I ignore them as well, and I've noticed they're no better in Canada about being accurate. I've gotten a few that were fully in the "wtf? I never downloaded that" file...
Canada, federally, has a 5% sales tax (the Goods and Services Tax, G.S.T.). Anything more than that is provincial, and varies from 0% (Alberta) to 10% (the maritime provinces and Quebec), yielding a 5% to 15% tax.
When radiation was discovered (not that long ago, in human terms), it utterly violated BASIC SCIENCE. Therefore, no research should have ever been done on it, IT MUST BE A HOAX. The Curies just DIDN'T KNOW BASIC SCIENCE...
This is how science works. Why do you care if someone gets distracted by it? There are lots of scientists around, let a few of 'em investigate edge cases. That's where the interesting stuff is. THIS IS HOW SCIENCE WORKS.
You are very passionate about Space Nutters, maybe you should investigate the fine pharmacopoeia SCIENCE has available to you through basic research.
It's done so for me once. And on at least two different occasions I've watched, powerless to stop it, as it one-by-one resets all application defaults back to MS's apps.
I keep my FB profile in Paranoid mode, I have only 4-5 'friends' on there, privacy settings maxed (I only use it because my wife loves the thing).
Suddenly about 3-4 months ago, all my co-workers and our clients started being suggested. I don't have the FB app on my phone, as far as I know I've never let them know my phone number. It deeply creeped me out.
Happened to me twice, I sat and watched as Win10 paraded a series of "An app default was reset due to an error". Nothing I could do about it either time.
What if you could edit for the aforementioned 5-15 minutes, but there is always a way to see the original? That way someone editbombing responses would be shown as a editbomber....
This seems like a good idea to me. When I'm moderating, I like to mod up insightful or informative posts; but when you get into a APK vs. Coren22 spamming contest you end up burning 10 points just killing the APK spam...
My $5000 HP plotter has Windows 7 drivers only. MS upgrading me to 10 renders that hardware useless. MS either owes me working drivers (it IS a postscript printer, it should work) or a new printer.
Most lawyers I've had dealings with will charge $2000 to write two letters and mail them. If they type slowly, it probably took them approximately 30 minutes.
How is that NOT obscene?
And f-off on the "more educated than you". I'm a specialist, I've probably spent more time in training and education than the average lawyer, yet I earn 1/10th what they do. However, lawyers get to write the laws, so a whole bunch of otherwise simple matters require a lawyer to write the above mentioned letters, because the law says they have to. It's a racket.
Whoa, everybody, we've got a badass over here, he's installed windows 10 TWICE.
Therefore he is clearly an expert on all things Windows 10, and anything you say that differs from him clearly shows YOU are wrong.
We now know that we really do need church. Not necessarily Christ, though they're probably the ones with the best set of morals
Citation please. On BOTH of these points. IMHO, I now know that church (note that you didn't say religion) willfully blinds one to evidence based decision making. And the Magdeline Asylums in Ireland sure put a lie to your second point...
It's undoubtedly political, and yes, it is in fact election time in Canada (October 19th, in fact).
The Conservative Party of Canada has had a history of muzzling scientists and government departments whenever reality conflicts with their ultra-right wing neo-con agenda. Here's to hoping their damaging governance is at it's end... ABC, anyone but conservatives.
BS. I've worked with all the different vendors out there and I call BS on "double the failure rate". Apple/Macs are pretty much on par with any other tier 1 PC manufacturer. They've had some problem children, they've had some workhorses.
But don't spread lies about a 100% greater failure rate.
After Chernobyl, there was a ton of concern as to where the fuel had ended up, raising concerns that the deterioration of the structure could result in further "events". After much heroic and life threatening investigation, it was discovered that the core in melting through the base of the containment vessel had breached a thick layer of sand placed there as shielding. The sand melted into a glass, completely entombing the fuel and then solidifying into various flow patterns in the basement. This was completely unexpected, and was a huge relief to those involved.
If they had had proper modeling and testing of the containment vessel, they would have been much more sure that the fuel was unlikely to further react, and would not have had to risk the team's lives entering hard radiation areas.
There was an excellent Nova episode on this in the early 90's, but unfortunately due to some licencing issue it is unavailable from PBS. Snagged a ratty VHS copy of it a few years ago though- do wish there were some HQ versions of it kicking around.
ANPR has several problems - you need cameras on every street corner, it lets the government know everywhere you go, people can put false plates on their cars, etc.
(No, the government probably won't see any of those as a problem, but their opposition will...)
A GPS system could just measure distance traveled, not locations or any other data. The car could refuse to work if it doesn't receive a GPS signal that makes sense. If it's in a tamper-proof box then hacking it could be difficult enough that most people wouldn't bother.
So you don't trust plate readers, as the government can track you, but you believe that a GPS system will be used to ONLY measure "distance traveled, not locations or other data."
Do you have any basic understanding on how GPS type systems work?
They invented a wonderful device for people like you, it's called a HORN. You wait 1-2 seconds for them to move, then you utilize your HORN ACTIVATION circuit in your automobile, and it emits a "tootling" noise to alert the person in front of you to direct their attention to the petroleum distillate input foot lever, which in turn will allow their automobile to resume it's joyful progress.
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I ignore them as well, and I've noticed they're no better in Canada about being accurate. I've gotten a few that were fully in the "wtf? I never downloaded that" file...
Canada, federally, has a 5% sales tax (the Goods and Services Tax, G.S.T.). Anything more than that is provincial, and varies from 0% (Alberta) to 10% (the maritime provinces and Quebec), yielding a 5% to 15% tax.
(insert "the more you know" image here)
I also like the "SpaceX must be scamming something somewhere because reasons!" argument.
When radiation was discovered (not that long ago, in human terms), it utterly violated BASIC SCIENCE. Therefore, no research should have ever been done on it, IT MUST BE A HOAX. The Curies just DIDN'T KNOW BASIC SCIENCE...
This is how science works. Why do you care if someone gets distracted by it? There are lots of scientists around, let a few of 'em investigate edge cases. That's where the interesting stuff is. THIS IS HOW SCIENCE WORKS.
You are very passionate about Space Nutters, maybe you should investigate the fine pharmacopoeia SCIENCE has available to you through basic research.
Do not taunt Apple Orb.
It's done so for me once. And on at least two different occasions I've watched, powerless to stop it, as it one-by-one resets all application defaults back to MS's apps.
I keep my FB profile in Paranoid mode, I have only 4-5 'friends' on there, privacy settings maxed (I only use it because my wife loves the thing). Suddenly about 3-4 months ago, all my co-workers and our clients started being suggested. I don't have the FB app on my phone, as far as I know I've never let them know my phone number. It deeply creeped me out.
APK will NEVER get a +1 from me, no spammer should ever be rewarded even if they're correct.
Happened to me twice, I sat and watched as Win10 paraded a series of "An app default was reset due to an error". Nothing I could do about it either time.
What if you could edit for the aforementioned 5-15 minutes, but there is always a way to see the original? That way someone editbombing responses would be shown as a editbomber....
It's pretty bad, to be sure. But at least they pay us... :-)
This seems like a good idea to me. When I'm moderating, I like to mod up insightful or informative posts; but when you get into a APK vs. Coren22 spamming contest you end up burning 10 points just killing the APK spam...
My $5000 HP plotter has Windows 7 drivers only. MS upgrading me to 10 renders that hardware useless. MS either owes me working drivers (it IS a postscript printer, it should work) or a new printer.
Most lawyers I've had dealings with will charge $2000 to write two letters and mail them. If they type slowly, it probably took them approximately 30 minutes. How is that NOT obscene? And f-off on the "more educated than you". I'm a specialist, I've probably spent more time in training and education than the average lawyer, yet I earn 1/10th what they do. However, lawyers get to write the laws, so a whole bunch of otherwise simple matters require a lawyer to write the above mentioned letters, because the law says they have to. It's a racket.
Whoa, everybody, we've got a badass over here, he's installed windows 10 TWICE. Therefore he is clearly an expert on all things Windows 10, and anything you say that differs from him clearly shows YOU are wrong.
I wish both of you would just fuck off and stop shitting up Slashdot.
We now know that we really do need church. Not necessarily Christ, though they're probably the ones with the best set of morals
Citation please. On BOTH of these points. IMHO, I now know that church (note that you didn't say religion) willfully blinds one to evidence based decision making. And the Magdeline Asylums in Ireland sure put a lie to your second point...
It's undoubtedly political, and yes, it is in fact election time in Canada (October 19th, in fact). The Conservative Party of Canada has had a history of muzzling scientists and government departments whenever reality conflicts with their ultra-right wing neo-con agenda. Here's to hoping their damaging governance is at it's end... ABC, anyone but conservatives.
No. Not at all.
350 million people disagree with you. /shrug.
BS. I've worked with all the different vendors out there and I call BS on "double the failure rate". Apple/Macs are pretty much on par with any other tier 1 PC manufacturer. They've had some problem children, they've had some workhorses. But don't spread lies about a 100% greater failure rate.
Actually, it's the embryonic stage of a Titan. Hopefully Iapetus will survive it's birth and not shatter into a second ring system...
After Chernobyl, there was a ton of concern as to where the fuel had ended up, raising concerns that the deterioration of the structure could result in further "events". After much heroic and life threatening investigation, it was discovered that the core in melting through the base of the containment vessel had breached a thick layer of sand placed there as shielding. The sand melted into a glass, completely entombing the fuel and then solidifying into various flow patterns in the basement. This was completely unexpected, and was a huge relief to those involved.
If they had had proper modeling and testing of the containment vessel, they would have been much more sure that the fuel was unlikely to further react, and would not have had to risk the team's lives entering hard radiation areas.
There was an excellent Nova episode on this in the early 90's, but unfortunately due to some licencing issue it is unavailable from PBS. Snagged a ratty VHS copy of it a few years ago though- do wish there were some HQ versions of it kicking around.
ANPR has several problems - you need cameras on every street corner, it lets the government know everywhere you go, people can put false plates on their cars, etc.
(No, the government probably won't see any of those as a problem, but their opposition will...)
A GPS system could just measure distance traveled, not locations or any other data. The car could refuse to work if it doesn't receive a GPS signal that makes sense. If it's in a tamper-proof box then hacking it could be difficult enough that most people wouldn't bother.
So you don't trust plate readers, as the government can track you, but you believe that a GPS system will be used to ONLY measure "distance traveled, not locations or other data."
Do you have any basic understanding on how GPS type systems work?
They invented a wonderful device for people like you, it's called a HORN. You wait 1-2 seconds for them to move, then you utilize your HORN ACTIVATION circuit in your automobile, and it emits a "tootling" noise to alert the person in front of you to direct their attention to the petroleum distillate input foot lever, which in turn will allow their automobile to resume it's joyful progress.
A whole light cycle, really? >.>