Just like how you start to get very mad at people who are able to abuse handicapped parking spots because the govt is totally lax about who get to use this benefit (not just who has the placard, but who uses it). Trust in the appearance of public institutions is just as important as actual functioning -- a small number of cases of fraud and abuse can undermine it.
I don't get mad at ANYONE who uses a handicapped parking spot (with the proper permit). Maybe they're parking the car for a disabled person they dropped off at the front door? Who knows. It's not my place to judge and I have seen someone who was legitimately disabled accosted by someone who didn't think they were disabled enough. It was a young guy I knew that had 4 inches of bone removed from his leg after a drunk driver almost killed him. So why get angry at people who use handicapped permits? Even if you have your own handicap permit that person you're angry at may need it more than you think.
Crazy, many new cars let you send and receive via voice now. Hell, even can listen and send without you picking them up.
Sounds like a good excuse to copy peoples phones, pull someone over for "texting while driving" and scan their phone... No warrant needed.
The fact of the matter is that you can set up things like autoreply via Tasker and other systems that could result in a text message being sent from your device while it's in your trunk. Plus, why do they need this device when they can just subpoena your cell phone records? It seems to me like this law is being written just so that the police can search your phone any time they stop you.
WTF are you talking about? Trump is not a favorite of the Religious Right, he's not even religious himself, though he claims to be now in order to get votes. Did you forget that he couldn't even name his favorite bible verses when ask?
Uh I was just being ridiculous. I know Trump isn't religious. But he is very much an egoist and I believe that most outspoken of the supposedly hardcore Christians are all about 'doing what is right' by thinking of their own comfort instead of showing love and kindness to all like they're supposed to. So perhaps they have more in common with Trump than they realize.
Ted Cruz is the one who's a far-far-right Christian theocratist who's an adherent of Dominionism. Why liberals can't seem to understand this and keep attacking Trump, I have no idea. It's almost like they want to have Cruz as President by getting Trump out of the way and putting Cruz up against Hillary, while refusing to believe that Millenials won't bother showing up at the polls for Hillary. If you thought 8 years of W. was a horror show, you're in for horrors you can't even imagine with Cruz in the White House.
Lets be honest, they're all jackasses. In my living memory this is most certainly the best time for a candidate to run as a third party or independent and have a chance to win.
And they also tend to look at the mostly supplanted old testament for answers to questions that are more easily answered by that famous and simple saying "what would Jesus do?"
Come on dude, WWJD is sooo 34 AD or CE or whatever you want to use. In 2016 we've changed to "WWDD?" Or in other words "What would Drumpf Do?" Get with the times.
I feel the same way about the watch - it's great for notifications. I keep my next calendar appointment on the face, which is also handy. It's incredibly overpriced for the utility it provides. I like a fashionable watch but I feel like this watch is anything but fashionable. As far as apps: Apple approached my company and asked us to develop some cool watch apps prior to the watch release. Every single useful idea we came up with was rejected because they planned to eventually release their own app that was similar. It's been almost 2 years since they approached us, they haven't implemented any of those apps and I still only use my watch for notifications. I still tell my friends to just wait and see if the price drops or if something more useful ever releases.
Donald Trump would want built if he believed extra terrestrials were real?
Just ask yourself:
Does Trump's hair resemble anything from this planet?
Everyone knows that Trump's hair is one of his horcruxes. Once you introduce dark magic into the equation, who can really say what his hair piece really is (besides a horcrux, obviously)?
No one in America wanted to help the FBI. Now they want to FBI to disclose how they did it?
Have you been living under a rock? Apple gave them all the data from iCloud. The FBI then performed a reset password on iCloud AND lost the data that apple provided. That basically prevented Apple from being able to access the data anymore. So then the FBI was like 'Hey I know we screwed up, but you have to go even further and help us no matter what the cost"
I am seriously thinking about writing them a satirical letter thanking them for their courageous and valiant fight against mathematics but that their constituents and future constituents will not be happy until they've replaced high school algebra with a less dangerous subject like household chemistry
The problem is that, even at 7.2kW (maximum available power from a home circuit) it will still take several hours to charge even a modestly-sized eCar battery.
As I outlined in another post, using a higher voltage supply increases the available power, but this cannot be done very safely with a plug and socket system where contacts are made and broken. There is a risk of arc flash any time a high voltage contact is broken.
Have you ever heard something spark when you plug something into the wall, or unplug it? That's a small arc inside the socket. At 120V or 240V household voltage, they're pretty small (but can be much worse under abnormal circumstances). The higher the voltage, the larger and deeper a plug and socket must be to contain the arc, and the less safe the whole thing becomes.
Removing the make/break operation from the process increases safety by orders of magnitude, and allows much higher supply voltages to be used, therefore increasing power and decreasing charging times.
It is not uncommon for modern Lithium batteries to be charged at 1-2C. A 25kWh battery could be charged at 50kW CC and probably even finish its CV cycle, all in about an hour.
I think this also makes more sense for a mall or office parking lot. I imagine it would be a hell of a lot easier to just put a wireless charger in each stall and not have to worry about the connectors being damaged by humans connecting and disconnecting their vehicles than to build a charging station w/ the appropriate plugs at hundreds of stalls. Instead, you supply a nice steady stream of power while the user works / shops.
If you're driving the profit down to zero, you can drive it down to a small positive number. Make a profit enough years (three out of seven?) and the IRS will assume you've got a bona fide business. Make no profit and they might start inquiring about whether you've got a legitimate business or an illegitimate tax dodge.
Oh I had equipment purchases and other things and I turned a small profit my last year of school by liquidating the business assets according to the IRS's own amortization tables. Like I said, it was all side work in addition to a regular job to help pay my expenses during school. The IRS never even blinked. I had a friend whose dad was a CPA that did nothing but corporate taxes and he thought my paperwork was legit. He's the type that wouldn't let one of his clients (or friends) do something shady with his knowledge.
That depends entirely where you are, and how many people are sharing the same cell tower/sector with you.
We have no room for your "physics" nonsense around here, buddy. Go back to YouTube with all those ridiculous evolution and other psuedoscience videos. People come to Slashdot to discuss real science. Come back when you've finally learned the earth is flat.
I see that, as I expected, ITAR is a valid excuse to withhold software from the public. I bet that most DoD specific projects would qualify for this exception. I have never worked on a DoD project that was not covered by ITAR, but all the software I've written for the USG was specific to weapon systems so I suppose that should come as no surprise.
When you say "mild electrocution", you're saying "mildly dead", which doesn't really make a lot of sense.
You're right. It would be better if he just said that he's "mostly dead". There's a big difference between MOSTLY dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
The point is, you can incorporate if you want. Hire yourself as a sub-contractor and pay you to go to your day job. It might be worth it, if your tax burden is high enough.
Or low enough. I did this exact thing in college when I was doing some software development in my free time. Rather than actually pay myself a wage, though, I used a bunch of employee benefit programs to drive the business profit down to 0 and provide my self with non-taxable benefits. The company didn't turn a profit but the IRS lets you keep a hobby business as a tax shelter for long enough that i was able to just dissolve the business without ever running a profit after graduating. I had a paying internship that I used to pay the monthly bills and used my connections there to get the contracting gigs. I didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt doing it, either. I grew up poor but didn't qualify for school grants because of unusual family circumstances that made me ineligible. I do everything I can to avoid paying taxes at the end of the year now, but I don't complain about the money that has already been withheld, I just wish it were being used more appropriately.
Ah that is a crucial difference. IF you just want TSA PRecheck you can have up to 5 people in your party travel with you thru the secure lane (I think its 5). Everyone has to have their own Global Entry registration though. IT's only valid for one person.
As an Australian citizen living in the US, you know what's super annoying?
- I can use the automated entry in Australia.
- US citizens with GE can use automated entry in the US and in Australia too, as you rightly pointed out.
- But Australian citizens cannot use automated entry in the US.
Or put another way, Australia is nice enough to let you use your GE in Australia, but the US never reciprocated. Not only that, they don't even allow Australian citizens to manually apply for the American GE program either - it's only open to Americans and a random handful of other people: South Koreans, Germans and the UK I think. Grrrrrrr...
I thought it was reciprocated. I don't usually go to Australia so I didn't look too closely. I don't know why Australia would allow this lack of reciprocation to continue. I feel your pain. I wish it were easier for everyone to visit the US. I think we look like paranoid idiots.
You know, I'm having trouble finding where they asked Apple to "it asked Apple to provide a tool for the government to access all data", can you point to it in the order?
I see where it says they want a tool that is keyed to this specific phone, so it would be rather inconsistent to also ask for a tool to unlock any phone they like. After all, that isn't how the legal system works, they have to get permission from a judge to unlock every single phone.
You obviously do not understand how the software update process works. What they requested Apple to do would have worked on every single iPhone 5c in the world. It may have worked on other model phones, as well. They were asking for a master key for all iPhone 5Cs. And why should the FBI get it? If the NSA is doing its job, they have already illegally captured all the meta data for communications going into and out of the phone. San Bernadino County could have configured the device properly. The FBI could have left the iCloud account password as Farook set it. The FBI is also free to use as many super computers as they'd like to crack the data on the phone. Since when is it's Apple's duty to undermine their own product line to help the FBI? And finally what's so important on this phone that it was worth all this effort to break into? Probably nothing. He had a personal phone which he intentionally destroyed. He intentionally destroyed all of his personal storage media. Why would anyone think he is smart enough to destroy all of that but dumb enough to use his work phone which could have been phoning home to his employer? Are you saying that it's worth sacrificing more liberty to unlock this phone? Does it bring back the dead people? Prevent this dead person from killing more people? No. It does no good to anyone except people who want more power inside of the FBI.
If you travel overseas, go for Global Entry. It costs the same ($100), and it includes PreCheck as a perk. As an added bonus, you get to use kiosks for passport control (never a wait) and the crew line for customs.
I routinely take 8-10 minutes total from deplaning at LAX (Bradley Terminal) to the terminal exit. A bit longer if I have to wait for checked luggage. Worth every cent.
Global Entry is definitely the way to go if you travel internationally. Flying into ATL or JFK is no longer a hassle at customs and immigration. At YVR when a cruise ship is dumping their passengers in the line is no big deal as well. GE is now $200, but many credit cards will refund the fee; even so I'd gladly pay the $200 to avoid a hour or more wait to get back in after a 10 plus hour flight. Pre-check is an added bonus, and I'm glad they are limiting the non - Preorder GE folks from using Pre. Nothing is more annoying to be in line behind someone who doesn't understand they don't need to disrobe and empty their luggage and hold up the line because they are clueless.; and then look all pissed because you toss your bag on the belt ahead of theirs and go through the metal detector.
GE also is expanding to some overseas airports as well for an extra fee. The U.K. Is one destination that would be worth the fee.
It's $100 still - I just applied two weeks ago. And you can use your existing GE coverage for free in Australia. For South Korea, you have to sign up with their entry program, which is $100, and be an approved GE member, another $100. Other countries charge fees as well. I think there are 6 countries that participate.
Airport security does suck everywhere. Australia's is pretty bad. Germany's is pretty terrible too, but the worst, by far, out of any country I have every flow through, is Americas. I have never had more confrontations with security than in the US. Most other countries don't require ID for flying domestically (and fun fact: America doesn't either. Next time, refuse. It takes a little longer, but it's worth it. The US government has no right to restrict transit if you don't have papers. In most EU countries you are required to have ID on you at all time. Not in the US).
Airport security is a joke. It's not security, it's security theatre. They've never stopped a single damn person intending harm ever in the history of their existence. Fuck them, fuck airports and fuck the TSA.
Not to mention, the TSA searches are totally and completely illegal and unconstitutional. Back when airport security was private, it was the airlines getting together to set the standards and searches were part of their terms of service. When the federal government starts doing it, it now becomes a 4th amendment violation. Texas tried to return airports to private security and was bullied by the federal government and gave up the fight. The new mm-wave body scanners have a massive false positive rate and are effectively useless.
Do not refuse to provide ID. While the TSA cannot deny you entry to the secured area of the airport due to a failure to provide ID, they can deny you if you refuse to provide ID that you are carrying. Just tell them that you don't have any ID that qualifies and they will set you aside for additional screening. I have seen someone miss a flight because they refused to provide ID.
I was told the only interview location was at the airport. How dod you get interviewed away from it?
The interview process was painless but be away they are looking at the entirely of your government accessible records when doing so.
If you travel even once internationally Global Entry (which includes PreCheck registration) is utterly worth getting, just to skip customs lines coming back into the U.S.. And like the article says, the $100 Global Entry registration lasts five years.
Global Entry has different interviewers than TSA Precheck. There are over 200 TSA Precheck locations and only about 60 Global Entry locations. Not all of them are at airports but 99% of them are. I broke down and signed up for it because I always get put into the additional screening line at immigration.
Maybe... maybe not. I mean the whole process for general airport security is ridiculous. I did finally break down and sign up for the Border Patrol equivalent. Every time I go through passport control I am flagged for additional screening. The screeners always laugh when they see me in the line. I don't. It takes me over an hour to clear customs sometimes - even when all the others from my flight have already grabbed their bags. Why do I get flagged? My name. My simple, common as can be name. After watching the person in front of me get dragged off in cuffs one time I finally asked the screener why I always get singled out. According to that screener, the computer flags me automatically because a lot of people use my name for false documents. In fact, my name is so common that there are dozens of people with my entire full name, including middle, in the city I live in now. Assuming that I get approved, I'll get TSA Precheck and will no longer have to spend an hour waiting to be the source of amusement for a bored customs official. I don't think my particular problem would go away even without the TSA.
So what the hell does "Ubuntu will primarily run on a foundation of native Windows libraries" mean? "Ubuntu" is an OS with the Linux kernel and pre-configured utilities, programs and drivers put on top of that, but TFS is indicating that "Ubuntu" in this case is not including a kernel, utilities, or drivers. Unless this is an extremely mangled, obscure, and moronic way of saying that Windows 10 will be including a Linux compatibility layer sponsored by Ubuntu.
Well they're currently working on a set of libraries called LINE, which stands for LINE is Not an Emulator. The point of the project is to allow poor Windows users to have access to some of the great software that has been available on Linux for forever. This should also allow some businesses who have been hesitant to make the transition to Windows finally jump in feet first.
If I am a free citizen, and I have a permit to concealed carry a gun, and the restaurant doesn't have any signs stating that guns are not permitted, then why in the world *shouldn't* I carry my gun, concealed, into the restaurant?
Many restaurant serve alcohol. Are there any states that let you carry in a place where alcohol is served? I don't know of any. No sign needed. There are places nicer than Luby's, you know (and less likely to have mass shootings).
Florida allows you to carry a concealed weapon in a restaurant. However, if that restaurant has a bar, you cannot walk through the bar area of the restaurant, even if it is just to go to the bathroom. Once you've done so, I believe its a 3 year minimum sentence if you're caught. I do not believe a judge would look kindly on someone who ordered drinks at a restaurant while concealing a weapon, either.
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Just like how you start to get very mad at people who are able to abuse handicapped parking spots because the govt is totally lax about who get to use this benefit (not just who has the placard, but who uses it). Trust in the appearance of public institutions is just as important as actual functioning -- a small number of cases of fraud and abuse can undermine it.
I don't get mad at ANYONE who uses a handicapped parking spot (with the proper permit). Maybe they're parking the car for a disabled person they dropped off at the front door? Who knows. It's not my place to judge and I have seen someone who was legitimately disabled accosted by someone who didn't think they were disabled enough. It was a young guy I knew that had 4 inches of bone removed from his leg after a drunk driver almost killed him. So why get angry at people who use handicapped permits? Even if you have your own handicap permit that person you're angry at may need it more than you think.
I'd bet money, big money, that Hillary has never blown anyone.
Nah, she has Monica do all of that for her.
Crazy, many new cars let you send and receive via voice now. Hell, even can listen and send without you picking them up.
Sounds like a good excuse to copy peoples phones, pull someone over for "texting while driving" and scan their phone... No warrant needed.
The fact of the matter is that you can set up things like autoreply via Tasker and other systems that could result in a text message being sent from your device while it's in your trunk. Plus, why do they need this device when they can just subpoena your cell phone records? It seems to me like this law is being written just so that the police can search your phone any time they stop you.
WTF are you talking about? Trump is not a favorite of the Religious Right, he's not even religious himself, though he claims to be now in order to get votes. Did you forget that he couldn't even name his favorite bible verses when ask?
Uh I was just being ridiculous. I know Trump isn't religious. But he is very much an egoist and I believe that most outspoken of the supposedly hardcore Christians are all about 'doing what is right' by thinking of their own comfort instead of showing love and kindness to all like they're supposed to. So perhaps they have more in common with Trump than they realize.
Ted Cruz is the one who's a far-far-right Christian theocratist who's an adherent of Dominionism. Why liberals can't seem to understand this and keep attacking Trump, I have no idea. It's almost like they want to have Cruz as President by getting Trump out of the way and putting Cruz up against Hillary, while refusing to believe that Millenials won't bother showing up at the polls for Hillary. If you thought 8 years of W. was a horror show, you're in for horrors you can't even imagine with Cruz in the White House.
Lets be honest, they're all jackasses. In my living memory this is most certainly the best time for a candidate to run as a third party or independent and have a chance to win.
And they also tend to look at the mostly supplanted old testament for answers to questions that are more easily answered by that famous and simple saying "what would Jesus do?"
Come on dude, WWJD is sooo 34 AD or CE or whatever you want to use. In 2016 we've changed to "WWDD?" Or in other words "What would Drumpf Do?" Get with the times.
I feel the same way about the watch - it's great for notifications. I keep my next calendar appointment on the face, which is also handy. It's incredibly overpriced for the utility it provides. I like a fashionable watch but I feel like this watch is anything but fashionable. As far as apps: Apple approached my company and asked us to develop some cool watch apps prior to the watch release. Every single useful idea we came up with was rejected because they planned to eventually release their own app that was similar. It's been almost 2 years since they approached us, they haven't implemented any of those apps and I still only use my watch for notifications. I still tell my friends to just wait and see if the price drops or if something more useful ever releases.
Donald Trump would want built if he believed extra terrestrials were real?
Just ask yourself:
Does Trump's hair resemble anything from this planet?
Everyone knows that Trump's hair is one of his horcruxes. Once you introduce dark magic into the equation, who can really say what his hair piece really is (besides a horcrux, obviously)?
No one in America wanted to help the FBI. Now they want to FBI to disclose how they did it?
Have you been living under a rock? Apple gave them all the data from iCloud. The FBI then performed a reset password on iCloud AND lost the data that apple provided. That basically prevented Apple from being able to access the data anymore. So then the FBI was like 'Hey I know we screwed up, but you have to go even further and help us no matter what the cost"
Oh please. That Telestra customer pushed 1 TB of the Panama papers over his LTEx4 connection just this last Sunday.
Be careful, or they will outlaw mathematics.
I am seriously thinking about writing them a satirical letter thanking them for their courageous and valiant fight against mathematics but that their constituents and future constituents will not be happy until they've replaced high school algebra with a less dangerous subject like household chemistry
The problem is that, even at 7.2kW (maximum available power from a home circuit) it will still take several hours to charge even a modestly-sized eCar battery.
As I outlined in another post, using a higher voltage supply increases the available power, but this cannot be done very safely with a plug and socket system where contacts are made and broken. There is a risk of arc flash any time a high voltage contact is broken.
Have you ever heard something spark when you plug something into the wall, or unplug it? That's a small arc inside the socket. At 120V or 240V household voltage, they're pretty small (but can be much worse under abnormal circumstances). The higher the voltage, the larger and deeper a plug and socket must be to contain the arc, and the less safe the whole thing becomes.
Removing the make/break operation from the process increases safety by orders of magnitude, and allows much higher supply voltages to be used, therefore increasing power and decreasing charging times.
It is not uncommon for modern Lithium batteries to be charged at 1-2C. A 25kWh battery could be charged at 50kW CC and probably even finish its CV cycle, all in about an hour.
I think this also makes more sense for a mall or office parking lot. I imagine it would be a hell of a lot easier to just put a wireless charger in each stall and not have to worry about the connectors being damaged by humans connecting and disconnecting their vehicles than to build a charging station w/ the appropriate plugs at hundreds of stalls. Instead, you supply a nice steady stream of power while the user works / shops.
If you're driving the profit down to zero, you can drive it down to a small positive number. Make a profit enough years (three out of seven?) and the IRS will assume you've got a bona fide business. Make no profit and they might start inquiring about whether you've got a legitimate business or an illegitimate tax dodge.
Oh I had equipment purchases and other things and I turned a small profit my last year of school by liquidating the business assets according to the IRS's own amortization tables. Like I said, it was all side work in addition to a regular job to help pay my expenses during school. The IRS never even blinked. I had a friend whose dad was a CPA that did nothing but corporate taxes and he thought my paperwork was legit. He's the type that wouldn't let one of his clients (or friends) do something shady with his knowledge.
There is plenty of bandwidth to go around.
That depends entirely where you are, and how many people are sharing the same cell tower/sector with you.
We have no room for your "physics" nonsense around here, buddy. Go back to YouTube with all those ridiculous evolution and other psuedoscience videos. People come to Slashdot to discuss real science. Come back when you've finally learned the earth is flat.
I see that, as I expected, ITAR is a valid excuse to withhold software from the public. I bet that most DoD specific projects would qualify for this exception. I have never worked on a DoD project that was not covered by ITAR, but all the software I've written for the USG was specific to weapon systems so I suppose that should come as no surprise.
When you say "mild electrocution", you're saying "mildly dead", which doesn't really make a lot of sense.
You're right. It would be better if he just said that he's "mostly dead". There's a big difference between MOSTLY dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
The point is, you can incorporate if you want. Hire yourself as a sub-contractor and pay you to go to your day job. It might be worth it, if your tax burden is high enough.
Or low enough. I did this exact thing in college when I was doing some software development in my free time. Rather than actually pay myself a wage, though, I used a bunch of employee benefit programs to drive the business profit down to 0 and provide my self with non-taxable benefits. The company didn't turn a profit but the IRS lets you keep a hobby business as a tax shelter for long enough that i was able to just dissolve the business without ever running a profit after graduating. I had a paying internship that I used to pay the monthly bills and used my connections there to get the contracting gigs. I didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt doing it, either. I grew up poor but didn't qualify for school grants because of unusual family circumstances that made me ineligible. I do everything I can to avoid paying taxes at the end of the year now, but I don't complain about the money that has already been withheld, I just wish it were being used more appropriately.
Ah that is a crucial difference. IF you just want TSA PRecheck you can have up to 5 people in your party travel with you thru the secure lane (I think its 5). Everyone has to have their own Global Entry registration though. IT's only valid for one person.
As an Australian citizen living in the US, you know what's super annoying?
- I can use the automated entry in Australia. - US citizens with GE can use automated entry in the US and in Australia too, as you rightly pointed out. - But Australian citizens cannot use automated entry in the US.
Or put another way, Australia is nice enough to let you use your GE in Australia, but the US never reciprocated. Not only that, they don't even allow Australian citizens to manually apply for the American GE program either - it's only open to Americans and a random handful of other people: South Koreans, Germans and the UK I think. Grrrrrrr...
I thought it was reciprocated. I don't usually go to Australia so I didn't look too closely. I don't know why Australia would allow this lack of reciprocation to continue. I feel your pain. I wish it were easier for everyone to visit the US. I think we look like paranoid idiots.
You know, I'm having trouble finding where they asked Apple to "it asked Apple to provide a tool for the government to access all data", can you point to it in the order?
https://www.documentcloud.org/...
I see where it says they want a tool that is keyed to this specific phone, so it would be rather inconsistent to also ask for a tool to unlock any phone they like. After all, that isn't how the legal system works, they have to get permission from a judge to unlock every single phone.
You obviously do not understand how the software update process works. What they requested Apple to do would have worked on every single iPhone 5c in the world. It may have worked on other model phones, as well. They were asking for a master key for all iPhone 5Cs. And why should the FBI get it? If the NSA is doing its job, they have already illegally captured all the meta data for communications going into and out of the phone. San Bernadino County could have configured the device properly. The FBI could have left the iCloud account password as Farook set it. The FBI is also free to use as many super computers as they'd like to crack the data on the phone. Since when is it's Apple's duty to undermine their own product line to help the FBI? And finally what's so important on this phone that it was worth all this effort to break into? Probably nothing. He had a personal phone which he intentionally destroyed. He intentionally destroyed all of his personal storage media. Why would anyone think he is smart enough to destroy all of that but dumb enough to use his work phone which could have been phoning home to his employer? Are you saying that it's worth sacrificing more liberty to unlock this phone? Does it bring back the dead people? Prevent this dead person from killing more people? No. It does no good to anyone except people who want more power inside of the FBI.
If you travel overseas, go for Global Entry. It costs the same ($100), and it includes PreCheck as a perk. As an added bonus, you get to use kiosks for passport control (never a wait) and the crew line for customs.
I routinely take 8-10 minutes total from deplaning at LAX (Bradley Terminal) to the terminal exit. A bit longer if I have to wait for checked luggage. Worth every cent.
Global Entry is definitely the way to go if you travel internationally. Flying into ATL or JFK is no longer a hassle at customs and immigration. At YVR when a cruise ship is dumping their passengers in the line is no big deal as well. GE is now $200, but many credit cards will refund the fee; even so I'd gladly pay the $200 to avoid a hour or more wait to get back in after a 10 plus hour flight. Pre-check is an added bonus, and I'm glad they are limiting the non - Preorder GE folks from using Pre. Nothing is more annoying to be in line behind someone who doesn't understand they don't need to disrobe and empty their luggage and hold up the line because they are clueless.; and then look all pissed because you toss your bag on the belt ahead of theirs and go through the metal detector.
GE also is expanding to some overseas airports as well for an extra fee. The U.K. Is one destination that would be worth the fee.
It's $100 still - I just applied two weeks ago. And you can use your existing GE coverage for free in Australia. For South Korea, you have to sign up with their entry program, which is $100, and be an approved GE member, another $100. Other countries charge fees as well. I think there are 6 countries that participate.
Airport security does suck everywhere. Australia's is pretty bad. Germany's is pretty terrible too, but the worst, by far, out of any country I have every flow through, is Americas. I have never had more confrontations with security than in the US. Most other countries don't require ID for flying domestically (and fun fact: America doesn't either. Next time, refuse. It takes a little longer, but it's worth it. The US government has no right to restrict transit if you don't have papers. In most EU countries you are required to have ID on you at all time. Not in the US).
Airport security is a joke. It's not security, it's security theatre. They've never stopped a single damn person intending harm ever in the history of their existence. Fuck them, fuck airports and fuck the TSA.
Not to mention, the TSA searches are totally and completely illegal and unconstitutional. Back when airport security was private, it was the airlines getting together to set the standards and searches were part of their terms of service. When the federal government starts doing it, it now becomes a 4th amendment violation. Texas tried to return airports to private security and was bullied by the federal government and gave up the fight. The new mm-wave body scanners have a massive false positive rate and are effectively useless.
Do not refuse to provide ID. While the TSA cannot deny you entry to the secured area of the airport due to a failure to provide ID, they can deny you if you refuse to provide ID that you are carrying. Just tell them that you don't have any ID that qualifies and they will set you aside for additional screening. I have seen someone miss a flight because they refused to provide ID.
I was told the only interview location was at the airport. How dod you get interviewed away from it?
The interview process was painless but be away they are looking at the entirely of your government accessible records when doing so.
If you travel even once internationally Global Entry (which includes PreCheck registration) is utterly worth getting, just to skip customs lines coming back into the U.S.. And like the article says, the $100 Global Entry registration lasts five years.
Global Entry has different interviewers than TSA Precheck. There are over 200 TSA Precheck locations and only about 60 Global Entry locations. Not all of them are at airports but 99% of them are. I broke down and signed up for it because I always get put into the additional screening line at immigration.
Painless and unnecessary
Maybe... maybe not. I mean the whole process for general airport security is ridiculous. I did finally break down and sign up for the Border Patrol equivalent. Every time I go through passport control I am flagged for additional screening. The screeners always laugh when they see me in the line. I don't. It takes me over an hour to clear customs sometimes - even when all the others from my flight have already grabbed their bags. Why do I get flagged? My name. My simple, common as can be name. After watching the person in front of me get dragged off in cuffs one time I finally asked the screener why I always get singled out. According to that screener, the computer flags me automatically because a lot of people use my name for false documents. In fact, my name is so common that there are dozens of people with my entire full name, including middle, in the city I live in now. Assuming that I get approved, I'll get TSA Precheck and will no longer have to spend an hour waiting to be the source of amusement for a bored customs official. I don't think my particular problem would go away even without the TSA.
So what the hell does "Ubuntu will primarily run on a foundation of native Windows libraries" mean? "Ubuntu" is an OS with the Linux kernel and pre-configured utilities, programs and drivers put on top of that, but TFS is indicating that "Ubuntu" in this case is not including a kernel, utilities, or drivers. Unless this is an extremely mangled, obscure, and moronic way of saying that Windows 10 will be including a Linux compatibility layer sponsored by Ubuntu.
Well they're currently working on a set of libraries called LINE, which stands for LINE is Not an Emulator. The point of the project is to allow poor Windows users to have access to some of the great software that has been available on Linux for forever. This should also allow some businesses who have been hesitant to make the transition to Windows finally jump in feet first.
If I am a free citizen, and I have a permit to concealed carry a gun, and the restaurant doesn't have any signs stating that guns are not permitted, then why in the world *shouldn't* I carry my gun, concealed, into the restaurant?
Many restaurant serve alcohol. Are there any states that let you carry in a place where alcohol is served? I don't know of any. No sign needed. There are places nicer than Luby's, you know (and less likely to have mass shootings).
Florida allows you to carry a concealed weapon in a restaurant. However, if that restaurant has a bar, you cannot walk through the bar area of the restaurant, even if it is just to go to the bathroom. Once you've done so, I believe its a 3 year minimum sentence if you're caught. I do not believe a judge would look kindly on someone who ordered drinks at a restaurant while concealing a weapon, either.