Stopping the illegal wood sales would probably halt the Amazon deforesting, but that's easier said than done, as those generally have their personal army, kill people that denounce em, all the thug stuff.

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There is slightly more to it than that. I didn't say that was all, I said it was most of it. Did you miss that, or just not understand it?

The website often offers lower prices than the phone service.

Sanctions === Embargo Embargo === Act of war What the US is doing is usual Imperialism shit, trying to privatize natural resources of a foreign country for private profit. Venezuelans have every right to resist violently against this, but sadly lack the firepower.

The real driving factor is that this continues to push Instagram to be the arbiter of what you see in your feed.

As someone who has been permanently "de-recommended" on IG due to my artwork (which is rather tame and follows the rules), this is just one more nail in the coffin guaranteeing that I won't find any new followers on IG organically. And one more reason I'm slowing extricating myself from all things Facebook.

Try making a site, in Canada, AODA compliant, and you'll notice it's impossible, not just hard, impossible. Two years ago we ran into a legitimate question about how to handle case X, we email and called the AODA and they couldn't tell us what to do, ending that call just as confused as we were. Our standards are a mess, they're all over the map and even the people who author the standards will admit that's true.

As it stands now, we just gave up on supporting visual disabilities, and if you need to use a screen reader, just make sure it's not garbage. We routinely test with screen reading software, and it's hit or miss, but generally the better the software, the more accurate the outcome, so don't buy garbage, and you'll generally be okay.

Apparently, for whatever it is meant to do, it requires a credit card number to do whatever it does. She was 4years below the age when she could have one, so the installation hung. After that, her computer would not boot.

It took me two days to recover her files when I got back into the country and reinstall the OS. She snapped the CD in two herself. Smart girl.

What was it meant to do, anyway?

I guess blind users could request that Pornhub create a play-by-play audio track for each video on the service. Imagine how porn would be formatted for [subscription] radio.

I guarantee that if you kill yourself, you will feel much better. Please try it.

When your "service" is just authenticating an install, I'm not sure it qualifies. The Executive Order is not supposed to take away things, just not provide going forward. I'm curious how a WTO complaint would go on this.

60 years ago, circa 1960, computers were not in hospitals.
50 years ago, circa 1970, computers provided reporting of laboratory tests as well as some behind-the-scenes business, accounting, and logistical services.
40 years ago, circa 1980, those uses were more robust, but still behind-the-scenes administrative tools not relevant to direct patient care. Clinical computing started to appear in bedside monitoring and in imaging (ct).
30 years ago, circa 1990, computers and databases helped facilitate traditional hospital services, like record keeping and locator for the traditional x-ray file room. Clinical data at the bedside could be entered and accessed in special units like the icu. Software programs that could be used by individuals on PC's and laptops started to appear.
20 years ago, circa 2000, networking and the internet were upon us, and computerized data entry and retrieval could be implemented across a hospital, leading to early versions of electronic records meant to be used by all staff and units.
10 years ago, circa 2010, internet and digital infrastructure point the way toward retirement of traditional hospital records and information utilization. Faith in digital infrastructure and electronic systems is youthful and optimistic, but also foolishly quixotic, same as the dotcom bubble of the prior decade.
Now, circa 2020, we are reaping what we have sown. The internet is the bastion of the overtly corrupt and criminal, and also of the insidious criminals, the companies who sell self-serving apps and services to those who cannot imagine life without a blinky-light gizmo at their fingertips.

As someone who as witnessed all of this, I can attest that medicine has developed spectacular new technologies that cure problems that could only be fantasized about in 1960. But for basic hospital operations, cost containment for good care, access to competent care, and the sense of certainty and security that comes from knowing that educated practitioners and compassionate hospitals will be there to serve them, that has changed, for the worse.

Technology has helped certain things, but before all of the technology, general care was as good or in many ways much better than today. The cynicism about modern medicine that now abounds, as heard in comments in this thread, was unheard of 60 years ago. Technology is not itself the culprit. Greed, greed, money, more greed, and the collapse of morals among financiers and hospital rapist-entrepreneurs and their boards of directors have been, perhaps more than anything else, been the major problems. But technology is used to further these problems. The old saying is that "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit". Technology for modern hospitals has become the veneer of cow poo that masks that fact that fundamental "use you eyes, ears, and brains" approach to patient care or anything else fallen by the wayside.

So, when the computer goes down, no one knows what to do. A few years ago, there was a commercial on TV. I cannot recall and who cares what they were talking about, but it was ironically sad and funny. Two business people, suits and briefcases, are riding a tall escalator from the lobby to mezzanine of a huge modern office high rise. Half way up, the power goes out. They are stuck on the escalator, not knowing what to do. "Help" they call out, too stupid to just walk up or down. That is what this story is all about. Too stupid to know what to do. As someone else on this thread already commented, technology does not make people stupid, just makes stupid people more obvious. That is what this story is all about.

Such a suit would not be necessary. The Books for the Blind program, sponsored by the Library of Congress, uses an exception to U.S. copyright (17 USC 121) to reproduce books in specialized formats used by people with disabilities. It began with Braille books, then specialized vinyl records, then specialized audio cassettes, and now DRM audio book formats.

https://www.quora.com/How-much...

You need to be rich to do that. Right.

Sorry. XHTML was a great attempt to bring sanity to web development by enforcing the least restrictive of best practices, for example, actually requiring closing element tags to accompany opening tags, in the correct order. The problem is that that concept was too deep for web 'developers' who preferred to just throw tag soup at the screen until a page half-assed worked in their browser of choice. Hence, why browsers today are some of the most bloated, complicated and bug-prone software applications in existence.

Now I see the same lazy thinking from the web 'designers' in these comments, rueing the fact they might actually have to put in the slight bit of extra effort needed to add readable text to their mangled-Javascript image repositories they call pages so that the visually-impaired can actually use them.

If you can't see it in Lynx and Mutt, it's not real.

Slashdot is now primarily about (extreme left-wing) politics now, it has little/nothing to do with technology.

      The intent of the submission posting this is to provide a reason/excuse to rail against Trump - because it's been at least 10 minutes since the last one, and everyone's fingers are getting itchy.

Only if you trick yourself. You use the same data used to create the graph, but present it as a table.

.....you too can have access for the princely sum of $1,500 a month. For real!
You just have to know which company to ask.

Some day you'll be over 30 yourself, moron. And then you'll get it. And, like most people over 30, you'll look back, and shake your head at the clueless, idealistic, delusional fucking kid that you were.

Watching you kids is painful. It's like watching little eight year olds who think their are sooooo clever and soooooo "grown up". It's pathetic.

But us dumb Americans read it as 50 years and missed the point.

Then post a link to a video demonstration?

This has to do with technology how? Adobe, a US corporation, does not have much of a choice.

fuck adobe and fuck "cloud" based subscription licensing. this shit wouldnt be an issue if we could still purchase photoshop normally.

You're playing the bona fide occupational qualifications card, and it's not quite as broad as someone might think when a blind person is buying products or services for someone else who is sighted to use. Consider the following cases:

Because the blind customer is buying gifts for a sighted family member.

...to buy eyeglasses for her sighted husband.

The blind parent is visiting the website to evaluate schools for his or her sighted child.

And pay a surcharge in the form of ineligibility for online-only discounts. I don't know Domino's price structure, but competitor Pizza Hut has regularly run online-only promotions.

It seems so.

Speak for yourself, I have an engineering degree.

This frustrated me to no end at university seeing people take computer science in the hopes to become a "software engineer".

Computer science is, well, a science. If you want to be a mechanical engineer then you don't major in physics. If you want to be a chemical engineer then you don't major in chemistry. If you want to be a computer engineer then you don't major in computer science. While software engineering is becoming distinct from computer engineering this is a new development. A development after employers and universities are finding that few people that graduate from a computer science program are suited to be software engineers. One university I attended has a software engineering program that is a cooperative effort between the computer science program and the engineering school. A person in either program can take software engineering coursework as electives to meet their required coursework hours, and completing them will mean a notation on their degree. They also developed a program where graduates obtain something of a dual major in computer science and computer engineering, it's one major but it meets the requirements of both accredited programs.

That's not saying a computer science major can't go on to be an excellent computer or software engineer. If they are then it's because of training and experience they got beyond the typical accredited computer science curriculum. I know a handful of people that majored in physics that went on to be excellent mechanical engineers. I also know a handful of mechanical engineers that became excellent computer and software engineers. I also know a lot of computer science majors that graduated to become something other than software engineers.

I remember something about Microsoft getting in trouble with the Texas state government. They didn't like the idea of a company handing out certificates claiming the holder was a "certified engineer". Microsoft decided it was best to change the name of their certificates than fight over what makes a person an "engineer". By Texas law to call yourself an engineer one must have graduated from a state certified engineering program, passed the state engineering certification tests, or... drive a train. And I think this is a wise choice.

If an image consists of a line graph plot of time series data from a sensor or database, such as inflation-adjusted price of a 2-topping medium pizza over time, extracting the relevant trends in order to construct alternate text could get very tricky very fast. If an image or video is uploaded by a user, creating descriptive text or a transcript would require expensive AI or expensive humans.

100% of the time that I order pizza.

Seems to me that it would, in fact, be a very rare thing for anyone to order a pizza via a web page. Its never even occurred to me that it might even be an option, and a quick check of the 4 different pizza establishments I've ordered a pizza from in the past several years indicates that, IN FACT, DIPSHIT, it is not an option.

So now I have to wonder what the fuck you are talking about. Whatever it is its not normal, so you taking an extreme and rare case, and pretending its the fucking majority thing, like a lefty fantasizing about what America thinks.

"With the fair-tax the results will be similar to what has happened here. The very wealthy will pay dramatically less of their income in taxes than the middle class. The poor will even pay even more of their income towards running the govt. but at least they get a pre-bate."

The FairTax mechanism known as the prebate insures that the poor pay $0 tax, since the prebate is sent to citizens and gauged to be big enough to cover all the FairTax on their spending up to the level of poverty. So if the poverty level is $12K / yr, then enough money will be sent to the individual to cover the FairTax on $12K of spending each year. (It comes monthly. It's different for different living situations - marrieds get more together, marrieds with dependents get more still, and it will match the tax they would pay for poverty-level spending in each situation.) The bottom line is that the FairTax rate is not actually paid until the person spends his 1st dollar about the poverty line. Soo... don't tax the impoverished. Sounds "fair" to me.

Public buildings have to have periodic fire safety checks. Similarly, what about mandatory yearly inspections of the software of vital organizations, such as hospitals? Every year, check whether the hospital's software and data are protected against intrusion. Also make sure that the hospital can restore from backups within a day.

Okay, fine. It isnâ(TM)t ad hominem, I was wrong. But the insults (in both his and your posts) are totally unnecessary.

They have nothing better to do than try to live in the world like everyone else.

Sure, that sounds fair. I'lllllll just donate that tin of food to this food bank over here that I have absolutely no involvement with. Why does it have my name on it? Oh, er, heh-heh. It's a little embarrasing; I donate so much to them that they named it after me out of pure gratitude. Why is it in my garage? Oh, well, er...

Nope. People forget how closely they worked with IBM, and then shafted them big time.
That even given IBMâ(TM)s fearsome legal people.
Take it as a given, that Microsoft will shaft GNU/Linux when they feel the moment is right.

Im not saying theyre doing it but Ive implemented several image segmentation model at my job using mask r-cnn and its crazy how little data you need with retraining to make it work successfully. It really wouldnâ(TM)t be crazy to imagine they have a real time version running with say YOLO and the most common brand as classes.