The "30 million paying subscribers" isn't very useful without some context. For comparison, Spotify reports 70 million paying subscribers and 140 million active users.
Internet Service Providers are forbidden by law from discriminating types of data that goes through their services. Period.
So my ISP should treat my VOIP packets exactly the same as my Netflix packets? If they "discriminate" against the Netflix data it'll improve the quality of my VOIP experience while having an insignificant impact on my Netflix experience.
The problem with the hardline version of Net Neutrality is that it ignores the real world importance of traffic shaping in providing a quality user experience. The more it's perpetuated, the more effective it is as a strawman for those saying "Look! This is why Net Neutrality doesn't make any sense!" There are scenarios where it's totally reasonable to prioritize types of data, and ISPs should be transparent about when they do so. ISPs shouldn't be prioritizing sources of data, however.
$29.99, and under an hour of your time. You might even find tinkering with your device fun!
Not worth your time? Find a local phone repair shop and they'll do it for $50-60.
the tenuous respect for extended universe fiction has been thrown aside because they are catering to the lowest common denominator
There are gems in the Star Wars EU. Fantastic lore, interesting characters, exciting stories. There's also a huge mess of internally-inconsistent trash that isn't worth anyone's time. I was disappointed that Disney elected to de-canonize the EU, but I understand why they did it. There's no way they could have continued to grow the universe without running into contradictions at every turn.
There's a reason that Marvel and DC have so many re-boots and alternate timelines. It's fun to put the same heroes in new positions, tweak their characterizations, etc, in a way you can't do if the universe is set in stone. I wouldn't be too upset to see Star Wars go down the path of multiple canon universes.
Right wing media - *chooses to ignore/misrepresent attempts by foreign powers to influence American elections, possibly colluding with associates of the candidate in said election*
Left wing media - *misrepresents a story about feeding fish, making the president look silly*
Slashdot: "Left wing media is a threat to democracy!!"
can't figure out up front they won't make any money doing the work.
Can't Google "instacart average pay"? I just searched that exact phrase and found several websites with employees sharing their negative experiences working for Instacart.
Buying up the land under a blighted neighborhood is more complicated than you think. Your options are to use eminent domain to seize the land (which is never popular with voters, no matter how bad the neighborhood), or go door-to-door buying up property. Hopefully you can convince everyone to sell, and don't run into any holdouts who jack up their price because they know you need their land.
If you're in the market for a $700+ phone, is it that big of a deal to buy a battery pack case for $20? It'd provide both the durability and the longer battery life you're asking for. Hell - you could probably get one that charges by USB C to get you off the dreaded proprietary Lightning cable.
that's an aberration, not a requirement, of online shopping.
Tell that to the people who have been trained by Prime to expect free shipping. One of the largest challengers brick and mortar retailers face in the e-commerce space is overcoming that expectation. Up to this point retailers have done this by cutting into their own profit margins trying to out-Amazon Amazon. It's interesting to see Walmart trying the alternative approach of slightly raising prices in exchange for the convenience of home shopping.
The only reason Amazon is able to do it in the first place is because they've ploughed all that sweet, sweet AWS money into infrastructure and subsidized shipping costs.
Musk is commoditizing LEO launches. I have as much concern with NASA relying on SpaceX for LEO launches as I have with them going to Staples to buy their ballpoint pens. If either Staples or SpaceX start jacking up the price of their product or start bullying competitors out of the market, let's talk.
Apple is hoovering up your location metadata if you've enabled Location Services, but it's doing so largely through a database of known cell towers and wifi hotspots.
The downside is that it would require the passenger's GPS to be actively tracking their position, draining battery. Currently the passenger's GPS isn't involved in tracking the trip at all. When you open the app it shows you the location reported by the driver's device.
What I don't get is how people think a website that literally anyone can upload a video to is a good babysitter for their kid
Because that website's marketing implies that it's kid friendly. It even looks fine to a parent taking a quick pass over the type of content their child is likely to be exposed to. The bad content is deliberately obfuscated by bad actors.
A better analogy would be advertising a service as a daycare, having a nice front to fool parents, and then leaving little Johnny in a playpen in the middle of Union Station. Yeah, the parent could have tried harder to vet the service caring for their kid, but the service provider bears some responsibility for misleading the consumer's guardian.
Open door. Place package inside. Close door. I find it hard to believe that process provides so much better an opportunity to scope out your house than the commonly accepted process of ringing the doorbell and then peeking through the window to see if anyone's home.
Six months later, those who used higher nicotine levels in their e-cigarettes were more likely to report use of both e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes within the past month
The point of this article is that vaping with high-nicotine liquid correlates with eventually smoking. Meaning, if we want to keep the young'ins from smoking cigarettes ("which are bad"), maybe we need to keep them away from high-nicotine e-liquid too.
There was a time when Kirk kissing Uhura was considered gratuitous. It's easy to forget that in the late 60s, that scene was pretty damn controversial.
I don't know anything about RBC, but if's wrong to call the "respected," blame The Guardian, not Slashdot.
The first paragraph of The Guardian article linked from the summary refers to RBC as a "respected Russian media outlet."
What are you talking about? As written, this comment is does nothing but spread (unfounded, IMO) FUD. Apple has made a big deal about the facial scans never leaving the protection of the secure enclave. Is your position that Apple is colluding with the NSA, lying about the technical capabilities of their product? That there will be widely-distributed NSA malware that sneaks it's way onto iPhones and compromises the secure enclave and FaceID hardware? Arguably that ship has already sailed now that every smartphone user is carrying a GPS in their pocket whenever they leave the house.
Discussing the security implications of new tech is a worthwhile and constructive. The Economist did a fantastic cover story on the implications of widespread, accurate facial recognition tech a few months ago, if you need some talking points. Screaming "ORWELL! 1984! HUXLEY! POLICE STATE!" every time facial recognition comes up is nothing more than a waste of comment section space.
Out of curiosity, what do you estimate it would cost you to stock your Plex library with licensed copies of the content you could access through Netflix at $11/month? How many decades will it take you to recoup that investment?
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The "30 million paying subscribers" isn't very useful without some context. For comparison, Spotify reports 70 million paying subscribers and 140 million active users.
Internet Service Providers are forbidden by law from discriminating types of data that goes through their services. Period.
So my ISP should treat my VOIP packets exactly the same as my Netflix packets? If they "discriminate" against the Netflix data it'll improve the quality of my VOIP experience while having an insignificant impact on my Netflix experience.
The problem with the hardline version of Net Neutrality is that it ignores the real world importance of traffic shaping in providing a quality user experience. The more it's perpetuated, the more effective it is as a strawman for those saying "Look! This is why Net Neutrality doesn't make any sense!" There are scenarios where it's totally reasonable to prioritize types of data, and ISPs should be transparent about when they do so. ISPs shouldn't be prioritizing sources of data, however.
"Microsoft couldn't solve this tricky UI problem, so nobody can!"
$29.99, and under an hour of your time. You might even find tinkering with your device fun!
Not worth your time? Find a local phone repair shop and they'll do it for $50-60.
Japan has been printing money like mad since the early 2000s with inflation hovering at right around 0%, going negative as recently as 2016.
the tenuous respect for extended universe fiction has been thrown aside because they are catering to the lowest common denominator
There are gems in the Star Wars EU. Fantastic lore, interesting characters, exciting stories. There's also a huge mess of internally-inconsistent trash that isn't worth anyone's time. I was disappointed that Disney elected to de-canonize the EU, but I understand why they did it. There's no way they could have continued to grow the universe without running into contradictions at every turn.
There's a reason that Marvel and DC have so many re-boots and alternate timelines. It's fun to put the same heroes in new positions, tweak their characterizations, etc, in a way you can't do if the universe is set in stone. I wouldn't be too upset to see Star Wars go down the path of multiple canon universes.
Right wing media - *chooses to ignore/misrepresent attempts by foreign powers to influence American elections, possibly colluding with associates of the candidate in said election*
Left wing media - *misrepresents a story about feeding fish, making the president look silly*
Slashdot: "Left wing media is a threat to democracy!!"
1) Windows+S to open search
2) type "documents"
3) press Enter
4) My Documents opens in a file explorer Window
This is on Windows 10. What are you talking about?
can't figure out up front they won't make any money doing the work.
Can't Google "instacart average pay"? I just searched that exact phrase and found several websites with employees sharing their negative experiences working for Instacart.
Buying up the land under a blighted neighborhood is more complicated than you think. Your options are to use eminent domain to seize the land (which is never popular with voters, no matter how bad the neighborhood), or go door-to-door buying up property. Hopefully you can convince everyone to sell, and don't run into any holdouts who jack up their price because they know you need their land.
If you're in the market for a $700+ phone, is it that big of a deal to buy a battery pack case for $20? It'd provide both the durability and the longer battery life you're asking for. Hell - you could probably get one that charges by USB C to get you off the dreaded proprietary Lightning cable.
that's an aberration, not a requirement, of online shopping.
Tell that to the people who have been trained by Prime to expect free shipping. One of the largest challengers brick and mortar retailers face in the e-commerce space is overcoming that expectation. Up to this point retailers have done this by cutting into their own profit margins trying to out-Amazon Amazon. It's interesting to see Walmart trying the alternative approach of slightly raising prices in exchange for the convenience of home shopping.
The only reason Amazon is able to do it in the first place is because they've ploughed all that sweet, sweet AWS money into infrastructure and subsidized shipping costs.
Musk is commoditizing LEO launches. I have as much concern with NASA relying on SpaceX for LEO launches as I have with them going to Staples to buy their ballpoint pens. If either Staples or SpaceX start jacking up the price of their product or start bullying competitors out of the market, let's talk.
That is factually incorrect.
Apple is hoovering up your location metadata if you've enabled Location Services, but it's doing so largely through a database of known cell towers and wifi hotspots.
The downside is that it would require the passenger's GPS to be actively tracking their position, draining battery. Currently the passenger's GPS isn't involved in tracking the trip at all. When you open the app it shows you the location reported by the driver's device.
What I don't get is how people think a website that literally anyone can upload a video to is a good babysitter for their kid
Because that website's marketing implies that it's kid friendly. It even looks fine to a parent taking a quick pass over the type of content their child is likely to be exposed to. The bad content is deliberately obfuscated by bad actors.
A better analogy would be advertising a service as a daycare, having a nice front to fool parents, and then leaving little Johnny in a playpen in the middle of Union Station. Yeah, the parent could have tried harder to vet the service caring for their kid, but the service provider bears some responsibility for misleading the consumer's guardian.
With an afternoon of DIY I bet you could rig up the Amazon doorknob to serve exactly that purpose.
Open door. Place package inside. Close door. I find it hard to believe that process provides so much better an opportunity to scope out your house than the commonly accepted process of ringing the doorbell and then peeking through the window to see if anyone's home.
Did you read the summary?
Six months later, those who used higher nicotine levels in their e-cigarettes were more likely to report use of both e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes within the past month
The point of this article is that vaping with high-nicotine liquid correlates with eventually smoking. Meaning, if we want to keep the young'ins from smoking cigarettes ("which are bad"), maybe we need to keep them away from high-nicotine e-liquid too.
Star Trek never made it gratuitous.
There was a time when Kirk kissing Uhura was considered gratuitous. It's easy to forget that in the late 60s, that scene was pretty damn controversial.
I think somebody who has already demonstrated disregard for American law shouldn't get an easy path to citizenship.
Demonstrated disregard for American law by choosing to come to the USA with their parents when they were a child?
I don't know anything about RBC, but if's wrong to call the "respected," blame The Guardian, not Slashdot.
The first paragraph of The Guardian article linked from the summary refers to RBC as a "respected Russian media outlet."
What are you talking about? As written, this comment is does nothing but spread (unfounded, IMO) FUD. Apple has made a big deal about the facial scans never leaving the protection of the secure enclave. Is your position that Apple is colluding with the NSA, lying about the technical capabilities of their product? That there will be widely-distributed NSA malware that sneaks it's way onto iPhones and compromises the secure enclave and FaceID hardware? Arguably that ship has already sailed now that every smartphone user is carrying a GPS in their pocket whenever they leave the house.
Discussing the security implications of new tech is a worthwhile and constructive. The Economist did a fantastic cover story on the implications of widespread, accurate facial recognition tech a few months ago, if you need some talking points. Screaming "ORWELL! 1984! HUXLEY! POLICE STATE!" every time facial recognition comes up is nothing more than a waste of comment section space.
Out of curiosity, what do you estimate it would cost you to stock your Plex library with licensed copies of the content you could access through Netflix at $11/month? How many decades will it take you to recoup that investment?
You are wrong.
"Loss Making" implies that the company is losing money. According to this NY Times article , Netflix projected over $165m in profits in Q1 2017.