If I had to guess, I'd say it's because it's because dialup customers' information is less valuable. Either they're so set in their ways that they won't change anything ever, or they can't afford broadband, or they live someplace that probably doesn't have many local services to market via Internet.
I'm a Verizon cell customer. They added an opt-out "feature" where they'd track all web traffic, so I opted out. Six months later, I found through a news story that they'd silently added another opt-out tracking feature which didn't obey the earlier misfeature's disable flag. So now I pay Verizon for my phone data, and pay a VPN service for the right to browse the Internet without my own damn ISP spying on me.
No, I can't easily switch providers - my family's phones aren't all AT&T-compatible, and T-Mobile doesn't have good coverage in some of the places we visit often. But more to the point, I shouldn't have to.
I offer another proposal to Chairman Wheeler: allow the carriers to choose between common carrier status (with all its legal protections) and, what, data portal status maybe (with zero liability protections for transmitted content). If Verizon, Comcast, et al want to snoop traffic, then they should be legally on the hook for the content of that traffic. If they don't want to be liable for every possible copyright violation or prohibited content flowing through their network, then they damn well better choose to be dumb pipes.
some people actually oppose this vaccine because they think it encourages teenagers to be more promiscuous.
Sadly, I've heard those people. It's disgusting. It's also stupid: even "good girls" can be raped. How terrible to first be the victim of a violent crime, and then sentenced to die of cancer years down the road because of it? And if not that, what if those virginal daughters marry boys who turn out later to have been villainous scum in their misspent youth and who brought something home with them?
In reality, kids will have sex. Every single one of their ancestors have reproduced, so it's unrealistic to expect the current generation not no. But even in the fairytale world where all girls are virtuous and go untouched to their honeymoon, there are still plenty of reasons to protect them from a preventable form of cancer.
And given the sorry state of Smart Phone security why do people insist on using their phones for payment?
Because my phone hasn't been stolen and used to buy gas in Tijuana or clothes in Florida 4 times in the last 4 years. I trust Apple Pay because I've actually read their published whitepapers and like its design. I love the idea that I'm not giving Joe's Meth Shack my actual credit card number when I stop for food on a roadtrip.
Given a choice between handing out sensitive data to anyone who asks for it, versus a one-time-use number that's still fully backed by fraud liability limits if something goes wrong, I know which one I choose every time I can.
You know, not all the world is a teeming cesspit. I've had H-1B coworkers from first world countries who like living in America and want to be a part of it but who couldn't otherwise migrate in a reasonable timeframe. They're not escaping fleeing London and Paris.
Platters of spinning metal and heads are platters of spinning metal and heads.
No. The WD Red has active balancing mechanisms that aren't in their non-NAS drives. That's important when you have many drives in the same chassis and don't want their noise/vibrations to reinforce each others' and cause the whole thing to shake apart. At least for WD, their different drive families are mechanically different and it's not just a matter of a few firmware tweaks to convert one of them into another.
The thing is, I don't want to count on everyone having the latest version.
Yes you do. That way developers using those bleeding-edge features can find the rough edges and get them fixed, and you can use their tested descendants a year later. If those features aren't delivered to end users, no one can test and learn from them and they don't become mainstream.
Thus for most normal Blackberry users (non-corporate), their secure end to end communications begin and end at Blackberry's servers.
That's not a definition of "end to end" that I'm familiar with. Beyond that, how does Blackberry's "network operator" setup differ from Apple's Messages where Apple handles the message routing and delivery, except that Apple devices encrypt and decrypt on the user's hardware (which is the normal definition of "end to end")?
I'm asking this seriously: what text editor do you use that you can easily not indent? I use Emacs (and Vim and Sublime Text and Atom) and automatically get thr correct indentation just by writing code like I normally would. If I type if foo: and hit enter, the cursor will be placed correctly for the next thing I type. This isn't Python-specific, either. I get the same behavior when writing C, Go, JS, shell scripts, and so on.
I love dealing with a language that's explicit about what I mean. Consider how incredibly dangerous it is to write code that's not actually indented the way it's meant to be executed. Lots of eyes looked at that C code and didn't notice that the formatting was inconsistent with its parsing. That would not have been a problem in a language that uses indent to describe intent.
You know, as much as I hear that whine, in 16 years of writing Python I've literally never once been bitten by it. Yes, you hate having to indent your code the way you would naturally have indented it anyway, left to your own devices. Sure, writing at-a-glance understandable clauses is torture. Oh yeah, I too hate formatting my stuff the way my coworkers / teachers / project maintainers / colleagues expect to find it. But as much as I love writing the horrible, unformatted mess that you also enjoy, I just can't make this hypothetical copy-and-paste problem manifest itself in reality. Curse you, Python!
Twitter is just one platform among many, and before it we've always given people public platforms to say dumb, career-ending things. You know, you can still (and always could!) say offensive things. The trick is to say it in such a way as to get your point across before others stop listening.
Dumb statement: Hitler wasn't all bad!
Better statement: Although Hitler committed great atrocities, it is important we remember he was a human and capable of good, too, so that we don't forget that danger always walks among us.
Same sentiment; more tactful delivery. This is what politicians are supposed to be able to do. That Kimmel was unable is a good sign that he should not be an elected representative. Lots of people have successfully used Twitter (and other social media platforms) to say lots of non-mainstream things without making legions of enemies.
Stephen King would make out just fine under a shorted copyright. Love him or hate him, that guy works for his living. He's the exact opposite of someone writing a single book then sitting back and waiting for their ship to come in.
The medallions avoid a couple things,
- drivers charging on a hail unsafely then haggling over who can carry them
- lots of empty cabs driving around
Gas prices and the expense of operating a vehicle in the city takes care of the second. Taxi companies won't run cabs if they're not making money, so the problem is self-limiting. Medallions only serve to artificially limit supply.
One of the reasons Uber, Lyft and all the other "ride sharing" app companies get so much flack because they are breaking the law.
I'd be more sympathetic if 1) Uber and Lyft were offering the same services as taxis (you can't flag down an Uber; you have to request one), and 2) many jurisdictions hadn't already ruled that you're wrong.
In most jurisdictions the taxi companies have been subject to more rigorous (i.e. expensive) standards than Uber has been following.
...because they paid good money to write those laws. Taxi laws are a prime example of regulatory capture. For example, Company A got a sweet deal on credit card readers and they spent 2 years installing them in their cabs. Then, they tell the local regulatory body that credit card readers are a necessary public good and suggest that all taxis should have readers installed in a reasonable time frame - say, within three months. Finally, they laugh as their competitors scramble to shell out inflated prices for emergency rush orders on credit card readers so that they can stay in business.
For another example, three companies get together for group bargaining with an insurance company: "if you give us a good rate, we'll guarantee that all of our cabs will carry your new expanded coverage." Once that deal's in place, they ask for regulations to require all taxis to carry that level of coverage. Of course, all other companies have to pay the un-negotiated rate and now they have a harder time competing.
You don't get to write the laws and then bitch about them. Well, apparently you can, but you shouldn't be able to.
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If I had to guess, I'd say it's because it's because dialup customers' information is less valuable. Either they're so set in their ways that they won't change anything ever, or they can't afford broadband, or they live someplace that probably doesn't have many local services to market via Internet.
I'm a Verizon cell customer. They added an opt-out "feature" where they'd track all web traffic, so I opted out. Six months later, I found through a news story that they'd silently added another opt-out tracking feature which didn't obey the earlier misfeature's disable flag. So now I pay Verizon for my phone data, and pay a VPN service for the right to browse the Internet without my own damn ISP spying on me.
No, I can't easily switch providers - my family's phones aren't all AT&T-compatible, and T-Mobile doesn't have good coverage in some of the places we visit often. But more to the point, I shouldn't have to.
I offer another proposal to Chairman Wheeler: allow the carriers to choose between common carrier status (with all its legal protections) and, what, data portal status maybe (with zero liability protections for transmitted content). If Verizon, Comcast, et al want to snoop traffic, then they should be legally on the hook for the content of that traffic. If they don't want to be liable for every possible copyright violation or prohibited content flowing through their network, then they damn well better choose to be dumb pipes.
Newbie.
I prefer "vectors".
some people actually oppose this vaccine because they think it encourages teenagers to be more promiscuous.
Sadly, I've heard those people. It's disgusting. It's also stupid: even "good girls" can be raped. How terrible to first be the victim of a violent crime, and then sentenced to die of cancer years down the road because of it? And if not that, what if those virginal daughters marry boys who turn out later to have been villainous scum in their misspent youth and who brought something home with them?
In reality, kids will have sex. Every single one of their ancestors have reproduced, so it's unrealistic to expect the current generation not no. But even in the fairytale world where all girls are virtuous and go untouched to their honeymoon, there are still plenty of reasons to protect them from a preventable form of cancer.
And given the sorry state of Smart Phone security why do people insist on using their phones for payment?
Because my phone hasn't been stolen and used to buy gas in Tijuana or clothes in Florida 4 times in the last 4 years. I trust Apple Pay because I've actually read their published whitepapers and like its design. I love the idea that I'm not giving Joe's Meth Shack my actual credit card number when I stop for food on a roadtrip.
Given a choice between handing out sensitive data to anyone who asks for it, versus a one-time-use number that's still fully backed by fraud liability limits if something goes wrong, I know which one I choose every time I can.
Router performance goes down
You misspelled "up". It's amazing how much you can do with dumb hardware when all switchable fields are in hardcoded locations within a packet.
and and memory requirements go up with IPv6.
...or they could stay the same.
You know, not all the world is a teeming cesspit. I've had H-1B coworkers from first world countries who like living in America and want to be a part of it but who couldn't otherwise migrate in a reasonable timeframe. They're not escaping fleeing London and Paris.
Platters of spinning metal and heads are platters of spinning metal and heads.
No. The WD Red has active balancing mechanisms that aren't in their non-NAS drives. That's important when you have many drives in the same chassis and don't want their noise/vibrations to reinforce each others' and cause the whole thing to shake apart. At least for WD, their different drive families are mechanically different and it's not just a matter of a few firmware tweaks to convert one of them into another.
The thing is, I don't want to count on everyone having the latest version.
Yes you do. That way developers using those bleeding-edge features can find the rough edges and get them fixed, and you can use their tested descendants a year later. If those features aren't delivered to end users, no one can test and learn from them and they don't become mainstream.
Thus for most normal Blackberry users (non-corporate), their secure end to end communications begin and end at Blackberry's servers.
That's not a definition of "end to end" that I'm familiar with. Beyond that, how does Blackberry's "network operator" setup differ from Apple's Messages where Apple handles the message routing and delivery, except that Apple devices encrypt and decrypt on the user's hardware (which is the normal definition of "end to end")?
Yes, but you save time by not indenting
I'm asking this seriously: what text editor do you use that you can easily not indent? I use Emacs (and Vim and Sublime Text and Atom) and automatically get thr correct indentation just by writing code like I normally would. If I type if foo: and hit enter, the cursor will be placed correctly for the next thing I type. This isn't Python-specific, either. I get the same behavior when writing C, Go, JS, shell scripts, and so on.
I love dealing with a language that's explicit about what I mean. Consider how incredibly dangerous it is to write code that's not actually indented the way it's meant to be executed. Lots of eyes looked at that C code and didn't notice that the formatting was inconsistent with its parsing. That would not have been a problem in a language that uses indent to describe intent.
You know, as much as I hear that whine, in 16 years of writing Python I've literally never once been bitten by it. Yes, you hate having to indent your code the way you would naturally have indented it anyway, left to your own devices. Sure, writing at-a-glance understandable clauses is torture. Oh yeah, I too hate formatting my stuff the way my coworkers / teachers / project maintainers / colleagues expect to find it. But as much as I love writing the horrible, unformatted mess that you also enjoy, I just can't make this hypothetical copy-and-paste problem manifest itself in reality. Curse you, Python!
s/Twitter/speech/g;s/tweet/say/g
Twitter is just one platform among many, and before it we've always given people public platforms to say dumb, career-ending things. You know, you can still (and always could!) say offensive things. The trick is to say it in such a way as to get your point across before others stop listening.
Dumb statement: Hitler wasn't all bad!
Better statement: Although Hitler committed great atrocities, it is important we remember he was a human and capable of good, too, so that we don't forget that danger always walks among us.
Same sentiment; more tactful delivery. This is what politicians are supposed to be able to do. That Kimmel was unable is a good sign that he should not be an elected representative. Lots of people have successfully used Twitter (and other social media platforms) to say lots of non-mainstream things without making legions of enemies.
They're already on Vista. They're use to misery by now.
Alternatively, they're wide on the side with the bigger number, and narrow on the side with the littler number.
I only knew what it was because a previous employer's IT department kept wanting to infect my phone with it.
Credit where it's due: adding the definition of "MDM" at the end was a nice touch for those not already in the know.
not making Houghton Mifflin or Steven King rich.
Stephen King would make out just fine under a shorted copyright. Love him or hate him, that guy works for his living. He's the exact opposite of someone writing a single book then sitting back and waiting for their ship to come in.
I can't give you numbers, but my next door neighbor does COBOL consulting. He just remodeled his already-nice house and bought a convertible.
People still use Visual Basic and Java in their most recent incarnations, so why shouldn't we have modern versions of other terrible languages?
The medallions avoid a couple things,
- drivers charging on a hail unsafely then haggling over who can carry them
- lots of empty cabs driving around
Gas prices and the expense of operating a vehicle in the city takes care of the second. Taxi companies won't run cabs if they're not making money, so the problem is self-limiting. Medallions only serve to artificially limit supply.
One of the reasons Uber, Lyft and all the other "ride sharing" app companies get so much flack because they are breaking the law.
I'd be more sympathetic if 1) Uber and Lyft were offering the same services as taxis (you can't flag down an Uber; you have to request one), and 2) many jurisdictions hadn't already ruled that you're wrong.
In most jurisdictions the taxi companies have been subject to more rigorous (i.e. expensive) standards than Uber has been following.
...because they paid good money to write those laws. Taxi laws are a prime example of regulatory capture. For example, Company A got a sweet deal on credit card readers and they spent 2 years installing them in their cabs. Then, they tell the local regulatory body that credit card readers are a necessary public good and suggest that all taxis should have readers installed in a reasonable time frame - say, within three months. Finally, they laugh as their competitors scramble to shell out inflated prices for emergency rush orders on credit card readers so that they can stay in business.
For another example, three companies get together for group bargaining with an insurance company: "if you give us a good rate, we'll guarantee that all of our cabs will carry your new expanded coverage." Once that deal's in place, they ask for regulations to require all taxis to carry that level of coverage. Of course, all other companies have to pay the un-negotiated rate and now they have a harder time competing.
You don't get to write the laws and then bitch about them. Well, apparently you can, but you shouldn't be able to.
More people walk to work in SF than anywhere I've ever been. I wander what the accident rates are per mile walked?