Can anyone figure out why the city would want them to remove the cables and sealant?
Because microtrenching doesn't work, it's only slightly more effective than using chewing gum to tack the fibre onto walls of buildings. So Google has ended up damaging roads and sidewalks, and now needs to undo the damage.
Just to put this into perspective, the regs for fibre here are buried at least 550mm deep in protective 20mm thick-walled conduit. If you suggested a microtrench you'd get laughed at. Literally laughed at, they'd think you were making a joke.
All of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course. But we were still a search partner, so we'd say "hey what gives?" And every time, they'd say, "oops. That was accidental. We'll fix it in the next push in 2 weeks." Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We'll fix it soon. We want the same things. We're on the same team.
"I'm so sorry I hit you. I won't do it again, I'll change. It won't be like all the other times. I don't really mean to hurt you. I'm only doing this because I care about you. And you have to admit you brought this on yourself to some extent. Without me you'd be nothing, no money, no way to survive. Don't you dare think of leaving me!".
The biggest problem with anything like this is, what's Amazon's benefit from doing this? They have no incentive to do anything, they're making more money than they know what to do with and the occasional bit of bad publicity is easily smoothed over.
Had the same problem. I've had multiple reviews warning people of scammers at work rejected by Amazon, to the point where I stopped bothering. Now if I see any drop-shipped Chinese products on Amazon, I look up the identical thing on eBay or Aliexpress and get it cheaper there. Which is Amazon shooting itself in the foot, its value-add was the curation, given that it's degenerating into a cesspit of fake products with fake reviews I have no need for them since Aliexpress gives me that at a lower price.
I've also seen fake reviews marked as verified purchases. This is products with a few one-star reviews saying they're total crap, and then a mass of five-star reviews, in coherent English, marked as verified purchases. The only thing dodgy about them is that the account names are obviously algorithmically generated. Not sure how they do that, does Amazon consider a purchase complete if you buy but then cancel before it ships?
Launching rockets from airplanes has been done before
It's actually been done for decades, the main differences being that they were pointed down rather than up and they carried warheads rather than payloads.
He doesn't do them to screw you, he does them to enhance his own image. When I first heard about the cat I was pretty confused, Mendax never gave a toss about animals, why would he want a cat? This NPR commentary explains it.
And no, it's not a smear campaign, that's the real Assange, they're describing him as he actually is.
proposal to break up Amazon, Google, and Facebook,
That'll never happen, for the same reason that no-one could take on J.Edgar Hoover while he was alive, they have so much dirt on everyone in Congress and/or their families, relatives, business partners,..., that they can instantly end the career of anyone who tries to take them on. Look what happened when the IRS took on Scientology, and Scientology in the 1980s were rank amateurs compared to the global surveillance machine that Fecebook and Google today are.
Hintz believes Foxconn is trying to slow-walk the project until 2020, continuing to use it to win Trump's goodwill in the trade war and waiting to see who's elected.
He's got it exactly right. And this was obvious right from the start, their move never made any business sense whatsoever, but it was a brilliant piece of politics. Just look at what's happened to Huawei, who didn't have the foresight to pull a Foxconn on Trump.
He had mental issues before he was arrested, and cluster B personality disorders aren't treatable. Only thing is he may have further mental issues now.
That's a weird set of processors, Nios II and Microblaze are either soft-cores or IP blocks on an FPGA, they aren't really used on consumer equipment. And who uses OpenRISC at all? Did they do this just because they can?
I've also prepared a version of the article in which every hipster term and approbatory adjective, e.g. simplicity, clarity, wider, clean, versatile, modern, etc, has been replaced by the word "wank". Here it is.
Monotype has today introduced the Helvetica Now typeface, a wank wank wank and wank wank the wank wank wank to be wank wank. Wank wank wank and wank wank its wank for wank and wank. The wank wank is wank wank wank wank, wank, wank and wank. Wank wank wank wank wank. Written by Andy Mallalieu.
And they're welcome to it, since USB keys are formatted FAT32. Which is also a MS standard, but a documented, published one. So it should be fairly easy to check whether Windows complies with the FAT32 specification or not. Given Microsoft's track history of standards compliance, I'd say "not".
With the separation from the real, live person, they'll also be able to introduce the modern equivalent of another innovation pioneered in Germany and Russia about eighty-odd years ago, the video form of the pre-printed postcard telling your loved ones that all is fine and everyone's having a great old time here in Dachau or Balaganskoe.
It's easy, it's rows of orcs and dragons, and the odd Ancient Dragon and Yeti, lining up in front of staves to kill your character, who seems to have cast Invisibility because I can't see an '@' anywhere.
Funny, because it does the same thing with FreeBSD, OS X, OpenBSD, VxWorks, and various embedded OSes used by embedded systems. Could it be perhaps that Windows is the problem, not every other OS on the planet?
Oh, the owners know exactly which satellites are theirs. In fact we do to, they're the ones paid for in North Korean won or Iranian rials, or that arrived packed in lead-line containers.
Same here, our cat will prick her ears up and look at you every single time you say her name, but mostly ignore anything else, including words that sound quite similar. She definitely knows her name.
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Can anyone figure out why the city would want them to remove the cables and sealant?
Because microtrenching doesn't work, it's only slightly more effective than using chewing gum to tack the fibre onto walls of buildings. So Google has ended up damaging roads and sidewalks, and now needs to undo the damage.
Just to put this into perspective, the regs for fibre here are buried at least 550mm deep in protective 20mm thick-walled conduit. If you suggested a microtrench you'd get laughed at. Literally laughed at, they'd think you were making a joke.
All of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course. But we were still a search partner, so we'd say "hey what gives?" And every time, they'd say, "oops. That was accidental. We'll fix it in the next push in 2 weeks." Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We'll fix it soon. We want the same things. We're on the same team.
"I'm so sorry I hit you. I won't do it again, I'll change. It won't be like all the other times. I don't really mean to hurt you. I'm only doing this because I care about you. And you have to admit you brought this on yourself to some extent. Without me you'd be nothing, no money, no way to survive. Don't you dare think of leaving me!".
The biggest problem with anything like this is, what's Amazon's benefit from doing this? They have no incentive to do anything, they're making more money than they know what to do with and the occasional bit of bad publicity is easily smoothed over.
Had the same problem. I've had multiple reviews warning people of scammers at work rejected by Amazon, to the point where I stopped bothering. Now if I see any drop-shipped Chinese products on Amazon, I look up the identical thing on eBay or Aliexpress and get it cheaper there. Which is Amazon shooting itself in the foot, its value-add was the curation, given that it's degenerating into a cesspit of fake products with fake reviews I have no need for them since Aliexpress gives me that at a lower price.
I've also seen fake reviews marked as verified purchases. This is products with a few one-star reviews saying they're total crap, and then a mass of five-star reviews, in coherent English, marked as verified purchases. The only thing dodgy about them is that the account names are obviously algorithmically generated. Not sure how they do that, does Amazon consider a purchase complete if you buy but then cancel before it ships?
Well, at least it makes a change from the usual Trump vs. everything else lunacy that every thread eventually degenerates into.
Launching rockets from airplanes has been done before
It's actually been done for decades, the main differences being that they were pointed down rather than up and they carried warheads rather than payloads.
He doesn't do them to screw you, he does them to enhance his own image. When I first heard about the cat I was pretty confused, Mendax never gave a toss about animals, why would he want a cat? This NPR commentary explains it.
And no, it's not a smear campaign, that's the real Assange, they're describing him as he actually is.
proposal to break up Amazon, Google, and Facebook,
That'll never happen, for the same reason that no-one could take on J.Edgar Hoover while he was alive, they have so much dirt on everyone in Congress and/or their families, relatives, business partners, ..., that they can instantly end the career of anyone who tries to take them on. Look what happened when the IRS took on Scientology, and Scientology in the 1980s were rank amateurs compared to the global surveillance machine that Fecebook and Google today are.
Hintz believes Foxconn is trying to slow-walk the project until 2020, continuing to use it to win Trump's goodwill in the trade war and waiting to see who's elected.
He's got it exactly right. And this was obvious right from the start, their move never made any business sense whatsoever, but it was a brilliant piece of politics. Just look at what's happened to Huawei, who didn't have the foresight to pull a Foxconn on Trump.
He had mental issues before he was arrested, and cluster B personality disorders aren't treatable. Only thing is he may have further mental issues now.
That's a weird set of processors, Nios II and Microblaze are either soft-cores or IP blocks on an FPGA, they aren't really used on consumer equipment. And who uses OpenRISC at all? Did they do this just because they can?
I'm wondering how they're going to do this. Since most of the best extensions are XUL, will it recommend Pale Moon or Waterfox instead of itself?
Monotype has today introduced the Helvetica Now typeface, a wank wank wank and wank wank the wank wank wank to be wank wank. Wank wank wank and wank wank its wank for wank and wank. The wank wank is wank wank wank wank, wank, wank and wank. Wank wank wank wank wank. Written by Andy Mallalieu.
NTFS is Microsoft's file system.
And they're welcome to it, since USB keys are formatted FAT32. Which is also a MS standard, but a documented, published one. So it should be fairly easy to check whether Windows complies with the FAT32 specification or not. Given Microsoft's track history of standards compliance, I'd say "not".
Corollary: As long as the people you can fool are in the majority and/or control anything that's important, you're OK.
With the separation from the real, live person, they'll also be able to introduce the modern equivalent of another innovation pioneered in Germany and Russia about eighty-odd years ago, the video form of the pre-printed postcard telling your loved ones that all is fine and everyone's having a great old time here in Dachau or Balaganskoe.
The Italian-American carmaker
Is that a bit like an "Italian-American businessman"? "Nice emission-free car youse got dere, be a shame iff'n something wuz to happen to it".
It's easy, it's rows of orcs and dragons, and the odd Ancient Dragon and Yeti, lining up in front of staves to kill your character, who seems to have cast Invisibility because I can't see an '@' anywhere.
Funny, because it does the same thing with FreeBSD, OS X, OpenBSD, VxWorks, and various embedded OSes used by embedded systems. Could it be perhaps that Windows is the problem, not every other OS on the planet?
taking a look at apps like the $4-per-month RoboKiller
Or you can use the $0-per-month, two-decade-old, open-source Telecrapper 2000.
Oh, the owners know exactly which satellites are theirs. In fact we do to, they're the ones paid for in North Korean won or Iranian rials, or that arrived packed in lead-line containers.
Same here, our cat will prick her ears up and look at you every single time you say her name, but mostly ignore anything else, including words that sound quite similar. She definitely knows her name.
I've had a Linux desktop for two decades now.
So have I. There's a Linux box on my desktop that I SSH into.
It liiiiivvess!!!! It liiiiivvess!!!!
(Thunder/lightning sounds).