I can't think of a single thing that I like about the site redesign. Content is further way in every sense of the word, and the wasted space/content ratio is through the roof. Summaries are gone, so I can't readily see if an article at least has a chance of being valuable until I've clicked through to it.
Dear heavens - I may have to try Bing News again....:-(
The answer is there is no way to do it. If a computer is on a network it isn't secure and it can't be isolated. A "network" is the anthesis of isolation. If you connect it to the Internet, game over man.
Uninstalled from my phone, changed my rating from 5 stars to 2 and dropped them a note on their web site inviting them to contact me if they revise their TOS to respect my privacy again.
I didn't live and die by Gas Buddy, but I did find it useful. Just not useful enough to bare my soul quite as far as they are now requiring.
Some cash registers need to be on the internet. It's how they process electronic payments. Modern eftpos terminals don't use dial-up connections anymore.
I gave the counter guy at my mechanic a strange look the other day when he processed my payment via credit card and I heard the modem dial out. He rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, they 'upgraded' us last week. More secure because it doesn't have to go over the Internet."
They're so concerned about people making calls, yet they've had airline phones for years.
And how is it any worse to be trapped on a plane with such idiots than on a bus? At least on a plane you're only stuck with them for a couple hours, not all day on an overland trip.
Airline phones = Way Expensive = Nobody used them = No Problem
Idiots on a bus = People who don't have enough money to fly = Fewer people used them = Not as big a problem.
See also; As a rule of thumb if you can afford to fly you're not taking the bus.
There are 22 houses in the subdivision. Let the dingbats who don't want lines run across their property keep their DSL. When they try to sell their houses to non-Luddites, make sure to hang around the open house and tell everyone that they only have tin-can-and-string Internet access.
Next they'll go to the FCC and get them to reclassify ISPs are common carriers so that it's impossible to make new competitors due to regulatory hurtles.
I'd like to think I'm paranoid and/or kidding.
I'm pretty sure you are kidding. It's inconceivable that "they" would try to get ISPs classified as common carriers. The courts just told the FCC to take a long walk off a short pier over net neutrality because ISPs *WEREN''T* common carriers.
I remember once, after paying for a tickets, my wife and I got the the theater doors (big multiplex theater) and there was a guy with a bin and bags sitting at the door making everyone put their phones in little plastic bags, write their names on them and toss them in the bin. My wife and I stopped going to the theaters for a couple years after that. We were rather insulted they made us pay nearly $50 (no refunds) before making us give up our brand new phones without telling us a head of time and we weren't going to leave our phones at home just because the theater didn't want us to have them
I'm sorry - did you not have pockets? Or did they frisk you on the way in?
"making" everyone put their phones in little plastic bags... pfft. Yeah, right.
Apparently the ST:TNG computer couldn't even handle Boolean queries, much less queries with semantic awareness...
TROI: Computer, search for the term Darmok in all linguistic databases for this sector.
COMPUTER: Searching. Darmok is the name of a seventh dynasty emperor on Kanda Four. A mytho-historical hunter on Shantil Three. A colony on Malindi Seven. A frozen dessert on Tazna Five. A
TROI: Stop search. Computer, how many entries are there for Darmok?
COMPUTER: Forty seven. . . .
DATA: Computer, search for the term Tanagra. All databases.
COMPUTER: Searching. Tanagra. The ruling family on Gallos Two. A ceremonial drink on Lerishi Four. An island-continent on Shantil Three
TROI: Stop. Shantil Three. Computer, cross-reference the last entry with the previous search index.
COMPUTER: Darmok is the name of a mytho-historical hunter on Shantil Three.
TROI: I think we've got something.
Bogota, Colombia initially implemented '123' as their emergency number (although they now allow 112 as well). I think Guatemala other Departments in Colombia use 123 as well.
I usually don't use the area code when dialing a number within the same area code, so I'm fairly sure there's no requirement to use the area code. Of course, that's only for the handful of numbers I actually hand-dial rather than just picking from my list of contacts.
It depends on whether the area code you are in is an overlay area with another area code. If all local calls from the phone you are using are within one area code, you can probably get away with 7-digit dialing. If you're in Northern Virginia, for example, 703, 571 and 540 can all be local calls (actually, 301, 240 and 202 in MD and DC may be local calls as well) so 10-digit dialing is required.
"No, scapegoat did not start with the Greeks. Scapegoat comes from the book of Leviticus where a goat was designated to be cast out into the desert as part of atonement for sins. The Greeks actually used a cripple, a beggar or a criminal for the practice you are thinking of, not a goat."
That is wishful thinking. The written Leviticus is younger than the Greek high culture, as Leviticus wasn't finalized until Josephus (AD 37– c.100, according to Wikipedia).
"...scholars are practically unanimous that the book had a long period of growth, that it includes some material of considerable antiquity, and that it reached its present form in the Persian period (538–332 BC)
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Windows has the clearly superior MPC-HC which is free as in freedom and free as in beer...
As long as you don't think you'll ever need support of any kind, perhaps.
Dear heavens - I may have to try Bing News again.... :-(
The answer is there is no way to do it. If a computer is on a network it isn't secure and it can't be isolated. A "network" is the anthesis of isolation. If you connect it to the Internet, game over man.
See the pilot episodes of Battlestar Galactica...
You are familiar with the Historical Documents, are you not? https://youtu.be/5wXDnJt3cUI?t...
...of the United States and moves on.
Midichlorians?
"Powerfully mediocre" "Terrifically mediocre" "Decidedly mediocre" "Aggressively mediocre" "Stunningly mediocre".
I went and saw it anyway.
I deserve this ache in my wallet.
I didn't live and die by Gas Buddy, but I did find it useful. Just not useful enough to bare my soul quite as far as they are now requiring.
Some cash registers need to be on the internet. It's how they process electronic payments. Modern eftpos terminals don't use dial-up connections anymore.
I gave the counter guy at my mechanic a strange look the other day when he processed my payment via credit card and I heard the modem dial out. He rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, they 'upgraded' us last week. More secure because it doesn't have to go over the Internet."
They're so concerned about people making calls, yet they've had airline phones for years.
And how is it any worse to be trapped on a plane with such idiots than on a bus? At least on a plane you're only stuck with them for a couple hours, not all day on an overland trip.
Airline phones = Way Expensive = Nobody used them = No Problem
Idiots on a bus = People who don't have enough money to fly = Fewer people used them = Not as big a problem.
See also; As a rule of thumb if you can afford to fly you're not taking the bus.
There are 22 houses in the subdivision. Let the dingbats who don't want lines run across their property keep their DSL. When they try to sell their houses to non-Luddites, make sure to hang around the open house and tell everyone that they only have tin-can-and-string Internet access.
Next they'll go to the FCC and get them to reclassify ISPs are common carriers so that it's impossible to make new competitors due to regulatory hurtles.
I'd like to think I'm paranoid and/or kidding.
I'm pretty sure you are kidding. It's inconceivable that "they" would try to get ISPs classified as common carriers. The courts just told the FCC to take a long walk off a short pier over net neutrality because ISPs *WEREN''T* common carriers.
I remember once, after paying for a tickets, my wife and I got the the theater doors (big multiplex theater) and there was a guy with a bin and bags sitting at the door making everyone put their phones in little plastic bags, write their names on them and toss them in the bin. My wife and I stopped going to the theaters for a couple years after that. We were rather insulted they made us pay nearly $50 (no refunds) before making us give up our brand new phones without telling us a head of time and we weren't going to leave our phones at home just because the theater didn't want us to have them
I'm sorry - did you not have pockets? Or did they frisk you on the way in?
"making" everyone put their phones in little plastic bags... pfft. Yeah, right.
The FBI's prime directive is to, "to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States".
Not any more... "The primary function of the FBI is national security."
Or add a button to temporarily raise it if you're about to run over something? :)
Isn't jump the "A" button?
the ST:TNG computer couldn't even handle Boolean queries
That, or Troi was too dumb to effectively operate the computer. I've got an opinion on which of those is more likely...
Data was on hand, too, so we can't dump all the blame on her... ;-)
TROI: Computer, search for the term Darmok in all linguistic databases for this sector.
.
.
.
COMPUTER: Searching. Darmok is the name of a seventh dynasty emperor on Kanda Four. A mytho-historical hunter on Shantil Three. A colony on Malindi Seven. A frozen dessert on Tazna Five. A
TROI: Stop search. Computer, how many entries are there for Darmok?
COMPUTER: Forty seven.
DATA: Computer, search for the term Tanagra. All databases.
COMPUTER: Searching. Tanagra. The ruling family on Gallos Two. A ceremonial drink on Lerishi Four. An island-continent on Shantil Three
TROI: Stop. Shantil Three. Computer, cross-reference the last entry with the previous search index.
COMPUTER: Darmok is the name of a mytho-historical hunter on Shantil Three.
TROI: I think we've got something.
I agree. The sense of entitlement we've developed as a nation (speaking for the U.S., of course, is appalling.
Man up, post as an anonymous coward, and criticize people who actually HAVE friends.
Dork...
Bogota, Colombia initially implemented '123' as their emergency number (although they now allow 112 as well). I think Guatemala other Departments in Colombia use 123 as well.
I usually don't use the area code when dialing a number within the same area code, so I'm fairly sure there's no requirement to use the area code. Of course, that's only for the handful of numbers I actually hand-dial rather than just picking from my list of contacts.
It depends on whether the area code you are in is an overlay area with another area code. If all local calls from the phone you are using are within one area code, you can probably get away with 7-digit dialing. If you're in Northern Virginia, for example, 703, 571 and 540 can all be local calls (actually, 301, 240 and 202 in MD and DC may be local calls as well) so 10-digit dialing is required.
"No, scapegoat did not start with the Greeks. Scapegoat comes from the book of Leviticus where a goat was designated to be cast out into the desert as part of atonement for sins. The Greeks actually used a cripple, a beggar or a criminal for the practice you are thinking of, not a goat."
That is wishful thinking. The written Leviticus is younger than the Greek high culture, as Leviticus wasn't finalized until Josephus (AD 37– c.100, according to Wikipedia).
Jackass. Not only do you not know anything, you can't even quote the Wikipedia article on Leviticus correctly;
" ...scholars are practically unanimous that the book had a long period of growth, that it includes some material of considerable antiquity, and that it reached its present form in the Persian period (538–332 BC)
... but an utter ignorance of the technology did not prevent her from making decisions about that technology.
Sounds like she belongs in Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
2112 - end of the world!
oh wait
Actually, that was Rush's best album. 2012 is the end of the world.
Perfectly fine. Anything that would drive that crappy company out of business is a win. Their pizza tastes like warmed over turds.
So, you're a turd connoisseur, then?