Law of headlines indeed, and there's already an established way for web developers to indicate that they don't want content cached or archived while still being searchable:
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
So archive.org could just honor that, and the problem would be solved. Google honors exactly this.
Actually, a lot of them are running close to having their Verizon moments. Disney/ABC in particular are currently feeling the sting of cable subscriber losses, especially their ESPN division. In fact, the only reason Disney is still profitable is because they've bought a lot of big name franchises like Star Wars. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if we see at least another 8 more Star Wars movies in addition to the already existing 8. The 9th is mere months away, and when it hits that will be THREE major Star Wars movies within a two year span.
Mark my words: By the year 2024, in a theater near you will be Star Wars Episode 12: Jar Jar's Conquest. It will feature Jar Jar in command of a galaxy sized Death Star which the rebels will have to take down using an army of 5 million cloned Ewoks each commanding their own planet sized Death Star.
Cheap rates are found where the Superbowl Sunday is being held, on days other than when the Superbowl Sunday is held because there is competition, and they already made their profit from Superbowl Sunday. On Superbowl Sunday, you best go where the World Series Final is held to get cheap hotels.
That's not even remotely true. If you go to a place that has a major event happening, even within a week of said event, you're going to pay quite a lot. The entire week prior to the Superbowl is like this in every place that its held, every single year.
Given that these only have a 5-7 day shelf life, presumably the manufacturer could just quickly notify you. At any rate, I can't help but imagine that this juicer wouldn't work at all if it had no internet connectivity, which would be just pathetic if so.
On the technology front, I can't quite figure out why exactly this device needs wifi. What purpose does it serve, if any? Is it just to enforce its own DRM?
No, it doesn't. Because the 2010 Macbook is going to actually be usable with modern applications as long as they're not games requiring a newer CPU or GPU.
And so long as they don't require newer API functionality of a newer version of OSX. Oh, and I would avoid connecting it to the internet.
Totally different from state propaganda channels right? I mean, Comcast News channel 1, Comcast News Channel 5, Comcast News channel 12 and Comcast News channel 331 are entirely different uh, weather ladies.
One of them even has Channel capitalized but not the others, so you can tell they're completely different.
You mean you actually watch linear television? What, are you 80?
In case you are: IMO cable has been digging its own grave for the last two decades, and ever since broadcast stations realized that they basically can write themselves a blank check for retransmission fees and squeeze ever more ads in to the same time slots, they've been doing the same thing. Likewise, I wouldn't count on linear television lasting much longer; especially once the baby boomer generation is gone.
The media companies can go right on ahead and buy up all of those extra markets for all I care, because they're just wasting their money in the long run. Comcast may think its sheer size makes it immune to market forces, but sooner or later it will have a Verizon moment.
That likely depends on where and when you spend the night at a hotel. For example, a really nice hotel in the middle of Bumblefuck, Missouri in the middle of September will likely cost nothing, whereas a hotel that happens to be where and when Superbowl Sunday is being held is either going to be really expensive or really shitty (or, sometimes both.)
PIN on a credit card? Honestly I've never had a bank offer the option of setting one up. And I think the reason they don't is because they want the transaction to happen quicker. With a fingerprint, it could very well satisfy both needs. I.e. press your finger on the right spot of the card just prior to insertion, and nothing else is required. Merchant can even do away with the pin pad.
Because increased 'card present' security is important, especially outside the US where there's no such thing as zero fraud liability.
Card not present security will inevitably need another form of protection, whether that's from one time keys or some kind of two factor system, but that's not what this is for.
I think the point is that they're making it much harder for a typical wallet thief to go to town on your credit card before you can report it stolen. By the time they create a false print, it may be too late.
Those stupid one use only keys should go first, IMO. Open materials are fine and all, but that will take a long time to develop. I think it would be much more effective to ban courses from requiring textbooks that have no resale value, and to prefer books that come in an international edition, with resources to help students acquire the international editions while ensuring that it's the right book for the course.
Except GP is correct, what the fuck does this have to do with his job as president? If there's some kind of conflict of interest, I'm sure more than one three letter agency would be aware of it.
And speaking of willful ignorance. Just keep on ignoring the fact that he's a facist
Now THAT is ignorance. It's fair to call Trump a lot of things, but fascist just doesn't fit at all. If he was truly fascist, then he'd be calling for nationalization of many businesses, and every business he doesn't want to be nationalized he'd start demanding that its goals and mission changed to benefit the good of the people.
I would say racist doesn't either, but just about anything qualifies as racist these days; enough so that the word is basically meaningless. Hell, a lot of people seem to think that simply being white alone is enough to be considered racist, character of the person notwithstanding.
Look outside the box, and you'll find that it's quite easy and legal to setup your own DVR for almost all content available today, sent on any system. Now that you have it on your own personal DVR solution that you control, skipping ads is simple.
Nope, local cable company DRM flags literally every single channel. This means your only choice of self-rolled DVR is the now discontinued Windows Media Center. Sure, you can go with a tivo (pretty much the only other choice) but honestly, I'm truly tired of set top boxes of that category, and in fact I'm tired of DVRs in general. I live in Phoenix where your #1 utility cost is electricity to power air conditioning, and I'm so over boxes that have to eat over 60 watts 24/7 per TV, with the matching heat they produce contributing heat to the AC problem, thus they're rather expensive to run on an annualized basis, in addition to their monthly fees.
Meanwhile, my NAS runs as a virtual appliance in a larger server that uses 80 watts 24/7 and sits in an external storage area (thus it doesn't heat the house.) I play the content from it on smaller devices like a roku or a shieldtv, neither of which have to run 24/7, and when they do run, they consume 10 watts at the maximum. Given I have 3 TVs, that's a decent annualized cost savings. Likewise, I'm not going to revert to using DVR technology (a concept that is now almost two decades old at this point) just because the content industry wants to maintain a cartel like behavior in the form of cable tv.
I do know that people with renal insufficiency and people on dialysis are told to avoid "salt" (namely, table salt) specifically because your body tries to maintain a specific ratio of sodium to other fluids, and if you consume more sodium then you'll get thirsty, and getting thirsty is bad because your renal system is unable to clear fluids efficiently. And when fluids build up in your body, you get edema, hypertension, etc, therefore you need to drink less water than a healthy person.
If anything, the law should not encourage tipping at all, rather than effectively making it obligatory. I.e. put servers, drivers, bartenders, etc under the same wages as everybody else (be that minimum wage or otherwise,) and make tipping a thing of the past. Also make it illegal for any business to automatically add a gratuity to your bill, i.e. the total price is baked into the menu/advertised price rather than effectively adding a 15% below the line fee.
Oh and while I'm here, slashdot's web designers are somewhat retarded as of the last few months. Seriously, and ad that takes up 1/3rd of the page? Who thinks of this shit? And now to make things worse, the user pane scrolls with the page when reading the comments, so you have to scroll heavily just to read the comments. The first dumbfuck idea can be fixed with adblock, but the second dumbfuck idea requires outright disabling javascript just to make the page readable.
And why should it be? Personally, I couldn't care less about Trump, but I'm at a loss as for why this is suddenly important.
Are you concerned that Trump uses a loophole somewhere to avoid paying taxes? If so, who wouldn't do that? I don't know of one person who would deliberately not avoid paying taxes when given the opportunity.
Besides, it would seem to be consistent with his overall message about wanting to reduce taxation. If you were demanding the tax return of somebody who is in favor of higher taxes, then that *may* in some way be valid, but I still wouldn't see a need for it as I'm sure that person would try to avoid taxes as well, even though they may want to see whatever loophole they used go away.
I think it's entirely likely that they needed a male actor for that particular role, and I'd wager that its borderline impossible to find a male actor that would want to take hormones or do anything else beyond just looking like he does. I wouldn't think much of it anyways; Barbara Hudson is a really pedantic asshole.
For years now I keep hearing that someones top end card from 5 years ago is still plenty good enough to play any AAA title full res with medium to high settings.
I've never heard that before, and it doesn't sound at all accurate unless you're just talking about playing older titles, in which case upgrading is typically moot. You're most likely thinking of CPUs; 4-6 year old ones work just fine for the newest AAA titles, and likewise you can typically keep the same old motherboard and RAM as well. However, video cards are a completely different story, especially for games that aren't simple console ports, and upgrading your video card typically doesn't require replacing any other components. In general, for the latest titles you don't want to have a card that's more than 3 years old, unless you want to turn down the graphics settings and/or put up with a slower frame rate. In fact, 3 years is probably even pushing it.
It could also be that Microsoft has it in the back of their minds that they're going to have some "must have" feature and need the OS to be ready when the time comes, thus they maintain it. Or at least, this is what they've hinted at by saying that they don't want to release just another phone when (indirectly) commenting about surface phone rumors. Though I don't really see what they could pull off that hundreds of other OEMs (especially Google, Samsung, and Apple) won't think of. Supposedly continuum was going to be that "must have" feature, but it didn't really do them any favors, mainly due to practicality. Namely, who is going to carry around an extra keyboard and mouse on the off chance that they'll find an unused monitor that they can connect to? Likewise, including x86 support seems like an equally pointless thing to do. It's just an ill-conceived idea because it completely breaks the point of being mobile, IMO, and as an end user you're better off just carrying around a laptop.
It's a bit like how Microsoft (and its fans) kind of assumed that any device that ran Office would just immediately win out over its competitors for business customers, but to think so is to not understand mobile (Balmer admitted as such after he wrongly predicted that the iPhone would fail because, among other things, it doesn't have a physical keyboard.) That, and Microsoft overall has this mindset that any product can succeed if you throw billions of dollars at it.
No they haven't abandoned it quite yet, I'm guessing for political reasons within the organization? Though they now sell Samsung Android phones in their stores that are slightly modified in that they include a bunch of Microsoft apps (i.e. Office 365 and Craptana.)
See this is the problem. Even the self-professed geeks still use Windows and it's the same reason everybody uses Windows, because stuff works on it and it's easier to just use Windows rather than to make those workflows actually work on Linux.
Microsoft stories should barely get a blip of attention here, but they get overwhelming response because most of the people here use Microsoft products rather than contributing to developing or funding those workflows for Linux.
This ultimately comes from the smattering of (as Microsoft terms it) legacy applications out there, and then video games which rely on well optimized video card drivers to run well. This isn't Microsoft's doing so much as it is third party hardware and software developers putting less effort on other platforms. However, I wouldn't necessarily count on this remaining the case forever as Microsoft is already seeing its mindshare seriously take a nosedive over the last decade.
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Law of headlines indeed, and there's already an established way for web developers to indicate that they don't want content cached or archived while still being searchable:
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
So archive.org could just honor that, and the problem would be solved. Google honors exactly this.
Actually, a lot of them are running close to having their Verizon moments. Disney/ABC in particular are currently feeling the sting of cable subscriber losses, especially their ESPN division. In fact, the only reason Disney is still profitable is because they've bought a lot of big name franchises like Star Wars. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if we see at least another 8 more Star Wars movies in addition to the already existing 8. The 9th is mere months away, and when it hits that will be THREE major Star Wars movies within a two year span.
Mark my words: By the year 2024, in a theater near you will be Star Wars Episode 12: Jar Jar's Conquest. It will feature Jar Jar in command of a galaxy sized Death Star which the rebels will have to take down using an army of 5 million cloned Ewoks each commanding their own planet sized Death Star.
Cheap rates are found where the Superbowl Sunday is being held, on days other than when the Superbowl Sunday is held because there is competition, and they already made their profit from Superbowl Sunday. On Superbowl Sunday, you best go where the World Series Final is held to get cheap hotels.
That's not even remotely true. If you go to a place that has a major event happening, even within a week of said event, you're going to pay quite a lot. The entire week prior to the Superbowl is like this in every place that its held, every single year.
Given that these only have a 5-7 day shelf life, presumably the manufacturer could just quickly notify you. At any rate, I can't help but imagine that this juicer wouldn't work at all if it had no internet connectivity, which would be just pathetic if so.
On the technology front, I can't quite figure out why exactly this device needs wifi. What purpose does it serve, if any? Is it just to enforce its own DRM?
No, it doesn't. Because the 2010 Macbook is going to actually be usable with modern applications as long as they're not games requiring a newer CPU or GPU.
And so long as they don't require newer API functionality of a newer version of OSX. Oh, and I would avoid connecting it to the internet.
Totally different from state propaganda channels right?
I mean, Comcast News channel 1, Comcast News Channel 5, Comcast News channel 12 and Comcast News channel 331 are entirely different uh, weather ladies.
One of them even has Channel capitalized but not the others, so you can tell they're completely different.
You mean you actually watch linear television? What, are you 80?
In case you are: IMO cable has been digging its own grave for the last two decades, and ever since broadcast stations realized that they basically can write themselves a blank check for retransmission fees and squeeze ever more ads in to the same time slots, they've been doing the same thing. Likewise, I wouldn't count on linear television lasting much longer; especially once the baby boomer generation is gone.
The media companies can go right on ahead and buy up all of those extra markets for all I care, because they're just wasting their money in the long run. Comcast may think its sheer size makes it immune to market forces, but sooner or later it will have a Verizon moment.
That likely depends on where and when you spend the night at a hotel. For example, a really nice hotel in the middle of Bumblefuck, Missouri in the middle of September will likely cost nothing, whereas a hotel that happens to be where and when Superbowl Sunday is being held is either going to be really expensive or really shitty (or, sometimes both.)
PIN on a credit card? Honestly I've never had a bank offer the option of setting one up. And I think the reason they don't is because they want the transaction to happen quicker. With a fingerprint, it could very well satisfy both needs. I.e. press your finger on the right spot of the card just prior to insertion, and nothing else is required. Merchant can even do away with the pin pad.
Because increased 'card present' security is important, especially outside the US where there's no such thing as zero fraud liability.
Card not present security will inevitably need another form of protection, whether that's from one time keys or some kind of two factor system, but that's not what this is for.
I think the point is that they're making it much harder for a typical wallet thief to go to town on your credit card before you can report it stolen. By the time they create a false print, it may be too late.
Those stupid one use only keys should go first, IMO. Open materials are fine and all, but that will take a long time to develop. I think it would be much more effective to ban courses from requiring textbooks that have no resale value, and to prefer books that come in an international edition, with resources to help students acquire the international editions while ensuring that it's the right book for the course.
Except GP is correct, what the fuck does this have to do with his job as president? If there's some kind of conflict of interest, I'm sure more than one three letter agency would be aware of it.
And speaking of willful ignorance. Just keep on ignoring the fact that he's a facist
Now THAT is ignorance. It's fair to call Trump a lot of things, but fascist just doesn't fit at all. If he was truly fascist, then he'd be calling for nationalization of many businesses, and every business he doesn't want to be nationalized he'd start demanding that its goals and mission changed to benefit the good of the people.
I would say racist doesn't either, but just about anything qualifies as racist these days; enough so that the word is basically meaningless. Hell, a lot of people seem to think that simply being white alone is enough to be considered racist, character of the person notwithstanding.
It's not that ads are evil, it's that life's too fuckin short.
Look outside the box, and you'll find that it's quite easy and legal to setup your own DVR for almost all content available today, sent on any system. Now that you have it on your own personal DVR solution that you control, skipping ads is simple.
Nope, local cable company DRM flags literally every single channel. This means your only choice of self-rolled DVR is the now discontinued Windows Media Center. Sure, you can go with a tivo (pretty much the only other choice) but honestly, I'm truly tired of set top boxes of that category, and in fact I'm tired of DVRs in general. I live in Phoenix where your #1 utility cost is electricity to power air conditioning, and I'm so over boxes that have to eat over 60 watts 24/7 per TV, with the matching heat they produce contributing heat to the AC problem, thus they're rather expensive to run on an annualized basis, in addition to their monthly fees.
Meanwhile, my NAS runs as a virtual appliance in a larger server that uses 80 watts 24/7 and sits in an external storage area (thus it doesn't heat the house.) I play the content from it on smaller devices like a roku or a shieldtv, neither of which have to run 24/7, and when they do run, they consume 10 watts at the maximum. Given I have 3 TVs, that's a decent annualized cost savings. Likewise, I'm not going to revert to using DVR technology (a concept that is now almost two decades old at this point) just because the content industry wants to maintain a cartel like behavior in the form of cable tv.
I do know that people with renal insufficiency and people on dialysis are told to avoid "salt" (namely, table salt) specifically because your body tries to maintain a specific ratio of sodium to other fluids, and if you consume more sodium then you'll get thirsty, and getting thirsty is bad because your renal system is unable to clear fluids efficiently. And when fluids build up in your body, you get edema, hypertension, etc, therefore you need to drink less water than a healthy person.
I already have that turned off, it doesn't do anything.
If anything, the law should not encourage tipping at all, rather than effectively making it obligatory. I.e. put servers, drivers, bartenders, etc under the same wages as everybody else (be that minimum wage or otherwise,) and make tipping a thing of the past. Also make it illegal for any business to automatically add a gratuity to your bill, i.e. the total price is baked into the menu/advertised price rather than effectively adding a 15% below the line fee.
Oh and while I'm here, slashdot's web designers are somewhat retarded as of the last few months. Seriously, and ad that takes up 1/3rd of the page? Who thinks of this shit? And now to make things worse, the user pane scrolls with the page when reading the comments, so you have to scroll heavily just to read the comments. The first dumbfuck idea can be fixed with adblock, but the second dumbfuck idea requires outright disabling javascript just to make the page readable.
And why should it be? Personally, I couldn't care less about Trump, but I'm at a loss as for why this is suddenly important.
Are you concerned that Trump uses a loophole somewhere to avoid paying taxes? If so, who wouldn't do that? I don't know of one person who would deliberately not avoid paying taxes when given the opportunity.
Besides, it would seem to be consistent with his overall message about wanting to reduce taxation. If you were demanding the tax return of somebody who is in favor of higher taxes, then that *may* in some way be valid, but I still wouldn't see a need for it as I'm sure that person would try to avoid taxes as well, even though they may want to see whatever loophole they used go away.
I think that under Bernie it would be more like France.
I think it's entirely likely that they needed a male actor for that particular role, and I'd wager that its borderline impossible to find a male actor that would want to take hormones or do anything else beyond just looking like he does. I wouldn't think much of it anyways; Barbara Hudson is a really pedantic asshole.
For years now I keep hearing that someones top end card from 5 years ago is still plenty good enough to play any AAA title full res with medium to high settings.
I've never heard that before, and it doesn't sound at all accurate unless you're just talking about playing older titles, in which case upgrading is typically moot. You're most likely thinking of CPUs; 4-6 year old ones work just fine for the newest AAA titles, and likewise you can typically keep the same old motherboard and RAM as well. However, video cards are a completely different story, especially for games that aren't simple console ports, and upgrading your video card typically doesn't require replacing any other components. In general, for the latest titles you don't want to have a card that's more than 3 years old, unless you want to turn down the graphics settings and/or put up with a slower frame rate. In fact, 3 years is probably even pushing it.
Perhaps, but based on this I think there is political pressure:
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/w...
It could also be that Microsoft has it in the back of their minds that they're going to have some "must have" feature and need the OS to be ready when the time comes, thus they maintain it. Or at least, this is what they've hinted at by saying that they don't want to release just another phone when (indirectly) commenting about surface phone rumors. Though I don't really see what they could pull off that hundreds of other OEMs (especially Google, Samsung, and Apple) won't think of. Supposedly continuum was going to be that "must have" feature, but it didn't really do them any favors, mainly due to practicality. Namely, who is going to carry around an extra keyboard and mouse on the off chance that they'll find an unused monitor that they can connect to? Likewise, including x86 support seems like an equally pointless thing to do. It's just an ill-conceived idea because it completely breaks the point of being mobile, IMO, and as an end user you're better off just carrying around a laptop.
It's a bit like how Microsoft (and its fans) kind of assumed that any device that ran Office would just immediately win out over its competitors for business customers, but to think so is to not understand mobile (Balmer admitted as such after he wrongly predicted that the iPhone would fail because, among other things, it doesn't have a physical keyboard.) That, and Microsoft overall has this mindset that any product can succeed if you throw billions of dollars at it.
No they haven't abandoned it quite yet, I'm guessing for political reasons within the organization? Though they now sell Samsung Android phones in their stores that are slightly modified in that they include a bunch of Microsoft apps (i.e. Office 365 and Craptana.)
See this is the problem. Even the self-professed geeks still use Windows and it's the same reason everybody uses Windows, because stuff works on it and it's easier to just use Windows rather than to make those workflows actually work on Linux.
Microsoft stories should barely get a blip of attention here, but they get overwhelming response because most of the people here use Microsoft products rather than contributing to developing or funding those workflows for Linux.
This ultimately comes from the smattering of (as Microsoft terms it) legacy applications out there, and then video games which rely on well optimized video card drivers to run well. This isn't Microsoft's doing so much as it is third party hardware and software developers putting less effort on other platforms. However, I wouldn't necessarily count on this remaining the case forever as Microsoft is already seeing its mindshare seriously take a nosedive over the last decade.