If they purely overbook a flight and too many people show up, people getting bumped is known as an involuntary deferment. They used to have to cut you a check for the price of your ticket, up to $400. (And still get you there). Now that's been bumped up by the FAA ($800 or something).
If they have an equipment change that reduces seat count, they don't have to pay out cash. They can instead "compensate" you with credit on their airline that A) may not be spent at all and B) may require that you put more cash in later for an actual purchase. All the while, they get to hang onto the cash that you paid in the first place.
So the scam is that they schedule your flight (last of the day, for instance) on a plane that they *know* needs mechanical work. They don't do the work, and they "swap" planes at the last minute (to the plane that was *always* going to make that flight). Boom. Instant loophole.
I actually had these particulars explained to me by a United employee at the gate. She must have been having a shit day.
1) Someone doesn't understand the capabilities and limitations of the state of the art in AI. That someone would believe that he can codify and embed his preferences into AI for something as complex as the operations of a company indicates a serious overestimation of what classes of problems are in range.
2) Having employees give attaboys is a surefire way to create isolated political islands and tamp down unpopular positions. It's idiotic.
3) Baking hiring into AI is, at best, penny wise pound foolish, and it could only work if the incentive structure of the company was so universally fucked that one was willing to risk employing someone over spending a few hours with them.
4) I very much want to see the inside of this shit show. I'm guessing that I'll witness a strange mix of misery and bliss. Some people thrive in douchebag-gladiator environments, and I fully expect smart people to game the living shit out of this train wreck.
This has been standard practice for years. In fact, if you have status on some airlines, you can *always* bump someone else off of any flight with the right ticket type.
I flew a few times on a United IAD->SFO route, and of four trips, I got involuntarily deferred twice. The second time, I noted to the gate agent that there's always an equipment change that screws up the flight, and she said, I shit you not, "they do it every night so we can give vouchers instead of cutting checks, even though the change is for fewer seats than the flight was overbooked. It sucks every night."
So, yeah, I gave those vouchers away, because fuck if I'm going to fly United again, even for free.
I watch a couple of sporting events a week, almost exclusively via DVR. Why? I'm busy with a toddler, job, etc. I'm busy enough that I probably haven't seen the score yet, bit, even when I have, I often want to understand how (or watch awesome plays).
So how do you monetize me? How about not stopping so regularly for such long ad breaks? Right now, my ad viewership in these recorded games is zero. I blow right by ads via a DVR. But, if it was a 30 second ad here or there, I'd just sit back and tolerate it.
Everybody I know who has seen this issue (counting me, that's six), and every note of this issue on Apple's community forums that mentions the SoC manufacturer, have one thing in common: Samsung manufactured SoC.
I have a TSMC manufactured SoC, and I don't have this problem anymore.
Spin the genius bar return wheel until you get a working phone. It appears to be a hardware defect, and being saddled with a flaky device is too much to bear.
It's sad to see continual erosion of civil liberties in Europe. Whether Germany with removal of Nazi affiliation or France with biased enforcement of "religious" symbols, it's been the classic example of a slippery slope, and it's mass democracy at its worst.
Naturally, being half Asian, I believe (know) that half Asians are superior... that's not racism. It's factism...
Seriously, though, how much of the delay data is based purely on location, which correlates to wealth, which correlates to race? Or, more cheekily, how much of this is just placism?
Are we just seeing "market effects" pushing drivers to areas where people are more likely able to afford to blow $25 on a cross town ride? Are those populations predominantly white?
However, they don't take your fingerprint and use that information to unlock your phone. They instead compel you to interact with a device. The question for the appellate court (and then supremes) will be whether this is compulsion of a testimonial act.
Apple just removed tethering from the iPhone! Totally ridiculous! Next they'll remove ringers, vibration, and screens, and we'll just have a black slab of glassy smooth...
Damn.. That will probably look really fucking good... Shut up and take my money!
So, knowing nothing about the particulars of an emDrive...
What would it cost to get a 1kW 50kg half-height fridge a ride-along with you? Is this "ambitious Kickstarter" territory or "have a rich uncle Gates or Bezos" territory?
What are the primary driving constraints? Size? Weight? Power?
Thank you again for dropping in on Slashdot to discuss this.
Passwords should be long to be secure, and they should *allow* for upper and lower case, symbols, and numbers.
The key is length. A "complex" short password is easy to own and hard to remember. A "simple" long password is easy to remember and nearly impossible to own.
The only drawback is entry with limited input systems.
They could, however, be Republicans (alt right... Whatever).
Asserting that Clinton is responsible for most of the Middle East is deeply disconnected with historical perspective. "Humans rode dinosaurs" would be in roughly the same boat.
You may not like Windows (note: none of my computer equipment, phones, or work machines run Windows), but it normalized a pretty significant set of operating system features ranging from preemptive multitasking to pluggable filesystems to a workable fast userspace mutex. Windows also maintained a *wildly* long history of binary compatibility well beyond virtually any other OS out there.
They did some next level shit.
I was an Amiga user, a Mac user, a Linux junkie, etc. To call Windows "playing with a toy" is to demonstrate an utter lack of awareness of the depth of that operating system and its facilities.
Of course, I'd rather use Linux or mac OS (and there were others, like NeXTSTEP, along the way), but let's give credit where it's due.
At most, manslaughter. I'd be very surprised if someone went for murder, as they have to demonstrate malice aforethought or depraved indifference.
And her crime, if not shot, would be attempted murder. For a felony murder charge for online inciting, they'd have to show a felony conspiracy, intent to incite an act, etc.
Probably saber rattling.
Nonetheless, egging someone on, in writing, to participate in a violent standoff with police is completely idiotic... Or presidential... Ask me again in six months.
I'm bummed because our privacy is at risk. Obama's legacy is his own problem. I'll freely admit that I bought into some hard-to-fulfill and some easier-to-fulfill-but-unhandled promises.
I'm just still hoping that there's a piece of the promise left...
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If they purely overbook a flight and too many people show up, people getting bumped is known as an involuntary deferment. They used to have to cut you a check for the price of your ticket, up to $400. (And still get you there). Now that's been bumped up by the FAA ($800 or something).
If they have an equipment change that reduces seat count, they don't have to pay out cash. They can instead "compensate" you with credit on their airline that A) may not be spent at all and B) may require that you put more cash in later for an actual purchase. All the while, they get to hang onto the cash that you paid in the first place.
So the scam is that they schedule your flight (last of the day, for instance) on a plane that they *know* needs mechanical work. They don't do the work, and they "swap" planes at the last minute (to the plane that was *always* going to make that flight). Boom. Instant loophole.
I actually had these particulars explained to me by a United employee at the gate. She must have been having a shit day.
Nothing. Nothing is great about this.
1) Someone doesn't understand the capabilities and limitations of the state of the art in AI. That someone would believe that he can codify and embed his preferences into AI for something as complex as the operations of a company indicates a serious overestimation of what classes of problems are in range.
2) Having employees give attaboys is a surefire way to create isolated political islands and tamp down unpopular positions. It's idiotic.
3) Baking hiring into AI is, at best, penny wise pound foolish, and it could only work if the incentive structure of the company was so universally fucked that one was willing to risk employing someone over spending a few hours with them.
4) I very much want to see the inside of this shit show. I'm guessing that I'll witness a strange mix of misery and bliss. Some people thrive in douchebag-gladiator environments, and I fully expect smart people to game the living shit out of this train wreck.
Should be fun... Sort of.
This has been standard practice for years. In fact, if you have status on some airlines, you can *always* bump someone else off of any flight with the right ticket type.
I flew a few times on a United IAD->SFO route, and of four trips, I got involuntarily deferred twice. The second time, I noted to the gate agent that there's always an equipment change that screws up the flight, and she said, I shit you not, "they do it every night so we can give vouchers instead of cutting checks, even though the change is for fewer seats than the flight was overbooked. It sucks every night."
So, yeah, I gave those vouchers away, because fuck if I'm going to fly United again, even for free.
I watch a couple of sporting events a week, almost exclusively via DVR. Why? I'm busy with a toddler, job, etc. I'm busy enough that I probably haven't seen the score yet, bit, even when I have, I often want to understand how (or watch awesome plays).
So how do you monetize me? How about not stopping so regularly for such long ad breaks? Right now, my ad viewership in these recorded games is zero. I blow right by ads via a DVR. But, if it was a 30 second ad here or there, I'd just sit back and tolerate it.
Everybody I know who has seen this issue (counting me, that's six), and every note of this issue on Apple's community forums that mentions the SoC manufacturer, have one thing in common: Samsung manufactured SoC.
I have a TSMC manufactured SoC, and I don't have this problem anymore.
Spin the genius bar return wheel until you get a working phone. It appears to be a hardware defect, and being saddled with a flaky device is too much to bear.
Wow... a vague threat of violence? Go back to playing Call of Duty in your mom's basement, AC.
Okay... I realize that, in an urban dictionary sort of way, that previous sentence could come across as iffy...
Anyway, point stands. Thinly veiled threats as off the cuff jokes are.... very 2016.
It's sad to see continual erosion of civil liberties in Europe. Whether Germany with removal of Nazi affiliation or France with biased enforcement of "religious" symbols, it's been the classic example of a slippery slope, and it's mass democracy at its worst.
Wow, dude. Way to walk into that... Nobody mentioned Nazis until you showed up...
Naturally, being half Asian, I believe (know) that half Asians are superior... that's not racism. It's factism...
Seriously, though, how much of the delay data is based purely on location, which correlates to wealth, which correlates to race? Or, more cheekily, how much of this is just placism?
Are we just seeing "market effects" pushing drivers to areas where people are more likely able to afford to blow $25 on a cross town ride? Are those populations predominantly white?
However, they don't take your fingerprint and use that information to unlock your phone. They instead compel you to interact with a device. The question for the appellate court (and then supremes) will be whether this is compulsion of a testimonial act.
Apple just removed tethering from the iPhone! Totally ridiculous! Next they'll remove ringers, vibration, and screens, and we'll just have a black slab of glassy smooth...
Damn.. That will probably look really fucking good... Shut up and take my money!
So, knowing nothing about the particulars of an emDrive...
What would it cost to get a 1kW 50kg half-height fridge a ride-along with you? Is this "ambitious Kickstarter" territory or "have a rich uncle Gates or Bezos" territory?
What are the primary driving constraints? Size? Weight? Power?
Thank you again for dropping in on Slashdot to discuss this.
Passwords should be long to be secure, and they should *allow* for upper and lower case, symbols, and numbers.
The key is length. A "complex" short password is easy to own and hard to remember. A "simple" long password is easy to remember and nearly impossible to own.
The only drawback is entry with limited input systems.
They could, however, be Republicans (alt right... Whatever).
Asserting that Clinton is responsible for most of the Middle East is deeply disconnected with historical perspective. "Humans rode dinosaurs" would be in roughly the same boat.
And you still posted AC...
You can't run Linux on the Pixel or a MacBook?
That is because it is so small she didn't even notice?
You may not like Windows (note: none of my computer equipment, phones, or work machines run Windows), but it normalized a pretty significant set of operating system features ranging from preemptive multitasking to pluggable filesystems to a workable fast userspace mutex. Windows also maintained a *wildly* long history of binary compatibility well beyond virtually any other OS out there.
They did some next level shit.
I was an Amiga user, a Mac user, a Linux junkie, etc. To call Windows "playing with a toy" is to demonstrate an utter lack of awareness of the depth of that operating system and its facilities.
Of course, I'd rather use Linux or mac OS (and there were others, like NeXTSTEP, along the way), but let's give credit where it's due.
Fortunately for humanity, that giant mechanical spider is sitting in the basement of Oracle, half built and mired in scaling issues.
The next time you decry human idiocy, remember that it was all that saved you from Larry Ellison...
And homeopathic "medicine" is still for sale.
Just a note on black holes: mass escapes black holes via Hawking radiation...
I can't speak to the rest of the post, but, you know, don't diss on black holes.
Oh, and some white federal park squatters will almost certainly be used as a functional counterpoint in this argument. Enjoy..
"Reasonable force" is the part that so many cops miss. (e.g. you can't shoot an unarmed suspect with no threat of imminent harm to another party).
That said, she had a gun, was endangering a five year old, and fired on officers...
I'll let the dust settle before making a call on this mess...
At most, manslaughter. I'd be very surprised if someone went for murder, as they have to demonstrate malice aforethought or depraved indifference.
And her crime, if not shot, would be attempted murder. For a felony murder charge for online inciting, they'd have to show a felony conspiracy, intent to incite an act, etc.
Probably saber rattling.
Nonetheless, egging someone on, in writing, to participate in a violent standoff with police is completely idiotic... Or presidential... Ask me again in six months.
On the Caltrain in San Francisco? Totally agree. It's cordial, straightforward, and the only assholes in the train are Caltrain employees.
In Chicago, on the CTA? Watch your shit.
I'm bummed because our privacy is at risk. Obama's legacy is his own problem. I'll freely admit that I bought into some hard-to-fulfill and some easier-to-fulfill-but-unhandled promises.
I'm just still hoping that there's a piece of the promise left...