The small business owner is the job creator, one who takes enormous risk to put up some capital in the hopes of making insane amount of profits. There are people willing to do the work for 2$ an hour and bowl of refried beans, which is the price for labor set by Free Markets. But the onerous, oppressive and burdensome regulations thought up by the Federal bureaucrats are making them pay 7.50$ an hour several times what the Free market dictates. Further things like overtime pay, paid to wash hands after using restrooms, paid time to use restroom, costs like gloves and masks to handle chemicals....
Now this, if these people decide this life is not worth living and decide to kick the bucket legally, without any consequence, what would happen to their businesses? Who would create jobs? Nothing should put the well being and motivation of the small business owner to risk. The access to steady supply of cheap labor and over supply of laborers should be maintained by the government at all costs. Allowing legal suicides would imperil the most sacrosanct class of Americans, the small business owner.
The automotive companies have always seen a fully integrated in-dash system as a profit center. Look at the price of navigation pacakge, upgrading to recent maps etc. 1800$ for in-dash navigation? 200$ for latest map DVD? what the hell? The auto makers think, "they bought my car. I can nickel and dime them, I can charge outrageous mark up on trivial plastic stuff". But the tablets with voice commands and google maps with latest google predicted traffic out perform anything these guys peddle. They do not have such a large user base to test, they are not used to releasing updates every year. Their hardware update cycle is around 4 years for a new model car.
They did exactly the same thing with in-dash radio, till finally SAE defined standard connections and after market cassette players flooded the market. One car maker will break ranks, Tesla has already done it, and just install a 10 inch tablet or provide a niche to place Bring-Your-Own-Tablet prominently in the dash. Some standard protocols to allow dedicated buttons in the wheel or the dash to send commands to the tablet... that will become a selling feature of that car model. Soon all manufacturers will be forced to stop trying sell us 1800$ nav packs and 200$ map dvds. Till then we have to put up with this crap. Or with the rise of 3D printing we might get a snap on module for the specific model of the car that accepts a 6inch or a 10 inch tablet and a dedicated buttons for "map/music/play/pause/skip/voice-command-phone/voice-command-map" keyboard to be to be stuck in a convenient place.
Free market will send price signals. Till the signal is heard and reacted on, it sucks to be on the receiving end.
Did you order the navigational package? The navigation was part of some stupid package that included road sign reading camera, lane departure warning system and a load of crap for 3 or 4K. Now a days I get far more accurate and up to date maps in my phone, why the hell I need to fork that over? So, like a fool I am ordered a custom X3 without the nav package. This config seems to be very rare and they seem to have never tested their system when the hard disk is not available. They seem to have a quick start or check point core dump in the disk and reboot quickly back if you have a hard disk. Also scanned thumb drive cache exists in the disk, so it does not take long to get past that stage. But you don't get the hard disk the system takes so long to come back up.
My 2006 Prius has no trouble connecting to phones. They are all simple, connect to bluetooth, make a phone call type of connections. BMW tries to connect to the phone, its media storage, call logs, speed dial everything, at least in 2014 version. Four phones at the same time. But they assumed there will be a hard disk all the time.
Like most companies security is considered a cost, an inconvenience or an after thought. Looks like there is no one who knows anything about security in the entire chain of designers who came up with this design for the cars. They seem to rely on security by obscurity.
I have a 2014 X3. The damn thing would not connect to any of my Google Nexus phones via blue tooth. They have a very limited set of handsets they support. They don't seem to test anything other than iPhone and Samsung. Supposed to connect to 4 phones at the same time. The damn module crashes all the time and forgets perviously paired handsets that worked well earlier. Their mp3 playback is abysmal. All those old mp3s I ripped from CDs back in 1990s and early 200s play back flawlessly in every mp3 player, every computer, every device I have tried. From memorex-mp3-CD-R, to WesternDigital-TV box to chromebooks to sansa... But in X3 it would not play, repeatedly crash the module, or get into endless loops.
Root cause of the problem seems to be some rigid adherence to specs and dim-witted error recovery process. If one mp3 file has a mismatch between its header declaration and its data section, that mp3 can misbehave. OK I will concede that. But the default action on seeing this mismatch should not be the whole entertainment module to crash, reboot and rescan the 8 GB memory stick all over again for media files. When it crashes and rescans, bluetooth does not work.It reminds me of Digital workstations where none of the the IEEE exception handler I install would work. Their default handler, which is to crash the process and write a coredump would kick-in no matter what I declare as error handler. BMW seems to be using an even more extreme version of this mode.
BMW is our customer, and they buy some engineering design analysis suites that we make in my place of work. I wonder how they will behave if I crash the entire computer every time a BMW engineer feeds an incorrect data to our suites.
I am not surprised it has so much of vulnerabilities. Anything that crashes this much will fall back to single user super user mode and present a console to the attacker sooner or later.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the engineer who built tunnels under the Thames, bridge across it, built the largest steam-sail hybrid ship ever did it even more spectacularly.
In the 1840s he accidentally inhaled a coin that got lodged in his windpipe. None of the existing forceps could remove it. He designed a special forceps himself which failed. Then designed a contraption which too failed to remove it. Then he and his father designed another contraption where he was strapped upside down and mallets stuck his back and shoulder blades at some precisely calculated angles. That knocked the coin loose. It took them couple of months to extract the coin.
Everything works in Chrome? It works too good in Chrome. HTML5 video is unblockable in Chrome. It wont be long before all sorts of crummy websites add HTML5 video with autoplay in every tab. There is no noscript equivalent in Chrome. It wont be long before you come running back to Firefox without your tail tucked between the legs.
Chrome does not have a no script equivalent. Just yesterday I was so pissed off by a slashdot story with an autoplaying video. It uses html5 tags, and it is played natively by chrome. It is not a plug in. It is not stopped by typical flash block. etc. Back to Firefox for slashdot now.
Pretty soon all advertiser will realize the value of unblockable videos in Chrome. It is just a matter of time the Chrome user experience will be degraded so much, people will flock back to Firefox.
Firefox is our weapon to tame misbehaving behemoths. Be it Microsoft. Be it Google. Be it Apple.
Not only that, if little Willie does not eat his vegetables, I will put four candles on his birthday cake, again. He has to repeat and be a four year old one more year.
What is saving the Western Civilization is that the terrorists are remarkably dumb. If they had one hundredth of your smartness, he would not be a terrorist. Being a suicide bomber is the stupidest thing a person can do.
The goal of a terrorist is to terrorize the population. If the most common reaction they provoke is derision and ridicule they might give up. But that won't happen. We have 24 hour news channels with insatiable appetite for something. They will give so much of air time to the terrorist and they will breed more terrorists.
But you entertain this fantasy that this large group of people grouped under "small business people' are all great job creators and they must be put on a pedestal and worshiped.
99% of the small businesses fail in the first year. And yet, year after year people start businesses and go belly up. There is no shortage of investors. So get off the high horse for being a job creator and the government should coddle you.
You make an assumption no body will invest if we tax the corporate profits and then the dividends. May be you won't. So take your marbles and go home. There are plenty of others who will invest. We are awash with capital without places to invest.
I hate intrusive ads as much as anyone. But the reality is, if the sites don't make money, they won't exist. We need to find a way
to let them find ad revenue without being obnoxious. And tolerance level and definitions of obnoxiousness varies. So if we let the user
control what ads and what kind of ads are allowed, and if the web sites make good faith attempt to respect the wishes of the user,
they might both benefit. I have become eligible to block ads from slashdot ages ago, but I have not blocked it. I would not begrudge
slashdot the small revenue stream my eyeballs provide. Same way with other sites I like. There are some Indian news paper sites
with atrocious and obnoxious ad pitching. Horribly broken asp based websites that render badly. I tolerate them because if I use adblock
on them, they would lose what little incentive they have to maintain their internet presence. So I am not opposed to ads at all.
All I want is, an ability to control it, and the ability to let the advertisers know, what I am willing to tolerate.
I would not mind my browser sending out some kind of headers to specify my ad acceptance policy and even a few key words of goods and services I am interested in. But *I* should be the one who controls it. And the controls should be fine grained.
Greatly surprised to learn "Dont-be-evil" Google is heavily invested in "Always-be-evil" Uber. What was it like in the board room? Was it like the cloud chamber in CERN where matter and anti-matter collide annihilating each other?
You are not the job creator. Your customers pay for all your costs, all your labor costs, all the salaries you pay, and your profits too. Your customers are the real job creators. Even if you don't exists, even if your business does not exist, their needs for goods and services will exist. If you don't want to invest, fine by me. Go stuff it in a mattress and see what fat lot of good that does to you.
The world is awash with capital. Your capital is not very valuable right now. If you don't invest, some one else will. That is what you tell your employees right? Work your fingers to the bone for the pittance I pay you. If you don't like it, I will find someone who will. Right? That is what we are telling you. Go ahead. Take your marbles and go home.
If you want to do business, it will be under our terms. We the people of America, we elect our government, we play by the rules. It is constitutional to tax you. So we will, that will bring maximum good to maximum number of people.
Republicans have sold their souls to their corporate masters. That does not mean we should simply accept it and sit tightly. We should make it obvious to people where the loyalties of Republicans lie.
Because corporations shield the shareholders from liability. It costs nothing to create a corporation. It costs nothing to create a series of corporations one owning other. It is easy to funnel all the assets, income one way and stop the liabilities from flowing along with the assets and income. Thus the tail end corporation will have all the liabilities without any asset to pay for. Corporations don't go to jail. We must tax the corporation for getting this special privilege of being able to do business without anyone having to go to jail.
When limited liability corporations were first proposed, the biggest opposition was due to, "If the corporation commits murder who goes to jail?". Corporations must be taxed, and then the dividends paid to the shareholders must be taxed again, and when the dividends are spent we will assess them sales taxes again, if the post-tax dividend is used to buy a home, we will tax the home year after year.
We have coddled the tax evaders and their apologists for far too long. Government can tax anything for any reason. We will use it to the fullest extent. Don't like it, go somewhere like Somalia and conduct your business. Good riddance.
I am 100% sure the summary paints an one-sided picture of the situation. I am sure there is another side to the story and we need balanced reporting from both sides.
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Now this, if these people decide this life is not worth living and decide to kick the bucket legally, without any consequence, what would happen to their businesses? Who would create jobs? Nothing should put the well being and motivation of the small business owner to risk. The access to steady supply of cheap labor and over supply of laborers should be maintained by the government at all costs. Allowing legal suicides would imperil the most sacrosanct class of Americans, the small business owner.
They did exactly the same thing with in-dash radio, till finally SAE defined standard connections and after market cassette players flooded the market. One car maker will break ranks, Tesla has already done it, and just install a 10 inch tablet or provide a niche to place Bring-Your-Own-Tablet prominently in the dash. Some standard protocols to allow dedicated buttons in the wheel or the dash to send commands to the tablet... that will become a selling feature of that car model. Soon all manufacturers will be forced to stop trying sell us 1800$ nav packs and 200$ map dvds. Till then we have to put up with this crap. Or with the rise of 3D printing we might get a snap on module for the specific model of the car that accepts a 6inch or a 10 inch tablet and a dedicated buttons for "map/music/play/pause/skip/voice-command-phone/voice-command-map" keyboard to be to be stuck in a convenient place.
Free market will send price signals. Till the signal is heard and reacted on, it sucks to be on the receiving end.
My 2006 Prius has no trouble connecting to phones. They are all simple, connect to bluetooth, make a phone call type of connections. BMW tries to connect to the phone, its media storage, call logs, speed dial everything, at least in 2014 version. Four phones at the same time. But they assumed there will be a hard disk all the time.
Like most companies security is considered a cost, an inconvenience or an after thought. Looks like there is no one who knows anything about security in the entire chain of designers who came up with this design for the cars. They seem to rely on security by obscurity.
Root cause of the problem seems to be some rigid adherence to specs and dim-witted error recovery process. If one mp3 file has a mismatch between its header declaration and its data section, that mp3 can misbehave. OK I will concede that. But the default action on seeing this mismatch should not be the whole entertainment module to crash, reboot and rescan the 8 GB memory stick all over again for media files. When it crashes and rescans, bluetooth does not work.It reminds me of Digital workstations where none of the the IEEE exception handler I install would work. Their default handler, which is to crash the process and write a coredump would kick-in no matter what I declare as error handler. BMW seems to be using an even more extreme version of this mode.
BMW is our customer, and they buy some engineering design analysis suites that we make in my place of work. I wonder how they will behave if I crash the entire computer every time a BMW engineer feeds an incorrect data to our suites.
I am not surprised it has so much of vulnerabilities. Anything that crashes this much will fall back to single user super user mode and present a console to the attacker sooner or later.
In the 1840s he accidentally inhaled a coin that got lodged in his windpipe. None of the existing forceps could remove it. He designed a special forceps himself which failed. Then designed a contraption which too failed to remove it. Then he and his father designed another contraption where he was strapped upside down and mallets stuck his back and shoulder blades at some precisely calculated angles. That knocked the coin loose. It took them couple of months to extract the coin.
Everything works in Chrome? It works too good in Chrome. HTML5 video is unblockable in Chrome. It wont be long before all sorts of crummy websites add HTML5 video with autoplay in every tab. There is no noscript equivalent in Chrome. It wont be long before you come running back to Firefox without your tail tucked between the legs.
Firefox is our weapon to tame misbehaving behemoths. Be it Microsoft. Be it Google. Be it Apple.
Looks like the Chinese Govt has decided not to be evil. So they decided to follow example set by the role-model of dont-be-evil, Google+
Not only that, if little Willie does not eat his vegetables, I will put four candles on his birthday cake, again. He has to repeat and be a four year old one more year.
The goal of a terrorist is to terrorize the population. If the most common reaction they provoke is derision and ridicule they might give up. But that won't happen. We have 24 hour news channels with insatiable appetite for something. They will give so much of air time to the terrorist and they will breed more terrorists.
Jhonny: "No Prof! The bomb squad blew it up. Honest! Swear to God!
But you entertain this fantasy that this large group of people grouped under "small business people' are all great job creators and they must be put on a pedestal and worshiped.
You make an assumption no body will invest if we tax the corporate profits and then the dividends. May be you won't. So take your marbles and go home. There are plenty of others who will invest. We are awash with capital without places to invest.
I would not mind my browser sending out some kind of headers to specify my ad acceptance policy and even a few key words of goods and services I am interested in. But *I* should be the one who controls it. And the controls should be fine grained.
Something like:
(browser-ad-acceptance-policy) animation=no; flash=no; sounds=no; ad_to_payload_ratio looking_for=camcorder,auto_insurance,galapagos_island_tour;
(/browser-ad-acceptance-policy )
The add on or extension should enforce the policy on browser end when it can, without expecting good faith compliance from the web sites.
Greatly surprised to learn "Dont-be-evil" Google is heavily invested in "Always-be-evil" Uber. What was it like in the board room? Was it like the cloud chamber in CERN where matter and anti-matter collide annihilating each other?
The world is awash with capital. Your capital is not very valuable right now. If you don't invest, some one else will. That is what you tell your employees right? Work your fingers to the bone for the pittance I pay you. If you don't like it, I will find someone who will. Right? That is what we are telling you. Go ahead. Take your marbles and go home.
If you want to do business, it will be under our terms. We the people of America, we elect our government, we play by the rules. It is constitutional to tax you. So we will, that will bring maximum good to maximum number of people.
Republicans have sold their souls to their corporate masters. That does not mean we should simply accept it and sit tightly. We should make it obvious to people where the loyalties of Republicans lie.
It will be spent in USA. Even if they build a bridge to nowhere it will produce more jobs than KeytoneXL pipeline.
It is not insanity. Trickle down economics is insanity. Reaganomics is insanity.
When limited liability corporations were first proposed, the biggest opposition was due to, "If the corporation commits murder who goes to jail?". Corporations must be taxed, and then the dividends paid to the shareholders must be taxed again, and when the dividends are spent we will assess them sales taxes again, if the post-tax dividend is used to buy a home, we will tax the home year after year.
We have coddled the tax evaders and their apologists for far too long. Government can tax anything for any reason. We will use it to the fullest extent. Don't like it, go somewhere like Somalia and conduct your business. Good riddance.
But the crooks are safe. They know very well that if they smear their faces with lemon juice, the cameras can't see their faces and they can't be caught.
I am 100% sure the summary paints an one-sided picture of the situation. I am sure there is another side to the story and we need balanced reporting from both sides.
So this is the year of Linux laptop!
I am truly amazed by blind programmers writing code. The way our company runs rally and agile, I have seem more of programmers writing code blindly.