exactly. The reality is this is an extreme fringe case that almost never occurs (I doubt any person that has made a decision to die in a car to save a pedestrian did so thinking they would die). A self driving car is about removing human errors not about making moral judgements, What it should be doing is simply doing its best to avoid or lesson the impact while not risking the lives of its passengers. It doesn't have to make any decisions about who dies, it just follows the road rules and does what it can to avoid or lesson the impact of an accident.
The Ipod/Nomad sold millions in a very short time period. VR has repeatedly failed to sell over 30 years. There is a small group of fanboys that claim it will dominate gaming and everything within a few years, most probably the same ones that claimed 3D TV's would also dominate. The reality is the tech is still quite a ways off in performance and price for any wide scale adoption and it still has too many fundamental problems with no real solutions. I am sure one day it will get there, but it won't be with current gen tech and probably not next gen either.
Its quite easy for them to get it so badly wrong. As the information gets passed from one person to the next, usually with those that don't understand what they are looking at it morphs (like Chinese whispers), alternatively you get the problem of reporters paying for valuable stories which encourage sources to "embellish" their information to make it more sellable, combined with reporters not making the effort to cross check and validate the information.
what a load of crap. The standard did exactly what it was intended to do, it has been 100% successful. It was created purely to delay any real action that was been suggested by governments and pushed by other standards at the time. DNT was never designed or intended to succeed as a technology in itself, it was purely google, Mozilla et al protecting the Ad industry from much harsher measures. It is truly disappointing that google got away with this. I mean for fucks sake the whole promise was "as long as this isn't widely adopted by users we will honour it", not "we will honour a user affirmative desire", the honouring the affirmative desire was seen as a way to build in usage limitations so that it would never have any affect.
learn to read moron, I wasn't complaining or suggesting it would be good, merely pointing out it would still be useless for that scenario, FFS learn to read before commenting.
This does seem more a case of a massively overblown and exaggerated story combined with an Arsehole of a CEO. The reality is they are not the only drug provider for this, they are also still the cheapest and the FDA has forced additional costs on all of them. The CEO is a clueless PR disaster for the company though and needs to go. He should have simply stated "we are still cheaper than the competition but unfortunately due to financial pressures and new FDA requirements we need to raise our prices, unlike our competitors we have keep our prices lower over the past few years while they have continually hiked theirs, it is regrettable that we need to do this but we are a company and have fiduciary obligations to our shareholders"
Working class job? Like bolting seats into F150s and bumpers on Buicks? Or the carpenter framing a new house? Or the cashier on the night shift at the 24 hour Safeway?
I'd like to see workers in India or China replace those jobs. (But more likely some of those jobs will be replaced by robots.)
It's the professionals, e.g. radiologists reading X-Ray films looking for tumors. Or IT help desk telling you to reboot. Or software developers burning down Coverity defects in the company's products that should be worried.
Most of those jobs are even easier to replace, a robot can do the bumpers and seats and framing of a new house for that matter. Cashiers in many places are already being replaced by automated checkouts and machines. those relatively low skilled repetitive jobs are some of the most likely to be targeted with replacement.
they are not mutually exclusive. The SEC do civil actions, but they pass on information to DOJ/FBI etc for prosecution if those departments deem sufficient evidence exist for a criminal trial.
basically avoid anything these scumbags put out like the plague. expect to be inundated with malware/adware/miners. They lost the trust of users and have done nothing since to regain it.
no it isn't infeasible at all, I watch a bit of an episode that looks like it might appeal, if it does then I continue, if it doesn't I drop it like a smelly turd that it is.
Why would I give a shit about what random people think? What matters is what I think or what friends I know with similar tastes think. Some of the absolute shit that gets rated well makes sites like IMDB, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes all but completely fucking useless.
MS don't sell direct in almost any country. They use a partner/distributor model so nothing strange about going via a 3rd party company or for that company to be receiving discounts. The question is was their something extra shady happening.
amusingly most gamers show more maturity than you and that is pretty sad state to be in. perhaps you should reflect on what that makes you if they are losers?
The SEC has their own subpoena powers. No judge necessary. Companies agree to comply as part of the process of going public.
The SEC only has civil jurisdiction, not criminal. The only thing the SEC can do is levy fines and bar company officers from being officers. The DOJ (FBI) will have to get involved for indictments to happen.
While they are not able to do criminal prosecutions they do refer cases they think require criminal prosecutions to the DOJ.
you are mistaken, they don't want you to be quiet, they want you to happily reveal as much information about yourself as openly as possible, saves them time and money.
They can pass all the legislation they want, it will NOT change reality. 'Backdooring' encryption of ANY kind RUINS it. Proper encryption CANNOT be broken easily, if it can then it's garbage.
the laws don't require or request any such backdoor or breaking of encryption. What they appear to require is companies to provide what information they already have and the ability to force/compel them to comply.
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There is a difference between not being able to prevent all fraud and making no real effort to prevent ANY fraud.
covering 4 years of salaries for 2000 people in the first couple of days of sales I would say is pretty fucking huge.
exactly. The reality is this is an extreme fringe case that almost never occurs (I doubt any person that has made a decision to die in a car to save a pedestrian did so thinking they would die). A self driving car is about removing human errors not about making moral judgements, What it should be doing is simply doing its best to avoid or lesson the impact while not risking the lives of its passengers. It doesn't have to make any decisions about who dies, it just follows the road rules and does what it can to avoid or lesson the impact of an accident.
The Ipod/Nomad sold millions in a very short time period. VR has repeatedly failed to sell over 30 years. There is a small group of fanboys that claim it will dominate gaming and everything within a few years, most probably the same ones that claimed 3D TV's would also dominate. The reality is the tech is still quite a ways off in performance and price for any wide scale adoption and it still has too many fundamental problems with no real solutions. I am sure one day it will get there, but it won't be with current gen tech and probably not next gen either.
Its quite easy for them to get it so badly wrong. As the information gets passed from one person to the next, usually with those that don't understand what they are looking at it morphs (like Chinese whispers), alternatively you get the problem of reporters paying for valuable stories which encourage sources to "embellish" their information to make it more sellable, combined with reporters not making the effort to cross check and validate the information.
what a load of crap. The standard did exactly what it was intended to do, it has been 100% successful. It was created purely to delay any real action that was been suggested by governments and pushed by other standards at the time. DNT was never designed or intended to succeed as a technology in itself, it was purely google, Mozilla et al protecting the Ad industry from much harsher measures. It is truly disappointing that google got away with this. I mean for fucks sake the whole promise was "as long as this isn't widely adopted by users we will honour it", not "we will honour a user affirmative desire", the honouring the affirmative desire was seen as a way to build in usage limitations so that it would never have any affect.
There is nothing nice about something that installs flash on your machine.
learn to read moron, I wasn't complaining or suggesting it would be good, merely pointing out it would still be useless for that scenario, FFS learn to read before commenting.
Considering you have to connect to internet every few days it is still useless in that situation.
There are rules. Those who ignore them are called war criminals.
Only when they are on the losing side
meh, no better or worse than the US.
These guys aren't the market leader, they make a generic form of the market leader.
This does seem more a case of a massively overblown and exaggerated story combined with an Arsehole of a CEO. The reality is they are not the only drug provider for this, they are also still the cheapest and the FDA has forced additional costs on all of them. The CEO is a clueless PR disaster for the company though and needs to go. He should have simply stated "we are still cheaper than the competition but unfortunately due to financial pressures and new FDA requirements we need to raise our prices, unlike our competitors we have keep our prices lower over the past few years while they have continually hiked theirs, it is regrettable that we need to do this but we are a company and have fiduciary obligations to our shareholders"
Working class job? Like bolting seats into F150s and bumpers on Buicks? Or the carpenter framing a new house? Or the cashier on the night shift at the 24 hour Safeway?
I'd like to see workers in India or China replace those jobs. (But more likely some of those jobs will be replaced by robots.)
It's the professionals, e.g. radiologists reading X-Ray films looking for tumors. Or IT help desk telling you to reboot. Or software developers burning down Coverity defects in the company's products that should be worried.
Most of those jobs are even easier to replace, a robot can do the bumpers and seats and framing of a new house for that matter. Cashiers in many places are already being replaced by automated checkouts and machines. those relatively low skilled repetitive jobs are some of the most likely to be targeted with replacement.
they are not mutually exclusive. The SEC do civil actions, but they pass on information to DOJ/FBI etc for prosecution if those departments deem sufficient evidence exist for a criminal trial.
generally the rules are about new content not existing content.
basically avoid anything these scumbags put out like the plague. expect to be inundated with malware/adware/miners. They lost the trust of users and have done nothing since to regain it.
no it isn't infeasible at all, I watch a bit of an episode that looks like it might appeal, if it does then I continue, if it doesn't I drop it like a smelly turd that it is.
Why would I give a shit about what random people think? What matters is what I think or what friends I know with similar tastes think. Some of the absolute shit that gets rated well makes sites like IMDB, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes all but completely fucking useless.
MS don't sell direct in almost any country. They use a partner/distributor model so nothing strange about going via a 3rd party company or for that company to be receiving discounts. The question is was their something extra shady happening.
unlikely, AMD card prices aren't exactly bargains either.
amusingly most gamers show more maturity than you and that is pretty sad state to be in. perhaps you should reflect on what that makes you if they are losers?
Couple things:
The SEC has their own subpoena powers. No judge necessary. Companies agree to comply as part of the process of going public.
The SEC only has civil jurisdiction, not criminal. The only thing the SEC can do is levy fines and bar company officers from being officers. The DOJ (FBI) will have to get involved for indictments to happen.
While they are not able to do criminal prosecutions they do refer cases they think require criminal prosecutions to the DOJ.
you are mistaken, they don't want you to be quiet, they want you to happily reveal as much information about yourself as openly as possible, saves them time and money.
They can pass all the legislation they want, it will NOT change reality. 'Backdooring' encryption of ANY kind RUINS it. Proper encryption CANNOT be broken easily, if it can then it's garbage.
the laws don't require or request any such backdoor or breaking of encryption. What they appear to require is companies to provide what information they already have and the ability to force/compel them to comply.