Nothing stopping anyone from creating a service like DropBox on AWS or Azure. Probably best to spin up your own service in the cloud to avoid the puritanical state.
Scrolled way too long for this comment. I've been avoiding all those services and use my own. Literally. First I used owncloud, but when they started to become all fascist, I switched to nextcloud. Google it and do your thing. They are trivial to install.
GPS works fine with airplane mode. I use it to check airspeed when sitting in window seats.
You cannot check airspeed using GPS. Airspeed is measured by measuring the difference in airpressure from the pitot port and the static port.
What you're measuring is groundspeed. If you have both (that is, groundspeed from GPS and airspeed from the pitot-static system), you can calculate with and wind direction, and a compass heading.
OK, what about the unlimited futures? Again, I though quantum mechanics already gave us those. I guess it means that the future will be a lot more undeterministic than usual?
It means that there is still a possibility that I get to have a threesome with Alizee and Selena Gomez. Now if I could only find a black hole...
I live in a city that has doubled its population in the past ten years, but has not done a significant highway improvement, other than allowing the state to add toll roads and turn existing roads into toll roads. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars... but on bike paths that nobody uses, and restriping four lane roads into two lane roads, causing further congestion.
No. Dart guns is not normal behavior at an office. Shooting dart guns at a coworker is harrassment unless they've agreed to play.
Bullshit. Many companies that I've worked at provide toys like that to encourage mingling.
Loretta Lee was fired in retaliation to complaints. And that's a Bad Thing[tm]. She is an attractive educated young woman, and I can totally understand how a bunch of CS nerds who never had any female interaction will stare at her. But it's Not Right.
They have a near monopoly situation and the European Union
And all they need to do is to have a stand-alone, U.S. based company take ownership of Chrome, and then the E.U. can go F themselves.
Europe should stop trying to regulate U.S. companies. The reason why they don't have similar success in Europe is because of the stupid E.U. commissions that kill every attempt at innovation.
No. Although I do think this is the correct way to do things, it is for a different reason. As I've said on/. before: I believe that the government has no business meddling with an ISP's class of service configuration. The government does not own the infrastructure, and does not pay for the operations. Most importantly, if there is a market for a certain business model where one stream of traffic gets priority over another: let the market handle it.
And that is exactly what this legislation does: as with other states, the states are acting as a consumer, not as a lawmaking entity. Thus, the market is doing what it is supposed to do: large customers dictate to a supplier how they would like to see the business being run, and threaten to vote with their feet.
And this is how net neutrality should be brought back to life. Not by government laws, but by government spending. Big difference philosophically, same effect.
Thank you, Dr Pedant, for that learned and enlightening commentary.
Speaking English as a second language, I appreciate it if people point me to mistakes like that. It helps me avoid it in the future. Sometimes, a grammar nazi is captain. He just forgot to fly away.
Same thing here. While in Socal I got Norcal amber alerts because of my 408 number (wild guess). I turned all of that shit off until they figure out how to differentiate between a real emergency and a mehrgency.
I am sure their learned leadership was made aware of this option, and swiftly dispatched the messenger with a baseball bat.
Exactly this. Unions have proved their worth in the early 20th century. Unions needed to exist to balance the power between employer and employees. We thank our current protections in the workplace largely to the unions of the past.
That said, today's unions are nothing more than legalized mafia. They are allowed to steal your money through paycheck deduction, approved by the Supreme Court. It may be legal, but it is still theft. (see also https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...)
I sincerely hope these unions die a quick death. There is hope: the Supreme Court is going to have another look at this: http://www.insidesources.com/s...
I never heard of the guy, and probably never will again. But this is one artist who does not want his fans to show up. What is this guy thinking?
"You can pay me a lot of money so I can sing songs, and in exchange for your hard-earned money I will forbid you to bring your cellphone". What an asshat.
Innocent people are being arrested every day. The legal requirements to get an arrest warrant are very narrow, there is no need to proof "beyond a reasonable doubt".
That said, I'm sure SFPD will find themselves in court pretty soon, as the amount of force used was pretty unreasonable, not to mention the way that the lady was treated by the police.
In the end, there is only one question to ask: was this a reasonable thing to do, considering the type of alleged crime? I'm quite sure this will result in a six figure, of not seven, payout.
If it is going to round to 190, then try to exactly be 190, and then it's very tolerant to fluctuations and still be accurate enough.
That's not how this works. Runways are built to ensure aircraft have their nose pointed into the wind as much as possible. So if the wind comes from the west during most time of the year, they will build runway 270/90 (27/9). Another matter is, as said here, obstacles. But most of the times airports are built when there are few surrounding buildings.
My grandfather committed suicide after a long cancer
Which is sad, and should have been unnecessary. Civilized countries offer alternative solutions in the form of euthanasia.
No one independent of my direct aid, and I mean no one, is entitled to my presence or that I live my life for them. It's my life, not yours.
And that's not what I'm saying. All I am saying is that instead of one person having a bad time, after a suicide a lot of people have to live with losing someone they love.
Year of suicide prevention. Aaron Schwartz unfortunately committed suicide. People who commit suicide mostly do so in order to end their own suffering. The reality however is that this does not lower the total amount of suffering in the world. Instead, their family and friends will inherent their suffering, thus any suicide will only increase the total amount of suffering in the world. Ergo: the act of suicide is probably the most egoistic act in the world: to end ones own perceived suffering resulting in an increased amount of suffering in others.
Suicide awareness is more important. The national suicide prevention hotline can be found at 1-800-273-8255.
Thiel sponsored indeed. I sponsor the EFF and ACLU, but that does not make their lawsuits mine.
Blaming Thiel for Gawker's end is the same thing as blaming Trump for Hillary's loss... (and with that, back to the regular/. off-topic Trump/Hillary bashing)
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Nothing stopping anyone from creating a service like DropBox on AWS or Azure. Probably best to spin up your own service in the cloud to avoid the puritanical state.
Scrolled way too long for this comment. I've been avoiding all those services and use my own. Literally. First I used owncloud, but when they started to become all fascist, I switched to nextcloud. Google it and do your thing. They are trivial to install.
So in your world, the punishment for jaywalking is the death penalty?
No, the consequence for jaywalking in the middle of the night without wearing any lights or reflective material is winning the Darwin Award for 2018.
Funny, I only clicked "comment" to post the exact same. What a load of horseshit.
GPS works fine with airplane mode. I use it to check airspeed when sitting in window seats.
You cannot check airspeed using GPS. Airspeed is measured by measuring the difference in airpressure from the pitot port and the static port.
What you're measuring is groundspeed. If you have both (that is, groundspeed from GPS and airspeed from the pitot-static system), you can calculate with and wind direction, and a compass heading.
OK, what about the unlimited futures? Again, I though quantum mechanics already gave us those. I guess it means that the future will be a lot more undeterministic than usual?
It means that there is still a possibility that I get to have a threesome with Alizee and Selena Gomez. Now if I could only find a black hole...
I live in a city that has doubled its population in the past ten years, but has not done a significant highway improvement, other than allowing the state to add toll roads and turn existing roads into toll roads. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars... but on bike paths that nobody uses, and restriping four lane roads into two lane roads, causing further congestion.
So, in which part of San Jose, CA, do you live?
just remember how blessed you are
You mean: "just remember that I chose live in an area that has sufficient resources".
I'm surprised Dubai hasn't run out of water yet.
No. Dart guns is not normal behavior at an office. Shooting dart guns at a coworker is harrassment unless they've agreed to play.
Bullshit. Many companies that I've worked at provide toys like that to encourage mingling.
Loretta Lee was fired in retaliation to complaints. And that's a Bad Thing[tm]. She is an attractive educated young woman, and I can totally understand how a bunch of CS nerds who never had any female interaction will stare at her. But it's Not Right.
It's sad that this still happens in 2018.
They have a near monopoly situation and the European Union
And all they need to do is to have a stand-alone, U.S. based company take ownership of Chrome, and then the E.U. can go F themselves.
Europe should stop trying to regulate U.S. companies. The reason why they don't have similar success in Europe is because of the stupid E.U. commissions that kill every attempt at innovation.
AI is managed by person. If he tells AI to kill everyone else... Technically it's the person who will kill everyone..
You don't understand AI. The concept of AI means that the AI entity itself concludes that it's better to wipe out humans.
:)
Go watch Battlestar Galactica
The market can't handle it because in most places there isn't any market.
Yes, and this is what needs to be fixed. Fuck net neutrality: fix the market and NN will fix itself.
Republican stated goal of empowering states.
No. Although I do think this is the correct way to do things, it is for a different reason. As I've said on /. before: I believe that the government has no business meddling with an ISP's class of service configuration. The government does not own the infrastructure, and does not pay for the operations. Most importantly, if there is a market for a certain business model where one stream of traffic gets priority over another: let the market handle it.
And that is exactly what this legislation does: as with other states, the states are acting as a consumer, not as a lawmaking entity. Thus, the market is doing what it is supposed to do: large customers dictate to a supplier how they would like to see the business being run, and threaten to vote with their feet.
And this is how net neutrality should be brought back to life. Not by government laws, but by government spending. Big difference philosophically, same effect.
Facebook has physical offices within the city of Seattle
Which can be closed in a day, if needed. City laws apply only within the city.
Thank you, Dr Pedant, for that learned and enlightening commentary.
Speaking English as a second language, I appreciate it if people point me to mistakes like that. It helps me avoid it in the future. Sometimes, a grammar nazi is captain. He just forgot to fly away.
*cough* I mean, y'know.
*cough* I mean, y'know. $15 an hour.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
because clicking the wrong button *once* in a horribly designed user interface is totally a fireable offense
At strategic missile command, yes.
Same thing here. While in Socal I got Norcal amber alerts because of my 408 number (wild guess). I turned all of that shit off until they figure out how to differentiate between a real emergency and a mehrgency.
I am sure their learned leadership was made aware of this option, and swiftly dispatched the messenger with a baseball bat.
Exactly this. Unions have proved their worth in the early 20th century. Unions needed to exist to balance the power between employer and employees. We thank our current protections in the workplace largely to the unions of the past.
That said, today's unions are nothing more than legalized mafia. They are allowed to steal your money through paycheck deduction, approved by the Supreme Court. It may be legal, but it is still theft. (see also https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...)
I sincerely hope these unions die a quick death. There is hope: the Supreme Court is going to have another look at this: http://www.insidesources.com/s...
Wow, you really missed the point. Do you even listen to music?
Yes I do. The good stuff. Like Jean Michel Jarre. Which you probably never heard of.
I never heard of the guy, and probably never will again. But this is one artist who does not want his fans to show up. What is this guy thinking?
"You can pay me a lot of money so I can sing songs, and in exchange for your hard-earned money I will forbid you to bring your cellphone". What an asshat.
but don't arrest innocent people.
Innocent people are being arrested every day. The legal requirements to get an arrest warrant are very narrow, there is no need to proof "beyond a reasonable doubt".
That said, I'm sure SFPD will find themselves in court pretty soon, as the amount of force used was pretty unreasonable, not to mention the way that the lady was treated by the police.
In the end, there is only one question to ask: was this a reasonable thing to do, considering the type of alleged crime? I'm quite sure this will result in a six figure, of not seven, payout.
If it is going to round to 190, then try to exactly be 190, and then it's very tolerant to fluctuations and still be accurate enough.
That's not how this works. Runways are built to ensure aircraft have their nose pointed into the wind as much as possible. So if the wind comes from the west during most time of the year, they will build runway 270/90 (27/9). Another matter is, as said here, obstacles. But most of the times airports are built when there are few surrounding buildings.
My grandfather committed suicide after a long cancer
Which is sad, and should have been unnecessary. Civilized countries offer alternative solutions in the form of euthanasia.
No one independent of my direct aid, and I mean no one, is entitled to my presence or that I live my life for them. It's my life, not yours.
And that's not what I'm saying. All I am saying is that instead of one person having a bad time, after a suicide a lot of people have to live with losing someone they love.
year of the lunix desktop?
Year of suicide prevention. Aaron Schwartz unfortunately committed suicide. People who commit suicide mostly do so in order to end their own suffering. The reality however is that this does not lower the total amount of suffering in the world. Instead, their family and friends will inherent their suffering, thus any suicide will only increase the total amount of suffering in the world. Ergo: the act of suicide is probably the most egoistic act in the world: to end ones own perceived suffering resulting in an increased amount of suffering in others.
Suicide awareness is more important. The national suicide prevention hotline can be found at 1-800-273-8255.
Thiel was paying for it, so it was kind of his.
Thiel sponsored indeed. I sponsor the EFF and ACLU, but that does not make their lawsuits mine.
/. off-topic Trump/Hillary bashing)
Blaming Thiel for Gawker's end is the same thing as blaming Trump for Hillary's loss... (and with that, back to the regular