Exactly this. While one could argue this might interfere with your ability to hear external sound, but so do many other things so it just creates a stupid special case.
Worse is the prohibition for cyclist who can't even listen to music legally, or just with one ear (no way).
Let people be responsible for themselves and ensure they can fully drive their car --- they will be accountable for any accident or dangerous driving in any case.
I'd like to be able to use both my earphones at a low level, which lets me perfectly ear the outside (because those are not designed to protect from external noise) while keeping a balanced sound between my left and right ears.
Well I could argue there was a component missing (d2y/dx2 was there but not -(dy/dx)(d2x/dx2)), hence it was a fundamental error that was causing d2y/dx2 to be a notation instead of a mathematical object, while looking like a mathematical object.
If it was called something like (dx/dy)" maybe I would have agreed this is only a notation. But d2y/dx2 is weird enough that it pretends to say something.. which happens to be wrong.
I think you don't realize how much money it costs the IRS.
What do you think happens on their side ? They do the same exercise, then compare.
Then send you a letter to ask why there is a difference, then get your reply, then process it again, then correct it, send you a corrected version, then you potentially pay the difference and they process your payment.
Every single step here costs government money. And I know it happens a lot since when it happened to me, they contacted me more than a year later.
So if they would provide what they have computer on their side, the errors would be much less frequent.
Now also realize when you go in that direction, you can also push for more systems to be interconnected to the IRS system so that they know even more about every source of revenue you have. And people are happy about it because it makes things easier for them (aside from those who were hiding stuff). And guess what ? This avoids a LOT of fraud... more money !
Also the fact that Sweden settled with 10M SEK per individual is a terrible idea since it makes people think they admit the vaccine is at fault, where in fact they just don't want to waste their time battling a PR disaster.
That, or stop asking customer tons of personal information then store it in an xls file accessible to everyone on the cloud.
That's by far the biggest win of GDPR. And small shops in EU didn't disappear due to GDPR. They just need to stop doing stupid things that will hurt them and their customers.
Then fund them with taxes. That's the whole point of taxes : fund the very critical infrastructure that makes the society work. The justice system should not be making any money. It should be funded enough to serve the citizens and make justice equal for all.
Well, obviously in the US it's far from being the case.
Works very well in French as far as I can tell. Actually it even understood something spoken by a 4-year old that I did not understand myself. I laughed when I saw what it had understood. But I was floored when the kid's dad told me that it was indeed what the kid said.
Same here. As a cyclist, I could tell whether a Diesel or Gasoline car just passed just by breathing (I'm a bit sensitive, close to asthma). That was when car manufacturers constantly played the same chime all over again : "OK, we admit the previous generation actually wasn't clean. But the new one is, so please buy new cars !". Obviously, to boost the economy both German and French government relayed that heavily and even gave tax breaks for those "clean" cars, since both German and French car manufacturers were investing tons of R&D into diesel engines. Those tax breaks were obviously just a disguised subsidy to the local economy, against Japanese and American cars.
Eventually the truth emerged and they're taking a whole new direction, trying to increase diesel prices. And who pays the bill ? Those who bought diesel cars and now have the choice between expensive gas or buying a new car (which they won't be able to afford anyway).
Now who's to blame ? Car manufacturers/lobbyists ? Sure. Governments for lying or believing lobbyists ? Sure as well. Consumers for buying into it ? Certainly a bit too.
Don't underestimate local manager's capacity to put inhuman pressure on their team because they can't meet the objective or just want to impress the upper management.
This kind of issue can be extremely local (depends on the manager), so it doesn't mean it's an Amazon-wide issue and all Amazon employees suffer the same fate.
That was decades ago. And who defeated humans at Go ? Google. Ask yourself why Google is not the #1 patent holder on AI. Because patents are a bad way of measuring investment. Some companies are patent factories, some don't.
The companies pushing AI right now are mostly Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple ; their Chinese counter parts : Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent ; not to forget some Japanese companies as well like Preferred Networks or Sony. Universities of the same countries also play a part of it.
Those companies and universities do not care much about patents, at least much less than patent factories like IBM.
Note I'm not saying IBM is not investing on AI, just that the patents do not reflect the key papers that actually make science move forward.
Absolutely. If that public service is able to access it, so does the rest of the world. In fact, it should be incumbent to ISPs to make sure those devices cannot be easily turned into botnets. ISPs should scan for classical login/password and if found, set the firewall to block the device, send an email to the customer and let the customer remove the firewall rule when ready.
This should be one the basic services from an ISP.
And no this is not hacking, maybe not even unauthorized access. To give an analogy, it's like trying to open the door and if we find that the door opens, we build a wall of bricks in front of it to secure it.
Cyber war FUD aside, I find it an interesting change to reward people who find holes in military systems instead of imprisoning them for "putting brave soldiers life in danger".
I think that's exactly the point of GDPR. Keep Google/Facebook/Amazon in check so that they don't know exactly how far they can go and refrain from playing the odds. If you write the law too precisely, then you can be sure those precisions will create loopholes, playing with words. If you don't, then it's up to the interpretation of a court (some say this is what democracy is about) i.e. have the People determine whether what you are doing is OK or not.
Now, if you don't want to worry about GDPR, stay away from the line, which is fairly easy for all business not related to data management.
The only intrusive part of GDPR for all businesses is the enforcement of sane computer security practice. Agreed, this may have a cost, but really, that's a good thing. Unfortunately, in a world where anyone on earth can hack you computer and sell information, if you don't want to properly manage your computer, don't use it to store customer information. Write your database in a book. I know it was easier in the 80's, but that's just how things turned out to be.
While I can't comment on the lightning side, my impression was the same : if you want to design a Bitcoin that actually scales, you'll need much more than thousands of transactions per second.
You're not getting it. It's easy to play the "idiots get what they deserve". In practice, someone looking to get a job at a company will lower its guards since he need that job and refusing to follow a stupid company process will likely disqualify them.
And even when interviewing for very "technical" companies, HR folks usually have no clue about security and will put the candidates at risk all the times, so even if you're a security expert, it's really hard to know whether the interviewer is trying to trick you or just bad at security.
I've been asked so many times to provide personal information through unencrypted email, like banking accounts ; this is very common. Every time, I configured a web server with HTTPS and authentication for the HR person to retrieve the documents securely, calling them to give them the password or creating the password to that part of it would be only known by the HR person. Obviously not everyone would do that and I was lucky the HR person managed to retrieve the documents (they were nice and helpful and managed to follow my instructions).
Job interview - social engineering *is* brilliant and really hard to counter.
Add a couple of speed cameras along the way and all will drive at the speed limit within weeks. That's exactly what happened in France 10 years ago.
Some speed cameras seem to be only for making money, but as a general side effect, more drivers in France tend to follow the speed limits now, so if you want to drive at the speed limit, you might be able to do so without causing a major slowdown in the flow (as was the case before).
Speed limits in France are quite high on highways, but the current government lowered them recently on normal roads to 80 km/h (was 90km/h since 1973) which is mostly impacting people living in the country side. This is very hard for some drivers not used to look at their speed and relying on their habit, and causing them to very quickly loose their license hence hating speed cameras.
I was actually also surprised to see updates on the Shield Tablet way after Samsung stopped updating my Galaxy Tab S. Both launched at approx the same time, and the Galaxy Tab S was even more expensive.
Shield products tend to get updates for a crazy amount of time -- too bad it's not in the contract when you buy a new tablet, it would certainly be an important decision point for me.
Yeah and instead of bothering us to spend little money we don't have, Wikipedia should indeed be funded fully by large Companies. Google, Facebook, Apple... for them it's a drop in the ocean.
True, it's not the largest part, but still 20%, just accounting for the obvious Military+Veterans (https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png).
I agree. When I moved to the US, I was stuck by two things :
How much taxes I paid. Not that different from Europe, and it's not due to the state ; the Federal taxes are most of it.
How crappy public service is. Really. IRS (which is supposed to be the best service, with lots of money) is the worst administration I've had to deal with.
So I was wondering.. where does all the money go ? Then I realized the obvious. Military.
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Exactly this. While one could argue this might interfere with your ability to hear external sound, but so do many other things so it just creates a stupid special case.
Worse is the prohibition for cyclist who can't even listen to music legally, or just with one ear (no way).
Let people be responsible for themselves and ensure they can fully drive their car --- they will be accountable for any accident or dangerous driving in any case.
I'd like to be able to use both my earphones at a low level, which lets me perfectly ear the outside (because those are not designed to protect from external noise) while keeping a balanced sound between my left and right ears.
Well I could argue there was a component missing (d2y/dx2 was there but not -(dy/dx)(d2x/dx2)), hence it was a fundamental error that was causing d2y/dx2 to be a notation instead of a mathematical object, while looking like a mathematical object.
If it was called something like (dx/dy)" maybe I would have agreed this is only a notation. But d2y/dx2 is weird enough that it pretends to say something .. which happens to be wrong.
I think you don't realize how much money it costs the IRS.
What do you think happens on their side ? They do the same exercise, then compare.
Then send you a letter to ask why there is a difference, then get your reply, then process it again, then correct it, send you a corrected version, then you potentially pay the difference and they process your payment.
Every single step here costs government money. And I know it happens a lot since when it happened to me, they contacted me more than a year later.
So if they would provide what they have computer on their side, the errors would be much less frequent.
Now also realize when you go in that direction, you can also push for more systems to be interconnected to the IRS system so that they know even more about every source of revenue you have. And people are happy about it because it makes things easier for them (aside from those who were hiding stuff). And guess what ? This avoids a LOT of fraud ... more money !
Here is what I found about this incident : https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesaf... , also the EU-wide analysis https://ecdc.europa.eu/sites/p...
I could not find clear conclusions.
Also the fact that Sweden settled with 10M SEK per individual is a terrible idea since it makes people think they admit the vaccine is at fault, where in fact they just don't want to waste their time battling a PR disaster.
Just implement the GDPR in the US. But I'm sure by the time it is adopted, it will be crippled by loopholes.
That, or stop asking customer tons of personal information then store it in an xls file accessible to everyone on the cloud.
That's by far the biggest win of GDPR. And small shops in EU didn't disappear due to GDPR. They just need to stop doing stupid things that will hurt them and their customers.
Then fund them with taxes. That's the whole point of taxes : fund the very critical infrastructure that makes the society work. The justice system should not be making any money. It should be funded enough to serve the citizens and make justice equal for all.
Well, obviously in the US it's far from being the case.
Works very well in French as far as I can tell. Actually it even understood something spoken by a 4-year old that I did not understand myself. I laughed when I saw what it had understood. But I was floored when the kid's dad told me that it was indeed what the kid said.
Same here. As a cyclist, I could tell whether a Diesel or Gasoline car just passed just by breathing (I'm a bit sensitive, close to asthma). That was when car manufacturers constantly played the same chime all over again : "OK, we admit the previous generation actually wasn't clean. But the new one is, so please buy new cars !". Obviously, to boost the economy both German and French government relayed that heavily and even gave tax breaks for those "clean" cars, since both German and French car manufacturers were investing tons of R&D into diesel engines. Those tax breaks were obviously just a disguised subsidy to the local economy, against Japanese and American cars.
Eventually the truth emerged and they're taking a whole new direction, trying to increase diesel prices. And who pays the bill ? Those who bought diesel cars and now have the choice between expensive gas or buying a new car (which they won't be able to afford anyway).
Now who's to blame ? Car manufacturers/lobbyists ? Sure. Governments for lying or believing lobbyists ? Sure as well. Consumers for buying into it ? Certainly a bit too.
Don't underestimate local manager's capacity to put inhuman pressure on their team because they can't meet the objective or just want to impress the upper management.
This kind of issue can be extremely local (depends on the manager), so it doesn't mean it's an Amazon-wide issue and all Amazon employees suffer the same fate.
That was decades ago. And who defeated humans at Go ? Google. Ask yourself why Google is not the #1 patent holder on AI. Because patents are a bad way of measuring investment. Some companies are patent factories, some don't.
It's a very bad way to measure investment.
The companies pushing AI right now are mostly Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple ; their Chinese counter parts : Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent ; not to forget some Japanese companies as well like Preferred Networks or Sony. Universities of the same countries also play a part of it.
Those companies and universities do not care much about patents, at least much less than patent factories like IBM.
Note I'm not saying IBM is not investing on AI, just that the patents do not reflect the key papers that actually make science move forward.
Absolutely. If that public service is able to access it, so does the rest of the world. In fact, it should be incumbent to ISPs to make sure those devices cannot be easily turned into botnets. ISPs should scan for classical login/password and if found, set the firewall to block the device, send an email to the customer and let the customer remove the firewall rule when ready.
This should be one the basic services from an ISP.
And no this is not hacking, maybe not even unauthorized access. To give an analogy, it's like trying to open the door and if we find that the door opens, we build a wall of bricks in front of it to secure it.
Cyber war FUD aside, I find it an interesting change to reward people who find holes in military systems instead of imprisoning them for "putting brave soldiers life in danger".
I think that's exactly the point of GDPR. Keep Google/Facebook/Amazon in check so that they don't know exactly how far they can go and refrain from playing the odds. If you write the law too precisely, then you can be sure those precisions will create loopholes, playing with words. If you don't, then it's up to the interpretation of a court (some say this is what democracy is about) i.e. have the People determine whether what you are doing is OK or not.
Now, if you don't want to worry about GDPR, stay away from the line, which is fairly easy for all business not related to data management.
The only intrusive part of GDPR for all businesses is the enforcement of sane computer security practice. Agreed, this may have a cost, but really, that's a good thing. Unfortunately, in a world where anyone on earth can hack you computer and sell information, if you don't want to properly manage your computer, don't use it to store customer information. Write your database in a book. I know it was easier in the 80's, but that's just how things turned out to be.
While I can't comment on the lightning side, my impression was the same : if you want to design a Bitcoin that actually scales, you'll need much more than thousands of transactions per second.
You're not getting it. It's easy to play the "idiots get what they deserve". In practice, someone looking to get a job at a company will lower its guards since he need that job and refusing to follow a stupid company process will likely disqualify them.
And even when interviewing for very "technical" companies, HR folks usually have no clue about security and will put the candidates at risk all the times, so even if you're a security expert, it's really hard to know whether the interviewer is trying to trick you or just bad at security.
I've been asked so many times to provide personal information through unencrypted email, like banking accounts ; this is very common. Every time, I configured a web server with HTTPS and authentication for the HR person to retrieve the documents securely, calling them to give them the password or creating the password to that part of it would be only known by the HR person. Obviously not everyone would do that and I was lucky the HR person managed to retrieve the documents (they were nice and helpful and managed to follow my instructions).
Job interview - social engineering *is* brilliant and really hard to counter.
Add a couple of speed cameras along the way and all will drive at the speed limit within weeks. That's exactly what happened in France 10 years ago.
Some speed cameras seem to be only for making money, but as a general side effect, more drivers in France tend to follow the speed limits now, so if you want to drive at the speed limit, you might be able to do so without causing a major slowdown in the flow (as was the case before).
Speed limits in France are quite high on highways, but the current government lowered them recently on normal roads to 80 km/h (was 90km/h since 1973) which is mostly impacting people living in the country side. This is very hard for some drivers not used to look at their speed and relying on their habit, and causing them to very quickly loose their license hence hating speed cameras.
I was actually also surprised to see updates on the Shield Tablet way after Samsung stopped updating my Galaxy Tab S. Both launched at approx the same time, and the Galaxy Tab S was even more expensive.
Shield products tend to get updates for a crazy amount of time -- too bad it's not in the contract when you buy a new tablet, it would certainly be an important decision point for me.
Yep. The same crap again. Now every country will have a different naming for technologies.
4G+ was too true. If marketing folks don't lie, they're not doing their job.
Yeah and instead of bothering us to spend little money we don't have, Wikipedia should indeed be funded fully by large Companies. Google, Facebook, Apple ... for them it's a drop in the ocean.
So this seems to be the origin : https://www.pwc.co.uk/cyber-security/pdf/cloud-hopper-report-final-v4.pdf
Mentioning a probably-China-based "APT10" group, based on the time of most attacks.
"CloudHopper" is the codename PwC gave to the APT10 attack, not a secret service code name.
First, you would need to prove this is an attack by the state, not by some random hacker group.
I'm still trying to find who claims this is coming from China and see what exactly they are talking about. So far ... I couldn't find anything.
True, it's not the largest part, but still 20%, just accounting for the obvious Military+Veterans (https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png).
I agree. When I moved to the US, I was stuck by two things :
So I was wondering .. where does all the money go ? Then I realized the obvious. Military.