Really? While I have all kinds of problem with the State of Michigan websites, I can use Vanguard with no problem from Japan.
The business website at https://cofs.lara.state.mi.us/... is still blocking me, despite all my emails telling them about it. Do they want my yearly business fee payment or not?
I constantly have this problem with Michigan, while living in Japan.
Pay my quarterly estimated taxes? Website blocked Pay my business LLC fee? Website blocked Register for an absentee ballot? Website blocked
It's a constant battle to call people late at night when it's early morning there. And there answer is just to clear my cache or try a different browser. After long battles, I managed to reach the right IT people in some of the departments and get some of the access enabled. But it seems like each department has a different IT contact and I wasn't able to get the business department people to understand the problem still. I'm pretty sure they're still firewalling all non-US IPs for "security"
My Pixel fried itself randomly after 9 months while using the stock cable/charger and because I'm in Japan with an International edition, Google refuses to help. They send me to Google Japan who sends me back to Google USA because Google Japan doesn't sell the Pixel directly themselves in Japan. I bought it in Japan, from a Japanese retailer, but that doesn't seem to matter. I'm stuck with super-slow charging (100mA probably) but the phone still works and charges with other cables. I've never in my life seen a USB cable just randomly melt overnight, and I've had a lot of phones/cables/charges over the years.
Adblock Plus and FireFTP I've read statements from saying reduced functionality maybe and completely impossible. I also have CookieCuller, Cookie Manager, and Saved Password Editor which are all still saying Legacy. These 3 seem simple enough but maybe there won't be anything in FF57. I'm not going to waste my time upgrading and searching for replacements though just because FF wants to break backwards compatibility. Nuke Anything is the only extension that seems like it will work if I upgrade to FF57, and that's not really as important as the other ones.
1 out of 6 of my extensions are OK to go for FF57. Some of them that aren't have issued statements saying that it's impossible to work with WebExtensions so they have no possibility to go forward. I basically have no choice but to stay with FF56 until they see the light and add back support for real extensions.
But if you have a 1seg-capable phone, the NHK man can come collect fees from you, even if you never use it. I'm glad my phone doesn't have 1seg because I bought it from the states.
Not the AC, but I already disabled automatic updates on my Firefox. I'll update to 56 when it comes out, but I have too many extensions, and 100% of them say "legacy" which means they'll all stop working with Firefox 57. There is nothing but pain to move forward to FF57, and I've visited the home pages and blogs of various extensions that I use, and it seems like they've all come to the conclusion that they simply CAN'T migrate to WebExtensions. The functionality just doesn't exist, so the extension will never make it to FF57. I might as well switch to Chrome if I'm going to switch to a less functional browser, so let's hope FF56 gets many years of patches.
There is not separate in/out ports on this external battery like other older batteries I've owned. It uses the one USB-C port for charging and discharging. The exact same way my Nexus 5x can use it's one USB-C port to charge or discharge it's own battery.
If works 100% of the time means it randomly does something different 50% of the time from what it does the other 50% of the time, then yes, it's working. If that's the case, Microsoft is right to wait on USB-C, because this is just stupid. Maybe USB Cv2 or something will fix this glaring issue.
I can't get my Nexus to charge 50% of the time when I plug it into a FULL external battery, because of USB-C. 50% of the time, My Nexus 5x thinks that the most logical default would be for the phone (at 15% battery left) to use it's remaining battery to charge the external battery, which is surely around 95% or more full already. The whole bidirectional aspect of USB-C seems like a total failure to me. I have to remember to unlock my phone, pull down the menu at the, and change the charge direction. There is no way to set a default apparently, and no way to determine WHICH direction it will start with each time I plug it in.
How about they use bikes - https://www.google.co.jp/searc... It works fine here. I almost never see large delivery trucks driving around residential areas, but somehow Amazon has SAME-DAY shipping in all large cities, without even having to pay extra.
I have a My Number card. It's spelled in Katakana. Literally "Mai Nambaa". There is no translation to English. They literally wanted to use the English phrase "My Number" as the name of the system.
Can you easily root the S7? I heard that the S4 and forward are pretty locked down. I just bought a Nexus 5X after owning several Samsung phones in the past that were all rooted.
Why exactly do we feel the need place captchs in front of viewing/reading documents? Google's entire business revolves around a robot reading every webpage on the planet in order to index them. I've seen a lot of websites start using Distil recently because they don't want people scraping the content of their sites. But all this does is lead to tons of annoyances for regular users. (And as an aside, Distil is trivial to get around, and I've been paid to write scripts for a handful of different people to do so, so Distil is certainly a huge waste of money for anybody paying them). What happened to an open web where we can all share and read content freely?
According to http://ark42.com/unicode/emoji... it has steam on Android 4.4's font and the free font some Linux systems might tend to use by default. It also happens to have a face and eyes on Twitter and iOS/OS X. On Windows 7+ and Android 4.1-4.3 there is neither steam nor a face though.
Emoji is a Japanese-origin word (the E is pronounced like "A"). It literally means picture character. Here is the Kanji if you're interested - https://translate.google.com/?...
Emoticon is an English word (The E is pronounced like "E") combining Emotion and Icon. It describes how we use punctuation and other regular glyphs to make pictures such as:)
They should have probably spun off different brands to protect the evil they did from killing off Collections in YouTube last year, or how Google My Tracks will just *stop working* for no reason after April 30 because they don't want to update it with material design. Yes, they pushed out a minor update to the widely used Android app that does nothing other than check the date and have it stop working after this month. Talk about evil.
Manually editing/etc/mail/virtualusertable works for me. You never want to accept all email of course. The last line should always be "@domain.tld error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid"
I do this with my own domain, and I don't do it in a way that makes it obvious (such as including.facebook for facebook's email address). I manually edit/etc/mail/virtualusertable and make a random alias and leave myself a comment about what it's for, every time I'm about to sign up for something on a new site. So far, I've had to disable aliases for Mozilla's Bugzilla, Invisible Fence, 1-800 Contacts, and Hansons, along with a few other really obscure places. The amount of spam that went to those aliases was very high, and a lot of it was Christian Newsletters. I even emailed a few of them and they replied from their personal yahoo address and *insisted* that I must have signed up on their site, because they would never send spam. So far, I have not received this phishing email, but I suspect I might not get it. My server rejects email with lower than default spamassassin scores because I can train it solely with my own personal email.
Using Outlook.com for email is a bad idea. So much legitimate email is never delivered, and you won't know what you're missing. It doesn't go to spam or junk or anything. They just delete email and don't warn you. You might as well set your primary MX record to 127.0.0.1 because email with outlook is about that useful.
95% of Han Unification doesn't seem like a problem to me. The slight stylistic differences between Chinese and Japanese where it's just a matter of "these tiny strokes point slightly left in Chinese and slightly right in Japanese" can still easily be understood no matter what font. Even slightly more stylistic differences don't actually cause any problems. For example, these two Kanji: http://jisho.org/search/%23kan... and other Kanji that have these shapes inside of them. The fonts tend to show the Chinese version: In the first, the top line is the same as the 3rd/4th, but Japanese usually write the top like a tiny dot almost, as seen in the stroke diagram graphic. In the second Kanji (scroll down), the last stroke is vertical in Chinese, but diagonal and connected differently in the Japanese version. Japanese people, in my experience, don't seem to have any problem with these kinds of differences.
Other more major differences caused by Kanji simplification over the years has also resulted in two codepoints in Unicode, so the Chinese and Japanese characters that *historically* had the same drawing, are now actually usable in either language still. For example, https://translate.google.com/?... shows the Japanese and simplified Chinese "fish". Japanese still use 4 dots on the bottom, Chinese use a line. This was given two codepoints and doesn't seem to be a problem. Many other differences were given two codepoints and Chinese fonts typically don't include any definition for the Japanese version and vice-versa.
The example I gave in my original post, about the Kanji meaning "leader" is one that really baffles me. Why was such a major difference in drawing merged into only one codepoint, and why was it never separated out into two codepoints in the next version of Unicode? There are other Kanji with major difference in appearance that share a single codepoint because of Han Unification, and these ones cause a lot of trouble. Japanese people typically don't recognize the Chinese version of "leader" as having any meaning at all. It's just scribbles to them, and when a webpage or document tries to display Japanese text but Windows or whatever decides to fall back to a Chinese font, the entire meaning is lost, because of Unicode.
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Really? While I have all kinds of problem with the State of Michigan websites, I can use Vanguard with no problem from Japan.
The business website at https://cofs.lara.state.mi.us/... is still blocking me, despite all my emails telling them about it. Do they want my yearly business fee payment or not?
I constantly have this problem with Michigan, while living in Japan.
Pay my quarterly estimated taxes? Website blocked
Pay my business LLC fee? Website blocked
Register for an absentee ballot? Website blocked
It's a constant battle to call people late at night when it's early morning there. And there answer is just to clear my cache or try a different browser.
After long battles, I managed to reach the right IT people in some of the departments and get some of the access enabled. But it seems like each department has a different IT contact and I wasn't able to get the business department people to understand the problem still. I'm pretty sure they're still firewalling all non-US IPs for "security"
So now Google Maps will stop suggesting a 4000 yen Uber ride as a great alternative to a 200 yen train fare?
My Pixel fried itself randomly after 9 months while using the stock cable/charger and because I'm in Japan with an International edition, Google refuses to help. They send me to Google Japan who sends me back to Google USA because Google Japan doesn't sell the Pixel directly themselves in Japan. I bought it in Japan, from a Japanese retailer, but that doesn't seem to matter. I'm stuck with super-slow charging (100mA probably) but the phone still works and charges with other cables. I've never in my life seen a USB cable just randomly melt overnight, and I've had a lot of phones/cables/charges over the years.
Adblock Plus and FireFTP I've read statements from saying reduced functionality maybe and completely impossible. I also have CookieCuller, Cookie Manager, and Saved Password Editor which are all still saying Legacy. These 3 seem simple enough but maybe there won't be anything in FF57. I'm not going to waste my time upgrading and searching for replacements though just because FF wants to break backwards compatibility. Nuke Anything is the only extension that seems like it will work if I upgrade to FF57, and that's not really as important as the other ones.
1 out of 6 of my extensions are OK to go for FF57. Some of them that aren't have issued statements saying that it's impossible to work with WebExtensions so they have no possibility to go forward. I basically have no choice but to stay with FF56 until they see the light and add back support for real extensions.
But if you have a 1seg-capable phone, the NHK man can come collect fees from you, even if you never use it. I'm glad my phone doesn't have 1seg because I bought it from the states.
Not the AC, but I already disabled automatic updates on my Firefox. I'll update to 56 when it comes out, but I have too many extensions, and 100% of them say "legacy" which means they'll all stop working with Firefox 57. There is nothing but pain to move forward to FF57, and I've visited the home pages and blogs of various extensions that I use, and it seems like they've all come to the conclusion that they simply CAN'T migrate to WebExtensions. The functionality just doesn't exist, so the extension will never make it to FF57. I might as well switch to Chrome if I'm going to switch to a less functional browser, so let's hope FF56 gets many years of patches.
Might be true, but I still look at it as a failure of USB-C that this situation is even possible.
There is not separate in/out ports on this external battery like other older batteries I've owned. It uses the one USB-C port for charging and discharging. The exact same way my Nexus 5x can use it's one USB-C port to charge or discharge it's own battery.
If works 100% of the time means it randomly does something different 50% of the time from what it does the other 50% of the time, then yes, it's working. If that's the case, Microsoft is right to wait on USB-C, because this is just stupid. Maybe USB Cv2 or something will fix this glaring issue.
I can't get my Nexus to charge 50% of the time when I plug it into a FULL external battery, because of USB-C. 50% of the time, My Nexus 5x thinks that the most logical default would be for the phone (at 15% battery left) to use it's remaining battery to charge the external battery, which is surely around 95% or more full already.
The whole bidirectional aspect of USB-C seems like a total failure to me. I have to remember to unlock my phone, pull down the menu at the, and change the charge direction. There is no way to set a default apparently, and no way to determine WHICH direction it will start with each time I plug it in.
How about they use bikes - https://www.google.co.jp/searc...
It works fine here. I almost never see large delivery trucks driving around residential areas, but somehow Amazon has SAME-DAY shipping in all large cities, without even having to pay extra.
I have a My Number card. It's spelled in Katakana. Literally "Mai Nambaa". There is no translation to English. They literally wanted to use the English phrase "My Number" as the name of the system.
Can you easily root the S7? I heard that the S4 and forward are pretty locked down. I just bought a Nexus 5X after owning several Samsung phones in the past that were all rooted.
Why exactly do we feel the need place captchs in front of viewing/reading documents? Google's entire business revolves around a robot reading every webpage on the planet in order to index them. I've seen a lot of websites start using Distil recently because they don't want people scraping the content of their sites. But all this does is lead to tons of annoyances for regular users. (And as an aside, Distil is trivial to get around, and I've been paid to write scripts for a handful of different people to do so, so Distil is certainly a huge waste of money for anybody paying them).
What happened to an open web where we can all share and read content freely?
According to http://ark42.com/unicode/emoji... it has steam on Android 4.4's font and the free font some Linux systems might tend to use by default. It also happens to have a face and eyes on Twitter and iOS/OS X. On Windows 7+ and Android 4.1-4.3 there is neither steam nor a face though.
Are my emoji your emoji? - http://ark42.com/unicode/emoji...
A handy tool that compares many popular emoji fonts from various systems.
Emoji is a Japanese-origin word (the E is pronounced like "A"). It literally means picture character. Here is the Kanji if you're interested - https://translate.google.com/?...
Emoticon is an English word (The E is pronounced like "E") combining Emotion and Icon. It describes how we use punctuation and other regular glyphs to make pictures such as :)
How do you know if your WordPress or Drupal site is vulnerable? If the version number is greater than zero of course!
Seriously. Unless all you need is a Geocities-type page with some static text and animated GIFs on the cheap, stay away from WordPress and Drupal!
They should have probably spun off different brands to protect the evil they did from killing off Collections in YouTube last year, or how Google My Tracks will just *stop working* for no reason after April 30 because they don't want to update it with material design. Yes, they pushed out a minor update to the widely used Android app that does nothing other than check the date and have it stop working after this month. Talk about evil.
Manually editing /etc/mail/virtualusertable works for me. You never want to accept all email of course. The last line should always be "@domain.tld error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid"
I do this with my own domain, and I don't do it in a way that makes it obvious (such as including .facebook for facebook's email address). /etc/mail/virtualusertable and make a random alias and leave myself a comment about what it's for, every time I'm about to sign up for something on a new site. So far, I've had to disable aliases for Mozilla's Bugzilla, Invisible Fence, 1-800 Contacts, and Hansons, along with a few other really obscure places. The amount of spam that went to those aliases was very high, and a lot of it was Christian Newsletters. I even emailed a few of them and they replied from their personal yahoo address and *insisted* that I must have signed up on their site, because they would never send spam. So far, I have not received this phishing email, but I suspect I might not get it. My server rejects email with lower than default spamassassin scores because I can train it solely with my own personal email.
I manually edit
Using Outlook.com for email is a bad idea. So much legitimate email is never delivered, and you won't know what you're missing. It doesn't go to spam or junk or anything. They just delete email and don't warn you. You might as well set your primary MX record to 127.0.0.1 because email with outlook is about that useful.
95% of Han Unification doesn't seem like a problem to me. The slight stylistic differences between Chinese and Japanese where it's just a matter of "these tiny strokes point slightly left in Chinese and slightly right in Japanese" can still easily be understood no matter what font. Even slightly more stylistic differences don't actually cause any problems. For example, these two Kanji: http://jisho.org/search/%23kan... and other Kanji that have these shapes inside of them. The fonts tend to show the Chinese version: In the first, the top line is the same as the 3rd/4th, but Japanese usually write the top like a tiny dot almost, as seen in the stroke diagram graphic. In the second Kanji (scroll down), the last stroke is vertical in Chinese, but diagonal and connected differently in the Japanese version. Japanese people, in my experience, don't seem to have any problem with these kinds of differences.
Other more major differences caused by Kanji simplification over the years has also resulted in two codepoints in Unicode, so the Chinese and Japanese characters that *historically* had the same drawing, are now actually usable in either language still. For example, https://translate.google.com/?... shows the Japanese and simplified Chinese "fish". Japanese still use 4 dots on the bottom, Chinese use a line. This was given two codepoints and doesn't seem to be a problem. Many other differences were given two codepoints and Chinese fonts typically don't include any definition for the Japanese version and vice-versa.
The example I gave in my original post, about the Kanji meaning "leader" is one that really baffles me. Why was such a major difference in drawing merged into only one codepoint, and why was it never separated out into two codepoints in the next version of Unicode? There are other Kanji with major difference in appearance that share a single codepoint because of Han Unification, and these ones cause a lot of trouble. Japanese people typically don't recognize the Chinese version of "leader" as having any meaning at all. It's just scribbles to them, and when a webpage or document tries to display Japanese text but Windows or whatever decides to fall back to a Chinese font, the entire meaning is lost, because of Unicode.