McDonalds has self-order kiosks in certain areas of Canada (mostly eastern). They still have people at the counter and cooking food, but you can make your order on a touch-screen and it basically prints a scannable receipt that you then give to the person at the desk.
I suppose it's useful if you're just ordering something basic and want to verify the slip says what you actually ordered, but realistically it's been more hassle than helpful when ordering anything slightly complicated (e.g. asking for a regular bun,no pickles, etc etc).
Well I'm fairly sure that I'm a *hell* of a lot older than his kid, and personally *I* don't want to sit through 10 minutes of advertisements for crap that I don't want just to watch a DVD I bought and paid for. In some cases the ads are actually for the f'ing movie I'm about to watch (albeit in a different format) and show spoilers!
There are some things worth waiting for, and worth waiting through. Shit like DRM-enforced unskippable ads are *NOT* in that list. One of the high points of DVD was supposed to be "no rewinding"... but you pretty much lose the point of that if it still takes 10 minutes of crap to get to the actual content.
Google doesn't just release an "Operating System". Android is a platform/ecosystem which includes Play and a certain number of default configuration options and applications (browser, mail client, etc etc). Otherwise, you'd have to install all that stuff yourself
(now granted, I'd be willing to do so if it wasn't too difficult and let me avoid the manufacturer bloatware, but that's wouldn't like work for most users).
Even if he was writing in Arabic, and was writing about something bad... WHAT IS THE DANGER. I mean, it's a fucking pencil and paper. It's not like he's writing with his blood, or scrawling REDRUM in the bathroom mirror (and even then, not so much a threat). If the guy had something with wires and blinking lights in his coat... OK maybe a potential threat, but what in the hell could this person have being writing that in any way represented a threat to passengers. Was it magic stationary? You know the type in fantasy novels/movies where what one person writes another person sees? No, wait, because that shit isn't real.
No threat. No potential of threat. The biggest threat is the stupidity of all involved in this type of crap.
It's not necessarily the courts that would do you in though, it's the "do you have a criminal record" checkbox on job applications, etc.
I'm not saying that employers should all hire criminals, but perhaps there should be another way. If you're a daycare concerned that your potential employee may have a record that makes him/her dangerous to children, you should be able to put in query to the local police with indicators that it's a position dealing with minors. If you're the local McDonalds and you're worried that Bob might have a record for theft, same thing but records not related to the position shouldn't show up... and no checkboxes on the application are needed.
Once it got to 50 shades of grey, it gained sentience and assumed all humans are sado-masochists. This explains the recent spate of windows 10 installs... it's not Microsoft, it's Google's AI going rogue...
And who is going to know how to do this? You think the guy doing heart procedures knows how to configure the antivirus to that degree, or that the guy setting up the antivirus knows where the heart dude's proprietary software is saving the data files?
Hell, even as a SysAdmin I don't always know 100% what my software is doing in the background and can't account for the crazy shit my AntiVirus has done.
Not only that, but what's the point of having an antivirus if it's not scanning the locations most likely to to be changing. I'm assuming that "vulnerable files" means the OS in this case, but if those are infected your system is already owned and the first thing any good virus does is break the AV...
The Aliens series aged well but that's one thing that tended to fall off with time. Old clunky flashing-lights computers that go chugga-chugga-chugga seem quite cliche. Star Trek has similar issues in ToS.
The catch of course is that going with a nice "modern" look for the era in which the movie was made would look even worse today, so chugga-chugga-chugga actually has the advantage in this case. Star Trek went for the iBridge in the newer movies which adds to the disconnect from the old series.
The sound effects were similarly retro in many ways. I seem to remember watching a video that showed how many of the Falcon's sounds were from an old plane starter, etc.
I guess that fridges, combustion engines etc might be out (a bit big to be a "gadget")? However I think that mobile phones in generally would certainly count and you certainly can't have an iPhone without first having had a cellular/mobile phone...
I'd imagine that it has to be a bit more complicated than that though, otherwise a single pixel of difference is all that breaks the checksum. I suppose it might be "reduce the image to a simple form" (reduced color depth, size, etc) and then checksum, but that would consume an awful lot of computing resources.
Regarding the Australian thing, did that actually pass, and has it been contested in court? Last I heard they had heavy opposition by women who didn't want to be considered "illegal" just for not having DD's
I wonder exactly what they use for matching. It's not like most pictures of a kid in a swimsuit are CP, nor even nude pictures. Most likely they're going from a database of existing and known images or possibly of "similar" images where they have flagged facial recognition etc etc.
Beyond that, I suppose something obvious like a "full spread" might allow matching of genitalia and a match against body size, skin pigment etc might yield some results, though it might also catch some odd stuff like midgets or just various false positives (somebody's lawn cherub, perhaps?).
What I really wonder is how they tune such things. Basically you have to look at it to do so. As somebody who had to work at a forums company and periodically assist reviewing "flagged" posts, that sounds like a good way to end up with bleeding eyeballs and a desire to jump off a cliff after some time at it...
I've had ferrets as pets. Though they may not need to grind down their teeth, they do enjoy chewing on things similar to how dogs and cats do. I've a few gnawed game controller cords etc that can attest to that.
I've used something like this before. When you have a QA system, you don't want to accidentally send out emails that people might confuse with a production alert etc (but you still need to test the alert emails, etc). You *could* change configs to have special accounts for non-prod systems - assuming you can track down all the config entries - but what you can also do is rejig the mailserver config so that the destination address is rewritten and goes to a special mailserver/inbox for testing systems.
Obviously, you don't want to be a dumbass and send all your production emails to a single inbox... but apparently this guy didn't get that memo.
According to Google, there's also "MiracleCast" in the Linux realm which should work, but one still needs a supported TV (or a dongle, I suppose, but built-in would be nice).
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McDonalds has self-order kiosks in certain areas of Canada (mostly eastern). They still have people at the counter and cooking food, but you can make your order on a touch-screen and it basically prints a scannable receipt that you then give to the person at the desk.
I suppose it's useful if you're just ordering something basic and want to verify the slip says what you actually ordered, but realistically it's been more hassle than helpful when ordering anything slightly complicated (e.g. asking for a regular bun,no pickles, etc etc).
Well I'm fairly sure that I'm a *hell* of a lot older than his kid, and personally *I* don't want to sit through 10 minutes of advertisements for crap that I don't want just to watch a DVD I bought and paid for. In some cases the ads are actually for the f'ing movie I'm about to watch (albeit in a different format) and show spoilers!
There are some things worth waiting for, and worth waiting through. Shit like DRM-enforced unskippable ads are *NOT* in that list. One of the high points of DVD was supposed to be "no rewinding"... but you pretty much lose the point of that if it still takes 10 minutes of crap to get to the actual content.
Three words: giant tesla coil
That should take care of any excess energy. Just don't stand too close! :-)
If you want something fairly simple, "Root explorer" seems to do the job. Astro is also not bad but has additional bells and whistles.
Google doesn't just release an "Operating System". Android is a platform/ecosystem which includes Play and a certain number of default configuration options and applications (browser, mail client, etc etc). Otherwise, you'd have to install all that stuff yourself
(now granted, I'd be willing to do so if it wasn't too difficult and let me avoid the manufacturer bloatware, but that's wouldn't like work for most users).
While the main vessel isn't going to be named Boaty, the attached research submersible will be
Wouldn't that technically make you a spelling nazi since in this case the poster meant "lose" but spelled "loose?"
because of an idiot
Sadly, it appears there were multiple levels of idiots in this story.
Even if he was writing in Arabic, and was writing about something bad ... WHAT IS THE DANGER. I mean, it's a fucking pencil and paper. It's not like he's writing with his blood, or scrawling REDRUM in the bathroom mirror (and even then, not so much a threat). If the guy had something with wires and blinking lights in his coat... OK maybe a potential threat, but what in the hell could this person have being writing that in any way represented a threat to passengers.
Was it magic stationary? You know the type in fantasy novels/movies where what one person writes another person sees? No, wait, because that shit isn't real.
No threat. No potential of threat. The biggest threat is the stupidity of all involved in this type of crap.
It's not necessarily the courts that would do you in though, it's the "do you have a criminal record" checkbox on job applications, etc.
I'm not saying that employers should all hire criminals, but perhaps there should be another way. If you're a daycare concerned that your potential employee may have a record that makes him/her dangerous to children, you should be able to put in query to the local police with indicators that it's a position dealing with minors. If you're the local McDonalds and you're worried that Bob might have a record for theft, same thing but records not related to the position shouldn't show up... and no checkboxes on the application are needed.
Once it got to 50 shades of grey, it gained sentience and assumed all humans are sado-masochists. This explains the recent spate of windows 10 installs... it's not Microsoft, it's Google's AI going rogue...
And who is going to know how to do this? You think the guy doing heart procedures knows how to configure the antivirus to that degree, or that the guy setting up the antivirus knows where the heart dude's proprietary software is saving the data files?
Hell, even as a SysAdmin I don't always know 100% what my software is doing in the background and can't account for the crazy shit my AntiVirus has done.
Not only that, but what's the point of having an antivirus if it's not scanning the locations most likely to to be changing. I'm assuming that "vulnerable files" means the OS in this case, but if those are infected your system is already owned and the first thing any good virus does is break the AV...
The Aliens series aged well but that's one thing that tended to fall off with time. Old clunky flashing-lights computers that go chugga-chugga-chugga seem quite cliche. Star Trek has similar issues in ToS.
The catch of course is that going with a nice "modern" look for the era in which the movie was made would look even worse today, so chugga-chugga-chugga actually has the advantage in this case. Star Trek went for the iBridge in the newer movies which adds to the disconnect from the old series.
The sound effects were similarly retro in many ways. I seem to remember watching a video that showed how many of the Falcon's sounds were from an old plane starter, etc.
Or some old stuff. I had to do a custom kernel recently to get a capture card and the cciss driver working in RHEL7
I guess that fridges, combustion engines etc might be out (a bit big to be a "gadget")? However I think that mobile phones in generally would certainly count and you certainly can't have an iPhone without first having had a cellular/mobile phone...
I'd imagine that it has to be a bit more complicated than that though, otherwise a single pixel of difference is all that breaks the checksum. I suppose it might be "reduce the image to a simple form" (reduced color depth, size, etc) and then checksum, but that would consume an awful lot of computing resources.
Yes, but they're working on devices to generate power via kinetic energy. That means they'll reclaim all that and more within the next few years...
Regarding the Australian thing, did that actually pass, and has it been contested in court?
Last I heard they had heavy opposition by women who didn't want to be considered "illegal" just for not having DD's
I wonder exactly what they use for matching. It's not like most pictures of a kid in a swimsuit are CP, nor even nude pictures. Most likely they're going from a database of existing and known images or possibly of "similar" images where they have flagged facial recognition etc etc.
Beyond that, I suppose something obvious like a "full spread" might allow matching of genitalia and a match against body size, skin pigment etc might yield some results, though it might also catch some odd stuff like midgets or just various false positives (somebody's lawn cherub, perhaps?).
What I really wonder is how they tune such things. Basically you have to look at it to do so. As somebody who had to work at a forums company and periodically assist reviewing "flagged" posts, that sounds like a good way to end up with bleeding eyeballs and a desire to jump off a cliff after some time at it...
I've had ferrets as pets. Though they may not need to grind down their teeth, they do enjoy chewing on things similar to how dogs and cats do. I've a few gnawed game controller cords etc that can attest to that.
I've used something like this before. When you have a QA system, you don't want to accidentally send out emails that people might confuse with a production alert etc (but you still need to test the alert emails, etc). You *could* change configs to have special accounts for non-prod systems - assuming you can track down all the config entries - but what you can also do is rejig the mailserver config so that the destination address is rewritten and goes to a special mailserver/inbox for testing systems.
Obviously, you don't want to be a dumbass and send all your production emails to a single inbox... but apparently this guy didn't get that memo.
According to Google, there's also "MiracleCast" in the Linux realm which should work, but one still needs a supported TV (or a dongle, I suppose, but built-in would be nice).
PLEASE put him in with the general population...
Sorry, what I meant to say is that I wish more TVs etc supported Miracast (and as mentioned, it would mainly be for non-phone purposes).
Google Cast is good but limited to supported apps. No reason they can't support both though.