I really like the visual signs used at Google or eBay, which are right behind related bins and show what types of plastics, food etc. can be put in there. Tried to find an example online, but a quick search didn't work - still, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/... is a nice collection of similar examples.
Unfortunately, most places just have a few differently colored or poorly labeled bins for recycling use; and its upto people to take initiative in learning the dos & donts for each. Which inevitably results in many lazy folks just disposing of their paper beverage cups anywhere and mixing them in the plastics bin etc.
Even if you fix it, who will be willing to trust the new 'better' version? Once people get used to downloading cracks to turn this off on their phones, there will be an entire generation trained to do so as one of the standard setup when buying a new phone. Similar to how so many people think its just natural to ignore copyrights when possible, because of the brokenly long terms that are set on them - now there is little/no social shame in pirating even the newest stuff which earlier had a justifiable reason for society protections (to recoup costs).
You're calculating for only Thunder Bay, which itself would as you show bother a lot of people for a very slim chance. But the actual alerts apparently rang all the way in Toronto, and presumably everywhere in between. That makes the disparity far worse:(
When this system was first introduced, iirc it was meant to help people evacuate from weather emergencies like tornadoes and hurricanes. Then we end up with this new 'feature' which is of course predicated on 'for the poor children!'. I guess Canadian implementation (no opt outs) has me finally happy that the American one isn't as bad!
If the dispatchers are really concerned about this, they should just set standards on how far to sound alerts (say, 1 hour travel distance around location) and point to that rule whenever asked.
For something so annoying, I'd think that it is obvious to focus on keeping users interested in helping out rather than maximum coverage that just acts as a disincentive to ever use the alerts.
Sadly, I do understand your point on how people would rather deflect any potential criticism without considering the fallout.
The linked article says Google is basically a contractor helping with configuration & setup of open source tools; and even if they backed out the same project could be done by other companies too.
If this is true, then I find it hard to be so upset at them. Agreed, Google's level of expertise in setting up ML systems is far more advanced than most smaller companies, and probably a bit ahead of even their biggest competitors. However, its basically an installation that would happen with or without them; and more likely to be misconfigured if someone else is the military vendor... which won't just lead to an ineffective system, it will only mean more overspending until the military does have the capabilities it wants.
So, why not let the ML experts create a usable system which will only save some time and money over them turning down the wad of military cash and seeing someone else get it? Of course, I'm assuming that the claim of everything used being existing open source is actually true.
This 'major, divisive flaw' is something that needs multiple conditions before it can execute:
- Someone who uses encrypted email but doesn't disable automatic image loading in the client - Client that can't handle malformed HTML inputs and processes unterminated src tags in a weird way - Message tampering warnings by the PGP or GPG library are ignored - Server address where the plaintext will get uploaded thru uuencoded resource requests
I wonder if there are clients that, when user has disabled image loading, would still end up auto loading other content (eg. CSS links)? If so then this could be readily exploited far more often in the wild, with the proviso that the attackers don't care about leaving trails of their server address in client & router logs.
Companies are trying to leverage the decentralization of blockchain tech for stuff that is unrelated to mining - cf. https://cointelegraph.com/news/walmart-is-ready-to-use-blockchain-for-its-live-food-business . Facebook is probably looking to do so as well, maybe something like use blockchain voting to evaluate its news articles and sift thru the fakes better;-)
There doesn't seem much point to them jumping into actual crypto mining, unless there is some new tie-up with nVidia and they get a cut of every graphics card bought by FB accounts for FB credits... hmm....
The person exploring a new technology is usually a developer. If their PoCs (proofs of concept) etc. work out and the company decides to put together a team to further work on it; then ofc. it will be headed by a managerial type who is more in touch with business considerations and leads a group of techies.
Also, I like how everyone is assuming the initial researcher is female based on a single 'Her' pronoun, it could very well be a typo - maybe its a dude like Morgan Freeman:)
For laptops, its certainly not as much as it used to - for many companies, the laptops issued are Macs or else there is a choice between Mac or Windows. Most desktops are Windows, but some could be Linux also (curiously, I rarely see Mac desktops in offices though MBPs are everywhere).
The fact there are credible alternatives makes it very hard for EEE to work. Personally I think MS is trying hard to turn over a new leaf post-Ballmer, though there have been some severe missteps like the XBox One DRM saga where they gloriously kneecapped their console launch. They did learn from that, outdoing PS4 in backwards compatibility and also better hardware in their midcycle refresh console.
In your example, what exactly are you supposed to be doing from 17-35 that you don't have any other output?
Also, I don't get why every piece of music needs to be profitable or have a decade to rake in royalties. There have been games that became popular when their studios were already insolvent or headed there - should they have some special way to increase sales figures because the public appreciation was delayed? There are probably cases where a game studio/dev became a hit, and people discovered his earlier works were also gems... but because they've aged, the price is discounted in Steam etc. Should there be some legal way for the studio to bump up the price so they can earn the maximum on their earlier works?
You're really desperate for some argument to justify more than 2 decades of copyright is somehow insufficient.
If any publisher was crazy enough to just 'sit on a manuscript' for 20 years, what stops the author from shopping around and going to other publishers - or nowadays, just self-publishing? Also anyone who tried this would a) be the target of a big lawsuit that would likely bankrupt them; b) Not get any more submissions except from the crappiest and most desperate authors.
As another matter, how many manuscripts do you think are timeless enough to be appreciated on a delayed release of 20 years?
I had no idea this was possible for laptops, most of them tend to not even allow easy swapping of RAM nowadays - in fact, I'm thinking specifically of Dell laptops which earlier had an easily removable panel to access the memory slots, but a friend's recent model has to be taken apart just to get to the SO-DIMM slots!
Will be looking up the Precision manuals, I'm considering a new laptop this Black Friday - having it upgradable would be a nice feature.
That's fine if the segregation is a choice at game start: 'For people who prefer to use third party software, use this server'. But considering that cheaters do spoil the game experience for those who aren't using aimbots or wallhacks or w/e, just putting them in a fence with no other penalties seems like a far too light penalty if they get caught.
Not so sure its about 'exploiting' the American Indians, I expect they will be using a similar loophole to what all the IP companies are doing with assigning their crappy patents to some tribe to avoid IPR fast-track reviews. Then have a revenue share, so they extort other companies being patent trolls, the victims can't resolve the issue quickly, and the 'sovereign' tribes get millions of dollars for their help in doing an end run around the law.
Imho either get rid of their sovereign immunity, or have them as the sovereign be responsible for policing their IP laws i.e. the US shouldn't enforce any patents assigned to other sovereigns, who are free to ban non-payers from their land:)
I was expecting some article to say that we're sims in a world that has people playing Sims... maybe SimCity will also add features for *their* sims to play a game controlling a city too! Either that, or an article about how the entire internet is somehow a giant computer spanning the entire world, and hence we all live within it.
Instead, its just about people using computers to mimic older technologies and displace them; because the 'mimicking' version is actually better and offers features beyond those present in the original.
There are lots of things that people shouldn't be doing, but do them anyway. The fact is that there will be people using the new iPhones while driving, whether you like it or not.
Personally, I sometimes use my phone (Android) for navigation, and ofc. if I haven't already started it beforehand then I need to unlock phone & setup nav while driving. Or I might call up someone and talk, which imho isn't so bad as long as I'm keeping eyes on the road - I use Ok Google to call up people instead of looking & dialing. I do try to wait for red signals if I need to look at the screen (e.g. it couldn't understand the name of the person to call).
Its very unlikely the cheap cars will only have 1 network or that it will be segregrated in a different way (for good or bad) than the higher end models. Almost all car manufacturers address nearly the entire spectrum from entry level to super luxury, and tend to favor standardization to control R&D and maintenance costs. The chief differences between 'high end' and 'cheap' are the quality of materials used for upholstery etc., engine performance, more expensive alternatives of some components, space age materials etc.... all of which are hardware with actual unavoidable cost for it. But the basic nuts & bolts, and I assume the ECM as well, doesn't really vary between models.
No one 'has to' sell services to people, but companies that withdraw services are now acting as a judge of content instead of just being a common carrier and leaving it to courts to rule on such things - you know, the people who can actually define 'racism' or w/e is the term du jour being misused in media and random internet posts.
Companies are quick to overreact based on perceived negative PR, thanks to overzealous media that loves to gang up on anyone who doesn't follow their groupthink. But as this becomes more prevalent, you'll end up with a net dominated by whatever opinions big media wants to push and not much else.
Came across this link ages back and bookmarked it - reading your comment, I figured you may find it useful for alternatives to the tech goliaths that everyone uses.
What's your definitions of these? Are they the exact same definitions everyone else uses to rant about anyone they don't like? Esp. with 'racism', its become a good excuse to get upset for a lot of people who have no understanding of the actual meaning of the term.
So, how're you going to stop what you say are 'assaults on human beings' (somehow conducted thru the net - what is it, e-terrorism for the couch terrorists?) without affecting all the other people getting accused unfairly? If you or major internet companies don't have the resources to judge each case, then why should you be responsible for doing so instead of letting a court handle it?
It may not be misleading, but it adds no value except confusion.
Indicating PhD studies could be a way for someone to show they have done research in academia which is usually not a staple for Masters students. As for causing confusion, its not his fault that other people are dumb if he properly mentioned it was studies and not a degree.
> Women's greater average ability in the communication stakes means that their code is probably better documented, right? And the SCM commits better written up. And their release notes better.
So you're arguing that women are different from men in some ways, and using that as part of your argument that GP is some sort of bigot?
As for pair programming, just because it exists doesn't mean its followed in the majority of positions so how does that invalidate the idea of programming is solo work.
Don't all current cars have the same problems with particulate emissions from tire and brake dust? Its not like Prof Kelly is suggesting that electric cars raise this amount, they probably do a better job of controlling it with less random speeding and braking that humans are wont to do.
Its just another case of someone who had to make some speech during his 15 minutes in the spotlight, and decided to quibble to show off his knowledge instead of just giving strong support to a good initiative. If there was some magical way to get rid of these emissions, he would've complained about something else like the pollution caused at the point of electricity generation etc.
Of course, news outlets will seize such comments to indicate how this solution isn't good enough, and then probably other vested interests will cry about how its a great economic impact without much gain blah blah. If it results in the plan getting shelved or pared down, the same prof will then give interviews about how lamentable it was and not realize his own role in the media confusing the public.
Yes, of course the ideal condition is to have zero cars on the road for no pollution at all. But this is clearly not realistic. As for reducing the number of cars, he doesn't have any solutions to it other than standard snippets like 'we should improve public transport'. Public transport can progress orthogonally with emissions control, and is only tangentially related to improving technology for private vehicles.
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I really like the visual signs used at Google or eBay, which are right behind related bins and show what types of plastics, food etc. can be put in there. Tried to find an example online, but a quick search didn't work - still, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/... is a nice collection of similar examples.
Unfortunately, most places just have a few differently colored or poorly labeled bins for recycling use; and its upto people to take initiative in learning the dos & donts for each. Which inevitably results in many lazy folks just disposing of their paper beverage cups anywhere and mixing them in the plastics bin etc.
> How do we fix this broken system going forward?
Even if you fix it, who will be willing to trust the new 'better' version? Once people get used to downloading cracks to turn this off on their phones, there will be an entire generation trained to do so as one of the standard setup when buying a new phone. Similar to how so many people think its just natural to ignore copyrights when possible, because of the brokenly long terms that are set on them - now there is little/no social shame in pirating even the newest stuff which earlier had a justifiable reason for society protections (to recoup costs).
You're calculating for only Thunder Bay, which itself would as you show bother a lot of people for a very slim chance. But the actual alerts apparently rang all the way in Toronto, and presumably everywhere in between. That makes the disparity far worse :(
When this system was first introduced, iirc it was meant to help people evacuate from weather emergencies like tornadoes and hurricanes. Then we end up with this new 'feature' which is of course predicated on 'for the poor children!'. I guess Canadian implementation (no opt outs) has me finally happy that the American one isn't as bad!
If the dispatchers are really concerned about this, they should just set standards on how far to sound alerts (say, 1 hour travel distance around location) and point to that rule whenever asked.
For something so annoying, I'd think that it is obvious to focus on keeping users interested in helping out rather than maximum coverage that just acts as a disincentive to ever use the alerts.
Sadly, I do understand your point on how people would rather deflect any potential criticism without considering the fallout.
The linked article says Google is basically a contractor helping with configuration & setup of open source tools; and even if they backed out the same project could be done by other companies too.
... which won't just lead to an ineffective system, it will only mean more overspending until the military does have the capabilities it wants.
If this is true, then I find it hard to be so upset at them. Agreed, Google's level of expertise in setting up ML systems is far more advanced than most smaller companies, and probably a bit ahead of even their biggest competitors. However, its basically an installation that would happen with or without them; and more likely to be misconfigured if someone else is the military vendor
So, why not let the ML experts create a usable system which will only save some time and money over them turning down the wad of military cash and seeing someone else get it? Of course, I'm assuming that the claim of everything used being existing open source is actually true.
This 'major, divisive flaw' is something that needs multiple conditions before it can execute:
- Someone who uses encrypted email but doesn't disable automatic image loading in the client
- Client that can't handle malformed HTML inputs and processes unterminated src tags in a weird way
- Message tampering warnings by the PGP or GPG library are ignored
- Server address where the plaintext will get uploaded thru uuencoded resource requests
I wonder if there are clients that, when user has disabled image loading, would still end up auto loading other content (eg. CSS links)? If so then this could be readily exploited far more often in the wild, with the proviso that the attackers don't care about leaving trails of their server address in client & router logs.
... or a red herring perhaps.
;-)
... hmm ....
Companies are trying to leverage the decentralization of blockchain tech for stuff that is unrelated to mining - cf. https://cointelegraph.com/news/walmart-is-ready-to-use-blockchain-for-its-live-food-business . Facebook is probably looking to do so as well, maybe something like use blockchain voting to evaluate its news articles and sift thru the fakes better
There doesn't seem much point to them jumping into actual crypto mining, unless there is some new tie-up with nVidia and they get a cut of every graphics card bought by FB accounts for FB credits
The person exploring a new technology is usually a developer. If their PoCs (proofs of concept) etc. work out and the company decides to put together a team to further work on it; then ofc. it will be headed by a managerial type who is more in touch with business considerations and leads a group of techies.
:)
Also, I like how everyone is assuming the initial researcher is female based on a single 'Her' pronoun, it could very well be a typo - maybe its a dude like Morgan Freeman
For laptops, its certainly not as much as it used to - for many companies, the laptops issued are Macs or else there is a choice between Mac or Windows. Most desktops are Windows, but some could be Linux also (curiously, I rarely see Mac desktops in offices though MBPs are everywhere).
The fact there are credible alternatives makes it very hard for EEE to work. Personally I think MS is trying hard to turn over a new leaf post-Ballmer, though there have been some severe missteps like the XBox One DRM saga where they gloriously kneecapped their console launch. They did learn from that, outdoing PS4 in backwards compatibility and also better hardware in their midcycle refresh console.
In your example, what exactly are you supposed to be doing from 17-35 that you don't have any other output?
Also, I don't get why every piece of music needs to be profitable or have a decade to rake in royalties. There have been games that became popular when their studios were already insolvent or headed there - should they have some special way to increase sales figures because the public appreciation was delayed? There are probably cases where a game studio/dev became a hit, and people discovered his earlier works were also gems ... but because they've aged, the price is discounted in Steam etc. Should there be some legal way for the studio to bump up the price so they can earn the maximum on their earlier works?
You're really desperate for some argument to justify more than 2 decades of copyright is somehow insufficient.
If any publisher was crazy enough to just 'sit on a manuscript' for 20 years, what stops the author from shopping around and going to other publishers - or nowadays, just self-publishing? Also anyone who tried this would a) be the target of a big lawsuit that would likely bankrupt them; b) Not get any more submissions except from the crappiest and most desperate authors.
As another matter, how many manuscripts do you think are timeless enough to be appreciated on a delayed release of 20 years?
http://www.english-for-students.com/Segway-or-Segue.html :-)
> full teardown manuals online
I had no idea this was possible for laptops, most of them tend to not even allow easy swapping of RAM nowadays - in fact, I'm thinking specifically of Dell laptops which earlier had an easily removable panel to access the memory slots, but a friend's recent model has to be taken apart just to get to the SO-DIMM slots!
Will be looking up the Precision manuals, I'm considering a new laptop this Black Friday - having it upgradable would be a nice feature.
That's fine if the segregation is a choice at game start: 'For people who prefer to use third party software, use this server'. But considering that cheaters do spoil the game experience for those who aren't using aimbots or wallhacks or w/e, just putting them in a fence with no other penalties seems like a far too light penalty if they get caught.
Not so sure its about 'exploiting' the American Indians, I expect they will be using a similar loophole to what all the IP companies are doing with assigning their crappy patents to some tribe to avoid IPR fast-track reviews. Then have a revenue share, so they extort other companies being patent trolls, the victims can't resolve the issue quickly, and the 'sovereign' tribes get millions of dollars for their help in doing an end run around the law.
Imho either get rid of their sovereign immunity, or have them as the sovereign be responsible for policing their IP laws i.e. the US shouldn't enforce any patents assigned to other sovereigns, who are free to ban non-payers from their land :)
I was expecting some article to say that we're sims in a world that has people playing Sims ... maybe SimCity will also add features for *their* sims to play a game controlling a city too! Either that, or an article about how the entire internet is somehow a giant computer spanning the entire world, and hence we all live within it.
Instead, its just about people using computers to mimic older technologies and displace them; because the 'mimicking' version is actually better and offers features beyond those present in the original.
There are lots of things that people shouldn't be doing, but do them anyway. The fact is that there will be people using the new iPhones while driving, whether you like it or not.
Personally, I sometimes use my phone (Android) for navigation, and ofc. if I haven't already started it beforehand then I need to unlock phone & setup nav while driving. Or I might call up someone and talk, which imho isn't so bad as long as I'm keeping eyes on the road - I use Ok Google to call up people instead of looking & dialing. I do try to wait for red signals if I need to look at the screen (e.g. it couldn't understand the name of the person to call).
Its very unlikely the cheap cars will only have 1 network or that it will be segregrated in a different way (for good or bad) than the higher end models. Almost all car manufacturers address nearly the entire spectrum from entry level to super luxury, and tend to favor standardization to control R&D and maintenance costs. The chief differences between 'high end' and 'cheap' are the quality of materials used for upholstery etc., engine performance, more expensive alternatives of some components, space age materials etc. ... all of which are hardware with actual unavoidable cost for it. But the basic nuts & bolts, and I assume the ECM as well, doesn't really vary between models.
No one 'has to' sell services to people, but companies that withdraw services are now acting as a judge of content instead of just being a common carrier and leaving it to courts to rule on such things - you know, the people who can actually define 'racism' or w/e is the term du jour being misused in media and random internet posts.
Companies are quick to overreact based on perceived negative PR, thanks to overzealous media that loves to gang up on anyone who doesn't follow their groupthink. But as this becomes more prevalent, you'll end up with a net dominated by whatever opinions big media wants to push and not much else.
https://prism-break.org/en/
Came across this link ages back and bookmarked it - reading your comment, I figured you may find it useful for alternatives to the tech goliaths that everyone uses.
What's your definitions of these? Are they the exact same definitions everyone else uses to rant about anyone they don't like? Esp. with 'racism', its become a good excuse to get upset for a lot of people who have no understanding of the actual meaning of the term.
So, how're you going to stop what you say are 'assaults on human beings' (somehow conducted thru the net - what is it, e-terrorism for the couch terrorists?) without affecting all the other people getting accused unfairly? If you or major internet companies don't have the resources to judge each case, then why should you be responsible for doing so instead of letting a court handle it?
It may not be misleading, but it adds no value except confusion.
Indicating PhD studies could be a way for someone to show they have done research in academia which is usually not a staple for Masters students. As for causing confusion, its not his fault that other people are dumb if he properly mentioned it was studies and not a degree.
> Women's greater average ability in the communication stakes means that their code is probably better documented, right? And the SCM commits better written up. And their release notes better.
So you're arguing that women are different from men in some ways, and using that as part of your argument that GP is some sort of bigot?
As for pair programming, just because it exists doesn't mean its followed in the majority of positions so how does that invalidate the idea of programming is solo work.
Headphone Jack : I hear they are popular among people with ears.
You could've gone for Funny, but it had to get drowned out in a useful post :-)
Don't all current cars have the same problems with particulate emissions from tire and brake dust? Its not like Prof Kelly is suggesting that electric cars raise this amount, they probably do a better job of controlling it with less random speeding and braking that humans are wont to do.
Its just another case of someone who had to make some speech during his 15 minutes in the spotlight, and decided to quibble to show off his knowledge instead of just giving strong support to a good initiative. If there was some magical way to get rid of these emissions, he would've complained about something else like the pollution caused at the point of electricity generation etc.
Of course, news outlets will seize such comments to indicate how this solution isn't good enough, and then probably other vested interests will cry about how its a great economic impact without much gain blah blah. If it results in the plan getting shelved or pared down, the same prof will then give interviews about how lamentable it was and not realize his own role in the media confusing the public.
Yes, of course the ideal condition is to have zero cars on the road for no pollution at all. But this is clearly not realistic. As for reducing the number of cars, he doesn't have any solutions to it other than standard snippets like 'we should improve public transport'. Public transport can progress orthogonally with emissions control, and is only tangentially related to improving technology for private vehicles.