"OK Google - Remind me to pick up light bulbs when I get to Home Depot." "OK Google - Wake me up in an hour."
Wake me up in an hour is probably a bit lazy (for a couple of reasons), but the reminder to get light bulbs at Home Depot is pretty awesome. More than once I've gone "oh yeah, that!" when I've wandered into a store.
When I'm in a quiet environment, I also do a lot of "OK Google - Wikipedia $semi_famous_actress" to figure out who some guest star on a TV show is. It's shockingly good at getting the sort of things you'd see in a Google search right - more so than conversational speech.
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That still doesn't stop evil_keyboard.
evil_keyboard looks like a normal keyboard but waits until there's no activity for 2 hours and then sends a series of keystrokes.
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That's the problem. We certainly want to just be able to plug in a HID and have it work. How do you propose that a keyboard be distinguished from an evil_keyboard?
I worked for 4BN dollar nonprofit healthcare organization. Thousands upon thousands of employees. Large swaths of clinicians and technical staff making six-figure salaries.
His salary is pretty awesome. I'm not sure what the nations top arbitration lawyers get paid - because that's essentially his job. There's a good chance some of them make 7 or even 8 digits.
You don't have to. The stadium is sold out even if your average Slashdot user hates live football.
There's 100,000 people in Dallas lined up to go the next Cowboys game, even if you don't want to. They'll grumble about parking, but they're going to pay it because, as their wallet voting tells us, they want to.
I guess you should move to the Democratic People's Republic of Kkyber, where you can be 100% responsible for all elected officials.
The NFL didn't pry your tax dollars out of your pocket with magic. You, and your fellow citizens voted for it, either directly or by representation. Plenty of stadium votes have gone up and failed. Sometimes, in a democracy, your neighbors vote for things you don't like. Sucks to be in the minority sometimes.
Here's in Phoenix, we're looking forward to the half a billion dollars that Super Bowl 2015 is going to bring to Phoenix - which was roughly the cost of the stadium we just built - something we voted for 52-48% about 14 years ago. We won't take all that back in and tax that weekend, of course, but it's a long game, and we reap the rewards of having that stadium.
With the exception of the Buffalo Bills, pretty much nobody gets backed out. Sometimes a bad team has to make a last-minute deal to get tickets sold at a discount (about $0.39 on the dollar to themselves, or at bulk/corporate rates to television sponsors), but rarely do blackouts happen. [Blackout rules also exempt luxury seats and tickets reserved for the visiting team.]
Any sufficiently popular team is perpetually sold out, with long waiting lists for season tickets. Most famously the waiting list for Green Bay is a generation! Get in line now and you children may be able to purchase tickets.
You might not want to spend $500 to take your family to a game, but people still go. Any talks about the decline in attendance are, in short, bunk. The numbers haven't changed much in the better part of a decade - housing bubble or not. http://www.statista.com/statis...
Since most games are sold out (or nearly sold out), and some stadiums are SRO for events, they seem to be pricing correctly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
I prefer NFL games on TV too. But as long as the stadium is full, I can't imagine a reason to lower ticket prices.
This is why we had 16 year old strippers in some states. You see, topless dancing isn't obscene and sexual, since those things are illegal. Since they're neither obscene or sexual, there's no reason that any person of legal working age couldn't do them.
Obscenity is illegal. Pornography is legal, unless it becomes obscene. If you want to know the difference, ask Max Hardcore's lawyers.
Your body and face are scanned when you join, and if you like the spoken text in your contact's profile, your body is 3D printed at 1:16th scale for your potential suitor to fondle.
The post below yours expounds a bit, but he's an AC, fuck him:)
I'm not the biggest fan of parallel construction, at least not as its used. The idea that you have to protect a confidential informant from getting shot in the head is certainly a real issue, but nowadays it seems PC gets used to hide the results of mass wiretapping or other not-so-rosy snooping.
I still question if Tor is genuinely broken, if the NSA (or whomever) has a sufficient number of exit nodes and compromised carrier's routers plus the raw computing horsepower to do much more than get a clue or two at best. I suspect compromising hosts is probably a much more valuable tool, as is human intel. It's easy to coerce a junior sysadmin at SR than it is to break Tor.
n.b. I'm currently working doing application virtualization for Windows apps.
The concept of virtualizing apps is fairly straightforward. When you launch a virtual app, you create a virtual file and registry system overlaid on top of the physical system. Any file owned by the app exists in the VFS. Any system file needed by the app exists on the real file system "below" the VFS, and requests for that file fall through. "Good" virtualization can create, start and stop services, etc. This works reasonably well for anything that sits in a folder, has a few registry values, has a self-contained service, but can go south fairly quickly.
The largest practical concern is dependencies. Did you write a.NET app? What version? Do you expect your client to have it? Are you going to put a complete.NET (or VB or whatever) library in your thin app? Are you going to capture your app's install changes on a 32 or 64-bit machine? Separate packages? Does your virtualized app need shell integration? Do you need to right-click on an app and have "Unzip" available in the context menu - and if so, are you depending on a service to present that to the machine -- meaning you can't work as a solid download like ThinApp, but only as a published application through something like App-V.
Does the installer behave PERFECTLY with regard to Window's file structures? Did the programmer make sure to use correct CSIDL locations, or does your virtualization suite protect you from programmers who didn't? Did the installer write your username to one of it's own values? Was the guy who packaged the app good? When he packaged an app that required a specific Java was he smart enough to set the kill bit for other versions of the SSV Helper in IE? Do two of your virtualized programs need to talk to each other or reach into each other's sandboxes? What strategy are you going to take to virtualize 10 different IE plugins or Office Add-Ons?
It can get tricky.
Microsoft's product (App-V) is pretty good, even though they took it from Softgrid.:)
Voter ID laws shouldn't be racist. Everyone should have ID, especially if they want to vote exactly one time.
Unfortunately voter ID laws were foisted on counties and districts where those enacting them knew that it would impact urban (and thus likely democratic) voters disproportionately. It's the sort of change that you make an election or two in the future, and send a state ID team out to major polling places now, so people are prepared when your sensible change rolls around.
...or, you rush it into place when you know it turns away those filthy liberals. Whichever fits your agenda.
First, you should know that club sections and luxury seating has been exempt from the sellout/backout rules for, well, ever. The portion of tickets reserved for the visiting team are also excluded from the sellout/blackout rule. Teams themselves can buy their own tickets at $0.34 on the dollar to stay on TV as well. [And those 34% tickets are profit shared with other teams...]
Regardless, only a couple of teams struggle with blackouts. I think the Bills have it the worst.
As to options, NFL.com has been showing blacked out games (on delay) since 2009. If you're a Bills fan, you're free to watch the game on NFL.com after midnight if you can avoid spoilers.
On my Android, I already use Automatic Call Recorder Pro. Records all calls, or can whitelist/blacklist contacts if you just want to record unsolicited calls. Uploads semi-automatically to a number of back-end cloud services. https://play.google.com/store/...
There seem to be numerous automatic sound recorders that trigger on sound level. A few searches of the play store turn up dozens, some with good reviews. [And the ones with mixed reviews seem to be device specific errors...]
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I use Google Now for the same sort of things.
"OK Google - Remind me to pick up light bulbs when I get to Home Depot."
"OK Google - Wake me up in an hour."
Wake me up in an hour is probably a bit lazy (for a couple of reasons), but the reminder to get light bulbs at Home Depot is pretty awesome. More than once I've gone "oh yeah, that!" when I've wandered into a store.
When I'm in a quiet environment, I also do a lot of "OK Google - Wikipedia $semi_famous_actress" to figure out who some guest star on a TV show is. It's shockingly good at getting the sort of things you'd see in a Google search right - more so than conversational speech.
Big businesses ask for things all the time -- see Musk getting his tax breaks in Nevada -- and sometimes they get it.
And sometimes they move.
Did you vote no on the "politicos" too?
One way or the other, you voted for it.
Democracy in action.
That still doesn't stop evil_keyboard.
evil_keyboard looks like a normal keyboard but waits until there's no activity for 2 hours and then sends a series of keystrokes.
That's the problem. We certainly want to just be able to plug in a HID and have it work. How do you propose that a keyboard be distinguished from an evil_keyboard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... ?
You seemed to have described the basic principles of supply and demand.
I worked for 4BN dollar nonprofit healthcare organization. Thousands upon thousands of employees. Large swaths of clinicians and technical staff making six-figure salaries.
His salary is pretty awesome. I'm not sure what the nations top arbitration lawyers get paid - because that's essentially his job. There's a good chance some of them make 7 or even 8 digits.
You don't have to. The stadium is sold out even if your average Slashdot user hates live football.
There's 100,000 people in Dallas lined up to go the next Cowboys game, even if you don't want to. They'll grumble about parking, but they're going to pay it because, as their wallet voting tells us, they want to.
Welcome to the free market indeed.
I guess you should move to the Democratic People's Republic of Kkyber, where you can be 100% responsible for all elected officials.
The NFL didn't pry your tax dollars out of your pocket with magic. You, and your fellow citizens voted for it, either directly or by representation. Plenty of stadium votes have gone up and failed. Sometimes, in a democracy, your neighbors vote for things you don't like. Sucks to be in the minority sometimes.
Here's in Phoenix, we're looking forward to the half a billion dollars that Super Bowl 2015 is going to bring to Phoenix - which was roughly the cost of the stadium we just built - something we voted for 52-48% about 14 years ago. We won't take all that back in and tax that weekend, of course, but it's a long game, and we reap the rewards of having that stadium.
Sorry you got outvoted.
With the exception of the Buffalo Bills, pretty much nobody gets backed out. Sometimes a bad team has to make a last-minute deal to get tickets sold at a discount (about $0.39 on the dollar to themselves, or at bulk/corporate rates to television sponsors), but rarely do blackouts happen. [Blackout rules also exempt luxury seats and tickets reserved for the visiting team.]
Any sufficiently popular team is perpetually sold out, with long waiting lists for season tickets. Most famously the waiting list for Green Bay is a generation! Get in line now and you children may be able to purchase tickets.
You might not want to spend $500 to take your family to a game, but people still go. Any talks about the decline in attendance are, in short, bunk. The numbers haven't changed much in the better part of a decade - housing bubble or not.
http://www.statista.com/statis...
Since most games are sold out (or nearly sold out), and some stadiums are SRO for events, they seem to be pricing correctly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
I prefer NFL games on TV too. But as long as the stadium is full, I can't imagine a reason to lower ticket prices.
Only the league office is nonprofit. The teams are not. It's not particularly nefarious.
The League Office is nonprofit, not the teams.
It's circular, of course.
This is why we had 16 year old strippers in some states. You see, topless dancing isn't obscene and sexual, since those things are illegal. Since they're neither obscene or sexual, there's no reason that any person of legal working age couldn't do them.
Obscenity is illegal.
Pornography is legal, unless it becomes obscene.
If you want to know the difference, ask Max Hardcore's lawyers.
Your body and face are scanned when you join, and if you like the spoken text in your contact's profile, your body is 3D printed at 1:16th scale for your potential suitor to fondle.
Gender equality means gender equality.
For a minute there, I thought you were serious.
The post below yours expounds a bit, but he's an AC, fuck him :)
I'm not the biggest fan of parallel construction, at least not as its used. The idea that you have to protect a confidential informant from getting shot in the head is certainly a real issue, but nowadays it seems PC gets used to hide the results of mass wiretapping or other not-so-rosy snooping.
I still question if Tor is genuinely broken, if the NSA (or whomever) has a sufficient number of exit nodes and compromised carrier's routers plus the raw computing horsepower to do much more than get a clue or two at best. I suspect compromising hosts is probably a much more valuable tool, as is human intel. It's easy to coerce a junior sysadmin at SR than it is to break Tor.
It might just be me who thinks this, but I imagine the average criminal as dumber than the population.
I'm presuming you're a trucker or something similar and not a masochist.
The two certainly aren't exclusive. :)
n.b. I'm currently working doing application virtualization for Windows apps.
The concept of virtualizing apps is fairly straightforward. When you launch a virtual app, you create a virtual file and registry system overlaid on top of the physical system. Any file owned by the app exists in the VFS. Any system file needed by the app exists on the real file system "below" the VFS, and requests for that file fall through. "Good" virtualization can create, start and stop services, etc. This works reasonably well for anything that sits in a folder, has a few registry values, has a self-contained service, but can go south fairly quickly.
The largest practical concern is dependencies. Did you write a .NET app? What version? Do you expect your client to have it? Are you going to put a complete .NET (or VB or whatever) library in your thin app? Are you going to capture your app's install changes on a 32 or 64-bit machine? Separate packages? Does your virtualized app need shell integration? Do you need to right-click on an app and have "Unzip" available in the context menu - and if so, are you depending on a service to present that to the machine -- meaning you can't work as a solid download like ThinApp, but only as a published application through something like App-V.
Does the installer behave PERFECTLY with regard to Window's file structures? Did the programmer make sure to use correct CSIDL locations, or does your virtualization suite protect you from programmers who didn't? Did the installer write your username to one of it's own values? Was the guy who packaged the app good? When he packaged an app that required a specific Java was he smart enough to set the kill bit for other versions of the SSV Helper in IE? Do two of your virtualized programs need to talk to each other or reach into each other's sandboxes? What strategy are you going to take to virtualize 10 different IE plugins or Office Add-Ons?
It can get tricky.
Microsoft's product (App-V) is pretty good, even though they took it from Softgrid. :)
http://technet.microsoft.com/e...
Determine the Actual Size of the WinSxS Folder
Applies To: Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
That'll output the actual size of the sxs folder.
Voter ID laws shouldn't be racist. Everyone should have ID, especially if they want to vote exactly one time.
Unfortunately voter ID laws were foisted on counties and districts where those enacting them knew that it would impact urban (and thus likely democratic) voters disproportionately. It's the sort of change that you make an election or two in the future, and send a state ID team out to major polling places now, so people are prepared when your sensible change rolls around.
First, you should know that club sections and luxury seating has been exempt from the sellout/backout rules for, well, ever. The portion of tickets reserved for the visiting team are also excluded from the sellout/blackout rule. Teams themselves can buy their own tickets at $0.34 on the dollar to stay on TV as well. [And those 34% tickets are profit shared with other teams...]
Regardless, only a couple of teams struggle with blackouts. I think the Bills have it the worst.
As to options, NFL.com has been showing blacked out games (on delay) since 2009. If you're a Bills fan, you're free to watch the game on NFL.com after midnight if you can avoid spoilers.
ME and XP (are those roman numerals?).
P was used in the middle ages for 400, and E for 250, so..
1250 and 390, I guess.
On my Android, I already use Automatic Call Recorder Pro. Records all calls, or can whitelist/blacklist contacts if you just want to record unsolicited calls. Uploads semi-automatically to a number of back-end cloud services.
https://play.google.com/store/...
There seem to be numerous automatic sound recorders that trigger on sound level. A few searches of the play store turn up dozens, some with good reviews. [And the ones with mixed reviews seem to be device specific errors...]