It's more to do with hair removal in that region being a pain in the... Quite literally.
Shaving requires a lot of maintenance work. Depending on body shape it can be easier or harder to do, particularly for men. Other hair removal methods are more expensive and things like hot wax treatment is quite painful too.
And since most people don't display their genitals and by the time anyone else gets to see them their shaved/not shaved status is largely irrelevant there just isn't much incentive to do so.
Also, a bad shave job is worse. It's like sand paper. There is a reason they supply face razors at the love hotels.
Firefox can do this already, but it's not that effective unfortunately.
The real problem these days is fingerprinting. Particularly installed fonts and user agent strings. Those two alone are often pretty unique, and combined with canvas fingerprinting and IP address are very powerful tracking mechanisms.
Unfortunately no browser can block them, and I have not found any plug-in except for NoScript that can block getting a list of installed fonts. There is a tool called "fluxfonts" that randomly installs and removes fake fonts in the background, but it would be nice if a mainstream browser did something about this.
They are more concerned about the steps being taken to stop their mass surveillance. Ever since the leaks the internet has become a lot more privacy and security focused, with encryption being used more and more to cover what were once considered mundane communications.
Prior to Snowden was it relatively easy and cheap for them, now the cost is massively increased. Instead of unencrypted chat apps we now have all the major ones supporting strong encryption, often enabled by default and implemented so that the developer can't circumvent it.
Getting caught it just an inevitable part of playing the spy game. It's the resulting privacy enhancements that really upset them.
Are you in the US? Cars in the US seem to be a massive rip-off, and they aren't exactly cheap in the UK.
Not just parts, US cars seem to need an extraordinary amount of maintenance compared to the same models in the UK.
I have a feeling it's to do with consumer protection law. If my 8 year old car needed a $1500 wiring harness replacing I'd be asking the manufacturer to contribute to the cost, or just getting it done for free. If that somehow failed I'd get one for five bucks from a scrapyard or eBay or 3rd party.
This is why Google Hangouts is good. The owner can mute people if they have mic issues, it shows who is talking on the screen so there is no confusion and people talk over each other less, and it seems less glitchy. Plus it works with a browser so no need for a stupid app.
If Google or Apple fail to invest heavily in Android/iOS development, their platform will fail within a few years
I dunno, look at how little effort Apple puts in to Siri or Apple Maps. Compared to what Google have done with Assistant and Maps, or what Amazon has done with Alexa...
The backend could be run not-for-profit, funded by charging for API access. Client sites/apps would use advertising or subscriptions to pay for the API access.
I was getting a little nervous that all our eggs seemed to be in one basket... How many FOSS projects you do know using GitLab? Spreading out might be a good thing.
The output of these things is in the microwatt range. Maybe you are thinking of the much larger ones they use on spacecraft.
The only time you would use these is if you need a very small amount of power in a very small space with no light or temperature gradient available. Pacemakers, monitoring underground infrastructure like pipes, that sort of thing. You aren't going to see nuclear powered garden lights.
What about consumers who want to compress the audio a bit and turn up the vocal track, for ease of listening in their homes or when they want to keep the volume low?
It will only ever be used for very specialized applications and will always be expensive, because most of the time there are better alternatives like solar panels or RF energy harvesting.
I actually evaluated some nuclear batteries years ago for sensors attached to underground pipes. Down there you obviously don't get any sunshine, RF is heavily attenuated and things like turbines are invasive and being mechanical probably won't last 100 years.
In the end the best solution turned out to be thermal gradient.
Your utter disregard for morality by turning a blind eye on people and their lives by simply pretending that the obvious technicalities that we are all fully aware of are the only thing that exists in the world.
The point is that while name collisions are not always trivial, as you say, acronyms are a different story.
Any two word name can be reduced to one of 676 possible acronyms. There are going to be collisions, it's unavoidable unless we decide not to have any more two word names from now on.
In this case we have a fairly common technology, a virtual filesystem, plus a single character. There are only 26 possibilities. And GVFS was already taken before Gnome got to it anyway, by the Grid Virtual Filesystem (https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~zhaom/gvfs/index.html).
One thing though, like Slashdot it keeps asking for permissions over and over no matter how often you decline. GDPR allows you to remember that preference with a cookie. Or just make it less intrusive than a full screen overlay.
Children are of immense benefit to society though, which is why we encourage them. Without enough children we will be be facing severe problems a few decades down the line.
It's not really a copyright kind of issue, it's about the social harm that is done. For example, in Europe we have things like the right to be forgotten and regulators who oversee the use of personal data by businesses. They are not zero cost, those things have to be funded from general taxation.
You buy still willingly, yet still pay sales tax on it. All we need to do is put a tax on the collection of personal data. We already have a pretty good definition of what that data is, thanks to decades of data protection laws (the latest iteration of which is the GDPR).
The goal is to adjust business models so that they avoid doing harm by minimizing their tax bill. Thus they will only collect data that is absolutely necessary for their business, and pay for their own regulation and oversight.
Autopilot uses a minimal set of sensors: front radar, cameras and ultrasonic sensors.
The front radar isn't good at avoiding hitting stationary objects. Like all such radars it has to filter a lot of stationary objects to prevent the car constantly slamming on the brakes when there are reflections from signs, walls, roadworks, bumps in the road, plastic bags etc. So tuning it to recognize stopped vehicles with an acceptably low false positive rate is tricky.
The cameras are currently not fully utilized. Some are inactive, and the ones that do work are only using a very simple neural net for object detection. They don't even compare multiple frames to get depth perception information, let along build a 3D model of the world from available data.
So basically they don't have anything suitable for detecting stationary emergency vehicles. Maybe one day they will, but not in the next year or two.
So make it fail-safe, i.e. if there is no GPS signal you can't engage autopilot. That's what GM does with Supercruise. The car has to be certain you are on a supported road before you can turn it on.
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It's more to do with hair removal in that region being a pain in the... Quite literally.
Shaving requires a lot of maintenance work. Depending on body shape it can be easier or harder to do, particularly for men. Other hair removal methods are more expensive and things like hot wax treatment is quite painful too.
And since most people don't display their genitals and by the time anyone else gets to see them their shaved/not shaved status is largely irrelevant there just isn't much incentive to do so.
Also, a bad shave job is worse. It's like sand paper. There is a reason they supply face razors at the love hotels.
Interesting that this comment was modded "overrated". Some shills at work perhaps? Or just my usual stalkers.
Firefox can do this already, but it's not that effective unfortunately.
The real problem these days is fingerprinting. Particularly installed fonts and user agent strings. Those two alone are often pretty unique, and combined with canvas fingerprinting and IP address are very powerful tracking mechanisms.
Unfortunately no browser can block them, and I have not found any plug-in except for NoScript that can block getting a list of installed fonts. There is a tool called "fluxfonts" that randomly installs and removes fake fonts in the background, but it would be nice if a mainstream browser did something about this.
They are more concerned about the steps being taken to stop their mass surveillance. Ever since the leaks the internet has become a lot more privacy and security focused, with encryption being used more and more to cover what were once considered mundane communications.
Prior to Snowden was it relatively easy and cheap for them, now the cost is massively increased. Instead of unencrypted chat apps we now have all the major ones supporting strong encryption, often enabled by default and implemented so that the developer can't circumvent it.
Getting caught it just an inevitable part of playing the spy game. It's the resulting privacy enhancements that really upset them.
Are you in the US? Cars in the US seem to be a massive rip-off, and they aren't exactly cheap in the UK.
Not just parts, US cars seem to need an extraordinary amount of maintenance compared to the same models in the UK.
I have a feeling it's to do with consumer protection law. If my 8 year old car needed a $1500 wiring harness replacing I'd be asking the manufacturer to contribute to the cost, or just getting it done for free. If that somehow failed I'd get one for five bucks from a scrapyard or eBay or 3rd party.
This is why Google Hangouts is good. The owner can mute people if they have mic issues, it shows who is talking on the screen so there is no confusion and people talk over each other less, and it seems less glitchy. Plus it works with a browser so no need for a stupid app.
Git.NET Compact Framework bindings for Excel
Visual Studio already has pretty good Git integration.
If Google or Apple fail to invest heavily in Android/iOS development, their platform will fail within a few years
I dunno, look at how little effort Apple puts in to Siri or Apple Maps. Compared to what Google have done with Assistant and Maps, or what Amazon has done with Alexa...
And yet Apple still sells plenty of iPhones.
The backend could be run not-for-profit, funded by charging for API access. Client sites/apps would use advertising or subscriptions to pay for the API access.
Facebook could be broken up into these two parts.
I was getting a little nervous that all our eggs seemed to be in one basket... How many FOSS projects you do know using GitLab? Spreading out might be a good thing.
Also, LOL.
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The output of these things is in the microwatt range. Maybe you are thinking of the much larger ones they use on spacecraft.
The only time you would use these is if you need a very small amount of power in a very small space with no light or temperature gradient available. Pacemakers, monitoring underground infrastructure like pipes, that sort of thing. You aren't going to see nuclear powered garden lights.
Trust is not binary.
I trust my barber to cut my hair but I'll take her financial advice with a pinch of salt.
I trust Github enough to invest time in their free service.
What about consumers who want to compress the audio a bit and turn up the vocal track, for ease of listening in their homes or when they want to keep the volume low?
It will only ever be used for very specialized applications and will always be expensive, because most of the time there are better alternatives like solar panels or RF energy harvesting.
I actually evaluated some nuclear batteries years ago for sensors attached to underground pipes. Down there you obviously don't get any sunshine, RF is heavily attenuated and things like turbines are invasive and being mechanical probably won't last 100 years.
In the end the best solution turned out to be thermal gradient.
Your utter disregard for morality by turning a blind eye on people and their lives by simply pretending that the obvious technicalities that we are all fully aware of are the only thing that exists in the world.
Holy crap dude.
The point is that while name collisions are not always trivial, as you say, acronyms are a different story.
Any two word name can be reduced to one of 676 possible acronyms. There are going to be collisions, it's unavoidable unless we decide not to have any more two word names from now on.
In this case we have a fairly common technology, a virtual filesystem, plus a single character. There are only 26 possibilities. And GVFS was already taken before Gnome got to it anyway, by the Grid Virtual Filesystem (https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~zhaom/gvfs/index.html).
It's more like a hash collision. Acronyms are digests of the full name, a shorter but not necessarily unique identifier.
Collisions are not unexpected. Most acronyms have multiple meanings. It's unfortunate that these two are so similar but even that isn't uncommon.
It's good again now, thanks for fixing it.
One thing though, like Slashdot it keeps asking for permissions over and over no matter how often you decline. GDPR allows you to remember that preference with a cookie. Or just make it less intrusive than a full screen overlay.
I hear Bit Bucket is good too.
Both offer unlimited private repos.
Children are of immense benefit to society though, which is why we encourage them. Without enough children we will be be facing severe problems a few decades down the line.
It's not really a copyright kind of issue, it's about the social harm that is done. For example, in Europe we have things like the right to be forgotten and regulators who oversee the use of personal data by businesses. They are not zero cost, those things have to be funded from general taxation.
You buy still willingly, yet still pay sales tax on it. All we need to do is put a tax on the collection of personal data. We already have a pretty good definition of what that data is, thanks to decades of data protection laws (the latest iteration of which is the GDPR).
The goal is to adjust business models so that they avoid doing harm by minimizing their tax bill. Thus they will only collect data that is absolutely necessary for their business, and pay for their own regulation and oversight.
It might be unfixable.
Autopilot uses a minimal set of sensors: front radar, cameras and ultrasonic sensors.
The front radar isn't good at avoiding hitting stationary objects. Like all such radars it has to filter a lot of stationary objects to prevent the car constantly slamming on the brakes when there are reflections from signs, walls, roadworks, bumps in the road, plastic bags etc. So tuning it to recognize stopped vehicles with an acceptably low false positive rate is tricky.
The cameras are currently not fully utilized. Some are inactive, and the ones that do work are only using a very simple neural net for object detection. They don't even compare multiple frames to get depth perception information, let along build a 3D model of the world from available data.
So basically they don't have anything suitable for detecting stationary emergency vehicles. Maybe one day they will, but not in the next year or two.
So make it fail-safe, i.e. if there is no GPS signal you can't engage autopilot. That's what GM does with Supercruise. The car has to be certain you are on a supported road before you can turn it on.