As lawsuit happy as the US the example is weak at best. If you buy software that clearly includes that functionality you'd have a hard time making a case for liability in that scenario; about the same as if they sued Ford because the vehicles they used didn't have sufficient range (but did have the range advertised).
You, and some other posters, seem to have misunderstood the comment. I'm pretty sure it is referring to flat as items in arranged in 2D rather than the items appearing to be 'flat' (though they do seem to have gone for flat items as well).
I understand the concern about people making judgements about what people know or think, and this may be a good example of this process having gone too far, however let's be realistic and not pretend that the decision about guilt in court often relies on exactly that.
An example: Someone in the UK was convicted of damaging a neighbours pool. There was CCTV evidence of him being near the location but it did not cover where the damage was done. He claimed that he had gone to the location to check because he thought there was a leak. He was convicted in part because he was judged to be motivated based on previous complaints he had made about noise from the pool users. The decision could not have been made without judging 1) the likelihood of the damage to the pool being caused any other way and 2) the motivation of the defendant to cause the damage, neither of which can be proved as fact.
His analogy was no further out than your carte blanche statement. Someone who throws themselves in front of a train almost certainly isn't doing it in order to harm someone, but has all the information required to know that what they are doing could well be traumatic for the driver and I would consider that as doing harm.
Is it reasonable to expect someone ready to kill themselves to properly evaluate the impact of their actions on others, and is it reasonable to use their assets as compensation for that harm are fair questions to ask.
It's an extreme example, but the wider takeaway applies in more scenarios. If you mess about a company by doing this there is a non-zero chance that someone who knows you did this will have influence over a decision to hire you in the future. I've seen some incredibly rude behaviour from employers towards candidates, though I've been fortunate myself, but it simply doesn't make sense to save a couple of minutes and an awkward conversation when the potential risk is getting a great job in the future.
This is like, you order a burger at a restaurant, and instead of a burger, you get a plate with shit on it. And then the people here would say, 'well you should have expected that you might get shit on the plate you dumb-ass, why didn't you order five burgers from five different places!?' Uh, because no reasonable person expects that.
No reasonable person has millions of dollars riding on having a proper burger delivered, if they did then you can bet your ass that anyone competent would have a backup plan.
There are multiple scenarios where cloud hosting is considerably cheaper than co-location. The most obvious and extreme example would be when you have highly variable computational load. For example you could have 3 geographically disparate sets of 6 servers to handle peak load, however that could mean that you're getting As much as the cloud isn't the solution to all the worlds problems it is also not the wrong solution to all problems either.
No virtual desktops are one of the few things that make me miss using Linux more. For me the benefit was that I could set up full screen layouts for a handful of contexts I work in often and swap between them instantly. Reports of a service outage? Switch to a desktop that has our monitoring services open and windowed nicely. Someone comes in and asks a question about data on our BI portal? Swap to a desktop with the web based interface and management application ready. Working on putting together the department budget? Swap to a desktop with the relevant couple of spreadsheets, PDFs from vendors etc open and ready. Recruiting for a new role? Desktop with Job Description, test questions, CVs etc. I try to avoid constantly changing contexts and the inefficiency that comes with it but I also think that it is unrealistic for me to avoid it entirely in my current role and virtual desktops can really help.
I honestly think think that a good implementation of that feature alone would improve my productivity by a couple of percent. Sure that isn't revolutionary but that doesn't mean it doesn't have considerable value.
I'm not saying it isn't, but the numbers you quote aren't evidence that windows update is causing more problems; for example if the problems relate to hardware problems then device type and age, how you test and deploy updates, other applications used on the devices, user expectations and amount of use, all could impact on this.
I record 4K video and I can't see any of those examples you come up with justifying the need for more than 2TB of data on a single SD card. Obviously that doesn't mean that uses for that amount of data won't come along though. Having said that, one of the biggest issue with SD for video recording and photography isn't storage (A 2TB card could hold 60-100k raw images) but IO. This standard looks like it could be useful in the near future for use cases where the write speeds of U3, V60, and V90 cards are problematic.
Having said that the 128TB limit does seem rather pointless (but I suppose there's no harm). I doubt we'll see 10TB+ cards before 2030 which means it may have been better to wait to create a standard nearer to when it is useful. An obvious issue would be that even at the 985 megabyte transfer speed isn't going to be viable even at 16TB (where it would take 4.5 hours to fully read/write) let alone 128TB.
While having a world full of people like you who can't see the difference between having self-esteem and feeling superior to others would be so much better? In my experience the people who are most condescending and uncaring towards others often have poor self-esteem, which makes them either refuse to accept the value of others or begrudge them for it as part of their coping mechanism.
The fact none of the remotely well known ride sharing firms uses this kind of model is a good indicator that this isn't seen as an attractive option. I'm not entirely sure why in Uber's case given that it isn't like they have one fixed pricing calculation, but I assume it is because they feel that drivers and customers don't want the mental load of optimising the rates constantly to get a bite.
To give an example of what I mean. I use a P2P investing platform where you can set rates you are willing to lend at, or you can let the platform select a rate to lend quickly. You can easily get a few percent more by actively managing it (which when it can be thousands invested is a notable difference) but most investors use the automatic option. If people investing thousands aren't willing to make a couple of minor tweaks to rates which could make them $100's over the lending term then what's the market for that kind of option on transport?
No one is saying it doesn't make sense for the army to operate any rotary aircraft, what they are saying is that allowing the army to have only rotary aircraft has meant they've expanded the use of rotary aircraft to things that would make far more sense on fixed wing aircraft.
Is there anything in the products documentation, marketing, or the founders communication, that makes these security flaws a lie rather than a failure? Did they claim to have any certification or accreditation on the device which the device didn't have. Are there legal standards for this type of product that this doesn't meet?
Failing the above then the justice system would be rubbish if it did anything to this company just because a bunch of people bought the product without understanding the risk of not requiring more information or proof it would be effective.
How many times have you looked up the founders "competence or experience" when buying a lock at Home Depot?
Never, it's a stupid question as the product already exists, I can judge judge the product on its merits or in the case of very new products on the recent quality of similar products by the firm. I've seen almost nothing as absurd as your claim that buying a released product is crowdfunding, it's certainly up there as one of the most self-contradictory statements I've seen.
I mean, even ayn rand didn't believe in her own ideas
Ironic that you linked to Snopes article that explains how she explicitly supported the behaviour you claim she didn't. To quote "The victims do not have to add self-inflicted martyrdom to the injury done to them by others; they do not have to let the looters profit doubly, by letting them distribute the money exclusively to the parasites who clamored for it. Whenever the welfare-state laws offer them some small restitution, the victims should take it. ".
I disagree considerably with Rand's position, though not entirely. You shouldn't make stuff up to criticise her if you don't know enough to make a reasoned argument.
If you think about use cases that require PCs with this amount of memory does the non-VPN remote client option really sound appealing though? To take the CAD example, if someone is manipulating an 80GB CAD plan then space to store it locally probably isn't an issue but that plan is now stored on the device (potential security risk), and any changes will either require GBs of data to be communicated to store on a server or the updated version will not be available to other users and would be lost if the individual device was damaged or lost. The bandwidth requirements of a terminal connection are relatively modest.
Only if the "ruling" class can't get exemptions... and they will always be able to until the electorate change how they respond. If a man can be president while having dodged the draft for bone spurs that didn't stop him enjoying squash, tennis, and golf, and that went away with no medical treatment it simply isn't realistic to think that a draft could be implemented that wouldn't provide a way out for the wealthier and better connected in society.
So far Trump has told the members of NATO to meet their financial obligations or lose the backing of the WH. However,he had no intention of every forsaking US support in NATO. His statement was considered rude in the international diplomatic circle jerk club. The US is not suppose to say mean things about it's "allies".
This doesn't relate to American jobs let alone that he cares about it. You and the orange narcissist in chief may find it amusing to burn good will by needlessly insulting allies, or even dismissing with air quotes the idea they are allies, in your own little circle jerks. However it hasn't achieved anything yet except to damage relationships that are also in your interest. Those countries you imply are false allies are the same ones who have lost one thousand lives and had over ten thousand more soldiers injured in Afghanistan in the NATO response to an attack on the US.
The depressing part of so much of Trump's support is that it comes for actions he takes that achieve only harm to America in the end but appeal to a certain demographic because the fact it annoys someone else or that it is done in a way that seems powerful. The hard to believe part is the groups that have defined themselves on fighting the very things he does who are lining up to do his bidding; the likes of the religious conservatives who would be trying to have anyone but a Republican removed from office for 10% of his immoral behaviour, the fiscal conservatives sticking their fingers in their ears while he explodes the debt, the free market supporters ignoring his clear disdain for their beliefs.
I would as well, although that wasn't what I was claiming. I'm saying that when demand is high then it becomes more difficult to attain a limited resource if you can't buy access by paying a premium (surge pricing). Availability might be the same with fixed rates, however if there are 10 times as many people willing to pay the fixed price then each has a 10% chance of getting a lift. With surge pricing the pool of people willing to pay falls so those willing to pay the surge rates are able to get service sooner on average.
So you're saying that the minimum wage has caused higher employment in low skilled and low education, then quoting an article talking about youth unemployment. They aren't the same group, and what you've posted doesn't in any way make a strong case that a minimum wage increases unemployment.
Firstly youth unemployment in the UK is low both vs other countries and historic levels, secondly youth unemployment is falling, while the minimum wage is increasing, thirdly the minimum wage for young people is lower so if a higher minimum wage increased unemployment you'd expect to see youth unemployment decrease more as employers stopped employing older more expensive employees.
But even if you weren't using an article that didn't relate to the group that you originally mentioned, and if that material made any kind of case that the minimum wage was a cause of youth unemployment and could be done as evidence then all you'd have done is argued that the minimum wage had decreased overall employment while slightly increasing it in one group which would still be a good thing for the country as a whole.
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As lawsuit happy as the US the example is weak at best. If you buy software that clearly includes that functionality you'd have a hard time making a case for liability in that scenario; about the same as if they sued Ford because the vehicles they used didn't have sufficient range (but did have the range advertised).
You, and some other posters, seem to have misunderstood the comment. I'm pretty sure it is referring to flat as items in arranged in 2D rather than the items appearing to be 'flat' (though they do seem to have gone for flat items as well).
I understand the concern about people making judgements about what people know or think, and this may be a good example of this process having gone too far, however let's be realistic and not pretend that the decision about guilt in court often relies on exactly that. An example: Someone in the UK was convicted of damaging a neighbours pool. There was CCTV evidence of him being near the location but it did not cover where the damage was done. He claimed that he had gone to the location to check because he thought there was a leak. He was convicted in part because he was judged to be motivated based on previous complaints he had made about noise from the pool users. The decision could not have been made without judging 1) the likelihood of the damage to the pool being caused any other way and 2) the motivation of the defendant to cause the damage, neither of which can be proved as fact.
His analogy was no further out than your carte blanche statement. Someone who throws themselves in front of a train almost certainly isn't doing it in order to harm someone, but has all the information required to know that what they are doing could well be traumatic for the driver and I would consider that as doing harm.
Is it reasonable to expect someone ready to kill themselves to properly evaluate the impact of their actions on others, and is it reasonable to use their assets as compensation for that harm are fair questions to ask.
It's an extreme example, but the wider takeaway applies in more scenarios. If you mess about a company by doing this there is a non-zero chance that someone who knows you did this will have influence over a decision to hire you in the future. I've seen some incredibly rude behaviour from employers towards candidates, though I've been fortunate myself, but it simply doesn't make sense to save a couple of minutes and an awkward conversation when the potential risk is getting a great job in the future.
No reasonable person has millions of dollars riding on having a proper burger delivered, if they did then you can bet your ass that anyone competent would have a backup plan.
There are multiple scenarios where cloud hosting is considerably cheaper than co-location. The most obvious and extreme example would be when you have highly variable computational load. For example you could have 3 geographically disparate sets of 6 servers to handle peak load, however that could mean that you're getting
As much as the cloud isn't the solution to all the worlds problems it is also not the wrong solution to all problems either.
No virtual desktops are one of the few things that make me miss using Linux more. For me the benefit was that I could set up full screen layouts for a handful of contexts I work in often and swap between them instantly. Reports of a service outage? Switch to a desktop that has our monitoring services open and windowed nicely. Someone comes in and asks a question about data on our BI portal? Swap to a desktop with the web based interface and management application ready. Working on putting together the department budget? Swap to a desktop with the relevant couple of spreadsheets, PDFs from vendors etc open and ready. Recruiting for a new role? Desktop with Job Description, test questions, CVs etc. I try to avoid constantly changing contexts and the inefficiency that comes with it but I also think that it is unrealistic for me to avoid it entirely in my current role and virtual desktops can really help.
I honestly think think that a good implementation of that feature alone would improve my productivity by a couple of percent. Sure that isn't revolutionary but that doesn't mean it doesn't have considerable value.
I'm not saying it isn't, but the numbers you quote aren't evidence that windows update is causing more problems; for example if the problems relate to hardware problems then device type and age, how you test and deploy updates, other applications used on the devices, user expectations and amount of use, all could impact on this.
I record 4K video and I can't see any of those examples you come up with justifying the need for more than 2TB of data on a single SD card. Obviously that doesn't mean that uses for that amount of data won't come along though. Having said that, one of the biggest issue with SD for video recording and photography isn't storage (A 2TB card could hold 60-100k raw images) but IO. This standard looks like it could be useful in the near future for use cases where the write speeds of U3, V60, and V90 cards are problematic. Having said that the 128TB limit does seem rather pointless (but I suppose there's no harm). I doubt we'll see 10TB+ cards before 2030 which means it may have been better to wait to create a standard nearer to when it is useful. An obvious issue would be that even at the 985 megabyte transfer speed isn't going to be viable even at 16TB (where it would take 4.5 hours to fully read/write) let alone 128TB.
But keys are kept securely in pockets in all those same scenarios by voodoo magic?
It depends... are you regularly losing / breaking / running out of power, on your phone?
While having a world full of people like you who can't see the difference between having self-esteem and feeling superior to others would be so much better? In my experience the people who are most condescending and uncaring towards others often have poor self-esteem, which makes them either refuse to accept the value of others or begrudge them for it as part of their coping mechanism.
The fact none of the remotely well known ride sharing firms uses this kind of model is a good indicator that this isn't seen as an attractive option. I'm not entirely sure why in Uber's case given that it isn't like they have one fixed pricing calculation, but I assume it is because they feel that drivers and customers don't want the mental load of optimising the rates constantly to get a bite.
To give an example of what I mean. I use a P2P investing platform where you can set rates you are willing to lend at, or you can let the platform select a rate to lend quickly. You can easily get a few percent more by actively managing it (which when it can be thousands invested is a notable difference) but most investors use the automatic option. If people investing thousands aren't willing to make a couple of minor tweaks to rates which could make them $100's over the lending term then what's the market for that kind of option on transport?
No one is saying it doesn't make sense for the army to operate any rotary aircraft, what they are saying is that allowing the army to have only rotary aircraft has meant they've expanded the use of rotary aircraft to things that would make far more sense on fixed wing aircraft.
Is there anything in the products documentation, marketing, or the founders communication, that makes these security flaws a lie rather than a failure? Did they claim to have any certification or accreditation on the device which the device didn't have. Are there legal standards for this type of product that this doesn't meet?
Failing the above then the justice system would be rubbish if it did anything to this company just because a bunch of people bought the product without understanding the risk of not requiring more information or proof it would be effective.
Never, it's a stupid question as the product already exists, I can judge judge the product on its merits or in the case of very new products on the recent quality of similar products by the firm. I've seen almost nothing as absurd as your claim that buying a released product is crowdfunding, it's certainly up there as one of the most self-contradictory statements I've seen.
Ironic that you linked to Snopes article that explains how she explicitly supported the behaviour you claim she didn't. To quote "The victims do not have to add self-inflicted martyrdom to the injury done to them by others; they do not have to let the looters profit doubly, by letting them distribute the money exclusively to the parasites who clamored for it. Whenever the welfare-state laws offer them some small restitution, the victims should take it. ".
I disagree considerably with Rand's position, though not entirely. You shouldn't make stuff up to criticise her if you don't know enough to make a reasoned argument.
If you think about use cases that require PCs with this amount of memory does the non-VPN remote client option really sound appealing though? To take the CAD example, if someone is manipulating an 80GB CAD plan then space to store it locally probably isn't an issue but that plan is now stored on the device (potential security risk), and any changes will either require GBs of data to be communicated to store on a server or the updated version will not be available to other users and would be lost if the individual device was damaged or lost. The bandwidth requirements of a terminal connection are relatively modest.
Only if the "ruling" class can't get exemptions... and they will always be able to until the electorate change how they respond. If a man can be president while having dodged the draft for bone spurs that didn't stop him enjoying squash, tennis, and golf, and that went away with no medical treatment it simply isn't realistic to think that a draft could be implemented that wouldn't provide a way out for the wealthier and better connected in society.
This doesn't relate to American jobs let alone that he cares about it. You and the orange narcissist in chief may find it amusing to burn good will by needlessly insulting allies, or even dismissing with air quotes the idea they are allies, in your own little circle jerks. However it hasn't achieved anything yet except to damage relationships that are also in your interest. Those countries you imply are false allies are the same ones who have lost one thousand lives and had over ten thousand more soldiers injured in Afghanistan in the NATO response to an attack on the US.
The depressing part of so much of Trump's support is that it comes for actions he takes that achieve only harm to America in the end but appeal to a certain demographic because the fact it annoys someone else or that it is done in a way that seems powerful. The hard to believe part is the groups that have defined themselves on fighting the very things he does who are lining up to do his bidding; the likes of the religious conservatives who would be trying to have anyone but a Republican removed from office for 10% of his immoral behaviour, the fiscal conservatives sticking their fingers in their ears while he explodes the debt, the free market supporters ignoring his clear disdain for their beliefs.
Change the clothing and I see plenty of that in the UK, even more so in London.
Because if many of the drivers who worked Saturday tried to work Tuesday they'd spend 90% of the time earning nothing because their is no demand.
I would as well, although that wasn't what I was claiming. I'm saying that when demand is high then it becomes more difficult to attain a limited resource if you can't buy access by paying a premium (surge pricing). Availability might be the same with fixed rates, however if there are 10 times as many people willing to pay the fixed price then each has a 10% chance of getting a lift. With surge pricing the pool of people willing to pay falls so those willing to pay the surge rates are able to get service sooner on average.
So you're saying that the minimum wage has caused higher employment in low skilled and low education, then quoting an article talking about youth unemployment. They aren't the same group, and what you've posted doesn't in any way make a strong case that a minimum wage increases unemployment.
Firstly youth unemployment in the UK is low both vs other countries and historic levels, secondly youth unemployment is falling, while the minimum wage is increasing, thirdly the minimum wage for young people is lower so if a higher minimum wage increased unemployment you'd expect to see youth unemployment decrease more as employers stopped employing older more expensive employees.
But even if you weren't using an article that didn't relate to the group that you originally mentioned, and if that material made any kind of case that the minimum wage was a cause of youth unemployment and could be done as evidence then all you'd have done is argued that the minimum wage had decreased overall employment while slightly increasing it in one group which would still be a good thing for the country as a whole.