Re: This is not good news
Here in the States, go for "Olde FrothingSlosh...the pale, stale ale with the foam on the bottom."
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What is a drink?
Depends on the beverage. A beer.. 16 oz. "Hard liquor".. depends on the type and what is mixed into it. Wine.. a 12 oz. glass. Now these may and will vary depending on where one is in the States, who's pouring or mixing the drink, etc. Beer is iffy due to different size cans/bottles, and even mugs. There is no standard so 1 drink is still vague.
I think you pretty much summed it up as to what needs to be looked at. Uber is playing the lawyer's game and pointing the finger. There should be a full investigation by a (let's say "disinterested" meaning nothing to gain) third party but it seems (on the surface at least) that there's politics and money involved also as to what is being said and investigated.
You don't feel strongly enough about it to post under your own name, I note :-)
I don't blame him. These are scary times to say the least where we don't know where things are headed. The feeling is that governments will quell dissent in a less than a calm manner at the rate things are going. Companies are playing to the government. So expect the worst.
Legally, in most States, if you cross the border to buy something and bring it back, you're supposed to pay them the difference in tax rates. Some do go a step further and will allow you to write off the taxes paid in another State if they're higher. Most folks ignore those areas of the tax forms for obvious reasons.
There used to be a tax dodge where you declared yourself a member of clergy and took a vow of poverty. You never had to pay taxes on income but there exceptions and rules to extract some money out of you. I do believe that loop hole has been closed.
Those are scheduled. Where I am, it's pretty much a given that commercial traffic flies over us. Our airport is in the middle of the valley along with the city and suburbs. Knew the thing was there and really doesn't bother.
What I'd really like to see is one for tracking the non-commercial stuff. This time of year is air show season and our airport is refueling and layover one for them. Everything from WWI a/c to current military aircraft come and go. The AF uses our field for "short runway touch and go" practice. So yeah.. I'd like to have a heads up and be able to be outside to see these birds.
Good luck prying PDF out of the hands of marketing peeps!
Or those of us who use it for engineering type drawings that need a paper trail. I use it for quite a bit as it preserves the original in case of "oops, gotta' go back". Others for "just in case" of legal or any thing else requiring historical records.
People like the EFF are the classic Lenin's "useful idiots" who could only help megacorp like Google achieve their aim, blinded by their anarchism.
I upvoted your post but go look again in the article and see who's funding the EFF. Hint: Google is one of the funders and appears to be in control. So EFF is the megacorp, not "useful idiots".
Make your own content instead. Support the artists directly under license terms that are more fair for society.
Nice idea... lovely. So if you create some content and it gets ripped off, who protects you? The catch on the protection is if the country where the piracy is done cares. Look at the stuff being ripped off by the Chinese for example.
Government regulations are very handy when they keep corporate greed in check. So don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
In the States, they are doing this.. Thanks Pai. But now it's Europe's turn to follow. It's a race to the bottom (or for control depending on point of view) and the leader of the race changes daily.
Tesla is a big threat to many car manufacturers. SpaceX is a threat only to a couple of rocket companies. The weakest link in any chain the lowest employees or those who view themselves as on the low end. And so the bigger question might be: who's getting the data? With Tesla data, there's lots of potential buyers, with SpaceX, only a few. It's also possible that SpaceX does have a data breach and either doesn't know or hasn't figured who the leaker is yet.
This is strange that they don't have law enforcement involved as other companies many times will.
I am always confused by yank sentencing guidelines, but I know they always tend to the maximum. Unlike in Aussie where offences committed in the one sequence of acts allows for at least partial concurrency.
It's called "leverage". The prosecutors can tell the perp that they'll push for the maximum sentence unless the perp "helps". Usually turning state's evidence for their cohorts in crime or maybe to be part of the sting. And sometimes just to get them to confess so the prosecutors don't have to spend a lot of time preparing a case and they going to trial. If they have political ambitions, "confictions" (either by trial or negotiation) make them look "tough on crime".
BTW, the US does concurrent sentences also.
Its far easier and costs way less to just edit a Wikipedia article about Ethics. Think Orwell's Animal-Farm 7 ever-changing Commandments etc. When media eyes turn away, Google will go back to creating killer drones and Microsoft sectioning off kids.
Well said. The motto of all corporations right now is "Profit is our most important product."*.
*With credit for the original motto from GE: "In engineering, in research, in manufacturing skill, in the values that bring a better, more satisfying life, at General Electric, progress is our most important product.". Harkens back a bit to maybe a more consumer oriented time with less open greed.
"Why this wasn't tested offline first before applying it to a LIVE database ?"
No test database?
That wasn't uncommon. Been there, done that and screwed up the "live" data base once... lesson learned. I didn't start seeing test databases until around 2000 due to the costs involved for storage, etc. In at least one case, it was the IT manager who felt that programmers were perfect and thus no need for one.
It was alive I tell you, alive!
In that past, I found more than a few of those around the office that were growing entirely new civilizations inside. There were some that really shouldn't have been opened unless one was wearing a full hazmat suit. It took some doing (like getting the boss to help clean some) to get to the point where we didn't clean them but binned them and gave the user a new keyboard. Heaven knows what's growing underground at the dump site where these things went to.
Thanks to the secretive nature of intelligence agencies and the potential sensitivity of the alleged stolen data, that evidence is unlikely to be shared any time soon.
I would like to think that in a perfect world, the agencies would share their concerns (and the proof) so that others not in the agencies can make an informed decision. I guess the spooks don't want to tip off the citizens that we're being watched.
I'd like to add the morons who move to an area around an airport. particularly off other end of the runway(s). They know the airport is there, a look at map would confirm it. But usually a week after they move in, the bitching starts.
Same for the ones that move next to an auto racetrack.
But don't both of those have air arms? I know that the Marines used to..
Yes they do. Army has some (or did) some fixed wing spotters along with the choppers (which they do have still) including attack versions. The Marines still have both fixed wing fighters/bombers/attack and helicopters of all sorts as prefer (when then can) being self-sufficient.
I'm not sure why military types of each generation believe that they can combine....
The generals who are in charge of doing the initial quotes/specs are all ex-fighter jocks. They don't even like bombers. For details, reference the fact that the brass never wanted the A10 and keep trying to kill it off. The guys on the ground love the A10 and the support it provides. Inter-service "rivalry" prevents the Army and Marines from taking it over.
For military aircraft you virtually never have enough power.
Very true. The only exception I can think of was the F-15. Intentionally overpowered for intercept duties. Airshow favorite with the ability to take off and before hit the end of the runway, point it's nose up and climb vertically. True, no missiles or bombs for that bit it with missiles for intercept it was quite speedy to get into the air and to altitude.
Let them perfect this a bit more and security agencies will be begging for it. Probably airport security such that the AI will see someone reaching in their jacket for a bit of a scratch on an itch and the AI might just assume "reaching for a gun". Hopefully, the AI won't be equipped with a gun of it's own.