I really like the visual signs used at Google or eBay, which are right behind related bins and show what types of plastics, food etc. can be put in there. Tried to find an example online, but a quick search didn't work - still, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/... is a nice collection of similar examples.

Unfortunately, most places just have a few differently colored or poorly labeled bins for recycling use; and its upto people to take initiative in learning the dos & donts for each. Which inevitably results in many lazy folks just disposing of their paper beverage cups anywhere and mixing them in the plastics bin etc.

> How do we fix this broken system going forward?

Even if you fix it, who will be willing to trust the new 'better' version? Once people get used to downloading cracks to turn this off on their phones, there will be an entire generation trained to do so as one of the standard setup when buying a new phone. Similar to how so many people think its just natural to ignore copyrights when possible, because of the brokenly long terms that are set on them - now there is little/no social shame in pirating even the newest stuff which earlier had a justifiable reason for society protections (to recoup costs).

You're calculating for only Thunder Bay, which itself would as you show bother a lot of people for a very slim chance. But the actual alerts apparently rang all the way in Toronto, and presumably everywhere in between. That makes the disparity far worse :(

When this system was first introduced, iirc it was meant to help people evacuate from weather emergencies like tornadoes and hurricanes. Then we end up with this new 'feature' which is of course predicated on 'for the poor children!'. I guess Canadian implementation (no opt outs) has me finally happy that the American one isn't as bad!

If the dispatchers are really concerned about this, they should just set standards on how far to sound alerts (say, 1 hour travel distance around location) and point to that rule whenever asked.

For something so annoying, I'd think that it is obvious to focus on keeping users interested in helping out rather than maximum coverage that just acts as a disincentive to ever use the alerts.

Sadly, I do understand your point on how people would rather deflect any potential criticism without considering the fallout.

The linked article says Google is basically a contractor helping with configuration & setup of open source tools; and even if they backed out the same project could be done by other companies too.

If this is true, then I find it hard to be so upset at them. Agreed, Google's level of expertise in setting up ML systems is far more advanced than most smaller companies, and probably a bit ahead of even their biggest competitors. However, its basically an installation that would happen with or without them; and more likely to be misconfigured if someone else is the military vendor ... which won't just lead to an ineffective system, it will only mean more overspending until the military does have the capabilities it wants.

So, why not let the ML experts create a usable system which will only save some time and money over them turning down the wad of military cash and seeing someone else get it? Of course, I'm assuming that the claim of everything used being existing open source is actually true.

This 'major, divisive flaw' is something that needs multiple conditions before it can execute:

- Someone who uses encrypted email but doesn't disable automatic image loading in the client
- Client that can't handle malformed HTML inputs and processes unterminated src tags in a weird way
- Message tampering warnings by the PGP or GPG library are ignored
- Server address where the plaintext will get uploaded thru uuencoded resource requests

I wonder if there are clients that, when user has disabled image loading, would still end up auto loading other content (eg. CSS links)? If so then this could be readily exploited far more often in the wild, with the proviso that the attackers don't care about leaving trails of their server address in client & router logs.

... or a red herring perhaps.

Companies are trying to leverage the decentralization of blockchain tech for stuff that is unrelated to mining - cf. https://cointelegraph.com/news/walmart-is-ready-to-use-blockchain-for-its-live-food-business . Facebook is probably looking to do so as well, maybe something like use blockchain voting to evaluate its news articles and sift thru the fakes better ;-)

There doesn't seem much point to them jumping into actual crypto mining, unless there is some new tie-up with nVidia and they get a cut of every graphics card bought by FB accounts for FB credits ... hmm ....

The person exploring a new technology is usually a developer. If their PoCs (proofs of concept) etc. work out and the company decides to put together a team to further work on it; then ofc. it will be headed by a managerial type who is more in touch with business considerations and leads a group of techies.

Also, I like how everyone is assuming the initial researcher is female based on a single 'Her' pronoun, it could very well be a typo - maybe its a dude like Morgan Freeman :)

For laptops, its certainly not as much as it used to - for many companies, the laptops issued are Macs or else there is a choice between Mac or Windows. Most desktops are Windows, but some could be Linux also (curiously, I rarely see Mac desktops in offices though MBPs are everywhere).

The fact there are credible alternatives makes it very hard for EEE to work. Personally I think MS is trying hard to turn over a new leaf post-Ballmer, though there have been some severe missteps like the XBox One DRM saga where they gloriously kneecapped their console launch. They did learn from that, outdoing PS4 in backwards compatibility and also better hardware in their midcycle refresh console.

In your example, what exactly are you supposed to be doing from 17-35 that you don't have any other output?

Also, I don't get why every piece of music needs to be profitable or have a decade to rake in royalties. There have been games that became popular when their studios were already insolvent or headed there - should they have some special way to increase sales figures because the public appreciation was delayed? There are probably cases where a game studio/dev became a hit, and people discovered his earlier works were also gems ... but because they've aged, the price is discounted in Steam etc. Should there be some legal way for the studio to bump up the price so they can earn the maximum on their earlier works?

You're really desperate for some argument to justify more than 2 decades of copyright is somehow insufficient.

If any publisher was crazy enough to just 'sit on a manuscript' for 20 years, what stops the author from shopping around and going to other publishers - or nowadays, just self-publishing? Also anyone who tried this would a) be the target of a big lawsuit that would likely bankrupt them; b) Not get any more submissions except from the crappiest and most desperate authors.

As another matter, how many manuscripts do you think are timeless enough to be appreciated on a delayed release of 20 years?

http://www.english-for-students.com/Segway-or-Segue.html :-)

> full teardown manuals online

I had no idea this was possible for laptops, most of them tend to not even allow easy swapping of RAM nowadays - in fact, I'm thinking specifically of Dell laptops which earlier had an easily removable panel to access the memory slots, but a friend's recent model has to be taken apart just to get to the SO-DIMM slots!

Will be looking up the Precision manuals, I'm considering a new laptop this Black Friday - having it upgradable would be a nice feature.