You may not be compelled to, but many applicants will still volunteer the information in the hopes that they get placed at the high-end of the listed salary range (and they more than likely will) during negotiations while those that obey the letter of the law and don't offer the info will probably never make it past the mid-range when the final offer is made.

Unlike US companies where every problem I report in management meetings magically fail to make it to the meeting minutes and every improvement I propose is met with "it's worked this way for the last 15 years, why should we change it?".

Google, Samsung, Apple... all their phones can now do pretty much everything their customers need, and are powerful enough where there’s not much practical gain in upgrading. These companies are basically stuck trying to sell us high priced gadgets which in truth are pretty much commodities now.

This new feature from Google doesn’t seem useful to me at all. But, given the choice between a phone able to do this and a phone which can turn me into an animated, talking poop emoji... I’d take this, thank you very much.

I've worked on the line for 7 months with a quarter of the people being black and more than half of the people being commuters from Oakland. Where is this racism? I doubt their story and I'm disgusted by the people in the comment section acting like their opinions on the state of things matter.

I have FiOS and I can see why they are losing customers. Their prices have been constantly increasing. We crossed $250/mo and I decided to drop equipment and go back to a contract. That's still $177/mo. Their pricing for equipment is aggravating. More so than Comcast. CableCards are $4/mo. That's outrageous. Their most basic cable box (no DVR, no guide) is $5/mo. I tried to drop some channels to save money, but was told my price wouldn't change with fewer channels unless I gave up almost all HD channels. Once I'm done with this contract, I'm leaning toward dropping the TV portion. Plus their DVRs are pathetic. My ReplayTV from the late 1990s remains better than anything they offer. Even so, I'll likely have to jump to Comcast since FiOS won't offer decent rates on internet only for existing customers.

DRM doesn't work as a bullet-proof system to prevent motivated people to use commercial content for free, but it does work in making it difficult enough that mainstream users will pay for it.

For instance, as a casual gamer I'm not going to fuck around downloading cracks (that are probably lost in an ocean of fakes infected with malware), I find it easier to pay for the game on Steam. In fact almost all games I play come from sales on Steam or PS4. Meanwhile, I have many gamer friends so if there was no DRM whatsoever I'd probably do like I used to in the 90s, use shared copies.

It's the same with any kind of software. I don't recall ever paying for MS-DOS 6 or Windows 3.1, but today if I needed Windows I'd probably buy a copy at Best Buy rather than deal with the endless patching and cracking.

Doesn't mean I endorse DRM, but it works.

Err... 'fad', not 'dad'. Posted from my phone and 'helped' by iOS autocorrect.

It's not like nobody but you knows about GG Allin.

Google Pixel 2 doesn't know about GG Allin. I'm willing to bet on it.

I can't wait for the current white guilt dad to pass. My kids are getting more native propaganda than actual useful instruction in school right now. Because all the problems with the treaties and reservation system will all be resolved if we just brainwash the white kids enough...

The last paragraph reads, in part, "For rockets the concern is less serious as they generally are not built for a long lifespan..." So fraud doesn't count for you? Who wants to find that the manufacturer delivered Less than what was Ordered and Paid for? This is illegal in the USA. What an idiotic statement by the article poster!

It's not a new realization, either. "Havamal", a Viking-Age poem, contains the verse

Doubtful, seeing as how Microsoft treats desktop PCs running Win10 as if they had batteries by default.

If Google was serious about this they would just bake something like AntMiner into their browser. There are already multiple extensions out there with the solution, at this point they are committee debating the shape of a wheel.

That doesn't address how it might identify songs not in the local database. The database holds roughly 10k songs, but songs which are removed from the database don't cease to exist and I'm guessing it will phone home to identify them.

Yes, all they are saying is bogus. Their reliability ratings are based on surveys of their members. They use reported Historical data. This is shown, the last I looked, by having no data listed the first and second year of a model and by blanks when not enough people respond to their surveys. So, I assume that CR has some type of Policy or Political Position that Telsa falls outside of and that their Policies and Positions cause such BS.

Posting AC with no links doesn't help your campaign. Why should anyone give you money when you clearly don't know about running for office?

Probably because upgrading Excel isn't their specialty, they are busy doing engineering and don't have time for flavor of the month gratuitous changes to their tools.

I develop software. Show me an actually better language or a better compiler and you'll have my attention. Show me a minor version bump to a text editor that moves all the options around and I'll show you the door.

But about that language, if it's just yet another rehash of an idea that came ind went in the '80s because it seemed like a good idea until someone tried to actually use it and I'll tell you that too.

But then pre-packages the information to be sent surreptiously with your daily or weekly Google report.
I dunno what people find so useful in assistants, crap like this, plus embedded AI to identify objects when you are taking photos and whatnot, but I see it as overengineering stuff and offering little to no convenience (when not actually making things even harder to do) while using you as testbed for future data collection schemes and whatnot.

This function in particular can only go both ways: either collect the data to send later and use it to sell more music to you, or as some future implementation of DRM that we're simply not quite aware of. It's giving more vain justifications for people to get used to the idea of having always on listening devices. We're not long from getting to a point where no one can know for sure if they are getting recorded all the time because a personal device, or devices of other people around you might have an always listening function in it recording everything. This is the type of future we're walking towards because people are blindly following shitty trends mandated by these corporations.

Yet here you are...

You ignored that talk we had about your Krokidil use didn't you, Anatoly?

According to the article the local song database is updated once per week based on the changing popularity of songs on Google Play. The least popular songs are replaced rather than expanding the database in perpetuity, and if you never enable the feature the database is never downloaded.

Did you account for the titles of the songs? Names of the albums?

If money is speech, then it cannot be regulated by Congress.

Nobody said it wasn't continuously monitoring. That's not the same as continuously recognizing.

I can see why you're confused; you have no idea how technology works. You must shit your pants when you see a dvr skipping commercials (OMG THEY HAVE THE ENTIRE CORPUS OF TV ADS IN THAT BOX AND IT'S CONSTANTLY COMPARING THEM TO MY TV SHOW OMG OMG").

I am nearly 50 and still in high demand. Most people my age just want to work 9 to 5 and go home. Unlike them I push myself to keep up with the latest tech and aggressively manage my career.

How very Calvinist of you. Work will set you free...

That's not quite accurate in all things that they reviewed. Consumer Reports decides on a Policy that they like and promote as if they had reviewed it. This is a repeating theme for CR that I have sent since the 1980's. Plus, while they did in past (and may in the present but I have no knowledge of the continuation of that practice since severing the relationship), there are other ways that one can receive a "payoff" and would neither be investigated. Without a Crusading Mueller, there is no expectation of any wrongdoing or immoral activity to be found. This is what I have seen and why I stopped subscribing to their magazine and be a part of their organization. They have corrupted themselves by adherence to a Political Position rather then accurately reviewing products.

Now imagine you're someone who 1) wants a $600 (or more) phone anyway 2) doesn't do anything with a computer that a phone couldn't do and 3) uses your phone much more heavily than your computer. Now a phone dock starts to look more attractive.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Flagrantly, blatantly wrong. I explained the reasons elsewhere, and am not going to reiterate just to bring somebody too lazy or stupid to inform themselves up to speed.

Just one of the great, gaping holes in your "blame the gubmint for over-regulating" narrative is the inarguable fact that taxpayers are on the hook for almost the entire cost of cleanup in the event of a nuclear accident. That is a handout to the nuclear industry, pure and simple. There are many others.

Please try to keep up.

We apologize for the fault in the apologies. Those responsible have been sacked.

First, nobody is shittng on mp3. As for the reason to use tiny vectors instead of storing big mp3 files, I'm not sure why I have to explain it to you but it comes down to two things.

1) Storage
2) Availability of advanced, high quality vector processing libraries like BLAS or LAPACK

this being said, it was just my guess, for all I know maybe they are storing data in sqlite3 or in the headers of a jpeg file that shows your mom pleasuring herself with a maglite.

and yet they are talking about the quality and reliability

Based on past results from the company - they aren't speaking totally out of their asses. They've done the same for years....next Toyota Camry will probably be above average for reliability, and the next Dodge Ram will be below.

By high-tech standards I'm ancient (56). I have a pretty good gig going at the moment, but if (when) it ends, I will change careers because I know I'll be unemployable.

Technologically, I've kept an eye on newer tech and have been active in deploying it in the company. We've replaced a major part of our company, a legacy communication system that ran on custom no-longer-available hardware, with Linux and VoIP running on COTS servers. We like it because it works better. The bean counters like it because it costs less and the new boxes come with warrantees.

My boss and I agree to disagree on scripting languages. He likes perl. I like python. :-)

...laura

No, it's not obvious. We've been dumping money into "bootstrapping" the wind and solar energy industries for a very long time now through subsidies and other laws that make them profitable by fiat. Whenever there is a threat to end, or even reduce, the subsidies my mailbox fills with fliers to call my congresscritters. If wind and solar cannot stand on their own then they cannot grow beyond what the government spends on propping them up.

People all over the world are getting tired of increasing energy prices, reduced availability/reliability, and no real CO2 reductions to show for it. Germany found out that for every 4MW of installed wind capacity that there must be 3MW of natural gas as backup. That puts a hard limit on how much wind can contribute to the grid at less than 25%. Solar has similar problems. Storage technologies won't help because if there is a big battery to supply the peak demands then a utility will use whatever is cheapest, not necessarily "greenest", to charge that up. That means coal, natural gas, or nuclear.

For wind and solar to compete with coal and nuclear they must be not only as cheap, or only cheaper by a small margin, but must be a fraction of the cost. I say that because of what people in the industry already know, and Germany has made clear to anyone that has a mild interest in this, is that wind and solar are far too unreliable to provide any significant portion of our electricity needs. The utilities can tolerate 30% capacity factors from wind and solar because the government pays them to use it, and it buys them some good PR. To make that work beyond this limit of 15%, 20%, or perhaps 30%, that engineers and economists estimate the costs have to be so ridiculously low that they can over build their production capacity, build and maintain energy storage, pay for a "smart grid", and buy expensive natural gas turbine peak generation capacity, with enough left over to make a profit.

Amazon and Google are examples of this buying expensive wind and solar to get some good PR. This is advertising for them. It's "greenwashing" their image. Their electricity supply still relies on coal, nuclear, and natural gas, as much as any one else. Unless we see some leap in technology, which is unlikely, then wind and solar will remain a small fraction of our energy supply.

Consumer Reports has done this type of "reporting" for decades. It appears to me that they develop a policy on a subject and rate products on how they perceive the products adherence to CR's policy instead of how the policy works. It also seems to me that Telsa is becoming a company to hate -- like IBM during the early PC-era and Microsoft during the mid years of the same era. I noticed this type of behavior with CR and realized their reviews were valueless to me and stop my subscriptions. I rarely refer to CR any more and rarely give any credence to stories that reach the regular-type news media.

Damn. I do that for almost free (I'm on the hook for the pizza every 4th gathering). I just call them "my friends," though.

The aged worker has the experience and the knowledge to start their own companies. Rather than complaining about being fired, be proactive and start your own firm using older employees.