The ban is about third party companies (adults) handling data of people under 16. So if a Social Media product was P2P, or e2e encryption and was unable to snoop on it's users, then it wouldn't be an issue. I'd like to see this extended to all people under 120.
PSTs have a history of getting corrupted and having you lose everything in them
Citation? Sure I've seen plenty of corruptions, from the file not being dismounted correctly, but Outlook has a built-in PST repair tool which fixes this effortlessly.
Also if your data is precious, then keep a back up. PSTs are an archive so shouldn't change. Keeping two copies of each is trivial.
But the first space ship (after the initial chase scene) we're introduced to in Star Wars is a run-down piece of junk that's always breaking at the most inopportune times.
That was the great thing about the Star Wars universe, it was dirty. You very rarely see that any more, and it gave the movie a darker tone, rather than the shiny glow in the dark CGI of the prequels (look waterfalls!). The dirtiness of Tatooine, Mos Eisley, the Millenium Falcon, it was pure Western grit, the sense of a wild frontier and hopelessness against the odds. The prequels had none of that, it seemed like a simple demonstration of CGI and quirky merchandising opportunities cobbled together to cash in on a brand.
I actually think the originals have aged quite well. With real models and actual sets, it still looks like a real (albeit kooky) universe. The problem with CGi is new technology makes even the best effects look shit within just a couple of years.
many other adults introduced to the sci-fi franchise as kids
Maybe you just grew up?
We all did, so why couldn't Lucas recognise that fact? It is possible to cater for both young and mature audiences, as the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back did so quite effectively.
Microsoft solved this problem 15 years ago (Outlook and PSTs). But this is Slashdot and we hate Microsoft, so must try to find and Open source solution for the same problem, even if it's clunky as fuck and hard to understand.
"we just realized that shipment you sent us in 2009 was short, but we paid the invoice in full. So we're going to subtract the overpayment -- plus interest -- from the current amount we owe you."
Can't see this holding up in court. Having been to court a few times, the longer the period between the event, and you raising the dispute, the much more difficult your chances are of convincing anyone.
And as with science, the law also recognise the burden of proof is with the claimant, so good luck proving you had one box missing from your delivery 6 years ago, but are only raising it just now.
If by "most misunderstood" we mean misunderstood by the most people, then that title would have to belong to the collapse of the twin towers.
So many people still can't understand how a building could fall straight down, instead of sideways like in the cartoons. Forget resonance or oscillation, how about getting gravity into the public conscious. I guess it is just a theory after all...
Many governments around the world are in an almighty stalemate where successive governments will simply spend a lot of time undoing the laws of the last government.
I disagree with this. While it does happen from time to time, it is the exception rather than the rule.
Tell me in all seriousness that you don't believe that if Obama passed some incredibly tough gun ownership legislation right now that the law in question won't be instantly overturned in the first few weeks of the following government
Passed bills number in the dozens for any term of government, repealed laws can be counted in ones and twos. The Republicans gained control of congress earlier this year yet didn't repeal Obama-care. So your statement isn't based on any real world observation.
The costs of the call center infrastructure,...outweigh the savings from not having a minimum wage worker
Well quite clearly the savings are there, otherwise McDonalds wouldn't be doing it. Say what you like about their food, but McDonalds has a good track record with finding even minuscule gains in efficiency to improve margins.
You get ice cream machine broken/rude operator issues even with local workers, so this makes no difference.
Did you not read the justification after the ice cream machine breaking example? The entire point is that a remote order taker wouldn't know it was broken and would take the order,
This is trivial with any sort of automation. How do you think NOCs work? There aren't teams of engineers all crawling around data centres to figure out when a HDD has failed.
whereas a local person would and could inform the customer
I can only assume you've never been to a fast food restaurant. The order taker is a monkey, who can easily be replaced by another monkey who can take more orders per hour by consolidating all orders to a centralised location.
Depends what you mean by popular. Thatcher wasn't very popular but she got her policies across the line. Bush Jnr was the most unpopular leader of the modern era yet managed to coax everyone along into one of the biggest strategic fuckups in history.
Solve it just like humans solve every problem, by dealing with it in some way that gets us by.
How did the Netherlands deal with an encroaching ocean? How did the Inuit deal with snow and ice? Or the Kalahari bushman with drought? Sure the future might not look like 18th century Europe, but then when did it ever (other than the 18th century)?
I have a less prophet of doom outlook, and believe the change will bring about opportunity. Just like the Plague or world wars, the emerging disaster will simply spark the next generation of technological innovation to deal with it. So yeah, it'll get solved eventually.
while most of them epitomize the exact kind of extravagant energy-intensive lifestyle that causes the problem in the first place. Jet setting all over the world, owning huge homes,
You must know different hippies from me. The ones I know live in tents and smell because they don't shower. I'll bet my meagre home that they use less energy than you.
If you think that the governments can in any way stop global warming then you're living in a fairy land. The governments are powerless here because they aren't the big polluters. The big polluters are you and I, s
Government sets public policy and has the power to enforce it, so yeah I don't know what qualifies as a solution, but they are the only organisation that have adequate influence to effect change.
You and I do what our governments tell us (or we go to jail), so if you want to change Joe average, government is the mechanism that you use to do it.
I think you missed the point of the analogy. All I was demonstrating is that big problems take a long time to fix. So don't expect at any point some hand brake agreement that will happen overnight. Kyoto and Paris and whatever the next one is called will eventually get us where we need to get to, but like a oil tanker, you can't turn around hundreds of years of economic and cultural momentum in a day.
Smoking took decades and this is bigger than smoking, so expect a longer resolution time. Also, lots of people died while pro-smokers fucked everyone around with delaying tactics, and this will also be no different. The point is we are on that path, you just have to be more patient.
From TFS "the mental stress of noise becomes a serious issue."
It seems to be an overlooked part of city life, but I believe noise is a major contributor to general stress and fatigue. And not just noticeable noise like dogs barking or loud music, but the background noises you forget about until it's switched off.
Have you ever worked in an office building when the aircon goes off and all of a sudden there's an eerie silence? That buzz is in your ear 8 hours a day, but you don't notice it. Background traffic noise is the same.
There are billions of people subjected to unnatural background noise every waking hour that is constantly attacking the senses. Surely that is having an effect?
It struck me when one time I was flying business class and got a pair of noise cancelling headphones. After a 10 hour flight, for the first time in my life I got off the plane feeling normal. Could it have been the constant droning of engines that destroys your well-being on long haul flights?
After that flight I bough the best noise cancelling headphones I could find (Bose QC3) and never looked back. On the bus to work I wear them, even without music, and at home, I live in a quiet suburb, when I put them on there is still a noticeable drop in background noise. I just did a 24 hour flight around the world and back and actually got off the plane feeling reasonably human. Even with the jet lag I could deal with because the constant overpowering noise wasn't there destroying my soul. I can only imagine what effect it will have on humanity when noise pollution is treated the same as every other type of pollution.
I thoroughly recommend a good pair of NC headphones for anyone wanting to improve their life.
When you look at things like this in isolation you might think it does nothing, but this is the long fight. Similar to the anti-smoking movement, it took decades of incremental steps to finally get to a tipping point where not smoking became the default accepted point of view.
We are still a decade or two away from the desired result, but I believe this is continuing to shift the default position from "Climate Change is BS", to "it exists, but nothing we can do", to " We can solve this". These things can take a generation to infiltrate the public conscious enough that politicians are forced to act, so as long as we're moving in the right direction, we'll get there eventually.
Ok so we all know the drill about how totally fucking ludicrous copyright is getting. So instead of continually bitching and moaning, who are the candidates pushing for reform that we can all go out and support them?
Democracy works by action, not all sitting around moaning. I need a hero....
Democracy is an interesting beast. It has so many imperfections, but as soon as you try and improve it, you just make it worse.
We've all experienced the flaw of FPP when a minor party can get double digits in the overall vote, but not win a seat in parliament. And I've experienced MMP where the fringes held the balance of power for decades and just ground the system to a halt
I've also seen in smaller local governments where it all inclusive, everyone gets a say, but nothing gets done.
The best you can hope for is a strong, independent and critical media, because it is they who keep the politics in check. Right now I think this is where we are going wrong.
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Not that I want to join the moron ranks of facistbook, but if I did I'd simply use my burner phone which is also under a fake name...
The ban is about third party companies (adults) handling data of people under 16. So if a Social Media product was P2P, or e2e encryption and was unable to snoop on it's users, then it wouldn't be an issue. I'd like to see this extended to all people under 120.
PSTs have a history of getting corrupted and having you lose everything in them
Citation? Sure I've seen plenty of corruptions, from the file not being dismounted correctly, but Outlook has a built-in PST repair tool which fixes this effortlessly.
Also if your data is precious, then keep a back up. PSTs are an archive so shouldn't change. Keeping two copies of each is trivial.
But then, I really liked Episode 3, which was the episode 3 I'd been waiting for, and apparently 90% of you, at least, still don't understand.
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I understand it alright, it was just shit. It's already been said a million times elsewhere, but trust me, it was shit.
But the first space ship (after the initial chase scene) we're introduced to in Star Wars is a run-down piece of junk that's always breaking at the most inopportune times.
That was the great thing about the Star Wars universe, it was dirty. You very rarely see that any more, and it gave the movie a darker tone, rather than the shiny glow in the dark CGI of the prequels (look waterfalls!). The dirtiness of Tatooine, Mos Eisley, the Millenium Falcon, it was pure Western grit, the sense of a wild frontier and hopelessness against the odds. The prequels had none of that, it seemed like a simple demonstration of CGI and quirky merchandising opportunities cobbled together to cash in on a brand.
I actually think the originals have aged quite well. With real models and actual sets, it still looks like a real (albeit kooky) universe. The problem with CGi is new technology makes even the best effects look shit within just a couple of years.
many other adults introduced to the sci-fi franchise as kids
Maybe you just grew up?
We all did, so why couldn't Lucas recognise that fact? It is possible to cater for both young and mature audiences, as the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back did so quite effectively.
Microsoft solved this problem 15 years ago (Outlook and PSTs). But this is Slashdot and we hate Microsoft, so must try to find and Open source solution for the same problem, even if it's clunky as fuck and hard to understand.
"we just realized that shipment you sent us in 2009 was short, but we paid the invoice in full. So we're going to subtract the overpayment -- plus interest -- from the current amount we owe you."
Can't see this holding up in court. Having been to court a few times, the longer the period between the event, and you raising the dispute, the much more difficult your chances are of convincing anyone.
And as with science, the law also recognise the burden of proof is with the claimant, so good luck proving you had one box missing from your delivery 6 years ago, but are only raising it just now.
Don't have a phone?
Seriously, this isn't 2005, there is no need for a land-line in 2015.
Do not call lists have worked perfect for myself for the past decade or so?
I just wish they would make it so political calls could be added to that list.
Having no land-line works perfectly for this. Unless you're really old, I can't understand why anyone still has a land-line
If by "most misunderstood" we mean misunderstood by the most people, then that title would have to belong to the collapse of the twin towers.
So many people still can't understand how a building could fall straight down, instead of sideways like in the cartoons. Forget resonance or oscillation, how about getting gravity into the public conscious. I guess it is just a theory after all...
Many governments around the world are in an almighty stalemate where successive governments will simply spend a lot of time undoing the laws of the last government.
I disagree with this. While it does happen from time to time, it is the exception rather than the rule.
Tell me in all seriousness that you don't believe that if Obama passed some incredibly tough gun ownership legislation right now that the law in question won't be instantly overturned in the first few weeks of the following government
Passed bills number in the dozens for any term of government, repealed laws can be counted in ones and twos. The Republicans gained control of congress earlier this year yet didn't repeal Obama-care. So your statement isn't based on any real world observation.
The costs of the call center infrastructure, ...outweigh the savings from not having a minimum wage worker
Well quite clearly the savings are there, otherwise McDonalds wouldn't be doing it. Say what you like about their food, but McDonalds has a good track record with finding even minuscule gains in efficiency to improve margins.
You get ice cream machine broken/rude operator issues even with local workers, so this makes no difference.
Did you not read the justification after the ice cream machine breaking example? The entire point is that a remote order taker wouldn't know it was broken and would take the order,
This is trivial with any sort of automation. How do you think NOCs work? There aren't teams of engineers all crawling around data centres to figure out when a HDD has failed.
whereas a local person would and could inform the customer
I can only assume you've never been to a fast food restaurant. The order taker is a monkey, who can easily be replaced by another monkey who can take more orders per hour by consolidating all orders to a centralised location.
If they are carbon offsetting their lifestyle choices, then it how is that a problem?
Depends what you mean by popular. Thatcher wasn't very popular but she got her policies across the line. Bush Jnr was the most unpopular leader of the modern era yet managed to coax everyone along into one of the biggest strategic fuckups in history.
Much of the point of using quadcopters commercially is that you don't need any special place to launch them.
But you will need a special place to fly, and be trained in how to fly them, and that is what this is.
Solve it just like humans solve every problem, by dealing with it in some way that gets us by.
How did the Netherlands deal with an encroaching ocean? How did the Inuit deal with snow and ice? Or the Kalahari bushman with drought? Sure the future might not look like 18th century Europe, but then when did it ever (other than the 18th century)?
I have a less prophet of doom outlook, and believe the change will bring about opportunity. Just like the Plague or world wars, the emerging disaster will simply spark the next generation of technological innovation to deal with it. So yeah, it'll get solved eventually.
while most of them epitomize the exact kind of extravagant energy-intensive lifestyle that causes the problem in the first place. Jet setting all over the world, owning huge homes,
You must know different hippies from me. The ones I know live in tents and smell because they don't shower. I'll bet my meagre home that they use less energy than you.
It only needs governments to act
If you think that the governments can in any way stop global warming then you're living in a fairy land. The governments are powerless here because they aren't the big polluters. The big polluters are you and I, s
Government sets public policy and has the power to enforce it, so yeah I don't know what qualifies as a solution, but they are the only organisation that have adequate influence to effect change.
You and I do what our governments tell us (or we go to jail), so if you want to change Joe average, government is the mechanism that you use to do it.
You analogy is wrong on so many levels.
I think you missed the point of the analogy. All I was demonstrating is that big problems take a long time to fix. So don't expect at any point some hand brake agreement that will happen overnight. Kyoto and Paris and whatever the next one is called will eventually get us where we need to get to, but like a oil tanker, you can't turn around hundreds of years of economic and cultural momentum in a day.
Smoking took decades and this is bigger than smoking, so expect a longer resolution time. Also, lots of people died while pro-smokers fucked everyone around with delaying tactics, and this will also be no different. The point is we are on that path, you just have to be more patient.
From TFS "the mental stress of noise becomes a serious issue."
It seems to be an overlooked part of city life, but I believe noise is a major contributor to general stress and fatigue. And not just noticeable noise like dogs barking or loud music, but the background noises you forget about until it's switched off.
Have you ever worked in an office building when the aircon goes off and all of a sudden there's an eerie silence? That buzz is in your ear 8 hours a day, but you don't notice it. Background traffic noise is the same.
There are billions of people subjected to unnatural background noise every waking hour that is constantly attacking the senses. Surely that is having an effect?
It struck me when one time I was flying business class and got a pair of noise cancelling headphones. After a 10 hour flight, for the first time in my life I got off the plane feeling normal. Could it have been the constant droning of engines that destroys your well-being on long haul flights?
After that flight I bough the best noise cancelling headphones I could find (Bose QC3) and never looked back. On the bus to work I wear them, even without music, and at home, I live in a quiet suburb, when I put them on there is still a noticeable drop in background noise. I just did a 24 hour flight around the world and back and actually got off the plane feeling reasonably human. Even with the jet lag I could deal with because the constant overpowering noise wasn't there destroying my soul. I can only imagine what effect it will have on humanity when noise pollution is treated the same as every other type of pollution.
I thoroughly recommend a good pair of NC headphones for anyone wanting to improve their life.
When you look at things like this in isolation you might think it does nothing, but this is the long fight. Similar to the anti-smoking movement, it took decades of incremental steps to finally get to a tipping point where not smoking became the default accepted point of view.
We are still a decade or two away from the desired result, but I believe this is continuing to shift the default position from "Climate Change is BS", to "it exists, but nothing we can do", to " We can solve this". These things can take a generation to infiltrate the public conscious enough that politicians are forced to act, so as long as we're moving in the right direction, we'll get there eventually.
Ok so we all know the drill about how totally fucking ludicrous copyright is getting. So instead of continually bitching and moaning, who are the candidates pushing for reform that we can all go out and support them?
Democracy works by action, not all sitting around moaning. I need a hero....
Democracy is an interesting beast. It has so many imperfections, but as soon as you try and improve it, you just make it worse.
We've all experienced the flaw of FPP when a minor party can get double digits in the overall vote, but not win a seat in parliament. And I've experienced MMP where the fringes held the balance of power for decades and just ground the system to a halt
I've also seen in smaller local governments where it all inclusive, everyone gets a say, but nothing gets done. The best you can hope for is a strong, independent and critical media, because it is they who keep the politics in check. Right now I think this is where we are going wrong.