There are plenty of male prostitutes. They hook up with men more often than women. They are rarely portrayed as being awesome.
Perhaps the line to draw is between people who are empowered and in a position to choose whether or not to prostitute, and those who lack better options. It's one thing to say "I can do this thing I enjoy and get paid for it", verses "I have to do this thing whether or not I enjoy it." I guess that applies to most lines of work in a way, but prostitutes can't collect unemployment, disability insurance, and maternity leave.
No, it means you have to change your security questions on all of your other accounts (even if you told them you grew up in Mordor and your favorite color is octarine.)
- Not that long ago items purchased using "free shipping" arrived at my door 2-4 days after order; now its 2 weeks.
- Free shipping orders seem to sit in a queue for up to 10 calendar days before being shipped now.
Amazon has always given extended projections on their free shipping. So, you can look at it as:
1) They baited/conditioned you with faster than advertised shipping and switched to slower shipping (now that they've destroyed the competitors/developed a competing service), or
2) They've been giving you better service than stated, and now they're scaling back on it to cut costs.
I do agree that the whole thing stinks of "offer exceptional service, drive out competitors, drop quality of service, offer the old level of service for more money." But at the same time, nobody made an agreement with Amazon that they would provide faster than advertised free shipping.
(For the record, my packages come in 4-7 days, in the suburb of a major city. They've pretty much always come in that time frame.)
As for customer service - I ordered an item (silicone pot holder assortment) from a third party. It was packaged incorrectly, and had 2 of one size and none of the other. I couldn't figure out how to contact the seller to request a replacement pot holder, so I used the customer service chat. After explaining my issue, he responded with something along the lines of "I'm sorry this happened. Would it be acceptable for me to credit your account with the price of the item?" Just like that, full refund for the third party item, got to keep the extra pot holders. That was in May of this year.
I'm not an Amazon fanboy (Disclaimer: I do own an Echo and a Kindle.) I think it was lame that they upped their free shipping threshold. Selling Prime only items seems like a shitty buisness model. Prime Pantry seems unnecessary/expensive. Their music app is clumsy, their online music library management is clumsy, trying to tell Echo to play music from my library can be clumsy, trying to find streaming video content is like navigating a god-damn Escher maze.
At the same time, they are doing things right. I've found music I had bought years ago on CD magically available for me to stream. Prime benefits keep getting...not necessarily better, but more diverse. They fill sort of a jack of all trades role. The money I was spending on Spotify or Pandora One (neither perfect) can go towards Prime. The online video content might keep me off of Netflix and Hulu for an extra month or two (if I can find anything worth watching). There is free Kindle content, and soon free Audible content (though I'd much sooner just pay for what I want before I let Amazon curate for me). For $99, I'm not excited about it, and I've been putting it off. But considering a Pandora subscription of around $60/year, to Spotify's $120, it starts to look attractive on its own - and that's before all the other junk Amazon is throwing in with it.
'We are seeing 60% fewer burrows in areas where we are using the dry ice,' said Charles Williams, Chicago's streets and sanitation commissioner. 'It's more environmentally friendly, and it's very humane on the rodents as well.'"
There is ongoing discussion over whether or not CO2 is humane for euthanizing rodents. It is not lack of oxygen that causes distress when holding your breath, but excess CO2. It is thought by some that lab and feeder rodents are put through unnecessary stress by using CO2 instead of an alternative gas/method.
After the article about Sony boosting battery life ( https://hardware.slashdot.org/... ) I started looking for a way to stop my phone from charging past 80%. I was hoping to find an Xposed module that covered it, but no such luck. There don't seem to be any apps to do it, either.
Its interesting that Samsung cobbled together something to do it. I wonder if it is hardware specific, or can be exported to other devices.
You can get relatively small polypropylene caps with 1KV ratings, and even surface mount caps with 400V ratings (which you could then put in series). Once you initially exceed the breakdown voltage of the connected device, the supply voltage probably does a lot of the work for you (now that you've created an alternate path for it).
So... if I have a business unit that's losing money and I tell it to either turn a profit or they'll be laid off, am I responsible when the employees cheat and break the law to save their jobs because there's no other way?
If you give the employees an unreasonble goal with insufficient tools to reach it, and tell them that they will be fired if they cannot reach it - I think that makes you responsible for their actions. In fact, that sounds like the definition of coercion.
Now lets say your business isn't losing money, and the stock price has increased steadily since the fourth quarter of 2011 (like, say, Wells Fargo.) In this case, you have misrepresented the health of your company for the purpose of eliciting bad behavior. You don't have much of a defense in claiming ignorance because you have needlessly and intently set up the environment for this to happen. I would say that is absolutely criminal.
I feel like this is turning into a blood feud. One side blocks the ads, one side circumvents the blockers. Some members of the first side realize that ads are needed for some sites to thrive, some members of the second side realize they've gotten too intrusive with the ads. But mostly, both sides are too entrenched to make progress.
On a side note, I recently became aware of metered paywalls - after allowing so many visitors, they throw up a paywall. So, for example, someone submits an article to/. that they don't believe to be paywalled, but it becomes paywalled shortly after the rush of traffic.
This article doesn't tell you much, and most of the other articles are copy/pastes of each other (and in turn seem to be copy/pastes of a press release).
The results from the first study showed that Android users are perceived to have greater levels of honesty and humility, agreeableness and openness personality traits but are seen as less extroverted than iPhone users.
The results from the second study showed that most of the personality stereotypes did not occur in reality, as only honesty and humility was found in greater amounts within Android users.
I couldn't find the study. One article referenced source "Shaw H, Ellis D, Kendrick LR et al. Individual differences between iPhone and Android smartphone users. British Psychological Society. 2016."
So Russia is going to try to hack the US.
And the US isn't taking measures to protect itself from hackers.
So the obvious problem is that Wikileaks exists as a convenient place to dump the info. Right.
I think we're all well aware at this point that Teranos did not have a legitimate service. My point was simply that Theranos's claim of a groundbreaking technique was much more of a draw than seeing an attractive female CEO.
How much of the hype behind this company centered on the fact that its leader was a young, attractive, blonde woman from Stanford?
I would say not much. Theranos was promising drug tests that would be significantly cheaper than current tests. According to Theranos pricing, Basic Metabolic Panel for about $6 bucks, Lithium level for $5... Together those might cost $200 (without insurance). I couldn't give two shits about who is at the helm if that's what they're promising.
Instead, companies could set reasonable standards for productivity and discipline those who don't meet them. It doesn't matter if an unproductive employee is unproductive because they are on their phone, or because they spend too much time at the watercooler, or because they are just pretty bad at their jobs.
I think part of it is a (work) cultural problem.
At one employer, working in a sort of repair/assembly atmosphere, my boss text messaged while I was working. In fact, he sent several text messages.
Hours later he asked me, "Hey, I wanted to talk to you, didn't you get my text messages?"
I told him that I usually don't check my messages while I'm working, and that I could do that if it was what he wanted.
I didn't get the feeling he was testing me; I genuinely think he expected me to stop what I was doing, pick up my phone, and read my messages as I received them. I don't think he realizes that it means every time I get a text message, I have to stop what I'm doing and take out my phone to verify if it is from him. That from that point forward, every text I get is money out of my employers pocket.
When I was shopping for a car, maybe around 2009, I picked up the car edition of Consumer Reports. The car I was looking to replace was a late 80's Toyota Camry station wagon. I could reliably get 28 MPG on the highway, and maybe was getting 24 MPG on average, driving around suburbia.
After looking in the Consumer Reports at pages and pages of cars, I found that the average MPG was around 20, and highway driving was 24ish. The average 2009 car did not come close to the 20 year old car I was looking to replace. There were cars that were outliers, mostly Toyotas and Volkswagons, and these cars commanded a higher value for being more fuel efficient. I was thoroughly disgusted that in 20 years, the average car didn't beat mine.
Then again, I never looked at how bad the other cars were in the late 80's.
And, to cover any misunderstandings, if the phone has no carrier, it cannot transmit, either.
If by no carrier, you mean no nearby cell towers, I would agree.
If a phone has access to a carrier's tower, I would not be surprised to find out that it could transmit surreptitiously.
If you can make a 911 call on a phone without a sim card, I see no reason as to why a carrier couldn't track you via IMEI number. And if they can identify your IMEI, why couldn't they enable you to communicate without having a proper sim? Sure, this requires the government to be buddy-buddy with the carrier...
I read the article, trying to figure out who was targeting the activist. Israeli company NSO provides the attack to probably the UAE (who had previously been targeting Mansoor). NSO is majority owned by US private equity firm Francisco Partners. I wouldn't expect either group (Francisco/NSO) to be interested in quashing democracy in UAE.
Part of me wonders if this leak is somehow related to Snowden's mysterious messages a couple weeks ago. I can't find mention of Shadow Brokers on Google before this hack. (Granted, they may have wanted to remain hidden.) Did the Shadow Brokers exist before this hack? Did they adopt a new name because of the scale?
It is not on all devices yet, but you can bet it won't be long..
There are a number of lesser known phone manufacturers, and it seems to increase every day... Blu, Huawei, OnePlus, and others. For the most part, they aren't widely stocked by carriers, and so there is little market for them in the subsidized phone realm. Being that there is no carrier forcing them to lock down the phone, there is less reason for them to do things like locking bootloaders. There is no carrier bloatware to protect, and no carrier lock-in to attempt to enforce.
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There are plenty of male prostitutes. They hook up with men more often than women. They are rarely portrayed as being awesome.
Perhaps the line to draw is between people who are empowered and in a position to choose whether or not to prostitute, and those who lack better options. It's one thing to say "I can do this thing I enjoy and get paid for it", verses "I have to do this thing whether or not I enjoy it." I guess that applies to most lines of work in a way, but prostitutes can't collect unemployment, disability insurance, and maternity leave.
No, it means you have to change your security questions on all of your other accounts (even if you told them you grew up in Mordor and your favorite color is octarine.)
Not a Microsoft company.
Microsoft purchased the "Devices and Services division" of Nokia,
but the rest of Nokia is still Nokia.
- Not that long ago items purchased using "free shipping" arrived at my door 2-4 days after order; now its 2 weeks.
- Free shipping orders seem to sit in a queue for up to 10 calendar days before being shipped now.
Amazon has always given extended projections on their free shipping. So, you can look at it as:
1) They baited/conditioned you with faster than advertised shipping and switched to slower shipping (now that they've destroyed the competitors/developed a competing service), or
2) They've been giving you better service than stated, and now they're scaling back on it to cut costs.
I do agree that the whole thing stinks of "offer exceptional service, drive out competitors, drop quality of service, offer the old level of service for more money."
But at the same time, nobody made an agreement with Amazon that they would provide faster than advertised free shipping.
(For the record, my packages come in 4-7 days, in the suburb of a major city. They've pretty much always come in that time frame.)
As for customer service - I ordered an item (silicone pot holder assortment) from a third party. It was packaged incorrectly, and had 2 of one size and none of the other. I couldn't figure out how to contact the seller to request a replacement pot holder, so I used the customer service chat. After explaining my issue, he responded with something along the lines of "I'm sorry this happened. Would it be acceptable for me to credit your account with the price of the item?" Just like that, full refund for the third party item, got to keep the extra pot holders. That was in May of this year.
I'm not an Amazon fanboy (Disclaimer: I do own an Echo and a Kindle.) I think it was lame that they upped their free shipping threshold. Selling Prime only items seems like a shitty buisness model. Prime Pantry seems unnecessary/expensive. Their music app is clumsy, their online music library management is clumsy, trying to tell Echo to play music from my library can be clumsy, trying to find streaming video content is like navigating a god-damn Escher maze.
At the same time, they are doing things right. I've found music I had bought years ago on CD magically available for me to stream. Prime benefits keep getting...not necessarily better, but more diverse. They fill sort of a jack of all trades role. The money I was spending on Spotify or Pandora One (neither perfect) can go towards Prime. The online video content might keep me off of Netflix and Hulu for an extra month or two (if I can find anything worth watching). There is free Kindle content, and soon free Audible content (though I'd much sooner just pay for what I want before I let Amazon curate for me). For $99, I'm not excited about it, and I've been putting it off. But considering a Pandora subscription of around $60/year, to Spotify's $120, it starts to look attractive on its own - and that's before all the other junk Amazon is throwing in with it.
'We are seeing 60% fewer burrows in areas where we are using the dry ice,' said Charles Williams, Chicago's streets and sanitation commissioner. 'It's more environmentally friendly, and it's very humane on the rodents as well.'"
There is ongoing discussion over whether or not CO2 is humane for euthanizing rodents. It is not lack of oxygen that causes distress when holding your breath, but excess CO2. It is thought by some that lab and feeder rodents are put through unnecessary stress by using CO2 instead of an alternative gas/method.
Bits from CNN are no more important than bits from lemonparty.com
True. But I wouldn't mind if my Skype bits, Netflix bits, and online gaming bits arrived faster and more reliably than my torrent bits.
After the article about Sony boosting battery life ( https://hardware.slashdot.org/... ) I started looking for a way to stop my phone from charging past 80%. I was hoping to find an Xposed module that covered it, but no such luck. There don't seem to be any apps to do it, either.
Its interesting that Samsung cobbled together something to do it. I wonder if it is hardware specific, or can be exported to other devices.
You can get relatively small polypropylene caps with 1KV ratings, and even surface mount caps with 400V ratings (which you could then put in series). Once you initially exceed the breakdown voltage of the connected device, the supply voltage probably does a lot of the work for you (now that you've created an alternate path for it).
So... if I have a business unit that's losing money and I tell it to either turn a profit or they'll be laid off, am I responsible when the employees cheat and break the law to save their jobs because there's no other way?
If you give the employees an unreasonble goal with insufficient tools to reach it, and tell them that they will be fired if they cannot reach it - I think that makes you responsible for their actions. In fact, that sounds like the definition of coercion.
Now lets say your business isn't losing money, and the stock price has increased steadily since the fourth quarter of 2011 (like, say, Wells Fargo.) In this case, you have misrepresented the health of your company for the purpose of eliciting bad behavior. You don't have much of a defense in claiming ignorance because you have needlessly and intently set up the environment for this to happen. I would say that is absolutely criminal.
Keep voting for an all-powerful government - and reap what you sow.
But that's the only choice they've given me!
I feel like this is turning into a blood feud. One side blocks the ads, one side circumvents the blockers. Some members of the first side realize that ads are needed for some sites to thrive, some members of the second side realize they've gotten too intrusive with the ads. But mostly, both sides are too entrenched to make progress.
/. that they don't believe to be paywalled, but it becomes paywalled shortly after the rush of traffic.
On a side note, I recently became aware of metered paywalls - after allowing so many visitors, they throw up a paywall. So, for example, someone submits an article to
That we have to rely on corporations to make this fight for us is a sign of how bad off we are.
From http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_...
The results from the first study showed that Android users are perceived to have greater levels of honesty and humility, agreeableness and openness personality traits but are seen as less extroverted than iPhone users.
The results from the second study showed that most of the personality stereotypes did not occur in reality, as only honesty and humility was found in greater amounts within Android users.
I couldn't find the study. One article referenced source "Shaw H, Ellis D, Kendrick LR et al. Individual differences between iPhone and Android smartphone users. British Psychological Society. 2016."
So Russia is going to try to hack the US.
And the US isn't taking measures to protect itself from hackers.
So the obvious problem is that Wikileaks exists as a convenient place to dump the info. Right.
I think we're all well aware at this point that Teranos did not have a legitimate service. My point was simply that Theranos's claim of a groundbreaking technique was much more of a draw than seeing an attractive female CEO.
How much of the hype behind this company centered on the fact that its leader was a young, attractive, blonde woman from Stanford?
I would say not much. Theranos was promising drug tests that would be significantly cheaper than current tests. According to Theranos pricing, Basic Metabolic Panel for about $6 bucks, Lithium level for $5... Together those might cost $200 (without insurance). I couldn't give two shits about who is at the helm if that's what they're promising.
Instead, companies could set reasonable standards for productivity and discipline those who don't meet them. It doesn't matter if an unproductive employee is unproductive because they are on their phone, or because they spend too much time at the watercooler, or because they are just pretty bad at their jobs.
I think part of it is a (work) cultural problem.
At one employer, working in a sort of repair/assembly atmosphere, my boss text messaged while I was working. In fact, he sent several text messages.
Hours later he asked me, "Hey, I wanted to talk to you, didn't you get my text messages?"
I told him that I usually don't check my messages while I'm working, and that I could do that if it was what he wanted.
I didn't get the feeling he was testing me; I genuinely think he expected me to stop what I was doing, pick up my phone, and read my messages as I received them. I don't think he realizes that it means every time I get a text message, I have to stop what I'm doing and take out my phone to verify if it is from him. That from that point forward, every text I get is money out of my employers pocket.
When I was shopping for a car, maybe around 2009, I picked up the car edition of Consumer Reports. The car I was looking to replace was a late 80's Toyota Camry station wagon. I could reliably get 28 MPG on the highway, and maybe was getting 24 MPG on average, driving around suburbia.
After looking in the Consumer Reports at pages and pages of cars, I found that the average MPG was around 20, and highway driving was 24ish. The average 2009 car did not come close to the 20 year old car I was looking to replace. There were cars that were outliers, mostly Toyotas and Volkswagons, and these cars commanded a higher value for being more fuel efficient. I was thoroughly disgusted that in 20 years, the average car didn't beat mine.
Then again, I never looked at how bad the other cars were in the late 80's.
And, to cover any misunderstandings, if the phone has no carrier, it cannot transmit, either.
If by no carrier, you mean no nearby cell towers, I would agree.
If a phone has access to a carrier's tower, I would not be surprised to find out that it could transmit surreptitiously.
If you can make a 911 call on a phone without a sim card, I see no reason as to why a carrier couldn't track you via IMEI number. And if they can identify your IMEI, why couldn't they enable you to communicate without having a proper sim? Sure, this requires the government to be buddy-buddy with the carrier...
I read the article, trying to figure out who was targeting the activist. Israeli company NSO provides the attack to probably the UAE (who had previously been targeting Mansoor). NSO is majority owned by US private equity firm Francisco Partners. I wouldn't expect either group (Francisco/NSO) to be interested in quashing democracy in UAE.
How would you get an entire jury to agree on nullifying in a trial against Hillary? Why would they? Why would they want to?
Part of me wonders if this leak is somehow related to Snowden's mysterious messages a couple weeks ago.
I can't find mention of Shadow Brokers on Google before this hack. (Granted, they may have wanted to remain hidden.) Did the Shadow Brokers exist before this hack? Did they adopt a new name because of the scale?
It is not on all devices yet, but you can bet it won't be long..
There are a number of lesser known phone manufacturers, and it seems to increase every day... Blu, Huawei, OnePlus, and others. For the most part, they aren't widely stocked by carriers, and so there is little market for them in the subsidized phone realm. Being that there is no carrier forcing them to lock down the phone, there is less reason for them to do things like locking bootloaders. There is no carrier bloatware to protect, and no carrier lock-in to attempt to enforce.
You would be talking about OhMiBod. See also the website chaturbate (sex cam chat, often coupled with the OhMiBod vibrator.)
My bootloader is locked : (
Does this mean I might get to root my otherwise unrootable phone?