there are never any lines at the automated cashier, especially the ones that don't accept cash.
Keep dreaming pal. My Local Branch of a grocery store has to advertise all stations fully manned because it is often the case that everywhere has a line including the automatic check out. Which can hickup if you move your bags. If you pick something up and put it back down you have to wait for the person manning the station to give you the all clear. If you buy something on clearance you still have to take it up to that person directly rather than scanning it in the machine.
Wall street is the only part of the country that would cheer the loss of jobs.
Everybody should cheer. The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". If the same number of burgers can be delivered with less labor, that is a GOOD THING.
As the cost of production is reduced, some combination of the customers, franchisees, and shareholders will have more money to spend on other things, generating jobs elsewhere in the economy. For more insight on why pointless make-work jobs are NOT "good for the economy", you can read The Parable of the Broken Window.
did some conservative site go hard on this Broken Window thing? Because this is the third time this year I've had to debunk the Broken Window Fallacy
[Debunking the Broken Window Fallacy](https://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/10/01/debunking-the-broken-window-fallacy/)
I don't even use apple products but this is a good idea. If you're gonna nag me at least give me a) a consistent experience and b) a way to do it without leaving the app. No more trying to decipher the UI to find the "Not Now" button.
Just understanding the laws of physics gives any STEM grad a huge advantage over a liberal arts students in bullshit detection.
Critical thinking in liberal arts schools is just another indoctrination. Test is how well they agree with the teachers opinions.
How many times have you seen a liberal arts major accept obvious bullshit because they don't understand 'conservation of energy' (just picking one example). It's rife.
I don't often do this on SD because there's no images but:
No.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a large company using its size to get a better deal.
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No but there is a problem with changing the way the internet works so only large companies can use their size to get better deals. Netflix using their size to get TV shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine over say Crackle is one thing. Netflix using their size to not care that websites like Crackle are downspun and now operate at a crawl while they remain unaffected is completely not ok. That would be like if the tallest NBA players didn't care that the NBA instituted a height requirement that didn't affect them. It's a dick move. It's an even bigger dick move to say it so blatantly.
"It's not narrowly important to us because we're big enough to get the deals we want,"
Yeah Free Speech isn't important to me. I can say whatever I want. Sufferage isn't important to me I can vote for whomever I want. Right to freely assemble isn't important to me I can hang with my friends whenever and wherever I want. Right to proper representation isn't important to me i can afford my own lawyers.
When we talk about corporations "being evil" this is what we're talking about. This right here is Netflix showing us blatantly that we can't trust them to do anything that isn't outside their specific personal interest. They have the money and mindshare to be the least affected by changes in net neutrality. They know the public would clamor. The only thing that changes to net neutrality does is ruin the chances of anyone else to become a competitor to Netflix because they won't have that. It makes it harder for anything that isn't Netflix or YouTube or HBO Go or maybe Crunchyroll to get the "deals" that would be necessary to be viable alternatives. They're instituting grandfather clauses in the internet. Either you were popular before net neutrality died or you get backing from Rubert Murdoch or you just suffer.
RSS worked fine, the problem is it was too open. Publishers want you logged in and monetized, with a reader that will display ads, and subscribing through a smart phone app.
Man I remember the good old Google Reader days RSS feeds were so well populated that I didn't bother going to websites anymore. RSS feeds had everything I wanted. But yeah those glory days feel like they're gone now. I haven't made the switch to feedly yet and this point I'm not sure I'm going to bother with it.
Since the death of Google Reader my most used case of RSS is podcasts. I get the occasional feed notification from IFTTT but most of the websites I used to get RSS from just have direct channels that are a little better and a little easier.
But podcasts however I listen to a fair number of podcasts and I have about 30-40 of them in my reader (Podcast Addict). I'd like a readable JSON format for syndication but if it's going to mess with my podcasts I won't bother.
no. storage is still an issue. Especially in IOTs where you might want mp3 playback but only in a limited capacity. Flac is a fine format but it's no replacement for mp3 we're a long long way from being in a world wehre every instance of audio is storage independent.
All the death criers about MP3 have been wildly short sighted. If anything MP3 should get a bump as the already ubiquitous format can now be used without a license. There's no reason it shouldn't just be everywhere as a starter format now. No more downloading mp3 codecs because they'll be embedded. Maybe the official defaulting of MP3 can now begin the rise of ogg but for now mp3 is far from dead.
Nonsense. The 83 and 84 are acceptable for nearly all tests outside of accounting and physics (and why settle for the 83?). Better calcs are often banned because they are still in the realm of making the work too easy, the way pocket calculators were and slide rules before that.
Nobody selects technology because they think they can get technical support from their teacher.
I remember Math competition when the TI-89 came out. That year the first Pre-Cal round had like a 19 way tie for first place.
It makes sense to have a graphing calculator. Heck it even makes a sort of sense for it to be not so powerful but it doesn't need to be that over priced. It's probably the single most over priced item I own.
This calculator app is nice but it's no replacement for a physical calculator for many reasons. I would buy another TI-89 right now if it wasn't a machine worth about $25 dollars costing nearly $100.
Governments don't understand that social media can be easily forged to appear normal enough and puppet accounts are easy enough to manufacture.
Until our robot overlords ascend to power, governments are, fundamentally, groups of people. In this case, the question is what the Trump administration (which controls the State Department) does, or does not, understand.
Let's say someone comes to the USA with the intent of committing a major terrorist attack and they don't give their full list of email addresses and social media accounts to the Department of State. There's some question of whether the State Department would be able to detect this. But, for the sake of argument, let's assume that the State Department does some "extreme vetting" and turns up an extra social media account that is strongly critical of USA foreign policy in the Middle East.
What does the State Department do? Does the State Department send the person back to their own country to refine their plan? "Sorry, you said bad things about the USA on your blog so we can't let you into the USA legally. If you're really serious about carrying out your attack then you'll have to find a way to sneak into the USA illegally - across the border with Canada or something"
And does the Trump administration really think that this social media policy is going to be effective? Or does the Trump administration know that this won't actually prevent major terrorist attacks but they're counting on their supporters to be too simple-minded to realize it? I honestly don't know what the case is here. They do say that the best liars find ways to believe their own lies.
thing is being refused entry is a really bad black mark. For some people it's not just "go home and start over" it's more like "Welcome to the no entry list unless you fellate me". It's not easy to get past that for everyone. In theory a hidden social media account (again presuming it's was even possible for the government to detect) could get you functionally blackballed from entry.
If you talk to the people from the Muslim ban who couldn't get in they aren't itching to leave the country again precisely because of this. They got in once but just because they got around it when the Muslim Ban was shot down doesn't mean they want to test the system. After all when the system isn't fair and you get kicked out unfairly the government isn't trying to hear your story. You don't get to challenge the status in a court because you can't get in. I'm 80% sure that was the plot of Born in East LA.
Why do so many people who complain about how overweening and disdainful of the Constitution the US government has become immediately turn around and want to put that same government in charge of the entire US health care system?
"Hey, the government is an out-of-control power mad beast! Let's give it even more power!"
What the fuck?
yeah Government should get out of health care and privacy and law passing heck the government was bad at that Korean war thing why do we keep letting the government control all our wars? The government bad in one area is a government bad in ALL areas.
doesn't this affect all open source? Programs like Audacity can finally export MP3s natively without including "complex" and sometimes confusing instructions on how to download the MP3 codec
'I see that I'm legitimately on the https://www.foobar.com/ site, and Foobar is telling me that Google wants permission. I trust Foobar and Google, so I'll click Allow,'"
Let's see. You're on the attacker's website and you trust it (apparently because it has https in the URL), and you trust Google, so you allow the attacker free access to your google account. How is this Google's fault again? I mean, you give access to your account to people you shouldn't and it's someone else's fault?
The mistake here is Google wants permission. That's not what's happening. It's Foobar asking for permission by pretending to be google. So while you would trust Google to give you access to foobar without giving Foobar too much info. You don't trust Foobar directly. So youclick Allow on Google but you're actually clicking on Foobar.
This isn't a fucking TV drama, it is more important to get the psychological leverage over the terrorist groups who are reminded they can't use tech to hide. It is also more important to remind the public that terrorists can't do that.
no it isn't. If anything the past experience with government agencies is that they'll exploit the heck out of security holes they can find and use that to get whomever they want to get. Heck that was the whole point of Snowden. There's no incentive or historical trend of governmental agencies effectively shouting out that they've found a way to see through the door. Instead they keep looking through the door gathering and using intelligence until someone notices.
at best this suggests that "Oh we're so strong we cracked WhatsApp" but it does so completely at the cost of their loophole. It's a silly stunt that's only effective if they have a backup in place.
apps get on to app stores all the time, they just get removed fairly quickly. But copies can remain.
Not that it would have been needed in this case. Someone could have coded it and injected it into the bluetooth economy from there it would spread.
in a third world country without a culture of technology that we have they developed their own economy of peer to peer app distribution. That's pretty impressive. That shows a pretty hefty degree of ingenuity
Pretty sure this has less to do with direct access to the Play Store and more to do with people from the third world, who for all intents and purposes view technology as magic, getting access to smart phones. And who was the friend who shared the app with her? One would think that friends would be even better sources for information on an App that they use and have on their phone than the play store's faceless reviews.
you're wrong. This has everything to do with no access to the play store. This woman lives a life where she doesn't get her apps from the play store because of the cost of data. Were that not the case there wouldn't be an alternative economy of bluetoothing apps in a peer to peer manner. She would have gotten the app from the play store and it would have been much more obvious it was a prank.
These are first time smart phone users. Not people who grew up in homes with phones. Poor Kenyans who are getting their first phones as adults. They don't have the same phone culture that we do. Heck there are people in America who believe the things they see phones do in Law and Order. These people don't even have that level of sophistication with regards to cell phones. They have no background on expectations. They need education to avoid these common traps and they don't have the time to get the education. You're calling out the friend as if they should know better... why? how? because the friend was super tech savvy? they probably weren't. They might have gotten the same panic and didn't know what to do as well except share the app because "better to know than to be ignorantly infected". It's an entire culture of people who don't know better. They weren't around during the email forward years of the 90s when we learned slowly but surely that gangs never initiate by flashing headlights.
It's insultingly over simplistic to pull out "they view it as magic". That is not what's happening here. There are just people who are like grandparents when it comes to smart phones but they learn faster. They find their own shortcuts. All the checks and balances of modern phones are based on users being relatively similar to the designers. If you go thru the google store and you speak or read english you're not going to have an issue with fake apps but for each of those that don't apply to you that increases your risk and when you don't even understand that it increases your risk even more.
But the industry doesn't consider that. They don't design the OS to consider Kenyan women who are poor and controlled by the men in their life. They don't design handsets for people who buy a phone the way we would buy a car saving for months to buy it. Simply accusing them of seeing it as magic drastically misunderstands the situation.
an Android smartphone with one setting lets you download and install APKs without a store. Something youcan't do with an iPhone.
yes the sharing of apps via bluetooth is the cause of this woman's distress but it's also enabled her to use her phone. She got burned one time but she's also been living with this arrangement for presumably a while now. It's enabled her to do many thing that she wouldn't otherwise be able to do because of data limits. It's a bit like the cuban intranet. Or even the idea of selling water in plastic baggies. It's rather ingenious in some ways and the fact that she got burned by it doesn't mean the system is a bad idea. it means there needs to be better education, perhaps better APK checking than just permissions. Stuff that makes sense in a world where we have access to a large amount of data doesn't necessarily make sense in a world where people live on shoestring budgets of data.
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there are never any lines at the automated cashier, especially the ones that don't accept cash.
Keep dreaming pal. My Local Branch of a grocery store has to advertise all stations fully manned because it is often the case that everywhere has a line including the automatic check out. Which can hickup if you move your bags. If you pick something up and put it back down you have to wait for the person manning the station to give you the all clear. If you buy something on clearance you still have to take it up to that person directly rather than scanning it in the machine.
Wall street is the only part of the country that would cheer the loss of jobs.
Everybody should cheer. The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". If the same number of burgers can be delivered with less labor, that is a GOOD THING.
As the cost of production is reduced, some combination of the customers, franchisees, and shareholders will have more money to spend on other things, generating jobs elsewhere in the economy. For more insight on why pointless make-work jobs are NOT "good for the economy", you can read The Parable of the Broken Window.
did some conservative site go hard on this Broken Window thing? Because this is the third time this year I've had to debunk the Broken Window Fallacy [Debunking the Broken Window Fallacy](https://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/10/01/debunking-the-broken-window-fallacy/)
I can still remember the millions of children that simply disappeared before the advent of cell phones. It was a huge tragedy.
I used to get so lost as a child before my internal compass developed on my thirteenth birthday. It was horrible.
I don't even use apple products but this is a good idea. If you're gonna nag me at least give me a) a consistent experience and b) a way to do it without leaving the app. No more trying to decipher the UI to find the "Not Now" button.
I don't often do this on SD because there's no images but: No.
No but there is a problem with changing the way the internet works so only large companies can use their size to get better deals. Netflix using their size to get TV shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine over say Crackle is one thing. Netflix using their size to not care that websites like Crackle are downspun and now operate at a crawl while they remain unaffected is completely not ok. That would be like if the tallest NBA players didn't care that the NBA instituted a height requirement that didn't affect them. It's a dick move. It's an even bigger dick move to say it so blatantly.
Exactly
Yeah Free Speech isn't important to me. I can say whatever I want. Sufferage isn't important to me I can vote for whomever I want. Right to freely assemble isn't important to me I can hang with my friends whenever and wherever I want. Right to proper representation isn't important to me i can afford my own lawyers.
When we talk about corporations "being evil" this is what we're talking about. This right here is Netflix showing us blatantly that we can't trust them to do anything that isn't outside their specific personal interest. They have the money and mindshare to be the least affected by changes in net neutrality. They know the public would clamor. The only thing that changes to net neutrality does is ruin the chances of anyone else to become a competitor to Netflix because they won't have that. It makes it harder for anything that isn't Netflix or YouTube or HBO Go or maybe Crunchyroll to get the "deals" that would be necessary to be viable alternatives. They're instituting grandfather clauses in the internet. Either you were popular before net neutrality died or you get backing from Rubert Murdoch or you just suffer.
Senior in high school or college?
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RSS worked fine, the problem is it was too open. Publishers want you logged in and monetized, with a reader that will display ads, and subscribing through a smart phone app.
Man I remember the good old Google Reader days RSS feeds were so well populated that I didn't bother going to websites anymore. RSS feeds had everything I wanted. But yeah those glory days feel like they're gone now. I haven't made the switch to feedly yet and this point I'm not sure I'm going to bother with it.
Since the death of Google Reader my most used case of RSS is podcasts. I get the occasional feed notification from IFTTT but most of the websites I used to get RSS from just have direct channels that are a little better and a little easier.
But podcasts however I listen to a fair number of podcasts and I have about 30-40 of them in my reader (Podcast Addict). I'd like a readable JSON format for syndication but if it's going to mess with my podcasts I won't bother.
no. storage is still an issue. Especially in IOTs where you might want mp3 playback but only in a limited capacity. Flac is a fine format but it's no replacement for mp3 we're a long long way from being in a world wehre every instance of audio is storage independent.
All the death criers about MP3 have been wildly short sighted. If anything MP3 should get a bump as the already ubiquitous format can now be used without a license. There's no reason it shouldn't just be everywhere as a starter format now. No more downloading mp3 codecs because they'll be embedded. Maybe the official defaulting of MP3 can now begin the rise of ogg but for now mp3 is far from dead.
Nonsense. The 83 and 84 are acceptable for nearly all tests outside of accounting and physics (and why settle for the 83?). Better calcs are often banned because they are still in the realm of making the work too easy, the way pocket calculators were and slide rules before that.
Nobody selects technology because they think they can get technical support from their teacher.
I remember Math competition when the TI-89 came out. That year the first Pre-Cal round had like a 19 way tie for first place.
It makes sense to have a graphing calculator. Heck it even makes a sort of sense for it to be not so powerful but it doesn't need to be that over priced. It's probably the single most over priced item I own. This calculator app is nice but it's no replacement for a physical calculator for many reasons. I would buy another TI-89 right now if it wasn't a machine worth about $25 dollars costing nearly $100.
Governments don't understand that social media can be easily forged to appear normal enough and puppet accounts are easy enough to manufacture.
Until our robot overlords ascend to power, governments are, fundamentally, groups of people. In this case, the question is what the Trump administration (which controls the State Department) does, or does not, understand.
Let's say someone comes to the USA with the intent of committing a major terrorist attack and they don't give their full list of email addresses and social media accounts to the Department of State. There's some question of whether the State Department would be able to detect this. But, for the sake of argument, let's assume that the State Department does some "extreme vetting" and turns up an extra social media account that is strongly critical of USA foreign policy in the Middle East.
What does the State Department do? Does the State Department send the person back to their own country to refine their plan? "Sorry, you said bad things about the USA on your blog so we can't let you into the USA legally. If you're really serious about carrying out your attack then you'll have to find a way to sneak into the USA illegally - across the border with Canada or something"
And does the Trump administration really think that this social media policy is going to be effective? Or does the Trump administration know that this won't actually prevent major terrorist attacks but they're counting on their supporters to be too simple-minded to realize it? I honestly don't know what the case is here. They do say that the best liars find ways to believe their own lies.
thing is being refused entry is a really bad black mark. For some people it's not just "go home and start over" it's more like "Welcome to the no entry list unless you fellate me". It's not easy to get past that for everyone. In theory a hidden social media account (again presuming it's was even possible for the government to detect) could get you functionally blackballed from entry.
If you talk to the people from the Muslim ban who couldn't get in they aren't itching to leave the country again precisely because of this. They got in once but just because they got around it when the Muslim Ban was shot down doesn't mean they want to test the system. After all when the system isn't fair and you get kicked out unfairly the government isn't trying to hear your story. You don't get to challenge the status in a court because you can't get in. I'm 80% sure that was the plot of Born in East LA.
Why do so many people who complain about how overweening and disdainful of the Constitution the US government has become immediately turn around and want to put that same government in charge of the entire US health care system?
"Hey, the government is an out-of-control power mad beast! Let's give it even more power!"
What the fuck?
yeah Government should get out of health care and privacy and law passing heck the government was bad at that Korean war thing why do we keep letting the government control all our wars? The government bad in one area is a government bad in ALL areas.
doesn't this affect all open source? Programs like Audacity can finally export MP3s natively without including "complex" and sometimes confusing instructions on how to download the MP3 codec
'I see that I'm legitimately on the https://www.foobar.com/ site, and Foobar is telling me that Google wants permission. I trust Foobar and Google, so I'll click Allow,'"
Let's see. You're on the attacker's website and you trust it (apparently because it has https in the URL), and you trust Google, so you allow the attacker free access to your google account. How is this Google's fault again? I mean, you give access to your account to people you shouldn't and it's someone else's fault?
The mistake here is Google wants permission. That's not what's happening. It's Foobar asking for permission by pretending to be google. So while you would trust Google to give you access to foobar without giving Foobar too much info. You don't trust Foobar directly. So youclick Allow on Google but you're actually clicking on Foobar.
This article shows that torrents are another method you stupid idiot.
That doesn't count when no big media uses it. Mailing reels to your home projector is also another method but no one does that either.
This isn't a fucking TV drama, it is more important to get the psychological leverage over the terrorist groups who are reminded they can't use tech to hide. It is also more important to remind the public that terrorists can't do that.
no it isn't. If anything the past experience with government agencies is that they'll exploit the heck out of security holes they can find and use that to get whomever they want to get. Heck that was the whole point of Snowden. There's no incentive or historical trend of governmental agencies effectively shouting out that they've found a way to see through the door. Instead they keep looking through the door gathering and using intelligence until someone notices.
at best this suggests that "Oh we're so strong we cracked WhatsApp" but it does so completely at the cost of their loophole. It's a silly stunt that's only effective if they have a backup in place.
exactly. physical security is the first security. given that was compromised. It seems more likely that was the vector they used.
apps get on to app stores all the time, they just get removed fairly quickly. But copies can remain. Not that it would have been needed in this case. Someone could have coded it and injected it into the bluetooth economy from there it would spread.
in a third world country without a culture of technology that we have they developed their own economy of peer to peer app distribution. That's pretty impressive. That shows a pretty hefty degree of ingenuity
Pretty sure this has less to do with direct access to the Play Store and more to do with people from the third world, who for all intents and purposes view technology as magic, getting access to smart phones. And who was the friend who shared the app with her? One would think that friends would be even better sources for information on an App that they use and have on their phone than the play store's faceless reviews.
you're wrong. This has everything to do with no access to the play store. This woman lives a life where she doesn't get her apps from the play store because of the cost of data. Were that not the case there wouldn't be an alternative economy of bluetoothing apps in a peer to peer manner. She would have gotten the app from the play store and it would have been much more obvious it was a prank.
These are first time smart phone users. Not people who grew up in homes with phones. Poor Kenyans who are getting their first phones as adults. They don't have the same phone culture that we do. Heck there are people in America who believe the things they see phones do in Law and Order. These people don't even have that level of sophistication with regards to cell phones. They have no background on expectations. They need education to avoid these common traps and they don't have the time to get the education. You're calling out the friend as if they should know better... why? how? because the friend was super tech savvy? they probably weren't. They might have gotten the same panic and didn't know what to do as well except share the app because "better to know than to be ignorantly infected". It's an entire culture of people who don't know better. They weren't around during the email forward years of the 90s when we learned slowly but surely that gangs never initiate by flashing headlights.
It's insultingly over simplistic to pull out "they view it as magic". That is not what's happening here. There are just people who are like grandparents when it comes to smart phones but they learn faster. They find their own shortcuts. All the checks and balances of modern phones are based on users being relatively similar to the designers. If you go thru the google store and you speak or read english you're not going to have an issue with fake apps but for each of those that don't apply to you that increases your risk and when you don't even understand that it increases your risk even more.
But the industry doesn't consider that. They don't design the OS to consider Kenyan women who are poor and controlled by the men in their life. They don't design handsets for people who buy a phone the way we would buy a car saving for months to buy it. Simply accusing them of seeing it as magic drastically misunderstands the situation.
an Android smartphone with one setting lets you download and install APKs without a store. Something youcan't do with an iPhone.
yes the sharing of apps via bluetooth is the cause of this woman's distress but it's also enabled her to use her phone. She got burned one time but she's also been living with this arrangement for presumably a while now. It's enabled her to do many thing that she wouldn't otherwise be able to do because of data limits. It's a bit like the cuban intranet. Or even the idea of selling water in plastic baggies. It's rather ingenious in some ways and the fact that she got burned by it doesn't mean the system is a bad idea. it means there needs to be better education, perhaps better APK checking than just permissions. Stuff that makes sense in a world where we have access to a large amount of data doesn't necessarily make sense in a world where people live on shoestring budgets of data.