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  1. Or, they could prevent you from sending them to non Google servers, or they could convert the email into a link as soon as it leaves Google (this could even be true for people receiving their Google mail via POP3 or IMAP). The link could be forwarded, but break in x number of days. And they could enforce whatever nonsense in a browser visiting that link.

    None of this is to say it isn't stupid, simply that it's a pretty easy thing to do to force browser viewing of the email, no matter where it goes.

    I highly doubt they'll be able to effectively block printing and copy paste from a web browser.

  2. Re:1.2 miles of road? on World's First Electrified Road For Charging Vehicles Opens In Sweden (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair enough.

    Why does it not charge stopped cars then?

  3. It's not that low.

    Pre-sorting saves about $0.06 each on first class mail.

    You can save another $0.15 going with lower class (standard) mail, but it can't contain a personal communication (even when a company does it) because they don't really out much effort into time or making certain someone gets it.

    For that $0.06 discount, they are gaurenteed the address is good too, and that gaurenteed that their machines can read the address.

  4. Re:Made in America? LOL on World's First Electrified Road For Charging Vehicles Opens In Sweden (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid question, but how is it that gasoline makes busses not appealing to the masses?

    Does electric power somehow keep the junkies from shooting up in the back?

  5. Re:1.2 miles of road? on World's First Electrified Road For Charging Vehicles Opens In Sweden (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That seems unlikely even

    "When a vehicle stops, the current is disconnected."

    This leads me to believe it is a proof of concept, and not a charger. The idea is that cars would use the power instead of batteries, and not charge off of it. Eventually, long haul roads would be powered like this and batteries would only need to cover what ever the automobile equivalent of last mile is (last ten miles I guess ?).

  6. Re:Think we're going to get a legal definition soo on Uber Drivers Are Independent Contractors, Not Employees, Judge Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that there will be certain protections added for lower paid contractors. Similar to how you can't be salaried if you make less than a certain amount, contractors making less than a certain amount will get some level of protection.

  7. Re:Absolutely, but .... on Apple Starts Alerting Users That It Will End 32-Bit App Support On the Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The bungie I meant was before MS baught them, and they released native Linux games.

    They were part of the first wave as I'm calling it of commercial games in Linux (myth 2).

    Another studio used binaries compiled against wine, and they were a lot easier to get running (forget the game, some toye of RTS with skeletons).

    Sim City 2000 (port by I forget who, but their was a company that ported that and alpha century) and myth 2 were very difficult to get running.

    But it was a time of major kernel changes and a big glibc change, so maybe everything a year later is pretty compatible.

  8. Re:Absolutely, but .... on Apple Starts Alerting Users That It Will End 32-Bit App Support On the Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had a lot of trouble with precompiled binaries in the past.

    Incompatible sound libraries, incompatible glibc, I forget what else.

    Maybe that has changed, but running commercial games that didn't use wine was a mess in the first wave of Linux games (bungie era), even quite new ones.

  9. Re:Absolutely, but .... on Apple Starts Alerting Users That It Will End 32-Bit App Support On the Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Even within the Intel era, I've had issues with light use computers.

    There's limits to how new an OS some of them can run, and the software (such as Firefox or chrome) doesn't support the older OS.

    Additionally, you can't upgrade the OS to the most recent your machine can run, so there were some that I used to manage that could in theory run OSX that could run new chrome/Firefox, but the upgrade was no longer available in the app store.

    We switched those computers out with PCs from a similar vintage running Windows 7.

  10. Re:Peppers are very good for you on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Weird, I would have assumed any digestive problems would be associated with the sensitivity to capsashin.

    I assume that's what causes mine after too many peppers.

  11. Re:no such thing as bad publicity on Facebook Data Collected By Quiz App Included Private Messages (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why the pinto is so successful.

  12. That's what I have currently.

    Prolonged use hurts my hand from reaching to the top left.

    A menu button at the bottom of the screen could fix my issue with it.

    I miss the menu and search buttons of the olden days.

  13. I can't manage to keep my phones long enough for the removable battery to matter.

    I'd love a 4.75 inch, 720P screen, practically 0 bezel top, left, right, finger print bottom (slot speaker and camera on the top, no notch).

    Basically, I want an older iPhone that runs android and costs under $250.00.

    I don't care about SD slot (if the phone is 64 gig), headphone jack, or removable battery.

    Sony makes some nice small phones, but they're all quite expensive.

  14. I like a thin phone to an extent.

    It makes it easier to use one handed (though I'd actually prefer a 4.75 or so inch phone that was slightly thicker, it's just that nobody seems to want to make cheap phone's under 5.2 inches).

  15. Re:The prosecution rests on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Was it doctored or just bad?

    I missed the articles about it actually being doctored.

  16. Re:The prosecution rests on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Business records kept in the regular course of business are evidence once verified as a normal business record.

    You can complain about it, but it's part of the rules of evidence.

    As for you, if you had a dash cam even, I'd absolutely buy it over people's perception.

    At this point you're not swearing to recollection, but instead to the fact that you aren't faking footage. One is clearly more credible than the other.

  17. Re:The actual cross-walk rules on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Right of way means you don't interfere with them, it doesn't say anything about distance.

  18. Re:10 feet isnâ(TM)t very far on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the car was driving behind.

    Car stopped, pedestrian crosses, car drives with pedestrian out of the way, but not clear of sidewalk.

    Depending the relative traffic (foot, vs street, vs cross), this seems pretty reasonable.

  19. Re:Cops gotta make that ticket quota! on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Pedestrians are supposed to walk ginst traffic though. At least that's what I was taught.

  20. Re:The prosecution rests on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    A sworn affidavit and someone familiar with the system testifying that it is a record kept in the normal course of business.

    Rules of evidence can be complex, but this is not one of those cases.

  21. Re:The prosecution rests on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    People have gotten off on tickets with dashcam footage. I bet the car in question has that and more

  22. Re:Story missing important details on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I saw a video of a Google car out on its own.

    Police lights need to trigger a self driving car to get right and stood anyway, it seems like they would respond to being pulled over the same way.

  23. Re:Nostalgia on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2 Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Desktop.

    They were split (wrt to install media) from the start, but server was basically just a minimal text based install (maybe it still is?).

    Eucalyptus is when I feel they started pushing server features as first class.

    But this is from memory, so salt grains and all.

    I still use the server, but the next one I do will likely be SUSE Leap, since it comes with netatalk 3.x, and will save me some compiling.

  24. Re:Nostalgia on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2 Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Text based installers are excellent.

    I was particularly fond of yast. Being able to configure just like my install was so amazing to me.

    Before that, I used to reinstall redhat whenever I got new hardware...

    The Debian text installer was pretty excellent back then too.

  25. Re:Nostalgia on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2 Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe.

    I started Ubuntu with 7.04 (maybe that was the one I liked most even, I forget). I loved the 2 panel gnome 2, and it seemed to work great. Compiz worked well, and everything seemed good for me (flash and nvidia drivers).

    With 8.04 a hard-drive scheduling issue made it unusable, and I pretty much stopped using Linux as a desktop. I can fully imagine it got better, but I don't think I'll find a desktop I like more than gnome 2 of that era with compiz as a window manager. Also, it was a pretty exciting time to use Linux as highly customizable 3d desktops became a thing, the web was comfortably cross platform again, Open Office was a pretty good suite for free, and I was young, so everything was more exciting...