Yes, it is partly Microsoft's fault. Tools should be designed assuming users will sometimes do dumb things, or sometimes accidentally click the wrong button.
This guy is clearly a moron, but there are a lot of morons out there, and software should be designed with that in mind.
This isn't about backups, it is about not having a central repository.
Actually, it is about having neither.
Also, it is about failing to understand how filesystems work, and how to use Google. It is possible he could have "undeleted" these files with a bit of work. It sounds like all he did was look in the Recycle Bin.
Peanut allergies are a first world problem. They are rare in developing countries, where kids grow up around chickens, pigs, and goats, so they develop strong immune systems that don't overreact. In China and Vietnam, peanuts are a very common ingredient, and kids eat them everyday. Yet in America, it is the kids of neurotic Asian mothers who have the worst problems with allergies. My kid's elementary school has a "peanut free" zone, and 90% of the kids who eat there are either Chinese or Vietnamese.
I'm guessing they included the economic benefit from people who wouldn't have died, but would have taken sick days or been hospitalized or the like.
Nope. From TFA: "that’s just the estimated economic benefits of the averted 3,000 to 12,000 premature deaths—it doesn't count things like sub-lethal medical issues and lost productivity"
$30B / 3k people = $10 million per person. That's a heck of a lot of economic benefit per person.
Indeed. It seems silly to say that preventing the premature death of some random person would bring $10M in economic benefit. That is far more than most people earn in a lifetime. It seems more reasonable to assume that most of the people dying from air pollution are sick or elderly, and would otherwise be an economic burden on society. So keeping them alive would be a cost not a savings.
I was in a conference room at a law firm last month. Across the hall was a printer the size of a large refrigerator. It was printing and collating continuously for the entire two hours I was there. It looked like it was printing several pages per second.
I wonder if a human eye will ever look at even 1% of those pages.
Everything I have printed on paper in the last few years was for a doctor, a lawyer, or a bureaucrat. My kids don't even use paper for school work. Project reports are done in Google docs and turned in electronically.
Maybe what you're missing is that it shouldn't be possible for an attacker to induce this state in the first place.
That is not a flaw in CAN. It is flaw in the component. Since the "remote access" threat is something the researchers (or the journalist?) just made up, and is supported by no evidence whatsoever, this would require physical access to the component. If a bad guy gets physical access to your engine, then all bets are off. There is no such thing as a secure device in hostile hands.
Mostly "they" don't say US care is bad. They say it is way overpriced, and many people don't have access.
Health spending per person in Sweden: $4900. Health spending per person in America: $10,500
Life expectancy in Sweden: 82.5 years Life expectancy in America: 79.3 years
No access to healthcare in Sweden: Less than 1% No access to healthcare in America: About 12%
Government spending on healthcare in Sweden: $3800 per person (about 75% of total) Government spending on healthcare in America: $6300* per person (about 60% of total) *Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and ACA subsidies.
I mean sure crime and money laundering bad, absolutely
No. Most "crimes" that involve money laundering are things that shouldn't be crimes. Instead of tightening the screws even more, we should end the drug wars. Colorado, Uruguay, and Portugal have all taken steps in the right direction, and with mostly good results: more taxes collected and fewer citizens going to prison.
Big cities have higher productivity. NYC has 60% higher productivity than the American average. Centralization is good.
There is no shortage of space in SF. They just need to go vertical. The problem is that the people living there have a vested interest in keeping property prices high, and the people that want to live there but can't afford to don't get to vote.
You add to the fact that it takes her an hour and 45 minutes to get ready in the morning and you've got about the least efficient person in the world serving as a political prop about high rent.
Indeed. Her behavior makes no sense. If she is going to be on the train for two hours, why doesn't she use that time to do her prep? Or sleep?
Also, you don't have to go to Stockton to get away from SF rents. Oakland (20 minutes by BART) is far enough.
Venezuela has done one thing right. Their gun violence has dropped by four orders of magnitude when they instituted their complete civilan gun ownership ban.
Do you have a citation for this? Because this article says the homocide rate has continued to increase. Your claimed 10000 fold drop in gun violence seems wildly implausible, since it is unlikely that most criminals would have surrendered their weapons.
Okay, here is the next question: Why is it always about women? Why does Hollywood only use buff guys in leading roles? Why are the male sex symbols never short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies?
The first thing the media should stop doing is calling them "alt-right". Call them Nazis and stop being PC. Now see if those neighbors are still sympathetic.
That will almost certainly make them more sympathetic, because it will reinforce everything they already believe about the MSM. Progressives are called "communists" by Fox News. Does that make you less sympathetic toward progressives? Or does it make you feel Fox News is not credible?
Clue: They weren't going to vote democrat before this weekend either.
I think you are dead wrong. There are many Trump voters that are sympathetic to progressive issues like economic justice, access to healthcare, and less inequality in education. But they also feel the Democrats are insulting their heritage and culture.
What it will do is separate the actual haters and neo-nazi from the part time weekend warriors
Don't be so sure. I have some trailer park dwelling redneck relatives who are already upset about Confederate monuments being torn down (which is what started all of this), and the way the alt-right is being treated by tech companies, and portrayed by the media, is generating sympathy from them.
They may not go out and riot, but they sure as heck aren't going to vote for a Democrat in 2020. The Democrats need to start focusing on real issues like healthcare and jobs, instead of stupid symbolism like monuments in parks and inscriptions in courthouses. They are alienating a lot of people that could be supporters.
My prediction: Trump will be re-elected in 2020 by the same people who voted for him in 2016. Liberals living in their urban bubbles will be even more shocked than they were when his "pussy-grabbing" comment meant nothing to his supporters.
Disclaimer: I think the Confederate monuments should go, and the Ten Commandments should not be inscribed in any public building. But I also think that losing elections by prioritizing these issues is foolish.
ummm... this statement is for their insurance claim
Which gives them an incentive to inflate the number. Their order taking was down for two days, but container shipping is often booked weeks in advance, so I doubt if this really cost them much. Their actual losses are likely closer to $0 than to $300M.
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... and it's Microsoft's fault?
Yes, it is partly Microsoft's fault. Tools should be designed assuming users will sometimes do dumb things, or sometimes accidentally click the wrong button.
This guy is clearly a moron, but there are a lot of morons out there, and software should be designed with that in mind.
This isn't about backups, it is about not having a central repository.
Actually, it is about having neither.
Also, it is about failing to understand how filesystems work, and how to use Google. It is possible he could have "undeleted" these files with a bit of work. It sounds like all he did was look in the Recycle Bin.
The $30 billion is the total economic benefit, and the 3,000 is number of deaths only.
No. RTFA. The $30B is only the benefit of avoiding the 3000 deaths.
nobody had a peanut allergy.
Peanut allergies are a first world problem. They are rare in developing countries, where kids grow up around chickens, pigs, and goats, so they develop strong immune systems that don't overreact. In China and Vietnam, peanuts are a very common ingredient, and kids eat them everyday. Yet in America, it is the kids of neurotic Asian mothers who have the worst problems with allergies. My kid's elementary school has a "peanut free" zone, and 90% of the kids who eat there are either Chinese or Vietnamese.
I'm guessing they included the economic benefit from people who wouldn't have died, but would have taken sick days or been hospitalized or the like.
Nope. From TFA: "that’s just the estimated economic benefits of the averted 3,000 to 12,000 premature deaths—it doesn't count things like sub-lethal medical issues and lost productivity"
$30B / 3k people = $10 million per person. That's a heck of a lot of economic benefit per person.
Indeed. It seems silly to say that preventing the premature death of some random person would bring $10M in economic benefit. That is far more than most people earn in a lifetime. It seems more reasonable to assume that most of the people dying from air pollution are sick or elderly, and would otherwise be an economic burden on society. So keeping them alive would be a cost not a savings.
People launder money to just avoid paying taxes.
If taxes are that easy to avoid, then they are inherently unfair because honest people will pay more than their share.
Taxes that are hard to avoid: Property taxes, sales/consumption taxes, excise taxes
Taxes that are easier to avoid: Income taxes, payroll taxes.
I was in a conference room at a law firm last month. Across the hall was a printer the size of a large refrigerator. It was printing and collating continuously for the entire two hours I was there. It looked like it was printing several pages per second.
I wonder if a human eye will ever look at even 1% of those pages.
You must not work for the government.
Everything I have printed on paper in the last few years was for a doctor, a lawyer, or a bureaucrat. My kids don't even use paper for school work. Project reports are done in Google docs and turned in electronically.
Oakland? Hardly.
There are some affordable neighborhoods in Oakland. She will need to buy a gun, but that is still better than than a 3 hour commute.
Maybe what you're missing is that it shouldn't be possible for an attacker to induce this state in the first place.
That is not a flaw in CAN. It is flaw in the component. Since the "remote access" threat is something the researchers (or the journalist?) just made up, and is supported by no evidence whatsoever, this would require physical access to the component. If a bad guy gets physical access to your engine, then all bets are off. There is no such thing as a secure device in hostile hands.
WTF? And they say US care is bad?
Mostly "they" don't say US care is bad. They say it is way overpriced, and many people don't have access.
Health spending per person in Sweden: $4900.
Health spending per person in America: $10,500
Life expectancy in Sweden: 82.5 years
Life expectancy in America: 79.3 years
No access to healthcare in Sweden: Less than 1%
No access to healthcare in America: About 12%
Government spending on healthcare in Sweden: $3800 per person (about 75% of total)
Government spending on healthcare in America: $6300* per person (about 60% of total)
*Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and ACA subsidies.
I mean sure crime and money laundering bad, absolutely
No. Most "crimes" that involve money laundering are things that shouldn't be crimes. Instead of tightening the screws even more, we should end the drug wars. Colorado, Uruguay, and Portugal have all taken steps in the right direction, and with mostly good results: more taxes collected and fewer citizens going to prison.
The solution is to stop centralizing things.
Big cities have higher productivity. NYC has 60% higher productivity than the American average. Centralization is good.
There is no shortage of space in SF. They just need to go vertical. The problem is that the people living there have a vested interest in keeping property prices high, and the people that want to live there but can't afford to don't get to vote.
How Zoning Laws Exacerbate Inequality.
low and behold even using condoms AND the pill she still ends up pregnant.
Perhaps you should do a paternity test on "your" kids.
You add to the fact that it takes her an hour and 45 minutes to get ready in the morning and you've got about the least efficient person in the world serving as a political prop about high rent.
Indeed. Her behavior makes no sense. If she is going to be on the train for two hours, why doesn't she use that time to do her prep? Or sleep?
Also, you don't have to go to Stockton to get away from SF rents. Oakland (20 minutes by BART) is far enough.
Better headline: Crazy Woman Lives in Stockton.
Venezuela has done one thing right. Their gun violence has dropped by four orders of magnitude when they instituted their complete civilan gun ownership ban.
Do you have a citation for this? Because this article says the homocide rate has continued to increase. Your claimed 10000 fold drop in gun violence seems wildly implausible, since it is unlikely that most criminals would have surrendered their weapons.
Women will overlook a lot of physical shortcomings if you're a decent guy.
Sure, but what if I'm not?
They also courageously left out the headphone jack.
Come on Bill, this article is not worth your comment.
Actually, for reasons I prefer not to disclose, I am very interested in how short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies can become sex symbols.
Next question, please.
Okay, here is the next question: Why is it always about women? Why does Hollywood only use buff guys in leading roles? Why are the male sex symbols never short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies?
The first thing the media should stop doing is calling them "alt-right". Call them Nazis and stop being PC. Now see if those neighbors are still sympathetic.
That will almost certainly make them more sympathetic, because it will reinforce everything they already believe about the MSM. Progressives are called "communists" by Fox News. Does that make you less sympathetic toward progressives? Or does it make you feel Fox News is not credible?
Clue: They weren't going to vote democrat before this weekend either.
I think you are dead wrong. There are many Trump voters that are sympathetic to progressive issues like economic justice, access to healthcare, and less inequality in education. But they also feel the Democrats are insulting their heritage and culture.
What it will do is separate the actual haters and neo-nazi from the part time weekend warriors
Don't be so sure. I have some trailer park dwelling redneck relatives who are already upset about Confederate monuments being torn down (which is what started all of this), and the way the alt-right is being treated by tech companies, and portrayed by the media, is generating sympathy from them.
They may not go out and riot, but they sure as heck aren't going to vote for a Democrat in 2020. The Democrats need to start focusing on real issues like healthcare and jobs, instead of stupid symbolism like monuments in parks and inscriptions in courthouses. They are alienating a lot of people that could be supporters.
My prediction: Trump will be re-elected in 2020 by the same people who voted for him in 2016. Liberals living in their urban bubbles will be even more shocked than they were when his "pussy-grabbing" comment meant nothing to his supporters.
Disclaimer: I think the Confederate monuments should go, and the Ten Commandments should not be inscribed in any public building. But I also think that losing elections by prioritizing these issues is foolish.
Doing it with even 80% accuracy is highly improbable.
A deep convolutional NN should be able to do it. Someone should sponsor a Kaggle competition.
Or, even easier, just do speech-to-text on the audio component and try to match it to a DB of movie scripts.
ummm... this statement is for their insurance claim
Which gives them an incentive to inflate the number. Their order taking was down for two days, but container shipping is often booked weeks in advance, so I doubt if this really cost them much. Their actual losses are likely closer to $0 than to $300M.