Yeah dust. As a general clue if your pollutant is big enough to settle in your house and natural enough that it doesn't cause cancer then it shouldn't be compared to smog.
Dust storms and the cloud that rises from the city centre are two very different things.
Serve coffee that cold in most parts of Europe, and you will get the cup handed back to you.
Erm no, no you don't. Firstly there's no way to draw an espresso into a cup that won't result it being around 75deg that doesn't also involve the server burning his hands, and secondly everywhere in Europe I've ordered a coffee I've been able to drink it when served, not some arbitrary cooling period after. If your coffee is higher than 75 you're not going to be able to taste much for the following few days.
If you don't want it serving hot, wait or blow on it. It's not arcane secret knowledge, but something everyone should be expected to know.
Blow on it? What kind of animal are you. You sound like you live in a messed up part of Europe. You should come over here, the country with the largest per capita coffee consumption in the world by a significant margin where we can show you how it's done properly.
No, you're just a young kid so why are you trying to tell us about the past? Some of us were there.
Err no I'm not, and I was there. Hell I even remember back when our credit cards were as arse backwards as the USA ones where stores took imprints rather than having you use a terminal.
The promise was, "don't worry, it is safe to use credit cards online because you have fraud protection! It is as safe as mail order, don't be afraid!"
Funny never got that message where I live. But then in my country we always had fraud protection. The specific instructions we got was that online was safer and less likely to be exposed to fraud.
People don't heap shit on paypal because of way their technology is designed
I never said they did, actually I said the opposite.
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Without the life skills, politics and passion of one person to write lyrics the music will fail.
You see pop music is the result of music by algorithm. The algorithm decides the formula and overarching sound which leads to 1, the desire to out load each other since louder means more audible leads to 2, the fact that skills are completely optional and have been for a while results in 3, all of which brings me back to that sentence in 4 I've quoted.
It's a feedback loop. Pop music is designed, not created. It's not art it's a mass produced and mass consumed product. The best thing to happen is not to try and save pop music, but rather to let it die. That way the algorithms may be thrown out and the industry may resort to employing actual artistic talent to start marking money again.
The last thing I need is modern (what passes as) music to sound more dynamic. Personally I think they should compress it all to a perfect 0dB tone. That way it will look like DC to the protection circuits on the amplifiers and they will turn off the speakers whenever it plays. Net win for humanity.
Yes but what is unique here is that the "it sounds crap" opinion transcends generations. When teenagers don't listen to the new music you know something is wrong.
Meh I give it a 50:50. It is only certainly going to be vetoed if it has a name like Obama Neutrality. Otherwise the odds of him reading it are low and he'll likely sign it based on what his coin says.
You're suggesting people ought to vote on things not because of the merits of what they're voting on but out of vindictive spite.
Is that better or worst than voting on things not because of the merits of what they're voting on but based on what colour appears under their name on their wikipedia page?
Even if they weren't in the court order it emerged that McDonald's own practices were to serve coffee at 82-88C. Per American association standards It is normal to be served as low as 71C.
Tort law assumes fault based on reasonable expectations, and the caution hot coffee label actually predates the lawsuit. Starbucks and McDonalds both still serve coffee at that temperature and have compensated with ludicrously large warnings.
As a non-American travelling to America and finding the reason people like Starbucks over there is because there's nothing else resembling coffee to be found I almost choked the first time I drank some due to it being unexpectedly hot, and I've drank a lot of takeaway coffee over the years. Despite the warnings I nearly burnt myself on Starbucks coffee.
At McDonalds in the cafes with automated machines rather than percolators or in proper McCafes you will get served coffee that you can instantly put in your mouth when it's given to you.
Lots of people call it frivolous, but hey if someone does something unexpected to them, causing them over $10k worth of medical bills, and then throws a few hundred at em and tells em to go away I'm sure they'd sue too.
Remember when Slashdot was a place for people slightly more tech saavy than the average? Bloody hell, my elderly relatives understand the answer to this question - it's pretty simple really. The answer is "because Uber and 911 don't communicate the same way."
Not communicating the same way does not mean that the relevant information can't be communicated. Phone systems have supported the ability to send data via a side channel since the 90s, a short message service of sorts. This SMS thing is exactly what is used in some European countries to send GPS data during 112 calls.
The only question remaining is why the USA hasn't adopted something that should have been possible since the 90s.
The biggest problem is the RBOCs (phone companies). They've refused to upgrade their systems to allow any meaningful data to directly reach their systems
An approach which uses SMS (such as the systems being adopted in Europe and supported in Android since version 2.3) would have left them entirely out of the equation.
Write an app that transmits your location when 911 is being called
Android has had ESL baked into it since version 2.3 which does precisely that. 99% chance that if you have an Android device and are calling in a country where emergency services support AML, you're already covered.
It boggles my mind that anyone, anywhere, with any degree of a tech background, could ever ask "why can Uber find me but 911 can't?"
Indeed. Mobile phones and services haven't changed since the early 90s..... wait... actually even in the early 90s there was a way to get a Short Message to someone. We could have called it a Short Message Service of sorts and have a phone automatically send GPS to responders via a Short Message Service to pre-defined number. That's to say nothing of modern phone systems which allow simultaneous data streams.
But we don't need to say anything of modern systems. The systems in place in the UK (AML for various handsets, ESL for Android version 2.3 and above) do precisely that. You dial 112 or 999 and your phone will automatically force enable GPS, get a fix, and SMS that along with an ID for the call to emergency services, all using that early 90s era technology that seems to boggle your mind.
Honestly after that post we should revoke your geek card.
I'd like to point out the "First they came" message, about creeping government power and abuses?
I would like to point out "First they came" messages too. But if they can't find you then they can't come and you die in the bottom of a pit.
Sorry but some government power is a basic requirement in a functional society. To pretend otherwise is to want to live entirely without government and the result of that is anarchy.
It's.. coffee. Coffee is meant to be made with water around 91is degrees
How you draw an espresso and what you put in your mouth are two very different things. Coffee is drawn at 91 degrees but pretty much as soon as it hits the bottom of the espresso mug it is safe to drink. Coffee made at home by percolator is not put in a pre-heated mug and also cools significantly the moment it is poured. Combine that with the fact that *most* coffee when served at restaurants or coffee shops is closer to 70 degrees when it's handed to you, and you have absolutely zero basis to expect your coffee to be that hot when you get it.
That's the whole reason McDonalds lost. Their coffee was far hotter than any reasonable expectation. You're right, personal responsibility is hard, especially when faced with something unknown and unexpected.
Now if the cup had a fault and burst, or the staff had spilled it on her, sure. Not the case here though.
And yet she spent 8 days in hospital from a cup of coffee which is in history unheard of. It's easy to see why the courts agreed with her that accountability, personal responsibility and expectation was that McDonalds did something very wrong. You simply wouldn't have sustained such an injury at any other restaurant.
How? By not burning petrol in cars? Where will we get our aviation fuel? Our bunker fuel? How do we manufacture plastics? How do we repair let alone build new roads? How do we put roofs over out heads (rhetorical, personally I find asphalt tiles bizarre given the many alternatives)?
Saudis will only be the obvious losers if they rest on the laurels and don't invest in the obviously coming changing refining requirements. They sit on a lot of undesirable heavy and sour crude which is ripe for plastic manufacturing. Countries producing light sweet crude will lose out far earlier.
when the US and the rest of the world loses collective interest in the middle east? Saudi Arabia is just now trying to figure out how to modernize their country when the price of oil collapses.
I wouldn't worry about that in our lifetimes. The Iran Shah was right when he said "oil was too valuable to burn". If we collectively decided to not drive our cars tomorrow we'd still be refining ludicrous amounts of crude oil.
While our petrol and diesel consumption is levelling off, our consumption of aviation fuel and bunker fuel shows no signs of slowing down. Even if they stopped our consumption of oil based products is still skyrocketing at an alarming rate. Where will we get the plastic to individually wrap our bananas if we don't refine oil. Or what do we drive our electric cars on? Surely not dirt. Heck I only recently found out Americans use oil based products to cover the roofs of their houses.
The real question is, which country will predict the trends correctly and invest for the future changing fuel mix. Personally I'm witnessing major oil companies dragging their feet forced only by investment to meet changing fuel requirements for shipping, while at the same time China is investing huge amounts to improve chemical extraction from oil rather than relying on it as a byproduct like we do in the west. Honestly I have no idea where the Saudis are in this, but they will remain important for our foreseeable future unless they really screw things up.
Which is pretentious? Why does Slashdot need to be pretentious?
Why is it pretentious for a News site to follow a style guide specifically for News headlines? If you want to avoid style guides then jump on Buzzfeed, but what will happen next will amaze you! That is of course once you find the point of the article buried some 6 paragraphs in.
If I had to chose between pretentious and the cesspit of garbage that is millennial "news" written without style guides, then pass me the pipe young man.
However, I trust random websites even less. Paypal successfully shields me
This is a breach of the early promise of online commerce. The promise was that online use of credit cards would be even safer than normal use and that the website never handled your details and no one ever saw your number. The problem here is that we left the implementation of this up to the websites themselves, and surprise surprise it was messed up.
I actually like the system for online payments with debit cards in The Netherlands, iDEAL. It is much the same as Paypal in that payment processing is handed off directly to your bank. The site send the order information to the bank, and the only thing it gets back is a confirmation that it has been processed, much like Paypal only without Paypal which has enough of a shady history that I too only use it when dealing with shady site.
As much as people heap shit on Paypal I actually think it is the way payment processing for online commerce should have been handled from the very beginning.
No the biggest advantage is to have American people scrutinise every tax dollar that goes into an overseas company while turning a completely blind eye to their own.
Sure there was. There was a huge business case for moving more passengers in one go through major hubs. The problem is the industry changed away from major hubs. There were plenty of airlines who bought the plane and are putting it to incredibly good use. However in the modern world of air travel this is restricted to major international routes between major hubs.
There was a huge business case, but a small market. Those who wanted the plane already have it and were initially falling over each other to buy it. This is a plane that will remain in active service for many years.
The 747 is comparable to the A380 in every way except for timing. They both serve the same function. In the modern world the 747 will also find no useful place that isn't already being serviced by an A380.
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Yeah dust. As a general clue if your pollutant is big enough to settle in your house and natural enough that it doesn't cause cancer then it shouldn't be compared to smog.
Dust storms and the cloud that rises from the city centre are two very different things.
You should learn the difference between smog and dust storms. Both are things. One of them is a thing that smells horrible and causes cancer.
Serve coffee that cold in most parts of Europe, and you will get the cup handed back to you.
Erm no, no you don't. Firstly there's no way to draw an espresso into a cup that won't result it being around 75deg that doesn't also involve the server burning his hands, and secondly everywhere in Europe I've ordered a coffee I've been able to drink it when served, not some arbitrary cooling period after. If your coffee is higher than 75 you're not going to be able to taste much for the following few days.
If you don't want it serving hot, wait or blow on it. It's not arcane secret knowledge, but something everyone should be expected to know.
Blow on it? What kind of animal are you. You sound like you live in a messed up part of Europe. You should come over here, the country with the largest per capita coffee consumption in the world by a significant margin where we can show you how it's done properly.
No, you're just a young kid so why are you trying to tell us about the past? Some of us were there.
Err no I'm not, and I was there. Hell I even remember back when our credit cards were as arse backwards as the USA ones where stores took imprints rather than having you use a terminal.
The promise was, "don't worry, it is safe to use credit cards online because you have fraud protection! It is as safe as mail order, don't be afraid!"
Funny never got that message where I live. But then in my country we always had fraud protection. The specific instructions we got was that online was safer and less likely to be exposed to fraud.
People don't heap shit on paypal because of way their technology is designed
I never said they did, actually I said the opposite.
Items 1, 2, and 3, are highlighted in a specific sentence in Item 4:
Without the life skills, politics and passion of one person to write lyrics the music will fail.
You see pop music is the result of music by algorithm. The algorithm decides the formula and overarching sound which leads to 1, the desire to out load each other since louder means more audible leads to 2, the fact that skills are completely optional and have been for a while results in 3, all of which brings me back to that sentence in 4 I've quoted.
It's a feedback loop. Pop music is designed, not created. It's not art it's a mass produced and mass consumed product. The best thing to happen is not to try and save pop music, but rather to let it die. That way the algorithms may be thrown out and the industry may resort to employing actual artistic talent to start marking money again.
The last thing I need is modern (what passes as) music to sound more dynamic. Personally I think they should compress it all to a perfect 0dB tone. That way it will look like DC to the protection circuits on the amplifiers and they will turn off the speakers whenever it plays. Net win for humanity.
New music has always sounded crap.
Yes but what is unique here is that the "it sounds crap" opinion transcends generations. When teenagers don't listen to the new music you know something is wrong.
Even then Trump will almost certainly veto it.
Meh I give it a 50:50. It is only certainly going to be vetoed if it has a name like Obama Neutrality. Otherwise the odds of him reading it are low and he'll likely sign it based on what his coin says.
You're suggesting people ought to vote on things not because of the merits of what they're voting on but out of vindictive spite.
Is that better or worst than voting on things not because of the merits of what they're voting on but based on what colour appears under their name on their wikipedia page?
If Earth were a larger planet then the L2 point would be darker with no direct sunlight.
It would likely also be more massive in which case the L2 point would be further from the planet which may put it back in the light again. :-)
Even if they weren't in the court order it emerged that McDonald's own practices were to serve coffee at 82-88C. Per American association standards It is normal to be served as low as 71C.
Tort law assumes fault based on reasonable expectations, and the caution hot coffee label actually predates the lawsuit. Starbucks and McDonalds both still serve coffee at that temperature and have compensated with ludicrously large warnings.
As a non-American travelling to America and finding the reason people like Starbucks over there is because there's nothing else resembling coffee to be found I almost choked the first time I drank some due to it being unexpectedly hot, and I've drank a lot of takeaway coffee over the years. Despite the warnings I nearly burnt myself on Starbucks coffee.
At McDonalds in the cafes with automated machines rather than percolators or in proper McCafes you will get served coffee that you can instantly put in your mouth when it's given to you.
Lots of people call it frivolous, but hey if someone does something unexpected to them, causing them over $10k worth of medical bills, and then throws a few hundred at em and tells em to go away I'm sure they'd sue too.
Remember when Slashdot was a place for people slightly more tech saavy than the average? Bloody hell, my elderly relatives understand the answer to this question - it's pretty simple really. The answer is "because Uber and 911 don't communicate the same way."
Not communicating the same way does not mean that the relevant information can't be communicated. Phone systems have supported the ability to send data via a side channel since the 90s, a short message service of sorts. This SMS thing is exactly what is used in some European countries to send GPS data during 112 calls.
The only question remaining is why the USA hasn't adopted something that should have been possible since the 90s.
The biggest problem is the RBOCs (phone companies). They've refused to upgrade their systems to allow any meaningful data to directly reach their systems
An approach which uses SMS (such as the systems being adopted in Europe and supported in Android since version 2.3) would have left them entirely out of the equation.
Write an app that transmits your location when 911 is being called
Android has had ESL baked into it since version 2.3 which does precisely that. 99% chance that if you have an Android device and are calling in a country where emergency services support AML, you're already covered.
The USA is not such a country.
It boggles my mind that anyone, anywhere, with any degree of a tech background, could ever ask "why can Uber find me but 911 can't?"
Indeed. Mobile phones and services haven't changed since the early 90s. .... wait... actually even in the early 90s there was a way to get a Short Message to someone. We could have called it a Short Message Service of sorts and have a phone automatically send GPS to responders via a Short Message Service to pre-defined number. That's to say nothing of modern phone systems which allow simultaneous data streams.
But we don't need to say anything of modern systems. The systems in place in the UK (AML for various handsets, ESL for Android version 2.3 and above) do precisely that. You dial 112 or 999 and your phone will automatically force enable GPS, get a fix, and SMS that along with an ID for the call to emergency services, all using that early 90s era technology that seems to boggle your mind.
Honestly after that post we should revoke your geek card.
I'd like to point out the "First they came" message, about creeping government power and abuses?
I would like to point out "First they came" messages too. But if they can't find you then they can't come and you die in the bottom of a pit.
Sorry but some government power is a basic requirement in a functional society. To pretend otherwise is to want to live entirely without government and the result of that is anarchy.
Anyone working in hospitality or the food industry is taught this one too. People sneezing into their hands is feral.
It's.. coffee. Coffee is meant to be made with water around 91is degrees
How you draw an espresso and what you put in your mouth are two very different things. Coffee is drawn at 91 degrees but pretty much as soon as it hits the bottom of the espresso mug it is safe to drink. Coffee made at home by percolator is not put in a pre-heated mug and also cools significantly the moment it is poured. Combine that with the fact that *most* coffee when served at restaurants or coffee shops is closer to 70 degrees when it's handed to you, and you have absolutely zero basis to expect your coffee to be that hot when you get it.
That's the whole reason McDonalds lost. Their coffee was far hotter than any reasonable expectation. You're right, personal responsibility is hard, especially when faced with something unknown and unexpected.
Now if the cup had a fault and burst, or the staff had spilled it on her, sure. Not the case here though.
And yet she spent 8 days in hospital from a cup of coffee which is in history unheard of. It's easy to see why the courts agreed with her that accountability, personal responsibility and expectation was that McDonalds did something very wrong. You simply wouldn't have sustained such an injury at any other restaurant.
Remove fossil oil
How? By not burning petrol in cars? Where will we get our aviation fuel? Our bunker fuel? How do we manufacture plastics? How do we repair let alone build new roads? How do we put roofs over out heads (rhetorical, personally I find asphalt tiles bizarre given the many alternatives)?
Saudis will only be the obvious losers if they rest on the laurels and don't invest in the obviously coming changing refining requirements. They sit on a lot of undesirable heavy and sour crude which is ripe for plastic manufacturing. Countries producing light sweet crude will lose out far earlier.
when the US and the rest of the world loses collective interest in the middle east? Saudi Arabia is just now trying to figure out how to modernize their country when the price of oil collapses.
I wouldn't worry about that in our lifetimes. The Iran Shah was right when he said "oil was too valuable to burn". If we collectively decided to not drive our cars tomorrow we'd still be refining ludicrous amounts of crude oil.
While our petrol and diesel consumption is levelling off, our consumption of aviation fuel and bunker fuel shows no signs of slowing down. Even if they stopped our consumption of oil based products is still skyrocketing at an alarming rate. Where will we get the plastic to individually wrap our bananas if we don't refine oil. Or what do we drive our electric cars on? Surely not dirt. Heck I only recently found out Americans use oil based products to cover the roofs of their houses.
The real question is, which country will predict the trends correctly and invest for the future changing fuel mix. Personally I'm witnessing major oil companies dragging their feet forced only by investment to meet changing fuel requirements for shipping, while at the same time China is investing huge amounts to improve chemical extraction from oil rather than relying on it as a byproduct like we do in the west. Honestly I have no idea where the Saudis are in this, but they will remain important for our foreseeable future unless they really screw things up.
Who should I be more afraid of, a foreign government, or the one that could kick in my door?
Which is pretentious? Why does Slashdot need to be pretentious?
Why is it pretentious for a News site to follow a style guide specifically for News headlines? If you want to avoid style guides then jump on Buzzfeed, but what will happen next will amaze you! That is of course once you find the point of the article buried some 6 paragraphs in.
If I had to chose between pretentious and the cesspit of garbage that is millennial "news" written without style guides, then pass me the pipe young man.
However, I trust random websites even less. Paypal successfully shields me
This is a breach of the early promise of online commerce. The promise was that online use of credit cards would be even safer than normal use and that the website never handled your details and no one ever saw your number. The problem here is that we left the implementation of this up to the websites themselves, and surprise surprise it was messed up.
I actually like the system for online payments with debit cards in The Netherlands, iDEAL. It is much the same as Paypal in that payment processing is handed off directly to your bank. The site send the order information to the bank, and the only thing it gets back is a confirmation that it has been processed, much like Paypal only without Paypal which has enough of a shady history that I too only use it when dealing with shady site.
As much as people heap shit on Paypal I actually think it is the way payment processing for online commerce should have been handled from the very beginning.
No the biggest advantage is to have American people scrutinise every tax dollar that goes into an overseas company while turning a completely blind eye to their own.
There was never much business case for the A380.
Sure there was. There was a huge business case for moving more passengers in one go through major hubs. The problem is the industry changed away from major hubs. There were plenty of airlines who bought the plane and are putting it to incredibly good use. However in the modern world of air travel this is restricted to major international routes between major hubs.
There was a huge business case, but a small market. Those who wanted the plane already have it and were initially falling over each other to buy it. This is a plane that will remain in active service for many years.
The 747 is comparable to the A380 in every way except for timing. They both serve the same function. In the modern world the 747 will also find no useful place that isn't already being serviced by an A380.