Wells Fargos were renting their change counting machine. (Huh?!!?)
This isn't really surprising. It allows you to convert the purchase of a capital asset into an operational expense. Presumably this lease also included service and possibly installation and removal at the end of a lease. We do the same thing with our large multi-function printers.
The assumption was that all the other chemicals in cigarettes were as much, or more, of a problem as the nicotine. For example, take a look at the NY Smoke Free website:
Q: Does nicotine cause cancer?
A: No, tar in cigarette smoke causes cancer. But, Nicotine is an addictive drug. It is not the nicotine in cigarette smoke that causes cancer. Nicotine may keep you smoking, but it is the other bad chemicals in cigarettes that make smoking so dangerous.
The question then becomes what about the other chemicals in e-cigarettes? Do they cause cancer? The verdict is still out, especially because there are hundreds or thousands of types of e-liquid, so it's hard to say which ingredients are more dangerous. This is a single study using a brand new method for detecting DNA damage.
The vast majority of people using e-cigarettes don't believe it's completely harmless, the hope was just that it is far LESS harmful than traditional cigarettes.
I have lots of friends who work gov jobs. I know for a fact that they're overstaffed, over-funded and get paid overtime in salaried positions. It's a stereotype for a reason. If you work a gov job and you work as hard as people do on the private side then you're probably doing something wrong.
Everyone keeps talking about this problem but I've still never seen it in practice, directly or indirectly. Every shared codebase in the world is based on dozens or hundreds of internal conventions, but somehow we think we can't manage to avoid mixing whitespace?
I've always considered taking a gov job when I get a little older. Take a huge paycut but do 90% less work and have unparalleled job security. Seems like a nice way to slide into retirement.
The end result is being a net worth of $300M. Who cares about a measly $200k for giving up that many hours of your life? 20 hours a week over how many years to increase your net worth by 0.06%? No thanks.
I'm sorry, when did I make an untenable comparison previously? Or are you just conflating different people and opinions to try and create a contradiction?
I live in Nashville, we have both Google Fiber ($70/mo) and ATT Gigapower ($80/mo) both of which offer bidirectional 1Gb/s connections with no data limits.
Which cities are you comparing to which cities? It's essentially impossible to find an apples to apples comparison. Not to mention the fact that broadband providers are required to distribute cost over much larger areas than other places.
Consider that Australia, which is nearly as large as the U.S. has faster wireless service, despite having only one tenth the population. It population density is one of the lowest in the world.
So they have 1/10th the number of people using the service and you wonder why their average speed is higher?
Consider that Finland, which has less than half the U.S. population density of the U.S. has the third fastest wireless in the world. Similarly with Norway which is number five.
Finland: 130,000 sq mi, population 5M Norway: 148,000 sq mi, population 5M USA: 3,800,000 sq mi, population 325M
So a country that's 30 times larger with 65 times more people on average has worse broadband. Turns out scaling is a REALLY hard problem. Notice how there's no country larger than the US with better broadband.
The fact of the matter is it's just impossible to compare these tiny, homogeneous countries with the US.
This is where the analogy falls apart. Packets are all the same size (MTU/MSS) when the traverse a carrier's network. Even bandwidth isn't an adequate analogy here because that would be charger more if you wanted to transport lots of cars (packets).
- it is simply really hard to believe that out of the 783 times Tulsa Police used their extraction devices, all were for crimes in which it was necessary to look at all of the phone's data.
No it's not. It's very simple. It's 2017 how do you think drug deals work? Smoke signals?
If you build your own dedicated road, like a toll road, you can charge for it. Go put fiber in the ground, then call up the major carriers and offer to charge for it's use. That's how that works. What you cannot do is charge more to Bob than Larry to drive over that toll road. "HOV lanes" can be constructed whenever carriers see fit, this happens all the time. They lease additional capacity from another carrier and use this for excess traffic or periods of peak activity because while expensive, it's cheaper than laying more fiber, at least for some period of time.
I think it's just that we have an entirely new class of targets. We had botnets before Marai and IoT botnets, those didn't go away. We've added more devices to the internet we didn't make any significant improvements to the security of existing devices.
A good programmer should be able to learn a language in a month and become proficient in three months at most.
This isn't, and shouldn't be, the case. There is a huge demand for work in higher level languages that can be done by less skilled programmers. Most of them wouldn't be capable of programming in C, and that's ok. If ALL programming needed to be done by a programmer who could become proficient in any language in three months we'd be 50 years behind in our use of software as a species. We could be pedantic and call that "scripting" and not "programming" but that's obviously a specious distinction.
Lower median could also mean that it's so easy that lots of unskilled botnet creators have entered the arena. You'll notice at the same time the largest DDoS attacks continue to grow year over year.
I'm pretty sure Apple fans aren't giving the video a thumbs down, so I don't think that logic holds. More than likely its the massive number of Android users coming to defend it.
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I don't disagree with you, but we're assuming China (or some other country) hasn't blocked that site as well.
So you punish everyone else because China blocks twitter? That's a horrible decision.
They also get machines maintained as part of the lease.
Agreed, that's what I meant by "service" in my original post. This isn't an unusual arrangement at all.
Wells Fargos were renting their change counting machine. (Huh?!!?)
This isn't really surprising. It allows you to convert the purchase of a capital asset into an operational expense. Presumably this lease also included service and possibly installation and removal at the end of a lease. We do the same thing with our large multi-function printers.
HIPAA doesn't require password changes on a regular interval.
Q: Does nicotine cause cancer?
A: No, tar in cigarette smoke causes cancer. But, Nicotine is an addictive drug. It is not the nicotine in cigarette smoke that causes cancer. Nicotine may keep you smoking, but it is the other bad chemicals in cigarettes that make smoking so dangerous.
The question then becomes what about the other chemicals in e-cigarettes? Do they cause cancer? The verdict is still out, especially because there are hundreds or thousands of types of e-liquid, so it's hard to say which ingredients are more dangerous. This is a single study using a brand new method for detecting DNA damage.
The vast majority of people using e-cigarettes don't believe it's completely harmless, the hope was just that it is far LESS harmful than traditional cigarettes.
I have lots of friends who work gov jobs. I know for a fact that they're overstaffed, over-funded and get paid overtime in salaried positions. It's a stereotype for a reason. If you work a gov job and you work as hard as people do on the private side then you're probably doing something wrong.
If it screws up the code it won't pass a build test and won't get merged, so the question is based on a false premise.
Everyone keeps talking about this problem but I've still never seen it in practice, directly or indirectly. Every shared codebase in the world is based on dozens or hundreds of internal conventions, but somehow we think we can't manage to avoid mixing whitespace?
I've always considered taking a gov job when I get a little older. Take a huge paycut but do 90% less work and have unparalleled job security. Seems like a nice way to slide into retirement.
Let's all relax, this is obviously fakey. Slashdot is now citing reddit posts from self-proclaimed throwaway accounts as news? Yeesh.
Wholeheartedly agree.
The end result is being a net worth of $300M. Who cares about a measly $200k for giving up that many hours of your life? 20 hours a week over how many years to increase your net worth by 0.06%? No thanks.
I'm sorry, when did I make an untenable comparison previously? Or are you just conflating different people and opinions to try and create a contradiction?
I live in Nashville, we have both Google Fiber ($70/mo) and ATT Gigapower ($80/mo) both of which offer bidirectional 1Gb/s connections with no data limits.
Which cities are you comparing to which cities? It's essentially impossible to find an apples to apples comparison. Not to mention the fact that broadband providers are required to distribute cost over much larger areas than other places.
Consider that Australia, which is nearly as large as the U.S. has faster wireless service, despite having only one tenth the population. It population density is one of the lowest in the world.
So they have 1/10th the number of people using the service and you wonder why their average speed is higher?
Consider that Finland, which has less than half the U.S. population density of the U.S. has the third fastest wireless in the world. Similarly with Norway which is number five.
Finland: 130,000 sq mi, population 5M
Norway: 148,000 sq mi, population 5M
USA: 3,800,000 sq mi, population 325M
So a country that's 30 times larger with 65 times more people on average has worse broadband. Turns out scaling is a REALLY hard problem. Notice how there's no country larger than the US with better broadband.
The fact of the matter is it's just impossible to compare these tiny, homogeneous countries with the US.
This is where the analogy falls apart. Packets are all the same size (MTU/MSS) when the traverse a carrier's network. Even bandwidth isn't an adequate analogy here because that would be charger more if you wanted to transport lots of cars (packets).
Lots of the information critical to investigate small fry drug dealer can easily be eavesdropped without even needed access to the culprit's phone.
That's far more complex. Much easier to just catch him with drugs, unlock his phone, read his texts.
- it is simply really hard to believe that out of the 783 times Tulsa Police used their extraction devices, all were for crimes in which it was necessary to look at all of the phone's data.
No it's not. It's very simple. It's 2017 how do you think drug deals work? Smoke signals?
If you build your own dedicated road, like a toll road, you can charge for it. Go put fiber in the ground, then call up the major carriers and offer to charge for it's use. That's how that works. What you cannot do is charge more to Bob than Larry to drive over that toll road. "HOV lanes" can be constructed whenever carriers see fit, this happens all the time. They lease additional capacity from another carrier and use this for excess traffic or periods of peak activity because while expensive, it's cheaper than laying more fiber, at least for some period of time.
I think it's just that we have an entirely new class of targets. We had botnets before Marai and IoT botnets, those didn't go away. We've added more devices to the internet we didn't make any significant improvements to the security of existing devices.
A good programmer should be able to learn a language in a month and become proficient in three months at most.
This isn't, and shouldn't be, the case. There is a huge demand for work in higher level languages that can be done by less skilled programmers. Most of them wouldn't be capable of programming in C, and that's ok. If ALL programming needed to be done by a programmer who could become proficient in any language in three months we'd be 50 years behind in our use of software as a species. We could be pedantic and call that "scripting" and not "programming" but that's obviously a specious distinction.
"built upon the decades of evolution of the Linux operating system and the contributions of thousands of volunteers on the GNOME project. "
That seemed kind of unnecessary. Are we going to start announcing all distro news in this way?
Lower median could also mean that it's so easy that lots of unskilled botnet creators have entered the arena. You'll notice at the same time the largest DDoS attacks continue to grow year over year.
I'm pretty sure Apple fans aren't giving the video a thumbs down, so I don't think that logic holds. More than likely its the massive number of Android users coming to defend it.