there's nothing to be done UNTIL the crime is COMMITTED.
Nonsense. Law enforcement works best when it is focused on PREVENTING crimes, rather than reacting to crimes.
Using stupid phrases like "the war on crime" is not helpful. That is the exact opposite of the mentality we should have.
Historically, by far the most cost effective way to reduce crime has been to improve prenatal and early childhood nutrition and remove environmental pollutants, especially heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury. Today, black children in America have twice the average blood lead levels as white children, and prison inmates have three times the average. There is a lot more we can do at very low cost.
It's a standard that a large portion of the world agrees upon.
Every country uses the 7 day week. It is nearly universal. A few small societies/tribes are still holdouts. Most of Europe and Asia have used the 7 day week for millennia.
It's relevance is that a lot of people use it.
It is also of deep religious significance to most of the world (Christians, Muslims, and Jews, for starters).
What i do not understand is why the merger requires Chinese approval.
Both Qualcomm and NXP have operations in China, and China is their biggest market. Nearly all large mergers require approval of the "Big 3" (US, EU, China).
Qualcomm's investors seem to agree with China that this merger was a bad idea, since Qualcomm's stock rose on the announcement of the cancellation.
"Live and let live" is itself a political viewpoint, and not a very popular one. The Libertarian Party which espouses that philosophy gets about 1% of the vote.
Mainland would declare any faction supporting that to be terrorists.
There would be no public debate. They would be made in secret, and then announced. At that point there would be nothing the mainland could do. Any attempt to militarily intervene would mean the loss of their coastal cities.
The world doesn't need another India Pakistan situation.
Nukes have brought peace. Another India-Pakistan war is becoming more and more unlikely. They are even compromising in Kashmir.
As such, this machine can find statistical correlations, but it cannot do plausibility checks, because that requires insight. It cannot do predictions either, because that also requires insight.
Neither of these require "insight". They just require more data. With enough examples, statistical correlation is all you need.
No, it was designed to present outgoing calls as originating from (for example) the main switchboard / reception phone number
Spoofing from one number to another controlled by the same legal entity is reasonable. Allowing criminals to spoof a random phone number that they DO NOT OWN is not.
The telecoms can shut this activity down very quickly if they are given sufficient financial incentive to do so, like maybe $10M per day in fines until it is fixed.
will have to buy more ads in order to accomplish that.
No. This is nonsense. If it costs $10 per MM to place ads, and one campaign brings in $8 per MM, and the other $12, then the second will be run again and the first will not. This isn't rocket science.
less precise the targeting, the cheaper the ad.
No. You pay per impression or per click. If you mistarget, or just shotgun, you don't get a discount.
The root of the problem is the American telecom companies that enable these scams by offering spoofing services to criminals. Some big fines on Verizon and AT&T would do way more good than going after some low level scammers in Mumbai.
Reducing background noise also helps. Turn off the music and TV, or go to a quiet room. Smart speakers deal with background noise by using multiple mikes and measuring the time lag to isolate your voice. But that obviously isn't going to work with a phone.
I've done both support and collections. Collections is better, because you don't have to be nice.
Phone support is the worst. The callers are mostly morons. The people with half a brain use email or chat. A phone call is a terrible medium for dealing with technical issues, even for fully brained people, and many of them are more interested in venting their anger rather than actually resolving the issue.
Human driven vehicles kill 3000 people per day worldwide. If we are truly concerned about saving lives, then instead of focusing on a single jaywalker in Phoenix, we should be looking at the big picture and pushing forward with SDCs as quickly as possible.
There was nothing preventing those drunks from calling a taxi company.
... except that the taxi costs more, takes longer to arrive, is less convenient, and may not come at all if either you or your destination are in the wrong neighborhood.
Uber/Lyft ridership tends to increase at three times the rate that taxi ridership falls. That clearly implies that most people don't see them as interchangeable.
Because it's trivial for someone to contact your phone provider, pretend they're you and have your phone number ported over to the hacker's device.
The would only work for a very dumb implementation. Google could install a custom app on each employee's phone that had an unique private key. Instead of $20 each, it would cost $0, and would not require every employee to carry an extra dongle everywhere they go.
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there's nothing to be done UNTIL the crime is COMMITTED.
Nonsense. Law enforcement works best when it is focused on PREVENTING crimes, rather than reacting to crimes.
Using stupid phrases like "the war on crime" is not helpful. That is the exact opposite of the mentality we should have.
Historically, by far the most cost effective way to reduce crime has been to improve prenatal and early childhood nutrition and remove environmental pollutants, especially heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury. Today, black children in America have twice the average blood lead levels as white children, and prison inmates have three times the average. There is a lot more we can do at very low cost.
Society got along just fine for thousands of years prior to the invention of said patented medical device.
1000 years ago people had half the life expectancy they do today, so I would not say everything was "just fine".
Do you really think it is okay to let people die so your network can be marginally more secure? This is why people roll their eyes at pedantic nerds.
....don't buy it.
Not an option with a patented medical device.
demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated.
Right. Sure. Because companies with millions of customers always do a complete system redesign to satisfy "demands" from one whiner.
There is nothing magical about a 7 day week.
According to many holy scriptures, there is.
How about you go convince 4 billion people that their belief systems are wrong, and then come back here and we can continue this discussion.
The market cap of Facebook fell from the GDP of Argentina to the GDP of Belgium, a difference of the GDP of Kuwait.
List of countries by GDP
This is actually an apples-to-oranges comparison, since market cap is a measure of assets while GDP is a measure of income.
It's a standard that a large portion of the world agrees upon.
Every country uses the 7 day week. It is nearly universal. A few small societies/tribes are still holdouts. Most of Europe and Asia have used the 7 day week for millennia.
It's relevance is that a lot of people use it.
It is also of deep religious significance to most of the world (Christians, Muslims, and Jews, for starters).
What i do not understand is why the merger requires Chinese approval.
Both Qualcomm and NXP have operations in China, and China is their biggest market. Nearly all large mergers require approval of the "Big 3" (US, EU, China).
Qualcomm's investors seem to agree with China that this merger was a bad idea, since Qualcomm's stock rose on the announcement of the cancellation.
Crap, as a programmer I hate our calendar system(s)!
Me too. It would be so much simpler if the earth rotated the sun in exactly 256 days, divided into exactly eight 32 day months.
Facebook is undermining the political process, the same way that the Russians did in *your* election.
False equivalence. The Russians didn't censor anybody.
Live and let live.
"Live and let live" is itself a political viewpoint, and not a very popular one. The Libertarian Party which espouses that philosophy gets about 1% of the vote.
Mainland would declare any faction supporting that to be terrorists.
There would be no public debate. They would be made in secret, and then announced. At that point there would be nothing the mainland could do. Any attempt to militarily intervene would mean the loss of their coastal cities.
The world doesn't need another India Pakistan situation.
Nukes have brought peace. Another India-Pakistan war is becoming more and more unlikely. They are even compromising in Kashmir.
What problems did BeOS have?
1. Lack of applications
2. Lack of users
3. Lack of a compelling reason to use it
Also, Taiwan has an army, while HK did not. If they feely they are being abandoned, they have the industrial base to build nukes within a few months.
The economic power is in the south.
True ... in Shenzhen ... which is a Mandarin speaking city.
As such, this machine can find statistical correlations, but it cannot do plausibility checks, because that requires insight. It cannot do predictions either, because that also requires insight.
Neither of these require "insight". They just require more data. With enough examples, statistical correlation is all you need.
No, it was designed to present outgoing calls as originating from (for example) the main switchboard / reception phone number
Spoofing from one number to another controlled by the same legal entity is reasonable. Allowing criminals to spoof a random phone number that they DO NOT OWN is not.
The telecoms can shut this activity down very quickly if they are given sufficient financial incentive to do so, like maybe $10M per day in fines until it is fixed.
will have to buy more ads in order to accomplish that.
No. This is nonsense. If it costs $10 per MM to place ads, and one campaign brings in $8 per MM, and the other $12, then the second will be run again and the first will not. This isn't rocket science.
less precise the targeting, the cheaper the ad.
No. You pay per impression or per click. If you mistarget, or just shotgun, you don't get a discount.
less effective ads will lead to pressure to show even more ads.
No. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how businesses work.
Businesses don't set a revenue goal, and then spend whatever it takes to get that level of sales.
What they do instead is try to MAXIMIZE PROFIT.
So if ads are LESS effective, they will generate LESS profit and there will be FEWER of them.
A whole 24 people? That should solve the problem.
The root of the problem is the American telecom companies that enable these scams by offering spoofing services to criminals. Some big fines on Verizon and AT&T would do way more good than going after some low level scammers in Mumbai.
Reducing background noise also helps. Turn off the music and TV, or go to a quiet room. Smart speakers deal with background noise by using multiple mikes and measuring the time lag to isolate your voice. But that obviously isn't going to work with a phone.
surely you've never worked collections.
I've done both support and collections. Collections is better, because you don't have to be nice.
Phone support is the worst. The callers are mostly morons. The people with half a brain use email or chat. A phone call is a terrible medium for dealing with technical issues, even for fully brained people, and many of them are more interested in venting their anger rather than actually resolving the issue.
Human driven vehicles kill 3000 people per day worldwide. If we are truly concerned about saving lives, then instead of focusing on a single jaywalker in Phoenix, we should be looking at the big picture and pushing forward with SDCs as quickly as possible.
There was nothing preventing those drunks from calling a taxi company.
... except that the taxi costs more, takes longer to arrive, is less convenient, and may not come at all if either you or your destination are in the wrong neighborhood.
Uber/Lyft ridership tends to increase at three times the rate that taxi ridership falls. That clearly implies that most people don't see them as interchangeable.
Because it's trivial for someone to contact your phone provider, pretend they're you and have your phone number ported over to the hacker's device.
The would only work for a very dumb implementation. Google could install a custom app on each employee's phone that had an unique private key. Instead of $20 each, it would cost $0, and would not require every employee to carry an extra dongle everywhere they go.
Unless the OpenWorm project is also simulating the astrocytes ...
They are. OpenWorm is a project to digitally simulate the entire organism at the biochemical level. All the cells. Every chemical pathway.
Worms first. Then flies. Then humans.