Siri is interesting, and probably a good start, but the noise filtering routines need work. When I try to use Siri in my noisy, diesel powered Jeep, well let me just say that the results can be quite amusing.
I wonder, to improve the routines does the chip have to be redone?
The fix is to require that all businesses that are global to meet the requirements for ALL countries that are impacted by the business. For example, if software development is moved to India then the business must comply with the regulations for BOTH countries. And for the chain of businesses involved, each would have to comply. Example, if Company A in the US hires Company B in England, who hires Company C in India, to do the work then all three companies must comply with the regulations in the US, England, and India for the product involved. A requirement like this would help countries like India raise their standards of living and reduce shifting of jobs from rich countries to poor countries simply for the sake of profit. The same should apply to all products (example, electronics produced in China), not just software.
Consider the possibilities...either the Universe is finite, in which case you have to wonder what's outside the Universe, or it is infinite, in which case there are an infinite number of copies of each of us elsewhere reading Slashdot instead of working...
Actually, they paid less than zero penalty for each song. The $50 million was their estimate of the royalties owed if they had paid up front like they should have. So the $47 million is less than the estimated royalties cost, and nothing for penalties. I'd say all future RIAA lawsuits should use this benchmark for sure...
Hardly. There are at least three backup systems that I know of that would launch the missiles in case the primary command and control is disrupted. Besides, the US alone has well over 100 times the necessary destructive power to end the world. Losing 10% of that capability for an hour wouldn't affect our ability to screw the world for good. It's not called "Mutually Assured Destruction" for nothing...
"a launch control center computer (LCC), responsible for a package of at least five missiles, usually ten of them". Each computer responsible for 5 to 10 missiles, each missile carrying from 1 to 3 independently targeted warheads = up to 30 warheads per computer. 5 computers down means somewhere between 5 to 150 warheads offline. So who knows exactly how many were affected.
Besides, this is the media. They are more worried about being sensational than accurate. I'm sure the military didn't give a precise break down as to how many missiles and how many warheads were controlled by the downed computers.
If I were to speculate (and of course I am speculating), it might be programmers testing new trading schemes or routines -- using values that can't possibly generate a viable trade --- or possibly left over debug routines still running on the computers doing the trading. Or maybe the matrix has another glitch in it...
It's not the same. You buy the paper before reading the headlines. On the web, you read the headlines before you pay for anything.
I am not a fan of buying access on the web but this is because most newspapers have very little unique content. I will not pay one newspaper for something that can be had for free elsewhere, and I surely won't pay someone to tell me something happened (maybe for analysis of what happened if it's good but not just for the event itself). The difference now verses in the olden times is that before you were paying for the delivery of the news via a paper medium. Now, it is delivered via a web page. Before, there were one or two or three newsstands convenient to me. Now I have 100,000 web pages all delivering the same content and all equally convenient.
Today I read articles because of the writer's talent or opinion, not because of the publisher. The newspapers are in the same position as the RIAA. Not really needed anymore (or at least not for the same reason as before, their business needs to change).
Not too bad, as long as this output is never stored electronically, and no nefarious person ever gets access to your wallet alone. However, keep in mind someone who has just a little knowledge of you now only has around 160 passwords to check...
I got news for you...while I will not go into any more detail than this, while I was in the Air Force I worked on a system for three years for the Strategic Air Command that would automatically launch all of our ICBMs if the chain of command was ever knocked out. As far as I know that system or its successor is still operational (I've been out of the military for 29 years).
I am always amazed that the world has managed to avoid a nuclear war...
Jian-Wei Wang has just been added to America's Top 10 Most Wanted Terrorist list, according to a DHS spokeperson. "We believe this person has been studying some of our infrastructure with the intent to identify inherent weaknesses. It is only a matter of time before this person, or someone else, uses the knowledge gained to attack the USA." A few moments later, a nearby open microphone caught the DHS official's candid statement "Anyone using information, public or private, to point out our own stupidity is automatically suspect. To go so far as to publish their findings is criminal. Besides, since we can't find any real terrorists, we have to demonize someone so we can continue justifying our astronomical budget in these difficult economic times." After a reporter on the scene brought this admission to the attention of the spokesperson, the reporter's name was also added to the list.
But only with insane contract terms...
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I have checked out every last cell phone carrier's data plan, this one is no exception. You agree that the first 5 GB of data download costs you $60. The second 5 GB of download for that month cost in excess of $1,200. Only a fool would sign a contract that has no upper limit to how much it can cost you.
If you sign such a contract then don't go bitching to the carrier when you get your first multi-thousand dollar bill.
The main mistake Circuit City made IMHO was that their prices were always higher than their primary competitors (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc.). They had a policy that they would match the price of any competitor; however, they wouldn't beat the competitor's price. Of course, their high pressure sales tactics didn't help either but my main gripe was their advertised prices.
Only matching a competitor's price (and not beating the price) meant they were basically forcing their customers to do their job, i.e. price shop their competition. If I find two stores selling the same item, and one store is less than the other, I'm going to the lower priced store. The only time I'd consider going to the higher priced store would be if they gave me a price LOWER than their competitor. A price match is meaningless.
Maybe they changed their policy in later years (after I stopped visiting their stores), I don't know, but the negative perception I developed about them persists to this day. And now they're gone. I wonder if they learned anything?
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New corporate motto: Do Some Evil
...the subsidies they have to pay Apple in order to carry the iPhone are drastically reducing their [insanely high, customer gouging] profits.
There, fixed that for you.
Siri is interesting, and probably a good start, but the noise filtering routines need work. When I try to use Siri in my noisy, diesel powered Jeep, well let me just say that the results can be quite amusing. I wonder, to improve the routines does the chip have to be redone?
And so the difference between writing it out on a piece of paper verses writing it out on a computer screen is...?
Granted, that is the crux of the issue -- where does it become self-incrimination -- and it's not an easy answer.
Google went from "Do No Evil" to "Amoral Megacorp" in record time. It's the age we live in (everything happens faster).
Doubt it will catch on as a summer vacation thing to do.
...because of Siri no doubt.
The fix is to require that all businesses that are global to meet the requirements for ALL countries that are impacted by the business. For example, if software development is moved to India then the business must comply with the regulations for BOTH countries. And for the chain of businesses involved, each would have to comply. Example, if Company A in the US hires Company B in England, who hires Company C in India, to do the work then all three companies must comply with the regulations in the US, England, and India for the product involved. A requirement like this would help countries like India raise their standards of living and reduce shifting of jobs from rich countries to poor countries simply for the sake of profit. The same should apply to all products (example, electronics produced in China), not just software.
Youtube doubled its revenues last year
So, was that $13 to $26 or $13,000,000,000 to $26,000,000,000?
Consider the possibilities...either the Universe is finite, in which case you have to wonder what's outside the Universe, or it is infinite, in which case there are an infinite number of copies of each of us elsewhere reading Slashdot instead of working...
Either possibility is profound.
Actually, it is probably the same 100 ip addresses...coming from the same few proxies used by the millions of BT users around the world...
Actually, they paid less than zero penalty for each song. The $50 million was their estimate of the royalties owed if they had paid up front like they should have. So the $47 million is less than the estimated royalties cost, and nothing for penalties. I'd say all future RIAA lawsuits should use this benchmark for sure...
Hardly. There are at least three backup systems that I know of that would launch the missiles in case the primary command and control is disrupted. Besides, the US alone has well over 100 times the necessary destructive power to end the world. Losing 10% of that capability for an hour wouldn't affect our ability to screw the world for good. It's not called "Mutually Assured Destruction" for nothing...
"a launch control center computer (LCC), responsible for a package of at least five missiles, usually ten of them". Each computer responsible for 5 to 10 missiles, each missile carrying from 1 to 3 independently targeted warheads = up to 30 warheads per computer. 5 computers down means somewhere between 5 to 150 warheads offline. So who knows exactly how many were affected.
Besides, this is the media. They are more worried about being sensational than accurate. I'm sure the military didn't give a precise break down as to how many missiles and how many warheads were controlled by the downed computers.
...a user from Fucking, Austria would have...
...someone needs to add a dynamic "you are here" pointer...
If I were to speculate (and of course I am speculating), it might be programmers testing new trading schemes or routines -- using values that can't possibly generate a viable trade --- or possibly left over debug routines still running on the computers doing the trading. Or maybe the matrix has another glitch in it...
It's not the same. You buy the paper before reading the headlines. On the web, you read the headlines before you pay for anything.
I am not a fan of buying access on the web but this is because most newspapers have very little unique content. I will not pay one newspaper for something that can be had for free elsewhere, and I surely won't pay someone to tell me something happened (maybe for analysis of what happened if it's good but not just for the event itself). The difference now verses in the olden times is that before you were paying for the delivery of the news via a paper medium. Now, it is delivered via a web page. Before, there were one or two or three newsstands convenient to me. Now I have 100,000 web pages all delivering the same content and all equally convenient.
Today I read articles because of the writer's talent or opinion, not because of the publisher. The newspapers are in the same position as the RIAA. Not really needed anymore (or at least not for the same reason as before, their business needs to change).
Not too bad, as long as this output is never stored electronically, and no nefarious person ever gets access to your wallet alone. However, keep in mind someone who has just a little knowledge of you now only has around 160 passwords to check...
And then of course, hope they never change the name of the web site...
I got news for you...while I will not go into any more detail than this, while I was in the Air Force I worked on a system for three years for the Strategic Air Command that would automatically launch all of our ICBMs if the chain of command was ever knocked out. As far as I know that system or its successor is still operational (I've been out of the military for 29 years). I am always amazed that the world has managed to avoid a nuclear war...
Jian-Wei Wang has just been added to America's Top 10 Most Wanted Terrorist list, according to a DHS spokeperson. "We believe this person has been studying some of our infrastructure with the intent to identify inherent weaknesses. It is only a matter of time before this person, or someone else, uses the knowledge gained to attack the USA." A few moments later, a nearby open microphone caught the DHS official's candid statement "Anyone using information, public or private, to point out our own stupidity is automatically suspect. To go so far as to publish their findings is criminal. Besides, since we can't find any real terrorists, we have to demonize someone so we can continue justifying our astronomical budget in these difficult economic times." After a reporter on the scene brought this admission to the attention of the spokesperson, the reporter's name was also added to the list.
I have checked out every last cell phone carrier's data plan, this one is no exception. You agree that the first 5 GB of data download costs you $60. The second 5 GB of download for that month cost in excess of $1,200. Only a fool would sign a contract that has no upper limit to how much it can cost you. If you sign such a contract then don't go bitching to the carrier when you get your first multi-thousand dollar bill.
The main mistake Circuit City made IMHO was that their prices were always higher than their primary competitors (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc.). They had a policy that they would match the price of any competitor; however, they wouldn't beat the competitor's price. Of course, their high pressure sales tactics didn't help either but my main gripe was their advertised prices.
Only matching a competitor's price (and not beating the price) meant they were basically forcing their customers to do their job, i.e. price shop their competition. If I find two stores selling the same item, and one store is less than the other, I'm going to the lower priced store. The only time I'd consider going to the higher priced store would be if they gave me a price LOWER than their competitor. A price match is meaningless.
Maybe they changed their policy in later years (after I stopped visiting their stores), I don't know, but the negative perception I developed about them persists to this day. And now they're gone. I wonder if they learned anything?
Hmmm, 172 - 50 = $122 million profit. Doesn't sound like that $50 million fine will do too much deterring...