I don't understand why people bother answering the questions a lot of times. When you have bought something from Amazon and somebody asks a question then Amazon sometimes emails you it to you and asks if you can answer it. Some people must feel compelled to answer because many times you see "I don't know" or "I bought it as a gift."
Of course sometimes the questions are just as bad because the are asking for information that's posted about the item.
I use it to back up and install updates to apps all the time. I just recently updated my home Internet to an unlimited package so I was worried about my usage. It is great for only downloading an update once and installing it to my iPhone and iPad. I haven't updated iTunes or macOS in order to keep this functionality (and because there's nothing else in the updates to really want me to update). It's also easier for me to go into iTunes and update all the apps there than go into the App Store on each device and update everything.
In addition I like having my backups on my computer, and backed up again when my computer is backed up. I don't need to have my device restored when I'm away from home. If I go on vacation I might switch to iCloud backups just in case something happens to my device but when I'm at home it's not a required feature.
Aluminum in cars isn't a problem since the driver puts a landing pad on the roof and the landing pad would have some light metal in it in order for the electromagnets to attract to.
As for the driver having to constantly clear off the landing pad, that's not an issue either. The drone can send a message when it's a minute or 30 seconds away and the driver can then clear the landing pad. Or the drone will hover when it arrives until the driver clears the landing pad. Not a big issue.
I'm not advocating for this idea. Just that these issues aren't really issues. There's bigger problems with this idea. Especially with the people that are suggesting that the drone deliver to a landing pad that the customer puts out. That's assuming that everyone that's ordering pizza lives in a house. What about people in tall residential buildings or people staying in hotels? Or people getting are at work. Never mind that drones powerful enough to deliver a couple of pizzas would be noisier than a car and I wouldn't want to hear them flying all evening. I'm two blocks from two pizza shops (different directions) and if this technology came into being my neighbourhood would be hearing a lot of drones. Plus there would be the drones from the other delivery places too.
No pollution was reduced. By transferring the money to Tesla FCA gets to sell the same number of highly polluting cars just as if they paid the huge fine. FCA and Tesla will sell the same amount of cars as if there wasn't a law in place.
Allowing to pool multiple companies together was a huge mistake. If FCA wasn't allowed to pool their cars with Tesla, or anyone else, then they would either have to pay the fine, make their vehicles more efficient, or change the percentages of the vehicles available for sale in their fleet by focussing on smaller, more efficient cars.
Offsetting anything (efficiency, carbon credits, etc) is like asking someone else to do your diet for you. Sure, you won't suffer as the weight comes off but you don't get any of the benefits either.
Electromagnets. Wouldn't need to be that strong so they wouldn't eat up too much battery life. All controlled by the drone. Turned on when it lands and as it takes off the electromagnets are turned off.
Since there's a driver any major accumulation of snow, freezing rain, etc would be taken care of by the driver so that's not a problem.
Not everyone has a car and not everyone has a house to go along with their car.
This system is designed for people who have houses and now you want to limit that to people who have houses and cars. I would say that the people without cars should be the ones that need delivery more than the ones with the cars.
And who can't stick up a flat bird table like thing for the fast food to be dropped on to, not difficult.
People in apartment buildings and condos? I'm not going to order and then head downstairs with a landing pad to wait for the delivery which could take 10 to 30 minutes (or longer if the place is busy). Then you have to bring the order back up along with the landing pad. Maybe the building would have a permanent landing pad to save you the bother of having to take one down with you. But you would still have to go down early because who knows how long it takes for an elevator to come so you can't go down when you get a message saying the drop is just about there. It's a pain in the butt when right now it gets delivered right to your unit.
Every time I see one of these articles it assumes that everyone lives in houses.
They are two different business cases. Google was never really interested in laying optical fiber to every home in an area. They did it in order to spur on their competitors into action.
In laying an undersea cable they actually want the connection and bandwidth that the cable brings. There is no competitor to spur on. They'll be able to move their traffic over that cable, lowering their costs, and charge others for using the cable.
It's not very detailed. It doesn't even give a timespan on what a reasonable amount of time is to report a file to the authorities is. This was mentioned in the article and the author of the article compares this to a law in Europe where they specify 24 hours to report. There is no mention of how the hosting company gets informed about the file. It could be a user filing a complaint using a formal system, an email or tweet complaint, or even a sysadmin at a bar with his/her friends and one of them pulls out their phone and says "hey, you got to look at this video," and they notice it's on their network. It doesn't matter how, legally speaking. It starts a timer and how long that timer goes for will eventually be settled by the courts.
They knew exactly what they were doing when they rolled this out. They are only saying stuff about understanding it isn't the best way because of the uproar it's caused. I bet it was known it was probably going to cause this uproar when they put it in and they had the excuse ready for it. But they went ahead and did it anyways because they can. There's no repercussion for them and they probably got a lot of passwords out of it.
Why would you assumer that there is something to this? Back when Bush was telling the world about WMDs in Iraq they offered no proof but kept telling everyone that they were there. When it came time for the Canadian Parliament to vote on whether or not Canada should join the coalition the PM asked Bush for proof. Even just the party leaders to be shown and we were told that the information was too sensitive. So Canada stayed out of the Iraq invasion.
Why is this time any different? Now it's Trump telling the world that Huawei equipment will spy on you. There's no evidence. Just there's the possibility. We've heard the story before, Chicken Little.
I'd rather take the possibility of the Chinese spying on me over the knowledge that the US/Canada/UK/Australia/New Zealand are spying on me.
Nuclear technology. Saw on a CBC article today (Apr 4) that the Trump administration was trying to get technology sold over to Saudi Arabia (SA). The breaking news was that SA was found to have a reactor under construction and Trump was just fine with that.
So the country responsible for funding the organization and supplying most of the people that performed the 9/11 attacks, invades their neighbour, murders people in other countries, wants to get nuclear reactors without signing the non-proliferation treaty and it's okay. But another country has signed the treaty, has nothing to do with 9/11, and has never started a war wants nuclear reactors for energy and it's a problem.
So basically if there is an audio and/or video showing terrorism, murder, attempted murder, rape, torture, or kidnap and it isn't for political, legal, research (scientific, academic, historic, medical), artistic use or for the news accessible to Australians then the company/individual hosting the file, no matter where in the world they are, has to inform the authorities and remove access to Australians.
The content has to be produced by someone involved with the act in order for it to be removed. 434.31 (1)(c)
That's what I got from going through the actual legal text.
There's a store here called Canadian Tire. If you go in with a backpack and don't leave it at the customer service then the cashier will most likely ask to see in it. The couple of times that I've been asked to show them the inside (I rarely go there because of this policy) I start to unzip one of the partitions open and the cashier says thanks. But I've continued on telling them that they've accused me of being a thief so I'm going to prove to them that I'm not. I ask them if they really think that they half used bag of cough drops that's been in there since the previous winter has been shop-lifted. And the same for the pen with the ink level visible half-ways down. I pull out my purchases from other stores and show my receipts for those.
There's no way I'm leaving my backpack at customer service and have stuff stolen from it. They are the only store that I know of that does this crap.
Can you blame Capossela for being overly cautious? The last time Microsoft played an April Fool's joke they announced Windows 10 and they haven't been able to figure out a way to stop it yet.
Does Costco still have people at the exit to check your things to make sure that you have only the stuff that you paid for? If so then everyone is going to have to ask for a receipt with this silly law. There are better things that could be done for the environment than trying to ban receipts.
You can't tell who is selling your email address or is being hacked that way. Use a unique email for every site and store that you do business with. (store1@mydomain.com, store2@mydomain.com, etc) Have a rule that says that anything that isn't your primary email address (the one you give out to friends and family) gets moved to a secondary inbox. Then you go through your secondary inbox for your receipts, messages of orders being sent, etc and archive them as required. Just make sure to keep an eye on your spam folder.
With this method there's no need to set up aliases every month and then delete them afterwards. You just set up your primary email address as the one to receive any messages that aren't addressed to known users or aliases. I have this set up on Zoho.com and it was easy to do. I'm just a user of their free plan and have no other affiliation to them.
Are they still changing the UUID almost every release?
I made a plug-in for Xcode and released it as open source a few years ago. Almost every time an Xcode release came out I'd get a request saying that plug-in stopped working. This is because as part of the configuration of the plug-in you specify the UUIDs of Xcode the plug-in works with. The new release doesn't match and so the plug-in doesn't work. An error code shows up in the log and it's easy to find out what has happened.
It was like dealing with a bunch of kids. If I didn't have an update done the morning of the release I would get complaints FFS. This despite leaving instructions on how to fix the issue and multiple fixed requests with explanations on the exact same thing. I bet they would complain if their users would do the same to them.
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Is that only one supplier that Apple can work with or is there only one company in the world making 5G modems for smartphones?
I don't understand why people bother answering the questions a lot of times. When you have bought something from Amazon and somebody asks a question then Amazon sometimes emails you it to you and asks if you can answer it. Some people must feel compelled to answer because many times you see "I don't know" or "I bought it as a gift."
Of course sometimes the questions are just as bad because the are asking for information that's posted about the item.
How would they find the crisis hotline as the primary place to find information was down?
There are other messaging apps that let people have encrypted chats with the added benefit of not giving any data to Facebook.
I use it to back up and install updates to apps all the time. I just recently updated my home Internet to an unlimited package so I was worried about my usage. It is great for only downloading an update once and installing it to my iPhone and iPad. I haven't updated iTunes or macOS in order to keep this functionality (and because there's nothing else in the updates to really want me to update). It's also easier for me to go into iTunes and update all the apps there than go into the App Store on each device and update everything.
In addition I like having my backups on my computer, and backed up again when my computer is backed up. I don't need to have my device restored when I'm away from home. If I go on vacation I might switch to iCloud backups just in case something happens to my device but when I'm at home it's not a required feature.
Aluminum in cars isn't a problem since the driver puts a landing pad on the roof and the landing pad would have some light metal in it in order for the electromagnets to attract to.
As for the driver having to constantly clear off the landing pad, that's not an issue either. The drone can send a message when it's a minute or 30 seconds away and the driver can then clear the landing pad. Or the drone will hover when it arrives until the driver clears the landing pad. Not a big issue.
I'm not advocating for this idea. Just that these issues aren't really issues. There's bigger problems with this idea. Especially with the people that are suggesting that the drone deliver to a landing pad that the customer puts out. That's assuming that everyone that's ordering pizza lives in a house. What about people in tall residential buildings or people staying in hotels? Or people getting are at work. Never mind that drones powerful enough to deliver a couple of pizzas would be noisier than a car and I wouldn't want to hear them flying all evening. I'm two blocks from two pizza shops (different directions) and if this technology came into being my neighbourhood would be hearing a lot of drones. Plus there would be the drones from the other delivery places too.
No pollution was reduced. By transferring the money to Tesla FCA gets to sell the same number of highly polluting cars just as if they paid the huge fine. FCA and Tesla will sell the same amount of cars as if there wasn't a law in place.
Allowing to pool multiple companies together was a huge mistake. If FCA wasn't allowed to pool their cars with Tesla, or anyone else, then they would either have to pay the fine, make their vehicles more efficient, or change the percentages of the vehicles available for sale in their fleet by focussing on smaller, more efficient cars.
Offsetting anything (efficiency, carbon credits, etc) is like asking someone else to do your diet for you. Sure, you won't suffer as the weight comes off but you don't get any of the benefits either.
Electromagnets. Wouldn't need to be that strong so they wouldn't eat up too much battery life. All controlled by the drone. Turned on when it lands and as it takes off the electromagnets are turned off.
Since there's a driver any major accumulation of snow, freezing rain, etc would be taken care of by the driver so that's not a problem.
Not everyone has a car and not everyone has a house to go along with their car.
This system is designed for people who have houses and now you want to limit that to people who have houses and cars. I would say that the people without cars should be the ones that need delivery more than the ones with the cars.
And who can't stick up a flat bird table like thing for the fast food to be dropped on to, not difficult.
People in apartment buildings and condos? I'm not going to order and then head downstairs with a landing pad to wait for the delivery which could take 10 to 30 minutes (or longer if the place is busy). Then you have to bring the order back up along with the landing pad. Maybe the building would have a permanent landing pad to save you the bother of having to take one down with you. But you would still have to go down early because who knows how long it takes for an elevator to come so you can't go down when you get a message saying the drop is just about there. It's a pain in the butt when right now it gets delivered right to your unit.
Every time I see one of these articles it assumes that everyone lives in houses.
They are two different business cases. Google was never really interested in laying optical fiber to every home in an area. They did it in order to spur on their competitors into action.
In laying an undersea cable they actually want the connection and bandwidth that the cable brings. There is no competitor to spur on. They'll be able to move their traffic over that cable, lowering their costs, and charge others for using the cable.
It's not very detailed. It doesn't even give a timespan on what a reasonable amount of time is to report a file to the authorities is. This was mentioned in the article and the author of the article compares this to a law in Europe where they specify 24 hours to report. There is no mention of how the hosting company gets informed about the file. It could be a user filing a complaint using a formal system, an email or tweet complaint, or even a sysadmin at a bar with his/her friends and one of them pulls out their phone and says "hey, you got to look at this video," and they notice it's on their network. It doesn't matter how, legally speaking. It starts a timer and how long that timer goes for will eventually be settled by the courts.
They knew exactly what they were doing when they rolled this out. They are only saying stuff about understanding it isn't the best way because of the uproar it's caused. I bet it was known it was probably going to cause this uproar when they put it in and they had the excuse ready for it. But they went ahead and did it anyways because they can. There's no repercussion for them and they probably got a lot of passwords out of it.
Why would you assumer that there is something to this? Back when Bush was telling the world about WMDs in Iraq they offered no proof but kept telling everyone that they were there. When it came time for the Canadian Parliament to vote on whether or not Canada should join the coalition the PM asked Bush for proof. Even just the party leaders to be shown and we were told that the information was too sensitive. So Canada stayed out of the Iraq invasion.
Why is this time any different? Now it's Trump telling the world that Huawei equipment will spy on you. There's no evidence. Just there's the possibility. We've heard the story before, Chicken Little.
I'd rather take the possibility of the Chinese spying on me over the knowledge that the US/Canada/UK/Australia/New Zealand are spying on me.
Nuclear technology. Saw on a CBC article today (Apr 4) that the Trump administration was trying to get technology sold over to Saudi Arabia (SA). The breaking news was that SA was found to have a reactor under construction and Trump was just fine with that.
So the country responsible for funding the organization and supplying most of the people that performed the 9/11 attacks, invades their neighbour, murders people in other countries, wants to get nuclear reactors without signing the non-proliferation treaty and it's okay. But another country has signed the treaty, has nothing to do with 9/11, and has never started a war wants nuclear reactors for energy and it's a problem.
So basically if there is an audio and/or video showing terrorism, murder, attempted murder, rape, torture, or kidnap and it isn't for political, legal, research (scientific, academic, historic, medical), artistic use or for the news accessible to Australians then the company/individual hosting the file, no matter where in the world they are, has to inform the authorities and remove access to Australians.
The content has to be produced by someone involved with the act in order for it to be removed. 434.31 (1)(c)
That's what I got from going through the actual legal text.
Just great! They blocked my VPN provider. Now how am I going to, um, hmmm, ... ah, never mind.
On a serious note I hope that something happens that the people of Russia can start getting their freedoms back.
There's a store here called Canadian Tire. If you go in with a backpack and don't leave it at the customer service then the cashier will most likely ask to see in it. The couple of times that I've been asked to show them the inside (I rarely go there because of this policy) I start to unzip one of the partitions open and the cashier says thanks. But I've continued on telling them that they've accused me of being a thief so I'm going to prove to them that I'm not. I ask them if they really think that they half used bag of cough drops that's been in there since the previous winter has been shop-lifted. And the same for the pen with the ink level visible half-ways down. I pull out my purchases from other stores and show my receipts for those.
There's no way I'm leaving my backpack at customer service and have stuff stolen from it. They are the only store that I know of that does this crap.
I'm sensing a slight negativity towards the idea.
Don't spend the whole day over at The Onion. ThinkGeek usually has a few neat things for April 1 every year too.
Can you blame Capossela for being overly cautious? The last time Microsoft played an April Fool's joke they announced Windows 10 and they haven't been able to figure out a way to stop it yet.
Does Costco still have people at the exit to check your things to make sure that you have only the stuff that you paid for? If so then everyone is going to have to ask for a receipt with this silly law. There are better things that could be done for the environment than trying to ban receipts.
You can't tell who is selling your email address or is being hacked that way. Use a unique email for every site and store that you do business with. (store1@mydomain.com, store2@mydomain.com, etc) Have a rule that says that anything that isn't your primary email address (the one you give out to friends and family) gets moved to a secondary inbox. Then you go through your secondary inbox for your receipts, messages of orders being sent, etc and archive them as required. Just make sure to keep an eye on your spam folder.
With this method there's no need to set up aliases every month and then delete them afterwards. You just set up your primary email address as the one to receive any messages that aren't addressed to known users or aliases. I have this set up on Zoho.com and it was easy to do. I'm just a user of their free plan and have no other affiliation to them.
I have a dream where no chicken is afraid to walk across the road.
Are they still changing the UUID almost every release?
I made a plug-in for Xcode and released it as open source a few years ago. Almost every time an Xcode release came out I'd get a request saying that plug-in stopped working. This is because as part of the configuration of the plug-in you specify the UUIDs of Xcode the plug-in works with. The new release doesn't match and so the plug-in doesn't work. An error code shows up in the log and it's easy to find out what has happened.
It was like dealing with a bunch of kids. If I didn't have an update done the morning of the release I would get complaints FFS. This despite leaving instructions on how to fix the issue and multiple fixed requests with explanations on the exact same thing. I bet they would complain if their users would do the same to them.