1) Fundamentally all biometrics boil down to is an expensive, unreliable, and mechanically complicated way to generate a string which is used in place of entering a password. Once someone can arbitrarily generate a string of their choice, and they get your particular string, you're screwed, there's no way to change it. They own you. Its a very brittle non-fault tolerant system when it breaks. On the other hand, you can change a password.
2) Universally implemented as a single factor system, which is always a stupid idea. Not necessarily bad by itself, but if only implemented by idiots its guilt by association.
3) The computer never lies. Too many idiots trust whatever the computer says, it could never make a mistake, its perfectly secure. Biometrics is always associate with that type of moron. Again, another guilt by association.
4) The folks that like solutions like biometrics tend to be clinically paranoid, and those folks are a royal pain to associate with, work with/around/for, or hang out with. Again, its not the technology that's inherently evil, its just that its always associated with power tripping antisocial jerks. Kind of like a meth smoking pipe is not an evil object, its just a pipe, but none the less I would never date a chick who owned a collection of them.
The risk that someone will cut off a junior schoolchild's thumb in order to check out a library book seems to lie within acceptable bounds.
Nah, the problem is the other way around. Schools are staffed by the type of political folk that go out of their way to be sensitive and PC and multicultural. The kids of course rebel by acting the exact opposite. Anyway, right now, back at the district offices, there's probably some assistant vice regent of the executive director of differently-abled kids that is shitting a brick imagining some armless kid walking up to the librarian, trying to check out a book, "Oh little tommy just put your thumbprint right here" and the kid starts wailing away and collapses, parents sue the school for a billion dollars (and probably win). Seriously. These are the kind of people that will blow up a building because it doesn't have enough ramps / has too many stairs, or the school might be using textbooks from the 80s but the bathrooms are all brand new "accessible".
Who really steals books from a high school library.
Well, I don't, at least not for myself.
But, you see, I was an absolute monstrous little hell raiser in HS, back in the olden days, when "glam rock" was new, not retro. I was absolutely bored to tears, unless I was pulling off some kind of secret agent caper, or occasionally just anarchy for the sake of anarchy due to extreme boredom. I won all practical joke wars, and I was a bit of a bastard about it.
I would not be surprised to discover that certain jerks, cheating ex-girlfriends, bullies, and school personnel had, oddly enough, checked out and never returned the schools ENTIRE COLLECTION of gay/bi/curious/trans literature, suicide prevention lit, STD awareness lit (the joy of syphilis, etc) drug abuse lit... Whom would ever guess that the schools biggest jock read and kept every biography of Freddie Mercury, Liberace, etc.
Oh and I'm sure that a modern school would never electronically access "private" library records and call kids in for counseling. I pulled that maneuver off decades ago during a practical joke war with a friend, took him awhile to forgive me...
No ISP is going to give Google access to their address database.
No residential ISP. Commercial guys usually fill out the WHOIS form when they assign addresses. Otherwise ARIN gets agitated and may or may not give you more IP space when you ask for it. (Response will read something like: You want another/18? WTF? whois claims your most recent/18 is only 1% utilized?)
On commercial aircraft, yes. Light aircraft,however, especially older craft, are not shielded.
Humorously, no. You inspect HV power lines with a Cessna or a helicopter, not a fully loaded 747.
No one takes low altitude sight seeing flights in a 747.
Its not like the high power radio transmitter towers to the east of timmerman and north of mitchell airport in Milwaukee somehow magically know they are supposed to interfere with the light planes but not the big planes. Theres no little eyeball on the top of the tower.
Light planes are pretty simple. You screw up the fuel management system on a major jetliner, you get big problems transferring fuel from tank 7 to tank 18 and weight and balance get all screwed up, now is engine 3 feeding out of tank 2 or is that cross connected to tank 9 again? In comparison, on the old 172 I flew in the 80s (eek) the fuel management system was an emergency shut off valve from the overhead tanks, a left/right/both tank selector switch, and an electric backup fuel pump with a circuit breaker and a switch. And a fuel gauge meter than was about 1/2 inch square and could not be read more accurately than "full, empty, or somewhere in between". It was so old it had a mechanical carb instead of a fuel injection system.
Personally I'd buy an ebook reader if it was 8.5x11 inches at readable DPI and did PDFs, because that seems a nearly world standard electronic data sheet format.
If by world you mean North America, then I guess your're right. The rest of the world uses 210 mm × 297 mm (A4) paper instead of 8.5 in × 11 in (letter) paper.
This whole A4 flamefest is more of a waste of time than most flamefests. By standard electronic data sheet format, I literally mean that. You download a PIC microcontroller data sheet, a texas instruments A/D converter data sheet, a minicircuits DBM mixer data sheet, pretty much... anything digikey, jameco, or mouser sells, its all "8.5x11 letter". There might be some product from some European manufacturer I don't know about, probably written in a language I can't read anyway, but as a nearly universal rule, if an EE-type buys it, no matter where in the world its made, the data sheet will be 8.5x11 not A4 or whatever.
I totally sympathize that "generic printed stuff" in the metric world is A4, but if its a technical data sheet for something that processes electrons, its almost certainly printed on 8.5x11, no matter where in the world its made. Even the Chinese language data sheets at microchip inc (the pic guys) are on standard letter, as far as I know.
The maximum output for a class 1 mobile phone is 33dBm, which is 2 watts.
I find it highly unlikely you own one. Maybe you do, but probably not. Most people own phones limited to about 28 dBmW peak. Which doesn't mean they ever operate at full power, either.
For those whom don't understand decibels, (almost certainly including the original experimenters) that 5 dB difference is almost a factor of 4 of power, and would seem to result in almost a factor of 4 lower effect on the bees or whatever.
Unless the original experimenters had a religious or magical belief / outlook on life, in which case there is no point reasoning with them. Which generally seems to be the case with "cellphones cause X" crusaders.
No, because the cell phone were dumping heat into the hive. Everyone already knows bees work better when heated up, at least up to a certain temperature.
I'm told by my farmer relatives that hives in the winter cannot be killed by anything above antarctic temperatures, but they CAN run out of food, at which point they promptly die. So you can feed them corn syrup, which kills them later rather than sooner. Or so I am told. You actually weigh the entire hive and graph it. Obviously you record the weight on an average spring as the minimum and if the hive weight graph approaches its "lowest point ever" in january instead of the usual april or whatever, then you start worrying, and break out the corn syrup...
Change the frequencies. While this is a pain, it could be done in the event of something this serious.
Big problem. We used to have megawatt class TV transmitters in the upper UHF channels, and those frequencies were given away (more or less) to the hundred watt class cell phone base station towers. AMPS analog (which is now gone), old fashioned digital, nextel, trunked radio service (what the scanner guys listen to) now operate there. Thats why the "UHF over the air TV band" doesn't go up to channel 83 anymore. For like 50 years the TV transmitters at megawatt levels had no effect. Now you're trying to turn the economy upside down because using 100th to 1000000th the power in the last decade or so is "killing all the bees". Unlikely, in the extreme.
Most obvious failure mode is someone called the phone and either:
1) The ringtone sucks (don't most?) Bees vs loud noise is pretty iffy. Sometimes they don't care, sometimes they get agitated. As a higher mammal (?) I know that most ringtones I hear make me want to punch the owner, and/or stomp their phone, I assume bees have similar, yet simpler, feelings.
2) It's in ring and vibrate mode and bees REALLY get wound up by vibration. Probably evolved the meaning, "hungry bear is trying to get in, git yer stingers ready!"
3) The idiot telemarketer whom called left a VM, and now the phone vibrates every five minutes as a reminder. Just when the hive settles down a bit... RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE...
We've done that experiment thousands of times in this state for darn near a quarter century here. It's called a... farm.
Its almost a stereotype that farmers on the perimeter of town lease a tiny plot of land for a tower, or lease the top of their grain silo, or lease the tippy top of the barn roof, etc.
Generally the lease payments are enough to maintain the structure and/or the driveway leading up to the structure, not so little as to barely buy a beer and not so much as for the farmer to retire. I have two relatives in the farming business, one in sheep (well, that sounds completely inappropriate) and the other in corn and somewhat in vegetables, I know what I'm talking about here.
Note that farmers in general and dairy farmers especially are very much tuned in (bad pun) to EMF and electromagnetic fields. First of all because its almost a stereotype that all their heavy electrical gear is in disrepair and they have to keep their wits about them or they'll get electrocuted, and secondly, dairy farmers attach metal/electrical milking machines to a part of the cow anatomy where very few female mammals, humans included, enjoy having even the smallest electrical current flow.
I suppose it depends a lot on where you live, but around here its "normal" for farms to have a couple hives, or to rent some hives during pollination season.
Given that base stations run 10 - 20 dB more power than a handheld, any electromagnetic effect would harm the bees/whatever about 10 - 20 dB worse.
Since the reported effects from the very low power handheld transmitter are terrible, then every time for the last quarter century, simply driving a pollination truck onto a farm that rents basestation space should result in all the bees dying like instantly. But they don't.
Also most "medium and up" farmers have some form of radio network. Think technology like CBs, maybe a little better, maybe a little worse. Anyway, that RF source seems to have had no effect for at least 50+ years.
Hmm. I wonder if all of reality is wrong, or maybe, just maybe, the crackpot report is wrong.
One of the ongoing annoyances with HTML is all the web sites that subvert the design by forcing specific sizes and shapes of things (fonts, panels, etc) in the document.
Also include technological weirdness.
I'm 100% certain that in a "HTML standard" situation all ebook reader manufacturers whom don't sell e-ink technology readers will demand that a reader can only be marketed as "standard" or "reads for sure" or whatever, if it supports the HTML blink tag, preferentially with a HZ= attribute, for the obvious reason that eink can't do that. Personally I think current technology eink sucks, but I want to see it fail in the market by its own lack of merit, not by being stabbed in the back by some corrupt consortium, similar to how I don't want to see it succeed by nothing more than fanboyism.
2. For all the tree-huggers out there, you can only use paper from sustainable sources.
And the ink? And the diesel trucks shipping it all over? I find that all unlikely.
3. If it takes you 12 hours to read a book from start to finish, it will take you the same time to read the eBook. On most devices that means carrying around a spare set of batteries or finding somewhere to recharge.
Slashdotters are just weird. Every day, they drive their car 600 miles without stopping, ten hours continuous, so electric cars are totally useless for them. They only read books in continuous 12 hour stretches, always at the beach in full sunlight, always far away from an electrical outlet.
4. Electronic media is all about "me me me" whereas physical media can be loaned to family and friends, thus encouraging more social interaction.
My oh my, you're hanging out with the wrong crowd, if you think you can't share electronic media.
5. A used book can be given away to a charity or be sold to go towards the price of the next book.
I give away electronic media, and apply my revenue (zero) toward the (free) cost of my next electronic media, if you know what I mean. Seriously, "buying media" is only done as a fan donation or as a hoarder/collector mentality now a days. Welcome to the '10s.
"Oh, and don't get me wrong, we already have good standards, but they don't suck enough. By that I mean they don't arbitrarily restrict our readers in stupid ways. I long for the day we have a universal sucky e-book format."
How about ".docx"? That would be freaking lovely. Seriously. I'm surprised he didn't suggest it.
Either that or F all those unicode guys and their multicultural junk, I'm using EBCDIC. And when it doesn't sell, it'll be proof "no one wants ebooks" so we'll just can that market.
Any of the eighty eight thousand variations that modern web browsers and handle.
I wonder how the typographical types like Knuth and the graphics arts types like Tufte would react to the idea of not knowing how their pages will render.
Yeah for pot boiler romances no problemo, but some folks will have a cow at the idea that their page might be formatted into something they literally can't imagine by a device they know nothing about.
(or *.pdf, if you're a stickler for pretty graphics).
PDF is an epic fail if you're rescaling to a new "paper" size. And each reader is, of course, a different size.
Personally I'd buy an ebook reader if it was 8.5x11 inches at readable DPI and did PDFs, because that seems a nearly world standard electronic data sheet format.
everything from the semi-military style of management,
Military troops have a certain method for dealing with officers that push the troops too hard. Of course it happens in the movies more often than real life. Probably.
I wonder if some of the "suicides" were not actually suicides and the "workers" were actually "semi-military" lead/foreman/supvr level...
In the USA, for cultural reasons folks resolve their differences by being firearms to work, and between the physical evidence and the cameras its pretty obvious after the fact who did what. Maybe in China its more culturally traditional in those situations to test your boss's human powered flying ability or something equally hard to prove.
Seems unanimous that everyone thinks this lady is an idiot and has no right to sue.....
Come on... not even a troll sticking his head up above the bridge?
I posted above about my car insurance company suing two uninsured drivers for the cost of two separate accidents.
You have to realize, this is journalism, not the truth. Its entirely possible her insurance company is suing google on her behalf to recover their medical costs, and her only interaction is signing a paper stating she gives them permission or they don't pay her bills. It doesn't make the overall situation any less stupid, but it has a HUGE impact on the chick's level of idiocy, in that doing business with idiots that your employer selected for you is way down there on the list compared to actually personally being an idiot.
Its important to determine if SHE filed suit or if her medical insurer filed suit on her behalf to recover costs.
I have never personally filed a lawsuit against anyone, but both my wife and I have, in separate accidents, had our cars hit by uninsured drivers (thankfully no injuries) and both times the insurance company filed suit on our behalf to recover the money they paid to repair / replace our cars using our collision policy. For the accident 7 years ago, it took like 3 years but they finally recovered all their costs and reimbursed us our deductible, and the other accident a couple months ago is still ongoing. I would expect automotive medical claims to work the same way...
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1) Fundamentally all biometrics boil down to is an expensive, unreliable, and mechanically complicated way to generate a string which is used in place of entering a password. Once someone can arbitrarily generate a string of their choice, and they get your particular string, you're screwed, there's no way to change it. They own you. Its a very brittle non-fault tolerant system when it breaks. On the other hand, you can change a password.
2) Universally implemented as a single factor system, which is always a stupid idea. Not necessarily bad by itself, but if only implemented by idiots its guilt by association.
3) The computer never lies. Too many idiots trust whatever the computer says, it could never make a mistake, its perfectly secure. Biometrics is always associate with that type of moron. Again, another guilt by association.
4) The folks that like solutions like biometrics tend to be clinically paranoid, and those folks are a royal pain to associate with, work with/around/for, or hang out with. Again, its not the technology that's inherently evil, its just that its always associated with power tripping antisocial jerks. Kind of like a meth smoking pipe is not an evil object, its just a pipe, but none the less I would never date a chick who owned a collection of them.
The risk that someone will cut off a junior schoolchild's thumb in order to check out a library book seems to lie within acceptable bounds.
Nah, the problem is the other way around. Schools are staffed by the type of political folk that go out of their way to be sensitive and PC and multicultural. The kids of course rebel by acting the exact opposite. Anyway, right now, back at the district offices, there's probably some assistant vice regent of the executive director of differently-abled kids that is shitting a brick imagining some armless kid walking up to the librarian, trying to check out a book, "Oh little tommy just put your thumbprint right here" and the kid starts wailing away and collapses, parents sue the school for a billion dollars (and probably win). Seriously. These are the kind of people that will blow up a building because it doesn't have enough ramps / has too many stairs, or the school might be using textbooks from the 80s but the bathrooms are all brand new "accessible".
Who really steals books from a high school library.
Well, I don't, at least not for myself.
But, you see, I was an absolute monstrous little hell raiser in HS, back in the olden days, when "glam rock" was new, not retro. I was absolutely bored to tears, unless I was pulling off some kind of secret agent caper, or occasionally just anarchy for the sake of anarchy due to extreme boredom. I won all practical joke wars, and I was a bit of a bastard about it.
I would not be surprised to discover that certain jerks, cheating ex-girlfriends, bullies, and school personnel had, oddly enough, checked out and never returned the schools ENTIRE COLLECTION of gay/bi/curious/trans literature, suicide prevention lit, STD awareness lit (the joy of syphilis, etc) drug abuse lit... Whom would ever guess that the schools biggest jock read and kept every biography of Freddie Mercury, Liberace, etc.
Oh and I'm sure that a modern school would never electronically access "private" library records and call kids in for counseling. I pulled that maneuver off decades ago during a practical joke war with a friend, took him awhile to forgive me...
What does OMG stand for in Hungarian then
Nothing, really. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
No ISP is going to give Google access to their address database.
No residential ISP. Commercial guys usually fill out the WHOIS form when they assign addresses. Otherwise ARIN gets agitated and may or may not give you more IP space when you ask for it. (Response will read something like: You want another /18? WTF? whois claims your most recent /18 is only 1% utilized?)
And I don't understand why Google wants that information in the first place.
Maybe they think its hilarious to run "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM WIFI_GEOLOCATION_TABLE WHERE SSID='Linksys'"
On commercial aircraft, yes. Light aircraft,however, especially older craft, are not shielded.
Humorously, no. You inspect HV power lines with a Cessna or a helicopter, not a fully loaded 747.
No one takes low altitude sight seeing flights in a 747.
Its not like the high power radio transmitter towers to the east of timmerman and north of mitchell airport in Milwaukee somehow magically know they are supposed to interfere with the light planes but not the big planes. Theres no little eyeball on the top of the tower.
Light planes are pretty simple. You screw up the fuel management system on a major jetliner, you get big problems transferring fuel from tank 7 to tank 18 and weight and balance get all screwed up, now is engine 3 feeding out of tank 2 or is that cross connected to tank 9 again? In comparison, on the old 172 I flew in the 80s (eek) the fuel management system was an emergency shut off valve from the overhead tanks, a left/right/both tank selector switch, and an electric backup fuel pump with a circuit breaker and a switch. And a fuel gauge meter than was about 1/2 inch square and could not be read more accurately than "full, empty, or somewhere in between". It was so old it had a mechanical carb instead of a fuel injection system.
Personally I'd buy an ebook reader if it was 8.5x11 inches at readable DPI and did PDFs, because that seems a nearly world standard electronic data sheet format.
If by world you mean North America, then I guess your're right. The rest of the world uses 210 mm × 297 mm (A4) paper instead of 8.5 in × 11 in (letter) paper.
This whole A4 flamefest is more of a waste of time than most flamefests. By standard electronic data sheet format, I literally mean that. You download a PIC microcontroller data sheet, a texas instruments A/D converter data sheet, a minicircuits DBM mixer data sheet, pretty much ... anything digikey, jameco, or mouser sells, its all "8.5x11 letter". There might be some product from some European manufacturer I don't know about, probably written in a language I can't read anyway, but as a nearly universal rule, if an EE-type buys it, no matter where in the world its made, the data sheet will be 8.5x11 not A4 or whatever.
I totally sympathize that "generic printed stuff" in the metric world is A4, but if its a technical data sheet for something that processes electrons, its almost certainly printed on 8.5x11, no matter where in the world its made. Even the Chinese language data sheets at microchip inc (the pic guys) are on standard letter, as far as I know.
The maximum output for a class 1 mobile phone is 33dBm, which is 2 watts.
I find it highly unlikely you own one. Maybe you do, but probably not. Most people own phones limited to about 28 dBmW peak. Which doesn't mean they ever operate at full power, either.
For those whom don't understand decibels, (almost certainly including the original experimenters) that 5 dB difference is almost a factor of 4 of power, and would seem to result in almost a factor of 4 lower effect on the bees or whatever.
Unless the original experimenters had a religious or magical belief / outlook on life, in which case there is no point reasoning with them. Which generally seems to be the case with "cellphones cause X" crusaders.
No, because the cell phone were dumping heat into the hive. Everyone already knows bees work better when heated up, at least up to a certain temperature.
I'm told by my farmer relatives that hives in the winter cannot be killed by anything above antarctic temperatures, but they CAN run out of food, at which point they promptly die. So you can feed them corn syrup, which kills them later rather than sooner. Or so I am told. You actually weigh the entire hive and graph it. Obviously you record the weight on an average spring as the minimum and if the hive weight graph approaches its "lowest point ever" in january instead of the usual april or whatever, then you start worrying, and break out the corn syrup...
Change the frequencies. While this is a pain, it could be done in the event of something this serious.
Big problem. We used to have megawatt class TV transmitters in the upper UHF channels, and those frequencies were given away (more or less) to the hundred watt class cell phone base station towers. AMPS analog (which is now gone), old fashioned digital, nextel, trunked radio service (what the scanner guys listen to) now operate there. Thats why the "UHF over the air TV band" doesn't go up to channel 83 anymore. For like 50 years the TV transmitters at megawatt levels had no effect. Now you're trying to turn the economy upside down because using 100th to 1000000th the power in the last decade or so is "killing all the bees". Unlikely, in the extreme.
Most obvious failure mode is someone called the phone and either:
1) The ringtone sucks (don't most?) Bees vs loud noise is pretty iffy. Sometimes they don't care, sometimes they get agitated. As a higher mammal (?) I know that most ringtones I hear make me want to punch the owner, and/or stomp their phone, I assume bees have similar, yet simpler, feelings.
2) It's in ring and vibrate mode and bees REALLY get wound up by vibration. Probably evolved the meaning, "hungry bear is trying to get in, git yer stingers ready!"
3) The idiot telemarketer whom called left a VM, and now the phone vibrates every five minutes as a reminder. Just when the hive settles down a bit... RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE ...
We've done that experiment thousands of times in this state for darn near a quarter century here. It's called a ... farm.
Its almost a stereotype that farmers on the perimeter of town lease a tiny plot of land for a tower, or lease the top of their grain silo, or lease the tippy top of the barn roof, etc.
Generally the lease payments are enough to maintain the structure and/or the driveway leading up to the structure, not so little as to barely buy a beer and not so much as for the farmer to retire. I have two relatives in the farming business, one in sheep (well, that sounds completely inappropriate) and the other in corn and somewhat in vegetables, I know what I'm talking about here.
Note that farmers in general and dairy farmers especially are very much tuned in (bad pun) to EMF and electromagnetic fields. First of all because its almost a stereotype that all their heavy electrical gear is in disrepair and they have to keep their wits about them or they'll get electrocuted, and secondly, dairy farmers attach metal/electrical milking machines to a part of the cow anatomy where very few female mammals, humans included, enjoy having even the smallest electrical current flow.
I suppose it depends a lot on where you live, but around here its "normal" for farms to have a couple hives, or to rent some hives during pollination season.
Given that base stations run 10 - 20 dB more power than a handheld, any electromagnetic effect would harm the bees/whatever about 10 - 20 dB worse.
Since the reported effects from the very low power handheld transmitter are terrible, then every time for the last quarter century, simply driving a pollination truck onto a farm that rents basestation space should result in all the bees dying like instantly. But they don't.
Also most "medium and up" farmers have some form of radio network. Think technology like CBs, maybe a little better, maybe a little worse. Anyway, that RF source seems to have had no effect for at least 50+ years.
Hmm. I wonder if all of reality is wrong, or maybe, just maybe, the crackpot report is wrong.
One of the ongoing annoyances with HTML is all the web sites that subvert the design by forcing specific sizes and shapes of things (fonts, panels, etc) in the document.
Also include technological weirdness.
I'm 100% certain that in a "HTML standard" situation all ebook reader manufacturers whom don't sell e-ink technology readers will demand that a reader can only be marketed as "standard" or "reads for sure" or whatever, if it supports the HTML blink tag, preferentially with a HZ= attribute, for the obvious reason that eink can't do that. Personally I think current technology eink sucks, but I want to see it fail in the market by its own lack of merit, not by being stabbed in the back by some corrupt consortium, similar to how I don't want to see it succeed by nothing more than fanboyism.
2. For all the tree-huggers out there, you can only use paper from sustainable sources.
And the ink? And the diesel trucks shipping it all over? I find that all unlikely.
3. If it takes you 12 hours to read a book from start to finish, it will take you the same time to read the eBook. On most devices that means carrying around a spare set of batteries or finding somewhere to recharge.
Slashdotters are just weird. Every day, they drive their car 600 miles without stopping, ten hours continuous, so electric cars are totally useless for them. They only read books in continuous 12 hour stretches, always at the beach in full sunlight, always far away from an electrical outlet.
4. Electronic media is all about "me me me" whereas physical media can be loaned to family and friends, thus encouraging more social interaction.
My oh my, you're hanging out with the wrong crowd, if you think you can't share electronic media.
5. A used book can be given away to a charity or be sold to go towards the price of the next book.
I give away electronic media, and apply my revenue (zero) toward the (free) cost of my next electronic media, if you know what I mean. Seriously, "buying media" is only done as a fan donation or as a hoarder/collector mentality now a days. Welcome to the '10s.
"Oh, and don't get me wrong, we already have good standards, but they don't suck enough. By that I mean they don't arbitrarily restrict our readers in stupid ways. I long for the day we have a universal sucky e-book format."
How about ".docx"? That would be freaking lovely. Seriously. I'm surprised he didn't suggest it.
Either that or F all those unicode guys and their multicultural junk, I'm using EBCDIC. And when it doesn't sell, it'll be proof "no one wants ebooks" so we'll just can that market.
UTF-8 unicode. ASCII compatible, more or less, with the full unicode set when necessary.
Any of the eighty eight thousand variations that modern web browsers and handle.
I wonder how the typographical types like Knuth and the graphics arts types like Tufte would react to the idea of not knowing how their pages will render.
Yeah for pot boiler romances no problemo, but some folks will have a cow at the idea that their page might be formatted into something they literally can't imagine by a device they know nothing about.
(or *.pdf, if you're a stickler for pretty graphics).
PDF is an epic fail if you're rescaling to a new "paper" size. And each reader is, of course, a different size.
Personally I'd buy an ebook reader if it was 8.5x11 inches at readable DPI and did PDFs, because that seems a nearly world standard electronic data sheet format.
HTML
Which of the eighty nine thousand variations?
hellish working conditions
everything from the semi-military style of management,
Military troops have a certain method for dealing with officers that push the troops too hard. Of course it happens in the movies more often than real life. Probably.
I wonder if some of the "suicides" were not actually suicides and the "workers" were actually "semi-military" lead/foreman/supvr level ...
In the USA, for cultural reasons folks resolve their differences by being firearms to work, and between the physical evidence and the cameras its pretty obvious after the fact who did what. Maybe in China its more culturally traditional in those situations to test your boss's human powered flying ability or something equally hard to prove.
I wish my coworkers jumped off the building.
Which leads directly to even more
... long overtime ...
That strategy might not be effective.
Seems unanimous that everyone thinks this lady is an idiot and has no right to sue. ....
Come on... not even a troll sticking his head up above the bridge?
I posted above about my car insurance company suing two uninsured drivers for the cost of two separate accidents.
You have to realize, this is journalism, not the truth. Its entirely possible her insurance company is suing google on her behalf to recover their medical costs, and her only interaction is signing a paper stating she gives them permission or they don't pay her bills. It doesn't make the overall situation any less stupid, but it has a HUGE impact on the chick's level of idiocy, in that doing business with idiots that your employer selected for you is way down there on the list compared to actually personally being an idiot.
When I read about these cases, I start to think that in USA people can outsource common sense. :)
Clearly you've never talked to a call center in India. Or, they might outsource call centers to India, but common sense to somewhere else.
LOL! What a greedy AND stupid bitch.
Its important to determine if SHE filed suit or if her medical insurer filed suit on her behalf to recover costs.
I have never personally filed a lawsuit against anyone, but both my wife and I have, in separate accidents, had our cars hit by uninsured drivers (thankfully no injuries) and both times the insurance company filed suit on our behalf to recover the money they paid to repair / replace our cars using our collision policy. For the accident 7 years ago, it took like 3 years but they finally recovered all their costs and reimbursed us our deductible, and the other accident a couple months ago is still ongoing. I would expect automotive medical claims to work the same way...