You forgot taxes. Someone earning $100k is probably paying about $25k in federal taxes, so they're "only" left with $75k. In your example, that leaves them with $8400 after the rent.
by Institutionalize racism. It's when it's buried so deep in your society that it's hard to separate it from statistical data. Forest for the trees and what not. It starts getting hard to separate cause and effect. Actually no, that's not right. It becomes easy to _not_ separate them. In the overt scenario blacks get profiled for crime. In the not so overt one they can't get loans because folks in those neighborhoods are 3% more likely to default. This is what happens when you feed large amounts of data into complex systems without knowing or caring about the consequences...
Sounds like these AIs would be a good way to expose subtle institutionalized bias. Scrub a an attribute like race or sex from training data, then add it back to the results, and then if there's still bias, it can help figure out why.
The Aviation Security officer has already been placed on leave and his outfit as publicly stated his actions were not in line with their policy (re: he's f*cked).
Now it's on to see how UA is going to handle this mess.
I think the former statement answers your question. They'll say "We asked Aviation Security to remove the passenger in accordance with our policies that he agreed to when purchasing the ticket, and they screwed it up. Not our fault."
We all know these drugs have an insane markup. The drug companies are getting rick because they set astronomical prices for drugs the might help people, even a little. And they get it because insurance is forced to pay for it, not individuals who could never come up with the money on an individual basis. We have created the problem by mandating insurance and then letting the drug companies pilfer it blind.
It's possible I just don't know how things work, but are the insurance companies really *forced* to pay those prices? Why can't they look at how much it costs to produce a drug and simply refuse to pay more than a certain price for it? Most people won't be able to afford it, and the drug company's market shrinks. The first insurance company to do this would have a competitive advantage, and I'd think the rest would have to follow suit. Meaning the drug companies sell cheaper or have little to no market. Obviously, they're not currently doing this, so there must be a reason...
I'm not. I think most here on/. are of this general opinion. It's machiavellian for sure, but really does have the whole "Ends justify the means" feel to it.
Hopefully (though doubtfully) the OEMs will be eating a lot of warranty returns. It is only if this costs the OEMs money that the problems will be fixed. If it only costs the end users money then not a ton will really happen.
I was thinking it'd be neat if the malware had a database of warranty information and geo-IP-based warranty laws, and it actually tried to figure out if the device was still under warranty. Silently close the backdoor and go dormant if it thinks it's not under warranty, brick it if it thinks it is.
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"?
Like, for example, helping more of them get experience in the low and mid-level jobs they need to move up?
.. the "secret" (he's figured out how to create a stable wormhole to another dimension where the charge is much greater than our own (see, not creating energy from nothing, just stealing from someone else)... Whoops! Hope they don't come after me)...
So, really, he's invented epsilonic radiating aorist rods...:P
Good intention, but what's to prevent a border patrol agent from a rogue state from just detaining people until the trip mode timer expires?
Set a "home" location. Require the mobile device to be physically located within a certain distance of that area (determined via GPS) in order for trip mode to be deactivated.
Not to sound like a/. shill, but I've given up on flights that are to major cities less than 500 miles from where
My math goes something like this: Min door-to-door flight time is usually 45 min to airport, 45 min from airport, 30 min+ for security & bag check, 1hr safety margin, 15-30 min taxiing, plus flight time. That's 3-4 hours+ (~200 mile drive) just dealing with the hassles surrounding air travel. Add another 50 miles driven for every hour you spend in the air. Then, I personally am willing to deal with another hour or two of driving (+100mi) because I don't have to worry about transportation once I get where I'm going, maybe another hour or two because I can pack as much as I want of whatever I want, and significantly more time if I'm going with someone (no increase in cost, plus a relief driver).
Moving someplace new generally requires a sizable amount of liquid funds to cover moving expenses, deposits, etc., not to mention the costs associated with finding a new job to go to. The working poor don't often have that kind of money on hand to spend.
Exactly. And I would actually happily support using some of my tax money to subsidize these economic prisoners moving to more sane markets. I'd much rather do that than subsidize their housing, which just makes the problem worse. If all of the people doing those low-paying jobs suddenly are able to leave, it will reduce housing pressure, lower prices, and also force those jobs to actually pay a living wage to get people to stay and do them.
This is exactly what I was thinking. The EM noise from transferring that much power like that seems like it would be insane. Don't go near it with any electronics?
I would think a simple system where you essentially have an upside down pantograph on the bottom of the car would be the most straightforward way of doing it, as well as having the potential to power the car in motion as well. There could be some safety issues with exposed contacts on the floor, but requiring the pantograph to exert several hundred pounds of pressure to press down to a contact might be a simple way of sidestepping that (at least for stationary applications).
Why store it on the camera at all. In a situation where you or a source is risking their life/freedom, it seems like some kind of satellite-based relay that sends stuff off ASAP would be worth investigating. You could even make it look to the camera like a flash card, so it works with any camera.
Probably doesn't matter much, though. Any jurisdiction where that would be an issue would just make possession of such a device (or encryption-capable recording devices) carry similar penalties.
get to pick up the slack with no extra PTO or a larger salary? I understand the need to help parents, and i don't dispute it. I get that maybe parents needsome time out for a new birth or to leave early or come in late or take time off now and again to deal with older kids, but 20 weeks at full pay? doesn't that put a huge burden on those who dont have kids to pick up the slack?
As a single person with no kids, even I won't complain about giving a new parent a break.
That said, no way am I working a bunch of extra hours for 20 weeks to cover for an event that you knew damn well was coming for the last nine months. If you didn't get temp help, that means you're OK with stuff falling behind while they're gone.
Not that simple. Sometimes drug abuse is just a medical condition. But often drug abuse causes people to hurt others which is (and should be) a crime. See the difference?
I would argue that the drug prohibition (or rather, its totally predictable side effects) has hurt far, far more "other people" than drug users ever have. Hell, it's come damn close to destroying entire countries.
One of the things I do for a living is write firewall policy. We use Palo Alto gear, which seems to be some of the best available at automatically identifying what stuff is.
Even with a company like that behind the gear spending a lot of time and money keeping things up to date, it doesn't know about every little thing it sees.
Another challenge is that this device would need to be able to do SSL forward proxy for everything, or all it will know is there's an ssl connection to somewhere (although you can use information in the server cert to make further guesses). That means somehow getting a signing cert onto the device that all of the IoT things trust. Good luck.
What's the usual format of an EM drive? Does it go on a satellite for maintaining orbit instead of a chemical thruster that'll one day run out of fuel?
IMO, one of the exciting things about this is that even if we eventually discover it only works due to interaction with the Earth's magnetic field, or gravity well, or whatever, it could still be a very useful technology for that application.
Agreed, I still want to find out how this product works in places like Warren Ohio, Joplin, Missouri, Greensburg Kanasas (Most Damaging Tornadoes I can think of off the top of my head) Where tornadoes while not "common" also aren't "rare" and as such roofs need to be able to sustain pre-tornado weather (including hail) at least a few times a year. (to be reliable)
It doesn't matter how it performs in a Joplin or Moore-class tornado, when the house it was attached to has been blown into the next county. The only exception would be that a glass shingle going 200mph is more dangerous than a shred of composition going the same speed.
Traditional composition shingles are flexible. I live in north Texas where we get plenty of nasty weather. You can see comp shingles lifting a bit in high wind (think petting a cat or dog the wrong way). Once that happens, it gives the wind something to grab, and can start a feedback loop. A rigid material wouldn't have that problem.
Likewise, we had a bad hail storm last May. My roof had to be replaced, but the glass in all of the cars on the street was fine. Insurance companies around here give pretty good discounts for hail resistant roofing, so you might actually save money there, too, especially if it really ends up being cheaper to install (in my case, going from the normal shingles that were on the house when I bought it to class 4 impact ones saves about $1k every three years on insurance for a fairly small roof, so it's not insignificant).
No, it should be a recording repeating, "This annoying noise is required by the government because of the )(*$%s that won't get their nose out of their phones and pay attention while they're walking. We hope you enjoy your new environmentally friendly, quiet city" at high volume.
This just keeps on getting better and better. VW Group have simply not owned up to the depth of their cheating and been forthright with their cooperation.
Our regulators should slap increasing penalties on each successive cheat they find, to penalize for the hiding of evidence over and above the violation itself.
I'm not sure this is nearly as bad as you make it sound. I have an Audi S5, and it has several shift programs you can choose. One is "Auto," where it looks at your driving style, and adjusts shift points and throttle response accordingly. If you're driving gently, it goes towards comfort/eco mode, which uses less fuel. If you drive aggressively, it goes toward sports mode, which keeps revs higher and uses more fuel. So, no shit, if you use that mode (which I think might be the default), and the test is gentle (or explicitly put it in Comfort mode), it's going to be more efficient, no funny business involved.
I couldn't find anywhere in TFAs that said Audi was intentionally looking for test conditions and modifying the program, only that the shift program was adapting to test conditions. This might just be a case of automotive tech outpacing the testing methods.
Getting all games on all platforms is not feasible, no.
But why the flying hell can't the SAME GAME on PS4, XB1, Windows Store and Steam just... just play TOGETHER?
FF14 has managed to do it, although I'm told Sony really didn't like the idea - but they have PS3, PS4 and PC players on the same servers. They then have OTHER problems if you want to, say, migrate your standalone PC account to Steam, but that's a whole other can of worms.
Well, aside from the input device inequality that others have mentioned. Keeping multiplayer games in sync requires the clients to be pretty deterministic. Not just deterministic, but in exactly the same way. It's bad enough between Windows, MacOS and Linux all on relatively similar x86-based hardware. Adding in a bunch of console OSes and hardware just makes it worse. Segregating the consoles is the simple way to simplify things.
The USA burned through 7000 million barrels of crude oil in 2015, so 32 million from sewage conversion is just a rounding error. Also, since the sewage comes out at many disparate locations across the country, building one of these plants at every sewer plant might not even be worth the hassle.
I don't think this is particularly new. I read about something similar probably 10-15 years ago already.
Thing is, the same process should work on a lot more than just sewage. Certain types of trash, butcher scraps, yard trimmings, maybe even pureed plastics could probably all be used as raw material. Really depends on how much a plant has to be "tuned" for a certain feed stock.
It would be really cool if it could get to a point where the entire waste stream is ground up, the sewage is added to liquefy it so it can be pumped through the plant, and then whatever can be turned into oil is, and the rest (probably mostly metals to be recycled, and sand) can be filtered off.
Heck, if I could do that with the traffic data, I'd never share it - wouldn't want it fixed.
I'd just write an app where I could input a route 30 minutes before I leave for somewhere, that makes everyone think the traffic is horrible, so they clear out...
I recently moved from New England to Houston, and let me tell you, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to air condition a house in the summer here than it is to heat a house in the winter there.
Really? The houses here in TX tend to have absolutely shit insulation, whereas the ones in the midwest and Wisconsin where my grandparents and sister live are very well insulated (because it actually gets cold there). Their houses are always warmer in the winter than mine in N. TX, because it just costs too much to keep up with crappy insulation. (and that goes for every place I've lived here in the last 40 years, not just my current place)
Also, welcome to TX, the land of occasionally running the A/C and heat on the same day.:D
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You forgot taxes. Someone earning $100k is probably paying about $25k in federal taxes, so they're "only" left with $75k. In your example, that leaves them with $8400 after the rent.
by Institutionalize racism. It's when it's buried so deep in your society that it's hard to separate it from statistical data. Forest for the trees and what not. It starts getting hard to separate cause and effect. Actually no, that's not right. It becomes easy to _not_ separate them. In the overt scenario blacks get profiled for crime. In the not so overt one they can't get loans because folks in those neighborhoods are 3% more likely to default. This is what happens when you feed large amounts of data into complex systems without knowing or caring about the consequences...
Sounds like these AIs would be a good way to expose subtle institutionalized bias. Scrub a an attribute like race or sex from training data, then add it back to the results, and then if there's still bias, it can help figure out why.
The Aviation Security officer has already been placed on leave and his outfit as publicly stated his actions were not in line with their policy (re: he's f*cked).
Now it's on to see how UA is going to handle this mess.
I think the former statement answers your question. They'll say "We asked Aviation Security to remove the passenger in accordance with our policies that he agreed to when purchasing the ticket, and they screwed it up. Not our fault."
We all know these drugs have an insane markup. The drug companies are getting rick because they set astronomical prices for drugs the might help people, even a little. And they get it because insurance is forced to pay for it, not individuals who could never come up with the money on an individual basis. We have created the problem by mandating insurance and then letting the drug companies pilfer it blind.
It's possible I just don't know how things work, but are the insurance companies really *forced* to pay those prices? Why can't they look at how much it costs to produce a drug and simply refuse to pay more than a certain price for it? Most people won't be able to afford it, and the drug company's market shrinks. The first insurance company to do this would have a competitive advantage, and I'd think the rest would have to follow suit. Meaning the drug companies sell cheaper or have little to no market. Obviously, they're not currently doing this, so there must be a reason...
I'm not. /. are of this general opinion. It's machiavellian for sure, but really does have the whole "Ends justify the means" feel to it.
I think most here on
Hopefully (though doubtfully) the OEMs will be eating a lot of warranty returns. It is only if this costs the OEMs money that the problems will be fixed. If it only costs the end users money then not a ton will really happen.
I was thinking it'd be neat if the malware had a database of warranty information and geo-IP-based warranty laws, and it actually tried to figure out if the device was still under warranty. Silently close the backdoor and go dormant if it thinks it's not under warranty, brick it if it thinks it is.
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"?
Like, for example, helping more of them get experience in the low and mid-level jobs they need to move up?
.. the "secret" (he's figured out how to create a stable wormhole to another dimension where the charge is much greater than our own (see, not creating energy from nothing, just stealing from someone else)... Whoops! Hope they don't come after me)...
So, really, he's invented epsilonic radiating aorist rods... :P
Good intention, but what's to prevent a border patrol agent from a rogue state from just detaining people until the trip mode timer expires?
Set a "home" location. Require the mobile device to be physically located within a certain distance of that area (determined via GPS) in order for trip mode to be deactivated.
Not to sound like a /. shill, but I've given up on flights that are to major cities less than 500 miles from where
My math goes something like this:
Min door-to-door flight time is usually 45 min to airport, 45 min from airport, 30 min+ for security & bag check, 1hr safety margin, 15-30 min taxiing, plus flight time.
That's 3-4 hours+ (~200 mile drive) just dealing with the hassles surrounding air travel. Add another 50 miles driven for every hour you spend in the air.
Then, I personally am willing to deal with another hour or two of driving (+100mi) because I don't have to worry about transportation once I get where I'm going, maybe another hour or two because I can pack as much as I want of whatever I want, and significantly more time if I'm going with someone (no increase in cost, plus a relief driver).
Why the fuck would any poor person choose to settle in such a high priced area?
Because they were already there, and they're poor, and moving is expensive?
Moving someplace new generally requires a sizable amount of liquid funds to cover moving expenses, deposits, etc., not to mention the costs associated with finding a new job to go to. The working poor don't often have that kind of money on hand to spend.
Exactly. And I would actually happily support using some of my tax money to subsidize these economic prisoners moving to more sane markets. I'd much rather do that than subsidize their housing, which just makes the problem worse. If all of the people doing those low-paying jobs suddenly are able to leave, it will reduce housing pressure, lower prices, and also force those jobs to actually pay a living wage to get people to stay and do them.
This is exactly what I was thinking. The EM noise from transferring that much power like that seems like it would be insane. Don't go near it with any electronics?
I would think a simple system where you essentially have an upside down pantograph on the bottom of the car would be the most straightforward way of doing it, as well as having the potential to power the car in motion as well. There could be some safety issues with exposed contacts on the floor, but requiring the pantograph to exert several hundred pounds of pressure to press down to a contact might be a simple way of sidestepping that (at least for stationary applications).
Why store it on the camera at all. In a situation where you or a source is risking their life/freedom, it seems like some kind of satellite-based relay that sends stuff off ASAP would be worth investigating. You could even make it look to the camera like a flash card, so it works with any camera.
Probably doesn't matter much, though. Any jurisdiction where that would be an issue would just make possession of such a device (or encryption-capable recording devices) carry similar penalties.
get to pick up the slack with no extra PTO or a larger salary? I understand the need to help parents, and i don't dispute it. I get that maybe parents needsome time out for a new birth or to leave early or come in late or take time off now and again to deal with older kids, but 20 weeks at full pay? doesn't that put a huge burden on those who dont have kids to pick up the slack?
As a single person with no kids, even I won't complain about giving a new parent a break.
That said, no way am I working a bunch of extra hours for 20 weeks to cover for an event that you knew damn well was coming for the last nine months. If you didn't get temp help, that means you're OK with stuff falling behind while they're gone.
Also, stop designing it to require an expensive subscription service instead of talking directly to the infrastructure around the car.
Not that simple. Sometimes drug abuse is just a medical condition. But often drug abuse causes people to hurt others which is (and should be) a crime. See the difference?
I would argue that the drug prohibition (or rather, its totally predictable side effects) has hurt far, far more "other people" than drug users ever have. Hell, it's come damn close to destroying entire countries.
One of the things I do for a living is write firewall policy. We use Palo Alto gear, which seems to be some of the best available at automatically identifying what stuff is.
Even with a company like that behind the gear spending a lot of time and money keeping things up to date, it doesn't know about every little thing it sees.
Another challenge is that this device would need to be able to do SSL forward proxy for everything, or all it will know is there's an ssl connection to somewhere (although you can use information in the server cert to make further guesses). That means somehow getting a signing cert onto the device that all of the IoT things trust. Good luck.
What's the usual format of an EM drive? Does it go on a satellite for maintaining orbit instead of a chemical thruster that'll one day run out of fuel?
IMO, one of the exciting things about this is that even if we eventually discover it only works due to interaction with the Earth's magnetic field, or gravity well, or whatever, it could still be a very useful technology for that application.
Agreed, I still want to find out how this product works in places like Warren Ohio, Joplin, Missouri, Greensburg Kanasas (Most Damaging Tornadoes I can think of off the top of my head) Where tornadoes while not "common" also aren't "rare" and as such roofs need to be able to sustain pre-tornado weather (including hail) at least a few times a year. (to be reliable)
It doesn't matter how it performs in a Joplin or Moore-class tornado, when the house it was attached to has been blown into the next county. The only exception would be that a glass shingle going 200mph is more dangerous than a shred of composition going the same speed.
Traditional composition shingles are flexible. I live in north Texas where we get plenty of nasty weather. You can see comp shingles lifting a bit in high wind (think petting a cat or dog the wrong way). Once that happens, it gives the wind something to grab, and can start a feedback loop. A rigid material wouldn't have that problem.
Likewise, we had a bad hail storm last May. My roof had to be replaced, but the glass in all of the cars on the street was fine. Insurance companies around here give pretty good discounts for hail resistant roofing, so you might actually save money there, too, especially if it really ends up being cheaper to install (in my case, going from the normal shingles that were on the house when I bought it to class 4 impact ones saves about $1k every three years on insurance for a fairly small roof, so it's not insignificant).
Hissing or fake engine noise.
No, it should be a recording repeating, "This annoying noise is required by the government because of the )(*$%s that won't get their nose out of their phones and pay attention while they're walking. We hope you enjoy your new environmentally friendly, quiet city" at high volume.
This just keeps on getting better and better. VW Group have simply not owned up to the depth of their cheating and been forthright with their cooperation.
Our regulators should slap increasing penalties on each successive cheat they find, to penalize for the hiding of evidence over and above the violation itself.
I'm not sure this is nearly as bad as you make it sound. I have an Audi S5, and it has several shift programs you can choose. One is "Auto," where it looks at your driving style, and adjusts shift points and throttle response accordingly. If you're driving gently, it goes towards comfort/eco mode, which uses less fuel. If you drive aggressively, it goes toward sports mode, which keeps revs higher and uses more fuel. So, no shit, if you use that mode (which I think might be the default), and the test is gentle (or explicitly put it in Comfort mode), it's going to be more efficient, no funny business involved.
I couldn't find anywhere in TFAs that said Audi was intentionally looking for test conditions and modifying the program, only that the shift program was adapting to test conditions. This might just be a case of automotive tech outpacing the testing methods.
Getting all games on all platforms is not feasible, no.
But why the flying hell can't the SAME GAME on PS4, XB1, Windows Store and Steam just ... just play TOGETHER?
FF14 has managed to do it, although I'm told Sony really didn't like the idea - but they have PS3, PS4 and PC players on the same servers. They then have OTHER problems if you want to, say, migrate your standalone PC account to Steam, but that's a whole other can of worms.
Well, aside from the input device inequality that others have mentioned. Keeping multiplayer games in sync requires the clients to be pretty deterministic. Not just deterministic, but in exactly the same way. It's bad enough between Windows, MacOS and Linux all on relatively similar x86-based hardware. Adding in a bunch of console OSes and hardware just makes it worse. Segregating the consoles is the simple way to simplify things.
The USA burned through 7000 million barrels of crude oil in 2015, so 32 million from sewage conversion is just a rounding error. Also, since the sewage comes out at many disparate locations across the country, building one of these plants at every sewer plant might not even be worth the hassle.
I don't think this is particularly new. I read about something similar probably 10-15 years ago already.
Thing is, the same process should work on a lot more than just sewage. Certain types of trash, butcher scraps, yard trimmings, maybe even pureed plastics could probably all be used as raw material. Really depends on how much a plant has to be "tuned" for a certain feed stock.
It would be really cool if it could get to a point where the entire waste stream is ground up, the sewage is added to liquefy it so it can be pumped through the plant, and then whatever can be turned into oil is, and the rest (probably mostly metals to be recycled, and sand) can be filtered off.
Heck, if I could do that with the traffic data, I'd never share it - wouldn't want it fixed.
I'd just write an app where I could input a route 30 minutes before I leave for somewhere, that makes everyone think the traffic is horrible, so they clear out...
I recently moved from New England to Houston, and let me tell you, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to air condition a house in the summer here than it is to heat a house in the winter there.
Really? The houses here in TX tend to have absolutely shit insulation, whereas the ones in the midwest and Wisconsin where my grandparents and sister live are very well insulated (because it actually gets cold there). Their houses are always warmer in the winter than mine in N. TX, because it just costs too much to keep up with crappy insulation. (and that goes for every place I've lived here in the last 40 years, not just my current place)
Also, welcome to TX, the land of occasionally running the A/C and heat on the same day. :D