I know a pretty blonde girl who once needed to send a fax. Not having a fax machine at home or work she asked her mom where she could go to have it sent. Her mom meant to tell her to go to Office Depot but accidentally said "Home Depot". Not thinking anything of it, she went to Home Depot and asked the guy at the customer service desk if he'd send this fax for her, and he did.
One former police chief says the way it was handled "kind of boggles the mind..."
It's almost as if the police are power-tripping self-righteous morons whose starting assumption is that they're never wrong, and in fact can't be wrong, so the ONLY obvious course of action is to go full-nuclear in every situation. Who knew...
Interesting about the modding. One thing I am not is a master of puppets. I don't even bother to mod or metamod and haven't in, pfft, maybe 10 years or more? 15? And you can see from my comment history that I don't have a legion of vigilant fans to defend my honor. https://slashdot.org/users.pl?... I'm guessing it was the rabid anti-authoritarian mindset here responding to your suggestion #1.
> 1. When the cops tell you to do something, you do it.
Five cops burst into your room on an otherwise regular boring day in your regular boring life where shit like this NEVER happens. You are scared out of your mind. One of them yells "Don't move!" and at the same time another yells "Get down on the ground, NOW!" You can barely hear the instructions from the noise all five are making. What is the correct course of action here?
I agree, that would be great. Lacking that, here's what I do: swipe up, turn on DnD, then set an alarm that says "turn DnD off". Manual, but better than nothing. You can even leave that alarm in your alarm list, but off, and re-use it other times, adjusting the time as needed.
Or, "hey siri, set a reminder to turn off DnD in one hour". Again, better than nothing.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm pretty sure this has been discussed at least nine million times in the last 20 years. The main reasons: 1. Demonstrated ability to stick with something for a while. 2. The average college grad is usually more literate than the average high school grad. Better chance that you'll get an employee that can do basic math, speak properly to customers, etc. 3. Employers will get many applicants for any given job, so this will at least filter out SOME people. And of those that apply for the job, #1 above applies. Yes, it's lazy, but as long as you have more applicants than open positions, why not? (From the employer's point of view.)
LetÃ(TM)s say Jimmy is shopping on WalmartÃ(TM)s website. HeÃ(TM)s shopping there because he doesnÃ(TM)t want to go to a brink-n-mortar. He sees the price difference and thinks to himself ÃoeDang! ItÃ(TM)s almost $1.00 cheaper in the store. I wonder what AmazonÃ(TM)s price would be? Wow. Amazon is.50 cents cheaper online, and plus I wonÃ(TM)t have to go to the store. IÃ(TM)ll just order from Amazon.Ã Walmart is absolutely clueless.
Dear Slashdot, I *literally* couldn't stand to read this. Please fix kthxbye.
Where is "here"? I've rarely, if ever, heard anyone refer to a sidewalk as pavement. (U.S. resident here.) The sidewalk is the sidewalk. "Pavement" means road, sometimes, but if someone means "road", they just say "road". "Pavement" is usually a paved surface like a parking lot, and is usually only said when a distinction needs to be made, like when there's a big, casual parking area with paved and unpaved areas. Eg., "Move your car off of the grass and onto the pavement" or "park in the grass and keep the pavement clear."
Remember when information density was a thing? On my glorious 30", 1600px-high display at work, this page takes THREE screenfuls. https://about.mattermost.com/
Select all, copy, paste, word count: 298 words.
As for file size, the page itself -- no includes -- is 650k. When I save as an archive with scripts and images, it's 4.5 MB.
Troy: (on TV) Now turn to the next problem. If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you? You, the redhead in the Chicago school system? Girl: Pepsi? Troy: Partial credit!
When I first saw the headline, I read 'Chrome' but thought 'Google' and my thought was "Oh great, Google is going to start penalizing sites where you do a Google search but the page does not contain the text that was shown in the Google result."
As for the issue actually being discussed, I've never even seen that happen.
"Justice Department Tells Time Warner It Must Sell CNN Or DirecTV To Approve Its AT&T Merger" makes it sound like TW owns DirecTV. As the second sentence of the summary indicates, AT&T owns DirecTV.
Side note, DTV customer service SUCKS since the AT&T takeover. We made a small change to our service, they screwed it up, then they screwed up the billing for it, and it has taken about 5-10 so far to try to get it fixed, and (as of right now) it's still not fixed. DTV was never perfect, but if there was a problem (and that was rare), it was usually fixed with a call or two. The current problem is not even the first we've had in the couple years since the takeover.
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I know a pretty blonde girl who once needed to send a fax. Not having a fax machine at home or work she asked her mom where she could go to have it sent. Her mom meant to tell her to go to Office Depot but accidentally said "Home Depot". Not thinking anything of it, she went to Home Depot and asked the guy at the customer service desk if he'd send this fax for her, and he did.
The moral of the story is, tits.
One former police chief says the way it was handled "kind of boggles the mind..."
It's almost as if the police are power-tripping self-righteous morons whose starting assumption is that they're never wrong, and in fact can't be wrong, so the ONLY obvious course of action is to go full-nuclear in every situation. Who knew...
"How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light-bulb?"
"Two: one to decide what to change it into and one to decide what kind of bulb emits broken light."
Interesting about the modding. One thing I am not is a master of puppets. I don't even bother to mod or metamod and haven't in, pfft, maybe 10 years or more? 15? And you can see from my comment history that I don't have a legion of vigilant fans to defend my honor.
https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...
I'm guessing it was the rabid anti-authoritarian mindset here responding to your suggestion #1.
> 1. When the cops tell you to do something, you do it.
Five cops burst into your room on an otherwise regular boring day in your regular boring life where shit like this NEVER happens. You are scared out of your mind. One of them yells "Don't move!" and at the same time another yells "Get down on the ground, NOW!" You can barely hear the instructions from the noise all five are making. What is the correct course of action here?
How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Can't the software guys just code around it?
There are two types of people in the world.
1. Those who start counting at one.
1. Those who start counting at zero.
kthxbye
Perhaps you haven't heard, but Slashdot doesn't render some characters well.
... recommending people take a âoehard breakâ from social media...
True. Now tell me how many people were on forums 20 years ago, and compare that to the one or two BILLION people that use Facebook.
Dead, alive, persistent vegetative state... whatever. THIS is the important one. https://i.pinimg.com/originals...
I agree, that would be great. Lacking that, here's what I do: swipe up, turn on DnD, then set an alarm that says "turn DnD off". Manual, but better than nothing. You can even leave that alarm in your alarm list, but off, and re-use it other times, adjusting the time as needed.
Or, "hey siri, set a reminder to turn off DnD in one hour". Again, better than nothing.
Results: No matches.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm pretty sure this has been discussed at least nine million times in the last 20 years. The main reasons:
1. Demonstrated ability to stick with something for a while.
2. The average college grad is usually more literate than the average high school grad. Better chance that you'll get an employee that can do basic math, speak properly to customers, etc.
3. Employers will get many applicants for any given job, so this will at least filter out SOME people. And of those that apply for the job, #1 above applies.
Yes, it's lazy, but as long as you have more applicants than open positions, why not? (From the employer's point of view.)
> for $0, you can not play the game at all!. How
> many other black-friday sales save you 100%?
If your question is "how many sales let you spend nothing and get nothing", the answer is: they all do.
LetÃ(TM)s say Jimmy is shopping on WalmartÃ(TM)s website. HeÃ(TM)s shopping there because he doesnÃ(TM)t want to go to a brink-n-mortar. He sees the price difference and thinks to himself ÃoeDang! ItÃ(TM)s almost $1.00 cheaper in the store. I wonder what AmazonÃ(TM)s price would be? Wow. Amazon is .50 cents cheaper online, and plus I wonÃ(TM)t have to go to the store. IÃ(TM)ll just order from Amazon.Ã Walmart is absolutely clueless.
Dear Slashdot, I *literally* couldn't stand to read this. Please fix kthxbye.
> If you publish information about yourself on the Internet...
>YOU'VE PUBLISHED INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF ON THE INTERNET.
Or, sometimes, you are just in the contacts list of someone ELSE who published information about THEMSELVES on the Internet...
https://gizmodo.com/how-facebo...
Where is "here"? I've rarely, if ever, heard anyone refer to a sidewalk as pavement. (U.S. resident here.) The sidewalk is the sidewalk. "Pavement" means road, sometimes, but if someone means "road", they just say "road". "Pavement" is usually a paved surface like a parking lot, and is usually only said when a distinction needs to be made, like when there's a big, casual parking area with paved and unpaved areas. Eg., "Move your car off of the grass and onto the pavement" or "park in the grass and keep the pavement clear."
"What privacy protections will apply to that data, and what security protections?"
None, and none.
Remember when information density was a thing? On my glorious 30", 1600px-high display at work, this page takes THREE screenfuls. https://about.mattermost.com/
Select all, copy, paste, word count: 298 words.
As for file size, the page itself -- no includes -- is 650k. When I save as an archive with scripts and images, it's 4.5 MB.
FOR ONE FUCKING PAGE. With 298 words. Unreal.
And this page, from Apple: https://www.apple.com/iphone/c... -- long rant at http://pixelcity.com/index.php...
TL;DR: 1,049 vertical pixels are used for SIX lines of text.
FaceTime voice or video calls are not routed through the phone company, nor are messages sent through iMessage.
Not that I'm saying the FBI should have a backdoor into all of our phones -- I'm just pointing out that what you said isn't entirely true.
Troy: (on TV) Now turn to the next problem. If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you? You, the redhead in the Chicago school system?
Girl: Pepsi?
Troy: Partial credit!
https://www.simpsonsarchive.co...
When I first saw the headline, I read 'Chrome' but thought 'Google' and my thought was "Oh great, Google is going to start penalizing sites where you do a Google search but the page does not contain the text that was shown in the Google result."
As for the issue actually being discussed, I've never even seen that happen.
"Justice Department Tells Time Warner It Must Sell CNN Or DirecTV To Approve Its AT&T Merger" makes it sound like TW owns DirecTV. As the second sentence of the summary indicates, AT&T owns DirecTV.
Side note, DTV customer service SUCKS since the AT&T takeover. We made a small change to our service, they screwed it up, then they screwed up the billing for it, and it has taken about 5-10 so far to try to get it fixed, and (as of right now) it's still not fixed. DTV was never perfect, but if there was a problem (and that was rare), it was usually fixed with a call or two. The current problem is not even the first we've had in the couple years since the takeover.
> New privacy laws would imply that there is a society that actually wants it.
> Our society doesn't give a shit about privacy.
True. I made a facebook group for people concerned about online privacy and no one joined. :-(