Yep. The really interesting question is how much these activities increases the likelyhood of accidents and congestion. With a sample size of 3 million, one should think it would be possible to make some correlation.
Good points. Anyone wielding authority should be subject to an open process protecting against abuse of said authority, and the rules should be sufficiently clear that everyone knows when they are breaking and/or bending the rules. If this is not observed, it will end with abuse, corruption and nepotism.
You may want to qualify this statement as TFS states that only government entities would be banned, not citizens or non-government organizations or corperations. Assuming that paying taxes and similar does not constitute a "direct provable relationship with said government."
The ban would cover all government-owned entities and others that have a "direct provable relationship with said government."
Yes, there was. According to TFS, they used more precise computational models which caused the need for dark matter to go away. Note that while the story was published on slashdot on April 1st, the article is from March 30th and the paper is from February 12th.
6. Ok, I'll give them this one...ever since I was a kid, I LOVED the previews. I don't, however, appreciate the multitude of commercials they've been putting there last years...ugh. I paid...quit selling me stuff!!
Previews and commercials are probably the main drawback of the theatre experience for me. Just goes to show how different people can be, and that there is no way to please everyone.
The date on the linked article is March 30th, so even taking different time zones and daylight savings etc into account, it was not published on April 1st. Unless they modified the date stamp to fool us.
To my knowledge, Harry Truman was a Christian, and I suspect that most of the people involved with the decision and actual bombing were as well. I do not claim that it was due to some crazed Christian conspiracy (because it wasn't), but when people make blanket statements that "Christians would never do X", I find it fitting to note that some Christians actually did take X to the next extremely nasty level, which no one else has.
This IoT device is also easy to hack as well, so maybe the note should be changed to "I record audio and upload it to the Internet. Everyone can listen in and tell me what to say."
1. make sure you have the "Pro" version of Windows 10
And what happens if you have the Home or OEM version of windows 10? You know, the one most people get when they get a new computer? Or when they accidentally "upgrade" from Windows 7, 8 or 8.1? That's right, they can't change the group policies!
I have always been puzzled by people trusting free services to host their important and even sometimes sensitive data.
Like me, GP is paying for a service;-)
I don't have much in my public folder, and most are single files where I have posted a few direct links on various parts of the interwebs (circa 2010). I don't remember exactly where, so it would be hard to track them down, if I needed to update the links to avoid causing link rot. Yeah, yeah, little of value may be lost, but for that one or two people that would like to follow the links, it could be annoying.
If you are giving money how to you know the money will be used for the correct purpose?
You don't. But when you are entering into a business arrangement with someone, promising to spend money received on a mutually agreed purpose, but have no intention on spending said money on the agreed purpose and spend the money on something else, you are committing a crime. In my opinion it is good that witnesses to such villainy come forward. Sadly, many of those con artists manage to avoid getting caught.
Paper ballot with optical scanner seems a good compromise: you can count electronically, but if there's a problem, you have a paper trail.
How do you know that there is a problem, if you haven't made sure that the paper ballots have been under observation from when voters start casting their votes until the votes have been counted? If days or weeks have passed, the ballots could have been tampered with.
There is a very easy solution to that particular problem: The power switch where you plugged in your TV. Switch it off, and annoying LED goes bye-bye.
My main gripes with LEDs on electronics is when they start blinking, e.g. when the DVD player is reading from the disc. Bloody distracting when trying to watch a movie.
Even cyanogen provides a wiki page to tell you how to load Google Apps on your Cyanogenmod device, because "many users find them beneficial to take full advantage of the Android ecosystem."
Many Android app developers only upload their apps to Google Play. It may be possible to find the apps on other app markets, but you have no idea if it is the real deal or crawling with malware.
Private browsing opens your browser in a blank-slate mode. Generally, no plugins, no cookies.
Then you need a better browser:-) When I use Firefox for private browsing, NoScript, AdBlock and Ghostery are still very much active.
This is not how I want to use my computer, logging in to every single site every single time I visit despite being on a trusted device. We have plugins and cookies for a reason, because they make the Internet a more useful tool.
I mostly agree there. However, private browsing does allow me to start a session, e.g. to search for regular goods on the internet (because many webshops do require that I allow javascript to run), and clear any cookies and history during that session when I close it.
If you recall the cars in Demolition Man, they have two modes: Self-driving where the car does everything and Manual where the driver does everything. When switching to self-driving, the wheel is pulled into the dashboard and locked, so the driver has a very visual and tactile way of keeping track of the current mode.
This may come as a shock to you, but over the last century IQ tests have been revised because each generation has been scoring higher than the preceding generation. According to this, the IQs rise with an average of 3 each decade. So, we are getting smarter people. It doesn't matter if they aren't the smartest in the bunch, if they are smart enough to do the job.
Because you don't train someone, who has been manufacturing doorknobs for the last 20 years, to now be an electrical engineer.
Last time I checked, Spain had a 50% youth unemployment. These aren't people who have been "manufacturing doorknobs for the last 20 years", but young minds, still flexible and able to learn new skills.
The summary suggests that the Spanish labor market is not raising wages to draw the migrant workers back home, but rather importing workers from Argentina to keep wages low. Given the high unemployment in Spain, it also puzzles me why the Spanish government and employers association are not actively providing facilities to educate unemployed workers to take the vacant positions. Or look for skilled Syrian workers, but that is another discussion.
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Yep. The really interesting question is how much these activities increases the likelyhood of accidents and congestion. With a sample size of 3 million, one should think it would be possible to make some correlation.
Not very fun if you live near a traffic light. Especially when you want to sleep.
Good points. Anyone wielding authority should be subject to an open process protecting against abuse of said authority, and the rules should be sufficiently clear that everyone knows when they are breaking and/or bending the rules. If this is not observed, it will end with abuse, corruption and nepotism.
The ban would cover all government-owned entities and others that have a "direct provable relationship with said government."
Yes, there was. According to TFS, they used more precise computational models which caused the need for dark matter to go away. Note that while the story was published on slashdot on April 1st, the article is from March 30th and the paper is from February 12th.
6. Previews.
6. Ok, I'll give them this one...ever since I was a kid, I LOVED the previews. I don't, however, appreciate the multitude of commercials they've been putting there last years...ugh. I paid...quit selling me stuff!!
Previews and commercials are probably the main drawback of the theatre experience for me. Just goes to show how different people can be, and that there is no way to please everyone.
The date on the linked article is March 30th, so even taking different time zones and daylight savings etc into account, it was not published on April 1st. Unless they modified the date stamp to fool us.
To my knowledge, Harry Truman was a Christian, and I suspect that most of the people involved with the decision and actual bombing were as well. I do not claim that it was due to some crazed Christian conspiracy (because it wasn't), but when people make blanket statements that "Christians would never do X", I find it fitting to note that some Christians actually did take X to the next extremely nasty level, which no one else has.
Christians aren't killing people or threatening to use nuclear weapons on people who disagree with them.
So far, the "only" two nuclear weapons used against populated areas were used by Christians.
Muslims are continually plotting terror attacks against western nations as we sadly saw in London
Less than a year ago, a man killed Labour MP Jo Cox. He was a far rightist and shouting "Britain First".
This IoT device is also easy to hack as well, so maybe the note should be changed to "I record audio and upload it to the Internet. Everyone can listen in and tell me what to say."
1. make sure you have the "Pro" version of Windows 10
And what happens if you have the Home or OEM version of windows 10? You know, the one most people get when they get a new computer? Or when they accidentally "upgrade" from Windows 7, 8 or 8.1? That's right, they can't change the group policies!
I pay for a Dropbox account...
I have always been puzzled by people trusting free services to host their important and even sometimes sensitive data.
Like me, GP is paying for a service ;-)
I don't have much in my public folder, and most are single files where I have posted a few direct links on various parts of the interwebs (circa 2010). I don't remember exactly where, so it would be hard to track them down, if I needed to update the links to avoid causing link rot. Yeah, yeah, little of value may be lost, but for that one or two people that would like to follow the links, it could be annoying.
Janus is already in use as a moon of Saturn.
Futurama did something like that. Try to search for furturama eye phone. You are welcome.
If 2 factor includes a device, then there needs to be some way to authenticate if that device is stolen when you are in a remote location.
Another horrible version of 2 factor authentication is when the device is a smart phone that you are using to log onto the service in question.
Does it come with a real menu bar with file, edit and other proper menus? Or do I have to play "hunt the secret glyph" to unlock a menu?
Yeah, it does. You can even configure it to always show it. Alt+v opens the view menu. Then select Toolbars (e.g. by pressing t) and select Menu Bar.
If you are giving money how to you know the money will be used for the correct purpose?
You don't. But when you are entering into a business arrangement with someone, promising to spend money received on a mutually agreed purpose, but have no intention on spending said money on the agreed purpose and spend the money on something else, you are committing a crime. In my opinion it is good that witnesses to such villainy come forward. Sadly, many of those con artists manage to avoid getting caught.
Paper ballot with optical scanner seems a good compromise: you can count electronically, but if there's a problem, you have a paper trail.
How do you know that there is a problem, if you haven't made sure that the paper ballots have been under observation from when voters start casting their votes until the votes have been counted? If days or weeks have passed, the ballots could have been tampered with.
There is a very easy solution to that particular problem: The power switch where you plugged in your TV. Switch it off, and annoying LED goes bye-bye.
My main gripes with LEDs on electronics is when they start blinking, e.g. when the DVD player is reading from the disc. Bloody distracting when trying to watch a movie.
Even cyanogen provides a wiki page to tell you how to load Google Apps on your Cyanogenmod device, because "many users find them beneficial to take full advantage of the Android ecosystem."
Many Android app developers only upload their apps to Google Play. It may be possible to find the apps on other app markets, but you have no idea if it is the real deal or crawling with malware.
Private browsing opens your browser in a blank-slate mode. Generally, no plugins, no cookies.
Then you need a better browser :-) When I use Firefox for private browsing, NoScript, AdBlock and Ghostery are still very much active.
This is not how I want to use my computer, logging in to every single site every single time I visit despite being on a trusted device. We have plugins and cookies for a reason, because they make the Internet a more useful tool.
I mostly agree there. However, private browsing does allow me to start a session, e.g. to search for regular goods on the internet (because many webshops do require that I allow javascript to run), and clear any cookies and history during that session when I close it.
If you recall the cars in Demolition Man, they have two modes: Self-driving where the car does everything and Manual where the driver does everything. When switching to self-driving, the wheel is pulled into the dashboard and locked, so the driver has a very visual and tactile way of keeping track of the current mode.
This may come as a shock to you, but over the last century IQ tests have been revised because each generation has been scoring higher than the preceding generation. According to this, the IQs rise with an average of 3 each decade. So, we are getting smarter people. It doesn't matter if they aren't the smartest in the bunch, if they are smart enough to do the job.
Because you don't train someone, who has been manufacturing doorknobs for the last 20 years, to now be an electrical engineer.
Last time I checked, Spain had a 50% youth unemployment. These aren't people who have been "manufacturing doorknobs for the last 20 years", but young minds, still flexible and able to learn new skills.
The summary suggests that the Spanish labor market is not raising wages to draw the migrant workers back home, but rather importing workers from Argentina to keep wages low. Given the high unemployment in Spain, it also puzzles me why the Spanish government and employers association are not actively providing facilities to educate unemployed workers to take the vacant positions. Or look for skilled Syrian workers, but that is another discussion.