3. You never have to consent to a search of yourself, your belongings, your car or your house. If you do consent to a search, it can affect your rights later in court. If the police say they have a search warrant, ask to see it. If they donâ(TM)t, say âoeI do not consent to this search.â Police cannot arrest you simply for refusing to consent to a search. This may not stop the search from happening, but it will protect your rights if you have to go to court.
So you've got a thing that says your iPhone is at a particular location.
What is that thing? Can its data be trusted? Does it truly show your iPhone, or somebody else's, or something else entirely? Is that actually the address, or is it the other address right next door? Be thankful if it's not an apartment building, 'cos then floors get involved - good luck getting a warrant for all of them. Oh, didn't mention warrants yet, did I? Yeah, that's right, even if your 'find my iphone' is just pointing to a location in the middle of nowhere and there's only one person there, cops can't just demand that they empty out all their pockets; I'm sure most people here would tell the cop to either please vacate themselves or take you in if they feel they have enough cause to do so, when the lead is that "somebody's computer says". And all that at the lowly sum of $ka-ching/hour.
On the other other other hand, you file the report, you file the insurance claim, you walk into an Apple Store, get a new device (those scratches and dents you put into it the other one? gone! it's magic!), get most of your data back off the cloud, and be off and running. You 'win', the thief wins, the cops win, the insurance company wins, and Apple wins.
Somebody amend wit more hands...
Note that I'm not saying that cops couldn't do more, and shouldn't do more - hell, if it was as easy for them as it is for the general public to just walk up to someplace and go "you've got this person's iPhone, you best be handing it back now or there'll be trouble", I'd say they should follow up on every stolen phone, tablet, bicycle, etc. Unfortunately it's not - which also leads me to agreeing that it's fine if they warn people about potential consequences, but they can't exactly complain that people are taking matters into their own hands.
This has nothing to with open source, not even when put into quotes.
Kickstarter has made it abundantly clear that you are not investing, and while it likes to still suggest that you're just throwing money at people and any perks offered are just that, perks, their own guidelines make very clear that if the project is successful, the creators have a contractual obligation to deliver. Of course, Kickstarter itself doesn't get involved - they just offer the platform and take their percentage of the cut. They even responded to a website with a generic 'Kickstarter has hosted umpteenthousands of successful projects - gee whizz I sure hope it works out for everybody involved' (I'll dig up source if need be.).
It's also not the government being too late. This isn't the first lawsuit against a Kickstarter project creator. It is, however, the first one being started by a government entity on consumer protection grounds, rather than just between a backer and the project creator on contract grounds. There isn't really any threshold for 'too soon' or 'too late' in this - the AG here just felt an itch, and now they're scratching it, and in the process sending a message: even if backers end up just throwing their hands in the air because a $20 pledge per individual is not worth even walking to the courthouse to those individuals, the AG might take notice if the totals are thousands of dollars and hundreds of people essentially getting duped.
his greatest contribution is a legacy that lasts to this day: he developed the technique of piggyback astronomy.
piggyback astronomy tl;dr: put camera on equatorial mount telescope (disregard the telescope part) so you can do long exposures without (most of) the motion blur.
So you are expecting every small company to afford a large network infrastructure
Not at all - I do expect the large network infrastructure providers to be able to harden themselves against such attacks, especially given their clients.
Like I said - at least it had a switch-over, so although doctors could not access things for 'minutes' (how many are we talking about anyway?), they should have been mostly unaffected.
That said - some absolutely critical things should not be placed under the total care of service providers. Would you do away with your HDD/SSD and rely entirely on cloud storage?
Sounds like your post's subject should be reading "This is why hosted services are Bad MmmKaa."
It's all good and well to blame the 'hackers' - and they should be - but next time a critter chews through a cable, lightning strikes, somebody trips over a wire, or something else rather more benign happens and those doctors would have had the same issue.
As I have been playing this game lately (friend invite)
2. Can the player open them? Yes. If you have doors in a 3D game and they don't behave like doors, you have failed.
Or succeeded - not every door in real life can be opened.
3. Can the player open every door in the game? Yes. See point 2.
Not necessarily.
4. What tells a player a door is locked and will open, as opposed to a door that they will never open? It's a door. It opens.
Unless the door knob is missing. Then it doesn't open - and every player realizes this visual cue pretty quickly.
5. What happens if there are two players? Doors behave the same for all players. It's a door. See point 2.
Agreed.
6. Does it only lock after both players pass through the door? See point 5.
Except for certain doors that require all players to have passed through. The door opens/closes just fine, but only locks if all players are either in the room, or outside the room but dead. How do players know? It's written on-screen - but after a while, people just know.
7. What if the level is REALLY BIG and can't all exist at the same time? Then your technology is not good enough to implement your vision and one or the other needs to change. See point 2
Or you load/save as applicable and call each section stages/chapters.
The game? Left 4 Dead 2.
Now, should all games be designed that way? No. But it's certainly a solution to the problems put forth, and fits within the game's overall design.
While I could probably spend the hours, I just don't find the cost justified. I'd rather take some of the younger ones in our family to a putt-putt/minigolf.
I think it's also a bit of perception - most of the time you find a golf scene in a movie/TV show, it will generally be older people (read: men), often in business, more than well off, and generally not about the game itself but about the networking that happens while at the game. I'm inclined that it's that aspect that they're really trying to save, by making people get less frustrated about balls not going in while they're talking business deals, drinking expensive drinks, and paying up the wazoo to play at a course in the first place.
Having now RTFA, that seems to be almost exactly it.
And to think I rather enjoyed my first few rounds at a course after playing Links for years on old computers.
Not just those.. I mean, macros in general is a pain to work with in OO.o (LibreOffice as well), while it's much simpler in VBA. And I'm not talking about syntax here, but things like accessing graph data and manipulating it. Want to highlight a particular point in a graph? I don't even know where to start with OO.o as the documentation is.. well I'm sure it's to be found *somewhere*.
But also rather common things like chart titles based on a cell value. You'd think that "Weekly report - Week #" where # is the current week number would be possible, simply by referencing a cell with the week number OR referencing a cell with the full title. But alas - you cannot. Instead you have to kludge a work-around using a second chart with completely transparent background and only showing the X Axis Label (which, of course, does auto-adjust based on the categories range set), then move that on top of the other chart. ( Correct me if I'm wrong in that, and it is possible now. )
LibreOffice is worse in this respect... recent updates have caused outright crashes when moving data around, date values getting displayed with the wrong date on charts, etc.
I don't need a machine gun to keep people from stealing my TV. Locks, walls, and intelligence mostly does that. I need the machine gun because it is fun to shoot at rotten pumpkins and cinder blocks out at the gun range.
Wouldn't it make sense to keep the machine gun locked away (relatively) safely at said gun range, then?
What the sibling AC said - care to share your list?
Note that for [your] online viewing habits, you don't need G+. I guess you could be doing it out of solidarity of the internet commenters or those uploaders who curse the requirement while coveting the ad/syndicated partnership income - but if you're just watching the videos, you don't need a Google+ acccount. (Yet. Not likely to change, but then Google pulls all sorts of unlikely things.)
I find turning it around or positioning myself so that I can see the back a lot more efficient (even if it did accept the plug either way around). Of course if it's something that has to be swapped out relatively often, I don't use the ports on the back at all.
Really? You look at your phone when plugging it in while dark with your night vision?
No, for my phone I know which way it's up, and for its cable I know which way the plug is around by the fact that it is offset (it's a short mini-micro adapter). I don't have to look for that one. That's the whole 'remember' bit.
If pretty much everyone who ever uses USB regularly tries to insert the connector backwards then that is a problem with bad design. Period. If you find that hard to fathom then you really need to get a good whack with a cluebat
Do I, or do the people who keep trying to insert them the wrong way around?
Again, I'm not saying that the new design isn't an obvious improvement. What I am saying is: a good portion of the people who keep trying to plug the things in the wrong way around, are probably going to find ways to continue to do so.
Perhaps I should clarify further, though.. I look first when I'm not familiar with the device. The fact that I have to do that at all (instead of only requiring a slight touch to determine general port orientation in the first place - see sibling comment) is enough reason to applaud a 180Â symmetrical design.
But I can't say that I identify with the vocal group who appear to find a source of continual frustration in USB plug orientation vs port orientation.
You've never tried putting a usb cable in wrong? Hard to believe.
I know - bold claims require bold evidence. Unfortunately, I have no video record of every single plugging-in of a USB plug. It's entirely possible that I did try to plug one in the wrong way around for a while there when I got a computer with USB ports, and have simply forgotten about it.
Most of the complaints seem to come from people who have been using USB products for years and are still having orientation issues with it, though. I find that hard to fathom.
Snark aside - no, no I'm not. Certainly no more special than anybody claiming they always need to try it 3 ways:)
I've used more than one computer where they're on the back and the wrong way up (most go with the 'trident' logo on top). I have a phone and a tablet that are the same plug but the opposite way up and it's small and recessed too.
In which case for the first time around, you didn't look (perhaps you couldn't, because, well, back side of the computer and all) and for the second+ time around, you completely forgot about the first time around.
If it was properly designed, you shouldn't have to look, and if your eyesight's not brilliant that might not help anyway. As to remembering, great if you only have one machine. Not so much when you have four at home, and use many different ones at work or college.
Which just brings us back to people taking a flattened plug horizontally to a port that's oriented vertically even if the port have a 180Â symmetry.
I guess you could think that it's always parallel to the longest side, but then what orientation does it have when there is no longest side? http://www.pcstats.com/article...
I guess some people would just have to try it 4 ways around.
Note that I'm in no way saying that I think the USB plugs/sockets were a great design in terms of user-experience. At the time they were certainly better than most anything out there with multiple pins. Plugging in a PS/2 plug when you couldn't see the port, now that was torture. I certainly applaud the new design (for the most part).
Ultimately though, there's always going to be people who have trouble plugging devices in - for whatever reason. Some people have trouble just plugging headsets into their phones (judging by the plethora of scratches surrounding the headphone jacks). Thankfully for them, more and more peripherals are available in wireless form.
( Well, except for the power cables. Ever try to plug a U.S. plug in the wrong way around? Easy to do if you don't check which of the pins is the broader one. The C7P (device-end) is even worse. )
USB has a 'D-shaped' connector, standard Type B. People still manage to try and plug that one in wrong as well.
As it is, Type C should be seen mostly as a replacement to mini/micro A/B which (and also happens to replace regular ol' A), which are already a D shape.. just that they're fairly flattened.
There was a design for a type A plug that was double-sided, I don't think anybody ever produced a cable/product using it (probably because it would be relatively expensive to produce): http://www.yankodesign.com/201...
Even with Type C I'd imagine there's people who, when faced with a flat connector and a horizontally oriented port, will try to jam it in vertically.
A cylindrical connector (think headphone plugs) is the only type that can truly be inserted at any angle around the axis of revolution, but those take up a fair bit more space.
Personally I've never even tried to insert a USB plug the wrong way around.. it's not like it's impossible to see the shapes and remember for any future occurrences. Unless you're drunk, tired, stupid or any combination thereof - in which case you shouldn't be inserting tab A into slot B anyway, whether it's computer hardware, assembling IKEA furniture, or recreational activities.
Not that I mind the improvement - at least it purports to get rid of Micro USB 3.0 B.. thanks to its width vs insertion depth, that is the only one that I've found to actually be problematic at times even when inserting it the right way around.
Outside of just-the-displays off of aliexpress or so, I think this may be the only reasonable e-ink option for hobbyists out there right now: http://www.embeddedartists.com...
Which is a shame. I realize the market for e-ink displays is way bigger for retail (and I don't really mean retail products - I mean products for retail, such as OTA-updatable price indicators) than for hobbyists, but for many other electronics segments you can usually find a decent hobby-level offering as well.
2.7" might be a bit too big if you wanted to make a watch:)
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They can ask, but they can't demand;
- source: your link (well, link from that link).
On the other other hand...
So you've got a thing that says your iPhone is at a particular location.
What is that thing? Can its data be trusted? Does it truly show your iPhone, or somebody else's, or something else entirely? Is that actually the address, or is it the other address right next door? Be thankful if it's not an apartment building, 'cos then floors get involved - good luck getting a warrant for all of them. Oh, didn't mention warrants yet, did I? Yeah, that's right, even if your 'find my iphone' is just pointing to a location in the middle of nowhere and there's only one person there, cops can't just demand that they empty out all their pockets; I'm sure most people here would tell the cop to either please vacate themselves or take you in if they feel they have enough cause to do so, when the lead is that "somebody's computer says". And all that at the lowly sum of $ka-ching/hour.
On the other other other hand, you file the report, you file the insurance claim, you walk into an Apple Store, get a new device (those scratches and dents you put into it the other one? gone! it's magic!), get most of your data back off the cloud, and be off and running. You 'win', the thief wins, the cops win, the insurance company wins, and Apple wins.
Somebody amend wit more hands...
Note that I'm not saying that cops couldn't do more, and shouldn't do more - hell, if it was as easy for them as it is for the general public to just walk up to someplace and go "you've got this person's iPhone, you best be handing it back now or there'll be trouble", I'd say they should follow up on every stolen phone, tablet, bicycle, etc. Unfortunately it's not - which also leads me to agreeing that it's fine if they warn people about potential consequences, but they can't exactly complain that people are taking matters into their own hands.
Neither?
This has nothing to with open source, not even when put into quotes.
Kickstarter has made it abundantly clear that you are not investing, and while it likes to still suggest that you're just throwing money at people and any perks offered are just that, perks, their own guidelines make very clear that if the project is successful, the creators have a contractual obligation to deliver. Of course, Kickstarter itself doesn't get involved - they just offer the platform and take their percentage of the cut. They even responded to a website with a generic 'Kickstarter has hosted umpteenthousands of successful projects - gee whizz I sure hope it works out for everybody involved' (I'll dig up source if need be.).
It's also not the government being too late. This isn't the first lawsuit against a Kickstarter project creator. It is, however, the first one being started by a government entity on consumer protection grounds, rather than just between a backer and the project creator on contract grounds. There isn't really any threshold for 'too soon' or 'too late' in this - the AG here just felt an itch, and now they're scratching it, and in the process sending a message: even if backers end up just throwing their hands in the air because a $20 pledge per individual is not worth even walking to the courthouse to those individuals, the AG might take notice if the totals are thousands of dollars and hundreds of people essentially getting duped.
piggyback astronomy tl;dr: put camera on equatorial mount telescope (disregard the telescope part) so you can do long exposures without (most of) the motion blur.
- http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/...
Right - that's why AMS-IX opened 'their' NY location as a separate company, so that U.S. jurisdiction can't touch their Dutch operations.
https://ams-ix.net/newsitems/1...
Or so their lawyers are interpreting anyway - probably nothing a stroke of the pen in the U.S. can't make disappear.
Not at all - I do expect the large network infrastructure providers to be able to harden themselves against such attacks, especially given their clients.
Like I said - at least it had a switch-over, so although doctors could not access things for 'minutes' (how many are we talking about anyway?), they should have been mostly unaffected.
That said - some absolutely critical things should not be placed under the total care of service providers. Would you do away with your HDD/SSD and rely entirely on cloud storage?
Sounds like your post's subject should be reading "This is why hosted services are Bad MmmKaa."
It's all good and well to blame the 'hackers' - and they should be - but next time a critter chews through a cable, lightning strikes, somebody trips over a wire, or something else rather more benign happens and those doctors would have had the same issue.
On the up side, at least there was a switch-over.
As I have been playing this game lately (friend invite)
Or succeeded - not every door in real life can be opened.
Not necessarily.
Unless the door knob is missing. Then it doesn't open - and every player realizes this visual cue pretty quickly.
Agreed.
Except for certain doors that require all players to have passed through. The door opens/closes just fine, but only locks if all players are either in the room, or outside the room but dead. How do players know? It's written on-screen - but after a while, people just know.
Or you load/save as applicable and call each section stages/chapters.
The game? Left 4 Dead 2.
Now, should all games be designed that way? No. But it's certainly a solution to the problems put forth, and fits within the game's overall design.
Very little indeed - like I said, I only played for a little while. All the other stuff was the perception thanks to movies/TV shows, etc.
If the image they portray (and repeated in TFA) is terribly wrong, then the golf promotion bunch might go on the offensive on that :)
While I could probably spend the hours, I just don't find the cost justified. I'd rather take some of the younger ones in our family to a putt-putt/minigolf.
I think it's also a bit of perception - most of the time you find a golf scene in a movie/TV show, it will generally be older people (read: men), often in business, more than well off, and generally not about the game itself but about the networking that happens while at the game. I'm inclined that it's that aspect that they're really trying to save, by making people get less frustrated about balls not going in while they're talking business deals, drinking expensive drinks, and paying up the wazoo to play at a course in the first place.
Having now RTFA, that seems to be almost exactly it.
And to think I rather enjoyed my first few rounds at a course after playing Links for years on old computers.
Not just those.. I mean, macros in general is a pain to work with in OO.o (LibreOffice as well), while it's much simpler in VBA. And I'm not talking about syntax here, but things like accessing graph data and manipulating it. Want to highlight a particular point in a graph? I don't even know where to start with OO.o as the documentation is.. well I'm sure it's to be found *somewhere*.
But also rather common things like chart titles based on a cell value. You'd think that "Weekly report - Week #" where # is the current week number would be possible, simply by referencing a cell with the week number OR referencing a cell with the full title. But alas - you cannot.
Instead you have to kludge a work-around using a second chart with completely transparent background and only showing the X Axis Label (which, of course, does auto-adjust based on the categories range set), then move that on top of the other chart.
( Correct me if I'm wrong in that, and it is possible now. )
LibreOffice is worse in this respect... recent updates have caused outright crashes when moving data around, date values getting displayed with the wrong date on charts, etc.
Wouldn't it make sense to keep the machine gun locked away (relatively) safely at said gun range, then?
Yes, but this one is less than double the price!
Hit F11 - be astounded by the extra browser content screenspace. Now if only that didn't also fill the horizontal, eh.
Out of curiosity... do you feel differently about cars? (e.g. through services such as Uber and Lyft)
What the sibling AC said - care to share your list?
Note that for [your] online viewing habits, you don't need G+. I guess you could be doing it out of solidarity of the internet commenters or those uploaders who curse the requirement while coveting the ad/syndicated partnership income - but if you're just watching the videos, you don't need a Google+ acccount. (Yet. Not likely to change, but then Google pulls all sorts of unlikely things.)
I find turning it around or positioning myself so that I can see the back a lot more efficient (even if it did accept the plug either way around). Of course if it's something that has to be swapped out relatively often, I don't use the ports on the back at all.
Do they actually install them, or are they merely included in the installer packaging and installed if and only if the files are missing or outdated?
Sort of a casino
( but without all the entertainment perks and less of the gambling )
No, for my phone I know which way it's up, and for its cable I know which way the plug is around by the fact that it is offset (it's a short mini-micro adapter). I don't have to look for that one. That's the whole 'remember' bit.
Do I, or do the people who keep trying to insert them the wrong way around?
Again, I'm not saying that the new design isn't an obvious improvement. What I am saying is: a good portion of the people who keep trying to plug the things in the wrong way around, are probably going to find ways to continue to do so.
Perhaps I should clarify further, though.. I look first when I'm not familiar with the device. The fact that I have to do that at all (instead of only requiring a slight touch to determine general port orientation in the first place - see sibling comment) is enough reason to applaud a 180Â symmetrical design.
But I can't say that I identify with the vocal group who appear to find a source of continual frustration in USB plug orientation vs port orientation.
I know - bold claims require bold evidence. Unfortunately, I have no video record of every single plugging-in of a USB plug. It's entirely possible that I did try to plug one in the wrong way around for a while there when I got a computer with USB ports, and have simply forgotten about it.
Most of the complaints seem to come from people who have been using USB products for years and are still having orientation issues with it, though. I find that hard to fathom.
Snark aside - no, no I'm not. Certainly no more special than anybody claiming they always need to try it 3 ways :)
In which case for the first time around, you didn't look (perhaps you couldn't, because, well, back side of the computer and all) and for the second+ time around, you completely forgot about the first time around.
Which just brings us back to people taking a flattened plug horizontally to a port that's oriented vertically even if the port have a 180Â symmetry.
Without seeing the back side of the computer...
Are they vertical?
http://www.computershopper.com...
Or are they horizontal?
http://images.anandtech.com/do...
I guess you could think that it's always parallel to the longest side, but then what orientation does it have when there is no longest side?
http://www.pcstats.com/article...
I guess some people would just have to try it 4 ways around.
Note that I'm in no way saying that I think the USB plugs/sockets were a great design in terms of user-experience. At the time they were certainly better than most anything out there with multiple pins. Plugging in a PS/2 plug when you couldn't see the port, now that was torture. I certainly applaud the new design (for the most part).
Ultimately though, there's always going to be people who have trouble plugging devices in - for whatever reason. Some people have trouble just plugging headsets into their phones (judging by the plethora of scratches surrounding the headphone jacks). Thankfully for them, more and more peripherals are available in wireless form.
( Well, except for the power cables. Ever try to plug a U.S. plug in the wrong way around? Easy to do if you don't check which of the pins is the broader one. The C7P (device-end) is even worse. )
USB has a 'D-shaped' connector, standard Type B. People still manage to try and plug that one in wrong as well.
As it is, Type C should be seen mostly as a replacement to mini/micro A/B which (and also happens to replace regular ol' A), which are already a D shape.. just that they're fairly flattened.
There was a design for a type A plug that was double-sided, I don't think anybody ever produced a cable/product using it (probably because it would be relatively expensive to produce):
http://www.yankodesign.com/201...
Even with Type C I'd imagine there's people who, when faced with a flat connector and a horizontally oriented port, will try to jam it in vertically.
A cylindrical connector (think headphone plugs) is the only type that can truly be inserted at any angle around the axis of revolution, but those take up a fair bit more space.
Personally I've never even tried to insert a USB plug the wrong way around.. it's not like it's impossible to see the shapes and remember for any future occurrences. Unless you're drunk, tired, stupid or any combination thereof - in which case you shouldn't be inserting tab A into slot B anyway, whether it's computer hardware, assembling IKEA furniture, or recreational activities.
Not that I mind the improvement - at least it purports to get rid of Micro USB 3.0 B.. thanks to its width vs insertion depth, that is the only one that I've found to actually be problematic at times even when inserting it the right way around.
Outside of just-the-displays off of aliexpress or so, I think this may be the only reasonable e-ink option for hobbyists out there right now:
http://www.embeddedartists.com...
Which is a shame. I realize the market for e-ink displays is way bigger for retail (and I don't really mean retail products - I mean products for retail, such as OTA-updatable price indicators) than for hobbyists, but for many other electronics segments you can usually find a decent hobby-level offering as well.
2.7" might be a bit too big if you wanted to make a watch :)