This will be both a boon and a bane for the jewellery industry. Terrific new jewellery can be created but, once fused, difficult to take apart. A diamond won't be as easily transferable to a new ring without potential damage.
I note that an earlier post of mine [called: #1!!] got modded as Troll. Whether that's the case or not is up to moderators to decide.
What I'm curious about here is whether those of you who are critical of Huawei get a sense that the Chinese state is influencing the modding our comments here on Slashdot and modding the critical comments down. I note that almost all comments about my post are by Anonymous Coward.
1. Huawei is a tool of the Chinese government. At any time, the government can ask for (demand) information from ANY Huawei phone ANYWHERE and Huawei is obliged, by law, to produce it.
2. Huawei's Meng Wanzhou has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to defraud international institutions.
3. A Huawei Technologies Co. engineer went to T-Mobile US Inc.'s laboratory in Bellevue, Washington to see "Tappy" - a tireless, computer-driven robot that taps on touch screens, simulating weeks of use in a day. The Huawei engineer was curious about Tappy’s fingertips. So he slipped one into a laptop bag and left with it, in an act T-Mobile branded theft.
4. The ruling Chinese Communist Party maintains a committee within Huawei. The company has failed to explain its relation to the government. Huawei has said the government plays no role in its business decisions or staffing.
5. In Europe, carriers and major customers from Orange SA to BT Group Plc and Deutsche Telekom AG have voiced their concerns about Huawei’s [5G] gear, on top of existing bans in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.
The reasons are mounting. Huawei is a bad corporate citizen. Do not buy any of their products.
As soon as any new government in any country gets elected (or otherwise takes power), the Telcos pound on their door like a repo man after a million dollar debt.
They present all the ways that they will feather the Government's nest with either tax revenue, jobs (to build the infrastructure) or bribes or a combination therein.
The problem is that no one represents the consumer - least of all the (sometimes) elected official.
If we want this situation to change, we have to do as much pounding on the door as the Telcos and make our elected officials understand that we are not sheep to be led and taken advantage of.
Now that USMCA is in place, it is absolutely wrong to buy inferior hacked Chinese equipment when the U.S. has products with superior back doors. Let's support 'MADE IN USA' so that the FBI, CIA etc. etc. can listen in instead of the Chinese.
Nothing is more stupid than a bunch of Excel spreadsheets spread all over various laptops and shared drives in various departments.
As soon as you create the spreadsheet, it's out of date... let alone creating 20 or 30. Spreadsheets are error breeding grounds.
One person inserts an address as: 123 Maple St NW, AnyCity
another creates three (or four or five columns) to parse it out.
A third person writes it: 123 Mapple Street Norh West
A fourth person writes it 123 Maple Street NW
Instead, they should be using a lookup table from a central data repository of customers/vendor/suppliers.
The real problem is not with your co-workers, it's with management who don't understand that a database is an EMPLOYEE. That database represents the net value of the company/department/division. Others have mentioned putting it into and SQL database, but they didn't say why.
The WHY is simple: you end up with one version of the truth, not one version of something in every workgroup.
Puhleez. What are the odds that the nerd of all nerds has trouble being empathetic? Linus is the Sheldon Cooper of kernel developers! Let's all give him a break, ignore his ill-conceived personal rants and just love him for what he gives to the world.
Newsflash, 09-Sep-2021: In a major announcement today, McDonald's has perfected the process by which to convert CO2 into sugar. They are now scrubbing the CO2 out of the air in their restaurants and, using the new process, producing sugar which is going directly into milk shake production. Oh, and NASA may use this system on Mars.
Class Action Lawsuit? If I were an HR dept. and had the additional issue of dealing with poaches that came from LinkedIn, I'd be looking to coordinate with other companies in my industry to stop the practice. These days, due to the current economic madness, everyone is looking all the time. Adding additional pressure to move is deleterious to both the company in question and the person who may move to a job that is not what was promised. Regardless, LinkedIn's interest is in getting recruiters to sign on for $1,000's per month. They don't give a rat's ass about the consequences. This only bolsters their coffers. It doesn't do employees or companies any good.
If Oprah had just gone on TV and said: "Ladies, if you want to make a real difference in our society, then go out and give one (1) wet sloppy one a week to a man in need."
That would end it plain and simple.
No more Harvey Weinsteins. No more sexual predators. No more prostitution, sex trafficking victims and abuse.
If the above seems like too much of a chore then we GoFundMe the ultimate BJ machine and install it in every men's room in the land. It would pay for itself in days with similar outcomes.
If we don't deal with the root cause, horniness, we'll never solve any of these problems.
Why is it that European governments seem to actually act on behalf of their citizens?
Is there something fundamentally wrong with their systems of government?
Everybody knows that "Up To xx Mb/s" means "you should almost, maybe, sometime, perhaps, likely, on occasion, once in a blue moon...."
Now they are trying to change things in a terrible, terrible way for ISPs - taking away hope and replacing it with fact - OK, at least 1/2 the time... but still...
Big Picture: Our elected officials no longer represent us. They no longer defend us. They are not interested in promulgating basic laws to return control of personal information to the citizen. The vast imbalance between the reach of large corporations / governments and the citizen has to be righted. This is not a left-right issue. This is fast becoming a much-needed human right. Make it an issue in your next election. Get involved in politics and work from within whatever party you subscribe to. Get involved in the policy process. That is the way to get it on the electoral agenda.
Very few persons who are ultimately responsible for data breaches are held to account.
I notice that the algorithm appears to have completely covered over the brown colour of Nutella, so I 'interviewed' the algorithm:
"Algorithm, why did you change the labels?"
Algorithm: "Me smarter than people. Me know people don't like colour of shit. Me take shit colour off all labels."
Forget the kid, forget the CIO etc. The root cause here is that setting up an easy backup system is a right, royal pain in the ass.
Backup protocols should be integral to every database vendor's product. Db creation should not be allowed until a backup system is in place FIRST.
Secondly, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, ISACA standards (or similar) should apply and vendors should work to integrate those standards into their database creation protocols.
In the end, your database represents your organization's livelihood. Why would you not protect it as such?
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This will be both a boon and a bane for the jewellery industry. Terrific new jewellery can be created but, once fused, difficult to take apart. A diamond won't be as easily transferable to a new ring without potential damage.
What I'm curious about here is whether those of you who are critical of Huawei get a sense that the Chinese state is influencing the modding our comments here on Slashdot and modding the critical comments down. I note that almost all comments about my post are by Anonymous Coward.
Reasons (most of which you already know):
1. Huawei is a tool of the Chinese government. At any time, the government can ask for (demand) information from ANY Huawei phone ANYWHERE and Huawei is obliged, by law, to produce it.
2. Huawei's Meng Wanzhou has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to defraud international institutions.
3. A Huawei Technologies Co. engineer went to T-Mobile US Inc.'s laboratory in Bellevue, Washington to see "Tappy" - a tireless, computer-driven robot that taps on touch screens, simulating weeks of use in a day. The Huawei engineer was curious about Tappy’s fingertips. So he slipped one into a laptop bag and left with it, in an act T-Mobile branded theft.
4. The ruling Chinese Communist Party maintains a committee within Huawei. The company has failed to explain its relation to the government. Huawei has said the government plays no role in its business decisions or staffing.
5. In Europe, carriers and major customers from Orange SA to BT Group Plc and Deutsche Telekom AG have voiced their concerns about Huawei’s [5G] gear, on top of existing bans in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.
The reasons are mounting. Huawei is a bad corporate citizen. Do not buy any of their products.
It's not stupid when you just HAVE to go.
They present all the ways that they will feather the Government's nest with either tax revenue, jobs (to build the infrastructure) or bribes or a combination therein.
The problem is that no one represents the consumer - least of all the (sometimes) elected official.
If we want this situation to change, we have to do as much pounding on the door as the Telcos and make our elected officials understand that we are not sheep to be led and taken advantage of.
WCPGW: As the feds dug into it, the What Could Possibly Go Wrong operating system was found to be inadequate.
Now that USMCA is in place, it is absolutely wrong to buy inferior hacked Chinese equipment when the U.S. has products with superior back doors. Let's support 'MADE IN USA' so that the FBI, CIA etc. etc. can listen in instead of the Chinese.
As soon as you create the spreadsheet, it's out of date... let alone creating 20 or 30. Spreadsheets are error breeding grounds.
One person inserts an address as: 123 Maple St NW, AnyCity
another creates three (or four or five columns) to parse it out.
A third person writes it: 123 Mapple Street Norh West
A fourth person writes it 123 Maple Street NW
Instead, they should be using a lookup table from a central data repository of customers/vendor/suppliers.
The real problem is not with your co-workers, it's with management who don't understand that a database is an EMPLOYEE. That database represents the net value of the company/department/division. Others have mentioned putting it into and SQL database, but they didn't say why.
The WHY is simple: you end up with one version of the truth, not one version of something in every workgroup.
Puhleez. What are the odds that the nerd of all nerds has trouble being empathetic? Linus is the Sheldon Cooper of kernel developers! Let's all give him a break, ignore his ill-conceived personal rants and just love him for what he gives to the world.
Newsflash, 09-Sep-2021: In a major announcement today, McDonald's has perfected the process by which to convert CO2 into sugar. They are now scrubbing the CO2 out of the air in their restaurants and, using the new process, producing sugar which is going directly into milk shake production. Oh, and NASA may use this system on Mars.
I use ProtonMail.com. what do you good Slashdot readers recommend?
It's still 4".
Class Action Lawsuit? If I were an HR dept. and had the additional issue of dealing with poaches that came from LinkedIn, I'd be looking to coordinate with other companies in my industry to stop the practice. These days, due to the current economic madness, everyone is looking all the time. Adding additional pressure to move is deleterious to both the company in question and the person who may move to a job that is not what was promised. Regardless, LinkedIn's interest is in getting recruiters to sign on for $1,000's per month. They don't give a rat's ass about the consequences. This only bolsters their coffers. It doesn't do employees or companies any good.
I just wish they folded down. Back in the 60's this allowed the plane to get to Mach 3 and beyond!
So, let's look at the equation:
Cost of being blind:
- Limited job opportunities.
- Need for 'translation' of reading materials, screens etc. etc.
- Depression (a very real factor)
- Danger while traveling/navigating
With vision:
- Significant potential for increased income.
- Minimal need of additional social resources.
- Increased safety while traveling/navigating
Net result: Increase ability to earn and, therefore pay taxes.
If the cost were a mortgage, the payout could be in about 30 yrs. 30 Yrs. of productive income, lifestyle and freedom.
It's expensive, true, but, on balance, worth it.
That would end it plain and simple.
No more Harvey Weinsteins. No more sexual predators. No more prostitution, sex trafficking victims and abuse.
If the above seems like too much of a chore then we GoFundMe the ultimate BJ machine and install it in every men's room in the land. It would pay for itself in days with similar outcomes.
If we don't deal with the root cause, horniness, we'll never solve any of these problems.
"The human race is in so much trouble that it needs to colonize another planet within 100 years or face extinction." - Dr. Stephen Hawking
Is there something fundamentally wrong with their systems of government?
Everybody knows that "Up To xx Mb/s" means "you should almost, maybe, sometime, perhaps, likely, on occasion, once in a blue moon...."
Now they are trying to change things in a terrible, terrible way for ISPs - taking away hope and replacing it with fact - OK, at least 1/2 the time... but still...
Not 'just kidding'!
Shhhhhhh!! It's just a big drone with a seat.
Very few persons who are ultimately responsible for data breaches are held to account.
It's time to fight back - from within.
I use a Blackberry Thumb Operated Trackwheel on my 7290, you insensitive clod!!
The AI was trained to learn what facebook did to its users.
Algorithm: "Me smarter than people. Me know people don't like colour of shit. Me take shit colour off all labels."
Backup protocols should be integral to every database vendor's product. Db creation should not be allowed until a backup system is in place FIRST.
Secondly, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, ISACA standards (or similar) should apply and vendors should work to integrate those standards into their database creation protocols.
In the end, your database represents your organization's livelihood. Why would you not protect it as such?