Kind of like in the original 1953 movie "The War of the Worlds", only in reverse. The Martians came and it was the littlest things that destroyed them. I often wondered whether the earthlings sent some germs to Mars to make sure the Martians could never come again because they would be destroyed. Then again, the Martians could develop vaccines against the germs and come again and wipe out Earth's people. On the other hand, the Martians were doomed because of climate change on Mars and Earthlings would be protected by waiting for them to die off and would need to do nothing. And then there's "Mars Attacks"....
I don't think Costa Rica is interested in invading another country nor has it been invaded except by folks enjoying its beaches and mild climate. Not sure how big the police force is but may be no larger than that of a big US city.
A cable box might be worth owning if what went into the box for viewing were of high quality. I'd guess 90% or more of it is junk. We should be able to subscribe to just those 10 to 15 channels we want at a reasonable price. Likely the vast majority of channels would go away, particularly those with commercials.
Colorado, like most states, has complicated tax law and some of it is unique. One thing is the Tax Payer's Bill of Rights,(TABOR) which requires tax revenue for any taxing district (state, county, city/town) to refund revenue in excess of that based on population growth and inflation and may be part of the budget problem this year. The total state budget is ~$27 billion of which somewhere around $75 million is state marijuana tax revenue is expected - ~ 0.28% of revenue - not much in the grand scheme of things. Looking around it seems that TABOR will require the return to taxpayers of something like $350 million. It looks like the Governor and Legislature underestimated revenue and the amount to be returned to us under TABOR, though I'm not completely sure about all this. I may be wrong, but IIRC, the marijuana revenue is supposed to go to K - 12 schools and can't be spent on anything else and cannot be used to replace normal state support for schools. The bottom line is that the arithmetic results in a projected deficit of something like ~$350 million and universities will bear a substantial part of that reduction in spending. These numbers seem to change montly.
This year Colorado, where I live, found they might have an income problem and would need to cut expenses, IIRC,~$350 million. The first thing that come out of the mouth of the governor was support for higher education would be cut to fund the anticipated deficit. That from a Democratic governor, no less. This has been going on for 30 years or more. When I started as an assistant professor many years ago the public university system I started at had state support for its education component at about 70% of its cost. Now it's less than 10%. One way public universities have tried to compensate for the loss of state support is to recruit more and more out of state and foreign students who will pay the much higher non resident tuition. This results in a reduction in the number in qualified in-state students enrolled.
Though it may be apocryphal, the biblical story of Adam and Eve and their sons Cain and Abel may be the writer of Genesis's observation that "violence and conflict have dogged humanity since the start." This is probably not the earliest observation (likely lost to history) about these human characteristics, we also have the Greek tragedies as lessons.
One of the remits of the FDA is to determine if the claims that chemicals in stuff for human use meet the claims of their producers and is not hazardous. If these chemicals put in soap don't kill germs as the makers may claim, then they must be removed from those products. One recent action of the FDA was to remove the claim that use of dental floss improves dental health because there has been no scientific proof by accepted scientific methods that it indeed improves dental health. One published "study" involved one person. IIRC, another study involved 10 people. So, the FDA did what it was supposed to do.
According to one article, the FDA is taking a look at the effectiveness of these sanitizers. The verb sanitize means to clean and some definitions add to sterilize. I don't believe the sterilize bit, particularly for MRSA.
As far as I know, tobacco products won't be banned for at least two reasons: 1- the huge amount of taxes generated for states and the federal government and 2- tobacco companies own enough congress people and state legislators to prevent the ban.
Speaking of Henry Ford - a couple of posts above did - the Ford Motor Company many years ago "automated" it's accounting system that required very low level personnel. It was determined that an average debit statement was for a certain dollar amount and the same for credit documents. They also knew the number of documents in a pound of them. The "accountants" simply weighed stacks of the two kinds of documents to determine their respective values. No computers, no thick books of records (spreadsheets) requiring meticulous data entry, just weigh stacks of sorted papers occasionally to determine income and expenses. Walmart could do the same thing, though it would require a lot of paper.
The first I heard of this theory was a small feature on the broadcast of le Tour de France noting that blue light absorbing glasses were being used by some cyclists in the evening to improve their sleep. Has there been any real science done to prove the notion that reducing blue light before sleep improves sleep? Or is this just junk science?
Perhaps a bit off topic, but I read recently that a US government agency removed the assertion from its data base that the dental flossing improved dental health. The reason was they would only support such assertions if the scientific evidence showed the assertion was true. In the case of dental flossing there were no reliable scientific studies that showed dental flossing improved health. Indeed, they found one "scientific" study that used only one person.
- Have an idea which is sold as being the next big thing.
- Claim to have a great education at one of the great universities and follow on requisite experience needed to build up a company to build the next big thing
- Maybe round up some venture capital or claim to have some VC
- Hire some employees with promises of reasonable income for a startup with the implications that they will become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams in a short time because the idea is the next big thing and have the capital to make it happen since the investors believe it's so
- Some of the employees hired to build the next big thing haven't got a clue how to build the next big thing
- Don't pay the employees, i.e, cheat them out of promised pay, relocation expenses, etc.
- Fire the employees who ask why they haven't been paid
- Close the company
- If there was any venture capital, keep it and hide it somewhere
As was once said, perhaps in the investigation of the Watergate scandal, follow the money. That's how we'll find our who was involved and what happened.
Presumably the OP has his pics on the SDs used in the cameras that took the shots. That is, unless the SDs were reformatted and used again. Many folks I know just buy new SD cards and retain the old ones as first level storage. Keep them in a fireproof safe or safe deposit box at a bank. After that follow the best practices for backing up including cloud storage.
But don't people inputting data in a spreadsheet read what's entered? It's pretty simple to format cells, a range of cells, blocks of cells to be text, numerical with a format attached, etc. Copy and pasting or moving data around in a spreadsheet can be a bit of problem if you're not paying attention, but as the data is moved around, take a peek at what's shown.
If the phone was purchased on a contract from one of the big 4 carriers you may not be able to do that until the contract expires which might be as long as two years in the future. After that the carrier may be required to provide the proper unlocking code.
Carriers are moving away from contract phone purchases but don't know if outright purchased phones are unlocked but they should be by law.
I have Verizon, and I noticed Go90 on my phone a little while back but didn't even open it because I had no idea what it was. Now that I know what it is I can delete it without worry. Thanks, Slashdot!
About frequent automobile replacements: when I was living in metro Detroit many years ago, J. P. McCarthy had on his noontime radio interview program a high executive of General Motors. Getting to the quick, the guy basically said that cars were being built to last three years so that folks would need a new one every three years. The result is that the car payment would be a permanent part of one's expenses just like the house mortgage payment. Remember, GM had a car financing company, General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) which was a big profit center. We all know what happened to that business plan: non-American car companies, notably from Japan, started building cars that lasted a lot longer than three years. GMAC no longer exists as it became Ally Bank during GM's bankruptcy, though they may have another financing arm now.
By the way, JP was a great interviewer and there's a nice Wikipedia biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I didn't know he had died. RIP JP.
But if it stops working on Android in the future, there's Hangouts that does video calling nicely. Apparently there is no Hangouts for Windows phone but one for iPhone. The fact that Microsoft is killing killing it's own apps for phone tells you something about the future of Windows Phone. It should just be removed from MS's portfolio.
In the US, millions, if not billions, of credit cards are being replaced with chips that have a new expiration date. This means one must contact auto pay creditors of the change. When this happened to me, all but one of my creditors had simple web pages to do that. The one was a VPN provider and I sent a message to their customer service asking how to make this simple change. The response was that I needed to cancel my account with them and start a new account because they could not change the expiration date. I then cancelled my service from them and have a new provider. I've also filled social media about this problem. They're begging me to come back with a big discount. Too bad, guys.
These speeds are for prime time delivery of Netflix's data for July comes in 6th at 3.47 Mbps whereas Verizon, number one, is at 3.61 Mbps. Not much difference. Some caveats here: there can be variations for data travel over intermediate connections, it's prime time. Then again, Netflix produces something like 37% of network traffic during prime time so maybe the numbers are useful.
One problem with Ookla results is that for their speed tests the data between your modem and your ISP's servers likely never leave the ISP's network. That's very unlikely to be the case for general Internet usage.
You mentioned chop shop. I was wondering if the parts of a new Jeep would be saleable soon after stealing unless they work on old Jeeps because new ones shouldn't need new parts. Then again, these are Jeeps. Someone once said that you need two Jeeps: one to drive while the other is in the shop for repairs. Of course the stolen cars could be shipped whole to someplace like Cuba where VINs are not too important.
I'm not sure locking the car will make any difference. My guess is they can hack into the electronic ignition they can hack into the electronic door locks as well.
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And we'll make sure he pays for the probe and ride.
Kind of like in the original 1953 movie "The War of the Worlds", only in reverse. The Martians came and it was the littlest things that destroyed them. I often wondered whether the earthlings sent some germs to Mars to make sure the Martians could never come again because they would be destroyed. Then again, the Martians could develop vaccines against the germs and come again and wipe out Earth's people. On the other hand, the Martians were doomed because of climate change on Mars and Earthlings would be protected by waiting for them to die off and would need to do nothing. And then there's "Mars Attacks" ....
I don't think Costa Rica is interested in invading another country nor has it been invaded except by folks enjoying its beaches and mild climate. Not sure how big the police force is but may be no larger than that of a big US city.
A cable box might be worth owning if what went into the box for viewing were of high quality. I'd guess 90% or more of it is junk. We should be able to subscribe to just those 10 to 15 channels we want at a reasonable price. Likely the vast majority of channels would go away, particularly those with commercials.
Colorado, like most states, has complicated tax law and some of it is unique. One thing is the Tax Payer's Bill of Rights,(TABOR) which requires tax revenue for any taxing district (state, county, city/town) to refund revenue in excess of that based on population growth and inflation and may be part of the budget problem this year. The total state budget is ~$27 billion of which somewhere around $75 million is state marijuana tax revenue is expected - ~ 0.28% of revenue - not much in the grand scheme of things. Looking around it seems that TABOR will require the return to taxpayers of something like $350 million. It looks like the Governor and Legislature underestimated revenue and the amount to be returned to us under TABOR, though I'm not completely sure about all this. I may be wrong, but IIRC, the marijuana revenue is supposed to go to K - 12 schools and can't be spent on anything else and cannot be used to replace normal state support for schools. The bottom line is that the arithmetic results in a projected deficit of something like ~$350 million and universities will bear a substantial part of that reduction in spending. These numbers seem to change montly.
This year Colorado, where I live, found they might have an income problem and would need to cut expenses, IIRC,~$350 million. The first thing that come out of the mouth of the governor was support for higher education would be cut to fund the anticipated deficit. That from a Democratic governor, no less. This has been going on for 30 years or more. When I started as an assistant professor many years ago the public university system I started at had state support for its education component at about 70% of its cost. Now it's less than 10%. One way public universities have tried to compensate for the loss of state support is to recruit more and more out of state and foreign students who will pay the much higher non resident tuition. This results in a reduction in the number in qualified in-state students enrolled.
Though it may be apocryphal, the biblical story of Adam and Eve and their sons Cain and Abel may be the writer of Genesis's observation that "violence and conflict have dogged humanity since the start." This is probably not the earliest observation (likely lost to history) about these human characteristics, we also have the Greek tragedies as lessons.
One of the remits of the FDA is to determine if the claims that chemicals in stuff for human use meet the claims of their producers and is not hazardous. If these chemicals put in soap don't kill germs as the makers may claim, then they must be removed from those products. One recent action of the FDA was to remove the claim that use of dental floss improves dental health because there has been no scientific proof by accepted scientific methods that it indeed improves dental health. One published "study" involved one person. IIRC, another study involved 10 people. So, the FDA did what it was supposed to do.
According to one article, the FDA is taking a look at the effectiveness of these sanitizers. The verb sanitize means to clean and some definitions add to sterilize. I don't believe the sterilize bit, particularly for MRSA.
As far as I know, tobacco products won't be banned for at least two reasons: 1- the huge amount of taxes generated for states and the federal government and 2- tobacco companies own enough congress people and state legislators to prevent the ban.
Speaking of Henry Ford - a couple of posts above did - the Ford Motor Company many years ago "automated" it's accounting system that required very low level personnel. It was determined that an average debit statement was for a certain dollar amount and the same for credit documents. They also knew the number of documents in a pound of them. The "accountants" simply weighed stacks of the two kinds of documents to determine their respective values. No computers, no thick books of records (spreadsheets) requiring meticulous data entry, just weigh stacks of sorted papers occasionally to determine income and expenses. Walmart could do the same thing, though it would require a lot of paper.
The first I heard of this theory was a small feature on the broadcast of le Tour de France noting that blue light absorbing glasses were being used by some cyclists in the evening to improve their sleep. Has there been any real science done to prove the notion that reducing blue light before sleep improves sleep? Or is this just junk science?
Perhaps a bit off topic, but I read recently that a US government agency removed the assertion from its data base that the dental flossing improved dental health. The reason was they would only support such assertions if the scientific evidence showed the assertion was true. In the case of dental flossing there were no reliable scientific studies that showed dental flossing improved health. Indeed, they found one "scientific" study that used only one person.
- Have an idea which is sold as being the next big thing.
- Claim to have a great education at one of the great universities and follow on requisite experience needed to build up a company to build the next big thing
- Maybe round up some venture capital or claim to have some VC
- Hire some employees with promises of reasonable income for a startup with the implications that they will become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams in a short time because the idea is the next big thing and have the capital to make it happen since the investors believe it's so
- Some of the employees hired to build the next big thing haven't got a clue how to build the next big thing
- Don't pay the employees, i.e, cheat them out of promised pay, relocation expenses, etc.
- Fire the employees who ask why they haven't been paid
- Close the company
- If there was any venture capital, keep it and hide it somewhere
As was once said, perhaps in the investigation of the Watergate scandal, follow the money. That's how we'll find our who was involved and what happened.
Ask Bernie Madoff.
Presumably the OP has his pics on the SDs used in the cameras that took the shots. That is, unless the SDs were reformatted and used again. Many folks I know just buy new SD cards and retain the old ones as first level storage. Keep them in a fireproof safe or safe deposit box at a bank. After that follow the best practices for backing up including cloud storage.
But don't people inputting data in a spreadsheet read what's entered? It's pretty simple to format cells, a range of cells, blocks of cells to be text, numerical with a format attached, etc. Copy and pasting or moving data around in a spreadsheet can be a bit of problem if you're not paying attention, but as the data is moved around, take a peek at what's shown.
Similar question: can you root the phone?
If the phone was purchased on a contract from one of the big 4 carriers you may not be able to do that until the contract expires which might be as long as two years in the future. After that the carrier may be required to provide the proper unlocking code.
Carriers are moving away from contract phone purchases but don't know if outright purchased phones are unlocked but they should be by law.
I have Verizon, and I noticed Go90 on my phone a little while back but didn't even open it because I had no idea what it was. Now that I know what it is I can delete it without worry. Thanks, Slashdot!
Ar you sure you can delete the Go90 app?
About frequent automobile replacements: when I was living in metro Detroit many years ago, J. P. McCarthy had on his noontime radio interview program a high executive of General Motors. Getting to the quick, the guy basically said that cars were being built to last three years so that folks would need a new one every three years. The result is that the car payment would be a permanent part of one's expenses just like the house mortgage payment. Remember, GM had a car financing company, General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) which was a big profit center. We all know what happened to that business plan: non-American car companies, notably from Japan, started building cars that lasted a lot longer than three years. GMAC no longer exists as it became Ally Bank during GM's bankruptcy, though they may have another financing arm now.
By the way, JP was a great interviewer and there's a nice Wikipedia biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I didn't know he had died. RIP JP.
In other news, pay TV subscriptions drop 665,000 in the second quarter, 2016
http://www.leichtmanresearch.c...
Maybe many those slow DSL and satellite video subscribers moved to cable companies to get the speed they need for streaming video entertainment.
But if it stops working on Android in the future, there's Hangouts that does video calling nicely. Apparently there is no Hangouts for Windows phone but one for iPhone. The fact that Microsoft is killing killing it's own apps for phone tells you something about the future of Windows Phone. It should just be removed from MS's portfolio.
In the US, millions, if not billions, of credit cards are being replaced with chips that have a new expiration date. This means one must contact auto pay creditors of the change. When this happened to me, all but one of my creditors had simple web pages to do that. The one was a VPN provider and I sent a message to their customer service asking how to make this simple change. The response was that I needed to cancel my account with them and start a new account because they could not change the expiration date. I then cancelled my service from them and have a new provider. I've also filled social media about this problem. They're begging me to come back with a big discount. Too bad, guys.
See: https://ispspeedindex.netflix....
These speeds are for prime time delivery of Netflix's data for July comes in 6th at 3.47 Mbps whereas Verizon, number one, is at 3.61 Mbps. Not much difference. Some caveats here: there can be variations for data travel over intermediate connections, it's prime time. Then again, Netflix produces something like 37% of network traffic during prime time so maybe the numbers are useful.
One problem with Ookla results is that for their speed tests the data between your modem and your ISP's servers likely never leave the ISP's network. That's very unlikely to be the case for general Internet usage.
You mentioned chop shop. I was wondering if the parts of a new Jeep would be saleable soon after stealing unless they work on old Jeeps because new ones shouldn't need new parts. Then again, these are Jeeps. Someone once said that you need two Jeeps: one to drive while the other is in the shop for repairs. Of course the stolen cars could be shipped whole to someplace like Cuba where VINs are not too important.
I'm not sure locking the car will make any difference. My guess is they can hack into the electronic ignition they can hack into the electronic door locks as well.