Private networks where you have to pay a monthly subscription? Luls.
(I've never heard of those. They might exist, but the private networks I've heard of just require you to know someone on them, follow the rules, and keep your ratio up.)
I mean, I wouldn't buy clearly illegal things over the internet, especially from total strangers, because it seems like the potential for getting caught would be pretty high. But I also wouldn't buy these specific illegal things from people I do know, even if I wanted them, because I don't *know* any. And it's not like you can just walk out in the street and yell "hey, anyone know any dealers of illegal narcotics?!", and expect to get any responses other than, if you're lucky, bafflement, or if you're unlucky, cops.:p
Yeah, definitely, the best way to send a message to your government is *definitely* to cost individuals who probably also didn't agree with it but didn't have a choice if they wanted to be able to drive, most likely several hundred dollars to replace the property you destroyed, and likely several weeks of severe inconvenience as you made them unable to drive until they get it replaced. And probably having to take a day off work, cause you can bet you'll have to go to the DMV to get a replacement, and they won't be open except during business hours. Yep, that's totally the best way to send a message. A message of "I would like to find the guy who did that and smash all his windows."
They "discovered" that? I remember a demonstration of this in a phonetics class, which I took in like 2002. Though my guess is that it's only the summary that's wrong, and the researchers themselves didn't claim to "discover" anything, but were simply doing new neurological research on the effect, given that the summary itself mentions the McGurk effect. Quoth Wikipedia, "The McGurk effect is sometimes called the McGurk-MacDonald effect. It was first described in 1976 in a paper by Harry McGurk and John MacDonald entitled 'Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices'."
I saw this on The Consumerist (a great blog) yesterday. Was curious, as I honestly don't care how much corporations know about me, as long as they don't harass me.
Turns out, they know where I live (though they got how much it's worth wrong), and that's about it. WTF? I basically go around giving them free information constantly (filling out surveys, using grocery store cards, frequent flier numbers, etc.), but they don't know anything else?
If I needed a suit, yes, I would have to bring it with me, and that would justify having more rigid, suitcase-like luggage to put it in. I don't tend to need a suit, though. If I'm traveling, it's probably either to visit family, or for vacation. (I've been to a few weddings... never had to wear a suit...) Shoes, yes, I will indeed totally put them in my backpack.
And why would I take food with me? Booze, depending on the situation, sure, though if I do plan on bringing booze somewhere, if possible, I drive it there. Better to buy it there, though, if possible. (Though yes, when we go on a cruise to Europe next year, we are probably going to look into how to get wine back home. I'm resigned to stowing luggage anyway, though, given that I *will* be a couple weeks on vacation without easy access to non-price-gouging laundry.)
And my point is, I stuff my laptop in my backpack, and then stuff *all* my clothes in there with it, and that's all my luggage, unless I'm gonna be gone more than like a week, and I'm going somewhere where there won't be any way to wash clothes.
I would never fly Ryanair, because my understanding is that if there's ever any problem, even if it's entirely their fault, their first and only reaction is going to be flipping you the bird, and I don't want to rist that.
However, while flying Southwest, even though it offers you a whopping 2 free checked bags, I very rarely take advantage of it, because it's just so much *simpler* packing everything into a backpack and stowing it under your seat. You're never worried that your things will get lost, redirected incorrectly or damaged, and as an added bonus, you don't even have to wait in the baggage claim zoo for your bag to appear. You can just walk right off the plane and out of the airport.
I don't see any reason to travel with *no* luggage, though... are there airlines that charge you for even a single under-the-seat bag?
When I saw the title "dispatch from the future", I assumed it would be a BS "article" saying that the author was hoping this would happen eventually. But it was written in such a way as to make it look like it was actually a "dispatch from the future" in that Uber just hadn't bought the cars yet, but were actually in discussion with Google about buying them as soon as they were available.
is this crap. While I suppose this technically is "for nerds", it most certainly is not "news", both in the sense of being something that everyone probably already knew, and in the sense of literally not fitting the definition of news at all. So why the crap is it here?
Except that requires you to move your computer over by your tv, or I suppose have a hilariously long HDMI cable. I even have a laptop, so it wouldn't be *that* much work moving the computer over to by the tv, but it's still enough work that I don't feel like it. Plus then if you want to pause it, you have to get up, open the computer, and hit pause. Infinitely more convenient running something like Plex, where all my media is stored on a server and I can stream it via Roku wirelessly, and control it with the Roku remote. (But it would be even more convenient if I could have a device that would just stream content directly. Plex works... most of the time.)
I sold most of my textbooks after the semester was over. Sometimes I didn't even buy all the books, I just borrowed some from friends to do the homework. Bet you don't have a choice as to whether you want to spend the full amount on the ipad with the textbooks on it, and bet you can't sell them afterwards. Clever. Unless you're a student, in which case that's pretty awful.
I definitely wouldn't want a car that only had autonomous mode as an option. That sounds both dangerous and annoying - dangerous because what if it messes up, annoying because what if you know better than it does about what route you should take, or you really want to go faster than some BS speed limit?
On the other hand, when self-driving cars become reality, assuming there *is* a completely mechanical manual override as a failsafe, I would totally pay a huge pile of cash to own one, and would quite happily let it drive itself the vast majority of the time, happy knowing that I *could* pull the lever putting it back into fully non-autonomous mode, even though I wouldn't probably use it that often. (Though occasionally - as I said, I have seen a few instances where my GPS told me to use a stupid route, and a self-driving car would presumably act similarly.)
Which isn't to say that I misparsed it syntactically, or even misread any of the words - I just thought from the title that it would be about a robot designed to keep tabs on *high school* seniors, like following them around to make sure they weren't drinking or smoking outside of school. Which would be crazy creepy.
Traffic guidance is already practical. I just started using Waze; I was skeptical, until I saw it route us a couple miles out of the way, down a freeway I'd never even heard of, and got us home like 20 minutes faster than we'd arrived (on the route I knew). It's pretty nice; wish I'd thought of it myself.:p
I know what you mean, though - that only works for people who use Waze, and relies on data other Waze users enter. It would be way more awesome if every car was in the system, and updated the data automatically (though somehow I don't think the cops would like it if cars automatically updated the "there's a cop hiding here" flag...:D)
If you drive around town in an ice cream truck giving out free ice cream, and someone jacks your truck, you would presumably still go to the cops, right?
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Private networks where you have to pay a monthly subscription? Luls.
(I've never heard of those. They might exist, but the private networks I've heard of just require you to know someone on them, follow the rules, and keep your ratio up.)
Because first you need to know one.
I mean, I wouldn't buy clearly illegal things over the internet, especially from total strangers, because it seems like the potential for getting caught would be pretty high. But I also wouldn't buy these specific illegal things from people I do know, even if I wanted them, because I don't *know* any. And it's not like you can just walk out in the street and yell "hey, anyone know any dealers of illegal narcotics?!", and expect to get any responses other than, if you're lucky, bafflement, or if you're unlucky, cops. :p
Yeah, definitely, the best way to send a message to your government is *definitely* to cost individuals who probably also didn't agree with it but didn't have a choice if they wanted to be able to drive, most likely several hundred dollars to replace the property you destroyed, and likely several weeks of severe inconvenience as you made them unable to drive until they get it replaced. And probably having to take a day off work, cause you can bet you'll have to go to the DMV to get a replacement, and they won't be open except during business hours. Yep, that's totally the best way to send a message. A message of "I would like to find the guy who did that and smash all his windows."
They "discovered" that? I remember a demonstration of this in a phonetics class, which I took in like 2002. Though my guess is that it's only the summary that's wrong, and the researchers themselves didn't claim to "discover" anything, but were simply doing new neurological research on the effect, given that the summary itself mentions the McGurk effect. Quoth Wikipedia, "The McGurk effect is sometimes called the McGurk-MacDonald effect. It was first described in 1976 in a paper by Harry McGurk and John MacDonald entitled 'Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices'."
Qcloud puts a chip in someone's butt, for coders to... "experiment". Fun!
https://github.com/DaveRandom/cloud-to-butt-mozilla
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/chevy_nova.htm
I saw this on The Consumerist (a great blog) yesterday. Was curious, as I honestly don't care how much corporations know about me, as long as they don't harass me.
Turns out, they know where I live (though they got how much it's worth wrong), and that's about it. WTF? I basically go around giving them free information constantly (filling out surveys, using grocery store cards, frequent flier numbers, etc.), but they don't know anything else?
If I needed a suit, yes, I would have to bring it with me, and that would justify having more rigid, suitcase-like luggage to put it in. I don't tend to need a suit, though. If I'm traveling, it's probably either to visit family, or for vacation. (I've been to a few weddings... never had to wear a suit...) Shoes, yes, I will indeed totally put them in my backpack.
And why would I take food with me? Booze, depending on the situation, sure, though if I do plan on bringing booze somewhere, if possible, I drive it there. Better to buy it there, though, if possible. (Though yes, when we go on a cruise to Europe next year, we are probably going to look into how to get wine back home. I'm resigned to stowing luggage anyway, though, given that I *will* be a couple weeks on vacation without easy access to non-price-gouging laundry.)
And my point is, I stuff my laptop in my backpack, and then stuff *all* my clothes in there with it, and that's all my luggage, unless I'm gonna be gone more than like a week, and I'm going somewhere where there won't be any way to wash clothes.
Right, those with money. This *was* a person with money, which he used to buy promoted tweets. Did you even read the title? :p
I would never fly Ryanair, because my understanding is that if there's ever any problem, even if it's entirely their fault, their first and only reaction is going to be flipping you the bird, and I don't want to rist that.
However, while flying Southwest, even though it offers you a whopping 2 free checked bags, I very rarely take advantage of it, because it's just so much *simpler* packing everything into a backpack and stowing it under your seat. You're never worried that your things will get lost, redirected incorrectly or damaged, and as an added bonus, you don't even have to wait in the baggage claim zoo for your bag to appear. You can just walk right off the plane and out of the airport.
I don't see any reason to travel with *no* luggage, though... are there airlines that charge you for even a single under-the-seat bag?
Says someone who is almost certainly posting that from work. :p
When I saw the title "dispatch from the future", I assumed it would be a BS "article" saying that the author was hoping this would happen eventually. But it was written in such a way as to make it look like it was actually a "dispatch from the future" in that Uber just hadn't bought the cars yet, but were actually in discussion with Google about buying them as soon as they were available.
I liked that read better. Now I'm sad.
The real market is for overly controlling bosses who would love to install these on their employees' desktops.
is this crap. While I suppose this technically is "for nerds", it most certainly is not "news", both in the sense of being something that everyone probably already knew, and in the sense of literally not fitting the definition of news at all. So why the crap is it here?
Except that requires you to move your computer over by your tv, or I suppose have a hilariously long HDMI cable. I even have a laptop, so it wouldn't be *that* much work moving the computer over to by the tv, but it's still enough work that I don't feel like it. Plus then if you want to pause it, you have to get up, open the computer, and hit pause. Infinitely more convenient running something like Plex, where all my media is stored on a server and I can stream it via Roku wirelessly, and control it with the Roku remote. (But it would be even more convenient if I could have a device that would just stream content directly. Plex works... most of the time.)
I sold most of my textbooks after the semester was over. Sometimes I didn't even buy all the books, I just borrowed some from friends to do the homework. Bet you don't have a choice as to whether you want to spend the full amount on the ipad with the textbooks on it, and bet you can't sell them afterwards. Clever. Unless you're a student, in which case that's pretty awful.
I definitely wouldn't want a car that only had autonomous mode as an option. That sounds both dangerous and annoying - dangerous because what if it messes up, annoying because what if you know better than it does about what route you should take, or you really want to go faster than some BS speed limit?
On the other hand, when self-driving cars become reality, assuming there *is* a completely mechanical manual override as a failsafe, I would totally pay a huge pile of cash to own one, and would quite happily let it drive itself the vast majority of the time, happy knowing that I *could* pull the lever putting it back into fully non-autonomous mode, even though I wouldn't probably use it that often. (Though occasionally - as I said, I have seen a few instances where my GPS told me to use a stupid route, and a self-driving car would presumably act similarly.)
No, it's a term used by American frontiersmen to refer to people with skills particularly suited to fighting against the god of entropy, The Unmaker.
Which isn't to say that I misparsed it syntactically, or even misread any of the words - I just thought from the title that it would be about a robot designed to keep tabs on *high school* seniors, like following them around to make sure they weren't drinking or smoking outside of school. Which would be crazy creepy.
Traffic guidance is already practical. I just started using Waze; I was skeptical, until I saw it route us a couple miles out of the way, down a freeway I'd never even heard of, and got us home like 20 minutes faster than we'd arrived (on the route I knew). It's pretty nice; wish I'd thought of it myself. :p
I know what you mean, though - that only works for people who use Waze, and relies on data other Waze users enter. It would be way more awesome if every car was in the system, and updated the data automatically (though somehow I don't think the cops would like it if cars automatically updated the "there's a cop hiding here" flag... :D)
Yep. From what I know about the 60s, the milkman was definitely where housewives used to go to the van and get their "meat". Heh heh heh.
If you drive around town in an ice cream truck giving out free ice cream, and someone jacks your truck, you would presumably still go to the cops, right?
I'll totally like whatever crap you want, if you'll pay me. No criminal activity required - cut out the middleman!
p.s. I'm sad this page doesn't yet have any references to whuffie in it. Now it does. (This reminds me of it greatly.)
Or friendly fire. Or the number 255.