I can't actually decide which is worse. My hatred of Snapchat makes me want Facebook to crush them. But my hatred of privacy-killing Facebook makes me want them to fail just as much. Why can't any of these hot, new companies push open protocols and interoperating standards?
I almost feel sorry for them. This is like a religion-levels of self-delusion here. Why they cannot simply accept that their industry is dead is beyond me. I just hope they don't take all of their great productions down with them.
Uh, no, you're not. When you pay a ticket, you are pleading guilty and accepting the predetermined fine as punishment. You have every right to plead innocent and fight your case. Citations get reversed all the time. Are you really that ignorant of the law?
You are completely misunderstanding what they are talking about. It has nothing to do with the length of the yellow light, it's the time *after* the light has turned from yellow to red during which they won't issue you a citation if you enter the intersection.
No, dumbass, by that point you have *already* committed the crime of reckless driving. So go through the intersection and get your well-deserved punishment.
Neither this article nor the study's abstract lists any clear motivation for this change. What is the reasoning? "Ensuring the program’s fairness" implies that the study found it to be unfair currently, yet I see no evidence of that. What does "giving the benefit of the doubt to well-intentioned drivers" even mean? If anything, it seems like they should increase the time of yellow lights by 0.3 seconds instead. It will have the same effect—preventing the ticketing of individuals who legitimately entered an intersection when the light was yellow—but not send the message that there is a margin of error during which breaking the law is somehow acceptable. I just don't understand this.
Now, if cases in the.1-.3s range were being fought in court and costing the city more money than they were bringing in, that I could understand. But a $17 million loss? What?
I really wish we had traffic cameras (red light and speed) in Minneapolis. It's just ridiculous what people get away with. These people do not deserve to live happy lives.
I didn't see any of the reviews or even know people thought it was bad until well after I saw Batman vs. Superman and saw for myself what a pile of garbage it is.
Downloading eBooks (or anything else) isn't illegal. *Distributing* them is, without the proper permission/license. It's the person who is sharing who is at fault, not the receiver. Don't let the corporate IP police fool or scare you. I support every author who sells directly to consumers. I will not support giant publishing corporations who screw over authors as a routine order of business.
Where is SMS expensive? How do you define "most countries?" I refused to use SMS in the U.S. for many years because of the absurd charges, but now it's impossible to even get a line from any provider without unlimited SMS/MMS included. The same seems to be true in Europe. I also spent a lot of time in Argentina on a pre-paid SIM where I believe messages were all of $.01 (thats ARS, not USD!). This is a silly thing to say.
Uh, what? "Instant messaging" and "secure lines" are not directly related to each other in any way. There are all kinds of competing, secure IM solutions out there right now as well.
You don't know what you're talking about. Pidgin didn't "suck" at all. It served its purpose extremely well in its day. Especially considering the fact that most of these protocols needed to be reverse-engineered. As someone who used it for the good part of a decade, it worked well, always saved my messages (if I told it to), etc. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
It worked quite well. Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, and undoubtedly more built their entire chat platforms on top of it. The issue was a lack of standardization and federation between "competitors." That won't change until we start getting our IM services from a third party the same way we do with email. RCS is a great step in the right direction, but I hate that it is still tied to a phone number. The comic also leaves out the mess with iChat and all the fruit-lovers who don't even understand that it's yet another IM platform.
The awful thing is that we went through this problem once before, with AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc. and they actually *were* starting to interoperate. A wealth of multi-protocol IM applications emerged (RIP Pidgin), and for a while, everything was actually pretty good. Then suddenly mobile apps changed all that. I don't really understand it. I curse everyone who uses WhatsApp, kik, snapchat, every other stupid, new chat platform for contributing to this problem. These applications perform one very simple task. They aren't innovating--not really. In this case, increased competition isn't accomplishing anything positive. It's time to dump these products. Sadly, the millennial generation just doesn't give a fuck, they will flock to whatever is new and shiny.
Cops should not have access to disable their cameras during working hours. Either a central server needs to have their work schedules loaded to automatically turn the cameras on, or they should have to "punch in" to turn them on when they start their shifts. This is just a sacrifice of privacy we must *make* them accept, if they want to do this extremely privileged job. We can't keep pretending like it's a normal job and entitled to the same protections as people in other fields.
That is a little unreasonable. I do think people should have to pass the exact same naturalization exams as any immigrant before they are made citizens and allowed to vote.
Why do we want to save these people, again? I guess they could potentially cause a lot of damage to vehicles that it would be nice to avoid. Their elimination from society very well may be worth the cost, however.
People on slow connections like satellite make up such a ridiculously small percentage of the market that it makes no sense to optimize or create functionality for them. Most people's mobile connections are faster than their home broadband these days. There are plenty of extensions out there to help you on a slow connection, click-to-load images, etc. but ultimately it's just the nature of the beast. We aren't downloading web pages, we are downloading entire applications that we are running through our browser virtual machines. Slow-connection functionality shouldn't be added to mainline browsers--they should be focused entirely on speed and efficiency. Browser extensions are the best solution.
> the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km
What? How does this make any sense? I could definitely believe it caused a fuel savings, but not a *distance* savings. Surely an ideal algorithm wouldn't be as simple as merely "no left turns," and take traffic as well as distance, fuel consumption, etc. into account.
Maybe I'm just bad at multi-tasking, but as a software engineer, I simply can't listen to podcasts and get any work done at the same time. Typically this means I just stop listening to the podcast entirely and it's over before I even realise I've stopped listening. If the podcast is particularly good, then I don't get any work done. I still feel antsy while listening if I'm not doing anything else at the same time, though. How do you all manage to listen and work at the same time?
Every tech conference I've gone to has been worthless. I'm not one of these extroverted assholes that talks to strangers and enjoys "networking." I want to go for the talks, but rarely have these talks ever been at or beyond my level, meaning they are boring and redundant for me. I don't claim to be a tech genius or anything, but I find the talks are typically aimed at an extremely novice level.
Honestly, I feel like the whole thing is a racket, designed to get a free trip out of employers, from the presenters, exhibitors, and employees themselves. Not to mention the companies that put these up typically make quite a lot of money from them. And of course I can appreciate the chance to travel and see some place new, but that's really not a good return on an employer's investment at all.
Because our beloved Xposed framework is still not compatible with Android 7.0+ (Currently at version 7.1.1), so-called "custom ROMs" are our only saving grace. Google has taken the absolutely backward approach of trying to discourage this practice through things like image-based updates, huge warnings when a bootloader is unlocked, etc. It's ridiculous. A phone is no different from a laptop, and should have no more restrictions.
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I can't actually decide which is worse. My hatred of Snapchat makes me want Facebook to crush them. But my hatred of privacy-killing Facebook makes me want them to fail just as much. Why can't any of these hot, new companies push open protocols and interoperating standards?
I almost feel sorry for them. This is like a religion-levels of self-delusion here. Why they cannot simply accept that their industry is dead is beyond me. I just hope they don't take all of their great productions down with them.
Uh, no, you're not. When you pay a ticket, you are pleading guilty and accepting the predetermined fine as punishment. You have every right to plead innocent and fight your case. Citations get reversed all the time. Are you really that ignorant of the law?
You are completely misunderstanding what they are talking about. It has nothing to do with the length of the yellow light, it's the time *after* the light has turned from yellow to red during which they won't issue you a citation if you enter the intersection.
No, dumbass, by that point you have *already* committed the crime of reckless driving. So go through the intersection and get your well-deserved punishment.
Neither this article nor the study's abstract lists any clear motivation for this change. What is the reasoning? "Ensuring the program’s fairness" implies that the study found it to be unfair currently, yet I see no evidence of that. What does "giving the benefit of the doubt to well-intentioned drivers" even mean? If anything, it seems like they should increase the time of yellow lights by 0.3 seconds instead. It will have the same effect—preventing the ticketing of individuals who legitimately entered an intersection when the light was yellow—but not send the message that there is a margin of error during which breaking the law is somehow acceptable. I just don't understand this.
Now, if cases in the .1-.3s range were being fought in court and costing the city more money than they were bringing in, that I could understand. But a $17 million loss? What?
I really wish we had traffic cameras (red light and speed) in Minneapolis. It's just ridiculous what people get away with. These people do not deserve to live happy lives.
I didn't see any of the reviews or even know people thought it was bad until well after I saw Batman vs. Superman and saw for myself what a pile of garbage it is.
A whining movie producer is just pathetic.
"One small step for A MAN."
Downloading eBooks (or anything else) isn't illegal. *Distributing* them is, without the proper permission/license. It's the person who is sharing who is at fault, not the receiver. Don't let the corporate IP police fool or scare you. I support every author who sells directly to consumers. I will not support giant publishing corporations who screw over authors as a routine order of business.
Support self-published authors, people!!
Where is SMS expensive? How do you define "most countries?" I refused to use SMS in the U.S. for many years because of the absurd charges, but now it's impossible to even get a line from any provider without unlimited SMS/MMS included. The same seems to be true in Europe. I also spent a lot of time in Argentina on a pre-paid SIM where I believe messages were all of $.01 (thats ARS, not USD!). This is a silly thing to say.
Uh, what? "Instant messaging" and "secure lines" are not directly related to each other in any way. There are all kinds of competing, secure IM solutions out there right now as well.
You don't know what you're talking about. Pidgin didn't "suck" at all. It served its purpose extremely well in its day. Especially considering the fact that most of these protocols needed to be reverse-engineered. As someone who used it for the good part of a decade, it worked well, always saved my messages (if I told it to), etc. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
It worked quite well. Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, and undoubtedly more built their entire chat platforms on top of it. The issue was a lack of standardization and federation between "competitors." That won't change until we start getting our IM services from a third party the same way we do with email. RCS is a great step in the right direction, but I hate that it is still tied to a phone number. The comic also leaves out the mess with iChat and all the fruit-lovers who don't even understand that it's yet another IM platform.
The awful thing is that we went through this problem once before, with AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc. and they actually *were* starting to interoperate. A wealth of multi-protocol IM applications emerged (RIP Pidgin), and for a while, everything was actually pretty good. Then suddenly mobile apps changed all that. I don't really understand it. I curse everyone who uses WhatsApp, kik, snapchat, every other stupid, new chat platform for contributing to this problem. These applications perform one very simple task. They aren't innovating--not really. In this case, increased competition isn't accomplishing anything positive. It's time to dump these products. Sadly, the millennial generation just doesn't give a fuck, they will flock to whatever is new and shiny.
Cops should not have access to disable their cameras during working hours. Either a central server needs to have their work schedules loaded to automatically turn the cameras on, or they should have to "punch in" to turn them on when they start their shifts. This is just a sacrifice of privacy we must *make* them accept, if they want to do this extremely privileged job. We can't keep pretending like it's a normal job and entitled to the same protections as people in other fields.
The ACLU is right, as usual.
That is a little unreasonable. I do think people should have to pass the exact same naturalization exams as any immigrant before they are made citizens and allowed to vote.
I can't believe they're doing this! What bullshit!
Oh wait, was there an article I was supposed to read? I don't have time for that! I'm just foaming at the mouth about the headline. Carry on.
If they can force you to give them your password, they can just as easily force you to deactivate any kind of "trip mode." This is just silly.
Why do we want to save these people, again? I guess they could potentially cause a lot of damage to vehicles that it would be nice to avoid. Their elimination from society very well may be worth the cost, however.
People on slow connections like satellite make up such a ridiculously small percentage of the market that it makes no sense to optimize or create functionality for them. Most people's mobile connections are faster than their home broadband these days. There are plenty of extensions out there to help you on a slow connection, click-to-load images, etc. but ultimately it's just the nature of the beast. We aren't downloading web pages, we are downloading entire applications that we are running through our browser virtual machines. Slow-connection functionality shouldn't be added to mainline browsers--they should be focused entirely on speed and efficiency. Browser extensions are the best solution.
> despite this usually resulting in longer route
> the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km
What? How does this make any sense? I could definitely believe it caused a fuel savings, but not a *distance* savings. Surely an ideal algorithm wouldn't be as simple as merely "no left turns," and take traffic as well as distance, fuel consumption, etc. into account.
Maybe I'm just bad at multi-tasking, but as a software engineer, I simply can't listen to podcasts and get any work done at the same time. Typically this means I just stop listening to the podcast entirely and it's over before I even realise I've stopped listening. If the podcast is particularly good, then I don't get any work done. I still feel antsy while listening if I'm not doing anything else at the same time, though. How do you all manage to listen and work at the same time?
That's over half a centimetre per second. That's pretty insane, and very scary.
Either use a comma (U.S.) or full stop (Europe) to separate the hundreds place in numbers, not an apostrophe. I have never seen anyone do this before.
Every tech conference I've gone to has been worthless. I'm not one of these extroverted assholes that talks to strangers and enjoys "networking." I want to go for the talks, but rarely have these talks ever been at or beyond my level, meaning they are boring and redundant for me. I don't claim to be a tech genius or anything, but I find the talks are typically aimed at an extremely novice level.
Honestly, I feel like the whole thing is a racket, designed to get a free trip out of employers, from the presenters, exhibitors, and employees themselves. Not to mention the companies that put these up typically make quite a lot of money from them. And of course I can appreciate the chance to travel and see some place new, but that's really not a good return on an employer's investment at all.
Because our beloved Xposed framework is still not compatible with Android 7.0+ (Currently at version 7.1.1), so-called "custom ROMs" are our only saving grace. Google has taken the absolutely backward approach of trying to discourage this practice through things like image-based updates, huge warnings when a bootloader is unlocked, etc. It's ridiculous. A phone is no different from a laptop, and should have no more restrictions.