They don't care how expensive these proposals are to implement or operate because the morons, as you so eloquently put it, do not intend to pay to either implement or operate these controls. This is an exercise in keeping the income while shifting the costs onto others, in this case search engines.
The tools might be free of charge, and you might be writing a free of charge application, but getting the result delivered to the walled garden (or even within your own company) is not free: Choosing an iOS Developer Program
It sure as hell applies to me. I run a (very) small software business online in Australia under a.au domain name. If a US company decides that my software infringes a patent they claim to hold then they can get my site removed from any US-based searching index and my site blocked by name or IP. That is not catastrophic as my software is not useful in the US, and reasonably well supported by word-of-mouth anyway.
However, under these abominations of law, they can also force any company with a presence in the US to cease any payment related service to my company. Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Diners will remove their merchant accounts, PayPal is not an alternative etc. Any non-US payment processor accepting Mastercard, Visa etc. will be contractually obliged by the US companies, protecting their own legal arses, to refuse payment services also. This is a death sentence to any online business. The only recourse is to fight a legal battle in US courts, a death sentence to any small company.
Wikipedia is certainly blacking out down under: only English language versions of the site, if you allow JavaScript and are coming from a desktop machine (they left the mobile interfaces alone). Slashdot's protest consists of a black redaction strike-through on its logo.
You post a happy snap taken at a cafe on Facebook. In the background someone you don't know, call her Bloggs, is seen talking to a known head hunter. Bloggs' employer has paid in to the facial recognition service, sees that Bloggs is talking to the "enemy", decides that loyalty is lacking in Bloggs, and terminates her employment. Bloggs can no longer support her family and ultimately her mortgage is foreclosed. Bloggs has no idea how they found out, and was only having an innocent coffee with a lifelong friend anyway. Your privacy has not been violated but you have supported the destruction of someone else's life. Now imagine if I took the photo and you were having a coffee with a rival newspaper editor...
Not quite the same as aviation checklists, but the counting of instruments, and other item like sponges, into and out of the sterile area is routine in operating theatres my ex worked in (Australia). Small pads and sponges are attached to long threads that hang out of the area (particularly brain surgery) so that there's an outward sign that they are still present when closing. If the numbers in and out didn't tally then a search would be undertaken until the discrepancy was found. This doesn't help if part of dressing is left behind, or a dressing inserted by an ER or ambulance is missed.
There's over 3,000,000 people in America that fall into the top 1%.
Which is about the number of millionaires in the United States. How many individual millionaires do you personally know that read Slashdot? Me... none. I'd be surprised if there weren't a few slash-millionaires but I'd be more surprised if anything like 1% of the readership here was in that list.
I wonder if there is not some Boeing prodding going on here!!!
No, its a continuation of union action against Qantas that precipitated the airline voluntarily grounding its entire fleet in October in order to force arbitration in the disputes. The maintenance engineering union is ceasing on any little thing it can to show that maintenance by "other" parties is deficient. They use the same scare tactic equally against Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier (the Q fleet), its just the last few high profile incidents have been Airbus. They rely on ignorance, some of which is on display in this comment stream and Australian media, about what constitutes a threat to safety or a maintenance issue.
Cracks in aircraft (Boeing, Airbus, Embraer or Tiger Moth) are inevitable and routine, as is the inspection for them. In this case there is repair activity that can take place when the aircraft is next in for major work. You could opt to do it earlier at the expense of unscheduled downtime for a "warm fuzzy" feeling, but bean counters are rarely warm and fuzzy.
While working for a Fortune 500 company I was constantly amazed by the low bar set on "innovation". There was a a very strong "If it hasn't been done here then it must be new" mentality.
No, it is an Earth mineral that takes the same form as a mineral found in greater abundance on the Moon. The paper does not suggest that the mineral came from the Moon.
Common sense has had a lot of problems lately. A google search for common sense will reveal the dozens of mechanical faults that have very nearly killed people. Over here in Australia we get a report of this sort of shit happening every week or so. It's surreal, because common sense has been THE world's safest survival strategy.
Shame so little is displayed in the Australian media and the fear-of-the-other crowd.
Even a rudimentary comprehension of the report shows the event has nothing to with Qantas in particular. The problem lies in the Northrup Grumman ADIRU equipment fitted by Airbus and the Airbus software response to unusual outputs from that equipment. This is backed up by the prompt issuing of interim procedures and software fixes by the aircraft manufacturer (two years ago). If anything, the decision by Qantas pilots to fly the aircraft above all else, and put it down in a remote location rather than continue to Perth, is what made sure that the injured did not become mortalities.
Things fail on aircraft all the time. Aircraft are hostile environments to electronics and other systems. This is not unique to Qantas or any other operator regardless of the part of the world their maintenance is done in. The unique thing with Qantas is the incessant media hype around every little thing that goes wrong.
No reform required. That's exactly how it works now. The small guy holding a patent cannot afford to enforce it against the big guys. Even a small guy that would eventually win, with damages and costs awarded, has to stump up the costs in advance from a cash flow that typically cannot sustain it.
It's an open question why Iranians graze sheep in the desert though...
Perhaps, as is the case in Australia, grazing sheep on marginal land causes the desert. Once you have broken the environment you get to keep the pieces.
Yeah, 'cause pressing F1 for help (sometimes) and F3, Ctrl-F or some other key or menu item to search (sometimes) is so much more obvious. Average Joe doesn't seem able to find the clearly labelled Help menu in most programs, so the difference between that and not knowing man is negligible.
Until there is some form of international minimum wage established...
Be careful what you wish for. Many western countries have a minimum wage substantially higher than the US, e.g UK at about USD 9.50/hr, Australia at about USD 15, and US around USD 7.25, and most developing countries have a minimum wage that is essentially zero. Which way do you want to move your US minimum wage, who will oppose it, and what will happen when the bean counters see? If you raise it, US businesses will oppose in force and the bean counters will lay people off to keep the profit margin the same. If you drop it everybody's wage will follow. Which political party will back either option overtly? Ultimately the US doesn't want to move their minimum wage, or even obtain a uniform one, just raise the lower ones to the same level for US benefit.
Having witnessed the demise of a mere 5kVA UPS in the bottom of an HP server (in a telephone switch building) I can certainly attest to the boom-ness of the large capacitors. It was a great light show that would have been better had it not been the new replacement unit (for the already failed original) that went boom. The noise drew attention from all over the floor. I can also attest to the need for spare underwear on the part of the HP tech:)
I am quite sure that accidentally shorting the DC bus bars running about the ceiling would have been a _very_ lively show.
Here the vast majority of residential, high speed Internet access is delivered by ADSL/ADSL2. This uses a copper local loop that is owned by Telstra (former govt. monopoly telco and owner of one of the five ISPs) but access must be leased to other parties at regulated rates. Once the DSL service reaches the local telephone exchange other ISPs can opt to install their own DSLAM hardware and backhaul, or lease the same from Telstra. Essentially it works out that there's Telstra Bigpond having its back preferentially scratched by Telstra, and the remainder working together to some degree. I can effectively get ADSL service from any ISP in the country anywhere suitable DSL infrastructure exists. There's no monopoly service in that sense.
We are in the process of removing monopoly ownership of the nationwide wholesale voice/data infrastructure, making all parties equal when it comes to offering retail services on top of the backbone.
You dare not say that you are ashamed of him though... it may be career limiting. Granted, it is not the same result as 15 years in a Thai prison but saying "The President sucks donkey balls" is not necessarily without consequence even in The Land of the Free(TM)
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They don't care how expensive these proposals are to implement or operate because the morons, as you so eloquently put it, do not intend to pay to either implement or operate these controls. This is an exercise in keeping the income while shifting the costs onto others, in this case search engines.
The tools might be free of charge, and you might be writing a free of charge application, but getting the result delivered to the walled garden (or even within your own company) is not free: Choosing an iOS Developer Program
It sure as hell applies to me. I run a (very) small software business online in Australia under a .au domain name. If a US company decides that my software infringes a patent they claim to hold then they can get my site removed from any US-based searching index and my site blocked by name or IP. That is not catastrophic as my software is not useful in the US, and reasonably well supported by word-of-mouth anyway.
However, under these abominations of law, they can also force any company with a presence in the US to cease any payment related service to my company. Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Diners will remove their merchant accounts, PayPal is not an alternative etc. Any non-US payment processor accepting Mastercard, Visa etc. will be contractually obliged by the US companies, protecting their own legal arses, to refuse payment services also. This is a death sentence to any online business. The only recourse is to fight a legal battle in US courts, a death sentence to any small company.
Wikipedia is certainly blacking out down under: only English language versions of the site, if you allow JavaScript and are coming from a desktop machine (they left the mobile interfaces alone). Slashdot's protest consists of a black redaction strike-through on its logo.
You mean like this? ;)
Something like:
You post a happy snap taken at a cafe on Facebook. In the background someone you don't know, call her Bloggs, is seen talking to a known head hunter. Bloggs' employer has paid in to the facial recognition service, sees that Bloggs is talking to the "enemy", decides that loyalty is lacking in Bloggs, and terminates her employment. Bloggs can no longer support her family and ultimately her mortgage is foreclosed. Bloggs has no idea how they found out, and was only having an innocent coffee with a lifelong friend anyway. Your privacy has not been violated but you have supported the destruction of someone else's life. Now imagine if I took the photo and you were having a coffee with a rival newspaper editor...
might have prompted more thought
Not quite the same as aviation checklists, but the counting of instruments, and other item like sponges, into and out of the sterile area is routine in operating theatres my ex worked in (Australia). Small pads and sponges are attached to long threads that hang out of the area (particularly brain surgery) so that there's an outward sign that they are still present when closing. If the numbers in and out didn't tally then a search would be undertaken until the discrepancy was found. This doesn't help if part of dressing is left behind, or a dressing inserted by an ER or ambulance is missed.
There's over 3,000,000 people in America that fall into the top 1%.
Which is about the number of millionaires in the United States. How many individual millionaires do you personally know that read Slashdot? Me... none. I'd be surprised if there weren't a few slash-millionaires but I'd be more surprised if anything like 1% of the readership here was in that list.
D'oh! seizing not ceasing!
I wonder if there is not some Boeing prodding going on here!!!
No, its a continuation of union action against Qantas that precipitated the airline voluntarily grounding its entire fleet in October in order to force arbitration in the disputes. The maintenance engineering union is ceasing on any little thing it can to show that maintenance by "other" parties is deficient. They use the same scare tactic equally against Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier (the Q fleet), its just the last few high profile incidents have been Airbus. They rely on ignorance, some of which is on display in this comment stream and Australian media, about what constitutes a threat to safety or a maintenance issue.
Cracks in aircraft (Boeing, Airbus, Embraer or Tiger Moth) are inevitable and routine, as is the inspection for them. In this case there is repair activity that can take place when the aircraft is next in for major work. You could opt to do it earlier at the expense of unscheduled downtime for a "warm fuzzy" feeling, but bean counters are rarely warm and fuzzy.
Yes, it is, but the "traditional media" pay AP for that privilege and the argument is that so should the "new media" that publish these articles.
While working for a Fortune 500 company I was constantly amazed by the low bar set on "innovation". There was a a very strong "If it hasn't been done here then it must be new" mentality.
No, it is an Earth mineral that takes the same form as a mineral found in greater abundance on the Moon. The paper does not suggest that the mineral came from the Moon.
3.77 litres: A bit short of a US Gallon (3.785 litres) and well short of an Imperial Gallon (4.546 litres).
There really hasn't been any technical knowledge in these stores for more than a decade
Shame so little is displayed in the Australian media and the fear-of-the-other crowd.
Even a rudimentary comprehension of the report shows the event has nothing to with Qantas in particular. The problem lies in the Northrup Grumman ADIRU equipment fitted by Airbus and the Airbus software response to unusual outputs from that equipment. This is backed up by the prompt issuing of interim procedures and software fixes by the aircraft manufacturer (two years ago). If anything, the decision by Qantas pilots to fly the aircraft above all else, and put it down in a remote location rather than continue to Perth, is what made sure that the injured did not become mortalities.
Things fail on aircraft all the time. Aircraft are hostile environments to electronics and other systems. This is not unique to Qantas or any other operator regardless of the part of the world their maintenance is done in. The unique thing with Qantas is the incessant media hype around every little thing that goes wrong.
Yeah... my hairy arse :)
No reform required. That's exactly how it works now. The small guy holding a patent cannot afford to enforce it against the big guys. Even a small guy that would eventually win, with damages and costs awarded, has to stump up the costs in advance from a cash flow that typically cannot sustain it.
It's an open question why Iranians graze sheep in the desert though...
Perhaps, as is the case in Australia, grazing sheep on marginal land causes the desert. Once you have broken the environment you get to keep the pieces.
Yeah, 'cause pressing F1 for help (sometimes) and F3, Ctrl-F or some other key or menu item to search (sometimes) is so much more obvious. Average Joe doesn't seem able to find the clearly labelled Help menu in most programs, so the difference between that and not knowing man is negligible.
I think I will wait until Google Books scan it before I bother reading it ;)
Until there is some form of international minimum wage established...
Be careful what you wish for. Many western countries have a minimum wage substantially higher than the US, e.g UK at about USD 9.50/hr, Australia at about USD 15, and US around USD 7.25, and most developing countries have a minimum wage that is essentially zero. Which way do you want to move your US minimum wage, who will oppose it, and what will happen when the bean counters see? If you raise it, US businesses will oppose in force and the bean counters will lay people off to keep the profit margin the same. If you drop it everybody's wage will follow. Which political party will back either option overtly? Ultimately the US doesn't want to move their minimum wage, or even obtain a uniform one, just raise the lower ones to the same level for US benefit.
Having witnessed the demise of a mere 5kVA UPS in the bottom of an HP server (in a telephone switch building) I can certainly attest to the boom-ness of the large capacitors. It was a great light show that would have been better had it not been the new replacement unit (for the already failed original) that went boom. The noise drew attention from all over the floor. I can also attest to the need for spare underwear on the part of the HP tech :)
I am quite sure that accidentally shorting the DC bus bars running about the ceiling would have been a _very_ lively show.
Here the vast majority of residential, high speed Internet access is delivered by ADSL/ADSL2. This uses a copper local loop that is owned by Telstra (former govt. monopoly telco and owner of one of the five ISPs) but access must be leased to other parties at regulated rates. Once the DSL service reaches the local telephone exchange other ISPs can opt to install their own DSLAM hardware and backhaul, or lease the same from Telstra. Essentially it works out that there's Telstra Bigpond having its back preferentially scratched by Telstra, and the remainder working together to some degree. I can effectively get ADSL service from any ISP in the country anywhere suitable DSL infrastructure exists. There's no monopoly service in that sense.
We are in the process of removing monopoly ownership of the nationwide wholesale voice/data infrastructure, making all parties equal when it comes to offering retail services on top of the backbone.
You dare not say that you are ashamed of him though... it may be career limiting. Granted, it is not the same result as 15 years in a Thai prison but saying "The President sucks donkey balls" is not necessarily without consequence even in The Land of the Free(TM)