Warehousing and logistics costs to provide those extra parts for up to 2 decades after your vehicle is made isn't cheap. The markups may appear high but the profit per piece really isn't that much. I know we sell some stuff at a loss to remain competitive with aftermarket.
Then there are the routine maintenance items like oil filters, etc. Volumes for those are so high that it's much easier to keep the costs very low as purchasing power is high plus $.05 profit on an oil filter adds up when you sell millions each month.
Whilst this is true, a lot of manufacturers are just taking the piss on OEM parts. Honda has to be one of the worst for it. Genuine OEM Honda spark plugs were 4 times the price of NGK's... and I can almost guarantee that the genuine Honda parts were another brand.
Fortunately aftermarket parts for Hondas are cheap and easy to get. So when my Integra required new spark plugs, I just bought some NGK's.
Is the model moving to something closer to inkjet printers, banks and airlines? Get you in the door cheap, then nail you on the parts or fees.
I get you with airlines and printers... but if the same is true for banks, your country needs better banking regulations. I've lived in the UK and Australia, nailing you with fees gets a bank nailed to the wall by the regulator. The ease of switching banks means its a highly competitive market that cant be completely dominated by ancient, existing players. Moving debt is only slightly more difficult. So-called "challenger banks" starting in the UK are making the big boys like Lloyds and Natwest take note. As long as I make repayments on time and keep my account in the black, they don't charge me a penny.
Of course we don't get "cashback", but you didn't honestly think that the bank was giving you free money did you?
Facebook has been fined $645,000 by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which affected over 80 million users.
Now I believe that governments don't really think. How can a several billion dollar company, ($15b in net income -2017), be fined less that 0.04% of profit?
Can someone defend this position? does it make sense?
Fines are meant to be punitive, but not debilitating. They're meant to discourage bad or abusive business practices without discouraging business. If you were to fine them 100% of their revenue you'd find that more than a few businesses would pull out of your nation due to extreme risk. Not just the bad one's either, your countries political and judicial system will be considered a risk to respectable businesses.
Also, fines can be issued again and again. If Facebook thumbs their nose at this, laws will be changed.
You do know that the whole "nudity is baaaad" thing predates whatever you think "thrid wave feminism" is (which I can almost guarantee your definition and reality are at odds with each other). It originates from the religious right because Old Book says sex is baaad.
This isn't looking good for anyone thinking they can drive or ride for Uber in the long term.
It's never been good for anyone thinking they can drive for Uber, long term or otherwise. Uber's business model, if we can call it a that, is to treat its workforce as disposable slave labour who wear the cost of doing business whilst being paid less than minimum wage. When they complain or wise up to the abuse, they can be replaced... Erm, I mean reviwed and managed before being replaced by the influx of the next batch of wide-eyed suckers who don't realise that they wont make money.
Uber knows that they are running out of suckers.
However I wouldn't take bets on Uber even being around by 2021. Eventually those VC's who gave them so much money will try to get some of it back.
>> Lyft is acquiring Blue Vision Labs, a UK-based augmented reality firm
So when your "Level 5" car starts driving on the wrong side of the road and complaining about all the fake injuries in "football", you'll know why.
Ahem, good sir, I take umbrage.
We drive on the correct side of the road over here. It is done this way because you want your sword hand to be on the side of any neer-do-well who passes by.
...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders?
Better update the Statue of Liberty then "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" needs to be replaces with "Fuck You, I got mine, go home brownies".
Perhaps we should ask the native Americans what they think of these "blow ins" from across the sea.
Am I the only one amused that a piece is actually talking in gasped horror at 'megabytes' of data exposed? It just isn't a scale that you hear used much in outrage much anymore.
Yep. 89 megabytes is maybe two cat pictures and a Microsoft Word document with the "Hello" in it.
I get the joke... But an 89 mb csv file holds quite a bit of data.
If this guy is a half decent "hacker", even a half decent script kiddie, he wont be using Word (which I agree has become a bloated piece of crap, I mean an even more bloated, bigger piece of crap).
If you don't like identity politics, you REALLY won't like the modern right with their constant appeals to the straight white male persecution complex/privilege loss anxiety.
And I think this is less likely the end of leftism than it is the violent, desperate death throes of the right as a mainstream political force. Leftism hasn't become any less common or made any sudden moves in the last few years. It's the right that has taken off its gloves and mask, taking the complacent left by surprise, even as it has become less common. Leftism appears to be losing right now because it's still marching in formation against an enemy that's suddenly started using ISIS-level guerilla tactics.
Out here in the ROTW, we did away with the whole Left/Right thing years ago.
One can be conservative on some issues like business, import laws, et al. and liberal on other issues like health care and education. Only the US seems to thing that if you are conservative on one issue, you must be conservative on them all.
The far left has not been any kind of force in the western world in the last 30 odd years. Not since the extreme left died on in Europe. We still have the far right, which is in its death throes and refuses to go quietly. The extremism of the far right demonstrates that they are desperate for any kind of attention to bolster their flagging numbers.
Once that happens, we'll have centrism, whether its centre left or centre right really doesn't matter as long as they don't get too extreme, the only left parties still in power in Europe are centre left. The far right is making an effort, but only showing the world how much of a mess they really are (see: Italy and the German AfD). I think we'll see a return to more pragmatic politics, solution focused rather than ideology focused. The question is, how much damage will the extremists do before they're finally dead.
ask "Should the Baker be FORCED" then you'll get a lot of 'No's'.
ask "Should the Baker be allowed to refuse service" and you'll get a lot of 'No's'
The end result is the same. LGBTQs are denied access to a public resource (in this case a publicly available bake shop).
Not quite, the bakery in this case is a private business. I'm from the UK and have a passing interest in this case. I'm also fairly "liberal" on the social side of things and support gay rights as much as I support anyone's rights. I've even been called a JSW or WSJ or whatever the faux-insult is these days more than once by various extremists.
The supreme court in the UK ruled on the basis of existing law. The right to refuse business is enshrined, its akin to a pub disallowing shirtless individuals entry or setting up any other kind of dress code. Sure, the bakers are arseholes, religious, arrogant arseholes but that isn't against the law either. However the law does not protect them from the consequences of their actions and any public ire it may draw, a lot of noise was made over this and I have no doubt that bakery has lost a ton of business over it.
Only a select few businesses are prevented by law from refusing custom and these are usually ones where people need to use in order to live.
Also the traditional method of refusing business in the UK is to proffer a price so high or terms so unreasonable that the customer would be certifiably mad to accept.
This has always puzzled me. Violence and murder, on film or in TV programming, is generally allowed, with a "PG" or "R" rating or equivalent. Sex is rated "X" or "XXX" depending on the explicitness. And yet, in real life, most people (outside Chicago, at least) will probably never witness a murder or experience a shooting.
It's pretty much the exact opposite of the European/Old World view on these matters, where sex is presented far more openly in real life, but guns are harder to come by. And in entertainment, sex and nudity gets a pass while violence will lead to more restrictive movie and video game ratings (or be censored out).
I always find it odd to hear Europe referred to as "the old world". The religious groups who left for the Americas were not progressive, in fact they left because Europe was becoming to progressive and accepting. They were not escaping persecution as is oft said by Americans, they were puritans leaving because they were no longer permitted to persecute others. If anything, the old world left on those colony ships.
One other point of order, extreme violence isn't edited out in Europe, we get the same level of violence here as you do in the US. We just rate things differently, violence might be rated a bit higher (ratings are not legally binding age restrictions, just guidelines) but we tend to rate nudity and simulated sex a bit lower, by the age of 15 we expect children to understand and be able handle sexual and violent content.
The censorship meme Americans like to hang on to is based on the fact that Germany previously had banned Nazi symbols from being used except in historically accurate usage, given their history I understand why but it's not as bad as you think, classic British war film "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) wasn't banned as it used the symbols, including SS uniforms accurately. Germany has relaxed this in recent years.
Certainly here in the UK, you will not find American shows censored, however across the pond, you will find a few British shows with sexual content removed.
This has always puzzled me. Violence and murder, on film or in TV programming, is generally allowed, with a "PG" or "R" rating or equivalent. Sex is rated "X" or "XXX" depending on the explicitness. And yet, in real life, most people (outside Chicago, at least) will probably never witness a murder or experience a shooting.
So basically they're copying the attitude of much of America. Racism, violence and bigotry is A-OK, seeing a boob will scar children for life.
But most people WILL see and touch and have sex with other naked people, hopefully many thousands of times. Seems to me that we should celebrate depictions of sex,and discourage depictions of murder.
I suspect many/.ers will be more likely to see a shooting than have sex.
The problem is that is always a losing race. Patch one exploit, they'll find another (they probably have a few dozen on standby).
The "cheaters" aren't players, there people selling access to the cheat. Ergo, these people have a vested interest in ensuring they're one step ahead of the manufacturer in the exploit race. We're not talking about them raiding the homes of a few people who accidentally ran ScriptHook in online mode (Scripthook tries to stop you doing this though), we're talking about people making money by assisting others in making an online game unfair for other players.
The good thing about the Australian Federal Court is that they'll punish Take Two if they do or touch anything that is not related to the case. They aren't being given carte blanche to ransack someones home, they'll have a list of asset types that bailiffs will be allowed to seize.
Technorati is the name of a business that got bought out in 2016 and got shut down. Did Google type stuff.
No, a Technorati was a word that predated that site. Its a portmanteau of "technology" and "literati" (literati means literate in Latin). In modern parlance literati has been used to as a suffix to describe people considered to be at the forefront of whatever the first word is, however it is often used ironically to indicate that the literati have no idea about what they're on about and should be ignored. The website used the name because of it's meaning (the non ironic one I would assume).
Technocrat is a person in power or seeking power who advocates and/or uses technology as a means of power, it is a portmanteau of "technology" and "bureaucrat".
You're not reading the same summary the rest of us are. [b]They didn't cause any accident. It was the Camry which was merging onto the freeway. No doubt one of those assholes who merges - not by looking for a gap in traffic[/b], positioning and adjusting speed - but by simply letting the white line on the outside of the merge lane "push" them into traffic, which they expect to make way for them. The Waymo car didn't do that, nor was it required to. The Camry continued to drive on the shoulder, and the Camry driver caused their own crash.
You clearly don't drive.
This shit is standard the world over, Australia, UK, California... You always get idiots that do not look and assume everyone else will look out for them. Phone uses, people putting on lipstick, people who are just plain arrogant and assume they always have right of way (and woe betide anyone who has the audacity to hit THEM). This is yet another sign that autonomous cars are not ready for general consumption, they're assuming that everything else will follow the rules and cannot adapt to any situation where the rules aren't being followed.
It doesn't matter who was in the wrong, a car crash will fuck up your day but good and if you're lucky, it'll only be the car that is damaged. I hate ignorant and arrogant drivers as much as anyone but I'll still try to avoid hitting them even if the situation would be 100% not my fault because "But I had right of way" makes for a really shitty tombstone.
The world does not follow rules, not simply people but weather, animals, plants and even computers cant be expect to be error free. You need to be able to took out for and even anticipate potential collisions when driving a 1.5t chunk of metal and plastic, autonomous cars can't and likely won't be able to for some time now.
we have veriabile soruce of informations like Snopes [sic]
This joke is over 2 years old, but remains funny:
Hillary Clinton: "Sky is blue".
Fact-checkers: Mostly True.
Donald Trump: "Sky is blue".
Fact-checkers: sky is usually black at night, sometimes grey during the day, and red at dusk and dawn — we rate Donald Trump's claim as Mostly False.
Terrible joke.
Given Trump's history of lying, If he said water was wet I'd still have to go and check just to be sure. You cant trust anything that comes out of his mouth.
I think an agreement will be made with most if not all those countries.
Why would you think that? One side wants a deal, the other does not. Therefore there will not be a deal.
In a "No Deal" scenario, which the Tory's seem to be insanely intent on trying for, the UK will just join other non-EEC nations as part of the Schengen visa waiver scheme. So basically it'll be the same as an Australian, Canadian or American visiting the EU (IIRC, 90 days staying in the EU before requiring a visa). The EU is prepared for life without the UK.
Of course residents of the UK wont be able to afford to travel after Brexitl.
The cell phone showed up when I got a real job...actually when I got my second real job.
You could go to lunch. People took messages and you could call them back with no hurt feelings and having digested lunch.
You could go on vacation. Calls on vacation were tough to get, especially at the beach or in another country.
You could go to sleep. No one would send you a message or call you after hours in 99% of situations.
And it's still like that today.
All you need to do is take control of your life. When you're overseas, use a different SIM card (or different phone entirely). Make it clear to your clients and employers that your time is YOUR time and contacting you in your time is chargeable/subject to overtime.
When I go overseas, I rarely receive a call unless I'm being sent there by my employer (in which case I'm working, not holidaying).
Phones are not some time stealing monster, they are just devices like an axe or a saw and what they do depends on how you use them. You can use an axe and saw safely and productively to fell a tree and make planks, they are not inherently bad and evil because someone with no self control uses them to butcher corpses. It's the same with phones, if you find you're a slave to your phone, it's not the phone that's causing it. Hell, most phones come with Do Not Disturb settings that let you filter out calls during whatever hours you specify.
Good luck with that! Groceries are a low-margin business. The low margin depends on the customer traversing the "last mile" shifting the last mile problem from supplier to consumer.
Sure some wealthy people probably will be interested, but they don't need Uber for that and that demographic would expect and demand a high degree of accountability and Uber is not in that kind of marketspace.
The UK already has delivery for most supermarkets in many areas. Cost is between £0 and 10 for delivery depending on location, order size and so on. Larger orders are usually free or at a lower cost. We even have online only supermarkets like Ocado and Amazon Fresh.
That being said I still drive down there to see what offers are on this week and if they've got any new ales in but I get why some people hate supermarkets.
The question here is whether it is a search engine's task to educate and censor or not.
Are these search engines run and usage mandated by the Government... No you say... Then there is no censorship what so ever.
Microsoft, Google, Whomever owns DDG, these are all private organisations. They can display whatever results they like as long as the law is complied with, they can also choose not to display what they don't like. For a private, profit driven organisation it then becomes a question of "will this make or lose us money" and well, lets face it, the overwhelming majority of people don't like racism, sexism and other bigotry, especially when combined with ignorance and arrogance. So it's a business decision to give the majority what they ask for, it's like a Subway in a majority Hindu area omitting beef from its menu because the majority of customers will not buy it.
Ultimately, the racist, sexist or otherwise bigoted customers have the choice to not use Bing or Google.
And I would also apply this to the likes of Fox News. They can serve their customer base in which ever legal way they choose, those who don't like it can simply unsubscribe. My only issue is with them calling themselves a news agency, they don't fit the technical definition and in countries where "news" means presenting facts and not opinions, they have listed themselves as a light entertainment channel (they keep the "news" moniker under the guise of parody).
There is a better and more complete article on The Washington Post that describes the type of crap Facebook purged. Spoiler: it's clickbait that leads to other profit driven sites. Don't assume it's all conservative media either because it's not. They got crazy shit for folks of all types.
Bottom line: this is good for all (even slightly) rational actors.
It's rather pointless trying to demonstrate that this isn't a partisan action to people who have already decided Facebook is the "Lib'ral" enemy. Their mind is made up and they're are just looking for any evidence to support their already decided opinion.
They're also hypocrites as they tend to restrict their sources of information to organisations that deliberately obfuscate facts that do not support their point of view (like Fox News) or outright lie (like Infowars).
They get all up in arms about Facebook eliminating Spam, but when it comes to the bias displayed by Fox.. Crickets.
Oddly enough, that's what I use DuckDuckGo for mostly. If you're looking for a torrent it's easier to find using DDG due to the number of DMCA takedowns Google has to comply with (and I dont blame Google for that either).
Slashdot Mirror
Warehousing and logistics costs to provide those extra parts for up to 2 decades after your vehicle is made isn't cheap. The markups may appear high but the profit per piece really isn't that much. I know we sell some stuff at a loss to remain competitive with aftermarket.
Then there are the routine maintenance items like oil filters, etc. Volumes for those are so high that it's much easier to keep the costs very low as purchasing power is high plus $.05 profit on an oil filter adds up when you sell millions each month.
Whilst this is true, a lot of manufacturers are just taking the piss on OEM parts. Honda has to be one of the worst for it. Genuine OEM Honda spark plugs were 4 times the price of NGK's... and I can almost guarantee that the genuine Honda parts were another brand.
Fortunately aftermarket parts for Hondas are cheap and easy to get. So when my Integra required new spark plugs, I just bought some NGK's.
Is the model moving to something closer to inkjet printers, banks and airlines? Get you in the door cheap, then nail you on the parts or fees.
I get you with airlines and printers... but if the same is true for banks, your country needs better banking regulations. I've lived in the UK and Australia, nailing you with fees gets a bank nailed to the wall by the regulator. The ease of switching banks means its a highly competitive market that cant be completely dominated by ancient, existing players. Moving debt is only slightly more difficult. So-called "challenger banks" starting in the UK are making the big boys like Lloyds and Natwest take note. As long as I make repayments on time and keep my account in the black, they don't charge me a penny.
Of course we don't get "cashback", but you didn't honestly think that the bank was giving you free money did you?
Facebook has been fined $645,000 by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which affected over 80 million users.
Now I believe that governments don't really think. How can a several billion dollar company, ($15b in net income -2017), be fined less that 0.04% of profit?
Can someone defend this position? does it make sense?
Fines are meant to be punitive, but not debilitating. They're meant to discourage bad or abusive business practices without discouraging business. If you were to fine them 100% of their revenue you'd find that more than a few businesses would pull out of your nation due to extreme risk. Not just the bad one's either, your countries political and judicial system will be considered a risk to respectable businesses.
Also, fines can be issued again and again. If Facebook thumbs their nose at this, laws will be changed.
Third wave feminism cuts a wide swath.
You do know that the whole "nudity is baaaad" thing predates whatever you think "thrid wave feminism" is (which I can almost guarantee your definition and reality are at odds with each other). It originates from the religious right because Old Book says sex is baaad.
This isn't looking good for anyone thinking they can drive or ride for Uber in the long term.
It's never been good for anyone thinking they can drive for Uber, long term or otherwise. Uber's business model, if we can call it a that, is to treat its workforce as disposable slave labour who wear the cost of doing business whilst being paid less than minimum wage. When they complain or wise up to the abuse, they can be replaced... Erm, I mean reviwed and managed before being replaced by the influx of the next batch of wide-eyed suckers who don't realise that they wont make money.
Uber knows that they are running out of suckers.
However I wouldn't take bets on Uber even being around by 2021. Eventually those VC's who gave them so much money will try to get some of it back.
>> Lyft is acquiring Blue Vision Labs, a UK-based augmented reality firm
So when your "Level 5" car starts driving on the wrong side of the road and complaining about all the fake injuries in "football", you'll know why.
Ahem, good sir, I take umbrage.
We drive on the correct side of the road over here. It is done this way because you want your sword hand to be on the side of any neer-do-well who passes by.
...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders?
Better update the Statue of Liberty then "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" needs to be replaces with "Fuck You, I got mine, go home brownies".
Perhaps we should ask the native Americans what they think of these "blow ins" from across the sea.
Am I the only one amused that a piece is actually talking in gasped horror at 'megabytes' of data exposed? It just isn't a scale that you hear used much in outrage much anymore.
Yep. 89 megabytes is maybe two cat pictures and a Microsoft Word document with the "Hello" in it.
I get the joke... But an 89 mb csv file holds quite a bit of data.
If this guy is a half decent "hacker", even a half decent script kiddie, he wont be using Word (which I agree has become a bloated piece of crap, I mean an even more bloated, bigger piece of crap).
If you don't like identity politics, you REALLY won't like the modern right with their constant appeals to the straight white male persecution complex/privilege loss anxiety.
And I think this is less likely the end of leftism than it is the violent, desperate death throes of the right as a mainstream political force. Leftism hasn't become any less common or made any sudden moves in the last few years. It's the right that has taken off its gloves and mask, taking the complacent left by surprise, even as it has become less common. Leftism appears to be losing right now because it's still marching in formation against an enemy that's suddenly started using ISIS-level guerilla tactics.
Out here in the ROTW, we did away with the whole Left/Right thing years ago.
One can be conservative on some issues like business, import laws, et al. and liberal on other issues like health care and education. Only the US seems to thing that if you are conservative on one issue, you must be conservative on them all.
The far left has not been any kind of force in the western world in the last 30 odd years. Not since the extreme left died on in Europe. We still have the far right, which is in its death throes and refuses to go quietly. The extremism of the far right demonstrates that they are desperate for any kind of attention to bolster their flagging numbers.
Once that happens, we'll have centrism, whether its centre left or centre right really doesn't matter as long as they don't get too extreme, the only left parties still in power in Europe are centre left. The far right is making an effort, but only showing the world how much of a mess they really are (see: Italy and the German AfD). I think we'll see a return to more pragmatic politics, solution focused rather than ideology focused. The question is, how much damage will the extremists do before they're finally dead.
ask "Should the Baker be FORCED" then you'll get a lot of 'No's'.
ask "Should the Baker be allowed to refuse service" and you'll get a lot of 'No's'
The end result is the same. LGBTQs are denied access to a public resource (in this case a publicly available bake shop).
Not quite, the bakery in this case is a private business. I'm from the UK and have a passing interest in this case. I'm also fairly "liberal" on the social side of things and support gay rights as much as I support anyone's rights. I've even been called a JSW or WSJ or whatever the faux-insult is these days more than once by various extremists.
The supreme court in the UK ruled on the basis of existing law. The right to refuse business is enshrined, its akin to a pub disallowing shirtless individuals entry or setting up any other kind of dress code. Sure, the bakers are arseholes, religious, arrogant arseholes but that isn't against the law either. However the law does not protect them from the consequences of their actions and any public ire it may draw, a lot of noise was made over this and I have no doubt that bakery has lost a ton of business over it.
Only a select few businesses are prevented by law from refusing custom and these are usually ones where people need to use in order to live.
Also the traditional method of refusing business in the UK is to proffer a price so high or terms so unreasonable that the customer would be certifiably mad to accept.
This has always puzzled me. Violence and murder, on film or in TV programming, is generally allowed, with a "PG" or "R" rating or equivalent. Sex is rated "X" or "XXX" depending on the explicitness. And yet, in real life, most people (outside Chicago, at least) will probably never witness a murder or experience a shooting.
It's pretty much the exact opposite of the European/Old World view on these matters, where sex is presented far more openly in real life, but guns are harder to come by. And in entertainment, sex and nudity gets a pass while violence will lead to more restrictive movie and video game ratings (or be censored out).
I always find it odd to hear Europe referred to as "the old world". The religious groups who left for the Americas were not progressive, in fact they left because Europe was becoming to progressive and accepting. They were not escaping persecution as is oft said by Americans, they were puritans leaving because they were no longer permitted to persecute others. If anything, the old world left on those colony ships.
One other point of order, extreme violence isn't edited out in Europe, we get the same level of violence here as you do in the US. We just rate things differently, violence might be rated a bit higher (ratings are not legally binding age restrictions, just guidelines) but we tend to rate nudity and simulated sex a bit lower, by the age of 15 we expect children to understand and be able handle sexual and violent content.
The censorship meme Americans like to hang on to is based on the fact that Germany previously had banned Nazi symbols from being used except in historically accurate usage, given their history I understand why but it's not as bad as you think, classic British war film "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) wasn't banned as it used the symbols, including SS uniforms accurately. Germany has relaxed this in recent years.
Certainly here in the UK, you will not find American shows censored, however across the pond, you will find a few British shows with sexual content removed.
This has always puzzled me. Violence and murder, on film or in TV programming, is generally allowed, with a "PG" or "R" rating or equivalent. Sex is rated "X" or "XXX" depending on the explicitness. And yet, in real life, most people (outside Chicago, at least) will probably never witness a murder or experience a shooting.
So basically they're copying the attitude of much of America. Racism, violence and bigotry is A-OK, seeing a boob will scar children for life.
But most people WILL see and touch and have sex with other naked people, hopefully many thousands of times. Seems to me that we should celebrate depictions of sex,and discourage depictions of murder.
I suspect many /.ers will be more likely to see a shooting than have sex.
Was patching the game not an option?
The problem is that is always a losing race. Patch one exploit, they'll find another (they probably have a few dozen on standby).
The "cheaters" aren't players, there people selling access to the cheat. Ergo, these people have a vested interest in ensuring they're one step ahead of the manufacturer in the exploit race. We're not talking about them raiding the homes of a few people who accidentally ran ScriptHook in online mode (Scripthook tries to stop you doing this though), we're talking about people making money by assisting others in making an online game unfair for other players.
The good thing about the Australian Federal Court is that they'll punish Take Two if they do or touch anything that is not related to the case. They aren't being given carte blanche to ransack someones home, they'll have a list of asset types that bailiffs will be allowed to seize.
Technorati is the name of a business that got bought out in 2016 and got shut down. Did Google type stuff.
No, a Technorati was a word that predated that site. Its a portmanteau of "technology" and "literati" (literati means literate in Latin). In modern parlance literati has been used to as a suffix to describe people considered to be at the forefront of whatever the first word is, however it is often used ironically to indicate that the literati have no idea about what they're on about and should be ignored. The website used the name because of it's meaning (the non ironic one I would assume).
Technocrat is a person in power or seeking power who advocates and/or uses technology as a means of power, it is a portmanteau of "technology" and "bureaucrat".
"These two yutzes cause a crash on the freeway"
You're not reading the same summary the rest of us are. [b]They didn't cause any accident. It was the Camry which was merging onto the freeway. No doubt one of those assholes who merges - not by looking for a gap in traffic[/b], positioning and adjusting speed - but by simply letting the white line on the outside of the merge lane "push" them into traffic, which they expect to make way for them. The Waymo car didn't do that, nor was it required to. The Camry continued to drive on the shoulder, and the Camry driver caused their own crash.
You clearly don't drive.
This shit is standard the world over, Australia, UK, California... You always get idiots that do not look and assume everyone else will look out for them. Phone uses, people putting on lipstick, people who are just plain arrogant and assume they always have right of way (and woe betide anyone who has the audacity to hit THEM). This is yet another sign that autonomous cars are not ready for general consumption, they're assuming that everything else will follow the rules and cannot adapt to any situation where the rules aren't being followed.
It doesn't matter who was in the wrong, a car crash will fuck up your day but good and if you're lucky, it'll only be the car that is damaged. I hate ignorant and arrogant drivers as much as anyone but I'll still try to avoid hitting them even if the situation would be 100% not my fault because "But I had right of way" makes for a really shitty tombstone.
The world does not follow rules, not simply people but weather, animals, plants and even computers cant be expect to be error free. You need to be able to took out for and even anticipate potential collisions when driving a 1.5t chunk of metal and plastic, autonomous cars can't and likely won't be able to for some time now.
"treat some of today's most intractable medical problems: "
'Intractable' literally means 'untreatable'.
No it does not. Intractable means "hard to deal with".
https://en.oxforddictionaries....
This joke is over 2 years old, but remains funny:
Terrible joke. Given Trump's history of lying, If he said water was wet I'd still have to go and check just to be sure. You cant trust anything that comes out of his mouth.
I think an agreement will be made with most if not all those countries.
Why would you think that? One side wants a deal, the other does not. Therefore there will not be a deal.
In a "No Deal" scenario, which the Tory's seem to be insanely intent on trying for, the UK will just join other non-EEC nations as part of the Schengen visa waiver scheme. So basically it'll be the same as an Australian, Canadian or American visiting the EU (IIRC, 90 days staying in the EU before requiring a visa). The EU is prepared for life without the UK.
Of course residents of the UK wont be able to afford to travel after Brexitl.
The cell phone showed up when I got a real job...actually when I got my second real job. You could go to lunch. People took messages and you could call them back with no hurt feelings and having digested lunch. You could go on vacation. Calls on vacation were tough to get, especially at the beach or in another country. You could go to sleep. No one would send you a message or call you after hours in 99% of situations.
And it's still like that today.
All you need to do is take control of your life. When you're overseas, use a different SIM card (or different phone entirely). Make it clear to your clients and employers that your time is YOUR time and contacting you in your time is chargeable/subject to overtime.
When I go overseas, I rarely receive a call unless I'm being sent there by my employer (in which case I'm working, not holidaying).
Phones are not some time stealing monster, they are just devices like an axe or a saw and what they do depends on how you use them. You can use an axe and saw safely and productively to fell a tree and make planks, they are not inherently bad and evil because someone with no self control uses them to butcher corpses. It's the same with phones, if you find you're a slave to your phone, it's not the phone that's causing it. Hell, most phones come with Do Not Disturb settings that let you filter out calls during whatever hours you specify.
Good luck with that! Groceries are a low-margin business. The low margin depends on the customer traversing the "last mile" shifting the last mile problem from supplier to consumer.
Sure some wealthy people probably will be interested, but they don't need Uber for that and that demographic would expect and demand a high degree of accountability and Uber is not in that kind of marketspace.
The UK already has delivery for most supermarkets in many areas. Cost is between £0 and 10 for delivery depending on location, order size and so on. Larger orders are usually free or at a lower cost. We even have online only supermarkets like Ocado and Amazon Fresh.
That being said I still drive down there to see what offers are on this week and if they've got any new ales in but I get why some people hate supermarkets.
Ye gods, no, please, not all your advice. Only get all your LEGAL advice from Slashdot.
Also advice on women. Slashdot’s got a lot of users knowledgeable regarding women.
Oddly enough, some of the best advice on meeting women as a geek came from /. (McGrew IIRC) but this was many, many years ago.
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The question here is whether it is a search engine's task to educate and censor or not.
Are these search engines run and usage mandated by the Government... No you say... Then there is no censorship what so ever.
Microsoft, Google, Whomever owns DDG, these are all private organisations. They can display whatever results they like as long as the law is complied with, they can also choose not to display what they don't like. For a private, profit driven organisation it then becomes a question of "will this make or lose us money" and well, lets face it, the overwhelming majority of people don't like racism, sexism and other bigotry, especially when combined with ignorance and arrogance. So it's a business decision to give the majority what they ask for, it's like a Subway in a majority Hindu area omitting beef from its menu because the majority of customers will not buy it.
Ultimately, the racist, sexist or otherwise bigoted customers have the choice to not use Bing or Google.
And I would also apply this to the likes of Fox News. They can serve their customer base in which ever legal way they choose, those who don't like it can simply unsubscribe. My only issue is with them calling themselves a news agency, they don't fit the technical definition and in countries where "news" means presenting facts and not opinions, they have listed themselves as a light entertainment channel (they keep the "news" moniker under the guise of parody).
Keith Richards.
Keith Richards died 20 years ago... Its just that nobodys told him.
There is a better and more complete article on The Washington Post that describes the type of crap Facebook purged. Spoiler: it's clickbait that leads to other profit driven sites. Don't assume it's all conservative media either because it's not. They got crazy shit for folks of all types.
Bottom line: this is good for all (even slightly) rational actors.
It's rather pointless trying to demonstrate that this isn't a partisan action to people who have already decided Facebook is the "Lib'ral" enemy. Their mind is made up and they're are just looking for any evidence to support their already decided opinion.
They're also hypocrites as they tend to restrict their sources of information to organisations that deliberately obfuscate facts that do not support their point of view (like Fox News) or outright lie (like Infowars).
They get all up in arms about Facebook eliminating Spam, but when it comes to the bias displayed by Fox.. Crickets.
I would have been up for that.
Oddly enough, that's what I use DuckDuckGo for mostly. If you're looking for a torrent it's easier to find using DDG due to the number of DMCA takedowns Google has to comply with (and I dont blame Google for that either).