The ticket brokers like scalpers, and this is the only reason they exist.
. Some even have a financial stake in scalping operations. And just listen to these weasel words: “StubHub has always supported anti-bots legislation and encourages policy-makers to look comprehensively at the host of factors [...]”. Translation: “We support scalpin and we will continue to do so unless the low expressly forbids us, which we expect isn’t any time soon”.
I don't think it's due to materialism and individualism, even though those terms have been very popular since decades to describe the cause of all wrongness in our society. These days I'd sooner blame things on narcissism and entitlement.
The spore drive is tech jumping the shark. It is way too powerful and changes everything... which could make for an interesting story, but writers usually just fix the overpowered nature of their game changer by imposing some lame and contrived limitation.
The weekly model makes sense even on a streaming service. You want people looking forward to your show, and have them talk about it: "Did you see last night's x?". Instead of the bingers spoiling it for the slow viewers, weekly episodes will have everyone more or less on the same page, which makes for more interesting talk around the (virtual) water cooler.
Agreed, I quite liked Discovery at first, but then again I'm not a typical Trekkie; I thought Origins was decent (except for the awful title song, which reminded me too much of sucky reli-pop: faith, heart, strength, soul, believe etc).
As for time travel, I wish writers would just stop using that as a plot device. It's the ultimate lame deus ex machina, done to death, yet incredibly hard to do right (and believable).
Font and typography can play a big role in brand recognition, which is arguably what the creative director of brand experience is all about (and is important even for larger companies that are already well known). Printed material from Shell or Ikea is instantly recognizable... Ikea ran an ad about how the price tag is the first thing they design, and that could be taken literally: companies like that spend a lot of time on typography, and especially the way prices are presented receives a lot of attention. This is the stuff that can position your company as "budget", "premium", "good value for money", or position it in one or more target demographics.
The remaining coins will just become worth a bit more. Which is already happening as the current increase in demand outstrips the speed at which they are mined. Not really an issue, BTC can be split in really tiny parts so in the future people will probably use satoshis (one 10 millionth of a BTC or something like that)
This is what cryptocurrency advocates forget when they state that fiat currency is as ephemeral as bitcoin. There's a caveat: you do need a responsible central bank to keep the money supply in line with the GDP, and a more or less stable economy. But that's why people favour dollars and euros over Nigerian nairas or Peruvian sols.
a) Might make an interesting case. We have a law that gives anyone the right to demand from companies all the personal information they have stored. That does not cover some other person simply giving my phone number to FB, but it seems to me that it should cover any cross correlated file they have on me, i.e. a shadow profile. That profile might not have my name attached to it yet, but phone or email ought to be sufficient to identify it. It'll be interesting to see if I can get FB to cough up my shadow profile.
Personally I agree with an earlier posted who said there ought to be a law forbidding companies from collecting data on people with whom they do not have a business relation. That might be overly broad as it covers a lot of perfectly valid use cases. They should perhaps be allowed to collect such data, but they are only allowed to store it in aggregated, anonymized form (and no: age + zip code is not anonymous anough), and correlating it with other data sets should be expressly prohibited.
There's plenty of people that care about this issue, but it's rather low down on their list compared to taxes, national security, the cost of health care, education, highways and public transportation, etc. And thus over here it always ends up being political pocket change, something to be traded away in return for other political concessions.
Back in the day, cassette tapes were pretty useful: portable, affordable, easy to use, and it didn't take a lot of fiddling or expensive equipment to get a decent recording quality (unless you're an audiophile of course). Tape to tape copies did suck unless the master was really, really good (and that did require some fiddling to get a decent sounding copy). Auto-skip to the next song worked pretty reliably for me on an inexpensive Akai deck or more expensive walkman or car stereo, as long as I added a second-long pause between songs. Issues with the tape sticking, breaking or getting stuck in the machine were extremely rare. Back then, I never thought that tape sucked.
I agree though: why are people still bothering with them?
It's an optional part of HDMI, called CEC. Very useful, but in a lot of cases I found that the TV often wouldn't map the right buttons or wouldn't have all the buttons I needed.
Of course there are laws. In case you're thinking about buying such a TV and then applying a patch to remove those ads: know that such an egregious offense will of course result in your financial ruin and/or jail time. You seriously didn't think you'd own the device after paying for it, did you?
I just ignore those sites, or point out my issues to the admin if I value the site. But most sites I'm on have double or triple login options: native, FB, LinkedIn, etc.
IANALEither, but that makes sense if suspension of the account doesn't violate Twitters Terms of Service somehow, which is doubtful since Twitter dictates those. However, if I'm not mistaken, Trump can still bring a civil suit against that employee and make his life a living legal hell, even if Trump has nothing on the guy legally speaking.
Also: what if Twitter decides to thumb their nose at Trump, who then throws a hissy fit and in a rare case of sanity decides to push for legislation that would make Terms of Service for online stuff more even sided, i.e. in favour of the user? Twitter and Friends wouldn't like that one bit, no sir.
The police often have to make snap decisions under a great deal of pressure, which gives them some leeway. Maybe it shouldn't, but that's another discussion. But that doesn't compare to someone who, from the safety of his own cubicle, calmly decides to engage in a bit of petty cyber vandalism, knowing full well that he lacks the authority for his actions.
Useful stuff is already being printed. Parts that are lighter and stronger than the ones they are replacing, and are more expensive or pretty much impossible to make by traditional methods (casting, machining). Obviously not very interesting for mass produced consumer goods (yet), but this is already being used in (petro)chemical process technology and military applications, and the aircraft industry is taking note as well. There are plenty of experiments in aircraft, at this time mostly with non structural parts where weight can be saved. The other day I saw some nice (and thoroughly weird looking) suspension arms for a low production volume sports car, printed in titanium.
in all likelihood there will be a Weekly Cast, perhaps a Paranormal investigator and his perky Daughter, and it will turn into an "X-Files" clone, hosted by some dude who just shows up five minutes a week to recite a couple of opening lines, and a snarky/reflective/philosophical line at the end.
This remark brings me back to that Community episode where Pierce sits in on a focus group for an American remake of a British series, and pretty much singlehandedly ruins the new series with his "insightful" remarks. I hope that isn't what you just did...
But in all seriousness, that's probably what we'll get. With a generous helping of morality thrown in, I suspect. I loved the old Twilight Zone though... gotta find those DVDs I have lying around somewhere.
This. On top of that, the Hilton execs waited 9 months before informing the public of the breach. Now that really merits some jail time for those responsible. Even if they "didn't know". That's what being responsible means.
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The ticket brokers like scalpers, and this is the only reason they exist.
. Some even have a financial stake in scalping operations. And just listen to these weasel words: “StubHub has always supported anti-bots legislation and encourages policy-makers to look comprehensively at the host of factors [...]”. Translation: “We support scalpin and we will continue to do so unless the low expressly forbids us, which we expect isn’t any time soon”.
Yeah, Enterprise.
I don't think it's due to materialism and individualism, even though those terms have been very popular since decades to describe the cause of all wrongness in our society. These days I'd sooner blame things on narcissism and entitlement.
The spore drive is tech jumping the shark. It is way too powerful and changes everything... which could make for an interesting story, but writers usually just fix the overpowered nature of their game changer by imposing some lame and contrived limitation.
The weekly model makes sense even on a streaming service. You want people looking forward to your show, and have them talk about it: "Did you see last night's x?". Instead of the bingers spoiling it for the slow viewers, weekly episodes will have everyone more or less on the same page, which makes for more interesting talk around the (virtual) water cooler.
Agreed, I quite liked Discovery at first, but then again I'm not a typical Trekkie; I thought Origins was decent (except for the awful title song, which reminded me too much of sucky reli-pop: faith, heart, strength, soul, believe etc).
As for time travel, I wish writers would just stop using that as a plot device. It's the ultimate lame deus ex machina, done to death, yet incredibly hard to do right (and believable).
Font and typography can play a big role in brand recognition, which is arguably what the creative director of brand experience is all about (and is important even for larger companies that are already well known). Printed material from Shell or Ikea is instantly recognizable... Ikea ran an ad about how the price tag is the first thing they design, and that could be taken literally: companies like that spend a lot of time on typography, and especially the way prices are presented receives a lot of attention. This is the stuff that can position your company as "budget", "premium", "good value for money", or position it in one or more target demographics.
Only people in HR think that.
The remaining coins will just become worth a bit more. Which is already happening as the current increase in demand outstrips the speed at which they are mined. Not really an issue, BTC can be split in really tiny parts so in the future people will probably use satoshis (one 10 millionth of a BTC or something like that)
Fiat currency is backed by productivity
This is what cryptocurrency advocates forget when they state that fiat currency is as ephemeral as bitcoin. There's a caveat: you do need a responsible central bank to keep the money supply in line with the GDP, and a more or less stable economy. But that's why people favour dollars and euros over Nigerian nairas or Peruvian sols.
a) Might make an interesting case. We have a law that gives anyone the right to demand from companies all the personal information they have stored. That does not cover some other person simply giving my phone number to FB, but it seems to me that it should cover any cross correlated file they have on me, i.e. a shadow profile. That profile might not have my name attached to it yet, but phone or email ought to be sufficient to identify it. It'll be interesting to see if I can get FB to cough up my shadow profile.
Personally I agree with an earlier posted who said there ought to be a law forbidding companies from collecting data on people with whom they do not have a business relation. That might be overly broad as it covers a lot of perfectly valid use cases. They should perhaps be allowed to collect such data, but they are only allowed to store it in aggregated, anonymized form (and no: age + zip code is not anonymous anough), and correlating it with other data sets should be expressly prohibited.
There's plenty of people that care about this issue, but it's rather low down on their list compared to taxes, national security, the cost of health care, education, highways and public transportation, etc. And thus over here it always ends up being political pocket change, something to be traded away in return for other political concessions.
Back in the day, cassette tapes were pretty useful: portable, affordable, easy to use, and it didn't take a lot of fiddling or expensive equipment to get a decent recording quality (unless you're an audiophile of course). Tape to tape copies did suck unless the master was really, really good (and that did require some fiddling to get a decent sounding copy). Auto-skip to the next song worked pretty reliably for me on an inexpensive Akai deck or more expensive walkman or car stereo, as long as I added a second-long pause between songs. Issues with the tape sticking, breaking or getting stuck in the machine were extremely rare. Back then, I never thought that tape sucked.
I agree though: why are people still bothering with them?
It's an optional part of HDMI, called CEC. Very useful, but in a lot of cases I found that the TV often wouldn't map the right buttons or wouldn't have all the buttons I needed.
Of course there are laws. In case you're thinking about buying such a TV and then applying a patch to remove those ads: know that such an egregious offense will of course result in your financial ruin and/or jail time. You seriously didn't think you'd own the device after paying for it, did you?
We're a long way off from that point. Especially since there's a sizable silent majority who think they "have nothing to hide"
Sadly they are in government...
I just ignore those sites, or point out my issues to the admin if I value the site. But most sites I'm on have double or triple login options: native, FB, LinkedIn, etc.
IANALEither, but that makes sense if suspension of the account doesn't violate Twitters Terms of Service somehow, which is doubtful since Twitter dictates those. However, if I'm not mistaken, Trump can still bring a civil suit against that employee and make his life a living legal hell, even if Trump has nothing on the guy legally speaking.
Also: what if Twitter decides to thumb their nose at Trump, who then throws a hissy fit and in a rare case of sanity decides to push for legislation that would make Terms of Service for online stuff more even sided, i.e. in favour of the user? Twitter and Friends wouldn't like that one bit, no sir.
applied after termination
That right there will (or should) hang him.
The police often have to make snap decisions under a great deal of pressure, which gives them some leeway. Maybe it shouldn't, but that's another discussion. But that doesn't compare to someone who, from the safety of his own cubicle, calmly decides to engage in a bit of petty cyber vandalism, knowing full well that he lacks the authority for his actions.
Useful stuff is already being printed. Parts that are lighter and stronger than the ones they are replacing, and are more expensive or pretty much impossible to make by traditional methods (casting, machining). Obviously not very interesting for mass produced consumer goods (yet), but this is already being used in (petro)chemical process technology and military applications, and the aircraft industry is taking note as well. There are plenty of experiments in aircraft, at this time mostly with non structural parts where weight can be saved. The other day I saw some nice (and thoroughly weird looking) suspension arms for a low production volume sports car, printed in titanium.
in all likelihood there will be a Weekly Cast, perhaps a Paranormal investigator and his perky Daughter, and it will turn into an "X-Files" clone, hosted by some dude who just shows up five minutes a week to recite a couple of opening lines, and a snarky/reflective/philosophical line at the end.
This remark brings me back to that Community episode where Pierce sits in on a focus group for an American remake of a British series, and pretty much singlehandedly ruins the new series with his "insightful" remarks. I hope that isn't what you just did...
But in all seriousness, that's probably what we'll get. With a generous helping of morality thrown in, I suspect. I loved the old Twilight Zone though... gotta find those DVDs I have lying around somewhere.
That's more along the lines of the (excellent) Black Mirror series.
Hilton can outsource its data processing, but they still own the data, and carry the responsibility that comes with it.
This. On top of that, the Hilton execs waited 9 months before informing the public of the breach. Now that really merits some jail time for those responsible. Even if they "didn't know". That's what being responsible means.