And who is going to pay for all the resulting updates?
European taxpayers will pay for it.
The reasoning is that paying for bug fixes will likely be cheaper than paying for security breaches.
I lean libertarian, yet even I see this as a good use of taxpayer euros. The bug fixes help everyone, and they are leveraging the profit motive of the private sector to make it happen.
Why Filezilla, a client for a dying technology? Why Notepad++
Because EU institutions rely on them.
The bounties are for the software they actually use.
If you think they should be using something else, that is a different issue. Good luck getting an entrenched bureaucracy to change their workflow to fit your whims.
This is THE WAY GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK. You come up with an idea, and then you run a small pilot project to make sure it actually works and is cost effective. Then, and only then, do you scale it up.
On the other hand, every real expert can learn a programming language in a week or two
This is only true for "normal" programming languages that are a series of instructions executed in sequence, with standard control instructions such as loops and conditional branches. So all you have to do is learn some new syntax.
But many programmers have difficulty learning languages that don't fit that paradigm, such as Prolog and Verilog.
The clerk who made you wait at the DMV isn't the one who decided how many clerks they'd be.
The solution to long lines at the DMV is not "more clerks". It is to move most of the services to a website so there is less need to go to the DMV in the first place. Services provided on premises could be done through automated kiosks rather than through a window staffed by a clerk.
Who is blocking the streamlining and modernization of the DMV? Since it would involve no new funding, and would actually save money, it is not the legislature. It is bureaucrats, trying to preserve their jobs.
That is the point. Mercury is a neurotoxin. It makes you dumb. By loosening the standard, this will make people in critical swing states that have a lot of coal mining, such as Pennsylvania, dumber and more like to vote for Trump in 2020.
Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 1% in 2016. Obama carried it by 5.4% in 2012.
I have seen this quote many places, which all point back to the 2010 "Business Insider" article. BI says it came from "SAI sources" but doesn't say who or what "SAI" is, and Google turns up nothing.
Another mistake (in my opinion) was their move to "zones" with separate checkout counters in each zone, rather than a row of checkouts near the exit.
Zones require a lot more employees, and employees only know about the products in their own zone. If you ask a random Sears salesperson what aisle had the power drills, the answer is often "That's not my department". I never get that answer at Walmart or Home Depot.
If no one is staffing the checkout register in one zone, you have to wander around the store looking for another that is open. So you end up buying your power drill in the ladies lingerie department.
Nordstroms uses zones, but they are a prestige brand and charge prices high enough to justify the extra staffing.
The future is for the strong. The strong inevitably become week and compliant until they are conquered. Then the cycle repeats.
This is a general rule, but there are exceptions, especially China. Throughout history, China has expanded by allowing themselves to be conquered, and then demographically swamping and absorbing the invaders. They won by out breeding their enemies rather than out fighting them.
This happened with the Xiong Nu (Huns), Mongols (90% of Mongols today are Chinese) and the Manchus.
Even Tibet first became part of China in the 1st millennium when the Tibetan Empire invaded and conquered large parts of Sichuan and Yunnan.
The British and French are responsible for a lot of problems in Southwest Asia, but not this one. The fate of the Kurds was sealed by Turkish victory in the 1919-1922 War of Independence. The British and French were the losers, along with their Greek and Armenian allies.
Sears made many mistakes. They were hit by Walmart on the low end, and "prestige" stores like Nordstroms on the high end. It is hard to survive in the middle, although Target is thriving there.
They were in decline long before Amazon, yet they were better placed than anyone to compete with Amazon. They had done mail order for more than a century. All they needed to do was move the ordering on-line. Instead they shutdown their catalog operation. In hindsight that was an insane move, although it didn't make much sense at the time either.
TFA is just a smear piece that doesn't even pretend to present a balanced view.
From TFA: What more studies are showing, however, is that endless hours of screen time are turning kids into zombies.
Yet NONE of these "studies" are cited, and TFA does not give any scientific criteria for what constitutes a "zombie".
I have no idea if Zuck's program works or not, but TFA is garbage journalism that sheds no light. The editors at National Review should be ashamed of themselves for publishing it. They are better than that.
You live in a DESERT. You should not be living there.
Living in a desert is fine if you like the desert and are happy with cacti and rocks. The problem is people that move to the desert, install huge irrigation systems, and grow lawns that look like the green grass of England.
Of course something so practical to transport water from the land of plenty to the land of drought will never be built.
Sure, we could spend billions of tax dollars on a pipeline, and spend billions more on electricity to run the pumps... or we could stop growing subsidized crops in the desert.
Or just get some perspective. According to TFA the drought has cost $1B. There are 330M Americans. That is $3 each. That is about as close to a total non-problem as we can get.
The housing prices are so high that you can't live there with a low-wage job.
There are ways to live cheaply in Silicon Valley. I live in San Jose, and the house next to mine has 3 bedrooms with 22 Filipinos living in it. They have bunks stacked three high, and an RV parked in the driveway.
If you are working 80 hours a week, you aren't home much anyway.
Around the lunar new year the Japanese buy "mochi" rice treats to give as gifts. So vendors will pass out free samples of these chewy and sticky treats to people passing by. Since walking while eating is a taboo, they will immediately stop and stand still while they eat it. But that takes a while, so you soon get a tight cluster of several dozen people standing still and blocking the sidewalk while chewing furiously with strained expressions and looking like they are all trying to get gooey peanut butter off the roof of their mouth.
Japan is weird. As a gaijin, you will often see something that make no sense until someone explains it to you... and then it makes even less sense.
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And who is going to pay for all the resulting updates?
European taxpayers will pay for it.
The reasoning is that paying for bug fixes will likely be cheaper than paying for security breaches.
I lean libertarian, yet even I see this as a good use of taxpayer euros. The bug fixes help everyone, and they are leveraging the profit motive of the private sector to make it happen.
Disclaimer: I am not a European taxpayer.
Why Filezilla, a client for a dying technology? Why Notepad++
Because EU institutions rely on them.
The bounties are for the software they actually use.
If you think they should be using something else, that is a different issue. Good luck getting an entrenched bureaucracy to change their workflow to fit your whims.
They only have enough budgeted to pay 12 people
This is THE WAY GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK. You come up with an idea, and then you run a small pilot project to make sure it actually works and is cost effective. Then, and only then, do you scale it up.
That is why I said "real expert".
How do you know if an expert is "real"? Does he also have to be a Scotsman?
Verilog does not quite count IMO, as learning it is not so hard, but doing useful hardware in it requires additional knowledge.
Verilog is a Turing complete language. Most Verilog programs are not hardware descriptions, they generate FPGA bitstreams.
On the other hand, every real expert can learn a programming language in a week or two
This is only true for "normal" programming languages that are a series of instructions executed in sequence, with standard control instructions such as loops and conditional branches. So all you have to do is learn some new syntax.
But many programmers have difficulty learning languages that don't fit that paradigm, such as Prolog and Verilog.
The clerk who made you wait at the DMV isn't the one who decided how many clerks they'd be.
The solution to long lines at the DMV is not "more clerks". It is to move most of the services to a website so there is less need to go to the DMV in the first place. Services provided on premises could be done through automated kiosks rather than through a window staffed by a clerk.
Who is blocking the streamlining and modernization of the DMV? Since it would involve no new funding, and would actually save money, it is not the legislature. It is bureaucrats, trying to preserve their jobs.
is mentally ill.
That is the point. Mercury is a neurotoxin. It makes you dumb. By loosening the standard, this will make people in critical swing states that have a lot of coal mining, such as Pennsylvania, dumber and more like to vote for Trump in 2020.
Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 1% in 2016. Obama carried it by 5.4% in 2012.
Dumb fuck.
That's Mark's own words for people who would trust him.
I have seen this quote many places, which all point back to the 2010 "Business Insider" article. BI says it came from "SAI sources" but doesn't say who or what "SAI" is, and Google turns up nothing.
Another mistake (in my opinion) was their move to "zones" with separate checkout counters in each zone, rather than a row of checkouts near the exit.
Zones require a lot more employees, and employees only know about the products in their own zone. If you ask a random Sears salesperson what aisle had the power drills, the answer is often "That's not my department". I never get that answer at Walmart or Home Depot.
If no one is staffing the checkout register in one zone, you have to wander around the store looking for another that is open. So you end up buying your power drill in the ladies lingerie department.
Nordstroms uses zones, but they are a prestige brand and charge prices high enough to justify the extra staffing.
The future is for the strong. The strong inevitably become week and compliant until they are conquered. Then the cycle repeats.
This is a general rule, but there are exceptions, especially China. Throughout history, China has expanded by allowing themselves to be conquered, and then demographically swamping and absorbing the invaders. They won by out breeding their enemies rather than out fighting them.
This happened with the Xiong Nu (Huns), Mongols (90% of Mongols today are Chinese) and the Manchus.
Even Tibet first became part of China in the 1st millennium when the Tibetan Empire invaded and conquered large parts of Sichuan and Yunnan.
The British and French are responsible for a lot of problems in Southwest Asia, but not this one. The fate of the Kurds was sealed by Turkish victory in the 1919-1922 War of Independence. The British and French were the losers, along with their Greek and Armenian allies.
Sure, Mark made some mistakes, but he is a good guy at heart and deserves another chance. I think we can trust him.
Sears made many mistakes. They were hit by Walmart on the low end, and "prestige" stores like Nordstroms on the high end. It is hard to survive in the middle, although Target is thriving there.
They were in decline long before Amazon, yet they were better placed than anyone to compete with Amazon. They had done mail order for more than a century. All they needed to do was move the ordering on-line. Instead they shutdown their catalog operation. In hindsight that was an insane move, although it didn't make much sense at the time either.
Liberal tolerance and hypocrisy rolled into one.
How does supporting a corporate takeover of education make me a "liberal"?
TFA was written by Michelle Malkin who is a Filipina-American clone of Ann Coulter.
TFA is just a smear piece that doesn't even pretend to present a balanced view.
From TFA: What more studies are showing, however, is that endless hours of screen time are turning kids into zombies.
Yet NONE of these "studies" are cited, and TFA does not give any scientific criteria for what constitutes a "zombie".
I have no idea if Zuck's program works or not, but TFA is garbage journalism that sheds no light. The editors at National Review should be ashamed of themselves for publishing it. They are better than that.
You live in a DESERT. You should not be living there.
Living in a desert is fine if you like the desert and are happy with cacti and rocks. The problem is people that move to the desert, install huge irrigation systems, and grow lawns that look like the green grass of England.
Of course something so practical to transport water from the land of plenty to the land of drought will never be built.
Sure, we could spend billions of tax dollars on a pipeline, and spend billions more on electricity to run the pumps ... or we could stop growing subsidized crops in the desert.
Or just get some perspective. According to TFA the drought has cost $1B. There are 330M Americans. That is $3 each. That is about as close to a total non-problem as we can get.
Nice, so live adjacent to slum housing.
There is nothing in the Bay Area that is remotely close to being a "slum". The 3 bedroom house is worth at least $1.5M.
The housing prices are so high that you can't live there with a low-wage job.
There are ways to live cheaply in Silicon Valley. I live in San Jose, and the house next to mine has 3 bedrooms with 22 Filipinos living in it. They have bunks stacked three high, and an RV parked in the driveway.
If you are working 80 hours a week, you aren't home much anyway.
Around the lunar new year the Japanese buy "mochi" rice treats to give as gifts. So vendors will pass out free samples of these chewy and sticky treats to people passing by. Since walking while eating is a taboo, they will immediately stop and stand still while they eat it. But that takes a while, so you soon get a tight cluster of several dozen people standing still and blocking the sidewalk while chewing furiously with strained expressions and looking like they are all trying to get gooey peanut butter off the roof of their mouth.
Japan is weird. As a gaijin, you will often see something that make no sense until someone explains it to you ... and then it makes even less sense.
Japan does not do deposit, but does have an empty bottle container attached to most vending machines.
Japan has a weird cultural taboo of drinking or eating while walking.
So when they buy a drink from a vending machine, they will stand there by the machine while they consume it, then drop the empty container in the bin.
In normal countries, people will retrieve the drink from the machine and walk away with it. So the attached bin will be of little use.
Or go back to glass; that worked fine, it seemed.
Even better: When you want water use a cup and a faucet.
As a result the poor collecting bottles refuse to pick up glass
Glass is environmentally harmless, and uneconomical to recycle. So this seems like a good outcome.