I did not RTA, but from the summary it sounds as if AT&T's proposal would allow AT&T to instead charge customers extra based on the applications they wish to use. No, thank you.
[s] Why not? It worked well enough when they were charging individually for sms messages. [/sarcasm]
For cell-based broadband at least, it's usually the difference between a fast-lane and a zero-speed lane.
On T-Mobile for instance, once you exceed your initial quota, your device is supposed to slow down to 3G speed, but it actually doesn't do that. It keeps its 4G speed for Facebook (because Facebook pays for the privilege), and it slows down the rest of the traffic to zero for everything else (even for low speed things like email).
And before everyone says that 1 million dollars is nothing for a commercial insurance. The facts are that in the US, car insurance requirements are ridiculously low (compared to a country like Germany for instance, which Uber has a different higher insurance for) and that in the US at least, you certainly won't get better commercial insurance coverage from any existing taxi cab company.
The facts are ( as presented in MANY news stories) if you get injured in an Uber or Lift car
I've seen those stories. Those are not facts. Those are conjectures, FUD, and click-bait stories that parade themselves as news stories, that don't even take the time to go through the public web sites of those ride-sharing companies to try to counter the claims about their insurance published there.
There is one country that does care and that's Canada.
Canada does end up complying with WTO rulings, especially if the complainant in question is already a large trade partner to begin with, like the United States is.
Not only that, but with the wording they're using, they'd get their ass handed to them in front of a WTO panel.
...it includes regulating foreign online video services such as Google and Netflix, but exempting Canadian services.
Either that, or may be their end game is to also regulate their own Canadian online streaming services and to claim surprise and innocence when the WTO requires them to impose the same regulation on their own industry.
When someone with an e-tattoo or an implanted biochip inevitably commits a crime, and evidence of that crime exists on that device within them, do they have a legal right to protect that evidence?
What about when someone with DNA inevitably commits a crime and leaves some DNA behind? Are we allowed to take a DNA swab just out of anyone willy nilly? The answer is no, not yet at least, and not with some kind of due process. In the US and in Europe at least, there are specific laws protecting the privacy of DNA (unless you're a felon, or unless you're in the military).
Granted, the entire male population of three villages in Scotland was once swabbed for DNA for a double rape and a double murder case, but even in that case, those males were only asked to "volunteer" for the procedure, or they would be considered primary suspects. But even in that case, I doubt that such a threat would have worked in a larger metropolis.
So then, the argument might center around the ownership of that DNA. Do you freely give away your DNA to others? Do you freely give your DNA to the government when asked? And what about the DNA of your relatives? More than one person have already been convicted for rape or murder because one of their relatives had DNA on file with the US military for instance.
Looking at that picture I wonder how people can be so amazed by it.
That's exactly the problem. Pyramids are like the Grand Canyon. Modern photography may have gotten super good at capturing a likeness of their image, but nothing actually beats going there in person and seeing those things in real life!
Doesn't even sound hard other than the heat (which was called fucking life back then, cause no one had air conditioning).
Actually, don't believe your hollywood movies, Egypt was lush with vegetation and had plenty water (which provided its own natural air conditioning during the time those pyramids were built). Please read this article and this article.
Considering that it was made with slave labor, makes it even less impressive.
Yes, that was the totally unproven interpretation of the Europeans when they first visited Egypt. And as another poster already replied (and provided a reference), they're now finding physical evidence that this wasn't actually the case.
There's these steps in northern california, laid by like 80 japanese slave laborers like 100 years ago...
If you think the work of 80 laborers 100 years ago is equivalent to the work of ~10,000 laborers ~7,000 years ago, then that's your choice. Personally, I can't even visualize a period of 7,000 years. So if you're not impressed by several supremely huge man-made structures that have stood the test of time for 7,000+ years, then let's just agree to disagree because I am surely impressed by them.
2) Dealers will definitely try to sell more gas cars as they break down more frequently
Well, technically the perception is the opposite, that electrical cars are not proven on the road yet. That is why Tesla is required to give out free lengthy warranty support, since they want to gain the trust of their initial customers.
And that's probably why, as you've already said, and which I completely agree with, that dealers are not going to make money for providing over-priced maintenance & repair services (since Tesla is going to be the one mostly footing the bill).
A lot of the mapping data it uses is tied to some pretty strict licensing requirements. Of course, now that the open street map data is getting really good in many areas, it's time for Google Maps to filter out the licensed-bound data in favor of the open data, but that's a conflict in the making and Google may suffer some backlash from the third party mapping providers it hasn't purchased yet.
with the story about 'doctor visits' over Skype, and how many posters were railing against how they were afraid of eavesdropping/decrypting of their Skype conversations. Where are they now!
These days, most of them are currently in China getting free medical advice and racking medical bills over Skype.
There is more to it. Media hide a lot of shit. My family got quite repulsed when I told them the problem of contagion is due to in most parts of that area, the ritual ceremony being drinking the water you use to wash the corpse.
Yes, that's obviously why Western Doctors coming to help are getting infected too.
Thanks, this is interesting. I find myself corrected.
I wonder if Uber is getting banned from that city for not hiring those types of licensed drivers, or if it's because their people didn't take the normal Taxi certification, or if it's for something else entirely.
Actually many (not all) of the policemen and policewomen in the U.S. are ex military. They've been trained on the equipment that was donated to the police departments. What we should be asking is why have we come to a time/place that we think we need a swat team knocking on a door for an eviction, or even a low profile drug related arrest.
Actually you would go in with SWAT too, when the person you're invading the house of is ex-military.
The day I lost a lot of respect for Open Source is the day they went political.
Open Source isn't a person. It's neither political, nor apolitical. Open Source is a tool that makes sharing software much easier. That is all.
They have their own rules and regulations and you should respect them and not interfere..
Why should I? If a friend of mine in China wants me to give him access to github because its government blocked it for some reason (as it has done in the past), then I will certainly give it to him. Not that I was ever asked, everyone I know in China already pays (or has their own company pay) for a private proxy to ssh through.
You have no right to decide what's right or wrong or to push your means to them,
I have the right to say whatever I want, and they have the right to ignore me. Just like you have the right to say whatever you want, and I have the right to ignore you. The same goes for my government, please feel free to try to influence it. Most people running my government are self-serving idiots anyway.
the settings discussed in TFA have been in chromes chrome://flags for a least 6 months..
The setting was indeed there in ChromeOS, but for me, the only way I had to login into multiple Google Apps profiles at the same time was to use Xfce4/Ubuntu/Crouton on top of my Chromebook Pixel.
Enable Google Profile Name and icon
It is now the default, apparently.. in Canary.. (the alpha build) but this has been an option for a while now in the regular Chrome builds...... I used it for about a week and wasn't all that fond of it due to it wanting my password.. but maybe it was some option I had enabled that caused that.
It only needs your password once in a while. The rest of the time, it doesn't ask for it.
In any case, note that this multiple profiles settings is for having multiple google apps/gmail profiles, it's not meant for someone to have multiple profiles other than Google Apps/gmail profiles. In that sense, that feature is nothing like the multiple profile setting we used to have on Firefox years ago.
When doing assignments it typically asks to to write the homework in one of several formats (word, ODF, PDF, text etc.) and upload it through a web page. This simply does not work with ChromeOS. You cannot navigate to the Google docs files from the browser and select a file there to upload.
This "Files" feature is available on ChromeOS since at least one year ago. You should definitely try it again.
Also, you should take a look at the Chrome web store to find some free app/extension that can automate that part of the process to make it easier. The Chrome web store is not that great yet, but it still should have what you need.
Even old grandmas and non-power users would probably find it goddamn useless.
That's true enough, but that's also one of its core strength.
If I ever have kids, a super cheap computer without good computer games is what I will buy them. The same goes for Grandma. It doesn't matter to me if she can't edit her pictures as well as she did on her PC. The fact is, her old PC is unusable now because of all the applications she installed on it, and all the duplicate pictures and videos she kept putting on there. As her main line of technical support, getting my grandma a Chromebook was the best decision I ever made.
A) I drive _non commercially_ less than 8 people: I need no special license
I don't disagree with this part.
B) I drive _non commercially_ 8 people or more: I need a special license, I drive 2000km next weekend and we are exactly 7 in the rented car, and we had to sign a paper that we are actually only 7 as the car has 9 seats.
I don't disagree with this part.
C) I drive commercially: I always need a special driving license, regardless of number of passengers. Even if I'm the hired driver for a CEO or whatever, if My job is to drive a single person around, I need a special permit for that.
I did google for something that substantiated this claim, but I couldn't find anything (other than what I already found). If you could provide an official source for that, or even a forum post from someone who claims to have first-hand knowledge, I'd gladly accept it. It can even be in German, I don't speak German, but I can use Google Translate.
Now I'll understand if you don't feel the need to justify yourself to a person you do not know, and I'll even understand if you don't feel my comment is worth replying to. After all, we all have lives outside or Slashdot.
Just don't expect me to change my mind simply because you say there is such a law out there.
Yes, you provided a source, but it was wrong. I can appreciate how you got caught out and are now pretending that the test and the license passing the test provides are two different, unrelated things.
I didn't get caught out. I did say "driving test" in my original post. You're implying I didn't.
In Germany, if they carry less than 8 passengers and if their vehicles are below a certain weight, then they don't need to take a different driving test.
And what do you mean by "unrelated things" any way? The taxi license does pre-require a normal automobile driver license to begin with. And the normal automobile driver license does require a driving test (although, the taxi license doesn't require any additional driving test, except for a stringent geographical knowledge test and a criminal background/medical/eyes check, which I've already mentioned in my original post).
In Germany you need a special series of tests to get the special license for carrying paying passengers.
That's what I essentially said in my original post (except I was a bit more precise, since bus drivers do not need to take a taxi local geography knowledge test and bus drivers are required to take an extra driving test that taxi drivers of smaller vehicles are not required to take).
I think you'll find that if you re-read my original post, you'll agree with almost all of it (except for my opinion about the local geography knowledge test being outdated, I assume you'll probably disagree with me on that part).
It's required by all commercial passenger traffic so it's not as f it discriminates against Uber after all.
No, the specific geography test I mentioned is only for taxi licensing, not for any other kind of commercial passenger traffic.
That's a pretty pathetic sum for traffic insurance.
You got me there.
The US, California especially, is actually pretty pathetic where it comes to car insurance coverage. In Germany, I would expect Uber's insurance to be much higher.
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I did not RTA, but from the summary it sounds as if AT&T's proposal would allow AT&T to instead charge customers extra based on the applications they wish to use. No, thank you.
[s]
Why not? It worked well enough when they were charging individually for sms messages.
[/sarcasm]
Why would you request a fastlane for Netflix?
For cell-based broadband at least, it's usually the difference between a fast-lane and a zero-speed lane.
On T-Mobile for instance, once you exceed your initial quota, your device is supposed to slow down to 3G speed, but it actually doesn't do that. It keeps its 4G speed for Facebook (because Facebook pays for the privilege), and it slows down the rest of the traffic to zero for everything else (even for low speed things like email).
I just bought €50 phones for my kids. Android 4.4. There are plenty around where I am, so I don't really know what the fuss is all about.
It doesn't count if people have to pay €1 per minute to call your kids' phones. Ultimately, someone is paying for the hardware.
And here are the details of Lyft's insurance policy
I have a basic problem with Uber and Lift, and that is in the fakery of their liability claims.
This is false. Here is Uber's insurance policy in the US.
And before everyone says that 1 million dollars is nothing for a commercial insurance. The facts are that in the US, car insurance requirements are ridiculously low (compared to a country like Germany for instance, which Uber has a different higher insurance for) and that in the US at least, you certainly won't get better commercial insurance coverage from any existing taxi cab company.
The facts are ( as presented in MANY news stories) if you get injured in an Uber or Lift car
I've seen those stories. Those are not facts. Those are conjectures, FUD, and click-bait stories that parade themselves as news stories, that don't even take the time to go through the public web sites of those ride-sharing companies to try to counter the claims about their insurance published there.
Google Docs/Google Drive does offer offline access.
So? who gives a fuck ?
There is one country that does care and that's Canada.
Canada does end up complying with WTO rulings, especially if the complainant in question is already a large trade partner to begin with, like the United States is.
Government doesn't get it. They don't control it.
Not only that, but with the wording they're using, they'd get their ass handed to them in front of a WTO panel.
...it includes regulating foreign online video services such as Google and Netflix, but exempting Canadian services.
Either that, or may be their end game is to also regulate their own Canadian online streaming services and to claim surprise and innocence when the WTO requires them to impose the same regulation on their own industry.
When someone with an e-tattoo or an implanted biochip inevitably commits a crime, and evidence of that crime exists on that device within them, do they have a legal right to protect that evidence?
What about when someone with DNA inevitably commits a crime and leaves some DNA behind? Are we allowed to take a DNA swab just out of anyone willy nilly? The answer is no, not yet at least, and not with some kind of due process. In the US and in Europe at least, there are specific laws protecting the privacy of DNA (unless you're a felon, or unless you're in the military).
Granted, the entire male population of three villages in Scotland was once swabbed for DNA for a double rape and a double murder case, but even in that case, those males were only asked to "volunteer" for the procedure, or they would be considered primary suspects. But even in that case, I doubt that such a threat would have worked in a larger metropolis.
So then, the argument might center around the ownership of that DNA. Do you freely give away your DNA to others? Do you freely give your DNA to the government when asked? And what about the DNA of your relatives? More than one person have already been convicted for rape or murder because one of their relatives had DNA on file with the US military for instance.
Looking at that picture I wonder how people can be so amazed by it.
That's exactly the problem. Pyramids are like the Grand Canyon. Modern photography may have gotten super good at capturing a likeness of their image, but nothing actually beats going there in person and seeing those things in real life!
Doesn't even sound hard other than the heat (which was called fucking life back then, cause no one had air conditioning).
Actually, don't believe your hollywood movies, Egypt was lush with vegetation and had plenty water (which provided its own natural air conditioning during the time those pyramids were built). Please read this article and this article.
Considering that it was made with slave labor, makes it even less impressive.
Yes, that was the totally unproven interpretation of the Europeans when they first visited Egypt. And as another poster already replied (and provided a reference), they're now finding physical evidence that this wasn't actually the case.
There's these steps in northern california, laid by like 80 japanese slave laborers like 100 years ago...
If you think the work of 80 laborers 100 years ago is equivalent to the work of ~10,000 laborers ~7,000 years ago, then that's your choice. Personally, I can't even visualize a period of 7,000 years. So if you're not impressed by several supremely huge man-made structures that have stood the test of time for 7,000+ years, then let's just agree to disagree because I am surely impressed by them.
Argentinian here.
Do you actually have Netflix there?
Apparently, the Slashdot editors think that all the paid video streaming services in the World are owned and operated by Netflix.
That's assuming the mail doesn't get opened and the cash doesn't get confiscated before it gets to you.
2) Dealers will definitely try to sell more gas cars as they break down more frequently
Well, technically the perception is the opposite, that electrical cars are not proven on the road yet. That is why Tesla is required to give out free lengthy warranty support, since they want to gain the trust of their initial customers.
And that's probably why, as you've already said, and which I completely agree with, that dealers are not going to make money for providing over-priced maintenance & repair services (since Tesla is going to be the one mostly footing the bill).
It's not completely Google Maps fault.
A lot of the mapping data it uses is tied to some pretty strict licensing requirements. Of course, now that the open street map data is getting really good in many areas, it's time for Google Maps to filter out the licensed-bound data in favor of the open data, but that's a conflict in the making and Google may suffer some backlash from the third party mapping providers it hasn't purchased yet.
with the story about 'doctor visits' over Skype, and how many posters were railing against how they were afraid of eavesdropping/decrypting of their Skype conversations. Where are they now!
These days, most of them are currently in China getting free medical advice and racking medical bills over Skype.
There is more to it. Media hide a lot of shit. My family got quite repulsed when I told them the problem of contagion is due to in most parts of that area, the ritual ceremony being drinking the water you use to wash the corpse.
Yes, that's obviously why Western Doctors coming to help are getting infected too.
They're all in it for the cultural exchange.
Thanks, this is interesting. I find myself corrected.
I wonder if Uber is getting banned from that city for not hiring those types of licensed drivers, or if it's because their people didn't take the normal Taxi certification, or if it's for something else entirely.
Actually many (not all) of the policemen and policewomen in the U.S. are ex military. They've been trained on the equipment that was donated to the police departments. What we should be asking is why have we come to a time/place that we think we need a swat team knocking on a door for an eviction, or even a low profile drug related arrest.
Actually you would go in with SWAT too, when the person you're invading the house of is ex-military.
The day I lost a lot of respect for Open Source is the day they went political.
Open Source isn't a person. It's neither political, nor apolitical. Open Source is a tool that makes sharing software much easier. That is all.
They have their own rules and regulations and you should respect them and not interfere..
Why should I? If a friend of mine in China wants me to give him access to github because its government blocked it for some reason (as it has done in the past), then I will certainly give it to him. Not that I was ever asked, everyone I know in China already pays (or has their own company pay) for a private proxy to ssh through.
You have no right to decide what's right or wrong or to push your means to them,
I have the right to say whatever I want, and they have the right to ignore me. Just like you have the right to say whatever you want, and I have the right to ignore you. The same goes for my government, please feel free to try to influence it. Most people running my government are self-serving idiots anyway.
the settings discussed in TFA have been in chromes chrome://flags for a least 6 months..
The setting was indeed there in ChromeOS, but for me, the only way I had to login into multiple Google Apps profiles at the same time was to use Xfce4/Ubuntu/Crouton on top of my Chromebook Pixel.
Enable Google Profile Name and icon
It is now the default, apparently.. in Canary.. (the alpha build) but this has been an option for a while now in the regular Chrome builds...... I used it for about a week and wasn't all that fond of it due to it wanting my password.. but maybe it was some option I had enabled that caused that.
It only needs your password once in a while. The rest of the time, it doesn't ask for it.
In any case, note that this multiple profiles settings is for having multiple google apps/gmail profiles, it's not meant for someone to have multiple profiles other than Google Apps/gmail profiles. In that sense, that feature is nothing like the multiple profile setting we used to have on Firefox years ago.
When doing assignments it typically asks to to write the homework in one of several formats (word, ODF, PDF, text etc.) and upload it through a web page. This simply does not work with ChromeOS. You cannot navigate to the Google docs files from the browser and select a file there to upload.
This "Files" feature is available on ChromeOS since at least one year ago. You should definitely try it again.
Also, you should take a look at the Chrome web store to find some free app/extension that can automate that part of the process to make it easier. The Chrome web store is not that great yet, but it still should have what you need.
Even old grandmas and non-power users would probably find it goddamn useless.
That's true enough, but that's also one of its core strength.
If I ever have kids, a super cheap computer without good computer games is what I will buy them. The same goes for Grandma. It doesn't matter to me if she can't edit her pictures as well as she did on her PC. The fact is, her old PC is unusable now because of all the applications she installed on it, and all the duplicate pictures and videos she kept putting on there. As her main line of technical support, getting my grandma a Chromebook was the best decision I ever made.
A) I drive _non commercially_ less than 8 people: I need no special license
I don't disagree with this part.
B) I drive _non commercially_ 8 people or more: I need a special license, I drive 2000km next weekend and we are exactly 7 in the rented car, and we had to sign a paper that we are actually only 7 as the car has 9 seats.
I don't disagree with this part.
C) I drive commercially: I always need a special driving license, regardless of number of passengers. Even if I'm the hired driver for a CEO or whatever, if My job is to drive a single person around, I need a special permit for that.
I did google for something that substantiated this claim, but I couldn't find anything (other than what I already found). If you could provide an official source for that, or even a forum post from someone who claims to have first-hand knowledge, I'd gladly accept it. It can even be in German, I don't speak German, but I can use Google Translate.
Now I'll understand if you don't feel the need to justify yourself to a person you do not know, and I'll even understand if you don't feel my comment is worth replying to. After all, we all have lives outside or Slashdot.
Just don't expect me to change my mind simply because you say there is such a law out there.
Yes, you provided a source, but it was wrong. I can appreciate how you got caught out and are now pretending that the test and the license passing the test provides are two different, unrelated things.
I didn't get caught out. I did say "driving test" in my original post. You're implying I didn't.
In Germany, if they carry less than 8 passengers and if their vehicles are below a certain weight, then they don't need to take a different driving test.
And what do you mean by "unrelated things" any way? The taxi license does pre-require a normal automobile driver license to begin with. And the normal automobile driver license does require a driving test (although, the taxi license doesn't require any additional driving test, except for a stringent geographical knowledge test and a criminal background/medical/eyes check, which I've already mentioned in my original post).
In Germany you need a special series of tests to get the special license for carrying paying passengers.
That's what I essentially said in my original post (except I was a bit more precise, since bus drivers do not need to take a taxi local geography knowledge test and bus drivers are required to take an extra driving test that taxi drivers of smaller vehicles are not required to take).
I think you'll find that if you re-read my original post, you'll agree with almost all of it (except for my opinion about the local geography knowledge test being outdated, I assume you'll probably disagree with me on that part).
It's required by all commercial passenger traffic so it's not as f it discriminates against Uber after all.
No, the specific geography test I mentioned is only for taxi licensing, not for any other kind of commercial passenger traffic.
That's a pretty pathetic sum for traffic insurance.
You got me there.
The US, California especially, is actually pretty pathetic where it comes to car insurance coverage. In Germany, I would expect Uber's insurance to be much higher.