I have to take exception to the idea that Uber invented summoning a car with a phone app. I've been able to call taxi companies with the "make a phone call" app for decades.
Apparently the world is full of idiots who think that "a phone call" is functionally the same as "a smartphone app".
If it were , why is it that NOW that Uber (and friends) exist, all the taxi companies have Me Too "smartphone apps"?
f they all banded together and started marking their robots.txt files
THIS is the issue.
If they wanted to not be listed by Google, there are existing mechanisms for this WHICH ACTUALLY WORK.
This entire conversation is about "Google is making tons of money, and we are a dying breed, so instead of revitalizing our entire industry we're going to BLAME ONE SINGLE COMPANY and then try to extort billions of dollars from them."
Seriously folks, if you *really* think you don't gain anything from Google indexing your content and flashing snippets at people then USE ROBOTS.TXT
If you DO recognize that Google is adding value directly to your business, then STFU you greedy bastard.
Apparently Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.4a is claiming enough bandwidth and functionality to support 8k@60Hz, and in Feb this year they were expecting products to be available in 2016.
"Embedded" means the spec is for laptop/tablet/phone and other all-in-one type devices (eg iMac).
Is that the ENTIRE argument is over cause, not effect.
Because, fundamentally, the people bemoaning "warming" say "we need to clean up our act" (at its most basic level) and those claiming "there's nothing wrong" say we need to do nothing.
Irrespective of which side is technically correct, isn't "make the world a significantly better place" a worthwhile goal?
The "but it's expensive" argument is 100% pure "but the industry where I made my billions will make less profit" and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MORE.
So STFU, cleanup everything, and IF that just happens to stave off a global catastrophe then that's BONUS.
Private property is called that for a specific reason.
Despite the fact that said resident may well have violated laws against Discharge Of A Firearm, I would unreservedly applaud the man should he have taken down the unwelcome electronic device with more direct physical means. (rake, high pressure hose, slingshot)
The Unrepentant Owner can quite happily GO SUCK ON IT.
Feel free to admit in court that you TRESPASSED ON MY PROPERTY while you try to claim against the damages I did to your piece of electronics.
For Clarity: personal drones are awesome, there should NOT be unreasonable and unfair regulation against people enjoying themselves, HOWEVER when people think that LAWS AGAINST TRESPASS can be ignored just because THEY themselves are not physically present deserve to be locked up FOR A LONG LONG TIME.
Have fun, respect the law, respect OTHER PEOPLES RIGHTS (privacy, peace, etc)
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'"
- Isaac Asimov
Usually followed shortly thereafter by "I wonder: was that just a random event or will it do that a second time...."
Dare I say I actually agree with the government that it's unfair on local businesses that purchasing the goods overseas can be tax free (for goods under $1000, everything else was subject to import duties and GST anyway).
you need to put down the crackpipe. People buying stuff overseas is NOT about them wanting to save on the TINY amount that GST introduces.
Seriously folks, GST on $1000 is how much exactly? oh yeah it's $100.
Yet you see things like womens shoes for $700 here and LITERALLY HALF THAT in America, and more often than not THAT INCLUDES FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING.
Australian consumers are BEING RIPPED OFF left, right and centre and retarded businesses CRY FOUL AND GET THE GST APPLIED even though IT CHANGES NOTHING other than FURTHER RIPPING OFF CONSUMERS.
That GST goes to the government, not ANY business, and your POTENTIAL customers who buy from overseas because YOUR PRICES ARE UNJUSTIFIABLY HIGH (seriously, more than twice the price IS unjustifiable) are NOT going to buy from you because their prices increased by 10%.
Having said that: I make a point of BUYING LOCALLY rather than "from the internet" (despite the convenience, and cost savings) as long as my additional cost is NOT SERIOUSLY SIGNIFICANT.
yes folks, I have in the past and will in the future continue to buy "here" rather than "online" despite the fact that it costs me (a little) more, but if I can find *exactly* the same thing for 50% or even 100% more than the 'internet' price, I WILL shop online.
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The purpose of a free press is to promote a knowledgeable society. If the agenda is to stomp out the stupidity of the masses and their dangerous influence over lawmakers then yes, I welcome these agenda-toting muckrakers of truth with open arms.
No, the purpose of The Press is to sow Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt amongst the general population and THEN (and ONLY then) to TELL PEOPLE HOW, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND WHY to think.
At least, that's (a) what the politicians believe (b) what the editors believe (c) what most of the people end up believing.
Turnabout is fair play - the App Store vendors should just reject the CurrentC app without explanation "we have the right to refuse service", and leave it at that.
Looking through CurrentC it does everything for Merchants, and nothing for customers.
- Requires to be tied to checking account or debit card
- Customer assumes 100% of liability for fraud (?!)
- Retailer can gather all purchase data on a customer
- Requires multistep actions including scanning QR codes
What benefit is in there for the customer? You know people are going to freak out around the liability part. I know the retailers want to reduce their transaction fee, but unless they throw some level of enticement (such as a discount) you probably won't see adoption of this. Conversely a discount will just nullify the transaction fee. I'm of the belief CurrentC is DOA.
And the funny thing is that the consortium pushing CurrentC literally TELLS YOU that "CurrentC is ALL for the benefit of the customer".
Specifically: they're a pack of lying thugs, fuck'em all.
Pay them with single dollar bills whenever possible, ideally when they force you to use CurrentC tell them to go jump for being a bunch of lying thugs and mongrels, and then walk out and shop elsewhere.
I suggest that everyone who has to go through the scanner reach down into their pants and stick their finger into their butt hole just before they have to point their finger at the detector.
Why do it yourself, when it only takes a *little* encouragement before THE TSA offers to insert THEIR finger in your butthole?
Keeping in mind that THE TSA will not stop until their knuckles are knocking your uvula, or further press-the-digit-ation is blocked at their shoulder (whichever comes last).
Netflix happily provides servers to cache their content, for FREE. This solves the congestion issue which Comcast CLAIMS is the reason why Netflix had to cough up literally millions of dollars.
However Comcast REFUSED to deploy those FREE SERVERS.
Anyone who argues that is NOT extortion is an idiot.
Anyone who IGNORES the "refusal to deploy free servers" issue is an idiot.
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Veal is about to get a whole lot fresher! ;)
Oh, Veally?
The entire advertising industry has no morals, no ethics, and adds literally zero net value to the consumer.
They're universally a pack of despicable lowlives who suck the joy out of life for others.
Over the course of time they have demonstrated the ONLY good they could ever do for society is to DIE A HORRIBLE AND MESSY DEATH.
Seriously, if there WAS no advertising industry AT ALL, the world would be a significantly better place.
Die, die die, go away, get lost, stop pushing your crap in my face! I'm sick of the very thought of your incessant bullshit, die!
Have you gotten MY message yet?
I have to take exception to the idea that Uber invented summoning a car with a phone app. I've been able to call taxi companies with the "make a phone call" app for decades.
Apparently the world is full of idiots who think that "a phone call" is functionally the same as "a smartphone app" .
If it were , why is it that NOW that Uber (and friends) exist, all the taxi companies have Me Too "smartphone apps"?
f they all banded together and started marking their robots.txt files
THIS is the issue. If they wanted to not be listed by Google, there are existing mechanisms for this WHICH ACTUALLY WORK. This entire conversation is about "Google is making tons of money, and we are a dying breed, so instead of revitalizing our entire industry we're going to BLAME ONE SINGLE COMPANY and then try to extort billions of dollars from them." Seriously folks, if you *really* think you don't gain anything from Google indexing your content and flashing snippets at people then USE ROBOTS.TXT If you DO recognize that Google is adding value directly to your business, then STFU you greedy bastard.
also: for the record the difference between an ass-clown and an ass-bandit is red-nose vs bandanna!
Read the document instead of relying on a poor, click-baiting summary. There's an actual problem with ass callers.
I believe the collective term for these callers is 'ass-clowns'.
Slipons FTW!
Mozilla declares itself COMPLETELY out of touch with the vast overwhelming majority of the userbase.
Nice way to declare yourself absolutely irrelevant.
I've said it before and I've said it again, THIS IS AN ARMS RACE that the advertising industry started.
Live by the thermonuclear obliteration of your users rights, die from the thermonuclear backlash.
You made your choice long ago, and continue to poke the bear, be sure to enjoy the consequences of your obnoxious actions.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
Apparently Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.4a is claiming enough bandwidth and functionality to support 8k@60Hz, and in Feb this year they were expecting products to be available in 2016.
"Embedded" means the spec is for laptop/tablet/phone and other all-in-one type devices (eg iMac).
Is that the ENTIRE argument is over cause, not effect.
Because, fundamentally, the people bemoaning "warming" say "we need to clean up our act" (at its most basic level) and those claiming "there's nothing wrong" say we need to do nothing.
Irrespective of which side is technically correct, isn't "make the world a significantly better place" a worthwhile goal?
The "but it's expensive" argument is 100% pure "but the industry where I made my billions will make less profit" and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MORE.
So STFU, cleanup everything, and IF that just happens to stave off a global catastrophe then that's BONUS.
Private property is called that for a specific reason.
Despite the fact that said resident may well have violated laws against Discharge Of A Firearm, I would unreservedly applaud the man should he have taken down the unwelcome electronic device with more direct physical means. (rake, high pressure hose, slingshot)
The Unrepentant Owner can quite happily GO SUCK ON IT.
Feel free to admit in court that you TRESPASSED ON MY PROPERTY while you try to claim against the damages I did to your piece of electronics.
For Clarity: personal drones are awesome, there should NOT be unreasonable and unfair regulation against people enjoying themselves, HOWEVER when people think that LAWS AGAINST TRESPASS can be ignored just because THEY themselves are not physically present deserve to be locked up FOR A LONG LONG TIME.
Have fun, respect the law, respect OTHER PEOPLES RIGHTS (privacy, peace, etc)
There are two specific ways to control "pest insects" while sticking to organic/biodynamic principles.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov
Usually followed shortly thereafter by "I wonder: was that just a random event or will it do that a second time...."
..."
Sometimes followed by: "... Dialing 911
Dare I say I actually agree with the government that it's unfair on local businesses that purchasing the goods overseas can be tax free (for goods under $1000, everything else was subject to import duties and GST anyway).
you need to put down the crackpipe. People buying stuff overseas is NOT about them wanting to save on the TINY amount that GST introduces.
Seriously folks, GST on $1000 is how much exactly? oh yeah it's $100.
Yet you see things like womens shoes for $700 here and LITERALLY HALF THAT in America, and more often than not THAT INCLUDES FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING.
Australian consumers are BEING RIPPED OFF left, right and centre and retarded businesses CRY FOUL AND GET THE GST APPLIED even though IT CHANGES NOTHING other than FURTHER RIPPING OFF CONSUMERS.
That GST goes to the government, not ANY business, and your POTENTIAL customers who buy from overseas because YOUR PRICES ARE UNJUSTIFIABLY HIGH (seriously, more than twice the price IS unjustifiable) are NOT going to buy from you because their prices increased by 10%.
Having said that: I make a point of BUYING LOCALLY rather than "from the internet" (despite the convenience, and cost savings) as long as my additional cost is NOT SERIOUSLY SIGNIFICANT.
yes folks, I have in the past and will in the future continue to buy "here" rather than "online" despite the fact that it costs me (a little) more, but if I can find *exactly* the same thing for 50% or even 100% more than the 'internet' price, I WILL shop online.
No tax refund for you if you don't buy a government-approved insurance policy.
Not even vaguely anything like the same thing.
An Insurance Policy is to protect you, this proposition is to protect EVERYONE ELSE AS WELL.
rational anti-vaxxers
Assuming you don't mean people with autoimmune disorders or legitimate allergies, I'm really curious to know what exactly falls into this category.
Just to be clear, people in those groupings you mentioned aren't actually "anti-vaxers" they're just people who cannot take (some/all) vaccinations.
By this I mean they're not against the principle of vaccination, and they most likely DESPERATELY WISH THEY COULD.
No it's not. Apple does not support NVME so there are no NVME drives in any Apple products.
Yet....
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The purpose of a free press is to promote a knowledgeable society. If the agenda is to stomp out the stupidity of the masses and their dangerous influence over lawmakers then yes, I welcome these agenda-toting muckrakers of truth with open arms.
No, the purpose of The Press is to sow Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt amongst the general population and THEN (and ONLY then) to TELL PEOPLE HOW, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND WHY to think.
At least, that's (a) what the politicians believe (b) what the editors believe (c) what most of the people end up believing.
Turnabout is fair play - the App Store vendors should just reject the CurrentC app without explanation "we have the right to refuse service", and leave it at that.
Looking through CurrentC it does everything for Merchants, and nothing for customers.
- Requires to be tied to checking account or debit card - Customer assumes 100% of liability for fraud (?!) - Retailer can gather all purchase data on a customer - Requires multistep actions including scanning QR codes
What benefit is in there for the customer? You know people are going to freak out around the liability part. I know the retailers want to reduce their transaction fee, but unless they throw some level of enticement (such as a discount) you probably won't see adoption of this. Conversely a discount will just nullify the transaction fee. I'm of the belief CurrentC is DOA.
And the funny thing is that the consortium pushing CurrentC literally TELLS YOU that "CurrentC is ALL for the benefit of the customer".
Specifically: they're a pack of lying thugs, fuck'em all.
Pay them with single dollar bills whenever possible, ideally when they force you to use CurrentC tell them to go jump for being a bunch of lying thugs and mongrels, and then walk out and shop elsewhere.
Apparently they're even more randy than Bonobos!
So the conversation would be more
Watching the last few seconds of the video all I could think was:
Cover it in wool and you've built something an android might dream of....
I suggest that everyone who has to go through the scanner reach down into their pants and stick their finger into their butt hole just before they have to point their finger at the detector.
Why do it yourself, when it only takes a *little* encouragement before THE TSA offers to insert THEIR finger in your butthole?
Keeping in mind that THE TSA will not stop until their knuckles are knocking your uvula, or further press-the-digit-ation is blocked at their shoulder (whichever comes last).
Netflix happily provides servers to cache their content, for FREE. This solves the congestion issue which Comcast CLAIMS is the reason why Netflix had to cough up literally millions of dollars.
However Comcast REFUSED to deploy those FREE SERVERS.
Anyone who argues that is NOT extortion is an idiot.
Anyone who IGNORES the "refusal to deploy free servers" issue is an idiot.