That was my thought too. And the "free VPN service Hola" turns out not to be a peer-to-peer "VPN" service, routing users' connections through each other's devices.
In other words, if you actually get a VPN (which means you'll have to pay for it), from a provider who will not sell your information, then yes, it will protect your privacy.
That's exactly it. I don't have to care that John is using Skype for chat and Jane is using Slack; I can email them using whatever provider and client combo I like and it will get to them. There's a lot to be said for that.
I get at least 2-3 calls a day now from unknown numbers. A few months ago it was all out of state, but now they seem to be using local numbers. I never pick them up, and they never leave a message, but it's pretty annoying.
Around me (DC) people seem to be voting for the shoebox, or at least rental. I live near a Metro stop, and in the last 10 years there have been at least 5000 rental units added around me, with more in the pipeline. DC itself (no suburbs) added more than 50,000 residents between 2012 & 2015, and that seems to be continuing. A lot of younger people around here are not interested in long commutes, they want city life.
On the contrary, I see self driving cars as a boon to motorcycles. The main reason I am concerned about riding is other drivers, and self driving cars should be way less likely to do the didn't see the red light/need to turn right from the left lane/ various other stupid stuff that take out way too many bikes. I could even see adding a transponder or something so that you are marked unmistakably as a human controlled motorcycle, and given a wide berth.
You're literally worse than the stinking Communists that actually let me visit my West German grandfather.
Why would communists prevent you from visiting your West German grandfather? West Germany was never run by communists.
I know nothing about K. S. Kyosuke, but I interpreted that to mean he (she?) had grown up in East Germany or at least the Eastern bloc, but had been able to travel to West Germany.
I would certainly recommend Mint; I have several friends who also have had good luck with it although one is having some driver issues syncing a Samsung phone. I like CentOS on servers but I think Mint is a better desktop.
I do remember the days of frustrating little issues which would take days of forum hunting to resolve (if I ever managed to), so I am very aware of what a minor miracle it is when everything Just Works.
No flat map of the world is more or less accurate than any other.
That's not strictly true; they are just more or less accurate in different ways. For example the Peters projection is, as the article states, accurate in terms of area. I think that they would have been better off using something like the Winkel tripel, which tries to strike a balance between the area, direction, and distance distortions.
Let me ask you this -- have you had to research your hardware first?
If I were buying a new machine, I'd probably do some research. For a standard desktop, I wouldn't sweat it. The last laptop I installed Mint on was a few years old Sony which was given to me to dispose of by a co worker who was sick of Windows not working on it for her. I put in an SSD and ran the Mint install to see how it would work, and everything except the camera worked out of the box. I did a little googling and less than half an hour later that was working too. Would I want to tell my mom to get that camera working? No. But it wasn't beyond anyone who's at the point of worrying about limiting Windows update.
That laptop I sometimes use to connect to Windows desktops at work, and even RDP works well. There is literally nothing I want to do on a regular basis that I can't do on that machine. Admittedly I don't use Adobe Creative Suite or anything specific like that, nor gaming, which could be a dealbreaker for some people.
The people on metered connections, or those who care enough to set their non-metered connections to metered just to try to get some control, may finally be pushed to try something new. I'm always impressed at how well Mint has worked on any recent installs, and I haven't come across any showstoppers for my use. More users for Linux (and MacOS, but I don't really care about that).
Three lines is perfect for me and my kids, I'm thinking of switching to this from Cricket. One thing I'm weighing is that we currently each get 3GB fast data, after which we're throttled, and i actually don't mind them getting throttled since they watch less Netflix that way.
I don't know, since I'm not an expert. But it seems that the advances in sensor packages, and the ability to test various scenarios in both simulation and real life, are going to get us where we need to be fairly quickly. The fact that you can take a Civic, a cheap cellphone, and Comma.ai software and hack together a roughly functional self driving car today makes me think that what we'll be seeing in 2021 will be at least as good as most drivers are already, and as long as it can hand over control to me gracefully I'll deal with some rough edges.
When I was looking to replace my old Moto X, I had a couple of criteria:
- Camera had to be good. I end up taking a lot of pictures with my phone, and nothing else I do is going to stress a modern phone - Couldn't be too big. I like being able to use my phone one handed. - Couldn't be too expensive. I'm too cheap to spend $600+ on a device I might lose or break, plus I don't really do anything too demanding so I don't need the latest high end stuff.
I ended up with the Sony Xperia X. The pictures, especially low light, are pretty darn good. They updated it to Nougat soon after I got it. It's generally pretty stable and there's not a ton of bloatware. It has an SD slot. Battery life is good. Overall, I'm happy. You can get an unlocked one for $340 from Amazon, probably less if you wait for a sale. As I commented above, they disable the fingerprint scanner in the US versions, but it it's terribly hard to flash a UK firmware if you really want it. I haven't bothered yet.
I hadn't bought anything from Sony since the rootkit scandal days, but they seem to make solid phones, albeit somewhat overpriced for the specs.
Fors is still claiming it plans to hold to that 5 year timeframe (2021), and Nissan is aiming for 2020. I think you're underestimating the amount of work the big manufacturers and parts suppliers have been putting into this.
I am cautiously optimistic that I'll be able buy a car in 2021 that I can hand over control to for 95% of most of the trips I do.
The gear-makers aren't doing this for their health, any money they spend is most likely going to end up being covered by the carriers. Maybe not just US carriers, but carriers are the ones buying their gear.
I was just talking to an insurance agent the other day - State Farm at least has decided that they might as well make some money off this and are now offering a rideshare endorsement. Not sure how much extra it would be for your average Uber driver.
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That was my thought too. And the "free VPN service Hola" turns out not to be a peer-to-peer "VPN" service, routing users' connections through each other's devices.
In other words, if you actually get a VPN (which means you'll have to pay for it), from a provider who will not sell your information, then yes, it will protect your privacy.
That's exactly it. I don't have to care that John is using Skype for chat and Jane is using Slack; I can email them using whatever provider and client combo I like and it will get to them. There's a lot to be said for that.
I get at least 2-3 calls a day now from unknown numbers. A few months ago it was all out of state, but now they seem to be using local numbers. I never pick them up, and they never leave a message, but it's pretty annoying.
Around me (DC) people seem to be voting for the shoebox, or at least rental. I live near a Metro stop, and in the last 10 years there have been at least 5000 rental units added around me, with more in the pipeline. DC itself (no suburbs) added more than 50,000 residents between 2012 & 2015, and that seems to be continuing. A lot of younger people around here are not interested in long commutes, they want city life.
Does this do away with motorcycles?
On the contrary, I see self driving cars as a boon to motorcycles. The main reason I am concerned about riding is other drivers, and self driving cars should be way less likely to do the didn't see the red light/need to turn right from the left lane/ various other stupid stuff that take out way too many bikes. I could even see adding a transponder or something so that you are marked unmistakably as a human controlled motorcycle, and given a wide berth.
Why would communists prevent you from visiting your West German grandfather? West Germany was never run by communists.
I know nothing about K. S. Kyosuke, but I interpreted that to mean he (she?) had grown up in East Germany or at least the Eastern bloc, but had been able to travel to West Germany.
Montreal/Detroit is a shared flight.
I would certainly recommend Mint; I have several friends who also have had good luck with it although one is having some driver issues syncing a Samsung phone. I like CentOS on servers but I think Mint is a better desktop.
I do remember the days of frustrating little issues which would take days of forum hunting to resolve (if I ever managed to), so I am very aware of what a minor miracle it is when everything Just Works.
I can't find Somali on a map either.
No flat map of the world is more or less accurate than any other.
That's not strictly true; they are just more or less accurate in different ways. For example the Peters projection is, as the article states, accurate in terms of area. I think that they would have been better off using something like the Winkel tripel, which tries to strike a balance between the area, direction, and distance distortions.
Let me ask you this -- have you had to research your hardware first?
If I were buying a new machine, I'd probably do some research. For a standard desktop, I wouldn't sweat it. The last laptop I installed Mint on was a few years old Sony which was given to me to dispose of by a co worker who was sick of Windows not working on it for her. I put in an SSD and ran the Mint install to see how it would work, and everything except the camera worked out of the box. I did a little googling and less than half an hour later that was working too. Would I want to tell my mom to get that camera working? No. But it wasn't beyond anyone who's at the point of worrying about limiting Windows update.
That laptop I sometimes use to connect to Windows desktops at work, and even RDP works well. There is literally nothing I want to do on a regular basis that I can't do on that machine. Admittedly I don't use Adobe Creative Suite or anything specific like that, nor gaming, which could be a dealbreaker for some people.
The people on metered connections, or those who care enough to set their non-metered connections to metered just to try to get some control, may finally be pushed to try something new. I'm always impressed at how well Mint has worked on any recent installs, and I haven't come across any showstoppers for my use. More users for Linux (and MacOS, but I don't really care about that).
You are right, I was seeing this from the flipside (that of the state asserting control, rather than local jurisdictions).
HOAs only cover about 50% of owner occupied households. For the non-HOA 50%, this law moves control of the issue further away from the people.
I have rented on AirBnB, and I will never buy in an HOA because it would annoy me way too much to have to deal with that.
If it can drive 80% or more of a 200 mile trip, I'm buying one. I can handle the edge cases myself for a few more years.
The indignant AC didn't post the link, but I assume it's this one:
http://www.csoonline.com/artic...
And yeah, it's a way better article.
What bike do you have? Most of mine have had terrible mileage really, ~35-50 mpg.
Three lines is perfect for me and my kids, I'm thinking of switching to this from Cricket. One thing I'm weighing is that we currently each get 3GB fast data, after which we're throttled, and i actually don't mind them getting throttled since they watch less Netflix that way.
I don't know, since I'm not an expert. But it seems that the advances in sensor packages, and the ability to test various scenarios in both simulation and real life, are going to get us where we need to be fairly quickly. The fact that you can take a Civic, a cheap cellphone, and Comma.ai software and hack together a roughly functional self driving car today makes me think that what we'll be seeing in 2021 will be at least as good as most drivers are already, and as long as it can hand over control to me gracefully I'll deal with some rough edges.
When I was looking to replace my old Moto X, I had a couple of criteria:
- Camera had to be good. I end up taking a lot of pictures with my phone, and nothing else I do is going to stress a modern phone
- Couldn't be too big. I like being able to use my phone one handed.
- Couldn't be too expensive. I'm too cheap to spend $600+ on a device I might lose or break, plus I don't really do anything too demanding so I don't need the latest high end stuff.
I ended up with the Sony Xperia X. The pictures, especially low light, are pretty darn good. They updated it to Nougat soon after I got it. It's generally pretty stable and there's not a ton of bloatware. It has an SD slot. Battery life is good. Overall, I'm happy. You can get an unlocked one for $340 from Amazon, probably less if you wait for a sale. As I commented above, they disable the fingerprint scanner in the US versions, but it it's terribly hard to flash a UK firmware if you really want it. I haven't bothered yet.
I hadn't bought anything from Sony since the rootkit scandal days, but they seem to make solid phones, albeit somewhat overpriced for the specs.
Yeah, I think it's a patent issue. I don't care enough to flash my firmware to a non-US version.
there's a fingerprint sensor integrated into the side-mounted power button as usual
And it will probably be disabled on the US versions, as usual.
Fors is still claiming it plans to hold to that 5 year timeframe (2021), and Nissan is aiming for 2020. I think you're underestimating the amount of work the big manufacturers and parts suppliers have been putting into this.
I am cautiously optimistic that I'll be able buy a car in 2021 that I can hand over control to for 95% of most of the trips I do.
The gear-makers aren't doing this for their health, any money they spend is most likely going to end up being covered by the carriers. Maybe not just US carriers, but carriers are the ones buying their gear.
I was just talking to an insurance agent the other day - State Farm at least has decided that they might as well make some money off this and are now offering a rideshare endorsement. Not sure how much extra it would be for your average Uber driver.