Is this with just phone in range of voice, on a regular network voice call or on a Facebook voice call. Either way all that shit needs turned off. Not really for them listening for key words to display ads that will be ignored anyway, but for the extra power this will be using. Every milliamp is at a premium these days.
"miscalculated heart rates by up to 20 beats per minute"
"Up to" -- like "as much as" -- is a marketing phrase, not a description of results. I haven't read the study -- I didn't see any useful information in the linked NBC News article as to how to find it.
I always like it when you read that something came in the top 7 (or any other random number). So it came 7th then.
Right... Companies shouldn't be held accountable just because they made a crap product that advertises functionality that it doesn't have. It's all those idiot users' fault for believing that consumer protection laws should require a product to do what is advertised.
The company's website has a lot to say about how the type of exercise, range of motion, and the way the device is worn can affect the accuracy of heartbeat measurement, and they make no claims at all regarding measurement accuracy. It doesn't appear to me that they are advertising great accuracy at all. Aside from that, this is not a case of the company running afoul of consumer protection laws; it's a case of lawyers seeking a profit from a dodgy class-action suit. The consumers who were putatively damaged won't see much in the way of an award, which is the norm in cases like this.
What's the damage though? Like you say it's a device that gives you and indication of what your heartrate is. I've never heard them (or apple etc) guarantee any kind of accuracy and they don't claim it's medical grade in the slightest. With all that though. What its the damage this class action seeks to compensate? It seems if you need to know your exact heart rate for whatever reason, a fitbit might not be the right tool for the job.
Having said that, this argument is largely irrelevant, since people who really would never date someone from a certain race tend not to keep their opinions to themselves.
Keep clicking on that 'deny' button microsoft gave you then.
Are you talking about the red x? because that's not a deny button. Nothing on the scheduled notification is. That is dodgy as fuck I'll agree but that's not to say you can't avoid it. It's only going to install itself if you don't stop it. Again, it is bad but to pretend there's nothing you can do about it is wrong.
Also, there is something wrong with not ever wanting to date a black person. What possible reason could there be other than racism? Black people have all body types, all personality types... if it's just skin colour, that's terrible.
I'd say it becomes racism when you start telling other people not to date a (whatever colour) person. If you don't want to personally for whatever reason then that's just you.
Clicking on "X" is not somehow "activating" an upgrade. It actually does nothing, as required of a notification dialog - it is just letting the already scheduled upgrade proceed, which is what one should expect.
Yeah, but "clicking red x dismisses window" isn't nearly as good clickbait.
I have a headless windows 7 fileserver in my 5 person office (so, no, I'm not going to shell out bullshit money for enterprise windows, thanks). Had, actually. We got in the office this Monday and right away the accountant noticed that quickbooks was down, and thus we noticed the fileserver was offline. Hooked up a monitor and sometime over the weekend it decided to upgrade to windows 10.
No idea why shills like you keep insisting that people must be pushing the wrong button. Is the "X" button the wrong button now? Are you going to tell us we're holding the mouse wrong (cf holding the iPhone wrong)?
Want an easy way
And people tell me that fucking with random system shit means that Linux isn't ready for the desktop
So basically the pc had recommended updates on and no one bothered to sort it out when they moved 10 to 'recommended' and then whenever the box came up someone just fucked it off instead of reading it?
I *DID* *NOT* *AT* *ANY* *TIME* give my consent for this upgrade. I *DID* *NOT* *AT* *ANY* *TIME* give Microsoft permission to "schedule" this upgrade.
They pulled a Nike. They Just Did It.
If that is consensual, then I say Microsoft just consented to have their headquarters remodeled using tactical nuclear weapons.
Not to be unsympathetic but at some point you did. There was a big enough noise when they made it a recommended update and they said that it would automatically go through for anyone with auto updates on (do you have auto updates on?) Not that it's right in any way and they did dick you, but you had an opportunity to sidestep that dick if you'd only been paying enough attention to see it coming.
But apparently reading text is too hard these days.
Tell me about it. Some kid I know asked me to install the sims 4 or some shit game on his laptop. Fine, whatever, hand it over, clicky clicky clicky and it's installing. I hand it back to him and say there you go. Not two minutes later he's back complaining that it's not working despite it still saying on the screen in quite an obvious way "INSTALLING" with a progress bar. On questioning why he was trying to start it while it was quite blatantly still installing he basically said he refuses to read any dialog boxes, not can't be bothered, refuses to. Fucking whatever kid, good luck with that.
I'm going to upgrade your car next week. Nothing you can do about it.
It'll look shinier, but I pulled a few cables, and put your old engine & tires in it.
Hopefully, I didn't pull too many cables.
It's just good for you, and free.
Don't whine if it doesn't work as well as your old car, you were stubbornly refusing to upgrade.
I get what you're saying but I can still come to your garage and tell you to fuck off. Granted if I tell you to fuck off out on the street when you say its going to happen you will but still do it anyway, but I can make you not do it.
Plentiful. Convenient to refuel. Probably the two most important factors for something to be viable for wide scale commercial deployment.
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Hydrogen has some definite disadvantages, but the fact that it can use a distribution network similar to what we use now trumps a lot of those disadvantages. And the fact that it's lighter than air eliminates a lot of the safety concerns people like to parade around. Unlike gasoline fumes, it won't build up in parking garages, so the ventilation they have to put in becomes unnecessary.
Did you miss the parts pointing out that hydrogen is plentiful in the galaxy but on earth it's all tied to something else and separating it from whatever is usually really inefficient compared and how the hydrogen atoms are so tiny all the hoses etc have to be extra tight to stop it leaking? You can't just run a bunch of pipes, fill it hydrogen and away you go.
Sloth, stupidity. No knowledge of computers. What we need is a last gasp of this crap, with companies who are sued for ridiculous mundane stuff like this to sue the patent office for frivolous and bad patents. Though I dunno if you can sue the USPO
Can you file a patent for issuing patents? Would the uspo have thought to do that? Get that, then sue them for patent infringement on issuing patents in the most frivolous case ever.
Wait....they're suing because a phone has the ability to make calls?
Ummm, I don't wanna get all technical and shit, but that's basically what a phone does.
What's next, suing Samsung and Toshiba because their televisions "show moving images"?
If these patents relate to making calls and sending emails and whatever else shouldn't they be suing samsung and all other phone makers too. You can make calls and send emails on the internet too, maybe they should sue that.
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Is this with just phone in range of voice, on a regular network voice call or on a Facebook voice call. Either way all that shit needs turned off. Not really for them listening for key words to display ads that will be ignored anyway, but for the extra power this will be using. Every milliamp is at a premium these days.
"miscalculated heart rates by up to 20 beats per minute"
"Up to" -- like "as much as" -- is a marketing phrase, not a description of results. I haven't read the study -- I didn't see any useful information in the linked NBC News article as to how to find it.
I always like it when you read that something came in the top 7 (or any other random number). So it came 7th then.
Right... Companies shouldn't be held accountable just because they made a crap product that advertises functionality that it doesn't have. It's all those idiot users' fault for believing that consumer protection laws should require a product to do what is advertised.
The company's website has a lot to say about how the type of exercise, range of motion, and the way the device is worn can affect the accuracy of heartbeat measurement, and they make no claims at all regarding measurement accuracy. It doesn't appear to me that they are advertising great accuracy at all. Aside from that, this is not a case of the company running afoul of consumer protection laws; it's a case of lawyers seeking a profit from a dodgy class-action suit. The consumers who were putatively damaged won't see much in the way of an award, which is the norm in cases like this.
What's the damage though? Like you say it's a device that gives you and indication of what your heartrate is. I've never heard them (or apple etc) guarantee any kind of accuracy and they don't claim it's medical grade in the slightest. With all that though. What its the damage this class action seeks to compensate? It seems if you need to know your exact heart rate for whatever reason, a fitbit might not be the right tool for the job.
Having said that, this argument is largely irrelevant, since people who really would never date someone from a certain race tend not to keep their opinions to themselves.
Good point, well made.
Keep clicking on that 'deny' button microsoft gave you then.
Are you talking about the red x? because that's not a deny button. Nothing on the scheduled notification is. That is dodgy as fuck I'll agree but that's not to say you can't avoid it. It's only going to install itself if you don't stop it. Again, it is bad but to pretend there's nothing you can do about it is wrong.
Also, there is something wrong with not ever wanting to date a black person. What possible reason could there be other than racism? Black people have all body types, all personality types... if it's just skin colour, that's terrible.
I'd say it becomes racism when you start telling other people not to date a (whatever colour) person. If you don't want to personally for whatever reason then that's just you.
"Freemium" The mium is Latin for 'not really'
Clicking on "X" is not somehow "activating" an upgrade. It actually does nothing, as required of a notification dialog - it is just letting the already scheduled upgrade proceed, which is what one should expect.
Yeah, but "clicking red x dismisses window" isn't nearly as good clickbait.
Why don't you test that for us, and report back on how it went?
My reaction was that I was irreversibly f*cked when it got to the EULA.
I'm now hearing that I *MIGHT* have 30 days (from Sunday) to back it out. And then we play the game all over again...
Just turn recommended updates off. C'mon people it's not that hard. Maybe slightly inconvenient but there you go.
I have a headless windows 7 fileserver in my 5 person office (so, no, I'm not going to shell out bullshit money for enterprise windows, thanks). Had, actually. We got in the office this Monday and right away the accountant noticed that quickbooks was down, and thus we noticed the fileserver was offline. Hooked up a monitor and sometime over the weekend it decided to upgrade to windows 10.
No idea why shills like you keep insisting that people must be pushing the wrong button. Is the "X" button the wrong button now? Are you going to tell us we're holding the mouse wrong (cf holding the iPhone wrong)?
And people tell me that fucking with random system shit means that Linux isn't ready for the desktop
So basically the pc had recommended updates on and no one bothered to sort it out when they moved 10 to 'recommended' and then whenever the box came up someone just fucked it off instead of reading it?
You miss the point.
I am one of the people who got bitten by this.
I *DID* *NOT* *AT* *ANY* *TIME* give my consent for this upgrade. I *DID* *NOT* *AT* *ANY* *TIME* give Microsoft permission to "schedule" this upgrade.
They pulled a Nike. They Just Did It.
If that is consensual, then I say Microsoft just consented to have their headquarters remodeled using tactical nuclear weapons.
Not to be unsympathetic but at some point you did. There was a big enough noise when they made it a recommended update and they said that it would automatically go through for anyone with auto updates on (do you have auto updates on?) Not that it's right in any way and they did dick you, but you had an opportunity to sidestep that dick if you'd only been paying enough attention to see it coming.
But apparently reading text is too hard these days.
Tell me about it. Some kid I know asked me to install the sims 4 or some shit game on his laptop. Fine, whatever, hand it over, clicky clicky clicky and it's installing. I hand it back to him and say there you go. Not two minutes later he's back complaining that it's not working despite it still saying on the screen in quite an obvious way "INSTALLING" with a progress bar. On questioning why he was trying to start it while it was quite blatantly still installing he basically said he refuses to read any dialog boxes, not can't be bothered, refuses to. Fucking whatever kid, good luck with that.
I'm going to upgrade your car next week. Nothing you can do about it.
It'll look shinier, but I pulled a few cables, and put your old engine & tires in it.
Hopefully, I didn't pull too many cables.
It's just good for you, and free.
Don't whine if it doesn't work as well as your old car, you were stubbornly refusing to upgrade.
I get what you're saying but I can still come to your garage and tell you to fuck off. Granted if I tell you to fuck off out on the street when you say its going to happen you will but still do it anyway, but I can make you not do it.
Just one? Seeing ads on startup and being forced to share more and more information are too high a price for a "free" upgrade.
That's two.
Great, but you can keep all the 'z's as you seem to be so fond of them.
I think the main advantage of hydrogen is that it's waste product is water so in theory it should have less polution but as far as convenience,
I'm no chemist but isn't the waste oxygen? You start with water, split the hydrogen from the oxygen, take the hydrogen away and you have oxygen left?
Plentiful. Convenient to refuel. Probably the two most important factors for something to be viable for wide scale commercial deployment.
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Hydrogen has some definite disadvantages, but the fact that it can use a distribution network similar to what we use now trumps a lot of those disadvantages. And the fact that it's lighter than air eliminates a lot of the safety concerns people like to parade around. Unlike gasoline fumes, it won't build up in parking garages, so the ventilation they have to put in becomes unnecessary.
Did you miss the parts pointing out that hydrogen is plentiful in the galaxy but on earth it's all tied to something else and separating it from whatever is usually really inefficient compared and how the hydrogen atoms are so tiny all the hoses etc have to be extra tight to stop it leaking? You can't just run a bunch of pipes, fill it hydrogen and away you go.
ten times the 540 billion tons of carbon emitted since the start of industrialization would be reached near the end of the 22nd century.
It's "GESTAPO", the poster above made all the aid bold instead of only the first letter by mistake.
...thanks for clearing that up
And they say you can't access it, without a hint of irony no doubt "which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of another's personal privacy; "
If you start on the second meal then it's your first meal and therefore breakfast.
I haven't eaten a regular breakfast in about 15 years. I get by perfectly fine on one good meal a day. That's just me though, not proof. ymmv.
Sloth, stupidity. No knowledge of computers. What we need is a last gasp of this crap, with companies who are sued for ridiculous mundane stuff like this to sue the patent office for frivolous and bad patents. Though I dunno if you can sue the USPO
Can you file a patent for issuing patents? Would the uspo have thought to do that? Get that, then sue them for patent infringement on issuing patents in the most frivolous case ever.
Wait....they're suing because a phone has the ability to make calls?
Ummm, I don't wanna get all technical and shit, but that's basically what a phone does.
What's next, suing Samsung and Toshiba because their televisions "show moving images"?
If these patents relate to making calls and sending emails and whatever else shouldn't they be suing samsung and all other phone makers too. You can make calls and send emails on the internet too, maybe they should sue that.
Nice. They've literally named themselves after a bottom feeder. Very apt.