Most of the plugins don't interact with the content. There's no reason my browser should announce that I have a VoIP client installed that will allow me to place calls from web sites, where the browser (via plug-in) detects a valid phone number. There are others that are similarly obscure or single-use that make it so that you are unique. More interesting to me was that I installed over half the list, but never allowed or setup browser plugins.
The cars are in good shape in Singapore. Hailing them is easy. I've never looked for more than a minute or two to hail one, or could call and wait 5 minutes.
But in reality, the regulation is there to prevent the unsuspecting of getting ripped off. In the case of Uber and services like it, the people using that service know exactly what they are getting into. Grandma isn't going to fire up uber and get ripped off.
From the horror stories I've seen linked to on Slashdot, she is. Uber has an unknown and undisclosed surcharge for special times (New Years being the most common in the horror stories). So Grandma might sign up for a $5 ride home. Authorize a $5 ride, and get charged $150 for it. Some of the horror stories outline the driver's take. About $2 more for a $150 fee, with Uber being the only one to benefit from these surcharge. I can't confirm any of those reports, but from the number and locations of the reports, it doesn't look like Uber is a good way to get home from the Superbowl or on holidays.
I recently traveled around Europe, and Taxis were cheap in Italy and Germany, and expensive in France. Seems there are some large local cost differences. Uber would take off in Australia (expensive cabs), but I don't see them being able to cut into Singapore's, where I find them cheap.
It is a liberal (not non-liberal, though that's a mouthful) comment. "People have the right to not be offended" is a requirement of the post. That's a liberal idea, at least according to the vocal members of Slashdot.
Maybe he was hiding because the liberals are persecuted heavily on here. Loonitarian is the official ideology of Slashdot, because they are the most vocal and abusive, running off all others.
You are a bigot; you think in terms of environmental damage without even considering the people who were insulted by Greenepeace's callousness.
I wish there was a way to tag posts, and block posters until they argued with people I chose for them. This AC is arguing that offending someone is an actionable activity. But the Libertarians on Slashdot generally argue there is no right to not be offended, and someone deliberately trying to cause offense should be held blameless, and result of their actions is the responsibility of those who acted.
Because I'm generally in the middle of that issue, and I get both sides telling me I'm wrong. I guess they've given up arguing with each other, and now just argue with everyone.
For a site that you can't see the grains of sound of, your "fix" is excessive. From the air, the photos of the "damage" all have additional editing to help them stand out. Because, if you don't point them out (or know where you are looking for), you'll never be able to see it. Sounds like a problem laquer would fix. Hold the existing sand in place, and darken it. If that were done, the damage would be invisible to those seeing it from a safe place.
Sounds like a spray of laquer would fix the problem. Darken the light stand stirred up, and prevent erosion. Claiming it's impossible means it's easy, but undesirable.
Demolish? It's about the same as if they went past Liberty Island, causing wake in a no-wake zone. OMFG, burn them all!!! There was no damage to the hummingbird "carving".
They "destroyed" the ground near an artwork, but didn't harm the artwork. It's not like they put their fist through a Monet. More like they scratched a frame.
They walked near (but not on) a work of art. That was deliberate, as they were banking on the value of the art to draw attention to their words. The pictures of the event (during and after) show now "damage" that I (or anyone else) can see. But the Peruvians assert it's there.
Spanners are lots of people. My sister and I are "too old" to be Gen-X, but way too young to be boomers. But my father was born in the Great Depression, and missed serving in WWII by only a couple years. Both of my grandfathers were born in the 1800s. 110 years from great-grandparent to birth of great-grandkids. I know others that do the same in 50 years. My grandfathers fought in WWI. My dad fought in Korea. Nobody counted generations until the Boomers made one of the clearest generations to be defined. But even then, I've seen the generation assigned to them span many more years than practical. The generation lasts longer than a generation. When your parents and you are in the same generation, the generation definition is wrong.
They walked on the ground. The photos in the article, take at the time after the sign was laid (thus the damage was done), showed no signs of damage. I'm sure that if you crawl on the ground with a microscope, you can identify where they walked, but the designs were designed to be seen from the air. And a high-res photo from the air shows nothing I can see.
I don't deny they dies, but people managed to load Windows 3.0 onto a 20 year old pocket PC that was the size of a phone of the day. And had IrDA and 9-pin serial ports. Yes, that meant that your Win 3.0 pocket PC could have a mouse.
Cheaper than a PC (nearly 1/10th the cost), less than 1/10th the size, and almost all the capability. What's not to like. But they didn't last. The OSs moved past DOS, and left those behind. It's a shame they didn't keep up to compete longer. But HP stopped innovating, and the Atom was many years away.
A 64 bit DOS on an Atom would be an interesting competitor for the embeded market. DOS makes a much better ATM then Windows, now that they've given up OS/2. And a 20 year old handheld had more than enough power to run an ATM.
The only thing that ever came close was the HP 48 calculator line. It could run an ATM as well, though I don't think anyone ever tried.
If you are going through all that trouble, just run DOS on it. The HP 200 LX was an XT PC in the size of a (very large) phone. I've seen them used on factory floors and for replacing old DOS PCs for SCADA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
VM is cheap. I've seen retired desktops thrown into the VM pool. It takes a better class of VM admin to manage lots of unreliable hardware to make a reliable infrastructure, but since Google has been doing it for years, others are starting to figure it out.
I find the reason it's a problem is the people, not the tech. People in IT are conservative. They know that one mistake can cause great loss. So they (personally) are risk averse. This causes the IT staff to be against BYOD and other "obvious" things in a manner that makes IT look dumb. Once they are so conservative that the average user can recognize their stupidity, they lose all credibility. Most IT these days seems to spend more time managing risk, and coming up with excuses to not do things, than just doing them.
I worked for an ISP that was doing a major upgrade and could have easily gone to IPv6 at that time. But IPv6 is still "blocked". The sole reason? The guys working on it haven't used IPv6 before, so rather than learn something new, they spent more time explaining how it "wasn't tested" and "the other guys don't do it yet" and such. In the '80s, people got into IT because it was a place to play and experiment. In the '00s, people got into IT because it was a place with money. The tinkerers are almost all gone. We have high-paid secretaries, and admins who don't do much more than open tickets with manufacturers who dominate IT (at least where I see it from).
But I've seen companies spend a lot of money on systems which add no real value, and which just siphon resources from things which do.
The rule is the system should be built to support the process. Instead, today I only see people buy a system and assert the process should follow the system. And I've never seen that work.
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So the airspace isn't "closed" but nobody (commercial) is using it. To 99% of the population, that's the same thing.
Most of the plugins don't interact with the content. There's no reason my browser should announce that I have a VoIP client installed that will allow me to place calls from web sites, where the browser (via plug-in) detects a valid phone number. There are others that are similarly obscure or single-use that make it so that you are unique. More interesting to me was that I installed over half the list, but never allowed or setup browser plugins.
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 4,790,922 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 22.19 bits of identifying information."
In my case, it was the browser plugins that uniquely identified me.
The cars are in good shape in Singapore. Hailing them is easy. I've never looked for more than a minute or two to hail one, or could call and wait 5 minutes.
But in reality, the regulation is there to prevent the unsuspecting of getting ripped off. In the case of Uber and services like it, the people using that service know exactly what they are getting into. Grandma isn't going to fire up uber and get ripped off.
From the horror stories I've seen linked to on Slashdot, she is. Uber has an unknown and undisclosed surcharge for special times (New Years being the most common in the horror stories). So Grandma might sign up for a $5 ride home. Authorize a $5 ride, and get charged $150 for it. Some of the horror stories outline the driver's take. About $2 more for a $150 fee, with Uber being the only one to benefit from these surcharge. I can't confirm any of those reports, but from the number and locations of the reports, it doesn't look like Uber is a good way to get home from the Superbowl or on holidays.
I recently traveled around Europe, and Taxis were cheap in Italy and Germany, and expensive in France. Seems there are some large local cost differences. Uber would take off in Australia (expensive cabs), but I don't see them being able to cut into Singapore's, where I find them cheap.
"Defaced" with about as much damage as taking a boat too close to Liberty Island with a wake in a no-wake zone.
I sea what you did they're.
It is a liberal (not non-liberal, though that's a mouthful) comment. "People have the right to not be offended" is a requirement of the post. That's a liberal idea, at least according to the vocal members of Slashdot.
Maybe he was hiding because the liberals are persecuted heavily on here. Loonitarian is the official ideology of Slashdot, because they are the most vocal and abusive, running off all others.
You are a bigot; you think in terms of environmental damage without even considering the people who were insulted by Greenepeace's callousness.
I wish there was a way to tag posts, and block posters until they argued with people I chose for them. This AC is arguing that offending someone is an actionable activity. But the Libertarians on Slashdot generally argue there is no right to not be offended, and someone deliberately trying to cause offense should be held blameless, and result of their actions is the responsibility of those who acted.
Because I'm generally in the middle of that issue, and I get both sides telling me I'm wrong. I guess they've given up arguing with each other, and now just argue with everyone.
For a site that you can't see the grains of sound of, your "fix" is excessive. From the air, the photos of the "damage" all have additional editing to help them stand out. Because, if you don't point them out (or know where you are looking for), you'll never be able to see it. Sounds like a problem laquer would fix. Hold the existing sand in place, and darken it. If that were done, the damage would be invisible to those seeing it from a safe place.
Sounds like a spray of laquer would fix the problem. Darken the light stand stirred up, and prevent erosion. Claiming it's impossible means it's easy, but undesirable.
Demolish? It's about the same as if they went past Liberty Island, causing wake in a no-wake zone. OMFG, burn them all!!! There was no damage to the hummingbird "carving".
They "destroyed" the ground near an artwork, but didn't harm the artwork. It's not like they put their fist through a Monet. More like they scratched a frame.
Funny, some of the "before" pictures have the sign they put.
They walked near (but not on) a work of art. That was deliberate, as they were banking on the value of the art to draw attention to their words. The pictures of the event (during and after) show now "damage" that I (or anyone else) can see. But the Peruvians assert it's there.
Since Jesus, nearly every generation has thought it was the last.
Spanners are lots of people. My sister and I are "too old" to be Gen-X, but way too young to be boomers. But my father was born in the Great Depression, and missed serving in WWII by only a couple years. Both of my grandfathers were born in the 1800s. 110 years from great-grandparent to birth of great-grandkids. I know others that do the same in 50 years. My grandfathers fought in WWI. My dad fought in Korea. Nobody counted generations until the Boomers made one of the clearest generations to be defined. But even then, I've seen the generation assigned to them span many more years than practical. The generation lasts longer than a generation. When your parents and you are in the same generation, the generation definition is wrong.
They walked on the ground. The photos in the article, take at the time after the sign was laid (thus the damage was done), showed no signs of damage. I'm sure that if you crawl on the ground with a microscope, you can identify where they walked, but the designs were designed to be seen from the air. And a high-res photo from the air shows nothing I can see.
As opposed to you, insinuating the opposite. The moral high ground, brought to you from the basement.
You are assuming that "more violent storms" means "more tornadoes". I'm not sure that's a valid assumption.
I don't deny they dies, but people managed to load Windows 3.0 onto a 20 year old pocket PC that was the size of a phone of the day. And had IrDA and 9-pin serial ports. Yes, that meant that your Win 3.0 pocket PC could have a mouse.
Cheaper than a PC (nearly 1/10th the cost), less than 1/10th the size, and almost all the capability. What's not to like. But they didn't last. The OSs moved past DOS, and left those behind. It's a shame they didn't keep up to compete longer. But HP stopped innovating, and the Atom was many years away.
A 64 bit DOS on an Atom would be an interesting competitor for the embeded market. DOS makes a much better ATM then Windows, now that they've given up OS/2. And a 20 year old handheld had more than enough power to run an ATM.
The only thing that ever came close was the HP 48 calculator line. It could run an ATM as well, though I don't think anyone ever tried.
If you are going through all that trouble, just run DOS on it. The HP 200 LX was an XT PC in the size of a (very large) phone. I've seen them used on factory floors and for replacing old DOS PCs for SCADA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
VM is cheap. I've seen retired desktops thrown into the VM pool. It takes a better class of VM admin to manage lots of unreliable hardware to make a reliable infrastructure, but since Google has been doing it for years, others are starting to figure it out.
I worked for an ISP that was doing a major upgrade and could have easily gone to IPv6 at that time. But IPv6 is still "blocked". The sole reason? The guys working on it haven't used IPv6 before, so rather than learn something new, they spent more time explaining how it "wasn't tested" and "the other guys don't do it yet" and such. In the '80s, people got into IT because it was a place to play and experiment. In the '00s, people got into IT because it was a place with money. The tinkerers are almost all gone. We have high-paid secretaries, and admins who don't do much more than open tickets with manufacturers who dominate IT (at least where I see it from).
But I've seen companies spend a lot of money on systems which add no real value, and which just siphon resources from things which do.
The rule is the system should be built to support the process. Instead, today I only see people buy a system and assert the process should follow the system. And I've never seen that work.