Annoyingly, it will also do this for unqualified local names also if the website is down. So if there's a problem with a local app, you get redirected and you can't even F5 until it comes up. Not to mention, as you say, the potential for broadcasting private information to the local web.
I sympathize with that somewhat and have some misgivings about them myself but for me, they haven't actually crossed the line yet. I'd be most happy for someone else to come along and kick their arse, however.
It's a problem. I have a piece of luggage (quality, has last me many years) which would be possible to lock accidentally very easily. Also leaving it unlocked means the latch could pop easily and get broken off. It's annoying.
Not necessarily. The biggest problem with the Tesla currently is lack of charging stations. So anything that can be done to improve that is good for Tesla in a "rising tide lifts all boats" kind of way.
Yeah, but at least Paypal is a meth-head who is well known to you and, for many of us, not actually ever done us any harm. Using your credit card directly is like dealing with a different meth-head every day.
Seems like the environment would cause evolution of features to suit the environment then sexual selection would tend to exaggerate those features with an equilibrium somewhere between the two (If those long tailfeathers are causing you to get caught and eaten before you can reproduce, that's a net negative).
That's largely the point. Microsoft use non-core improvements to drive OS upgrades even when the only reason that those features don't run on older OSs is due to something as trivial as an OS check. Indeed, many people have been successful in backporting stuff from one version of Windows to another even though that's not supported by Microsoft.
This leads to all sorts of problems when people are dependent on features or bugs from that old OS and all sorts of problems for Microsoft as they try and carry those features and bugs forward into their new OSs to maintain compatibility.
Software should only be limited to OS by technical requirements, not marketing requirements.
And I'm not really so certain of the value of some of those other degrees anymore anyway (being holder of one myself). Certainly I could probably have gone down my chosen career path without one and on the whole would likely have been better off. Not that I regret it but in sheer value terms, not a great purchase.
It's a perverse incentive really though and attracts the kind of people who aren't confident they will continue to provide value (or just want to reach a stage when they don't want to have to bother)
You have to consider the source. Which is a group that profits from people going through the PhD mill. The aim is not to improve opportunities but to keep the wheels turning and the money coming in. If the degree you offer is less useful, you have to make it easier to get to keep the chumps coming in.
No, the solution to a worthless degree is to make it easier to get. Most (not all) people only take these things because they're an easy option. As the value drops, you have to adjust the effort/reward equation.
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Yeah. Sounds fairly easy. Could even be done with a mobile hotspot making it very hard to catch.
I was wondering about this also. It depends if the authentication is via the WIFI connection or a guardian webpage.
Yep. Heard reports of it in these parts (Tennessee) a few days ago. I have Comcast but I also have my own modem and router.
local web->public web.
Annoyingly, it will also do this for unqualified local names also if the website is down. So if there's a problem with a local app, you get redirected and you can't even F5 until it comes up. Not to mention, as you say, the potential for broadcasting private information to the local web.
Broken by design.
.com is .king.
There is a .us domain. .com has just about become multinational now anyway.
Though you are absolutely correct that it's a mess.
I sympathize with that somewhat and have some misgivings about them myself but for me, they haven't actually crossed the line yet. I'd be most happy for someone else to come along and kick their arse, however.
Doesn't matter. My Karma is so huge they stopped counting years ago. Sometimes you just gotta roll with it.
It's a problem. I have a piece of luggage (quality, has last me many years) which would be possible to lock accidentally very easily. Also leaving it unlocked means the latch could pop easily and get broken off. It's annoying.
Yeah, but from what I see in the movies, that's only if you're in the Russian military, serving under a megalomaniac commander.
Not necessarily. The biggest problem with the Tesla currently is lack of charging stations. So anything that can be done to improve that is good for Tesla in a "rising tide lifts all boats" kind of way.
Yeah, but at least Paypal is a meth-head who is well known to you and, for many of us, not actually ever done us any harm. Using your credit card directly is like dealing with a different meth-head every day.
Still, Bitcoin is coming so chin-up.
If I had mod points, you'd be down 1 for not doing that in Yoda voice.
That's the password on my luggage.
Don't forget battery life also. Abysmal.
I don't know why Netflix don't do this. The stream is encrypted anyway.
Actually I do know why they don't do it. The content producers, of course. I guess people will just continue to do their own thing.
Seems like the environment would cause evolution of features to suit the environment then sexual selection would tend to exaggerate those features with an equilibrium somewhere between the two (If those long tailfeathers are causing you to get caught and eaten before you can reproduce, that's a net negative).
That's largely the point. Microsoft use non-core improvements to drive OS upgrades even when the only reason that those features don't run on older OSs is due to something as trivial as an OS check. Indeed, many people have been successful in backporting stuff from one version of Windows to another even though that's not supported by Microsoft.
This leads to all sorts of problems when people are dependent on features or bugs from that old OS and all sorts of problems for Microsoft as they try and carry those features and bugs forward into their new OSs to maintain compatibility.
Software should only be limited to OS by technical requirements, not marketing requirements.
And, of course, these are unavailable on 7 for purely technical reasons.
Yep, it's kind-of a downward spiral.
And I'm not really so certain of the value of some of those other degrees anymore anyway (being holder of one myself). Certainly I could probably have gone down my chosen career path without one and on the whole would likely have been better off. Not that I regret it but in sheer value terms, not a great purchase.
It's a perverse incentive really though and attracts the kind of people who aren't confident they will continue to provide value (or just want to reach a stage when they don't want to have to bother)
You have to consider the source. Which is a group that profits from people going through the PhD mill. The aim is not to improve opportunities but to keep the wheels turning and the money coming in. If the degree you offer is less useful, you have to make it easier to get to keep the chumps coming in.
Tenure should be viewed as a bonus or a nice reward, not a career goal.
No, the solution to a worthless degree is to make it easier to get. Most (not all) people only take these things because they're an easy option. As the value drops, you have to adjust the effort/reward equation.