Anything but "Skype for business" - which is probably one of the causes of the spectular growth of Slack.
You would think that chat is a solved problem by now. Even Sametime in Lotus Notes is okay. But Skype... plain terrible. It's as if they wanted to cater to the kewl crowd by giving it a texting look & feel, but it just sucks.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Sametime is hands down the worst chat system I've ever used. We have used it for years at my office. Everyone's taken to calling it sometime because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Yahoo messenger isn't great but at least it usually works.
By which point the victims have spent tens of thousands of dollars.
Only the stupid ones. Patent trolls shotgun out thousands and thousands of threatening letters, hoping someone will bite. That is why it is called "trolling". The biggest mistake you can make is to respond to their letter. That marks you as a target. They can't possibly afford to file so many lawsuits, so they only go after the fools. You should never respond to a patent troll until you have been served an actual filing by a legitimate process server.
IANAL, and if I were, I would give you the exact opposite advice: A letter from a patent troll requires a robust and muscular response, and I need a $10k retainer to do that.
If you were a lawyer you'd be a cheap date, apparently.
Government regulators used to claim that there were things called "natural monopolies" to justify their stake to power, saying that competition was impossible, for things like telephone wires.
Now that 80% of the population has switched away from PSTN (many to cable providers) the regulators are looking for another hook to hang their hat on. Watch your back - the FCC is starting to dig in on regulating everything-Internet. Not because there's a need, but because they can't possibly admit that their job is obsolete.
Obviously the fact that price gouging aka "usage based pricing" exists is a perfect example of why the government regulators need to step in and regulate. The industry will not effectively regulate its-self. The fact that the government turns a blind eye to stuff like this is merely an indication that regulators (like all government types) are susceptible to corruption. Unfortunately, corruption will exist as long as people of any sort are part of the equation. I, for one, welcome our computerized government overlords.
"What's that lighted bracelet? Are you under house arrest?"
"No... I just have no self-control and need to be literally trained like a dog."
I can't wait until somebody develops an app for Android that lets me hack into these things and shock people remotely. Bought that pack of gum? Overspent!
I think an app with a shock button for all your friends would be an excellent hack.
I use electric for heating and cooling (no natural gas or anything else), and I never pay $200 in heating or cooling. Even in Alaska, heating was less than $370 a month.
Lucky. I'm happy if my electric bill is under 370. Only happens in the winter.
Like seriously what is the value of the Nokia brand now. Or a better question what is a Nokia phone?
A feature phone made by one company?
A smart phone made by another?
Neither related to Nokia themselves?
Neither related to Microsoft except to give them money for the now completely and utterly butchered brand?
They still have their most valuable asset. The snake game.
I want to find a nokia phone to like again, but since my first blackberry nokia has just been behind the curve in my opinion.
self-driving cars wouldn't drive like the idiots who are causing the congestion right now.
This! There will be plenty of room on the roads for the additional vehicles. Also, things will be safer as there will be fewer teenagers actually driving and elderly people get some of their mobility back. It's all win.
If you've never heard of a subject, and have no information on it other than the image it conjures, why do you feel you are entitled to an opinion on it, much less that you ought to support legislation banning it? You don't even know what it is.
By remaining silent, you may sometimes appear to be a fool, but every time you open your mouth you dispel all doubts. You are a problem your society has to deal with. Please take steps to mitigate this effect.
All a person needs to do in order to be entitled to an opinion is be alive. Maybe you should go home and rethink your life.
What it actually means is slightly less dirty diesel.
Even if new diesel cars did pass this test they'd still start blowing black soot and other crap after a number of years have passed and the car has reached owner number 3 who isn't bothering to do anything other than basic maintainance to keep it on the road until it falls apart.
"Clean diesel" is not something I've even heard of I don't believe. The word diesel its-self conjures images of soot spitting oily monster machines. The aforementioned ban is a good step in the right direction, albeit a decade or two later than it should have come.
I don't play Counterstrike, but I do abhor cheaters of any type! Good for the company to make these honey pits, play a badger game, whatever it takes to crush the godz-cursed scum of the earth.
The company didn't do this, another cheater did. They turned on each other, just like the bible said they would.
Why do I care about this juvenile, jaded game and all the prepubescent cheaters it attracts? Why can't Slashdot ever report on that stuff that matters? LIke Perl 6 or the latest bugs and security holes, thanks to our beloved C / C++ languages we use to write our open sores software. Makes me really feel this world is going to shit. In the non-technical realms we have a severe infestation of mindless logic-hating libtard SJWs. In the "tech" side we have a bunch of moron wannabe programmers using baby new wave "programming" languages. They're too fuckin afraid to manage their own memory and heaven forbid they actually even understand the bit patterns of various strict types. I'm sorry to rant, but I just really feel I'm the end of my rope. I think this world is doomed so I might as well just use the last of it hang myself before I have to sit around in my basement and witness things get even worse. Over and out, Slashdot!!
Slashdot was purchased by Dice. Maybe you missed it? It's not really stuff that matters now. It's stuff that might get hits and make dice more money.
Distilled water is not isotonic. Go tell hospitals they are loons for using 5% isotonic solution for their IVs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Osmosis, they taught me that in high school. You?
Did you read the article you linked?
Water is considered the least toxic chemical compound, with an LD50 of over 90 ml/kg in rats
hyponatremia was just as likely to occur in runners who chose sports drinks as those who chose water
So.. yep, it is toxic if you drink too much. So is isotonic solution. The article you linked even cites court cases where hospitals have been sued for causing water intoxication via IV...
How is it common sense that it's allowed to record and log a private conversation without prior consent?
Even call centers have to let you know you are being recorded, why can an employer do it without consent?
Company equipment or not, I don't think it's ok to record my conversation without my consent or knowledge.
If it's in my contract, fine. I signed that and it's now with my consent.
If my employer doesn't want me to use the equipment for private conversations, let me know or fire me.
Don't just violate my rights.
Court or not, this is unacceptable in my opinion.
The call center isn't notifying their employee that the conversation is being monitored. That's a given. They're notifying the "customer" on the other end of the line that the conversation is being monitored. It's not forced on you, you can find another job where you are not provided computers and telephones. Then you won't have to worry about it. For example, if you get a job digging ditches, they probably won't be monitoring your shovel.
If I get the work done, it's none of your business whether I am wasting time chatting with my girlfriend or drinking coffee or smoking. Why is it okay to fire people for the former but not for the latter? I don't drink coffee or smoke, and every day I watch people waste almost a full hour doing the latter.
If you use company equipment to chat with your girlfriend, it is the companies' business. Didn't you read the summary?
That said, you're right. If what you say is true, you should be fired. Save them the trouble and quit.
It isn't too much of a surprise that the economics of producing biodiesel from used restaurant oil are shaky
My guess is that you haven't even bothered to look at the economics of producing biodiesel from WVO.
For small hobbyist-level winter-safe B100 refinement, the total costs amount to roughly $3/gal. Besides economies of scale, there are multiple ways to subsidize that, not least charging a modest fee for disposal including clean-up, and selling the glycerine to soap-makers and others. If you maintain the fleet which runs on the B100, the savings on maintenance costs also start to reveal themselves.
Basically, you haven't got a clue, and you decided to tell the world.
So if money is your driving factor you should convert from B100 to gasoline and save over 33%.
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Why can't someone hack the cable box & unlock free hbo?
That's been done ever since HBO was a thing. From the days of analog cable boxes through today.
Anything but "Skype for business" - which is probably one of the causes of the spectular growth of Slack.
You would think that chat is a solved problem by now. Even Sametime in Lotus Notes is okay. But Skype... plain terrible. It's as if they wanted to cater to the kewl crowd by giving it a texting look & feel, but it just sucks.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Sametime is hands down the worst chat system I've ever used. We have used it for years at my office. Everyone's taken to calling it sometime because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Yahoo messenger isn't great but at least it usually works.
By which point the victims have spent tens of thousands of dollars.
Only the stupid ones. Patent trolls shotgun out thousands and thousands of threatening letters, hoping someone will bite. That is why it is called "trolling". The biggest mistake you can make is to respond to their letter. That marks you as a target. They can't possibly afford to file so many lawsuits, so they only go after the fools. You should never respond to a patent troll until you have been served an actual filing by a legitimate process server.
IANAL, and if I were, I would give you the exact opposite advice: A letter from a patent troll requires a robust and muscular response, and I need a $10k retainer to do that.
If you were a lawyer you'd be a cheap date, apparently.
Your economics term of the day is rent seeking.
Government regulators used to claim that there were things called "natural monopolies" to justify their stake to power, saying that competition was impossible, for things like telephone wires.
Now that 80% of the population has switched away from PSTN (many to cable providers) the regulators are looking for another hook to hang their hat on. Watch your back - the FCC is starting to dig in on regulating everything-Internet. Not because there's a need, but because they can't possibly admit that their job is obsolete.
Obviously the fact that price gouging aka "usage based pricing" exists is a perfect example of why the government regulators need to step in and regulate. The industry will not effectively regulate its-self. The fact that the government turns a blind eye to stuff like this is merely an indication that regulators (like all government types) are susceptible to corruption. Unfortunately, corruption will exist as long as people of any sort are part of the equation. I, for one, welcome our computerized government overlords.
"(though the publication blocks users with adblockers)."
The "Adblock Warning Removal List" fixes this. It should be used by anyone with adblock+.
You're welcome.
"What's that lighted bracelet? Are you under house arrest?"
"No... I just have no self-control and need to be literally trained like a dog."
I can't wait until somebody develops an app for Android that lets me hack into these things and shock people remotely. Bought that pack of gum? Overspent!
I think an app with a shock button for all your friends would be an excellent hack.
Yeah just let me give this internet thingie access to my bank details so it can read my bank account balance. I mean, what could possibly go wrong.
+1 Insightful.
I use electric for heating and cooling (no natural gas or anything else), and I never pay $200 in heating or cooling. Even in Alaska, heating was less than $370 a month.
Lucky. I'm happy if my electric bill is under 370. Only happens in the winter.
You haven't moved for an hour ZZAAPP!!!
The misfit shine will vibrate if you haven't moved for an hour. Not quite a shock but it sends the message just the same.
Like seriously what is the value of the Nokia brand now. Or a better question what is a Nokia phone?
A feature phone made by one company? A smart phone made by another? Neither related to Nokia themselves? Neither related to Microsoft except to give them money for the now completely and utterly butchered brand?
They still have their most valuable asset. The snake game.
I want to find a nokia phone to like again, but since my first blackberry nokia has just been behind the curve in my opinion.
.. you go on stackexchange and ask "pls kind guru's, i m having one doubt about the same, to hold by would or metil part. Is URGENT".
Do the needful and all will be well, my friend.
self-driving cars wouldn't drive like the idiots who are causing the congestion right now.
This! There will be plenty of room on the roads for the additional vehicles. Also, things will be safer as there will be fewer teenagers actually driving and elderly people get some of their mobility back. It's all win.
If you've never heard of a subject, and have no information on it other than the image it conjures, why do you feel you are entitled to an opinion on it, much less that you ought to support legislation banning it? You don't even know what it is. By remaining silent, you may sometimes appear to be a fool, but every time you open your mouth you dispel all doubts. You are a problem your society has to deal with. Please take steps to mitigate this effect.
All a person needs to do in order to be entitled to an opinion is be alive. Maybe you should go home and rethink your life.
What it actually means is slightly less dirty diesel.
Even if new diesel cars did pass this test they'd still start blowing black soot and other crap after a number of years have passed and the car has reached owner number 3 who isn't bothering to do anything other than basic maintainance to keep it on the road until it falls apart.
"Clean diesel" is not something I've even heard of I don't believe. The word diesel its-self conjures images of soot spitting oily monster machines. The aforementioned ban is a good step in the right direction, albeit a decade or two later than it should have come.
Dice sold Slashdot. Maybe you missed it?
http://meta.slashdot.org/story...
I did! I wonder what that will mean for us users. Maybe some of the slashvertisements will stop?
I don't play Counterstrike, but I do abhor cheaters of any type! Good for the company to make these honey pits, play a badger game, whatever it takes to crush the godz-cursed scum of the earth.
The company didn't do this, another cheater did. They turned on each other, just like the bible said they would.
Why do I care about this juvenile, jaded game and all the prepubescent cheaters it attracts? Why can't Slashdot ever report on that stuff that matters? LIke Perl 6 or the latest bugs and security holes, thanks to our beloved C / C++ languages we use to write our open sores software. Makes me really feel this world is going to shit. In the non-technical realms we have a severe infestation of mindless logic-hating libtard SJWs. In the "tech" side we have a bunch of moron wannabe programmers using baby new wave "programming" languages. They're too fuckin afraid to manage their own memory and heaven forbid they actually even understand the bit patterns of various strict types. I'm sorry to rant, but I just really feel I'm the end of my rope. I think this world is doomed so I might as well just use the last of it hang myself before I have to sit around in my basement and witness things get even worse. Over and out, Slashdot!!
Slashdot was purchased by Dice. Maybe you missed it? It's not really stuff that matters now. It's stuff that might get hits and make dice more money.
"Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs" That's why I play it smart and never use logic!
It's an error by the editors. The title should be "Video Game Cheaters outed by other Video Game Cheaters."
This is the #1 reason I gave up on PC gaming and went Linux desktop and PS4 for gaming.
Good call. It's widely known that cheating is not possible on Linux or ps4 platforms! It's like not even remotely imaginable. 1/0 for sure.
Distilled water is not isotonic. Go tell hospitals they are loons for using 5% isotonic solution for their IVs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Osmosis, they taught me that in high school. You?
Did you read the article you linked?
Water is considered the least toxic chemical compound, with an LD50 of over 90 ml/kg in rats
hyponatremia was just as likely to occur in runners who chose sports drinks as those who chose water
So.. yep, it is toxic if you drink too much. So is isotonic solution. The article you linked even cites court cases where hospitals have been sued for causing water intoxication via IV...
How is it common sense that it's allowed to record and log a private conversation without prior consent? Even call centers have to let you know you are being recorded, why can an employer do it without consent?
Company equipment or not, I don't think it's ok to record my conversation without my consent or knowledge.
If it's in my contract, fine. I signed that and it's now with my consent.
If my employer doesn't want me to use the equipment for private conversations, let me know or fire me. Don't just violate my rights.
Court or not, this is unacceptable in my opinion.
The call center isn't notifying their employee that the conversation is being monitored. That's a given. They're notifying the "customer" on the other end of the line that the conversation is being monitored. It's not forced on you, you can find another job where you are not provided computers and telephones. Then you won't have to worry about it. For example, if you get a job digging ditches, they probably won't be monitoring your shovel.
Nonsense.
Don't like my work? Fire me.
If I get the work done, it's none of your business whether I am wasting time chatting with my girlfriend or drinking coffee or smoking. Why is it okay to fire people for the former but not for the latter? I don't drink coffee or smoke, and every day I watch people waste almost a full hour doing the latter.
If you use company equipment to chat with your girlfriend, it is the companies' business. Didn't you read the summary?
That said, you're right. If what you say is true, you should be fired. Save them the trouble and quit.
It isn't too much of a surprise that the economics of producing biodiesel from used restaurant oil are shaky
My guess is that you haven't even bothered to look at the economics of producing biodiesel from WVO.
For small hobbyist-level winter-safe B100 refinement, the total costs amount to roughly $3/gal. Besides economies of scale, there are multiple ways to subsidize that, not least charging a modest fee for disposal including clean-up, and selling the glycerine to soap-makers and others. If you maintain the fleet which runs on the B100, the savings on maintenance costs also start to reveal themselves.
Basically, you haven't got a clue, and you decided to tell the world.
So if money is your driving factor you should convert from B100 to gasoline and save over 33%.
I'm sure he's just glad not to be talking about healthcare.gov for a change
What's that?
They still charge money for it. If you're paying money, you're transacting business and not sharing.
I don't think the word share means what you think it means.