Yeah, that's not really a vacation unless you and your significant other have successfully "christened" every room in the place, including the basement and the backyard hammock.
Take "before" picture Trash the place Copy airbnb-before.jpg to airbnb-after.jpg If they are really crafty, maybe they'll go into the EXIF data and change some timestamps and maybe change the brightness and contrast settings of the picture so it looks slightly different. Submit the "before" and "after" pictures to Airbnb.
When the damage claim comes in, just say "Hey, burglars must have come in and wrecked the place after I left!"
That's a nice idea in theory, but the credit card companies are betting that your luck will run out at some point when you lose your job or have a medical emergency. At that point, you'll be paying 20% interest on your credit card balance along with all the other people who were too poor or too naive to pay off their balances on time.
Considering the annual profits the credit card companies make, it seems to be a pretty safe bet for them.
If it wasn't annoying enough to have to subscribe to 4 different pay TV services to (legally) watch all the content want to watch, Apple and Disney will soon start their own streaming services hide their premium content behind.
We're soon going to get to the point where we're going to need an "everything" network that lets you sign up for multiple streaming services at once under a single account. You know, so you can watch all of your shows in once place.... like the Cable Company used to provide 10 years ago.
That's what happens when the design team cares more about how thin a product is instead of durability.
What's great is that the other manufacturers seem to be in a race to catch up with Apple on how stupidly thin they make their products, so we can all expect similar issues from Dell and Lenovo and Samsung soon enough.
I'm sure that you'll be able to turn it off in the advanced settings, like most video card features. That said, how many people actually bother to change the default settings past the default Medium/High/Ultra options?
Bandwidth isn't going to be the big problem for game streaming. Latency is. If you don't have a sub 25ms ping time to the server, your game play experience is going to be crap in first person shooters.
So, in other words, not enough people upgraded to the new RTX series video cards yet so they need to cripple the existing GTX series cards with a driver "update" that forces real time ray tracing down everyone's throats whether or not their card can support it.
I guess that's one way to make sure that they hit their 2019 earnings estimates. Bastards. Damn, I can't wait until Intel releases their own graphics cards and gives these guys some real product competition.
Let me get this straight... Dropbox already offers only about 10% of the free storage of the other competing services like Google Drive or Onedrive, and now they are trying to restrict you to just 3 devices for synching? Wow.
It seems like they've basically given up on getting new users with the free tier that might migrate to the paid tier later.
I'm amazed that it doesn't require a login to share anything at all.
You know that people are going to abuse this service to share illegal porn and copyrighted materials until they plug this hole.
Hell... they'll probably still do it even after it requires a login, but at least Mozilla can say that they tried to collect names and e-mail addresses along with IP address info to help the authorities track down the lawbreakers.
I have to wonder if Spotify had something to do with Elizabeth Warren's comments about breaking up Apple as well.
I'd imagine that when you go against a company like Apple in a legal battle, you're going to try to fight it on multiple fronts. That way, Apple can't focus their efforts and assemble a legal "dream team" to quash the EU filing because they have other Antitrust filings elsewhere to battle.
Really? The last time I tried upgrading a version of Ubuntu, it totally hosed my laptop. The install got so screwed up that couldn't even boot into the GUI after the upgrade.
Yeah, I don't remember the Windows XP update warning messages being all that effective, either. I just disabled them, and then hacked my Windows XP box into thinking that it was a POSReady 2009 system to get another 5 years worth of updates.
POSReady 7 still gets updates until 2021. I wonder if that same registry hack will still work...
Knowing the current state of Congress, they're require a third-party auditor to "certify" all new IoT products before allowing their sale in the US.
The list of third-party auditors will probably closely match the list of corporate donors who sponsored the bill.
I'm sure that the open source people will love jumping through this extra regulatory hoop and paying the required fees toll before getting their product on the market.
I never really understood why we "fell back" to standard time during winter, the one time of the year where the extra hour of daylight in the evening was the most useful.
Daylight until 8:30 PM during Summer never seemed all that helpful, but daylight when you're trying to drive home from work around 5:30? Now THAT is useful!
Yeah, sure... It would be better yet if management left everyone leave at 4 PM during Winter to improve their commutes, but we all know that's not going to happen in most organizations.
Google Cloud seems to have the most polished services for hosting containers at this point, which makes sense considering that they helped to develop the technology.
They also have partnerships with other major hosting providers like Rackspace and Salesforce, which makes me also think that they will be around for awhile.
The only alternative for Internet access in my town is Frontier, which has even worse customer service track record than Comcast.
After fighting with them for two weeks to get service set up to my new residence, even Comcast's customer service with their four appointment windows during working hours looks good in comparison. Even if they show up late, it's better than them not showing up at all. Twice.
Unfortunately, the customer service departments at many large banks isn't much better than the customer service department at the cable company.
When you outsource that type of work to the lowest bidder, you're probably not going to find a junior mortgage broker who's going to want to fight an automated application rejection from the credit check program. They'll just move onto the next five applications and try to make up the loss in volume.
I'm curious which cryptocurrency you would want people to adopt. Bitcoin transactions can take up to half an hour to verify, making it pretty much useless for a brick and mortar retail. Other cryptocurrencies are faster, but none of them have the popularity of Bitcoin.
Besides, it is really that hard to add a bill feeder and change dispenser to their automated checkout machines? Most brick and mortar stores have had this available for years.
If they want to encourage this behavior because it adds wear and tear to the machines, just offer a discount for credit purchases.
Yeah, I'd kinda curious what Jibo functionality still works after the servers are shut down. For $900, you would expect this thing to have at least some sort of onboard processing power to do simple tasks.
It would be cool if the new owners of the companies IP gave existing Jibo owners the ability to connect the robot to 3rd party API servers that could restore some of the existing functionality or even add new features. That said, something tells me that they just bought the company for any patents it might hold. That way, they can be parasites and sue future AI/robot manufacturers for infringement in the future.
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Well now, someone needs to do a special Zero G study on this VERY important subject. The future of Mars exploration is potentially at stake!
Yeah, that's not really a vacation unless you and your significant other have successfully "christened" every room in the place, including the basement and the backyard hammock.
So, basically bad actors are going to do this:
Take "before" picture
Trash the place
Copy airbnb-before.jpg to airbnb-after.jpg
If they are really crafty, maybe they'll go into the EXIF data and change some timestamps and maybe change the brightness and contrast settings of the picture so it looks slightly different.
Submit the "before" and "after" pictures to Airbnb.
When the damage claim comes in, just say "Hey, burglars must have come in and wrecked the place after I left!"
That's a nice idea in theory, but the credit card companies are betting that your luck will run out at some point when you lose your job or have a medical emergency. At that point, you'll be paying 20% interest on your credit card balance along with all the other people who were too poor or too naive to pay off their balances on time.
Considering the annual profits the credit card companies make, it seems to be a pretty safe bet for them.
If it wasn't annoying enough to have to subscribe to 4 different pay TV services to (legally) watch all the content want to watch, Apple and Disney will soon start their own streaming services hide their premium content behind.
We're soon going to get to the point where we're going to need an "everything" network that lets you sign up for multiple streaming services at once under a single account. You know, so you can watch all of your shows in once place.... like the Cable Company used to provide 10 years ago.
You forgot sentient yogurt. That's now an actual SciFi thing thanks to Netflix.
That's what happens when the design team cares more about how thin a product is instead of durability.
What's great is that the other manufacturers seem to be in a race to catch up with Apple on how stupidly thin they make their products, so we can all expect similar issues from Dell and Lenovo and Samsung soon enough.
I'm sure that you'll be able to turn it off in the advanced settings, like most video card features. That said, how many people actually bother to change the default settings past the default Medium/High/Ultra options?
Bandwidth isn't going to be the big problem for game streaming. Latency is. If you don't have a sub 25ms ping time to the server, your game play experience is going to be crap in first person shooters.
So, in other words, not enough people upgraded to the new RTX series video cards yet so they need to cripple the existing GTX series cards with a driver "update" that forces real time ray tracing down everyone's throats whether or not their card can support it.
I guess that's one way to make sure that they hit their 2019 earnings estimates. Bastards. Damn, I can't wait until Intel releases their own graphics cards and gives these guys some real product competition.
Most people use three year old Android phones filled with carrier bloatware as well. Just because it's popular, doesn't mean that it's good.
Let me get this straight... Dropbox already offers only about 10% of the free storage of the other competing services like Google Drive or Onedrive, and now they are trying to restrict you to just 3 devices for synching? Wow.
It seems like they've basically given up on getting new users with the free tier that might migrate to the paid tier later.
I'm amazed that it doesn't require a login to share anything at all.
You know that people are going to abuse this service to share illegal porn and copyrighted materials until they plug this hole.
Hell... they'll probably still do it even after it requires a login, but at least Mozilla can say that they tried to collect names and e-mail addresses along with IP address info to help the authorities track down the lawbreakers.
I have to wonder if Spotify had something to do with Elizabeth Warren's comments about breaking up Apple as well.
I'd imagine that when you go against a company like Apple in a legal battle, you're going to try to fight it on multiple fronts. That way, Apple can't focus their efforts and assemble a legal "dream team" to quash the EU filing because they have other Antitrust filings elsewhere to battle.
Really? The last time I tried upgrading a version of Ubuntu, it totally hosed my laptop. The install got so screwed up that couldn't even boot into the GUI after the upgrade.
Yeah, I don't remember the Windows XP update warning messages being all that effective, either. I just disabled them, and then hacked my Windows XP box into thinking that it was a POSReady 2009 system to get another 5 years worth of updates.
POSReady 7 still gets updates until 2021. I wonder if that same registry hack will still work...
They should really enforce changing the default password as part of the initial setup. If you give people the option to skip it, they will.
Otherwise, the default password just gets added to that long password list of manufacturer default passwords that crackers use to get into your stuff.
Knowing the current state of Congress, they're require a third-party auditor to "certify" all new IoT products before allowing their sale in the US.
The list of third-party auditors will probably closely match the list of corporate donors who sponsored the bill.
I'm sure that the open source people will love jumping through this extra regulatory hoop and paying the required fees toll before getting their product on the market.
I never really understood why we "fell back" to standard time during winter, the one time of the year where the extra hour of daylight in the evening was the most useful.
Daylight until 8:30 PM during Summer never seemed all that helpful, but daylight when you're trying to drive home from work around 5:30? Now THAT is useful!
Yeah, sure... It would be better yet if management left everyone leave at 4 PM during Winter to improve their commutes, but we all know that's not going to happen in most organizations.
Google Cloud seems to have the most polished services for hosting containers at this point, which makes sense considering that they helped to develop the technology.
They also have partnerships with other major hosting providers like Rackspace and Salesforce, which makes me also think that they will be around for awhile.
The only alternative for Internet access in my town is Frontier, which has even worse customer service track record than Comcast.
After fighting with them for two weeks to get service set up to my new residence, even Comcast's customer service with their four appointment windows during working hours looks good in comparison. Even if they show up late, it's better than them not showing up at all. Twice.
Unfortunately, the customer service departments at many large banks isn't much better than the customer service department at the cable company.
When you outsource that type of work to the lowest bidder, you're probably not going to find a junior mortgage broker who's going to want to fight an automated application rejection from the credit check program. They'll just move onto the next five applications and try to make up the loss in volume.
I'm curious which cryptocurrency you would want people to adopt. Bitcoin transactions can take up to half an hour to verify, making it pretty much useless for a brick and mortar retail. Other cryptocurrencies are faster, but none of them have the popularity of Bitcoin.
Besides, it is really that hard to add a bill feeder and change dispenser to their automated checkout machines? Most brick and mortar stores have had this available for years.
If they want to encourage this behavior because it adds wear and tear to the machines, just offer a discount for credit purchases.
Yeah, I'd kinda curious what Jibo functionality still works after the servers are shut down. For $900, you would expect this thing to have at least some sort of onboard processing power to do simple tasks.
It would be cool if the new owners of the companies IP gave existing Jibo owners the ability to connect the robot to 3rd party API servers that could restore some of the existing functionality or even add new features. That said, something tells me that they just bought the company for any patents it might hold. That way, they can be parasites and sue future AI/robot manufacturers for infringement in the future.