Who here thinks that the free shipping is sustainable. Especial with the given examples?
The cost of shipping is built into every Prime item. On a few they lose out, on most they make it up. That's why many items are cheaper on Prime Pantry than on Prime - because they're only shipping one big box.
If you have a lot of cash, that's "evidence" of drug crimes, even absent drugs, and the cops will take your money, put it on trial (cash is bad at defending itself and does not get an attorney), and buy boats, pinball machines and hookers with your money.
Trump thinks Amazon runs WashPo, which has been publishing CIA propaganda against Trump as fact (retractions come three months later).
Such actions against Amazon would be thoroughly unsurprising, even though they're unwarranted. Politicians don't have to compete on the merit of their ideas.
Look, I don't give a shit about violating copyright for the sake of violating copyright. The companies that are all-take-and-no-give, like cheap router manufacturers, that cause the community danger with their unpatched crap - the community tolerates the lawsuits against them.
But if Bruce or Eric decide to sue Debian or Canonical (or whomever) for shipping GRSecurity with the kernel, I'll watch while the community turns on them like a pack of fucking wolves and their reputation takes a perpetual hit.
It's bad enough people playing lawyer with the CDDL vs. GPL nonsense with ZFS - these licenses are intended to help the community, not harm it. People who get lost in the weeds of licenses instead of figuring out how to make the community better are our version of bureaucrats and frankly many of us don't have much use for them.
Any form of legal system that harms its society is immoral and ought to be, and will be, dismantled.
Your prices are for a pump without a new heat source - air, existing well, existing ground water.
The Dandelion project is for installing a new heat source. The old method is to drill a new well (works OK) or to remove an entire lawn below the frost line (ideally, during new construction before the lawn is put in) and then lay down about 3000' (typical home) of coiled PEX to circulate the heat-transfer/antifreeze solution through.
I'm not sure if this is the same as an existing system that uses copper "branches" from a main "trunk" forced into the ground like an upside-down tree. Not enough details in TFA.
Dirt work isn't all that expensive, though. Removing and replacing a lawn really isn't more than an $8000 project in most places, so Dandelion will have to watch its prices. Just because Tesla Powerwalls are expensive doesn't mean that they aren't cheaper than competitive options - most people aren't willing to pay extra for "new-hotness" into the tens of thousands of dollars. In fact, Google kills so many of its "play" projects that I would need to see a discount to invest in one of their systems.
At least I will only need to have one cert reissued every 90 days instead of five.
There are certainly some cluster-type cases where a wildcard will be handy, but in general people have used wildcard certs to make key management easier. Now that we have cron jobs/an API to do key management, I am more inclined to have multiple certs running all over the place, to isolate a break. CAA and DANE records integrated with Let's Encrypt will smooth over the potential downsides of everybody having tons of certs.
Letsencrypt will continue to lack any credibility until they abandon this retarded policy.
Dude, you are lacking credibility here if you don't understand why long-lived certs are a problem for security. For small businesses, the main reason not to do a short cert, given letsencrypt's cron jobs, is for a wildcard cert, which is expensive, and now that is being solved. For personal websites, wildcards are generally not used. Enterprises have the option of syncing their client and server certs, for authentication purposes, or buying a long-lived cert.
FYI, Google can afford whatever it wants and has been using 90-day certs for a while too. You should write to them and tell them they lack credibility on Internet security.:P
Hey, there are plenty of IT weenies here who could learn a thing or two about salary and hours negotiation. Don't overestimate this crowd's business acumen - they often work 30+ hours a week overtime for free.
What is the connection between such recording â" which can (and often is) done silently â" and Free Speech?
If you have a right to free speech, then you obviously have a right to free observing, free listening, and free remembering - video just helps you do those two things as an assistive technology.
All the U- numbers have certain guesses, models, and biases involved. For raw data just go for the labor force participation rate which is the least-political measure.
It's slightly improved, but there was clearly no "Obama Recovery" and the US economy hasn't gotten back to pre-crash levels.
"It's the jobs, stupid" as a politician once said.
Why? Why does everyone still use traditional measurements even when the 'official' measurements are metric? Inertia. There's no real compelling reason to change.
Don't forget that the SI was pushed by the French Revolutionaries when they wanted to get rid of everything old. They gave up on decimal time pretty quickly.
But prime factors are a major reason that dozenal systems survive. It's just easier for mental math.
We don't say "nine, ten, oneteen, twoteen, thirteen" for a very good reason, and it's not just inertia.
People really amaze me sometimes. If you tell someone that a street thug might shoot him dead in order to steal the cash in his wallet, he will believe you. If you say that powerful interests will kill to preserve empires worth billions or trillions of dollars, you're just nuts. Figure that one out.
People feel utterly powerless to do something about being enslaved by a banking cartel, so they choose to take solace in the fact that they can still say "fuck" on the Internet. A mugger they still have a chance of defending themselves against.
Do you have a citation for this? I doubt this is true.
It's true in many jurisdictions (google "franchise agreements") but it's more nuanced than that.
Even where multiple franchise agreements can be granted, pole-access is the limiting factor. To be sure, the first entrant gets a huge chunk of market share for very little market cost, but getting pole-access agreements in place from the owners of the poles (typically power or telephone) can cost over a million dollars in legal and regulatory fees because the PUC is captured and allows the incumbents to set extremely high barriers to entry. These barriers are intended to protect them from competition, but they know that wealthy-enough players will get access, because they can afford it.
The idea of thousands of little ISP's competing for business and having a diverse Internet is prevented by the million dollars it takes to get the first customer.
Towns and cities are fine with all of this because they are charging the pole owners property tax on every pole ($25-50 a year is typical). The high fees to get access to the poles are partially a consequence of the costs of these pole taxes (which are also passed along to townsfolk in the form of high transmission cost fees or "recovery fees" on utility bills).
If they would back down on regulation and taxes in exchange for open access to poles, then we might actually get some competition. There are absolutely no incentives in the current system for that to actually work, though, so we'll probably wind up with everything on satellite and wireless, where the regulations and taxes are bypassed, even though it's less expensive for everybody from an engineering standpoint to drop a decent fiber into everybody's house. The regulatory regime does not allow for efficient engineering solutions.
It will save us. For some reasons someone will find tons of money in rolling out infrastructure to fight those established companies and provide us with competition!
Remember when ISDN was the anointed information service and CableTV was a sketchy entertainment service?
Who would have thought that in 30 years more people would have telephone over Cable than on PSTN copper? And that's *with* having to do an end-run around regulation.
So, yeah, your sarcastic statement turns out to reflect reality pretty well.
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Since when do USPS packages go in mail bags?
Who here thinks that the free shipping is sustainable. Especial with the given examples?
The cost of shipping is built into every Prime item. On a few they lose out, on most they make it up. That's why many items are cheaper on Prime Pantry than on Prime - because they're only shipping one big box.
for fucks sake, get a clue.
If you have a lot of cash, that's "evidence" of drug crimes, even absent drugs, and the cops will take your money, put it on trial (cash is bad at defending itself and does not get an attorney), and buy boats, pinball machines and hookers with your money.
^ None of that is an exaggeration.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/10...
Good point. Either way, it's good herd management, to keep the tax cows healthy.
The balls on this guy, oh my. Can't wait to see how that one turns out.
We can only hope he bought many, many puts on margin.
I thought Amazon donated to both major parties!
Trump thinks Amazon runs WashPo, which has been publishing CIA propaganda against Trump as fact (retractions come three months later).
Such actions against Amazon would be thoroughly unsurprising, even though they're unwarranted. Politicians don't have to compete on the merit of their ideas.
The Chinese people are on the slope to dominate orbital, and therefore international realtime communications.
Westerners on Slashdot spend their time bitching about the accuracy of a title of a paper.
This is how you lose.
You don't lose anything if you keep the deposit... Just buy new ones.. Right
TFA says the deposit is half the cost of the umbrella.
Sounds like they need a flashing LED handle that says "Stolen" if the umbrella isn't returned on time, otherwise there's an incentive problem.
It wasn't, you're right, story has been updated. I've stopped sending in story corrections to /. though.
Look, I don't give a shit about violating copyright for the sake of violating copyright. The companies that are all-take-and-no-give, like cheap router manufacturers, that cause the community danger with their unpatched crap - the community tolerates the lawsuits against them.
But if Bruce or Eric decide to sue Debian or Canonical (or whomever) for shipping GRSecurity with the kernel, I'll watch while the community turns on them like a pack of fucking wolves and their reputation takes a perpetual hit.
It's bad enough people playing lawyer with the CDDL vs. GPL nonsense with ZFS - these licenses are intended to help the community, not harm it. People who get lost in the weeds of licenses instead of figuring out how to make the community better are our version of bureaucrats and frankly many of us don't have much use for them.
Any form of legal system that harms its society is immoral and ought to be, and will be, dismantled.
Your prices are for a pump without a new heat source - air, existing well, existing ground water.
The Dandelion project is for installing a new heat source. The old method is to drill a new well (works OK) or to remove an entire lawn below the frost line (ideally, during new construction before the lawn is put in) and then lay down about 3000' (typical home) of coiled PEX to circulate the heat-transfer/antifreeze solution through.
I'm not sure if this is the same as an existing system that uses copper "branches" from a main "trunk" forced into the ground like an upside-down tree. Not enough details in TFA.
Dirt work isn't all that expensive, though. Removing and replacing a lawn really isn't more than an $8000 project in most places, so Dandelion will have to watch its prices. Just because Tesla Powerwalls are expensive doesn't mean that they aren't cheaper than competitive options - most people aren't willing to pay extra for "new-hotness" into the tens of thousands of dollars. In fact, Google kills so many of its "play" projects that I would need to see a discount to invest in one of their systems.
At least I will only need to have one cert reissued every 90 days instead of five.
There are certainly some cluster-type cases where a wildcard will be handy, but in general people have used wildcard certs to make key management easier. Now that we have cron jobs/an API to do key management, I am more inclined to have multiple certs running all over the place, to isolate a break. CAA and DANE records integrated with Let's Encrypt will smooth over the potential downsides of everybody having tons of certs.
Letsencrypt will continue to lack any credibility until they abandon this retarded policy.
Dude, you are lacking credibility here if you don't understand why long-lived certs are a problem for security. For small businesses, the main reason not to do a short cert, given letsencrypt's cron jobs, is for a wildcard cert, which is expensive, and now that is being solved. For personal websites, wildcards are generally not used. Enterprises have the option of syncing their client and server certs, for authentication purposes, or buying a long-lived cert.
FYI, Google can afford whatever it wants and has been using 90-day certs for a while too. You should write to them and tell them they lack credibility on Internet security. :P
Hey, there are plenty of IT weenies here who could learn a thing or two about salary and hours negotiation. Don't overestimate this crowd's business acumen - they often work 30+ hours a week overtime for free.
What is the connection between such recording â" which can (and often is) done silently â" and Free Speech?
If you have a right to free speech, then you obviously have a right to free observing, free listening, and free remembering - video just helps you do those two things as an assistive technology.
All the U- numbers have certain guesses, models, and biases involved. For raw data just go for the labor force participation rate which is the least-political measure.
It's slightly improved, but there was clearly no "Obama Recovery" and the US economy hasn't gotten back to pre-crash levels.
"It's the jobs, stupid" as a politician once said.
but then a simple search function to locate the routine to be exploited can be added
Which is what return-oriented exploits do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why? Why does everyone still use traditional measurements even when the 'official' measurements are metric? Inertia. There's no real compelling reason to change.
Don't forget that the SI was pushed by the French Revolutionaries when they wanted to get rid of everything old. They gave up on decimal time pretty quickly.
But prime factors are a major reason that dozenal systems survive. It's just easier for mental math.
We don't say "nine, ten, oneteen, twoteen, thirteen" for a very good reason, and it's not just inertia.
What were the outcomes? Were any kidneys saved?
You don't really, Elon. Unless you've started sending people to the salt mines.
You really think the Central Committee is going to send rocket scientists to the salt mines because they lost a vehicle?
This isn't Italy, you know.
People really amaze me sometimes. If you tell someone that a street thug might shoot him dead in order to steal the cash in his wallet, he will believe you. If you say that powerful interests will kill to preserve empires worth billions or trillions of dollars, you're just nuts. Figure that one out.
People feel utterly powerless to do something about being enslaved by a banking cartel, so they choose to take solace in the fact that they can still say "fuck" on the Internet. A mugger they still have a chance of defending themselves against.
So to you, the truth is disinformation?
"Truth is treason in an empire of lies." - Orwell
Can somebody please write a user stylesheet to make Google News look like Drudge Report?
Just going back to the old layout would quadruple the use of screen space, but we can do better.
Do you have a citation for this? I doubt this is true.
It's true in many jurisdictions (google "franchise agreements") but it's more nuanced than that.
Even where multiple franchise agreements can be granted, pole-access is the limiting factor. To be sure, the first entrant gets a huge chunk of market share for very little market cost, but getting pole-access agreements in place from the owners of the poles (typically power or telephone) can cost over a million dollars in legal and regulatory fees because the PUC is captured and allows the incumbents to set extremely high barriers to entry. These barriers are intended to protect them from competition, but they know that wealthy-enough players will get access, because they can afford it.
The idea of thousands of little ISP's competing for business and having a diverse Internet is prevented by the million dollars it takes to get the first customer.
Towns and cities are fine with all of this because they are charging the pole owners property tax on every pole ($25-50 a year is typical). The high fees to get access to the poles are partially a consequence of the costs of these pole taxes (which are also passed along to townsfolk in the form of high transmission cost fees or "recovery fees" on utility bills).
If they would back down on regulation and taxes in exchange for open access to poles, then we might actually get some competition. There are absolutely no incentives in the current system for that to actually work, though, so we'll probably wind up with everything on satellite and wireless, where the regulations and taxes are bypassed, even though it's less expensive for everybody from an engineering standpoint to drop a decent fiber into everybody's house. The regulatory regime does not allow for efficient engineering solutions.
It will save us. For some reasons someone will find tons of money in rolling out infrastructure to fight those established companies and provide us with competition!
Remember when ISDN was the anointed information service and CableTV was a sketchy entertainment service?
Who would have thought that in 30 years more people would have telephone over Cable than on PSTN copper? And that's *with* having to do an end-run around regulation.
So, yeah, your sarcastic statement turns out to reflect reality pretty well.