With at least a quarter of the employees of every company in that space probably having watched at least one of the Terminator movies, could any of them really be completely oblivious to the dangers of robotic attacks?
My guess is vendors are just expected to eat it or not get their product on the shelves.
I guess they don't have enough clout to write a dispute length (e.g., up to 1 year) into their contract with the retailer. Although I suppose if they have to fall back to the contract in the event of a dispute, that retailer may not use them much longer.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school system in the U.S., is no picnic to close; the New York Times notes that the closure throws into disarray "the lives of millions of Angelenos — students, parents, teachers and other school staff members."
So, are there protocols that make an exceptional event like this any easier to manage? Considering the nation's terrorism alert concerns, don't these incidentially function as 'duck and cover' terrorism drills?
The telescope is not dead; the legal proceedings happening today are, quite honestly, a failure of negotiations on both sides. The vast majority of people involved in this project want both for the telescope to be built and to have the native population of Hawaiians on board with how this land is used, how the inhabitants are treated, and how future projects are handled moving forward. As Kealoha Pisciotta, the president of the group purportedly opposing the telescope, Protect Mauna Kea (Mauna Kea Anaina Hou) says,
"This is the principle of the mountain and the sanctity of Mauna Kea calls on us to raise the standard. We cannot be vengeful. We need to find pono [righteous] solutions. We need to find good things for astronomers. Cooperation is, I think, really the true part of our human nature, not competition. I think we have to go back to cooperation to survive the future."
In other news, scientists and engineers in Indiana have agreed to change number systems from base 10 to (help me out here) base 10^(old-value-of-pi/3).
"What is it, Ben?" "I felt a great swelling in the Force, as if millions of small, youthful beings held their breath, and suddenly cried out in joy. I fear something unusual has happened."
In contrast, consider (from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe):
It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.
The men, they gossip and prattle on like old women while, of course, thinking it is the ladies that gossip most
I had to read until the end of your post, but then this line finally made sense. What else would you expect in a town where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Google for violation of the K-12 School Service Provider Pledge to Safeguard Student Privacy.
The EFF and Google -- both nominally good faith actors with regards to privacy -- are in conflict, and they're taking their issue up with... the government?
Thanks in part to the Gateses’ strong investment in vaccines for infectious diseases, deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 90 percent since 2000.
Could Lifelock or perhaps a more active defense service (do these exist?) help with this? I know home/auto/life insurance companies offer identity protection and/or recovery; do any of them offer protection/defense services against this kind of [sic] siege?
Yet streaming video players are deliberately coded to be as stupid as possible, and not allow the user to "pre-roll" the entire video, basically meaning that they open up the video player, then leave it paused for half an hour or an hour while the video downloads, then come back and watch the whole thing at full quality with no "graceful downgrades" due to their connection being slow.
Does anyone have hard information on why pretty much everything is coded this way? With all the features they offer, I'm kind of hard pressed to understand why there isn't a single video player, or maybe even a specialized proxy server, that offers an option to buffer videos like this.
Actually, no. The very nature of their job is that if they're successful, absolutely nothing happens. Consequently, the only evidence they have that an attack was thwarted are some written plans, drawings scrawled on a napkin, or chemicals that could be used to make a bomb. They can't even be sure that they really did stop a terror attack, or if they just caught some raving lunatic with delusions of executing a terror attack.
Sounds like life in an IT infrastructure group.
And they can't crow about it until many years later, because doing so could tip off related terrorist cells that they're close to being captured.
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With at least a quarter of the employees of every company in that space probably having watched at least one of the Terminator movies, could any of them really be completely oblivious to the dangers of robotic attacks?
Or is this a Star Wars Master Race thing
More like a religion, actually.
Isn't this exactly what Flash (and similar vector formats) are good at reproducing, at any resolution?
My guess is vendors are just expected to eat it or not get their product on the shelves.
I guess they don't have enough clout to write a dispute length (e.g., up to 1 year) into their contract with the retailer. Although I suppose if they have to fall back to the contract in the event of a dispute, that retailer may not use them much longer.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school system in the U.S., is no picnic to close; the New York Times notes that the closure throws into disarray "the lives of millions of Angelenos — students, parents, teachers and other school staff members."
So, are there protocols that make an exceptional event like this any easier to manage? Considering the nation's terrorism alert concerns, don't these incidentially function as 'duck and cover' terrorism drills?
Obligatory xkcds.
LionsGate should be paying anyone willing to make a copy or watch of this thing their weight in gold.
I suspect this would work out very unfavorably for them, financially speaking. To quote, "Worst 'Expendables' ever."
Maybe it's a new business venture from the same guys who run Jiffy Express?
From the article:
The telescope is not dead; the legal proceedings happening today are, quite honestly, a failure of negotiations on both sides. The vast majority of people involved in this project want both for the telescope to be built and to have the native population of Hawaiians on board with how this land is used, how the inhabitants are treated, and how future projects are handled moving forward. As Kealoha Pisciotta, the president of the group purportedly opposing the telescope, Protect Mauna Kea (Mauna Kea Anaina Hou) says,
"This is the principle of the mountain and the sanctity of Mauna Kea calls on us to raise the standard. We cannot be vengeful. We need to find pono [righteous] solutions. We need to find good things for astronomers. Cooperation is, I think, really the true part of our human nature, not competition. I think we have to go back to cooperation to survive the future."
I don't see a problem with this.
In other news, scientists and engineers in Indiana have agreed to change number systems from base 10 to (help me out here) base 10^(old-value-of-pi/3).
schools will be shut down
"What is it, Ben?"
"I felt a great swelling in the Force, as if millions of small, youthful beings held their breath, and suddenly cried out in joy. I fear something unusual has happened."
In contrast, consider (from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe):
It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.
The men, they gossip and prattle on like old women while, of course, thinking it is the ladies that gossip most
I had to read until the end of your post, but then this line finally made sense. What else would you expect in a town where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average?
That's not always the case, though.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Google for violation of the K-12 School Service Provider Pledge to Safeguard Student Privacy.
The EFF and Google -- both nominally good faith actors with regards to privacy -- are in conflict, and they're taking their issue up with ... the government?
Don't you love how people can make up nonsensical stories about how something is sacred to them to stop activities they don't like?
Of course I did! And it wasn't just me, lots of other people did too.
Not quite a meeting space, but here you go.
They do have some value.
Thanks in part to the Gateses’ strong investment in vaccines for infectious diseases, deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 90 percent since 2000.
Could Lifelock or perhaps a more active defense service (do these exist?) help with this? I know home/auto/life insurance companies offer identity protection and/or recovery; do any of them offer protection/defense services against this kind of [sic] siege?
Yet streaming video players are deliberately coded to be as stupid as possible, and not allow the user to "pre-roll" the entire video, basically meaning that they open up the video player, then leave it paused for half an hour or an hour while the video downloads, then come back and watch the whole thing at full quality with no "graceful downgrades" due to their connection being slow.
Does anyone have hard information on why pretty much everything is coded this way? With all the features they offer, I'm kind of hard pressed to understand why there isn't a single video player, or maybe even a specialized proxy server, that offers an option to buffer videos like this.
Actually, no. The very nature of their job is that if they're successful, absolutely nothing happens. Consequently, the only evidence they have that an attack was thwarted are some written plans, drawings scrawled on a napkin, or chemicals that could be used to make a bomb. They can't even be sure that they really did stop a terror attack, or if they just caught some raving lunatic with delusions of executing a terror attack.
Sounds like life in an IT infrastructure group.
And they can't crow about it until many years later, because doing so could tip off related terrorist cells that they're close to being captured.
Ok, maybe this one's a bit more of a stretch.
"Some have clamored for heads to roll in order that we could say that heads have rolled. Sorry, that's not my way."
Ohhh -- so that's why he prefers hanging instead.
Elon Musk -- putting the 'bar' in 'barf'.
And here I thought the artist was making a joke.