In all seriousness, you could indeed make money with the extra energy: Most state-owned utility company (including the one in canton Zurich where this is situated) will buy back electricity production.
It's pretty common installation for anyone with local electricity production (such as the TFA's solar pannels) to have special electricity meters that can inject any exceeding electricity back into the network.
It would probably be more cost effective to create a grow room for umm "hydroponic vegetables" or something, depending on the local laws regarding growing things which can vary by county and state.
(Note: Though Switzerland is also federal, it is divided into cantons and comunes, not states and counties).
Regarding the legality of growing the specific specie of "hydroponic vegetables" that you had in mind, the law is quite clear: you can go full commercial as long as your producing low... "vitamin" vegetable, and people are allowed to carry their snack (= small quantity for consumption) regardless of content of "vitamins".
In practice, based on what I've heard from friends (sorry only anecdotes, no first-hand experience: I'm more a beer type of person), growing your own "high-vitamin" "hydroponic vegetables" for your own consumption is more or less tolerated, as long as it's not exploited commercially.
So to go back to your proposition :
- To recoup costs, they could grow nearly any other vegetables commercially and sell them, but not the "high-vitamin hydroponic vegetables" you had in mind (the commercial exploitation being the big practical "nono", the "high vitamin" content being the legal pretext to prevent it).
But in practice, the canton (=state)-owned utility companies will pay you when buying back energy. It is common practice here around for anyone with local production (such as solar panels) to have special meters that can sell back electricity into the network.
So most probably, they are going to earn the easiest money simply by injecting the extra electricity into the network. (No need to fuss with any agricultural work).
Saddly it seems that whitelisting Javascript (e.g.: the Firefox NoScript extension) and keeping it to the bare strict minimum required to successfully display a web page is the only practical way to avoid/diminish the online tracking.
Luckily, it seems that nearly all the web rely on 3rd party libraries to do the tracking and thus blocking 3rd party libraries and only allowing select few helps increasing the protection against tracking.
Because cramming a decent amount of processing power in small form-factor requires some engineering skills and a decent manufacturing capability.
There's dozens of Raspberry Pi-based portable console projects out there to copy or to use as a starting point.
But they'll end up:
- being less powerful
- larger (hard to fit all the raspberry pi ports into such a thin shell) - or require you to desolder every single connector off the RPi3+B board and completely rethink its thermal management (the RPi3+B uses every single metal part as thermal sink. That include the large network and USB connector. That's why the RPi3+A is clocked slower: less metal to dump heat out) You'd need e.g.: to construct your home-made portable's body out of metal and use it as a giant heatsink. - or you'll have to fall back to a much less powerfull Rpi Zero.
Having a convenient form factor is one of the reason while rooting somewhat recent commercial brand-name portable consoles is nearly as interesting as contructing home-made ones out of RPis (And that's ignoring some extra hardware gimmick that the commercial might feature, like Nintendo (New- / regular-) 3DS' auto-stereoscopic screen).
Well that's of course for *recent* commercial portable console.
The original Gameboy's case could probably host 2 RPi boards on its own.
And by now, the SEGA GameGear and even SEGA Nomad are larger than the necessary hardware to emulate those close to perfection (Titan Overdrive 2 being the sole exception) - unlike all the crappy emulators that AtGames have been spitting out under licensed SEGA brand.
(And speaking of hardware, thanks to modern-ish processes, the original SEGA hardware found in consoles as Genesis/Megadrive/Nomad itself has been shrunk to the point of a single chip, so you can fit the whole console into a single cartridge Super Gameboy-style. Look for RetroGen).
Wonder how long it'll take the pedos to move their discussions over to {...somewhere else...}
As long as that moving destination isn't hosted by Google, it's find by them: They can claim that they have done their side of the work to avoid becoming the home base of {...latest scarecrow..}, and get all the precious advertising money back.
Dealing with the backlash of having become a "discussion enabler" for {...latest scarecrow...} and potentially losing ad money revenue (if that's the way they finance themselves) is the destination platform's problem. Not youtubes.
But people can buy drugs, guns, and sex using crypto.
People can also buy drugs and sex using plain simple money. It all depends if the country you're in considers it as something fundamentally evil that needs to be banned no matter what, or if it's just yet another market that at most needs to be regulated. But those countries just happen to be mostly on the other side of the Atlantic pond, on our "evil-euro-communist" side...
It's easier to conduct business off the books that needs to be kept off the books.
Wha.. ?!?... no ! What part of "distributed trust" and "public ledger" don't you get?! Well, okay. The cryptographics concepts might be a little too complex. But the core idea that drove the development of Bitcoin is to avoid a central authority responsible for them. Instead, it relies on every node of the network holding its local copy of the transaction history and agreeing together (so no central authority could try to take over).
That also mean that *every single node* on the network has a copy of the books. So it's quite the opposite of conducting business off the books. Bitcoin is *not* anonymous, by design. At best it's pseudonymous: the transaction aren't stored together with your real identity, they're instead linked to the cryptography key pair used to sign them. (But that won't prevent any big player to eventually manage to match a collection of keys with some real world identity. At the end of the day, those wares you mentions needs to be shipped somewhere).
But the thing is, as there are no central authority, there's no single stop to *prevent* those exchange from happening. You can freeze the credit cards or paypal account of some controversial enterprise, but you can't go and ask some "Bitcoin, Inc" to freeze the transactions. (That's in fact part of the rose of popularity of the concept, after controversial websites like Wikileaks got heir donation request mecanism frozen). (Though nowadays, there's probably a couple of giant chinese mining pool which more or less work as a "bitcoin, inc" simply because together they deal more than 51% of all transaction mining).
TL;DR: You're not *off the books*. You're off from someone knocking on your bank's door and saying "he's not allowed to do that, please block the transaction".
i think you lost your train of thoughts somewhere midway through your metaphor: why would one need "decontamination" after sitting in microwace combined with UV bed ?
why the hell is there a need to continuously blast music in a coffee shop, to begin with?
have human gotten so used to watching movies that they can't imagine anything in life without a background music track?
or is the the coffee shop's attempt to try to do the same manipulations as clothes stores to try to maximize profits? (playing catchy upbeat music apparently increases the probability of impulse buys ?)
14. Police and sheriffâ(TM)s patrol officers Fatal injuries: 14.6 per 100,000 workers
17. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs Fatal injuries: 13.2 per 100,000 workers
That puts taxi drivers in roughly the same order of fatal injurries as sherrifs and patrol officers, in your country.
Do you see Taxi drivers (exerting their 2nd amendment and) pulling out tons of guns whenever their client seems slightly less calm ? Then how come you expect patrol officers to pull out deadly equipment, not to defend their lives because they are under fire, but simply at the slightest *suspicion of potentially stolen car* ?!
We here around just have no clue how much "normal" people have been becoming dependent on "those creepy service", and are completely oblivious to even the possibility of not relying on a 3rd party. (e.g.: The first reflex of my s.o. for extremely simple task (make a collage of picture to build a banner) is to *google* around, find a *web app* and upload her pictures to that. I would just fire up any software enabling me to place picture on a field. Be it something dedicated like GIMP or Inkscape, or repurposing something simple like LibreOffice Impress)
The Gizmodo "I shut down the big five" piece above is very telling once you look at the journalist's complete inability to send a big file over the internet. She's completely at lost because she's cut off dropbox and google drive and completely panics. Whereas it's something that I - like anyone else - regularly do (using a mix of SFTP/RSYNC, FTP/S and/or HTTP, between machine I own like servers and/or raspberries plugged at home and/or servers I rent at a local datacenter business).
At that point I wouldn't have been surprise (and was almost expecting) if I had read a couple of paragraphs later that she'd been unable to cook her own dinner because she completely at loss about how to operate a modern IoT-enabled stove without blurting commands to Alexa/Siri/Cortana/OkayGoogle/whatever...
We have the automatic reflex of using our solution and not trust "somebody else's cloud" for anything, because back when we began as kids, there wasn't even a cloud to begin with.
So for us it's completely trivial to think "Why should I use service X, Y or Z if I'm creeped out by the company running it ?" Whereas most of the society needs to completely rethink how they interact with technology.
Use protonmail instead of gmail, searx.me instead of google.com, Brave instead of Chrome, etc etc...
Again, we have a completely different approach to things, we don't have that many marbles stored at someone else's computer.
Surely, the more convoluted a software design is, the more secure it is. And inability to audit is always extra security. We are talking about job security, right?
The thing which makes this joke even more bitter is that here the voting tools are required to be autidable by design. Any citizen could go and check that the counting of booth votes, or of postal votes is going as it should. (While at the same time enforcing privacy: there shouldn't be a way for a potential repressive adversary to use the system to spy who voted what. Though the current implementation of remote voting over post has a few potential failure points, and relies on everybody along the chain accomplishing their duty... though again, any citizen is supposed to be able to come and check that it's indeed the case).
The current mess that is used in the few pilot e-voting experience is the exact opposite of that.
- non opensource components (mostly criticized by groups such as linux users, freesoftware advocate, etc.)
- extremely complex know-how required to understand what's going on (anybody can understand paper ballot being tallied, not everybody understands the cryptography behind the e-voting system).
On the other hand, we're a direct democracy: there are already people doing bottom-up actions trying to move things forward and get the problem solved. The meta joke being that the proposal in questions to fix the e-voting system, will partially be voted for using the currently broken e-voting systems.
And who owns the *in-game* ads displayed in most freemium titles ?
I actually doubt that Google will ever charge users of their streaming service directly.
They'll probably considered simply as their latest ploy to bring even more advertiment expos^H sorry... huh... "free games"... to even more gamers/eyeballs.
They'll probably recoup any cost running their service :
- by the ad money that they already make on the games that they make more accessible this way.
- by selling any information they can gather (who is streaming how much of what) to the most offering party.
Basically: see Chromium as another "free" product that serves the exact same purpose/is financed the exact same way.
martial arts and yoga are far more long duration, like marathon running, and both have way more young women in them.
Martial arts: Judo classes during high-school. Young women in them:...it's simpler to say that out of the whole group, we were only 2 boys registered there.
No, that absolutely is not what insurance is about. I can see why you'd think that, because that is what certain politicians are trying to turn medical insurance into
I live on the other side of the Atlantic pond (Yes, I know, evil euro-communist...), this is how most of the countries here around handle public healthcare systems.
In a competitive market, the premium and the risk will have similar expected costs (cost of event times probability of event) with the difference being the insurer's administrative costs, capital expenses, and profit margin.
In theory, yes, the market's invisible hand will solve it. In practice, that way you end up with a bunch of private/for-profit companies which try to maximize their profits: by taking-in only the lowest-possible risk clients and having them pay an as high as possible premium that the market can support.
This ends up putting a lot of rejected people into situation were they can't afford to get sick.
No one buys insurance expecting up front to either subsidize other clients or be subsidized themselves.
That's literally how most social insurance work here around. (but yeah I know that the political consensus in most of our countries would be flagged has "extremist far-left communist" on your spectrum).
Everyone pays a premium in line with their own personal degree of risk.
The more you seek to personalize the risk, the more you turn an insurance into gambling. Which was the whole subject of this thread.
...and 73 new crowdfunding campaign spread accross Kickstarter, Indigogo and the like, wanting to built some weird electro-gizmo, like headbands generating magnetic field to "boost concentration", "optimize sleep", etc.
The idea with gambling is that you are betting on a thing happening or not happening. And insurance absolutely falls into that.
Note I fully support insurance, but it absolutely has all the markings of gambling.
In theory, the idea behind insurance is socialized cost : spreading the cost of accidents across a wider population.
(Medical insurance: Instead of having a poor random guy victim of a sudden unplanned medical expense they can't afford and having big health and economic repercussion because of that, everyone pays a bit and if the sudden medical untuck lands on you, you don't have to pay extra).
Of course, in practice there's an overlap with gambling somewhere in the middle.
But I have the impression that lots of insurance companies have moved away from the socialized costs and evolved more into gambling, specially trying to maximize *their own* chances of winning.
The thing is, this is an *EU* law and most of these jurisdictions have local laws that more or less grant authorization of some limited form of copies.
The "link tax" is bad for Google
Yes, for *google* because it might prevent them from slurping the *whole web* and republishing it. (Though even then, some countries are extremely lax. Switzerland, though not exactly EU member, but merely partner state signing bilateral agreement, has the "technical ground" exemption. And Google could argue that indexing the web must include making local copies of everything on technical grounds).
and other news aggregators,
You'll have to check every country for the local details, but nearly all country would allow keeping and citing a small excerpt on the grounds of citation. The only difference being what local laws consider a reasonable short excerpt. Germany has much stricter and precise definition, but republishing only the abstract/first paragraph is definitely within limits. Any news aggregator physically based in EU would have no problems.
bad for consumers, and likely bad for news sites as well. It is an erosion of the public's right to fair use of information.
...except in countries where there are strong rules in place already to protect the fair use of information. (which is the case of most european jurisdiction already).
So, although I tend to be against copyright laws, and would certainly have voted against this law if I had the opportunity (haha... direct democracy in EU. One can dream...), I have to admit that the complaints of Google are pretty much groundless on this one.
but try to sell your own brands shirts on amazon and it's a goddamn nightmare due to having to prove that you own the brand etc
The logic of amazon being that if you happen to be trying to sell, say knock offs of Nike or some other brand, they'll have the legal of the big brand team on their asses. Amazon decides to be cautious. But having actual human employee who can quickly at a glance notice that your "happy bear" brand is a just a small pop and mom shop brand and is never going to cost a legal turmoil... would require paying competent actual human employee. Which is going to cost money. Better use a poor automated system, that will be goot at avoiding Amazon losing money at the hands of big brand's legal team, but will make the experience miserable for all small shops - because why would Amazon care ? if the small shops want to stay relevant they will *have* to use Amazon and they will *have* to endure the poor system. No need for Amazon to put an effort.
but you got a 555-in-1 cartridge with marios face on it? okay, just sell it, no problems.
...and here the situation is reversed. If you've paying a tiny bit attention to the current gaming market, absolutely nobody uses cartridges anymore. The cartridge *by itself* (the physical object) isn't an obvious immediate knock off that will immediately attract the ire of some legal team.
It's a legacy type of object to be used with a device that isn't in production anymore. You could hardly claim licensing violation regarding production of cartridge (and even back during the lifetime of the systems, SEGA didn't manage to sue Accolade because of unlicensed cartridge production).
The thing which is problematic is the software flashed onto the cartridge.
But the problem is that a significant amount of the software is done by companies that are now belly up. It's going to be an administrative nightmare trying to track down the current IP owner of every last one of the 555 supposed games and see if said owner are interested into suing.
By keeping carts on their marketplace, Amazon isn't risking much lawsuits, but avoid the backlash that they could have from end-users trying to sell legit cartridges 2nd hand. (And risk loosing customers to e-bay, as that competitor is also significant in the market of 2nd hand).
So basically it's a balance of risk of being sued vs. potential profit. For branded shirts, Amazon has decided there's some risk of suits. For carts, Amazon thinks that the potential profits outweigh the lawsuits risks.
that is, if amazon just had 1 worker to _manually_ go through the website once a day for obviously pirate multisystems, carts, reporoduction cd's(pirate copies) etc, it would take care 99% of the problem.
that covers 99% of the *classes* of problems. But a lone guy would probably be only able to go through 1% of the volume of the above mentioned problems. Amazon would need a larger crew. Which would cost money. More money that the risk of getting sued. thus : no.
ebay can't be arsed to do that either.
ebay has a system for reporting of suspect goods. ebay has also a system that tries to filter automatically potentially counterfeit goods. Which sucks badly and ends up with you still seeing hundreds of obviously counterfeit items that managed to be described and listed in a way that circumvents the simplistic filters, while at the same time suddenly blocking you from buying some completely and unrelated legit item, just because its description uses a word that accidentally looks like something which would trip the filter.
350kW chargers are being tested in Europe now {...} If you work it out that means you need to stop for about 12 minutes every 3 hours if cruising at 75 MPH.
(Note: 75MPH =~ 120 km/h)
Speaking of Europe, depending on where you're looking :
- You are extremely strongly encouraged to make breaks much more frequently than that (as examples : see the campaigns on highway electronic signage in France during each touristic season - strongly encouraging to take a break every 2 hours maximum. Or as another example, the "turbo nap" information campaigns in Switzerland)
- It might be illegal to go on long stretch without a break (there are laws for professional drivers in lots of European countries)
So yeah, as you point out, EV tech already today on the streets covers the needs of most people (except the US "I pee in a plastic bottle" crowd I mentionned above).
Are you aware that you don't need to stay next to an EV while it's charging ?
Get that recharge rate to where it can compete with internal combustion engines
Typical use on long trips :
ICE: pull out to the gaz station, quickly fill the tank, then *after the refill* move the car a few meters further (to free the gaz pump) next to the restaurant/dinner, then have your break there (coffee or lunch depending on the time of the day). EV: plug in the car to the charging station, and go to the restaurant dinner to have your break (coffee / lunch) *while* the car is charging.
There's NO difference in practical use. (Ah yeah, I forgot: there's the "I pee in a plastic bottle" that will insist on driving 8 hours straight without a single pause. Just please try not to crash your sleep deprived face into me, thank you.)
Typical use on short trips:
ICE: you take your car, but every now and then you'll need to add an extra detour to the gaz station in your daily plan. EV: you take your car. It's already charged 100% overnight.
"Polar vortex" what-ever. That weather is just called "winter".
The fact that you've so much lost the habit of it that some occasionnal slight return to older typical warther is suddenly newsworthy is more a sign of how awful the climate change has become !
Now insert some grumbling about up-hill in the snow both ways and about lawns.
The article speaks about *assistants*. Things supposed to be helping non-technical people (even if we/.ers know that the real purpose is to monetize private information).
Most of the people would probably prefer use their everyday language in which they the most fluent when speaking to their accessory, not a secondary language that they have some knowledge of (because it's a popular one in lots of fields) but that they don't use frequently every day.
That's even what the/. summary attempts to point out, yes some knowledge of English is frequent, but what people actually speak in everyday is completely different.
If Google, Apple and co want to have a chunk of the giant juicy Chinese market, they better sell a service that can be use in language that these people are fluent in (Mandarin. Cantonese, etc.) not some language that some fraction of the population had some lessons of back when they were teens, and never had any actually real-world experience of and have barely uttered a single word there of.
Imagine if your assistant could only speak Spanish / German / French / whatever other language you learned in high school and never spoke again. Would you be as eager to use it ?
That's why "native speaker" is much more relevant in the specific contact of TFA rather than "has some knowledge of English".
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In all seriousness, you could indeed make money with the extra energy:
Most state-owned utility company (including the one in canton Zurich where this is situated) will buy back electricity production.
It's pretty common installation for anyone with local electricity production (such as the TFA's solar pannels) to have special electricity meters that can inject any exceeding electricity back into the network.
It would probably be more cost effective to create a grow room for umm "hydroponic vegetables" or something, depending on the local laws regarding growing things which can vary by county and state.
(Note: Though Switzerland is also federal, it is divided into cantons and comunes, not states and counties).
Regarding the legality of growing the specific specie of "hydroponic vegetables" that you had in mind, the law is quite clear: you can go full commercial as long as your producing low... "vitamin" vegetable, and people are allowed to carry their snack (= small quantity for consumption) regardless of content of "vitamins".
In practice, based on what I've heard from friends (sorry only anecdotes, no first-hand experience: I'm more a beer type of person), growing your own "high-vitamin" "hydroponic vegetables" for your own consumption is more or less tolerated, as long as it's not exploited commercially.
So to go back to your proposition :
- To recoup costs, they could grow nearly any other vegetables commercially and sell them, but not the "high-vitamin hydroponic vegetables" you had in mind (the commercial exploitation being the big practical "nono", the "high vitamin" content being the legal pretext to prevent it).
But in practice, the canton (=state)-owned utility companies will pay you when buying back energy.
It is common practice here around for anyone with local production (such as solar panels) to have special meters that can sell back electricity into the network.
So most probably, they are going to earn the easiest money simply by injecting the extra electricity into the network.
(No need to fuss with any agricultural work).
Saddly it seems that whitelisting Javascript (e.g.: the Firefox NoScript extension) and keeping it to the bare strict minimum required to successfully display a web page is the only practical way to avoid/diminish the online tracking.
Luckily, it seems that nearly all the web rely on 3rd party libraries to do the tracking and thus blocking 3rd party libraries and only allowing select few helps increasing the protection against tracking.
why not just build your own?
Because cramming a decent amount of processing power in small form-factor requires some engineering skills and a decent manufacturing capability.
There's dozens of Raspberry Pi-based portable console projects out there to copy or to use as a starting point.
But they'll end up:
- being less powerful
- larger (hard to fit all the raspberry pi ports into such a thin shell)
- or require you to desolder every single connector off the RPi3+B board and completely rethink its thermal management (the RPi3+B uses every single metal part as thermal sink. That include the large network and USB connector. That's why the RPi3+A is clocked slower: less metal to dump heat out) You'd need e.g.: to construct your home-made portable's body out of metal and use it as a giant heatsink.
- or you'll have to fall back to a much less powerfull Rpi Zero.
Having a convenient form factor is one of the reason while rooting somewhat recent commercial brand-name portable consoles is nearly as interesting as contructing home-made ones out of RPis
(And that's ignoring some extra hardware gimmick that the commercial might feature, like Nintendo (New- / regular-) 3DS' auto-stereoscopic screen).
Well that's of course for *recent* commercial portable console.
The original Gameboy's case could probably host 2 RPi boards on its own.
And by now, the SEGA GameGear and even SEGA Nomad are larger than the necessary hardware to emulate those close to perfection (Titan Overdrive 2 being the sole exception) - unlike all the crappy emulators that AtGames have been spitting out under licensed SEGA brand.
(And speaking of hardware, thanks to modern-ish processes, the original SEGA hardware found in consoles as Genesis/Megadrive/Nomad itself has been shrunk to the point of a single chip, so you can fit the whole console into a single cartridge Super Gameboy-style. Look for RetroGen).
he's got the hair implants.
When men get older and no amount of sildenafil helps them anymore
If you're trying to solve your hair problems by using Sildenafil , I think you're doing it wrong.
Wonder how long it'll take the pedos to move their discussions over to {...somewhere else...}
As long as that moving destination isn't hosted by Google, it's find by them: They can claim that they have done their side of the work to avoid becoming the home base of {...latest scarecrow..}, and get all the precious advertising money back.
Dealing with the backlash of having become a "discussion enabler" for {...latest scarecrow...} and potentially losing ad money revenue (if that's the way they finance themselves) is the destination platform's problem. Not youtubes.
But people can buy drugs, guns, and sex using crypto.
People can also buy drugs and sex using plain simple money.
It all depends if the country you're in considers it as something fundamentally evil that needs to be banned no matter what, or if it's just yet another market that at most needs to be regulated.
But those countries just happen to be mostly on the other side of the Atlantic pond, on our "evil-euro-communist" side...
It's easier to conduct business off the books that needs to be kept off the books.
Wha.. ?!?... no !
What part of "distributed trust" and "public ledger" don't you get?!
Well, okay. The cryptographics concepts might be a little too complex.
But the core idea that drove the development of Bitcoin is to avoid a central authority responsible for them. Instead, it relies on every node of the network holding its local copy of the transaction history and agreeing together (so no central authority could try to take over).
That also mean that *every single node* on the network has a copy of the books. So it's quite the opposite of conducting business off the books.
Bitcoin is *not* anonymous, by design. At best it's pseudonymous: the transaction aren't stored together with your real identity, they're instead linked to the cryptography key pair used to sign them. (But that won't prevent any big player to eventually manage to match a collection of keys with some real world identity. At the end of the day, those wares you mentions needs to be shipped somewhere).
But the thing is, as there are no central authority, there's no single stop to *prevent* those exchange from happening. You can freeze the credit cards or paypal account of some controversial enterprise, but you can't go and ask some "Bitcoin, Inc" to freeze the transactions.
(That's in fact part of the rose of popularity of the concept, after controversial websites like Wikileaks got heir donation request mecanism frozen).
(Though nowadays, there's probably a couple of giant chinese mining pool which more or less work as a "bitcoin, inc" simply because together they deal more than 51% of all transaction mining).
TL;DR: You're not *off the books*. You're off from someone knocking on your bank's door and saying "he's not allowed to do that, please block the transaction".
i think you lost your train of thoughts somewhere midway through your metaphor:
why would one need "decontamination" after sitting in microwace combined with UV bed ?
If silence is a problem,
indeed, what's wrong with silence?
why the hell is there a need to continuously blast music in a coffee shop, to begin with?
have human gotten so used to watching movies that they can't imagine anything in life without a background music track?
or is the the coffee shop's attempt to try to do the same manipulations as clothes stores to try to maximize profits? (playing catchy upbeat music apparently increases the probability of impulse buys ?)
14. Police and sheriffâ(TM)s patrol officers
Fatal injuries: 14.6 per 100,000 workers
17. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
Fatal injuries: 13.2 per 100,000 workers
That puts taxi drivers in roughly the same order of fatal injurries as sherrifs and patrol officers, in your country.
Do you see Taxi drivers (exerting their 2nd amendment and) pulling out tons of guns whenever their client seems slightly less calm ?
Then how come you expect patrol officers to pull out deadly equipment, not to defend their lives because they are under fire, but simply at the slightest *suspicion of potentially stolen car* ?!
Your country seems really weird...
So stop using those creepy "services."
The problem, when non-tech, non-/. people try to stop using creepy services, is that you end up with that :
We here around just have no clue how much "normal" people have been becoming dependent on "those creepy service", and are completely oblivious to even the possibility of not relying on a 3rd party.
(e.g.: The first reflex of my s.o. for extremely simple task (make a collage of picture to build a banner) is to *google* around, find a *web app* and upload her pictures to that. I would just fire up any software enabling me to place picture on a field. Be it something dedicated like GIMP or Inkscape, or repurposing something simple like LibreOffice Impress)
The Gizmodo "I shut down the big five" piece above is very telling once you look at the journalist's complete inability to send a big file over the internet. She's completely at lost because she's cut off dropbox and google drive and completely panics. Whereas it's something that I - like anyone else - regularly do (using a mix of SFTP/RSYNC, FTP/S and/or HTTP, between machine I own like servers and/or raspberries plugged at home and/or servers I rent at a local datacenter business).
At that point I wouldn't have been surprise (and was almost expecting) if I had read a couple of paragraphs later that she'd been unable to cook her own dinner because she completely at loss about how to operate a modern IoT-enabled stove without blurting commands to Alexa/Siri/Cortana/OkayGoogle/whatever...
We have the automatic reflex of using our solution and not trust "somebody else's cloud" for anything, because back when we began as kids, there wasn't even a cloud to begin with.
So for us it's completely trivial to think "Why should I use service X, Y or Z if I'm creeped out by the company running it ?"
Whereas most of the society needs to completely rethink how they interact with technology.
Use protonmail instead of gmail, searx.me instead of google.com, Brave instead of Chrome, etc etc...
Again, we have a completely different approach to things, we don't have that many marbles stored at someone else's computer.
Surely, the more convoluted a software design is, the more secure it is. And inability to audit is always extra security.
We are talking about job security, right?
The thing which makes this joke even more bitter is that here the voting tools are required to be autidable by design.
Any citizen could go and check that the counting of booth votes, or of postal votes is going as it should.
(While at the same time enforcing privacy: there shouldn't be a way for a potential repressive adversary to use the system to spy who voted what. Though the current implementation of remote voting over post has a few potential failure points, and relies on everybody along the chain accomplishing their duty... though again, any citizen is supposed to be able to come and check that it's indeed the case).
The current mess that is used in the few pilot e-voting experience is the exact opposite of that.
- non opensource components (mostly criticized by groups such as linux users, freesoftware advocate, etc.)
- extremely complex know-how required to understand what's going on (anybody can understand paper ballot being tallied, not everybody understands the cryptography behind the e-voting system).
On the other hand, we're a direct democracy: there are already people doing bottom-up actions trying to move things forward and get the problem solved.
The meta joke being that the proposal in questions to fix the e-voting system, will partially be voted for using the currently broken e-voting systems.
And who owns the *in-game* ads displayed in most freemium titles ?
I actually doubt that Google will ever charge users of their streaming service directly.
They'll probably considered simply as their latest ploy to bring even more advertiment expos^H sorry... huh... "free games"... to even more gamers/eyeballs.
They'll probably recoup any cost running their service :
- by the ad money that they already make on the games that they make more accessible this way.
- by selling any information they can gather (who is streaming how much of what) to the most offering party.
Basically: see Chromium as another "free" product that serves the exact same purpose/is financed the exact same way.
martial arts and yoga are far more long duration, like marathon running, and both have way more young women in them.
Martial arts: Judo classes during high-school. ...it's simpler to say that out of the whole group, we were only 2 boys registered there.
Young women in them:
No, that absolutely is not what insurance is about. I can see why you'd think that, because that is what certain politicians are trying to turn medical insurance into
I live on the other side of the Atlantic pond (Yes, I know, evil euro-communist...), this is how most of the countries here around handle public healthcare systems.
In a competitive market, the premium and the risk will have similar expected costs (cost of event times probability of event) with the difference being the insurer's administrative costs, capital expenses, and profit margin.
In theory, yes, the market's invisible hand will solve it.
In practice, that way you end up with a bunch of private/for-profit companies which try to maximize their profits: by taking-in only the lowest-possible risk clients and having them pay an as high as possible premium that the market can support.
This ends up putting a lot of rejected people into situation were they can't afford to get sick.
No one buys insurance expecting up front to either subsidize other clients or be subsidized themselves.
That's literally how most social insurance work here around.
(but yeah I know that the political consensus in most of our countries would be flagged has "extremist far-left communist" on your spectrum).
Everyone pays a premium in line with their own personal degree of risk.
The more you seek to personalize the risk, the more you turn an insurance into gambling. Which was the whole subject of this thread.
...and 73 new crowdfunding campaign spread accross Kickstarter, Indigogo and the like, wanting to built some weird electro-gizmo, like headbands generating magnetic field to "boost concentration", "optimize sleep", etc.
Hey, let's jump in!
Who's coming with me?
Let's crowdfund the SlashdotBrainBooster(tm)(c) !
The idea with gambling is that you are betting on a thing happening or not happening. And insurance absolutely falls into that.
Note I fully support insurance, but it absolutely has all the markings of gambling.
In theory, the idea behind insurance is socialized cost : spreading the cost of accidents across a wider population.
(Medical insurance: Instead of having a poor random guy victim of a sudden unplanned medical expense they can't afford and having big health and economic repercussion because of that, everyone pays a bit and if the sudden medical untuck lands on you, you don't have to pay extra).
Of course, in practice there's an overlap with gambling somewhere in the middle.
But I have the impression that lots of insurance companies have moved away from the socialized costs and evolved more into gambling, specially trying to maximize *their own* chances of winning.
The thing is, this is an *EU* law and most of these jurisdictions have local laws that more or less grant authorization of some limited form of copies.
The "link tax" is bad for Google
Yes, for *google* because it might prevent them from slurping the *whole web* and republishing it.
(Though even then, some countries are extremely lax. Switzerland, though not exactly EU member, but merely partner state signing bilateral agreement, has the "technical ground" exemption. And Google could argue that indexing the web must include making local copies of everything on technical grounds).
and other news aggregators,
You'll have to check every country for the local details, but nearly all country would allow keeping and citing a small excerpt on the grounds of citation.
The only difference being what local laws consider a reasonable short excerpt. Germany has much stricter and precise definition, but republishing only the abstract/first paragraph is definitely within limits.
Any news aggregator physically based in EU would have no problems.
bad for consumers, and likely bad for news sites as well. It is an erosion of the public's right to fair use of information.
...except in countries where there are strong rules in place already to protect the fair use of information.
(which is the case of most european jurisdiction already).
So, although I tend to be against copyright laws, and would certainly have voted against this law if I had the opportunity (haha... direct democracy in EU. One can dream...), I have to admit that the complaints of Google are pretty much groundless on this one.
but try to sell your own brands shirts on amazon and it's a goddamn nightmare due to having to prove that you own the brand etc
The logic of amazon being that if you happen to be trying to sell, say knock offs of Nike or some other brand, they'll have the legal of the big brand team on their asses.
Amazon decides to be cautious. But having actual human employee who can quickly at a glance notice that your "happy bear" brand is a just a small pop and mom shop brand and is never going to cost a legal turmoil... would require paying competent actual human employee. Which is going to cost money.
Better use a poor automated system, that will be goot at avoiding Amazon losing money at the hands of big brand's legal team, but will make the experience miserable for all small shops - because why would Amazon care ? if the small shops want to stay relevant they will *have* to use Amazon and they will *have* to endure the poor system. No need for Amazon to put an effort.
but you got a 555-in-1 cartridge with marios face on it? okay, just sell it, no problems.
...and here the situation is reversed. If you've paying a tiny bit attention to the current gaming market, absolutely nobody uses cartridges anymore.
The cartridge *by itself* (the physical object) isn't an obvious immediate knock off that will immediately attract the ire of some legal team.
It's a legacy type of object to be used with a device that isn't in production anymore. You could hardly claim licensing violation regarding production of cartridge (and even back during the lifetime of the systems, SEGA didn't manage to sue Accolade because of unlicensed cartridge production).
The thing which is problematic is the software flashed onto the cartridge.
But the problem is that a significant amount of the software is done by companies that are now belly up.
It's going to be an administrative nightmare trying to track down the current IP owner of every last one of the 555 supposed games and see if said owner are interested into suing.
By keeping carts on their marketplace, Amazon isn't risking much lawsuits, but avoid the backlash that they could have from end-users trying to sell legit cartridges 2nd hand. (And risk loosing customers to e-bay, as that competitor is also significant in the market of 2nd hand).
So basically it's a balance of risk of being sued vs. potential profit.
For branded shirts, Amazon has decided there's some risk of suits.
For carts, Amazon thinks that the potential profits outweigh the lawsuits risks.
that is, if amazon just had 1 worker to _manually_ go through the website once a day for obviously pirate multisystems, carts, reporoduction cd's(pirate copies) etc, it would take care 99% of the problem.
that covers 99% of the *classes* of problems. But a lone guy would probably be only able to go through 1% of the volume of the above mentioned problems.
Amazon would need a larger crew. Which would cost money. More money that the risk of getting sued.
thus : no.
ebay can't be arsed to do that either.
ebay has a system for reporting of suspect goods.
ebay has also a system that tries to filter automatically potentially counterfeit goods. Which sucks badly and ends up with you still seeing hundreds of obviously counterfeit items that managed to be described and listed in a way that circumvents the simplistic filters, while at the same time suddenly blocking you from buying some completely and unrelated legit item, just because its description uses a word that accidentally looks like something which would trip the filter.
350kW chargers are being tested in Europe now {...} If you work it out that means you need to stop for about 12 minutes every 3 hours if cruising at 75 MPH.
(Note: 75MPH =~ 120 km/h)
Speaking of Europe, depending on where you're looking :
- You are extremely strongly encouraged to make breaks much more frequently than that (as examples : see the campaigns on highway electronic signage in France during each touristic season - strongly encouraging to take a break every 2 hours maximum. Or as another example, the "turbo nap" information campaigns in Switzerland)
- It might be illegal to go on long stretch without a break (there are laws for professional drivers in lots of European countries)
So yeah, as you point out, EV tech already today on the streets covers the needs of most people (except the US "I pee in a plastic bottle" crowd I mentionned above).
Anything over 15 minutes to recharge is terrible.
Are you aware that you don't need to stay next to an EV while it's charging ?
Get that recharge rate to where it can compete with internal combustion engines
Typical use on long trips :
ICE: pull out to the gaz station, quickly fill the tank, then *after the refill* move the car a few meters further (to free the gaz pump) next to the restaurant/dinner, then have your break there (coffee or lunch depending on the time of the day).
EV: plug in the car to the charging station, and go to the restaurant dinner to have your break (coffee / lunch) *while* the car is charging.
There's NO difference in practical use.
(Ah yeah, I forgot: there's the "I pee in a plastic bottle" that will insist on driving 8 hours straight without a single pause. Just please try not to crash your sleep deprived face into me, thank you.)
Typical use on short trips:
ICE: you take your car, but every now and then you'll need to add an extra detour to the gaz station in your daily plan.
EV: you take your car. It's already charged 100% overnight.
EV are actually better.
"Polar vortex" what-ever.
That weather is just called "winter".
The fact that you've so much lost the habit of it that some occasionnal slight return to older typical warther is suddenly newsworthy is more a sign of how awful the climate change has become !
Now insert some grumbling about up-hill in the snow both ways and about lawns.
The article speaks about *assistants*. Things supposed to be helping non-technical people (even if we /.ers know that the real purpose is to monetize private information).
Most of the people would probably prefer use their everyday language in which they the most fluent when speaking to their accessory, not a secondary language that they have some knowledge of (because it's a popular one in lots of fields) but that they don't use frequently every day.
That's even what the /. summary attempts to point out, yes some knowledge of English is frequent, but what people actually speak in everyday is completely different.
If Google, Apple and co want to have a chunk of the giant juicy Chinese market, they better sell a service that can be use in language that these people are fluent in (Mandarin. Cantonese, etc.) not some language that some fraction of the population had some lessons of back when they were teens, and never had any actually real-world experience of and have barely uttered a single word there of.
Imagine if your assistant could only speak Spanish / German / French / whatever other language you learned in high school and never spoke again. Would you be as eager to use it ?
That's why "native speaker" is much more relevant in the specific contact of TFA rather than "has some knowledge of English".
and is the language you code in (statements and commands of any mainstream language are english)
Some of us (and not all of those are cats) do code in Perl, you insensitive clod !
(Now switching the keyboard back into punctuation mode, I've got some work to do).