
Re: "Google Privacy Sandbox"
bit tired of "Military Intelligence", its a smart arse soundbyte from before soundbytes were a thing.
If you want something a bit more contemporary,
how about..
Business ethics,
or
Political integrity..
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I think its more an application of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, if you manage to dispose of the idiots you have, they will be replaced by other idiots until an equilibrium is achieved, and the faster and more thoroughly you get rid of them, the worse and more egregious they will turn up.
not interested in the stated use-case (car based camping), but am looking for a portable monitor that will be transportable in air plane baggage, and also regularly relocated and stored away. With a 10kg limit for ALL of my stuff for 2 weeks away from home, this is a non-starter.
I would be willing to try the in-room TVs they provide at the accommodation village, except they are fixed just below the ceiling
if a supposed professional wont understand how taking something that is already effectively harmless, and dispersing it into even lower concentrations, is a better option than stockpiling and concentrating the problem, he needs to trade in his engineer ticket for a homeopathy doctorate..
Its all media grandstanding and publicity stunts, the same sort of thing PETA and its celebutards are famous for - although not their chosen field of activity, if you did some kind of "think of the dolphins..." campaign (in Japan, maybe not?), someone would probably talk one of their C list actresses into swimming naked through a holding pond.
Just remember, its not the message that's important - its the publicity..
Rebranding is never pointless.
It demonstrates that the coloured pencil brigade is contributing value to the business, and should be exempt from any downsizing, unlike support, development, or QA, who only cause problems and bad publicity.
If you really want to mess with rescue comp competitors, get an actual amputee as one of your casualties... was involved in one where we had a guy with a missing leg, and they were using a slab of meat from an animal carcass for the detached bit(s)..
happy memories.
It tells the story of a boy growing to manhood in the land of Shant, a society composed of many different, and wildly individual cantons,
My recollection was that the main characters canton of origin maintained its population by prostituting its women to travellers, while the local leadership spent all their time wanking themselves silly. Definitely relevant to modern management.
(many years since I read it but I am confident I have the gist right - unlike whatever I was doing last week..)
Like the mites without an anus, their lifespan is determined by how long it takes them to fill with shit.
Samsung is just making sure the customers have to keep buying new devices.
Its a commercial decision, based on the attitude that customers are prey to be harvested, rather than assets to be looked after, and most businesses dont even see anything wrong with the idea
Despite otherwise adequate speaker performance, my last couple of Nokia phones have absolute crap phone volume and quality, requiring external headphones to be usable. Having earbuds handy would be useful for this.
But the aesthetic for phones is they must be skinny, so no extraneous bits...
My next phone wont be a Nokia..
I consider anybody entering a zone containing active vehicles as having provided consent to being run over, and if they are wearing earphones/buds and/or staring at their hand held device - they are actively requesting to be a target.
Vehicles are less manoeuvrable than humans, so people need to pay attention and act to protect their own health.
They might not be out to get you... but I may be..
.. this is after a career working on foot amongst heavy mobile equipment..
ahh yes, let a populist demagogue shithead, offering simplistic solutions to real problems, take over the the government, and have rival kleptocracies squabbling over your country for the next several decades.
If only there were some lessons to be learnt out of all that...
This is not to say I'm a fan of trump, as I think a large proportion of what he says is total rubbish
People talking total rubbish is not a problem
Deliberate malicious misrepresentation of reality (as 'facts' and 'truth' have become politicised) in order to advance his own agenda, with no regard to the consequence to others - is a problem.
without even bothering to google anything - geo synch orbit is about 4 times further out than most commercial orbits - and they are called commercial orbits because going further doesnt make commercial sense..
Geo synch has its applications, but just like blockchain, its stupid to use it if you dont need to.
Musk said recently Twitter was losing $4 million a day and so needed to make sweeping cost reductions to keep the wolves from the door.
Rather than cutting costs and people- and therefore the ability to deliver your product.. how about improving their quality, so people are actually satisfied with your product, and willing to pay for it?
absolute crazy talk, I know..
especially for something like social media, where you would have to pay me to use it..
.. the extremists and ideologists. Ask them why they and their answers are likely to be very revealing ..
WRONG !!!
Do NOT engage - at all - with anyone displaying moral certainty to the exclusion of other peoples existence. Dont give them airtime, walk away when they try to talk at you ( it wont be 'with' you ), dont 'like', 'click', or 'follow'. Leave them alone to either grow up, or implode.
Your covertly harvested browsing history, attention and time is apparently quite valuable to somebody, so dont waste it on self-promoting media whores..
Videos, audiobooks and podcasts are generally a terrible way to impart information, with some specific exceptions such as if is useful to have a visual example. Personally, I read faster than people speak, and if I missed something its just a matter of looking back up the page.
If it matters - put it in writing. Anything else isnt even piss in the wind.
Some people may struggle with written comprehension - they will be struggling anyway, and eliminating accents makes understanding simpler even for non native users.
Apple retains mass market appeal.
The secret to appealing to the masses, is to pander to pretentious wankers.
One of the android phone manufacturers - probably samsung, ran a campaign a few years back touting their latest toy... and the skinny, hipster bearded young man wails "I cant use that - I'm creative!", and the pretty young slightly non anglo saxon, woman responds "You're a barista".
The walled garden exists because everyone inside is disdained (polite version) by the people outside.
You dont choose an iPhone for your parents because of their competence with technology...
Courtesy, common sense, and communication..
Communication.
Firstly - you tell your drone people you have anti-drone equipment active, and your anti-drone guys that you have drone operations on, If you arent communicating, you arent an army, you are just a mob.
Courtesy
Drone guys avoid harrassing your own troops, anti-drone guys dont fire on targets without reasonable suspicion - Both should escalate any sightings up the chain of command.
Common sense
If it looks at you funny -Kill it immediately.
China has one of the best aviation saftey records on the planet
.. it also has one of the best Covid 19 health records on the planet.
..
because 'the record' is just whats written down.
Between the orange idiot and pooh bear each trying to score political points, real facts had a higher mortality rate than slum dwellers in Brazil or India during the Delta wave.
They are learning from past mistakes. They find the things people hate, and elevate them. they find the bits people find useful, and remove them.
Each iteration is even worse than the previous..
"How can they achieve such greatness ? Because they are standing on the shoulders of giants...