Also, IQ tests don't really measure intelligence. At best, they measure one specific manifestation of intelligence, but mostly they measure how good you are at taking tests.
They are a good predictor of how well you'll do in college, and can identify people with certain cognitive problems, but that's about it.
most of the people opposing CISA are happy to admit that it's about "voluntary" sharing of information -- but they note that by taking away all liability from companies for sharing info, companies have greatly decreased incentives to protect user privacy.
This is ignoring the other big lie with CISA: if the purpose is "voluntary data sharing", then the legislation is totally unnecessary: there is nothing preventing companies from voluntarily sharing this data right now, unless it's prohibited by a EULA or somesuch (in which case, the companies can just alter those terms).
No legislation is required.
Of course, the purpose is not voluntary data sharing. That's just the lie.
Such is as it has always been. If someone desires power over their fellow humans, that's a very strong indication that they cannot be trusted with power.
" What I don't like is when they compose the scene specifically to draw attention to the product."
A million times this. I've seen product placement that isn't product placement as much as "bring the momentum of the show to a screeching halt and have the actors perform a little minicommercial in the middle of it".
There is literally no faster way to get me to just stop watching the show altogether.
Where a company is refusing to allow inspection of source code when confidentiality is ensued, the safe assumption is that the source code is in embarrassingly bad shape.
Why do you think that would seem odd to Westerners? In my section of the "west", the extended family unit is considered much the same for the most part.
If you want to divide "east" vs "west" on this point, the division would be that in the US, anyway, we tend to think that the government should butt out of family business.
This argument might have some weight if those very agencies weren't constantly talking about how they should be the ones to "defend" the entire internet in the US.
I got the opposite impression. If there was a good legal leg to stand on, then the process would start with lawsuits (or at least a sternly worded letter), not letters of supplication.
"I'm a dev and have gotten pre-release hardware and signed NDA's on them, and not a SINGLE ONE EVER said ANYTHING about not tearing the device apart."
Interesting. I am a dev as well and have obtained a lot of pre-release hardware. In every single case, the contract I signed contained a "no reverse engineering" clause. Teardowns are reverse engineering.
But the real issue isn't that. It's the NDA. If iFixit had done the teardown and not published until general release, Apple would not have had an issue (or, worst case, would never have known).
It's the disclosure that they have a problem with.
Consuming tobacco or nicotine in any form cannot reasonably be called "safe", although there are clearly some ways of using it that are a lot safer than others.
Smoking is pretty much the most dangerous way to do it.
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I'm unclear
If not, then this is a nonstarter for me.
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They are a good predictor of how well you'll do in college, and can identify people with certain cognitive problems, but that's about it.
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But the point stands, all of these incidents were pretty mild in terms of military attacks.
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The other big lie
This is ignoring the other big lie with CISA: if the purpose is "voluntary data sharing", then the legislation is totally unnecessary: there is nothing preventing companies from voluntarily sharing this data right now, unless it's prohibited by a EULA or somesuch (in which case, the companies can just alter those terms).
No legislation is required.
Of course, the purpose is not voluntary data sharing. That's just the lie.
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Such is as it has always been. If someone desires power over their fellow humans, that's a very strong indication that they cannot be trusted with power.
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This whole "new and creative" thing that is happening now is neither. It's very old and not creative at all, since it's just returning to its roots.
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A million times this. I've seen product placement that isn't product placement as much as "bring the momentum of the show to a screeching halt and have the actors perform a little minicommercial in the middle of it".
There is literally no faster way to get me to just stop watching the show altogether.
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In cases like this
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True, but that is something copyright should not do.
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If you want to divide "east" vs "west" on this point, the division would be that in the US, anyway, we tend to think that the government should butt out of family business.
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Interesting. I am a dev as well and have obtained a lot of pre-release hardware. In every single case, the contract I signed contained a "no reverse engineering" clause. Teardowns are reverse engineering.
But the real issue isn't that. It's the NDA. If iFixit had done the teardown and not published until general release, Apple would not have had an issue (or, worst case, would never have known).
It's the disclosure that they have a problem with.
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Smoking is pretty much the most dangerous way to do it.
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