This is why I do hardware. In hardware the number of people out there doing it wrong and shoving it in your face saying "deal with it" is a lot smaller.
It took about 1 year. The same for my daughter's phone, which died in the same way. The same hack recovered both phones.
I don't know if it is inevitable. Maybe they changed the part later on. Or maybe there was a batch of bad parts. I bet LG knows. I don't. But there are a lot of people out there with the same issue who don't know how to throw a few printfs into android to figure it out. I got logs of the actual sensor output later. It would flip between the actual temperature and absolute max and back again over periods of a few seconds. But those numbers are locked in an android dev VM on my PC at home. My fix was to trap any temp report > 99% of full scale and modify it to equal the most recent good value, then recompile android.
>The obvious answer is to have a cross-platform sandboxed runtime enviroment that doesn't suck. It does not to be bundled in the browser, but it could be.
>so you agree that it's wrong, and bad for our industry....what Uber is doing.. At some legalistic level. What has become of the taxi industry and the laws applicable to it is worse.
>so you agree that it's wrong, and bad for our industry....what Uber is doing..
Maybe bad for your industry. Not bad for mine and it may be a wash for consumers. Lower prices, greater availability, more convenient interface, fewer protections.
>you've abdicated your own agency in your life choices...you're behaving like a serf w/ the "free market" as your master Not me. I've never used them. Buy I can see why people would. Taxis in London are daylight robbery and horrifically bad service.
>you can choose that existence if you want, and suffer and whine your whole life, or you can join those of us who are working to **fix things** How so? How are you fixing the taxi industry? I'm not in this fight. It sounds like you are.
It appears that Londoners were adopting Uber rapidly when all the taxis went away to protest.
the reality is that the cat is out of the bag. If Uber stop existing, it won't alter the fact that ad-hoc ride calling schemes will continue to exist legal or not, because the technology exists and is ubiquitous.
Lawmakers would be wise to work with the real worlds, rather than against it. But they don't generally do that, so it'll be messier than it needs to be.
If they advertise an open-system auth policy on 802.11 and then put an IP level web page log in behind it, they are breaking the internet. If they blanket a city in that sort of crap, they are breaking the internet badly.
The point is that the credit card networks are the base cost here. Bypass those networks and the actual transaction cost is much lower. If you offer a payment service tied to credit card networks, then there's nothing new. Call me when a customer in my store can wave a card, a phone or some other credential, make a payment and the transaction cost is flat and reasonable.
The 'real costs' of any single transaction are no more that a few pennies. More importantly, the cost of servicing the transaction does not increase with the size of the transaction. So taking a percentage is wrong.
Nothing to see here. Until someone starts offering a flat fee for payment processing somewhere close to cost of the transaction, which is microscopic, this is offering nothing that can't be done with existing credit card processing options.
Maybe it's better for the rest of us if murders can't hide behind confidentiality promises, so that other people are less likely to turn to murder as a solution to their imagined grievances.
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When you fix it so people can drive North without Seattle getting in the way.
>How you get from a military theocracy to some sort of representative and stable government is a question that has yet to be answered.
Most of Europe managed it.
>My house is not far from Ronler Acres (massive Intel plant) and across the street from an office park,
Er. Me too.
>I'd love to have another alternative to Comcast.
Frontier Fios doesn't go there?
This is why I do hardware. In hardware the number of people out there doing it wrong and shoving it in your face saying "deal with it" is a lot smaller.
Portland is full of malcontents.
Come to the West side (Washington County). We're all techy and techy corps own the politicians.
So an API on a computer on an OS.
There are always a billion layers of crap in any system these days, where 3 would do.
If you could eliminate the sandbox, you'd be back to a computer with an OS and all would be well with the world.
It took about 1 year. The same for my daughter's phone, which died in the same way. The same hack recovered both phones.
I don't know if it is inevitable. Maybe they changed the part later on. Or maybe there was a batch of bad parts. I bet LG knows. I don't. But there are a lot of people out there with the same issue who don't know how to throw a few printfs into android to figure it out. I got logs of the actual sensor output later. It would flip between the actual temperature and absolute max and back again over periods of a few seconds. But those numbers are locked in an android dev VM on my PC at home. My fix was to trap any temp report > 99% of full scale and modify it to equal the most recent good value, then recompile android.
I've moved on. I'm on a Nexus 5 now.
>The obvious answer is to have a cross-platform sandboxed runtime enviroment that doesn't suck. It does not to be bundled in the browser, but it could be.
You mean a computer with an OS?
That makes no sense.
This is a very well known scam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
That was the most interesting thing I've read all day.
> They use marketing and image to keep prices high.
They make some nice laptops too.
>so you agree that it's wrong, and bad for our industry....what Uber is doing..
At some legalistic level. What has become of the taxi industry and the laws applicable to it is worse.
>so you agree that it's wrong, and bad for our industry....what Uber is doing..
Maybe bad for your industry. Not bad for mine and it may be a wash for consumers. Lower prices, greater availability, more convenient interface, fewer protections.
>you've abdicated your own agency in your life choices...you're behaving like a serf w/ the "free market" as your master
Not me. I've never used them. Buy I can see why people would. Taxis in London are daylight robbery and horrifically bad service.
>you can choose that existence if you want, and suffer and whine your whole life, or you can join those of us who are working to **fix things**
How so? How are you fixing the taxi industry? I'm not in this fight. It sounds like you are.
Uber is a taxi service that uses a different words to describe itself and phone apps instead of a radio dispatch
Uber is a taxi service that gets to bypass all the rules for taxi services.
Uber gets to do this b/c of hype, idiots like you, and bribery.
And it is the way it will be. Reality sucks for some.
>That privileged access is a requirement from the government itself.
And they are lobbying their governments to keep that privileged access. Being undercut by a cheaper competitor is certainly competition.
It appears that Londoners were adopting Uber rapidly when all the taxis went away to protest.
the reality is that the cat is out of the bag. If Uber stop existing, it won't alter the fact that ad-hoc ride calling schemes will continue to exist legal or not, because the technology exists and is ubiquitous.
Lawmakers would be wise to work with the real worlds, rather than against it. But they don't generally do that, so it'll be messier than it needs to be.
Competition sucks. Gotta keep that privileged access to the market.
If they advertise an open-system auth policy on 802.11 and then put an IP level web page log in behind it, they are breaking the internet. If they blanket a city in that sort of crap, they are breaking the internet badly.
My point exactly. It's 'Subscriber WiFi', not 'Public WiFi' as TFA suggests.
What makes me think this is not Public WiFi? You're going to have to pay to use it.
The point is that the credit card networks are the base cost here. Bypass those networks and the actual transaction cost is much lower. If you offer a payment service tied to credit card networks, then there's nothing new. Call me when a customer in my store can wave a card, a phone or some other credential, make a payment and the transaction cost is flat and reasonable.
The 'real costs' of any single transaction are no more that a few pennies. More importantly, the cost of servicing the transaction does not increase with the size of the transaction. So taking a percentage is wrong.
2.9% of a $1000 transaction is theft.
I'm not missing the point. I'm pointing out a trade off.
>2.9% + $0.3
Nothing to see here. Until someone starts offering a flat fee for payment processing somewhere close to cost of the transaction, which is microscopic, this is offering nothing that can't be done with existing credit card processing options.
Maybe it's better for the rest of us if murders can't hide behind confidentiality promises, so that other people are less likely to turn to murder as a solution to their imagined grievances.