Comment Re:Poisoning Reddit (Score 1) 66
They said, trying to provoke fear, "This will change the Internet as we know it!"
And I said, "GOOD! There's too many fucking hitlers on there"
They said, trying to provoke fear, "This will change the Internet as we know it!"
And I said, "GOOD! There's too many fucking hitlers on there"
What they did was not illegal, and fine print at the bottom on TL;DR user agreement is what legally constitutes informed consent.
TFA notes that, in some (many?) cases, the sales agent at the dealership was signing customers up for services during the vehicle sale, despite GM policy that the customer must do this themselves, w/o telling the customer exactly what was done.
According to G.M., our car was enrolled in Smart Driver when we bought it at a Chevrolet dealership in New York, during the flurry of document-signing that accompanies the purchase of a new vehicle.
I called our dealership, a franchise of General Motors, and talked to the salesman who had sold us the car. He confirmed that he had enrolled us for OnStar, noting that his pay is docked if he fails to do so. He said that was a mandate from G.M., which sends the dealership a report card each month tracking the percentage of sign-ups.
G.M. doesn’t just want dealers selling cars; it wants them selling connected cars.
[A] G.M. spokeswoman, said that dealers are not permitted to sign customers up and that the customer must be the one to accept the terms. At my request, she provided the series of screens that dealers are instructed to show customers during the enrollment for OnStar and Smart Driver. There is a message at the top of each screen: “The customer must personally review and accept (or decline) the terms below. This action is legally binding and cannot be done by dealer personnel.”
What I can say is that, regardless of who pushed the consent button, this screen about enrolling in notifications and Smart Driver doesn’t say anything about risk-profiling or insurance companies.
fallen sharply beyond expectations
How far had Apple expected it to fall?
People will start to think like professional athletes: I have to earn a life's wage by the time I'm 35, because after that I won't have an income anymore.
To be fair, an athlete is more likely to experience a career-ruining injury than the average worker and then be unable to continue in that career. I'm not trying to justify the insane salaries many seem to get, but can understand why they'd want to earn while they can. Of course, being responsible with those earnings would go a long way toward future financial security. (Good advice for everyone.)
In case it's not clear. Free samples are free. When you go to the Dr and say, "I need an antidepressant," they will reach into a drawer and pull out a bag of free pills, and say, "try this for three weeks and see if it helps" (and in the Dr's mind, they think, "I hope you don't suffer brain damage because of this, but I won't be liable.")
Marketing anything by giving away free samples does not correlate with successful outcomes.
months of coding training and a half-year Web/VoTech degree can tech more then an 4 year theory loaded school.
Except for the theory parts, which can come in handy if you want to get past being just a code monkey. There's also plenty of coding done during a 4-year degree program -- at least there was in mine. And I was a grader. My OS class had us simulate an interactive operating system and another class had us write a functional linking loader, both in C. (my concentration, back in the mid '80s, was operating systems design) I also took classes using LISP, Pascal and x86 assembly (on new PCs as the printer for the IBM 370 caught fire and destroyed everything in the room the previous summer) I was also a research assistant doing programming in LISP (on a Xerox 1108) and Prolog for a NASA grant on automated programming techniques -- they wanted a grad student, but couldn't find one with LISP experience. I also ported programs, like the Franz LISP interpreter/compiler, from 4.3BSD on a VAX 11/785 to SunOS on a Sun4 and debugged lpd -- we had BSD source code. I also had a jerk system administrator on those BSD/Sun systems who made us RTFM *and* the BSD source code before he would answer even the simplest question -- and I have to thank him for that very much.
Pretty sure you're not going to get all that at a six-month coding boot camp. People keep dismissing the value of a 4-year CS degree, but a lot of you get out of it is what you're willing to put into it.
The business, which claims on its site it will help students land their "dream job" in tech at companies like Amazon, Cisco, and Google,
Con or not, some of this is on the students. I mean, those companies aren't really known for hiring people with only a few months of coding training and a half-year Web/VoTech degree. That said, taking advantage of their gullibility and/or desperation isn't cool.
5.3 million records
[insert Trump jokes here]
Predicting companies/contractors will buy data and *donate* it to the Government, or let them access it for free. Problem solved.
Trump, Pump, and Dump
Noting that Trump didn't actually buy his stock so no matter how low it goes he won't lose any money. Other shareholders, on the other hand
Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse.
Several people have a majority of their money invested in this stock and one guy has invested his whole "nest egg" -- $25,000 -- and wants to buy more. He believes the stock could "go to $1,000 a share, easy." I wish him luck.
President Biden remarked in his hometown of Scranton, Pa on April 16:
I have to say, if Trump’s stock in Truth Social, his company, drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his.
Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name
It's also the Inuit name for a Klondike Bar, and that would be confusing.
[ Admit it, you don't know if that's true.
I am familiar with UNIX shell job control, and I was not stating that undo came first... only that your insinuation it was some ("modern") Windows-centric thing was in error.
Got it, thanks! I've never been an Apple/Mac/iOS, etc... user -- though I did use, and develop on, a Xerox 1108 Dandelion from 1985-87 using InterLISP-D (still have that LISP manual), but I was first raised on BSD...
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood