Posts by Doctor Syntax 33022 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
It's still no clearer exactly what they're doing because it's just a pile of jargon. It's the "recurrent event imputation" that concerns me. The nearest I can make of it is "There's usually an event of type X here but there isn't in this case so let's add one." Possibly it means something different and got lost in translation from the Korean.
Because it's a matter of managing probabilities. Vaccination very substantially reduces the probability of catching a serious infection. It does not eliminate it. This is true of all the measures, all the social distancing, all the mask wearing, all the closure of premises. The lot.
My daughter, double vaccinated, still got an infection from her son, at that stage under the vaccination age here. It wasn't as bad as it might have been and will undoubtedly have increased her future immunity. She has still had a booster. Why? Because there's a new, more readily spread variant going about, resisting which needs all the strength the immune system can muster. And because, like me and SWMBO she's a bilogist, in her case a neuroscientist now working in clinical trials AND SHE UNDERSTANDS THIS STUFF.
I think a phone is more likely to be lost and picked up or stolen than the phone company being socially engineered unless the victim is being specifically targeted.
I really don't like the idea of a phone being used as personal ID irrespective of whether it's via mobile number or IP address - there seems to be too much opportunity for stuff to go wrong. Even something simple such as a flat battery at an inopportune moment could stuff up your urgent 2FA driven transaction.
Whenever your device's IP address changes, it sends a message to each of your friends saying, "Hey, my IP address has changed.
Depending on the rate at which IP addresses change the whole thing falls apart as such messages cross each other in the net.
You cease to become you if you lose your devicephone and somebody else becomes you if the phone gets stolen.
If they rely on DECT phones then the phone will fail. That's why it pays to have a POTS phone in the circuit. If they have, then all they have to do is pick up the handset & they'll hear the dial-tone. Using a mobile in an extended power cut - assuming the base stations are working - is likely to mean starting the car to recharge it.
Does that Act move the task of actually doing the work from the manufacturers' employees to the FAA? Does it fund the FAA sufficiently to enable it to have the appropriately qualified staff to do that work? Protecting whistle-blowers is solving the wrong problem. The right problem would be ensuring that they're not needed.
"It would probably be good to make sure the non-managers responsible for anything safety-related have a good handle of statistics."
It would also be good to make them personally legally responsible. The American way seems to be that the company can buy its way out with the addition of paying someone rather handsomly to be one scapegoat and throwing the other under a bus.
"Corporations have a budget and are willing to spend, but it takes too much time,...Finding projects that need help and maintainers willing to help in exchange for money is hard."
No harder than finding the projects they want to use. Check which projects you use. Find the maintainers from GitHub or wherever the project lives. Offer them money.
"But sure, businesses don't put enough back into the open source that they rely on."
In this case, a feature added for big business according to TFA, perhaps one of those businesses should have written and tested it themselves and then submitted it to the maintainers for incorporation.
They make a lot of money for selling targeted adverts. The actual targeting is things you've already bought, of course. The fact you've bought it already and aren't going to buy it again doesn't affect Google's bottom line because Google have no interest in selling you anything.
Let me repeat that. Google have no interest in selling you anything. Unless, of course, you want to buy advertising.
All they sell is advertising to advertisers.
In practice I think you usually get there. The most significant thing we learned from our first DR was that, left to itself, the vendor's backup routing left /etc well down the list. We almost ran out of time before it was restored. Having rewritten the backup to prioritise the directories we needed to boot, we could do that and then get the database restore running in parallel with everything else. I suspect the everything else that originally stood in the way of /etc was largely a huge stack of crud whose owners would have been prepared to defend it to the death.
The bail he skipped was for extradition to Sweden. There was no extradition request in place from the US. His chances of getting extradited from Sweden are generally reckoned as less than from the UK. By skipping bail he effectively imprisoned himself giving the US several years to get round to attempting extradition. If he hadn't skipped he might or might not have gone to jail in Sweden. Where he'd have been now is impossible to determine. He might even have been ignored by the US and subsequently forgotten.
"The patent document takes a hack at the disadvantages of desktop engineering software, which typically require powerful computers."
The powerful computers are still needed but they're just moved off the desktop. I suppose it enables Nvidia to sell components for two computers, one on the desktop and one in the cloud. Next time round they can advocate doing it with desktop computers and sell more components for that. And then back to reinventing the mainframe in yet another form.
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