Car fires tend to happen in about 1% of auto accidents
1) Fender benders count as accidents. It seems you need to take the severity of the accident into account.
2) Gasoline engines spontaneously combust, or catch fire long after an accident, which would not be attributed to the number you pulled out of your ass anyway. That bumps the instances of car fires to a significantly higher number.
Hopefully, this monoculture will be replaced with a rich mix of companies and options.
There is none. You can keep hoping, but nothing better is going to appear. You can either pay for the convenience out of your own pockets, or you can give up some of the information you possess on yourself so that the companies who provide the convenience can sell it to subsidize the convenience. The only other option is to rely on charity, but who's going to provide that charity? You?
The only sure way to win is to not play. And in this society, I'm not sure I'd call that winning.
I was going to say that it's kinda like the coins you gather along the way negated, but on second thought, it's more like the quarters you have to put into the arcade.
The SCOTUS usually becomes involved when the appellate opinions differ between districts. The system itself is designed to be slow and painstaking. The fact that lawyers get to charge a thousand dollars an hour to go through the system largely speaks to more a problem with how lawyers are valued and less the system.
Ethics training is to cover the company's ass. Look at it from a cost-benefit ratio.
A junior-level employee may be worth a few hundred thousand dollars to the company over ten years. Yet that person can be the cause of a lawsuit that will cost the company a few million dollars.
The executive will be worth a tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars over ten years, and billions to trillions in a large corporation. That person may still cost the company in millions of dollars in lawsuits. However, those lawsuit losses will pay for itself no time at all.
The only time any executive gets canned is when the brand's (i.e. company's primary product) image would otherwise be negatively affected by the lawsuit. And then, unless it's personally linked to the executive, some junior executive gets to take the fall, probably with some sweatheart deal that involves a ton of compensation and another job elsewhere after 6-24 months. Remember, executives aren't fired, they're "retired."
The sole difference between a reputable company and a non-reputable company is that the reputable company will "retire" their executives for scandals that cause internal morale loss. The non-reputable companies will just calculate the costs of keeping the person and if it comes out positive, keep that person and fire the lower-level employees whose morale and thus productivity has gone down.
As long as the performance of the team is factored into the performance of the individual, this isn't a terrible way to quantify people in the short term. If the team's overall performance is not factored in however, then it's no better than simply cutting across the board by cutting the lowest performer in each team. Even with a ranking for the team, it's quite easy to cut good people while still leaving dead weights around, especially where the management structure is fairly flat (like Google's).
you can wake up one morning and quit cold turkey without any physiological effects.
FTFY.
There are psychological effects to quitting psychological addictions cold turkey. In fact, some of these can become severe enough to eventually manifest as physical symptoms.
As the practice of hypnotism has shown, the subconscious is very, very powerful and not to be so casually treated the way you do here.
Urbanization doesn't cause people to burn wood, though trash is altogether another matter. Suburbanization however, does. Suburbs are that happy medium between urban and rural, where you get the worst of both and the benefits of neither.
End it, and start over once you're sure it's really gone.
Can't. Either your communication is secure or insecure. In this world where math determines truth, there is no place for fuzz.
That's the problem with the NSA. Either they're breaking signals, or they're creating unbreakable signals. They can't be doing both, because these are mutually exclusive activities. The math behind the technology dictates this.
The budget problems account for the cheesy sets because that costs money. How does that account for the cheesy dialogue? I presume that took no additional budget, unless it was undergoing rewrites in the middle of filming. Actually, the sets weren't terribly cheesy either, though they weren't exactly amazing.
As for the satirical parts, the premise of the movie is absurd to begin with, so there wasn't a way for it to not be a twisted comedy. And then you have Neil Patrick Harris doing his best Neil Patrick Harris impersonation in the movie (at the very, very end), and that pretty much seals the deal.
No, but certain differences between the TrueCrypt volumes generated by Windows and the TrueCrypt volumes generated by Linux point to there being a strong possibility of a backdoor in the Windows-only version.
I'd be interested to see if there's actually code that writes out those random bytes in the header for Windows only, or if something else (API, MSVC, etc.) is causing the randomness. Because if it's the latter, then the chance of it being a backdoor goes way, way up.
I will note that the movie made no attempt to delve into the political statements made in the book.
Not in so many words perhaps. But they're there, mostly subtle. Watch it again, ignoring the violence, nudity, and spaceships. I watched it in the theaters the first time and thought it was absolute crap. I watched it at home recently a second time, and I actually surprised myself at how much I enjoyed it.
It's like a brilliant Pixar movie, but live action and for adults instead of children. I.e., in a Pixar movie, the kids are entertained, but the adults get all the subtlety. In Starship Troopers, the adults are entertained, only certain people will get all the subtlety.
While GP was largely being melodramatic, there is a point. Real NPO's are always short on cash. They're never going to be running the latest hardware, but that of several years back. They're probably XP users, not 7 or Vista. Windows 8+ will be beyond the reach of most charitable organizations. And that's only from a hardware perspective.
It's not merely semantic. There's far more depth of information in the article's description, and hence far more accuracy.
It's the difference between saying that someone was killed by a gallon of water versus saying that the person drowned. The former is factually correct, but not nearly as accurate.
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Car fires tend to happen in about 1% of auto accidents
1) Fender benders count as accidents. It seems you need to take the severity of the accident into account.
2) Gasoline engines spontaneously combust, or catch fire long after an accident, which would not be attributed to the number you pulled out of your ass anyway. That bumps the instances of car fires to a significantly higher number.
Hopefully, this monoculture will be replaced with a rich mix of companies and options.
There is none. You can keep hoping, but nothing better is going to appear. You can either pay for the convenience out of your own pockets, or you can give up some of the information you possess on yourself so that the companies who provide the convenience can sell it to subsidize the convenience. The only other option is to rely on charity, but who's going to provide that charity? You?
The only sure way to win is to not play. And in this society, I'm not sure I'd call that winning.
I was going to say that it's kinda like the coins you gather along the way negated, but on second thought, it's more like the quarters you have to put into the arcade.
The SCOTUS usually becomes involved when the appellate opinions differ between districts. The system itself is designed to be slow and painstaking. The fact that lawyers get to charge a thousand dollars an hour to go through the system largely speaks to more a problem with how lawyers are valued and less the system.
Obligatory XKCD.
And they'll get a rude awakening when they realize it's mostly jailbait photos. You do know what kids are using it for, right?
If you don't compensate people for what they do, they'll stop doing it
Unless you're a geek contributing to a FOSS project. Or a geek in general with a pet project of some kind.
Ethics training is to cover the company's ass. Look at it from a cost-benefit ratio.
A junior-level employee may be worth a few hundred thousand dollars to the company over ten years. Yet that person can be the cause of a lawsuit that will cost the company a few million dollars.
The executive will be worth a tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars over ten years, and billions to trillions in a large corporation. That person may still cost the company in millions of dollars in lawsuits. However, those lawsuit losses will pay for itself no time at all.
The only time any executive gets canned is when the brand's (i.e. company's primary product) image would otherwise be negatively affected by the lawsuit. And then, unless it's personally linked to the executive, some junior executive gets to take the fall, probably with some sweatheart deal that involves a ton of compensation and another job elsewhere after 6-24 months. Remember, executives aren't fired, they're "retired."
The sole difference between a reputable company and a non-reputable company is that the reputable company will "retire" their executives for scandals that cause internal morale loss. The non-reputable companies will just calculate the costs of keeping the person and if it comes out positive, keep that person and fire the lower-level employees whose morale and thus productivity has gone down.
As long as the performance of the team is factored into the performance of the individual, this isn't a terrible way to quantify people in the short term. If the team's overall performance is not factored in however, then it's no better than simply cutting across the board by cutting the lowest performer in each team. Even with a ranking for the team, it's quite easy to cut good people while still leaving dead weights around, especially where the management structure is fairly flat (like Google's).
You forgot that they'll find new ways of dicking over their partners and new illegal methods to squash their competitors.
you can wake up one morning and quit cold turkey without any physiological effects.
FTFY.
There are psychological effects to quitting psychological addictions cold turkey. In fact, some of these can become severe enough to eventually manifest as physical symptoms.
As the practice of hypnotism has shown, the subconscious is very, very powerful and not to be so casually treated the way you do here.
Yes, but from the Wikipedia article:
The message does not reliably indicate whether the printer in question is actually aflame.
That's just the car. For it to happen to a person, that person would had to have been shot out of a canon.
Well, studies have shown that increased socialism makes water freeze closer to 0C than to 32F.
Urbanization doesn't cause people to burn wood, though trash is altogether another matter. Suburbanization however, does. Suburbs are that happy medium between urban and rural, where you get the worst of both and the benefits of neither.
End it, and start over once you're sure it's really gone.
Can't. Either your communication is secure or insecure. In this world where math determines truth, there is no place for fuzz.
That's the problem with the NSA. Either they're breaking signals, or they're creating unbreakable signals. They can't be doing both, because these are mutually exclusive activities. The math behind the technology dictates this.
You didn't expect the national media cozily sleeping with the Feds to not be shills, did you?
That's not true...if it's not on.
Corn is in everything. It goes into cars (ethanol). That's how big the corn lobby is.
Banning HFCS just won't happen.
The budget problems account for the cheesy sets because that costs money. How does that account for the cheesy dialogue? I presume that took no additional budget, unless it was undergoing rewrites in the middle of filming. Actually, the sets weren't terribly cheesy either, though they weren't exactly amazing.
As for the satirical parts, the premise of the movie is absurd to begin with, so there wasn't a way for it to not be a twisted comedy. And then you have Neil Patrick Harris doing his best Neil Patrick Harris impersonation in the movie (at the very, very end), and that pretty much seals the deal.
No, but certain differences between the TrueCrypt volumes generated by Windows and the TrueCrypt volumes generated by Linux point to there being a strong possibility of a backdoor in the Windows-only version.
I'd be interested to see if there's actually code that writes out those random bytes in the header for Windows only, or if something else (API, MSVC, etc.) is causing the randomness. Because if it's the latter, then the chance of it being a backdoor goes way, way up.
I will note that the movie made no attempt to delve into the political statements made in the book.
Not in so many words perhaps. But they're there, mostly subtle. Watch it again, ignoring the violence, nudity, and spaceships. I watched it in the theaters the first time and thought it was absolute crap. I watched it at home recently a second time, and I actually surprised myself at how much I enjoyed it.
It's like a brilliant Pixar movie, but live action and for adults instead of children. I.e., in a Pixar movie, the kids are entertained, but the adults get all the subtlety. In Starship Troopers, the adults are entertained, only certain people will get all the subtlety.
People didn't read their history. Too busy playing sports or something I guess.
'Nuff said.
While GP was largely being melodramatic, there is a point. Real NPO's are always short on cash. They're never going to be running the latest hardware, but that of several years back. They're probably XP users, not 7 or Vista. Windows 8+ will be beyond the reach of most charitable organizations. And that's only from a hardware perspective.
It's not merely semantic. There's far more depth of information in the article's description, and hence far more accuracy.
It's the difference between saying that someone was killed by a gallon of water versus saying that the person drowned. The former is factually correct, but not nearly as accurate.