Before the HBO serious came on I went back and re-read the books (well, the first three). Reading the first book again reminded me just how good it is. Great characters, quick paced action, sets up the politics quickly and interestingly.
Since you thought it was "Barely literate drivel." I'm wondering which books you were comparing it to. Since you slammed it pretty hard the least you could do is give some context, do you even read that genre? Give some examples of well written books that compare perhaps, that'd be helpful.
Now if you were going to slam the books four and five, be my guest.
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Games that autosave only on checkpoints is a hangover from old consoles that didn't have the memory to allows gamers to save when they wanted to. Why this horrible restriction continues to perpetuate to modern PC games is beyond me.
Probably because it'd be an excessive frame rate hit to serialize hundreds of megabytes of data structures in a game every 5 seconds. You'd have to make everything copy-on-write and essentially dedicate a core just to building and writing the save file.
Why would it need to serialize all that data every five seconds? I'm truly curious. I've stopped the game to save it, this brings up the 'save to' menu and you wait a couple seconds while it does the save (gather data, write to disk), then go back to the game. If it is a complicated game with lots and lots of information (e.g. Skyrim, how *do* they keep track of all those quest lines?) I can see a long save time, if it is a FPS I don't see why it would take so long. Even the PC standard F5 for 'quick save' can put up a 'Saving' message while it is going on so the frame rate doesn't matter, you aren't doing anything while it is saving.
I can see your point if the gamer expects the save to happen in the background, a la 'save point', while they continue to run around in game and do things. But I don't see why this should have an impact when I've decided to go to the save screen.
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If you want that kind of suspense, let the game auto save for you. Personally if supper is ready I don't want to have to tell my wife "Wait, I know there must be an auto save waypoint around here somewhere, hold on while I play for another 5 - 10 minutes looking for it!" I want to hit cntl-s, quit, and go have supper.
Or, you know, you could just hit Esc and pause it.
I have no interest in leaving my gaming rig running for an hour (or possibly more if conversation gets interesting) sucking back electricity, heating up my back room and possibly playing whatever hold music the game has. Allowing a save, I would think, is simple. Unless somebody with more knowledge explains why it is hard I'll just blame it on cheap console ports.
Speaking of which, I bought Dead Space on Steam when it came on sale but due to the horrible, horrible console port and controls I haven't been able to play them:(
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Games that autosave only on checkpoints is a hangover from old consoles that didn't have the memory to allows gamers to save when they wanted to. Why this horrible restriction continues to perpetuate to modern PC games is beyond me. It's a throwback and it's annoying.
I can hear some people saying "It forces suspense in the game! You don't know when the next safe place is!". If you want that kind of suspense, let the game auto save for you. Personally if supper is ready I don't want to have to tell my wife "Wait, I know there must be an auto save waypoint around here somewhere, hold on while I play for another 5 - 10 minutes looking for it!" I want to hit cntl-s, quit, and go have supper.
Is it so hard to put 'save when you want' in to a game?
Vastly fewer troops, though. We used to have a significant presence there after GW1. I'm not blaming Obama in that way yet - the goal was deterrence of the likes of Kim Jong Ill, not so much Putin.
Deterrence of North Korea? Like stopping them from their nuclear testing? Or perhaps stopping them from shelling South Korea? Didn't seem to work, unless you really believe North Korea *wants* to invade South Korea.
Also, the Smart "automatic" a)isn't really; it's an "automated manual" with a clutch, and b) is absolutely terrible compared to either a torque-converter automatic or a manually-operated clutch.
I think the OP meant 'automatic' as in the way most people think of automatics: there is no clutch pedal for you to work. I own a smart car and yes, there is some roughness from a dead stop. I avoid it by accelerating slowly, my wife avoids it by accelerating quickly. Still, no manual clutch = automatic. You can switch it over and force gear changes, but not much call for that while driving around town.
I was just looking at cars earlier today because there's a hopefully-very-small chance I'll need a new one like, now, and if all I did was drive around town to and from work and errands and stuff, I'd seriously consider getting one.
Do yourself a favor and buy a used Hyundai Accent instead. Trust me, it's a better car. (Even a 10-year-old Accent is a better car than a brand new Smart.) Or buy a Mazda, or a Ford, or, Hell, even a Scion. There is no small car worse than a Smart.
I think you are allowing an irrational hatred of the car mar your thought patterns, did somebody in a Smart car cut you off this morning?
Part of the reason I bought a Smart car was for the looks (I'm a sucker that way). It makes children smile and starts up conversations in parking lots, it doesn't look like anything else and I like that. Looks aside there are some very nice things in my Smart car that came standard (and I bought it over five years ago). Automatic lights? Yup. Automatic windshield wipers (front and rear)? Yup. Heated seats? Yup.
Stating that a 10 year old Hyundi Accent is a better option that an (implied) new Smart car shows you are veering in to hyperbole. Care to try the comparison again? There are better arguments for why a Smart car is not a good idea, you just didn't come up with many.
When I rolled my priest in WoW I spent 2 minutes thinking about what the worst name for a priest could be, so I name him "Leakage". Can't say I spent a lot of time on it and just created it to amuse myself. Of course that is PC gaming, I don't do console gaming so the idea of locking myself down to a single user name... I guess I'd put more thought in to it.
That video is good until the last 10% (starting at 9:20) when they lump "Too much government" to include welfare programs and "Soon a number of Romes producers could no longer make ends meet, and they went on the dole". Then it goes on to talk of wandering mobs demanding bread and circuses. So yeah... goes from being informative to preachy.
In the end of the video it states the U.S.A. can keep a Republic, or move to a tyranny of the elite (oligopoly) and states that Democracy is a stepping stone to Oligopoly. Republican rules can be subverted as well and lead to oligopoly, it doesn't warn about that.
Because we are still a barbaric world where basic human courtesy doesn't apply.
Such as turning off your phone when in a meeting, dinner date or at the movies, not trying to get one car ahead by jamming your vehicle into the six foot space, not walking across the middle of the street and expecting traffic to stop on a dime , not using a curse word every three seconds because you think it's cool or being edgy, answering a question with "Read the fucking manual!"
You lost me on the bold bit (emphasis mine). Having just come back from Vancouver Island I can assure you that cars stopping when you attempt to cross the street (no matter where) is very courteous and civilized.
I think the value in a helmet if more for the accidents that happen so quickly you don't have time to react. If you clip a car, sign, whatever, and have time to realize you are going down you drop the bike and roll. There is always the chance you won't see it coming: door prizes, ice on the street, pedestrians stepping out from between cars (of course then you make sure you land on them, nice and comfy), wet storm drain covers.
I was riding after it rained, turned a corner quickly and my front wheel hit a wet storm drain cover. Zip, no more traction and down I went. I felt my nose brush the tarmac then my helmet hit and bounced my face away from the street. No helmet would have meant me leaving my nose and face streaked across the tarmac. It's not like I had a modelling career, but holy f*ck am I happy I was wearing a helmet.
On a less serious note, you spend a lot of time as a bike courier rushing around madly and more than once I've rushed up to doors, pushed the bar and found them locked. I'd bounce my helmet off the door (not my head!), curse at whomever locked it, and move over to the other door.
Oh yeah, if you mountain bike, wear a helmet (assuming you are doing serious mountain biking, not just toodling down fire roads). I've messed up a descent and scraped my helmet across a rock face. No helmet would have been very, very ugly.
Of course, to each their own. I don't feel modern helmets are so restrictive that they aren't worth wearing.
Wow, that's a pretty misogynistic comment, and the fact that it somehow got ranked up at *all* is just sad.
You sure you don't want to follow this up with a comment about how male CEOs just buy stuff to prove how big their penises are? Balance is good, if you are going to roll out stereotypes, do it for both sides.
I can two types of people who would jump at the chance for early retirement:
1) People actually close to retirement
2) People who are not close to retirement, but know they have the skills to get another job
The person who is barely scraping by at their job? Not going to jump ship (unless they are planning on changing careers). I see this as a fine way to lose some of the best and brightest really quickly.
Hell, every time our management talks about reductions or outsourcing my hand goes up. A nice package for leaving so I can coast for a couple weeks then look for a new job? Sure, sign me up!
To view the Apple patent diagrams on the US patent site my browser informs me I need to run Apple Quicktime? Why isn't the patent office using PNG images?
C'mon, who could possibly say this isn't cool? As far as I can tell it is 100% useless (somebody please tell me how this will further science) but damn, given the opportunity, who wouldn't?
We were up on Clairemont Mesa so we could watch a bunch of the firework shows around the San Diego bay area. When the downtown one went off it was spectacular. The horizon lit up for 5 - 10 seconds and the sound was wonderful! Everybody immediately started to check twitter to see what had happened and we all talked about it for 1/2 hr while we waited for the other firework displays to go off.
We watched two more displays (yawn) and you know the only one anybody is talking about? Yup, the one that all went off at the same time. You know which ones I'll be telling as a great story for years to come? Yup, the one that screwed up. Do you think anybody cares what the Sea World fireworks looked like July 4 2012? No, no they don't. Hell, I forgot them 10 minutes after they were finished.
The screw up was fantastic to watch and I'll still tell people about it years later: "Ever wonder what it would look and sound like if they all went off at the same time? Been there, witnessed that."
So it sucks people paid to park and sat in the chilly evening, but c'mon, now you have a great story. Nobody would care to hear about the fireworks if they had worked!
You would think that from their response, but I like my friends and I don't deal well with idiots. They're all university educated and lawyers or IT workers, so I figured they'd be smart, critical thinkers. You would be surprised (obviously) about how people tend not to think critically about things when emotions / loyalty gets in the way.
It doesn't help that the government is feeding the fear all the time./sigh
I've been in the U.S.A. for seven years now and it seems to have gone more and more downhill.
- I was sitting in a room with a bunch of Americans during Thanksgiving and mentioned how much I disliked the TSA and the new scanners (back when they were new) and to a man they all said "We need the better security."
- I then tried to steer the conversation towards their rights to travel between states (in regards to if you refuse the pat down/scan they won't let you travel) and they said inter-state travel was a privilege. I was gobsmacked.
The socialist leaning, big government Canadian was more worried about his personal rights then the freedom loving Americans! Now if only the housing prices would recover....
Is that all it takes to propose a bill? There is so little content to that PDF! I was prepared for some weighty legalese but it boils down to:
- Unsubstantiated link of violent video games and aggressive behaviour
- Request to put warning on all video games (except those for 3yrs old and younger)
This has to be something they tasked an intern with.
I'm a Canadian who happens to be living the the U.S.A. and my American friends are generally shocked when I explain the hoops I had to jump through and the restrictions put on me and my wife to get a green card. The entire process was done by a law firm, thank goodness, but I still had the feeling that the U.S.A. really didn't want me here. Took around three 1/2 years to get it, pretty quick by some standards.
- My wife wasn't allowed to work at all for the first three years, spousal visa (she was aiming for one of those coveted coffee serving jobs).
- I missed my fathers wedding because "If you leave the country, you aren't serious about your green card, and you don't want anything to happen to the application do you?"
- We had to cancel a vacation because the government *might* start processing our green card application and if we aren't in the country when they start, they'll throw the application away. Not that they need to contact us you understand, it just showed we weren't serious if we went on vacation outside the country.
- A co-worker is from Lebanon, he has to tell immigration why he is leaving the country *before* he leaves or they will not let him back in (even with his valid H1B visa).
So yeah, it wasn't exactly welcoming. Just in case people are wondering:
- The position was open for eight months for an American to take it, they couldn't find anybody with the skills
- Why don't I move back to Canada? I like Americans, they are generally nice people. The immigration process isn't nice.
Ah, that helps. I'm still using 3.6.22 and wondered "How the hell did I miss four major revisions of FF?". Guess I didn't.
The reason I use FF is due to the add-ons, the minute they started breaking those I stopped thinking "New version? Yes please!". I'll just stick with what works until there is a damn good reason to change./grumble
The TSA has been working for the last six months on developing a system that could differentiate passengers by security risk to cut down on needless checks, Pistole said.
"One size does not fit all," Pistole said.
They are finally thinking of using profiling rather than treating every person (old ladies in wheelchairs and babies included!) as a potential terrorist? That isn't the 'future', they could do that now... of course this would require them to hire better than bottom-of-the-barrel employees. I'd rather they pay the employees more and give them training than spend loads of cash on unproven and invasive technology.
According to the submitted letter in article (and I haven't got a Verizon phone, so I cannot check) they say they have location services turned off *by default* on all their phones. Also according to the submitted letter if you turn on location services (all three types) you get warnings regarding "the application will know where you are and share with, etc.".
So you have:
1) Sticker on the front saying what location services does.
2) Location services turned off by default.
3) Warning when you turn location services on.
After all that people complain about "Verizon isn't taking my privacy seriously!"? I don't know about the rest of the services, but come on, that's a lot of warnings a user needs to go through. I'd say they've done their due diligence.
Note I'm just talking about location services here, if Verizon is ignoring your privacy elsewhere, that is another thread.
I didn't realize you could point multiple Kindles at the same account. Thanks for the information.. she *has* been pushing for a new Kindle. Guess I may be looking at the hand-me-down.
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Before the HBO serious came on I went back and re-read the books (well, the first three). Reading the first book again reminded me just how good it is. Great characters, quick paced action, sets up the politics quickly and interestingly.
Since you thought it was "Barely literate drivel." I'm wondering which books you were comparing it to. Since you slammed it pretty hard the least you could do is give some context, do you even read that genre? Give some examples of well written books that compare perhaps, that'd be helpful.
Now if you were going to slam the books four and five, be my guest.
Games that autosave only on checkpoints is a hangover from old consoles that didn't have the memory to allows gamers to save when they wanted to. Why this horrible restriction continues to perpetuate to modern PC games is beyond me.
Probably because it'd be an excessive frame rate hit to serialize hundreds of megabytes of data structures in a game every 5 seconds. You'd have to make everything copy-on-write and essentially dedicate a core just to building and writing the save file.
Why would it need to serialize all that data every five seconds? I'm truly curious. I've stopped the game to save it, this brings up the 'save to' menu and you wait a couple seconds while it does the save (gather data, write to disk), then go back to the game. If it is a complicated game with lots and lots of information (e.g. Skyrim, how *do* they keep track of all those quest lines?) I can see a long save time, if it is a FPS I don't see why it would take so long. Even the PC standard F5 for 'quick save' can put up a 'Saving' message while it is going on so the frame rate doesn't matter, you aren't doing anything while it is saving.
I can see your point if the gamer expects the save to happen in the background, a la 'save point', while they continue to run around in game and do things. But I don't see why this should have an impact when I've decided to go to the save screen.
If you want that kind of suspense, let the game auto save for you. Personally if supper is ready I don't want to have to tell my wife "Wait, I know there must be an auto save waypoint around here somewhere, hold on while I play for another 5 - 10 minutes looking for it!" I want to hit cntl-s, quit, and go have supper.
Or, you know, you could just hit Esc and pause it.
I have no interest in leaving my gaming rig running for an hour (or possibly more if conversation gets interesting) sucking back electricity, heating up my back room and possibly playing whatever hold music the game has. Allowing a save, I would think, is simple. Unless somebody with more knowledge explains why it is hard I'll just blame it on cheap console ports.
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Speaking of which, I bought Dead Space on Steam when it came on sale but due to the horrible, horrible console port and controls I haven't been able to play them
Games that autosave only on checkpoints is a hangover from old consoles that didn't have the memory to allows gamers to save when they wanted to. Why this horrible restriction continues to perpetuate to modern PC games is beyond me. It's a throwback and it's annoying.
I can hear some people saying "It forces suspense in the game! You don't know when the next safe place is!". If you want that kind of suspense, let the game auto save for you. Personally if supper is ready I don't want to have to tell my wife "Wait, I know there must be an auto save waypoint around here somewhere, hold on while I play for another 5 - 10 minutes looking for it!" I want to hit cntl-s, quit, and go have supper.
Is it so hard to put 'save when you want' in to a game?
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Vastly fewer troops, though. We used to have a significant presence there after GW1. I'm not blaming Obama in that way yet - the goal was deterrence of the likes of Kim Jong Ill, not so much Putin.
Deterrence of North Korea? Like stopping them from their nuclear testing? Or perhaps stopping them from shelling South Korea? Didn't seem to work, unless you really believe North Korea *wants* to invade South Korea.
Also, the Smart "automatic" a)isn't really; it's an "automated manual" with a clutch, and b) is absolutely terrible compared to either a torque-converter automatic or a manually-operated clutch.
I think the OP meant 'automatic' as in the way most people think of automatics: there is no clutch pedal for you to work. I own a smart car and yes, there is some roughness from a dead stop. I avoid it by accelerating slowly, my wife avoids it by accelerating quickly. Still, no manual clutch = automatic. You can switch it over and force gear changes, but not much call for that while driving around town.
Do yourself a favor and buy a used Hyundai Accent instead. Trust me, it's a better car. (Even a 10-year-old Accent is a better car than a brand new Smart.) Or buy a Mazda, or a Ford, or, Hell, even a Scion. There is no small car worse than a Smart.
I think you are allowing an irrational hatred of the car mar your thought patterns, did somebody in a Smart car cut you off this morning?
Part of the reason I bought a Smart car was for the looks (I'm a sucker that way). It makes children smile and starts up conversations in parking lots, it doesn't look like anything else and I like that. Looks aside there are some very nice things in my Smart car that came standard (and I bought it over five years ago). Automatic lights? Yup. Automatic windshield wipers (front and rear)? Yup. Heated seats? Yup.
Stating that a 10 year old Hyundi Accent is a better option that an (implied) new Smart car shows you are veering in to hyperbole. Care to try the comparison again? There are better arguments for why a Smart car is not a good idea, you just didn't come up with many.
When I rolled my priest in WoW I spent 2 minutes thinking about what the worst name for a priest could be, so I name him "Leakage". Can't say I spent a lot of time on it and just created it to amuse myself. Of course that is PC gaming, I don't do console gaming so the idea of locking myself down to a single user name ... I guess I'd put more thought in to it.
... were against democracy.... that is why they established a Republic.
For a better understanding of different government systems - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFXuGIpsdE0
That video is good until the last 10% (starting at 9:20) when they lump "Too much government" to include welfare programs and "Soon a number of Romes producers could no longer make ends meet, and they went on the dole". Then it goes on to talk of wandering mobs demanding bread and circuses. So yeah ... goes from being informative to preachy.
In the end of the video it states the U.S.A. can keep a Republic, or move to a tyranny of the elite (oligopoly) and states that Democracy is a stepping stone to Oligopoly. Republican rules can be subverted as well and lead to oligopoly, it doesn't warn about that.
Because we are still a barbaric world where basic human courtesy doesn't apply.
Such as turning off your phone when in a meeting, dinner date or at the movies, not trying to get one car ahead by jamming your vehicle into the six foot space, not walking across the middle of the street and expecting traffic to stop on a dime , not using a curse word every three seconds because you think it's cool or being edgy, answering a question with "Read the fucking manual!"
You lost me on the bold bit (emphasis mine). Having just come back from Vancouver Island I can assure you that cars stopping when you attempt to cross the street (no matter where) is very courteous and civilized.
I think the value in a helmet if more for the accidents that happen so quickly you don't have time to react. If you clip a car, sign, whatever, and have time to realize you are going down you drop the bike and roll. There is always the chance you won't see it coming: door prizes, ice on the street, pedestrians stepping out from between cars (of course then you make sure you land on them, nice and comfy), wet storm drain covers.
I was riding after it rained, turned a corner quickly and my front wheel hit a wet storm drain cover. Zip, no more traction and down I went. I felt my nose brush the tarmac then my helmet hit and bounced my face away from the street. No helmet would have meant me leaving my nose and face streaked across the tarmac. It's not like I had a modelling career, but holy f*ck am I happy I was wearing a helmet.
On a less serious note, you spend a lot of time as a bike courier rushing around madly and more than once I've rushed up to doors, pushed the bar and found them locked. I'd bounce my helmet off the door (not my head!), curse at whomever locked it, and move over to the other door.
Oh yeah, if you mountain bike, wear a helmet (assuming you are doing serious mountain biking, not just toodling down fire roads). I've messed up a descent and scraped my helmet across a rock face. No helmet would have been very, very ugly.
Of course, to each their own. I don't feel modern helmets are so restrictive that they aren't worth wearing.
I love the way the summary talks about the diseases this could help fix.
You know what the Scripps Ranch business types are really thinking: "OMG, we are going to *own* the diet industry!" cha-ching!
Just install a 10 years old OS and games. You'll be blown away by the performance :P
You'd think so, but I bought the original Fallout from GOG and was surprised by how slow it was. Anybody have any insight to that?
Wow, that's a pretty misogynistic comment, and the fact that it somehow got ranked up at *all* is just sad.
You sure you don't want to follow this up with a comment about how male CEOs just buy stuff to prove how big their penises are? Balance is good, if you are going to roll out stereotypes, do it for both sides.
I can two types of people who would jump at the chance for early retirement:
1) People actually close to retirement
2) People who are not close to retirement, but know they have the skills to get another job
The person who is barely scraping by at their job? Not going to jump ship (unless they are planning on changing careers). I see this as a fine way to lose some of the best and brightest really quickly.
Hell, every time our management talks about reductions or outsourcing my hand goes up. A nice package for leaving so I can coast for a couple weeks then look for a new job? Sure, sign me up!
To view the Apple patent diagrams on the US patent site my browser informs me I need to run Apple Quicktime? Why isn't the patent office using PNG images?
C'mon, who could possibly say this isn't cool? As far as I can tell it is 100% useless (somebody please tell me how this will further science) but damn, given the opportunity, who wouldn't?
We watched two more displays (yawn) and you know the only one anybody is talking about? Yup, the one that all went off at the same time. You know which ones I'll be telling as a great story for years to come? Yup, the one that screwed up. Do you think anybody cares what the Sea World fireworks looked like July 4 2012? No, no they don't. Hell, I forgot them 10 minutes after they were finished.
The screw up was fantastic to watch and I'll still tell people about it years later: "Ever wonder what it would look and sound like if they all went off at the same time? Been there, witnessed that."
So it sucks people paid to park and sat in the chilly evening, but c'mon, now you have a great story. Nobody would care to hear about the fireworks if they had worked!
You would think that from their response, but I like my friends and I don't deal well with idiots. They're all university educated and lawyers or IT workers, so I figured they'd be smart, critical thinkers. You would be surprised (obviously) about how people tend not to think critically about things when emotions / loyalty gets in the way. /sigh
It doesn't help that the government is feeding the fear all the time.
I've been in the U.S.A. for seven years now and it seems to have gone more and more downhill.
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- I was sitting in a room with a bunch of Americans during Thanksgiving and mentioned how much I disliked the TSA and the new scanners (back when they were new) and to a man they all said "We need the better security."
- I then tried to steer the conversation towards their rights to travel between states (in regards to if you refuse the pat down/scan they won't let you travel) and they said inter-state travel was a privilege. I was gobsmacked.
The socialist leaning, big government Canadian was more worried about his personal rights then the freedom loving Americans! Now if only the housing prices would recover
- Unsubstantiated link of violent video games and aggressive behaviour
- Request to put warning on all video games (except those for 3yrs old and younger)
This has to be something they tasked an intern with.
I'm a Canadian who happens to be living the the U.S.A. and my American friends are generally shocked when I explain the hoops I had to jump through and the restrictions put on me and my wife to get a green card. The entire process was done by a law firm, thank goodness, but I still had the feeling that the U.S.A. really didn't want me here. Took around three 1/2 years to get it, pretty quick by some standards.
- My wife wasn't allowed to work at all for the first three years, spousal visa (she was aiming for one of those coveted coffee serving jobs).
- I missed my fathers wedding because "If you leave the country, you aren't serious about your green card, and you don't want anything to happen to the application do you?"
- We had to cancel a vacation because the government *might* start processing our green card application and if we aren't in the country when they start, they'll throw the application away. Not that they need to contact us you understand, it just showed we weren't serious if we went on vacation outside the country.
- A co-worker is from Lebanon, he has to tell immigration why he is leaving the country *before* he leaves or they will not let him back in (even with his valid H1B visa).
So yeah, it wasn't exactly welcoming.
Just in case people are wondering:
- The position was open for eight months for an American to take it, they couldn't find anybody with the skills
- Why don't I move back to Canada? I like Americans, they are generally nice people. The immigration process isn't nice.
Ah, that helps. I'm still using 3.6.22 and wondered "How the hell did I miss four major revisions of FF?". Guess I didn't. The reason I use FF is due to the add-ons, the minute they started breaking those I stopped thinking "New version? Yes please!". I'll just stick with what works until there is a damn good reason to change. /grumble
The TSA has been working for the last six months on developing a system that could differentiate passengers by security risk to cut down on needless checks, Pistole said. "One size does not fit all," Pistole said.
They are finally thinking of using profiling rather than treating every person (old ladies in wheelchairs and babies included!) as a potential terrorist? That isn't the 'future', they could do that now ... of course this would require them to hire better than bottom-of-the-barrel employees. I'd rather they pay the employees more and give them training than spend loads of cash on unproven and invasive technology.
According to the submitted letter in article (and I haven't got a Verizon phone, so I cannot check) they say they have location services turned off *by default* on all their phones. Also according to the submitted letter if you turn on location services (all three types) you get warnings regarding "the application will know where you are and share with, etc.".
So you have:
1) Sticker on the front saying what location services does.
2) Location services turned off by default.
3) Warning when you turn location services on.
After all that people complain about "Verizon isn't taking my privacy seriously!"? I don't know about the rest of the services, but come on, that's a lot of warnings a user needs to go through. I'd say they've done their due diligence.
Note I'm just talking about location services here, if Verizon is ignoring your privacy elsewhere, that is another thread.
I didn't realize you could point multiple Kindles at the same account. Thanks for the information .. she *has* been pushing for a new Kindle. Guess I may be looking at the hand-me-down.