iofj

Some renew your office subscription and get you excel updates etc for another year, and cost like 20-30$ more than just the office subscription itself.

Injunction is a way to prevent more damage from occurring. So generally speaking, injunctions :

1) are only available either during a trial or as a last resort (if you can make a good case the defendant won't pay even if the judge compels them)

2) you'd still have to prove more damage will be done if injunction isn't there. Those have to be real damages, with real monetary amounts on them.

This is western law, it's practical. Anything you do that either doesn't bother anyone, or you prevent damage from occuring is legal, no matter how much it is against (civil) law.

The fact that something violates copyright, by itself, is not sufficient to get anything done in court at all.

There are so many planes that cannot land in the event of complete electrical failure ... starting with every last modern passenger airliner. There the problem is that human strength is not enough to control flaps and hydraulics are too heavy (translation: possible but too expensive), but if the electrical infrastructure completely fails ... it's over. Plane will lose control, rapidly spin out of control and dive chaotically into the scenery.

It hasn't happened yet.

Why bother with helipads ? Silicon valley has plenty of parkings and it is actually perfectly legal to land on them (assuming of course your plane is capable of that, which most aren't).

This is assuming you have permission from the owner, of course, but that seems likely not to be a problem.

Also, given enough money available, why ask people to build vulnerabilities in ? Does anyone seriously think Apple's (or anyone's) kernel team doesn't have a single guy/girl that made at least one mistake ?

Actually if that's what you want I'd advise you to buy a windows 10 tablet. They run old (and gog.com) games and come with decent mouse emulation and actually last 4-5 hours on battery. Taking games like Spelunky on a 400 gram tablet with you for on the train/plane is nice.

Even something like Civ 4 is playable.

That reasoning works until the judge considers damages. Then let's say it's a small developer, not too much work, and no commercial interest in the code. Damages are limited, in western law, to, well, damages. You need to have suffered a financial loss, the other party needs to have violated the license/contract/law/... and you need to show the causal connection between the two.

Let's say you contributed 500 lines of code to some project. You sue somebody for violating GPL and not publishing their changes. The judge has to give them the choice : either pay damages or actually comply (another western legal principle : money buys your way out of anything, as long as it isn't criminal).

What damages to assign ? Well, seems reasonable to say "how much for 500 lines of code ? A week's wages ? Okay, 2500 dollar damages awarded". The other party might become scared because other developers could conceivably sue, but ...

Wouldn't they still need to use the same address ?

They manually list items ? Is that really still done today ?

Apparently they run at a loss in new cities for months even into years. They give away tons and tons of free rides on the client side and actually pay drivers more than they get in payment (even ignoring their overhead) until they can guarantee a pretty full day of driving people around.

So they need billions to sponsor these expansions.

As a non-public company, nobody's really seen their financials. So it could be anywhere from the next Google/Facebook to a complete scam. Only a few people have the information to know either way.

With interest rates at 0.25% and the Fed talking about doubting whether they should go down or up, I hope you're not thinking that a pension fund will take care of you when you're old. That won't happen. With interest rates under inflation, you are in fact losing spending power (that is of course the point of the policy: incentivize people to spend now, not save to accelerate the economy). Pension funds are failing because of Fed policy [1], and the current elderly are plundering them dry for the same reason you defend children. They have a right to a pension [2]. Given that stocks have now also refused to go up further (since January SP500 has only gone down. Granted, they came back up to about 2100, but there is negative return so far for the year. How negative varies quite a bit from day to day, but may God help retirees if they drop from here and stay down).

The model where Children take care of elderly is coming back, unless the Fed and the ECB stop acting like we're in the midst of a deep recession.

> Children are not born to be servants to their parents, as you observe. That's why I think it's incumbent on parents to treat their children as best as they possibly can, since children come into a family without being able to consent,

And if the alternative is to starve to death a year or two after you no longer have the ability to work ? What if the alternative is merely to live in poverty when you stop working ? Do people have the right to not live in complete poverty ? I'd say yes. What if there is no choice but to "use" children to accomplish that, like we did for 90%+ of history ?

That second one seems to be happening to plenty of elderly today, and they had far, far better circumstances to avoid it than you or I do today.

I'm not even saying that this is moral, or that it is what you have to do. I'm saying it's what's going to happen if present circumstances remain.

[1] https://next.ft.com/content/c9966bea-fcd8-11e5-b5f5-070dca6d...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/20/retirement/central-states-pe... http://www.pionline.com/article/20160502/PRINT/305029995/kro...

I have a question. 125.4 Pflop/s ... that would be about 23k nvidia GPUs (granted, 1080s). They claim they'll be able to do that with 10k by the end of the year, beginning of next year with server-class GPUs.

So that Chinese number seems awfully low to me. I would expect that the number Amazon has to be higher, for instance. Same for Microsoft and Google. Therefore I'd be amazed if the DoD, NSA and even the DoE wouldn't have more capacity available.

What I found works best is that you assume that successful managers are just lucky. Treat them like an addicted gambler and you will be successful. More of what they think made them successful, never pointing out the odds and the fact that you'd expect people to succeed on occasion with pure randomness.

Treat them like they know best and never pin them down demanding a response from them, because they don't have an answer, just "work" to create an answer. Yes technical people who bubble up are an exception to this for the first few years of being manager but it doesn't last.

This actually started over 2 months ago, and has been pretty common since:

(Apr 26) http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-venezuela...

(May 11) https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2016/05/11/venezuela-lo...

Now it is about essentially anything. Specific product shortages started long, long ago:

(Nov 2015) http://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-venezuela-is-running-o...

And for electronics it has been years. The cause is widely reported to be price regulation.

I am a consultant, usually not in management, and management is about actually participating and propping up, rationalizing, and preventing the firm from dying confronted with management dictats such as:

> Our firm wasn’t about bureaucratic control and robotic efficiency in the pursuit of profit. It was about love.

As opposed to bursting out in laughter.

I'll admit: I failed on this one.

You seen the replacement rate of energy with solar panels in the last 2 years or so ? Granted, cost calculations for those were done when oil was $100, but they made sense at that point and solar has been lowering in cost by ~27% per year. In other words, despite oil dropping to 50, it's just going to continue. Even China is moving away from coal (thank God for that). Coal generates disproportionate amounts of CO2 so this helps even more than you'd guess from a simple linear estimation. Most oil usage is going to get replaced soon as well (people are talking about electrical engines for non-nuclear navy ships, container carriers, ...)

What we need to invent is cheap, dense, mobile batteries. No amount of blustering by Elon Musk can mask the fact that we can't store electrical power anywhere near as easily, lightly (meaning we need the ability to pack it up and move it around), and small. Yes you can fix it with $50k cars, but electrical cars could be $10k and even less if we assume magic perfect batteries. That'd be great and will get almost every gasoline car of the road.

Batteries are currently about 10% as dense either per liter or per kilogram. A bit of this can be made up because the infrasstructure to "burn" electricity is much simpler and therefore lighter than the infrastructure needed to burn gasoline. So let's say they're 20-25% as dense for locomotion purposes (this makes them not work for powering lights or factories or ... at night though). So we need batteries 4x smaller and lighter than current batteries. Assuming the current rate of improvement in batteries, that would require about 20-30 years (improvement per year is about 5%).

So that's just not good enough. Please invent something to fix it. If we can store energy efficiently, co2 release per year will stabilize probably on less than 10% of it's current value.

And yet 5 posts away you see people blaming Israelis for refusing to expose themselves to that same treatment. The big detail always omitted is that Palestinians have their culture in a massive area, yet Israelis don't have one square meter more than what they have there. Oh, and the Palestinian culture is the one with the extensive history of violently oppressing other cultures and religions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians ), including in Palestina itself ( http://int.icej.org/media/palestinian-christians ). All of the world, of course, is silent on that. Not that they just persecute Christians ( https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Persecution_of_Homosexuals_%28Pal... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/08/what-it-s-l... etc.)

All of it doesn't matter. Nobody's willing to fight for Tibet, or for Atheists, or ... Fight, as in "fight, kill and die", credibly, against the dictatorship that rules China, against, well let's be honest here : against most Muslims, and I'm sure there will be occasionally some slight effort required against a Christian too.

Looking at a map of 1950's, finding China, and looking at China now will make anyone scared.

Can someone point me to a good Mandarin course ?

You may want to visit Africa. The time China was insulated to it's own people only is long gone.

Think of it this way :

"I have solved all of math, physics, and everything else ! Look ! My theory is simply the assembly programming language. Any problem can be expressed in it and anything that we can predict we can predict using some assembly language".

You wouldn't consider this to actually predict anything, right ? Despite the statement being perfectly true. Change any prediction into the assembly program printing it out. Done/done. So the critique of string theory is that it is such a form of assembly language. It is a general principle, that can express nearly any algorithm.

So generally one considers that any theory, for it to be a theory, has to predict things unrelated to why it was originally designed, with no changes (or at the very least, very minimal changes). Quantum theory, for instance, was designed to solve a particular problem relating to electrons, but turned out to solve the ultraviolet catastrophe (and dozens of other problems).

More updates:

It was a gay/LGBT nightclub

53 Dead, 40 or so wounded.

Perpetrator is "Omar Mir Seddique Mateen" [1], born in US to Afghan immigrant parents. He was killed by the police. Apparently he was a security officer and had a firearms license because of that [5].

"We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings towards that, that particular ideology [Islamic extremism]. But right now we can’t say definitively, so we’re still running everything around," (quote from article). [2]

If you're in Orlando and wonder how you can help: give blood, especiall O+, O- and AB, at "Oneblood" (2 locations currently open) [3]

Situation ended because police went in. One officer was apparently shot in the head. [4]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36512308 [2] http://abcnews.go.com/US/omar-mateen-suspected-orlando-night... [3] https://twitter.com/AltPress/status/742004240176975873 [4] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/... [5] https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/741997301657440256

How does Xamarin compare with other ways to get platform native across all platforms ? There's haxe (actionscript-like, but typed), which has lots of libraries. There's QT. I haven't even followed that well which others exist.

Ever since google decided that webviews shall not have adblocking I hate it when apps use them. They sort of do on ios but not on android. After adblocking got started web ads have gotten so much worse, and I have zero tolerance for it now. Ads everywhere. Distractions. Empty spaces. Blinking. So open a link in a webview and you run a pretty serious risk I uninstall your app then and there.

The twitter and facebook webviews to open links are just plain evil.

Same reason I use firefox on android over chrome.

With articles like this one can see why all the social media companies and even Google put people in a "bubble". Twitter for the most part doesn't, and this sort of thing happens. Expect more bubbles, and to be isolated further from reality on the internet as time goes on.

Okay make it one in a million. You will still be able to tell, and still see the phenomena I'm talking about.

Not sure what you're trying to say ... obviously it was kept secret and is now being presented as a done deal, even when there are LOTS of things in there that we should never ever agree to [1][2]. Moreover it's something congress would never agree to normally.

It's 10x worse than the DMCA, it's anti-consumer, it advocates worse global warming and prevents people from doing anything about it, it's got disastrously bad anti-employee policies, and so on and so forth. I at one point called it the "Indians get medicine now. Let's fix that" agreement.

Why are you even defending it ? Aren't there any red flags in it from your perspective ? Because I'm pretty sure that if you aren't Lloyd Blankfein, that's guaranteed.

So why are you defending it.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/now-we-know-why-h...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eastwest-center/tpp-the-new-go...

The president doesn't have legislative authority, and cannot pass either pro-gun or anti-abortion laws.

All they can do is, like Obama did with Obamacare, run what is essentially an advertising/pressure campaign to get something passed.

This is the theory that the EU tries to push on it's member states. They have accepted that international treaties carry greater weight than the local laws and even the constitution of the local countries :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_(European_Union_law)

As to whether it applies to all treaties or just the EU ones, ... good question. In practice courts haven't really followed it.

Also, just as a data point, I've been working in Brussels for close to 20 years now and seen the evolution. I work as a consultant, so it has been a mixed bag for me. However, for just about everyone else, workers, middle class, business owners, ... it has been a consistently worsening disaster.

Having regularly worked for the EU commission, let me tell you this : any idea you may have that this organization has anything but their own economic interests at heart can be cured by chatting with one of them for 5 minutes.

Generally treaties are negotiated by the executive of a country, not the legislative force. Even in the cases where there is still a ratification step, the initiative is taken away from the legislative, and the law is written by indirectly (at best) elected commissars (in the case of the EU), rather than directly elected representatives.

In the case of the EU, there isn't even a ratification step once the EU commission (which isn't elected) agrees to a treaty.

And of course ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_(European_Union_law)

That means that with EU commission agreement you get the supreme court (that supersedes all local courts) arguing that anything the commission agrees to can countermand local constitutions.

So local legislature agreement required, in many cases, is incorrect.

I guess that means, Clinton = TPP comes into full force, regardless of what she says now. Would you agree ?

So what you're saying is that this law is really being kept secret for our own advantage ? Politicians can't be held responsible for their actions because they benefit us ? Can't have public influence over the deal because that would "torpedo" it ?

Maybe you should move to Russia or China, and have all your deals and laws done like this.

And they give the same argument you're giving : "it's for your own good". And I bet in one case out of 10 that's actually true.