Supporting SONY is a case of "no sympathy" because of their stance on DRM, locking their hardware down even after you've bought it off them, and the other million reasons this company should FOAD.
There are very few companies to buy from in good conscience, in fairness to your purchasing decisions.
Over here in little old Blighty we have a scourge on our streets called "UBER".
They take a guy who sits in an office all day and incentivise him to go to a city he's never even visited before and move people, and their children around on unfamiliar streets, whilst watching a SatNav, for money. They give him 75% of the money he charges, but they make up for it by charging 400-700% of what a proper cab would charge.
These guys drive up one-way streets the wrong way, then claim racial harrassment when you tell them, politely or otherwise, that they're going the wrong way, they sit on ranks made for black cabs which if they were proper drivers, they would know the law of the land forbids them from even stopping on, they go the LONG way round because they haven't got a clue other than GOOG maps and THAT takes you round the houses in clear contravention of the cab law in the UK...
Sending in videos of these guys being idiots shows them we won't sit back and take their dangerous stupidity lying down.
They will be punished for their ignorance.
If these presumably lovely guys (and gals) knew the area, the roads, the shortest routes, and stuck to the law, they wouldn't be getting fines.
So yes, this is a great way to improve the safety of our roads. I'm all for that, as you can imagine.
As a professional driver (at night!) I would really like there to be a night mode at the touch of a button, rather than just when it's deemed by GOOG to be permissible to have the map dark and navigation is actively turned on.
Honestly, it's not like grey pixels cost more than white ones!
Anything you post on the Internets is available to the whole world.
Your government, their enemies, your ex, their PI, your friends, your children, you mother, your future self... Once you type or photograph it with a live Interwebs connection; it's public forever.
Anyone who doesn't understand this is in need of a serious lesson in how the world works.
Over here in the UK we have gangs of UBER drivers sitting around waiting for the surge to kick in.
Then they go on the app and do some work.
We even have a name for it: "Riding the surge" because it happens all over the country.
When they're cheap, it's Predatory Pricing, when they're surging it's a rip off.
Better to just call a proper cab and get a fixed rate every time. They all have apps now and take card payments.
UBER offer nothing new or innovative. They're just ripping drivers, passengers, and VC's off at every given turn.
Voluntarily giving Amazon access to more data to store on the sounds in your room.
How long before the brand new, latest thing, how shiny and nice is this, ALWAYS LISTENING mode comes out?
I hope that every second of audio goes through the NSA too. It wouldn't do for Amazon to be the only ones who heard terrorist plots being planned or kiddie abusers.
The time they're calculating doesn't include sat around waiting for a job, and that is the way their drivers spend a lot of their time.
There's a reason they can get you a cab in less time than a proper taxi, and that is it. They are sitting around empty, being tempted to pick up illegally to get work.
Unfortunately for the customers and other road users, if they run into someone or something whilst going along a one way street the wrong way (they're famous for it over here) and they have picked up a passenger without a booking through the phone program, they're not insured!
Customers need to learn and understand all the crazy things about this toxic company and their predatory pricing, oversupply, complete disregard for road safety and the disdain for properly regulated authorities investigating their illegal business.
Why not make a service that passes app based jobs to the local cab companies?
Multinational tax dodging venture companies are ten a penny, no matter how catchy their names.
Local companies all have CC processing, GPS location of cars, ordering on the app and all that novelty stuff that keeps the kids using Oobah.
Plus, local companies didn't keep a hack of 57,000,000 people's accounts quiet for over a year by paying a silly sum of $100,000 and an NDA for the pleasure of false security LOLOLOLOL
Jus' sayin'
I doubt the feature will go away as long as NFC is present on phones unrestricted.
The Jakcom program has an unlock function; there are many similar on the GPlay shop.
I imagine it will though.
Democracy is the two wolves dressed up in wool, discussing calmly with the well-armed sheep which restaurant they should eat in, while demonstrating that vegetarianism is in nobody's best interests as farming sheep is very bad for the planet.
Just for my own protection, I'm going to make it public that I got a copy on 5.25" floppy in the 90's.
It was called the Jolly Rodger's Cookbook when I got it.
I tried making thermite by filing down soda cans and boiling iron nails in a pan.
Didn't work.
I also have plans for making nuclear/dirty weapons... I don't intend to try anything from those. Even if I had the gear, there are some things that are just information to think about rather than useful tools to point at an enemy.
Information has always wanted to be free. Nobody should use information like this.
Why do we live in a society that makes people want to use this information?
The kind of countries that "elect" strategically shaven monkeys with a penchant for war, cling to archaic population control methods run by tax avoiding pedophiles, and which refuse to join the 19th centuary by not teaching their young the almost universally adopted standard for measurement?
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Supporting SONY is a case of "no sympathy" because of their stance on DRM, locking their hardware down even after you've bought it off them, and the other million reasons this company should FOAD.
There are very few companies to buy from in good conscience, in fairness to your purchasing decisions.
extremely amusing
My thesaurus says the word you're looking for is "ironic".
Why not just reverse the polarity of the wires going to the wind turbines?
Same thing everywhere.
People are too dishonest to share fairly.
It's always going to be the case, as it's human nature.
Look at the 1% of the world who own 99% of the wealth.
Until we can do something about that, nothing in life will ever be fair.
Accepting that is the road to happiness, and you have to walk it, not borrow someone else's bike.
I do.
...
Over here in little old Blighty we have a scourge on our streets called "UBER".
They take a guy who sits in an office all day and incentivise him to go to a city he's never even visited before and move people, and their children around on unfamiliar streets, whilst watching a SatNav, for money. They give him 75% of the money he charges, but they make up for it by charging 400-700% of what a proper cab would charge.
These guys drive up one-way streets the wrong way, then claim racial harrassment when you tell them, politely or otherwise, that they're going the wrong way, they sit on ranks made for black cabs which if they were proper drivers, they would know the law of the land forbids them from even stopping on, they go the LONG way round because they haven't got a clue other than GOOG maps and THAT takes you round the houses in clear contravention of the cab law in the UK
Sending in videos of these guys being idiots shows them we won't sit back and take their dangerous stupidity lying down.
They will be punished for their ignorance.
If these presumably lovely guys (and gals) knew the area, the roads, the shortest routes, and stuck to the law, they wouldn't be getting fines.
So yes, this is a great way to improve the safety of our roads. I'm all for that, as you can imagine.
Can we have this for GOOG's map stuff?
As a professional driver (at night!) I would really like there to be a night mode at the touch of a button, rather than just when it's deemed by GOOG to be permissible to have the map dark and navigation is actively turned on.
Honestly, it's not like grey pixels cost more than white ones!
Don't you get it yet?
... Once you type or photograph it with a live Interwebs connection; it's public forever.
Anything you post on the Internets is available to the whole world.
Your government, their enemies, your ex, their PI, your friends, your children, you mother, your future self
Anyone who doesn't understand this is in need of a serious lesson in how the world works.
Over here in the UK we have gangs of UBER drivers sitting around waiting for the surge to kick in.
Then they go on the app and do some work.
We even have a name for it: "Riding the surge" because it happens all over the country.
When they're cheap, it's Predatory Pricing, when they're surging it's a rip off.
Better to just call a proper cab and get a fixed rate every time. They all have apps now and take card payments.
UBER offer nothing new or innovative. They're just ripping drivers, passengers, and VC's off at every given turn.
There's no such thing as a flight for 50p!
Voluntarily giving Amazon access to more data to store on the sounds in your room.
How long before the brand new, latest thing, how shiny and nice is this, ALWAYS LISTENING mode comes out?
I hope that every second of audio goes through the NSA too. It wouldn't do for Amazon to be the only ones who heard terrorist plots being planned or kiddie abusers.
So how's their business model going to change to screw up the service with a profit ethos going on?
I've not found that to be the case.
After changing the sources I run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade to update to the new version.
Admittedly I do keep a bootable USB key to hand for the times this causes GRUB to eat itself.
I've had very little in the way of reinstalls since I started using Mint, but I still prefer Arch.
What's going to fill your time when all those delivery drivers and cab drivers have competed successfully for your job?
Sooner or later as a civilisation we're going to come to the conclusion that people need jobs to work in and there are already enough coffee shops.
Giving us all $50,000 a year to live on for doing nothing will lead to boredom, and bored people create havoc.
Never mind, nobody will believe this.
First they came for the delivery drivers but I didn't stand up because I'm not a UPS guy.
You know the one.
The time they're calculating doesn't include sat around waiting for a job, and that is the way their drivers spend a lot of their time.
There's a reason they can get you a cab in less time than a proper taxi, and that is it. They are sitting around empty, being tempted to pick up illegally to get work.
Unfortunately for the customers and other road users, if they run into someone or something whilst going along a one way street the wrong way (they're famous for it over here) and they have picked up a passenger without a booking through the phone program, they're not insured!
Customers need to learn and understand all the crazy things about this toxic company and their predatory pricing, oversupply, complete disregard for road safety and the disdain for properly regulated authorities investigating their illegal business.
Can't wait to see the back of them in the UK.
Dunno.
DDG might know?
Why not make a service that passes app based jobs to the local cab companies?
Multinational tax dodging venture companies are ten a penny, no matter how catchy their names.
Local companies all have CC processing, GPS location of cars, ordering on the app and all that novelty stuff that keeps the kids using Oobah.
Plus, local companies didn't keep a hack of 57,000,000 people's accounts quiet for over a year by paying a silly sum of $100,000 and an NDA for the pleasure of false security LOLOLOLOL
Jus' sayin'
Wi-Fi Privacy Police.
Take a look, I'm not connected with the project.
Have you any thoughts on Sandboxie?
I doubt the feature will go away as long as NFC is present on phones unrestricted.
The Jakcom program has an unlock function; there are many similar on the GPlay shop.
I imagine it will though.
OMG PONIES!!!
Ugh. Nasty as!
I have the soothing green light t-shirt.
I love your .SIG.
Democracy is the two wolves dressed up in wool, discussing calmly with the well-armed sheep which restaurant they should eat in, while demonstrating that vegetarianism is in nobody's best interests as farming sheep is very bad for the planet.
Just for my own protection, I'm going to make it public that I got a copy on 5.25" floppy in the 90's.
... I don't intend to try anything from those. Even if I had the gear, there are some things that are just information to think about rather than useful tools to point at an enemy.
It was called the Jolly Rodger's Cookbook when I got it.
I tried making thermite by filing down soda cans and boiling iron nails in a pan.
Didn't work.
I also have plans for making nuclear/dirty weapons
Information has always wanted to be free. Nobody should use information like this.
Why do we live in a society that makes people want to use this information?
The kind of countries that "elect" strategically shaven monkeys with a penchant for war, cling to archaic population control methods run by tax avoiding pedophiles, and which refuse to join the 19th centuary by not teaching their young the almost universally adopted standard for measurement?
I have a Jakcom smart ring that cost less than a tenner. I have the older version because it has a jewel to show which way up it is.
On one side I have my vCard, on the other my emergency info, including blood group and donor status.
I use TapUnlock from the FDroid repos to unlock my phone.
Don't do it, you might be able to sue them for the price of a house if their lack of care costs you your mortgage payments.