You bring up a good point. But what do you consider the OS? The kernel, the kernel + boot environment, the kernel + boot environment + basic services?
I think a majority of what we see and consider a new "OS" is the desktop environment plus some changes under the hood that a majority of the people would never know about.
I've had fraudulent activity on my card twice. I hit a button on the credit card app to turn the card off, press another button to call to report fraud, and my new card was in the mail that day. No follow up activity was needed.
Just because it was posted somewhere else earlier doesn't mean this isn't news that is valuable to read. This is the first I have seen of this particular story (I don't spend time at drudgereport).
I've been induated with ads for so long that I automatically phase them out unless it is something I am interested in. On ad spammy sites like click through articles I don't even see ad banners anymore. For unskippable video ads I just move over to another browser tab until it is over.
It costs money, but more so than that is that it takes a long time and you are required to work under a practicing PE for four years in order to qualify to become a PE. The issue is that that they are very few PEs in the consumer or automotive electronics industries unless you work in consulting or legal aspects (patents, litigation, etc). Because of this, in practice, it is difficult or impossible to work with or under a PE unless you are in the building construction industries where it is required for design approval.
The best way for many people to learn is to do. If you go through an apprenticeship and haven't done any "real paid work" than neither the employer or the apprentice received anything of value.
If the new iOS app isn't coming until the end of June and the Windows 10 and Android apps aren't coming until later this year, Onedrive integration won't be added until the end of the year along with Flow... What exactly have they overhauled "today"?
I purchased Prototype 2 which turns out to have a bug that makes it unplayable on AMD cards. I asked for a refund and got denied even though I have 1 hour of play time. My two choices were to issue a credit card charge back and likely get my account shut down along with the loss of all my games or to eat the cost of Prototype 2.
Any statement that Google wants to make will need to be proofread by multiple people and then vetted by lawyers, not just to ensure they don't overstep some legal bounds but also to make sure there wouldn't be anything in it that the shareholders could target later if there is some backlash.
It would not surprise me if Apple had been developing their response in anticipation to the judges request for some time.
I was referring to the page long posts about GNAA, poop, spamertizements, etc that get anonymously posted repeatedly.
I believe spam removal should be a different process than moderation and I think using a plagiarism style detector will ensure any controversial but on topic posts don't get lumped in with the spam detection.
I have always thought that there should be a way to flag and remove obvious garbage posts rather than simply moderating them to -1.
For example, if enough people flag a post as garbage:
Run an automated check vs a list of common garbage posts; if there is a high % of match (like a plagiarism detector), remove the post or remove the content of the post.
If it is not on the list of common garbage posts but it has a large number of flags, perhaps it can be reviewed by either moderators or employees to determine if it should be added to the garbage list.
My thought is that if less eyeballs will see the garbage posts they lose their ability to troll and the quantity of them will decrease.
This is on a Windows 10 desktop using Thunderbird. I use my @yahoo.com email and password:
imap.mail.yahoo.com Port:933 SSL/TLS, normal password
smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port:465 SSL/TLS, normal password
My android phone uses the same settings.
Lets pull out the philosophical question of the runaway train car controlled by AI. If the AI continues down the track it will crash into the cab of a stalled vehicle on the road with a person still inside. If the AI switches to a parallel track it crashes into the front of a maintenance truck with a person still inside. What should the AI do?
What if the stalled vehicle was an ambulance?
What if the maintenance worker had three kids and a deceased wife but the driver of the stalled vehicle was single with no children?
What if the stalled vehicle was an executive of the company that built the AI train?
Do those details matter to the AI? Should they?
I haven't looked into wi-fi protocols: is is possible for an unmodified laptop/mobile to listen on an illegal channel and respond on that illegal channel? Is is possible for an unmodified laptop/mobile to listen on an illegal channel and respond on a legal channel?
If the answer to both of those questions is "no" I don't see the need to lock down anything. It is one thing to accidentally operate outside of FCC regulations by using an "international" custom firmware on your router - it is another thing entirely if you have to purposely modify the firmware on your laptop or mobile to make those illegal channels usable.
If the act of operating outside of normal bands is already illegal than how does making a law with more restrictions to an already illegal act provide any extra law enforcement ability?
Has there been a case where someone doing something illegal got off the hook for violating FCC limits because they were using a custom firmware solution and claimed ignorance?
Is this new law going to help reduce Wi-Fi congestion by a large enough magnitude that it justifies the restrictions of everyone in the market?
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You bring up a good point. But what do you consider the OS? The kernel, the kernel + boot environment, the kernel + boot environment + basic services?
I think a majority of what we see and consider a new "OS" is the desktop environment plus some changes under the hood that a majority of the people would never know about.
I've had fraudulent activity on my card twice. I hit a button on the credit card app to turn the card off, press another button to call to report fraud, and my new card was in the mail that day. No follow up activity was needed.
I used my cell phone with the CoPilot GPS app.
GPS does work in an airplane, I've used it on a commercial airliner. Speed, location, and direction were correct but I didn't check altitude.
Just because it was posted somewhere else earlier doesn't mean this isn't news that is valuable to read. This is the first I have seen of this particular story (I don't spend time at drudgereport).
I do use NoScript. It is a life saver.
I've been induated with ads for so long that I automatically phase them out unless it is something I am interested in. On ad spammy sites like click through articles I don't even see ad banners anymore. For unskippable video ads I just move over to another browser tab until it is over.
It costs money, but more so than that is that it takes a long time and you are required to work under a practicing PE for four years in order to qualify to become a PE. The issue is that that they are very few PEs in the consumer or automotive electronics industries unless you work in consulting or legal aspects (patents, litigation, etc). Because of this, in practice, it is difficult or impossible to work with or under a PE unless you are in the building construction industries where it is required for design approval.
The best way for many people to learn is to do. If you go through an apprenticeship and haven't done any "real paid work" than neither the employer or the apprentice received anything of value.
I agree. It works well in Linux, Windows, and there is even an Android app that is compatible.
Ah. That is what i get for reading the summary.
If the new iOS app isn't coming until the end of June and the Windows 10 and Android apps aren't coming until later this year, Onedrive integration won't be added until the end of the year along with Flow... What exactly have they overhauled "today"?
Do you know of any major US companies that offer chip and pin credit cards? I did some research and the only ones I saw were offered by credit unions.
I purchased Prototype 2 which turns out to have a bug that makes it unplayable on AMD cards. I asked for a refund and got denied even though I have 1 hour of play time. My two choices were to issue a credit card charge back and likely get my account shut down along with the loss of all my games or to eat the cost of Prototype 2.
Any statement that Google wants to make will need to be proofread by multiple people and then vetted by lawyers, not just to ensure they don't overstep some legal bounds but also to make sure there wouldn't be anything in it that the shareholders could target later if there is some backlash.
It would not surprise me if Apple had been developing their response in anticipation to the judges request for some time.
I was referring to the page long posts about GNAA, poop, spamertizements, etc that get anonymously posted repeatedly.
I believe spam removal should be a different process than moderation and I think using a plagiarism style detector will ensure any controversial but on topic posts don't get lumped in with the spam detection.
I have always thought that there should be a way to flag and remove obvious garbage posts rather than simply moderating them to -1.
For example, if enough people flag a post as garbage:
Run an automated check vs a list of common garbage posts; if there is a high % of match (like a plagiarism detector), remove the post or remove the content of the post.
If it is not on the list of common garbage posts but it has a large number of flags, perhaps it can be reviewed by either moderators or employees to determine if it should be added to the garbage list.
My thought is that if less eyeballs will see the garbage posts they lose their ability to troll and the quantity of them will decrease.
This is on a Windows 10 desktop using Thunderbird. I use my @yahoo.com email and password:
imap.mail.yahoo.com Port:933 SSL/TLS, normal password
smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port:465 SSL/TLS, normal password
My android phone uses the same settings.
I just checked my Thunderbird settings and I use IMAP and SMTP access with my Yahoo account and I don't pay $20/year or log in monthly.
Lets pull out the philosophical question of the runaway train car controlled by AI. If the AI continues down the track it will crash into the cab of a stalled vehicle on the road with a person still inside. If the AI switches to a parallel track it crashes into the front of a maintenance truck with a person still inside. What should the AI do?
What if the stalled vehicle was an ambulance?
What if the maintenance worker had three kids and a deceased wife but the driver of the stalled vehicle was single with no children?
What if the stalled vehicle was an executive of the company that built the AI train?
Do those details matter to the AI? Should they?
Winamp 5.666 has a plugin called "Nullsoft iPod Device Plug-in". I have never tried it though.
I haven't looked into wi-fi protocols: is is possible for an unmodified laptop/mobile to listen on an illegal channel and respond on that illegal channel?
Is is possible for an unmodified laptop/mobile to listen on an illegal channel and respond on a legal channel?
If the answer to both of those questions is "no" I don't see the need to lock down anything. It is one thing to accidentally operate outside of FCC regulations by using an "international" custom firmware on your router - it is another thing entirely if you have to purposely modify the firmware on your laptop or mobile to make those illegal channels usable.
That would be psi not ppi.
Perhaps the singularity has come and we just don't know it yet.
If the act of operating outside of normal bands is already illegal than how does making a law with more restrictions to an already illegal act provide any extra law enforcement ability?
Has there been a case where someone doing something illegal got off the hook for violating FCC limits because they were using a custom firmware solution and claimed ignorance?
Is this new law going to help reduce Wi-Fi congestion by a large enough magnitude that it justifies the restrictions of everyone in the market?