Well, do you really realize they and their colleagues afterwards are suffering with the consequences of having it in 30, do you?;) The Fahrenheit idea is one of the best I have heard in years.
I work in southern europe, and normally here people like it warm - so I am lucky I have an office mostly for myself. For me the comfortable settings in summer time are somewhere between 15 and 19. When I do get to go myself to communal areas, it is disgraceful, they like to run it at 25-26, and when someone is there alone and puts it colder, they passively-aggressively set the temperature to +30 afterwards when no one is looking.
Fortunately I have an office for myself. 15 no less, still comfortable until it reaches 19. When I do visit the communal areas, at 25 I cannot really stay there for long.
Well, I do not attend fast food restaurants, but whenever I just hear music in coffee shops or restaurants I simply do not enter. It works actually as a repellent for many people I guess, except maybe for the kind of crowd I do not want to mix with. So I am comfortable with it actually, it saves me time.
I know pretty well the limitations, but anyway you did not bothered to ask if I did not know them, and that is why I really hate the slashdot crowd.
As other things in life, those things are not perfect, but they are better than nothing, and whilst they are not enough for a three letter agency, they are more than enough for my ISP not to collect metadata about my activities, for my work not to have logs of what I do in my iPhone, how to be more secure when I access data in wifis at home, specially in the FON network which is pretty ubiquitous here.
As for standing out, the time is past that. Too many people using enterprise mandated in some corporate phones, commercial or free VPNs nowadays.
As for air gapped computers, that is bullshit talk.
There is a thing called privacy and another more specific called VPN or Tor. So basically you waived you right to privacy and to take preemptive measures to shield your activity from the local ISP and from the any minion of the government at large, and gave your search data for them to sell to others, for "marketing" purposes. How nice and patriotic of you.
If you say so. Here a prominent politician misused the right to be forgotten to erase links from google when he was a traitor to our country in the colonials wars, however if instead people search for his nickname instead of his name, the pages can be found.
This is attempting to put another nail on the anonymity of the Internet. The most obvious answer to verifying age (and identity), is coincidentally using a CC that will identify you (and no, back in my country we do not have any anonymous equivalent). Between that, and talking about abolishing encryption, we all know where this is heading. An heavily controlled and censored, sanitised version of Internet, at least on the uk. Soon they will put a CCTV on top of your computer, which you are not allowed to cover. And your mobile camera will not allow you to turn it off, and the bits will not flow if you cover your face.
It is easy to put others to work for "free" with the power of the legislator pen. Being more practical, good look in enforcing that all over the world, and to erase things from pages that the owners or companies no longer exist, and somewhat survive in dormant accounts. Or in bit torrents of defunct hosting sites... Or some photo turned viral, and in the inbox and backups of millions of people. Legislator truly do not understand the Internet. What next, besides blacklists the UK will implement image blacklist based on signatures of things you do not want people to see? What comes ahead them, middle-in-the-man wide country config to open the all-widespread SSL sites? Good luck.
Fully agree with you on that, one is not the replacement for the other - however nowadays it is becoming harder to live without the too. Beginning how my page was hijacked in a Saturday night when facebook was stupid enough to let you "recover" the page identifying photos of at least 3 friends, and ending when I when was dealing with a stressful situation in work, "logged in" with my linked.in account and it only dawned on me it was a phishing attack when I already hit enter. The former situation took care of itself when facebook adopted 2FA, the later had I not 2FA in place, a automated script would have hijacked my account as soon as I "logged in" in that phishing page.
Would it? You just have another page with another box to put another password, it won't make it any difference. Look at authy in iPhone, Android or Chrome. It uses RFC-6238 TOTP, which only synchronises once and from them on all the number generations are done with mathematical operations on your device, and do not need any connection/traffic at all.
For the legislators it is easy, it is not their money, and they can put google and the ISPs working "for free" at their beckoning. At the end of the day it is us, the end users and consumers, footing the bill as always.
If you say so. There is instrumental music, you know? And between hearing music or slaving away in an open office and hearing all the private life of my workmates in their conversations over the phone, phones ringing, people talking, and some idiot or other that does not know yet phones were invented...actually music makes me far much more productive and with less murderous thoughts too.
Saying me I was using rhetoric, my point is the drivers...between being exploited by the taxi or by Uber they are between a rock and a hard place. So why a firm can go against the taxi cartel, why not individuals?
I come from a similar place, except the size. I doubt allowing more taxis will make the industry go belly up. As much I do not agree with Uber, the truth is the taxi model is a racket industry to have others working for you that could very well setup their business with your interference. But alas, the laws are setup to protect a predatory model in many industries where the intermediates earn more than the actual worker. Radius station same thing here, they were restricted to control speech and to protect the shitty national music industry - too many of them only broadcasted foreign music. Internet same thing, predatory industry. Big players even used the leverage they had in big cities to crush small nascent players with lower prices in their turf. Of course often the government then steps in to make them subside places where they have no profit, good that at least it does something, but on the other hand also hands them very profitable businesses in a gold plate.
So as soon as regulation is updated to keep up with the times, and you can do a hail in a mobile app instead of with an hand...suddenly Uber is now a taxi. Great comment you made.
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I can work in the backoffice in t-shirts and moccasins, and nonetheless I am at my best between 15 and 19 C...
Well, do you really realize they and their colleagues afterwards are suffering with the consequences of having it in 30, do you? ;) The Fahrenheit idea is one of the best I have heard in years.
And I am a man from a southern european country and 20-21 is already too hot for me. So what?
Exactly the same here. I lived in a house in Africa for 4 years and the AC in my bedroom was at 19 C 24/7.
Amen brother. No need to post as anonymous to talk about facts.
I work in southern europe, and normally here people like it warm - so I am lucky I have an office mostly for myself. For me the comfortable settings in summer time are somewhere between 15 and 19. When I do get to go myself to communal areas, it is disgraceful, they like to run it at 25-26, and when someone is there alone and puts it colder, they passively-aggressively set the temperature to +30 afterwards when no one is looking.
Fortunately I have an office for myself. 15 no less, still comfortable until it reaches 19. When I do visit the communal areas, at 25 I cannot really stay there for long.
Well, I do not attend fast food restaurants, but whenever I just hear music in coffee shops or restaurants I simply do not enter. It works actually as a repellent for many people I guess, except maybe for the kind of crowd I do not want to mix with. So I am comfortable with it actually, it saves me time.
Alas, finally a comment with some sanity.
Oh yeah, because sysvinit will take a lot of work porting to...I guess in the last 20 years we lived in some alternate reality.
I know pretty well the limitations, but anyway you did not bothered to ask if I did not know them, and that is why I really hate the slashdot crowd. As other things in life, those things are not perfect, but they are better than nothing, and whilst they are not enough for a three letter agency, they are more than enough for my ISP not to collect metadata about my activities, for my work not to have logs of what I do in my iPhone, how to be more secure when I access data in wifis at home, specially in the FON network which is pretty ubiquitous here. As for standing out, the time is past that. Too many people using enterprise mandated in some corporate phones, commercial or free VPNs nowadays. As for air gapped computers, that is bullshit talk.
There is a thing called privacy and another more specific called VPN or Tor. So basically you waived you right to privacy and to take preemptive measures to shield your activity from the local ISP and from the any minion of the government at large, and gave your search data for them to sell to others, for "marketing" purposes. How nice and patriotic of you.
If you say so. Here a prominent politician misused the right to be forgotten to erase links from google when he was a traitor to our country in the colonials wars, however if instead people search for his nickname instead of his name, the pages can be found.
This is attempting to put another nail on the anonymity of the Internet. The most obvious answer to verifying age (and identity), is coincidentally using a CC that will identify you (and no, back in my country we do not have any anonymous equivalent). Between that, and talking about abolishing encryption, we all know where this is heading. An heavily controlled and censored, sanitised version of Internet, at least on the uk. Soon they will put a CCTV on top of your computer, which you are not allowed to cover. And your mobile camera will not allow you to turn it off, and the bits will not flow if you cover your face.
It is easy to put others to work for "free" with the power of the legislator pen. Being more practical, good look in enforcing that all over the world, and to erase things from pages that the owners or companies no longer exist, and somewhat survive in dormant accounts. Or in bit torrents of defunct hosting sites... Or some photo turned viral, and in the inbox and backups of millions of people. Legislator truly do not understand the Internet. What next, besides blacklists the UK will implement image blacklist based on signatures of things you do not want people to see? What comes ahead them, middle-in-the-man wide country config to open the all-widespread SSL sites? Good luck.
Fully agree with you on that, one is not the replacement for the other - however nowadays it is becoming harder to live without the too. Beginning how my page was hijacked in a Saturday night when facebook was stupid enough to let you "recover" the page identifying photos of at least 3 friends, and ending when I when was dealing with a stressful situation in work, "logged in" with my linked.in account and it only dawned on me it was a phishing attack when I already hit enter. The former situation took care of itself when facebook adopted 2FA, the later had I not 2FA in place, a automated script would have hijacked my account as soon as I "logged in" in that phishing page.
Would it? You just have another page with another box to put another password, it won't make it any difference. Look at authy in iPhone, Android or Chrome. It uses RFC-6238 TOTP, which only synchronises once and from them on all the number generations are done with mathematical operations on your device, and do not need any connection/traffic at all.
For the legislators it is easy, it is not their money, and they can put google and the ISPs working "for free" at their beckoning. At the end of the day it is us, the end users and consumers, footing the bill as always.
So many talking about securing passwords and not single mention to double factor authentication...
If you say so. There is instrumental music, you know? And between hearing music or slaving away in an open office and hearing all the private life of my workmates in their conversations over the phone, phones ringing, people talking, and some idiot or other that does not know yet phones were invented...actually music makes me far much more productive and with less murderous thoughts too.
Saying me I was using rhetoric, my point is the drivers...between being exploited by the taxi or by Uber they are between a rock and a hard place. So why a firm can go against the taxi cartel, why not individuals?
I have give a very cursory read to the PDF, it seems quite broad. The timing of this is quite suspect, is just to make people not buy iWatchs?
They won't and in nanny states like the UK it would be enough for the child to be taken from you.
I come from a similar place, except the size. I doubt allowing more taxis will make the industry go belly up. As much I do not agree with Uber, the truth is the taxi model is a racket industry to have others working for you that could very well setup their business with your interference. But alas, the laws are setup to protect a predatory model in many industries where the intermediates earn more than the actual worker. Radius station same thing here, they were restricted to control speech and to protect the shitty national music industry - too many of them only broadcasted foreign music. Internet same thing, predatory industry. Big players even used the leverage they had in big cities to crush small nascent players with lower prices in their turf. Of course often the government then steps in to make them subside places where they have no profit, good that at least it does something, but on the other hand also hands them very profitable businesses in a gold plate.
So as soon as regulation is updated to keep up with the times, and you can do a hail in a mobile app instead of with an hand...suddenly Uber is now a taxi. Great comment you made.