Yes, there is more solar and wind generation. There is also more energy use in general.
For the huge increases in solar and wind to matter, we need to actually TURN OFF the fossil fuel based generation. Installation of renewables need to outpace demand increase to the degree of replacing existing generation. That's when CO2 output goes down.
I've not used a Pixel device, but is there really a lack of a close app control? I can do that just fine on my Shield K1 tablet, but it is a software button - did they remove this because... reasons?
Every GSM phone has done this to any amplifier and speaker within a foot or so when the radio was active. Was super annoying and I'm glad it's gone with the shift to LTE.
People will still make the trips - there aren't millions of people driving on roads just to drive on them because they filled a pothole. They have shit to do. If the most direct route is all fucked up, they'll just do it in a less efficient way to avoid roads that are garbage and harm their vehicles. By not fixing the roads, you're pushing that traffic into neighborhoods where kids are playing and dogs are being walked..
Won't you think of the children? Why are you trying to kill those children's pets?
(See, I can make astounding leaps of logic too. Stop trying to run over children and dogs.)
I suppose it's a question of degree-of-harm. Everyone knows that smoking is horrible for your health. Using a vaporizer is probably still bad, but not anywhere as horrible as smoking.
Not smoking or using any nicotine product is obviously better yet. But these people are chemically addicted, so reason only goes so far.
I present to you RFC 2070 which extends the HTML 2.0 spec to use Unicode, and has since been included in HTML 3, 4, and 5.
In January of 1997 that happened.
This is a web site, is it not? It renders HTML, does it not? Have they not actually developed anything on it since 1997? Or are they just carrying around 20 years of technical debt because of stupid excuses like "its [sic] an english language site"?
Also, the apostrophe is a punctuation mark in the English language.
That's because they made a complete hash of the rollout. The credit processors required the EMV chip readers be installed at retailers by the end of 2014 (or 2015?) or else fraud liability shifted to the retailer. So that got everyone moving on getting the hardware out there, but the banks didn't bother issuing EMV chip cards until recently, and they haven't bothered with the PIN part at all. In fact, I got a message from American Express where they were all chest-out and proclaiming "chip-and-signature" as some awesome thing, when it's total bullshit.
The chip alone only really fixes connection snooping on the merchant's network. If the reader itself (or the PC it's plugged into if it's that style of reader) is compromised, you're still fucked just the same as with magstripe, and it's all slower and more annoying.
Credit cards only cause debt if you don't pay them off every month. I find it very convenient to use a credit card in order to get whatever gimmick bonus they've got (cash back, frequent flier miles, etc.) and then just pay it off every month so they don't get a dime of interest. Especially when the credit card company does the work of dividing up purchase categorization so I can look at a nice pie chart of my expenditures and figure if there's something out of balance.
Credit cards don't automatically equal debt, unless you use them irresponsibly, or are looking for a way to finance a purchase larger than you could pay off in one month. But that's where the responsibility comes in.
At least here in the US, there is two copies of the receipt - always take one, even if you just throw it in the next trash can you see after leaving the restaurant - the wait staff will see it's gone and if they even have half a brain will think it's probably a bad idea to try some shit if you kept your copy.
The headline kind of made me wonder what the hell they're on about - the Chip + Pin standard that is used everywhere else (e.g. not in the US) is formally known as EMV - Europay, Mastercard, Visa.
If Mastercard was so much a partner in developing Chip + Pin in order to be right there in the name, how are they now having the grand revelation that signatures are stupid and worthless for fraud prevention? By the time anyone actually looks at the signature, the fraud already happened days ago, and everyone knows it.
The real deal here is that somebody somewhere decided that US consumers couldn't be bothered with PIN numbers, except we've already been using them for debit cards for decades. The whole chip card rollout in the US has been botched front to back - no PIN as a (crap, but better than nothing) form of authentication, slow af chip terminals that take 5x the amount of time to perform the transaction, deadline timetables for the retailers to put the crap terminals in place without having any chip cards actually issued to anybody, etc.
It's time to either give everyone a PIN and scrap this signature nonsense, or skip EMV altogether and move to the next thing, be it encrypted RFID / NFC or whatever. And when you design it, have actual tech people in the room that aren't thinking 10 years ago like bank tech usually is.
Going further on your comment, if there's an email it can be discovered under subpoena. If there's a formal complaint to HR, it can be discovered for trial.
These things are usually cut-and-dried: there's a company policy about this kind of shit, and if the employee files a complaint it's on file. The employee should have also kept some record of making the complaint if they are smart. If the management didn't take any action according to the policy (discipline, training, termination of the offender), then it's on the company.
But Apple is still the bad guy, right? Yes, you can say that they are still overpriced, but you are an edge case, and you are paying for the convenience of buying the latest phone and not carrying a 3 inch piece of wire with you with all the other stuff you're likely carrying.
Or, don't buy the phone if it doesn't meet your needs. Plenty of other phones out there.
Convenience? Sometimes you don't want to unroll that cable and plug in - for example, moving between aircraft when traveling. Just have the cans on your head / around your neck without a cable dangling about looking to get damaged / snagged.
But, when you do want the best quality / latency possible, plug it in. Why are you arguing about being given the choice? Isn't that what all the bitching about deleting the headphone jack is about?
I seriously don't see the problem here. With TouchID, you have the option of putting in the PIN code. Why would they remove that with a fancy face ID thing? It's still there. Regardless of if you're all bundled up for winter, just do what the other guy said - take the gloves off that you were going to take off anyway and tap in your PIN. Regardless of whatever phone you are using, Apple or otherwise, you were going to have to do that anyway.
Look into any high quality headset that can make use of the AptX bluetooth audio codec. I have a pair of Sennheiser PXC-500 cans, and when they use AptX my ears have a hard time telling the difference from wired. The good news is that if you still want to cable up with this headset, you can - when they see continuity on the plug, it shuts down the bluetooth radio. The battery life is amazing, the sound is awesome, the noise cancelling is just shy of Bose, but still very good. And, they can be bluetooth linked to two devices at the same time (laptop for VoIP calls / conferences, phone for music / phone calls).
They certainly aren't the cheapest thing out there, but I'm very happy with the purchase.
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Yes, there is more solar and wind generation.
There is also more energy use in general.
For the huge increases in solar and wind to matter, we need to actually TURN OFF the fossil fuel based generation. Installation of renewables need to outpace demand increase to the degree of replacing existing generation. That's when CO2 output goes down.
I've not used a Pixel device, but is there really a lack of a close app control? I can do that just fine on my Shield K1 tablet, but it is a software button - did they remove this because... reasons?
Every GSM phone has done this to any amplifier and speaker within a foot or so when the radio was active. Was super annoying and I'm glad it's gone with the shift to LTE.
If they make it easy to replace a $50 component, what keeps you buying new $800 phones?
Why does it matter what the physical cabling is, if the latency and bandwidth allocations are similar?
Results are what matter. Specifying 'fiber' just to say it's 'fiber' is silly if the metrics are the same.
I wish it was only $250M. I think you're off by a few orders of magnitude.
You would think so. And yet, very basic things still do not get done.
People will still make the trips - there aren't millions of people driving on roads just to drive on them because they filled a pothole. They have shit to do. If the most direct route is all fucked up, they'll just do it in a less efficient way to avoid roads that are garbage and harm their vehicles. By not fixing the roads, you're pushing that traffic into neighborhoods where kids are playing and dogs are being walked..
Won't you think of the children? Why are you trying to kill those children's pets?
(See, I can make astounding leaps of logic too. Stop trying to run over children and dogs.)
I suppose it's a question of degree-of-harm. Everyone knows that smoking is horrible for your health. Using a vaporizer is probably still bad, but not anywhere as horrible as smoking.
Not smoking or using any nicotine product is obviously better yet. But these people are chemically addicted, so reason only goes so far.
You can't hit the jingoistic sweet spot to get elected by railing against tobacco.
I present to you RFC 2070 which extends the HTML 2.0 spec to use Unicode, and has since been included in HTML 3, 4, and 5.
In January of 1997 that happened.
This is a web site, is it not? It renders HTML, does it not? Have they not actually developed anything on it since 1997? Or are they just carrying around 20 years of technical debt because of stupid excuses like "its [sic] an english language site"?
Also, the apostrophe is a punctuation mark in the English language.
That's because they made a complete hash of the rollout. The credit processors required the EMV chip readers be installed at retailers by the end of 2014 (or 2015?) or else fraud liability shifted to the retailer. So that got everyone moving on getting the hardware out there, but the banks didn't bother issuing EMV chip cards until recently, and they haven't bothered with the PIN part at all. In fact, I got a message from American Express where they were all chest-out and proclaiming "chip-and-signature" as some awesome thing, when it's total bullshit.
The chip alone only really fixes connection snooping on the merchant's network. If the reader itself (or the PC it's plugged into if it's that style of reader) is compromised, you're still fucked just the same as with magstripe, and it's all slower and more annoying.
Credit cards only cause debt if you don't pay them off every month. I find it very convenient to use a credit card in order to get whatever gimmick bonus they've got (cash back, frequent flier miles, etc.) and then just pay it off every month so they don't get a dime of interest. Especially when the credit card company does the work of dividing up purchase categorization so I can look at a nice pie chart of my expenditures and figure if there's something out of balance.
Credit cards don't automatically equal debt, unless you use them irresponsibly, or are looking for a way to finance a purchase larger than you could pay off in one month. But that's where the responsibility comes in.
At least here in the US, there is two copies of the receipt - always take one, even if you just throw it in the next trash can you see after leaving the restaurant - the wait staff will see it's gone and if they even have half a brain will think it's probably a bad idea to try some shit if you kept your copy.
No, sorry; it is the fault of Slashdot for still not supporting Unicode 20 years later.
Rather pathetic, really.
The headline kind of made me wonder what the hell they're on about - the Chip + Pin standard that is used everywhere else (e.g. not in the US) is formally known as EMV - Europay, Mastercard, Visa.
If Mastercard was so much a partner in developing Chip + Pin in order to be right there in the name, how are they now having the grand revelation that signatures are stupid and worthless for fraud prevention? By the time anyone actually looks at the signature, the fraud already happened days ago, and everyone knows it.
The real deal here is that somebody somewhere decided that US consumers couldn't be bothered with PIN numbers, except we've already been using them for debit cards for decades. The whole chip card rollout in the US has been botched front to back - no PIN as a (crap, but better than nothing) form of authentication, slow af chip terminals that take 5x the amount of time to perform the transaction, deadline timetables for the retailers to put the crap terminals in place without having any chip cards actually issued to anybody, etc.
It's time to either give everyone a PIN and scrap this signature nonsense, or skip EMV altogether and move to the next thing, be it encrypted RFID / NFC or whatever. And when you design it, have actual tech people in the room that aren't thinking 10 years ago like bank tech usually is.
my guess is a complete and utter lack of Unicode support, and WebKit is putting in "smart quote" apostrophes in the submission.
It's 2017. Fix the fucking Unicode already, Slashdot.
Going further on your comment, if there's an email it can be discovered under subpoena. If there's a formal complaint to HR, it can be discovered for trial.
These things are usually cut-and-dried: there's a company policy about this kind of shit, and if the employee files a complaint it's on file. The employee should have also kept some record of making the complaint if they are smart. If the management didn't take any action according to the policy (discipline, training, termination of the offender), then it's on the company.
Well good news, Google came DOWN to Apple's price then: https://www.apple.com/shop/pro...
But Apple is still the bad guy, right? Yes, you can say that they are still overpriced, but you are an edge case, and you are paying for the convenience of buying the latest phone and not carrying a 3 inch piece of wire with you with all the other stuff you're likely carrying.
Or, don't buy the phone if it doesn't meet your needs. Plenty of other phones out there.
Convenience? Sometimes you don't want to unroll that cable and plug in - for example, moving between aircraft when traveling. Just have the cans on your head / around your neck without a cable dangling about looking to get damaged / snagged.
But, when you do want the best quality / latency possible, plug it in. Why are you arguing about being given the choice? Isn't that what all the bitching about deleting the headphone jack is about?
1. I doubt if you are a professional sound engineer, you are mixing on your phone.
2. They still have a god damn cable. Read the whole comment.
I seriously don't see the problem here. With TouchID, you have the option of putting in the PIN code. Why would they remove that with a fancy face ID thing? It's still there. Regardless of if you're all bundled up for winter, just do what the other guy said - take the gloves off that you were going to take off anyway and tap in your PIN. Regardless of whatever phone you are using, Apple or otherwise, you were going to have to do that anyway.
So what's the problem again?
overpriced accessories like the lightning-to-audio adapter included in the box with the phone, that Google makes you buy the USB-C variant of?
Are you sure that's why Apple did it? Sounds like why Google did it.
Look into any high quality headset that can make use of the AptX bluetooth audio codec. I have a pair of Sennheiser PXC-500 cans, and when they use AptX my ears have a hard time telling the difference from wired. The good news is that if you still want to cable up with this headset, you can - when they see continuity on the plug, it shuts down the bluetooth radio. The battery life is amazing, the sound is awesome, the noise cancelling is just shy of Bose, but still very good. And, they can be bluetooth linked to two devices at the same time (laptop for VoIP calls / conferences, phone for music / phone calls).
They certainly aren't the cheapest thing out there, but I'm very happy with the purchase.
Good job completely missing the point.