Looks like you're replying to the wrong comment. My complaint was the article's equivalency of "launch for the third time" and "third relaunch". And the OP didn't say that the headline didn't make sense; he said it was confusing that the headline and the story appeared to contradict one another, which is absolutely true. Beyond that, I think the "casual observer with no deeper knowledge of the subject beyond the mainstream" would be aware, as the OP was, that SpaceX has had quite a few Falcon 9 launches; it's been all over the mainstream news for quite a while now. Congratulations, though, on your deeper understanding of the underlying mechanics, whatever that's supposed to mean.
Legally yes, but a boss is not entitled to even attempt to convince an employee to engage in a sex act or allowed to participate in a sex act with a willing and consensual employee in most businesses. It is a conflict of interest. People are supposed to get raises for work performance not because they will suck a dick for it.
Actually, legally no, though it's civil liability rather than criminal. And the legal issue is not conflict of interest. Coercion is implicit when a there is a significant difference in the power or authority of the two parties, even when both parties claim the relationship is consensual. A hypothetical example would be, oh, say the President of the United States and a White House intern.
We're about to relaunch a booster for the third time.
That would make it the fourth launch of this booster.
It would, but it's fairly obvious from TFA that it's the third launch (2nd relaunch), and that the writer and editor were unable to convey this simple fact without screwing it up. It would have been easy to clear this up just by showing a list of dates when the launcher was used. But no; that would be too straightforward and informative.
Headline: "SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time".
Body: "We've launched Falcon 9 over 60 times."
Me: ??
The headline may be misunderstood as the third Falcon 9 flight ever. The news here is that a specific Falcon 9 booster is going to be reused for the second time, so it will be its third flight. Not to be confused with Falcon Heavy (Simultaneous boosters landing), which has been launched only once in a test flight.
It's actually worse than that. TFA:
1. the company is planning to launch a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for the third time.
2. We're about to relaunch a booster for the third time.
Where I come from, "redo" means "it's been done once and now we're doing it again, for a total of two "does". If you're relaunching for the third time, that's a total of four launches. If you're launching a booster for a third time, that means it's already been launched twice, so the third launch is the second relaunch.
It appears from the first couple of paragraphs of TFA that this will be the third launch (or second relaunch) of the subject booster. I really wish people who call themselves writers and editors would actually learn to convey accurate information in the stories they touch.
They don't know whether or not customer data was exposed. When you give up the keys to the kingdom, logs can't be trusted.
That's an assumption based on... what, pray tell? From TFA: Said bucket, named “pinapp2,” contained the “keys to the kingdom,” according to the security firm, including internal network diagramming, network hardware configuration photos, details and inventory lists—as well as lists of plain text passwords and AWS secret keys for Pocket iNet employees.
Also: “Documents containing long lists of administrative passwords may be convenient for operations, but they create single points of total risk, where the compromise of one document can have severe and extensive effects throughout the entire business,” noted UpGuard.
“If such documents must exist, they should be strongly encrypted and stored in a known secure location,” said the firm.
“Unfortunately, a single folder of PocketiNet’s network operation historical data (non-customer) was publicly accessible to Amazon administrative users,” the ISP said in a statement to Motherboard. “It has since been secured.”
The report from UpGuard is interesting and informative reading. As nasty as this breach was, there's certainly no indication that customer data was exposed other than a list of priority corporate customer names. There's certainly the possibility that PocketiNet’s network could have been breached if a bad actor stumbled across the exposed AWS bucket, but there's no evidence that this actually happened.
If it's downloading gigabytes per night, I think you'll find it does use significant battery.
If your goals are to reduce battery consumption and avoid unauthorized overnight data consumption, there's always Airplane mode. Or just plain turning the phone off. I've found that both approaches are quite effective. Of course, there's always a chance that you'll miss someone's Facebook post complaining about how much data their phone is gobbling.
AFAIK, I've never received a call like that, but I always hang up and block the number as soon as it becomes apparent that it''s a recording, so who knows?
I know that some people get a kick out of playing string-along games with telemarketers; seems like a pointless waste of time to me.
As long as self-driving cars and human-driven cars mingle on the roads, the self-driving cars should err on the side of excessive caution rather than insisting on legal right-of-way.
Won't work. If the car is recognizable as self-driving, and it is known to be super cautious, people will stop yielding to it. It needs to be driving like a human, claiming its space, and forcing other cars to brake to avoid accidents.
Possibly. Of course, anyone violating another car''s right of way is violating the law and subject to being ticketed. I guess how effective that would be depends upon how zealous law enforcement is. Seems like an easy local revenue enhancement move to me.
In my home state slowing down to allow a car to Merge will get you a ticket
So if a self-driving car slows down to allow a car to merge, who gets the ticket? The non-driver? The software developer? The bureaucrat who decided it was a good idea to let self-driving cars onto public roads along with human drivers?
While the software could have taken steps to avoid this behaviour that it not the same thing as saying that it caused the accident.
FromTFA: Levandowski, rather than being cowed by the incident, later defended it as an invaluable source of data, an opportunity to learn how to avoid similar mistakes.
If the self-driving car wasn't at fault, why did Levandowski consider the incident something that should be avoided in the future?
I keep seeing the claim that self-driving cars don't have to be perfect; they only have to be better than human drivers. This is not a case of a self-driving car being better than your average human driver, because your average human driver would most likely slow down or change lanes if possible and let the a-hole in the Camry merge. Yeah, that's not required by law; many ethical acts aren't. As long as self-driving cars and human-driven cars mingle on the roads, the self-driving cars should err on the side of excessive caution rather than insisting on legal right-of-way. As my drivers' ed teacher told the class, "If you insist on being right, you may end up dead right."
It always intrigues me how the job market is considered to have 'shortfalls'. There is no shortfall of genetics councillors. There is a shortage of genetics councilors at the current market price for them.
From TFS: With two to three job openings for every new genetic counseling graduate.... That doesn't sound very much like there are a lot of trained genetic counselors who decided to do something else because the pay in their chosen field just isn't high enough.
Or, maybe you mean that the reason that there is a shortfall of graduates in the field is that the pay isn't high enough to attract students to the programs. The median salary for genetic counsellors is over $75,000, which is in line with other health professions, and I'm guessing that the work is a lot less physically and emotionally demanding than being a registered nurse.
Recent studies have shown that performance rates on many statistical tasks increased from four percent to 24 percent when the problems were presented using the natural frequency format.
Hmm, let me make that more intuitive and jury friendly for everyone: recent studies have shown that performance rates on many statistical tasks increased from 1 in 25 to about 1 in 4 when the problems were presented using the natural frequency format.
I have a new MacBook Pro at work. For my use case, the keyboard and touch bar are mostly irrelevant, as it's connected to a large external monitor, keyboard, and mouse; I have a large and expensive dock that turns the USB-C ports into something actually useful. Same setup at home. But on the rare occasions when I have to use it as a, you know, laptop computer, I have to say that the keyboard is one of the worst ones I've ever come across in 30 years. And the enormous trackpad - even the cheap little Dell I use for Linux has a setting that disables the trackpad while you're typing, so an accidental trackpad touch doesn't send your cursor off to God knows where.
tl;dr: the MBP is a nice computer as long as you can keep the lid closed while you're using it.
Fossil fuel subsidies by the US run to $200 trillion a year.
If we spent one year of that on alternatives, we'd be fossil fuel free and energy independent by 2020.
The following year, we could wipe out the national debt, introduce universal incomes, revitalise education and rebuild national infrastructure and the space program.
You seem to have a few extra zeros in your subsidies number.The 2017 total was $20.5 billion. If you consider the social costs of fossil fuel use, it could be as much as $200 billion. Where did your extra orders of magnitude come from?
From TFA: On Earth, the sublimation of massive ice deposits at equatorial latitudes under cold and dry conditions in the absence of any liquid melt leads to the formation of spiked and bladed textures eroded into the surface of the ice.
That sounds like something that's going on today, but AFAIK, the last time the Earth's equatorial latitudes were the sites of "massive ice deposits" was about 700 million years ago.
"Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones."
Take a look at a google image search for "motherboard" and see if you can find an RJ-45 socket that doesn't have a metal shield around it for RF blocking.
OMG! They've all been hacked!! Run for your lives!!!
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You make an excellent point, because accidentally killing someone's rosebush is exactly like forcing someone to have sex with you. Maybe even worse!
Looks like you're replying to the wrong comment. My complaint was the article's equivalency of "launch for the third time" and "third relaunch". And the OP didn't say that the headline didn't make sense; he said it was confusing that the headline and the story appeared to contradict one another, which is absolutely true. Beyond that, I think the "casual observer with no deeper knowledge of the subject beyond the mainstream" would be aware, as the OP was, that SpaceX has had quite a few Falcon 9 launches; it's been all over the mainstream news for quite a while now. Congratulations, though, on your deeper understanding of the underlying mechanics, whatever that's supposed to mean.
Legally yes, but a boss is not entitled to even attempt to convince an employee to engage in a sex act or allowed to participate in a sex act with a willing and consensual employee in most businesses. It is a conflict of interest. People are supposed to get raises for work performance not because they will suck a dick for it.
Actually, legally no, though it's civil liability rather than criminal. And the legal issue is not conflict of interest. Coercion is implicit when a there is a significant difference in the power or authority of the two parties, even when both parties claim the relationship is consensual. A hypothetical example would be, oh, say the President of the United States and a White House intern.
We're about to relaunch a booster for the third time.
That would make it the fourth launch of this booster.
It would, but it's fairly obvious from TFA that it's the third launch (2nd relaunch), and that the writer and editor were unable to convey this simple fact without screwing it up. It would have been easy to clear this up just by showing a list of dates when the launcher was used. But no; that would be too straightforward and informative.
Headline: "SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time". Body: "We've launched Falcon 9 over 60 times." Me: ??
The headline may be misunderstood as the third Falcon 9 flight ever. The news here is that a specific Falcon 9 booster is going to be reused for the second time, so it will be its third flight. Not to be confused with Falcon Heavy (Simultaneous boosters landing), which has been launched only once in a test flight.
It's actually worse than that. TFA:
1. the company is planning to launch a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for the third time.
2. We're about to relaunch a booster for the third time.
Where I come from, "redo" means "it's been done once and now we're doing it again, for a total of two "does". If you're relaunching for the third time, that's a total of four launches. If you're launching a booster for a third time, that means it's already been launched twice, so the third launch is the second relaunch.
It appears from the first couple of paragraphs of TFA that this will be the third launch (or second relaunch) of the subject booster. I really wish people who call themselves writers and editors would actually learn to convey accurate information in the stories they touch.
They don't know whether or not customer data was exposed. When you give up the keys to the kingdom, logs can't be trusted.
That's an assumption based on ... what, pray tell? From TFA: Said bucket, named “pinapp2,” contained the “keys to the kingdom,” according to the security firm, including internal network diagramming, network hardware configuration photos, details and inventory lists—as well as lists of plain text passwords and AWS secret keys for Pocket iNet employees.
Also: “Documents containing long lists of administrative passwords may be convenient for operations, but they create single points of total risk, where the compromise of one document can have severe and extensive effects throughout the entire business,” noted UpGuard.
“If such documents must exist, they should be strongly encrypted and stored in a known secure location,” said the firm.
“Unfortunately, a single folder of PocketiNet’s network operation historical data (non-customer) was publicly accessible to Amazon administrative users,” the ISP said in a statement to Motherboard. “It has since been secured.”
The report from UpGuard is interesting and informative reading. As nasty as this breach was, there's certainly no indication that customer data was exposed other than a list of priority corporate customer names. There's certainly the possibility that PocketiNet’s network could have been breached if a bad actor stumbled across the exposed AWS bucket, but there's no evidence that this actually happened.
Interesting choice, in light of Ford's plan to stop selling anything but trucks, SUVs, Mustangs, and a Focus crossover; at least in North America.
TFS says nothing about about any customer data being exposed.
If it's downloading gigabytes per night, I think you'll find it does use significant battery.
If your goals are to reduce battery consumption and avoid unauthorized overnight data consumption, there's always Airplane mode. Or just plain turning the phone off. I've found that both approaches are quite effective. Of course, there's always a chance that you'll miss someone's Facebook post complaining about how much data their phone is gobbling.
AFAIK, I've never received a call like that, but I always hang up and block the number as soon as it becomes apparent that it''s a recording, so who knows?
I know that some people get a kick out of playing string-along games with telemarketers; seems like a pointless waste of time to me.
As long as self-driving cars and human-driven cars mingle on the roads, the self-driving cars should err on the side of excessive caution rather than insisting on legal right-of-way.
Won't work. If the car is recognizable as self-driving, and it is known to be super cautious, people will stop yielding to it. It needs to be driving like a human, claiming its space, and forcing other cars to brake to avoid accidents.
Possibly. Of course, anyone violating another car''s right of way is violating the law and subject to being ticketed. I guess how effective that would be depends upon how zealous law enforcement is. Seems like an easy local revenue enhancement move to me.
I sometimes answer these calls trying to keep them on the phone as long as possible.
You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of robocalls. It's a recorded message. There is no one there to "keep on the phone as long as possible".
In my home state slowing down to allow a car to Merge will get you a ticket
So if a self-driving car slows down to allow a car to merge, who gets the ticket? The non-driver? The software developer? The bureaucrat who decided it was a good idea to let self-driving cars onto public roads along with human drivers?
While the software could have taken steps to avoid this behaviour that it not the same thing as saying that it caused the accident.
FromTFA: Levandowski, rather than being cowed by the incident, later defended it as an invaluable source of data, an opportunity to learn how to avoid similar mistakes.
If the self-driving car wasn't at fault, why did Levandowski consider the incident something that should be avoided in the future?
I keep seeing the claim that self-driving cars don't have to be perfect; they only have to be better than human drivers. This is not a case of a self-driving car being better than your average human driver, because your average human driver would most likely slow down or change lanes if possible and let the a-hole in the Camry merge. Yeah, that's not required by law; many ethical acts aren't. As long as self-driving cars and human-driven cars mingle on the roads, the self-driving cars should err on the side of excessive caution rather than insisting on legal right-of-way. As my drivers' ed teacher told the class, "If you insist on being right, you may end up dead right."
It always intrigues me how the job market is considered to have 'shortfalls'. There is no shortfall of genetics councillors. There is a shortage of genetics councilors at the current market price for them.
From TFS: With two to three job openings for every new genetic counseling graduate.... That doesn't sound very much like there are a lot of trained genetic counselors who decided to do something else because the pay in their chosen field just isn't high enough.
Or, maybe you mean that the reason that there is a shortfall of graduates in the field is that the pay isn't high enough to attract students to the programs. The median salary for genetic counsellors is over $75,000, which is in line with other health professions, and I'm guessing that the work is a lot less physically and emotionally demanding than being a registered nurse.
Actually, I'm just fine using percentages. "4 out of 5" is for dentist endorsement of toothpaste.
Recent studies have shown that performance rates on many statistical tasks increased from four percent to 24 percent when the problems were presented using the natural frequency format.
Hmm, let me make that more intuitive and jury friendly for everyone: recent studies have shown that performance rates on many statistical tasks increased from 1 in 25 to about 1 in 4 when the problems were presented using the natural frequency format.
why do you find it so hard to accept that the surface line is actually very successful?
Probably because of things like this. And this. And this. And this.
I have a new MacBook Pro at work. For my use case, the keyboard and touch bar are mostly irrelevant, as it's connected to a large external monitor, keyboard, and mouse; I have a large and expensive dock that turns the USB-C ports into something actually useful. Same setup at home. But on the rare occasions when I have to use it as a, you know, laptop computer, I have to say that the keyboard is one of the worst ones I've ever come across in 30 years. And the enormous trackpad - even the cheap little Dell I use for Linux has a setting that disables the trackpad while you're typing, so an accidental trackpad touch doesn't send your cursor off to God knows where.
tl;dr: the MBP is a nice computer as long as you can keep the lid closed while you're using it.
Actually it is easier to check weather by simply looking through one of the home windows.
You can see what the weather's going to be next week by looking through one of your home windows? You must have quite a view.
Fossil fuel subsidies by the US run to $200 trillion a year.
If we spent one year of that on alternatives, we'd be fossil fuel free and energy independent by 2020.
The following year, we could wipe out the national debt, introduce universal incomes, revitalise education and rebuild national infrastructure and the space program.
You seem to have a few extra zeros in your subsidies number.The 2017 total was $20.5 billion. If you consider the social costs of fossil fuel use, it could be as much as $200 billion. Where did your extra orders of magnitude come from?
From TFA: On Earth, the sublimation of massive ice deposits at equatorial latitudes under cold and dry conditions in the absence of any liquid melt leads to the formation of spiked and bladed textures eroded into the surface of the ice.
That sounds like something that's going on today, but AFAIK, the last time the Earth's equatorial latitudes were the sites of "massive ice deposits" was about 700 million years ago.
It appears that the invisible hand of the market is comfortable holding a larger phone.
"Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones."
Take a look at a google image search for "motherboard" and see if you can find an RJ-45 socket that doesn't have a metal shield around it for RF blocking.
OMG! They've all been hacked!! Run for your lives!!!
What the hell is wrong with software developpement today ?
It's being done by Apple?