OMG, a customer complaining that a free upgrade isn't innovative enough...
1) I'm not a customer.
2) Calling it an 'upgrade' is akin to vacuuming your carpet to get the junkies used needles out of it, and then bragging about how awesome your new carpet is.
"Dark theme and UI tweaks: You can switch on what I call even darker mode in settings, and it will switch built-in apps that typically use a white background over to black."
Wow, the innovation at Microsoft is OFF THE SCALE!!! A new theme, OMG, let us all bow our heads in thanks for this exciting new feature!
^^^ This is the single most important thing you can learn about the market if you intend to invest in stocks.
The market isn't rational, it has virtually no predictable cause and effect, and it's subject to the whims of forces beyond anyone's ability to forecast.
In other news, people who invest in stocks are often idiots with no clue as to 1) how the market works, 2) who makes what, or 3) why a stock price goes up or down.
I'm only surprised they weren't calling their stock brokers and telling them to "Get me 5000 shares of something called 'Pokemon!'"
Incorrect. Prolonged (non-routine) detentions must be based on reasonable suspicion.
Lol, you must be unfamiliar with the TSA, and the way American police authorities in general conduct their day-to-day business.
In theory, you're correct. In reality, they do whatever the fuck they want, when they want, and the way they want. If you manage to survive the experience you're welcome to spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in court in an attempt to seek redress for your grievances.
You'll win about 0.05% of the time, but that doesn't mean you'll actually get any money or effect any change within the department that abused you or denied you your rights. You might (if you're lucky) get a couple of officers retrained, but that's like putting a band-aid on a brain tumor.
Slashdot, oh Slashdot, why can we still not edit our posts?
I've been asking for this since forever. Every fucking blog, forum, and comment-enabled site on the internet has this functionality. Even Yahoo allows you to delete or edit your comments. But it's just too fucking tricky to implement this at Slashdot I suppose.
Now, cue the fucking wankers who'll piss their pants yelling about how that would permit comments to "be taken out of context" or snivel about "proofreading your writing" or "that's what the preview button is for". Like those shitbags have never made a mistake in their lives or ever needed to go back and edit something.
The battery add-on lacks its own charge port. It can only be charged when attached to the phone.
I don't think that's correct. From the article:
"Other useful Moto Mods are more straight-forward like the Incipio OffGrid Power Pack that offers another 2220 mAh battery in the simple snap of the mod. It's also wireless charging capable (all by itself as well)"
Okay...I made an account on pipedot and attempted to send you a message, but I don't think you got it. My 'Outbox' shows no messages sent, even though I sent one. Is there another way to contact you?
I don't think so. All you need to do is to provide something that'll generate the inputs in the sensor that the back-end wants to see.
Not only would you have to come up with this "something" that'll generate the inputs, you'd also have to get the "live palm signature" of the person to be impersonated with all of the correct biometric markers.
Yes, it'll probably be possible to spoof it someday, but I think that day is quite a ways off. By then I suspect it'll have been enhanced with DNA sensing and who knows what else.
The fact is that technology like this is rapidly making it more and more difficult to fool these kinds of "deep-sensing" authentication methods, and it'll only get more difficult as time goes on. Combine this with a retinal scan, a multiple-fingerprint reader, weight and heat sensors, and you'd have a damn difficult system to fool.
If you really want to crash the computer, just order a quarter *pounder* (eww, gross!) without cheese. They can't find the button on the keypad. May as well send everybody home for the night.
Lol, I did that just the other night and got a vacuous blank stare, almost as if I'd asked them to "spread gold leaf on the burger and have it brought to my table on the back of a Nubian slave."
How many times is this going to happen before corporations realise if you give people the chance to publish the names of something they'll come up with shit like "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Fapple".
I'd guess about a hundred million kabillion plus two times infinity.
Corporations regularly come up with these "brilliant" ideas, only to find out that there are people in this world who basically live for this kind of mischief, grief, and trolling.
I don't know about companies, but from the other perspective Americans are in fact subject to some laws in other countries. I know that some countries have laws regarding fish and wildlife that you can actually run afoul of without ever setting foot outside the US.
You can buy things in the US which are technically prohibited from trade or sale in other countries, and if caught here you'll face penalties based on the laws in those countries. It's very convoluted to say the least, and you can "break" these laws without any intent.
They use "Palm Vein Authentication" and this seems like it would be really, really tough to trick. I think it would be very hard to recreate the sensor signature, probably harder than a retinal scan.
I wish there was an option to disable the entire marketplace listings for my account.
I'd love to have this option as well. Screening out all the cruft and crap at Amazon is nearly more trouble than it's worth now.
The other thing that baffles me about Amazon is that in their search pages, you can't jump ahead 5 or 10 pages...you can only advance 1 or 2 pages at a time. Depending upon what you search for and how you sort it, you might get 50 pages of irrelevant 99-cent items before you start to find what you need. Then you have to slog through them to get to what you really want. It's a perfect example of hostile design.
WTF, why bother with pagination if you don't let your customers use it? eBay lets people jump ahead 10 pages if they need to, why can't Amazon?
I was ~9 years old and watched the whole thing from start to finish. I was glued to the TV in the den for about 30 hours straight, lol. Got to skip school for part of it if I remember correctly. When they landed you could hear people all over the neighborhood screaming and cheering.
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OMG, a customer complaining that a free upgrade isn't innovative enough...
1) I'm not a customer.
2) Calling it an 'upgrade' is akin to vacuuming your carpet to get the junkies used needles out of it, and then bragging about how awesome your new carpet is.
Your sig may be out of date....
It reads, "When will Slashdot support HTTPS?", and I'm seeing 'https' in the URL as I write this. Perhaps your dream has come true! :)
"Dark theme and UI tweaks: You can switch on what I call even darker mode in settings, and it will switch built-in apps that typically use a white background over to black."
Wow, the innovation at Microsoft is OFF THE SCALE!!! A new theme, OMG, let us all bow our heads in thanks for this exciting new feature!
The stock market isn't rational.
^^^ This is the single most important thing you can learn about the market if you intend to invest in stocks.
The market isn't rational, it has virtually no predictable cause and effect, and it's subject to the whims of forces beyond anyone's ability to forecast.
I'd stay away from pokemongo but that's just me.
"Pokemongo only pawn in game of life."
In other news, people who invest in stocks are often idiots with no clue as to 1) how the market works, 2) who makes what, or 3) why a stock price goes up or down.
I'm only surprised they weren't calling their stock brokers and telling them to "Get me 5000 shares of something called 'Pokemon!'"
You realize we're talking about the CBP, not the TSA?
Yes, but if you think there's a difference in how they operate, you're mistaken. If anything, the CBP is even worse.
Incorrect. Prolonged (non-routine) detentions must be based on reasonable suspicion.
Lol, you must be unfamiliar with the TSA, and the way American police authorities in general conduct their day-to-day business.
In theory, you're correct. In reality, they do whatever the fuck they want, when they want, and the way they want. If you manage to survive the experience you're welcome to spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in court in an attempt to seek redress for your grievances.
You'll win about 0.05% of the time, but that doesn't mean you'll actually get any money or effect any change within the department that abused you or denied you your rights. You might (if you're lucky) get a couple of officers retrained, but that's like putting a band-aid on a brain tumor.
Slashdot, oh Slashdot, why can we still not edit our posts?
I've been asking for this since forever. Every fucking blog, forum, and comment-enabled site on the internet has this functionality. Even Yahoo allows you to delete or edit your comments. But it's just too fucking tricky to implement this at Slashdot I suppose.
Now, cue the fucking wankers who'll piss their pants yelling about how that would permit comments to "be taken out of context" or snivel about "proofreading your writing" or "that's what the preview button is for". Like those shitbags have never made a mistake in their lives or ever needed to go back and edit something.
The battery add-on lacks its own charge port. It can only be charged when attached to the phone.
I don't think that's correct. From the article:
"Other useful Moto Mods are more straight-forward like the Incipio OffGrid Power Pack that offers another 2220 mAh battery in the simple snap of the mod. It's also wireless charging capable (all by itself as well)"
Oh boy, faster ads, just what I've ALWAYS wanted!!
Ahh, my typo...there was nothing in the Sent mail either. I'll try again.
Okay...I made an account on pipedot and attempted to send you a message, but I don't think you got it. My 'Outbox' shows no messages sent, even though I sent one. Is there another way to contact you?
I don't think so. All you need to do is to provide something that'll generate the inputs in the sensor that the back-end wants to see.
Not only would you have to come up with this "something" that'll generate the inputs, you'd also have to get the "live palm signature" of the person to be impersonated with all of the correct biometric markers.
Yes, it'll probably be possible to spoof it someday, but I think that day is quite a ways off. By then I suspect it'll have been enhanced with DNA sensing and who knows what else.
The fact is that technology like this is rapidly making it more and more difficult to fool these kinds of "deep-sensing" authentication methods, and it'll only get more difficult as time goes on. Combine this with a retinal scan, a multiple-fingerprint reader, weight and heat sensors, and you'd have a damn difficult system to fool.
At least make sure the hookers are of age! (Don't you just _hate_ the inexperienced ones?)
Based on prior events my attorney has advised me to remain silent on the subject of underage hookers.
If you really want to crash the computer, just order a quarter *pounder* (eww, gross!) without cheese. They can't find the button on the keypad. May as well send everybody home for the night.
Lol, I did that just the other night and got a vacuous blank stare, almost as if I'd asked them to "spread gold leaf on the burger and have it brought to my table on the back of a Nubian slave."
How many times is this going to happen before corporations realise if you give people the chance to publish the names of something they'll come up with shit like "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Fapple".
I'd guess about a hundred million kabillion plus two times infinity.
Corporations regularly come up with these "brilliant" ideas, only to find out that there are people in this world who basically live for this kind of mischief, grief, and trolling.
I don't know about companies, but from the other perspective Americans are in fact subject to some laws in other countries. I know that some countries have laws regarding fish and wildlife that you can actually run afoul of without ever setting foot outside the US.
https://www.fws.gov/internatio...
You can buy things in the US which are technically prohibited from trade or sale in other countries, and if caught here you'll face penalties based on the laws in those countries. It's very convoluted to say the least, and you can "break" these laws without any intent.
If evidence exists that this event happened, the corporation that directed the attack needs to have all of their top executive imprisoned.
Either that, or they'll be punished with a huge bonus and limos stocked with underage hookers and blow.
Guess which one is more likely to happen.
The only biometric signature hardware that I've seen that I would consider seriously difficult to spoof would be the deep-vein reader:
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/solu...
http://www.m2sys.com/palm-vein...
They use "Palm Vein Authentication" and this seems like it would be really, really tough to trick. I think it would be very hard to recreate the sensor signature, probably harder than a retinal scan.
I wish there was an option to disable the entire marketplace listings for my account.
I'd love to have this option as well. Screening out all the cruft and crap at Amazon is nearly more trouble than it's worth now.
The other thing that baffles me about Amazon is that in their search pages, you can't jump ahead 5 or 10 pages...you can only advance 1 or 2 pages at a time. Depending upon what you search for and how you sort it, you might get 50 pages of irrelevant 99-cent items before you start to find what you need. Then you have to slog through them to get to what you really want. It's a perfect example of hostile design.
WTF, why bother with pagination if you don't let your customers use it? eBay lets people jump ahead 10 pages if they need to, why can't Amazon?
I was ~9 years old and watched the whole thing from start to finish. I was glued to the TV in the den for about 30 hours straight, lol. Got to skip school for part of it if I remember correctly. When they landed you could hear people all over the neighborhood screaming and cheering.
Let's not promote abuse towards woman on tech sites.
Oh please go shut the fuck up. Reporting on this made-up nonsense is not "promoting abuse towards women", you asshole.
One thing I've learned in life is that guys who call it "smash some puss", very rarely get to smash any puss.
Yep. I was going to say that this guy sounds like a real smooth player, but then I started laughing and couldn't stop.
"Smash some puss" indeed, this is the mark of a loser who's probably never seen an actual woman naked.
Unless you were paying for your in-law's phone, I bet they didn't care that it wasn't useful for you. Why should they?
Exactly. They bought the phone for themselves, not for other people, and certainly not for other people to tell them how they should use it.