Hitler was devout Christian, and in fact he claimed that eradicating the Jews was doing god's work. Of course I'm willing to give Christianity the benefit of the doubt and state that he's not representative of the religion as a whole. Of course in a religion responsible for the crusades and many other wars and genocides, based on a book with more hatred, rape, and killing than pretty much any other book ever published, it's hard to be too charitable.
I would be fired if I did NOT wear cargos, I'm in a uniformed profession, cargo pants are the only choice of pants offered for work. When I'm relaxing at home, I have some baggy comfortable cargos (and I don't see any reason at all to care what I look like at home), and when I'm out and about I have some very professional looking cargos that are applicable for almost every situation that doesn't require some level of fancy dress (plain black similar cut to most "casual" pants and with slim cargo pockets, certainly far more professional looking than the jeans most people wear). If you're one of those people who think cargo pants = camouflage pants, think again, I'll agree that baggy camo pants aren't appropriate most of the time, but it is rare to find an occasion at anything up to the "business casual" level that precludes professional looking cargo pants (think the type of pant that Police, or EMS wear, but without the stripe) When I go out to a party I will sometimes wear the professional looking cargos, or for slightly fancier events or for a date I don't wear cargos, It's only those times when I care what size my phone is. (of course if I'm at an event fancy enough to wear a suit, the phone isn't a problem anymore as the inside pocket of a suit jacket fits the phone just fine.)
Speaking as someone with a "ridiculous 5 inch Android phone" (actually 5.5" display, Galaxy Note 2) I have never had a problem with battery life, it lasts all day no problem, and as it sits on my bedside as a replacement for my old alarm clock, it charges every night.
As for why have a secondary phone, I can see it. The note is a big phone, but not so big as to be cumbersome in general, and as I wear cargo pants 95% of the time or more, there's plenty of pocket space. Unfortunately though I do occasionally dress a little fancier for one occasion or other, and in those rare cases it would be nice to have something smaller to fit in the reduced pocket space. I personally don't know that this is the solution though, it seems to me that the situation is rare enough for me that the best solution would be a small/cheap dumb phone that I can just swap the SIM in to as needed instead of an even more expensive smart phone with detachable dumb phone.
Well obviously I'm not going to do that. But I can tell you that the last time I needed to do something (site locked me out because it didn't like the fact that I tried to access it from a different city than normal) I was shocked at how easy it was. sure a stranger on the street might not get in, but anyone who knows me would have been able to, which also means anyone who looks up my information could too.
And that was my point. India is being smart and trusting nobody outside their own country. But so many other places are barring Chinese manufacturers over security concerns, while gladly doing business with companies with a far worse track record of back doors and security threats. Personally if I was going to trust anyone, it would be the companies with the highest level of scrutiny on them (ZTE and Huawei) over pretty much anyone else.
On a side note, as for firmware updates, I don't know what gear you would ever use in any critical capacity that allows the manufacturer to apply those without going through you. That's just asking for trouble!
So you're saying that because Microsoft (an American company) included backdoors, we shouldn't trust ZTE and Huwaii (Chinese companies) You just made my point for me. The point being that there is no reason to think that these Chinese companies are ANY worse than any other company out there, and, due to increased scrutiny, they are likely among the most secure in the world. Luckily India was smart and excluded all foreign companies, unlike many others who are extremely hypocritical blocking Chinese firms while allowing all sorts of other firms with proven track records of security threats to bid.
And how is that any more of a risk than say every American company where it is well known that all their morals are for sale to the highest bidder?
People have spent a lot of time and money looking for security holes in these companies products, and none have ever been found. And yet the world immediately assumes they must be there, while generally giving every other company in the world a free pass.
We are fairly certain that ZTE and Huwaii products are safe, as they have been studied extensively in this witch hunt. I'd feel more confident with the security of their products than those of any other company that hasn't gone through the same scrutiny and is just as likely to be corrupt.
I can understand the paranoia over buying equipment supplied by a company known to be tight with a foreign power you don't always get along with. But I also really wish someone would show some proof of something close to a security threat in one of these products before the whole world goes crazy about "OMG the Spies!!!" There is tons of hardware by these companies available all over the world, and so far (to my knowledge) nobody has ever found any evidence of a back door, or any spying capability in any of it. And honestly, I don't see any reason to think that those companies are any more likely than any other company in the world to do that.
I'm perfectly aware of what happens at the corporate level, but to be honest, I don't care. I care how easy it is for someone to get money out of MY account, and unfortunately at most banks it is FAR too easy, the passwords are weak, the security questions are worse, and if you can't get past either, you barely need to know more than my name and birthday to fool their customer service reps in to resetting the password for you.
You mean we need weak passwords that are purely numeric and a maximum of 6 digits long with no other authentication mechanism? (one bank I've dealt with) or that we need normal passwords 6-8 digits long alpha-numeric with no other authentication mechanism? (another bank I've dealt with)
Where I live I am unaware of any bank that lets you use any mechanism stronger than that. I don't know of any banks using tokens or smartphone authentication or anything other than simple passwords. If your location is better, that's great, but it certainly isn't the norm around here.
I think the problem being referred to is completely seperate from the CAD part. It's a mindset problem. I had this discussion a while back where I work:
Me: The [part] has failed, I need a new one. Them: [part] doesn't fail. Me: Well in this case it did, so I need a new one. Them: We can't give you a new one, because that part can't fail. Me: Well it did, so what's your procedure for this? Them: We have no procedure for this, because it can't happen. You don't need a new part. Me: ok, well I'm stealling [part] from [unused system] now, you can figure it out, but I suggest you do it before [unused system] is needed, which will be about 3 customers from now... (at current rate of subscription about 1 day)
This can be translated in to all sorts of different areas, but the commonality is someone forgetting to think of a particular situation as being possible. And often continuing to refuse to think about it, even after that situation has manifested. Many issues in all sorts of industries turn out to be that exact problem, either somebody forgetting that ALL parts can potentially fail, and that ANY combination of them could fail at once. or someone failing to anticipate a use case, "Nobody will ever try to do X and Y at the same time!" And historically the airline industry is certainly not immune, and no level of increased reliance on CAD software can help this either.
One relevant question then. Does a block from time warner affect a reseller?
Just because the competition are re-selling from the one company, doesn't mean they aren't legitimate competition.
For example, where I live, the major telco can cut you off completely and ban you from their service permanently, and then they legally must re-connect you if one of their resellers asks. As soon as a reseller asks, they become the official customer, not the end user, so whatever agreement the telco had with the end user becomes irrelevant.
I guess the biggest question is still, could it happen in flight? (for example, if the issue was due to a charging circuit on that battery connected to the ground power, then in flight issues seem highly unlikely, however if it was a spontaneous short circuit or something then it could happen in flight and that is "really bad" (TM))
Even back in the late-90's a typical sitcom episode was about 23, 24 minutes
There's a famous Canadian satirical news show called "this hour has 22 minutes", the name, apart from being a play on the name of a famous news show, is also based on the fact that it is a half hour show, and as such is 22 minutes long. I re-watched the original Star Trek recently and was shocked to realize the shows were 50 minutes long, contrast with Star Trek Enterprise at 41 minutes.
Think about it: It's not an every-week occurance, but we're getting dangerously close to a point where the content of a half-hour show it 50-50 ads. What's the point we actually begin to lose interest in the medium due to distraction and over-saturation of ad content? There has to be some measurable tipping point past where a normal person's frustration factor would override any entertainment value provided.
The answer for me was 10 years ago. and I'm not alone. In fact, I install TV/Internet/Telephone service for a largish telco, 5-10 years ago we started to see the younger clients (University students seems to be where it starts) giving up on home phone service and going internet/TV only. This has been followed by a larger and larger demographic to the point where I'd say on average 50% or more of customers don't have home phone. Fast forward to today, and that same young demographic is starting to ditch TV service as well, going for only internet. give it a few years and I suspect the cable TV industry will be in serious trouble.
They COULD give people what they want, more flexibility in what/when/where they watch content, fewer ads, and better content... or they could continue to charge higher and higher prices, with more and more advertising, cheap to produce "reality" series, while trying to maintain as much lock-down on their content as possible, and see what happens when people truly do vote with their wallets.
Of course I always did find the checkbox funny being that it asks me to disable ads that I've never seen... (My custom DNS server blocks the vast majority of ads, adblock and flashblock block most of the rest, and every so often (exceedingly rarely) I get surprised and actually see an ad. And that ad pisses me off enough to make sure I never, ever, buy anything from that company.)
I would actually lose track of plot lines because of 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there. The show comes back on, and I have to think for a moment: who are these people? What was I watching? What was this week's episode about?
Of course I've found that many shows are geared around that, so when watching without ads you notice a lot of repeated information that could be removed to make the show even shorter without missing anything. Reality type shows are especially bad about that, the total "show" is often only half or so of the total air time after you factor in ad breaks and re-caps due to them.
Probably because so few are ever minted... Of course this leads to the question, how does one get their hands on a $0.50 piece without spending significantly more than $0.50?
Of course that leads to a question I've often had... Is there any way to get your hands on a Canadian $0.50 piece that does not involve paying significantly more than $0.50?
If I were the parents, I wouldn't have had my own children arrested, or put them in a position to be arrested. I would have handled the situation privately and discretely, disciplining as necessary.
May not have a choice. If they were feeling bad enough to get checked out by a medical professional (and I must say, I'd probably get checked out if I found out I'd been drugged!), and that professional reported the situation to the police (which is mandatory in many jurisdictions for cases of this nature) then the police may have pressed charges regardless of the parent's wishes. In many cases of domestic violence (which this is included in) the victim does not have any say in whether charges are laid. This is because far too many victims are reluctant to press charges against a loved one, even in cases of ongoing abuse. The fact that this case is about a kid poisoning a parent doesn't make it any different than a case of a husband beating a wife, or vice-versa, it still qualifies as domestic violence. The police get involved as soon as anyone finds out, and from that point onward the decision on whether to press charges is out of the parent's hands.
Those things are just a disaster, What a way to pay $25 to get $20 from the machine... If you do that every day to buy your lunch, you're probably paying way too much for lunch!
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Hitler was devout Christian, and in fact he claimed that eradicating the Jews was doing god's work. Of course I'm willing to give Christianity the benefit of the doubt and state that he's not representative of the religion as a whole.
Of course in a religion responsible for the crusades and many other wars and genocides, based on a book with more hatred, rape, and killing than pretty much any other book ever published, it's hard to be too charitable.
I would be fired if I did NOT wear cargos, I'm in a uniformed profession, cargo pants are the only choice of pants offered for work.
When I'm relaxing at home, I have some baggy comfortable cargos (and I don't see any reason at all to care what I look like at home), and when I'm out and about I have some very professional looking cargos that are applicable for almost every situation that doesn't require some level of fancy dress (plain black similar cut to most "casual" pants and with slim cargo pockets, certainly far more professional looking than the jeans most people wear).
If you're one of those people who think cargo pants = camouflage pants, think again, I'll agree that baggy camo pants aren't appropriate most of the time, but it is rare to find an occasion at anything up to the "business casual" level that precludes professional looking cargo pants (think the type of pant that Police, or EMS wear, but without the stripe)
When I go out to a party I will sometimes wear the professional looking cargos, or for slightly fancier events or for a date I don't wear cargos, It's only those times when I care what size my phone is. (of course if I'm at an event fancy enough to wear a suit, the phone isn't a problem anymore as the inside pocket of a suit jacket fits the phone just fine.)
Speaking as someone with a "ridiculous 5 inch Android phone" (actually 5.5" display, Galaxy Note 2) I have never had a problem with battery life, it lasts all day no problem, and as it sits on my bedside as a replacement for my old alarm clock, it charges every night.
As for why have a secondary phone, I can see it. The note is a big phone, but not so big as to be cumbersome in general, and as I wear cargo pants 95% of the time or more, there's plenty of pocket space. Unfortunately though I do occasionally dress a little fancier for one occasion or other, and in those rare cases it would be nice to have something smaller to fit in the reduced pocket space. I personally don't know that this is the solution though, it seems to me that the situation is rare enough for me that the best solution would be a small/cheap dumb phone that I can just swap the SIM in to as needed instead of an even more expensive smart phone with detachable dumb phone.
Well obviously I'm not going to do that. But I can tell you that the last time I needed to do something (site locked me out because it didn't like the fact that I tried to access it from a different city than normal) I was shocked at how easy it was. sure a stranger on the street might not get in, but anyone who knows me would have been able to, which also means anyone who looks up my information could too.
I'm in Canada, and I don't consider the complete lack of security to be "better"
And that was my point. India is being smart and trusting nobody outside their own country. But so many other places are barring Chinese manufacturers over security concerns, while gladly doing business with companies with a far worse track record of back doors and security threats. Personally if I was going to trust anyone, it would be the companies with the highest level of scrutiny on them (ZTE and Huawei) over pretty much anyone else.
On a side note, as for firmware updates, I don't know what gear you would ever use in any critical capacity that allows the manufacturer to apply those without going through you. That's just asking for trouble!
So you're saying that because Microsoft (an American company) included backdoors, we shouldn't trust ZTE and Huwaii (Chinese companies)
You just made my point for me. The point being that there is no reason to think that these Chinese companies are ANY worse than any other company out there, and, due to increased scrutiny, they are likely among the most secure in the world.
Luckily India was smart and excluded all foreign companies, unlike many others who are extremely hypocritical blocking Chinese firms while allowing all sorts of other firms with proven track records of security threats to bid.
And how is that any more of a risk than say every American company where it is well known that all their morals are for sale to the highest bidder?
People have spent a lot of time and money looking for security holes in these companies products, and none have ever been found. And yet the world immediately assumes they must be there, while generally giving every other company in the world a free pass.
We are fairly certain that ZTE and Huwaii products are safe, as they have been studied extensively in this witch hunt. I'd feel more confident with the security of their products than those of any other company that hasn't gone through the same scrutiny and is just as likely to be corrupt.
I can understand the paranoia over buying equipment supplied by a company known to be tight with a foreign power you don't always get along with. But I also really wish someone would show some proof of something close to a security threat in one of these products before the whole world goes crazy about "OMG the Spies!!!"
There is tons of hardware by these companies available all over the world, and so far (to my knowledge) nobody has ever found any evidence of a back door, or any spying capability in any of it. And honestly, I don't see any reason to think that those companies are any more likely than any other company in the world to do that.
I'm perfectly aware of what happens at the corporate level, but to be honest, I don't care. I care how easy it is for someone to get money out of MY account, and unfortunately at most banks it is FAR too easy, the passwords are weak, the security questions are worse, and if you can't get past either, you barely need to know more than my name and birthday to fool their customer service reps in to resetting the password for you.
Or christian counties...
What we need is something like the banks use.
You mean we need weak passwords that are purely numeric and a maximum of 6 digits long with no other authentication mechanism? (one bank I've dealt with)
or that we need normal passwords 6-8 digits long alpha-numeric with no other authentication mechanism? (another bank I've dealt with)
Where I live I am unaware of any bank that lets you use any mechanism stronger than that. I don't know of any banks using tokens or smartphone authentication or anything other than simple passwords. If your location is better, that's great, but it certainly isn't the norm around here.
I think the problem being referred to is completely seperate from the CAD part. It's a mindset problem. I had this discussion a while back where I work:
Me: The [part] has failed, I need a new one.
Them: [part] doesn't fail.
Me: Well in this case it did, so I need a new one.
Them: We can't give you a new one, because that part can't fail.
Me: Well it did, so what's your procedure for this?
Them: We have no procedure for this, because it can't happen. You don't need a new part.
Me: ok, well I'm stealling [part] from [unused system] now, you can figure it out, but I suggest you do it before [unused system] is needed, which will be about 3 customers from now... (at current rate of subscription about 1 day)
This can be translated in to all sorts of different areas, but the commonality is someone forgetting to think of a particular situation as being possible. And often continuing to refuse to think about it, even after that situation has manifested. Many issues in all sorts of industries turn out to be that exact problem, either somebody forgetting that ALL parts can potentially fail, and that ANY combination of them could fail at once. or someone failing to anticipate a use case, "Nobody will ever try to do X and Y at the same time!" And historically the airline industry is certainly not immune, and no level of increased reliance on CAD software can help this either.
One relevant question then. Does a block from time warner affect a reseller?
Just because the competition are re-selling from the one company, doesn't mean they aren't legitimate competition.
For example, where I live, the major telco can cut you off completely and ban you from their service permanently, and then they legally must re-connect you if one of their resellers asks. As soon as a reseller asks, they become the official customer, not the end user, so whatever agreement the telco had with the end user becomes irrelevant.
I guess the biggest question is still, could it happen in flight? (for example, if the issue was due to a charging circuit on that battery connected to the ground power, then in flight issues seem highly unlikely, however if it was a spontaneous short circuit or something then it could happen in flight and that is "really bad" (TM))
Even back in the late-90's a typical sitcom episode was about 23, 24 minutes
There's a famous Canadian satirical news show called "this hour has 22 minutes", the name, apart from being a play on the name of a famous news show, is also based on the fact that it is a half hour show, and as such is 22 minutes long. I re-watched the original Star Trek recently and was shocked to realize the shows were 50 minutes long, contrast with Star Trek Enterprise at 41 minutes.
Think about it: It's not an every-week occurance, but we're getting dangerously close to a point where the content of a half-hour show it 50-50 ads. What's the point we actually begin to lose interest in the medium due to distraction and over-saturation of ad content? There has to be some measurable tipping point past where a normal person's frustration factor would override any entertainment value provided.
The answer for me was 10 years ago. and I'm not alone. In fact, I install TV/Internet/Telephone service for a largish telco, 5-10 years ago we started to see the younger clients (University students seems to be where it starts) giving up on home phone service and going internet/TV only. This has been followed by a larger and larger demographic to the point where I'd say on average 50% or more of customers don't have home phone. Fast forward to today, and that same young demographic is starting to ditch TV service as well, going for only internet. give it a few years and I suspect the cable TV industry will be in serious trouble.
They COULD give people what they want, more flexibility in what/when/where they watch content, fewer ads, and better content... or they could continue to charge higher and higher prices, with more and more advertising, cheap to produce "reality" series, while trying to maintain as much lock-down on their content as possible, and see what happens when people truly do vote with their wallets.
Of course I always did find the checkbox funny being that it asks me to disable ads that I've never seen... (My custom DNS server blocks the vast majority of ads, adblock and flashblock block most of the rest, and every so often (exceedingly rarely) I get surprised and actually see an ad. And that ad pisses me off enough to make sure I never, ever, buy anything from that company.)
Nope, haven't seen an ad on slashdot in years, and it loads quick too.
If I shouldn't be on slashdot, and blocking ads, why does slashdot have a checkbox on the main screen allowing me to disable their ads?
I would actually lose track of plot lines because of 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there. The show comes back on, and I have to think for a moment: who are these people? What was I watching? What was this week's episode about?
Of course I've found that many shows are geared around that, so when watching without ads you notice a lot of repeated information that could be removed to make the show even shorter without missing anything. Reality type shows are especially bad about that, the total "show" is often only half or so of the total air time after you factor in ad breaks and re-caps due to them.
Probably because so few are ever minted...
Of course this leads to the question, how does one get their hands on a $0.50 piece without spending significantly more than $0.50?
Of course that leads to a question I've often had...
Is there any way to get your hands on a Canadian $0.50 piece that does not involve paying significantly more than $0.50?
If I were the parents, I wouldn't have had my own children arrested, or put them in a position to be arrested. I would have handled the situation privately and discretely, disciplining as necessary.
May not have a choice. If they were feeling bad enough to get checked out by a medical professional (and I must say, I'd probably get checked out if I found out I'd been drugged!), and that professional reported the situation to the police (which is mandatory in many jurisdictions for cases of this nature) then the police may have pressed charges regardless of the parent's wishes. In many cases of domestic violence (which this is included in) the victim does not have any say in whether charges are laid. This is because far too many victims are reluctant to press charges against a loved one, even in cases of ongoing abuse. The fact that this case is about a kid poisoning a parent doesn't make it any different than a case of a husband beating a wife, or vice-versa, it still qualifies as domestic violence. The police get involved as soon as anyone finds out, and from that point onward the decision on whether to press charges is out of the parent's hands.
Those things are just a disaster, What a way to pay $25 to get $20 from the machine...
If you do that every day to buy your lunch, you're probably paying way too much for lunch!
You may not be allowed to pump it yourself... but I bet you're allowed to look to see which nozzle they grabbed...