In the interest of democracy it would be wrong for parliament to reverse a vote on the exact same question as was put to parliament
It's been months since the referendum. There's plenty of room to argue that the will of the people has changed in that time, and that it would be in the interest of democracy to reverse the vote.
I took a trip 6 months ago and was able to use the Delta app to see updates on my bag status. It wasn't super granular - "bag checked in", "bag on plane ###", "bag on carousel" - but it was enough for me to know whether or not my bag was going to make my connection.
The big improvement here is that they're using RFID instead of relying on the baggage handler to scan the bar code.
The analyst cited in the article has a pretty good repuation (Google him). Doesn't seem prudent to outright reject his projections because you disagree with them.
An isolated incident of catastrophic battery failure is very different from what appears to be a fundamental design flaw. Hell, it's even called out in the byline of the article you posted.
It’s a grim echo of the Note 7’s spontaneous combustion, but it’s probably not a problem on anything like the scale of Samsung’s
Willing to trade thickness for battery life? You can get a case on Amazon that'll double or triple you phone's battery capacity for $20-30. Problem solved.
Company offers a service. Company realizes service is not profitable. Company ceases offer of service.
What about those users who signed up for Kindle Unlimited purely for the offerings of these publishers? It's a monthly subscription. Cancel. From my own experience and from the anecdotal evidence I've heard, their customer service department is likely to offer you a pro-rated refund on the current month, if it really matters that much to you
Max LTE bandwidth (~10mbps) times 30 days is a bit over 3 TB of data. Verizon is being honest about the fact that they'd never be able to provide that. Neither could the other carriers, their marketing just ignores that fact (or hides the fact that their plan isn't really "unlimited").
They're also saying it's highly doubtful that you NEED 3TB of cellular data per month. If you do, it's not unreasonable that you should have to pursue a networking solution different than what your mom uses to browse Facebook on her iPad.
My point isn't that an external battery pack will solve every user's problems. I take issue with OPs the claim that the marketing and design staff of two of the largest electronics companies in the world are either incompetent or controlled by some vast conspiracy because they aren't making a phone that suits his needs.
Given a choice between a phone as thick as the previous generation that was reliable and had a longer battery life, pretty much any human being on the planet would choose a thicker phone.
For less than $30 you can buy a phone case with an integrated battery pack that will double the thickness of your phone (++structural integrity) and quadruple your battery capacity. If you're on an iPhone it'll even effectively replace your Lightning charge port with some variant of USB. These things aren't a big secret, and yet the vast majority of smartphone users don't seem to own one.
Why? Maybe it's because massively profitable consumer electronics companies are actually pretty good at reading the market, and people complaining about not having a massive battery in their phone are a niche.
That's fair. So the FBI comes to you with their lawyer and their lawfully obtained search warrant you'll hand over your encryption keys? I think that's exactly what the federal government wants, but experience has taught all of us that in the real world people's reaction isn't "Oops, you got me, here are my keys."
the passengers are pre-identified (to sign up, they needed a cell phone, a credit card and a valid address to go with it), and the drivers are unknown (except to the companies, which do little or no effective screening). The vehicles used are unlikely to meet the requirements for taxi use, and are often flat-out unsafe for drivers, passengers, or bystanders.
If the passengers can be considered pre-identified because they have a credit card and billing address on file, how are drivers not pre-identified by the requirements of Uber? Uber may not mandate safety checks on the vehicle, but they do mandate that it be no older than a certain model year, and all drivers are tracked by a review system that quickly weeds out those that provide a sub-optimal experience.
The big ride sharing companies are playing by different rules than taxi companies, but they are playing by a set of rules. Their success has shown that consumers prefer Uber/Lyft's coporate policies to the taxi regulations imposed by the government.
If I don't know how to cook something I can find a step-by-step video or article telling me exactly how. Thanks to the internet, this knowledge isn't lost forever even if the required skills are a bit rusty. If this generation isn't cooking, I think it's more because they don't want to, not because they can't.
This is nothing like a suicide bomber. They strapped a bomb to a stick and then strapped the stick to a remote controlled car. It's a smart bomb, if anything.
Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Exchanging keys over a public channel is a solvable problem. Presumably Facebook will follow basic crypto protocol if they're at all serious about end-to-end encryption.
"Most of Cheshire is middle of nowhere"? It's less than 20 miles from Manchester and Liverpool, both with a population of 500,000ish. If that's "middle of nowhere" by English standards, it only reinforces OP's point about population density.
"Political correctness needs to die" is an overly broad statement. It's not a bad thing that we live in a society that considers it inappropriate to use racial or homophobic slurs.
What protected health information is being leaked? You can identify a device and then maybe tie that device to an individual, but you aren't gaining access to any of their sensitive data.
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In the interest of democracy it would be wrong for parliament to reverse a vote on the exact same question as was put to parliament
It's been months since the referendum. There's plenty of room to argue that the will of the people has changed in that time, and that it would be in the interest of democracy to reverse the vote.
I took a trip 6 months ago and was able to use the Delta app to see updates on my bag status. It wasn't super granular - "bag checked in", "bag on plane ###", "bag on carousel" - but it was enough for me to know whether or not my bag was going to make my connection.
The big improvement here is that they're using RFID instead of relying on the baggage handler to scan the bar code.
The analyst cited in the article has a pretty good repuation (Google him). Doesn't seem prudent to outright reject his projections because you disagree with them.
What did I miss? You pay for 30 or 60 minutes of unlimited data and get max bandwidth for that 30 or 60 minute period. How is that not unlimited?
Citation on the "10x cost" claim?
It’s a grim echo of the Note 7’s spontaneous combustion, but it’s probably not a problem on anything like the scale of Samsung’s
Willing to trade thickness for battery life? You can get a case on Amazon that'll double or triple you phone's battery capacity for $20-30. Problem solved.
Company offers a service. Company realizes service is not profitable. Company ceases offer of service.
What about those users who signed up for Kindle Unlimited purely for the offerings of these publishers? It's a monthly subscription. Cancel. From my own experience and from the anecdotal evidence I've heard, their customer service department is likely to offer you a pro-rated refund on the current month, if it really matters that much to you
Max LTE bandwidth (~10mbps) times 30 days is a bit over 3 TB of data. Verizon is being honest about the fact that they'd never be able to provide that. Neither could the other carriers, their marketing just ignores that fact (or hides the fact that their plan isn't really "unlimited").
They're also saying it's highly doubtful that you NEED 3TB of cellular data per month. If you do, it's not unreasonable that you should have to pursue a networking solution different than what your mom uses to browse Facebook on her iPad.
Using my phone would also be easier - I'd remove it from my back pocket and double tap the home button and wave it over the reader.
Tip - if you hold an iPhone over a reader it'll automatically wake-up into payment mode, and you just need to scan your fingerprint.
Still overkill, but here's a $50 case that adds less than 1/4" to the thickness of the phone and doubles capacity. That leaves it thinner than the iPhone 3G.
My point isn't that an external battery pack will solve every user's problems. I take issue with OPs the claim that the marketing and design staff of two of the largest electronics companies in the world are either incompetent or controlled by some vast conspiracy because they aren't making a phone that suits his needs.
Given a choice between a phone as thick as the previous generation that was reliable and had a longer battery life, pretty much any human being on the planet would choose a thicker phone.
For less than $30 you can buy a phone case with an integrated battery pack that will double the thickness of your phone (++structural integrity) and quadruple your battery capacity. If you're on an iPhone it'll even effectively replace your Lightning charge port with some variant of USB. These things aren't a big secret, and yet the vast majority of smartphone users don't seem to own one.
Why? Maybe it's because massively profitable consumer electronics companies are actually pretty good at reading the market, and people complaining about not having a massive battery in their phone are a niche.
That's fair. So the FBI comes to you with their lawyer and their lawfully obtained search warrant you'll hand over your encryption keys? I think that's exactly what the federal government wants, but experience has taught all of us that in the real world people's reaction isn't "Oops, you got me, here are my keys."
How is Elon Musk appealing to sports car enthusiasts with an expensive family sedan?
By making that family sedan go 0-60 in 2.5 seconds.
the passengers are pre-identified (to sign up, they needed a cell phone, a credit card and a valid address to go with it), and the drivers are unknown (except to the companies, which do little or no effective screening). The vehicles used are unlikely to meet the requirements for taxi use, and are often flat-out unsafe for drivers, passengers, or bystanders.
If the passengers can be considered pre-identified because they have a credit card and billing address on file, how are drivers not pre-identified by the requirements of Uber? Uber may not mandate safety checks on the vehicle, but they do mandate that it be no older than a certain model year, and all drivers are tracked by a review system that quickly weeds out those that provide a sub-optimal experience. The big ride sharing companies are playing by different rules than taxi companies, but they are playing by a set of rules. Their success has shown that consumers prefer Uber/Lyft's coporate policies to the taxi regulations imposed by the government.
Audi isn't trying to solve the problem globally. They're trying to add a feature to their cars that their competitor's don't have.
If I don't know how to cook something I can find a step-by-step video or article telling me exactly how. Thanks to the internet, this knowledge isn't lost forever even if the required skills are a bit rusty. If this generation isn't cooking, I think it's more because they don't want to, not because they can't.
...it'll be at least 20 times safer than people who drive automatic.
This is nothing like a suicide bomber. They strapped a bomb to a stick and then strapped the stick to a remote controlled car. It's a smart bomb, if anything.
Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Exchanging keys over a public channel is a solvable problem. Presumably Facebook will follow basic crypto protocol if they're at all serious about end-to-end encryption.
"Most of Cheshire is middle of nowhere"? It's less than 20 miles from Manchester and Liverpool, both with a population of 500,000ish. If that's "middle of nowhere" by English standards, it only reinforces OP's point about population density.
"Political correctness needs to die" is an overly broad statement. It's not a bad thing that we live in a society that considers it inappropriate to use racial or homophobic slurs.
They already have: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/i...
What protected health information is being leaked? You can identify a device and then maybe tie that device to an individual, but you aren't gaining access to any of their sensitive data.
No, but it's dumb to say that you don't have a choice to do so.