I was thinking Croatia and Slovenia at least, but apparently both Latin and Cyrillic were in official use in pre-split Yugoslavia, so it wasn't so much of a change as a reflection of the already existing reality.
A number of former Soviet and East European countries have changed from Cyrillic to Latin. I would expect all of the -stans to follow suit with either Latin or Persian script, as their languages are related to either Turkish or Persian (depending on the country), and have nothing linguistically in common with Russian, the only reason they are using Cyrillic is their Soviet colonial past. Even some countries with Slavic languages, which are related to Russian have switched from Cyrillic to Latin as they've grown politically further from Russia and closer to Western Europe.
These features are a scam like many similar features in Outlook/Exchange. Corporate users will get used to relying on them, not understanding that if the recipient is not under Google's control, the "confidentiality" features are useless.
That seems to be what some systems do now. I had a paywave transaction timeout yesterday. The cashier then tried inserting the card into the slot, but the machine told him to swipe it, which never happens these days but I guess it makes sense - all the chip communication is encrypted, so the only way to store and forward is to take the data from the magstripe. It then had him reinsert the card and present it to me for PIN entry, so there was still some sort of challenge-response handshake to verify the transation, and after that it had another attempt at putting through an online transaction, this time printing the usual slip after the timeout. I imagine the delays between timeouts could cause a significant slowdown in a busy restaurant, or worse - a supermarket, though once they know the system is down, they can limit it to one timeout by not attempting the paywave transaction first.
There is a solution to greed pharmaceutical companies. Only a couple of countries have ever invoked this, for HIV and Hepatitis C drugs. Lobby your congressperson to use international law to their constituents' advantage for a change, instead of pandering to their donors.
I don't think it is so obvious. To the layman whose understanding of biology does not go beyond high school level, it is not obvious that a Y chromosome contains the same genes as an X chromosome at all, in fact some might say it is counterintuitive.
But the genetic mutation I was alluding to would be the one for hermaphroditic reproduction which would be required for an all male Bajau people to evolve any adaptation to their environment.
the company is within its rights because the users clicked to agree to the rules
So their justification for booting out users who legally cannot be held to agree to the T&C's is that they agreed to the T&C's.
That said, if they are refunding any money the users have in their accounts, this isn't really worth a story. If they are seizing funds from minors on the basis that they are in violation of the agreement, then that would be extra scummy.
There's also another area where the line is fuzzy - do you include Puerto Rico? American Samoa? Guam, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana's? The smaller the island, the more it contributes to the coastline in proportion to its land area, so these seemingly insignificant parts of US territory may make a big difference.
It might be a more useful statistic if it was coupled with the rate of false positives. Usually these things are a tradeoff, and the sweet spot is more often in the 80%-90% range than at 99%.
Usually the pilot detects turbulence, switches on the seatbelt sign and proceeds to fly around it. So the passengers feel nothing and may get a false sense that it is meaningless to have their seatbelts on even when the sign is lit up.
Occasionally the turbulence won't show on the radar and it takes the pilot by surprise. When you've experienced that, you realize that the really serious turbulence comes when the seatbelt sign is off, so you keep it on all the time. The seatbelt sign only comes on during takeoff and landing, to get everyone in their seats for duty free sales, or when the pilot is already taking evasive action to avoid turbulence.
The only reason I can think of is step 2 in the old embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Does anyone really believe that Microsoft has changed its stripes over the years?
It seems I may be confusing this with another proposal that put San Francisco and LA together in a single "coastal" state, with the rural inland state around them. This proposal is slightly less gerrymandered in that it puts San Francisco into NoCal. But it still creates a SoCal that excludes LA in order to carve out representation for Republicans from the state, and as someone else pointed out, they carve out a tiny bit of affluent LA to fund their backwards SoCal state without tipping the votes too much.
Apparently it is normal for around half of petition signatures to be invalid. The rules are the same as for voting, but the signature collection is people going door to door or standing on the street, so no enforcement at the point of collection. The people collecting the signatures don't care if you are visiting from out of state, underage, not a citizen, have already signed, or a felon, they just want to make the numbers.
Yes, but this initiative isn't about increasing the number of senators in proportion with the way Californians actually vote, the initiative is to gerrymander the borders into one big urban Democratic and two tiny rural Republican states.
Are you suggesting that Americans will continue to use the signature strip on the back of their card the same way they have always used it -put a copy of the thing that authorizes them as the valid user of that card there for all to see?
Hey Europeans, welcome to the year 1985, when EFT pinpads were first introduced in your far flung colonies. Signatures are from the distant era of carbon paper imprints.
It's nice that all these sites are giving users access to their data, but what about non-users?
Don't pretend that there is no data to disclose, the targeted emails trying to entice me to sign up because my friends have accounts are a dead giveaway.
Actually the reverse is more often true. I still have a customized 14.04 VM around to run an embedded toolchain that "requires" 12.04. Customizing 14.04 was a matter of installing an old version of gcc which was still available for 14.04, just not the default. But bringing those customizions to 16.04 is a lot harder, so I just run it in a VM now.
The summary plays up the LTS status of this beta. But a beta version is of no interest to those of us that use LTS distros. The time to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 will be around October when a round of bugfixes from the suckers on 6 monthly released has gone in, not 3 weeks (or 6 weeks in the case of the earlier hyped article about the first beta) before official release.
Not if they give the source code with the router.
The requirement to give it to anyone who asks applies if they give a written notice with the device giving details of how to request source code.
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I was thinking Croatia and Slovenia at least, but apparently both Latin and Cyrillic were in official use in pre-split Yugoslavia, so it wasn't so much of a change as a reflection of the already existing reality.
A number of former Soviet and East European countries have changed from Cyrillic to Latin. I would expect all of the -stans to follow suit with either Latin or Persian script, as their languages are related to either Turkish or Persian (depending on the country), and have nothing linguistically in common with Russian, the only reason they are using Cyrillic is their Soviet colonial past. Even some countries with Slavic languages, which are related to Russian have switched from Cyrillic to Latin as they've grown politically further from Russia and closer to Western Europe.
These features are a scam like many similar features in Outlook/Exchange. Corporate users will get used to relying on them, not understanding that if the recipient is not under Google's control, the "confidentiality" features are useless.
That seems to be what some systems do now. I had a paywave transaction timeout yesterday. The cashier then tried inserting the card into the slot, but the machine told him to swipe it, which never happens these days but I guess it makes sense - all the chip communication is encrypted, so the only way to store and forward is to take the data from the magstripe. It then had him reinsert the card and present it to me for PIN entry, so there was still some sort of challenge-response handshake to verify the transation, and after that it had another attempt at putting through an online transaction, this time printing the usual slip after the timeout. I imagine the delays between timeouts could cause a significant slowdown in a busy restaurant, or worse - a supermarket, though once they know the system is down, they can limit it to one timeout by not attempting the paywave transaction first.
There is a solution to greed pharmaceutical companies. Only a couple of countries have ever invoked this, for HIV and Hepatitis C drugs. Lobby your congressperson to use international law to their constituents' advantage for a change, instead of pandering to their donors.
Obviously males and females have the same genes.
I don't think it is so obvious. To the layman whose understanding of biology does not go beyond high school level, it is not obvious that a Y chromosome contains the same genes as an X chromosome at all, in fact some might say it is counterintuitive.
But the genetic mutation I was alluding to would be the one for hermaphroditic reproduction which would be required for an all male Bajau people to evolve any adaptation to their environment.
Pretty sure the Bajau are not all men. Unless there are other genetic mutations the article is not telling us about.
the company is within its rights because the users clicked to agree to the rules
So their justification for booting out users who legally cannot be held to agree to the T&C's is that they agreed to the T&C's.
That said, if they are refunding any money the users have in their accounts, this isn't really worth a story. If they are seizing funds from minors on the basis that they are in violation of the agreement, then that would be extra scummy.
There's also another area where the line is fuzzy - do you include Puerto Rico? American Samoa? Guam, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana's? The smaller the island, the more it contributes to the coastline in proportion to its land area, so these seemingly insignificant parts of US territory may make a big difference.
The longest point on the west coast would start in Alaska, and the GP's point then becomes very relevant.
It might be a more useful statistic if it was coupled with the rate of false positives. Usually these things are a tradeoff, and the sweet spot is more often in the 80%-90% range than at 99%.
Usually the pilot detects turbulence, switches on the seatbelt sign and proceeds to fly around it. So the passengers feel nothing and may get a false sense that it is meaningless to have their seatbelts on even when the sign is lit up.
Occasionally the turbulence won't show on the radar and it takes the pilot by surprise. When you've experienced that, you realize that the really serious turbulence comes when the seatbelt sign is off, so you keep it on all the time. The seatbelt sign only comes on during takeoff and landing, to get everyone in their seats for duty free sales, or when the pilot is already taking evasive action to avoid turbulence.
The only reason I can think of is step 2 in the old embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Does anyone really believe that Microsoft has changed its stripes over the years?
It seems I may be confusing this with another proposal that put San Francisco and LA together in a single "coastal" state, with the rural inland state around them. This proposal is slightly less gerrymandered in that it puts San Francisco into NoCal. But it still creates a SoCal that excludes LA in order to carve out representation for Republicans from the state, and as someone else pointed out, they carve out a tiny bit of affluent LA to fund their backwards SoCal state without tipping the votes too much.
Apparently it is normal for around half of petition signatures to be invalid. The rules are the same as for voting, but the signature collection is people going door to door or standing on the street, so no enforcement at the point of collection. The people collecting the signatures don't care if you are visiting from out of state, underage, not a citizen, have already signed, or a felon, they just want to make the numbers.
Yes, but this initiative isn't about increasing the number of senators in proportion with the way Californians actually vote, the initiative is to gerrymander the borders into one big urban Democratic and two tiny rural Republican states.
The 1980s cards were magstripe and PIN, chips came later.
Are you suggesting that Americans will continue to use the signature strip on the back of their card the same way they have always used it -put a copy of the thing that authorizes them as the valid user of that card there for all to see?
You name doesn't seem very Korean to me...but plastic surgery isn't all there is to healthcare.
Hey Europeans, welcome to the year 1985, when EFT pinpads were first introduced in your far flung colonies. Signatures are from the distant era of carbon paper imprints.
It's nice that all these sites are giving users access to their data, but what about non-users?
Don't pretend that there is no data to disclose, the targeted emails trying to entice me to sign up because my friends have accounts are a dead giveaway.
Actually the reverse is more often true. I still have a customized 14.04 VM around to run an embedded toolchain that "requires" 12.04. Customizing 14.04 was a matter of installing an old version of gcc which was still available for 14.04, just not the default. But bringing those customizions to 16.04 is a lot harder, so I just run it in a VM now.
The summary plays up the LTS status of this beta. But a beta version is of no interest to those of us that use LTS distros. The time to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 will be around October when a round of bugfixes from the suckers on 6 monthly released has gone in, not 3 weeks (or 6 weeks in the case of the earlier hyped article about the first beta) before official release.
Not if they give the source code with the router. The requirement to give it to anyone who asks applies if they give a written notice with the device giving details of how to request source code.
The "without pesticides" bit sounds especially challenging in Antarctica or some distant planet similarly hostile towards terrestrial life.