Hey Anonymous Coward, here in Vancouver, the large offices of "a few shitty companies outsourcing" include Amazon, Microsoft, SalesForce, Slack and Electronic Arts.
The issue isn't the politicians per se, though - It's the voters. Why is Trump imposing tariffs? Because that's what his voters want. Why is Mitch McConnell obstructionist? Because his Trump-supporting voter base want that. You can blame "bribes" all you want - But much of the decision-making by politicians is driven by the will of their voters, plain and simple.
This is about climate change, not about pollution.
Anonymous Coward, the definition of pollution is "the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects."
So yes, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is pollution.
If they can't do that then they are either lying, aren't technologically able too or haven't been able too because Huawei can come straight back with U.S. equipment and show how it is being used to spy.
You missed a key - And likely most the important - Reason that the USA can't "prove it." Doing so will likely damage existing intelligence gathering operations and/or put intelligence operatives in harm's way.
If the USA has an intelligence asset inside Huawei then revealing their proof might harm that asset.
Things are further complicated by the fact that the White House doesn't keep secrets very well, so the intelligence services are likely hesitant to reveal their sources.
Hey Canadian Anonymous Coward - For this question to make sense to Americans you have to ask -
"Can't you pay everywhere with your ATM card, entering your ATM PIN at the Point-of-Sale, or simply by tapping your ATM card?"
Americans - That's what "debit / interac" means in Canada - Paying with your ATM card. But most Canadians don't realize that term means nothing to most Americans, so they use the term "debit card" which, in the American context, isn't correct.
This 737 "Family Killer" Max 8 is, currently, simply not reliable enough for air travel.
It is simply far too soon to draw this conclusion, Anonymous Coward. For all we know, the incident in Ethiopia was related to terrorists, or something in a passenger's baggage. We just don't know.
I believe the Anonymous Coward's point was that every day bad things happen to Americans that don't elicit even a small percentage of the reaction that the 3,000 9/11 deaths did.
For example, in 2017 alone, 16,000 people in the USA died in non-suicide gun deaths. In one year over five times the deaths on 9/11, yet no response from law makers.
In the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, 58 people were killed and 851 were injured - But again, very little response.
If lawmakers were genuinely concerned about making Americans "safe" there are so many things they could do - From gun safety to road safety to food safety to healthcare - That they could do but choose not to.
I suspect that in addition to encrypted "serverless" peer-to-peer device messaging (like we got with Blackberry a decade ago) the future also lies with paid messaging services. As long as we expect Skype, Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat and their ilk to be "free" we have to also expect those providers to search out alternate revenue streams to finance their platforms - Revenue streams which may compromise our privacy. If we truly value privacy I expect we'll have to pay for those services.
What I don't understand is how so many people in the pro-vaccine camp lose their goddamn minds over the incredibly tiny risk to people who can't get vaccinated.
I'm in the "pro-vaccine camp." I don't lose my goddamn mind over the issue you've cited - I lose my goddamn mind over two other things:
1) The fact that parents who don't vaccinate their kids are putting their own little kids at risk of unnecessary suffering. I know a lot of Slashdotters would say "Let them suffer" as if its the kids' fault for having stupid parents. However, I suspect the Slashdotters who say that either aren't parents or lack empathy - And have never spent a wakeful night or two dealing with an ill, suffering kid, powerless to do anything. I'm in my early 50s. When I was a kid there was no Chicken Pox vaccine. I still remember, 40+ years later, the terrible suffering my brother went through when he suffered from the pox, and the stress it put on my parents. So I lose my goddamn mind over potential child suffering when people choose to not vaccinate for things like chicken pox.
2) The fact that, while my kids are vaccinated, the fact is that vaccines are not 100% effective on all biochemistries means that disease prevention also depends on herd immunity. If there are kids in my kids' classroom that aren't vaccinated, then they in turn are putting my kids at risk, even though my kids are vaccinated - Because the vaccine my kids took might not be effective with them.
You make a good point Anonymous Coward. Unfortunately, in the English language there isn't (yet) one good word that describes a) reading content on an electronic device, b) listening to content on that device, c) watching still images on that device, d) watching moving images on that device and e) doing one or more combinations of all four on that electronic device (game-playing on the device is also weaved into there somehow). Until they come up with a better word, rightly or wrongly, "consuming" content is the one that becoming cemented in language.
They are used in schools because they only cost ~$200 and not because they are good.
In schools they are inexpensive and good enough. My daughter is 11 and uses Chromebooks at her school. They're perfectly fine for collaboration, document creation and e-learning. Virtually all of the education content they consume is online - All their apps are web apps.
By contrast, the "netbooks" schools were buying a decade ago were not "good enough" and they died a painful death.
This makes sense to me - If you look at Apple.com right now you already see lots of financing offers for their products.
Seems to be a new focus that they've borrowed from car dealers.
Unlike me, who just bought a refurbed Galaxy S7 for couple hundred bucks cash, very few people I know with high-end iPhones plunk down the thousand bucks to buy them new - They finance them through their wireless carrier under contract and then replace them every three years, repeating the process. Seems to me that's prime pickings for financing revenue that Apple is leaving on the table - Both interest and profit margin on the phone.
Add in the fact that Apple is easily able to put forced obsolescence into the phone via iOS upgrades, and a strong user base and it seems to be win win.
Final report, the commercial star-ship Nostromo. Third officer reporting. The other members of the crew - Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas - Are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier within six weeks. With a little luck the network will pick me up.
This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
I was 12 years old when Alien came out, so I wasn't that dialed into mass media.
I wonder if back then the '70s version of today's insecure basement-dwelling neckbeard trolls were all complaining about a strong female lead, the way they do today about Rey, Carol Danvers et al.
Slashdot Mirror
in a few shitty companies outsourcing.
Hey Anonymous Coward, here in Vancouver, the large offices of "a few shitty companies outsourcing" include Amazon, Microsoft, SalesForce, Slack and Electronic Arts.
https://www.straight.com/files...
The issue isn't the politicians per se, though - It's the voters. Why is Trump imposing tariffs? Because that's what his voters want. Why is Mitch McConnell obstructionist? Because his Trump-supporting voter base want that. You can blame "bribes" all you want - But much of the decision-making by politicians is driven by the will of their voters, plain and simple.
Because sometimes, you (or your wife) just wanna push the "Netflix" button on your TV remote.
he acknowledged that sourcing original content is getting more expensive
I have no doubt that sourcing original content is expensive - But there is so much existing content that could be offered that never is -
M*A*S*H
St. Elsewhere
Hill Street Blues
Northern Exposure
Max Headroom
Boston Legal
The X-Files
Miami Vice
24
ER
I'm sure everyone here could come up with their own list...
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Tump: "You know what? Putin's fine. He's fine. We're all fine. We're people."
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Bill O'Reilly: "But [Putin] is a killer."
Trump: "There are a lot of killers. Do you think our country is so innocent?"
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Trump: "[Putin] is a strong leader, unlike what we have [Obama]."
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So the key stays on the victim's machine.
Only if the criminal's intention is to actually permit the machine to be decrypted after the ransom is paid.
If all their intention is is to take the ransom, then say "So long sucker!" and disappear, then there's no need to store a key anywhere.
When has automation or technology ever made it easier to be a worker?
Imagine being a carpenter building a house 150 years ago with hand tools, compared to building one today with cordless electric tools.
Which would you consider "easier?"
Yes. I am afraid of economic catastrophe
Then why not do something about climate change? The economic catastrophe that climate change with wreak upon the earth is unfathomable.
This is about climate change, not about pollution.
Anonymous Coward, the definition of pollution is "the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects."
So yes, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is pollution.
They're obviously products of a libtard ejumacation.
Hey Anonymous Coward - At least they have an education and aren't proud to be ignorant of basic facts - Unlike you, apparently.
I don't know why they bother with hardware
To entrench their software / cloud ecosystem, Anonymous Coward. They're not making hardware for hardware's sake.
If they can't do that then they are either lying, aren't technologically able too or haven't been able too because Huawei can come straight back with U.S. equipment and show how it is being used to spy.
You missed a key - And likely most the important - Reason that the USA can't "prove it." Doing so will likely damage existing intelligence gathering operations and/or put intelligence operatives in harm's way.
If the USA has an intelligence asset inside Huawei then revealing their proof might harm that asset.
Things are further complicated by the fact that the White House doesn't keep secrets very well, so the intelligence services are likely hesitant to reveal their sources.
Don't you have debit/interac in the US?
Hey Canadian Anonymous Coward - For this question to make sense to Americans you have to ask -
"Can't you pay everywhere with your ATM card, entering your ATM PIN at the Point-of-Sale, or simply by tapping your ATM card?"
Americans - That's what "debit / interac" means in Canada - Paying with your ATM card. But most Canadians don't realize that term means nothing to most Americans, so they use the term "debit card" which, in the American context, isn't correct.
This 737 "Family Killer" Max 8 is, currently, simply not reliable enough for air travel.
It is simply far too soon to draw this conclusion, Anonymous Coward. For all we know, the incident in Ethiopia was related to terrorists, or something in a passenger's baggage. We just don't know.
I believe the Anonymous Coward's point was that every day bad things happen to Americans that don't elicit even a small percentage of the reaction that the 3,000 9/11 deaths did.
For example, in 2017 alone, 16,000 people in the USA died in non-suicide gun deaths. In one year over five times the deaths on 9/11, yet no response from law makers.
In the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, 58 people were killed and 851 were injured - But again, very little response.
If lawmakers were genuinely concerned about making Americans "safe" there are so many things they could do - From gun safety to road safety to food safety to healthcare - That they could do but choose not to.
I've always assumed that Facebook reads all messages
I suppose it depends what you mean by "reads."
Scans electronically? Probably.
Has a human following along? Highly unlikely.
I suspect that in addition to encrypted "serverless" peer-to-peer device messaging (like we got with Blackberry a decade ago) the future also lies with paid messaging services. As long as we expect Skype, Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat and their ilk to be "free" we have to also expect those providers to search out alternate revenue streams to finance their platforms - Revenue streams which may compromise our privacy. If we truly value privacy I expect we'll have to pay for those services.
What I don't understand is how so many people in the pro-vaccine camp lose their goddamn minds over the incredibly tiny risk to people who can't get vaccinated.
I'm in the "pro-vaccine camp." I don't lose my goddamn mind over the issue you've cited - I lose my goddamn mind over two other things:
1) The fact that parents who don't vaccinate their kids are putting their own little kids at risk of unnecessary suffering. I know a lot of Slashdotters would say "Let them suffer" as if its the kids' fault for having stupid parents. However, I suspect the Slashdotters who say that either aren't parents or lack empathy - And have never spent a wakeful night or two dealing with an ill, suffering kid, powerless to do anything. I'm in my early 50s. When I was a kid there was no Chicken Pox vaccine. I still remember, 40+ years later, the terrible suffering my brother went through when he suffered from the pox, and the stress it put on my parents. So I lose my goddamn mind over potential child suffering when people choose to not vaccinate for things like chicken pox.
2) The fact that, while my kids are vaccinated, the fact is that vaccines are not 100% effective on all biochemistries means that disease prevention also depends on herd immunity. If there are kids in my kids' classroom that aren't vaccinated, then they in turn are putting my kids at risk, even though my kids are vaccinated - Because the vaccine my kids took might not be effective with them.
Push down manufacturing even further, just give them an ARM chip that connects to a remote gaming sessions.
Exactly.
Fully virtualized consoles in the cloud. No need to ever buy another console.
There's clearly still a need for physical media, as not everyone can download 50GB in a reasonable amount of time
Hey Anonymous Coward - When you watch a movie on Netflix they don't download the whole movie to you before it starts.
I assume something similar would happen here. They'd download content and layers if and when they're needed, not all at the beginning.
You make a good point Anonymous Coward. Unfortunately, in the English language there isn't (yet) one good word that describes a) reading content on an electronic device, b) listening to content on that device, c) watching still images on that device, d) watching moving images on that device and e) doing one or more combinations of all four on that electronic device (game-playing on the device is also weaved into there somehow). Until they come up with a better word, rightly or wrongly, "consuming" content is the one that becoming cemented in language.
They are used in schools because they only cost ~$200 and not because they are good.
In schools they are inexpensive and good enough. My daughter is 11 and uses Chromebooks at her school. They're perfectly fine for collaboration, document creation and e-learning. Virtually all of the education content they consume is online - All their apps are web apps.
By contrast, the "netbooks" schools were buying a decade ago were not "good enough" and they died a painful death.
This makes sense to me - If you look at Apple.com right now you already see lots of financing offers for their products. Seems to be a new focus that they've borrowed from car dealers.
Unlike me, who just bought a refurbed Galaxy S7 for couple hundred bucks cash, very few people I know with high-end iPhones plunk down the thousand bucks to buy them new - They finance them through their wireless carrier under contract and then replace them every three years, repeating the process. Seems to me that's prime pickings for financing revenue that Apple is leaving on the table - Both interest and profit margin on the phone.
Add in the fact that Apple is easily able to put forced obsolescence into the phone via iOS upgrades, and a strong user base and it seems to be win win.
Because New Zealand has records going back hundreds of years, eh?
Do you even know what "on record" means, Anonymous Coward?
Final report, the commercial star-ship Nostromo. Third officer reporting. The other members of the crew - Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas - Are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier within six weeks. With a little luck the network will pick me up.
This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
I was 12 years old when Alien came out, so I wasn't that dialed into mass media.
I wonder if back then the '70s version of today's insecure basement-dwelling neckbeard trolls were all complaining about a strong female lead, the way they do today about Rey, Carol Danvers et al.