Wind it cheaper for everyone, once you factor in all sorts of things that utility companies don't directly pay for, like pollution and radiation from coal.
In kWh per dollar, almighty coal reigns supreme, and corporations have no soul, only ledger sheets.
Do you have any idea how many people get their wallet stolen while on vacation, or leave it in a cab on the way to the airport?
People fly without ID every. single. day. The TSA has a nice page on it, but even it uses weasel words like "may not be allowed." http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-in...
They Q&A you with the same sort of questions you'd need to answer to verify an online credit check (did you live on Mulberry St?), they'll give you an anal probe (excuse me: "Enhanced Screening") and then you'll pass through security unless you can't answer questions about yourself.
So, if you can afford a background check on someone and memorize a few details, you can pretend to fly as them. WHEE!
Most wearable leather comes from the same places that make cheap clothing. Herds of cows are death-marched out of India into Pakistan (where it offends fewer people to slaughter them and labor is even lower) so cheap leather garments can be made -- or at least where expensive leather garments can be made cheaply.
Little is done to salvage the animal. Generally speaking it arrives nice and skinny, just in time for, uh, skinning.
I don't care about the cruelty aspect so much. It's not any more or less awful than keeping a cow in a pen about 1mm bigger than a cow for its entire life....but just know that leather clothing comes from places where clothing is cheap to make. We're not raising free range leather here and shipping it to China for manufacturing.
I'm going to join the "Me too!" brigade - Google gets almost all of my spam (and I pet a lot of stray dogs) - but add a quick comment.
Every couple of months, as part of the never-ending cat-and-mouse game, someone figures out a pattern of text, words, links, and/or images that pass the Google sniff test for long enough to break through to mailboxes. I had one particular "class" of message this year that survived the onslaught of "mark as spam" that countless other gmail users must have been engaged in for at least a month....and then it too vanished. Every six months or so I see this happen. Some "super-spam" beats the filters for a little longer than I think it should survive "mark as spam."
False positives get a few of mine, since I am a gambler, but even that fixes itself after a few Pandora style up and down voting mouse clicks.
If false positives are a 100% no-no for you, then you get to enjoy reading every mail in your spam folder, or you get to switch to a different technology than email.
When someone writes "Of course, the name is self-explanatory" they're either wasting ink on paper (because it is self-explanatory), or they're smugly saying you're an idiot for not knowing why it's so goddamned obvious.
It's actually the biggest problem with this collection of photos -- the sheer number of them that must include photos of the underage in various states of undress.
The 130GB "leak" is from a website the most popular 3rd party app dumped to, and some enterprising hacker dumped into a zip file.
Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy should be bracing for the class action suit of the century now that the cat is out of the bag and running all over the media, completely with Snapchat photos of nude teens.
Silicon is incredibly important as a material in the industry because it’s a semiconductor. Of course, the name is self-explanatory, but there’s more to it. The key here is the band structure. Band structure refers to the “bands” of energy levels that form due to the sheer number of orbital states that can be occupied in molecules. Those that understand how electron orbitals work will point out that each energy level is discrete, but due to the sheer number of orbital configurations, a seemingly continuous distribution of energy can be seen.
Ah yes, completely self explanatory, and yes, we all remember our electron orbitals.
There are both unofficial clients that pretend to be the native API and there are capture programs that circumvent the no-screenshot functionality. More sophisticated users can run Snapchat under something like BlueStacks. Less sophisticated users can use the analog hole.
Are they going to ban development systems and emulators? Pretty sure BlueStacks can take all the screenshots I want. How about cameras? Eyeballs? Is the analog hole closed yet?
Anyone who thought a Snapchat image was truly ephemeral was, at best, ignorant.
My HTPC could post to Slashdot too, but it doesn't. It just records CATV and plays it (and downloaded videos) back for me with a high Wife-Acceptance-Factor interface.
My current setup is an Xbox One with the "TV" input running to a Windows Media Center device with a Ceton cable cards tuner in it. I'm fairly angry that The One isn't a Media Center Extender, but I see Microsoft's vision of turning the One into that "one" device in the living room, and it means slowly, silently killing Media Center Edition.
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Wind it cheaper for everyone, once you factor in all sorts of things that utility companies don't directly pay for, like pollution and radiation from coal.
In kWh per dollar, almighty coal reigns supreme, and corporations have no soul, only ledger sheets.
You've never needed a driver's license; you just need state or federal approved identification, of which a driver's licence happens to be.
Also, like many people who lose their wallets vacationing (and as many posts below explain), you don't necessarily need ID.
You sir, are grossly mistaken.
Do you have any idea how many people get their wallet stolen while on vacation, or leave it in a cab on the way to the airport?
People fly without ID every. single. day. The TSA has a nice page on it, but even it uses weasel words like "may not be allowed."
http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-in...
They Q&A you with the same sort of questions you'd need to answer to verify an online credit check (did you live on Mulberry St?), they'll give you an anal probe (excuse me: "Enhanced Screening") and then you'll pass through security unless you can't answer questions about yourself.
So, if you can afford a background check on someone and memorize a few details, you can pretend to fly as them. WHEE!
I've had my buzzword password for a long time, and we've got 1-cap, 1-num requirements, so it's just "Synergist1c"
Most wearable leather comes from the same places that make cheap clothing. Herds of cows are death-marched out of India into Pakistan (where it offends fewer people to slaughter them and labor is even lower) so cheap leather garments can be made -- or at least where expensive leather garments can be made cheaply.
Little is done to salvage the animal. Generally speaking it arrives nice and skinny, just in time for, uh, skinning.
I don't care about the cruelty aspect so much. It's not any more or less awful than keeping a cow in a pen about 1mm bigger than a cow for its entire life. ...but just know that leather clothing comes from places where clothing is cheap to make. We're not raising free range leather here and shipping it to China for manufacturing.
I'm going to join the "Me too!" brigade - Google gets almost all of my spam (and I pet a lot of stray dogs) - but add a quick comment.
Every couple of months, as part of the never-ending cat-and-mouse game, someone figures out a pattern of text, words, links, and/or images that pass the Google sniff test for long enough to break through to mailboxes. I had one particular "class" of message this year that survived the onslaught of "mark as spam" that countless other gmail users must have been engaged in for at least a month. ...and then it too vanished. Every six months or so I see this happen. Some "super-spam" beats the filters for a little longer than I think it should survive "mark as spam."
False positives get a few of mine, since I am a gambler, but even that fixes itself after a few Pandora style up and down voting mouse clicks.
If false positives are a 100% no-no for you, then you get to enjoy reading every mail in your spam folder, or you get to switch to a different technology than email.
No clue.
When someone writes "Of course, the name is self-explanatory" they're either wasting ink on paper (because it is self-explanatory), or they're smugly saying you're an idiot for not knowing why it's so goddamned obvious.
...or, sadly, the other way around.
Of course, our more important junk is up in the cloud, too.
"My junk" has been in the cloud for years.
If only there was a way we could figure out the average picture size...
It's actually the biggest problem with this collection of photos -- the sheer number of them that must include photos of the underage in various states of undress.
The 130GB "leak" is from a website the most popular 3rd party app dumped to, and some enterprising hacker dumped into a zip file.
Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy should be bracing for the class action suit of the century now that the cat is out of the bag and running all over the media, completely with Snapchat photos of nude teens.
Pretty sure that's the definition of ignorance.
A simple "gross negligence" will suffice.
From the second paragraph, emphasis mine.
Ah yes, completely self explanatory, and yes, we all remember our electron orbitals.
There are both unofficial clients that pretend to be the native API and there are capture programs that circumvent the no-screenshot functionality. More sophisticated users can run Snapchat under something like BlueStacks. Less sophisticated users can use the analog hole.
4chan has been taking down a lot recently...
Moderators can't keep up with the flood of posts in places like /b/, but the level of censorship there is rising pretty quickly.
Are they going to ban development systems and emulators? Pretty sure BlueStacks can take all the screenshots I want. How about cameras? Eyeballs? Is the analog hole closed yet?
Anyone who thought a Snapchat image was truly ephemeral was, at best, ignorant.
I assumed you were joking until I looked it up.
Nothing spices up a good security discussion like some Jesus on the side.
mmmmmmm, superstition.
My HTPC could post to Slashdot too, but it doesn't. It just records CATV and plays it (and downloaded videos) back for me with a high Wife-Acceptance-Factor interface.
My current setup is an Xbox One with the "TV" input running to a Windows Media Center device with a Ceton cable cards tuner in it. I'm fairly angry that The One isn't a Media Center Extender, but I see Microsoft's vision of turning the One into that "one" device in the living room, and it means slowly, silently killing Media Center Edition.
We'll see this week how the Plex app performs.
LA Times article on Dux.
http://articles.latimes.com/19...
You have to keep a tight circle of trust. Can't let too many people in.
"Based on a True Story" leads us to "Inspired by Actual Events" which is synonymous with "I made this crap up."
...[I]t would have been faster, easier, less dangerous, and a hell of a lot more practical to just give him a ride in the fucking helicopter.
In before "Why didn't the eagles fly the One Ring to Mount Doom" and/or "Why didn't the eagles fly the company of Dwarves to the Lonely Mountain."