All the tech companies that have one of these hot mics have a business model that can support it... except Facebook. I suspect that Facebook would be the company that would result in the dystopian outcome that we all fear could come about from these "home speakers" because their business model is simply to gather information and sell it.
What are the states doing to determine whether Waymo has the same flaws that Uber does? Maybe they're just being more careful with testing and are a ticking time bomb like Uber was.
This is just another part of government of Xi's psychological warfare on the people. They are sending the message that they are God and a lack of reverence will be punished. The point is to keep people thinking that the government has absolute control and thus any challenge to it would be futile.
I do think Jobs dallied longer than most average, but it is common, and some people simply say f' it rather than go through the time, pain and expense of risky treatment.
Expense was no problem and there were only two options: treatment or death. He chose death thinking he was smarter than a doctor only to realize that he was wrong but too late for it to matter.
A) It was 9 months. B) He got a rare type of pancreatic cancer that was actually treatable. Anything else and he would have been a dead man walking. Treatment or death were the ONLY options. C) His delay meant that he chose death.
He didn't just die, he (according to his own doctor) committed suicide by refusing treatment upon discovery. He had an 85% chance of recovery since they got lucky and found it early.
Barrie R. Cassileth, the chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department,[115] said, "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life.... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable.... He essentially committed suicide."[116] According to Jobs's biographer, Walter Isaacson, "for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined".[117] "Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies, and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He was also influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."[118]
I mean, this is Steve Jobs, the man who declined to use modern medicine to save his own life, that we are talking about. Not what I call a great track record for wise decisions.
I view them as tools that fire small pieces of metal, amoral.
Most people view them as such things with the caveat that they are extremely dangerous, especially in the wrong hands.
Now what people do with them, certainly, morality comes into play.
It's only logical that reducing the proliferation of firearms will reduce the number of firearms that are used illegally. It's the same reason that explosives are so tightly regulated.
If you continue to be intellectually dishonest then you will never understand opposing views.
If this is widely deployed the malware writers will just change tactics. Instead of destroying data completely, they will simply begin alter files to the point where they are no longer useful. The more intelligent and insidious malware writers will gradually introduce more and more errors into databases that make it into backups. Eventually it will be discovered but if an unknown percentage of your database and it's backups contain incorrect information then you are going to have a bad time.
They are waiting for companies to start cranking out cheap solid state lithium batteries. This maximizes their profit margin and they don't actually give a fuck about the environment, just their profit margins.
It's as if they're saying, "Let's at least make a political statement on gun control," statement.
Actually, no. They are not preventing people from having videos about firearms or demonstrating firearms, just videos that are promoting firearms or firearm accessories that they are selling. It's clear that they are avoiding facilitating the proliferation of firearms.
What will happen when a "terrorist" uses an old-fashioned car with a steering wheel, gas pedal, and no autobraking system to mow down dozens of people in a random city? Is Youtube going to remove auto mechanic HOWTO videos so we can't modify (or even fix) our own cars? Slippery slope 101.
Since that's already happened and they have taken no such actions, it is very clear that you are using a logical fallacy.
I saw that one well-known gun vlogger has started posting his videos on PornHub. If PH plays their cards right, they could launch a site with more general branding "vidhub"?
Actually "gun fetish" is already a category on pornhub.;)
First, there is a significant amount of technical and legal work that is required to maintain a large video site. Can a startup make a site where people can upload videos, sure. Will some people abuse the platform before it even takes off, absolutely. Reigning in the abuse takes a significant amount of work.
Second, assuming they manage all of this then how do they dethrone YouTube? "It's like YouTube with guns!" isn't really a big selling point. You need something that makes it more appealing, this is marketing 101.
or make a lot of bankers really pissed off, if all the nations that dont want to use the US petro-dollar for trade it could put a HUGE dent in the value of the dollar, which is not worth much nowadays anyway, i bet all those central banks around the world tied to the Rothschild bank and the Federal Reserve would be ready to start WW3 over it
I don't think that's actually true because if it was then we would probably see burgeoning cryptocurrencies being absolutely demolished by 51% attacks. The banks could easily afford to commission their own ASIC chips and begin slaughtering cryptocurrencies en mass. That fact that they are not doing this means they don't see it as a true threat.
If the goal was just to evade US sanctions based on dollar, why not just trade oil in ruble or yuan?
It's simple: the sanctions are not based on any specific currency. This bypasses the sanction because "petro" is not a (recognized?) currency.
I would however like to point out that Venezuela has put itself in a precarious position because any motivated nation-state could easily perform a 51% attack on "petro" and utterly destroy it.
The Earth is constantly changing which means the old "nature based" ways will also become a nonviable answer. Thanks to climate change, we have vastly accelerated many changes which includes the location of available water resources. Our best bet is to work toward reversing the damage done and desalinate water using a water vapor distillation system (aka slingshot). Yes, these systems require energy but Sol provides us with more than enough energy for such systems.
We absolutely could stretch our water supply further but thanks to a tragedy of the commons coupled with capitalism, it simply won't happen without extreme enforcement measures. We already know that our politicians are spineless, so it's better that we assume the worst case scenario and create out own supply of fresh water.
This is a really poor quality Slashdot story - and I say that as a woman.
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This movement is so influential that I'm going to finally break down and sign up to claim my facebook shadow account just so I can delete it! Sure, it won't actually be deleted and they'll probably get more info on my than ever but damn it will feel good!;)
Exactly WHAT was Adobe going to "Refuse" them to do, legally?
That's a question for Adobe's legal department. I do know that regardless of legality, two large corporations going to war is expensive, so they generally try to avoid it.
How are you okay sharing it with google and hundreds of "partner" companies, but somehow not okay with "guvurnment" getting access?
One group may throw an advertisement at you for 30 seconds even if you don't want the product. The other group may throw you in jail for 30 years even if you didn't do the crime.
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All the tech companies that have one of these hot mics have a business model that can support it... except Facebook. I suspect that Facebook would be the company that would result in the dystopian outcome that we all fear could come about from these "home speakers" because their business model is simply to gather information and sell it.
What are the states doing to determine whether Waymo has the same flaws that Uber does? Maybe they're just being more careful with testing and are a ticking time bomb like Uber was.
I guess you don't know know who Waymo is because they were previously the "Google Car" aka, the people who spurred the commercial autonomous car development. Waymo is an autonomous car development company and subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc.
You are now required to turn in your geek card as you have depleted your geek cred.
This is just another part of government of Xi's psychological warfare on the people. They are sending the message that they are God and a lack of reverence will be punished. The point is to keep people thinking that the government has absolute control and thus any challenge to it would be futile.
Reuters/Ipsos online poll found that 41 percent of Americans trust Facebook to obey laws
And 99% had their poll vote added to the data that Facebook keeps on them via "like" button. ;)
I do think Jobs dallied longer than most average, but it is common, and some people simply say f' it rather than go through the time, pain and expense of risky treatment.
Expense was no problem and there were only two options: treatment or death. He chose death thinking he was smarter than a doctor only to realize that he was wrong but too late for it to matter.
A) It was 9 months.
B) He got a rare type of pancreatic cancer that was actually treatable. Anything else and he would have been a dead man walking. Treatment or death were the ONLY options.
C) His delay meant that he chose death.
He didn't just die, he (according to his own doctor) committed suicide by refusing treatment upon discovery. He had an 85% chance of recovery since they got lucky and found it early.
Barrie R. Cassileth, the chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department,[115] said, "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life.... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable.... He essentially committed suicide."[116] According to Jobs's biographer, Walter Isaacson, "for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined".[117] "Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies, and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He was also influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."[118]
I mean, this is Steve Jobs, the man who declined to use modern medicine to save his own life, that we are talking about. Not what I call a great track record for wise decisions.
Nice to see the main stream still won't call a white guy a terrorist.
He wasn't just any old terrorist, he was an Alt-right terrorist.
There was a 25 minute video they won't release which I suspect is to avoid further violence/retribution.
I view them as tools that fire small pieces of metal, amoral.
Most people view them as such things with the caveat that they are extremely dangerous, especially in the wrong hands.
Now what people do with them, certainly, morality comes into play.
It's only logical that reducing the proliferation of firearms will reduce the number of firearms that are used illegally. It's the same reason that explosives are so tightly regulated.
If you continue to be intellectually dishonest then you will never understand opposing views.
If this is widely deployed the malware writers will just change tactics. Instead of destroying data completely, they will simply begin alter files to the point where they are no longer useful. The more intelligent and insidious malware writers will gradually introduce more and more errors into databases that make it into backups. Eventually it will be discovered but if an unknown percentage of your database and it's backups contain incorrect information then you are going to have a bad time.
They are waiting for companies to start cranking out cheap solid state lithium batteries. This maximizes their profit margin and they don't actually give a fuck about the environment, just their profit margins.
Linux.
It's as if they're saying, "Let's at least make a political statement on gun control," statement.
Actually, no. They are not preventing people from having videos about firearms or demonstrating firearms, just videos that are promoting firearms or firearm accessories that they are selling. It's clear that they are avoiding facilitating the proliferation of firearms.
What will happen when a "terrorist" uses an old-fashioned car with a steering wheel, gas pedal, and no autobraking system to mow down dozens of people in a random city? Is Youtube going to remove auto mechanic HOWTO videos so we can't modify (or even fix) our own cars? Slippery slope 101.
Since that's already happened and they have taken no such actions, it is very clear that you are using a logical fallacy.
I saw that one well-known gun vlogger has started posting his videos on PornHub. If PH plays their cards right, they could launch a site with more general branding "vidhub"?
Actually "gun fetish" is already a category on pornhub. ;)
Could a new startup PLEASE dethrone YouTube.
No.
First, there is a significant amount of technical and legal work that is required to maintain a large video site. Can a startup make a site where people can upload videos, sure. Will some people abuse the platform before it even takes off, absolutely. Reigning in the abuse takes a significant amount of work.
Second, assuming they manage all of this then how do they dethrone YouTube? "It's like YouTube with guns!" isn't really a big selling point. You need something that makes it more appealing, this is marketing 101.
or make a lot of bankers really pissed off, if all the nations that dont want to use the US petro-dollar for trade it could put a HUGE dent in the value of the dollar, which is not worth much nowadays anyway, i bet all those central banks around the world tied to the Rothschild bank and the Federal Reserve would be ready to start WW3 over it
I don't think that's actually true because if it was then we would probably see burgeoning cryptocurrencies being absolutely demolished by 51% attacks. The banks could easily afford to commission their own ASIC chips and begin slaughtering cryptocurrencies en mass. That fact that they are not doing this means they don't see it as a true threat.
If the goal was just to evade US sanctions based on dollar, why not just trade oil in ruble or yuan?
It's simple: the sanctions are not based on any specific currency. This bypasses the sanction because "petro" is not a (recognized?) currency.
I would however like to point out that Venezuela has put itself in a precarious position because any motivated nation-state could easily perform a 51% attack on "petro" and utterly destroy it.
The Earth is constantly changing which means the old "nature based" ways will also become a nonviable answer. Thanks to climate change, we have vastly accelerated many changes which includes the location of available water resources. Our best bet is to work toward reversing the damage done and desalinate water using a water vapor distillation system (aka slingshot). Yes, these systems require energy but Sol provides us with more than enough energy for such systems.
We absolutely could stretch our water supply further but thanks to a tragedy of the commons coupled with capitalism, it simply won't happen without extreme enforcement measures. We already know that our politicians are spineless, so it's better that we assume the worst case scenario and create out own supply of fresh water.
This is a really poor quality Slashdot story - and I say that as a woman.
beep. I detected that you are of the WOMAN gender. Slashdot harbors an inclusive environment. Please notify us if someone touches your SHARP KNEES without consent. beep boop.
This movement is so influential that I'm going to finally break down and sign up to claim my facebook shadow account just so I can delete it! Sure, it won't actually be deleted and they'll probably get more info on my than ever but damn it will feel good! ;)
PDF is a Public-Domain Format.
No, it's an ISO standard, specifically ISO 19005.
Exactly WHAT was Adobe going to "Refuse" them to do, legally?
That's a question for Adobe's legal department. I do know that regardless of legality, two large corporations going to war is expensive, so they generally try to avoid it.
WTF is wrong with Microsoft that I can attempt to open a PDF in MS Server 2014, and it STILL can't handle it natively?!?
There is a reason for this:
Adobe Systems refused to let Microsoft implement built-in PDF support in Microsoft Office, citing fears of EEE (Embrace, extend, and extinguish). -- Wikipedia
Your children will grow up speaking canadian.
I'll kill myself then my family before I let that happen! ;)
How are you okay sharing it with google and hundreds of "partner" companies, but somehow not okay with "guvurnment" getting access?
One group may throw an advertisement at you for 30 seconds even if you don't want the product. The other group may throw you in jail for 30 years even if you didn't do the crime.
Magnitudes of impact matter.