It is only a matter of time until economy class gets always-on advertisements without ability to turn off, mute, or skip on infotainment.
You can tilt the bill of your baseball cap down and shut out the infotainment from the screen. Put in the earpods of your mobile and mute the infotainment. There, that wasn't hard.
I hate air travel for many reasons. As if the security screening, horrible food, and uncomfortable seating wasn't bad enough now they shove ads on the screens directly in front of us.
I see you're a person who fundamentally doesn't understand people. Who writes or thinks like that? About half of the population. In terms of personality Slashdot is an echo chamber of the technical stereotype, and as such it often boggles the minds of people here that words and thoughts trigger their creative side rather than their logical one.
Here's a trick you can play at your next company meeting when you're bored and out of ideas. Get people to write words about snowman. Don't tell them to describe them, or define them, just to "Write about snowman". Engineers and the like will start throwing adjectives out "cold, wet, white, sticks for arms", but people with other personality types come up with all sorts of stuff. Last time this exercise was done at a shitty team building event I was forced to go to, one person wrote a poem about children building a snowman, the other only described what he felt "joy, happiness, Christmas, etc"
So next time you start a sentence with "who the hell..." remember *you* are unique and the quite likely answer is "any number of the 7.529 billion people on this planet that aren't you".
You must be a lawyer. Everything you posted is factually correct but completely useless to the discussion.
I've had many cats over the last 40 years. It depends on their intelligence. Most recognize their name. Some don't at all. Some are REALLY intelligent enough to understand some english. I have a cat now that in addition to his name, he learned the words "food" and "hungry" to which he would respond by nudging his head against me, then lead me to his dish as I walked to the kitchen.
The smartest cat I ever owned actually understood English - I swear he did. I had stayed with my parents for a short while due to being displaced by a flood, and was talking to my mother about where I was going to move to. I looked at my cat and when I asked him if he would like to come with me, he reached up and nudged me in the face! My parents had this one cat who was really mean and was a real p!sser. I didn't like him, and neither did my cat. When I found my bedroom slippers soiled with cat urine, I banned that p!sser from my bedroom and told my parents that if my cat got in a fight with the p!sser that I was not going to stop him. And my cat was the reigning champion in the house. Well somehow my cat intuitively understood my wishes, and he guarded my bedroom from the p!sser. I actually witnessed this when the p!sser snuck in the room, unaware that I was laying on the bed. As he was about to crouch I warned him don't even think about it. He immediately turned to leave, and found himself face to face with my cat who snuck in behind him and had a serious look of disapproval on his face. My cat had an intimidating "look" that would command respect, I've seen it at work many times (he was a "shepherd cat" he could sense attitude and was not afraid to confront it, and was happy with other cats who were behaving). P!sser was so terrified that he attempted to go around him very slowly, and every few inches he advanced my cat moved to his lead. Over and over this happened until he reached the door. My cat was smart enough to know when he didn't have to fight, he knew his "look" was all he needed.
And Facebook is NEVER to blame for all the ads they push onto member newsfeeds without their consent? I absolutely despise those intrusions and I do everything to make the moderators' job as miserable as possible by vigorously reporting the ads, especially the scams like junk health treatments. Advertising storage units? Reported as "s3xually inappropriate". Restaurants? Reported as "political issue". Entertainment? Reported as "prohibited content". And yes I exclude as much personal info as possible from my profile so that FB can't exploit it for targeted marketing.
I don't like unsolicited ads consuming my internet monthly usage. Get in my way, and I will dish it right back where it hurts. My Facebook friends picked up on the tactic.
The SCOTUS case TC Heartland vs Kraft of 2017 ruled that patent litigants can no longer "forum shop" for jurisdictions that are friendly to their case, they can only file patent infringement cases in jurisdictions where the defendant has a physical presence. This ruling was aimed squarely at non-practicing entities (the polite term for "patent trolls") who almost unilaterally selected East Texas district or Delaware to file their infringement cases.
Apple won't admit it, but the closure of the stores in the East Texas district was a strategic legal move to exploit the SCOTUS precedent and shield themselves from the patent courts that are all too well known to rule in favor for patent litigants - and for the patent trolls Apple is currently battling.
The link to the story reminded me why I stopped reading BBC News online. Too many video ads, and when you scroll down they keep interfering with the text I am trying to read. Too disruptive, I closed down the webpage quickly.
See, now this is the thing. Crohn's disease doesn't kill you. I have it, and as you can imagine I looked into what it does that will eventually kill you. It doesn't.
I have Crohns Disease and yes it CAN kill you. I had a flare up some years ago that no medication would deal with. It was attacking my piping and cat scan revealed fistulas developing in more than one place - leaking fecal matter into my bloodstream. Had that gone untreated, sepsis would had set in and killed me.
The disease may not directly kill you, but it can trigger a chain of events that leads to death. Colon cancer does the same thing.
The key is seeking treatment when symptoms are serious enough. Ignoring them or hoping they will go away on their own can be fatal.
What the authors of the website-blocking approach conveniently neglect to mention is that other countries do not possess the 5th/14th amendment protection that government cannot deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property" without due process of law. Website-blocking violates these amendments, which is why the public at large objected to SOPA and PIPA in the first place.
Attempts to criminalize copyright infringement by proposing felony penalties have never succeeded because copyright infringement is a civil offense not a criminal one. There's a fine line between them, and not every foreign country recognizes that.
The authors have banked on the short term memory of the public, but they have sadly made a bad gamble.
Maybe it's time for IP property holders to pay a tax on their property as well. Any IP whose tax is unpaid reverts to the public domain, and the pool of IP taxes collected can be used to defray the costs of protecting paid-up intellectual property. Go ahead, shoot holes in this modest proposal!
When the authors of the copyright/patent designed the IP system, the only role they assigned to the state is judicial recognition of valid copyright. In exchange for a temporary monopoly granted by the state, the role of enforcing IP was assigned squarely to the domain of the holder(s). In other words, the copyright holder doesn't get a free ride. Nowhere in copyright law is the state obligated to provide corporate welfare through subsidizing IP enforcement via taxation or any subsidy, and to suggest otherwise would conflict with the "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" clause in the US Constitution and the 5th/14th Amendment that government cannot deprive an person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.
I live in rural boondocks and I'm currently on satellite ISP. I refuse to subscribe to privately owned broadband after seeing the arrogance of Charter/TW, AT&T, Comcast, etc. The only thing that will get me to leave satellite is municipal ISP. Fund the municipal infrastructure - the privately owned companies have already demonstrated that they can't be trusted with it!
IBM is the biggest patent troll of them all. Traditionally goes easy on open source projects but some flipping idiot might decide at any time that monetizing patents is the new get rich quick scheme of the month.
How quickly you forget that IBM, Red Hat, and Novell teamed to soundly defeat the much hated copyright troll SCO over Unix/Linux Copyright Disputes
I have gotten legitimate fraud alerts in the past for overseas purchases. They were robocalls requesting me to call back to an automated system that described the date and amount of transaction to the T, then asked to authorize or reject them. No request for address, no request for security code or PIN.
Nothing clever about this voice phishing. The victim forgot the telltale signs of a scam and ignored the bells going off in his head. Scammers are good at psychological skills and they rush the conversation so that you don't have a chance to stop to think. The biggest red flags was that this was an unsolicited call, the caller was requesting address as well as card info, and banks do not "hold the card open" in the event of confirmed stolen card info. Any legitimate bank employee calling you would have the complete info right in front of them and would not ask for that. I stopped giving any out info when I receive an unsolicited phone call.
It is easy to get the last four digits of your cards, they are printed on your statements. Scammers can find your address online, open your statements from your mailbox to copy your bank and card info, then use adhesive to seal the envelope leaving you none the wiser. Or they can scan your computer incognito for statements on PDF or other format. My important mail no longer goes to my mailbox, it goes to a PO Box which is much more secure.
If I got a call like that, I would hang up and go straight to the bank in person. If the bank has no record like the fraud claimed from the caller, I would report a stolen card.
I'm not a fan of Amazon or WalMart exploiting the public welfare system, but Sanders' proposition parallels those that have never worked. History shows that when predatory taxes are levied on corporations, they can:
- pass those taxes to the consumer
- reduce or eliminate benefits to consumers
- push those jobs out of the country to evade the reach of the law
- replace human labor with robots
- reduce the employee ranks to minimize the impact
- implement "corporate inversion" to reorganize the corporation in a foreign country to evade taxes
Will this push the targeted companies to abandon their abuse of the public welfare systems and provide a good honest employer-paid health insurance to their employees? Highly doubtful.
None of these benefit the country at all. Once again, unintended consequences rears its ugly head.
When you join FB or any group they turn on everything possible to nag you.
I was getting too many friend requests from strangers that turned out to be dating scammers (I always check their FB page for telltale signs) and finally had to adjust my settings so that only mutual friends could send me friend requests. I don't subscribe to many groups, but they are ones I have an interest in and I had to change my settings so that they are at the top of the timeline when I start surfing.
After I join a group I have to manually turn off notifications which are redundant.
I restrict personal information in my profile. Despite repetitive nagging from FB, I refuse to provide my current location, my employer, the education institutes I graduated from, etc. Being well aware that FB uses aggressive marketing, I didn't want to be barraged with ads for products and local businesses. They try to trick you by encouraging you to contact your local representatives.
I will never install the FB app on my mobile. I do not need mobile access to FB, I don't want constant alerts, and that damn app has been known to prematurely drain the battery on the mobile. I also refuse to accept "suggested posts" from FB. And don't get me started on FB censorship of news.
Big reason why I enjoy FB is to see what my friends are up to and to enjoy my interests (which are few). But it takes a lot of manual configuration to eliminate the nagging from FB.
The 1974 CA Paperless Toilet Law, whose deadline was extended 30 times since its passage, has had its deadline extended yet again due to authorities struggling to contain the illegal toilet paper rolls flowing into California from other states. CA legislators are pushing through a bill in Congress to place identification markings on the cardboard rolls so that their origins can be traced and to establish a federal toilet paper roll registry.
With an energy rating of 100-500w, the direct hit isn't the only hazard. I used to be a laser safety officer at my employer and a laser of that energy level is a class IV laser, whose beam is hazardous in close proximity. Even if you're not in the direct path, the radiation emitted by a laser beam of that power is hazardous.
Fire that puppy 1000 times and you've absorbed enough radiation that is unhealthy.
The stupid part is that the AOL TW merger could have actually worked and had obvious synergies. AOL was a media delivery platform, Time Warner was the media, cable and broadband. AOL could have been iTunes. It could have been Netflix. It could have been Spotify. It had the nascent beginnings for these services in the likes of WinAmp, AOL Radio etc.
But AOL ran its properties like silos and was crippled by lack of innovation or vision. Synergy to them was a few extra AOL keywords on some of its properties. This was a company so far up its own ass that it would run protracted marketing studies just to decide whether the fat AOL client should have 6 or 8 bookmark slots and relative support call costs from each.
When the feds approved the AOL/TW merger, they attached conditions. Remember this was shortly before cable ISP when most internet access was on dial-up. The feds foresaw that TW's cable system would give it a huge monopoly with AOL as a entertainment delivery system, so they mandated that if AOL was given access to TW's cable pipes then they had to open up their infrastructure to competitors. TW could not bring themselves to do that and AOL was never put on their cable pipes. With that, AOL the orphan of TW and was allowed to dry up.
That's the reason why AOL was crippled and never became the iTunes or Netflix or Spotify.
Langley was laid off after his supervisor Kim Overbay ranked him, in January 2017, as the worst performing person on his team
I worked at IBM as a subcontractor during the transition from the halcyon years to after the "ranking" system was introduced. My father was a manager there. When the "ranking" system was introduced in 1992, most of the managers refused to comply and they decided to retire, including my father. They did not want to subject their teams to the "ranking" system as it was vulnerable to exploitation and wrought with loopholes.
A friend my age was an IBM employee. He was the star engineer of his department and had just earned a promotion. What he didn't realize was that according to policy, the promotion was such that it lowered his ranking. Then business went sour and he got his layoff notice. Why? His promotion - thus his lowered ranking - put him in the "window". His department was shocked. His managers tried to reverse the decision, but such policy may well have been the law of the Persians and the Medes. Mind you, at the time my friend was under 30 years old - his case was not age related, but it did illustrate the ineffectiveness of the "ranking" system. And the people left behind were rightfully nervous.
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They are serving in Congress right now.
You can tilt the bill of your baseball cap down and shut out the infotainment from the screen. Put in the earpods of your mobile and mute the infotainment. There, that wasn't hard.
I hate air travel for many reasons. As if the security screening, horrible food, and uncomfortable seating wasn't bad enough now they shove ads on the screens directly in front of us.
You must be a lawyer. Everything you posted is factually correct but completely useless to the discussion.
I've had many cats over the last 40 years. It depends on their intelligence. Most recognize their name. Some don't at all. Some are REALLY intelligent enough to understand some english. I have a cat now that in addition to his name, he learned the words "food" and "hungry" to which he would respond by nudging his head against me, then lead me to his dish as I walked to the kitchen.
The smartest cat I ever owned actually understood English - I swear he did. I had stayed with my parents for a short while due to being displaced by a flood, and was talking to my mother about where I was going to move to. I looked at my cat and when I asked him if he would like to come with me, he reached up and nudged me in the face! My parents had this one cat who was really mean and was a real p!sser. I didn't like him, and neither did my cat. When I found my bedroom slippers soiled with cat urine, I banned that p!sser from my bedroom and told my parents that if my cat got in a fight with the p!sser that I was not going to stop him. And my cat was the reigning champion in the house. Well somehow my cat intuitively understood my wishes, and he guarded my bedroom from the p!sser. I actually witnessed this when the p!sser snuck in the room, unaware that I was laying on the bed. As he was about to crouch I warned him don't even think about it. He immediately turned to leave, and found himself face to face with my cat who snuck in behind him and had a serious look of disapproval on his face. My cat had an intimidating "look" that would command respect, I've seen it at work many times (he was a "shepherd cat" he could sense attitude and was not afraid to confront it, and was happy with other cats who were behaving). P!sser was so terrified that he attempted to go around him very slowly, and every few inches he advanced my cat moved to his lead. Over and over this happened until he reached the door. My cat was smart enough to know when he didn't have to fight, he knew his "look" was all he needed.
I used to get lots of AOL CDs in the mail which made great drink coasters. I'm getting low on coasters so I need to give Netflix my address.
We needed a special research team and all that computer equipment to tell us what gardeners have known for DECADES? CENTURIES?
When I buy a potted basil plant, there is a tag encouraging plenty of light. Gardening books spell out the care and feeding of all kinds of plants.
Seriously, ALL THAT MONEY AND TIME was spent to do nothing more than reaffirm what we already know. Great big DUH!
Huawei's "big ambitions" were not without controversy. The director in the interview conveniently neglected to mention that they are under investigation for wire fraud, money laundering, and evading international sanctions against Iran, have been caught red-handed engaging in industrial espionage, and has a bonus system for employees who engage in theft of US trade secrets.
And Facebook is NEVER to blame for all the ads they push onto member newsfeeds without their consent? I absolutely despise those intrusions and I do everything to make the moderators' job as miserable as possible by vigorously reporting the ads, especially the scams like junk health treatments. Advertising storage units? Reported as "s3xually inappropriate". Restaurants? Reported as "political issue". Entertainment? Reported as "prohibited content". And yes I exclude as much personal info as possible from my profile so that FB can't exploit it for targeted marketing.
I don't like unsolicited ads consuming my internet monthly usage. Get in my way, and I will dish it right back where it hurts. My Facebook friends picked up on the tactic.
The SCOTUS case TC Heartland vs Kraft of 2017 ruled that patent litigants can no longer "forum shop" for jurisdictions that are friendly to their case, they can only file patent infringement cases in jurisdictions where the defendant has a physical presence. This ruling was aimed squarely at non-practicing entities (the polite term for "patent trolls") who almost unilaterally selected East Texas district or Delaware to file their infringement cases.
Apple won't admit it, but the closure of the stores in the East Texas district was a strategic legal move to exploit the SCOTUS precedent and shield themselves from the patent courts that are all too well known to rule in favor for patent litigants - and for the patent trolls Apple is currently battling.
The link to the story reminded me why I stopped reading BBC News online. Too many video ads, and when you scroll down they keep interfering with the text I am trying to read. Too disruptive, I closed down the webpage quickly.
They can start by publishing the former director's phone number.
I have Crohns Disease and yes it CAN kill you. I had a flare up some years ago that no medication would deal with. It was attacking my piping and cat scan revealed fistulas developing in more than one place - leaking fecal matter into my bloodstream. Had that gone untreated, sepsis would had set in and killed me.
The disease may not directly kill you, but it can trigger a chain of events that leads to death. Colon cancer does the same thing.
The key is seeking treatment when symptoms are serious enough. Ignoring them or hoping they will go away on their own can be fatal.
I no longer believe ANY polls, regardless whether or not they align with my preferences. They have been manipulated way too many times.
What the authors of the website-blocking approach conveniently neglect to mention is that other countries do not possess the 5th/14th amendment protection that government cannot deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property" without due process of law. Website-blocking violates these amendments, which is why the public at large objected to SOPA and PIPA in the first place.
Attempts to criminalize copyright infringement by proposing felony penalties have never succeeded because copyright infringement is a civil offense not a criminal one. There's a fine line between them, and not every foreign country recognizes that.
The authors have banked on the short term memory of the public, but they have sadly made a bad gamble.
When the authors of the copyright/patent designed the IP system, the only role they assigned to the state is judicial recognition of valid copyright. In exchange for a temporary monopoly granted by the state, the role of enforcing IP was assigned squarely to the domain of the holder(s). In other words, the copyright holder doesn't get a free ride. Nowhere in copyright law is the state obligated to provide corporate welfare through subsidizing IP enforcement via taxation or any subsidy, and to suggest otherwise would conflict with the "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" clause in the US Constitution and the 5th/14th Amendment that government cannot deprive an person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.
I live in rural boondocks and I'm currently on satellite ISP. I refuse to subscribe to privately owned broadband after seeing the arrogance of Charter/TW, AT&T, Comcast, etc. The only thing that will get me to leave satellite is municipal ISP. Fund the municipal infrastructure - the privately owned companies have already demonstrated that they can't be trusted with it!
How quickly you forget that IBM, Red Hat, and Novell teamed to soundly defeat the much hated copyright troll SCO over Unix/Linux Copyright Disputes
I have gotten legitimate fraud alerts in the past for overseas purchases. They were robocalls requesting me to call back to an automated system that described the date and amount of transaction to the T, then asked to authorize or reject them. No request for address, no request for security code or PIN.
Nothing clever about this voice phishing. The victim forgot the telltale signs of a scam and ignored the bells going off in his head. Scammers are good at psychological skills and they rush the conversation so that you don't have a chance to stop to think. The biggest red flags was that this was an unsolicited call, the caller was requesting address as well as card info, and banks do not "hold the card open" in the event of confirmed stolen card info. Any legitimate bank employee calling you would have the complete info right in front of them and would not ask for that. I stopped giving any out info when I receive an unsolicited phone call.
It is easy to get the last four digits of your cards, they are printed on your statements. Scammers can find your address online, open your statements from your mailbox to copy your bank and card info, then use adhesive to seal the envelope leaving you none the wiser. Or they can scan your computer incognito for statements on PDF or other format. My important mail no longer goes to my mailbox, it goes to a PO Box which is much more secure.
If I got a call like that, I would hang up and go straight to the bank in person. If the bank has no record like the fraud claimed from the caller, I would report a stolen card.
I'm not a fan of Amazon or WalMart exploiting the public welfare system, but Sanders' proposition parallels those that have never worked. History shows that when predatory taxes are levied on corporations, they can:
- pass those taxes to the consumer
- reduce or eliminate benefits to consumers
- push those jobs out of the country to evade the reach of the law
- replace human labor with robots
- reduce the employee ranks to minimize the impact
- implement "corporate inversion" to reorganize the corporation in a foreign country to evade taxes
Will this push the targeted companies to abandon their abuse of the public welfare systems and provide a good honest employer-paid health insurance to their employees? Highly doubtful.
None of these benefit the country at all. Once again, unintended consequences rears its ugly head.
When you join FB or any group they turn on everything possible to nag you.
I was getting too many friend requests from strangers that turned out to be dating scammers (I always check their FB page for telltale signs) and finally had to adjust my settings so that only mutual friends could send me friend requests. I don't subscribe to many groups, but they are ones I have an interest in and I had to change my settings so that they are at the top of the timeline when I start surfing.
After I join a group I have to manually turn off notifications which are redundant.
I restrict personal information in my profile. Despite repetitive nagging from FB, I refuse to provide my current location, my employer, the education institutes I graduated from, etc. Being well aware that FB uses aggressive marketing, I didn't want to be barraged with ads for products and local businesses. They try to trick you by encouraging you to contact your local representatives.
I will never install the FB app on my mobile. I do not need mobile access to FB, I don't want constant alerts, and that damn app has been known to prematurely drain the battery on the mobile. I also refuse to accept "suggested posts" from FB. And don't get me started on FB censorship of news.
Big reason why I enjoy FB is to see what my friends are up to and to enjoy my interests (which are few). But it takes a lot of manual configuration to eliminate the nagging from FB.
The 1974 CA Paperless Toilet Law, whose deadline was extended 30 times since its passage, has had its deadline extended yet again due to authorities struggling to contain the illegal toilet paper rolls flowing into California from other states. CA legislators are pushing through a bill in Congress to place identification markings on the cardboard rolls so that their origins can be traced and to establish a federal toilet paper roll registry.
With an energy rating of 100-500w, the direct hit isn't the only hazard. I used to be a laser safety officer at my employer and a laser of that energy level is a class IV laser, whose beam is hazardous in close proximity. Even if you're not in the direct path, the radiation emitted by a laser beam of that power is hazardous.
Fire that puppy 1000 times and you've absorbed enough radiation that is unhealthy.
When the feds approved the AOL/TW merger, they attached conditions. Remember this was shortly before cable ISP when most internet access was on dial-up. The feds foresaw that TW's cable system would give it a huge monopoly with AOL as a entertainment delivery system, so they mandated that if AOL was given access to TW's cable pipes then they had to open up their infrastructure to competitors. TW could not bring themselves to do that and AOL was never put on their cable pipes. With that, AOL the orphan of TW and was allowed to dry up.
That's the reason why AOL was crippled and never became the iTunes or Netflix or Spotify.
I worked at IBM as a subcontractor during the transition from the halcyon years to after the "ranking" system was introduced. My father was a manager there. When the "ranking" system was introduced in 1992, most of the managers refused to comply and they decided to retire, including my father. They did not want to subject their teams to the "ranking" system as it was vulnerable to exploitation and wrought with loopholes.
A friend my age was an IBM employee. He was the star engineer of his department and had just earned a promotion. What he didn't realize was that according to policy, the promotion was such that it lowered his ranking. Then business went sour and he got his layoff notice. Why? His promotion - thus his lowered ranking - put him in the "window". His department was shocked. His managers tried to reverse the decision, but such policy may well have been the law of the Persians and the Medes. Mind you, at the time my friend was under 30 years old - his case was not age related, but it did illustrate the ineffectiveness of the "ranking" system. And the people left behind were rightfully nervous.
You STILL live with your grandma?