And there is a reason Samsung didn't bother with costly 3D imaging. This isn't supposed to be a super secure system. Someone can unlock your phone by pointing it at your face, perhaps while you are asleep, even with the Apple system.
Face unlock is for people who only want to protect against people they don't know stealing their phone. It stops random thieves from getting their data and makes it much harder for them to factory reset and sell the phone on.
It's for people who are so lazy that even fingerprint unlock is too much hassle, let along a long PIN/password.
why would anyone assume there is a relationship between cost to produce something and the cost we have to pay?
Wrong question. Why would anyone assume that if something was being sold with a very large profit margin there would not be new entrants to the market undercutting the incumbents?
In many places you can buy glasses at much closer to the cost price, often online but sometimes in shops as well. Personally I like JINS. I find them more comfortable than designer frames and the last pair I bought was $30 (admittedly on sale but I think only $50 normally).
Cash costs more to handle than credit cards for many retailers. As well as slowing down transactions, mistakes are inevitable, it has to be counted, it has to be taken to the bank, and there has to be enough of a float in every till to provide change.
Most of the places that charge you less for cash are not putting it through the books so they can avoid paying sales tax, or are selling high value products where the percentage becomes significant such as airlines.
We could fix this. Stored value cards already exist, you can top them up with cash. They store the balance on the card and use crypto to authenticate transactions. The only flaws are that they include a unique ID that allows transactions to be linked to the card, and they keep a transaction history.
We can make a card that uses a random ID or none at all, and has no history. Then it's basically the same as cash, but more convenient.
The claims that it is going well are just nuclear industry shilling. For example the "impressive" progress with robots amounts to managing to get one close enough to poke at one of the melted down reactors after 8 years.
The clean up has been failing quite badly. The government screwed up by starting before they had anywhere to put the contaminated material, and by not asking people what they actually wanted from the process. The actual cleaning isn't going well either, with some areas decontaminated half a dozen times or more and still not clear. Every time it rains more pools up and start setting off alarms.
Just asking "who?" is not an argument, it's an admission that you don't have a viable plan for a democracy.
No democracy has absolute freedom of speech. Someone always has to decide where the limits are. In the US it was the Supreme Court, e.g. "true threats" and libel laws.
That's not an argument for leaving the EU. That's the kind of moronic Rule Britannia bollocks that got us into this mess. Delusions of grandeur that made people think other nations would just be lining up to do great deals with us once free of the EU, when in fact they are all holding back just waiting for the UK to be weak and desperate enough to sign up to anything.
The world has changed, the Empire has gone. The UK is a major player... in Europe.
Fortunately you don't need to take their word for it, you can easily confirm that these sites are fake by looking at them yourself. Here are the links:
Yep, it's an effective online debating tactic too. It forces you to waste time and effort debunking the site or building a case against it. And then they just move on to calling you part of the legacy fake media and an idiot for taking the blue pill.
Who gets to say what is going to "enhance democracy"?
Someone has to. Someone has to design the democratic systems we use, decide on the format and the rules.
By the way, demanding that it stays the same and never change because you ad-hom'ed the person proposing he change is just as oppressive and authoritarian as demanding that it does change. Like all things democratic, it's the process and the ability to participate that counts.
Personally I think that an informed population enhances democracy. Disinformation is a direct attack on it. Of course you will now ask who gets to decide what is disinformation and what is true, so I'll tell you now. There is no perfect solution, all we can do is try to encourage journalists to do their jobs and make it harder for people deliberately trying to spread disinformation with as few side-effects as possible, e.g. by requiring publications to be correctly and prominently attributed.
"It is thought that the ground motion from the earthquake was strong enough to cause damage to some key safety features"
Also there is evidence that some of the power loss that was a critical factor in the disaster was not due to the tsunami either:
"This suggests that at least the loss of emergency power supply A at Unit 1 might not have been caused by flooding."
In other words there are serious questions about all the other nuclear plants in Japan and anywhere else that might experience seismic shocks. In fact we have to also question terrorism-proofing measures to defend against things like aircraft hitting the reactors, which cause shocks too.
The report also laments the poor response and clean-up by the government, and how the former residents have been treated.
I've found that delays or rejections are often due to the maintainer not being able to properly test the patch. Often I'm fixing quite specific bugs or adding support for some unusual use case I have, and the maintainer just doesn't have the resources to test it.
People used to joke about DLL Hell on Windows, but traditional Linux packages are pretty brittle too. That's one of the reasons why newer systems bundle everything in a self-sufficient container.
That's the post-truth narrative: everyone lies all the time about everything so believe whatever you want.
It's dangerous because it's basically giving up on democracy and trying to make things better, and instead voting for stupid reasons like pissing off liberals or trying to disrupt the establishment by voting for even more established candidates.
Worst of all it makes people think that their opinions are the most valid and ignore all advice from people who do actually understand the issues. Brexit is basically 25% of the population of the UK experiencing a Dunning-Kruger moment.
It's far more than meddling in the US election. Russia is trying to destabilize the west. Trump, brexit, the far right funded by them in France and Italy and Germany... The goal is to weaken the west by taking advantage of our open and free societies where we try to give everyone a voice.
The internet was supposed to enhance democracy by creating a more level playing field, a meritocracy of ideas. It doesn't work though, people in Russia whose job is to spend all day every day posting carefully designed messages and memes have a much louder, more influential voice than random citizens.
Incompetence is more likely. Once the game is released to manufacturing all the senior devs are moved on to the next one, with the more junior ones left to handle post-release patches and DLC.
Yep, the absolute smallest Windows 7 install image is 1.5GB for the 32 bit version, more for the 64 bit version. Installation from multiple CDs is not supported. That's also a single language minimal version too.
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Why not just make it illegal to even store your phone number without your permission, like it is in the EU?
GDPR means that companies have to get opt-in permission to store your phone number and use it to call you.
And there is a reason Samsung didn't bother with costly 3D imaging. This isn't supposed to be a super secure system. Someone can unlock your phone by pointing it at your face, perhaps while you are asleep, even with the Apple system.
Face unlock is for people who only want to protect against people they don't know stealing their phone. It stops random thieves from getting their data and makes it much harder for them to factory reset and sell the phone on.
It's for people who are so lazy that even fingerprint unlock is too much hassle, let along a long PIN/password.
why would anyone assume there is a relationship between cost to produce something and the cost we have to pay?
Wrong question. Why would anyone assume that if something was being sold with a very large profit margin there would not be new entrants to the market undercutting the incumbents?
In many places you can buy glasses at much closer to the cost price, often online but sometimes in shops as well. Personally I like JINS. I find them more comfortable than designer frames and the last pair I bought was $30 (admittedly on sale but I think only $50 normally).
Also when you say "spread from the UK" you mean was part of the British colonial rule imposed on half the world.
So we need to fix the laws as well. After all you can pay cash anonymously.
Boy, I'd hate to introduce you to the local news sites around here that are most certainly not fake.
You really must hate substantiating your claims or you would have done just that. Come on, give us a link. Just one.
Cash costs more to handle than credit cards for many retailers. As well as slowing down transactions, mistakes are inevitable, it has to be counted, it has to be taken to the bank, and there has to be enough of a float in every till to provide change.
Most of the places that charge you less for cash are not putting it through the books so they can avoid paying sales tax, or are selling high value products where the percentage becomes significant such as airlines.
We could fix this. Stored value cards already exist, you can top them up with cash. They store the balance on the card and use crypto to authenticate transactions. The only flaws are that they include a unique ID that allows transactions to be linked to the card, and they keep a transaction history.
We can make a card that uses a random ID or none at all, and has no history. Then it's basically the same as cash, but more convenient.
The official report is true: https://www.nirs.org/wp-conten...
The claims that it is going well are just nuclear industry shilling. For example the "impressive" progress with robots amounts to managing to get one close enough to poke at one of the melted down reactors after 8 years.
The clean up has been failing quite badly. The government screwed up by starting before they had anywhere to put the contaminated material, and by not asking people what they actually wanted from the process. The actual cleaning isn't going well either, with some areas decontaminated half a dozen times or more and still not clear. Every time it rains more pools up and start setting off alarms.
Just asking "who?" is not an argument, it's an admission that you don't have a viable plan for a democracy.
No democracy has absolute freedom of speech. Someone always has to decide where the limits are. In the US it was the Supreme Court, e.g. "true threats" and libel laws.
That's not an argument for leaving the EU. That's the kind of moronic Rule Britannia bollocks that got us into this mess. Delusions of grandeur that made people think other nations would just be lining up to do great deals with us once free of the EU, when in fact they are all holding back just waiting for the UK to be weak and desperate enough to sign up to anything.
The world has changed, the Empire has gone. The UK is a major player... in Europe.
Fortunately you don't need to take their word for it, you can easily confirm that these sites are fake by looking at them yourself. Here are the links:
http://theohiostar.com/
http://tennesseestar.com/
http://theminnesotasun.com/
Notice how they all use the same Wordpress template and have extremely similar content. All lack any information on who owns or operates them.
Yep, it's an effective online debating tactic too. It forces you to waste time and effort debunking the site or building a case against it. And then they just move on to calling you part of the legacy fake media and an idiot for taking the blue pill.
Right, and only afterwards discovered that they knew less than nothing about the EU and everything they were promised was at best wildly unrealistic.
Sure the politicians are incompetent, but the reality is that brexit was never deliverable and a complete fantasy from the start.
Who gets to say what is going to "enhance democracy"?
Someone has to. Someone has to design the democratic systems we use, decide on the format and the rules.
By the way, demanding that it stays the same and never change because you ad-hom'ed the person proposing he change is just as oppressive and authoritarian as demanding that it does change. Like all things democratic, it's the process and the ability to participate that counts.
Personally I think that an informed population enhances democracy. Disinformation is a direct attack on it. Of course you will now ask who gets to decide what is disinformation and what is true, so I'll tell you now. There is no perfect solution, all we can do is try to encourage journalists to do their jobs and make it harder for people deliberately trying to spread disinformation with as few side-effects as possible, e.g. by requiring publications to be correctly and prominently attributed.
Also documentation and support available in Chinese. Alibaba is very cheap as well.
One of the most damning lines is this:
"It is thought that the ground motion from the earthquake was strong enough to cause damage to some key safety features"
Also there is evidence that some of the power loss that was a critical factor in the disaster was not due to the tsunami either:
"This suggests that at least the loss of emergency power supply A at Unit 1 might not have been caused by flooding."
In other words there are serious questions about all the other nuclear plants in Japan and anywhere else that might experience seismic shocks. In fact we have to also question terrorism-proofing measures to defend against things like aircraft hitting the reactors, which cause shocks too.
The report also laments the poor response and clean-up by the government, and how the former residents have been treated.
Facebook profits, more time spent on their site. YouTube profits, more time spent watching cranks instead of the real news.
Russia profits of course, from a weaker West and NATO.
Isn't there some legal requirement to label such publications?
I don't live in the US but whenever I see US political ads there is a note on screen and usually in voice over noting who made/paid for it.
Looking at these sites they all use the same template and none of them mention who the owner is.
I've found that delays or rejections are often due to the maintainer not being able to properly test the patch. Often I'm fixing quite specific bugs or adding support for some unusual use case I have, and the maintainer just doesn't have the resources to test it.
People used to joke about DLL Hell on Windows, but traditional Linux packages are pretty brittle too. That's one of the reasons why newer systems bundle everything in a self-sufficient container.
That's the post-truth narrative: everyone lies all the time about everything so believe whatever you want.
It's dangerous because it's basically giving up on democracy and trying to make things better, and instead voting for stupid reasons like pissing off liberals or trying to disrupt the establishment by voting for even more established candidates.
Worst of all it makes people think that their opinions are the most valid and ignore all advice from people who do actually understand the issues. Brexit is basically 25% of the population of the UK experiencing a Dunning-Kruger moment.
It's far more than meddling in the US election. Russia is trying to destabilize the west. Trump, brexit, the far right funded by them in France and Italy and Germany... The goal is to weaken the west by taking advantage of our open and free societies where we try to give everyone a voice.
The internet was supposed to enhance democracy by creating a more level playing field, a meritocracy of ideas. It doesn't work though, people in Russia whose job is to spend all day every day posting carefully designed messages and memes have a much louder, more influential voice than random citizens.
Incompetence is more likely. Once the game is released to manufacturing all the senior devs are moved on to the next one, with the more junior ones left to handle post-release patches and DLC.
Yep, the absolute smallest Windows 7 install image is 1.5GB for the 32 bit version, more for the 64 bit version. Installation from multiple CDs is not supported. That's also a single language minimal version too.