While true, it's still far more likely that the record will eventually hit a rock of some form than that it will land in the hands of an intelligent species. Space may be empty, but of what we do know to be out there, a much larger portion of it is some form of rock than is intelligent life.
Exactly. Since this was pointed out to Plex, they decided to re-define this data to "necessity" so that they didn't have to make it opt-in... Seems they'd rather try to re-define the terms than do the right thing.
Keep in mind this is NOT a modern Toyota, to be imported to Canada it must be (by law) over 15 years old. And many hybrids, especially of that generation, still had physical keys.
I agree there's a major component to BS here, but I don't think that particular element proves anything at all. I think the only BS part is that the manufacturer/dealer refused to help them (likely because they imported instead of buying domestically) and the whole line about destroying the battery if they did so. The rest, the bit about them losing the key, believing the dealer lies about making the battery explode, and paying someone to hack the car? I do believe all of that part.
Auto dealers and manufacturers are scum. They will do anything to punish people who did not buy their vehicles in the way that they envisioned. They will tell any lie, and do anything they can to block imported vehicles, and when that fails, to punish those people who import them.
Only for the past 20 years, and have driven many different vehicles including several right hand drive ones. How much time have your spent behind the wheel of a right hand drive vehicle?
1) Lots of people, the Japanese have great vehicles that were never made available here any other way, they're low mileage, and relatively cheap to import. They also have the benefit of being right hand drive which is a far better driving position for places where you drive on the right side of the road than the conventional left hand drive. 2) you're 100% right. that's absolute BS 3) Most dealers in Canada outright refuse to work on vehicles imported from Japan, even if the identical model was sold domestically, it's part of the auto industry's attempt to make you pay outrageous prices for Canadian market cars. I used to have a Mitsubishi that was imported from Japan, if I walked up to the Mitsubishi parts counter at one of the local dealers and asked for any part for the vehicle they would flat out refuse. But if they didn't watch me drive up, and I didn't tell them what vehicle it was for, and just gave them a part number, there'd be no problem at all. 4) see #3 (good luck dealing with a manufacturer without going through the dealer) 5) *shrug* whatever the key image looks like is irrelevant to the story.
You'd want a right hand drive car in Canada because a right hand drive car is far better suited to driving on the right hand side of the road than a left hand drive car. It's far safer for both you, and for cyclists, pedestrians, and other motorists.
It boggles the mind that people are willing to drive on the left side of the car when you drive on the right side of the road. It's was a completely arbitrary decision many years ago, and was quite honestly the wrong one.
But beyond that, you'd import a car from Japan to Canada because they have all sorts of models available there that were never available in North America, and are far superior to the ones that were made available here. Additionally they tend to be in amazing condition with very low mileage, and relatively cheap. They're amazing bargains. It's sad that the industry lobby groups have managed to convince the government to ban them until they're over 15 years old, and that they're still often more appealing than the much newer offerings available here.
US and Canada both require immobilizers, but due to very slight variations in the rules around them (the Canadian ones have to immobilize the vehicle faster after you shut it off than the American ones) the auto manufacturers have been using it as an excuse to forbid the importation of American cars in to Canada. "Oh we're sorry, even though we sell the identical model vehicle in Canada, there's no possible way to fix the immobilizer on that US vehicle to meet Canadian standards, you'll just have to pay $20,000 more for the Canadian version of the car"
We could also work on getting some of the registrars to actually support DNSSEC.... it's been "coming soon" to my registrar for several years now and I'm considering switching just because of it.
If you're an average citizen, you're far safer with a foreign power watching you than a domestic one. The foreign one is unlikely to be able to do anything about things they don't like.
Now if you're the one who runs the domestic spy agencies that's a different story, but for the rest of us, I always assume someone's watching, I always just hope it's nobody who has any power over me.
Exactly, I know this because I had a bogus DMCA complaint filed against me through them, and worse yet, despite the fact that a) the DMCA doesn't even exist in my country, and b) the complaint was bogus in the first place, my provider suspended my account without informing me. That took a couple of days to sort out, all the while all my services were offline. I've since moved my services to a different provider though, I won't accept that level of overreach in my hosting providers.
But Google does NOT make iPhone, yet the default search there is Google (for lots of $$ it's been revealed) so that's no different than Firefox (I doubt Firefox made the change for free)
Thing is, there's always a default, maybe there shouldn't be, maybe on first boot you should have to chose, but as long as search engines pay mega-bucks to be the default, there will always be a default, and it's not unique to MS.
The one that is however less fair is when MS releases a "critical update" that reverts your search engine to Bing after you've manually changed it. That's pretty underhanded.
By the time you see the cop, they often have a gun pointed at you and are telling you not to move. reaching for your phone at that time would be a very bad idea. And if you CAN press the power button rapidly 5 times, why can you not also simply long press it once? That reboots the phone causing it to also require a password.
The bigger question is why an email client would have a web search function at all. Do you also use your word processor for making spreadsheets and your graphics package for making databases?
Not to mention highly unreliable. You have to be able to perform the action, if the cop handcuffs you and then removes the phone from your pocket, how are you going to tap the button 5 times? And yes, cops are likely to do it in that order, they don't want to give you the opportunity to go for a weapon.
So I'm really not sure what this brings to the table. If you have access to your device to do this, you could have simply long-pressed the power button to reboot the phone and force a password instead.
I can't believe the ridiculous placement of the fingerprint sensor on the recent Samsung phones, it's like they thought to themselves "where's the worst possible place for the fingerprint scanner? Let's put it there!"
But then again, that describes basically every single design decision from Samsung since the end of the Note 4.
Would you prefer if every company kept a random list of who they would and would not take money from? Wouldn't it be great if you went grocery shopping and were told "we don't serve your kind here"? No need to justify it, after all, they're a private business.
Or is it only ok when it happens to people you dislike?
And nobody is obligated to do background checks on everyone they sell a megaphone to and determine how worthy their speech is prior to the sale of said megaphone.
If you don't like the free speech, don't listen. Alternatively, engage in free speech of your own to educate people on the opposing viewpoint.
But targeting and shaming everyone who's ever done business with someone just because that person said something you disagree with? That in itself is shameful.
Someday it could be you with the unpopular viewpoint, or worse yet, someone you once passed in the street might turn out to be a racist and your picture will appear next to his in the paper and everyone will demand that you too be ostracized.
If an actual crime has been committed, give the evidence to the authorities and let them sort it out.
My home has a 96" screen and a surround sound system, I also have complete control of the viewing location, never way off to the side, or too close, or too far from the screen. Home also has more comfortable chairs, better (and cheaper) food, and the floors aren't sticky. If I want to watch with others, I'll invite the other people that I want to share the movie with over to see it.
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While true, it's still far more likely that the record will eventually hit a rock of some form than that it will land in the hands of an intelligent species. Space may be empty, but of what we do know to be out there, a much larger portion of it is some form of rock than is intelligent life.
Things are either opt-in or a necessity.
Exactly. Since this was pointed out to Plex, they decided to re-define this data to "necessity" so that they didn't have to make it opt-in... Seems they'd rather try to re-define the terms than do the right thing.
Keep in mind this is NOT a modern Toyota, to be imported to Canada it must be (by law) over 15 years old. And many hybrids, especially of that generation, still had physical keys.
I agree there's a major component to BS here, but I don't think that particular element proves anything at all. I think the only BS part is that the manufacturer/dealer refused to help them (likely because they imported instead of buying domestically) and the whole line about destroying the battery if they did so.
The rest, the bit about them losing the key, believing the dealer lies about making the battery explode, and paying someone to hack the car? I do believe all of that part.
Auto dealers and manufacturers are scum. They will do anything to punish people who did not buy their vehicles in the way that they envisioned. They will tell any lie, and do anything they can to block imported vehicles, and when that fails, to punish those people who import them.
Only for the past 20 years, and have driven many different vehicles including several right hand drive ones.
How much time have your spent behind the wheel of a right hand drive vehicle?
1) Lots of people, the Japanese have great vehicles that were never made available here any other way, they're low mileage, and relatively cheap to import. They also have the benefit of being right hand drive which is a far better driving position for places where you drive on the right side of the road than the conventional left hand drive.
2) you're 100% right. that's absolute BS
3) Most dealers in Canada outright refuse to work on vehicles imported from Japan, even if the identical model was sold domestically, it's part of the auto industry's attempt to make you pay outrageous prices for Canadian market cars. I used to have a Mitsubishi that was imported from Japan, if I walked up to the Mitsubishi parts counter at one of the local dealers and asked for any part for the vehicle they would flat out refuse. But if they didn't watch me drive up, and I didn't tell them what vehicle it was for, and just gave them a part number, there'd be no problem at all.
4) see #3 (good luck dealing with a manufacturer without going through the dealer)
5) *shrug* whatever the key image looks like is irrelevant to the story.
You'd want a right hand drive car in Canada because a right hand drive car is far better suited to driving on the right hand side of the road than a left hand drive car. It's far safer for both you, and for cyclists, pedestrians, and other motorists.
It boggles the mind that people are willing to drive on the left side of the car when you drive on the right side of the road. It's was a completely arbitrary decision many years ago, and was quite honestly the wrong one.
But beyond that, you'd import a car from Japan to Canada because they have all sorts of models available there that were never available in North America, and are far superior to the ones that were made available here. Additionally they tend to be in amazing condition with very low mileage, and relatively cheap. They're amazing bargains. It's sad that the industry lobby groups have managed to convince the government to ban them until they're over 15 years old, and that they're still often more appealing than the much newer offerings available here.
US and Canada both require immobilizers, but due to very slight variations in the rules around them (the Canadian ones have to immobilize the vehicle faster after you shut it off than the American ones) the auto manufacturers have been using it as an excuse to forbid the importation of American cars in to Canada. "Oh we're sorry, even though we sell the identical model vehicle in Canada, there's no possible way to fix the immobilizer on that US vehicle to meet Canadian standards, you'll just have to pay $20,000 more for the Canadian version of the car"
We could also work on getting some of the registrars to actually support DNSSEC.... it's been "coming soon" to my registrar for several years now and I'm considering switching just because of it.
If you're an average citizen, you're far safer with a foreign power watching you than a domestic one. The foreign one is unlikely to be able to do anything about things they don't like.
Now if you're the one who runs the domestic spy agencies that's a different story, but for the rest of us, I always assume someone's watching, I always just hope it's nobody who has any power over me.
Exactly, I know this because I had a bogus DMCA complaint filed against me through them, and worse yet, despite the fact that a) the DMCA doesn't even exist in my country, and b) the complaint was bogus in the first place, my provider suspended my account without informing me. That took a couple of days to sort out, all the while all my services were offline.
I've since moved my services to a different provider though, I won't accept that level of overreach in my hosting providers.
But Google does NOT make iPhone, yet the default search there is Google (for lots of $$ it's been revealed) so that's no different than Firefox (I doubt Firefox made the change for free)
Thing is, there's always a default, maybe there shouldn't be, maybe on first boot you should have to chose, but as long as search engines pay mega-bucks to be the default, there will always be a default, and it's not unique to MS.
The one that is however less fair is when MS releases a "critical update" that reverts your search engine to Bing after you've manually changed it. That's pretty underhanded.
By the time you see the cop, they often have a gun pointed at you and are telling you not to move. reaching for your phone at that time would be a very bad idea. And if you CAN press the power button rapidly 5 times, why can you not also simply long press it once? That reboots the phone causing it to also require a password.
To be fair, try using Google Assistant without using Google Search.
Don't people always say that it isn't the size that counts?
The bigger question is why an email client would have a web search function at all. Do you also use your word processor for making spreadsheets and your graphics package for making databases?
It doesn't have to be deliberate for MS to count it as a win.
To be fair, Google is the default search on chrome, and that includes many smartphones (which are a very popular device to run searches on these days)
Not to mention highly unreliable. You have to be able to perform the action, if the cop handcuffs you and then removes the phone from your pocket, how are you going to tap the button 5 times? And yes, cops are likely to do it in that order, they don't want to give you the opportunity to go for a weapon.
So I'm really not sure what this brings to the table. If you have access to your device to do this, you could have simply long-pressed the power button to reboot the phone and force a password instead.
how do I rapidly disable it on this device?
The easy way is to long press the power button. That will re-boot the device causing it to require the password.
hammer?
I can't believe the ridiculous placement of the fingerprint sensor on the recent Samsung phones, it's like they thought to themselves "where's the worst possible place for the fingerprint scanner? Let's put it there!"
But then again, that describes basically every single design decision from Samsung since the end of the Note 4.
Would you prefer if every company kept a random list of who they would and would not take money from? Wouldn't it be great if you went grocery shopping and were told "we don't serve your kind here"? No need to justify it, after all, they're a private business.
Or is it only ok when it happens to people you dislike?
We used to have many free speech TLDs, like .com .net .org .edu and all the country level domains.
Unfortunately many people think that the only speech that should be free is speech they agree with.
And nobody is obligated to do background checks on everyone they sell a megaphone to and determine how worthy their speech is prior to the sale of said megaphone.
If you don't like the free speech, don't listen. Alternatively, engage in free speech of your own to educate people on the opposing viewpoint.
But targeting and shaming everyone who's ever done business with someone just because that person said something you disagree with? That in itself is shameful.
Someday it could be you with the unpopular viewpoint, or worse yet, someone you once passed in the street might turn out to be a racist and your picture will appear next to his in the paper and everyone will demand that you too be ostracized.
If an actual crime has been committed, give the evidence to the authorities and let them sort it out.
My home has a 96" screen and a surround sound system, I also have complete control of the viewing location, never way off to the side, or too close, or too far from the screen. Home also has more comfortable chairs, better (and cheaper) food, and the floors aren't sticky.
If I want to watch with others, I'll invite the other people that I want to share the movie with over to see it.
The claims of the company are not a proven business model.