The ideal would be for google to tweak the reply so it becomes:
Burger King Ad: "Okay Google: what is the whopper burger", Google Home: "The whooper burger is one of the leading causes of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in the United States."
A response that is objectively true, and not in Burger Kings interest.
On topic, this is this actually illegal, but the severity is similar to that of an elementary school kid who installs scripts displaying a funny gif on the teachers computer while its attached to the projector.
Neither is technically legal, but both falls under the category of "harmless prank". If repeated or taken to extremes a fine (or a trip the principals office is appropriate).
Of all the corporate criminal activities we see this is a minor one, and one that warrants no more than a fine.
You just outlined the true cause of "income inequality."
People who follow your rules do well, those who don't, end up on welfare.
It's that simple.
No it's not... People run into lots of unfortunate circumstances... Mental health, disability, bad luck, substance addiction, lack of gainful employment...
These rules are sound, but if "sunk cost" is food, I can't fault a parent for borrowing to cover it.
Just because others are taxed higher doesn't mean we aren't over taxed. I'm not saying we are overtaxed, but I think taxes could be lower, or spent more wisely.
Yeah, you could probably cut defense spending in half... and the world would be a safer place:) hehe
Indeed you have many low hanging efficiency gains... But it requires that you recognize reality. The US does not appear to be going in that direction.
Because you can avoid virtualization... You only have worry about the bits inside your container... Which unlike a VM you can build locally.. building VMs is a hassle..
The cost of healthcare for the rest of the world will go up while it goes down for the US.
Nope, but we might see reduction in research and development of new drugs...
But in fairness, there is value to balancing how much money we spend on researching new drugs and how much we spend on treating people with existing drugs..Clearly, it's not cost efficient to develop drugs for rare diseases..
Or, maybe the end result is higher government subsidies for research and development, which probably could be more efficient economically than financing drug research and development through the stock marked.
IMO gnome-shell has long been better than unity... I keep experiencing a lot of papercuts in unity, windows jumping between desktops, weird interactions and just generally annoying papercuts...
gnome seems to have a lot of momentum these days.. and whilst I don't like all the decisions I can live with most of them, except the lack of type-ahead in nautilus...
Making America great again by "encouraging low- and mid-level jobs to go to American workers"? How about "enabling American workers to fill highly qualified positions"?
Nope, Trump was elected on a promise to give you back the coal jobs... Enjoy:)
While they do conclude that they don't see CAs role for (DV certificates) to protect against phishing... They do already lookup domain names in Google Safe Browsing API before issuing certificates.
From a puristic point of view the purpose of a certificate is to prove that you are talking to example.com, and not some other domain. Verifying that example.com is your bank and not registered by a scammer is a not the purpose of a certificate.
That said, it seems they already are looking up in Google Safe Browsing API, so at-least there is some barrier to entry. And while I agree that it's not a CAs purpose to be internet police, I do hope that we'll see more best-effort protections to stem abuse. Granted this sort of a abuse is probably better fixed at registrar level.
Well, with open source you have the option to patch... With proprietary you are forced to find a workaround or make a hack to the part of the system you control.
Personally, I usually do a work around and keep using upstream packages... Then file a PR/patch and when/if that lands go remove my workaround.
Just because open source software gives you the option to fix it yourself and roll our own patch packages doesn't mean you have to choose that road.
It depends on the situation.. But at-least you have the option!:)
The military is a federal issue, those other programs are not. Look to your state.
Curious, do you think it would be legal for California to go single payer and refuse coverage for anyone who wasn't born in California (or lived there for > 5 years).
Don't worry, Californians aren't progressive enough to try something like that. But for a state-level healthcare program to work, one would have to exclude people from other states. Otherwise, all the people who can't get insurance will move to the given state, and effectively break the program.
IMO, state-level single payer could work just fine. It's how things work in Europe, every country has it's own system (some more privatized than others).
In my experience, the idea that H1Bs only get hired if there are no locals available is complete fiction.
The requirement isn't fictional, and there are lots of legitimate companies like Google and Facebook that hires H1Bs in the Bay Area because there is no other work force available, much less any highly skilled work force. Naturally, if Google wants to have the best engineers in the world, then a large potion of them have to be imported.
That said, yeah, there likely is a problem with the enforcement... But isn't that systemic to the US? Do you expect justice if you have no money? Do you expect the police to use minimum force necessary? Do you expect health care for the poor?
I'm not American and I'm for all those things, just saying it seems like you need to fight the screw-the-poor mentality you have in the US. Rather than focusing on specifics... but good luck with that considering the "bravery" of your fellow voters:)
Norway like Denmark has extremely high taxes on cars... In Denmark you pay for the car 3 times, once to the manufacturer, twice in taxes:) hehe
The effect:
1) Fewer cars on the road, less traffic, pollution, etc...
2) Fewer cars imported (good for balance sheets),
3) Many old cars on the road (bad for the environment, safety)
Because the taxes are so high it simply prices anything put the cheapest cars out of the market for most people. This doesn't just affect the rich, albeit they are the primary beneficiaries.
Don't believe the taxes on cars in Norway are high checkout: (just found it on google).
https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/...
This is good news for the US economy as a whole, at least on the surface.....
No it's not. You can claim it may be good news for US tech workers, that's unlikely to have any real effect, but for the economy this is undoubtedly bad.
Studies have showed that while the H1B program:
1) have been beneficial to the US economy as a whole (because cost of software development, and lack of developers strangles growth).
2) have possibly lowered wages for well paid tech jobs (this is not conclusive, but there are hints in this direction),
That said, there probably has been some abuse, there certain is a lot of anecdotal evidence on slashdot. But the premium processing, which costs extra, is probably used most by the legitimate H1B applicants. To a company that pays 150k/yr for a developer a few thousand extra to speed up expedition is nothing.
So I doubt this halts the abuse... The easy fix there is imposing a minimum wage, although that is not an elegant long-term solution, since you'll have to update this arbitrary number every few years.
No, Foundation and Corporation are different entities. Corp is owned by Foundation... but as I understand it there are some legal/tax constructs limiting movement of funds from Corp to Foundation, so it's not the same dollar.
"I hack and exploit the game because I care about it and want it fixed!"
"I rob banks because I care about them and want them to have better security!"
Using an exploit to highlight the exploit and lack of support, is not exactly the same as robbing a bank.
It's more like walking into the bank vault through an unlocked backdoor and then proceeding to call the bank manager to complain about security measures.
(okay, maybe the kid jumped a tiny garden fence before walking over to the backdoor, but it's more like that).
When people demonstrate an exploit their intent matters. Same thing applies when demonstrating a broken lock.
If they can prove that he defrauded people then, yeah, it's fraud to sell people products that aren't yours.
To be fair that seems a bit hard to prove, but I don't know the details of how he sold the product, which he'll presumably argue was just bandwidth.
That said, I'm confused why, if he committed fraud he isn't prosecuted in New Zealand?
So if someone gets caught running a randsom-ware scam do all countries then take turn having the person extradited, prosecuted and jailed...
Don't get me wrong, I hate randsom-ware scam authors as much as the next guy, but giving someone just 6 months prison in every country where a crime was committed easily turns into a life sentence. Honestly, that seems a little harsh.
Good thing terrorists will never think to do that.
Yes, and it's great that all law abiding citizens do follow the lengthy procedures outlined by GP.
IMO, if you don't uphold civil rights where every you go, whether it's the border to Canada or a cave in Afghanistan then you probably don't care about civil rights to being this. The US has consistently proven that civil rights aren't important.
our model suggest that immigration increased the overall welfare of US natives
Also this isn't peer reviewed.
But yes, ofcourse immigration has negative effects in the short term for the people affected. Honestly, I don't feel bad for software engineers in the dot-com era making a few percent less. Back then, and indeed today, there is some pretty outrageous salaries in the bay area.
On topic: the easy fix is setting minimum H1B salary, it's stupid simplistic, it'll satisfy the stupid people (Trump). But it won't affect most H1Bs like me, except maybe my company would fill out an LCA that states the salary I'm making and not some arbitrary number significantly below my salary, hence, fixing the statistics.
For the record, I'm an H1B and I don't feel particularly hostage... I could move to Europe tomorrow and get a decent job if I wanted - but I wouldn't live in the tech center of the world.
This seems to back up the idea that there's a shortage of qualified domestic labor. The unemployment rate among CS grads is like 3.5%. If all those folks replaced H1B workers they would only make up 1/3 of the total jobs filled by H1Bs.
Not sure where you get those number, or if you're adding up percentages:)
Regardless, an unemployment rate a 3.5% is not necessarily good for growth... This the problem with unemployment, if you have no companies can't grow, if you have too much -- well, yeah nobody wants to be unemployed. Particularly, not in a country like the US without any safety net.
Now don't be fooled there is lots of similar stats here, like:
Renewable energy sources accounted for a 12.5 % share of the EU-28’s gross inland energy consumption in 2014.
(Presumably because not all energy is consumed, read the details if you care, but read before you bash).
The goal remains:
The EU seeks to have a 20 % share of its gross final energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020
Similarly, in 2014, the US was a 11%, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(note. don't confuse electricity production for total energy production).
All these stats are from 2014, clearly things a better now, given most new energy production facilities are renewable.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, the formatting ran crazy, and I accidentally hit submit...
The ideal would be for google to tweak the reply so it becomes:
Burger King Ad: "Okay Google: what is the whopper burger",
Google Home: "The whooper burger is one of the leading causes of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in the United States."
A response that is objectively true, and not in Burger Kings interest.
On topic, this is this actually illegal, but the severity is similar to that of an elementary school kid who installs scripts displaying a funny gif on the teachers computer while its attached to the projector.
Neither is technically legal, but both falls under the category of "harmless prank". If repeated or taken to extremes a fine (or a trip the principals office is appropriate).
Of all the corporate criminal activities we see this is a minor one, and one that warrants no more than a fine.
You just outlined the true cause of "income inequality."
People who follow your rules do well, those who don't, end up on welfare.
It's that simple.
No it's not... People run into lots of unfortunate circumstances... Mental health, disability, bad luck, substance addiction, lack of gainful employment...
These rules are sound, but if "sunk cost" is food, I can't fault a parent for borrowing to cover it.
Just because others are taxed higher doesn't mean we aren't over taxed. I'm not saying we are overtaxed, but I think taxes could be lower, or spent more wisely.
Yeah, you could probably cut defense spending in half... and the world would be a safer place :) hehe
Indeed you have many low hanging efficiency gains... But it requires that you recognize reality. The US does not appear to be going in that direction.
Because you can avoid virtualization... You only have worry about the bits inside your container... Which unlike a VM you can build locally.. building VMs is a hassle..
Do gun manufacturers hang out on "home invaders" forums touting their wares...?
Are the major of people killed by handguns killed in justifiable self-defense?
The cost of healthcare for the rest of the world will go up while it goes down for the US.
Nope, but we might see reduction in research and development of new drugs...
But in fairness, there is value to balancing how much money we spend on researching new drugs and how much we spend on treating people with existing drugs..Clearly, it's not cost efficient to develop drugs for rare diseases..
Or, maybe the end result is higher government subsidies for research and development, which probably could be more efficient economically than financing drug research and development through the stock marked.
IMO gnome-shell has long been better than unity... I keep experiencing a lot of papercuts in unity, windows jumping between desktops, weird interactions and just generally annoying papercuts...
gnome seems to have a lot of momentum these days.. and whilst I don't like all the decisions I can live with most of them, except the lack of type-ahead in nautilus...
Making America great again by "encouraging low- and mid-level jobs to go to American workers"? How about "enabling American workers to fill highly qualified positions"?
Nope, Trump was elected on a promise to give you back the coal jobs... Enjoy :)
Read: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/1...
While they do conclude that they don't see CAs role for (DV certificates) to protect against phishing... They do already lookup domain names in Google Safe Browsing API before issuing certificates.
From a puristic point of view the purpose of a certificate is to prove that you are talking to example.com, and not some other domain. Verifying that example.com is your bank and not registered by a scammer is a not the purpose of a certificate.
That said, it seems they already are looking up in Google Safe Browsing API, so at-least there is some barrier to entry. And while I agree that it's not a CAs purpose to be internet police, I do hope that we'll see more best-effort protections to stem abuse. Granted this sort of a abuse is probably better fixed at registrar level.
Well, with open source you have the option to patch... With proprietary you are forced to find a workaround or make a hack to the part of the system you control.
:)
Personally, I usually do a work around and keep using upstream packages... Then file a PR/patch and when/if that lands go remove my workaround.
Just because open source software gives you the option to fix it yourself and roll our own patch packages doesn't mean you have to choose that road.
It depends on the situation.. But at-least you have the option!
The military is a federal issue, those other programs are not. Look to your state.
Curious, do you think it would be legal for California to go single payer and refuse coverage for anyone who wasn't born in California (or lived there for > 5 years).
Don't worry, Californians aren't progressive enough to try something like that. But for a state-level healthcare program to work, one would have to exclude people from other states. Otherwise, all the people who can't get insurance will move to the given state, and effectively break the program.
IMO, state-level single payer could work just fine. It's how things work in Europe, every country has it's own system (some more privatized than others).
In my experience, the idea that H1Bs only get hired if there are no locals available is complete fiction.
The requirement isn't fictional, and there are lots of legitimate companies like Google and Facebook that hires H1Bs in the Bay Area because there is no other work force available, much less any highly skilled work force. Naturally, if Google wants to have the best engineers in the world, then a large potion of them have to be imported.
:)
That said, yeah, there likely is a problem with the enforcement... But isn't that systemic to the US? Do you expect justice if you have no money? Do you expect the police to use minimum force necessary? Do you expect health care for the poor?
I'm not American and I'm for all those things, just saying it seems like you need to fight the screw-the-poor mentality you have in the US. Rather than focusing on specifics... but good luck with that considering the "bravery" of your fellow voters
Norway like Denmark has extremely high taxes on cars... In Denmark you pay for the car 3 times, once to the manufacturer, twice in taxes :) hehe
The effect:
1) Fewer cars on the road, less traffic, pollution, etc...
2) Fewer cars imported (good for balance sheets),
3) Many old cars on the road (bad for the environment, safety)
Because the taxes are so high it simply prices anything put the cheapest cars out of the market for most people. This doesn't just affect the rich, albeit they are the primary beneficiaries.
Don't believe the taxes on cars in Norway are high checkout: (just found it on google). https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/...
The process for getting it - the questions, the requirements, was absolutely and completely insane.
Yes, I still don't understand why so many US immigration forms carries questions like: "Do you intend to commit acts of terror? [ ] YES; [ ] NO".
I mean do they really think a terrorist is going to answer yes... The only thing they'll catch with a form like that is trolls.
This is good news for the US economy as a whole, at least on the surface.....
No it's not. You can claim it may be good news for US tech workers, that's unlikely to have any real effect, but for the economy this is undoubtedly bad.
Studies have showed that while the H1B program:
1) have been beneficial to the US economy as a whole (because cost of software development, and lack of developers strangles growth).
2) have possibly lowered wages for well paid tech jobs (this is not conclusive, but there are hints in this direction),
That said, there probably has been some abuse, there certain is a lot of anecdotal evidence on slashdot. But the premium processing, which costs extra, is probably used most by the legitimate H1B applicants. To a company that pays 150k/yr for a developer a few thousand extra to speed up expedition is nothing.
So I doubt this halts the abuse... The easy fix there is imposing a minimum wage, although that is not an elegant long-term solution, since you'll have to update this arbitrary number every few years.
It's called an internship. And it's the reason getting hired straight out of school isn't so hard...
It would be cool the do the same with other candidates. Maybe one could try to contract people for a month before hiring them.
No, Foundation and Corporation are different entities. Corp is owned by Foundation... but as I understand it there are some legal/tax constructs limiting movement of funds from Corp to Foundation, so it's not the same dollar.
SVN has several huge advantages over git. It's far simpler.
Explain in one or two sentences what a "tree conflict" is and how to resolve it.
Create new svn checkout and copy/paste over your changes.
:)
That was "easy", hehe, just kidding I would use git over svn any day
"I hack and exploit the game because I care about it and want it fixed!"
"I rob banks because I care about them and want them to have better security!"
Using an exploit to highlight the exploit and lack of support, is not exactly the same as robbing a bank.
It's more like walking into the bank vault through an unlocked backdoor and then proceeding to call the bank manager to complain about security measures.
(okay, maybe the kid jumped a tiny garden fence before walking over to the backdoor, but it's more like that).
When people demonstrate an exploit their intent matters. Same thing applies when demonstrating a broken lock.
If they can prove that he defrauded people then, yeah, it's fraud to sell people products that aren't yours.
To be fair that seems a bit hard to prove, but I don't know the details of how he sold the product, which he'll presumably argue was just bandwidth.
That said, I'm confused why, if he committed fraud he isn't prosecuted in New Zealand?
So if someone gets caught running a randsom-ware scam do all countries then take turn having the person extradited, prosecuted and jailed...
Don't get me wrong, I hate randsom-ware scam authors as much as the next guy, but giving someone just 6 months prison in every country where a crime was committed easily turns into a life sentence. Honestly, that seems a little harsh.
Good thing terrorists will never think to do that.
Yes, and it's great that all law abiding citizens do follow the lengthy procedures outlined by GP.
IMO, if you don't uphold civil rights where every you go, whether it's the border to Canada or a cave in Afghanistan then you probably don't care about civil rights to being this. The US has consistently proven that civil rights aren't important.
our model suggest that immigration increased the overall welfare of US natives
Also this isn't peer reviewed.
But yes, ofcourse immigration has negative effects in the short term for the people affected. Honestly, I don't feel bad for software engineers in the dot-com era making a few percent less. Back then, and indeed today, there is some pretty outrageous salaries in the bay area.
On topic: the easy fix is setting minimum H1B salary, it's stupid simplistic, it'll satisfy the stupid people (Trump). But it won't affect most H1Bs like me, except maybe my company would fill out an LCA that states the salary I'm making and not some arbitrary number significantly below my salary, hence, fixing the statistics.
For the record, I'm an H1B and I don't feel particularly hostage... I could move to Europe tomorrow and get a decent job if I wanted - but I wouldn't live in the tech center of the world.
This seems to back up the idea that there's a shortage of qualified domestic labor. The unemployment rate among CS grads is like 3.5%. If all those folks replaced H1B workers they would only make up 1/3 of the total jobs filled by H1Bs.
Not sure where you get those number, or if you're adding up percentages :)
Regardless, an unemployment rate a 3.5% is not necessarily good for growth... This the problem with unemployment, if you have no companies can't grow, if you have too much -- well, yeah nobody wants to be unemployed. Particularly, not in a country like the US without any safety net.
I have no idea what the actual number is
Then by all means make up statistics rather than googling it, why don't change your username to Trump? :)
In 2014 renewable energy made up 25.4% of all energy production in the EU.
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/s...
Now don't be fooled there is lots of similar stats here, like:
Renewable energy sources accounted for a 12.5 % share of the EU-28’s gross inland energy consumption in 2014.
(Presumably because not all energy is consumed, read the details if you care, but read before you bash).
The goal remains:
The EU seeks to have a 20 % share of its gross final energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020
Similarly, in 2014, the US was a 11%, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(note. don't confuse electricity production for total energy production).
All these stats are from 2014, clearly things a better now, given most new energy production facilities are renewable.