Say you'll pay up front, and you can see them swipe/insert it. There's a known flaw with some wireless chip & PIN terminals that allows thieves to snoop on the data and make unauthorized charges; if it's the flaw I think it is, it requires an update to the terminal (how many restaurants will do that?)
You think American payment systems are weird? Japan shuts down their ATMs when their banks close for the day. They have metallic shutters that close over them so you can't access the controls. Tons of stuff is cash-only, as well, so if you need to pay for stuff when the banks are closed you're SOL.
I'm wondering if the next President will reverse course and ban offshore drilling again. Could that happen before they get their oil rigs set up? With the incoming flood of electric cars, changes in vehicle ownership due to self-driving tech, and the current low price of oil due to fracking, I'm skeptical that we really need off-shore drilling. If there's another world war and Canada and Mexico embargo us, then sure, otherwise we should be fine. (Hint: we'd be the Axis.)
Don't call humans intelligent! They think via a simple input-processing-output model just like a simple algorithm I can scribble on a napkin in five seconds!
It is well known that prisoners that keep in touch with their families and friends are more likely to successfully reintegrate with society.
Interesting. I once heard here that recidivism is lower in Nordic countries which relocate convicts, upon release, to a location far from where they used to live. The theory was that if they're separated from their old criminal friends and contacts then they're less likely to reoffend.
Illinois addressed that issue by making it illegal for employers to ask about criminal history. Not sure if they can still do a background check though.
This phenomenon started before streaming. There was a post on Slashdot a couple years ago about how the time before the lyrics start up is way down compared to the 80s. The conclusion was the same in that the idea was to hook the listener quickly. However, the reason was different, likely so that you pay attention or don't switch to another radio station.
My suspicion is that the mix of 2018 music leans more toward genres that typically run shorter. Another possibility is that songs are being made shorter to lower production costs (i.e. the artists who put in synthesized/sampled sounds in the background, takes much longer than banging on an instrument for 3 minutes unless it's 1-sample synth keyboard).
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. Clarke's first law
Google+ was as unfortunately named as the WiiU. People must've thought it was a rewards program like Bing Rewards or something. My dad accidentally clicked on some 'make a G+ account' prompt, and suddenly he had a Google+ account. He never seemed to realize this though, and he kept using Facebook blissfully unaware of Google+. They shot themselves in the foot with the '+1' terminology, when every other social media site was using the 'Like', not just Facebook. Hell, calling it an 'upvote' would've been an improvement.
Google was notorious for killing their projects, so savvy netizens were wary this one would get the axe too (spoiler: it did). Those concerned over privacy considered Google+ a sidegrade over Facebook, at best.
They really should've just brought over some realtime functionality to Gmail, promoted that to all the people still using yahoo/AOL/hotmail accounts, and called it a day.
Funny, I had the opposite experience last year. I found one $60 boombox at Walmart that played tapes, and there were few cheaper options on Amazon. Now if you wanted a Walkman clone, there were tons of options.
The headline tells the tale. They get the good PR for 'spending' an apparently large sum, while de facto losing almost nothing, probably less than if they didn't do it.
More than likely it will just excaberate the problem by causing more to want to live there, encourage even higher prices to keep the undesirables out, and promote the myth that certain groups of people have the right to live wherever they wish, even if they. cannot afford it,
Issuing a loan for the creation of affordable housing perpetuates the myth that housing is affordable? Isn't that like saying that cheap food perpetuates the myth that starvation is avoidable? More likely is that the artificial suppression of the influx rate (due to inflated prices) is reduced, leading to more people who want to live there actually being able to. Remember kids: people getting what they want is BAD!/s
My plan was to turn a brit phone box (the red kind) into a rack.
I had a plan for hosting a virtual world inside a British police box. It's more spacious on the inside than the outside. I even came up with the cute backronym 'BOX' - British Otherworldly Xperience. Original, eh?
I'm confused. It sounds like you're hating on SJWs while simultaneously being outraged at the historical misrepresentation of various groups of people. Isn't that how SJWs react?
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Say you'll pay up front, and you can see them swipe/insert it. There's a known flaw with some wireless chip & PIN terminals that allows thieves to snoop on the data and make unauthorized charges; if it's the flaw I think it is, it requires an update to the terminal (how many restaurants will do that?)
The merchant generally ends up paying for charge-backs, FYI.
You think American payment systems are weird? Japan shuts down their ATMs when their banks close for the day. They have metallic shutters that close over them so you can't access the controls. Tons of stuff is cash-only, as well, so if you need to pay for stuff when the banks are closed you're SOL.
Tattoo, you mean. And without one, how would you know when planes arrive?
Won't someone PLEASE think of the zooplankton?!
I'm wondering if the next President will reverse course and ban offshore drilling again. Could that happen before they get their oil rigs set up? With the incoming flood of electric cars, changes in vehicle ownership due to self-driving tech, and the current low price of oil due to fracking, I'm skeptical that we really need off-shore drilling. If there's another world war and Canada and Mexico embargo us, then sure, otherwise we should be fine. (Hint: we'd be the Axis.)
Please tell me more about thinking you've spotted an AI.
Don't call humans intelligent! They think via a simple input-processing-output model just like a simple algorithm I can scribble on a napkin in five seconds!
It is well known that prisoners that keep in touch with their families and friends are more likely to successfully reintegrate with society.
Interesting. I once heard here that recidivism is lower in Nordic countries which relocate convicts, upon release, to a location far from where they used to live. The theory was that if they're separated from their old criminal friends and contacts then they're less likely to reoffend.
Illinois addressed that issue by making it illegal for employers to ask about criminal history. Not sure if they can still do a background check though.
Casual, incidental nastiness is more common than casual, incidental love and care, unfortunately.
Advertisements now have a few minutes of 'show' inbetween them, you mean.
This phenomenon started before streaming. There was a post on Slashdot a couple years ago about how the time before the lyrics start up is way down compared to the 80s. The conclusion was the same in that the idea was to hook the listener quickly. However, the reason was different, likely so that you pay attention or don't switch to another radio station.
My suspicion is that the mix of 2018 music leans more toward genres that typically run shorter. Another possibility is that songs are being made shorter to lower production costs (i.e. the artists who put in synthesized/sampled sounds in the background, takes much longer than banging on an instrument for 3 minutes unless it's 1-sample synth keyboard).
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. Clarke's first law
Google+ was as unfortunately named as the WiiU. People must've thought it was a rewards program like Bing Rewards or something. My dad accidentally clicked on some 'make a G+ account' prompt, and suddenly he had a Google+ account. He never seemed to realize this though, and he kept using Facebook blissfully unaware of Google+. They shot themselves in the foot with the '+1' terminology, when every other social media site was using the 'Like', not just Facebook. Hell, calling it an 'upvote' would've been an improvement.
Google was notorious for killing their projects, so savvy netizens were wary this one would get the axe too (spoiler: it did). Those concerned over privacy considered Google+ a sidegrade over Facebook, at best.
They really should've just brought over some realtime functionality to Gmail, promoted that to all the people still using yahoo/AOL/hotmail accounts, and called it a day.
Just curious, is it possible that people are normally chimeras to some degree? It may not be 'error' so much as 'unexpected true result'.
Clearly, one of them was switched at birth. With their triplet.
Funny, I had the opposite experience last year. I found one $60 boombox at Walmart that played tapes, and there were few cheaper options on Amazon. Now if you wanted a Walkman clone, there were tons of options.
The constitution actually mandates apportionate taxes (each state being taxed an identical amount). It took an amendment to allow otherwise.
The headline tells the tale. They get the good PR for 'spending' an apparently large sum, while de facto losing almost nothing, probably less than if they didn't do it.
Aah, the fabled 'middle-class-out' algorithm.
More than likely it will just excaberate the problem by causing more to want to live there, encourage even higher prices to keep the undesirables out, and promote the myth that certain groups of people have the right to live wherever they wish, even if they. cannot afford it,
Issuing a loan for the creation of affordable housing perpetuates the myth that housing is affordable? Isn't that like saying that cheap food perpetuates the myth that starvation is avoidable? /s
More likely is that the artificial suppression of the influx rate (due to inflated prices) is reduced, leading to more people who want to live there actually being able to.
Remember kids: people getting what they want is BAD!
Six legs good, eight legs bad.
The 1010 COMMAND-prompt arguMENTS, you mean. Handed down on a stone punchcard from the sysadmin to the team lead, on mount ANSInai.
My plan was to turn a brit phone box (the red kind) into a rack.
I had a plan for hosting a virtual world inside a British police box. It's more spacious on the inside than the outside. I even came up with the cute backronym 'BOX' - British Otherworldly Xperience. Original, eh?
I'm confused. It sounds like you're hating on SJWs while simultaneously being outraged at the historical misrepresentation of various groups of people. Isn't that how SJWs react?