I dont know how it works elsewhere but here in Australia there are a number of jobs (electrical work, plumbing, telecom work and others) that you can't legally do unless you have the right license.
For the electrical you can certainly do that yourself in the US with proper inspections / permits. Electrical work is not all that difficult to do properly. The utility companies usually require that you pay one of their employees to hook up the electrical mains and run the final xxx feet from the main line to your breaker. The rest you could do yourself if you demonstrate a proper understanding of the codes associated with that work. The rules are usually similar as far as who can do the work for sewer and water, as well.
Me: I'm going to get the lawn chair out, some popcorn, some tequila shots, and watch events unfold. My comments are not anything other than noting that the winners are at least as angry as they were before the election, and winning has not diminshed their anger one little bit. That does not often end well.
While I have my own political thoughts, they aren't in play here - this is just an observation.
You're welcome to the party.
Well I wasn't trying to imply that you're the kind of person that I am describing. Both sides are angry right now. I want to see people stop complaining and start doing something. Drinking tequila is always something I can stand behind, however!
Hillary lost, get over it. You have to own your guy's fuck-ups, now.
This is the sorest bunch of winners ever. I've never seen people who's canddates win, and they're angrier than before the election.
There's just a bunch of nonsense on both sides. People are constantly (to this date) blaming Bernie Sanders supporters or people who voted Third Party. How the hell do they think we got stuck in this situation with Trump and Clinton as our "only choices"? Because of dumb asses who insist that if you don't vote for one party or the other then you're to blame for whoever gets elected. That's just bullshit. And who do you think pushes that agenda? The two parties who have everything to gain and nothing to lose from such an agenda. They don't want to see some other party rise to power. I'm so sick and tired of hearing about the election that ended over two months ago. Tell me what you're going to do now. How you're going to be a leader and an example and how you're going to do your part to help fix the current situation. But stop crying about what happened two months ago because it's over and no amount of finger pointing or complaining is going to change it.
I worked at sun for about 5 years and was let go when oracle bought sun.
I worked at the menlo park main campus. I am older than 50 and I'm white. during my 5 years there, I got good reviews and was the main guy for one of the products (software) that ships on sun servers.
all you have to do is walk around the outside of any major silicon valley campus and you'll see the same thing over and over. yes, its mostly indian and we all know this, even though the media does not want to outright say it.
and I'm 90% certain that I was let go because all the rest of my group was indian and I was making a good salary there.
it happens to me at almost every place I'm at, these days. the inevitable firing when the numbers from the company go downward and they need a quick 'profit boost' by letting go of the senior and well-paid engineers. this rarely happens to the indians, though.
Speaking of the large Indian population - when did KSJO become a Bollywood station???
Everyone's all "he's such a weasel, yeah like we didn't see this coming"... c'mon, you can't see in his case why it would be critical whether Manning was pardoned vs. just let out early?? C'mon, use those brains God gave you to see through your personal prejudices on the issue.
You could also READ what Assange said and see that he asked for "clemency" which does NOT mean a pardon. It can include a pardon, but it is not limited to a pardon. So who is failing to use the brains that God gave them? What we see here is Assange moving the goalpost and it suggests that even if Manning had received a pardon Assange would have still made an excuse as to why he couldn't turn himself over to Swedish (and not US) authorities.
the FTC said the patents that Qualcomm sought to license are standard essential patents, which means that the industry uses them widely and they are supposed to be licensed on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
I don't get this. Why do industry groups allow patented technologies in standards? Yes, I'm looking at you, IEEE.
The way I look at it, if you patent something, industry should not give you the unfair advantage of codifying your particular patented technology or whatnot. Feel free to make a market for yourself and make it a defacto standard. However, if you want the endorsement of a reputable industry group, you should be required to offer an irrevocable royalty-free license to anyone wants to implement the standard. At least, that is how it would work in my perfect little world.
If they didn't allow the people who invented the technology to make money off the technology, they simply would not participate in the standards body and life would be chaos. Instead, they have every incentive to have their patents included because even with RAND they stand to make money off of every unit sold and not just units they sell directly. As long as they really keep the prices reasonable and non-discriminatory, then there is no problem. That seems to be the tricky part, though!
BBY doesn't pay for turning over the kiddie porn, the FBI does. Did they not tell you about it when you were there? They told me at Staples, and that was in 2000.
He's just quoting the rule book, and not what the managers of the Geek Squad actually tell people unofficially. I have a friend who worked Geek Squad part time just to get all the free junk from Intel that Geek Squad members became eligible for. The unofficial policy at his Geek Squad was to look through everything, find everything, and make a copy of anything your fellow coworkers might enjoy looking at. I actually wanted to work there part time as well. Not to steal peoples nudies but because my friend was getting a free $300-400 SSD or a new CPU from Intel about once every 3-4 months.
So either the informants (at least one, and likely all three) lied to the FBI under penalty of perjury, or the FBI agent getting the warrant perjured himself to the judge. Or both.
While it's clear that the Geek Squad agents are obviously acting as paid officials of the FBI in this case, they did not, even if they lied, commit perjury in any form. Just a claim from an anonymous tip can be enough to get someone's house searched and it'll stick in court. Even if the anonymous tip was found to be inaccurate. The police love tips that allow them to search the property of people whom they're interested in. The warrant has to be specific, but they can pick up any evidence of other crimes so long as the original warrant reasonably covered the area where the actual evidence is. I'm not a huge fan of this policy, as this is how the DEA and whatnot fake an evidence chain, but it is the way it works. The courts have operated this way for some time. You'd need a brave judge or some legislation changes to change this.
Even though they usually are the same companies doing the work and there is a bit of overlap (say when NASA launches a DOD satellite), NASA and DOD work are totally different animals.
This is entirely true that the work is different, but the problem is that both industries tend to stay behind the technology curve by a significant margin. If you get stuck working with an old technology on a project that gets canned then you'll quickly find yourself without a job and will have difficulty finding a new one. I personally loved the defense work I was doing. It was challenging, interesting, and I got to "blow shit up" when I was testing my work. It's just not always dependable. I had the good fortune of being able to work on the most interesting parts of our projects and to participate in business development. That gave me the advantage of knowing what contracts we were hoping to win and what technology I needed to know to keep myself employed.
While this is true, you have to be careful that you don't let yourself get pigeon holed into old and obsolete technology. I was doing defense work when they shut down the shuttle program at Cape Canaveral and I tell you, I have never see so many resumes from brilliant people who had almost zero chance of finding a new job without brushing up their skills. A lot of them had been at NASA and the Cape for 20+ years and we interviewed them out of professional courtesy, and to help them brush up on their interview skills and point them in the right direction on skills that were useful. But even my company was a solid 10 years behind modern industry in so many different ways.
Counted one way, the US people favored Trump. Counted another way, the US people favored Clinton. Almost without exception, political observers now profess a clear preference for the vote-counting method that would have worked best for their favored candidate: Clinton supporters have discovered a new passion for using the aggregate popular vote, while Trump supporters see great virtue in the Electoral College. Politics as usual.
I have always seen great virtue in the electoral college despite the outcomes I have dealt with my entire voting life. What I do not see the virtue of is our two party election system that has so far managed to adroitly maneuver politics so that people generally will not vote outside of those two parties.
That was one thing I found interesting when TV went digital: a weak analog signal is just noisy, but easy for people to pick out the information from. a weak digital signal is chunky in ways my brain certainly isn't as capable of parsing through.
You should probably upgrade your MPEG decoder. When was the last time you upgraded your neural net?
You will see the compression artifacts, flickering and pixelation with more colors now. Awesome.
Face it, no matter how great the TV, as long as networks compress the signals badly enough to make YouTube look like HD in comparison, it will still suck.
I signed up for DirecTV Now to take advantage of the AppleTV special offer and I can honestly say that the streams look amazingly clear. They have about the same quality as OTA broadcasts and is noticeably clearer than Comcast or U-Verse. The only problem is that the streams often pause even with gigabit Internet. This leads me to believe that they still have some technical issues on their end (though perhaps, since the gig ethernet is new in my neighborhood the issue is at my ISP).
Turns out it's rather simple, really --- just ban computers. He's going to start by replacing computers with human couriers for the secure-messaging market, and move outward from there. By 2020 we should have most of the Internet replaced by the (now greatly expanded) Post Office.
Don't be ridiculous. There are not enough people in this world to hand deliver each and every packet of data that needs to be sent around the world. I propose that we use this standard in order to overcome this serious problem.
Yes that is my biggest objection to it. Those "islands" are so small that they're not remotely habitable without the additional work that China has done in an effort to claim more territorial waters. The fact that the water they're claiming is such a busy shipping lane does not help. If this were out in the middle of nowhere, I doubt anyone would remotely care. All in a bid to keep the US Pacific fleet from being able to pass through the area freely. I am sure they have economic reasons for it, as well, but this is mostly about being able to exert stronger force on their neighbors without the US being able to influence the region.
The article doesn't mention this, but I know it's been posted on Slashdot before, large swathes of the South China Sea are no longer clearly International Waters as the current article implies. For a couple of years now, China has been building artificial islands in the region. China appears to be doing this mainly to expand its territorial waters.
Ok so it is as clear as it sounds. China captured a ship in international waters. You can't just redraw your line on the map any time you want just because you say so. What are we on one of those TV sitcoms where the kids try to divide their bedroom in half and one of them starts moving the tape line? Come on here. The water has been international for decades and all of the sudden China tries to keep people out? There are international laws regarding this.
China's efforts have been centred largely in the Spratly and Paracel Islands regions. The Paracels are arguably within the Vietnamese territorial waters, while international treaties recognize the Spratly group as being within the Philippine exclusive economic zone.
Oh so now you're saying that in addition to trying to claim international waters they're trying to claim Vietnamese and Philippine waters as well? Oh this does sound oh so complicated.
Bluetooth pairing is a pain in the arse, especially on small devices like these. Apple decided to simplify it with an extension to the pairing protocol and by syncing the pairing details across devices via iCloud.
Their phones don't have proper NFC so that's the only option.
The cynic in me thinks its to push people to iCloud. You can't breath on an iOS 10 device or a MacOS Sierra computer without it trying to force you into enabling iCloud sync. Seriously. I updated to iOS 10.2 on my phone and it enabled all kinds of iCloud sync shit I had specifically said no to when I configured the device. I also just updated my machine with the latest version of SIerra and of course i have to go through and tell it twice that I am absolutely positive that I want nothing to do with iCloud sync. It's annoying. Why do they prompt me for this crap every time I do anything with a device that is already configured and working? So no - I don't think this has anything to do with auto-pairing. The Apple Watch does not require iCloud to do a handoff to your desktop. It's a move to push iCloud.
Every time I ask Apple users about the non-replaceable batteries, their reply is **always** -- (ie. without fail) "you just don't get it", without **ever** being able to articulate exactly what I don't "get". I don't see how not being able to replace a battery is an advantage. Yes, I "get" that you can make the device smaller (and thus lighter), but only marginally so, and at the expense of functionality and serviceability. The non-removable battery is not any type of advantage to me.
I will say that Apple replaced the battery in my mid-2011 MacBook Pro for free when I took it in to have the motherboard replaced under that video card recall. The machine was 5 years old at that point and the battery was basically useless. So at least Apple isn't stingy with the batteries!
I just used the defense last month for a ticket of going 67 in a stretch marked 55 (ridiculously so since its a grade separated 8 lane highway). I didnt even have to speak a word. All I did was send a registered delivery proof required letter to the DA's office asking for the survey a week before trial date. On trial day the Officer turned up and told the traffic commisioner they dont have a survey and the commisioner dismissed the charge.
Yes. They have to have a survey showing why all speed limits exist. But the fact that "speed limits are suggestions rather than rules" comes from the basic speed law, which is only for speeds of 55 MPH and lower. If they had a traffic survey showing that the speed limit was set in accordance with federal and state guidelines then you could not argue the case. Under 55 MPH you can still argue that your speed was safe regardless of what the posted limit is.
Actually in California all Speed Limits are suggestions rather than rules. The actual law states drive at a reasonable speed which is defined as 85 percentile of all the cars on the road. Also there needs to have been a survey of the highway/freeway during the past 5 years for the 85 percentile value to be valid. So if you ever get a speeding ticket in California just plead not guilty go to trial and ask to see the survey. 9 cases out of 10 the case will be dismissed. People just dont bother exercising their right to a fair trial when it comes to traffic offenses.
That is factually incorrect. California has what is known as a Basic Speed Law which stops at 55MPH. The Basic Speed Law does behave as you say for any road with a limit posted at or below 55MPH. If you're going 1 MPH over 55MPH, you can no longer use the basic speed law to get out of a ticket regardless of what the speed limit is.
I've been next to a baby that was on full wailing for quite some time, despite the mother's best efforts and that was considerably worse than any idiot yapping on the phone. Didn't really want to make me throw myself or the baby off the plane, but I was quite happy I didn't have to deal with that every other hour of the day.
In flight the cabin air pressure is reduced as the plane goes up in altitude, to an equivalent altitude of about 9,000 feet when the airplane is at cruising altitude. This reduces stress on the airframe, by about 5-ish PSI on every inch of the cabin outer surface.
Adults have the ability to clear their eustachian by yawning, but babies generally don't. The extra air pressure causes their ears to ache for the entire flight.
That's why babies cry during an airplane flight. Mothers don't generally have to deal with it all the time.
(I wrote the firmware for one of the popular air cabin pressurization systems currently in use.)
Yes but a smart parent will feed their baby or give them a pacifier during ascent and descent. I was once on a flight where I literally watched the parents next to me feed their baby while we were sitting on the tarmac finishing the boarding process. That baby screamed for 3 hours after that. It finally STFU and then the dad started playing with it and took its favorite toy. It proceeded to scream for the next 2 hours after that. I wanted to cuff both of those parents on the ears for being complete idiots.
300 cellphones in an enclosed space. Just the constant Whatsapp beeps will be bad enough.
Hopefully people put their phones on silent. I already get free cellular service on Delta, United, and American flights here in the US. So on those planes I text my friends and, yes, even use whatsapp. But I keep my phone on silent because I'm not a dick. At least, not always a dick.
"Price gouging" is just the free market at work. Movie rentals are far from a necessity, so if you don't want to pay what the market will bear, then don't rent it. Government intervention to prevent "price gouging" is only justified in emergency situations, such as the aftermath of natural disasters, and even then it often does more harm than good. Gasoline shortages after Hurricane Sandy lasted several days longer than necessary because government imposed price controls disincentivized fuel deliveries. Low prices don't help when the storage tank is empty.
I would say that is mostly due to poor planning on the part of officials. When Hurricane Matthew was bearing down on Florida back in October, the state of FL bought up extra gas supplies and kept them at a safe distance but on hand and ready to deliver to troubled areas. Did gas stations run out of gas before / after the storm? Yes, they did. But the state had their trucks out to those gas stations often the very same day. With satellites and what not, a state has days and days to decide whether or not to make such preparations. It is far safer for the community to ensure that people can afford to buy gas to escape the path of the storm rather than let thousands of people die because they couldn't afford gas.
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I dont know how it works elsewhere but here in Australia there are a number of jobs (electrical work, plumbing, telecom work and others) that you can't legally do unless you have the right license.
For the electrical you can certainly do that yourself in the US with proper inspections / permits. Electrical work is not all that difficult to do properly. The utility companies usually require that you pay one of their employees to hook up the electrical mains and run the final xxx feet from the main line to your breaker. The rest you could do yourself if you demonstrate a proper understanding of the codes associated with that work. The rules are usually similar as far as who can do the work for sewer and water, as well.
Tell me what you're going to do now.
Me: I'm going to get the lawn chair out, some popcorn, some tequila shots, and watch events unfold. My comments are not anything other than noting that the winners are at least as angry as they were before the election, and winning has not diminshed their anger one little bit. That does not often end well.
While I have my own political thoughts, they aren't in play here - this is just an observation.
You're welcome to the party.
Well I wasn't trying to imply that you're the kind of person that I am describing. Both sides are angry right now. I want to see people stop complaining and start doing something. Drinking tequila is always something I can stand behind, however!
Hillary lost, get over it. You have to own your guy's fuck-ups, now.
This is the sorest bunch of winners ever. I've never seen people who's canddates win, and they're angrier than before the election.
There's just a bunch of nonsense on both sides. People are constantly (to this date) blaming Bernie Sanders supporters or people who voted Third Party. How the hell do they think we got stuck in this situation with Trump and Clinton as our "only choices"? Because of dumb asses who insist that if you don't vote for one party or the other then you're to blame for whoever gets elected. That's just bullshit. And who do you think pushes that agenda? The two parties who have everything to gain and nothing to lose from such an agenda. They don't want to see some other party rise to power. I'm so sick and tired of hearing about the election that ended over two months ago. Tell me what you're going to do now. How you're going to be a leader and an example and how you're going to do your part to help fix the current situation. But stop crying about what happened two months ago because it's over and no amount of finger pointing or complaining is going to change it.
I worked at sun for about 5 years and was let go when oracle bought sun.
I worked at the menlo park main campus. I am older than 50 and I'm white. during my 5 years there, I got good reviews and was the main guy for one of the products (software) that ships on sun servers.
all you have to do is walk around the outside of any major silicon valley campus and you'll see the same thing over and over. yes, its mostly indian and we all know this, even though the media does not want to outright say it.
and I'm 90% certain that I was let go because all the rest of my group was indian and I was making a good salary there.
it happens to me at almost every place I'm at, these days. the inevitable firing when the numbers from the company go downward and they need a quick 'profit boost' by letting go of the senior and well-paid engineers. this rarely happens to the indians, though.
Speaking of the large Indian population - when did KSJO become a Bollywood station???
Everyone's all "he's such a weasel, yeah like we didn't see this coming" ... c'mon, you can't see in his case why it would be critical whether Manning was pardoned vs. just let out early?? C'mon, use those brains God gave you to see through your personal prejudices on the issue.
You could also READ what Assange said and see that he asked for "clemency" which does NOT mean a pardon. It can include a pardon, but it is not limited to a pardon. So who is failing to use the brains that God gave them? What we see here is Assange moving the goalpost and it suggests that even if Manning had received a pardon Assange would have still made an excuse as to why he couldn't turn himself over to Swedish (and not US) authorities.
the FTC said the patents that Qualcomm sought to license are standard essential patents, which means that the industry uses them widely and they are supposed to be licensed on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
I don't get this. Why do industry groups allow patented technologies in standards? Yes, I'm looking at you, IEEE.
The way I look at it, if you patent something, industry should not give you the unfair advantage of codifying your particular patented technology or whatnot. Feel free to make a market for yourself and make it a defacto standard. However, if you want the endorsement of a reputable industry group, you should be required to offer an irrevocable royalty-free license to anyone wants to implement the standard. At least, that is how it would work in my perfect little world.
If they didn't allow the people who invented the technology to make money off the technology, they simply would not participate in the standards body and life would be chaos. Instead, they have every incentive to have their patents included because even with RAND they stand to make money off of every unit sold and not just units they sell directly. As long as they really keep the prices reasonable and non-discriminatory, then there is no problem. That seems to be the tricky part, though!
Err...don't you hate it when all these years, you've been singing the WRONG lyrics...?
Should be:
"Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant."
He forgot to post as an anonymous coward so I think the jig is up.
BBY doesn't pay for turning over the kiddie porn, the FBI does. Did they not tell you about it when you were there? They told me at Staples, and that was in 2000.
He's just quoting the rule book, and not what the managers of the Geek Squad actually tell people unofficially. I have a friend who worked Geek Squad part time just to get all the free junk from Intel that Geek Squad members became eligible for. The unofficial policy at his Geek Squad was to look through everything, find everything, and make a copy of anything your fellow coworkers might enjoy looking at. I actually wanted to work there part time as well. Not to steal peoples nudies but because my friend was getting a free $300-400 SSD or a new CPU from Intel about once every 3-4 months.
So either the informants (at least one, and likely all three) lied to the FBI under penalty of perjury, or the FBI agent getting the warrant perjured himself to the judge. Or both.
While it's clear that the Geek Squad agents are obviously acting as paid officials of the FBI in this case, they did not, even if they lied, commit perjury in any form. Just a claim from an anonymous tip can be enough to get someone's house searched and it'll stick in court. Even if the anonymous tip was found to be inaccurate. The police love tips that allow them to search the property of people whom they're interested in. The warrant has to be specific, but they can pick up any evidence of other crimes so long as the original warrant reasonably covered the area where the actual evidence is. I'm not a huge fan of this policy, as this is how the DEA and whatnot fake an evidence chain, but it is the way it works. The courts have operated this way for some time. You'd need a brave judge or some legislation changes to change this.
Even though they usually are the same companies doing the work and there is a bit of overlap (say when NASA launches a DOD satellite), NASA and DOD work are totally different animals.
This is entirely true that the work is different, but the problem is that both industries tend to stay behind the technology curve by a significant margin. If you get stuck working with an old technology on a project that gets canned then you'll quickly find yourself without a job and will have difficulty finding a new one. I personally loved the defense work I was doing. It was challenging, interesting, and I got to "blow shit up" when I was testing my work. It's just not always dependable. I had the good fortune of being able to work on the most interesting parts of our projects and to participate in business development. That gave me the advantage of knowing what contracts we were hoping to win and what technology I needed to know to keep myself employed.
Can't be outsourced to H-1B's.
While this is true, you have to be careful that you don't let yourself get pigeon holed into old and obsolete technology. I was doing defense work when they shut down the shuttle program at Cape Canaveral and I tell you, I have never see so many resumes from brilliant people who had almost zero chance of finding a new job without brushing up their skills. A lot of them had been at NASA and the Cape for 20+ years and we interviewed them out of professional courtesy, and to help them brush up on their interview skills and point them in the right direction on skills that were useful. But even my company was a solid 10 years behind modern industry in so many different ways.
Counted one way, the US people favored Trump. Counted another way, the US people favored Clinton. Almost without exception, political observers now profess a clear preference for the vote-counting method that would have worked best for their favored candidate: Clinton supporters have discovered a new passion for using the aggregate popular vote, while Trump supporters see great virtue in the Electoral College. Politics as usual.
I have always seen great virtue in the electoral college despite the outcomes I have dealt with my entire voting life. What I do not see the virtue of is our two party election system that has so far managed to adroitly maneuver politics so that people generally will not vote outside of those two parties.
That was one thing I found interesting when TV went digital: a weak analog signal is just noisy, but easy for people to pick out the information from. a weak digital signal is chunky in ways my brain certainly isn't as capable of parsing through.
You should probably upgrade your MPEG decoder. When was the last time you upgraded your neural net?
You will see the compression artifacts, flickering and pixelation with more colors now. Awesome.
Face it, no matter how great the TV, as long as networks compress the signals badly enough to make YouTube look like HD in comparison, it will still suck.
I signed up for DirecTV Now to take advantage of the AppleTV special offer and I can honestly say that the streams look amazingly clear. They have about the same quality as OTA broadcasts and is noticeably clearer than Comcast or U-Verse. The only problem is that the streams often pause even with gigabit Internet. This leads me to believe that they still have some technical issues on their end (though perhaps, since the gig ethernet is new in my neighborhood the issue is at my ISP).
Turns out it's rather simple, really --- just ban computers. He's going to start by replacing computers with human couriers for the secure-messaging market, and move outward from there. By 2020 we should have most of the Internet replaced by the (now greatly expanded) Post Office.
Don't be ridiculous. There are not enough people in this world to hand deliver each and every packet of data that needs to be sent around the world. I propose that we use this standard in order to overcome this serious problem.
Slashdot never fails to deliver.
This is not the misogyny you're looking for
Yes that is my biggest objection to it. Those "islands" are so small that they're not remotely habitable without the additional work that China has done in an effort to claim more territorial waters. The fact that the water they're claiming is such a busy shipping lane does not help. If this were out in the middle of nowhere, I doubt anyone would remotely care. All in a bid to keep the US Pacific fleet from being able to pass through the area freely. I am sure they have economic reasons for it, as well, but this is mostly about being able to exert stronger force on their neighbors without the US being able to influence the region.
The article doesn't mention this, but I know it's been posted on Slashdot before, large swathes of the South China Sea are no longer clearly International Waters as the current article implies. For a couple of years now, China has been building artificial islands in the region. China appears to be doing this mainly to expand its territorial waters.
Ok so it is as clear as it sounds. China captured a ship in international waters. You can't just redraw your line on the map any time you want just because you say so. What are we on one of those TV sitcoms where the kids try to divide their bedroom in half and one of them starts moving the tape line? Come on here. The water has been international for decades and all of the sudden China tries to keep people out? There are international laws regarding this.
China's efforts have been centred largely in the Spratly and Paracel Islands regions. The Paracels are arguably within the Vietnamese territorial waters, while international treaties recognize the Spratly group as being within the Philippine exclusive economic zone.
Oh so now you're saying that in addition to trying to claim international waters they're trying to claim Vietnamese and Philippine waters as well? Oh this does sound oh so complicated.
Auto-pairing.
Bluetooth pairing is a pain in the arse, especially on small devices like these. Apple decided to simplify it with an extension to the pairing protocol and by syncing the pairing details across devices via iCloud.
Their phones don't have proper NFC so that's the only option.
The cynic in me thinks its to push people to iCloud. You can't breath on an iOS 10 device or a MacOS Sierra computer without it trying to force you into enabling iCloud sync. Seriously. I updated to iOS 10.2 on my phone and it enabled all kinds of iCloud sync shit I had specifically said no to when I configured the device. I also just updated my machine with the latest version of SIerra and of course i have to go through and tell it twice that I am absolutely positive that I want nothing to do with iCloud sync. It's annoying. Why do they prompt me for this crap every time I do anything with a device that is already configured and working? So no - I don't think this has anything to do with auto-pairing. The Apple Watch does not require iCloud to do a handoff to your desktop. It's a move to push iCloud.
Every time I ask Apple users about the non-replaceable batteries, their reply is **always** -- (ie. without fail) "you just don't get it", without **ever** being able to articulate exactly what I don't "get". I don't see how not being able to replace a battery is an advantage. Yes, I "get" that you can make the device smaller (and thus lighter), but only marginally so, and at the expense of functionality and serviceability. The non-removable battery is not any type of advantage to me.
I will say that Apple replaced the battery in my mid-2011 MacBook Pro for free when I took it in to have the motherboard replaced under that video card recall. The machine was 5 years old at that point and the battery was basically useless. So at least Apple isn't stingy with the batteries!
I just used the defense last month for a ticket of going 67 in a stretch marked 55 (ridiculously so since its a grade separated 8 lane highway). I didnt even have to speak a word. All I did was send a registered delivery proof required letter to the DA's office asking for the survey a week before trial date. On trial day the Officer turned up and told the traffic commisioner they dont have a survey and the commisioner dismissed the charge.
Yes. They have to have a survey showing why all speed limits exist. But the fact that "speed limits are suggestions rather than rules" comes from the basic speed law, which is only for speeds of 55 MPH and lower. If they had a traffic survey showing that the speed limit was set in accordance with federal and state guidelines then you could not argue the case. Under 55 MPH you can still argue that your speed was safe regardless of what the posted limit is.
Actually in California all Speed Limits are suggestions rather than rules. The actual law states drive at a reasonable speed which is defined as 85 percentile of all the cars on the road. Also there needs to have been a survey of the highway/freeway during the past 5 years for the 85 percentile value to be valid. So if you ever get a speeding ticket in California just plead not guilty go to trial and ask to see the survey. 9 cases out of 10 the case will be dismissed. People just dont bother exercising their right to a fair trial when it comes to traffic offenses.
That is factually incorrect. California has what is known as a Basic Speed Law which stops at 55MPH. The Basic Speed Law does behave as you say for any road with a limit posted at or below 55MPH. If you're going 1 MPH over 55MPH, you can no longer use the basic speed law to get out of a ticket regardless of what the speed limit is.
I've been next to a baby that was on full wailing for quite some time, despite the mother's best efforts and that was considerably worse than any idiot yapping on the phone. Didn't really want to make me throw myself or the baby off the plane, but I was quite happy I didn't have to deal with that every other hour of the day.
In flight the cabin air pressure is reduced as the plane goes up in altitude, to an equivalent altitude of about 9,000 feet when the airplane is at cruising altitude. This reduces stress on the airframe, by about 5-ish PSI on every inch of the cabin outer surface.
Adults have the ability to clear their eustachian by yawning, but babies generally don't. The extra air pressure causes their ears to ache for the entire flight.
That's why babies cry during an airplane flight. Mothers don't generally have to deal with it all the time.
(I wrote the firmware for one of the popular air cabin pressurization systems currently in use.)
Yes but a smart parent will feed their baby or give them a pacifier during ascent and descent. I was once on a flight where I literally watched the parents next to me feed their baby while we were sitting on the tarmac finishing the boarding process. That baby screamed for 3 hours after that. It finally STFU and then the dad started playing with it and took its favorite toy. It proceeded to scream for the next 2 hours after that. I wanted to cuff both of those parents on the ears for being complete idiots.
300 cellphones in an enclosed space. Just the constant Whatsapp beeps will be bad enough.
Hopefully people put their phones on silent. I already get free cellular service on Delta, United, and American flights here in the US. So on those planes I text my friends and, yes, even use whatsapp. But I keep my phone on silent because I'm not a dick. At least, not always a dick.
There is a word for such behavior: Price Gouging.
"Price gouging" is just the free market at work. Movie rentals are far from a necessity, so if you don't want to pay what the market will bear, then don't rent it. Government intervention to prevent "price gouging" is only justified in emergency situations, such as the aftermath of natural disasters, and even then it often does more harm than good. Gasoline shortages after Hurricane Sandy lasted several days longer than necessary because government imposed price controls disincentivized fuel deliveries. Low prices don't help when the storage tank is empty.
I would say that is mostly due to poor planning on the part of officials. When Hurricane Matthew was bearing down on Florida back in October, the state of FL bought up extra gas supplies and kept them at a safe distance but on hand and ready to deliver to troubled areas. Did gas stations run out of gas before / after the storm? Yes, they did. But the state had their trucks out to those gas stations often the very same day. With satellites and what not, a state has days and days to decide whether or not to make such preparations. It is far safer for the community to ensure that people can afford to buy gas to escape the path of the storm rather than let thousands of people die because they couldn't afford gas.