I had the Nexus 4, and the wireless charging was one of the best things about it. So useful to just set the phone down on my desk and have it charge. I was disappointed to hear that feature was going away.
In this case, "your" could actually be grammatically correct if intended in the same way as "your average bear". Still, I don't understand why pronoun/contraction confusion is so prevalent.
Someone could take the book, whack the flight crew over the head with it, and take over the plane! We must ban all books immediately!
Or worse, if a terrorist took an explosive and a book on a plane, he could use the explosive to ignite the book, and then he'd have a flaming book that he could use to light other things on fire!
My understanding from minimally following this, is that they're concerned about the explosive being held up against the wall of the plane, where an explosion could damage the structure. In the center of the cabin, the amount of explosive you could fit in a laptop wouldn't be so dangerous. So if your bombtop is checked, you don't know if setting it off would damage the plane, and odds are low of anything catastrophic happening.
That's the thinking, anyway. Although setting off any kind of explosive in a crowded plane cabin, or in multiple plane cabins, would still have some kind of effect, one would think. Certainly psychological.
But this just further goes to show that the combination of the wide availability of soft targets (including infrastructure and crowded public places), the woeful ineffectiveness of the TSA, and the complete lack of any realistic terrorist attack since 9/11 only highlights how miniscule the threat of terrorism really is. More people die in the US from car accidents per day (on average) than did on 9/11.
My employer ITsec / HR has already sent out the memo that says if this takes effect go ahead and check it but till then keep it with you at all times. This is more less common sense.
I agree, the TSA certainly is more less common sense.
I got the same phone last fall for $124 (not from Amazon). It's definitely fast enough for anything I need (I don't play games). The "killer app" for this phone is that Motorola includes a built-in gesture that shrinks the whole screen down enough to be used with one hand. That was what sold me on it, but other noteworthy features include: -microSD card slot -user-replaceable battery -2 days of use per charge (average) -regular headphone jack
but I can't see anything good coming out of the current situation
The potential good is that speech is more free and harder to censor. Sure, there are downsides to that, in the occasions when you do have a legitimate reason to clamp down on something; but in general the dangers to the public of over-censoring are greater than under-censoring. At least if individual liberty and human rights are your priorities.
How is this Insightful? I don't have my Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments handy, but this is classic strawman, isn't it? The FCC is investigating Colbert because they received numerous complaints about his having said something obscene. Every other late night host makes fun of Trump every night, and they don't get investigated.
by Neal Stephenson. And maybe Expanse #5 -- erm, Nemesis Games.
I started Seveneves a week or two ago, and am maybe 25% through. It's the first Stephenson I've read (I know, I know) and is quite good. So far, highly recommended. I was hooked by the first line:
The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.
Ever notice that when a sentence starts off, "I like how...," the rest of it is a sophomoric diatribe about how the author doesn't actually, "... like how...?"
what's the point of a navigation app without real time traffic?
The point is to navigate you from point A to B. Just like it was for every single GPS navigation device people had before we switched to using smart phones. Real-time traffic is a nice feature, but by no means a necessity.
We get hail storms, tornadoes, heat waves, flooding, and blizzards here.
In $DEITY's name, where the hell do you live? WHY are you still living there?
That describes a huge portion of the central USA and Canada. I live in Chicago, we get all of that. When I lived in LA we had earthquakes, mudslides, fires, riots, kale shortages, etc. In Florida it was hurricanes, flooding, lightning storms, and elderly drivers. Every place has its disasters.
I have a backup phone with Ting, and am this close to switching over. I just have to disentangle our multiple lines from our T-Mobile family plan in a coordinated fashion.
Yeah, same here. We have a 3GB/line plan, but they've always been clear that you can use more than that but at a slower speed. I've only ever seen marketing to this effect. Were they offering something somewhere without including that disclaimer? That'd be surprising to hear, as they're generally quite up-front about the conditions. As for those saying "unlimited means unlimited, and any limit of any kind means they're lying", well, no, they've specifically said the amount of data is unlimited, not the speed. Two different things.
More worrisome to me is that they just announced they're going to implement throttling of wi-fi tethered data when the network gets "busy", which seems a clear violation of net neutrality. What happened, T-Mobile? You use to be cool!
"For the QA Engineer position, from a pool of more than 730 qualified applicants, approximately 77% of whom were asian, Palantir hired six non-Asian applicants and only one Asian applicant. The adverse impact calculated by OFCCP exceeds three standard deviations. The likelihood that this result occurred according to chance is approximately one in 741.
That is, they are making an argument (in statistical terms) about random samples from the population of applicants, and that argument is utterly wrong.
So if I understand correctly, the DOL is saying that when presented with qualified candidates of this racial distribution, the odds that the "best 7" would consist of one Asian and six non-Asians are 1 in 741? As far as odds go, that's not so low as to be mathematically impossible. Consider the number of companies hiring for a position at any given time, and the odds of one of those companies facing a 1-in-741 scenarios is not that low. I think you'd need to actually examine the particulars of the applicants to determine whether the chosen candidates were not actually a better choice in some way than those not chosen, but allowing the federal government to nitpick individual candidate evaluations is a can of worms. Absent actual material evidence, a statistical analysis is not evidence of wrongdoing. Stranger things have happened.
This isn't to say they didn't do anything wrong, just that "there's a 0.135% chance you're not racist" shouldn't be enough for a conviction.
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I had the Nexus 4, and the wireless charging was one of the best things about it. So useful to just set the phone down on my desk and have it charge. I was disappointed to hear that feature was going away.
your improving apple
How is your/you're so difficult?
In this case, "your" could actually be grammatically correct if intended in the same way as "your average bear". Still, I don't understand why pronoun/contraction confusion is so prevalent.
But in 1999, Hollywood movies weren't so bad. That's the year that gave us The Matrix.
That's also the year that Hollywood gave us Dudley Do-right, Wild Wild West, and Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo.
Someone could take the book, whack the flight crew over the head with it, and take over the plane! We must ban all books immediately!
Or worse, if a terrorist took an explosive and a book on a plane, he could use the explosive to ignite the book, and then he'd have a flaming book that he could use to light other things on fire!
My understanding from minimally following this, is that they're concerned about the explosive being held up against the wall of the plane, where an explosion could damage the structure. In the center of the cabin, the amount of explosive you could fit in a laptop wouldn't be so dangerous. So if your bombtop is checked, you don't know if setting it off would damage the plane, and odds are low of anything catastrophic happening.
That's the thinking, anyway. Although setting off any kind of explosive in a crowded plane cabin, or in multiple plane cabins, would still have some kind of effect, one would think. Certainly psychological.
But this just further goes to show that the combination of the wide availability of soft targets (including infrastructure and crowded public places), the woeful ineffectiveness of the TSA, and the complete lack of any realistic terrorist attack since 9/11 only highlights how miniscule the threat of terrorism really is. More people die in the US from car accidents per day (on average) than did on 9/11.
My employer ITsec / HR has already sent out the memo that says if this takes effect go ahead and check it but till then keep it with you at all times. This is more less common sense.
I agree, the TSA certainly is more less common sense.
I got the same phone last fall for $124 (not from Amazon). It's definitely fast enough for anything I need (I don't play games). The "killer app" for this phone is that Motorola includes a built-in gesture that shrinks the whole screen down enough to be used with one hand. That was what sold me on it, but other noteworthy features include:
-microSD card slot
-user-replaceable battery
-2 days of use per charge (average)
-regular headphone jack
It's the perfect phone for me.
but I can't see anything good coming out of the current situation
The potential good is that speech is more free and harder to censor. Sure, there are downsides to that, in the occasions when you do have a legitimate reason to clamp down on something; but in general the dangers to the public of over-censoring are greater than under-censoring. At least if individual liberty and human rights are your priorities.
How is this Insightful? I don't have my Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments handy, but this is classic strawman, isn't it? The FCC is investigating Colbert because they received numerous complaints about his having said something obscene. Every other late night host makes fun of Trump every night, and they don't get investigated.
Come on.
I'm wondering how long it will be before someone comes up with an excessively forced acronym for "steve".
Superhigh-Temperature Extreme Velocity Ether?
Ex Machina
Looper
Just saw Ex Machina, very impressed. Looper was waaaaay better than I expected it to be. A solid flick.
Robert Preston is great, Dan O'Herlihy is great, the CGI is great. Definitely a favorite.
"Don't worry, I'll have it all figured out by the time we reach the frontier."
[computer beeps]
"What's that?"
"The frontier."
Dark Star!
Don't give me any of that intelligent life crap, just give me something I can blow up!
If only for kevin spacey's voice paired with emoji
+1 to that. I was really surprised at how good this movie was. A new classic, IMHO.
by Neal Stephenson. And maybe Expanse #5 -- erm, Nemesis Games.
I started Seveneves a week or two ago, and am maybe 25% through. It's the first Stephenson I've read (I know, I know) and is quite good. So far, highly recommended. I was hooked by the first line:
Read the first chapter here.
Insurance for life on Autopilot safety features? Whose life? Mine, or the car's?
Ever notice that when a sentence starts off, "I like how ...," the rest of it is a sophomoric diatribe about how the author doesn't actually, " ... like how ...?"
I like how everybody here understands sarcasm.
what's the point of a navigation app without real time traffic?
The point is to navigate you from point A to B. Just like it was for every single GPS navigation device people had before we switched to using smart phones. Real-time traffic is a nice feature, but by no means a necessity.
Hahaha... Disregard that. I suck cocks.
I get the reference. I guess slashdotters don't read bash.org anymore?
We get hail storms, tornadoes, heat waves, flooding, and blizzards here.
In $DEITY's name, where the hell do you live? WHY are you still living there?
That describes a huge portion of the central USA and Canada. I live in Chicago, we get all of that. When I lived in LA we had earthquakes, mudslides, fires, riots, kale shortages, etc. In Florida it was hurricanes, flooding, lightning storms, and elderly drivers. Every place has its disasters.
I think that and similar humanity-caused, humanity-ending disasters are unlikely, but I am an inveterate optimist.
I misread that as "I am an invertebrate optimist."
I have a backup phone with Ting, and am this close to switching over. I just have to disentangle our multiple lines from our T-Mobile family plan in a coordinated fashion.
Naturally I commented before RTFA. T-Mobile was doing exactly this, see CheeseTroll's comment below.
Yeah, same here. We have a 3GB/line plan, but they've always been clear that you can use more than that but at a slower speed. I've only ever seen marketing to this effect. Were they offering something somewhere without including that disclaimer? That'd be surprising to hear, as they're generally quite up-front about the conditions. As for those saying "unlimited means unlimited, and any limit of any kind means they're lying", well, no, they've specifically said the amount of data is unlimited, not the speed. Two different things.
More worrisome to me is that they just announced they're going to implement throttling of wi-fi tethered data when the network gets "busy", which seems a clear violation of net neutrality. What happened, T-Mobile? You use to be cool!
Here is the argument that the DOL is making:
That is, they are making an argument (in statistical terms) about random samples from the population of applicants, and that argument is utterly wrong.
So if I understand correctly, the DOL is saying that when presented with qualified candidates of this racial distribution, the odds that the "best 7" would consist of one Asian and six non-Asians are 1 in 741? As far as odds go, that's not so low as to be mathematically impossible. Consider the number of companies hiring for a position at any given time, and the odds of one of those companies facing a 1-in-741 scenarios is not that low. I think you'd need to actually examine the particulars of the applicants to determine whether the chosen candidates were not actually a better choice in some way than those not chosen, but allowing the federal government to nitpick individual candidate evaluations is a can of worms. Absent actual material evidence, a statistical analysis is not evidence of wrongdoing. Stranger things have happened.
This isn't to say they didn't do anything wrong, just that "there's a 0.135% chance you're not racist" shouldn't be enough for a conviction.