Actually, Starbucks provides a service as all food service businesses do. Back in school a teacher in an economics class brought up a case where a man sued a restaurant that refused to provide him with any containers to take his leftovers home. The court ruled that restaurants provide a service, not a good, and that there was no requirement for them to provide him with any means by which to take unconsumed food home.
Assuming that precedent actually exists, you're paying for the service provided to you by Starbucks. Mind you, they intentionally provide the means by which to take the fruits of their service out of the facility as it makes a lot more sense business-wise, but you're buying being-served-coffee moreso than you're buying coffee.
Heh. I like my toilets more complicated than a short, narrow trough in the ground, but a large portion of those that even have flush toilets have just that...
The only existing fancy technology from a use-perspective that makes sense is the integrated bidet. The new types of technology that can make the toilet experience better have only to do with form factor. Changing the shape of the seat and the size of the opening, and changing the height of the bowl. In short, these changes would make the toilet less uncomfortable to sit on, and will allow one to get off of the toilet if one is infirm.
I don't see how using the toilet is improved by being a multimedia experience, though I suppose it would be funny if every time a solid dropped in, the toilet played the Mario Brothers' coin-collect sound...
Why would the language of choice matter terribly much if the programmer has skills with the language?
Wouldn't a C++ programmer generate an applicable program effectively as quickly as a Java programmer? It's not like compiling is the time-consuming part anymore...
What it comes down to is where the platform ends and the applications begin, and I don't think that Stallman or any other even-remotely-credible free software advocate would deny that there is a value in commercial applications, so long as they reduce vendor lock in.
A good analogy would be that the platform is the road, and the applications are the vehicles that can drive on it. The intent being to avoid toll roads or roads that exclude vehicles because of their brands or manufacturers.
I don't know the man though, and I admit that I well could be incorrect.
Linux the kernel is the core of both Android the operating system and GNU/Linux the operating system. If one gets pedantic, then technically Microsoft Office for Android satisfies the argument that it's supported on an OS running Linux the kernel, but when most people use "Linux", they're not referring to the kernel, but the operating system with all of its GNU and POSIX stuff.
So, this is a win in the same sense that the Spruce Goose flew.
Like bank transfers and just about all financial-services communications?
There are so many people that move around in this world that I expect good old-fashioned sneakernet with one-time pads will just become the norm, especially when time is not necessarily of the essence. When more data is needed then micro-SD will be employed, and encrypted connections will be left for when absolutely necessary.
When I was a kid, if my friends and I wanted to meet up, we had to generally all agree where we were going to meet in-advance, generally at school or when we were previously together, or a few of us had to decide and then had to manually pass the word on to others, who in-turn passed the word on to others until everyone was notified. We could coordinate and plan without "the authorities" in the form of our parents really knowing what was going on if we chose to keep them uninformed.
If the evil "they" still want to do us harm they can do it entirely offline. They proved that with how long it took to identify Osama Bin Laden's location, he avoided all outgoing traffic other than couriers and it took years to find him.
The brothers that bombed the Boston Marathon managed to avoid being caught in advance due to a typographical error. A Buttle/Tuttle type of snafu literally lead to the older brother's slipping through the cracks. Even after all of everything that happened, the younger brother was caught because a homeowner noticed some blood on his boat. Helicopters, infrared, and door-to-door searches failed to find him.
It hasn't been demonstrated satisfactorily to me that heavy encryption means that there's anything relevant to the authorities being transmitted therein.
That's what I'm wondering, given that's the whole point in using that method to store credentials in the first place...
I also have to question the practicality of having different passwords for all one's accounts, especially on things as nonessential as forums. Between work and things that matter I already have to remember too many passwords.
Yeah... Perhaps a congresscritter should ask during a joint committee meeting, and if this answer is provided, the individual should be held for being In Contempt of Congress...
You'll note that the vast majority of human subjects in paintings that weren't commissioned by a family member of the subject are of attractive nubile women, frequently in a state of undress. That's not an accident.
There had been a bug in Google that essentially was smutsearch. Basically some kind of irrational math bug that would bring up only porn. They seem to have fixed it though.
Personally, I'm trying to reduce the number of machines running at home, to the point that I'm looking at multi-head setups. I don't need six computers for two people when they're idle 90% of the time...
You're confusing the game "telephone" where each link in the chain has the burden to bear part of the message, with an outside viewer observing connections that link chains together without the participants even knowing they're linked. This isn't about messengers repeating what they've heard, it's about acquaintances.
Using Kevin Bacon as the example again, Keanu Reeves has never worked with Kevin Bacon, but because both have worked with Beau Starr, we need to investigate Alex Winter...
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Justice is...
...a pirate!
This form of dissent is unpatriotic, Citizen. Report to the nearest NSA facility for rehabilitation.
What's a HAARP apparatus? That something that fires horrible retired people as rounds?
No I'm not! I already said, I have a collection, including many of Chris Carter's TV shows!
Actually, Starbucks provides a service as all food service businesses do. Back in school a teacher in an economics class brought up a case where a man sued a restaurant that refused to provide him with any containers to take his leftovers home. The court ruled that restaurants provide a service, not a good, and that there was no requirement for them to provide him with any means by which to take unconsumed food home.
Assuming that precedent actually exists, you're paying for the service provided to you by Starbucks. Mind you, they intentionally provide the means by which to take the fruits of their service out of the facility as it makes a lot more sense business-wise, but you're buying being-served-coffee moreso than you're buying coffee.
And people wonder why I don't get rid of my movie collection in favor of netflix or some other streaming service...
This isn't about being white or race in general, it's about domestic labor versus imported labor.
They could have hired British H1B workers and it would be just as illegal.
The H1B wars... begun they have...
Heh. I like my toilets more complicated than a short, narrow trough in the ground, but a large portion of those that even have flush toilets have just that...
The only existing fancy technology from a use-perspective that makes sense is the integrated bidet. The new types of technology that can make the toilet experience better have only to do with form factor. Changing the shape of the seat and the size of the opening, and changing the height of the bowl. In short, these changes would make the toilet less uncomfortable to sit on, and will allow one to get off of the toilet if one is infirm.
I don't see how using the toilet is improved by being a multimedia experience, though I suppose it would be funny if every time a solid dropped in, the toilet played the Mario Brothers' coin-collect sound...
Why would the language of choice matter terribly much if the programmer has skills with the language?
Wouldn't a C++ programmer generate an applicable program effectively as quickly as a Java programmer? It's not like compiling is the time-consuming part anymore...
I have to wonder how accurate that really is.
What it comes down to is where the platform ends and the applications begin, and I don't think that Stallman or any other even-remotely-credible free software advocate would deny that there is a value in commercial applications, so long as they reduce vendor lock in.
A good analogy would be that the platform is the road, and the applications are the vehicles that can drive on it. The intent being to avoid toll roads or roads that exclude vehicles because of their brands or manufacturers.
I don't know the man though, and I admit that I well could be incorrect.
Linux the kernel is the core of both Android the operating system and GNU/Linux the operating system. If one gets pedantic, then technically Microsoft Office for Android satisfies the argument that it's supported on an OS running Linux the kernel, but when most people use "Linux", they're not referring to the kernel, but the operating system with all of its GNU and POSIX stuff.
So, this is a win in the same sense that the Spruce Goose flew.
Like bank transfers and just about all financial-services communications?
There are so many people that move around in this world that I expect good old-fashioned sneakernet with one-time pads will just become the norm, especially when time is not necessarily of the essence. When more data is needed then micro-SD will be employed, and encrypted connections will be left for when absolutely necessary.
When I was a kid, if my friends and I wanted to meet up, we had to generally all agree where we were going to meet in-advance, generally at school or when we were previously together, or a few of us had to decide and then had to manually pass the word on to others, who in-turn passed the word on to others until everyone was notified. We could coordinate and plan without "the authorities" in the form of our parents really knowing what was going on if we chose to keep them uninformed.
If the evil "they" still want to do us harm they can do it entirely offline. They proved that with how long it took to identify Osama Bin Laden's location, he avoided all outgoing traffic other than couriers and it took years to find him.
The brothers that bombed the Boston Marathon managed to avoid being caught in advance due to a typographical error. A Buttle/Tuttle type of snafu literally lead to the older brother's slipping through the cracks. Even after all of everything that happened, the younger brother was caught because a homeowner noticed some blood on his boat. Helicopters, infrared, and door-to-door searches failed to find him.
It hasn't been demonstrated satisfactorily to me that heavy encryption means that there's anything relevant to the authorities being transmitted therein.
...I mean, Avenue Q already told us what the Internet is for...
And how does that work across multiple different and different kinds of devices exactly?
That's what I'm wondering, given that's the whole point in using that method to store credentials in the first place...
I also have to question the practicality of having different passwords for all one's accounts, especially on things as nonessential as forums. Between work and things that matter I already have to remember too many passwords.
Yeah... Perhaps a congresscritter should ask during a joint committee meeting, and if this answer is provided, the individual should be held for being In Contempt of Congress...
You'll note that the vast majority of human subjects in paintings that weren't commissioned by a family member of the subject are of attractive nubile women, frequently in a state of undress. That's not an accident.
Must be some pretty cheap steel, not even good enough to be a faraday cage...
There had been a bug in Google that essentially was smutsearch. Basically some kind of irrational math bug that would bring up only porn. They seem to have fixed it though.
I'm a little surprised that it's only 10% that are blocked. I figured it'd be only 10% that weren't blocked...
Especially now that Google has removed that math-undefined bug that basically acted as the opposite of safesearch, instead returning all porn...
Who's Mr. Linux?
Personally, I'm trying to reduce the number of machines running at home, to the point that I'm looking at multi-head setups. I don't need six computers for two people when they're idle 90% of the time...
*pinkie up against corner of mouth* "One MEEELLLEYION Servers!"
Ballmer kind of does look and act like a super-villain, doesn't he?
You're confusing the game "telephone" where each link in the chain has the burden to bear part of the message, with an outside viewer observing connections that link chains together without the participants even knowing they're linked. This isn't about messengers repeating what they've heard, it's about acquaintances.
Using Kevin Bacon as the example again, Keanu Reeves has never worked with Kevin Bacon, but because both have worked with Beau Starr, we need to investigate Alex Winter...