Like that old "study" that said 80 km/h was the ideal speed for max throughput (it's not).
80km is the speed at which maximum throughput is *observed*. That you don't like facts doesn't make them wrong.
Below 80km, people lose focus and the number of phone-checkers and lane hoppers cause traffic to flow worse. Above 80km, people leave closer to the "recommended" 2 second distance, which is too high for optimal throughput.
Now, if the car behind me is further back, according to the "study", I should slow down to increase my distance in front and reduce my distance behind. But then of course the car behind me is going to slow again to get back to its old distance, so I keep slowing until I have as much distance in front of me as the car behind me. Now the car in front of me is going to slow down to as well, because he wants as much distance in front of him as behind him. I don't exactly see throughput improving here...
If everyone drove like you, then minimum safe distance is best. Are you asserting you are no better than the average driver? If you aren't average, then extrapolating your personal opinion to everyone would be stupid. So, you are either a bad driver or stupid. Or both. I vote for both.
Take, for example, the "mining ship" in Star Trek. No cargo hold for anything they mine, and a very impractical shape for anything that's doing mining. You can picture JJ in the boardroom, shouting "scarier, more menacing" and writing it in like a character. He ruined that when he wrote a hatch in dirt into Lost as a character. But the mining ship was stupid, for a mining ship. Every decision he makes is stupid, and designed to "entertain", not "tell a story". He should work for Cirque du Soleil. The other really stupid thing in Star Trek is the chase. Kirk is being chased by an instadeath. A larger creature (impractical for an ice planet), kills the creature and doesn't eat it. Picture a hunter out to kill a deer. It kills a deer. It notices the deer is chasing a mouse. The hunter ignores the deer he just killed, and chases after the mouse. That's the decision JJ made. It's stupid, and it ruins everything he touches.
Some like that, and endless lens flare, but, personally, I find his obvious and deliberate decisions to be stupid and distracting.
The access to GPS was reasonable. Disabling the game if "developer's tools" was enabled prevented the game running on many devices. Why can't I have USB root access enabled at the same time as Pokemon Go? So I gave up Pokemon Go, because they were unreasonable.
One of the problems with filters is something I see on other sites, especially on political issues. Things escalate. When a post is finally flagged, often it's in response to a post that's similar or worse. Sites have trolls using moderation to eliminate opinions they don't like. If you just mildly insult someone who holds an opinion you don't like, then if they respond in kind, report them.
Deep Learning should be used to identify those who make the most complaints, or have a disproportionate number of reported posts in response to their posts. That'll make a "troll score" and lower the reliability of those who generate hate speech, as well as those who post hate speech.
Facebook is the worst, as the top comments are ranked by responses, so the most outrageous comments are on top, as they get the most "your wrong" comments. If Facebook treated such comments as a "downvote" on the original comment, then it would better filter out the noise.
But since Facebook is 100% noise, how would anyone notice?
For all the complaints about iOS, the early versions that closed all background applications now sounds like a good idea. If you didn't open it, don't run it.
Also, an app-invisible spoofing should be kernel level. Every app gets access to everything it asks for and is granted on install, then the user can select what to spoof. "always feed the microphone white noise for any game that requests microphone access". Pokemon Go simply refused to load when "developer tools" was loaded. As I use the GPS spoofing regularly to lock my position to work or home so no app can "spy" on me, Pokemon Go was loaded once, to see what the fuss was all about, then never run. It saw me as a "hacker" for protecting my personal information. The app shouldn't be able to know.
There WAS no Republican governor of Hawaii to verify the certificate.
Linda Lingle wasn't a Governor? She wasn't in HI? She didn't certify Obama's short form (the first released, and the only one needed to satisfy all the court cases, and the one that survived all the court challenges?
Linda Lingle doesn't exist? Then who was governor of HI in 2008 when the election was, and Obama's short form was certified?
Democrat congressman Neil Abercrombie was outraged by the birtherism and while campaigning for Governor of Hawaii made it an issue in the campaign - He promised to, if elected, get the original Obama birth certificate out of Hawaii's records and display it to the public to end the birther stuff. After he was elected and became governor, Abercrombie was questioned about the matter and he had a series of excuses for why he could not produce the document, and he never did.
For one, it would be a felony for him to do so, for another, there is no "birth certificate", for anyone. Birth records these days are sent to the authority (state capitol, or whatever), digitized, then destroyed. There's nothing to "show" except a printed copy of the birth certificate, with a state seal on it. That's been provided by Obama, multiple times, certified more than any certificate in the history of the country has been certified, and is still rejected. So it's never been about the birth certificate. It's only ever been about denying the legitimacy of a Negro President.
that still doesn't explain why he never released his original unaltered birth certificate.
My child has no "unaltered" birth certificate. Never had one. The hospital filed a report of live birth, which is sent to the government (no copy to the parents) and digitized and destroyed. A birth certificate issued that day, or 60 years later would be the same. Short form reproductions, or long form reproductions.
This is closer to HI's situation. He had a birth certificate. The "original" lost over the years, though it may have not met your standards anyway. The reproduction is the official government document.
But the "birth certificate" (which is to say, the certified true copy of an ostensible electronic database record of a birth certificate) does indeed raise more questions than it answers.
It raised no questions. The Republican Governor swears it's accurate. So what is the claim? That the Republicans committed a conspiracy to deliver an edited birth certificate to Obama to make him look bad? That the Republicans conspired to simultaneously claim it was real and that it was fake at the same time? As far as law was concerned, he is a Natural Born American. So the "birth certificate" issue never existed, except for some Nazis who needed to convince themselves that they didn't have a Negro in the White's only House.
What evidence is prestented in your link? A quote of a biographical blurb that fictitiously played up his non-American birth for sympathy? Or was the biography simply in error? I've had multiple errors about my life make it into print, and I've never authored anything.
Also note the source, Breitbart had "exclusive" possession of an old bio with errors. How many bios were written about him in his life? That one has an error isn't "evidence" of anything.
The Birth Certificate was verified by the Republican Governor of Hawaii personally, something no Governor had ever done before. The inconsistencies didn't exist. And more than one site proving them was proven to have introduced them themselves, just to point them out.
There is lots of evidence he was born in HI, and no evidence he wasn't. Even if he wasn't born in HI, the law today would have granted him citizenship at birth (And yes, you can retroactively apply that to a birth before a law change). So, he was born in HI. All the evidence says he was. No evidence exists that he wasn't. And even if he wasn't, he'd still have been eligible to be president.
They don't need to bargain with theaters. If they bargain with the studios, the studios will dictate terms to the theaters. Whether they bargain with theaters in the short term, I suspect the goal is to deal with the studios, who get most of the ticket revenue anyway.
The number of rods in the eye doesn't determine detail. It's primarily about sensitivity. Dogs can detect fainter scents, but that doesn't mean they can distinguish similar scents any better. Discrimination is a brain function.
The whole thing is a confusing mess. You don't sync your fitbit with your phone. You sync it with the cloud, at the same time you sync the app with the cloud. Yes, it's stupid that you can't use the phone as a store for fitbit data. But part of their "ecosystem" with other products like scales, it requires everything to sync to the cloud.
Your "you are holding it wrong" moment is when you thought the fitbit syncs with the phone. It does not, because they want to force you to give them all the data, and because AI in the cloud is used to give some information, like sleep details. So you can't sync to the phone and get full data.
I have no idea on the app. The Microsoft Store claims a release date in 2012, but that seems dubious. The activity reminder were advertised on the box, but not delivered for months. And the marketing material indicated better configurability, there is none, other than on/off.
I tried to sync without Internet, but it worked because I had been testing the Windows app, which I hadn't loaded before today. And the data was stored that path. The Android app will connect with the fitbit and show battery inside the app without Internet. That seems to be a function you desired. I don't know when it came along. I know I used to have trouble getting an accurate battery reading, but I worked on timing, not battery level, and never had a problem. I think it's the longest lasting fitness tracker with HR.
Mine would sync without Internet. The app would refuse to display the sync'd data without uploading it first. Since you complained about the device going flat, I presume you could have confirmed. Force sync without Internet, then let it run flat, and then turn on Internet on the phone and open the app and see if the sync'd data was there.
As for it running flat, it's one of the longer running watches. I've gotten a week (Sunday to Saturday) out of it.
My biggest gripe was the lies to sell it. It listed features on the box that didn't exist. They were on the roadmap, but didn't exist when shipped, or when bought, but came months later. But did come. But that doesn't excuse the obvious fraud.
The device uses Bluetooth, yet there is no Windows or Linux application to communicate with the device.
Anyone who doesn't have a firewall of any kind might be better off with NAT, but it's more in the https://xkcd.com/463/ category. Theoretically better than without, but if you are using it as a security measure, you are doing something horribly wrong.
And even the cheapest consumer routers (or modems) have stateful firewalls built into them these days, Linux core and free firewalls and all.
NAT without a firewall is a network without a firewall. Any security benefit is an accident, not by good design.
The hugely complex calculation algorithms are relatively simple. And if you had the source code, how long would it take you to change languages an equation is written in? 6 months? 20 years? You must be a software engineer.
I've seen them. Old banks had them, and oil companies still do.
Some of the big and old industries spent billions on them. Sure, they pay $1M a year for a mainframe lease to run software that someone could write in a weekend for a PC, but they spent billions on it, doing it when it was hard. They don't want to throw that away. And $1M a year is a small price to pay for the risk reduction. For some.
The problem started with Truman in '45 splitting Korea and giving half to the Russians as an enticement for the Russians to enter the ground war in Asia. Then continued with Eisenhower invading Vietnam to disrupt democratic elections, fearing an election of a Socialist. After WWII, the Americans were all in everyone's business. Calling out Hillary for overthrowing who? Just makes you look like a partisan hack. The CIA doesn't report to the Secretary of State, anyway.
So, that the Russians did interfere, but it didn't change the results, means that there is no problem with foreign influence over elections, and no steps should be taken to prevent it from happening in an election where it did change the results.
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Like that old "study" that said 80 km/h was the ideal speed for max throughput (it's not).
80km is the speed at which maximum throughput is *observed*. That you don't like facts doesn't make them wrong.
Below 80km, people lose focus and the number of phone-checkers and lane hoppers cause traffic to flow worse. Above 80km, people leave closer to the "recommended" 2 second distance, which is too high for optimal throughput.
Now, if the car behind me is further back, according to the "study", I should slow down to increase my distance in front and reduce my distance behind. But then of course the car behind me is going to slow again to get back to its old distance, so I keep slowing until I have as much distance in front of me as the car behind me. Now the car in front of me is going to slow down to as well, because he wants as much distance in front of him as behind him. I don't exactly see throughput improving here...
If everyone drove like you, then minimum safe distance is best. Are you asserting you are no better than the average driver? If you aren't average, then extrapolating your personal opinion to everyone would be stupid. So, you are either a bad driver or stupid. Or both. I vote for both.
Yes. In the 1800s, the Democrats were the right, and the Republicans were the left.
You should go back to the 2nd grade, before you make a bigger fool of yourself.
JJ ruins things for me.
Take, for example, the "mining ship" in Star Trek. No cargo hold for anything they mine, and a very impractical shape for anything that's doing mining. You can picture JJ in the boardroom, shouting "scarier, more menacing" and writing it in like a character. He ruined that when he wrote a hatch in dirt into Lost as a character. But the mining ship was stupid, for a mining ship. Every decision he makes is stupid, and designed to "entertain", not "tell a story". He should work for Cirque du Soleil. The other really stupid thing in Star Trek is the chase. Kirk is being chased by an instadeath. A larger creature (impractical for an ice planet), kills the creature and doesn't eat it. Picture a hunter out to kill a deer. It kills a deer. It notices the deer is chasing a mouse. The hunter ignores the deer he just killed, and chases after the mouse. That's the decision JJ made. It's stupid, and it ruins everything he touches.
Some like that, and endless lens flare, but, personally, I find his obvious and deliberate decisions to be stupid and distracting.
The access to GPS was reasonable. Disabling the game if "developer's tools" was enabled prevented the game running on many devices. Why can't I have USB root access enabled at the same time as Pokemon Go? So I gave up Pokemon Go, because they were unreasonable.
There are no limits to remewables. One specific might, but as a whole, they aren't limited in the way you imply.
The 1/32 rule was set by the right. The only reason the right made an issue of it with Obama was to not have to recognize a Black president.
One of the problems with filters is something I see on other sites, especially on political issues. Things escalate. When a post is finally flagged, often it's in response to a post that's similar or worse. Sites have trolls using moderation to eliminate opinions they don't like. If you just mildly insult someone who holds an opinion you don't like, then if they respond in kind, report them.
Deep Learning should be used to identify those who make the most complaints, or have a disproportionate number of reported posts in response to their posts. That'll make a "troll score" and lower the reliability of those who generate hate speech, as well as those who post hate speech.
Facebook is the worst, as the top comments are ranked by responses, so the most outrageous comments are on top, as they get the most "your wrong" comments. If Facebook treated such comments as a "downvote" on the original comment, then it would better filter out the noise.
But since Facebook is 100% noise, how would anyone notice?
For all the complaints about iOS, the early versions that closed all background applications now sounds like a good idea. If you didn't open it, don't run it.
Also, an app-invisible spoofing should be kernel level. Every app gets access to everything it asks for and is granted on install, then the user can select what to spoof. "always feed the microphone white noise for any game that requests microphone access". Pokemon Go simply refused to load when "developer tools" was loaded. As I use the GPS spoofing regularly to lock my position to work or home so no app can "spy" on me, Pokemon Go was loaded once, to see what the fuss was all about, then never run. It saw me as a "hacker" for protecting my personal information. The app shouldn't be able to know.
There WAS no Republican governor of Hawaii to verify the certificate.
Linda Lingle wasn't a Governor? She wasn't in HI? She didn't certify Obama's short form (the first released, and the only one needed to satisfy all the court cases, and the one that survived all the court challenges?
Linda Lingle doesn't exist? Then who was governor of HI in 2008 when the election was, and Obama's short form was certified?
Democrat congressman Neil Abercrombie was outraged by the birtherism and while campaigning for Governor of Hawaii made it an issue in the campaign - He promised to, if elected, get the original Obama birth certificate out of Hawaii's records and display it to the public to end the birther stuff. After he was elected and became governor, Abercrombie was questioned about the matter and he had a series of excuses for why he could not produce the document, and he never did.
For one, it would be a felony for him to do so, for another, there is no "birth certificate", for anyone. Birth records these days are sent to the authority (state capitol, or whatever), digitized, then destroyed. There's nothing to "show" except a printed copy of the birth certificate, with a state seal on it. That's been provided by Obama, multiple times, certified more than any certificate in the history of the country has been certified, and is still rejected. So it's never been about the birth certificate. It's only ever been about denying the legitimacy of a Negro President.
In the US, 1/32 Black is "all Black". It used to be by law, but still is by custom, to many people.
Didn't seem to bother the people when a Canadian-Cuban was running, though Eddie Munster didn't win the nomination.
that still doesn't explain why he never released his original unaltered birth certificate.
My child has no "unaltered" birth certificate. Never had one. The hospital filed a report of live birth, which is sent to the government (no copy to the parents) and digitized and destroyed. A birth certificate issued that day, or 60 years later would be the same. Short form reproductions, or long form reproductions.
This is closer to HI's situation. He had a birth certificate. The "original" lost over the years, though it may have not met your standards anyway. The reproduction is the official government document.
But the "birth certificate" (which is to say, the certified true copy of an ostensible electronic database record of a birth certificate) does indeed raise more questions than it answers.
It raised no questions. The Republican Governor swears it's accurate. So what is the claim? That the Republicans committed a conspiracy to deliver an edited birth certificate to Obama to make him look bad? That the Republicans conspired to simultaneously claim it was real and that it was fake at the same time? As far as law was concerned, he is a Natural Born American. So the "birth certificate" issue never existed, except for some Nazis who needed to convince themselves that they didn't have a Negro in the White's only House.
Sure took him a long time to spit out that forged document. If it was legit, it would have been immediately released.
The short form was released in a timely manner. After complaints, and failed lawsuits, he released the long form.
When will Trump release his tax returns? When will Trump release his long-form birth certificate? One year in office, and neither was released.
What evidence is prestented in your link? A quote of a biographical blurb that fictitiously played up his non-American birth for sympathy? Or was the biography simply in error? I've had multiple errors about my life make it into print, and I've never authored anything.
Also note the source, Breitbart had "exclusive" possession of an old bio with errors. How many bios were written about him in his life? That one has an error isn't "evidence" of anything.
The Birth Certificate was verified by the Republican Governor of Hawaii personally, something no Governor had ever done before. The inconsistencies didn't exist. And more than one site proving them was proven to have introduced them themselves, just to point them out.
There is lots of evidence he was born in HI, and no evidence he wasn't. Even if he wasn't born in HI, the law today would have granted him citizenship at birth (And yes, you can retroactively apply that to a birth before a law change). So, he was born in HI. All the evidence says he was. No evidence exists that he wasn't. And even if he wasn't, he'd still have been eligible to be president.
They don't need to bargain with theaters. If they bargain with the studios, the studios will dictate terms to the theaters. Whether they bargain with theaters in the short term, I suspect the goal is to deal with the studios, who get most of the ticket revenue anyway.
The number of rods in the eye doesn't determine detail. It's primarily about sensitivity. Dogs can detect fainter scents, but that doesn't mean they can distinguish similar scents any better. Discrimination is a brain function.
The whole thing is a confusing mess. You don't sync your fitbit with your phone. You sync it with the cloud, at the same time you sync the app with the cloud. Yes, it's stupid that you can't use the phone as a store for fitbit data. But part of their "ecosystem" with other products like scales, it requires everything to sync to the cloud.
Your "you are holding it wrong" moment is when you thought the fitbit syncs with the phone. It does not, because they want to force you to give them all the data, and because AI in the cloud is used to give some information, like sleep details. So you can't sync to the phone and get full data.
I have no idea on the app. The Microsoft Store claims a release date in 2012, but that seems dubious. The activity reminder were advertised on the box, but not delivered for months. And the marketing material indicated better configurability, there is none, other than on/off.
I tried to sync without Internet, but it worked because I had been testing the Windows app, which I hadn't loaded before today. And the data was stored that path. The Android app will connect with the fitbit and show battery inside the app without Internet. That seems to be a function you desired. I don't know when it came along. I know I used to have trouble getting an accurate battery reading, but I worked on timing, not battery level, and never had a problem. I think it's the longest lasting fitness tracker with HR.
As for it running flat, it's one of the longer running watches. I've gotten a week (Sunday to Saturday) out of it.
My biggest gripe was the lies to sell it. It listed features on the box that didn't exist. They were on the roadmap, but didn't exist when shipped, or when bought, but came months later. But did come. But that doesn't excuse the obvious fraud.
The device uses Bluetooth, yet there is no Windows or Linux application to communicate with the device.
https://www.microsoft.com/stor... Really? No Windows application? I think you are holding it wrong.
Fitbit Charge 2 has great HR, the band sucks. My band failed after about 3 months, but a replacement band is better than the original.
Anyone who doesn't have a firewall of any kind might be better off with NAT, but it's more in the https://xkcd.com/463/ category. Theoretically better than without, but if you are using it as a security measure, you are doing something horribly wrong.
And even the cheapest consumer routers (or modems) have stateful firewalls built into them these days, Linux core and free firewalls and all.
NAT without a firewall is a network without a firewall. Any security benefit is an accident, not by good design.
The hugely complex calculation algorithms are relatively simple. And if you had the source code, how long would it take you to change languages an equation is written in? 6 months? 20 years? You must be a software engineer.
I've seen them. Old banks had them, and oil companies still do.
Some of the big and old industries spent billions on them. Sure, they pay $1M a year for a mainframe lease to run software that someone could write in a weekend for a PC, but they spent billions on it, doing it when it was hard. They don't want to throw that away. And $1M a year is a small price to pay for the risk reduction. For some.
The problem started with Truman in '45 splitting Korea and giving half to the Russians as an enticement for the Russians to enter the ground war in Asia. Then continued with Eisenhower invading Vietnam to disrupt democratic elections, fearing an election of a Socialist. After WWII, the Americans were all in everyone's business. Calling out Hillary for overthrowing who? Just makes you look like a partisan hack. The CIA doesn't report to the Secretary of State, anyway.
So, that the Russians did interfere, but it didn't change the results, means that there is no problem with foreign influence over elections, and no steps should be taken to prevent it from happening in an election where it did change the results.
The excuses for Treason are insane.