows 7 user for a bunch of years hoping that they would upgrade, or buy computer with Win10.
It is NOT newsworthy that it happened... and unfortunately, it's not even newsworthy any-more that Microsnot doesn't give a crap about their customers.
... it's a Trump'ish way of helping "big industry", "big coal", "big oil", etc.
I can't walk in to a single shop in Copenhagen area an expect to be asked...
"So, would you like that computer with, or with-out Windows?"
We all know that Microsoft didn't become wealthy giving away software, so even if it doesn't specify a cost on the purchase receipt next to VAT... I'm paying for Windows when I buy a computer even-though it will never be used.
I'll might start to believe in a "Linux take-over" when EVERY piece of computer hardware I buy has a "Works with Linux" label, and I won't have to worry about that manufacturer looses interest in maintaining Linux drivers immediately after I open the box.
1) We consider the self-driving car to be a "robot"
2) We consider the willing passengers "part of the robot", as they chose to be there.
Therefore the law ("A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm") only should apply to those parties who didn't consent to having a "robot" interact with them.
Thus... the willing passengers inside the car should be sacrificed.
...before installing an app/program "nobody" has any idea what they are consenting to.
The average person could be giving up their rights to their first born children every time they install a program/app.
Many installations want consent for collecting data to "improve the product" or "improve customer experience"... theoretically, giving all ones data to the NSA to help prevent terrorism is an improvement for the customer.
Social media is a system by which idiot will pay(with their time) to give their personal information to a company which(like all companies) main goal is to make their stockholders some money. Knowledge is power.
...five-year old kid made an illegal blind merge.
As far as I know, there isn't a country in the world that holds five-year old's legal "responsibly", so they can't make illegal blind merges.
The case with the car would correspond to that if a parent was leading the kid.
Even though the kid has a mind of it's own, the parent is responsible.
I hope that we never get to a point where driverless(accountability-less) vehicles share the same roads as "the rest of us". They should at least have their own lanes, separated by concrete blocks.
The fact that the operator/driver wasn't paying attention to their surrounding does not "exempt" the operator/driver from the vehicular homicide.
No matter what the law says, the truth is that some idiot trusted the software for do that they should have been doing, which is paying attention and giving a crap.
What the law will figure out... who knows. The person who initiated the drive is at fault of negligent homicide.
1. All employees must wear a grey burqa
2. Electronic "voice scrambling" devices will be issued to all employees, their use will be mandatory
3. One will refer to each other by ones Employee ID nr. as ones names generally gender specific
4. No one may be refereed to by a gender specific pronoun
5. Employees will be issues with a gender neutral deodorant. Other scents may not be worn
These statistics are probably skewed by ridiculous rules like:
- If a city has Windows 10 on over 50% of the computer, when they are all considered to be Windows 10 computers.
- Super statisticals: people whose computer usage count as 10,000 users, they're specifically chosen by the company paying for the survey.
Popular in this context is sort of like a "belief" system... just like religion.
- most people believe in "their religion" because that's what their parents/culture brought them up to do
- most people use Windows because that's what their computer came with, and change is scary
Windows 10 is "popular" in the same way the plague was "popular".
The correct word here is "common".
To sound a "real" alarm should be easy, and 99.999% idiot proof.
It should rely on the minimum amount of technology, as we don't want a situation where the alarm can't be sounded because the software crashed or the mouse has dust on the sensor
The activator for the real alarm should be a large red button, which sits in a red box with the instructions:
"break the glass, and hold the button down for 5 seconds",
next to is there should be a white button with which can't be mistaken for the "real" button with the text:
"hold the button down for 5 seconds to sound the test alarm" if it is a part of the procedure an alarm cancelled message should be sent automatically
I know and accept that all batteries will loose their capacity over time. Everybody over the age of about 8 should have learnt this.
It should be my choice of which action to take.
I could:
1) replace the battery
2) buy a new phone
3) use the phone less
4) have a charger with me and desperately be in search for an power outlet
5) buy a USB power bank to keep the phone charge
6) turn on a power saving mode to extend the battery charge
First of all, this is the advertisers on Facebook who are choosing who should see the ads, all Facebook does is to make this possible.
In the same line of logic that "guns don't kill people, people kill people", "Facebook doesn't discriminate, advertisers discriminate". Facebook is just making it easier.
I would guess that the demographic of people who read the "old-fashion" paper versions of newspapers are getting older.
Would ads only printed "paper newspapers" be considered as discrimination?
In not so recent past(relatively speaking), parents would have to call the school office/secretary to contact their kids, and the kids would have to use a payphone(or the office phone in case of emergencies)... WE SURVIVED.
No one will ever tell you that more distractions in school is an advantage.
As long at the curriculum is created at a level where a whole internet's worth of knowledge is not required, then there is no reason for kids to use them.
Also if the cyber bullies can't be online in school time, then school time will be less stressful for the bullies targets. Many(most?) cyberbullies are too scared to confront their targets in person.
Did anyone really expect this to be more than a modern "keypad lock"?
On my first phone, one could lock and unlock the keypad by pressing 0000. This was not security measure, just a way of preventing accidental phone calls.
Face ID is just the modern "keypad lock", the right photo of the person will probably also unlock the phone.
Somewhere in the "terms and conditions" or "end user agreement ", which none of us read but could/should, they probably told us that they were going to use our data(typed or spoken) to improve their products/profit.
Whether it's an OS, browser, communication, chat, VOIP, or on-line game, every program you use or install has a line in the mass of waffle a cryptically written paragraphs which you agree to which states that anything you do with their product is fair game.
You didn't realize that it's a joke... you've obviously been drinking too much bleach.
no... the headline probably states two true statements:
1: Nicotine increases the risk of heart disease
2: The vaping product, I'm assuming that there are versions without nicotine, does not increase the risk of heart disease
There should in every street vehicle be a person why is responsible/liable the operation of the vehicle.
There should be "driver assistance vehicles" where the driver gets...
- collision detection... warns the driver of obstacles, and possible can apply brakes
- lane change detection... if one crosses lanes without indicating one is "suspected" of not being alert
- blink rate detection... this should warn the driver that they are getting tired, and give the driver a short time to find a save place to park
- male hormone detection... prevents the car from driving more that 60mph
- a "screen light detector"... a camera which point towards the driver and shuts the engine off if it detect a phone/tablet/etc.
This should all be mandatory by 2025.
Who "forces anyone to use Google"??? Well, it's the "other consumers". If all the "other consumers" use Google, then essentially the businesses are "forced" to use Google... and in turn "you and I" are "forced" to use Google
One could argue that "it's not Googles fault that they make a better product than the consumer", and that is true.
The commission if fining Google because:
- Consumers(stupidly/naively) believe that Google is showing the results that are most relevant to the customer
- Google is NOT doing that
If you search for "cheap shoes", the searcher/customer has a right to expect that they get a fair representation of the best(most relevant) sites that sell cheap shoes.
Google does NOT do this...
- They will sneakily put links to their own store, with out any indication that it is essentially an advert for their own product/store.
The commission is very serious, but unfortunately Google can tie up the process for years/decades.
Intel has been battling the EU commission since 2009 (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/ICT/intel.html), but the EU commission has all the teeth of an earthworm.
Deciding that Google "should" pay money isn't the same as Google actually paying the money.