I also question the usefulness of a store that doesn't sell essentials like asprin. I can get decent quality steak at Publix, and I can get asprin there too. I might be able to get a better steak from Whole Foods but I suspect I probably wouldn't taste the difference, and after viewing the receipt, I'd have a headache and no asprin to fix it.
Now, sure, I can go to two supermarkets. I can also not, and use the extra half hour to an hour it would take to drive to the next one, park, go in, find what I'm looking for, go to the checkout, buy it, walk back to the car, and drive home, to read another chapter of a book, or watch TV.
Or you could do as many others do and just order your medication via Google Express, Amazon Prime Now, or just Amazon Prime. Realistically, WF should coordinate so a drugstore is nearby for those essentials.
Guns have lots of legitimate, non-criminal uses. Just like cars.
What use does a gun have except for killing? It's less regulated than an automobile though the automobile's primary use is not for killing.
What a twisted world we live in where the government isn't even allowed to track guns when they are used in mass murders. We can just simply wait for the next sacrifice at the altar of "liberty (for some)".
Jim Crow aside, no the government was not actively running around in a mob lynching black people (unless it was seen as getting a criminal) or threatening them to not vote.
please read my post more carefully. Yes I KNOW leftists were big on population reduction 40 years ago. That's what I freakin said. I also said leftists TODAY do not dare mention population reduction. Then I stated my belief that the reason for this is the growing power of gov't/business cabal who have more control of the press, and the ability to buy off environmental groups (who used to be big on population reduction but now are not, even though the world population has doubled since the 70's)
Big Business has bought off environmental groups, government, scientists, the press, and everyone else. Of course, everything sounds so business friendly, otherwise one risks offending the ones who control ALL the purse-strings.
And Big Business needs to be bigger. They're never satisfied - until the collapse when they cry about their losses.
You make a lot of assertions without any citations.
The "left" was big on population reduction 40 years ago. You know how Europe collectively did that reduction? Mainly by leftist policies like access to birth control and sex education.
Where is the "right" on this? Yeah, shutting down planned parenthood centers and praising anti-abortion terrorists.
Hanlon's Razor applies here. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Gray's Law also applies [1]. "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
At some point the buck stops, and incomp etence is no excuse. Do you not think the buck stops with the POTUS? It doesn't matter if it's on purpose or a mistake - trillions of dollars of error should result in some firings.
> My old Dell Latitude E6440 with 16 GB of low power memory used to last about 50 minutes on battery power
50 Minutes? that's horrible - even for a Dell. But they claim to have 500+ minutes according to this marketing blurb! So you're getting 1/10th the listed battery life?
Outsourcing is happening. Deal with it. Move on. Change plans if necessary. Complaining about it on Salshdot accomplishes nothing.
IBM outsources to low cost geos. And that is what will happen to Lloyds jobs. Anybody that believes otherwise is not thinking clearly.
Businesses will go where the costs of getting work done is lower. You can erect barriers all you want, but all of that is going to be temporary.
In other news, linuxguy has been outsourced - any new comments will be from a completely different person. Expect quality to remain the same (exuberantly intoxicated) or better.
Yes, Amazon is claiming First Amendment protections for their users of Alexa and NOT for Alexa "herself".
But let's not have that interfere with the sensational title of the linked article: "Amazon argues that Alexa is protected by the First Amendment in a murder trial".
Contrary to that title the author wrote:
The heart of Amazon's claim is that Alexa devices could provide insights into a person's entire life, and having two days worth of audio would be an unreasonable invasion of that privacy. Knowing that law enforcement has the ability to request data from these devices and peruse them at will would have a chilling effect on people using the services--which clearly would be bad news for Amazon's business.
"Such government demands inevitably chill users from exercising their First Amendment rights to seek and receive information and expressive content in the privacy of their own home," Amazon lawyers wrote, "conduct which lies at the core of the Constitution."
[adding bold and underlining, clearing up smartquotes and another annoyances]
Well, in that case, maybe they shouldn't have made something that relies so heavily on snooping on their owners? I could only hope that abortions of privacy like Echo / Google Home are tainted by this investigation and subsequent realization by the public that they're adding to their own police dossier.
Amazon likely doesn't want to reveal what it's recording (everything) and how long it holds onto it (forever).
Bingo. I barely trust Apple (I make sure the hands-free Siri is turned off at all times), but Amazon? They're too busy competing with everyone to let ethics slow them down.
Only post advertisements for your business. Don't put personal shit on the internet.
I know a self-employed gal (belly dancer / teacher) who uses facebook very well as a way to get gigs and keep her classes full. It's about her, of course, but she uses it more like a big-shot CEO uses twitter - promotion and influencing - than as a view on her personal life - she doesn't even list her kid or hubby on relations, nor does she share pictures of them.
That's the right way to use it - it's all potentially public to everyone, but she gets a revenue boost by using it so it's a win/win for her.
Without a CEO, how will we ever be able to make sure that corporate assets are sold off to third parties and then leased back in order to show a huge short-term profit that generates a huge year-end bonus while simultaneously stripping the company of value and driving it toward bankruptcy?
Don't worry, in the USA, we have private equity (see: vulture capital) firms who go out and buy such companies using loaned money [1], install their own CEO and do exactly that - they pay back the loans they used to buy the company from the assets the company owns.
I'm sure this wasn't a paid posting... but ignoring that, this is just a promotional rate. "until the promotional pricing expires on March 31, 2018. After which pricing goes up to $160". Personally, I'd rather go with a straight forward tmobile plan.
Is it just a contract rate offered for signups during that period? I'm too lazy to look, but my TMO Simple Choice plan prices are still honored for ongoing monthly charges and including the new-line rate - meaning I can add a new line for $10/mo and still pay the same rates I did when I signed up 4 years ago ($160 total for 10 lines excluding extras, all with 2.5GB base).
So maybe this just means that Sprint will cease offering this pricing in 2018.
I guess you don't value your time or have more of it than you know what to do with.
I guess you'd prefer to simply *trust* Amazon to tell you a) they're not monitoring you all the time surreptitiously, or b) (more likely) they have a backdoor that the Feds or Police can use at-will whenever they want.
You know, if I have to trust Amazon (or Google or Apple) all the time to not be compelled to give up my privacy for any random investigation, just for a bit of convenience, I think I'll pass also.
Meanwhile enjoy your extra chocolate ration, citizen! The Ministry of Plenty thanks you!
It's still better to have it be available at some price than not available at all. If the infrastructure gets built, future administrations have more ability to reign in the abuses.
Whatever happened keeping free market actually free? Seems the Obama excuses for bigger government are now parroted by Trump except replace government with telcos. Lets do what Clinton did and give Telcos a bunch of money and hope they have our best interests at heart!
It'd be nice if it were relevant, but they seem like VERY poorly targeted ads. I buy none of that shit (mostly cosmetics). My wife may have purchased some years ago in the past, but honestly, I get all order in my email, and perusing my folder show like zero hits in the past 4 years.
well gosh golly gumpers, I can also plug an evil thing into the ethernet jack, and then plug that evil thing into the wired network, and do all manner of bad also. Hell I can substitute an evil hub for a good one and do even more bad. where will it end?
*snooze*
I have no ethernet jack - I have a Mac, you insensitive clod.
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I also question the usefulness of a store that doesn't sell essentials like asprin. I can get decent quality steak at Publix, and I can get asprin there too. I might be able to get a better steak from Whole Foods but I suspect I probably wouldn't taste the difference, and after viewing the receipt, I'd have a headache and no asprin to fix it.
Now, sure, I can go to two supermarkets. I can also not, and use the extra half hour to an hour it would take to drive to the next one, park, go in, find what I'm looking for, go to the checkout, buy it, walk back to the car, and drive home, to read another chapter of a book, or watch TV.
Or you could do as many others do and just order your medication via Google Express, Amazon Prime Now, or just Amazon Prime. Realistically, WF should coordinate so a drugstore is nearby for those essentials.
Guns have lots of legitimate, non-criminal uses. Just like cars.
What use does a gun have except for killing? It's less regulated than an automobile though the automobile's primary use is not for killing.
What a twisted world we live in where the government isn't even allowed to track guns when they are used in mass murders. We can just simply wait for the next sacrifice at the altar of "liberty (for some)".
They probably allow access to "googlebot" just not other browers. So technically possible, but against google tos.
So what's stopping us from posing as Googlebot? Are WSJ also filtering on IPs?
Jim Crow aside, no the government was not actively running around in a mob lynching black people (unless it was seen as getting a criminal) or threatening them to not vote.
You ever heard of sundown towns?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thousands of such towns, where local government were actively supporting lynching of black folks if they stuck around.
I don't own any iDevices so not sure if such functionality is a big deal or not.
It is if you like what Microsoft has done with Surface Pro. Now the iPad an Surface Pro will be on a more level playing field in terms of features.
Personally, I'm fine without it but some folks hate not having FS access from their device and need to sort / manage their files.
please read my post more carefully. Yes I KNOW leftists were big on population reduction 40 years ago. That's what I freakin said. I also said leftists TODAY do not dare mention population reduction. Then I stated my belief that the reason for this is the growing power of gov't/business cabal who have more control of the press, and the ability to buy off environmental groups (who used to be big on population reduction but now are not, even though the world population has doubled since the 70's)
Big Business has bought off environmental groups, government, scientists, the press, and everyone else. Of course, everything sounds so business friendly, otherwise one risks offending the ones who control ALL the purse-strings.
And Big Business needs to be bigger. They're never satisfied - until the collapse when they cry about their losses.
You make a lot of assertions without any citations.
The "left" was big on population reduction 40 years ago. You know how Europe collectively did that reduction? Mainly by leftist policies like access to birth control and sex education.
Where is the "right" on this? Yeah, shutting down planned parenthood centers and praising anti-abortion terrorists.
Hanlon's Razor applies here. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Gray's Law also applies [1].
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
At some point the buck stops, and incomp etence is no excuse. Do you not think the buck stops with the POTUS? It doesn't matter if it's on purpose or a mistake - trillions of dollars of error should result in some firings.
[1] http://joshuabrauer.com/2007/0...
> My old Dell Latitude E6440 with 16 GB of low power memory used to last about 50 minutes on battery power
50 Minutes? that's horrible - even for a Dell.
But they claim to have 500+ minutes according to this marketing blurb! So you're getting 1/10th the listed battery life?
https://marketing.dell.com/Glo...
How many outsourcing stories do we need?
Outsourcing is happening. Deal with it. Move on. Change plans if necessary. Complaining about it on Salshdot accomplishes nothing.
IBM outsources to low cost geos. And that is what will happen to Lloyds jobs. Anybody that believes otherwise is not thinking clearly.
Businesses will go where the costs of getting work done is lower. You can erect barriers all you want, but all of that is going to be temporary.
In other news, linuxguy has been outsourced - any new comments will be from a completely different person. Expect quality to remain the same (exuberantly intoxicated) or better.
Yes, Amazon is claiming First Amendment protections for their users of Alexa and NOT for Alexa "herself".
But let's not have that interfere with the sensational title of the linked article: "Amazon argues that Alexa is protected by the First Amendment in a murder trial".
Contrary to that title the author wrote:
Well, in that case, maybe they shouldn't have made something that relies so heavily on snooping on their owners? I could only hope that abortions of privacy like Echo / Google Home are tainted by this investigation and subsequent realization by the public that they're adding to their own police dossier.
Amazon likely doesn't want to reveal what it's recording (everything) and how long it holds onto it (forever).
Bingo. I barely trust Apple (I make sure the hands-free Siri is turned off at all times), but Amazon? They're too busy competing with everyone to let ethics slow them down.
Only post advertisements for your business. Don't put personal shit on the internet.
I know a self-employed gal (belly dancer / teacher) who uses facebook very well as a way to get gigs and keep her classes full. It's about her, of course, but she uses it more like a big-shot CEO uses twitter - promotion and influencing - than as a view on her personal life - she doesn't even list her kid or hubby on relations, nor does she share pictures of them.
That's the right way to use it - it's all potentially public to everyone, but she gets a revenue boost by using it so it's a win/win for her.
Without a CEO, how will we ever be able to make sure that corporate assets are sold off to third parties and then leased back in order to show a huge short-term profit that generates a huge year-end bonus while simultaneously stripping the company of value and driving it toward bankruptcy?
Don't worry, in the USA, we have private equity (see: vulture capital) firms who go out and buy such companies using loaned money [1], install their own CEO and do exactly that - they pay back the loans they used to buy the company from the assets the company owns.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm sure this wasn't a paid posting... but ignoring that, this is just a promotional rate. "until the promotional pricing expires on March 31, 2018. After which pricing goes up to $160". Personally, I'd rather go with a straight forward tmobile plan.
Is it just a contract rate offered for signups during that period? I'm too lazy to look, but my TMO Simple Choice plan prices are still honored for ongoing monthly charges and including the new-line rate - meaning I can add a new line for $10/mo and still pay the same rates I did when I signed up 4 years ago ($160 total for 10 lines excluding extras, all with 2.5GB base).
So maybe this just means that Sprint will cease offering this pricing in 2018.
I think you just follow the black trashcan markers, yes?
Don't forget the wonderful yellow streetlights. Very warm.
Thanks TMobile and Sprint for keeping the majors in line :)
Not intending to buy such appliances is only an option right now.
We don't know if that option will remain open in the future.
Personally, I think it's good to call out the bullshit now before it gains any momentum.
While simultaneously thinking of and implementing ways to kneecap such devices' traitorous behavior.
You're already being tracked.
I don't need anything worthwhile
I guess you don't value your time or have more of it than you know what to do with.
I guess you'd prefer to simply *trust* Amazon to tell you a) they're not monitoring you all the time surreptitiously, or b) (more likely) they have a backdoor that the Feds or Police can use at-will whenever they want.
You know, if I have to trust Amazon (or Google or Apple) all the time to not be compelled to give up my privacy for any random investigation, just for a bit of convenience, I think I'll pass also.
Meanwhile enjoy your extra chocolate ration, citizen! The Ministry of Plenty thanks you!
It's still better to have it be available at some price than not available at all. If the infrastructure gets built, future administrations have more ability to reign in the abuses.
Whatever happened keeping free market actually free? Seems the Obama excuses for bigger government are now parroted by Trump except replace government with telcos.
Lets do what Clinton did and give Telcos a bunch of money and hope they have our best interests at heart!
How did you remove them? I can't even see how to do that.
Concur. How do I opt out of this?
It'd be nice if it were relevant, but they seem like VERY poorly targeted ads. I buy none of that shit (mostly cosmetics). My wife may have purchased some years ago in the past, but honestly, I get all order in my email, and perusing my folder show like zero hits in the past 4 years.
WTF Amazon?
Can't find the video, but this kind of message has the same tone.
The reality is that if you wanted to be statistically safer, in fact, you should use a Mac (if you can afford one) or a Chromebook.
Fake (and recycled) news has been a staple of /. for a decade or more!
well gosh golly gumpers, I can also plug an evil thing into the ethernet jack, and then plug that evil thing into the wired network, and do all manner of bad also. Hell I can substitute an evil hub for a good one and do even more bad. where will it end?
*snooze*
I have no ethernet jack - I have a Mac, you insensitive clod.