if your servers go down, YOU can fix them immediately
Spoken like someone who has never had to fix a server immediately:-)
One of the strong points of cloud computing is the infrastructure to shift load to accommodate failing hardware. To reproduce that capability with your own hardware & infrastructure requires a tremendous amount of planning and capital investment: in power, servers, and network. It's almost never a simple matter of "fix the server immediately".
And don't forget about building your own data center around that infrastructure that's going to satisfy the many specific requirements of your various government, financial, etc. customers.
The TV or monitor, and often separate speakers, already require AC power. What benefit are you getting from a video that gets power from the television's USB-C connector? Couldn't it just get power from the same AC plug?
Where is that in the article? I believe that "conditional" prison sentence in this context is like a suspended sentence: he doesn't go to prison unless he commits a new crime or fails to meet the requirements of his sentence (community service, restitution).
Yeah, the Mr. Robot promotion was a huge mistake, and they've finally admitted that and pledged to do better.
But I think that mistake only garnered so much attention because Mozilla has been so transparent and aggressive in protecting privacy and advancing the state of browser technology. If somebody like Goog or MSFT pulled that crap, nobody would blink an eye.
I can't believe Apple thinks that price of entry into the iPhone ecosystem should be north of $300. Every convert they make with a budget iPhone is somebody who starts buying apps and becomes a potential upgrade opportunity. Everybody who gives up and buys a $150 Android phone is somebody who starts buying apps and is a lost upgrade opportunity.
Even the iPhone SE is too expensive, frankly.
I'm an Android user because I just won't pay $350 for a phone. But I'll probably stay an Android user because I've got a few dozens of dollars invested in apps. Even though, to be honest, I think iPhone software and apps are fundamentally a little better than their Android equivalents.
I wasn't advocating against the Google Play Store at all, simply pointing out that you don't need it to get a basic set of apps. You can find APK sources or mirrors to sideload many free apps.
Ubuntu Touch/Mobile failed, Microsoft is closing shop on Windows 10 Mobile.
Honestly your best bet would be a phone that you can root, and put a stripped-down custom Android ROM on it. You don't need to connect to any Google Play services to get all the basics. At least that way you get to pick your configuration and keep it minimal.
The article is almost gibberish. The proposed law imposes fines and/or a prison term of not more than 5 years, for (1) individuals who know that the data breach law applies, (2) who willfully and intentionally conceal the breach (notably it does not say "fail to notify", but "willfully and intentionally conceal"), (3) in the event that at least $1000 of economic harm occurs to at least one individual.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think the bar for "willfully conceal" is pretty high. I think they're definitely trying to protect "innocent bystanders" who may know about the breach but choose to do nothing for fear of their jobs or livelihoods.
Chicago already has a very good alternative to tunnels: elevated tracks
That is not a good alternative. The elevated trains are *bone-shatteringly* noisy. I was posted on the 4th floor of a building on Wabash and the effect on productivity was MASSIVE. People think it's no big deal because they're "used to it", but having to mute your conference call every 2 minutes due to train noise is a massive inconvenience. And forget walking! After months of nearly losing my mind walking under those tracks, I finally started hunting down hotels that were far enough away from the tracks that I didn't have to walk parallel to them.
Half a year of working in Chicago and I was ready to murder somebody. It was unbelievably unpleasant.
Well, you wouldn't have the expense of digging a goddamn tunnel.
In urban areas, the expense of laying a dedicated through-way for express buses is also extremely high. The land between O'Hare & DT Chicago is very built up; there would be few ways to put in an express lane for a bus without major disruption.
Tunnels dodge a lot of concerns about traffic, safety, land rights, etc. that can add up to big headaches for urban public transit.
Not clear to me that the individual skates will require external power. My bet is that he's planning to have some kind of high duty cycle batteries on board. If the skate (with full battery/guidance/motor systems) can be easily detached from the car and replaced with a freshly charged skate, you just need enough skates "in the queue" to handle the load.
Without the need to run high-power electrics through the tunnel, and no risk of human exposure to high-tension power rails or cables, the whole thing could be much simpler to build and maintain.
Basically all the costs of a subway with more guidance issues at high speed.
Perhaps a more apt comparison would be a bobsled? I suspect that the tube will be designed to turn the train. I'd guess that for turns at high speed the skate will be designed to move up the wall, like a car on a banked track.
I'm sure people still buy DVDs. But measuring a strict binary -- "Did you rent or purchase physical video media in the last year?" -- they set themselves up to report a strange number, since that includes all the people who bought 1 video. Or 2 videos. These are people who have, for all intents and purposes, switched to something else.
In any case, TFA tells the real story, with video sales dropping from $12 billion per year to under $6 billion per year in just 7 years.
I mean, yes, my family has purchased SOME video in the last year. My wife has purchased exercise videos. I got my MST3K DVDs as part of the Kickstarter.
The more relevant question is, "What *fraction* of entertainment purchasing goes to physical videos?" and the answer is "almost none". But more than none.
The issue isn't Excel. The issue is that executives can't articulate what questions they want to answer, so they give a vague specification of some data they'd like to see. Further, they are averse to any followup questions, because they told you exactly what they wanted.
When you pull that data from 3 different and completely un-integrated sources and put it in Excel and make your graphs all pretty and whatnot, the response you get from the executives is that it doesn't tell the right story or still doesn't answer their (still unarticulated) question. And can the columns be blue? The official corporate color scheme is red but we like blue.
This is just reality. Everybody who does reporting has to deal with these complaints.
No need for lawyers. People with security clearances are both encouraged and rewarded for doing the right thing. It's called "reporting adverse contacts".
Yes, this was a test, and yes, he failed. He should have reported the adverse contact immediately to the operational security office at his classified site.
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More questions: How were the NDA's "flawed", and did the agent that produced the flawed NDAs know anything about the AI's capabilities?
Spoken like someone who has never had to fix a server immediately :-)
One of the strong points of cloud computing is the infrastructure to shift load to accommodate failing hardware. To reproduce that capability with your own hardware & infrastructure requires a tremendous amount of planning and capital investment: in power, servers, and network. It's almost never a simple matter of "fix the server immediately".
And don't forget about building your own data center around that infrastructure that's going to satisfy the many specific requirements of your various government, financial, etc. customers.
The TV or monitor, and often separate speakers, already require AC power. What benefit are you getting from a video that gets power from the television's USB-C connector? Couldn't it just get power from the same AC plug?
Clearly only uncompensated amateurs with no interest in Facebook should provide advice to Facebook.
Would people prefer that Facebook only solicit advice from uncompensated non-professionals?
They put him in prison
Where is that in the article? I believe that "conditional" prison sentence in this context is like a suspended sentence: he doesn't go to prison unless he commits a new crime or fails to meet the requirements of his sentence (community service, restitution).
Dec 23, 2017
Sounds like somebody has an axe to grind.
Woe? Son, we call that #winning!
Yeah, the Mr. Robot promotion was a huge mistake, and they've finally admitted that and pledged to do better.
But I think that mistake only garnered so much attention because Mozilla has been so transparent and aggressive in protecting privacy and advancing the state of browser technology. If somebody like Goog or MSFT pulled that crap, nobody would blink an eye.
I can't believe Apple thinks that price of entry into the iPhone ecosystem should be north of $300. Every convert they make with a budget iPhone is somebody who starts buying apps and becomes a potential upgrade opportunity. Everybody who gives up and buys a $150 Android phone is somebody who starts buying apps and is a lost upgrade opportunity.
Even the iPhone SE is too expensive, frankly.
I'm an Android user because I just won't pay $350 for a phone. But I'll probably stay an Android user because I've got a few dozens of dollars invested in apps. Even though, to be honest, I think iPhone software and apps are fundamentally a little better than their Android equivalents.
I wasn't advocating against the Google Play Store at all, simply pointing out that you don't need it to get a basic set of apps. You can find APK sources or mirrors to sideload many free apps.
Ubuntu Touch/Mobile failed, Microsoft is closing shop on Windows 10 Mobile.
Honestly your best bet would be a phone that you can root, and put a stripped-down custom Android ROM on it. You don't need to connect to any Google Play services to get all the basics. At least that way you get to pick your configuration and keep it minimal.
The article is almost gibberish. The proposed law imposes fines and/or a prison term of not more than 5 years, for (1) individuals who know that the data breach law applies, (2) who willfully and intentionally conceal the breach (notably it does not say "fail to notify", but "willfully and intentionally conceal"), (3) in the event that at least $1000 of economic harm occurs to at least one individual.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think the bar for "willfully conceal" is pretty high. I think they're definitely trying to protect "innocent bystanders" who may know about the breach but choose to do nothing for fear of their jobs or livelihoods.
That is not a good alternative. The elevated trains are *bone-shatteringly* noisy. I was posted on the 4th floor of a building on Wabash and the effect on productivity was MASSIVE. People think it's no big deal because they're "used to it", but having to mute your conference call every 2 minutes due to train noise is a massive inconvenience. And forget walking! After months of nearly losing my mind walking under those tracks, I finally started hunting down hotels that were far enough away from the tracks that I didn't have to walk parallel to them.
Half a year of working in Chicago and I was ready to murder somebody. It was unbelievably unpleasant.
In urban areas, the expense of laying a dedicated through-way for express buses is also extremely high. The land between O'Hare & DT Chicago is very built up; there would be few ways to put in an express lane for a bus without major disruption.
Tunnels dodge a lot of concerns about traffic, safety, land rights, etc. that can add up to big headaches for urban public transit.
Not clear to me that the individual skates will require external power. My bet is that he's planning to have some kind of high duty cycle batteries on board. If the skate (with full battery/guidance/motor systems) can be easily detached from the car and replaced with a freshly charged skate, you just need enough skates "in the queue" to handle the load.
Without the need to run high-power electrics through the tunnel, and no risk of human exposure to high-tension power rails or cables, the whole thing could be much simpler to build and maintain.
Perhaps a more apt comparison would be a bobsled? I suspect that the tube will be designed to turn the train. I'd guess that for turns at high speed the skate will be designed to move up the wall, like a car on a banked track.
I'm sure people still buy DVDs. But measuring a strict binary -- "Did you rent or purchase physical video media in the last year?" -- they set themselves up to report a strange number, since that includes all the people who bought 1 video. Or 2 videos. These are people who have, for all intents and purposes, switched to something else.
In any case, TFA tells the real story, with video sales dropping from $12 billion per year to under $6 billion per year in just 7 years.
Um, yeah, optimizing , that's what we'll call it. Optimizing , I like the sound of that.
The more relevant question is, "What *fraction* of entertainment purchasing goes to physical videos?" and the answer is "almost none". But more than none.
The issue isn't Excel. The issue is that executives can't articulate what questions they want to answer, so they give a vague specification of some data they'd like to see. Further, they are averse to any followup questions, because they told you exactly what they wanted.
When you pull that data from 3 different and completely un-integrated sources and put it in Excel and make your graphs all pretty and whatnot, the response you get from the executives is that it doesn't tell the right story or still doesn't answer their (still unarticulated) question. And can the columns be blue? The official corporate color scheme is red but we like blue.
This is just reality. Everybody who does reporting has to deal with these complaints.
Your organization is on the hook to pay back the money whether you continue or not.
I usually download it from their web site. Sometimes I even download it *while they're playing* so I can listen on the way home.
No need for lawyers. People with security clearances are both encouraged and rewarded for doing the right thing. It's called "reporting adverse contacts". Yes, this was a test, and yes, he failed. He should have reported the adverse contact immediately to the operational security office at his classified site.