Complete disregard for providing quality customers service. Check Arrogant attitude. Check Believe that providing a crappy shopping experience will not result in any financial repercussions for the company you work for. Check.
I can only conclude that you are an employee of Best Buy.
Back in the early 90's when Encore launched, TCI cablevision pulled a similar stunt. This is back in the day when pay TV was controlled by signal traps on the service drops and changing programming packages required a truck roll. TCI simply added the channel to its system and told all its subscribers that the first month was free and if you don't opt out you will be charged the monthly subscription fee. To make matters worse, you also had to pay the service fee for the truck roll to add the filter.
That plan didn't go over so well and TCI got sued by the attorney generals in multiple states.
Whenever a politician or journalist suggests passing X law that regulates technology/the internet and they get terminology and/or the material facts wrong people here on slashdot get rather up in arms about it. It's because not only is the law they propose is unlikely to work, but also its makes it very obvious that they are completely unknowledgeable out the technology they are attempting to regulate and thus are unqualified to do so.
Gun control laws are no different. Claiming that owning more than X amount ammunition or possessing magazines greater than Y capacity should be prohibited because you could use it to shoot up a bunch of people is is would be like the MPAA/RIAA proposing that each household should be limited to owning 100 gb worth of data shortage and only 2 gb for each smartphone or portable media device because nobody can afford to fill such devices with legitimately purchased content and if you own devices greater than that capacity, then that only means you will use it for piracy. Add bonus points if the proponents of such a law starts substituting the words "floppy disk" for "hard drive" and "SIM card" for "SD card" in their talking points.
I would be willing to pay $100 dollars for a permanent media blackout so I will never have to hear about Mark Zuckerberg ever again. The only thing I might miss is a future story where he gets convicted by the feds for insider trading and fraud. But this is America were corporations and CEOs are effectively exempt from all laws so such an event ever occurring is slim.
The failure rates of electronics is higher than it was 25 years ago. Today even the market leaders such as Samsung are buying the cheapest off brand chinese capacitors they can get away with and placing them in even the top of the line models. The average flat panel TV will lucky to live 5 years. Call it planned obsolescence.
The third harmonic of 104.7 is 314.1 Mhz. Keyless entry systems operate at 314.93 Mhz. The bootleg transmitter/antenna likely didn't have any filtering to reduce spurious emisions or harmonics.
So what is your solution to the home invader breaking into your house? He's certainly not there to help you bake some brownies. Do you beg for your life, try to appeal to his rational side so he won't decide to extrajudicially kill you because he doesn't want to be identified and face jail time? Maybe if he's nice he will make the proper life and death decision and let you live or simply beat you to within an inch of your life. Pity if he decides that your stuff is worth killing you over.
Biorobots only cost a few dollars per day to run. They require no capital to aquire as they naturally self replicating, thus there will always be a constant supply. Biorobots do not require a programmer or engineer to put on task. They are also cordless and self propelled allowing them to easily change tasks. Should a biorobot not do a task correctly a unit can be debugged by the use of a cellulose based rod, or by withholding the carbohydrate,protein, lipid, and water based energy supplies they require. Should production needs change, biorobots automatically remove themselves from the factory floor and return to the pool of available units. Biorobots are not chemically resistant. Should one malfunction due to overexposure to toxic chemicals, disposal is easily accomplished by placing the biorobot into a zippered polymer bag and disposing it as normal biohazardous waste, preferably by incineration. Grossly defective or worn out biorobots are easily dealt with by means of a lead projectile launched a high speed by expanding gasses in metal cylinder striking the biorobots central processing unit. Regular disposal procedures apply. Some biorobots may self propel themselves out of windows of the upper floors of the factory. This may be remedied by the strategic placement of nets if needed. Most factory owners have found that biorobots are color coded for their convenience. Biorobots are expected to remain a vital role in industrial production due to their cheapness, versatility and disposability.
Once next years model comes out, firmware updates slow down and eventually cease. Then your smart TV will no longer receive any bug fixes, security updates or enhancements. Compare that to an external device like a Roku that is typically supported for years at a time. When it becomes hopelessly obsolete, you swap the out the box for less than a hundred dollars and have the latest and greatest again.
In the future and we will have the same situation as the rootable Samsung printers. Someone will discover a serious exploit that won't be patched because all those products are at EOL.
Most new laptops already have a camera and microphone built into them. For those running windows, there is nothing preventing Microsoft from putting a government surveillance backdoor in the next security update.
There are too many failure prone components. There's a UHP bulb (wear item), high voltage ballast, color wheel (moving part, highly failure prone), optics (heat from bulb causing the infamous samsung shadow problem), DMD chip (intense heat, plus over a million microscopic mirrors that move) and multiple fans (moving parts+dust). Samsung switched to using LEDs to get rid of the color wheel and bulb, but were driving the LEDs too hard causing premature failure. They exited the DLP market soon afterward.
Since both to these companies issued publicly traded shares of stock, they should be legally obliged by the SEC to disclose the exact nature of these settlements to the shareholders.
If the judge really needed the evidence, then they can go subpoena Facebook directly and request an archive of the communications to/from the parties involved. No risk of information outside of the scope of the subpoena being leaked.
Between the extra judicial punishment doled out via 3 or 6 strikes policies, draconian DRM schemes that trample fair use, government institutions being co-opted to enforce copyright under the guise of national security, John Doe lawsuits, secretly negotiated international treaties, SOPA, false DMCA takedowns, price fixing, perpetually extending copyright, vertical integration of ISPs, refusal to adapt to new technology, widespread use of accounting methods that never pay artists a dime and now these new taxes on hardware, I don't feel sorry for the entertainment industry and their mostly imagined losses due to piracy. If anything the media companies owe the citizens of the world reparations for the violations of their rights committed in the name of stopping piracy.
The PDF of the brief has been deleted and replaced by a blank page. It has now disappeared down the memory hole. Some ideas are just too dangerous to propagate and must be silenced. The author must keep his mouth shut otherwise he soon may become an unperson.
A battery with a 10 kWh capacity means it can only store 10 kWh of power. At my rates that is about $1.20 worth of electricity. In order for 10 kWh to last 24 hours the average energy consumption of the house must be 416 watts per hour. If a house drew 10 kwh that battery would in theory provide power for only 1 hour. In the real world, battery capacity is reduced at high discharge rates. The capacity of the inverter is another limitation.
Michigan is not anti-electric car. Quite a few cities, businesses and college campuses in Michigan have installed charging stations, but with no vehicles to charge. Too many people in Michigan have pinned their hope on electric cars and green jobs reviving the state's economy. Locally there was much hype about a major manufacturer building a facility in town to produce batteries for electric cars. As demand for the electric car isn't as strong as originally hoped the plans have been postponed indefinitely. Michigan has also been in an economic depression since 2003. Do not confuse the lack of ability for residents to afford an electric car with lack of support for one.
If Canonical really wanted to press the issue, they could easily make unity-lens-shopping a dependency of unity. sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping package would create a dependency problem that the package manager would resolve by either keeping it installed or removing all of unity.
Many non technical users wouldn't even know how to get rid of the ads, thus they will stick around by default. An ethical approach to this would have been prompting during the upgrade or the install whether or not to enable them. Even some windows programs bundled with crapware at least give you the clear option to opt out before the installation. If I didn't read this thread on slashdot, I would have no idea what the offending package name would have been. I would search first for the terms "amazon", "ads", "banner", "adware", "sponsor", the word "shopping" would have been quite a bit farther down on my list. If this is the future of the linux desktop, I don't want it.
Its that most of these films were released after IMDB was created. When people see a new movie they actively want to share their opinion of that particular film with the rest of the world. With old movies people are more likely go go "Meh. History already judged it." This is especially true when old movies are cheap and new movies in theaters are expensive. The second factor is how many positive reviews for films are given by the younger people who will give movies like Transformers 10/10, but have never seen better movies like Terminator 2 and the Abyss.
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Lets see here....
Complete disregard for providing quality customers service. Check
Arrogant attitude. Check
Believe that providing a crappy shopping experience will not result in any financial repercussions for the company you work for. Check.
I can only conclude that you are an employee of Best Buy.
Back in the early 90's when Encore launched, TCI cablevision pulled a similar stunt. This is back in the day when pay TV was controlled by signal traps on the service drops and changing programming packages required a truck roll. TCI simply added the channel to its system and told all its subscribers that the first month was free and if you don't opt out you will be charged the monthly subscription fee. To make matters worse, you also had to pay the service fee for the truck roll to add the filter.
That plan didn't go over so well and TCI got sued by the attorney generals in multiple states.
Whenever a politician or journalist suggests passing X law that regulates technology/the internet and they get terminology and/or the material facts wrong people here on slashdot get rather up in arms about it. It's because not only is the law they propose is unlikely to work, but also its makes it very obvious that they are completely unknowledgeable out the technology they are attempting to regulate and thus are unqualified to do so.
Gun control laws are no different. Claiming that owning more than X amount ammunition or possessing magazines greater than Y capacity should be prohibited because you could use it to shoot up a bunch of people is is would be like the MPAA/RIAA proposing that each household should be limited to owning 100 gb worth of data shortage and only 2 gb for each smartphone or portable media device because nobody can afford to fill such devices with legitimately purchased content and if you own devices greater than that capacity, then that only means you will use it for piracy. Add bonus points if the proponents of such a law starts substituting the words "floppy disk" for "hard drive" and "SIM card" for "SD card" in their talking points.
I would be willing to pay $100 dollars for a permanent media blackout so I will never have to hear about Mark Zuckerberg ever again. The only thing I might miss is a future story where he gets convicted by the feds for insider trading and fraud. But this is America were corporations and CEOs are effectively exempt from all laws so such an event ever occurring is slim.
The failure rates of electronics is higher than it was 25 years ago. Today even the market leaders such as Samsung are buying the cheapest off brand chinese capacitors they can get away with and placing them in even the top of the line models. The average flat panel TV will lucky to live 5 years. Call it planned obsolescence.
That won't solve anything. It would cause a new wave of violence from disgruntled bronies.
The third harmonic of 104.7 is 314.1 Mhz. Keyless entry systems operate at 314.93 Mhz. The bootleg transmitter/antenna likely didn't have any filtering to reduce spurious emisions or harmonics.
If they could then why didn't they warn John McAfee's neighbor about his future murder? Is it because he was running Norton Antivirus?
So what is your solution to the home invader breaking into your house? He's certainly not there to help you bake some brownies. Do you beg for your life, try to appeal to his rational side so he won't decide to extrajudicially kill you because he doesn't want to be identified and face jail time? Maybe if he's nice he will make the proper life and death decision and let you live or simply beat you to within an inch of your life. Pity if he decides that your stuff is worth killing you over.
Biorobots only cost a few dollars per day to run. They require no capital to aquire as they naturally self replicating, thus there will always be a constant supply. Biorobots do not require a programmer or engineer to put on task. They are also cordless and self propelled allowing them to easily change tasks. Should a biorobot not do a task correctly a unit can be debugged by the use of a cellulose based rod, or by withholding the carbohydrate,protein, lipid, and water based energy supplies they require. Should production needs change, biorobots automatically remove themselves from the factory floor and return to the pool of available units. Biorobots are not chemically resistant. Should one malfunction due to overexposure to toxic chemicals, disposal is easily accomplished by placing the biorobot into a zippered polymer bag and disposing it as normal biohazardous waste, preferably by incineration. Grossly defective or worn out biorobots are easily dealt with by means of a lead projectile launched a high speed by expanding gasses in metal cylinder striking the biorobots central processing unit. Regular disposal procedures apply. Some biorobots may self propel themselves out of windows of the upper floors of the factory. This may be remedied by the strategic placement of nets if needed. Most factory owners have found that biorobots are color coded for their convenience. Biorobots are expected to remain a vital role in industrial production due to their cheapness, versatility and disposability.
Once next years model comes out, firmware updates slow down and eventually cease. Then your smart TV will no longer receive any bug fixes, security updates or enhancements. Compare that to an external device like a Roku that is typically supported for years at a time. When it becomes hopelessly obsolete, you swap the out the box for less than a hundred dollars and have the latest and greatest again. In the future and we will have the same situation as the rootable Samsung printers. Someone will discover a serious exploit that won't be patched because all those products are at EOL.
Most new laptops already have a camera and microphone built into them. For those running windows, there is nothing preventing Microsoft from putting a government surveillance backdoor in the next security update.
There are too many failure prone components. There's a UHP bulb (wear item), high voltage ballast, color wheel (moving part, highly failure prone), optics (heat from bulb causing the infamous samsung shadow problem), DMD chip (intense heat, plus over a million microscopic mirrors that move) and multiple fans (moving parts+dust). Samsung switched to using LEDs to get rid of the color wheel and bulb, but were driving the LEDs too hard causing premature failure. They exited the DLP market soon afterward.
Since both to these companies issued publicly traded shares of stock, they should be legally obliged by the SEC to disclose the exact nature of these settlements to the shareholders.
If the judge really needed the evidence, then they can go subpoena Facebook directly and request an archive of the communications to/from the parties involved. No risk of information outside of the scope of the subpoena being leaked.
Between the extra judicial punishment doled out via 3 or 6 strikes policies, draconian DRM schemes that trample fair use, government institutions being co-opted to enforce copyright under the guise of national security, John Doe lawsuits, secretly negotiated international treaties, SOPA, false DMCA takedowns, price fixing, perpetually extending copyright, vertical integration of ISPs, refusal to adapt to new technology, widespread use of accounting methods that never pay artists a dime and now these new taxes on hardware, I don't feel sorry for the entertainment industry and their mostly imagined losses due to piracy. If anything the media companies owe the citizens of the world reparations for the violations of their rights committed in the name of stopping piracy.
The PDF of the brief has been deleted and replaced by a blank page. It has now disappeared down the memory hole. Some ideas are just too dangerous to propagate and must be silenced. The author must keep his mouth shut otherwise he soon may become an unperson.
A battery with a 10 kWh capacity means it can only store 10 kWh of power. At my rates that is about $1.20 worth of electricity. In order for 10 kWh to last 24 hours the average energy consumption of the house must be 416 watts per hour. If a house drew 10 kwh that battery would in theory provide power for only 1 hour. In the real world, battery capacity is reduced at high discharge rates. The capacity of the inverter is another limitation.
Michigan is not anti-electric car. Quite a few cities, businesses and college campuses in Michigan have installed charging stations, but with no vehicles to charge. Too many people in Michigan have pinned their hope on electric cars and green jobs reviving the state's economy. Locally there was much hype about a major manufacturer building a facility in town to produce batteries for electric cars. As demand for the electric car isn't as strong as originally hoped the plans have been postponed indefinitely. Michigan has also been in an economic depression since 2003. Do not confuse the lack of ability for residents to afford an electric car with lack of support for one.
% sudo dpkg --list |grep -E "lens|scope" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo apt-get remove
It's actually 50% easier than you thought. Now its so easy my dog can do it.
If Canonical really wanted to press the issue, they could easily make unity-lens-shopping a dependency of unity. sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping package would create a dependency problem that the package manager would resolve by either keeping it installed or removing all of unity. Many non technical users wouldn't even know how to get rid of the ads, thus they will stick around by default. An ethical approach to this would have been prompting during the upgrade or the install whether or not to enable them. Even some windows programs bundled with crapware at least give you the clear option to opt out before the installation. If I didn't read this thread on slashdot, I would have no idea what the offending package name would have been. I would search first for the terms "amazon", "ads", "banner", "adware", "sponsor", the word "shopping" would have been quite a bit farther down on my list. If this is the future of the linux desktop, I don't want it.
Its that most of these films were released after IMDB was created. When people see a new movie they actively want to share their opinion of that particular film with the rest of the world. With old movies people are more likely go go "Meh. History already judged it." This is especially true when old movies are cheap and new movies in theaters are expensive. The second factor is how many positive reviews for films are given by the younger people who will give movies like Transformers 10/10, but have never seen better movies like Terminator 2 and the Abyss.