State laws that make it much more expensive to hire women force companies to pay less to us. I know when, for example, my husband only got two weeks off but I got eight weeks off, that the law made it much more expensive to hire me versus a male.
I think government should subsidize the cost difference to employers.
Legislating equality but leaving extra costs (as in this example) up to the employer will not end well.
I doubt it. The automated checkout systems I have seen are a complete disaster and that's a much simpler use case
There is a full time person there to consult when the purchase gets stuck (CVS). It gets stuck a lot.
It is easily confused and misses you putting items in a bag after scan -- and I tried using it with 3-4 item purchase at most.
They have completely removed the cash option in my nearby CVS (I assume it wasn't working well, other places have cash option)
Are delivery people/cashiers so expensive? How much are they saving, anyway?
They cannot deny a citizen entry without cause, they can deny them their possessions or hold them for a "reasonable time."
Unfortunately, few people can afford to test these rules -- as having your possessions and not "being held for a reasonable time" may be integral to keeping your job.
Autoplay video has been on every year's "Top 10 Web Don'ts" list since at least 1998
Topped in the same list only by Autoplay of loud sounds before you can even spot the video on the page.
For some reason there is no obvious browser mechanism to disable sound by default. It's very rare that I want a webpage to be able to speak. So explicit permission would be nice.
if I have to choose between making my website shiny and make it small, 9/10 will prioritise the UX for users with high bandwidth
And then some of them will also make a mobile-version website that insists on showing up even when terribly broken and even if your phone can handle the non-mobile website.
Is it to allow people to not work at all, or is it to provide an income floor to allow them to bootstrap their way out of poverty into a truly productive, sustainable lifestyle?
I think it is both -- presumably, given UBI, people would separate themselves into these two categories.
Plus there is the bonus for removing administrative overheads of unemployment benefit coordination.
The failure to understand why people don't want a different stranger living next to them every week is a sure sign that our society is breaking down.
There is no "failure to understand", there is only "failure to care" that people don't want strangers living next to them (both by the company and by the people who rent our their rooms).
They don't like my add blocker and I am not turning it off for them.
That's why we come to slashdot! For the story-within-the-story experience.
Not only that, but they offer "Get ad-light access for just $1" (the best of both worlds, pay and see ads). And the ad offer is a solid image instead of using some stupid old-fashioned text in a browser (e.g., I couldn't copy-paste it)
Controller adapters should absolutely/not/ be banned, since
Actually, you don't even need a reason!
Why is it that someone thinks they can have a say over my console? For what reason??
It's like a farmer decides to reach out and ban sporks because they do not combine fork and spoon functionality well and may cause us to incorrectly eat some of the produced food. (or substitute a car analogy...)
I like what someone suggested above- cost is determined based on your grade point average. Maintain all A's and it's free. Have all C's or a C average and you pay full price. If you can't maintain a high grade, perhaps you shouldn't be in school.
Only if you could agree on fully standardized tests across all schools
Otherwise you are opening so many horrible doors...
Grade inflation is an issue everywhere (sometime the average is B- or C, but more often it is A- or B+)
If you curve, then having one's payment depend on how smart the class is really unfair
Do you really want professors to have a financial incentive to give student a C?
I get tired of developers who seem to think I'll give them a good review if they keep asking for one
It is annoying. It sounds like you were ok with the app but did not feel like leaving a review
I don't have a solution, but the problem is common -- 1000 people use the app and are ok/happy with with it and 7 of them leave a good review. 5 people have a serious problem and 5 of them leave a terrible review. Also, 2 more people did not understand what the app was for and 2 of them leave a bad review as well. And now it looks like half the people hated the app.
Also, anything you had to fight off for months does not leave a good long-term impression.
Between daily nags with continued NO answers, Windows 10 managed to install itself both on my mom's desktop and laptop at least once (fortunately declining the TOS successfully rolled it back).
They just sort by price in Expedia and book the cheapest option.
You are ignoring one crucial detail.
Problem is that I cannot sort tickets by leg room or by some weighted function of (price+legroom). Nor can I factor in checked bag prices -- you have to research each individual airline webpage for hidden costs. Leg room info is not given there at all!
If all you are told is price, you naturally have to choose by price.
Well, the article's goal is either to spike Bitcoin further or to try and delay the fall because they are not done dumping it.
I cannot tell which one because TFA thinks that they are important enough to make me turn off ad-blocker or convince me to get ad-light(??) access for less money. But nowdays even with ad blocker, some websites manage to play video with obnoxious sound or freeze the browser, so I am too afraid to turn it off and see the real web.
Does Uberpool make them more money?
They were pushing it pretty hard before. For a while I had to spend 10-30 seconds to get out of the uberpool offer attempts and order a regular Uber.
I hope they don't do something stupid like add additional content like they did with THX1138.
They will add a dream sequence, making it clear that Luke is actually a replicant.
(Of course they'll add stuff, otherwise it'd be hard to justify selling yet anoter special edition for $$$).
Mr. Obama added that he also had âoea belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.â
âoeA new president doesnâ(TM)t want to look vengeful,â said a former Bush White House lawyer... âoeand the last thing a new administration wants to do is spend its time and energy rehashing the perceived sins of the old one.
Not until we all agree on 1) How Trump is going to use this invention and 2) How, if discovered earlier, it could have changed the outcome of this election.
Considering significant region-based restrictions, "free market" is not at work here. If I have to pay a different price (or have no access at all) just because I am traveling to a different country, that is pretty much the opposite of a free market.
Every program that invades the privacy of anyone other than known or suspected criminals and their associates, should fail in a similarly spectacular fashion.
Until the responsible person is at least fired, it hasn't failed in the right way
For all we know, the solution will be to replace the $500K device by a $10M device (hey, it worked for TSA -- when 1st gen machines were deemed unsafe, they just bought a round of 2nd gen machines without as much as an apology).
he scanned his dl and credit card into a google site ??
No, it just looks like scam, but companies are that brazen nowdays.
Both eBay and PayPal have, at various points, requested a copy of credit card and driver license sent to them because of some verification they made up. My electricity provider and my dentist even wanted my SSN! Of course I told them off. Someone I know had been locked out of the eBay account because eBay would not even accept a European DL instead of US one.
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State laws that make it much more expensive to hire women force companies to pay less to us. I know when, for example, my husband only got two weeks off but I got eight weeks off, that the law made it much more expensive to hire me versus a male.
I think government should subsidize the cost difference to employers.
Legislating equality but leaving extra costs (as in this example) up to the employer will not end well.
IF you live in a large city it might work
I doubt it. The automated checkout systems I have seen are a complete disaster and that's a much simpler use case
There is a full time person there to consult when the purchase gets stuck (CVS). It gets stuck a lot.
It is easily confused and misses you putting items in a bag after scan -- and I tried using it with 3-4 item purchase at most.
They have completely removed the cash option in my nearby CVS (I assume it wasn't working well, other places have cash option)
Are delivery people/cashiers so expensive? How much are they saving, anyway?
They cannot deny a citizen entry without cause, they can deny them their possessions or hold them for a "reasonable time."
Unfortunately, few people can afford to test these rules -- as having your possessions and not "being held for a reasonable time" may be integral to keeping your job.
Autoplay video has been on every year's "Top 10 Web Don'ts" list since at least 1998
Topped in the same list only by Autoplay of loud sounds before you can even spot the video on the page.
For some reason there is no obvious browser mechanism to disable sound by default. It's very rare that I want a webpage to be able to speak. So explicit permission would be nice.
if I have to choose between making my website shiny and make it small, 9/10 will prioritise the UX for users with high bandwidth
And then some of them will also make a mobile-version website that insists on showing up even when terribly broken and even if your phone can handle the non-mobile website.
Is it to allow people to not work at all, or is it to provide an income floor to allow them to bootstrap their way out of poverty into a truly productive, sustainable lifestyle?
I think it is both -- presumably, given UBI, people would separate themselves into these two categories.
Plus there is the bonus for removing administrative overheads of unemployment benefit coordination.
The failure to understand why people don't want a different stranger living next to them every week is a sure sign that our society is breaking down.
There is no "failure to understand", there is only "failure to care" that people don't want strangers living next to them (both by the company and by the people who rent our their rooms).
Otherwise agreed.
They don't like my add blocker and I am not turning it off for them.
That's why we come to slashdot! For the story-within-the-story experience.
Not only that, but they offer "Get ad-light access for just $1" (the best of both worlds, pay and see ads).
And the ad offer is a solid image instead of using some stupid old-fashioned text in a browser (e.g., I couldn't copy-paste it)
Controller adapters should absolutely /not/ be banned, since
Actually, you don't even need a reason!
Why is it that someone thinks they can have a say over my console? For what reason??
It's like a farmer decides to reach out and ban sporks because they do not combine fork and spoon functionality well and may cause us to incorrectly eat some of the produced food. (or substitute a car analogy...)
I like what someone suggested above- cost is determined based on your grade point average. Maintain all A's and it's free. Have all C's or a C average and you pay full price. If you can't maintain a high grade, perhaps you shouldn't be in school.
Only if you could agree on fully standardized tests across all schools
Otherwise you are opening so many horrible doors...
It's all about unintended consequences.
I get tired of developers who seem to think I'll give them a good review if they keep asking for one
It is annoying. It sounds like you were ok with the app but did not feel like leaving a review
I don't have a solution, but the problem is common -- 1000 people use the app and are ok/happy with with it and 7 of them leave a good review. 5 people have a serious problem and 5 of them leave a terrible review. Also, 2 more people did not understand what the app was for and 2 of them leave a bad review as well. And now it looks like half the people hated the app.
You just rent it until it breaks
Renting would be ok if it was stated upfront and you paid rental prices.
What I'm now more curious about is the true impact of a $20 million dollar penalty against corporate lying.
I am even more curious about where this $20 million goes.
Perhaps to increase the salaries of all those Uber drivers? No?
They just don't like being spied upon...
Also, anything you had to fight off for months does not leave a good long-term impression.
Between daily nags with continued NO answers, Windows 10 managed to install itself both on my mom's desktop and laptop at least once (fortunately declining the TOS successfully rolled it back).
They just sort by price in Expedia and book the cheapest option.
You are ignoring one crucial detail.
Problem is that I cannot sort tickets by leg room or by some weighted function of (price+legroom).
Nor can I factor in checked bag prices -- you have to research each individual airline webpage for hidden costs. Leg room info is not given there at all!
If all you are told is price, you naturally have to choose by price.
I fly Southwest when I can, btw.
So what?
Well, the article's goal is either to spike Bitcoin further or to try and delay the fall because they are not done dumping it.
I cannot tell which one because TFA thinks that they are important enough to make me turn off ad-blocker or convince me to get ad-light(??) access for less money. But nowdays even with ad blocker, some websites manage to play video with obnoxious sound or freeze the browser, so I am too afraid to turn it off and see the real web.
So lots of fascinating discussion topics.
I love Uber, but I HATE Uberpool.
Does Uberpool make them more money?
They were pushing it pretty hard before. For a while I had to spend 10-30 seconds to get out of the uberpool offer attempts and order a regular Uber.
I hope they don't do something stupid like add additional content like they did with THX1138.
They will add a dream sequence, making it clear that Luke is actually a replicant.
(Of course they'll add stuff, otherwise it'd be hard to justify selling yet anoter special edition for $$$).
Not making them any money but who needs that when everyone knows your name.
Exactly!
They are losing money, but they will make it up in volume.
Apparently, they have lost 1.27 billion in 6 months in 2016. That's impressive.
President-elect Trump says we should put this behind us.
Obama started it
Mr. Obama added that he also had âoea belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.â
âoeA new president doesnâ(TM)t want to look vengeful,â said a former Bush White House lawyer ... âoeand the last thing a new administration wants to do is spend its time and energy rehashing the perceived sins of the old one.
Can we keep this crap off slashdot?
Not until we all agree on 1) How Trump is going to use this invention and 2) How, if discovered earlier, it could have changed the outcome of this election.
"Price gouging" is just the free market at work.
Considering significant region-based restrictions, "free market" is not at work here.
If I have to pay a different price (or have no access at all) just because I am traveling to a different country, that is pretty much the opposite of a free market.
Every program that invades the privacy of anyone other than known or suspected criminals and their associates, should fail in a similarly spectacular fashion.
Until the responsible person is at least fired, it hasn't failed in the right way
For all we know, the solution will be to replace the $500K device by a $10M device (hey, it worked for TSA -- when 1st gen machines were deemed unsafe, they just bought a round of 2nd gen machines without as much as an apology).
You imply "PhD" and "stupid" are mutually exclusive. Clearly you have never worked with PhDs.
mod up.
GGP clearly meant "stupid" as in "not able to" or "not having any desire to" get a PhD.
PhD degree is not even a salary-optimal path. A good MS degree with 5+ years experience is likely to lead to a much more lucrative salary.
he scanned his dl and credit card into a google site ??
No, it just looks like scam, but companies are that brazen nowdays.
Both eBay and PayPal have, at various points, requested a copy of credit card and driver license sent to them because of some verification they made up. My electricity provider and my dentist even wanted my SSN! Of course I told them off.
Someone I know had been locked out of the eBay account because eBay would not even accept a European DL instead of US one.