Same reason a lot of attacks on the Internet are possible: the network was designed and constructed at a time when only trusted parties were connecting to it. It wasn't designed to be secure because at the time it was relatively easy to identify bad actors and disconnect them from the network.
Trapster was a crowd-sourced app that showed the location of traffic cameras and speed traps before Waze came along. They also listed police checkpoints, until they were buffaloed into removing that feature. Apple refused to allow apps that revealed the location of police checkpoints in their App Store. (Another downside to allowing corporate control over your device via a "walled garden".)
More importantly, at least in the US, generalized skills and aptitude testing were effectively rendered almost impossible to implement by Griggs v. Duke Power Co., because testing was found to have had a disparate racial impact. The Griggs case was the one in which SCOTUS first recognized the concept of "disparate impact", meaning that a practice or policy is prohibited if it has a disparate impact on a suspect class even if the overt intent wasn't to discriminate.
You can still do skills-based testing but it has to be very narrowly drawn and you have to be able to prove it's relevant to the job. One example of the kind of testing that's permitted would be the whiteboard coding tests many of us are familiar with. If you're hiring, e.g., a Java programmer, it's not unreasonable to have them demonstrate familiarity with Java during the interview.
Some writers, most of them politically conservative, have blamed SCOTUS's holding in Griggs as being at least a partial contributor to the credential inflation that started in the 1970s. With generalized aptitude testing now banned, businesses needed a substitute indicator of generalized ability and the bachelor's degree became that substitute. I personally think the picture is bigger than that and involves a number of factors, many of them likely more important. Start with the dumbing-down of the high school diploma, federal subsidies for college attendance, a large number of young men attending college in order to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War era, and go from there.
Interesting how the Moto Z got Oreo after 129 days. I have a Moto G5 Plus and Motorola was vapor-waring Oreo for over a year. Oreo was released August 2017 and my phone didn't get Oreo until November 2018, after at least a year of "It's coming in two months, we promise!"
It's for the same reason that TCP/IP networks and most of the associated protocols (SMTP, telnet, etc.) originally did not have any security designed in. During the design phase, the assumption was made that only trusted entities were going to be connecting to the network. Turned out in both cases that that was a bad assumption, unfortunately.
Determining your own blood type used to be a standard lab exercise in high school biology classes, 30+ years ago. The biggest reason it isn't any longer is, of course, fear of blood borne infections. A secondary consideration was that a lot of students found out via this exercise that it was impossible for them to have been their parents' biological child. This sometimes caused family drama when the child found out this information and brought it home to his or her parents. The kid was adopted and had never been told, their mother had had an affair, the mother had been pregnant when she got married or gave birth before marriage but the groom wasn't the father, there had been divorce and remarriage before the kid was old enough to remember, etc., etc. All sorts of situations. Years ago I remember casually reading somewhere that the biological father of 1/5 of USAn children was someone other than the person the child called "Dad".
It's not just a matter of convenience, "togetherness", and personal desire to keep parents near their children aboard an aircraft. There's a safety issue in letting kids sit next to their parents. If something bad happens aboard the aircraft, a child will instinctively seek out his or her parent for assistance. Having a bunch of panicked kids running around the plane looking for Mom or Dad, or a bunch of panicked adults looking for their children, can screw up attempts to deal with the situation and/or to evacuate the aircraft.
If nothing else, the closer a parent is to their child, the quicker they can take appropriate action if a child starts acting frightened, bored, noisy, or rambunctious in a way that's likely to cause distress to other passengers.
Here's a modest proposal: Ban all tobacco products completely.
Hint: any time someone mentions "a modest proposal", what they're saying is very likely to be satire or sarcasm. For those of you who didn't pay attention in English class, the reference is to Jonathan Swift's essay by that title, in which he proposed eating babies as a solution to mass starvation.
One eastern European government back in the '90s did a study and came to the conclusion that smokers were a net win for the government. Reason being, they were lifelong payers of tobacco taxes and saved the government a bundle on old-age pension payouts by dying young.. Of course that's in a country with government-funded old-age pensions, and single-payer health care. The calculus may be different in the USA, with Social Security rather than a European-style pension and (mostly) private health insurance until you turn 65, when the government's program kicks in.
Based on a narrative that Facebook, Twitter, et. al. are engaged in an alleged campaign to censor conservative voices and opinions, and to suppress news that supports a conservative narrative.
The more cynical might observe that these companies are large contributors to Democratic candidates for office, and that this is an attempt at retaliation.
Per Rodriguez, detaining a stopped motorist to bring in a drug dog is illegal unless the officer has probable cause to believe that drugs are in the vehicle. It is also a general principle that police are not allowed to bootstrap probable cause from a defendant's refusal to allow a search.
The whole search is illegal and all the evidence is "fruit of the poisoned tree", full stop.
ex lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Was sued in the '80s by his own former record company for releasing a single, "The Old Man Down the Road", that allegedly sounded too much like "Run Through the Jungle", a CCR song to which CCR's record label held the rights. Ultimately the label's claim of infringement was rejected, but not without substantial sums spent on litigation. (The subsequent litigation over attorney's fees went all the way to SCOTUS.)
So yeah, being accused of plagiarizing yourself is nothing new.
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept" is from a famous speech by Lt. Gen. David Morrison,1 Chief of Army, about sexual harassment and humiliation in the ranks in the Australian Army. Does quoting that line in a speech about wall warts seem a bit...overwrought to anyone else, or is it just me?
1Gen. Morrison credits the Governor of New South Wales, David Hurley, with the quote, but Morrison's is the most famous use of it.
This. Why do nearly all trackballs currently on the market have tiny balls you manipulate with your thumb? I want a big ball under my fingertips. I had a Trackman Marble FX; the only reason I stopped using it was that Microsoft came out with the Trackball Explorer, which had a scroll wheel. I still have my Trackball Explorer after 15-ish years, and have no idea what I'm going to replace it with when it eventually dies.
and use landmarks that aren't there any more. "Well, ya go about a mile down the road, then take a right where that big tree blew down last summer. Go about another three and a half miles, and take another right where the schoolhouse used to be. Then in about three quarters of a mile, take a left at the old Johnson place. Name on the mailbox says 'Palmer' but those are the new people who bought it 20 years ago, everyone still calls it the Johnson place. Then go kinda-sorta-right but not hard right at the kid selling flowers, and you're there."
Unreliable, overcrowded, and slow. That's why people take Lyft/Uber. My last commute, from a close-in suburb to Copley Square, would have taken me over an hour on the T, with two changes (bus to Harvard Sq., Red Line to Park St., Green Line to Copley. Often, I"d have to let two or three Red Line trains go by before there was one with enough room for me to cram on.
By contrast, the same commute took me just over 30 minutes by bicycle, even with my slow, old, fat ass. And I wasn't crammed onto a train car in conditions that a sardine would find claustrophobic. I biked whenever possible.
And that's when the system was working well. If any of those three legs was broken, you were fucked, and it's only gotten worse. Breakdowns on the Red Line are now a daily occurrence. When I was doing that commute, I worked out alternate routings for when any of the three legs of it wasn't working well. (If the Green Line was broken, walk to Park St. if it was nice, or use the Orange Line at Back Bay to Downtown Crossing; if the Red Line was broken, walk or take the Green Line to Mass. Ave. and catch the #1 bus; if the bus from Harvard was broken, get a cab.)
First thing I thought of when I saw this quote in the article summary:
"You can't hurry love. It's reciprocal. You're not ordering an object. You're not getting a delivery in less than seven minutes." Finding love, she added, takes commitment and energy -- and, yes, time, no matter how inefficiently it's spent.
There are two handwriting styles in German that are pretty much illegible to modern readers. Sütterlin was taught in the '30s and '40s to people who are alive today, but in 20 years, very few people will be able to read it. I can kinda-sorta read it because my grandmother (b. 1898) wrote letters in it, and my father's (b. 1930) handwriting was this weird combination of Sütterlin and American-style Palmer. Kurrent is even older and was taught to German school children up through the early 20th century. Kurrent's letter forms are however closer to Roman-style alphabet than Sütterlin.
from 1933 to 1975, when they got the US off the gold standard and onto fiat currency. Whether cryptocurrencies are viable long-term, I couldn't tell you, but governments HATE not having a monopoly on stores of value.
Plenty of people, to the point where I've seen claims that the take from 419 scams is in the top 5 contributors to the GDP of Nigeria. If that's true, it's a pretty big clue as to why the Nigerian government hasn't shut the whole thing down and tossed all these rat bastards into prison.
People have traveled to Nigeria either to try and collect, or because they realize they've been scammed and they're trying to get their money back. Typically if you agree to meet the scammers in Nigeria, they show up at the airport and get you into the country without you having to clear Nigerian immigration. This means you're now in Nigeria without proper documentation and you're liable to arrest just by being there. It makes the victims reluctant to go to the police in Nigeria either because of the scam or if anything else bad happens, or to seek assistance in getting out of the country again.
No, not "beat the boss". Beat the B.O.S.S., as in Bodily Orifice Security Scanner, a chair-type scanner used in U.K. prisons to find contraband smuggled up peoples' bums. https://boingboing.net/2017/02...
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Same reason a lot of attacks on the Internet are possible: the network was designed and constructed at a time when only trusted parties were connecting to it. It wasn't designed to be secure because at the time it was relatively easy to identify bad actors and disconnect them from the network.
Trapster was a crowd-sourced app that showed the location of traffic cameras and speed traps before Waze came along. They also listed police checkpoints, until they were buffaloed into removing that feature. Apple refused to allow apps that revealed the location of police checkpoints in their App Store. (Another downside to allowing corporate control over your device via a "walled garden".)
More importantly, at least in the US, generalized skills and aptitude testing were effectively rendered almost impossible to implement by Griggs v. Duke Power Co., because testing was found to have had a disparate racial impact. The Griggs case was the one in which SCOTUS first recognized the concept of "disparate impact", meaning that a practice or policy is prohibited if it has a disparate impact on a suspect class even if the overt intent wasn't to discriminate.
You can still do skills-based testing but it has to be very narrowly drawn and you have to be able to prove it's relevant to the job. One example of the kind of testing that's permitted would be the whiteboard coding tests many of us are familiar with. If you're hiring, e.g., a Java programmer, it's not unreasonable to have them demonstrate familiarity with Java during the interview.
Some writers, most of them politically conservative, have blamed SCOTUS's holding in Griggs as being at least a partial contributor to the credential inflation that started in the 1970s. With generalized aptitude testing now banned, businesses needed a substitute indicator of generalized ability and the bachelor's degree became that substitute. I personally think the picture is bigger than that and involves a number of factors, many of them likely more important. Start with the dumbing-down of the high school diploma, federal subsidies for college attendance, a large number of young men attending college in order to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War era, and go from there.
Interesting how the Moto Z got Oreo after 129 days. I have a Moto G5 Plus and Motorola was vapor-waring Oreo for over a year. Oreo was released August 2017 and my phone didn't get Oreo until November 2018, after at least a year of "It's coming in two months, we promise!"
It's for the same reason that TCP/IP networks and most of the associated protocols (SMTP, telnet, etc.) originally did not have any security designed in. During the design phase, the assumption was made that only trusted entities were going to be connecting to the network. Turned out in both cases that that was a bad assumption, unfortunately.
Determining your own blood type used to be a standard lab exercise in high school biology classes, 30+ years ago. The biggest reason it isn't any longer is, of course, fear of blood borne infections. A secondary consideration was that a lot of students found out via this exercise that it was impossible for them to have been their parents' biological child. This sometimes caused family drama when the child found out this information and brought it home to his or her parents. The kid was adopted and had never been told, their mother had had an affair, the mother had been pregnant when she got married or gave birth before marriage but the groom wasn't the father, there had been divorce and remarriage before the kid was old enough to remember, etc., etc. All sorts of situations. Years ago I remember casually reading somewhere that the biological father of 1/5 of USAn children was someone other than the person the child called "Dad".
It's not just a matter of convenience, "togetherness", and personal desire to keep parents near their children aboard an aircraft. There's a safety issue in letting kids sit next to their parents. If something bad happens aboard the aircraft, a child will instinctively seek out his or her parent for assistance. Having a bunch of panicked kids running around the plane looking for Mom or Dad, or a bunch of panicked adults looking for their children, can screw up attempts to deal with the situation and/or to evacuate the aircraft.
If nothing else, the closer a parent is to their child, the quicker they can take appropriate action if a child starts acting frightened, bored, noisy, or rambunctious in a way that's likely to cause distress to other passengers.
Here's a modest proposal: Ban all tobacco products completely.
Hint: any time someone mentions "a modest proposal", what they're saying is very likely to be satire or sarcasm. For those of you who didn't pay attention in English class, the reference is to Jonathan Swift's essay by that title, in which he proposed eating babies as a solution to mass starvation.
One eastern European government back in the '90s did a study and came to the conclusion that smokers were a net win for the government. Reason being, they were lifelong payers of tobacco taxes and saved the government a bundle on old-age pension payouts by dying young.. Of course that's in a country with government-funded old-age pensions, and single-payer health care. The calculus may be different in the USA, with Social Security rather than a European-style pension and (mostly) private health insurance until you turn 65, when the government's program kicks in.
If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need aftershave.
Based on a narrative that Facebook, Twitter, et. al. are engaged in an alleged campaign to censor conservative voices and opinions, and to suppress news that supports a conservative narrative.
The more cynical might observe that these companies are large contributors to Democratic candidates for office, and that this is an attempt at retaliation.
Per Rodriguez, detaining a stopped motorist to bring in a drug dog is illegal unless the officer has probable cause to believe that drugs are in the vehicle. It is also a general principle that police are not allowed to bootstrap probable cause from a defendant's refusal to allow a search.
The whole search is illegal and all the evidence is "fruit of the poisoned tree", full stop.
ex lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Was sued in the '80s by his own former record company for releasing a single, "The Old Man Down the Road", that allegedly sounded too much like "Run Through the Jungle", a CCR song to which CCR's record label held the rights. Ultimately the label's claim of infringement was rejected, but not without substantial sums spent on litigation. (The subsequent litigation over attorney's fees went all the way to SCOTUS.)
So yeah, being accused of plagiarizing yourself is nothing new.
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept" is from a famous speech by Lt. Gen. David Morrison,1 Chief of Army, about sexual harassment and humiliation in the ranks in the Australian Army. Does quoting that line in a speech about wall warts seem a bit...overwrought to anyone else, or is it just me?
1Gen. Morrison credits the Governor of New South Wales, David Hurley, with the quote, but Morrison's is the most famous use of it.
This. Why do nearly all trackballs currently on the market have tiny balls you manipulate with your thumb? I want a big ball under my fingertips. I had a Trackman Marble FX; the only reason I stopped using it was that Microsoft came out with the Trackball Explorer, which had a scroll wheel. I still have my Trackball Explorer after 15-ish years, and have no idea what I'm going to replace it with when it eventually dies.
and use landmarks that aren't there any more. "Well, ya go about a mile down the road, then take a right where that big tree blew down last summer. Go about another three and a half miles, and take another right where the schoolhouse used to be. Then in about three quarters of a mile, take a left at the old Johnson place. Name on the mailbox says 'Palmer' but those are the new people who bought it 20 years ago, everyone still calls it the Johnson place. Then go kinda-sorta-right but not hard right at the kid selling flowers, and you're there."
Unreliable, overcrowded, and slow. That's why people take Lyft/Uber. My last commute, from a close-in suburb to Copley Square, would have taken me over an hour on the T, with two changes (bus to Harvard Sq., Red Line to Park St., Green Line to Copley. Often, I"d have to let two or three Red Line trains go by before there was one with enough room for me to cram on.
By contrast, the same commute took me just over 30 minutes by bicycle, even with my slow, old, fat ass. And I wasn't crammed onto a train car in conditions that a sardine would find claustrophobic. I biked whenever possible.
And that's when the system was working well. If any of those three legs was broken, you were fucked, and it's only gotten worse. Breakdowns on the Red Line are now a daily occurrence. When I was doing that commute, I worked out alternate routings for when any of the three legs of it wasn't working well. (If the Green Line was broken, walk to Park St. if it was nice, or use the Orange Line at Back Bay to Downtown Crossing; if the Red Line was broken, walk or take the Green Line to Mass. Ave. and catch the #1 bus; if the bus from Harvard was broken, get a cab.)
There are two handwriting styles in German that are pretty much illegible to modern readers. Sütterlin was taught in the '30s and '40s to people who are alive today, but in 20 years, very few people will be able to read it. I can kinda-sorta read it because my grandmother (b. 1898) wrote letters in it, and my father's (b. 1930) handwriting was this weird combination of Sütterlin and American-style Palmer. Kurrent is even older and was taught to German school children up through the early 20th century. Kurrent's letter forms are however closer to Roman-style alphabet than Sütterlin.
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from 1933 to 1975, when they got the US off the gold standard and onto fiat currency. Whether cryptocurrencies are viable long-term, I couldn't tell you, but governments HATE not having a monopoly on stores of value.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Cortana is really Microsoft Bob.
Plenty of people, to the point where I've seen claims that the take from 419 scams is in the top 5 contributors to the GDP of Nigeria. If that's true, it's a pretty big clue as to why the Nigerian government hasn't shut the whole thing down and tossed all these rat bastards into prison.
People have traveled to Nigeria either to try and collect, or because they realize they've been scammed and they're trying to get their money back. Typically if you agree to meet the scammers in Nigeria, they show up at the airport and get you into the country without you having to clear Nigerian immigration. This means you're now in Nigeria without proper documentation and you're liable to arrest just by being there. It makes the victims reluctant to go to the police in Nigeria either because of the scam or if anything else bad happens, or to seek assistance in getting out of the country again.
It's called the "Motorik beat" and Alien Sex Fiend totally copped this for "Now I'm Feeling Zombified," if anyone was wondering.
No, not "beat the boss". Beat the B.O.S.S., as in Bodily Orifice Security Scanner, a chair-type scanner used in U.K. prisons to find contraband smuggled up peoples' bums. https://boingboing.net/2017/02...