How long before all material that MPAA and RIAA Robotic web-crawlers say is copyrighted, gets placed on the ban list to you know "protect" people from breaking the law
Just more subtly planned obsolescence. While mirrors may wear out or break, it is simple enough to make a replacement. When these cameras wear out/break it is going to require a factory to make a replacement.
I said the same thing when they replaced my trusty hand crank with them fancy electric starters that may wear out or break
The above is mostly a rant but it is true that most Continental E.U countries have strong labor laws that make it difficult to fire an employee. The upside is that employees don't feel the kind of pressure to out-compete each-other and turn into the workaholics that you see in U.S. The downside is that nobody is willing to roll the dice on young people with no experience and a proven track-record
I don't have a problem with the current setup of no access for me and no advertisement dollars for them. If they want advertisement money for my eyeballs and possibly commissions on purchases, then open it up
I have never lived in Japan but from what I understand, the shaving of hair is closely associated with prostitution (genital crabs and all) which has largely been legal throughout Japanese history. The ban of it in nude pictures reinforces the idea that these are just lowly prostitutes and not respectable women. If you know one thing about Japan is how seriously they take Social Hierarchy
In the event of an accident a lot of drivers would accept a higher risk of death to themselves if it means lowering the chance of death to a victim that is a child or a pregnant women. If the victim is of old age then they are likely to want to minimize the risk to themselves. Programming this into a self-driving car would be pretty controversial to say the least. Oftentimes decisions happen subconsciously and we are not even aware that our brain made a decision based on a complex model this is often biased in one direction or another and a lot of people would be shocked to learn the factors their mind weighted to make that decision. "Did I really consider that one person was wearing rags and the other a business suite when deciding whether to save person A or person B?" You probably did
NO, the minute you take a motor-vehicle on a public road you must follow whatever rules the government has imposed for granting you the privilege of using the motor-vehicle on public roads or the government can suspend or revoke your license to operate a motor vehicle on public roads
The use of a motor-vehicles on public roads is NOT a right. The government can impose whatever rules it wishes for allowing you the privilege of doing so. On private roads you are free to not use seat belts or even make a rule requiring anyone that wishes to use your private road have a blood alcohol content of > 0.8
Google provides a very popular, but not the only WWW indexing and search service. Personally i have moved on to DuckDuckGO because of their commitment to user privacy.
Since iMessage is baked into the text-messaging app and there is no "sign-up" process other then logging into the apple account during setup, most people have no idea that they are using iMessage or what the difference between a blue or a green conversation box actually means. About the only time most Apple users learn of imessage is when they switch to an android device without disabling iMessage or resetting their iPhone and end up not receiving messages from other iPhone users.
AMD is a cheap knockoff whose entire design philosophy revolves around avoiding patent and copyright lawsuits from Intel. Its in house technology is extremely inferior. The only good thing they can possibly do for the market now is to completely open up all development resources.
And, let's bring back the alpha chip. It already is superior to Intel. Always has been.
And GODDAMMIT! Where's our 3D printers that can print homemade computers? We were supposed to have that shit 30 years ago.
Really...
Its not like they are the one that made the AMD_64 instruction set that was then in turn licensed to intel...
While its manufacturing technique is inferior that is because the brain-dead executives sold off their fab and they now have to contract with someone else to do it.
As for bringing back ALPHA it may have been superior then they stopped developing it in 2001. Intel/AMD have come a long way in 15 years.
AMD had some very large maturing-bonds repayments coming up at the time. Effectively frozen out of the debt-market and without Investors willing to inject new capital AMD had to choose between selling assets or declaring bankruptcy. Selling and leasing back non-liquid assets is used often by companies that need money but are shut out of the debt-markets because of over-leverage or other issues with with the business. It is essentially a secure loan backed by collateral
The non-sensational headline for those of us that don't care for them would read: "Repeatedly damaging the tissue lining the esophagus with very hot liquids probably contributes to an increased chance of that tissue becoming cancerous."
Very few people in the US die from mass shootings. If it weren't for the morale effect, they wouldn't be a significant problem. The media are what makes them an apparently very serious problem.
Like millions of other people with relatives or friends living in Orlando, I was one of those frantically dialing the phone hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. I can assure you the terror inflicted on millions as they wandered if their loved ones lied slain on a dance floor or a classroom is NOT some Hyped up Media
the problem is that 'traditional' 'news' sources no longer have journalists in them, they only have editorialists. They don't report the news, they spin the news to match their opinions, they use rhetoric to 'guide' your opinions and they don't actually want you to know the 'facts' they simply want to tell you what to think.
Kinda like one man shoots up a night club, and instead of being allowed to demonize the religion he says he did it for, we demonize the weapons he had, and by extension demonize anyone in the country who has such weapons. We can't demonize one class, but we can demonize the other, because that is what the 'traditional' news sources say.
It is not about demonizing, it is about finding solutions to the continuous and very serious problem of mass-shootings. Calling Islam evil does nothing about peoples murderous intent, gun control can't do anything about that either however it can certainly help mitigate the worst of the damage possible withing easy, legal reach. Even Bill O'rilly finally admitted that much
In my experience, physical charging ports wear out. In some phones you can replace them or pay to get them replaced, but in some you can't. Even when you can, it's so expensive and error prone it's cheaper to replace the phone. So users that use physical ports are forced to replace phones months, a year, or even multiple years sooner than they would otherwise.
My wild guess is that the waste of electronics and unnecessary boost to cell phone replacement rates from that is far worse than the extra inefficiency of wireless charging.
The vast majority of phones are retired due to obsolescence (as little as 18 months in many high-wage regions) and decreased battery life. Damage is a distant third and in that category a broken screen accounts for the vast majority of cases. A removable battery (wireless charging tends to make removal batteries even more complicated to incorporate in the design) would do infinitely more to mitigate the issue of waste then wireless-charging. Not to mention that recycling is a very cost-effective, unfortunately only %3 are ever recycled.
I gave up caring about the characters a couple seasons ago. It's devolved into a constant barrage of idiots making dumb decision after dumb decision. None of these people would be alive at this point after alienating every person they come across. They also haven't come up with a single new or inventive plot device since season 2.
In that respect one must give it a lot of credit for being very honest about Homo sapiens limitations and tendencies towards the irrational, especially in stressful conditions. After a while thou this just stops making for good entertainment unfortunately
Charging mats use about 5 watts of power, which means even if you were doing nothing but charging phones with dead batteries around the clock it would only use 40 kwh of power in a year. As far as contributing causes to the energy crisis go, that's nothing. Hand-washing one load of laundry will offset all of your energy use from charging your phone for over a month. Skipping one drive to the movies to rent something at home will offset all of your energy use for charging your cell phone for years (since one gallon of gasoline has 33kwh equivalent of energy in it).
Suppose wireless-charging became as standard as a camera. Some 1B phones are sold each year. 95%* of those smartphone buyers will not even be aware that wireless-charging is inherently inefficient and wasteful, never-mind do something to offset this waste.
*There is no data on this but actually my best guess would probably be more around 99% considering the abysmal levels of knowledge in Sciences people in most countries possess
Hackers broke into the DNC to steal information about their opponent and not their candidate. Now thats some straight up spin. They stole everything that was there but I can guarantee you that they were far more interested in the internal info they had on the DNC candidate. BTW just because the logged-ip addressed point to Russian ip-blocks it doesn't mean that this was done by direction of the Russian government or even that the attack originated in Russia. Using compromised machines under the hackers controll as proxy servers to carry attacks on a 3d party is standard practice. Using machines in countries that are generally considered rivals and are unlikely to cooperate with U.S authorities in an investigation, makes a heck-of-a-lot of sense
No mention if MS is going to release the hardware-refresh as a kinetic-only bundle. The original Xbox One suffered from the higher price-point but also due to the %10 of resources which were reserved for the kinetic which meant that titles on the Xbox often ran at lower resolutions and worst frame rates then on the PS4. Eventually MS unlocked those %10 resources but with this hardware refresh they could be added on top and allow for the kinetic to run without limiting performance. A bundle is likely to be the case since unlike previous generation refresh this one seems to be positioned as a high end 4K release rather then simply a smaller cheaper console
Have these civil forfeiture laws been challenged on 4th amendment grounds? Isn't this the textbook definition of unreasonable seizure?
Civil forfeitures have been upheld in Court however, recently the Justice Department has moved to limit the use after the problem of Counties seeking to balance their budges using this tactic against out-of-townees passing thru, became alarmingly common
Congratulations... you just made the argument for excusing Microsoft upgrading everyone to Windows 10!
The rest of the world *could*, if they wanted to setup their own root systems, updated routes, patch oodles of systems to use the new system (ie jump through a bunch of extra hoops)... or just let the system keep on working as it's configured to... even when new configurations are pushed from on high.
Sure, if you are extra careful you or I can tweak or DNS settings... just as we could block Windows 10 updates (WU is blockable at the router) or telemetry... most don't have the skills to do so and largely don't care.
WHAT? Windows 10 is a closed source, proprietary operating system. Making changes to the update mechanism would be considered copyright infingment by Microsoft at the very least and most likely they would call it hacking and call the FBI. DNS is just a standardized protocol that anyone can freely implement however they wish
I think it is important to note that if the rest of the world wants they can easily create their own DNS root servers and only forward lookups to the U.S controlled servers for TLD's (top level domains) they specify. Most everyone simply uses the DNS servers the Internet providers give via DHCP (usually the providers own DNS caching servers) and switching the majority of users would be a simple matter of just switching the lookup tables on the Internet Service providers DNS caching servers. If you really wanted to be thorough, the lookup's to major U.S DNS servers (such as googles 8.8.8.8, hardcoded in many google devices) could be rerouted via firewall rules
It is hard, especially in developed countries, to even find non-smartphones in stores. Even people that have 0 interest in any of the "smart" features such as the expandability via apps. are by in large forced into the smartphone market
Many employees would happily forgo a salary increase over more vacation days, fewer hours or a day or two a week spent telecommuting, but I am kidding myself thinking that their driving factor is their employees best interests
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How long before all material that MPAA and RIAA Robotic web-crawlers say is copyrighted, gets placed on the ban list to you know "protect" people from breaking the law
Just more subtly planned obsolescence. While mirrors may wear out or break, it is simple enough to make a replacement. When these cameras wear out/break it is going to require a factory to make a replacement.
I said the same thing when they replaced my trusty hand crank with them fancy electric starters that may wear out or break
The above is mostly a rant but it is true that most Continental E.U countries have strong labor laws that make it difficult to fire an employee. The upside is that employees don't feel the kind of pressure to out-compete each-other and turn into the workaholics that you see in U.S. The downside is that nobody is willing to roll the dice on young people with no experience and a proven track-record
I don't have a problem with the current setup of no access for me and no advertisement dollars for them. If they want advertisement money for my eyeballs and possibly commissions on purchases, then open it up
I have never lived in Japan but from what I understand, the shaving of hair is closely associated with prostitution (genital crabs and all) which has largely been legal throughout Japanese history. The ban of it in nude pictures reinforces the idea that these are just lowly prostitutes and not respectable women. If you know one thing about Japan is how seriously they take Social Hierarchy
In the event of an accident a lot of drivers would accept a higher risk of death to themselves if it means lowering the chance of death to a victim that is a child or a pregnant women. If the victim is of old age then they are likely to want to minimize the risk to themselves. Programming this into a self-driving car would be pretty controversial to say the least. Oftentimes decisions happen subconsciously and we are not even aware that our brain made a decision based on a complex model this is often biased in one direction or another and a lot of people would be shocked to learn the factors their mind weighted to make that decision. "Did I really consider that one person was wearing rags and the other a business suite when deciding whether to save person A or person B?" You probably did
NO, the minute you take a motor-vehicle on a public road you must follow whatever rules the government has imposed for granting you the privilege of using the motor-vehicle on public roads or the government can suspend or revoke your license to operate a motor vehicle on public roads
The use of a motor-vehicles on public roads is NOT a right. The government can impose whatever rules it wishes for allowing you the privilege of doing so. On private roads you are free to not use seat belts or even make a rule requiring anyone that wishes to use your private road have a blood alcohol content of > 0.8
Google provides a very popular, but not the only WWW indexing and search service. Personally i have moved on to DuckDuckGO because of their commitment to user privacy.
Since iMessage is baked into the text-messaging app and there is no "sign-up" process other then logging into the apple account during setup, most people have no idea that they are using iMessage or what the difference between a blue or a green conversation box actually means. About the only time most Apple users learn of imessage is when they switch to an android device without disabling iMessage or resetting their iPhone and end up not receiving messages from other iPhone users.
AMD is a cheap knockoff whose entire design philosophy revolves around avoiding patent and copyright lawsuits from Intel. Its in house technology is extremely inferior. The only good thing they can possibly do for the market now is to completely open up all development resources.
And, let's bring back the alpha chip. It already is superior to Intel. Always has been.
And GODDAMMIT! Where's our 3D printers that can print homemade computers? We were supposed to have that shit 30 years ago.
Really... Its not like they are the one that made the AMD_64 instruction set that was then in turn licensed to intel... While its manufacturing technique is inferior that is because the brain-dead executives sold off their fab and they now have to contract with someone else to do it. As for bringing back ALPHA it may have been superior then they stopped developing it in 2001. Intel/AMD have come a long way in 15 years.
AMD had some very large maturing-bonds repayments coming up at the time. Effectively frozen out of the debt-market and without Investors willing to inject new capital AMD had to choose between selling assets or declaring bankruptcy. Selling and leasing back non-liquid assets is used often by companies that need money but are shut out of the debt-markets because of over-leverage or other issues with with the business. It is essentially a secure loan backed by collateral
You realize Hillary is responsible for probably over a million deaths and a good part of Europe being overrun ?
There hasn't been a Secretary of State without blood on their hands since the "Monroe Doctrine."
The non-sensational headline for those of us that don't care for them would read: "Repeatedly damaging the tissue lining the esophagus with very hot liquids probably contributes to an increased chance of that tissue becoming cancerous."
Very few people in the US die from mass shootings. If it weren't for the morale effect, they wouldn't be a significant problem. The media are what makes them an apparently very serious problem.
Like millions of other people with relatives or friends living in Orlando, I was one of those frantically dialing the phone hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. I can assure you the terror inflicted on millions as they wandered if their loved ones lied slain on a dance floor or a classroom is NOT some Hyped up Media
the problem is that 'traditional' 'news' sources no longer have journalists in them, they only have editorialists. They don't report the news, they spin the news to match their opinions, they use rhetoric to 'guide' your opinions and they don't actually want you to know the 'facts' they simply want to tell you what to think. Kinda like one man shoots up a night club, and instead of being allowed to demonize the religion he says he did it for, we demonize the weapons he had, and by extension demonize anyone in the country who has such weapons. We can't demonize one class, but we can demonize the other, because that is what the 'traditional' news sources say.
It is not about demonizing, it is about finding solutions to the continuous and very serious problem of mass-shootings. Calling Islam evil does nothing about peoples murderous intent, gun control can't do anything about that either however it can certainly help mitigate the worst of the damage possible withing easy, legal reach. Even Bill O'rilly finally admitted that much
Bill Oreilly takes stunning stance
In my experience, physical charging ports wear out. In some phones you can replace them or pay to get them replaced, but in some you can't. Even when you can, it's so expensive and error prone it's cheaper to replace the phone. So users that use physical ports are forced to replace phones months, a year, or even multiple years sooner than they would otherwise. My wild guess is that the waste of electronics and unnecessary boost to cell phone replacement rates from that is far worse than the extra inefficiency of wireless charging.
The vast majority of phones are retired due to obsolescence (as little as 18 months in many high-wage regions) and decreased battery life. Damage is a distant third and in that category a broken screen accounts for the vast majority of cases. A removable battery (wireless charging tends to make removal batteries even more complicated to incorporate in the design) would do infinitely more to mitigate the issue of waste then wireless-charging. Not to mention that recycling is a very cost-effective, unfortunately only %3 are ever recycled.
I gave up caring about the characters a couple seasons ago. It's devolved into a constant barrage of idiots making dumb decision after dumb decision. None of these people would be alive at this point after alienating every person they come across. They also haven't come up with a single new or inventive plot device since season 2.
In that respect one must give it a lot of credit for being very honest about Homo sapiens limitations and tendencies towards the irrational, especially in stressful conditions. After a while thou this just stops making for good entertainment unfortunately
Charging mats use about 5 watts of power, which means even if you were doing nothing but charging phones with dead batteries around the clock it would only use 40 kwh of power in a year. As far as contributing causes to the energy crisis go, that's nothing. Hand-washing one load of laundry will offset all of your energy use from charging your phone for over a month. Skipping one drive to the movies to rent something at home will offset all of your energy use for charging your cell phone for years (since one gallon of gasoline has 33kwh equivalent of energy in it).
Suppose wireless-charging became as standard as a camera. Some 1B phones are sold each year. 95%* of those smartphone buyers will not even be aware that wireless-charging is inherently inefficient and wasteful, never-mind do something to offset this waste.
*There is no data on this but actually my best guess would probably be more around 99% considering the abysmal levels of knowledge in Sciences people in most countries possess
Hackers broke into the DNC to steal information about their opponent and not their candidate. Now thats some straight up spin. They stole everything that was there but I can guarantee you that they were far more interested in the internal info they had on the DNC candidate. BTW just because the logged-ip addressed point to Russian ip-blocks it doesn't mean that this was done by direction of the Russian government or even that the attack originated in Russia. Using compromised machines under the hackers controll as proxy servers to carry attacks on a 3d party is standard practice. Using machines in countries that are generally considered rivals and are unlikely to cooperate with U.S authorities in an investigation, makes a heck-of-a-lot of sense
No mention if MS is going to release the hardware-refresh as a kinetic-only bundle. The original Xbox One suffered from the higher price-point but also due to the %10 of resources which were reserved for the kinetic which meant that titles on the Xbox often ran at lower resolutions and worst frame rates then on the PS4. Eventually MS unlocked those %10 resources but with this hardware refresh they could be added on top and allow for the kinetic to run without limiting performance. A bundle is likely to be the case since unlike previous generation refresh this one seems to be positioned as a high end 4K release rather then simply a smaller cheaper console
Have these civil forfeiture laws been challenged on 4th amendment grounds? Isn't this the textbook definition of unreasonable seizure?
Civil forfeitures have been upheld in Court however, recently the Justice Department has moved to limit the use after the problem of Counties seeking to balance their budges using this tactic against out-of-townees passing thru, became alarmingly common
Congratulations... you just made the argument for excusing Microsoft upgrading everyone to Windows 10!
The rest of the world *could*, if they wanted to setup their own root systems, updated routes, patch oodles of systems to use the new system (ie jump through a bunch of extra hoops)... or just let the system keep on working as it's configured to... even when new configurations are pushed from on high.
Sure, if you are extra careful you or I can tweak or DNS settings... just as we could block Windows 10 updates (WU is blockable at the router) or telemetry... most don't have the skills to do so and largely don't care.
WHAT? Windows 10 is a closed source, proprietary operating system. Making changes to the update mechanism would be considered copyright infingment by Microsoft at the very least and most likely they would call it hacking and call the FBI. DNS is just a standardized protocol that anyone can freely implement however they wish
I think it is important to note that if the rest of the world wants they can easily create their own DNS root servers and only forward lookups to the U.S controlled servers for TLD's (top level domains) they specify. Most everyone simply uses the DNS servers the Internet providers give via DHCP (usually the providers own DNS caching servers) and switching the majority of users would be a simple matter of just switching the lookup tables on the Internet Service providers DNS caching servers. If you really wanted to be thorough, the lookup's to major U.S DNS servers (such as googles 8.8.8.8, hardcoded in many google devices) could be rerouted via firewall rules
It is hard, especially in developed countries, to even find non-smartphones in stores. Even people that have 0 interest in any of the "smart" features such as the expandability via apps. are by in large forced into the smartphone market
Many employees would happily forgo a salary increase over more vacation days, fewer hours or a day or two a week spent telecommuting, but I am kidding myself thinking that their driving factor is their employees best interests