One of those "smart bags" https://travelmaterobotics.com... is effectively an autonomous vehicle* that homes in on your smart phone and follows you around.
You can make a case for Trek being very racist. All Vulcans are logical and inscrutable and a bit uptight. All Klingons are aggressive and warlike.
Ferengi look and act like a Nazi caricature of Jews.
I.e. in each case races have a well defined trait and all examples of that race seem to share. So I could see why someone who thinks that racial traits dominate over individual ones would like Trek even if Roddenberry would have been appalled by this.
You're confusing races with species.
Do people think I'm racist if I start saying "all gorillas are herbivores?"
And before anyone shouts "what about Miral Paris?", I redirect you to Beefalo.
“a coding error” that saw the ATMs fail to create reports of $10,000+ transactions.
How about ATMs that don't allow you to withdraw or deposit more than $10,000 in cash?
No, I'm guessing that they made transfers between accounts using the ATMs. but shouldn't the reporting be done at a centralized level?
e.g. ATM requests that a service transfers funds, the transfer service is used by all software to access the accounts (online, teller, ATM, phone), and THAT is responsible for logging $10k+ transactions?
But it does bring us to the question of who was on the inside? The scheme wouldn't work if the criminals didn't know that the reports weren't being generated...
Well, at least Canadians mostly know what "Canadian Bacon" is.
Try asking someone in Britain about "English Muffins" and you'll get a blank stare [followed by "Sorry!" and a chat about the rain]
The French call fries "fried potatoes", and they quite likely are from Belgium [am I even allowed to use that word here?]
He could have said "I got a BSO" or something related to Windows, but he didn't. You could replace Windows for any product, (Billy Gates about Mac, Zuckeberg about google... ) and it would have raise laughs as well.
That kind of jokes are not fair play, because the pun has nothing to do with the target, it could be used for any one. I don't think it is funny an edited photo of Donald Trump wearing a diapper, not because I love Donald Trump, but because it is not imaginative. If you are anti-Clinton you could show her wearing a diapper and your supporters will laugh. If you are anti-Pope you can show him wearing a diapper and your supporters will laugh....and go on forever.. those are easy jokes.
In a gas station stops a car and from the car gets out [basket star]. He tells to the gas employee.
- I am [basket star], I forgot my wallet at home, please, let me fill the tank and I will pay you in a few hours the double.
- Well, you look like [basket star], but understand me, I am not sure, I have never met you personally before. Could you do something to probe you are [basket star]?
[basket star] gets a ball from the car and does wonders with it
- Obviously it is you. I'll fill the tank
Another day [music star] stops at the gas station. He tells the gas employee.
- I am [music star], I forgot my wallet at home, please, let me fill the tank and I will pay you in a few hours the double.
- Well, you look like [music star], but understand me, I am not sure, I have never met you personally before. Could you do something to probe you are?
[music star] sings one of his most famous songs.
- Obviously it is you. I'll fill the tank.
Another day Donald Trump stops at the gas station. He tells the gas employee.
- I am Donald Trump, I forgot my wallet at home, please, let me fill the tank and I will pay you in a few hours the double.
- Well, you look like Donald Trump, but understand me, I am not sure, I have never met you personally before. Could you do something to probe you are Donald Trump?
Donald Trump says
- Well, I can't do anything
- Obviously it is you. I'll fill the tank.
Along the years I've heard this joke with different politicians. The joke disappears and reappears after a few years or months with a different politician. It's not a great joke, it is a joker joke.
The fact that they still use Einstein's name in clickbait headlines is tribute to his genius.
When he said "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly" he probably meant "there is no hope of us observing this phenomenon directly", not "there is no hope of ever observing this phenomenon directly"
People observed the sun bending light in 1919 - well inside Einstein's lifetime.
That was fun electronics. Although I did have to go to Radioshack for the books on electronics to actually learn the theory. Must haves were the semiconductor cross reference, component and circuit books, etc.
Ah yes.. remember the Forrest Mims books.
Before the interwebs, Radio Shack was maybe the only place that had them.
Your entomology is mostly correct, the draught part comes from an old English word meaning pull, this refers to the way a keg beer is poured by pumping the handle in long pulls as its a mechanical pump rather than an electric one as seen in modern pubs. English pubs still carry the traditional draught taps for serving real ale.
You used to be able to make emergency calls using an iPhone on the lock screen - it was a button that was part of the "enter your PIN" screen.
Problem: in iOS 9, Apple removed that screen. Now you just get a screen that says "press home to unlock." There is no option to place an emergency call on iPhones any more as they forgot to move that button to the new lock screen. Oops.
I get "press home to unlock" on my iPhone (iOS 10), and the unlock screen has "emergency" down at the bottom-left
A basic income plus a flat income tax with no exceptions creates a centerward pressure toward the middle class. Tax everyone x% of all income no matter what, give everyone x% of the mean income as a tax credit, people who make the mean income see no difference, people who make below it get money, people who make above it pay for that.
Depends what you mean by "income". Capital gains are arguably income (at least passive if not active), but the $ millions a rich investor might earn yearly are only taxed at 20%, whereas many middle-class families are paying 25% on their work income.
Having and using Prime, I can't believe the number of items are shipped UPS but when you track it you find out they dropped it in the US Mail...
Surely it would be cheaper for Amazon to just mail the item themselves.
And when it comes to third party sellers shipping Prime items, all bets are off on how the thing will get to my home.
I do agree this is not a last resort thing for Amazon. They have many regional warehouses and if you are going to fly planes around you may as well fill them with restocking items as well as orders.
I also really hope they do the blimp and drone thing over big cities... I have this vision of ordering a package delivery drone and it flies itself down with just the controller in a box... used? No, pretested for airworthiness.
Its slightly more complicated than that.
UPS partnered with USPS a couple of years back.
Basically UPS handles the "major" part of the package transportation and dropships it from pickup, to the "local post office". USPS then handles delivery for the "last mile" to your home.
USPS did this as a way of supplementing their delivery service since so much was going to UPS/FedEx, by allowing alternative delivery services to take advantage of USPS's last mile infrastructure (to cut their own I suppose).
That said, yeah, if Amazon can just replace UPS for the backhaul part, I'm sure they can lower their costs and/or make mint on transit charges.
But, of course, it's not really "the last mile". My post office is about 10 miles from my house - and that's a suburban area. In rural areas, UPS REALLY likes using
USPS to deliver to the houses.
It's a unique situation, where government would work, provided that they didn't have an oppressive permit process.
Most of the poles and some towers are owned by localities, and most of the remaining poles by government owned utilities. It would just be shifting everything to an easier and national process.
Although I think poles owned by the local government wouldn't be a horrible idea (and as you said they mostly already are), I think being owned by the federal government is a horrible idea. The federal government was never suppose to regulate stuff that goes on inside of the state. The federal government shouldn't be maintaining poles (or roads for that matter). The state and local governments are more than capable of taking care of their own poles. Now if the federal government wanted to mandate that there is open access to them or set certain rental rates I *might* be ok with it but I still think it should be a state level issue and I definitely think that the federal government shouldn't own the poles or really anything inside of the sovereign states.
Good thing the Internet is only limited to my state.
It helps authorities disable your camera so you can't record them kicking your arse onto an encrypted device and/or up to the iCloud....
Maybe. But it is pretty clear that all cell phone (and maybe camera) manufacturers will be forced by the government to license this technology from Apple, and I expect the final version will not work with a separate IR sensor, it will just use the camera lens to capture the "DO NOT FILM" command and act on it. Of course you could cover up the lens, but that defeats the device too. I doubt if you can effectively block the signal that disables the camera and still have enough light to film the cops beating you or your family.
Well, most digital cameras and phone cameras currently have a filter to BLOCK IR light. Allowing IR to pass will affect the color balance of photos.
Still, you could put your own filter (or "hot mirror" which reflects IR light rather than absorbing it) over your phone camera lens.
The Internet was going to kill brick-and-mortar stores.
It didn't.
This one is quite incorrect. There are plenty of brick-and-mortar stores that died due to the Internet.
Before you say "well there are stores that didn't", then I guess I can say "Cancer doesn't kill people since there are a non-zero amount of people that don't die from it"
Or I can say : "There are plenty of brick-and-mortar stores that died due to George W Bush's Presidency."
Disprove, please.
I think it's this never-ending search for new markets and products that will keep Apple a going concern for a very, very long time -
What new products? An iPhone with a bigger screen? Smartphones are like commodity items - you replace them when they break or your contract is up, not
because you MUST HAVE the latest iPhone. Same with iPads, except they don't get replaced till they break. What was that latest greatest product that Apple launched that changed the market? Um... the original iPad?
Republicans who were whipping up a panic over voter fraud and demanding photo IDs to combat this even though study after study had shown that voter fraud is not a huge issue in the US
Next thing you know, they'll want a $20 poll tax each time you vote!
From the article, there were 9 "Bad habits". Only one - "Programming habit No. 7: Breaking out of loops in the middle" could as see as ever making things more efficient. I also think that the article has Programming habit No. 1: Using goto and Programming habit No. 2: Eschewing documentation reversed in priority.
Come to think of it.... goto isn't as bad as bubonic plague.
The US went chip & signature instead of chip & PIN, so the entire change is basically meaningless.
The US chips will be cracked in a matter of a months, maybe a more, and we gain almost nothing.
The chip & PIN system uses PKI and only communicates with the payment transaction system when the authorized user provides the PIN. Sure, you could have a rogue retailer push transactions in excess of what the buyer thought he was paying, but that will be caught and prosecuted swiftly.
The US system has no real authentication of the card user since (a) no one checks the signature to begin with, (b) most users leave an unintelligible scrawl, and (c) no retailer has a full-time handwriting expert on staff.
We finally had a good push to revamp the payment card infrastructure, and they totally blew it.
Not only that, if I put my card in the chip reader rather than just swiping it, seems to take 10 seconds longer. Or twenty seconds, or thirty....
I think in many cases convenience will trump security.
A 3D printed drone that connects to the IoT and has iPhone connectivity with an app that hacks Tesla cars!
A 3D printed drone that connects to the IoT and has iPhone connectivity with an app that hacks Tesla cars and then holds the car hostage until a ransom is paid in bitcoins and, using Stringray, sends the car's phone metadata to the NSA?
Slashdot Mirror
One of those "smart bags" https://travelmaterobotics.com... is effectively an autonomous vehicle* that homes in on your smart phone and follows you around.
I want the kind with the legs.
Oh I dunno.
You can make a case for Trek being very racist. All Vulcans are logical and inscrutable and a bit uptight. All Klingons are aggressive and warlike.
Ferengi look and act like a Nazi caricature of Jews.
I.e. in each case races have a well defined trait and all examples of that race seem to share. So I could see why someone who thinks that racial traits dominate over individual ones would like Trek even if Roddenberry would have been appalled by this.
You're confusing races with species.
Do people think I'm racist if I start saying "all gorillas are herbivores?"
And before anyone shouts "what about Miral Paris?", I redirect you to Beefalo.
“a coding error” that saw the ATMs fail to create reports of $10,000+ transactions.
How about ATMs that don't allow you to withdraw or deposit more than $10,000 in cash?
No, I'm guessing that they made transfers between accounts using the ATMs. but shouldn't the reporting be done at a centralized level?
e.g. ATM requests that a service transfers funds, the transfer service is used by all software to access the accounts (online, teller, ATM, phone), and THAT is responsible for logging $10k+ transactions?
But it does bring us to the question of who was on the inside? The scheme wouldn't work if the criminals didn't know that the reports weren't being generated...
And Canadian bacon!
Well, at least Canadians mostly know what "Canadian Bacon" is.
Try asking someone in Britain about "English Muffins" and you'll get a blank stare [followed by "Sorry!" and a chat about the rain]
The French call fries "fried potatoes", and they quite likely are from Belgium [am I even allowed to use that word here?]
He could have said "I got a BSO" or something related to Windows, but he didn't. You could replace Windows for any product, (Billy Gates about Mac, Zuckeberg about google... ) and it would have raise laughs as well.
That kind of jokes are not fair play, because the pun has nothing to do with the target, it could be used for any one. I don't think it is funny an edited photo of Donald Trump wearing a diapper, not because I love Donald Trump, but because it is not imaginative. If you are anti-Clinton you could show her wearing a diapper and your supporters will laugh. If you are anti-Pope you can show him wearing a diapper and your supporters will laugh....and go on forever.. those are easy jokes.
In a gas station stops a car and from the car gets out [basket star]. He tells to the gas employee. - I am [basket star], I forgot my wallet at home, please, let me fill the tank and I will pay you in a few hours the double. - Well, you look like [basket star], but understand me, I am not sure, I have never met you personally before. Could you do something to probe you are [basket star]? [basket star] gets a ball from the car and does wonders with it - Obviously it is you. I'll fill the tank
Another day [music star] stops at the gas station. He tells the gas employee. - I am [music star], I forgot my wallet at home, please, let me fill the tank and I will pay you in a few hours the double. - Well, you look like [music star], but understand me, I am not sure, I have never met you personally before. Could you do something to probe you are? [music star] sings one of his most famous songs. - Obviously it is you. I'll fill the tank.
Another day Donald Trump stops at the gas station. He tells the gas employee. - I am Donald Trump, I forgot my wallet at home, please, let me fill the tank and I will pay you in a few hours the double. - Well, you look like Donald Trump, but understand me, I am not sure, I have never met you personally before. Could you do something to probe you are Donald Trump? Donald Trump says - Well, I can't do anything - Obviously it is you. I'll fill the tank.
Along the years I've heard this joke with different politicians. The joke disappears and reappears after a few years or months with a different politician. It's not a great joke, it is a joker joke.
What's the joke like in English, I wonder?
The fact that they still use Einstein's name in clickbait headlines is tribute to his genius.
When he said "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly" he probably meant "there is no hope of us observing this phenomenon directly", not "there is no hope of ever observing this phenomenon directly"
People observed the sun bending light in 1919 - well inside Einstein's lifetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And he certainly didn't think that the phenomenon was impossible, as seems to have been reported or implied by much of the media.
That was fun electronics. Although I did have to go to Radioshack for the books on electronics to actually learn the theory. Must haves were the semiconductor cross reference, component and circuit books, etc.
Ah yes.. remember the Forrest Mims books. Before the interwebs, Radio Shack was maybe the only place that had them.
Radio Shack should have been the convenience-store of electronics
But, as has been mentioned, they wouldn't even ring up a sale without full address and phone number.
Reminds me of the Far Side "inconvenience stores"
Your entomology is mostly correct, the draught part comes from an old English word meaning pull, this refers to the way a keg beer is poured by pumping the handle in long pulls as its a mechanical pump rather than an electric one as seen in modern pubs. English pubs still carry the traditional draught taps for serving real ale.
Olig. https://www.xkcd.com/1012/
You do if it's an iPhone.
You used to be able to make emergency calls using an iPhone on the lock screen - it was a button that was part of the "enter your PIN" screen.
Problem: in iOS 9, Apple removed that screen. Now you just get a screen that says "press home to unlock." There is no option to place an emergency call on iPhones any more as they forgot to move that button to the new lock screen. Oops.
I get "press home to unlock" on my iPhone (iOS 10), and the unlock screen has "emergency" down at the bottom-left
All its problems from moving the Home PC to the NT kernel vs the DOS based Windowed Shell that use to be Windows.
Sorry, not right. XP used the NT Kernel. Windows 2000 used the NT Kernel (which is why NT 4.0 was the last "NT" version)
A basic income plus a flat income tax with no exceptions creates a centerward pressure toward the middle class. Tax everyone x% of all income no matter what, give everyone x% of the mean income as a tax credit, people who make the mean income see no difference, people who make below it get money, people who make above it pay for that.
Depends what you mean by "income". Capital gains are arguably income (at least passive if not active), but the $ millions a rich investor might earn yearly are only taxed at 20%, whereas many middle-class families are paying 25% on their work income.
for different modem connection speeds
Having and using Prime, I can't believe the number of items are shipped UPS but when you track it you find out they dropped it in the US Mail... Surely it would be cheaper for Amazon to just mail the item themselves. And when it comes to third party sellers shipping Prime items, all bets are off on how the thing will get to my home. I do agree this is not a last resort thing for Amazon. They have many regional warehouses and if you are going to fly planes around you may as well fill them with restocking items as well as orders.
I also really hope they do the blimp and drone thing over big cities... I have this vision of ordering a package delivery drone and it flies itself down with just the controller in a box... used? No, pretested for airworthiness.
Its slightly more complicated than that. UPS partnered with USPS a couple of years back. Basically UPS handles the "major" part of the package transportation and dropships it from pickup, to the "local post office". USPS then handles delivery for the "last mile" to your home.
USPS did this as a way of supplementing their delivery service since so much was going to UPS/FedEx, by allowing alternative delivery services to take advantage of USPS's last mile infrastructure (to cut their own I suppose).
That said, yeah, if Amazon can just replace UPS for the backhaul part, I'm sure they can lower their costs and/or make mint on transit charges.
But, of course, it's not really "the last mile". My post office is about 10 miles from my house - and that's a suburban area.
In rural areas, UPS REALLY likes using USPS to deliver to the houses.
Like all Alexa, utterly pointless.
Like all "Telephone" products, utterly pointless.
It's a unique situation, where government would work, provided that they didn't have an oppressive permit process.
Most of the poles and some towers are owned by localities, and most of the remaining poles by government owned utilities. It would just be shifting everything to an easier and national process.
Although I think poles owned by the local government wouldn't be a horrible idea (and as you said they mostly already are), I think being owned by the federal government is a horrible idea. The federal government was never suppose to regulate stuff that goes on inside of the state. The federal government shouldn't be maintaining poles (or roads for that matter). The state and local governments are more than capable of taking care of their own poles. Now if the federal government wanted to mandate that there is open access to them or set certain rental rates I *might* be ok with it but I still think it should be a state level issue and I definitely think that the federal government shouldn't own the poles or really anything inside of the sovereign states.
Good thing the Internet is only limited to my state.
It helps authorities disable your camera so you can't record them kicking your arse onto an encrypted device and/or up to the iCloud....
Maybe. But it is pretty clear that all cell phone (and maybe camera) manufacturers will be forced by the government to license this technology from Apple, and I expect the final version will not work with a separate IR sensor, it will just use the camera lens to capture the "DO NOT FILM" command and act on it. Of course you could cover up the lens, but that defeats the device too. I doubt if you can effectively block the signal that disables the camera and still have enough light to film the cops beating you or your family.
Well, most digital cameras and phone cameras currently have a filter to BLOCK IR light. Allowing IR to pass will affect the color balance of photos. Still, you could put your own filter (or "hot mirror" which reflects IR light rather than absorbing it) over your phone camera lens.
The Internet was going to kill brick-and-mortar stores.
It didn't.
This one is quite incorrect. There are plenty of brick-and-mortar stores that died due to the Internet. Before you say "well there are stores that didn't", then I guess I can say "Cancer doesn't kill people since there are a non-zero amount of people that don't die from it"
Or I can say : "There are plenty of brick-and-mortar stores that died due to George W Bush's Presidency."
Disprove, please.
I think it's this never-ending search for new markets and products that will keep Apple a going concern for a very, very long time -
What new products? An iPhone with a bigger screen? Smartphones are like commodity items - you replace them when they break or your contract is up, not because you MUST HAVE the latest iPhone. Same with iPads, except they don't get replaced till they break. What was that latest greatest product that Apple launched that changed the market? Um... the original iPad?
Me: Siri, set an alarm for 1630
Of course it didn't understand. You were trying to do something impossible.
It's 2016 now, you know.
Republicans who were whipping up a panic over voter fraud and demanding photo IDs to combat this even though study after study had shown that voter fraud is not a huge issue in the US
Next thing you know, they'll want a $20 poll tax each time you vote!
I thought they got out of hardware when deployment stopped involving a fork lift
There was this thing called the 5150.....
From the article, there were 9 "Bad habits". Only one - "Programming habit No. 7: Breaking out of loops in the middle" could as see as ever making things more efficient. I also think that the article has Programming habit No. 1: Using goto and Programming habit No. 2: Eschewing documentation reversed in priority.
Come to think of it.... goto isn't as bad as bubonic plague.
The US went chip & signature instead of chip & PIN, so the entire change is basically meaningless.
The US chips will be cracked in a matter of a months, maybe a more, and we gain almost nothing.
The chip & PIN system uses PKI and only communicates with the payment transaction system when the authorized user provides the PIN. Sure, you could have a rogue retailer push transactions in excess of what the buyer thought he was paying, but that will be caught and prosecuted swiftly.
The US system has no real authentication of the card user since (a) no one checks the signature to begin with, (b) most users leave an unintelligible scrawl, and (c) no retailer has a full-time handwriting expert on staff.
We finally had a good push to revamp the payment card infrastructure, and they totally blew it.
Not only that, if I put my card in the chip reader rather than just swiping it, seems to take 10 seconds longer. Or twenty seconds, or thirty.... I think in many cases convenience will trump security.
A 3D printed drone that connects to the IoT and has iPhone connectivity with an app that hacks Tesla cars!
A 3D printed drone that connects to the IoT and has iPhone connectivity with an app that hacks Tesla cars and then holds the car hostage until a ransom is paid in bitcoins and, using Stringray, sends the car's phone metadata to the NSA?