I have seen a different test where people where asked to watch and play with a kid. The kid was of an age that it could not talk yet and it was not clear if the kid was male or female. The researchers then told the person that the kid was a boy or a girl. The kids played with boys toys if the were told that the kid was a boy and girls toys if the person was told it was a girl.
Yes, several tests where done. It was the person who decided what the kid should play with and that was what the kid played with.
That means that the interests are taught by others. If this is a good thing or a bad thing is something completely different. It has worked for thousands of years, but that means nothing.
As you are on/., I am assuming you are working in IT or an IT related job, like software developer or cyber security specialist, as you mention them specifically. You have noticed that these jobs are not represented in a realistic way and that is probably true.
What I want to know if you think these are the ONLY ones that are represented wrong, because I assume you are aware that they are not the only ones.
Lawyers, doctors, nurses, teachers, police men, drunk people, bank directors,...none of them is realistic. None of the jobs they do are done that way in real life. And you are not special to have your job sorted out while the rest is not.
So you either get over it and enjoy the store of CGI or whatever it is there is to enjoy, or you start watching documentaries.
I do not expect a police man to jump out of buildings, shoot up bad guys, take them to court and find the evidence all by himself on his last day before retirement where his boss yells at him and being forced to work together with a person he hates, but becomes his best buddy.
Taking some leeway with hacking is the least of the issues if you think that things should be realistic. And I would rather have nice story with unrealistic people than a boring one with realistic ones.
The "Do no evil" thing was gone when they bought and broke DejaNews.com. The "Do no evil" is just as valuable as "New and improved" on you washing powder or "Stuff that matters" at/.
For me it was always unrealistic. At some point or another what they consider "Do no evil" will be not in line what I think, no matter how noble they are. And I am just one person.
To me going to the movies is not so much about the plot. If it where just about the plot, I would wait till it is out on something cheaper and watch it there. It is about the social experience. Bit like drinking beer. I can drink beer cheaper than I can drink it in a bar, yet I never drink at home. Because for me it is more about the social experience.
When I got older, talking became more important than just sitting together watching at a screen, so it became less of an incentive to go to the movies.
So perhaps the demographic that would go to the movies have other ways of spending their money and time together. Perhaps they rather sit at home and spend time in front of the large screen they have there.
What they need to do is look at where money is spend now instead of where they want it to be spend. I know I never had a cellphone bill to pay (or have my parents pay for me). Also no provider or anything of the like. We had two boardgames and no game consoles or anything/
Money can only be spend once. So they are not competing just with pirates or Netflix. They are also competing with all the other options people have to spend their time and, more importantly, their money.
Yes and there are also a lot that didn't. That perhaps even did not went to production and yet still some money was invested in them.
I am not saying that the studios are poor. They are scumbags that use Hollywood accounting, but there are plenty of movies that never made their money and they do not have big names attached to them, so you never hear about them.
cycle through all 10,000 possible values for the four random digits at the end
All nice what he did, but I would be impressed if he would not cycle through them, but where able to determine these last 4. My bet is that there is some sort of verification used. No idea how the numbers are build, but I can imagine that they use any of the known verifications.
The fact that they increase by one is also normal. Having a random number (with verification) would need to be verified if it was not already handed out and if it where not already used.
So what verification was used? Standard Credit Card would already reduce the 10.000 to 100. And that would be with the most ones if they use the last two as control.
I can also imagine that these are handled by an external company and then you would get perhaps something like CompanyVoucherAmountVerification Some extra like branch could be in it as well, so to do some analysis on the vouchers coming in.
We need to transition away from the current economic system real soon, or suffer massive riots and the downfall of our culture as unemployed people riot and take it down for us.
Good luck with that. It is worse than taking away guns. The question is just when, not if, the revolution will be coming.
We have enough food to feed the world. We have enough money to let the world live a comfortable life. We have the production to give all people what they need and many what they want. Yet we do not use any of this.
A first attempt to change it to something failed terrible (Communism). If history is any indication, there will be some more attempts before we will settle on something new.
As long as money is the goal and no free time, this won't happen. You see some of these changes already happening in Europe where people are more interested in the time they can spend with their families than in getting a new larger car. This is not yet final and could need much more improvement.
This however needs a complete change of mindset from many people. It needs to shift from "live to work" to "work to live". And that is a giant leap, not just a step. It means that instead of having 1 person working 80 hours, 8 people not working and 1 person getting all the monies, you have 10 people working 8 hours. For now this is not possible, as we are still a money driven society, not a free-time given society.
My guess is that things will first get much worse before the mindset changes. Not in anybodies lifetime for now. And that is what it is, a guess. Yes, it will be the replacement of our culture with another one. That does not mean it would be bad.
One special case is where the shortest distance from A to B is the direct line from A to B; that is, you can't go from A to C to B faster than you can go from A to B
To me that does not seem to be a special case. You take two things and think they are the same. One is shortest distance and one is shortest time.
Anybody with a GPS will know that these are not the same. If A to B to C is 2 distance unit. It will be (assuming they are in a straight line) 4. If the time from A to B is 3 and from B to C is 3. and from A to C 5, then the shortest time is 5.
The time and the distance are unrelated. It will always be either the shortest distance or the shortest time. The times they are the same are the special cases, not the ones where they are not.
If not, this is just a bump on the road. Sure he lost 5.000USD now, but how much did he make. Trolls, spammers, marketing: they are all not that much interested in how many say no. They are interested in how many say yes.
I am sure plenty of companies will be happy to pay 1.000USD to make the potential lawsuit go away when the initial demand was 50.000. They probably will even give their lawyer a bonus for bringing it down so much.
And even if this was enough to make that one company stop, 7 others will pop up.
In Belgium, when you buy a car, it is yours. You take a loan (can be with the car company) and that is what you owe. Not the car. That means if you can not pay your loan, they will go after you and they will get 1) Part of your pay 2) Resell your possessions. Most likely they will take your car to be resold, but they will not go after your car specifically and give it to the seller. It will be seen as an asset, like your computer or tv.
When you lease a car, there will be differences, depending on the contract. However that is not a standard personal car purchase. Everybody that can calculate a bit won't take a lease as a person. (Yes, this is a generalization that will only apply to the 99% of us.)
In July 2016, the Commission fined MAN, Volvo/Renault, Daimler, Iveco, and DAF a total of 2.93 billion euros for forming a cartel and colluding on truck prices for 14 years.
The largest individual fine was on Daimler for 1.008 billion euros. DAF was hit with a fine of 752 million euros, while Volvo/Renault was fined 670 million euros.
Car glass producers â" 1.35 billion euros
In November 2008, several car glass producers were hit with a cartel fine for illegal market sharing and exchanging commercially sensitive information.
French firm Saint-Gobain received the largest fine of 880 million euros, while U.K. firm Pilkington was hit with a fine of 357 million euros. Japanese company Asahi's fine was reduced by 50 percent to 113.5 million due to leniency, while Blegium's Soliver received a fine of just 4.4 million euros
The European Commission has fined Campine, Eco-Bat Technologies and Recylex a total of â68 million for fixing prices for purchasing scrap automotive batteries, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
A fourth company, Johnson Controls, was not fined because it revealed the existence of the cartel to the Commission.
Obviously there are many, many more that are fined and even more that come to their senses and adapt their behavior before they are fined. The reason the fine is so big is because Google makes so much money.
The difference is that if a company screw me over in Europe, I can go to the government and they will sort it out for me. Laws are put into place to give me more power so the playing field is even. If a government screws me over in the US and I go to a company, they will look what is good for them and take action. In fact they do not even wait to see if I get screwed over, they just lobby already.
Concerning providers, I always had several companies I can select from. In Belgium there need to be at least 3 cellphone operators by law.
This was not a lease anymore. The car had been bought from the leasing company. That means unless they take things out, everything in the car belongs to the new owner. If they had put in a HEMI 6.5L engine that would be part of it, just as if the engine would be without pistons. The sale was done with the car as is. That includes the GPS device that now belongs to the new owner.
So it could be seen as breaking and entering into a private property.
Depending where you are, having a GPS without the person using the car might be illegal as well.
Of and by itself I have no issue if they use public data. It however mean that they will go after the stupid people. The smarter ones would then not be audited. That is unless they do random audits as well.
The danger is to go ONLY to these low hanging fruits as it is so easy to show results.
They do not ask for a real name. Somewhere they will be able to find a link between you and your alias, When they put that much effort into it, there would have been other signals and they are already on to you.
Anyway, my butler is calling. There is an issue with my private jet.
I have a 55" at then foot end of my bed. So that is 2m away. Only if I run movies next to each other I can tell the difference between 1080p and 4k and I have no issues watching 720p for almost any content without being sick of the quality. 480 is not good enough.
What they do is edit the 1080p to see how it works and then run the editor on the 4k image. That way the compiling of the image is done in the background. If you actually down scale it and then edit it, you should not upscale it again, because you will not have done the following: 1) Paid for 4K camera that you do not need 2) Waste time downscaling to 1080p 3) Lost all the advantage of images in larger scale 4) Waste time upscaling
There are people who film in 8k, only so the information they have is better to have when they downscale to 4K, not to upload 8K, although some might still do that to show off.
ALWAYS edit the largest image with the most info and then downscale. Do not upscale, because that is useless.
I understand this site is a dicussion platform and I enjoy discussing SF and Fantasy as much as the ext guy, but please keep this relevant. Oh, you thought any rights where real? I have some bad news for you.
I have seen it for more phones. CTO wanted new phones for all of the company, so it would be easier to maintain. Gives the order for 30.000 phones. Ordered in Belgium as they would be unlocked. Also went to a reseller as SonyErricson or any other manufacturer refused to sell to him directly. The reason was that they where in several European countries and they wanted one deal. That was a no-go for those companies.
Not only did people vote for Trump. Enough people did NOT vote for Clinton. They either didn't show up, because she would win anyway, or they voted third party.
If enough people where influenced to not vote instead of voting Clinton and/or vote third party, than you have influenced the election.
Remember that hacking is 95% social engineering. The fact that they would get money from ads is a nice bonus, but is not the reason these things are send. With all the info available, they know enough about you to influence you directly via facebook. They do not need to change your world view completely, just influence you a little bit. And they do not need to do this with everybody, just enough. You don't need to fool all of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time. You just need to fool some of the people some of the time.
It is also not so much censorship as it is drowning out voices and giving importance to those who do not deserve it. How many people are that in that one crazy church? 100? There are several million who do not agree with them, yet they get the same, if not more attention.
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I have seen a different test where people where asked to watch and play with a kid. The kid was of an age that it could not talk yet and it was not clear if the kid was male or female.
The researchers then told the person that the kid was a boy or a girl. The kids played with boys toys if the were told that the kid was a boy and girls toys if the person was told it was a girl.
Yes, several tests where done. It was the person who decided what the kid should play with and that was what the kid played with.
That means that the interests are taught by others. If this is a good thing or a bad thing is something completely different. It has worked for thousands of years, but that means nothing.
As you are on /., I am assuming you are working in IT or an IT related job, like software developer or cyber security specialist, as you mention them specifically.
You have noticed that these jobs are not represented in a realistic way and that is probably true.
What I want to know if you think these are the ONLY ones that are represented wrong, because I assume you are aware that they are not the only ones.
Lawyers, doctors, nurses, teachers, police men, drunk people, bank directors, ...none of them is realistic. None of the jobs they do are done that way in real life. And you are not special to have your job sorted out while the rest is not.
So you either get over it and enjoy the store of CGI or whatever it is there is to enjoy, or you start watching documentaries.
I do not expect a police man to jump out of buildings, shoot up bad guys, take them to court and find the evidence all by himself on his last day before retirement where his boss yells at him and being forced to work together with a person he hates, but becomes his best buddy.
Taking some leeway with hacking is the least of the issues if you think that things should be realistic. And I would rather have nice story with unrealistic people than a boring one with realistic ones.
The "Do no evil" thing was gone when they bought and broke DejaNews.com. The "Do no evil" is just as valuable as "New and improved" on you washing powder or "Stuff that matters" at /.
For me it was always unrealistic. At some point or another what they consider "Do no evil" will be not in line what I think, no matter how noble they are. And I am just one person.
To me going to the movies is not so much about the plot. If it where just about the plot, I would wait till it is out on something cheaper and watch it there.
It is about the social experience. Bit like drinking beer. I can drink beer cheaper than I can drink it in a bar, yet I never drink at home. Because for me it is more about the social experience.
When I got older, talking became more important than just sitting together watching at a screen, so it became less of an incentive to go to the movies.
So perhaps the demographic that would go to the movies have other ways of spending their money and time together. Perhaps they rather sit at home and spend time in front of the large screen they have there.
What they need to do is look at where money is spend now instead of where they want it to be spend. I know I never had a cellphone bill to pay (or have my parents pay for me). Also no provider or anything of the like. We had two boardgames and no game consoles or anything/
Money can only be spend once. So they are not competing just with pirates or Netflix. They are also competing with all the other options people have to spend their time and, more importantly, their money.
I don't want to sound racists, but not a white guy and people warned us what would happen to the neighborhood once a black guy would move in.
(It's a joke, laugh! Also Not my President. Really, he isn't as I am not from the US.)
Yes and there are also a lot that didn't. That perhaps even did not went to production and yet still some money was invested in them.
I am not saying that the studios are poor. They are scumbags that use Hollywood accounting, but there are plenty of movies that never made their money and they do not have big names attached to them, so you never hear about them.
... and if it doesn't, you can't blame them and ask for a refund. I have 64GB in many max 32GB things and never had an issue.
All nice what he did, but I would be impressed if he would not cycle through them, but where able to determine these last 4. My bet is that there is some sort of verification used. No idea how the numbers are build, but I can imagine that they use any of the known verifications.
The fact that they increase by one is also normal. Having a random number (with verification) would need to be verified if it was not already handed out and if it where not already used.
So what verification was used? Standard Credit Card would already reduce the 10.000 to 100. And that would be with the most ones if they use the last two as control.
I can also imagine that these are handled by an external company and then you would get perhaps something like CompanyVoucherAmountVerification Some extra like branch could be in it as well, so to do some analysis on the vouchers coming in.
Good luck with that. It is worse than taking away guns. The question is just when, not if, the revolution will be coming.
We have enough food to feed the world. We have enough money to let the world live a comfortable life. We have the production to give all people what they need and many what they want. Yet we do not use any of this.
A first attempt to change it to something failed terrible (Communism). If history is any indication, there will be some more attempts before we will settle on something new.
As long as money is the goal and no free time, this won't happen. You see some of these changes already happening in Europe where people are more interested in the time they can spend with their families than in getting a new larger car. This is not yet final and could need much more improvement.
This however needs a complete change of mindset from many people. It needs to shift from "live to work" to "work to live". And that is a giant leap, not just a step. It means that instead of having 1 person working 80 hours, 8 people not working and 1 person getting all the monies, you have 10 people working 8 hours.
For now this is not possible, as we are still a money driven society, not a free-time given society.
My guess is that things will first get much worse before the mindset changes. Not in anybodies lifetime for now. And that is what it is, a guess.
Yes, it will be the replacement of our culture with another one. That does not mean it would be bad.
To me that does not seem to be a special case. You take two things and think they are the same. One is shortest distance and one is shortest time.
Anybody with a GPS will know that these are not the same. If A to B to C is 2 distance unit. It will be (assuming they are in a straight line) 4.
If the time from A to B is 3 and from B to C is 3. and from A to C 5, then the shortest time is 5.
The time and the distance are unrelated. It will always be either the shortest distance or the shortest time. The times they are the same are the special cases, not the ones where they are not.
If not, this is just a bump on the road. Sure he lost 5.000USD now, but how much did he make.
Trolls, spammers, marketing: they are all not that much interested in how many say no. They are interested in how many say yes.
I am sure plenty of companies will be happy to pay 1.000USD to make the potential lawsuit go away when the initial demand was 50.000. They probably will even give their lawyer a bonus for bringing it down so much.
And even if this was enough to make that one company stop, 7 others will pop up.
I am sure that somewhere between the slaughter and you seeing them cut it, there will be a point they could do it.
In Belgium, when you buy a car, it is yours. You take a loan (can be with the car company) and that is what you owe. Not the car.
That means if you can not pay your loan, they will go after you and they will get
1) Part of your pay
2) Resell your possessions. Most likely they will take your car to be resold, but they will not go after your car specifically and give it to the seller. It will be seen as an asset, like your computer or tv.
When you lease a car, there will be differences, depending on the contract. However that is not a standard personal car purchase. Everybody that can calculate a bit won't take a lease as a person. (Yes, this is a generalization that will only apply to the 99% of us.)
Truck producers â" 2.93 billion euros
In July 2016, the Commission fined MAN, Volvo/Renault, Daimler, Iveco, and DAF a total of 2.93 billion euros for forming a cartel and colluding on truck prices for 14 years.
The largest individual fine was on Daimler for 1.008 billion euros. DAF was hit with a fine of 752 million euros, while Volvo/Renault was fined 670 million euros.
Car glass producers â" 1.35 billion euros
In November 2008, several car glass producers were hit with a cartel fine for illegal market sharing and exchanging commercially sensitive information.
French firm Saint-Gobain received the largest fine of 880 million euros, while U.K. firm Pilkington was hit with a fine of 357 million euros. Japanese company Asahi's fine was reduced by 50 percent to 113.5 million due to leniency, while Blegium's Soliver received a fine of just 4.4 million euros
The European Commission has fined Campine, Eco-Bat Technologies and Recylex a total of â68 million for fixing prices for purchasing scrap automotive batteries, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
A fourth company, Johnson Controls, was not fined because it revealed the existence of the cartel to the Commission.
Obviously there are many, many more that are fined and even more that come to their senses and adapt their behavior before they are fined.
The reason the fine is so big is because Google makes so much money.
The difference is that if a company screw me over in Europe, I can go to the government and they will sort it out for me. Laws are put into place to give me more power so the playing field is even.
If a government screws me over in the US and I go to a company, they will look what is good for them and take action. In fact they do not even wait to see if I get screwed over, they just lobby already.
Concerning providers, I always had several companies I can select from. In Belgium there need to be at least 3 cellphone operators by law.
This was not a lease anymore. The car had been bought from the leasing company. That means unless they take things out, everything in the car belongs to the new owner. If they had put in a HEMI 6.5L engine that would be part of it, just as if the engine would be without pistons. The sale was done with the car as is. That includes the GPS device that now belongs to the new owner.
So it could be seen as breaking and entering into a private property.
Depending where you are, having a GPS without the person using the car might be illegal as well.
I would expect there to be some sort of randomness in the audits as well. The honest ones can be done pretty fast.
Of and by itself I have no issue if they use public data. It however mean that they will go after the stupid people. The smarter ones would then not be audited.
That is unless they do random audits as well.
The danger is to go ONLY to these low hanging fruits as it is so easy to show results.
They do not ask for a real name. Somewhere they will be able to find a link between you and your alias, When they put that much effort into it, there would have been other signals and they are already on to you.
Anyway, my butler is calling. There is an issue with my private jet.
I have a 55" at then foot end of my bed. So that is 2m away. Only if I run movies next to each other I can tell the difference between 1080p and 4k and I have no issues watching 720p for almost any content without being sick of the quality. 480 is not good enough.
What they do is edit the 1080p to see how it works and then run the editor on the 4k image. That way the compiling of the image is done in the background.
If you actually down scale it and then edit it, you should not upscale it again, because you will not have done the following:
1) Paid for 4K camera that you do not need
2) Waste time downscaling to 1080p
3) Lost all the advantage of images in larger scale
4) Waste time upscaling
There are people who film in 8k, only so the information they have is better to have when they downscale to 4K, not to upload 8K, although some might still do that to show off.
ALWAYS edit the largest image with the most info and then downscale. Do not upscale, because that is useless.
I understand this site is a dicussion platform and I enjoy discussing SF and Fantasy as much as the ext guy, but please keep this relevant.
Oh, you thought any rights where real? I have some bad news for you.
I have seen it for more phones. CTO wanted new phones for all of the company, so it would be easier to maintain. Gives the order for 30.000 phones. Ordered in Belgium as they would be unlocked. Also went to a reseller as SonyErricson or any other manufacturer refused to sell to him directly. The reason was that they where in several European countries and they wanted one deal. That was a no-go for those companies.
This was before smartphones.
Not only did people vote for Trump. Enough people did NOT vote for Clinton. They either didn't show up, because she would win anyway, or they voted third party.
If enough people where influenced to not vote instead of voting Clinton and/or vote third party, than you have influenced the election.
Remember that hacking is 95% social engineering. The fact that they would get money from ads is a nice bonus, but is not the reason these things are send.
With all the info available, they know enough about you to influence you directly via facebook. They do not need to change your world view completely, just influence you a little bit. And they do not need to do this with everybody, just enough.
You don't need to fool all of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time. You just need to fool some of the people some of the time.
It is also not so much censorship as it is drowning out voices and giving importance to those who do not deserve it. How many people are that in that one crazy church? 100? There are several million who do not agree with them, yet they get the same, if not more attention.
If you want Bananas, why not move to a Banana Republic. Oh, wait.