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As a recent escapee from Vermont I am not surprised.
Another bill submitted recently would jail teens for a year for the crime of using a cell phone.
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Now as developers look at the costs of implementation:
- Validation scripts on the (motor vehicle dept) web portals to make sure you entered in a valid license plate number will now have to RegEx this crap.
- Police departments that use Automated License Plate Readers will need to have the OCR programming updated.
- The databases used will no longer be able to use ASCII text
So how long will this take and how much will this cost? And what about the neighboring states who undoubtedly will need to be upgraded as well?
And to think that most states don't have the letters I, O, and Q in their character sets as they may cause confusion.
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Officials from the Department of Justice will reportedly be meeting this week with representatives of a 50-state coalition of state attorneys general to discuss tag-teaming their efforts to determine if Google's parent company, Alphabet, is in violation of antitrust laws. "Go to Jail. Go directly to Jail. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. "
Maybe they can combine it with the EU investigation? Is there an Asia-wide investigation yet? Maybe even get the Antarctica monopoly investigation team on-board?
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I know it all sounds stupid, but they are running rampant over the law and the rights of individuals, and setting an all-time low for business ethics.
There will be miss-steps, there will blockages caused by be corruption, but, sooner or later, the law will catch up.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: There will be miss-steps, there will blockages caused by be corruption, but, sooner or later, the law will catch up. I would prefer justice / fairness / common sense to catch up, law has already shown many times to be not sufficient
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Nelek wrote: I would prefer justice / fairness / common sense to catch up That'll never happen, if there's money or sex involved.
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Who is this "they" you are referring to; Google, The Government, or both?
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MadMyche wrote: Who is this "they" you are referring to; Google, The Government, or both? Um, how long do I have to answer? Can I phone a friend?
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The Mac and Windows version of Avast antivirus has been used to harvest user data, an investigation claims, with some sensitive info sold to third parties, including Google, Microsoft, and Intuit. "You must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not."
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It makes sense, though.
"AVAST BEHIND!" means a big back-end.
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Avast is one of the worse products I've ever tried. I am baffled as to how they are still in business.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I am baffled as to how they are still in business. Making money off of shifty behaviour, it seems. I hear there's lots of money in it.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I hear there's lots of money in it. G, FB and others confirm that
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According to Microsoft, with this new feature, users will be able to navigate their company’s confusing lingo. This is especially important, as Microsoft claims that 2-3% of search queries entered by employees are related to acronyms. FWIW
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OMG WTF? AYKM FFSK ROFLMAO
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So they are uploading your company's entire message and document history, in order to interpret your company's acronyms?
PLEASE don't tell me that I'm the only one hearing alarm bells ringing!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: PLEASE don't tell me that I'm the only one hearing alarm bells ringing! Not the only one, but not the correct ones
I bet there are already some managers thinking on how cool this can be
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Many people think that malware only targets Windows and that Macs are safe, but a new report shows how a single Apple malware called Shlayer has attacked over 10% of all Apple computers monitored by an antivirus company. Because Macs never get malware
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Script kiddies only target windows.
The guys who know where the stupid money is target macs.
Quietly.
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modified 27-Jan-20 15:52pm.
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A frequent API design problem is the inability to use a more specific return type when overriding a method "It means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less"
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It might be slightly less work to type the code, but I don't see any performance figures.
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As it generally should come down to a pointer cast, performance impact should be zero or extremely close.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Probably, but it would still be one of the first things I'd test and report.
"Does it make it better for us" should be the last thing to consider.
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As covariance and contravariance have both made it into C++, with its zero-overhead abstraction policy, I'd be shocked if we saw it hitting performance, but I do take your point, measure first.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've been made to look like an idiot before, after making assumptions about this kind if thing (and since it's one of the things I always push for, I mean made to look like a Big idiot!)
Performance tests can be a bit of a pain, but it's one of the things that really matter to the people who are indirectly paying our salaries.
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modified 27-Jan-20 15:53pm.
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