I mean, when members of the House of Lords make selfies in womens underwear
Women have held peerages in the House of Lords for over half a century. So I don't see the problem unless there is some other reason making it improper for members of the House of Lords to model underwear.
I gather from the article that it's anonymized such that the government can see only that some licensed business requested at X date and time that citizen 123456789's age be compared to 18, and that business 987654321 made X requests during a given month.
Aren't banks required to store each account holder's date of birth and taxpayer identification number for tax purposes? The payment processor could start returning an age class field in the authorization result, grouped into bins for 13-17, 18-20, 21-64, and 65+.
[Credit card payment is] a form of age verification that can be charged.
And a customer on the site's free tier can have his bank apply a chargeback against a site that fails to uphold its written promise to release the authorization after a few days. Chargebacks are very expensive to process, and too many could cost a site its merchant account.
I imagine that it's to give parents and licensed teachers the exclusive right to educate children about sex, under the assumption that they'll be more responsible at preventing STDs and pregnancy among teens who cannot yet afford to raise an infant than some for-profit company exploiting the public's prurient interest.
I did a search for "ALS" one time, the top link wasn't a website about Lou Gehrig's Disease.
When, on what search engine, and from what country? I did a search today on Google from the United States, and the top 10 results were about Gehrig's: ALS Association (3 results), the US National Institutes of Health, Wikipedia, Mayo Clinic, Discover magazine, The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, ALS Therapy Development Foundation, and the ALS Association Greater New York. News results included ESPN and FOX News, both about Gehrig's. Seven of eight "Searches related to als" were also related to Gehrig's, with the exception being Al's Auto.
Xbox probably lacks the metered connection control because Xbox is designed to operate with wired Internet. Not only are the most commonly metered connections (cellular and satellite) unsuitable for bulk downloads, but they're also unsuitable for Xbox Live online gaming. Windows 8 and later have it because Windows is designed to operate with either a wired or wireless last mile.
On Compact Cassette decks with mechanical controls, the pause button actually lifts the pinch roller from the tape. The motors have inertia to ensure constant tape speed, more than the tape reels, and stopping the tape by lifting the pinch roller reacts faster than by lifting the motor.
On the Nintendo Entertainment System, players pressed the controller's Start button to pause (that is, stop) the game. By the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, many games were adding a quit option to the pause menu, so Start to stop was becoming believable.
System 7, introduced in 1991, had an Apple menu, which held shortcuts (called "aliases") to applications. Third-party extensions such as MenuChoice and HAM, released the following year, allowed aliases to be grouped into folders. (This is exactly the behavior that Microsoft would later implement in the "Programs" section of Windows 95's Start menu.) Apple later bought the rights to HAM and integrated it in System 7.5 (1995) under the name Apple Menu Options.
But the consoles today are essentially the same price as a mid-range PC
I see a PlayStation 4 console for $400. Which $400 "mid-range PC" can run games in comparable graphical detail to a PS4? Does the $400 include a graphics card and a lawfully made copy of Windows? Or are you planning on using integrated graphics and Steam OS instead?
you'll need [...] a PC emulator with a copy of Windows 3.1.
Just get Dos box
Exactly. Here's a guide to getting it working. But you still have to buy a genuine copy of Windows 3.1 and a USB floppy drive to read it into your DOSBox. I don't think Windows came on CD until Windows 95.
Windows 10 is "secured" against use with hobbyist hardware. It requires new device drivers to not only be signed with an Authenticode certificate but more specifically to be signed with the more expensive EV certificate. (Source) The cost of obtaining an EV certificate and of setting up a corporation or LLC that qualifies for an EV certificate can make it cost-prohibitive for hardware hobbyists to produce low-volume peripherals that work with Windows 10.
to the update not being required to install right at this instant and they need the bandwidth for something else (hello 300mb "ms word 2010 help file" update) due to being in a low connectivity area.
Then you should let Windows know that a particular SSID is "a low connectivity area". See Microsoft's page about Windows 8 and metered connections. The page states that when only a metered connection is available, "Windows Update will only download priority updates."
I don't have Windows 8 or 10 in front of me as I type this, but the steps to mark a connection as metered in Android 5 are as follows: In Settings > Wireless & networks > Data usage, open the overflow menu and choose Network restrictions. It gives you a list of all the SSIDs you've seen, with a checkbox to mark each as metered. The notice at the bottom states: "Metered networks are treated like cellular when background data is restricted. Apps may warn before using these networks for large downloads."
64-bit Windows has never supported 16-bit executables, except for Windows 7 Pro that came with a coupon to download Windows XP into a VM. To run the Windows 3.1 game Chip's Challenge on 64-bit Windows 10, you'll need an emulator, whether it's an Atari Lynx emulator or a PC emulator with a copy of Windows 3.1.
How does Stack Exchange, an RP, get away with trusting random OpenID 2.0 IDPs?
Google, Facebook, Yahoo and AOL
As far as I can tell, signing up for most of these requires a valid subscription to cellular telephone service, as Yahoo's sign-up form states: "Your mobile number is required." I've been told that the same is true of Facebook in some places. In your opinion, is it reasonable to require each server operator to maintain an ongoing subscription to a mobile phone plan with unlimited incoming SMS in addition to the domain, web hosting, wired Internet service, and VoIP that the server operator already has?
no, I can't tell you how to find out who your users are or what they use
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I mean, when members of the House of Lords make selfies in womens underwear
Women have held peerages in the House of Lords for over half a century. So I don't see the problem unless there is some other reason making it improper for members of the House of Lords to model underwear.
I gather from the article that it's anonymized such that the government can see only that some licensed business requested at X date and time that citizen 123456789's age be compared to 18, and that business 987654321 made X requests during a given month.
What advantage does single transferable vote have over approval voting, which is easier to count?
Aren't banks required to store each account holder's date of birth and taxpayer identification number for tax purposes? The payment processor could start returning an age class field in the authorization result, grouped into bins for 13-17, 18-20, 21-64, and 65+.
[Credit card payment is] a form of age verification that can be charged.
And a customer on the site's free tier can have his bank apply a chargeback against a site that fails to uphold its written promise to release the authorization after a few days. Chargebacks are very expensive to process, and too many could cost a site its merchant account.
Even if that number passes the checksum, will it pass placing a ten-pound authorization on the card?
Let's assume credit card, that means that free sites will die or be forced overseas.
Or they'll put a ten-pound authorization on the card and release it after a week.
I imagine that it's to give parents and licensed teachers the exclusive right to educate children about sex, under the assumption that they'll be more responsible at preventing STDs and pregnancy among teens who cannot yet afford to raise an infant than some for-profit company exploiting the public's prurient interest.
I did a search for "ALS" one time, the top link wasn't a website about Lou Gehrig's Disease.
When, on what search engine, and from what country? I did a search today on Google from the United States, and the top 10 results were about Gehrig's: ALS Association (3 results), the US National Institutes of Health, Wikipedia, Mayo Clinic, Discover magazine, The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, ALS Therapy Development Foundation, and the ALS Association Greater New York. News results included ESPN and FOX News, both about Gehrig's. Seven of eight "Searches related to als" were also related to Gehrig's, with the exception being Al's Auto.
First-world problem.
Fallacy of relative privation.
Xbox probably lacks the metered connection control because Xbox is designed to operate with wired Internet. Not only are the most commonly metered connections (cellular and satellite) unsuitable for bulk downloads, but they're also unsuitable for Xbox Live online gaming. Windows 8 and later have it because Windows is designed to operate with either a wired or wireless last mile.
Think back to the Konami code: BABAUDBALRBA
Let me guess: You played mostly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game for NES. Most other games had UUDDLRLRBA.
On Compact Cassette decks with mechanical controls, the pause button actually lifts the pinch roller from the tape. The motors have inertia to ensure constant tape speed, more than the tape reels, and stopping the tape by lifting the pinch roller reacts faster than by lifting the motor.
Hopefully, if Skype is found to have a security vulnerability, only the DLL with the vuln will get updated.
On the Nintendo Entertainment System, players pressed the controller's Start button to pause (that is, stop) the game. By the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, many games were adding a quit option to the pause menu, so Start to stop was becoming believable.
System 7, introduced in 1991, had an Apple menu, which held shortcuts (called "aliases") to applications. Third-party extensions such as MenuChoice and HAM, released the following year, allowed aliases to be grouped into folders. (This is exactly the behavior that Microsoft would later implement in the "Programs" section of Windows 95's Start menu.) Apple later bought the rights to HAM and integrated it in System 7.5 (1995) under the name Apple Menu Options.
But the consoles today are essentially the same price as a mid-range PC
I see a PlayStation 4 console for $400. Which $400 "mid-range PC" can run games in comparable graphical detail to a PS4? Does the $400 include a graphics card and a lawfully made copy of Windows? Or are you planning on using integrated graphics and Steam OS instead?
Having to jump through hoops to try to trick the OS into not running updates when you dont want them to run is asinine.
I don't see how telling the operating system which connections are unsuitable for bulk downloads is "tricking" the operating system.
you'll need [...] a PC emulator with a copy of Windows 3.1.
Just get Dos box
Exactly. Here's a guide to getting it working. But you still have to buy a genuine copy of Windows 3.1 and a USB floppy drive to read it into your DOSBox. I don't think Windows came on CD until Windows 95.
Windows 10 is "secured" against use with hobbyist hardware. It requires new device drivers to not only be signed with an Authenticode certificate but more specifically to be signed with the more expensive EV certificate. (Source) The cost of obtaining an EV certificate and of setting up a corporation or LLC that qualifies for an EV certificate can make it cost-prohibitive for hardware hobbyists to produce low-volume peripherals that work with Windows 10.
Windows 8.1 and later require NX bit. No x86 CPUs sold while Windows Millennium Edition was current support the NX bit.
to the update not being required to install right at this instant and they need the bandwidth for something else (hello 300mb "ms word 2010 help file" update) due to being in a low connectivity area.
Then you should let Windows know that a particular SSID is "a low connectivity area". See Microsoft's page about Windows 8 and metered connections. The page states that when only a metered connection is available, "Windows Update will only download priority updates."
I don't have Windows 8 or 10 in front of me as I type this, but the steps to mark a connection as metered in Android 5 are as follows: In Settings > Wireless & networks > Data usage, open the overflow menu and choose Network restrictions. It gives you a list of all the SSIDs you've seen, with a checkbox to mark each as metered. The notice at the bottom states: "Metered networks are treated like cellular when background data is restricted. Apps may warn before using these networks for large downloads."
If you need your laptop ready to travel in a hurry, close the lid. It'll go to suspend. Then open the lid at work, and it'll resume.
Does Chip's Challenge still run?
64-bit Windows has never supported 16-bit executables, except for Windows 7 Pro that came with a coupon to download Windows XP into a VM. To run the Windows 3.1 game Chip's Challenge on 64-bit Windows 10, you'll need an emulator, whether it's an Atari Lynx emulator or a PC emulator with a copy of Windows 3.1.
many RPs don't trust random providers.
How does Stack Exchange, an RP, get away with trusting random OpenID 2.0 IDPs?
Google, Facebook, Yahoo and AOL
As far as I can tell, signing up for most of these requires a valid subscription to cellular telephone service, as Yahoo's sign-up form states: "Your mobile number is required." I've been told that the same is true of Facebook in some places. In your opinion, is it reasonable to require each server operator to maintain an ongoing subscription to a mobile phone plan with unlimited incoming SMS in addition to the domain, web hosting, wired Internet service, and VoIP that the server operator already has?
no, I can't tell you how to find out who your users are or what they use
That's what I was afraid of.