Unless I'm implicitly using navigation or something similar, I've always turned off location services and only turned it on if I've using the GPS, etc. Otherwise, it's just too much of battery hog - especially if you're moving indoors or somewhere the GPS doesn't work well - and that's been a thing for years so it's not like this is a new revelation.
The LED's on my router have various modes, but the default is that they're off unless I trigger a proximity sensor by waving my hand over the device. Works good.
Also, as I learned via another excellent slashdot user, not all animals have both hemisphere of their brain connected. For example, koalas do not have a connection between their brain hemispheres, which can be pretty limiting.
It's also why "Binding Arbitration only" clauses need to be made illegal everywhere (as they are where I live). It's a complete end-run around the legal system and always favour the corporation unjustly
No, but a politician can put forth a bill, which (after proper process and review) would then become law. Then, when the law is violated, then you (or in this case Apple as a corporation) can be penalised for doing so. Just like a citizen who has been fined or charged with a crime, there is an option to dispute the charges in court. If a good enough case is brought forth, a judge can modify the fine or even kill the law entirely in some cases.
No mob needed. It's just the legal process. The EU is a bit of a weird thing because you have a bunch of different countries under one umbrella, but it's not as if this is a new rule.
I wonder if that's a deliberate slowdown or just a really old PC. I seem to remember seeing screen paints like that sometimes on really slow hardware (not quite that slow, but you could see the paint-in happen).
I wonder what other fun things you could do with a USB-charged capacitor, preferable things that don't cause actual damage. How about a tiny speaker that plays in a loop
"This idiot just plugged in a hacked USB device!"
Honestly, the movies on their own weren't nearly as cerebral as people seem to remember. A lot of more political stuff was actually in the TV series,but then people have had years to dig and expose political meaning.
If you dig deep, even the newer movie has some interesting subtexts: treatment of veterans, PTSD, promotion and rank versus being in the action, etc etc
I remember seeing that picture in a reader's digest. IIRC it is b&w or at least faded so it's not all that apparent initially that it's a girl on fire (and not in the Hunger Games way).
The picture want worth nearly as much to me as the article, which stated the pilot was told with certainty that the area was full of enemy combatants - not civilians - and when he found out the reality of quad he'd done he had to live with that guilt.
Pretty sure that - regardless of the picture's impact - there hasn't been much of a lesson learned there as such "mistakes" continue to happen. Hell, in Afghanistan the USA bombed a regiment of Canadians.
Also, if the dongle is taking up the port, does that mean you cannot charge the phone (say with a USB battery in your pocket) while listening to music?
My electric razor came with all kinds of useless attachments, but it would be silly to ask for a refund for those I don't use
Were any of those attachments a third-party product with a not-insignificant cost that were produced by a known monopolist? There are lots of thing we buy that may come with components that aren't used - or aren't often used - but in general those are still part of the product. When I buy a car, it's not like I can't get the options like fancy mags, high-end stereo+woofers, etc... I just pay for them as an option. Including an OS or not is a pretty easy option. Heck, they could even include an unactivated version of windows but require you to pay if you want to use it (and get a serial key etc).
Even with JPEG and non-video compression, there's a lot of optimising that can be done that often isn't. I've seen and managed tons of sites that seem to think that every has big internet pipes, so it's perfectly OK to use a 2MB un-optimized image as the main backdrop for your site (or worse, a 2MB 4k resolution image that is reality scaled down when actually used). Throw that together with ever-increasing web libraries/toolkits and sometimes you're several megs in just to load a single page. Yes, there's often a somewhat optimized "mobile" version but often it doesn't load automatically on all devices, looks like ass, or is missing functionality. Enabling an optimised compression profile does help this somewhat.
Seriously though, web-devs, you shouldn't need a sysadmin to tell you that your 2MB banners and several megabytes of javascript libraries, plus a brick-ton of 3rd-party libs is *not* making for a good web experience.
About the average slashdot user, this is true they most likely don't care at all. But how about: * Somebody who they suspect is a criminal but they haven't been able to find real evidence of a crime * (key) members of protest groups * Reporters who cover stories they don't like * Informants to reporters * Pretty much anyone else they don't like, or - as the OP said - "he had not liked my face"
Now maybe it's not your face they don't like, but the fact that they were already having a pissy day and you decided to be firm in your choice to go for the pat-down rather than get backscatter X-rayed, or whatever other things sets off they "you do not respect my authoritay" vibe...
I'm pretty sure older windows will for the most part *work* on those chipsets, just that it might not support all functionality (acceleration, or possibly a lack of drivers for some controllers, soundcards, etc).
If the batteries weren't embedded, then they wouldn't need a recall of the whole phone (assuming the issue is the battery itself and not some part of the charging system).
All they would need to do is recall the battery and have users bring them in to swap for a good battery. As a bonus that's a *lot* less of a pain-in-the-a** for users who will now need to migrate all their data to a new device, or be out a phone in the interum.
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This reminds me of the "will that be on your [store] mastercard" crap. Pushing customers like that is just BS
Bill for what? If it's going through an un-metered part of their network, then how will they know how much was used?
Unless I'm implicitly using navigation or something similar, I've always turned off location services and only turned it on if I've using the GPS, etc.
Otherwise, it's just too much of battery hog - especially if you're moving indoors or somewhere the GPS doesn't work well - and that's been a thing for years so it's not like this is a new revelation.
The LED's on my router have various modes, but the default is that they're off unless I trigger a proximity sensor by waving my hand over the device. Works good.
Also, as I learned via another excellent slashdot user, not all animals have both hemisphere of their brain connected. For example, koalas do not have a connection between their brain hemispheres, which can be pretty limiting.
This is why company's everywhere need regulation
It's also why "Binding Arbitration only" clauses need to be made illegal everywhere (as they are where I live). It's a complete end-run around the legal system and always favour the corporation unjustly
No, but a politician can put forth a bill, which (after proper process and review) would then become law.
Then, when the law is violated, then you (or in this case Apple as a corporation) can be penalised for doing so. Just like a citizen who has been fined or charged with a crime, there is an option to dispute the charges in court. If a good enough case is brought forth, a judge can modify the fine or even kill the law entirely in some cases.
No mob needed. It's just the legal process. The EU is a bit of a weird thing because you have a bunch of different countries under one umbrella, but it's not as if this is a new rule.
I wonder if that's a deliberate slowdown or just a really old PC. I seem to remember seeing screen paints like that sometimes on really slow hardware (not quite that slow, but you could see the paint-in happen).
I wonder what other fun things you could do with a USB-charged capacitor, preferable things that don't cause actual damage.
How about a tiny speaker that plays in a loop
"This idiot just plugged in a hacked USB device!"
Yes. There's no doot. No doot about it at all.
Honestly, the movies on their own weren't nearly as cerebral as people seem to remember. A lot of more political stuff was actually in the TV series,but then people have had years to dig and expose political meaning.
If you dig deep, even the newer movie has some interesting subtexts: treatment of veterans, PTSD, promotion and rank versus being in the action, etc etc
I remember seeing that picture in a reader's digest. IIRC it is b&w or at least faded so it's not all that apparent initially that it's a girl on fire (and not in the Hunger Games way).
The picture want worth nearly as much to me as the article, which stated the pilot was told with certainty that the area was full of enemy combatants - not civilians - and when he found out the reality of quad he'd done he had to live with that guilt.
Pretty sure that - regardless of the picture's impact - there hasn't been much of a lesson learned there as such "mistakes" continue to happen. Hell, in Afghanistan the USA bombed a regiment of Canadians.
are now completely f****'ed....
Mooooore Metroid, please!
(and for Android rather than iOS, as well).
It sounds like they are equating courage with bravery...
Wasn't there an expression about bravery... something about a "fine line" and "stupidity"
hmmm...
Also, if the dongle is taking up the port, does that mean you cannot charge the phone (say with a USB battery in your pocket) while listening to music?
My electric razor came with all kinds of useless attachments, but it would be silly to ask for a refund for those I don't use
Were any of those attachments a third-party product with a not-insignificant cost that were produced by a known monopolist? There are lots of thing we buy that may come with components that aren't used - or aren't often used - but in general those are still part of the product. When I buy a car, it's not like I can't get the options like fancy mags, high-end stereo+woofers, etc... I just pay for them as an option. Including an OS or not is a pretty easy option. Heck, they could even include an unactivated version of windows but require you to pay if you want to use it (and get a serial key etc).
Even with JPEG and non-video compression, there's a lot of optimising that can be done that often isn't. I've seen and managed tons of sites that seem to think that every has big internet pipes, so it's perfectly OK to use a 2MB un-optimized image as the main backdrop for your site (or worse, a 2MB 4k resolution image that is reality scaled down when actually used). Throw that together with ever-increasing web libraries/toolkits and sometimes you're several megs in just to load a single page. Yes, there's often a somewhat optimized "mobile" version but often it doesn't load automatically on all devices, looks like ass, or is missing functionality. Enabling an optimised compression profile does help this somewhat.
Seriously though, web-devs, you shouldn't need a sysadmin to tell you that your 2MB banners and several megabytes of javascript libraries, plus a brick-ton of 3rd-party libs is *not* making for a good web experience.
About the average slashdot user, this is true they most likely don't care at all.
But how about:
* Somebody who they suspect is a criminal but they haven't been able to find real evidence of a crime
* (key) members of protest groups
* Reporters who cover stories they don't like
* Informants to reporters
* Pretty much anyone else they don't like, or - as the OP said - "he had not liked my face"
Now maybe it's not your face they don't like, but the fact that they were already having a pissy day and you decided to be firm in your choice to go for the pat-down rather than get backscatter X-rayed, or whatever other things sets off they "you do not respect my authoritay" vibe...
If you want to game on it, you can do that too if you use a KVM install and a video-card with passthrough.
Apparently to siphon money off the employees and potentially any investors stupid enough to invest?
I'm pretty sure older windows will for the most part *work* on those chipsets, just that it might not support all functionality (acceleration, or possibly a lack of drivers for some controllers, soundcards, etc).
I tend to prefer aligned braces (e.g. following-line so that it matches the closing brace).
It seems that lately programming courses are teaching the "following the function-definition" version.
I'll admit that I sometimes do a hybrid. Inline for the function definition, next-line for any operators etc
sub foo(){
if ( $bob == 1 )
{
#do something
}
}
If the batteries weren't embedded, then they wouldn't need a recall of the whole phone (assuming the issue is the battery itself and not some part of the charging system).
All they would need to do is recall the battery and have users bring them in to swap for a good battery. As a bonus that's a *lot* less of a pain-in-the-a** for users who will now need to migrate all their data to a new device, or be out a phone in the interum.
Personally, I prefer spaces for indentation, and tabs for alignment.