I'm going to agree with the others here, this doesn't sound very complicated at all. This is week 1/2 of many programming courses: basic network request, write to a file and fill your app with a bunch of text. For many languages, this is often their intro tutorial. I wouldn't use this as an example that the person can do more advanced stuff.
But I do agree with your sentiment, people doing things like this should apply their talents to better causes.
At my house, I have a meter that I get a feed from. So I look at the graphs. From the graphs, you can learn about what is happening in the house. You know when someone is showering, left home for work (arrived home), doing laundry, went to bed/got up, used the microwave and so on. Some of that you could determine by watching the house, but that requires constant surveillance. A smart meter provides all this data with no effort and at mass scale. If I can glean that level of information just by glancing at the graphs, I'm sure someone better equipped could determine even finer grain details of what is going on in the house.
Except you are still storing the nonce/salt (not sure which you are proposing)...which means you can reverse it, so the data is subpoenable. It doesn't really buy anyone anything, in this scenario. It could help if the logs were stolen, but that isn't what is being discussed here.
was the double-negative intentional? I've used Go for sub-millisecond needs. So 20ms seems like it would be a reasonable choice from where I'm sitting.
My current monthly cable subscription is $135 (plus "fees"). And when people say, "cable", they generally mean TV service. For many, that may mean a pricey satellite TV service (very expensive back in the day). Basic cable is likely what you are getting, but many people want to watch sports or movies, which requires premium subscriptions and it adds up quickly.
Depends on what you mean by "well for the acquired company". But if you just mean where the product (or possibly even the brand) went on to be successful, a bunch jump to mind: Pixar, Marvel, Google Maps, Ring, Zappos, Android, Woot!, Gatorade.
Denying access to airspace of a private plane feels a little different than forcing a commercial plane to land with threat (and real actions) of violence. The level of crimes involved is also an important distinction. What Snowden did is illegal in pretty much every single country in the world (if committed against that country). On the other hand, what Protasevich did, many countries have laws to protect such actions. I'm not saying I agree with how either situation was handled (or laws involved, etc), but a 1:1 correlation between the two is ignoring important details.
I always find this kind of thought interesting. The government provides a ton of things. Do you use public roads or sidewalks? Do you live, work or shop in a structure that adheres to building codes? Do you have power? Do you have access to the internet? Do you enjoy food that doesn't kill you? So many of these things wouldn't be possible for the general population without government. It takes money to operate a government. I share the frustration that tax money isn't always (often) spent effectively, but then I ask...what have I done? what would I do differently? At the end of the day, I'm not that interested in doing these things. Sure, I like to complain to my inner circle about how I could do it better, but I've not actually gotten involved. The most I do is vote for people that (on the surface) aren't unhinged and trying to mostly do good, rather than buying into political ideology. So avoiding paying taxes or escaping would just be selfish for someone in my position. Paying these taxes doesn't measurably impact my overall well-being.
You aren't taxing the corporation, you are taxing an individual. We can pretend that is somehow a tax on the corporation, but it isn't. Corporations hold vast sums of cash that isn't "income" to an individual. That money can/is used to enrich the upper-levels of those corporations, outside of becoming "income" for them. "Business" dinners. "Business" travel. "Business" retreats. You could try to create complex tax laws to make people individually liable for it, but good luck enforcing that or writing them in a way that doesn't leave loopholes open for the wealthy. You had a business lunch to try and seal a new deal? Guess what, you all now need to file that as personal income and be taxed at 25%, including the people you were treating. That team celebration for a successful launch? Each team member owes 25% of whatever was spent on you (hope someone was tallying it all correctly).
Many finance incentives are usually restricted to current dealer inventory and previous model years. They also get people in the door, since often times, people don't truly qualify for the advertised rates (if we are talking about financing terms). Jaguar is still suffering from depressed sales (though it has been getting better), so they may feel the demand isn't there to get those vehicles off their lots and increasing prices/reducing financing incentives would potentially make that worse.
Of course, it might just be that they are slow to react and changes will be reflected in the coming weeks.
Yeah, I'd add this to the website (or maybe a short video of the analysis process). I went there, but there was zero description of what it meant to analyze an image. It just tried to drop me in, then prompted for an email address. I wasn't ready to give my email to a random website (yes I have throwaway emails) without any idea of what it was going to ask me to do.
It isn't just about the giant screen for everyone. For many in my circle, the only reason they still go to the theatre is because you can see things when they release. If they had an option for same day streaming (as covid has provided in some cases), they will drop the theatre completely. The quality of TVs and sound systems at home can provide a better visual/audio experience than many theatres.
I think they are more generally saying that drivers for these ride share companies aren't aware of the risks that the company is passing on to them. They used the example that quite a few drivers have standard insurance (rather than one that covers ride-sharing). I don't think they were claiming the drivers didn't know what they were doing in that they were mistreating her, but more that they weren't aware of the laws around it. And that from Uber's perspective, it was the driver's responsibility to know all of them and take financial liability for violating them. This is counter to so many other jobs. If this happened in a fast food restaurant, you'd expect that food chain to be held responsible, just like Uber was here. The restaurant would likely fire the person (how they are held responsible).
I just saw something about this. The reason Apple hasn't been impacted is because their sales have been dropping for the past few years on iPhones and other devices. That trend hasn't changed during the pandemic. While many of the other players predicted drops during the pandemic, and initially it did, that demand dramatically increased, especially in the desktop market (AMD, Nvidia, etc). It is hard to fault companies from predicting the massive increase in a market that has been decreasing for decades(?) now. There is limited capacity at TSMC and Samsung. They leave buffer, but that was quickly consumed because almost everyone needed more capacity. It takes potentially years to increase capacity (build a new fab, etc), they have no room to allow any companies to adjust their capacity reservations.
So at the end of the day, it isn't that Apple was necessarily better...their demand just didn't change and continued the downward trend in certain product areas, giving them breathing room.
Yeah, this is exactly it. They used to produce enterprise-ish level hardware and at a reasonable price. Their devices, in my experience, were pretty rock solid. Setup took a little bit more work than the consumer (edited) offerings, but then you were done. They just ran. They could handle more packets, at least at the time, than the majority of consumer hardware.
They've now shifted to targeting consumers and their new stuff doesn't even have the basic features of other consumer hardware. Want DDNS? Something found in every other consumer router I've used. Nope. Want an admin console to configure or update without your smartphone (or when your wifi is down again)? Nope. Want to set a static IP for a device? Ok, but we restart the router each time you set one. Want your network to be bigger than /24? Nope. You can checkout their forums and see how long they've been aware consumers want these things and they've delivered on so little.
Cards expire. I don't have data on which is the most common, but based on my personal experience, the majority of my replacement cards are from expiration, not from being lost or stolen.
When my cards are lost/stolen, they provide a whole new card number. To my knowledge, they are not eligible for these auto-update programs.
But we aren't discussing just these specific APIs/protocols (and I haven't look at them, so I'd have to take your word on that), we are discussing this generally.
There is a lot of secret sauce in protocols. Those decisions can have serious positive/negative implications on performance and features. Making those easily available to everyone could potentially destroy a business.
Don't get me wrong, I've had to reverse engineer my share of proprietary protocols to get behavior I wanted (and would have loved to see them be open), but I don't think I can get onboard with the idea that requiring open protocols is trivial or noninvasive.
Amazon doesn't co-mingle their inventory with 3Ps, they do co-mingle 3Ps that don't opt to avoid it. This is one of the reasons I look for the "sold and shipped by Amazon" for important purchases.
Unfortunately, I've never seen information about how Walmart handles this. Given their massive shift to 3Ps providing most of their products online...I'd imagine they use a similar strategy (it improves same/next day availability and lowers cost). I follow the same strategy with Walmart (try to only buy directly).
I'm not sure oligarch means what you are thinking it does. Here is a wiki article which might help clarify why you'll sometimes hear the term used when describing certain Russian billionaires and why you won't generally hear the term used for billionaires from other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch
Note: it also isn't a derogatory term, as it appears to be implied here, it just is an identifier of how wealth was accumulated.
The article does say they made 230+ contributions last year to the OSS Elastic is (was?) built on. Not sure how one counts those, but perhaps it helped Elastic as well?
Outside of the other concerns people have raised, it is important to remember even if all parents are making the right choice for their kids, it isn't always (and in many cases, isn't) the parent making this decision. For example, another case where Apple has gotten outed, they were actively aware of the forced child labor by the schools: https://www.channelnews.com.au/apple-admits-to-using-child-l...
And if you believe the children, they also weren't really being paid and had no choice to participate in these "internships".