How nice... Is there any history about how that has worked before?
Microcode update for buggy instructions that are discovered after the chips were distributed. You must notice microcode updates are performed by that second chip.
Might want to use TOR or your favorite hiding software.
No, Most of the emails that might be posted, should be available in their entirety. And if they could include phone calls that triggered the emails, that would be great too. Unfortunately we don't have email copies. Take wikileaks as a grain of salt.
I'm fascinated by how much of this I see in the UK's referendum debate - there are an awful lot of immigrants declaring they want out to stop immigration.
Interestingly there are groups that want out to change immigration, for example, Pritti Patel a Conservative MP for the Brexit campaign wants out so that rather than having large numbers of European migrants, we can instead increase the number of Bangladeshi migrants acting as curry workers (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/minister-priti-patel-quit-eu-to-save-our-curry-houses-a3251071.html). They had an interview with a Malaysian student (who can vote, because she's a commonwealth citizen resident in the UK) who said she will vote out because she wants less Polish immigrants and wants it to be easier for her and other Commonwealth people from countries like Nigeria to immigrate instead.
Personally I'm not the anti-immigration type, it's not affected me negatively and just like every politician that comes into power I realise it creates a net economic good for the countries (something that contrary to the rhetoric has been shown in a number of studies such as that from Oxford's migration observatory, and from the ICL) but I never cease to be amazed at the complete selfish shit fight going on amongst those who are immigrants, and as such I propose that if we're going to close our doors and remove people that the first people we kick out are the intolerant ones, because my country was always built on tolerance and if they don't like that they can fuck off home.
The people that are going to be most surprised though are British natives who are voting out for xenophobic anti-immigrant reasons and are going to get a sore surprise when they realise that it isn't going to decrease immigration for the reasons above. Instead of Poles who are reasonably educated, and have a similar culture and so integrate fairly well they're going to be faced with Pritti Patel's Bangladeshi migrants which will be fun, given that poor integration of nationals from poorer Islamic nations in the UK is the one thing that's created most our nation's anti-immigration sentiment in the first place.
I think it's sad that so many people come to countries like ours to take advantage of the wealth and then would deny it to others. I wonder how much Taco Cowboy will be parroting the closed borders policy when the next step is to also start deporting folks like him back home?
The whole immigration debate is flooded with nonsense and bile from top to bottom including from those who have most benefited from the status quo. The real problem is that sociopaths like him aren't the isolated cases. If we could figure out how to spot them a mile off and deny them entry in the first place then I suspect the whole immigration issue would be a whole lot less problematic, but maybe there's something to that? Maybe people who leave their country behind in the first place are more inclined to be selfish and be the type that just looks out for themselves, whilst those that stay behind and try and fix their country are inherently more selfless in general, hence why we end up with so much hypocritical dross like we're seeing here?
The problem is GUNS, and unrestricted access to them. My grand-daughter age 12 could order one by mail-order.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? And suppose there was no fraud, but you were carrying a deposit on a house or a car, and because of their seizure, you have losses? What then? And how do you get your assets back?
What has happened to justice in the USA, Are you safer in Russia? I think so...
Gnome 3 was let out too soon. It should have remained as a beta until all of Gnome 2 was able to be replicated. Nautilus was cleaned of functionality, and so were many other desktop options.
Wayland is next. With Wayland, I can't issue sudo gparted/dev/sdc (Wayland can't understand terminal mode). Nautilus is a tool for creating carpal tunnel problems with the mouse click fingers.
One of xfce, mate cinnamon and gnome2 or KDE is all that was needed as a base interface. I would say Gnome3 should still remain in beta for another two years.
33 feet which is 10 meters, easy to spot, hardly "low key" (ehm) eves dropping. I would imagine the eves dropper would get a bloody nose before getting to the door...
I'll remember you said that when you discover that "innocent" cell phone charger sitting in the corner of your office is actually a microphone with a 64GB microSD card and SIM card inside, dumping a day's worth of key listening across a covert channel, to include your voice conversations.
Or perhaps the device listening will be your cell phone itself. After all, those never get hacked.
Perhaps you should start considering the fact that it's hardly a human sitting in the room listening to high-frequency whine, nor does it need to be. Good luck with your bloody nose defense.
Maybe we should go back to pen and paper and snail mail. Do you think that the microphone pickup of pen scratching could follow what was being written? Why do we have to encrypt a file with AES and one key. Why not alternate allow encrypting 8/16 bytes with one key and the next 8/16 bytes with an alternative key. One algorithm or both could be AES, with the other, twofish. And use cypher block chaining.
Are you suggesting I should install Linux for... what?
I can't answer that question for you, but for me, the answer is "to get all my work done" as I've in fact done for 15+ years. Now, 15 years ago, it was much more of a struggle. Today, there is so much software for Linux that I seldom have to look very far. Office suite, graphics, audio processing, typesetting and desktop publishing, OCR, and on and on--- everything I need to do what I do.
I know there are specialized apps and games that don't run on Linux, and I know that Wine and even VMWare are not always good solutions. I know that some people legitimately need to run Windows, or simply want to run Windows.
But I do submit that the number of cases in which the claim is made that the job can't get done on Linux is more a function of not wanting to, rather than not being able to.
Aside from LibreOffice, I found two other products that perform as well as MS Office. Cost Effective writing is a joy without worrying about Windows and MS Office costs. By the way, I do tip the authors of software I use and for which I recognize as "worthwhile".
When we teach children mathematics, we should also teach them some basic programming. Less than, equal, greater than and some looping to help the youngster to better understand the mathematics.
Most youngsters have problems with multiplication to 13 times tables and long division. The computer program, is what aids in learning the two operations. Noone is asking a child to write beyond his level. But a computer program lets a student learn better than with the desk calculator that the student uses as a cheat sheet.
I can tell your code quality by your arrogant post that just assumes people who don't understand your code aren't trained enough.
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.
So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
--- Brian Kernigan, "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, chapter 2
I had this quote framed and put on the wall at the last place I worked were btw, some new guy wanted to tear up perfectly working C and replace it with SCALA so it would be more "modern" and tried to go over my head to do it.. At the job before that, I had to sit there for a week as a possible client went through my code and then decided it looked easy enough that they could re implement it themselves (turns out, no they couldn't)
"Messy" is not about not writing complicated code messy is about being complicated when you don't have to be and not properly abstracting the complicated parts and not commenting the worst parts. Messy is about over depending on order of operations instead of using brackets to make things more clear (to top this off, many compilers screw up order of operations so the code may not be doing what you think). Messy is about doing the same complicated thing 5 times instead of making a function (or even a macro) to do the work. Messy is about not knowing when to split a function into a separate one rather than adding new parameters to the existing function to make it handle more cases.
Don't even get me started on programmers who think cleaning up compile warnings is a waste of time or who split databases for speed reasons (hint: if you are always joining the same 3 tables in every query it's not faster any more)
Bravo. I agree with you. I write code as a hobby. Anyone who reads my code can follow it. I write code as I would write a story. There is the introduction (what the program does and a history of changes), and chapters detailing each aspect, (functions). Then I use auto-indentation for my code as well as reviewing all warning messages so that the compiles run without any error or warning messages (gcc or g++ -O3 -Wall -Wextra )
Any new code that I write, is revisited a week later. I have to answer the "Do I understand what I wrote last week?" Sometimes code simplification ideas come after a day or so away from the sources. I have the time and desire to "tweak code towards simplicity"
This is what I see about poverty. People are asked to work for minimum wage, which is not a living wage. Since these individuals need to make ends meet, they hold down two jobs. And even so, with that minimum wage, for both husband and wife, don't expect them to buy health insurance, or afford university. Furthermore, with subsistence living, cell phones and cellphone services are a luxury. These people cannot buy the goods that are making the one percent wealthy.
In all ways, the Reagan's trickle-down economics has created the poor class. It has not lifted the level of poverty to above subsistence living. The idea of a minimum income works in Canada. Some of my peers need the government old-age security cheque, which is adjusted to the family income. If the individual has a large private pension, most of that old-age security money is clawed back. And in Quebec where I live, we have single payer healthcare system and a single payer drug plan. We can augment it with private insurances, or stay with the governement plan.
Some of what Sanders suggests is what Americans need. Herein is a brief story.
I have a friend with MS, a debilitating disease. The daily supply of syringes with medicine would have cost him around $16,000/yr. Add to that the anti-biotics for the kids, flue vaccines, etc and his medical costs would exceed $17,000/yr. if there was no "single payer system". Fortunately, his out-of-pocket medicine costs are capped at $3000/yr for drugs and healthcare.
The question to ask and answer for yourself, is "Who is better off? The insurance companies, who are still doing well with private/public policies or citizens of the country? By the way, the MS person has a job and a home with mortgage, and will not have to worry about foreclosure.
I don't understand why Hawking's opinions about anything outside of physics is given publicity. Although one of the most brilliant minds of our time, in his field, he's not a politician nor a businessman.
Scott Adams comments these past two days are worth a read. He calls Trump an empty pursusader. And notice how he calls himself president, but calls Sanders Crazy, and other prefix derrogative nicknames to his opponents.
I feel that the USA's following Trump caters to the high-school dropout. --He may be stupid, but somewhere along the way it will catch up with him.
Embedded engineers have been doing this and dealing with these problems for decades. It really is their job description and what they do all day.
I think this only shows how isolated some people are from the rest of the world. Nothing new to see here.
Can you recall the tube IDs in your parent's old desk or mantl radio? Will the IOT chips be analogous to the 12ax7's the ecc83's the 6u6's the 12be6's and all the triodes, pentodes and rectifiers of that day.
I see about a dozen or two of standardize modules for IoT. What would likely differentiate the family of modules is their operating voltages or immunity to electrical interference. The most useful chips will need one or two ms to change state.
Who cares about webscale, we're talking big-data-scale. COBOL is not the problem. COBOL, DB2 for transactions, CICS to connect from web-land, nightly dump changes to Hadoop to run queries faster and cheaper. Been there, done that, saved millions (in USD). But nobody is even thinking of converting the 40000-and-some COBOL programs off the mainframe, not cost-effective at all.
its much more difficult to make a costly logic with Cobol than it is with OOPS or C. I program in C and C++, and programmed with Cobol. And Cobol maintenance is more quickly done because the code is easier to follow. Cobol = great maintainability/performance for commercial/large volume transactions.
I shudder to think about maintaining a large payroll application in C/C++
If that can be commercialized, then AT&T and the others will have 10x bandwidth to sell. No, you won't get a discount. Never give a captive client (sucker) any even break.
More seriously, I've decided elderly is a state of mind. Someone else's mind.
I'm a senior. I don' t have trembles in the hand and fingers, but I have some life savings and some pensions. I do not work. If I am online and my ID is hacked, and then my id is stolen, the impact to my possessions is possibly depletion without my knowledge.
Ergo, I take the time to create a password that is long, is varied, is with characters added to the US keyboard layout. Characters like € or ¥ and like # ± £ I go on the assumption that typical hacker software will not look outside the range of what can be entered with a US standard keyboard layout.
Secondly, WTF is it with Uber? Just to go to the pool 3x a week would cost me about $450+/- per month - it runs about $20 each way. Add in other places i frequent and it'd be cheaper to buy a Tesla Model S - including insurance and taxes.
Why is that an Uber problem? If you take a taxi to the pool 3x a week, is that going to be much cheaper? Why are you paying for rides to the pool 3x a week anyway?
This just in: if you use Uber to drive you 10 miles to and from work every day, it's going to cut into your budget.
Our Quebec Government is passing a law requiring Uber drivers to have criminal checks, CPR and an "operator driver" license. And then the cars themselves have to be safety inspected every six months. If all goes well, it will be in force by July 2016. Here is the dilemma. The government put a limit on the number of taxi permits allowed. Taxi owners bought the permits, and due to scarcity, their price rose to around $200,000. With Uber as competition, with "unsafe" cars as competition, these drivers will be bankrupted, and their life savings poured into the permit, gone. The government has therefore tried to level the playing field. Taxi companies are forming to offer Uber type services (cashless, pre-determined and surge pricing, and ride shared pricing). The standard fee the last time I took a taxi was $3.00 plus ten cents/km, that is a dollar a kilometer. Uber charges are about 30 percent less. Uber drivers are complaining that Uber takes 30% off the top, and Uber does not insure them. Uber wants the drivers as independent tradesmen. Uber does not want to handle sales tax deductions (as built-into the taxi fare) or income tax data.
I thought the functionality of the API is free and open source. The title to the API (The API's name and sequence of parameters) is what Oracle wants copyrightable. And with that I can't agree. Its like saying that the words in a table of contents are copyrighted.
If I sell a hamburger garnished with onions and pickles, I can't copy that recipe. I can call it a Hamburger Special and you can copy that name.
You can go into competition with me and create your own hamburger, garnished with onions and pickles as a Hamburger Special. Its your right, since it's a generic item.
But if I named my hamburger the "LeslieSpecial", where I trademarked LeslieSpecial, then you are not allowed to use LeslieSpecial. Just like McDonalds can't use Wopper", or Burger King not allowed to use "BigMac", because of trademarks. The API's are not trademarked as far as I know.
Or the car failing to have seen you and so hitting you continues to fail to see you and accelerates, possibly to motorway speeds. You are now stuck on the bonnet travelling at 70mph. The occupants may be asleep or so engrossed in a film they fail to spot you, since they no longer bother looking where the car is going and only glance out the window every 5 minutes to see where they are.
Boom!! What happened? Why is the car stopping? Did the self driving software fall asleep? Ohh my gosh...
Charging state sales taxes is justified. Without state taxes, your road maintenance, police, and other services would have to reduce staff, to the point that will hurt the typical resident. The fact that you purchased over the internet is moot. It is where you sat on the terminal when you placed your order that counts.
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How nice ... Is there any history about how that has worked before?
Microcode update for buggy instructions that are discovered after the chips were distributed. You must notice microcode updates are performed by that second chip.
Link to location for Publication
Might want to use TOR or your favorite hiding software.
No, Most of the emails that might be posted, should be available in their entirety. And if they could include phone calls that triggered the emails, that would be great too. Unfortunately we don't have email copies. Take wikileaks as a grain of salt.
I'm fascinated by how much of this I see in the UK's referendum debate - there are an awful lot of immigrants declaring they want out to stop immigration.
Interestingly there are groups that want out to change immigration, for example, Pritti Patel a Conservative MP for the Brexit campaign wants out so that rather than having large numbers of European migrants, we can instead increase the number of Bangladeshi migrants acting as curry workers (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/minister-priti-patel-quit-eu-to-save-our-curry-houses-a3251071.html). They had an interview with a Malaysian student (who can vote, because she's a commonwealth citizen resident in the UK) who said she will vote out because she wants less Polish immigrants and wants it to be easier for her and other Commonwealth people from countries like Nigeria to immigrate instead.
Personally I'm not the anti-immigration type, it's not affected me negatively and just like every politician that comes into power I realise it creates a net economic good for the countries (something that contrary to the rhetoric has been shown in a number of studies such as that from Oxford's migration observatory, and from the ICL) but I never cease to be amazed at the complete selfish shit fight going on amongst those who are immigrants, and as such I propose that if we're going to close our doors and remove people that the first people we kick out are the intolerant ones, because my country was always built on tolerance and if they don't like that they can fuck off home.
The people that are going to be most surprised though are British natives who are voting out for xenophobic anti-immigrant reasons and are going to get a sore surprise when they realise that it isn't going to decrease immigration for the reasons above. Instead of Poles who are reasonably educated, and have a similar culture and so integrate fairly well they're going to be faced with Pritti Patel's Bangladeshi migrants which will be fun, given that poor integration of nationals from poorer Islamic nations in the UK is the one thing that's created most our nation's anti-immigration sentiment in the first place.
I think it's sad that so many people come to countries like ours to take advantage of the wealth and then would deny it to others. I wonder how much Taco Cowboy will be parroting the closed borders policy when the next step is to also start deporting folks like him back home?
The whole immigration debate is flooded with nonsense and bile from top to bottom including from those who have most benefited from the status quo. The real problem is that sociopaths like him aren't the isolated cases. If we could figure out how to spot them a mile off and deny them entry in the first place then I suspect the whole immigration issue would be a whole lot less problematic, but maybe there's something to that? Maybe people who leave their country behind in the first place are more inclined to be selfish and be the type that just looks out for themselves, whilst those that stay behind and try and fix their country are inherently more selfless in general, hence why we end up with so much hypocritical dross like we're seeing here?
The problem is GUNS, and unrestricted access to them. My grand-daughter age 12 could order one by mail-order.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? And suppose there was no fraud, but you were carrying a deposit on a house or a car, and because of their seizure, you have losses? What then? And how do you get your assets back?
What has happened to justice in the USA, Are you safer in Russia? I think so...
Gnome 3 was let out too soon. It should have remained as a beta until all of Gnome 2 was able to be replicated. Nautilus was cleaned of functionality, and so were many other desktop options.
Wayland is next. With Wayland, I can't issue sudo gparted /dev/sdc (Wayland can't understand terminal mode).
Nautilus is a tool for creating carpal tunnel problems with the mouse click fingers.
One of xfce, mate cinnamon and gnome2 or KDE is all that was needed as a base interface. I would say Gnome3 should still remain in beta for another two years.
I take a simple phrase, then take the sha256sum hash of the phrase, and from the middle characters, 12 characters.
33 feet which is 10 meters, easy to spot, hardly "low key" (ehm) eves dropping. I would imagine the eves dropper would get a bloody nose before getting to the door...
I'll remember you said that when you discover that "innocent" cell phone charger sitting in the corner of your office is actually a microphone with a 64GB microSD card and SIM card inside, dumping a day's worth of key listening across a covert channel, to include your voice conversations.
Or perhaps the device listening will be your cell phone itself. After all, those never get hacked.
Perhaps you should start considering the fact that it's hardly a human sitting in the room listening to high-frequency whine, nor does it need to be. Good luck with your bloody nose defense.
Maybe we should go back to pen and paper and snail mail. Do you think that the microphone pickup of pen scratching could follow what was being written?
Why do we have to encrypt a file with AES and one key. Why not alternate allow encrypting 8/16 bytes with one key and the next 8/16 bytes with an alternative key. One algorithm or both could be AES, with the other, twofish. And use cypher block chaining.
Are you suggesting I should install Linux for... what?
I can't answer that question for you, but for me, the answer is "to get all my work done" as I've in fact done for 15+ years. Now, 15 years ago, it was much more of a struggle. Today, there is so much software for Linux that I seldom have to look very far. Office suite, graphics, audio processing, typesetting and desktop publishing, OCR, and on and on--- everything I need to do what I do.
I know there are specialized apps and games that don't run on Linux, and I know that Wine and even VMWare are not always good solutions. I know that some people legitimately need to run Windows, or simply want to run Windows.
But I do submit that the number of cases in which the claim is made that the job can't get done on Linux is more a function of not wanting to, rather than not being able to.
Aside from LibreOffice, I found two other products that perform as well as MS Office. Cost Effective writing is a joy without worrying about Windows and MS Office costs. By the way, I do tip the authors of software I use and for which I recognize as "worthwhile".
Yup - GNU/Systemd Fedora is my preferred OS. Pretty rock solid.
MINE TOO.
One year with F22 with no hic-cups. 6 mo with F23 and no hic-cups.
When we teach children mathematics, we should also teach them some basic programming. Less than, equal, greater than and some looping to help the youngster to better understand the mathematics.
Most youngsters have problems with multiplication to 13 times tables and long division. The computer program, is what aids in learning the two operations.
Noone is asking a child to write beyond his level. But a computer program lets a student learn better than with the desk calculator that the student uses as a cheat sheet.
I can tell your code quality by your arrogant post that just assumes people who don't understand your code aren't trained enough.
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.
So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
--- Brian Kernigan, "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, chapter 2
I had this quote framed and put on the wall at the last place I worked were btw, some new guy wanted to tear up perfectly working C and replace it with SCALA so it would be more "modern" and tried to go over my head to do it.. At the job before that, I had to sit there for a week as a possible client went through my code and then decided it looked easy enough that they could re implement it themselves (turns out, no they couldn't)
"Messy" is not about not writing complicated code messy is about being complicated when you don't have to be and not properly abstracting the complicated parts and not commenting the worst parts. Messy is about over depending on order of operations instead of using brackets to make things more clear (to top this off, many compilers screw up order of operations so the code may not be doing what you think). Messy is about doing the same complicated thing 5 times instead of making a function (or even a macro) to do the work. Messy is about not knowing when to split a function into a separate one rather than adding new parameters to the existing function to make it handle more cases.
Don't even get me started on programmers who think cleaning up compile warnings is a waste of time or who split databases for speed reasons (hint: if you are always joining the same 3 tables in every query it's not faster any more)
Bravo. I agree with you.
I write code as a hobby. Anyone who reads my code can follow it. I write code as I would write a story. There is the introduction (what the program does and a history of changes), and chapters detailing each aspect, (functions). Then I use auto-indentation for my code as well as reviewing all warning messages so that the compiles run without any error or warning messages (gcc or g++ -O3 -Wall -Wextra )
Any new code that I write, is revisited a week later. I have to answer the "Do I understand what I wrote last week?" Sometimes code simplification ideas come after a day or so away from the sources. I have the time and desire to "tweak code towards simplicity"
This is what I see about poverty. People are asked to work for minimum wage, which is not a living wage. Since these individuals need to make ends meet, they hold down two jobs. And even so, with that minimum wage, for both husband and wife, don't expect them to buy health insurance, or afford university. Furthermore, with subsistence living, cell phones and cellphone services are a luxury. These people cannot buy the goods that are making the one percent wealthy.
In all ways, the Reagan's trickle-down economics has created the poor class. It has not lifted the level of poverty to above subsistence living.
The idea of a minimum income works in Canada. Some of my peers need the government old-age security cheque, which is adjusted to the family income. If the individual has a large private pension, most of that old-age security money is clawed back. And in Quebec where I live, we have single payer healthcare system and a single payer drug plan. We can augment it with private insurances, or stay with the governement plan.
Some of what Sanders suggests is what Americans need. Herein is a brief story.
I have a friend with MS, a debilitating disease. The daily supply of syringes with medicine would have cost him around $16,000/yr. Add to that the anti-biotics for the kids, flue vaccines, etc and his medical costs would exceed $17,000/yr. if there was no "single payer system". Fortunately, his out-of-pocket medicine costs are capped at $3000/yr for drugs and healthcare.
The question to ask and answer for yourself, is "Who is better off? The insurance companies, who are still doing well with private/public policies or citizens of the country? By the way, the MS person has a job and a home with mortgage, and will not have to worry about foreclosure.
And by the way, that person is not me.
NSA. Homeland Security, and other goodguys (sic) will do a joint purchase
I don't understand why Hawking's opinions about anything outside of physics is given publicity. Although one of the most brilliant minds of our time, in his field, he's not a politician nor a businessman.
Scott Adams comments these past two days are worth a read. He calls Trump an empty pursusader.
And notice how he calls himself president, but calls Sanders Crazy, and other prefix derrogative nicknames to his opponents.
I feel that the USA's following Trump caters to the high-school dropout. --He may be stupid, but somewhere along the way it will catch up with him.
Embedded engineers have been doing this and dealing with these problems for decades. It really is their job description and what they do all day.
I think this only shows how isolated some people are from the rest of the world. Nothing new to see here.
Can you recall the tube IDs in your parent's old desk or mantl radio? Will the IOT chips be analogous to the 12ax7's the ecc83's the 6u6's the 12be6's and all the triodes, pentodes and rectifiers of that day.
I see about a dozen or two of standardize modules for IoT. What would likely differentiate the family of modules is their operating voltages or immunity to electrical interference. The most useful chips will need one or two ms to change state.
Who cares about webscale, we're talking big-data-scale. COBOL is not the problem. COBOL, DB2 for transactions, CICS to connect from web-land, nightly dump changes to Hadoop to run queries faster and cheaper. Been there, done that, saved millions (in USD). But nobody is even thinking of converting the 40000-and-some COBOL programs off the mainframe, not cost-effective at all.
its much more difficult to make a costly logic with Cobol than it is with OOPS or C. I program in C and C++, and programmed with Cobol.
And Cobol maintenance is more quickly done because the code is easier to follow. Cobol = great maintainability/performance for commercial/large volume transactions.
I shudder to think about maintaining a large payroll application in C/C++
If that can be commercialized, then AT&T and the others will have 10x bandwidth to sell. No, you won't get a discount. Never give a captive client (sucker) any even break.
When I'm 65, 66 will be elderly. And so on...
More seriously, I've decided elderly is a state of mind. Someone else's mind.
I'm a senior. I don' t have trembles in the hand and fingers, but I have some life savings and some pensions. I do not work. If I am online and my ID is hacked, and then my id is stolen, the impact to my possessions is possibly depletion without my knowledge.
Ergo, I take the time to create a password that is long, is varied, is with characters added to the US keyboard layout. Characters like € or ¥ and like # ± £
I go on the assumption that typical hacker software will not look outside the range of what can be entered with a US standard keyboard layout.
Secondly, WTF is it with Uber? Just to go to the pool 3x a week would cost me about $450+/- per month - it runs about $20 each way. Add in other places i frequent and it'd be cheaper to buy a Tesla Model S - including insurance and taxes.
Why is that an Uber problem? If you take a taxi to the pool 3x a week, is that going to be much cheaper? Why are you paying for rides to the pool 3x a week anyway?
This just in: if you use Uber to drive you 10 miles to and from work every day, it's going to cut into your budget.
Our Quebec Government is passing a law requiring Uber drivers to have criminal checks, CPR and an "operator driver" license. And then the cars themselves have to be safety inspected every six months. If all goes well, it will be in force by July 2016. Here is the dilemma. The government put a limit on the number of taxi permits allowed. Taxi owners bought the permits, and due to scarcity, their price rose to around $200,000. With Uber as competition, with "unsafe" cars as competition, these drivers will be bankrupted, and their life savings poured into the permit, gone. The government has therefore tried to level the playing field. Taxi companies are forming to offer Uber type services (cashless, pre-determined and surge pricing, and ride shared pricing).
The standard fee the last time I took a taxi was $3.00 plus ten cents/km, that is a dollar a kilometer. Uber charges are about 30 percent less.
Uber drivers are complaining that Uber takes 30% off the top, and Uber does not insure them. Uber wants the drivers as independent tradesmen. Uber does not want to handle sales tax deductions (as built-into the taxi fare) or income tax data.
I thought the functionality of the API is free and open source. The title to the API (The API's name and sequence of parameters) is what Oracle wants copyrightable. And with that I can't agree. Its like saying that the words in a table of contents are copyrighted.
If I sell a hamburger garnished with onions and pickles, I can't copy that recipe. I can call it a Hamburger Special and you can copy that name.
You can go into competition with me and create your own hamburger, garnished with onions and pickles as a Hamburger Special.
Its your right, since it's a generic item.
But if I named my hamburger the "LeslieSpecial", where I trademarked LeslieSpecial, then you are not allowed to use LeslieSpecial.
Just like McDonalds can't use Wopper", or Burger King not allowed to use "BigMac", because of trademarks.
The API's are not trademarked as far as I know.
Or the car failing to have seen you and so hitting you continues to fail to see you and accelerates, possibly to motorway speeds. You are now stuck on the bonnet travelling at 70mph. The occupants may be asleep or so engrossed in a film they fail to spot you, since they no longer bother looking where the car is going and only glance out the window every 5 minutes to see where they are.
Boom!! What happened? Why is the car stopping? Did the self driving software fall asleep? Ohh my gosh...
The Amazon venture is going to hurt Costco. Costco had better eliminate their membership fee, of they will feel the flee
Italy is officially smarter than the US.
So are many other countries. Blame the difference on the cost of university education.
Really? One wonders how a child would give permission in any manner that meant anything in a legal sense.
Perhaps the summary isn't presenting this clearly (what? WHAT?) but yes, it does seem pretty absurd.
Then again, the US certainly hasn't been slacking in stepping into the role of parental choice / decision-making.
What right does a biological parent who has a child of between 6 months to teenager have? If the parent has no rights, then why hang around.
Charging state sales taxes is justified. Without state taxes, your road maintenance, police, and other services would have to reduce staff, to the point that will hurt the typical resident. The fact that you purchased over the internet is moot. It is where you sat on the terminal when you placed your order that counts.