No need for "big data" for that. Single store data is enough.
Buying stuff with credit card (or in-store discount card that's linked to your person or so) this more than enough. All they have to do is record all MAC addresses of people in the shop when you make our purchase, and link those to your credit card. Next time you go there again, they do the same, and eliminate all non-duplicate addresses. Good chance they end up with just yours. If not, the third time will likely do. The chance that some random person is in the same shop the same time is small.
And if after three purchases they have two MAC addresses linked to your credit card, then the other is very likely your spouse. Make a purchase alone, and that part is settled too plus they have a link between you and your spouse. Same trick to get to your spouse's name of course.
Why does shopping (and everything else) have to be an "experience" these days? Can't I just go buy my food and be done with it? No need for any fancy "experience" there.
They deliberately keep all their stuff outside the US. The DMCA is a US internal affair.
It's quite sickening that the US considers their laws and regulations to apply to the rest of the world, so much that even people with no links to the US consider themselves bound by those laws.
And then I don't have the feeling that the US government is a prime example of a government that takes care of its people well - of course the people living under that government generally prefer not to be taken care of ("we need guns to protect ourselves from the government" is an oft-heard sentiment).
Indeed obesity is a major issue in the US. Worse so than in (most of) the rest of the world. Always makes me wonder why that's so much more a problem over there, than in most of the rest of the developed world where food is just as available. And as you imply, sports are a major part of US culture.
Healthy people do not just pay more taxes (which is a nice side effect, but then far from everyone pays taxes), they cost a lot less in the long run on health care. Which is the main reason many governments try to stop people from smoking, for example. And which is one of the reasons they promote sports and general exercise.
And I thought a large part of the attractive of the Pi is that it is so damn small, so you can much easier build it into something to do whatever useful tasks you can think of it to do.
But the quickest route to Paris is now over land, not water.
But the cheapest way is still to ship things by ship, not plane or rail.
The main reason not much international trade is done by rail (which could be rather cheap, actually) is the transit of other countries. Customs regulations are a bitch, and cargo has to be imported and exported time and again. That takes a lot of time and effort, causing delays, and increasing cost. Many countries require import and export licences for cargo even just for transiting in sealed containers. And that's the real killer of rail transport.
Cargo from western Russia (deep inland) is now transported by ship all the way around Europe to get to Hong Kong. The much more direct rail route is simply not an option.
Must be quite low concentrations still, as otherwise they would have certainly known about it before. After all they've been mining bauxite there already, so certainly done a lot more research on that specific mud than on most of the rest of the mud on Earth.
I don't know exactly how it works (it's far too complex for a layman to understand well), but afaik most European laws have to be implemented in every single country before they become valid there, and as a result there are diffences between countries. European laws do not necessarily trump local laws, especially when it concerns local issues, like this warranty case.
Even then, Belgium and Italy are fully independent judiciaries. What is law in Italy is not necessarily law in Belgium. Though of course with the EU slowly but surely laws in the various member countries are getting aligned.
A much better expression would be "a similar case".
Nevertheless, court cases are sometimes filed to test or clarify the law in those jurisdictions. If a court rules one way in one case, it will likely rule the same way in a highly similar case.
That's about the "sign up" part that you left out of your quote.
You can still sign up and use it for free. Just some functions you have to pay for. Oh well, it's not that Facebook is essential for connecting to people. It's convenient, but by no means essential.
Facebook is known to not delete anything. In Europe people have been requesting all the info Facebook has about them - and also found many comments they thought they deleted to still be present.
Nokia is only considered if you have already decided to buy a WinMo phone - and even that may be shaky due to Microsoft invalidating the entire current Lumia line shortly after release by making WinMo 8 incompatible with existing devices (apparently without telling Nokia how to make compatible ones before launching the OS) and making WinMo 8 apps incompatible with WinMo 7, making Nokia's smartphone unit stuck with nothing but futureless legacy phones for the second time in two years. I can imagine that even people who consciously bought a Lumia in 2010/11 would be wary about WinMo and/or Nokia after that.
It sounds like MS is actively trying to destroy Nokia. Their only significant partner when it comes to Windows Mobile devices. Now of course MS is not known to play nice with other companies in general, this sound like downright stupidity from MS's side. They need Nokia as much as Nokia needs them, provided they want to give Windows Mobile at least a fighting chance against juggernaut Android.
TV makers are mostly losing massive amounts of money, so they are desperate for the next big thing, 3D wasn't it, and likely this won't be it either.
I really wonder what this Next Big Thing can possibly be.
We had: 1) the TV. 2) the colour TV. 3) the VCR. 4) the DVD. 5) HDTV (broadcast and BluRay players).
On the TV itself: resolution is most definitely good enough, not much to win there any more. Like BluRay over DVD was incremental only, compared to DVD over VHS.
Distribution is the only possible place for serious improvement, by getting proper, legal, Internet distribution. But not much progress is being made there.
Content quality is pretty much as good as it can possibly get, as current 1080p at recommended viewing distance or more is already "retina" quality. This 1080p is being distributed rather efficiently over the air (digital terrestrial TV), by cable or by BluRay disks. And on the various torrent sites you can find loads of 1080p quality video as well.
3D is of course still in the running, but the current solutions are not working really well. But you never know what the future will bring.
HDTV existed for many years before we actually got it. I recall from decades ago that there was talk about upgrading TV resolution, and then you're talking CRT displays as flat screens as we have them now simply didn't exist. That was late 1980s, early 1990s.
It never took off, mostly due to the huge cost of equipment involved.
4k may or may not become reality in the future, at the moment it is simply way too expensive to be worth it for the vast majority of the people. 8k is even worse in that respect. 1080p is good enough. We don't even have a media distribution system for those higher resolution, BluRay is as good as it gets (Internet distribution just doesn't count at the moment, and that's not because of bandwidth issues, which have been solved all over the world except maybe for the US and other developing countries).
Another issue is that to be able to see the higher resolution, the displays have to get bigger and bigger. As living rooms do not get any larger, there is a definite upper limit to how big those screens can get. Bigger screen will also mean higher cost, for the simple reason it's more material, more work, etc to make a big screen than a small screen.
Of course, it's a troll: BSD is dying. But this one settles it once and for all.
After all, BSD can only run on a lowly toaster, now Android totally eclipses them by running on an oven! I don't think BSD can ever recover from such a smack in the face.
It's generally not a good idea to wilfully destroy other people's property (such cards normally remain the property of the issuer - not the wearer). Tinfoil pouch is a better solution. Probably available in transparent versions too, if that's an issue.
The really insane part is that you can not go to China, buy a couple hundred copies (at $5 retail price), carry them to the US, and sell them here (at say $100 a pop). Fully legal copies, original packing, original license key, etc. Somehow they suddenly lose validity it seems. And somehow if it is for own use (e.g. people carrying laptops with a copy of Windows on it) there is no problem. It's just weird.
Without online services you have what? Bars, work, church? Even then you have to hope for good timing and the geographical range is limited.
Limited geographical range is generally an advantage. Especially at the start of a relationship, making it much easier to go out dating together without having to travel for hours. Makes it so much more spontaneous. Long distance relations while they can work out (I for one moved some 10,000 km - I'd say that qualifies as long distance relation) are much harder to maintain if there is no way for the parties to move together. After all many people are quite settled at their location (just having a job can make people pretty immobile).
That requires a network connection. Not every home has an Internet connection, and many that have, do not have easy facilities to connect a visitor's computer to the Internet. And as this is set in the US, I wouldn't consider mobile (3G, 4G data) coverage a given either. So VPN is not an option.
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No need for "big data" for that. Single store data is enough.
Buying stuff with credit card (or in-store discount card that's linked to your person or so) this more than enough. All they have to do is record all MAC addresses of people in the shop when you make our purchase, and link those to your credit card. Next time you go there again, they do the same, and eliminate all non-duplicate addresses. Good chance they end up with just yours. If not, the third time will likely do. The chance that some random person is in the same shop the same time is small.
And if after three purchases they have two MAC addresses linked to your credit card, then the other is very likely your spouse. Make a purchase alone, and that part is settled too plus they have a link between you and your spouse. Same trick to get to your spouse's name of course.
Why does shopping (and everything else) have to be an "experience" these days? Can't I just go buy my food and be done with it? No need for any fancy "experience" there.
They deliberately keep all their stuff outside the US. The DMCA is a US internal affair.
It's quite sickening that the US considers their laws and regulations to apply to the rest of the world, so much that even people with no links to the US consider themselves bound by those laws.
Indeed, I'm not.
And then I don't have the feeling that the US government is a prime example of a government that takes care of its people well - of course the people living under that government generally prefer not to be taken care of ("we need guns to protect ourselves from the government" is an oft-heard sentiment).
Indeed obesity is a major issue in the US. Worse so than in (most of) the rest of the world. Always makes me wonder why that's so much more a problem over there, than in most of the rest of the developed world where food is just as available. And as you imply, sports are a major part of US culture.
Healthy people do not just pay more taxes (which is a nice side effect, but then far from everyone pays taxes), they cost a lot less in the long run on health care. Which is the main reason many governments try to stop people from smoking, for example. And which is one of the reasons they promote sports and general exercise.
And I thought a large part of the attractive of the Pi is that it is so damn small, so you can much easier build it into something to do whatever useful tasks you can think of it to do.
But the quickest route to Paris is now over land, not water.
But the cheapest way is still to ship things by ship, not plane or rail.
The main reason not much international trade is done by rail (which could be rather cheap, actually) is the transit of other countries. Customs regulations are a bitch, and cargo has to be imported and exported time and again. That takes a lot of time and effort, causing delays, and increasing cost. Many countries require import and export licences for cargo even just for transiting in sealed containers. And that's the real killer of rail transport.
Cargo from western Russia (deep inland) is now transported by ship all the way around Europe to get to Hong Kong. The much more direct rail route is simply not an option.
Must be quite low concentrations still, as otherwise they would have certainly known about it before. After all they've been mining bauxite there already, so certainly done a lot more research on that specific mud than on most of the rest of the mud on Earth.
No need for courts.
Megaupload is down; mission accomplished.
You can't compare it like that.
I don't know exactly how it works (it's far too complex for a layman to understand well), but afaik most European laws have to be implemented in every single country before they become valid there, and as a result there are diffences between countries. European laws do not necessarily trump local laws, especially when it concerns local issues, like this warranty case.
Even then, Belgium and Italy are fully independent judiciaries. What is law in Italy is not necessarily law in Belgium. Though of course with the EU slowly but surely laws in the various member countries are getting aligned.
A much better expression would be "a similar case".
Nevertheless, court cases are sometimes filed to test or clarify the law in those jurisdictions. If a court rules one way in one case, it will likely rule the same way in a highly similar case.
For most of Facebook users that whole US constitution thing is something foreign anyway.
That's about the "sign up" part that you left out of your quote.
You can still sign up and use it for free. Just some functions you have to pay for. Oh well, it's not that Facebook is essential for connecting to people. It's convenient, but by no means essential.
Facebook is known to not delete anything. In Europe people have been requesting all the info Facebook has about them - and also found many comments they thought they deleted to still be present.
What Facebook calls "delete" merely means "hide".
Those two are not mutually exclusive.
It just means that the rest is even worse. At least Facebook has something that's essential for a social network: users, and heaps of it.
Nokia is only considered if you have already decided to buy a WinMo phone - and even that may be shaky due to Microsoft invalidating the entire current Lumia line shortly after release by making WinMo 8 incompatible with existing devices (apparently without telling Nokia how to make compatible ones before launching the OS) and making WinMo 8 apps incompatible with WinMo 7, making Nokia's smartphone unit stuck with nothing but futureless legacy phones for the second time in two years. I can imagine that even people who consciously bought a Lumia in 2010/11 would be wary about WinMo and/or Nokia after that.
It sounds like MS is actively trying to destroy Nokia. Their only significant partner when it comes to Windows Mobile devices. Now of course MS is not known to play nice with other companies in general, this sound like downright stupidity from MS's side. They need Nokia as much as Nokia needs them, provided they want to give Windows Mobile at least a fighting chance against juggernaut Android.
TV makers are mostly losing massive amounts of money, so they are desperate for the next big thing, 3D wasn't it, and likely this won't be it either.
I really wonder what this Next Big Thing can possibly be.
We had: 1) the TV. 2) the colour TV. 3) the VCR. 4) the DVD. 5) HDTV (broadcast and BluRay players).
On the TV itself: resolution is most definitely good enough, not much to win there any more. Like BluRay over DVD was incremental only, compared to DVD over VHS.
Distribution is the only possible place for serious improvement, by getting proper, legal, Internet distribution. But not much progress is being made there.
Content quality is pretty much as good as it can possibly get, as current 1080p at recommended viewing distance or more is already "retina" quality. This 1080p is being distributed rather efficiently over the air (digital terrestrial TV), by cable or by BluRay disks. And on the various torrent sites you can find loads of 1080p quality video as well.
3D is of course still in the running, but the current solutions are not working really well. But you never know what the future will bring.
HDTV existed for many years before we actually got it. I recall from decades ago that there was talk about upgrading TV resolution, and then you're talking CRT displays as flat screens as we have them now simply didn't exist. That was late 1980s, early 1990s.
It never took off, mostly due to the huge cost of equipment involved.
4k may or may not become reality in the future, at the moment it is simply way too expensive to be worth it for the vast majority of the people. 8k is even worse in that respect. 1080p is good enough. We don't even have a media distribution system for those higher resolution, BluRay is as good as it gets (Internet distribution just doesn't count at the moment, and that's not because of bandwidth issues, which have been solved all over the world except maybe for the US and other developing countries).
Another issue is that to be able to see the higher resolution, the displays have to get bigger and bigger. As living rooms do not get any larger, there is a definite upper limit to how big those screens can get. Bigger screen will also mean higher cost, for the simple reason it's more material, more work, etc to make a big screen than a small screen.
Of course, it's a troll: BSD is dying. But this one settles it once and for all.
After all, BSD can only run on a lowly toaster, now Android totally eclipses them by running on an oven! I don't think BSD can ever recover from such a smack in the face.
You don't have to wear those visibly. It seems the tags in question are to be worn, not just carried around in a wallet or so.
It's generally not a good idea to wilfully destroy other people's property (such cards normally remain the property of the issuer - not the wearer). Tinfoil pouch is a better solution. Probably available in transparent versions too, if that's an issue.
A tin-foil lined pouch should take care of that.
And for on-campus use maybe a transparent conductive pouch, to have it visible, but only electronically readable when the wearer allows it to.
The really insane part is that you can not go to China, buy a couple hundred copies (at $5 retail price), carry them to the US, and sell them here (at say $100 a pop). Fully legal copies, original packing, original license key, etc. Somehow they suddenly lose validity it seems. And somehow if it is for own use (e.g. people carrying laptops with a copy of Windows on it) there is no problem. It's just weird.
Without online services you have what? Bars, work, church? Even then you have to hope for good timing and the geographical range is limited.
Limited geographical range is generally an advantage. Especially at the start of a relationship, making it much easier to go out dating together without having to travel for hours. Makes it so much more spontaneous. Long distance relations while they can work out (I for one moved some 10,000 km - I'd say that qualifies as long distance relation) are much harder to maintain if there is no way for the parties to move together. After all many people are quite settled at their location (just having a job can make people pretty immobile).
That requires a network connection. Not every home has an Internet connection, and many that have, do not have easy facilities to connect a visitor's computer to the Internet. And as this is set in the US, I wouldn't consider mobile (3G, 4G data) coverage a given either. So VPN is not an option.