What differentiates a "charge-in outlet" from a strip mall with a parking lot full of chargers?
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About half of the states have their own OSHA organizations, but I don't know much about how effective they are. In the northeast where I grew up most of the state-run OSHA orgs only dealt with state/county/city government jobs and left private employers to Federal OSHA.
The viewpoint he's taking seriously while ultimately refuting is that "color blindness is, in fact, a Trojan horse for white supremacy."
The real problem is that there are about 2000 OSHA inspectors in the country, working out of about 100 offices, and serving more than 100 million workers.
I'd say "everyone should try living somewhere they don't need a car", but that's not feasible for everybody.
The episode in question features not-Marina-Abramović exhibiting not-Rhythm-0. An audience member approaches the table and picks up a weapon. Audience murmurs. Artist stands stoically. Audience member motions like they are going to use the weapon on the artist. Audience gasps. Artist's assistant protests. Artist objects to protests, then promptly collapses with mystery illness (House MD's writers had a thing for misdirecting the audience re: who's sick in the episode intros).
I'm vaguely familiar with that station, from what I remember there's a very large mezzanine level that's below the street but still upstairs from the platforms, I imagine that's where it's going to be used.
Of course! The premises are "the matter previously stated" on a property deed.
I did a very shallow search and nothing came up, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>I wonder if there's a term, similar to "backronym", when the singular form of a word is derived from casual mutation from its plural?
I think premises/premise(s) might be unique in English in that it's a singular noun, pluralized by adding an s, where the plural form is a homonym with another singular noun that is dissimilar in meaning to the root singular noun. Lots of words hit 2/3, but I can't think of any others that are all 3.
If you're talking about a declarative statement used as the foundation of an argument, use "premise".
Examples:
"Were those databases moved to the cloud?"
"No, they're still on the premises." (Premises = place)
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"Why did we decide to move those DBs to the cloud?"
"On the premise that it's cheaper than managing the server administration ourselves." (Premise = something stated as the basis for an argument)
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"Can you give me a few more reasons that we moved those DBs to the cloud for the executive committee meeting?"
"We made the decision on the premises that it's cheaper to run, our basement server room regularly floods, and our current server admin is a drunk." (Premises = plural of premise)
Evidence entered into the record in court cases is public by default unless the judge takes action to seal that evidence. Unsealed evidence is used to generate news, compiled for research, reviewed for commentary, etc.
Usually in these sorts of cases (where all sorts of sensitive info will be put into the record) there are agreements made between all parties before the trial about what will be shared publicly and what will be kept confidential.
So, he's not wrong. Usually there is an agreement in place governing what information will be shared, how it will be shared, when it will be shared, etc. But there wasn't an agreement in this case, and it's weird that he's acting like someone should have told him instead of acting embarrassed that he didn't know that.
It's close enough that everyone knows what it means, but it's not right.
Wow. He said that into a microphone that he knew was recording? That's... distressing.
This isn't my car insurance giving me a discount on my homeowner's policy, this is my landlord threatening to jack up my rent unless I use his garbage disposal company.
I'm really reaching here, but an ID that omits special characters is easier to extract from a url, since it can be double-clicked in a URL bar to select it, whereas a GUID with hyphens forces the user to select the beginning and the end of the string.
Realistically I think this matters to developers more than users (I hope your application doesn't force users to interact with GUIDs in the address bar) but that's the only "waste" I can identify.
EDIT: Someone elsewhere noted that they can base64 encode their GUIDs to achieve this and I'm seething that I'd never thought to do that
However, I'm also pretty happy that NHTSA mandated seatbelts be included in cars despite the fact that they were wildly unpopular.
In 1980 11% of American adults used automobile seat belts.
I'd argue that the main blocker to IoT security is the lack of culpability on the part of device manufacturers. I don't want to go so far as to suggest that companies should be wholly liable for software bugs, but vulnerabilities that are brought to the attention of the company privately or disclosed publicly absolutely should be their responsibility to address.
For you or me (or most of the folks here I suspect) we feel better if we had the ability to decide what software our fridge runs, but for 99% of people they're better off if their fridge's manufacturer provides them with regular security updates for the life of their product.
That being said, these aren't mutually exclusive. In a perfect world we'd have laws compelling fridge companies to allow 3rd party software if they don't keep their firmware up to date.
Allowing people to install software on their hardware isn't a cure for vulnerabilities. It's a step in the right direction for sure, but it's a very small one from the perspective of something as huge as "IoT security".
Protections against this sort of thing usually exist in the form of radio jammers; disrupting the control transmission from the pilot or the video transmission from the drone. If the control system is onboard the drone it's a lot harder to disrupt.
As far as I know the systems designed to counter this sort of threat look like shipping container sized microwave emitters that interfere with the electronics of the UAV.
Beyond the obvious stuff like reduced braking distance and improved handling, a lighter car means less energy to dissipate during a collision which allows safety products and features to work more effectively.
As far as I'm aware American Airlines only revoked two lifetime AAirpasses of the 60+ sold; both were accused of using their companion pass fraudulently. From what I remember one was accused of approaching people at the airport and attempting to sell his companion seat, the other was accused of using his companion pass to book a seat next to his for a nonexistent person so he wouldn't have to sit next to anyone.
Most jackets that use a durable water repellant require the coating be regularly maintained (cleaning, re-heating) and re-applied after some time. Manufacturers usually say "years", but one year seems more realistic, even in a not-that-wet climate.
That being said, I agree that Gore-Tex stuff is not waterproof enough for sailing. It's a compromise between waterproof/light-weight/packability/breathability.
I've never heard of the pilots around Port Newark needing ship-specific training, even for giants like tankers or container ships. Maybe this is somehow different in Australia?
There are two cameras in this computer vision system. If one of them goes offline, is obscured, becomes dirty, or malfunctions you lose stereo vision and depth perception. So you'd obviously need 3+ cameras. And now we're right back at sensor fusion challenges again.