The argument for UBI usually sounds like "Hey, it's complicated and expensive to figure out who needs which services, so just give a fixed amount of money to everybody and they can use it however they want." UBI is the approximation, not the ideal. Ideally, we don't want to give wealthy people a fixed check every month. It would be better to spend that money on drug treatment for addicts or therapy for the mentally handicapped, or just to give the poorer people more money.
Is there something specific you are attributing to Obama? Those programs go back decades. We just found out about them under Obama. I'd prefer to blame Bush Jr, but really he was just signing-off on justifications for programs that already existed back before 9/11/2001. This is what happens when you have a secret government watchdog.
I work for a large company that has a proxy server that does MITM attacks. The certs issued by the server are SHA-1, so we haven't been able to use Chrome and Firefox for months. The funny thing is that they even recommend using Chrome for certain sites. Many of us have opened tickets on this and they just don't seem to understand that this isn't a bug in Chrome. *facepalm* I hope this finally forces them to fix it. Although I don't have high hopes. Odds are more that they will try to block the update, and if anyone winds-up with it they will be considered out-of-compliance and IT will reformat their machines.
You story flies in the face of what I've seen, and what continuously gets posted here on Slashdot. I keep hearing that senior engineers are considered worthless and they are constantly fired for cheaper junior engineers or outsourced work. The technology makes it easier for a junior engineer to get started in the field and produce quality results, and the H1B race-to-the-bottom makes it hard for senior engineers to get decent pay.
Windows Server and Windows IOT don't support Edge. Those releases only support Internet Explorer. So it is awesome that they are adding security, but can they please add it to all OS editions? It's silly that servers and small devices are still vulnerable.
There are two problems with this: 1) I put you in my phone's contact list as "Total Moron, don't answer this." That's why nobody is answering your calls any more. 2) Wouldn't you expect a product named "Wiley Fox Swift" to pull fast one on you? It could not have been more obvious if they had named it "The GonnaStealYourPersonalData 1000"
The first location will open in Indiana in August 2017 and is expected to create 2,000 jobs for American workers by 2021, the company said.
They claimed that they had to hire the H1B workers because there was a shortage of qualified Americans. But now they suddenly think they can find 2,000 Americans? Legally, doesn't that mean that they must lay-off 2,000 H1B workers because now they suddenly found some American workers?
I want a Tesla Roadster with a drill on the front, so that I could create my own tunnel on my way to work at 125mph. It would be the most boring car ever!
I fear that a generation of people will grow-up thinking that Facebook is the ultimate source of accurate information since it automatically does all these things to cull fake news. It's good that they do this, but it might create a false sense of security among the gullible.
It's called a watchdog, and UL should definitely require it. Is this the only reason you have to indicate that this rather well-respected set of standards is a joke?
What type of engineer did the person claim to be? These organizations do not hold a trademark on the word "engineer." Instead, they are legally granted power by the state laws, and only over certain kinds of engineers. Otherwise, the millions of people with Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.Ds in Engineering from accredited universities could not legally call themselves engineers. But of course they can and do.
Most fansubs I have seen are rips and re-encodes of the video with the subtitles baked into the video. That is clearly a derived work and subject to copyright law. If they just distributed an.srt file then they might not have the problem. There's technical issues with rendering the.srt from within an Amazon or Netflix player, or on your streaming media box, but that could be dealt with.
Instead of entering the PIN into the merchant's terminal, the terminal should just power the card, and I enter the PIN into the card. That way the merchant doesn't get my PIN. This was proposed in the 1990's and deemed impossible because nobody had chip cards and the technology would have been too expensive. Now that the government finally mandated chip cards, they are suddenly realizing all the features that we could have had long ago. It's probably too late. We will all pay with smart devices in another decade.
As it stands now we do not have any certification program to allow anything to make medical diagnosis other than a medical doctor degree
That is not true. We do indeed have such a certification program. I write software that must pass such certification. Here's a brief overview of how this happens:
Suppose you urinate in a cup, and send that sample to a lab, and the lab personnel put that sample it into a Qiagen Symphony, or a BD Viper XTR, or a Roche Cobas; Or suppose you go to Walgreens and the employee with no degree whatsoever sticks a swap up your nose, and inserts the swab into a BD Veritor. In both cases, the medical instrument diagnoses the medical condition. The hardware+software made the diagnosis, not the human. The company that made that medical instrument got FDA approval for the hardware + software combination to perform a diagnosis. It's called a Pre-Market Approval (PMA). The PMA submission states what conditions must be met in order for the hardware+software to be viable. Ex: For a Veritor, it probably says "any schmoe with 15 minutes of training is sufficient." The other 3 instruments probably say "This certification applies only if the customer is in a BSL-3 lab following CLIA level 3 practices used by a lab technicial with blah blah training, using certain chemicals that meet certain rules..." Note that in the Walgrees+Veritor case there's no doctor involved anywhere. In the lab scenario, a doctor ordered the test. In both cases, no human being sees the raw data. Even a doctor does not have the knowledge required to turn the raw data into a diagnosis. That required a team of engineers, doctors, and statisticians to develop.
But a few years ago a local was prosecuted for using an old bath tub as a planter in their backyard. The kicker was that you couldn't see the bath tub from the street.
Since you couldn't see the bathtub from the street, it means one of the neighbors called him out on it. Such laws only get passed if someone asks for them. So in this case, the law seems to accurately reflect the views of the local residents. My bet is that this involved an HOA. Probably some passive-aggressive jerk in the neighborhood contacted the HOA or the police. The victim needs to just move far away.
As someone who writes such software for the medical industry, I can attest that it most definitely needs to be certified. The two main areas of concern are misdiagnosis and misassociation of data (industry term for mixing-up patient results). A false negative result could kill someone since they either get no treatment or delayed treatment. A false positive results in incorrect or unnecessary treatment. Mixing up results causes both, potentially en masse.
Google and Microsoft both have the problem that they have multiple nearly identical services within one company. They periodically retire one service and add another, inevitably losing or breaking some feature. Just recently, my phone lost what I think was "Google Assistant" and now it uses "Google Home" - which is the same thing with fewer features. For example, it used to work from any screen so I could tell it "OK Google, dial {phone number I see on the screen}" or "OK Google, search for {thing I see on screen}" It also can't identify songs. It even has a special message where it tells me that feature isn't supported yet. That was a strange response since that was the first indication I had that the program I was using had been replaced.
I tell people my TV was so cheap, it's a fake Vizio.
The funny story is that my Vizio TV came with the letters VIZIO on the front corner. But after a few days, the first "I" fell off so it just said V ZIO. A month later, the other "I" fell-off so now it says V Z O. I love the TV snobs who feel snubbed to be in a house that has a low-end TV, but double-so since I would buy a fake version of it. I'm not sure if they believe me or not.:-) In reality, Vizio gets good reviews in the mid-range. Check-out rtings for accurate no-nonsense reviews. The real low-end TVs are the "Westinghouse" and "RCA" which are just companies that rebrand existing products, or names like "Proscan" that appear for a year then vanish.
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Are you sure it isn't the other way around?
The argument for UBI usually sounds like "Hey, it's complicated and expensive to figure out who needs which services, so just give a fixed amount of money to everybody and they can use it however they want." UBI is the approximation, not the ideal. Ideally, we don't want to give wealthy people a fixed check every month. It would be better to spend that money on drug treatment for addicts or therapy for the mentally handicapped, or just to give the poorer people more money.
Is there something specific you are attributing to Obama? Those programs go back decades. We just found out about them under Obama. I'd prefer to blame Bush Jr, but really he was just signing-off on justifications for programs that already existed back before 9/11/2001. This is what happens when you have a secret government watchdog.
I work for a large company that has a proxy server that does MITM attacks. The certs issued by the server are SHA-1, so we haven't been able to use Chrome and Firefox for months. The funny thing is that they even recommend using Chrome for certain sites. Many of us have opened tickets on this and they just don't seem to understand that this isn't a bug in Chrome. *facepalm* I hope this finally forces them to fix it. Although I don't have high hopes. Odds are more that they will try to block the update, and if anyone winds-up with it they will be considered out-of-compliance and IT will reformat their machines.
What kind of engineer are you talking about?
You story flies in the face of what I've seen, and what continuously gets posted here on Slashdot. I keep hearing that senior engineers are considered worthless and they are constantly fired for cheaper junior engineers or outsourced work. The technology makes it easier for a junior engineer to get started in the field and produce quality results, and the H1B race-to-the-bottom makes it hard for senior engineers to get decent pay.
Windows Server and Windows IOT don't support Edge. Those releases only support Internet Explorer. So it is awesome that they are adding security, but can they please add it to all OS editions? It's silly that servers and small devices are still vulnerable.
There are two problems with this:
1) I put you in my phone's contact list as "Total Moron, don't answer this." That's why nobody is answering your calls any more.
2) Wouldn't you expect a product named "Wiley Fox Swift" to pull fast one on you? It could not have been more obvious if they had named it "The GonnaStealYourPersonalData 1000"
The first location will open in Indiana in August 2017 and is expected to create 2,000 jobs for American workers by 2021, the company said.
They claimed that they had to hire the H1B workers because there was a shortage of qualified Americans. But now they suddenly think they can find 2,000 Americans? Legally, doesn't that mean that they must lay-off 2,000 H1B workers because now they suddenly found some American workers?
True. So a more meaningful measure would be "per year" or "per mile"
I stopped using RSS on July 2, 2013 when Google Reader was powered down.
I didn't figure anything, I asked. Thanks for backing-up your assertion.
I want a Tesla Roadster with a drill on the front, so that I could create my own tunnel on my way to work at 125mph. It would be the most boring car ever!
It's practically a subsidiary of Microsoft in the US
Huh? Or is this just anti-Microsoft fodder by trying to associate their names together?
I fear that a generation of people will grow-up thinking that Facebook is the ultimate source of accurate information since it automatically does all these things to cull fake news. It's good that they do this, but it might create a false sense of security among the gullible.
It's called a watchdog, and UL should definitely require it. Is this the only reason you have to indicate that this rather well-respected set of standards is a joke?
What type of engineer did the person claim to be? These organizations do not hold a trademark on the word "engineer." Instead, they are legally granted power by the state laws, and only over certain kinds of engineers. Otherwise, the millions of people with Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.Ds in Engineering from accredited universities could not legally call themselves engineers. But of course they can and do.
Most fansubs I have seen are rips and re-encodes of the video with the subtitles baked into the video. That is clearly a derived work and subject to copyright law. If they just distributed an .srt file then they might not have the problem. There's technical issues with rendering the .srt from within an Amazon or Netflix player, or on your streaming media box, but that could be dealt with.
Instead of entering the PIN into the merchant's terminal, the terminal should just power the card, and I enter the PIN into the card. That way the merchant doesn't get my PIN. This was proposed in the 1990's and deemed impossible because nobody had chip cards and the technology would have been too expensive. Now that the government finally mandated chip cards, they are suddenly realizing all the features that we could have had long ago. It's probably too late. We will all pay with smart devices in another decade.
As it stands now we do not have any certification program to allow anything to make medical diagnosis other than a medical doctor degree
That is not true. We do indeed have such a certification program. I write software that must pass such certification. Here's a brief overview of how this happens:
Suppose you urinate in a cup, and send that sample to a lab, and the lab personnel put that sample it into a Qiagen Symphony, or a BD Viper XTR, or a Roche Cobas; Or suppose you go to Walgreens and the employee with no degree whatsoever sticks a swap up your nose, and inserts the swab into a BD Veritor. In both cases, the medical instrument diagnoses the medical condition. The hardware+software made the diagnosis, not the human. The company that made that medical instrument got FDA approval for the hardware + software combination to perform a diagnosis. It's called a Pre-Market Approval (PMA). The PMA submission states what conditions must be met in order for the hardware+software to be viable. Ex: For a Veritor, it probably says "any schmoe with 15 minutes of training is sufficient." The other 3 instruments probably say "This certification applies only if the customer is in a BSL-3 lab following CLIA level 3 practices used by a lab technicial with blah blah training, using certain chemicals that meet certain rules..." Note that in the Walgrees+Veritor case there's no doctor involved anywhere. In the lab scenario, a doctor ordered the test. In both cases, no human being sees the raw data. Even a doctor does not have the knowledge required to turn the raw data into a diagnosis. That required a team of engineers, doctors, and statisticians to develop.
I remember when discussions about innovative technology were what this site was about.
But a few years ago a local was prosecuted for using an old bath tub as a planter in their backyard. The kicker was that you couldn't see the bath tub from the street.
Since you couldn't see the bathtub from the street, it means one of the neighbors called him out on it. Such laws only get passed if someone asks for them. So in this case, the law seems to accurately reflect the views of the local residents. My bet is that this involved an HOA. Probably some passive-aggressive jerk in the neighborhood contacted the HOA or the police. The victim needs to just move far away.
The spinning doohickey connected to the main tricorder part. That was the biggest difference between the medical tricorder and the science tricorder.
As someone who writes such software for the medical industry, I can attest that it most definitely needs to be certified. The two main areas of concern are misdiagnosis and misassociation of data (industry term for mixing-up patient results). A false negative result could kill someone since they either get no treatment or delayed treatment. A false positive results in incorrect or unnecessary treatment. Mixing up results causes both, potentially en masse.
Google and Microsoft both have the problem that they have multiple nearly identical services within one company. They periodically retire one service and add another, inevitably losing or breaking some feature. Just recently, my phone lost what I think was "Google Assistant" and now it uses "Google Home" - which is the same thing with fewer features. For example, it used to work from any screen so I could tell it "OK Google, dial {phone number I see on the screen}" or "OK Google, search for {thing I see on screen}" It also can't identify songs. It even has a special message where it tells me that feature isn't supported yet. That was a strange response since that was the first indication I had that the program I was using had been replaced.
I tell people my TV was so cheap, it's a fake Vizio.
The funny story is that my Vizio TV came with the letters VIZIO on the front corner. But after a few days, the first "I" fell off so it just said V ZIO. A month later, the other "I" fell-off so now it says V Z O. I love the TV snobs who feel snubbed to be in a house that has a low-end TV, but double-so since I would buy a fake version of it. I'm not sure if they believe me or not. :-) In reality, Vizio gets good reviews in the mid-range. Check-out rtings for accurate no-nonsense reviews. The real low-end TVs are the "Westinghouse" and "RCA" which are just companies that rebrand existing products, or names like "Proscan" that appear for a year then vanish.
dealing with chainsaws that can rip off your arm is much more dangerous than a classroom of kindergarteners
Spoken by someone who has clearly not stepped into a kindergarten classroom recently... it's brutal. ;-)