If you rear end someone it means you were following too closely and could not manage your speed appropriately.
You're making a lot of assumptions. Sometimes you're just a completely distracted and useless git.
I got rear ended at a bridge opening once. I was at a red light. Car was standing behind me. I saw the bridge opening, the instructions are clear: turn your motor off, you're going to be there for 20min.
So I took my foot off the break, and put on the handbreak and switched my car off and got rear-ended.
The guy behind me tapping away on his phone just saw the red lights on my car turn off and assumed the traffic was moving and drove right into me.
Reposting because I understood your post now. You're quite wrong.
Oil products that go into plastic are not oil products that go into some Hummer. Specifically they don't go into the Hummer to prevent the inside of that Hummer from turning into some gooey mess. The Hummer will continue to use oil. However what may also happen is that if eventually the Hummers stop consuming oil then Lego's raw material costs will increase.
Legos are probably a half decent way of sequestering carbon.
Errr in what way? It takes energy to make them, it takes energy to get materials out of the ground, and at no point do they take carbon from the atmosphere in the process, unless you count millions of years ago as the start of the process.
you are not paying a subscription, you are paying protection, either pay or the content you created no longer belongs to you.
And yet it's quite easy to open up the files from the Adobe suite in other software.
do you know what improvements there will be in the software, what they will be able to sell to tempt you to buy upgrades, well, basically fuck all
Indeed you would think this if you lived in an alternate reality. Back in the real world though the entire Creative Suite has received a long list of continuous improvements, upgrades and even additional software with entirely new functionality without any change in the license cost.
Staying in permanent "summer time" just means you are in another timezone than you claim. So that is plain stupid. Now you don't only have to know which time zone a country is in, you also have to know if they decided to be in permanent summer time or use the normal time associated with the time zone.
Don't be stupid. They have names for timezones that basically eliminate all of your complaints. If you're judging this on anything other than how complicated it is to change the clock or what time the sun rises and sets then you're waaaaay overthinking it.
We have plenty, just not the content you want from the sources you want. Pretty much every major movie has a 4K release on bluray. Nearly every Netflix production has been in 4K.
What is the incentive to buy a 1080p TV when the content was all standard def? There's this thing called early adopters who we can thank for subsidizing our future technology.
Also why are you not able to get content in 4K? Are you not trying? Do you not have a Bluray player, or Netflix?
Different parent poster called for breaking it up, I'm calling for nationalization.
Appologies
Because it's irrelevant. The much-needed corporate death penalty for massive conglomerates will inevitably hit some Widows and Orphaned Kids Pension Fund, and produce cries of "will no one think of the capitalist children?"
No it's not. Because if you did check you would see how much of the company is already owned by the government in the first place. VW is not Ford, built by some capitalist venture. Its very roots are as a nationalised company and I think you completely underestimate the sheer costs of nationalising a multinational company both direct costs (can the government afford it?) and indirect costs. Nationalising a multinational has in the past led directly to war and the downfall of a nation, though it is unlikely to occur here the consequences will nonetheless be felt. Take a look at Brexit. A somewhat unfavourable trade condition has businesses fleeing the country (Panasonic is the latest casualty). Now imagine if instead of being mildly unfavourable you take a stance instead of taking a large companies and saying "All of this is now mine, all of you GTFO". It's not just shareholders and pension plans that will suffer in Germany, the entire German industry would go under.
To get back to that other poster's point, if the business is Too Big To Fail, it's too big to exist.
VW is not too big to fail, also most failures come gradually over long periods and don't have as big of an impact as the event that coined the phrase: The sudden failure of a major bank.
Germany is however too sensible to fuck themselves.
Your problem is that you're misunderstanding whose security Google cares about. They care about their own.
Not at all. Re-read my post. My post talked about caring about their own security for protecting their Cocacola recipe: your data. That also means they invest in security. That also means security trickles down to their retail products. Companies don't typically waste time writing lots of new things from the ground up to suite nearly identical needs.
And yet they spy on you [wsj.com] worse than even Facebook does.
And they are the one group whose spying I'm not worried about. Google spy on users in order to make money by selling access. That makes them orders of magnitude more trustworthy than those who spy on users in order to sell data wholesale (Verizon) , or spy on users to actively attack the users in question (NSA / CIA)
There are plenty of companies who make this kind of hardware that do not make their money on spying.
There are. And there are few who are putting as much effort into integration efforts across products as Google. If this form of compatibility didn't matter, Apple wouldn't exist. It was their entire reason for being when they were making their comeback: It Just Works.
AFTER THEY HAVE FUCKING COLLECTED YOUR PHONE NUMBER
I take it you've never used Google Maps, or Android, or any services by Google. Here's a hint: They have your phone number. Don't pretend to think that they don't. That would be incredibly foolish.
Also as an aside, when did you become so petrified that you freak out about giving out something that we used to give out to everyone, and routinely also publish in a big book that was freely delivered to everyone?
Google has my phone number? Oh the humanity! What will I do!
Trust with what? Trust is not a universal concept. It is contextualised. I trust my mother to have my best interests in heart. I don't trust her not to fill my computer with viruses and therefore she doesn't get to touch it.
I don't trust Google with a lot of things, however they have quite consistently shown to produce quite good back end code and generally don't appear frequently in the list of companies which have left users to malicious exploits due to poor code, or sold out customers. Mind you I don't trust them to code a functional UI to enter the 2FA codes into, however that doesn't really come into when talking about security.
Security and and a business model of handling your data are not exclusive. In fact one would hope that the people who make a business of handling your data are also some of the best in the aspects of security. Now this isn't applied universally. If you take a company like Verizon who will bulk sell your data to the highest bidder then security (of that data) is a non issue. However if you deal with a company whose sole source of income is selling access to you by way of profiling your data, and while maintaining that your data is effectively their carefully guarded CocaCola recipe, then you should apply a bit more nuanced thought.
On top of that you should also take care to look at the quality of products and code produced to date, as well as security practices, hiring and staffing practices, and general industry standings.
With all that in mind I trust Google more on matters of security than a company like Semantic, and a fuck ton more than a company which collects my data as an incidental revenue stream (looking at you Samsung, Verizon etc).
But then you throw thought out the window when it comes to data as evident that you prefer to trust security to agencies which almost exclusively are out to determine if you are thinking wrong and to punish you for it.
It sounds like you got phished by Capital One for you phone number, have you taken any steps in case they misuse it?
Are you implying that there are people out there who have dealings with a financial institution like Capital One who haven't already given them their phone number? To be clear we are talking about a financial services company here. If there's one group of people I want to be able to contact me urgently, it's the damn ones looking after my money.
Now, the girl was a ditz, it's true. But had I not slowed down she never would have gone.
Had you not been in the car you wouldn't have been in an accident either. False attribution is not good. You claim your caution caused this, when the reality is some ditz not giving way caused it. Now on the flip side caution has saved an abundance of others. Maybe if she had been more cautious and made less assumptions she wouldn't have gone.
An over abundance of caution is exactly how people should drive. The world is a random place full of furious idiots who will cut others off in anger, full of brainless idiots who just make assumptions about their own safety and walk out onto the street staring at their phones, and full of ignorant... can't call them idiots yet since they don't know better, who may chase a ball onto a street.
If everyone around you was as cautious there would have been no accident.
Right but if you stop suddenly in front of someone you're an ASSHOLE.
Yes, you're an arsehole for not hitting a car. You're an arsehole for not hitting a pedestrian. You're an arsehole for not hitting a child that has run out on the road.
Then there's those people who just brakelight check those cars behind them. They aren't arseholes. They are just driving instructors helping prevent IDIOTS for killing someone senselessly.
Boy, the anti-Apple bias on Slashdot is disgusting.
Slashdot isn't anti-Apple, it has a perfectly level playingfield for the entire technology sector. It just looks like anti-Apple because one specific fanboy sucks up so much positive Apple bias that the rest of Slashdot has maintain balance in the force.
I'd be much more impressed if these companies/states just did it without having to press-release it all.
A silent hidden rolemodel is as good as no role model at all. The power is in the press release. You should be happy that these happen as it gives you the power of examples to follow.
Look at why most migration (legal and otherwise) occurs... It is due to disparity of conditions between the source and destination country, where the migrant is planning to have a significantly higher quality of life in the destination country.
And in the absence of any movement at all in really low unemployment numbers what this quality of life for the person equates to is GDP growth for the nation. Thank you immigrant friend for boosting our economy.
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Possession of cannabis is punishable by up to 5 years in the UK.
Doesn't your country have laws against incidental incrimination for an unrelated crime?
If you rear end someone it means you were following too closely and could not manage your speed appropriately.
You're making a lot of assumptions. Sometimes you're just a completely distracted and useless git.
I got rear ended at a bridge opening once. I was at a red light. Car was standing behind me. I saw the bridge opening, the instructions are clear: turn your motor off, you're going to be there for 20min.
So I took my foot off the break, and put on the handbreak and switched my car off and got rear-ended.
The guy behind me tapping away on his phone just saw the red lights on my car turn off and assumed the traffic was moving and drove right into me.
Sometimes human drivers are just responsible.
That's rarely the case. I tend to find human drivers mostly irresponsible.
Only the first two you mentioned are a dichotomy. The rest have to do with how police go about their business and can all be solved at once.
Reposting because I understood your post now. You're quite wrong.
Oil products that go into plastic are not oil products that go into some Hummer. Specifically they don't go into the Hummer to prevent the inside of that Hummer from turning into some gooey mess. The Hummer will continue to use oil. However what may also happen is that if eventually the Hummers stop consuming oil then Lego's raw material costs will increase.
Legos are probably a half decent way of sequestering carbon.
Errr in what way? It takes energy to make them, it takes energy to get materials out of the ground, and at no point do they take carbon from the atmosphere in the process, unless you count millions of years ago as the start of the process.
No, Android users don't need to run off to some safe space because someone has their phone number.
you are not paying a subscription, you are paying protection, either pay or the content you created no longer belongs to you.
And yet it's quite easy to open up the files from the Adobe suite in other software.
do you know what improvements there will be in the software, what they will be able to sell to tempt you to buy upgrades, well, basically fuck all
Indeed you would think this if you lived in an alternate reality. Back in the real world though the entire Creative Suite has received a long list of continuous improvements, upgrades and even additional software with entirely new functionality without any change in the license cost.
Staying in permanent "summer time" just means you are in another timezone than you claim. So that is plain stupid. Now you don't only have to know which time zone a country is in, you also have to know if they decided to be in permanent summer time or use the normal time associated with the time zone.
Don't be stupid. They have names for timezones that basically eliminate all of your complaints. If you're judging this on anything other than how complicated it is to change the clock or what time the sun rises and sets then you're waaaaay overthinking it.
We barely even have content for 4K -- how do they expect to sell them with almost zero content for 8K?
And 4K TVs are selling quite well, so they expect to sell them the same way.
We barely have any 4k content yet.
We have plenty, just not the content you want from the sources you want. Pretty much every major movie has a 4K release on bluray. Nearly every Netflix production has been in 4K.
What is the incentive to buy a 1080p TV when the content was all standard def? There's this thing called early adopters who we can thank for subsidizing our future technology.
Also why are you not able to get content in 4K? Are you not trying? Do you not have a Bluray player, or Netflix?
Different parent poster called for breaking it up, I'm calling for nationalization.
Appologies
Because it's irrelevant. The much-needed corporate death penalty for massive conglomerates will inevitably hit some Widows and Orphaned Kids Pension Fund, and produce cries of "will no one think of the capitalist children?"
No it's not. Because if you did check you would see how much of the company is already owned by the government in the first place. VW is not Ford, built by some capitalist venture. Its very roots are as a nationalised company and I think you completely underestimate the sheer costs of nationalising a multinational company both direct costs (can the government afford it?) and indirect costs. Nationalising a multinational has in the past led directly to war and the downfall of a nation, though it is unlikely to occur here the consequences will nonetheless be felt. Take a look at Brexit. A somewhat unfavourable trade condition has businesses fleeing the country (Panasonic is the latest casualty). Now imagine if instead of being mildly unfavourable you take a stance instead of taking a large companies and saying "All of this is now mine, all of you GTFO". It's not just shareholders and pension plans that will suffer in Germany, the entire German industry would go under.
To get back to that other poster's point, if the business is Too Big To Fail, it's too big to exist.
VW is not too big to fail, also most failures come gradually over long periods and don't have as big of an impact as the event that coined the phrase: The sudden failure of a major bank.
Germany is however too sensible to fuck themselves.
Your problem is that you're misunderstanding whose security Google cares about. They care about their own.
Not at all. Re-read my post. My post talked about caring about their own security for protecting their Cocacola recipe: your data. That also means they invest in security. That also means security trickles down to their retail products. Companies don't typically waste time writing lots of new things from the ground up to suite nearly identical needs.
And yet they spy on you [wsj.com] worse than even Facebook does.
And they are the one group whose spying I'm not worried about. Google spy on users in order to make money by selling access. That makes them orders of magnitude more trustworthy than those who spy on users in order to sell data wholesale (Verizon) , or spy on users to actively attack the users in question (NSA / CIA)
There are plenty of companies who make this kind of hardware that do not make their money on spying.
There are. And there are few who are putting as much effort into integration efforts across products as Google. If this form of compatibility didn't matter, Apple wouldn't exist. It was their entire reason for being when they were making their comeback: It Just Works.
....any idiot still using Microsoft software absolutely deserves all of these levels of bullshit - and more on the way!
They deserve discounts and less restrictions? And more?
Yeah why would anyone submit to it. It's horrible.
AFTER THEY HAVE FUCKING COLLECTED YOUR PHONE NUMBER
I take it you've never used Google Maps, or Android, or any services by Google. Here's a hint: They have your phone number. Don't pretend to think that they don't. That would be incredibly foolish.
Also as an aside, when did you become so petrified that you freak out about giving out something that we used to give out to everyone, and routinely also publish in a big book that was freely delivered to everyone?
Google has my phone number? Oh the humanity! What will I do!
2) You're gonna trust Google?
Trust with what? Trust is not a universal concept. It is contextualised. I trust my mother to have my best interests in heart. I don't trust her not to fill my computer with viruses and therefore she doesn't get to touch it.
I don't trust Google with a lot of things, however they have quite consistently shown to produce quite good back end code and generally don't appear frequently in the list of companies which have left users to malicious exploits due to poor code, or sold out customers. Mind you I don't trust them to code a functional UI to enter the 2FA codes into, however that doesn't really come into when talking about security.
Me, and here's why:
Security and and a business model of handling your data are not exclusive. In fact one would hope that the people who make a business of handling your data are also some of the best in the aspects of security. Now this isn't applied universally. If you take a company like Verizon who will bulk sell your data to the highest bidder then security (of that data) is a non issue. However if you deal with a company whose sole source of income is selling access to you by way of profiling your data, and while maintaining that your data is effectively their carefully guarded CocaCola recipe, then you should apply a bit more nuanced thought.
On top of that you should also take care to look at the quality of products and code produced to date, as well as security practices, hiring and staffing practices, and general industry standings.
With all that in mind I trust Google more on matters of security than a company like Semantic, and a fuck ton more than a company which collects my data as an incidental revenue stream (looking at you Samsung, Verizon etc).
But then you throw thought out the window when it comes to data as evident that you prefer to trust security to agencies which almost exclusively are out to determine if you are thinking wrong and to punish you for it.
It sounds like you got phished by Capital One for you phone number, have you taken any steps in case they misuse it?
Are you implying that there are people out there who have dealings with a financial institution like Capital One who haven't already given them their phone number? To be clear we are talking about a financial services company here. If there's one group of people I want to be able to contact me urgently, it's the damn ones looking after my money.
Now, the girl was a ditz, it's true. But had I not slowed down she never would have gone.
Had you not been in the car you wouldn't have been in an accident either. False attribution is not good. You claim your caution caused this, when the reality is some ditz not giving way caused it. Now on the flip side caution has saved an abundance of others. Maybe if she had been more cautious and made less assumptions she wouldn't have gone.
An over abundance of caution is exactly how people should drive. The world is a random place full of furious idiots who will cut others off in anger, full of brainless idiots who just make assumptions about their own safety and walk out onto the street staring at their phones, and full of ignorant ... can't call them idiots yet since they don't know better, who may chase a ball onto a street.
If everyone around you was as cautious there would have been no accident.
It's illegal to change lanes in an intersection.
In situations where you need to give way to a cars you're not turning in an unmarked intersection and it most definitely IS legal to change lanes.
Right but if you stop suddenly in front of someone you're an ASSHOLE.
Yes, you're an arsehole for not hitting a car. You're an arsehole for not hitting a pedestrian. You're an arsehole for not hitting a child that has run out on the road.
Then there's those people who just brakelight check those cars behind them. They aren't arseholes. They are just driving instructors helping prevent IDIOTS for killing someone senselessly.
Boy, the anti-Apple bias on Slashdot is disgusting.
Slashdot isn't anti-Apple, it has a perfectly level playingfield for the entire technology sector. It just looks like anti-Apple because one specific fanboy sucks up so much positive Apple bias that the rest of Slashdot has maintain balance in the force.
I'd be much more impressed if these companies/states just did it without having to press-release it all.
A silent hidden rolemodel is as good as no role model at all. The power is in the press release. You should be happy that these happen as it gives you the power of examples to follow.
Look at why most migration (legal and otherwise) occurs... It is due to disparity of conditions between the source and destination country, where the migrant is planning to have a significantly higher quality of life in the destination country.
And in the absence of any movement at all in really low unemployment numbers what this quality of life for the person equates to is GDP growth for the nation. Thank you immigrant friend for boosting our economy.