This is because Google won't write a universal Android unlocking tool... As long as the unwashed masses can't really tell what the manufacturer did, why bother with anything difficult?........There's a name for it...... Security through Deniability?
Malware does need names, because that's how you find info about them online. Everything online needs to have a name.
The name should not just be an invention, however. If possible, it should relate to the content or the detection profile of the virus. We're not naming Linux utilities here...
Some years ago a PC of mine got a virus called the "fuck you" virus. The reason it was called that was because a couple of the major files in it were named "win32_fuck_you.exe", or "fuck_you_wd153.d" or whatever. A virus scanner picked it up only after it had gotten in, and it showed the files named this way,,,, so that was all the info I had to go on. ,,,,
When I went to look online for more info, only one major antivirus company even had a web page about it. All the others wouldn't allow the word "fuck" in their reports or their online forums, and so they had no information about it at all.
And when managing online forums, that is still pretty common practice today.
I'm surprised it's not more of a problem.
A looooong time ago, They Might Be Giants did a Slashdot interview... And someone asked if it was better to buy the CD or to download the album off of whatever platform it was on at the time.
They responded that they wanted people to buy the actual CD because they got paid 80 cents if you bought the CD, but only 10 cents if you bought the downloaded album.
Why there was such a big royalty difference--especially when the download cost the customer about the same as the CD, but had almost no associated production/distribution costs--the record company did not offer to explain.
This is true.
For a number of decades, the easiest way to get a clock that never needed correcting (other than after power interruptions) was to use a synchronous motor that was geared to work at exactly the speed you wanted, when run off the 60 (or 50 in Euro-land) Hz mains current.
The timer knobs on home-style manual clothes washers, clothes dryers and appliance timers still work this way today.
If your power service is 50 Hz or 60 Hz, it is not greatly difficult to buy small AC-powered motors that connect directly to wall power and spin at fixed rates of 1 rotation-per-minute, 1 rotation-per-hour or 1 rotation-per-day. https://www.hansen-motor.com/h...
People don't remember what a scam "climate change" really is... -and don't like being reminded...
A brief recap:
There have been wild predictions of "runaway greenhouse effects" and of "new ice ages", back-and-forth, for 35+ years now.
The people making these claims have been consistently wrong, within just one or two years of making their great predictions.
So then they got the bright idea to change to warning of "climate change", so then they don't need to predict what will happen at all... They want you to believe that ANY bad weather, of any kind, proves that they were right all along.... ...
And also, THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!... AND ANY SCIENTIST WHO DARES TO QUESTION IT, IS UNFIT TO BE A SCIENTIST!...
And you believe that?
These people raised the debate by making failed predictions for decades, and now they are summarily declaring an end to the debate entirely--as well as excusing all their failed past predictions, and refusing to look foolish by making any more future (incorrect) predictions.
I'm not a bullshit scientist, but that kinda sounds like bullshit to me.
I noticed crappy US pancake syrup a while back.... I only bother to make waffles at home a couple times a year maybe. And I'm ~50 years old, so I remember when I was a kid that most of the name-brand syrups sold in the midwest-US had maple syrup in them. And I remember as a kid that I didn't like Karo (corn) syrup, because it didn't taste as good as the real maple syrup stuff....
So I'm eating and pondering the Hungry Jack syrup bottle and I noticed that it said that the ingredients was just corn syrup, colorings and flavorings.
It tasted good enough, but I thought "well that sucks? I thought it was maple syrup?"...(I only do this rarely, and I want real syrup dammit)
So the next time I went to the store I looked through them all to see what ones were still made with maple syrup.
NONE of the nationally-known brands were. They were all just corn syrup. A dead giveaway is when they say that they need no refrigeration, and real syrup had to be kept in the refrigerator after opening. All of the REAL maple syrup said that it must be refrigerated after opening....
So then I paid $15 for a bottle of organic maple syrup (Wild Harvest) that was about 80% as big as the Hungry Jack bottle was that cost $5. The ingredients said just "maple syrup". And went another round of waffles.
The Wild Harvest did taste significantly better , but it was very watery. It was not at all the way I recall from my youth.
And when I returned to the store and looked at all the other real-maple-syrup brands, they all appeared to be about as watery as the Wild Harvest stuff was.
The cheaper brands like Hungry jack and Mrs Butterworth are the correct thickness, but they don't taste like real maple does. And all of the gorumet/organic real maple syrup brands are too watery.
So I expect that (at least in the US?) if you wanted good-quality syrup these days, you'd have to buy the 100% maple syrup stuff, and then boil it down yourself to get rid of the excess water.
If you don't get much, get yourself a cheaper black-only laser printer. There's some for ~$100 now if you shop around. The problem with inkjets is that the print heads dry out and clog if you don't use it regularly. And if you do use it regularly, then the ink cartridges cost a lot.
Don't get me wrong, inkjet printers are fantastic for some purposes--but they are rather expensive to maintain.
I would agree that the claim of a cure that the article speaks of seems rather silly, as it's been known for a long time.
Also it just pushes the problem back into the realm of body weight regulation, which is another matter that doctors can't exactly explain yet.
What is known is that (by medical standards) dieting doesn't even really work to control weight permanently, the failure rate over ten years of people who regain most of the lost weight is something like 80%.
And binge dieting is often observed to be the worst of the dieting methods used; people tend to regain weight lost during binge dieting the fastest.
The intestinal microbiome seems to hold some promise, but it's not very well understood yet. Here's another fun BBC story: http://www.bbc.com/news/health...
...And it still doesn't explain why only some overweight people get the problems of high blood pressure and type-2 diabetes, when others do not.
Being able to say for certain why that happens is part of the 'rigorous proof' mentioned.
These 'healthy practices' you speak of tend to vary by region and most have been found to be without merit (Jamaicans eating dirt, Indians drinking urine, Europeans beating epileptics, and so on...).
(agreeing totally with parent...)
In case you were not aware, the biggest cost of operating electric vehicles is not the electricity involved in making them move around; it is the cost of regularly replacing the batteries as they expire.
Any study of EV costs that ignores battery replacement is essentially fraudulent.
It's kind of like "computing the cost of car ownership" and leaving out the cost of fuel. It simply isn't acceptable.
I am not "against" the idea of EVs, but I am against the idea of so readily selling them as less-polluting and more-energy-efficient than the alternative, when there are still many questions to be answered about those aspects.
The only electric vehicles that have achieved widespread use all over the world is trains fed from overhead wires.
The exact reason for that is because that design avoids completely the need for huge, expensive, consumable battery packs.
The problem with ending farming subsidies is that it's the main way to push federal dollars into states that mainly do a lot of farming,,, and not much else.
You'd have to get farming state congressmen on board, and good luck with that.
And really--there is a lot of work going on to make produce-picking robots now. Farm labor is a job that deserves to be killed, quite frankly. It is much worse than typical factory assembly-line work.
Not quite.
From wiki-- "As such, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment tests (when used as a decisive factor in employment decisions) that are not a "reasonable measure of job performance," regardless of the absence of actual intent to discriminate...."
What this means in practical terms is that the employer cannot impose such tests, done themselves. If the applicant has passed such tests elsewhere or not, was not a matter considered by the decision. https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...
A 1971 supreme court case named Griggs vs Duke Power found that if an employer engaged in their own employee or applicant skills testing, and that testing was found to result in racial discrimination, then the empoloyer was guilty of racial discrimination even though that was not their intent.
Griggs is the basis of credentials inflation in the US.
As a result of Griggs, most companies began halting their own applicant testing entirely, and simply began to require more and more education--assuming that this would still weed out the ineffective applicants.
Well now...
Musk has had a number of pretty big setbacks in his businesses, and he hasn't been doing it all that long. Mostly what he has done is attracted huge amounts of subsidies and investments. He is delivering something which is more than a lot of kickstarter bubbles do, but the most successful venture (the cars) is still a long way from profitability and fame doesn't keep the lights on....And aside from his current round of personnel management woes, there are some far-off fundamental problems with producing HUGE numbers of electric cars/batteries that nobody on this planet can wave a magic wand and fix....
It is very risky to have a (new) executive who wants to "throw all the old ways out the window".
You get people exactly like Trump, who decided to drain the swamp--only to arrive at the new job horribly unprepared, with an inner circle of helpers who themselves had no idea what they were doing. Advisors from the swamp would have been more critical--but overall, a lot more helpful.
The story copy sounds like a shallow desperate tech industry puff piece. "Go to school for tech! If you go for anything, everything but tech is a waste of time and money!"
The best advice I've ever heard is to trust your local want ads the most.
And for many many years now, most of the ads have been for MBAs and nursing positions.
Some places do have a big tech industry, but most don't, and offshoring hasn't helped.
If you want to get good at fighting, you must practice fighting. Even if it means "lasertag with tanks" that cost $1000 per mile and planes that cost $5000 per hour to operate.
Playing games leads to good game strategy but not good fighting.
(-I'm not generally an advocate of war, it would be real nice if humans could stop killing each other--at least in massive amounts... but I think we're still quite some time from that goal, and in the mean time I'd rather win than lose-)
at least here in Europe, there are mass produced Solaris Urbino electric busses.
I am curious: do you have to pay anything to ride them?
(In the US) one aspect of public transportation that has always mystified me is, why don't they let you ride it for free?
The two major justifications for public transportation is usually something like the following:
1) it will reduce traffic congestion from private cars, and-
2) it will benefit low-income people.
By my thinking it fails on both counts.
1) public municipal bus systems are already subsidized, as it's basically necessary. They lose so much money that no private company will undertake such an effort, as they do with taxi cabs. (*Uber doesn't count IMO)...Subsidizing public transportation a bit more and dropping the boarding cost would make it even more convenient (for wealthy people) and beneficial (for poor people) and buses locally have a magnetic card reader anyway, to read weekly and monthly bus passes that the agency itself sells. To manage bus routes effectively, the governing agency would need a way to track actual ridership--but many people just pay cash. Issuing IDs and tracking the IDs would be even more accurate than charging cash would. And they run the buses anyway, even when nobody is riding them... That means that the agencies MUST have already budgeted at least part of the riding fares into the normal subsidies. ....
So then,,, they question here is not "how much would they lose if they stopped charging boarding fees", but "how much are the empty seats costing compared to what they're collecting in fees?".
From casual observation, most of the buses and light trains I see are typically at 25% capacity or less, most of the time other than rush hours. And the buses and trains run every 30 minutes from 5 AM until 2 AM.
That would have to mean that roughly 75% of the riding fares are already included in bus subsidies anyway.
2) where I live (central US, St Louis area) a monthly bus pass with no discounts for blind or elderly people costs $120. Yet there are plenty of used car lots with cars for sale for payments of around $200. Even allowing another $100 a month for insurance and fuel, you see that owning a car only costs a bit more than twice what a bus pass costs. And a car is drastically faster, over most any distance: it's one-half the time over just a couple miles, and can easily be less than one-third the time for a 15-20+ mile ride.
I have held quite a rather negative opinion of most forms of public transit for a long time, just due to the fundamental problem of balancing accessibility with travel time (speed).
But if I was put in charge of improving it, the one thing I would do is stop charging boarding fees.
Doing so defeats the very purposes of what public transportation was claiming to achieve.
Well you are just being a unsmart person, mister dumbly-dumbo.
Climate change is now a totally proven factological theory, and it's also known to be 100% true. It's why all the bad weather happens, because Al Gore said so. What are you, stupid or something?
... Under the arrangement, the tribes earn millions in royalties as long as the patents are valid, they license them back to Allergan, and the patents under the tribes' ownership is immune from lawsuits via sovereign immunity....
This concept seems odd to me--that you can have a business transaction where you transfer legal ownership of a thing to somebody else, and then still dictate after the sale what they are allowed to do with it.
I think in the long run, it'd be better to throw this concept out right away, and 3-5 years to see what effect that has on patent gifts. As well as a lot of other things...
It'd be amusing if the tribe suddenly gained this option and decided to license it to somebody else instead. [Homer Simpson voice] "D'oh!"
Android has become even more insufferable than Windows, with annoying useless spyware/adware programs pre-loaded that most users have no way at all to remove, due to device makers not providing hardware drivers and software access permission.
Also (partly due to that?) Android has the charming feature of updating until the meager memory fills up, and then you,,,, ummm,,, what? Then you go buy a new one. Because the vast majority of people with a device in this state have no idea what to do with the thing after it keeps warning that it can't get updates. They assume that they shouldn't keep using it, but they don't know what to do when there's twelve programs named Google, Google+, Google.com, Google.service, Google.accounts, Google.user and so on. -And you can't delete ANY of them anyway, even if you did know what to get rid of.
Android is an OS that device makers wanted; its main feature is that it can be locked down against modification--and Google catered heavily to that desire.
It's not the one that users wanted.
In the midwest-US, the gray squirrels are,,,,,, uh,,,, not that sophisticated about things.
1. When they bury a nut, they immediately urinate on the spot. IF they ever managed to find the [whatever] again, this would be the way I would have guessed that they were doing it. And-
2. Often a blue jay or other larger bird will follow a squirrel around, wait until it buries a nut and takes a couple hops away, and then the bird will dig up the nut and eat it. As the squirrel watches. And the squirrel (standing literally a foot away) doesn't seem to be able to mentally connect the significance of these two sequential events.
I've seen the local squirrels in the yard "feeding the birds" lots of times.
There's not always a bird--but even so, I don't know that I've ever seen any squirrel recover anything it buried.
Reality check: you're probably not that great of a coder, and luckily, that's probably all your job requires.
This attitude is common whenever job competition in programming gets mentioned here: some people feather puffing and insisting that they have astonishingly high abilities, and their job regularly requires pushing the very boundaries of computer science and mathematics... And for almost every programmer on the planet, that's just not true.
Most business programming is just pulling results out of databases and posting them over a web server. It's difficult the first few times, but by the 50th or 100th time it's pretty easy. You can pretend you are flying to the moon if you want, but it won't save your job from outsourcing to a guy who slept in university and whose main skills are browsing StackExchange, ctrl-C and ctrl-P.
The main reason that US businesses require degrees at all is often not due to job difficulty, it's due to credentials inflation that was caused by anti-discrimination hiring laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
I do think that the coding boot camps are riding a fake bubble... They're still playing the same song we heard in the run-up to the year2K hiring boom, but there's no year2K17 bug to fix now. Mostly whats available is data entry jobs, as the people who used to have them regularly get their carpal tunnels syndromed (for $12 an hour) and quit.
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This is because Google won't write a universal Android unlocking tool... As long as the unwashed masses can't really tell what the manufacturer did, why bother with anything difficult? ........There's a name for it...... Security through Deniability?
Malware does need names, because that's how you find info about them online. Everything online needs to have a name.
,,,,
The name should not just be an invention, however. If possible, it should relate to the content or the detection profile of the virus. We're not naming Linux utilities here...
Some years ago a PC of mine got a virus called the "fuck you" virus. The reason it was called that was because a couple of the major files in it were named "win32_fuck_you.exe", or "fuck_you_wd153.d" or whatever. A virus scanner picked it up only after it had gotten in, and it showed the files named this way,,,, so that was all the info I had to go on.
When I went to look online for more info, only one major antivirus company even had a web page about it. All the others wouldn't allow the word "fuck" in their reports or their online forums, and so they had no information about it at all.
And when managing online forums, that is still pretty common practice today.
I'm surprised it's not more of a problem.
I may be remembering wrong here, but,,,,,
A looooong time ago, They Might Be Giants did a Slashdot interview... And someone asked if it was better to buy the CD or to download the album off of whatever platform it was on at the time.
They responded that they wanted people to buy the actual CD because they got paid 80 cents if you bought the CD, but only 10 cents if you bought the downloaded album.
Why there was such a big royalty difference--especially when the download cost the customer about the same as the CD, but had almost no associated production/distribution costs--the record company did not offer to explain.
This is true.
For a number of decades, the easiest way to get a clock that never needed correcting (other than after power interruptions) was to use a synchronous motor that was geared to work at exactly the speed you wanted, when run off the 60 (or 50 in Euro-land) Hz mains current.
The timer knobs on home-style manual clothes washers, clothes dryers and appliance timers still work this way today.
If your power service is 50 Hz or 60 Hz, it is not greatly difficult to buy small AC-powered motors that connect directly to wall power and spin at fixed rates of 1 rotation-per-minute, 1 rotation-per-hour or 1 rotation-per-day.
https://www.hansen-motor.com/h...
People don't remember what a scam "climate change" really is... -and don't like being reminded...
...
A brief recap:
There have been wild predictions of "runaway greenhouse effects" and of "new ice ages", back-and-forth, for 35+ years now.
The people making these claims have been consistently wrong, within just one or two years of making their great predictions.
So then they got the bright idea to change to warning of "climate change", so then they don't need to predict what will happen at all... They want you to believe that ANY bad weather, of any kind, proves that they were right all along....
And also, THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!... AND ANY SCIENTIST WHO DARES TO QUESTION IT, IS UNFIT TO BE A SCIENTIST!...
And you believe that?
These people raised the debate by making failed predictions for decades, and now they are summarily declaring an end to the debate entirely--as well as excusing all their failed past predictions, and refusing to look foolish by making any more future (incorrect) predictions.
I'm not a bullshit scientist, but that kinda sounds like bullshit to me.
...and she said everything was okay, that nobody was tracking anything.
I noticed crappy US pancake syrup a while back....
I only bother to make waffles at home a couple times a year maybe.
And I'm ~50 years old, so I remember when I was a kid that most of the name-brand syrups sold in the midwest-US had maple syrup in them.
And I remember as a kid that I didn't like Karo (corn) syrup, because it didn't taste as good as the real maple syrup stuff....
So I'm eating and pondering the Hungry Jack syrup bottle and I noticed that it said that the ingredients was just corn syrup, colorings and flavorings.
It tasted good enough, but I thought "well that sucks? I thought it was maple syrup?"...(I only do this rarely, and I want real syrup dammit)
So the next time I went to the store I looked through them all to see what ones were still made with maple syrup.
NONE of the nationally-known brands were. They were all just corn syrup. A dead giveaway is when they say that they need no refrigeration, and real syrup had to be kept in the refrigerator after opening. All of the REAL maple syrup said that it must be refrigerated after opening....
So then I paid $15 for a bottle of organic maple syrup (Wild Harvest) that was about 80% as big as the Hungry Jack bottle was that cost $5. The ingredients said just "maple syrup". And went another round of waffles.
The Wild Harvest did taste significantly better , but it was very watery. It was not at all the way I recall from my youth.
And when I returned to the store and looked at all the other real-maple-syrup brands, they all appeared to be about as watery as the Wild Harvest stuff was.
The cheaper brands like Hungry jack and Mrs Butterworth are the correct thickness, but they don't taste like real maple does. And all of the gorumet/organic real maple syrup brands are too watery.
So I expect that (at least in the US?) if you wanted good-quality syrup these days, you'd have to buy the 100% maple syrup stuff, and then boil it down yourself to get rid of the excess water.
I found something named "Hamilton gets Blacked", I might check that out later
If you don't get much, get yourself a cheaper black-only laser printer. There's some for ~$100 now if you shop around. The problem with inkjets is that the print heads dry out and clog if you don't use it regularly. And if you do use it regularly, then the ink cartridges cost a lot.
Don't get me wrong, inkjet printers are fantastic for some purposes--but they are rather expensive to maintain.
I would agree that the claim of a cure that the article speaks of seems rather silly, as it's been known for a long time.
...And it still doesn't explain why only some overweight people get the problems of high blood pressure and type-2 diabetes, when others do not.
Also it just pushes the problem back into the realm of body weight regulation, which is another matter that doctors can't exactly explain yet.
What is known is that (by medical standards) dieting doesn't even really work to control weight permanently, the failure rate over ten years of people who regain most of the lost weight is something like 80%.
And binge dieting is often observed to be the worst of the dieting methods used; people tend to regain weight lost during binge dieting the fastest.
The intestinal microbiome seems to hold some promise, but it's not very well understood yet. Here's another fun BBC story:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health...
Being able to say for certain why that happens is part of the 'rigorous proof' mentioned.
These 'healthy practices' you speak of tend to vary by region and most have been found to be without merit (Jamaicans eating dirt, Indians drinking urine, Europeans beating epileptics, and so on...).
(agreeing totally with parent...) .
In case you were not aware, the biggest cost of operating electric vehicles is not the electricity involved in making them move around; it is the cost of regularly replacing the batteries as they expire.
Any study of EV costs that ignores battery replacement is essentially fraudulent
It's kind of like "computing the cost of car ownership" and leaving out the cost of fuel. It simply isn't acceptable.
I am not "against" the idea of EVs, but I am against the idea of so readily selling them as less-polluting and more-energy-efficient than the alternative, when there are still many questions to be answered about those aspects.
The only electric vehicles that have achieved widespread use all over the world is trains fed from overhead wires.
The exact reason for that is because that design avoids completely the need for huge, expensive, consumable battery packs.
The problem with ending farming subsidies is that it's the main way to push federal dollars into states that mainly do a lot of farming,,, and not much else.
You'd have to get farming state congressmen on board, and good luck with that.
And really--there is a lot of work going on to make produce-picking robots now. Farm labor is a job that deserves to be killed, quite frankly. It is much worse than typical factory assembly-line work.
Not quite. ..."
From wiki-- "As such, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment tests (when used as a decisive factor in employment decisions) that are not a "reasonable measure of job performance," regardless of the absence of actual intent to discriminate.
What this means in practical terms is that the employer cannot impose such tests, done themselves. If the applicant has passed such tests elsewhere or not, was not a matter considered by the decision.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...
A 1971 supreme court case named Griggs vs Duke Power found that if an employer engaged in their own employee or applicant skills testing, and that testing was found to result in racial discrimination, then the empoloyer was guilty of racial discrimination even though that was not their intent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Griggs is the basis of credentials inflation in the US.
As a result of Griggs, most companies began halting their own applicant testing entirely, and simply began to require more and more education--assuming that this would still weed out the ineffective applicants.
Well now... ...And aside from his current round of personnel management woes, there are some far-off fundamental problems with producing HUGE numbers of electric cars/batteries that nobody on this planet can wave a magic wand and fix....
Musk has had a number of pretty big setbacks in his businesses, and he hasn't been doing it all that long. Mostly what he has done is attracted huge amounts of subsidies and investments. He is delivering something which is more than a lot of kickstarter bubbles do, but the most successful venture (the cars) is still a long way from profitability and fame doesn't keep the lights on.
It is very risky to have a (new) executive who wants to "throw all the old ways out the window".
You get people exactly like Trump, who decided to drain the swamp--only to arrive at the new job horribly unprepared, with an inner circle of helpers who themselves had no idea what they were doing. Advisors from the swamp would have been more critical--but overall, a lot more helpful.
The story copy sounds like a shallow desperate tech industry puff piece. "Go to school for tech! If you go for anything, everything but tech is a waste of time and money!"
The best advice I've ever heard is to trust your local want ads the most.
And for many many years now, most of the ads have been for MBAs and nursing positions.
Some places do have a big tech industry, but most don't, and offshoring hasn't helped.
Some of us have been here before, a somewhat-long time ago-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want to get good at fighting, you must practice fighting. Even if it means "lasertag with tanks" that cost $1000 per mile and planes that cost $5000 per hour to operate.
Playing games leads to good game strategy but not good fighting.
(-I'm not generally an advocate of war, it would be real nice if humans could stop killing each other--at least in massive amounts... but I think we're still quite some time from that goal, and in the mean time I'd rather win than lose-)
I am curious: do you have to pay anything to ride them?
...Subsidizing public transportation a bit more and dropping the boarding cost would make it even more convenient (for wealthy people) and beneficial (for poor people) and buses locally have a magnetic card reader anyway, to read weekly and monthly bus passes that the agency itself sells. To manage bus routes effectively, the governing agency would need a way to track actual ridership--but many people just pay cash. Issuing IDs and tracking the IDs would be even more accurate than charging cash would. And they run the buses anyway, even when nobody is riding them... That means that the agencies MUST have already budgeted at least part of the riding fares into the normal subsidies.
(In the US) one aspect of public transportation that has always mystified me is, why don't they let you ride it for free?
The two major justifications for public transportation is usually something like the following:
1) it will reduce traffic congestion from private cars, and-
2) it will benefit low-income people.
By my thinking it fails on both counts.
1) public municipal bus systems are already subsidized, as it's basically necessary. They lose so much money that no private company will undertake such an effort, as they do with taxi cabs. (*Uber doesn't count IMO)
....
So then,,, they question here is not "how much would they lose if they stopped charging boarding fees", but "how much are the empty seats costing compared to what they're collecting in fees?".
From casual observation, most of the buses and light trains I see are typically at 25% capacity or less, most of the time other than rush hours. And the buses and trains run every 30 minutes from 5 AM until 2 AM.
That would have to mean that roughly 75% of the riding fares are already included in bus subsidies anyway.
2) where I live (central US, St Louis area) a monthly bus pass with no discounts for blind or elderly people costs $120. Yet there are plenty of used car lots with cars for sale for payments of around $200. Even allowing another $100 a month for insurance and fuel, you see that owning a car only costs a bit more than twice what a bus pass costs. And a car is drastically faster, over most any distance: it's one-half the time over just a couple miles, and can easily be less than one-third the time for a 15-20+ mile ride.
I have held quite a rather negative opinion of most forms of public transit for a long time, just due to the fundamental problem of balancing accessibility with travel time (speed).
But if I was put in charge of improving it, the one thing I would do is stop charging boarding fees.
Doing so defeats the very purposes of what public transportation was claiming to achieve.
Well you are just being a unsmart person, mister dumbly-dumbo.
Climate change is now a totally proven factological theory, and it's also known to be 100% true. It's why all the bad weather happens, because Al Gore said so. What are you, stupid or something?
This concept seems odd to me--that you can have a business transaction where you transfer legal ownership of a thing to somebody else, and then still dictate after the sale what they are allowed to do with it.
I think in the long run, it'd be better to throw this concept out right away, and 3-5 years to see what effect that has on patent gifts. As well as a lot of other things...
It'd be amusing if the tribe suddenly gained this option and decided to license it to somebody else instead. [Homer Simpson voice] "D'oh!"
The only way that Linux has advanced in usability is by copying Windows and Mac features.
Android has become even more insufferable than Windows, with annoying useless spyware/adware programs pre-loaded that most users have no way at all to remove, due to device makers not providing hardware drivers and software access permission.
Also (partly due to that?) Android has the charming feature of updating until the meager memory fills up, and then you,,,, ummm,,, what? Then you go buy a new one. Because the vast majority of people with a device in this state have no idea what to do with the thing after it keeps warning that it can't get updates. They assume that they shouldn't keep using it, but they don't know what to do when there's twelve programs named Google, Google+, Google.com, Google.service, Google.accounts, Google.user and so on. -And you can't delete ANY of them anyway, even if you did know what to get rid of.
Android is an OS that device makers wanted; its main feature is that it can be locked down against modification--and Google catered heavily to that desire. It's not the one that users wanted.
In the midwest-US, the gray squirrels are,,,,,, uh,,,, not that sophisticated about things.
1. When they bury a nut, they immediately urinate on the spot. IF they ever managed to find the [whatever] again, this would be the way I would have guessed that they were doing it. And-
2. Often a blue jay or other larger bird will follow a squirrel around, wait until it buries a nut and takes a couple hops away, and then the bird will dig up the nut and eat it. As the squirrel watches. And the squirrel (standing literally a foot away) doesn't seem to be able to mentally connect the significance of these two sequential events.
I've seen the local squirrels in the yard "feeding the birds" lots of times.
There's not always a bird--but even so, I don't know that I've ever seen any squirrel recover anything it buried.
It doesn't avoid RSI, and it isn't what most people imagine--since they want to bypass the whole requirement for keyboarding totally.
Reality check: you're probably not that great of a coder, and luckily, that's probably all your job requires.
This attitude is common whenever job competition in programming gets mentioned here: some people feather puffing and insisting that they have astonishingly high abilities, and their job regularly requires pushing the very boundaries of computer science and mathematics... And for almost every programmer on the planet, that's just not true.
Most business programming is just pulling results out of databases and posting them over a web server. It's difficult the first few times, but by the 50th or 100th time it's pretty easy. You can pretend you are flying to the moon if you want, but it won't save your job from outsourcing to a guy who slept in university and whose main skills are browsing StackExchange, ctrl-C and ctrl-P.
The main reason that US businesses require degrees at all is often not due to job difficulty, it's due to credentials inflation that was caused by anti-discrimination hiring laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
I do think that the coding boot camps are riding a fake bubble... They're still playing the same song we heard in the run-up to the year2K hiring boom, but there's no year2K17 bug to fix now. Mostly whats available is data entry jobs, as the people who used to have them regularly get their carpal tunnels syndromed (for $12 an hour) and quit.