Unfortunately, consumers want loss leading price AND 3rd party consumables.... it is kinda strange watching people try to take a moral high ground while essentially trying to cheat companies.
In other nations you also get those IDs by default. In the US it can cost thousands of dollars to get the needed documentation if you do not already have it, and a lot of people do not already have it. If the state handled this process for them instead of depending on churches or private attornies it would be another matter.
Something to keep in mind : often people fail to vote not because of disinterest but because of difficulty accessing the system. That is why there has been so much effort to require new types of IDs, closing poling places, and making hours shorter in some regions. Moving something from 'minor inconvenience' to 'significant personal hardship' is often enough to stop people who would want to vote from doing so, while making it as convenient as possible for other groups increases the chances that even not terribly interested or informed people show up because it is such a little deal to do so.
Make voting mandatory and I doubt you would actually stop voter suppression, you would just be adding a layer of fines on top of it. So poor people would not only have trouble voting but end up locked into the never ending for profit 'fine' system.
I had a similar thought. The people in the audience might have been stunned by a bit of performance, but I have a hard time believing the auction house itself was surprised.
Another reading : neither is corrupt or incompetent, but instead follow a set of rules, risks, and rewards which if they do not result in being replaced. it is tempting to blame politicians, but they only do what keeps them in office, and we the voters decide that.
The left is nothing but middle ground, that is why they are so weak. The right will not be happy as long as anything other than them exists or is so subjected as to not step out of line.
Having a store brand or products produced for a store by wholly owned subsidiaries is indeed pretty common. It will be worth keeping an eye on though as Amazon continues to grow and integrates more into its ecosystem.
Ah yes, because we looked at our logistics chain and went 'hrm, we spent months of developer time trying to get this part down from 15$/unit to 14.50$/unit, but lets go with a harddrive costing hundreds of dollars more'. If cheap commodity HDDs from any random manufacturer worked, believe me we would have gone with them since it would have saved us a bundle and allowed us to compete on a better price point.
What, every time they boot they would have to go through the message over and over? Otherwise the dodgy repair shop is just going to click through it and return the machine after the 'user' has already oked the change.
The lockdown is in part intended to go after unauthorized repair shops, so user opt-in would not really help. The DIY crowd is small, they are rarely the targets of stuff like this. Shady repair shops that offer low low prices on the other hand are everywhere and can contribute to bad PR for a company since users seem to end up blaming the faceless manufacturer rather than the 'nice young man that fixed my computer and explained how terrible Apple is'.
I used to work at a hardware manufacturer, this happened all the time and was really frustrating. We would get pissed off customers ranting on forums about how terrible our stuff was, and sometimes we would get them to actually bring it in (repairs free of charge) to discover someone had put in a cheap 3rd party screen or off the shelf harddrive that didn't have the custom bios or specs our certified ones did. We ended up locking down to try to stop the crap.
I can recall years ago working for a company that made kiosk systems. One of our banes was that customers would do their own repairs, including swapping out components for 3rd party replacements because they were cheaper. Then when things did not work, user and customers would complain about how much our stuff sucked because things would not calibrate quickly or the system stuttered. This is why companies try to lock things down, users have a bad habit of loudly blaming you for their budget swapouts and then tell all their little friends about it... the average user has no clue what goes into part certification... 'oh but this hard drive is 10GB too, it should work fine and costs 90% less!'
On the other hand, knowingly having compromised servers like that would be a PR nightmare, so Apple and Amazon would also have an incentive to say 'everything is fine'. That is what makes stories like this so frustrating... unless the FBI chimes in, everyone is saying pretty much what you would expect to say regardless of if the story is accurate or not.
I had a similar thought. Over the years I have had a lot of tasks where I took something that used to eat large amounts of time, automated it,and thus completed the assigned work way ahead of schedule. There was always something else to do that the automation freed up time to tackle.
In this case, it has already been proven wrong, and mostly survives due to the proponent being good at sounding convincing to people suspicious of domain experts.
For the most part, DARPA does not even attempt to determine which projects will succeed. The mostly look at what the ask was and how well the proposal meets it. Money goes to people good at writing DARPA proposals, who know how to talk to non-domain experts and make something sound plausible to them. In short, it is easier for grifters or professional grant writers than full time scientists.
McCulloch, unfortunately, is more grifter than scientist. He is a pretty well known figure in the conspiracy theory and pseudoscience crowd. He is really good at sounding convincing to non-domain experts, and uses suspicion and other social tools to turn people against anyone who knows better.
That is how science works, but that does not mean anyone who proposes a theory is doing it right. McCulloch is rather infamous, and is really more interested in expanding his cult of personality among conspiracy theorists than actually testing his ideas. QI produces the wrong answers pretty much across the board, and only produces the 'right' answers in a narrow range of situations that allow devices that do not work to magically function, if only someone would pay for more 'testing'.
If I recall correctly he tried to sell the stuff to one of the major aerospace companies, but kept asking for more money and kept refusing to really let them play with it, so they smelled scam and moved on.
Eh, I think it is still a good phrase. People tend to describe a claim as 'extraordinary' when it not only stands on its own but requires the unseating of other well tested things. So it not only requires evidence of itself but evidence showing why a bunch of other things have been wrong all along, thus 'extraordinary'.
But, at minimal, evidence for a claim needs to match the claim, so if the claim is extraordinary so is the evidence for it.
Anyone who thinks physics, esp historically, was not a social club has never worked in the field. Who you know, who you worked with, who will vouch for you, all critical things in the field. Very invitation only.
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Unfortunately, consumers want loss leading price AND 3rd party consumables.... it is kinda strange watching people try to take a moral high ground while essentially trying to cheat companies.
Or you could use the market solution and buy a laser printer.
In other nations you also get those IDs by default. In the US it can cost thousands of dollars to get the needed documentation if you do not already have it, and a lot of people do not already have it. If the state handled this process for them instead of depending on churches or private attornies it would be another matter.
Something to keep in mind : often people fail to vote not because of disinterest but because of difficulty accessing the system. That is why there has been so much effort to require new types of IDs, closing poling places, and making hours shorter in some regions. Moving something from 'minor inconvenience' to 'significant personal hardship' is often enough to stop people who would want to vote from doing so, while making it as convenient as possible for other groups increases the chances that even not terribly interested or informed people show up because it is such a little deal to do so.
Make voting mandatory and I doubt you would actually stop voter suppression, you would just be adding a layer of fines on top of it. So poor people would not only have trouble voting but end up locked into the never ending for profit 'fine' system.
Yeah, in general the people who have the resources to make a real profit from such a move probably do not work in journalism in the first place.
I had a similar thought. The people in the audience might have been stunned by a bit of performance, but I have a hard time believing the auction house itself was surprised.
Another reading : neither is corrupt or incompetent, but instead follow a set of rules, risks, and rewards which if they do not result in being replaced. it is tempting to blame politicians, but they only do what keeps them in office, and we the voters decide that.
The left is nothing but middle ground, that is why they are so weak. The right will not be happy as long as anything other than them exists or is so subjected as to not step out of line.
Senators can be removed every few years via elections. SCOTUS is a lifetime appointment.
Having a store brand or products produced for a store by wholly owned subsidiaries is indeed pretty common. It will be worth keeping an eye on though as Amazon continues to grow and integrates more into its ecosystem.
Ah yes, because we looked at our logistics chain and went 'hrm, we spent months of developer time trying to get this part down from 15$/unit to 14.50$/unit, but lets go with a harddrive costing hundreds of dollars more'. If cheap commodity HDDs from any random manufacturer worked, believe me we would have gone with them since it would have saved us a bundle and allowed us to compete on a better price point.
What, every time they boot they would have to go through the message over and over? Otherwise the dodgy repair shop is just going to click through it and return the machine after the 'user' has already oked the change.
The lockdown is in part intended to go after unauthorized repair shops, so user opt-in would not really help. The DIY crowd is small, they are rarely the targets of stuff like this. Shady repair shops that offer low low prices on the other hand are everywhere and can contribute to bad PR for a company since users seem to end up blaming the faceless manufacturer rather than the 'nice young man that fixed my computer and explained how terrible Apple is'.
I used to work at a hardware manufacturer, this happened all the time and was really frustrating. We would get pissed off customers ranting on forums about how terrible our stuff was, and sometimes we would get them to actually bring it in (repairs free of charge) to discover someone had put in a cheap 3rd party screen or off the shelf harddrive that didn't have the custom bios or specs our certified ones did. We ended up locking down to try to stop the crap.
Their worry probably is not users doing the replacements themselves, but unauthorized repair shops that use dodgy replacement parts.
I can recall years ago working for a company that made kiosk systems. One of our banes was that customers would do their own repairs, including swapping out components for 3rd party replacements because they were cheaper. Then when things did not work, user and customers would complain about how much our stuff sucked because things would not calibrate quickly or the system stuttered. This is why companies try to lock things down, users have a bad habit of loudly blaming you for their budget swapouts and then tell all their little friends about it... the average user has no clue what goes into part certification... 'oh but this hard drive is 10GB too, it should work fine and costs 90% less!'
On the other hand, knowingly having compromised servers like that would be a PR nightmare, so Apple and Amazon would also have an incentive to say 'everything is fine'. That is what makes stories like this so frustrating... unless the FBI chimes in, everyone is saying pretty much what you would expect to say regardless of if the story is accurate or not.
I had a similar thought. Over the years I have had a lot of tasks where I took something that used to eat large amounts of time, automated it,and thus completed the assigned work way ahead of schedule. There was always something else to do that the automation freed up time to tackle.
In this case, it has already been proven wrong, and mostly survives due to the proponent being good at sounding convincing to people suspicious of domain experts.
For the most part, DARPA does not even attempt to determine which projects will succeed. The mostly look at what the ask was and how well the proposal meets it. Money goes to people good at writing DARPA proposals, who know how to talk to non-domain experts and make something sound plausible to them. In short, it is easier for grifters or professional grant writers than full time scientists.
McCulloch, unfortunately, is more grifter than scientist. He is a pretty well known figure in the conspiracy theory and pseudoscience crowd. He is really good at sounding convincing to non-domain experts, and uses suspicion and other social tools to turn people against anyone who knows better.
That is how science works, but that does not mean anyone who proposes a theory is doing it right. McCulloch is rather infamous, and is really more interested in expanding his cult of personality among conspiracy theorists than actually testing his ideas. QI produces the wrong answers pretty much across the board, and only produces the 'right' answers in a narrow range of situations that allow devices that do not work to magically function, if only someone would pay for more 'testing'.
If I recall correctly he tried to sell the stuff to one of the major aerospace companies, but kept asking for more money and kept refusing to really let them play with it, so they smelled scam and moved on.
Eh, I think it is still a good phrase. People tend to describe a claim as 'extraordinary' when it not only stands on its own but requires the unseating of other well tested things. So it not only requires evidence of itself but evidence showing why a bunch of other things have been wrong all along, thus 'extraordinary'.
But, at minimal, evidence for a claim needs to match the claim, so if the claim is extraordinary so is the evidence for it.
Anyone who thinks physics, esp historically, was not a social club has never worked in the field. Who you know, who you worked with, who will vouch for you, all critical things in the field. Very invitation only.