The problem with Paypal is that they are heavily linked into ebay, certainly in France and the UK where Paypal has to be accepted and is very hard to avoid using.
I've looked hard at ways to use ebay without Paypal but can see no way even for someone such as myself who would sacrifice 50% less sales in order to use a competitor to Paypal. Ebay in turn is very dominant for goods in the UK, a first port of call for any cheap goods from HongKong or used goods especially.
Ah, the imperfect opportunity for me to get on my high horse and wax lyrical about vegetarianism once again:-)
Once again veggies miss out on the scandal. If you didn't eat meat then maybe the subconcious manages to be more compassionate and, whether you admit it to yourself, more compassionate to people too. Really should be a study to quote and back it up other than a load of hearsay though
I've never found cover that's economical and why not? Insurance has to make a profit so what's the point?
So, there's no financial benefit. Anything else? Insurers do a lot of hard work contacting police, arranging a replacement, organising disputes. However... when do we ever see these actions in detail? - or do we get a letter through the door such that we can infer (for example) that our insurance has signed over, agreeing responsibility to a disputing party without our input.
Finally, insurance is used by criminals to justify the crime to themselves.
I like to read anything that I'm not supposed to know. I like to learn how to do things I'm not supposed to know how to do. I do only light activism very rarely, nothing 'the man' should be worried about.
I cannot program anything and my technical abilities are pretty much none by slashdot standards..
yet I feel all of the above are more than enough to frame me as a criminal mastermind.
Regardless on which side of the censorship debate you are,
it's one thing to censor results but to inform you that it has happened but it's another to silently remove results. It's so irritating to spend hours searching for something only later to relise that it's been censored.
Isn't there any decency to people these days? If a thread or reply on a forum gets deleted isn't it only fair to inform other people that it has happened?
I bought an iPad and at first loved it. I travel and I was hoping that finally I could stop lugging round the laptop I use for work.
I think Android is a lot less limiting and only a little less intuitive. I was sorely disappointed with the iPad though. It's bizarre but it's almost like they are deliberately crippled to being a toy. Although it was very nice to sit down with like a book I ended up selling it because I'm not the soprt of person to have unneeded things in my life.
Some of the problems I encountered: - needing a desktop to activate it; thanks BestBuy for doing that for me in the shop - no preloaded maps & reliant on internet in general - pretty cool for typing quick comments on say, slashdot... but it soon starts to annoy when you relise how much quicker it would be with a laptop - couldn't print - couldn't plug in a usb printer - really difficult to pass a file to someone on the road... no usb - generally dependent on that internet connection for everything... something that is highly variable on the road, ditto for printers - bank balance attrition on the apps. If you were to root it and start pirating stuff then you lose security. Android is much better but then I think really you need to know what you are doing.
It's a shame but I came to the conclusion that this new fad is... nothing but a toy! It doesn't have to be... it shouldn't be and I keep thinking it isn't... but that's what I found and continue to find.
I'm hoping that an Android Transformer type thing will prove me wrong but I think for me where I get irritated with Gentoo's new lack of apps that I would quickly get annoyed by it.
However, the mother is a different use case to all of us here. I think it's going to be a lot rarer that she would find something that isn't available for a tablet. With an Android tablet you might be able to get away with it but I think it's best to play it safe at this stage.
If the psychology of feeling like you're buying the same thing again is too painful...
bear in mind there has been a lot of progress in the desktop area too. You can get very small form factors which are also much quieter and I would expect her to like the saved space. That's the sensible choice anyway. Everybody may recommend a laptop straight away. But I like the idea of having a set place at which to work and in an ergonomic way - a big keyboard, a screen at the right height and all in set place.
It comes down to a philosophical choice. Do we want something that's nice for sitting in bed wasting time... and can get by on the important stuff most of the time, maybe...
or something that's good at getting the banking done?
Maybe it's possible to hack our own solution... but can we do it slickly and in a small form factor?
A micro usb to USB host adapter does a few of those.
Would it be possible to pair a netbook that will take the PixelQi screen hack, add a touch screen and rework the whole thing into a tablet that isn't bulky?
By use of the word 'friendly' I think what the OP is looking for is a manufacturer who have invested in linux and early on. Perhaps a dev working on kernel patches, something like that.
Linux Foundation Platinum members: HP, Fujitsu, IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), NEC, Oracle (ORCL), Qualcomm (QCOM), Samsung.
This is something I know a little bit about having travelled through many South American cities especially. One was so bad ai felt sick with a metallic taste after 20 minutes walking from home.
Here's a few tips I've learnt.
1) There is a kickstarter project for a blueooth device that logs air quality in various metrics
2) I don't know where I read this but I heard the pollution drops off quickly at less than 30m from the road
3) Cars soak up more pollution than bicycles - so change your air filter. In fact, where can we buy carbon activated filter material for a custom upgrade to squeeze into our cars?
4) I wore a full gas mask on a few car journeys. It can make the difference between getting out of your car feeling like yoiu've run a marathon and getting out feeling just a bit cramped. It looks silly but why not try it to confirm to yourself if there's a problem worth working on that "pollen" filter?
5) You can get slimmer masks designed for cyclists. I mention this on my blog. Filtering is a compilcated business. I've found the main thing is to filter those particulates including the rubber off the tyres. I'm not too sure about the gasses. These have an effect but it seems less immediate to me.
6) You can get plants to filter air in your home. I'd like to see a air con system intregrating such a system on a rooftop. There was a Slashdot article on this.
7) You can get a 12v airfilter to go on your passenger seat but it isn't cheap and it works by recycling the air rather than catching it on the way in
8) Looking at truckers forums I've noticed this is definately a big problem that is killing people. This is totally unneccessary. I hope we can help them with cabin filters?
If politics changed anything they'd ban it. Can it be made any clearer to terrorists and extremists that there is no room for change within the system.
Let's face it, this is not an isolated case of reduced advanced features with Google.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
We also don't have:
- booleen search of even a basic level - or ability to priortise each search term - ability for phrase search: Results for separate terms will also be displayed. Some results contain none of the words in the phrase you searched for (They don't look like adverts either - I don't understand)
Yet there's the patent on PageRank so the competition is rubbish?
The reason we all started using Google in the first place was that we found it was the only way we could find things without all the spam. We were able to find the results we were looking for. Google is catering better to beginners and that is good. This is a good example of that. Unfortunately it seems the core demographic of the nerd who knows what they are doing is being misserved. Also I think, possibly a bit sidetracked from the core ability of Google as a search company. Sidetracked?
What is the alternative? I use DuckDuckGo regularly but often fall back to Google. I think the edge there could be PageRank and manual result checking.
Any stock investors out there? Is a company sidetracked from it's core abilities often a sign of a company about to take a plunge? I've seen it before but Amazon did well.
They should be looking at the preservation technique rather than vaccination per sec.
I'd like an option to be able to drive to a location and get a vaccine fresh and verified without the use of preservatives.
I travel for work so I've had a lot of injections for visas. I take the shots in the arm without knowing whether it's formaldahyde, mercury or another technique used to preserve the virus. When I get to work I have to undergo a lot of paperwork to handle formaldehyde in dilute form.
Looking at the number of vaccinations that could be taken in theory it can run into hundreds. As per electromagnetic radio interacting with the human nervous electromagnetic system, no cumulative effect is thought to be there.
Why not some labelling system so we can track what is going in our bodies. That way we can see if the amount is negligable - how does it compare to leaching from mercury fillings for example?
I'm supposed to believe that the FBI and an IT shop don't know how to clean BIOS persistent spyware and that there is no motive from the agent to change the principle at his kids school.
Of course there's nothing conclusive here but I would have thrown it out of court straight away because of the circumstances.
I prefer to think that the way the universe is is the way the universe is and that we just tend to see patterns in it because we are broken and need to change our perspective to that where the pattern is the default.
Changing maths to a base system on prime numbers doesn't work apparently. I don't know why.
- Allow people to walk in with their own hard drive. Plug in by USB and download directly to it, no knowledge encrypted form via a connection that won't involve harassment (VPN, copper pair to Data Centre, I'm sure Slashdotters can elaborate), and possibly even setup so the data is "owned" by the people downloading it, if that's possible, like a shell. You could have a fee to deposit your drive, a fee to retrieve it and a fee to store it. You have to get those 3 fees balanced reasonable yet at the right rate so people treat it with respect.
- Rent 3D displays and other expensive 5 minute wonder gaming equipment no one can (should) be able to afford. When not being sold, allow people to play with them in store for a small fee
- act as a porn shop for people's gadgets that they no longer need, then rent them out to people as part of the agreement!
- come to some sort of agreement with Valve and Steam? Let people play in store? I'm sure this was covered before somewhere...
Solution: No words in the dictionary can be trademarked. Possible further problem: Corruption in the dictionary companies Further solution: Wikipedia/democratic voting on words.
Although it wuold create a 2 tier system I really think that allowing anyone to cache & store a page for future reference and possible later use as expert witness,
should be an excellent non-intrusive revenue stream for the Internet Archive.
It's such a useful project. I wish I was able to pay to make sure that I can make a record of a page when I notice something interesting.
They beat off some dutch mercenaries who tried to invade, I think in the '70's pretty well. What with that and recognition (through an error) from the British government it's one of the more interesting micronations.
Borders though, how quaint. It's time to see something new in the area of countries. Most countries have tax havens bolted on, perhaps we'll see something like this in the future but even more odd.
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The problem with Paypal is that they are heavily linked into ebay, certainly in France and the UK where Paypal has to be accepted and is very hard to avoid using.
I've looked hard at ways to use ebay without Paypal but can see no way even for someone such as myself who would sacrifice 50% less sales in order to use a competitor to Paypal. Ebay in turn is very dominant for goods in the UK, a first port of call for any cheap goods from HongKong or used goods especially.
Ah, :-)
the imperfect opportunity for me to get on my high horse and wax lyrical about vegetarianism once again
Once again veggies miss out on the scandal.
If you didn't eat meat then maybe the subconcious manages to be more compassionate and, whether you admit it to yourself, more compassionate to people too.
Really should be a study to quote and back it up other than a load of hearsay though
Wii. ...instead of violent solo games. I find them very boring too now.
Party games.
Social games.
Creative rather than violent games.
I've never found cover that's economical and why not? Insurance has to make a profit so what's the point?
So, there's no financial benefit. Anything else? Insurers do a lot of hard work contacting police, arranging a replacement, organising disputes. However... when do we ever see these actions in detail? - or do we get a letter through the door such that we can infer (for example) that our insurance has signed over, agreeing responsibility to a disputing party without our input.
Finally, insurance is used by criminals to justify the crime to themselves.
Bad all round. Tax insurance to oblivion.
A little bit offtopic:
How do I prove my incapability as a 'hacker'?
I like to read anything that I'm not supposed to know. I like to learn how to do things I'm not supposed to know how to do. I do only light activism very rarely, nothing 'the man' should be worried about.
I cannot program anything and my technical abilities are pretty much none by slashdot standards..
yet I feel all of the above are more than enough to frame me as a criminal mastermind.
How can I preempt and prove my ineptitude?
Regardless on which side of the censorship debate you are,
it's one thing to censor results but to inform you that it has happened but it's another to silently remove results. It's so irritating to spend hours searching for something only later to relise that it's been censored.
Isn't there any decency to people these days? If a thread or reply on a forum gets deleted isn't it only fair to inform other people that it has happened?
I bought an iPad and at first loved it. I travel and I was hoping that finally I could stop lugging round the laptop I use for work.
I think Android is a lot less limiting and only a little less intuitive. I was sorely disappointed with the iPad though. It's bizarre but it's almost like they are deliberately crippled to being a toy. Although it was very nice to sit down with like a book I ended up selling it because I'm not the soprt of person to have unneeded things in my life.
Some of the problems I encountered:
- needing a desktop to activate it; thanks BestBuy for doing that for me in the shop
- no preloaded maps & reliant on internet in general
- pretty cool for typing quick comments on say, slashdot... but it soon starts to annoy when you relise how much quicker it would be with a laptop
- couldn't print
- couldn't plug in a usb printer
- really difficult to pass a file to someone on the road... no usb
- generally dependent on that internet connection for everything... something that is highly variable on the road, ditto for printers
- bank balance attrition on the apps. If you were to root it and start pirating stuff then you lose security. Android is much better but then I think really you need to know what you are doing.
It's a shame but I came to the conclusion that this new fad is... nothing but a toy!
It doesn't have to be... it shouldn't be and I keep thinking it isn't... but that's what I found and continue to find.
I'm hoping that an Android Transformer type thing will prove me wrong but I think for me where I get irritated with Gentoo's new lack of apps that I would quickly get annoyed by it.
However, the mother is a different use case to all of us here. I think it's going to be a lot rarer that she would find something that isn't available for a tablet. With an Android tablet you might be able to get away with it but I think it's best to play it safe at this stage.
If the psychology of feeling like you're buying the same thing again is too painful...
bear in mind there has been a lot of progress in the desktop area too. You can get very small form factors which are also much quieter and I would expect her to like the saved space. That's the sensible choice anyway.
Everybody may recommend a laptop straight away. But I like the idea of having a set place at which to work and in an ergonomic way - a big keyboard, a screen at the right height and all in set place.
It comes down to a philosophical choice.
Do we want something that's nice for sitting in bed wasting time... and can get by on the important stuff most of the time, maybe...
or something that's good at getting the banking done?
Give us an alternative to chicken coup school and we'll be gold
- Kick gaming addition
- Kick Slashdot addiction
- Drop fiddling with linux addition
- replace with something that makes money
!
I agree.
Maybe it's possible to hack our own solution... but can we do it slickly and in a small form factor?
A micro usb to USB host adapter does a few of those.
Would it be possible to pair a netbook that will take the PixelQi screen hack, add a touch screen and rework the whole thing into a tablet that isn't bulky?
Seeing as you can get android tablets for $60 these days and many of us own a spare droid, can't we engineer our own solution out of an app?
Is there a way to make it less smash& grabbable though?
Also a factor:
Sounds like the cigarette lighter "accessory socket" is a permanent live, rather than switched live like they used to be.
So instead of coming on and off with the ignition, it's permanently on meaning the camera needs to be unplugged when not in use.
The trick is now finding a switched live to hardwire into.
By use of the word 'friendly' I think what the OP is looking for is a manufacturer who have invested in linux and early on.
Perhaps a dev working on kernel patches, something like that.
Linux Foundation Platinum members: HP, Fujitsu, IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), NEC, Oracle (ORCL), Qualcomm (QCOM), Samsung.
This is something I know a little bit about having travelled through many South American cities especially. One was so bad ai felt sick with a metallic taste after 20 minutes walking from home.
Here's a few tips I've learnt.
1) There is a kickstarter project for a blueooth device that logs air quality in various metrics
2) I don't know where I read this but I heard the pollution drops off quickly at less than 30m from the road
3) Cars soak up more pollution than bicycles - so change your air filter. In fact, where can we buy carbon activated filter material for a custom upgrade to squeeze into our cars?
4) I wore a full gas mask on a few car journeys. It can make the difference between getting out of your car feeling like yoiu've run a marathon and getting out feeling just a bit cramped. It looks silly but why not try it to confirm to yourself if there's a problem worth working on that "pollen" filter?
5) You can get slimmer masks designed for cyclists. I mention this on my blog. Filtering is a compilcated business. I've found the main thing is to filter those particulates including the rubber off the tyres. I'm not too sure about the gasses. These have an effect but it seems less immediate to me.
6) You can get plants to filter air in your home. I'd like to see a air con system intregrating such a system on a rooftop. There was a Slashdot article on this.
7) You can get a 12v airfilter to go on your passenger seat but it isn't cheap and it works by recycling the air rather than catching it on the way in
8) Looking at truckers forums I've noticed this is definately a big problem that is killing people. This is totally unneccessary. I hope we can help them with cabin filters?
C'mon with the IronSky jokes already,
what an awful film that was
If politics changed anything they'd ban it.
Can it be made any clearer to terrorists and extremists that there is no room for change within the system.
Let's face it, this is not an isolated case of reduced advanced features with Google.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
We also don't have:
- booleen search of even a basic level
- or ability to priortise each search term
- ability for phrase search: Results for separate terms will also be displayed. Some results contain none of the words in the phrase you searched for (They don't look like adverts either - I don't understand)
Yet there's the patent on PageRank so the competition is rubbish?
Operators are useful:
http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
but those more advanced abilities don't seem to mesh so well with the automagic aspect of Google.
The reason we all started using Google in the first place was that we found it was the only way we could find things without all the spam. We were able to find the results we were looking for.
Google is catering better to beginners and that is good. This is a good example of that.
Unfortunately it seems the core demographic of the nerd who knows what they are doing is being misserved. Also I think, possibly a bit sidetracked from the core ability of Google as a search company. Sidetracked?
What is the alternative? I use DuckDuckGo regularly but often fall back to Google. I think the edge there could be PageRank and manual result checking.
Any stock investors out there? Is a company sidetracked from it's core abilities often a sign of a company about to take a plunge? I've seen it before but Amazon did well.
They should be looking at the preservation technique rather than vaccination per sec.
I'd like an option to be able to drive to a location and get a vaccine fresh and verified without the use of preservatives.
I travel for work so I've had a lot of injections for visas. I take the shots in the arm without knowing whether it's formaldahyde, mercury or another technique used to preserve the virus.
When I get to work I have to undergo a lot of paperwork to handle formaldehyde in dilute form.
Looking at the number of vaccinations that could be taken in theory it can run into hundreds. As per electromagnetic radio interacting with the human nervous electromagnetic system, no cumulative effect is thought to be there.
Why not some labelling system so we can track what is going in our bodies. That way we can see if the amount is negligable - how does it compare to leaching from mercury fillings for example?
Looks like a framing to me.
I'm supposed to believe that the FBI and an IT shop don't know how to clean BIOS persistent spyware and that there is no motive from the agent to change the principle at his kids school.
Of course there's nothing conclusive here but I would have thrown it out of court straight away because of the circumstances.
I prefer to think that the way the universe is is the way the universe is and that we just tend to see patterns in it because we are broken and need to change our perspective to that where the pattern is the default.
Changing maths to a base system on prime numbers doesn't work apparently. I don't know why.
$5 in BTC says Slashdot can do it ;)
Go with it!
- Allow people to walk in with their own hard drive. Plug in by USB and download directly to it, no knowledge encrypted form via a connection that won't involve harassment (VPN, copper pair to Data Centre, I'm sure Slashdotters can elaborate), and possibly even setup so the data is "owned" by the people downloading it, if that's possible, like a shell. You could have a fee to deposit your drive, a fee to retrieve it and a fee to store it. You have to get those 3 fees balanced reasonable yet at the right rate so people treat it with respect.
- Rent 3D displays and other expensive 5 minute wonder gaming equipment no one can (should) be able to afford. When not being sold, allow people to play with them in store for a small fee
- act as a porn shop for people's gadgets that they no longer need, then rent them out to people as part of the agreement!
- come to some sort of agreement with Valve and Steam? Let people play in store? I'm sure this was covered before somewhere...
Solution: No words in the dictionary can be trademarked.
Possible further problem: Corruption in the dictionary companies
Further solution: Wikipedia/democratic voting on words.
Although it wuold create a 2 tier system I really think that allowing anyone to cache & store a page for future reference and possible later use as expert witness,
should be an excellent non-intrusive revenue stream for the Internet Archive.
It's such a useful project.
I wish I was able to pay to make sure that I can make a record of a page when I notice something interesting.
"Using a web site I decoded my boarding pass for my upcoming trip"
Which website? Just a standard barcode decode?
They beat off some dutch mercenaries who tried to invade, I think in the '70's pretty well. What with that and recognition (through an error) from the British government it's one of the more interesting micronations.
Borders though, how quaint. It's time to see something new in the area of countries. Most countries have tax havens bolted on, perhaps we'll see something like this in the future but even more odd.