Cars don't do very well on icy roads, or in low visibility conditions. Even if you make flying taxis as safe as cars on road for these weather conditions, it would not be enough. Liability of cars on icy roads is grandfathered into the system. Autonomous flying taxis are new. They will find it very difficult to get the same sweet deal on liability.
Basically, Chrome broke half of user websites, the ones that were relying on touch/scroll events being cancellable, at the benefit of winning some performance for websites that were not yet aware of this optional optimization
OK, half the user websites? 50% of the web right?
The linked article says:
We looked at the percentage of cancelable touch events that were sent to a root target (window, document, or body) and determined that about 80% of these listeners are conceptually passive but were not registered as such. Given the scale of this problem we noticed a great opportunity to improve scrolling without any developer action by making these events automatically "passive".
Looks like the chrome team did some basic profiling, figured out 80% of the listeners are actually passive. Still they should not have touched the default and educated the website developers to register conceptually passive listeners as passive, right?
Google gives some motivation for this:
We believe the web should be fast by default without developers needing to understand arcane details of browser behavior.
There are some plots and more profiling data there.
They could have done an RFC and got the standards updated in the next batch for this. But still, as evil behaviors go, this is not "dos is not done till lotus wont run" level. Does not even come to working around bugs in IIS in IE to make all other browsers crap out level of evil.
I, for one, welcome the web use watching overlords.
They are the best overlords one can have. They are really great and the people who watch my web surfing are the best managers one can hire. They know what a great employee I am and I am sure they are putting me on the "nice" list and they will give great thumbs up for me. Clive Llyod is the best IT VP , Somachandra De Silva is his able assistant VP. I can not find words to praise Sunil Gavaskar, Chief of Help Desk and Gundappa Ranganath Viswanath the network adminstrator.
Ha,ha, ha. Now I am safe. I can even watch Chennai Express during working hours. They will bring me popcorn.
Not in its core business. Its cloud is making money, it is under stiff competition. It is using that profit to subsidize the core business. It might work out, or it might not pan out.
If there is fraud and the tax haven bank steals all the money and goes away, where will Apple go to get the money back?
All USA has to do is to indicate to these tax haven bank executives, there will be no prosecution, no criminal/civil charges if they steal all the money in their bank.
It could even allow such executives to list it like "Gambling income", "money embezzeled from tax haven bank" and pay income taxes and the money would be legally theirs.
Move money wherever you want to. But whoever pays tax gets to keep it in the USA. What would happen? Why such a tactic is not even being hinted at?
No it is not a monopolistic behavior. It is the dot com behavior. Use investor cash to sell services/goods below cost. Show growth, show numbers, hope to sell to someone before the scheme comes undone. It is called The Greater Fool Theory. "I know this business model is unsustainable and it is all going to eventually collapse when it runs of fresh investors, but I hope to cash out long before then".
It is vaguely like a Ponzi scheme, in the sense that fresh investors pay off the older investors. It has had a long run, and has become very large. Amazon could do a lot of damage if/when it runs out fresh money before its competition goes out of business. It is a death match, if Kohl's, Target, Home Depot and Walmart are still alive and Amazon runs out of fresh investors, it would die. If the others die and shrink to dollar general size or 7-11 size Amazon will win. Let us see how it turns out.
Most of us here with decent jobs, where we can surf and post in slashdot during working hours with impunity, will hate this. We value our time. We filter out web ads. We filter out TV ads using TiVo or streaming services. We stop consuming broadcast TV and cable TV to avoid ads.
But we are a minority. Majority of the people don't have money to spare, they don't have time to spare either due to working multiple jobs. They are just too tired to fight, and they will succumb to "4K TV 60 inch screen for 99$, but we interrupt any stream you are watching to insert ads".
They are the vast majority, they will drive the market. Not us.
All we can hope for is to carve out a part where we pay for content and avoid ads. But for all that talk about it, we really don't pony up cash. We do the easy things, ad block plus, no script, etc etc. But paying for local newspapers or paying full price for ad free video stream, lot less people are actually paying compared to the number of people posting in these threads.
Can't blame them, they are not charity, and if we do not form a big enough market, they will ignore us.
Let us expand the scope of the criminal investigation by outside law enforcement agencies to include this investigation too. Let us check how diligent these investigators were, what documents these guys chose not to see, and see what this investigation did not know, and when they did not know it.
Further let us also investigate why the top officials were not informed of important security issues. Also let us investigate the board for paying such salaries and compensation with no requirement to know, with no real responsibility.
no, no, no. You must be new to this business. Consultants get paid first, up front before any thing is done. Implementation contractors are the ones who get paid last after delivery.
Also remember that the Millennium Falcon is indestructible and it is right now at the bottom of the sea off Yucatan peninsula, a km under the earth crust. Just lying there. For any one to just walk in and take.
Please get into bond market and invest lots of money. We need a steady supply of saps, marks, rubes and assorted people playing way out of their league to keep our investments happy.
Please don't understand that Tesla already got all the money. All it has to do is to pay interest and eventually pay off the principle. The day to day market price of its junk bond does not affect it directly. But pay no attention all that. Just bring in your money and invest in bonds using your super intelligent emotional self.
To improve the survival rates of bombers during WW II the air force studied the bombers returning from missions, counted where they are being hit, and came up with a plan to strengthen the planes there. Microsoft is like those engineers.
It took an exceptional mathematician to tell them, "those are the areas that can take damage and still be airworthy. The planes that never came back were hit in places where these planes were not hit".
Consumer report is dredging up the wrecks and then count where they were hit. It is finding systems that wont or cant phone home to report problems.
Users cant tell what is misbehaving, hardware, software, the router or the site they are tying to reach.
What you do is exactly what MS is doing. They exclude so many things and they create a cool statistic that bears no resemblance to the user experience.
We kept complaining about the password explosion. Especially since so much of the office functions are outsourced and we end up logging into so many servers. They rolled in with great fartfare Single Sign On. With TFA to boot.
Now after we go through the painful microsoft applications access panel, we click on any thing, it pops up the same password dialog. The only thing has changed is now we can not directly log in to the third party service. First we sing on here and then sign on again. Single Sign on ended up being One More Sign On.
Since the algorithm usually does not complete, it gives only local minima and not the global minima. Thus the solution depends on initial conditions and how long it is allowed to and how frequently it is updated.
They all use the same algorithm from Google, slightly differently that is all.
Google did not kill the company. It is making tons of money. It is removing a lower cost product made by that company.
The ITA fare comparison tool is a breakthrough, as big as the Page Rank of web sites. Fare comparison is essentially a multiple traveling salesman problem. The key insight to find usable solution quickly was to precompute the cost matrix for some heavily used sectors and cache precomputed solutions to build larger and larger precomputed solutions.
It was developed by a President's Gold Medal winner from IIT Madras. (Chant: "Who won the GC?" "We wont the GC!") Who is still running the division. Used to be the CTO, now some VP/GenManager
It was considered such a break through, Google buying it and cutting off the access would immediately cripple Expedia, Priceline, MakeMyTrip and all their clones. It was declared a de-facto monopoly and was ordered to provide the same service at the same price to all comers including Google. There is supposed to be a wall between Google and ITA. The consent decree has expired, and slowly Google is consolidating the business. It is probably negotiating with existing players in the field and they probably demanded the low cost version to be shuttered. This benefits existing players like Expedia. Google is free now to give itself a sweeter deal. Or it could stay out of retail and sell global price search algorithms to existing players. At the level Google is in, it would rather be a behind scenes toll collector than selling this stuff retail.
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Cars don't do very well on icy roads, or in low visibility conditions. Even if you make flying taxis as safe as cars on road for these weather conditions, it would not be enough. Liability of cars on icy roads is grandfathered into the system. Autonomous flying taxis are new. They will find it very difficult to get the same sweet deal on liability.
It's very, very, very bad
It explains:
Basically, Chrome broke half of user websites, the ones that were relying on touch/scroll events being cancellable, at the benefit of winning some performance for websites that were not yet aware of this optional optimization
OK, half the user websites? 50% of the web right? The linked article says:
We looked at the percentage of cancelable touch events that were sent to a root target (window, document, or body) and determined that about 80% of these listeners are conceptually passive but were not registered as such. Given the scale of this problem we noticed a great opportunity to improve scrolling without any developer action by making these events automatically "passive".
Looks like the chrome team did some basic profiling, figured out 80% of the listeners are actually passive. Still they should not have touched the default and educated the website developers to register conceptually passive listeners as passive, right?
Google gives some motivation for this:
We believe the web should be fast by default without developers needing to understand arcane details of browser behavior.
There are some plots and more profiling data there.
They could have done an RFC and got the standards updated in the next batch for this. But still, as evil behaviors go, this is not "dos is not done till lotus wont run" level. Does not even come to working around bugs in IIS in IE to make all other browsers crap out level of evil.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
But.. but... the old boss was evil. New boss is not evil. He said so himself. That is his motto. Don't be evil.
They are the best overlords one can have. They are really great and the people who watch my web surfing are the best managers one can hire. They know what a great employee I am and I am sure they are putting me on the "nice" list and they will give great thumbs up for me. Clive Llyod is the best IT VP , Somachandra De Silva is his able assistant VP. I can not find words to praise Sunil Gavaskar, Chief of Help Desk and Gundappa Ranganath Viswanath the network adminstrator.
Ha,ha, ha. Now I am safe. I can even watch Chennai Express during working hours. They will bring me popcorn.
So I will immediately quit posting one liner to slashdot while the compiler is chugging along in the other window.
oh! wait! I already did! I am doomed!
Not in its core business. Its cloud is making money, it is under stiff competition. It is using that profit to subsidize the core business. It might work out, or it might not pan out.
You and I do not have enough money to use all these loop holes. They are designed to catch little fry like us and let big sharks go.
If you don't get that point you never will.
All USA has to do is to indicate to these tax haven bank executives, there will be no prosecution, no criminal/civil charges if they steal all the money in their bank. It could even allow such executives to list it like "Gambling income", "money embezzeled from tax haven bank" and pay income taxes and the money would be legally theirs.
Move money wherever you want to. But whoever pays tax gets to keep it in the USA. What would happen? Why such a tactic is not even being hinted at?
Ring around a rosie, is supposed to be an allegory of the black death.
Some more such stuff
It is vaguely like a Ponzi scheme, in the sense that fresh investors pay off the older investors. It has had a long run, and has become very large. Amazon could do a lot of damage if/when it runs out fresh money before its competition goes out of business. It is a death match, if Kohl's, Target, Home Depot and Walmart are still alive and Amazon runs out of fresh investors, it would die. If the others die and shrink to dollar general size or 7-11 size Amazon will win. Let us see how it turns out.
But we are a minority. Majority of the people don't have money to spare, they don't have time to spare either due to working multiple jobs. They are just too tired to fight, and they will succumb to "4K TV 60 inch screen for 99$, but we interrupt any stream you are watching to insert ads".
They are the vast majority, they will drive the market. Not us.
All we can hope for is to carve out a part where we pay for content and avoid ads. But for all that talk about it, we really don't pony up cash. We do the easy things, ad block plus, no script, etc etc. But paying for local newspapers or paying full price for ad free video stream, lot less people are actually paying compared to the number of people posting in these threads.
Can't blame them, they are not charity, and if we do not form a big enough market, they will ignore us.
Further let us also investigate why the top officials were not informed of important security issues. Also let us investigate the board for paying such salaries and compensation with no requirement to know, with no real responsibility.
no, no, no. You must be new to this business. Consultants get paid first, up front before any thing is done. Implementation contractors are the ones who get paid last after delivery.
That void is empty. The alien space ship that was originally hangered there has been moved to the vault A Thiruvandapuram Sri Padmanabha Swamy temple . Citation provided
Also remember that the Millennium Falcon is indestructible and it is right now at the bottom of the sea off Yucatan peninsula, a km under the earth crust. Just lying there. For any one to just walk in and take.
We all need to fart more often. This is the only time you will ever hear me say this.
I wonder why we can't hear you say this after this time. What or which sound is going to drown out your words...
Problem Solved. Where do I collect my consultant fee?
It is all frozen, burn methane, more global warming easier to melt those ices ... wow
Please don't understand that Tesla already got all the money. All it has to do is to pay interest and eventually pay off the principle. The day to day market price of its junk bond does not affect it directly. But pay no attention all that. Just bring in your money and invest in bonds using your super intelligent emotional self.
It took an exceptional mathematician to tell them, "those are the areas that can take damage and still be airworthy. The planes that never came back were hit in places where these planes were not hit".
Consumer report is dredging up the wrecks and then count where they were hit. It is finding systems that wont or cant phone home to report problems.
What you do is exactly what MS is doing. They exclude so many things and they create a cool statistic that bears no resemblance to the user experience.
The crapware installed by OEM resellers are the biggest culprit.
Now after we go through the painful microsoft applications access panel, we click on any thing, it pops up the same password dialog. The only thing has changed is now we can not directly log in to the third party service. First we sing on here and then sign on again. Single Sign on ended up being One More Sign On.
Since the algorithm usually does not complete, it gives only local minima and not the global minima. Thus the solution depends on initial conditions and how long it is allowed to and how frequently it is updated.
They all use the same algorithm from Google, slightly differently that is all.
The ITA fare comparison tool is a breakthrough, as big as the Page Rank of web sites. Fare comparison is essentially a multiple traveling salesman problem. The key insight to find usable solution quickly was to precompute the cost matrix for some heavily used sectors and cache precomputed solutions to build larger and larger precomputed solutions.
It was developed by a President's Gold Medal winner from IIT Madras. (Chant: "Who won the GC?" "We wont the GC!") Who is still running the division. Used to be the CTO, now some VP/GenManager
It was considered such a break through, Google buying it and cutting off the access would immediately cripple Expedia, Priceline, MakeMyTrip and all their clones. It was declared a de-facto monopoly and was ordered to provide the same service at the same price to all comers including Google. There is supposed to be a wall between Google and ITA. The consent decree has expired, and slowly Google is consolidating the business. It is probably negotiating with existing players in the field and they probably demanded the low cost version to be shuttered. This benefits existing players like Expedia. Google is free now to give itself a sweeter deal. Or it could stay out of retail and sell global price search algorithms to existing players. At the level Google is in, it would rather be a behind scenes toll collector than selling this stuff retail.