"If this is a low proportion, then there will be many false positives, making detection of abnormal heart rhythm useless in terms of stroke prediction. It will only serve in increase anxiety of users."
Well then I guess that over time it will get fairly good at predicting heart attacks.
>> I defend both Trump's "locker room talk" and Colbert's "homophobic remarks"
What is interesting about this statement is that it casts Trump's words in the best possible light while casting Colbert's words in the worst possible light. If we were to be completely honest we would say Trump's "bragging about sexual assault" and Colbert's "lewd description of the bromance between Trump and Putin."
The ONLY way to fix this problem is to completely supplant the exiting carrier system. FCC is too slow moving and the carriers have too much to lose in the way of revenue. There is no technical reason that each and every call cannot be instantly traced, the calling number be authenticated, and the abuse stopped. Any carrier can today prevent a customer from spoofing a number that they do not own. It would not take much more for carriers to pass messages along with the call setup signal to affirm the legitimacy of the message. A this point blocking would easy at the end recipient. Even better if I could tell the carrier to only deliver verified calls. But this will NEVER happen because the carriers make too much money on connection services and call volume. As soon as call scamming stops there will be an appreciable drop in carrier revenue.
The "support contracts" also gain you access to developers when needed. At times I have had enterprise agreements with both RedHat and SUSE. On more that one occasion when facing esoteric bugs we have been able to escalate via our support contracts. As soon as they were able to reproduce the bugs they are were able to drive upstream code changes to fix the bugs.
Conversely I have worked directly with a number of open source software developer to address bugs, but I will say that it was much effective working with developers that are paid to address bug and already a reputation in the open source community. Because my team's time is much more valuable than the cost of enterprise support contracts I would much rather keep them focused on much higher value activities.
To put things into snarky terms you might understand, "real" Linux is a complete open source ecosystem of capabilities and services. [snark mode]If you do not need an enterprise support contract it is likely because you do not provide much value to a company and so your time is best spent tinkering and chasing down issues.[/snark mode]
The point is I know how to grow my own food, but I still go to the grocery store because my time is in demand. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate my neighbors who have beautiful gardens, and I doubt that they think of me as incompetent because I go to grocery store either.
There are companies that tie mobile device management software with wireless/cell scanners to monitor overall compliance with the policies. Non-compliant devices can be mapped with a location within the building and hall monitors take it from there.
So what you are saying is the local governments should also be forced out of the business of providing running water now that private companies are providing bottled water and water delivery services.
You are very welcome. I have not seen your other posts.
I agree with you on the CID spoofing. I never answer calls unless I know the number. People can leave a message. If it is legitimate then I'll add them to my address book.
Only the people behind closed doors know why the telcos did not require this, but in my experience it is likely for a few reasons: 1) Without a good architecture and integrated process managing CIDs requires an amount of administrative overhead 2) Telcos could not figure out how to charge customers for locking down CIDs 3) Locking down CIDs reduces call volumes and exchange fees
Maybe read the entire reply first before getting all indignant. The existing protocols carry sufficient information for carriers to lock customers into displaying only CIDs that the customer is authorized to display. Carrier equipment has had the ability to lock PRIs to customer CIDs for the past 20 years that I am aware of, likely much longer. VoIP still relies on a carrier unless you are talking about a limited VoIP deployment within a contained network. At the point of ingress a carrier can block unauthorized CIDs regardless of connection method. You would have to solve the problem at the protocol level if you tried to block the abuse between carrier.
There is no technical reason preventing carriers from blocking their customers from using unauthorized CIDs except the decisions that are made within the carriers themselves; either poor choice of equipment purchases or poor implementation/design.
VoIP is actually irrelevant; there is still a hand-off from a customer to a carrier in order for the call to be connected outside of a local network. There will either be a voice gateway with PRIs or some sort of SIP trunk. The carrier has the option of restricting CIDs but few do.
You explanation is perfectly valid for why a business might assert a particular CID that is valid within the company, but not what carriers allow people to assert any CID not registered to that individual or company.
The only way to solve this problem is to make the carriers accountable for allowing such behavior. To be clear, I am less concerned about unwanted calls and much more concerned about scammers. If a carrier allows scammers to forge their identities then the carriers are complicit in the scammers illegal acts.
It helps if you understand how to read financial statements instead of just repeating the statements of others who have an ax to grind.
The per vehicle loss that is often mentioned takes total expenditures minus total revenues and divides by cars sold. While this seems reasonable it does not take into account that much of the expenditures are being invested in growth.
This is sort of like telling your kid to quit their part-time job because the cost of raising them (feeding, housing, educating, etc.) is too high and your family is losing money on every hour they work. The fact of the matter is that they make money at their part-time independent of the cost of raising them. Kids having a part-time job means they may no longer need an allowance and will help prepare them for a full-time job.
The fact of the matter is that Tesla earns a healthy margin on every car they sell, but that margin is not sufficient to cover the investments they are making in building factories need to accelerate growth of the company. If Tesla really lost money on every car sold no institutional investor would include Tesla in their portfolios becasue Tesla would have no path profitibaily. Institutional investors know how to read financial statements and are very intersted in Tesla's potential. http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/t...
The problem with electric cars is that windshield wipers are horrendously expensive to replace. With my previous car windshield wipers were way less than 1% of total maintenance over five years. My Leaf is about to turn 5 years old and windshield wiper replacements 75% of my total maintenance costs. This is outrageous!
"This is completely wrong. A race does not "instill systematic impediments" - individual people do that." OK, I stand corrected: individual of a specific race instill systematic impediments.
"Note that I'm not trying to say that racism is good or bad." I would hate for you to go out too far on such a moral limb.
Are you trying to draw a parallel between people who have a beef with Microsoft with racists?
- My OS good yours bad even though they're simply very complicated hammers for different nails. People get frustrated because a monopoly power has a long history of poor design decisions and forcing users to apply "updates" that create more flaws which leads to unpreventable system compromises. Seems like a legitimate reason to hold a grudge to me.
- My race good your race bad even though genetically they're indistinguishable. One race instills systematic impediments that create an uneven playing field holding back other races from equitably participating in the riches of our society. This is just wrong!
MS Office regularly crashes on me. The document recovery feature in MS Office is also absolutely horrible. It offers the user multiple copies but it is never clear which copy has the most recent updates.
I have had LibreOffice crash on me as well, but the document recovery feature in LibreOffice is so smooth I never worry. It recovers easily and flawlessly even after the loss of power.
The problem is two-fold: 1) carriers have been selling oversubscribed bandwidth and then complaining when people hit the actual limits, and 2) the public wants everybody else to pay to their incessant over-consumption of bandwidth. If carriers want to sell an unlimited bandwidth package then they should charge enough to cover the costs. And if people want the unlimited bandwidth package they should pay for it.
Using scientific reasoning to rationally choose between potential decisions is a great idea, but it doesn't solve the problem of deciding the basis of the questions. Logic can really only solve for one variable at a time. People will still have to decide which societal variables to solve and how to balance the weight of multiple variables. Fair is never fair to everybody. You are always having to make trade-offs between forms of fairness: equity, equality and welfare.
Tough to tell how the browsers are being tracked, but they are each easily identifiable. Interestingly even Chrome has a Safari fingerprint.
Safari xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:17:36 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13F69 Safari/601.1"
Firefox xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:16:32 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/4.0 Mobile/13F69 Safari/601.1.46"
Chrome xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:20:06 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/51.0.2704.104 Mobile/13F69 Safari/601.1.46"
Chrome on Linux xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:27:35 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36"
I am guessing that the radar system in the Tesla Model S is tuned to monitor a certain plane a few feet above the ground. There have been some videos of Tesla's running into suspended obstacles. I suspect that the radar system saw clear under the trailer.
Both Chrome and Firefox are available on iOS. Apple's restriction is that browsers must use WebKit. This was not a problem for Chrome, but Firefox had to be repackaged with WebKit.
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Thanks! It is good to see that humor isn't completely lost in today's society.
"If this is a low proportion, then there will be many false positives, making detection of abnormal heart rhythm useless in terms of stroke prediction. It will only serve in increase anxiety of users."
Well then I guess that over time it will get fairly good at predicting heart attacks.
>> I defend both Trump's "locker room talk" and Colbert's "homophobic remarks"
What is interesting about this statement is that it casts Trump's words in the best possible light while casting Colbert's words in the worst possible light. If we were to be completely honest we would say Trump's "bragging about sexual assault" and Colbert's "lewd description of the bromance between Trump and Putin."
". . . but few apps besides raytracing can genuinely put it to good use. "
Hmmm, web browsers seem to be really good at busying every core on my computer.
The ONLY way to fix this problem is to completely supplant the exiting carrier system. FCC is too slow moving and the carriers have too much to lose in the way of revenue. There is no technical reason that each and every call cannot be instantly traced, the calling number be authenticated, and the abuse stopped. Any carrier can today prevent a customer from spoofing a number that they do not own. It would not take much more for carriers to pass messages along with the call setup signal to affirm the legitimacy of the message. A this point blocking would easy at the end recipient. Even better if I could tell the carrier to only deliver verified calls. But this will NEVER happen because the carriers make too much money on connection services and call volume. As soon as call scamming stops there will be an appreciable drop in carrier revenue.
The "support contracts" also gain you access to developers when needed. At times I have had enterprise agreements with both RedHat and SUSE. On more that one occasion when facing esoteric bugs we have been able to escalate via our support contracts. As soon as they were able to reproduce the bugs they are were able to drive upstream code changes to fix the bugs.
Conversely I have worked directly with a number of open source software developer to address bugs, but I will say that it was much effective working with developers that are paid to address bug and already a reputation in the open source community. Because my team's time is much more valuable than the cost of enterprise support contracts I would much rather keep them focused on much higher value activities.
To put things into snarky terms you might understand, "real" Linux is a complete open source ecosystem of capabilities and services. [snark mode]If you do not need an enterprise support contract it is likely because you do not provide much value to a company and so your time is best spent tinkering and chasing down issues.[/snark mode]
The point is I know how to grow my own food, but I still go to the grocery store because my time is in demand. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate my neighbors who have beautiful gardens, and I doubt that they think of me as incompetent because I go to grocery store either.
There are companies that tie mobile device management software with wireless/cell scanners to monitor overall compliance with the policies. Non-compliant devices can be mapped with a location within the building and hall monitors take it from there.
So what you are saying is the local governments should also be forced out of the business of providing running water now that private companies are providing bottled water and water delivery services.
You are very welcome. I have not seen your other posts.
I agree with you on the CID spoofing. I never answer calls unless I know the number. People can leave a message. If it is legitimate then I'll add them to my address book.
Well said!
Only the people behind closed doors know why the telcos did not require this, but in my experience it is likely for a few reasons:
1) Without a good architecture and integrated process managing CIDs requires an amount of administrative overhead
2) Telcos could not figure out how to charge customers for locking down CIDs
3) Locking down CIDs reduces call volumes and exchange fees
Maybe read the entire reply first before getting all indignant. The existing protocols carry sufficient information for carriers to lock customers into displaying only CIDs that the customer is authorized to display. Carrier equipment has had the ability to lock PRIs to customer CIDs for the past 20 years that I am aware of, likely much longer. VoIP still relies on a carrier unless you are talking about a limited VoIP deployment within a contained network. At the point of ingress a carrier can block unauthorized CIDs regardless of connection method. You would have to solve the problem at the protocol level if you tried to block the abuse between carrier.
There is no technical reason preventing carriers from blocking their customers from using unauthorized CIDs except the decisions that are made within the carriers themselves; either poor choice of equipment purchases or poor implementation/design.
VoIP is actually irrelevant; there is still a hand-off from a customer to a carrier in order for the call to be connected outside of a local network. There will either be a voice gateway with PRIs or some sort of SIP trunk. The carrier has the option of restricting CIDs but few do.
You explanation is perfectly valid for why a business might assert a particular CID that is valid within the company, but not what carriers allow people to assert any CID not registered to that individual or company.
The only way to solve this problem is to make the carriers accountable for allowing such behavior. To be clear, I am less concerned about unwanted calls and much more concerned about scammers. If a carrier allows scammers to forge their identities then the carriers are complicit in the scammers illegal acts.
It helps if you understand how to read financial statements instead of just repeating the statements of others who have an ax to grind.
The per vehicle loss that is often mentioned takes total expenditures minus total revenues and divides by cars sold. While this seems reasonable it does not take into account that much of the expenditures are being invested in growth.
This is sort of like telling your kid to quit their part-time job because the cost of raising them (feeding, housing, educating, etc.) is too high and your family is losing money on every hour they work. The fact of the matter is that they make money at their part-time independent of the cost of raising them. Kids having a part-time job means they may no longer need an allowance and will help prepare them for a full-time job.
The fact of the matter is that Tesla earns a healthy margin on every car they sell, but that margin is not sufficient to cover the investments they are making in building factories need to accelerate growth of the company. If Tesla really lost money on every car sold no institutional investor would include Tesla in their portfolios becasue Tesla would have no path profitibaily. Institutional investors know how to read financial statements and are very intersted in Tesla's potential. http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/t...
The problem with electric cars is that windshield wipers are horrendously expensive to replace. With my previous car windshield wipers were way less than 1% of total maintenance over five years. My Leaf is about to turn 5 years old and windshield wiper replacements 75% of my total maintenance costs. This is outrageous!
"This is completely wrong. A race does not "instill systematic impediments" - individual people do that." OK, I stand corrected: individual of a specific race instill systematic impediments.
"Note that I'm not trying to say that racism is good or bad." I would hate for you to go out too far on such a moral limb.
Are you trying to draw a parallel between people who have a beef with Microsoft with racists?
- My OS good yours bad even though they're simply very complicated hammers for different nails.
People get frustrated because a monopoly power has a long history of poor design decisions and forcing users to apply "updates" that create more flaws which leads to unpreventable system compromises. Seems like a legitimate reason to hold a grudge to me.
- My race good your race bad even though genetically they're indistinguishable.
One race instills systematic impediments that create an uneven playing field holding back other races from equitably participating in the riches of our society. This is just wrong!
No to mention all that wasted helium. People should be aware that helium is a non-renewable resource and there are signs that it is becoming scarce.
MS Office regularly crashes on me. The document recovery feature in MS Office is also absolutely horrible. It offers the user multiple copies but it is never clear which copy has the most recent updates.
I have had LibreOffice crash on me as well, but the document recovery feature in LibreOffice is so smooth I never worry. It recovers easily and flawlessly even after the loss of power.
The problem is two-fold: 1) carriers have been selling oversubscribed bandwidth and then complaining when people hit the actual limits, and 2) the public wants everybody else to pay to their incessant over-consumption of bandwidth. If carriers want to sell an unlimited bandwidth package then they should charge enough to cover the costs. And if people want the unlimited bandwidth package they should pay for it.
Using scientific reasoning to rationally choose between potential decisions is a great idea, but it doesn't solve the problem of deciding the basis of the questions. Logic can really only solve for one variable at a time. People will still have to decide which societal variables to solve and how to balance the weight of multiple variables. Fair is never fair to everybody. You are always having to make trade-offs between forms of fairness: equity, equality and welfare.
Tough to tell how the browsers are being tracked, but they are each easily identifiable. Interestingly even Chrome has a Safari fingerprint.
Safari
xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:17:36 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13F69 Safari/601.1"
Firefox
xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:16:32 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/4.0 Mobile/13F69 Safari/601.1.46"
Chrome
xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:20:06 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/51.0.2704.104 Mobile/13F69 Safari/601.1.46"
Chrome on Linux
xx.xx.xx.xx - - [03/Jul/2016:17:27:35 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36"
I am guessing that the radar system in the Tesla Model S is tuned to monitor a certain plane a few feet above the ground. There have been some videos of Tesla's running into suspended obstacles. I suspect that the radar system saw clear under the trailer.
Both Chrome and Firefox are available on iOS. Apple's restriction is that browsers must use WebKit. This was not a problem for Chrome, but Firefox had to be repackaged with WebKit.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...