Infection Vector?
Is this something that is likely to come through the app store or is it sideloaded?
4138 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2013
The other difference is TPP never being ratified meant it terms were never binding on the US. So any executive order pledging adherence to its terms is not much better than used toilet paper. NAFTA is a properly ratified treaty that will require negotiations to modify. Obama had a tendency to use executive orders as if they were binding and in many cases they are not. They can be undo by legislation, court orders, or by subsequent orders.
Greed is a partial answer, cutting costs sometimes becomes a mania that takes a life of its own. Another culprit was poor design. Looking at the diagrams, it appears the battery design did not have the safety margin required in any good design and was relying on perfect manufacturing of all parts and flawless assembly - recipe for a disaster. What is not stated is whether any of the engineers pitched a fit about the poor design and were ignored.
Get the story right. But the 'press' seems to be more interested in overhyping issues well beyond any reason and not getting any story remotely right. As purveyors of most of the fake news this does not surprise me. Remember the CBS non-sequitur meme of "fake but accurate" is the motto of most of the press.
@Dave 126 - The problem with many contact management apps and applications is they do not really address the work flow through an organization and its various groups. What might work well with the sales team might be a total disaster for the project management team or the programming team. This is because or the very different work flows within each group and the nature of the work each group does. In my group we never talk to an outside customer and irregularly talk to our internal customers.
More PHB bloviating and saying nothing. My take is Itsy Bitsy Morons haven't a clue why the profits are declining and are throwing money at projects and acquisitions in the hopes that something sticks. Unless they get lucky or fire the incompetents in charge they will eventually join Wang and DEC as remanent owned by someone else stupid enough to buy the carcass.
Bingo, too many were seduced by the idea of a service economy. They forgot someone has to make the stuff they use, wear, consume, etc. Those makers are manufacturers. Also, they forgot that there is a proper balance between economic sectors for a healthy economy. You need jobs for the burly men and the desk jockeys.
That many companies have lower stock prices than their at the IPO is not surprising since the IPO is basically rolling the dice. Many ideas that look good are actually pretty stupid if one steps back from the hype. Also, how many floundering start ups were bought up cheap by someone who was looking for IP rights.
The advocates for these measures also fail to realize most gun violence is done by criminals who by definition ignore the law. Also, there are many situations, not just home defence, where being able to fire quickly and accurately is important - ask any outdoors man about being in the woods. Plus, a gun comes equipped with a mechanical safety.
If Samsung truly violated a valid patent, I would say the proper award is $1. Rounded corners are often an engineering necessity to avoid high stresses caused by sharp corners. These high stress could cause case cracking starting from the corners. Stress concentration at sharp corners was discovered after 4 De Havilland Comets broke up in mid-air because of fatigue failure (early 1950's).
@Barry Rueger - You are correct in concept that the nature of the site should dictate the password strength required. The problem I see is accurately judging which site can have a weak one. I prefer to teach people to use strong, gibberish passwords, minimum 12 characters, for all sites with longer ones being used for any e-commerce or financial site and NEVER REPEAT them. Thus, by default they are always using a very strong password out of habit.
On your problems with incompetent banks, my financial institutions (bank and credit cards) require a non email user id with numbers in it as well as a strong password. But I may be lucky.
I saw a video about AI. There are two approaches - treating AI as a solution to an engineering problem or trying to mimic human intelligence. The first approach leads to "intelligent" robotics that are very capable for a narrow range of problems. The second has problems with what exactly is intelligence and how to model it.
The real problem for price comparisons is what is used as the basis. Retail list price, which may not the actual price charged by anyone, has the advantage is that it is the official price suggested by the manufacturer.
Comparing against your competitors can be very tricky. With electronics manufacturers have been known provide very similar models to retailers with minor differences in the specifications. Thus they are different models. TVs are well known to suffer from this.
There is a very definite prison hierarchy and child molesters/murders are at very the bottom. Apparently felons despise those who preyed on the smallest and weakest members of society. He will be brutalized and despised for 20 years for his actions. Adding to his problems is the fact he probably was not around your typical criminal and knows nothing about them.
Having any of these geniuses study the pattern of earlier rapid consumer growth industries? As the product matures many will not replace it as often because they do not need to. It still functions fine and does the intended job. There are no new features that will get most to salivate over the next release of whatever (OS, chip, software, peripheral, etc.). So the current gear soldiers on because it still works.
Viewing some of the real crap put out by "humanity" would break anyone with enough time. I heard about a study on combat fatigue in WWII and how long a soldier could take the strain before ye olde nerves went. It was the cumulative strain over time that did them in. Other than timescale, seeing these images every day would slowly grind one down until the cumulative strain did them in. The failure here is Slurp did account for this in their personal policies; something that one should have foreseen.
@AC - They did not. Most likely it was mid to upper level manager who thought there was a loophole in the EPA regs (probably never actually read the mind numbing, barf inducing 'prose'). Had an engineering spec written around the dodgy interpretation which later became the basis of a software spec. I doubt the software group ever saw the regulations or the original (internal) engineering document.
EPA regulations (I have read some) are not known to be very clear, concise, or even correct ('when a solid waste is a liquid'). Couple this with getting the EPA to issue some sort of guidance and it is possible that someone unfamiliar with how the EPA works to read what they wanted in the regulations. Other government agencies have been known to laugh at the EPA's assault on the English language.
I wonder how much is due to incompetent deployments coupled with poorly developed web-facing code? There seems to be a two step process; sloppy code coupled with an incorrectly set up db. It almost feels like the devs failed to account for the MongoDB equivalent of SQL injection as well as having a dba who failed to grasp they needed to secure any db that may be reached via the web.
The ferals do not like when they have to play the rules. I am not real thrilled about a variety of aspects about this case given that somewhere real child abuse occurred. But if the ferals want the peasants to trust them they need to stop using dodgy and illegal tactics to gain a conviction. There is an adage by an English jurist that notes it is better to let one guilty go free than to falsely convict ten innocent. In this case a possible guilty person is going free to protect the innocent in the future.
Both the donkeys and elephants love grandstanding when it suits their purpose. Any complaint about the rule changes by the elephants should be met by pointing the donkey's in the Senate change the rules about filibuster and required majority for confirmation when they had power there. Pot calling kettle black.
Macros have been a security problem since the start of the web. That is a bit of functionality that needs to be replaced for those situations where they might actually be useful. I can not see why any HR department needs to enable macros for any documents. In fact, outside some bean counters I seriously doubt that macros are necessary. Even for the bean counters I would recommend learning how to avoid using macros.
GPS motion detection would cause problems with all phones. When we travel, the navigator uses their phone to keep abreast of traffic conditions and directions. If a phone call is necessary the navigator handles it.
The problem is the 22 yr old probably has the state mandated minimum for liability and no other real assets. Apple has assets but their only connection to the case is the driver was using an iPhone. The patent angle may not be valid if Apple can show that no one has approached them to use the patents. AFAIK Android phones do not have GPS motion detection and lock out.
The ferals claim the Russians hacked everything to cover up incompetence. Their incontinence stems from the facts that there might be people in the DNC with a sense of ethics and that average Yank figures that Trump can not be any worse and might turn out better than the last several failures in the Oval Orifice. Assange is not making a connection Pravda on the Potomac and Ivestia on the Hudson have been shrilly making.
Also, Assange has repeatedly noted that they had next to nothing on Blowhard and a goldmine of goodies on Hildafelon and the donkeys. He has repeatedly and consistently said the goodies on Hildafelon were leaks from insider(s).
Typically one has to a couple of months in arrears in the US to be endanger of an utility cut off. So there is plenty of incompetence in the Rutger's finance department not to keep on top the utility bills. But this the NJ state government at work, an outfit that makes your average PHB look like brilliant business leader. (Originally from the hellhole of NJ)
@Trevor_Pott - The OEMs are faced with a problem, most kit (hardware and software) sold in the last 5 years or so is more than adequate for the user. Users have no need to upgrade if the box is working fine. Also, any new devices bought will likely be a phone, much more useful if one has a decent data plan when on the go. For example, me and Swambo took a trip and used the map app on the phone for directions in a city and for traffic problems. A laptop is just to bulky for this type of use.