Sounds like a good idea. Perhaps each country could certify their own brokers, but they'd all be connected through international agreements and treaties. Implement a system for transferring funds, owned and run privately but regulated by those same international agreements. You could call them, I don't know, banks or something.
Great mic drop.
Except for the fact that even as banks, this would do what another bank or two could not - which is to destabilize the central banks' strangelhold and provide competition for the existing oligopoly players.
You don't want a very wealthy tenant - you want one rich enough to pay the bills, poor enough not to be able to lawyer up if you decide to raise their rent or evict.
This is strange advice. You want a *good* tenant, regardless of ability to "lawyer up" and helps if that person has shared connections (as they will be burning more bridges than just with you if they go nuclear).
A good tenant is happy to keep the place clean and is not shady. A more affluent tenant is great because they're more worried about their image and less likely to be forced to sub-sublet the place (AirBnB) or deal drugs/etc.
You have far more candidates if you a) leave a bit on the table and offer good tenants perks like a slightly lower rent and b) verbally or contractually limited rent raises.
This. It's relatively trivial to prevent unauthorized cell phone communications out of prisons. They don't even need jammers, just a ring of femtocells that forward the traffic of whitelisted cell phones, and isolate and triangulate phones with IMEIs not on the whitelist.
This! I mean, this sounds like a fabricated issue when a purely technological issue can be had - they control the airspace around the prison. If someone is out of that airspace/territory and is unauthorized - *you have a bigger problem*.
Is there some legislative or regulatory restriction that prevents prisons from setting up femtocells to capture all IMEI traffic?
Yes because none of them would suffer their whole lives from fetal alcohol syndrome or anything.
Then perhaps all those Republicans who are hellbent on outlawing abortion because it "kills a person" should enact laws to penalize pregnant women who smoke, do drugs, drink excessively or are obese. After all, shouldn't poisoning their "child" for nine straight months count as child endangerment?
My whole family stays connected on one platform - Apple iMessage. We don't use Facebook, and most of us don't watch TV.
I really doubt we're alone. There's too much to do and TV is a waste of time. Occasionally we'll fire up Netflix, but there's the iPads and PCs for that.
Parents need to remember that your kid is learning from your behavior. If you have your nose in your phone and tablet all day every day, you are teaching your kid that that is acceptable behavior. No matter how much you try to restrict their access to it, they are very likely to mimic you in the end. If you use a phone and tablet sparsely and put an emphasis on doing other things, the kid is much more likely to do the same. So, giving them a tablet isn't that huge of a deal so long as you yourself don't have one surgically attached at the hip.
I would add: my kids don't have time to spend on the laptop, they have projects, homework, dinner, bedtime prep - not much time left in the evening to watch.
Families with young children are now more likely to have a subscription video service such as Netflix or Hulu (72%) than they are to have cable TV (65%).
That's because cable TV is shit value for the money. It's (generally) tied to a physical location, requires special hardware to record and view at a time convenient to you (which they charge extra for), has a huge amount of really crappy programming, they refuse to make ala-carte channel selection an option, their streaming options (generally) suck, and it's very expensive. $40/month gets you a very basic selection of channels with not a lot of interesting programming and no archive of content to watch.
In short: Hard to time shift Hard to location shift Expensive Crappy assortment of programming Wall to wall advertisements No archive of content to watch
Is it really any wonder people are dropping cable?
Most of the big cable companies have phone apps now. Xfinity has been pushing advertisements for this on me for a while. They also seem to be working on the time shifting.
That said, most cable channels are terrible value for money.
I've had Comcast, AT&T and Dish and their apps all suck. It's almost like they're laughing at me for trying to use their stuff. They either under provision or have buggy interfaces to weird data issues like a single dropped packet causing the video to stutter or abort.
Netflix handles all of this fine. Bandwidth drop-off? it just gets a bit more pixelated, on the fly. Your home internet down? Just tether it to your phone (I have near-unlimited data) My kids don't watch a lot of TV but when they do it's most likely Netflix (added bonus: many Netflix-originals have audio and subtitles in many languages - this is a boon as my kids get to practice their 2nd language).
Actually, it's moving backwards in a life-critical way. You can safely unlock your iPhone while driving and then tell Siri to do stuff without looking at the screen. With this, to unlock it, you have to look at the screen. So unless Apple convinces people to let Siri always listen (creepy), this is likely to cause a lot of additional traffic accidents that otherwise would not have occurred. They really should have put a touch sensor on the back.
CarPlay is quite good at allowing reasonable access without looking at your screen. My recent car has it - it's quite useful.
If you don't have coverage where you want it then it don't mean shit how fast your network is.
T-Mobile.. I'm looking at you. My house is in a dead spot surrounded by T-Mobile towers.
Just a counter anecdote - my house gets great coverage for T-Mobile whereas Verizon is impossible and AT&T is spotty. I've been in city centers (LV, BOS, NY) where I had signal on TMO LTE while my VZ and ATT coworkers had none.
Driving cross country is about the only place where other networks beat TMO but then again, out of 3 networks we had none driving through southern Oregon.
Lately almost everything sold on amazon is sold by third party and amazon just does warehouse, shipping and billing. a lot of stuff is shipped by the third party as well.
they try to play the game like a common carrier but it won't last for long
Why do you say it won't last long? It's lasted years. You can't buy a real Apple charger on Amazon, 95% of that is fake even though the product description says "made by Apple".
I mean, Apple is the most highly valued company in the world and if they can't take Amazon to task who will?
Bezos controls a newspaper (WaPo). You think the "independent press" is going to fuck with him?
Seriously expect even more of the fake stuff. There's probably stuff you've bought from Amazon that's fake and you don't know it.
I'm listening to streaming music from...our Amazon Echo. Why? Because when I came downstairs to feed the dogs, all I had to say was "Alexa, play my 'Mornings' playlist"
Good for you, let Amazon know everything about you, and let them hear your raw voice data. Me, I know what that would mean in terms of privacy so I'm not going to do it.
Amazon will have it's public creep-mode moment like Uber where we find out how they're dissecting our voice fingerprints. I'm not going to become a statistic there.
Sometimes there are principles worth fighting for -- such as liberty and pursuit of the truth against evil and deception.
A great man once said "Give me liberty, or give me death," and then he died
Wow. Just wow.
So talking about a private company views and works with gender differences is somehow equivalent to fighting for the liberation of a country? What kind of bizarro world do you come from?
Ah. Yeah, that makes a big difference. So ostensibly, this means that if all of the world production were diverted to that purpose, we'd hit full coverage about the same time we started having to replace panels. Well, that's slightly more plausible.:-)
You do realize that "replacement time" for panels just means they're less usable, right? They, like hybrid/electric car batteries still work, just at about 82% efficiency assuming a standard 0.9% yearly degradation rate (newer panels degrade significantly less - like half as much).
How many solar installations exist in the country which are past their "replace" time and are still doing 82+% efficiency? All still pulling in MW.
On the other hand, we have people who are currently subjecting themselves to be lab rats, testing whether we can survive without meat.
You might want to check out the millions (now hundreds of millions) in India who have done fine without meat from before Christ was born. 30-40% of India is vegetarian and has been for much longer than most long-term tests if you open your eyes.
Except industrial chemicals are notorious for causing Cancer and all sorts of other fun stuff.
You think your ranch grown ones fed on hormones, antibiotics and feed-that-isn't-the-natural-diet is free of carcinogens or other harmful substances? You think that nice sizzle on your steak isn't carcinogenic? Enjoy your illusions.
Something like this should never have been set at a national level to begin with. Let states decide what makes sense from a privacy standpoint and then consumers can decide where they want to live based on restrictions they have to liver under making sense or not.
Isn't there a big cost to patchwork of states' policies? It also allows broadband companies to jurisdiction-shop non?
Star Trek was supposed to be a universe where we had CONQUERED all of that bullshit.
But more importantly, it was a setting where he could snog his secretary without his wife getting upset.
Huh. I always thought it was Captian Kirk getting to hook up with all those green alien babes? Then again, it was a show of the 60's. Given all that it was quite a progressive/idealistic universe (IDIC, the lack of importance of money, replicators heralding an abundance economy, etc) - but it wasn't like liberalism/progressive thought is like in the last 20 years at all.
So your comment veers from "do business my way or I'm not going to shop there" to maligning Whole Foods' target audience. Now, I'n not into the "homeopathic" stuff either, but I do enjoy my foods to be organic and I pay for it.
Thanks for the trolling, I'm sure/. is better off for it. Stay with Wal-Mart or Publix looks like you're right in their demographic.
My grocery store doesn't have self-checkout. A number of years ago one of the stores tried it. The machines didn't work right. Apparently it wasn't just me, because they quit offering it and none of the other stores around here tried it.
This was years ago, so maybe the tech wasn't ready, or maybe they just tried to cheap out and got crappy machines. Either way, it left a bad impression on me, and I'm not eager to try it again.
My local store (Raley's) has self-checkout. It's great if you have 1-4 items, none of which require weighing (i.e., groceries). It starts to get annoying if a) you have a cash or a check (never tried the latter - sounds daunting). It is much much slower than a cashier for the vast majority of checkouts.
I usually avoid self-checkout unless I have literally one item.
Its still funny that that myth persists, the whole no pesticides in organic food. Its just flat out wrong. All farmers use pesticides, organic or not
Yes, just that some pesticides are worse than others. According to this article [1], the USDA maintains a list of what's organically approved and what's not. Equating all pesticides is the real myth.
"Organic" (a term I find amusing) as a quality standard makes a lot of sense.
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Sounds like a good idea. Perhaps each country could certify their own brokers, but they'd all be connected through international agreements and treaties. Implement a system for transferring funds, owned and run privately but regulated by those same international agreements. You could call them, I don't know, banks or something.
Great mic drop.
Except for the fact that even as banks, this would do what another bank or two could not - which is to destabilize the central banks' strangelhold and provide competition for the existing oligopoly players.
> No. Voluntary relationships tend to be contractual -- governed by a contract.
It's possible that most employment contracts are considered so one-sided that it's a contract of adhesion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You don't want a very wealthy tenant - you want one rich enough to pay the bills, poor enough not to be able to lawyer up if you decide to raise their rent or evict.
This is strange advice. You want a *good* tenant, regardless of ability to "lawyer up" and helps if that person has shared connections (as they will be burning more bridges than just with you if they go nuclear).
A good tenant is happy to keep the place clean and is not shady. A more affluent tenant is great because they're more worried about their image and less likely to be forced to sub-sublet the place (AirBnB) or deal drugs/etc.
You have far more candidates if you a) leave a bit on the table and offer good tenants perks like a slightly lower rent and b) verbally or contractually limited rent raises.
This. It's relatively trivial to prevent unauthorized cell phone communications out of prisons. They don't even need jammers, just a ring of femtocells that forward the traffic of whitelisted cell phones, and isolate and triangulate phones with IMEIs not on the whitelist.
This!
I mean, this sounds like a fabricated issue when a purely technological issue can be had - they control the airspace around the prison. If someone is out of that airspace/territory and is unauthorized - *you have a bigger problem*.
Is there some legislative or regulatory restriction that prevents prisons from setting up femtocells to capture all IMEI traffic?
I find it bizarre that SPCA has funds for homeless-shooing robots.
TFA sez the robot costs $6/hr to rent. Min wage is $14/hr.
How much does it cost to repair a robot smashed with a baseball bat?
Probably equivalent to the medical costs for a human bashed by same said baseball bat?
Yes because none of them would suffer their whole lives from fetal alcohol syndrome or anything.
Then perhaps all those Republicans who are hellbent on outlawing abortion because it "kills a person" should enact laws to penalize pregnant women who smoke, do drugs, drink excessively or are obese. After all, shouldn't poisoning their "child" for nine straight months count as child endangerment?
You jest, but given this Congress, noone is safe.
Tell that to those who are expecting us to get work done *this* month.
Why not just not upgrade (there's ESR branch) until the situation gets better? Or hell, use Chrome as you likely already do.
My whole family stays connected on one platform - Apple iMessage.
We don't use Facebook, and most of us don't watch TV.
I really doubt we're alone. There's too much to do and TV is a waste of time.
Occasionally we'll fire up Netflix, but there's the iPads and PCs for that.
Parents need to remember that your kid is learning from your behavior. If you have your nose in your phone and tablet all day every day, you are teaching your kid that that is acceptable behavior. No matter how much you try to restrict their access to it, they are very likely to mimic you in the end. If you use a phone and tablet sparsely and put an emphasis on doing other things, the kid is much more likely to do the same. So, giving them a tablet isn't that huge of a deal so long as you yourself don't have one surgically attached at the hip.
I would add: my kids don't have time to spend on the laptop, they have projects, homework, dinner, bedtime prep - not much time left in the evening to watch.
Families with young children are now more likely to have a subscription video service such as Netflix or Hulu (72%) than they are to have cable TV (65%).
That's because cable TV is shit value for the money. It's (generally) tied to a physical location, requires special hardware to record and view at a time convenient to you (which they charge extra for), has a huge amount of really crappy programming, they refuse to make ala-carte channel selection an option, their streaming options (generally) suck, and it's very expensive. $40/month gets you a very basic selection of channels with not a lot of interesting programming and no archive of content to watch.
In short:
Hard to time shift
Hard to location shift
Expensive
Crappy assortment of programming
Wall to wall advertisements
No archive of content to watch
Is it really any wonder people are dropping cable?
Most of the big cable companies have phone apps now. Xfinity has been pushing advertisements for this on me for a while. They also seem to be working on the time shifting.
That said, most cable channels are terrible value for money.
I've had Comcast, AT&T and Dish and their apps all suck. It's almost like they're laughing at me for trying to use their stuff. They either under provision or have buggy interfaces to weird data issues like a single dropped packet causing the video to stutter or abort.
Netflix handles all of this fine. Bandwidth drop-off? it just gets a bit more pixelated, on the fly. Your home internet down? Just tether it to your phone (I have near-unlimited data) My kids don't watch a lot of TV but when they do it's most likely Netflix (added bonus: many Netflix-originals have audio and subtitles in many languages - this is a boon as my kids get to practice their 2nd language).
Actually, it's moving backwards in a life-critical way. You can safely unlock your iPhone while driving and then tell Siri to do stuff without looking at the screen. With this, to unlock it, you have to look at the screen. So unless Apple convinces people to let Siri always listen (creepy), this is likely to cause a lot of additional traffic accidents that otherwise would not have occurred. They really should have put a touch sensor on the back.
CarPlay is quite good at allowing reasonable access without looking at your screen. My recent car has it - it's quite useful.
If you don't have coverage where you want it then it don't mean shit how fast your network is.
T-Mobile .. I'm looking at you. My house is in a dead spot surrounded by T-Mobile towers.
Just a counter anecdote - my house gets great coverage for T-Mobile whereas Verizon is impossible and AT&T is spotty. I've been in city centers (LV, BOS, NY) where I had signal on TMO LTE while my VZ and ATT coworkers had none.
Driving cross country is about the only place where other networks beat TMO but then again, out of 3 networks we had none driving through southern Oregon.
The shadows through the leaves are pretty damn cool.
Had to look this up - here's a quora with the image of crescent shadows:
https://www.quora.com/What-cau...
Actually, the software i use scrapes 32 retailers with over 5000 items and do drop shipping through Amazon.
This. It's like the guys who simply copy stuff from help websites and publish them as books on Amazon and make a tidy profit - it's all automated.
Lately almost everything sold on amazon is sold by third party and amazon just does warehouse, shipping and billing. a lot of stuff is shipped by the third party as well.
they try to play the game like a common carrier but it won't last for long
Why do you say it won't last long? It's lasted years. You can't buy a real Apple charger on Amazon, 95% of that is fake even though the product description says "made by Apple".
I mean, Apple is the most highly valued company in the world and if they can't take Amazon to task who will?
Bezos controls a newspaper (WaPo). You think the "independent press" is going to fuck with him?
Seriously expect even more of the fake stuff. There's probably stuff you've bought from Amazon that's fake and you don't know it.
I'm listening to streaming music from...our Amazon Echo. Why? Because when I came downstairs to feed the dogs, all I had to say was "Alexa, play my 'Mornings' playlist"
Good for you, let Amazon know everything about you, and let them hear your raw voice data. Me, I know what that would mean in terms of privacy so I'm not going to do it.
Amazon will have it's public creep-mode moment like Uber where we find out how they're dissecting our voice fingerprints. I'm not going to become a statistic there.
Sometimes there are principles worth fighting for -- such as liberty and pursuit of the truth against evil and deception.
A great man once said "Give me liberty, or give me death," and then he died
Wow. Just wow.
So talking about a private company views and works with gender differences is somehow equivalent to fighting for the liberation of a country? What kind of bizarro world do you come from?
Ah. Yeah, that makes a big difference. So ostensibly, this means that if all of the world production were diverted to that purpose, we'd hit full coverage about the same time we started having to replace panels. Well, that's slightly more plausible. :-)
You do realize that "replacement time" for panels just means they're less usable, right? They, like hybrid/electric car batteries still work, just at about 82% efficiency assuming a standard 0.9% yearly degradation rate (newer panels degrade significantly less - like half as much).
How many solar installations exist in the country which are past their "replace" time and are still doing 82+% efficiency? All still pulling in MW.
On the other hand, we have people who are currently subjecting themselves to be lab rats, testing whether we can survive without meat.
You might want to check out the millions (now hundreds of millions) in India who have done fine without meat from before Christ was born. 30-40% of India is vegetarian and has been for much longer than most long-term tests if you open your eyes.
Except industrial chemicals are notorious for causing Cancer and all sorts of other fun stuff.
You think your ranch grown ones fed on hormones, antibiotics and feed-that-isn't-the-natural-diet is free of carcinogens or other harmful substances? You think that nice sizzle on your steak isn't carcinogenic? Enjoy your illusions.
Something like this should never have been set at a national level to begin with. Let states decide what makes sense from a privacy standpoint and then consumers can decide where they want to live based on restrictions they have to liver under making sense or not.
Isn't there a big cost to patchwork of states' policies? It also allows broadband companies to jurisdiction-shop non?
Star Trek was supposed to be a universe where we had CONQUERED all of that bullshit.
But more importantly, it was a setting where he could snog his secretary without his wife getting upset.
Huh. I always thought it was Captian Kirk getting to hook up with all those green alien babes? Then again, it was a show of the 60's. Given all that it was quite a progressive/idealistic universe (IDIC, the lack of importance of money, replicators heralding an abundance economy, etc) - but it wasn't like liberalism/progressive thought is like in the last 20 years at all.
So your comment veers from "do business my way or I'm not going to shop there" to maligning Whole Foods' target audience.
Now, I'n not into the "homeopathic" stuff either, but I do enjoy my foods to be organic and I pay for it.
Thanks for the trolling, I'm sure /. is better off for it. Stay with Wal-Mart or Publix looks like you're right in their demographic.
My grocery store doesn't have self-checkout. A number of years ago one of the stores tried it. The machines didn't work right. Apparently it wasn't just me, because they quit offering it and none of the other stores around here tried it.
This was years ago, so maybe the tech wasn't ready, or maybe they just tried to cheap out and got crappy machines. Either way, it left a bad impression on me, and I'm not eager to try it again.
My local store (Raley's) has self-checkout. It's great if you have 1-4 items, none of which require weighing (i.e., groceries). It starts to get annoying if a) you have a cash or a check (never tried the latter - sounds daunting). It is much much slower than a cashier for the vast majority of checkouts.
I usually avoid self-checkout unless I have literally one item.
Its still funny that that myth persists, the whole no pesticides in organic food. Its just flat out wrong. All farmers use pesticides, organic or not
Yes, just that some pesticides are worse than others. According to this article [1], the USDA maintains a list of what's organically approved and what's not. Equating all pesticides is the real myth.
"Organic" (a term I find amusing) as a quality standard makes a lot of sense.
[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/he...