The vehement increase in these this has essentially destroyed the value of voice calls. I just keep my phone's ring set to "off" at all times, because of the 8 phone calls I got yesterday, 0 were legitimate. But at least I can rely on my text messages being safe. But once the scammers realize nobody answers their phones any longer, you can be sure robotext messages will start arriving. I might as well turn off my phone at that point.
What amazes me is that anybody still does this. Sure, I can imagine a few scammers trying this for a short while and getting away with it. But how many scammers are out that the problem is this bad? Even the most gullible person must be reaching the point where they don't even pick-up any longer unless it is from a number they know.
With a few alternations, you could make it project ads across the entire city! Alternatively, they could make it look like a giant eyeball, so everyone knew they were being watched.
Here in the US, the "zipper principle" applies when two lanes are merging into one, but not when a car is merging onto the highway. Are you sure that, in Denmark, the zipper principle applies when merging onto a highway? That doesn't seem to apply since there should be many many car lengths of space between each car merging onto the highway, and there should not be a long line of cars require such a merge.
you have to borrow money from the rest of the world in order to pay for your imports?
The US foreign debt situation is actually pretty good.
There is a persistent trope that the US owes tons of money to foreign governments, but it is incorrect. Most US debt is held by US citizens. Wikipedia lists foreign bond holders at 34% right now. That isn't huge, and it isn't a bad thing even if it was. The more invested foreign governments are in your currency the safer your currency becomes. It means everyone on the planet has a vested interest in the US economy doing well. It means if you want to invest safely, give money to the US. That 34% number also doesn't include the vast amounts of foreign assets that the US government owns. Also, most of the foreign investment is spread throughout the world, with the main debt holders being Japan, China, and UK. So no single foreign government individually tank US bond prices.
Take a look at a list of foreign debt by country in relation to GDP. The US foreign debt is really low compared to Canada, Europe, and Australia. The ones keeping it low are either not participating in the global economy, or are strongly protectionist like Russia, China, and Japan.
Overall, foreign investment in the US is in good shape.
Economies are also affected by other nations' economies, OPEC decisions, and war.
Agreed. The US president has a very significant say in the last of those 3 items. I submit that the "great recession" was directly caused (or at least exaggerated and lengthened) by Bush Jr wars.
1) I for one would love to find out who wrote comment-bots and publicly shame them. If the NY AG wants to bring them to court to make the point, even better. 2) If anyone at the FCC was involved or aware, then that is a real scandal and those individuals should be removed from their posts at least.
said that afflictions were caused not by diseases but by what they say [biblehub.com]
I see nothing in that quote referring to diseases. It is saying that we can see and hear horribly things and still be pure of heart. But if we speak evil, then we truly damage ourselves. Buddha said the same thing about how lying leads to self-affliction.
We know that in most cases we get about 1 pound of meat from an animal for every 10 pounds of plants we put into them, and that's completely ignoring the economic costs of getting the plants to them and everything else that goes in to that.
Aha! But what if getting the plants to them was free? And what if the pound of meat was more nutritious than a pound of plant?
The reason humans started domesticating livestock is that we don't digest grass very well. But livestock can digest grass and turn it into fertilizer, milk, meat, and work. There are places where it is environmentally and economically more sustainable to raise ruminants than to raise plants. The midwest of the united states, for example, is filled with grasslands where these animals natively thrive. The problem is that these animals are so tasty that humans decided to engage in the unsustainable process you described in order to make more of them. We grow plants elsewhere, truck it to the livestock, then gather burn the fertilizer from the livestock, then mine some coal or metal from yet another place, then derive fertilizer from the mine, truck it back to the plants so we can grow more of them,...
But a certain amount of this is actually okay. The 10 points of plants to 1 point of meat thing oversimplifies the process. We should be producing meat where meat is viable, and plants where plants are viable.
.As far as I can understand he said one day that he had secured funding to make the company private... there's no indication he was trying to lie about it.
He claimed he had a specific deal, at a specific price, at a specific point in the negotiation process where it only required shareholder approval. I thought the SEC investigated and found no indication of any such pending deal.
I agree with 110010001000 that he made it up completely to try and hurt the short sellers. Had he succeeded, it might have actually been worth the risk of being removed as chairman. It might have actually caused such deals to materialize. Maybe he just gambled poorly. Maybe he didn't consider that the stock price would plummet, and it would piss-off investors, and get the SEC involved?
This does sound like the correct solution to me. It's very similar to what we do with email. If a server receives an email with a from address of "Joe@somebusiness.com" but a reverse lookup of the server shows it is not in the "somebusiness.com" domain, then the email is dropped as spam. We are slowly eliminating email relays. We should do the same with telephone.
I work at a company and we have a PBX and an exchange. If that exchange is registered to "555-555" and we send a number starting with "888-888" then the phone company should drop that call and fine us.
That's not spoofing: you are sending your number. Spoofing means "hoax or trick (someone)." You aren't tricking someone, you are sending the correct callback number. The technological mechanism for sending the correct information and the incorrect information is there, but please stop calling proper use of the mechanism "spoofing." If I send an email from my business and the return email address is "AutomatedNotifications@mybusiness.com" I didn't spoof the email address, that *is* the email address. It's spoofing if I made it come from "AutomatedNotifications@someotherbusiness.com"
but the name itself has nothing to do with suitability for the position
I think the OP meant that the AI was preferring people named Dave, even though it didn't know people's names. That is analogous to what was happening with the AI filter: It didn't know people's sex, yet it was still picking more men than women.
Instead they just set the memory frequency to 2933 and left the ridiculously loose default memory timings in place.
For the purpose of a review, is it more or less representative to tune every aspect of the system like this? When a reviewer tunes and tweaks every possible setting, the results really are only applicable to that motherboard + RAM combination. I would rather have apples-to-apples comparisons.
The real take-away here is that lots of people are relying on products for which there is no technical support. Bear that in mind next time you rely upon an advertising-supported service.
Now that pot is legal, I can't go to a public park without smelling the stuff. Cigarettes weren't so bad since they had a 5 foot radius. But dammit, if somebody is smoking pot within a 100 feet everyone in my family (kids included) go "Ugh! It smells like a skunk around here!" It's only going to get worse...
I have an older Galaxy Tab that was useless out-of-the-box. I should have returned it because it was so slow that it literally couldn't keep up with my typing, even after a factory reset. It scrolled at 5 fps. After it fell into disuse for years, I rooted it with SuperSU, and used a task manager find and delete two processes that were eating 80% of the CPU. No idea what they did, but the tablet has been fine since then.
What makes you think this will happen? These 404s are usually the result of people reorganizing a site, retiring a blog, etc. They probably don't even know about it.
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No one has been held responsible
According to this comment the CIO was held responsible and has received jail time.
The vehement increase in these this has essentially destroyed the value of voice calls. I just keep my phone's ring set to "off" at all times, because of the 8 phone calls I got yesterday, 0 were legitimate. But at least I can rely on my text messages being safe. But once the scammers realize nobody answers their phones any longer, you can be sure robotext messages will start arriving. I might as well turn off my phone at that point.
What amazes me is that anybody still does this. Sure, I can imagine a few scammers trying this for a short while and getting away with it. But how many scammers are out that the problem is this bad? Even the most gullible person must be reaching the point where they don't even pick-up any longer unless it is from a number they know.
So if they sent it from China to to Guam then the US postal service would take it the rest of the way?
With a few alternations, you could make it project ads across the entire city! Alternatively, they could make it look like a giant eyeball, so everyone knew they were being watched.
Here in the US, the "zipper principle" applies when two lanes are merging into one, but not when a car is merging onto the highway. Are you sure that, in Denmark, the zipper principle applies when merging onto a highway? That doesn't seem to apply since there should be many many car lengths of space between each car merging onto the highway, and there should not be a long line of cars require such a merge.
you have to borrow money from the rest of the world in order to pay for your imports?
The US foreign debt situation is actually pretty good.
There is a persistent trope that the US owes tons of money to foreign governments, but it is incorrect. Most US debt is held by US citizens. Wikipedia lists foreign bond holders at 34% right now. That isn't huge, and it isn't a bad thing even if it was. The more invested foreign governments are in your currency the safer your currency becomes. It means everyone on the planet has a vested interest in the US economy doing well. It means if you want to invest safely, give money to the US. That 34% number also doesn't include the vast amounts of foreign assets that the US government owns. Also, most of the foreign investment is spread throughout the world, with the main debt holders being Japan, China, and UK. So no single foreign government individually tank US bond prices.
Take a look at a list of foreign debt by country in relation to GDP. The US foreign debt is really low compared to Canada, Europe, and Australia. The ones keeping it low are either not participating in the global economy, or are strongly protectionist like Russia, China, and Japan.
Overall, foreign investment in the US is in good shape.
Economies are also affected by other nations' economies, OPEC decisions, and war.
Agreed. The US president has a very significant say in the last of those 3 items. I submit that the "great recession" was directly caused (or at least exaggerated and lengthened) by Bush Jr wars.
Interesting analysis. What about space saved by not having living areas for the crew? Or is that also insignificant?
1) I for one would love to find out who wrote comment-bots and publicly shame them. If the NY AG wants to bring them to court to make the point, even better.
2) If anyone at the FCC was involved or aware, then that is a real scandal and those individuals should be removed from their posts at least.
said that afflictions were caused not by diseases but by what they say [biblehub.com]
I see nothing in that quote referring to diseases. It is saying that we can see and hear horribly things and still be pure of heart. But if we speak evil, then we truly damage ourselves. Buddha said the same thing about how lying leads to self-affliction.
We know that in most cases we get about 1 pound of meat from an animal for every 10 pounds of plants we put into them, and that's completely ignoring the economic costs of getting the plants to them and everything else that goes in to that.
Aha! But what if getting the plants to them was free? And what if the pound of meat was more nutritious than a pound of plant?
The reason humans started domesticating livestock is that we don't digest grass very well. But livestock can digest grass and turn it into fertilizer, milk, meat, and work. There are places where it is environmentally and economically more sustainable to raise ruminants than to raise plants. The midwest of the united states, for example, is filled with grasslands where these animals natively thrive. The problem is that these animals are so tasty that humans decided to engage in the unsustainable process you described in order to make more of them. We grow plants elsewhere, truck it to the livestock, then gather burn the fertilizer from the livestock, then mine some coal or metal from yet another place, then derive fertilizer from the mine, truck it back to the plants so we can grow more of them, ...
But a certain amount of this is actually okay. The 10 points of plants to 1 point of meat thing oversimplifies the process. We should be producing meat where meat is viable, and plants where plants are viable.
.As far as I can understand he said one day that he had secured funding to make the company private... there's no indication he was trying to lie about it.
He claimed he had a specific deal, at a specific price, at a specific point in the negotiation process where it only required shareholder approval. I thought the SEC investigated and found no indication of any such pending deal.
I agree with 110010001000 that he made it up completely to try and hurt the short sellers. Had he succeeded, it might have actually been worth the risk of being removed as chairman. It might have actually caused such deals to materialize. Maybe he just gambled poorly. Maybe he didn't consider that the stock price would plummet, and it would piss-off investors, and get the SEC involved?
Right. This requires local enforcement in order to work. I suspect most of the spoofed numbers come from outside of the UPS though.
This does sound like the correct solution to me. It's very similar to what we do with email. If a server receives an email with a from address of "Joe@somebusiness.com" but a reverse lookup of the server shows it is not in the "somebusiness.com" domain, then the email is dropped as spam. We are slowly eliminating email relays. We should do the same with telephone.
I work at a company and we have a PBX and an exchange. If that exchange is registered to "555-555" and we send a number starting with "888-888" then the phone company should drop that call and fine us.
That's not spoofing: you are sending your number. Spoofing means "hoax or trick (someone)." You aren't tricking someone, you are sending the correct callback number. The technological mechanism for sending the correct information and the incorrect information is there, but please stop calling proper use of the mechanism "spoofing." If I send an email from my business and the return email address is "AutomatedNotifications@mybusiness.com" I didn't spoof the email address, that *is* the email address. It's spoofing if I made it come from "AutomatedNotifications@someotherbusiness.com"
Can someone explain how this spoofing works and why this is possible? This is a tech site, {i want the technology behind this not the politics.
but the name itself has nothing to do with suitability for the position
I think the OP meant that the AI was preferring people named Dave, even though it didn't know people's names. That is analogous to what was happening with the AI filter: It didn't know people's sex, yet it was still picking more men than women.
Instead they just set the memory frequency to 2933 and left the ridiculously loose default memory timings in place.
For the purpose of a review, is it more or less representative to tune every aspect of the system like this? When a reviewer tunes and tweaks every possible setting, the results really are only applicable to that motherboard + RAM combination. I would rather have apples-to-apples comparisons.
Stop calling me sir! And when you are done, get back inside here and clean your room!
The real take-away here is that lots of people are relying on products for which there is no technical support. Bear that in mind next time you rely upon an advertising-supported service.
This must be the result of California's new Network Neutrality law! See, they were right! That law is costing us 44,000 jobs!
Now that pot is legal, I can't go to a public park without smelling the stuff. Cigarettes weren't so bad since they had a 5 foot radius. But dammit, if somebody is smoking pot within a 100 feet everyone in my family (kids included) go "Ugh! It smells like a skunk around here!" It's only going to get worse...
I have an older Galaxy Tab that was useless out-of-the-box. I should have returned it because it was so slow that it literally couldn't keep up with my typing, even after a factory reset. It scrolled at 5 fps. After it fell into disuse for years, I rooted it with SuperSU, and used a task manager find and delete two processes that were eating 80% of the CPU. No idea what they did, but the tablet has been fine since then.
Can I archive the archived page?
What makes you think this will happen? These 404s are usually the result of people reorganizing a site, retiring a blog, etc. They probably don't even know about it.