This is the UK it’s talking about, not a third world country. Not only are a lot of companies in Europe required to give paid time off for various reasons, there is a lot more time off to begin with. Also, if you think the US has a lot of regulatory overhead, workers can join a union that isn’t tied to a job, doesn’t cost dues and actually has political power. I worked in IT and I had a union.
Comey not only threw some acid on the Hillary email investigation wounds with the admission that the agency effectively undermined any investigation, the fact that there was more to the tarmac meeting than admitted and that there could be more to come if he ever spoke in an investigation. Now he’s admitting that he himself wants to undermine your basic constitutional rights.
Comey’s book is as much an indictment at Trump as it is a big warning of potential blackmail on the Democrats. He’s basically acting like a mob boss that is pimping out child prostitutes to a senator, I’ve got the pictures, you know I do, let’s make sure you remember that when I come around 2 years from now.
you forgot the sarcasm tags. In case you are serious: who funds the treasury, who approves loans from it and where can I pick some of that free money up?
It's a screen with an Apple logo on it that's not an Apple screen. In this case it had the Apple logo on it and they covered it up with a marker which would be supposedly wiped off by the installer or user of the product.
Not the way politics work. If you say you're going to lay off 200 government workers, your senator intervenes and gets the workers funded regardless of whether they do a job. If Amazon promises their senator a $20k donation and tells them they'll keep 200 people working, they'll get a discount because USPS is a government organization and doesn't independently set its prices according to the market.
The difference is that FedEx is a for-profit company, they make a markup on every package sent, so they can give some discounts but their margins are already razor-thin.
The postal office is a government-ran organization, they by definition do not make a profit and have an unlimited fund, they get some money from customers but they also get money in the form of subsidies, federal funds, more than a billion dollars in "loans" and exemptions on all sorts of things regular companies have to pay for. Their regular prices are set simply so they won't, across the entity, make a loss, hence it only costs 50 cent to mail a letter across the country.
If FedEx were $60B in debt and having more than 1B in operational losses, they would be insolvent and declare bankruptcy. The USPS can't declare bankruptcy, the government simply keeps funding them.
Yes, but they're paying a LOT less than what regular folks pay. The postal office rates for the rest of us are set up not to make a huge profit but also not to make a huge loss, Amazon and others have been able to 'negotiate' lower rates than that with the only chip that Amazon and co has to put up is: well, if you don't take our packages, you have to lay off 10-20% of your workforce - now take the packages and lend some money from the government to pay for it ($15B in the last decade according to their own accounting office).
Not really, it spent about $60B/y in the last 10 years and lent another $15B from the government, it hasn't paid its pension fund in about a decade which only grows their debt, their fleet is a good decade or two old.
Sure if it didn't have to keep its pension fund around, it could take that and spend it like every other for-profit company on the verge of bankruptcy, luckily for the workers, nobody has been able to legally raid those funds although the interest on that fund is not going into the fund either.
There are, you just don't know they exist or they aren't targeted at your social group or country. Facebook is just the more pervasive one but if you'd live in Asia, you probably wouldn't be on Facebook.
No he hasn't, he never claimed that people requesting deletion of their accounts weren't being deleted all he said was "if they fully cancel their account" we will delete the data within 90 days. There is simply no option to delete the account other than sending a lawyer down to Facebook HQ with a judge's order in hand.
This is Facebook's official position (after you remove all the fluff): Some information isn't stored in your account. Copies of some material may remain in our database. We share this data with our advertisers (de-identified but specific enough to re-identify a person with a modicum of effort).
It simply brute forces the thing. From the description, a 4 digit passcode can take a few hours, 6 digits a few days. They probably found a way around the deadswitch by powering off the chip before it's locked or simply too many people don't set the 10-time lockout.
There is an ever increasing cost associated with keeping it running. That's what I mean by having a business plan, if a small shop still runs a PDP-11 they would probably be out of business by now, why do we allow our governments to keep things running that badly?
I've been involved with mainframe transitions, the problem is generally not that we can't duplicate the program exactly as it is right now or improve it for a fraction of the cost they paid IBM to keep it running, the problem is generally bad management that doesn't want to move. If you get rid of redundant loops in a business, you're eliminating a whole layer of management.
A functioning PDP costs 1-2kW to run and can be fully replaced by a Raspberry Pi using 10W. In what world does it make sense to keep running (other than nostalgic reasons).
Yes, your company should account for that when it purchases technology. Everything gets old and dies, from people to computer programs. Not accounting for that fact is a problem in your business model. Are you still using a PDP11?
Most UGC is being claimed as copyrighted by the providers, if they want the rights to it then deal with the consequences. The solution here is decentralization and self-hosting of your content.
The royalties to the end user are minimal if non-existent. The fact that it takes 5000x longer just means that you can't do live encoding on current hardware. That is a show stopper right there.
The entire premise of Israel existing and having exclusive access to holy sites is based on a theological promise, same for Palestine but for a different party. Opposing the State of Israel, both in the State of Israel and among religious jews abroad is considered blasphemy and to them it is tantamount to holocaust denial. Israel is a semi-theocracy, it is certainly not a democracy and its modern policies and actions are based on (their) holy scripture rather than reason.
The 70s were far from anti-regulations. Regulations were passed as people demanded them with a booming consumption industry more and more companies were selling broken products with shrink-wrap contracts that removed all protections.
You have no idea about the security that breaks. Apple doesn't know the difference between a repair and the FBI replacing your security chip.
Also, a lot of "repairs" get blocked because the components are on lists of stolen equipment, purchasing stolen equipment is still illegal and voids any warranty you may have.
Building cheap knockoffs of a chip is easy, building good knockoffs that also implement the software and updates correctly is incredibly hard.
They'd have to prove the second hand part from the mall shop caused the problems, then you shift liability to the repair shop. The consumer still gets their money back, perhaps from the repair shop. The question is whether the legal hassle is worth the expense.
Beeping on IBM clones is done by playing with the PIC chip which was quite literally connected to a pin on the processor. It requires rather low level access to program. You could obviously write a shim in modern kernels to user space but there are a lot of things that have direct access to hardware.
There is a reason these repairs are cheap. They don't spend a bunch of money. I had my computer screen "repaired" once by one of these shops. Instead of replacing the entire clamshell, they bent it back into a somewhat straight form and placed the new LCD in it causing pressure on it which warps and discolors the screen image and any subsequent pressure snapped it again.
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This is the UK it’s talking about, not a third world country. Not only are a lot of companies in Europe required to give paid time off for various reasons, there is a lot more time off to begin with. Also, if you think the US has a lot of regulatory overhead, workers can join a union that isn’t tied to a job, doesn’t cost dues and actually has political power. I worked in IT and I had a union.
Comey not only threw some acid on the Hillary email investigation wounds with the admission that the agency effectively undermined any investigation, the fact that there was more to the tarmac meeting than admitted and that there could be more to come if he ever spoke in an investigation. Now he’s admitting that he himself wants to undermine your basic constitutional rights.
Comey’s book is as much an indictment at Trump as it is a big warning of potential blackmail on the Democrats. He’s basically acting like a mob boss that is pimping out child prostitutes to a senator, I’ve got the pictures, you know I do, let’s make sure you remember that when I come around 2 years from now.
you forgot the sarcasm tags. In case you are serious: who funds the treasury, who approves loans from it and where can I pick some of that free money up?
It's a screen with an Apple logo on it that's not an Apple screen. In this case it had the Apple logo on it and they covered it up with a marker which would be supposedly wiped off by the installer or user of the product.
Not the way politics work. If you say you're going to lay off 200 government workers, your senator intervenes and gets the workers funded regardless of whether they do a job. If Amazon promises their senator a $20k donation and tells them they'll keep 200 people working, they'll get a discount because USPS is a government organization and doesn't independently set its prices according to the market.
The difference is that FedEx is a for-profit company, they make a markup on every package sent, so they can give some discounts but their margins are already razor-thin.
The postal office is a government-ran organization, they by definition do not make a profit and have an unlimited fund, they get some money from customers but they also get money in the form of subsidies, federal funds, more than a billion dollars in "loans" and exemptions on all sorts of things regular companies have to pay for. Their regular prices are set simply so they won't, across the entity, make a loss, hence it only costs 50 cent to mail a letter across the country.
If FedEx were $60B in debt and having more than 1B in operational losses, they would be insolvent and declare bankruptcy. The USPS can't declare bankruptcy, the government simply keeps funding them.
Wut:
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Yes, but they're paying a LOT less than what regular folks pay. The postal office rates for the rest of us are set up not to make a huge profit but also not to make a huge loss, Amazon and others have been able to 'negotiate' lower rates than that with the only chip that Amazon and co has to put up is: well, if you don't take our packages, you have to lay off 10-20% of your workforce - now take the packages and lend some money from the government to pay for it ($15B in the last decade according to their own accounting office).
Not really, it spent about $60B/y in the last 10 years and lent another $15B from the government, it hasn't paid its pension fund in about a decade which only grows their debt, their fleet is a good decade or two old.
Sure if it didn't have to keep its pension fund around, it could take that and spend it like every other for-profit company on the verge of bankruptcy, luckily for the workers, nobody has been able to legally raid those funds although the interest on that fund is not going into the fund either.
There are, you just don't know they exist or they aren't targeted at your social group or country. Facebook is just the more pervasive one but if you'd live in Asia, you probably wouldn't be on Facebook.
No he hasn't, he never claimed that people requesting deletion of their accounts weren't being deleted all he said was "if they fully cancel their account" we will delete the data within 90 days. There is simply no option to delete the account other than sending a lawyer down to Facebook HQ with a judge's order in hand.
This is Facebook's official position (after you remove all the fluff):
Some information isn't stored in your account.
Copies of some material may remain in our database.
We share this data with our advertisers (de-identified but specific enough to re-identify a person with a modicum of effort).
It simply brute forces the thing. From the description, a 4 digit passcode can take a few hours, 6 digits a few days. They probably found a way around the deadswitch by powering off the chip before it's locked or simply too many people don't set the 10-time lockout.
There is an ever increasing cost associated with keeping it running. That's what I mean by having a business plan, if a small shop still runs a PDP-11 they would probably be out of business by now, why do we allow our governments to keep things running that badly?
I've been involved with mainframe transitions, the problem is generally not that we can't duplicate the program exactly as it is right now or improve it for a fraction of the cost they paid IBM to keep it running, the problem is generally bad management that doesn't want to move. If you get rid of redundant loops in a business, you're eliminating a whole layer of management.
A functioning PDP costs 1-2kW to run and can be fully replaced by a Raspberry Pi using 10W. In what world does it make sense to keep running (other than nostalgic reasons).
Yes, your company should account for that when it purchases technology. Everything gets old and dies, from people to computer programs. Not accounting for that fact is a problem in your business model. Are you still using a PDP11?
I don't think Slashdot knowingly assisted you in sex trafficking.
Most UGC is being claimed as copyrighted by the providers, if they want the rights to it then deal with the consequences. The solution here is decentralization and self-hosting of your content.
The royalties to the end user are minimal if non-existent. The fact that it takes 5000x longer just means that you can't do live encoding on current hardware. That is a show stopper right there.
The entire premise of Israel existing and having exclusive access to holy sites is based on a theological promise, same for Palestine but for a different party. Opposing the State of Israel, both in the State of Israel and among religious jews abroad is considered blasphemy and to them it is tantamount to holocaust denial. Israel is a semi-theocracy, it is certainly not a democracy and its modern policies and actions are based on (their) holy scripture rather than reason.
The 70s were far from anti-regulations. Regulations were passed as people demanded them with a booming consumption industry more and more companies were selling broken products with shrink-wrap contracts that removed all protections.
Here is a good history:
https://law.lclark.edu/live/fi...
You have no idea about the security that breaks. Apple doesn't know the difference between a repair and the FBI replacing your security chip.
Also, a lot of "repairs" get blocked because the components are on lists of stolen equipment, purchasing stolen equipment is still illegal and voids any warranty you may have.
Building cheap knockoffs of a chip is easy, building good knockoffs that also implement the software and updates correctly is incredibly hard.
They'd have to prove the second hand part from the mall shop caused the problems, then you shift liability to the repair shop. The consumer still gets their money back, perhaps from the repair shop. The question is whether the legal hassle is worth the expense.
Beeping on IBM clones is done by playing with the PIC chip which was quite literally connected to a pin on the processor. It requires rather low level access to program. You could obviously write a shim in modern kernels to user space but there are a lot of things that have direct access to hardware.
Actually, opposing the state of Israel is anti-semitic just like opposing Islam is anti-muslim. It is a matter of perspective.
There is a reason these repairs are cheap. They don't spend a bunch of money. I had my computer screen "repaired" once by one of these shops. Instead of replacing the entire clamshell, they bent it back into a somewhat straight form and placed the new LCD in it causing pressure on it which warps and discolors the screen image and any subsequent pressure snapped it again.