The challenge for climate change will be getting the US to consider the alternative
FTFY
Negative. The problem is how this issue is spun. US may use more kWh per capita but in terms of total consumption, China beats us hands down. China's consumption is also increasing while the US's consumption is decreasing. Evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Thanks for playing though.
Renewable Energy Set To Be Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels By 2020, Says Report
There are two main sources of fossil fuel consumption, electricity and automobiles. This refers to electricity consumption, in essence replacing old fossil fuel burning power plants with clean, renewable energy. Hooray! Sign me up to get my house outfitted with highly efficient solar shingles. Unfortunately, this doesn't help fossil fuel consumption by automobiles but it's definitely progress in the right direction.
The challenge for climate change will be getting China to consider the alternative
So one guy hurts himself and that means it's not safe for every single other person on the planet? It's still way better to just hold it in and not spread your germs.
Umm . . . is that maybe a different server on the same network? considering that everybody is using the same number format and routing and message format and all?
Google is your friend. I don't have time to explain it all to you. I built an enterprise issuer credit card processing middleware platform and worked in the business for 5 years. Different companies are not using the same routing and message format. But yes, I do believe they all use the same 16 digit card number format.
It can't be a "completely different type of network" when it's the same reader of the same chips on the same wires.
It is a completely different network. The first 6 digits of the card number are the BIN aka business identification number. What happens is at POS (Point of Sale) the information whether it was read off the magnetic strip or chip is sent to a payment processor. The payment processor then based on the BIN routes it to the correct issuing network (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, STAR, Cirrus, etc.) What you may be quibbling about is the merchant payment processor vs. the issuer's processor. Yes, for a specific merchant, the merchant payment processor is the same but the message goes to completely different destinations based on the BIN.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, looks at the signature for anything. You can sign anything you want.
Many, many years ago, a friend asked me to buy something for him using his credit card, while he was at work. I signed the paper receipt "Eddie Van Halen". The cashier didn't look at or even care about the signature.
For the record, I am NOT Eddie Van Halen (had to be said).
That's because the signature is only relevant if the cardholder calls the issuer and disputes the charge. When the charge is disputed, the merchant will represent the signature to the cardholder. If the transaction settles and no one disputes, nobody cares.
I have an EMV MasterCard. Used it today, in fact, and was asked to sign. I don't think I have a PIN for the card.
You really don't seem to understand how credit/debit cards work. Unless you're getting a cash advance, credit transactions never require a PIN. Hence, why they all used to require a signature. That way if the cardholder disputed the charge, the merchant could represent the signature to the cardholder and say "is this your signature?" Debit cards, on the other hand, always require PIN's because it's a completely different type of network with different operating regulations. Visa/MasterCard use variants of the ISO 8583 specification whereas Cirrus/STAR/etc. use something completely different. And, by the way, if you have a debit card from a financial institution that is Visa or MasterCard this is why they tell you to always run it as credit. If you run it as credit, the merchant pays the interchange fees. If you run it as debit, the issuer does and in many cases passes the cost along to the cardholder.
"the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object."
We do it because we like to think we can make the world appear more friendly to us by projecting human characteristics onto it. It's akin to giving your car a name or saying "well maybe she didn't feel like starting today because she's grumpy".
It's typically only irrational, less educated people that do this.
While I mostly agree with your assessment here, we also need to understand and remember that DIY on technical components often requires not only competence, but patience,
Dude, it takes 5 MINUTES to change the damn battery and the kit on Amazon costs like 10 bucks. This is like a VERY minor car repair. I'm not talking about replacing a head gasket or seating a motherboard here. We're talking about a little bit more work than changing a damn furnace filter. Are you suggesting people are THAT incompetent these days? They need to call someone for every little stupid thing? No wonder people are broke.
Let me give you an example of this stupid shit. My car's hood struts went bad. I got a couple of quotes from a couple of places just to see if someone could quickly replace them. They all wanted to charge me $100+ to do that and I already had ball catches and didn't even need to replace those. I said fuck that. Ordered some on Amazon, watched a youtube video and with a friend's help to hold the hood up, I replaced them in 5 minutes. You seriously just take a screw driver and pop these little metal clips off of each of them, they come off and you pop them back on. SUPER EASY.
You're telling me people are SO STUPID that this is considered a VERY INVOLVED procedure that it's unreasonable to expect people to have that level of patience. You let me know when your hood struts go bad, I'll replace them for $100. This is part of the reason our economy is screwed up because people are HELPLESS VICTIMS.
90% of people who spend the money to pay for an iPhone wouldn't dream of DIY. Their rather ignorant and/or lazy mentality towards hardware and software maintenance is the main reason they love the idiot-proof products Apple makes.
If you're a stupid consumer, then you reap what you sow. It's the consumer's fault. It didn't take much for me to be an informed consumer on the topic 10-15 minutes tops. Since when did consumers become entitled to being idiots and require merchants to think for them? That's not only absurd but if you let the merchant think for you, a fool and his money are soon parted. Basically, what's being said here is people get to complain about other people taking advantage of them because they're stupid, ignorant or uninformed. Maybe they should move back in their parents' basement because obviously the real world is just too much for them.
The question being, which scenario would lead the user to buy a new phone faster:
There is no reason to buy a new phone based on the battery wearing out if you're happy with the phone you have. Anyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant. It costs $15 for a new battery. You can them on Amazon. Either you need to install it (there are tons of tutorials on youtube) or have someone else do it. It doesn't cost much and is WAY cheaper than buying a new phone.
I do not think that the devices are slowed to make them unusable so people would buy new phones. Having a totally dead phone after 8 hours instead of 12 hours is worse, in my opinion.
I agree with the first part. However, the way Apple implemented this "feature" is COMPLETELY stupid. They should have provided a setting and information about the health and age of the Lithium Ion battery (consequently they said they would do this after everyone got pissed at them) so that consumers could make the right choice for them. I would have preferred the opposite setting. The problem with Apple, and I have several Apple devices, is that Apple thinks it knows best how you should use its product instead of giving you the options to use the product how you want to. They took it the extreme here and they deserve the backlash they're receiving. Oh and hey, Tim Cook, now that you got your tax cuts, trickle down economics? Still waiting...
The people are asking for Apple to provide "parental-control" software so that parents can, well, parent.
I get that and that's fine. But don't spew your propaganda that "phones are addictive". That's not your place to make that claim. Make the phones, write the software, but don't preach. Let me be the parent of my own kid. I don't need you to think for me. If I want to use a tool for parenting, I will. If I don't think it's necessary, I won't use it. My kids, my choice.
All they're saying is that the phones should have better parental controls, which is a perfectly reasonable thing.
They said "Phones are addictive" therefore "Parental Controls". Give parents Parental Controls and let them decide what to do with it. You, the phone manufacturer, are not the fucking parent!
- Address profanity in music by censorship (Tipper Gore)
- Address video game addiction (think World of Warcraft)
- Address violence in video games because it's causing crime to increase
- And now... TADA! Phone addiction
These so-called "values groups" do the same thing every now and then. They claim X is going to ruin society and some overarching entity needs to intervene and forcefully make people "behave appropriately".
This claim has been made again and again and again and every prediction of society turning into a bunch of lazy, dangerous degenerates proves to be false because it's not supported by any evidence. Get off your high horse and worry about yourself instead of thinking yourself superior and others being too stupid to think for themselves thus needing you to think for them.
Mesh network = network topology, web = HTTP, the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol which is at a completely different level of the OSI model. Why is this drivel on slashdot? It's complete nonsense. Aren't the editors supposed to have some understanding of the internet?
Your facts where fucking wrong. So wrong in fact, you had to repost and correct yourself.
Balls in your court Homey D. Clown.
Negative. AMD did not create their own chip designs until 1996. That's a fact. They were making cheaper version's of Intel's chips and had licensing agreements all described in the article I posted. My balls in your face AC troll. Wiggle wiggle.
Facebook is the ultimate time waster. You've exceeded everyone's expectations in that regard. Nothing left to do there.
FTFY:
Social media is the ultimate time waster.
Indeed. But if there were a Gartner Magic Quadrant for such a thing I think you'd find Facebook is the market leader closely trailed by some of the others you mentioned lol. The point of my post was in the context of the article which was specifically about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg and the phoney baloney spin that came out of his mouth.
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The challenge for climate change will be getting the US to consider the alternative
FTFY
Negative. The problem is how this issue is spun. US may use more kWh per capita but in terms of total consumption, China beats us hands down. China's consumption is also increasing while the US's consumption is decreasing. Evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Thanks for playing though.
Renewable Energy Set To Be Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels By 2020, Says Report
There are two main sources of fossil fuel consumption, electricity and automobiles. This refers to electricity consumption, in essence replacing old fossil fuel burning power plants with clean, renewable energy. Hooray! Sign me up to get my house outfitted with highly efficient solar shingles. Unfortunately, this doesn't help fossil fuel consumption by automobiles but it's definitely progress in the right direction.
The challenge for climate change will be getting China to consider the alternative
Not sure why this got modded down, it's on point. I would mod you up despite being AC.
So one guy hurts himself and that means it's not safe for every single other person on the planet? It's still way better to just hold it in and not spread your germs.
If you're really that concerned, wear a mask.
To get hurt just sneeze normally. I pulled a damn back muscle once on a particularly large sneeze and it was nearly a pain in the ass for two weeks.
To be fair, this usually only happens to people with weak and tight core/lower back muscles...
Don't try to hold your poop and pee indefinitely. Slow news day eh Slashdot?
Umm . . . is that maybe a different server on the same network? considering that everybody is using the same number format and routing and message format and all?
Google is your friend. I don't have time to explain it all to you. I built an enterprise issuer credit card processing middleware platform and worked in the business for 5 years. Different companies are not using the same routing and message format. But yes, I do believe they all use the same 16 digit card number format.
It can't be a "completely different type of network" when it's the same reader of the same chips on the same wires.
It is a completely different network. The first 6 digits of the card number are the BIN aka business identification number. What happens is at POS (Point of Sale) the information whether it was read off the magnetic strip or chip is sent to a payment processor. The payment processor then based on the BIN routes it to the correct issuing network (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, STAR, Cirrus, etc.) What you may be quibbling about is the merchant payment processor vs. the issuer's processor. Yes, for a specific merchant, the merchant payment processor is the same but the message goes to completely different destinations based on the BIN.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, looks at the signature for anything. You can sign anything you want.
Many, many years ago, a friend asked me to buy something for him using his credit card, while he was at work. I signed the paper receipt "Eddie Van Halen". The cashier didn't look at or even care about the signature.
For the record, I am NOT Eddie Van Halen (had to be said).
That's because the signature is only relevant if the cardholder calls the issuer and disputes the charge. When the charge is disputed, the merchant will represent the signature to the cardholder. If the transaction settles and no one disputes, nobody cares.
I have an EMV MasterCard. Used it today, in fact, and was asked to sign. I don't think I have a PIN for the card.
You really don't seem to understand how credit/debit cards work. Unless you're getting a cash advance, credit transactions never require a PIN. Hence, why they all used to require a signature. That way if the cardholder disputed the charge, the merchant could represent the signature to the cardholder and say "is this your signature?" Debit cards, on the other hand, always require PIN's because it's a completely different type of network with different operating regulations. Visa/MasterCard use variants of the ISO 8583 specification whereas Cirrus/STAR/etc. use something completely different. And, by the way, if you have a debit card from a financial institution that is Visa or MasterCard this is why they tell you to always run it as credit. If you run it as credit, the merchant pays the interchange fees. If you run it as debit, the issuer does and in many cases passes the cost along to the cardholder.
Linus you devil you. :)
If I have to get dressed, go outside (in the rain) to get a pizza, why bother ordering it in the first place ?
Right on! I prefer to receive my pizzas naked too!
"the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object."
We do it because we like to think we can make the world appear more friendly to us by projecting human characteristics onto it. It's akin to giving your car a name or saying "well maybe she didn't feel like starting today because she's grumpy".
It's typically only irrational, less educated people that do this.
While I mostly agree with your assessment here, we also need to understand and remember that DIY on technical components often requires not only competence, but patience,
Dude, it takes 5 MINUTES to change the damn battery and the kit on Amazon costs like 10 bucks. This is like a VERY minor car repair. I'm not talking about replacing a head gasket or seating a motherboard here. We're talking about a little bit more work than changing a damn furnace filter. Are you suggesting people are THAT incompetent these days? They need to call someone for every little stupid thing? No wonder people are broke.
Let me give you an example of this stupid shit. My car's hood struts went bad. I got a couple of quotes from a couple of places just to see if someone could quickly replace them. They all wanted to charge me $100+ to do that and I already had ball catches and didn't even need to replace those. I said fuck that. Ordered some on Amazon, watched a youtube video and with a friend's help to hold the hood up, I replaced them in 5 minutes. You seriously just take a screw driver and pop these little metal clips off of each of them, they come off and you pop them back on. SUPER EASY.
You're telling me people are SO STUPID that this is considered a VERY INVOLVED procedure that it's unreasonable to expect people to have that level of patience. You let me know when your hood struts go bad, I'll replace them for $100. This is part of the reason our economy is screwed up because people are HELPLESS VICTIMS.
It's just alien music, we are just not hip enough to understand...
The Green Tentacle finally got the band going...
90% of people who spend the money to pay for an iPhone wouldn't dream of DIY. Their rather ignorant and/or lazy mentality towards hardware and software maintenance is the main reason they love the idiot-proof products Apple makes.
If you're a stupid consumer, then you reap what you sow. It's the consumer's fault. It didn't take much for me to be an informed consumer on the topic 10-15 minutes tops. Since when did consumers become entitled to being idiots and require merchants to think for them? That's not only absurd but if you let the merchant think for you, a fool and his money are soon parted. Basically, what's being said here is people get to complain about other people taking advantage of them because they're stupid, ignorant or uninformed. Maybe they should move back in their parents' basement because obviously the real world is just too much for them.
The corporations give the orders, the Congressmen follow them. Understood?
And they give SJW's lives purpose and meaning...
The question being, which scenario would lead the user to buy a new phone faster:
There is no reason to buy a new phone based on the battery wearing out if you're happy with the phone you have. Anyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant. It costs $15 for a new battery. You can them on Amazon. Either you need to install it (there are tons of tutorials on youtube) or have someone else do it. It doesn't cost much and is WAY cheaper than buying a new phone.
I do not think that the devices are slowed to make them unusable so people would buy new phones. Having a totally dead phone after 8 hours instead of 12 hours is worse, in my opinion.
I agree with the first part. However, the way Apple implemented this "feature" is COMPLETELY stupid. They should have provided a setting and information about the health and age of the Lithium Ion battery (consequently they said they would do this after everyone got pissed at them) so that consumers could make the right choice for them. I would have preferred the opposite setting. The problem with Apple, and I have several Apple devices, is that Apple thinks it knows best how you should use its product instead of giving you the options to use the product how you want to. They took it the extreme here and they deserve the backlash they're receiving. Oh and hey, Tim Cook, now that you got your tax cuts, trickle down economics? Still waiting...
The people are asking for Apple to provide "parental-control" software so that parents can, well, parent.
I get that and that's fine. But don't spew your propaganda that "phones are addictive". That's not your place to make that claim. Make the phones, write the software, but don't preach. Let me be the parent of my own kid. I don't need you to think for me. If I want to use a tool for parenting, I will. If I don't think it's necessary, I won't use it. My kids, my choice.
All they're saying is that the phones should have better parental controls, which is a perfectly reasonable thing.
They said "Phones are addictive" therefore "Parental Controls". Give parents Parental Controls and let them decide what to do with it. You, the phone manufacturer, are not the fucking parent!
Oh think of the children! We should:
- Address profanity in music by censorship (Tipper Gore)
- Address video game addiction (think World of Warcraft)
- Address violence in video games because it's causing crime to increase
- And now... TADA! Phone addiction
These so-called "values groups" do the same thing every now and then. They claim X is going to ruin society and some overarching entity needs to intervene and forcefully make people "behave appropriately".
This claim has been made again and again and again and every prediction of society turning into a bunch of lazy, dangerous degenerates proves to be false because it's not supported by any evidence. Get off your high horse and worry about yourself instead of thinking yourself superior and others being too stupid to think for themselves thus needing you to think for them.
Mesh network = network topology, web = HTTP, the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol which is at a completely different level of the OSI model. Why is this drivel on slashdot? It's complete nonsense. Aren't the editors supposed to have some understanding of the internet?
Your facts where fucking wrong. So wrong in fact, you had to repost and correct yourself.
Balls in your court Homey D. Clown.
Negative. AMD did not create their own chip designs until 1996. That's a fact. They were making cheaper version's of Intel's chips and had licensing agreements all described in the article I posted. My balls in your face AC troll. Wiggle wiggle.
zifn4b proclaimed:
Facebook is the ultimate time waster. You've exceeded everyone's expectations in that regard. Nothing left to do there.
FTFY:
Social media is the ultimate time waster.
Indeed. But if there were a Gartner Magic Quadrant for such a thing I think you'd find Facebook is the market leader closely trailed by some of the others you mentioned lol. The point of my post was in the context of the article which was specifically about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg and the phoney baloney spin that came out of his mouth.