If you have a computer or router or modem in your bedroom, cover the LEDs. It makes a huge difference. Get it nice and dark in there and you'll get the best sleep of your life. Turn the computer off, and if you've got one of those goofy gaming mice where the LED lights don't turn off when the computer goes down, cover it with a dark cloth.
Easier said than done. I have a Motorola cable modem, as do a large swath of the American population, and while I have electrical tape over the front panel the back of the panel itself is not isolated from the rest of the casing, which is full of holes for ventilation. So even with the lights "covered" there is a cascade of light that comes through the back of the device, onto the walls and ceiling, from those same LEDs. I can't very well cover the whole modem up and block all the ventilation (and yes, I do have things that use the internet at night when I sleep so just unplugging it every night is also not an option).
Because cars got more efficient, there's less gas tax revenue to fix them.
No, there's less gas tax revenue because gas taxes have not being increased to keep up with inflation. So the money you're getting now doesn't go as far in road maintenance expenses than it did before.
What is "fully cooked"? Is a rare burger "fully cooked"? Or does it have to be medium? Or well?
Fully cooked as in well done. Because of the chance of E.coli infection and making the process as automated as possible, all burgers are cooked to remove all pink from them. This is standard practice at fast food restaurants because the product is cooked and already binned before the customer steps up to order. The burgers are cooked over a gas-fired boiler with a chain conveyor belt. There isn't any real practical way to cook burgers to-order on doneness this way -- they get dropped as frozen patties on one side, and emerge fully cooked as one of many on the other. You would have to place a single patty on the belt and manually increase the speed of the chain, or lower the temperature, while that one burger finished it's three-or-so minute journey to cook it any way other than standard.
The microwaving is just to boost the temperature after they are taken out,
Boosting the temperature boosts how done it is - doneness is a measure of temperature, not time. (That's why meat thermometers are bracketed into Rare/Medium/Well Done zones.)
Doneness is a measure of internal temperature when the burger is being removed from the cooking surface.
The burger is not being microwaved as soon as it exits the broiler, it's being zapped after it's taken out of the steam tray but before the dressing and condiments are applied. It's been sitting in the steam tray for up to several minutes since it was cooked and has lost most of its heat by this point. The peak temperature of the burger was when it dropped off the chain at the end of the broiling. The microwaving is not raising the meat's temperature above that -- so it is not cooking it any more thoroughly. Note: When the burger exits the boiler, you needed tongs to pick it up, but when preparing burgers the sandwich is picked up with your hands from the microwave.
...they also used Kit-Kat. Both names with few (non-trademarked and widely recognized) choices. Your point?
"Popsicle" is really one of the first things that (pardon the pun) pops into people's heads when looking for a dessert or confection that starts with "P". While the term may be owned by someone, it's one of those words that has come to describe a common noun (like Kleenex for any facial tissue). "Pop-Rocks" is a bit dated from being linked to a specific period of time, and "Pez" isn't as popular. "Pixy-Stix" has some chance here, but note that that last couple major Android versions (7.0 and 8.0) have shipped in late August, which is the hottest part of summer in most of the U.S.
What better way to cool off this summer, than with an ice cold Popsicle, eh?
What makes Popsicle such an "obvious choice," especially considering it's a trademark? If they want to deal with getting trademark permissions (as they've done on some past occasions), then Pez, or Pixy-stix, or Pop Rocks, or...
Obviously they have no issue with it, since they used Oreo.
This really sucks since i store itunesmedia on a nas thats backed up every two hours with rsync. precisely to avoid having duplicate files everywhere. I do not care to have my files backed up via icloud and rented back to me.
Are the filenames being rotated around by iTunes on a regular basis or something? I'm having trouble seeing how this would cause "duplicate files". I have my iTunes library being synced to my NAS, too, and while the iTunes library files get replaced regularly, the only other file changes are actual music that has been added, removed, or changed location from me editing tags on the source machine (I let iTunes organize it by tag info). The linking of the actual LP content file to the music album should be included in your iTunes Library files, so if you did a restore it would still work. Unless you're syncing this between multiple machines and they are maintaining separate Library files of their own. In any case they aren't using gobs of storage.
I never really got into iTunes LPs and only have a couple. At this point I look for music files on Bandcamp, Amazon's MP3 Store, and iTunes -- in that order. If I want all the linear notes and stuff I'll just buy the physical disc.
Also to GP, they microwave it after "charbroiling" it to finish it off (this may have changed, it's been over a decade since I was an employee in the industry.)
Do you seriously think microwaving a burger for 11 seconds actually cooks the meat in some way? They may be higher wattage commercial-grade microwaves, but -- no.
The burgers exit the boiler fully cooked and are put on a bun and into a steam tray to help them stay warm during their holding period. The microwaving is just to boost the temperature after they are taken out, before being assembled into a final sandwich per order.
Source: Worked two years at Burger King back in high school.
Apple could kill off iTunes in the near future, a new report suggests. It cites an email that Apple reportedly wrote to people in the music industry recently, announcing the "end of iTunes LPs."
That's all I had to read to realize this article was submitted by an idiot. "iTunes" the music application/media store portal is NOT the same thing as "iTunes LPs". All they are doing is getting rid of a special content-addition option for album sales on the music store that let publishers include digital version of the booklets that normally accompany physical CDs, containing linear notes, photos, and other printed content from the band.
The person who owns and paid for it? What if it wasn't hacked and it's just simple sharing of accounts? Is that threat worthy? Would they rather have no customers than 1 guy paying while several use it?
If you RTFS, they are specifically talking about free account users. No one is paying for anything here.
Here's one more example. In fact, the neural network hallucinated sheep every time it saw a landscape of this type. What's going on here?
Computers don't recognize organic life forms. A "sheep" is nothing more than a pattern of pixels. In this case, a black snout, white body, and black legs below -- like this. Do we see anything similar to that in the picture?
Spotify said, "In addition, Apple and Google also own application store platforms and are charging in-application purchase fees, which are not being levied on their own applications, thus creating a competitive advantage for themselves against us..."
that Apple doesn't give away their razors, and people are willing to pay a premium for the ability to pay for Apple App store goods...
Give away their razors -- are you seriously talking about iPhones and iPads here?
The most popular apps on the App Store are for third-party companies, and many of them are free apps because they are used as doorways to services whose revenue comes from datamining and reselling info to markers (any social networking app), or are subscribed to in a separate manner (video service apps). People may be willing to spend more on iOS apps than Android when you're looking at the numbers, but the revenue from those apps is not about to come close to the margins on the devices themselves. Apple does not have the home-grown popular services with recurring subscription revenue to justify making the device cheap.
I often need to whack a broken cookie for a single site. Now I have to blow out all my logins (and worse, my user's logins) just to fix one bad cookie?
It appears they are grouping all local data (cookies, cache, etc) under one heading per site. You can still search by site and remove data specific to that site, leaving other sites' data untouched, but you can't clear only cookies and leave cache, or just one cookie out of several, for example.
I suppose that if a large number of people use the same PC and user account, then yes, you will wipe out all other users' cache and cookies for the same domain. I guess Mozilla assumes most people would have a separate user account on the OS from other users, or would utilize separate browser profiles in some way to keep their data segregated from other surfers' info.
A 12-year-old gamer heard a knock at his door Sunday -- which turned out to be "teams of Los Angeles police officers and other rescue personnel who believed two people had just hung themselves." The Los Angeles Police Department "said there's no way to initially discern swatting calls from actually emergencies, so they handle every scenario as if someone's life is in danger,"
And they didn't suspect something was amiss when someone answered the door?
The sent out some SMS alert earlier this month talking about "an industry-wide phone number port out scam" https://www.t-mobile.com/custo...
I noticed that happened right after that story about the man who lost the cryptocurrency after his (2FA used) T-Mobile number was ported to an attacker's account on AT&T because the T-Mobile rep got social engineered it sounds like.
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If you have a computer or router or modem in your bedroom, cover the LEDs. It makes a huge difference. Get it nice and dark in there and you'll get the best sleep of your life. Turn the computer off, and if you've got one of those goofy gaming mice where the LED lights don't turn off when the computer goes down, cover it with a dark cloth.
Easier said than done. I have a Motorola cable modem, as do a large swath of the American population, and while I have electrical tape over the front panel the back of the panel itself is not isolated from the rest of the casing, which is full of holes for ventilation. So even with the lights "covered" there is a cascade of light that comes through the back of the device, onto the walls and ceiling, from those same LEDs. I can't very well cover the whole modem up and block all the ventilation (and yes, I do have things that use the internet at night when I sleep so just unplugging it every night is also not an option).
Because cars got more efficient, there's less gas tax revenue to fix them.
No, there's less gas tax revenue because gas taxes have not being increased to keep up with inflation. So the money you're getting now doesn't go as far in road maintenance expenses than it did before.
The burgers exit the boiler fully cooked
What is "fully cooked"? Is a rare burger "fully cooked"? Or does it have to be medium? Or well?
Fully cooked as in well done. Because of the chance of E.coli infection and making the process as automated as possible, all burgers are cooked to remove all pink from them. This is standard practice at fast food restaurants because the product is cooked and already binned before the customer steps up to order. The burgers are cooked over a gas-fired boiler with a chain conveyor belt. There isn't any real practical way to cook burgers to-order on doneness this way -- they get dropped as frozen patties on one side, and emerge fully cooked as one of many on the other. You would have to place a single patty on the belt and manually increase the speed of the chain, or lower the temperature, while that one burger finished it's three-or-so minute journey to cook it any way other than standard.
The microwaving is just to boost the temperature after they are taken out,
Boosting the temperature boosts how done it is - doneness is a measure of temperature, not time. (That's why meat thermometers are bracketed into Rare/Medium/Well Done zones.)
Doneness is a measure of internal temperature when the burger is being removed from the cooking surface.
The burger is not being microwaved as soon as it exits the broiler, it's being zapped after it's taken out of the steam tray but before the dressing and condiments are applied. It's been sitting in the steam tray for up to several minutes since it was cooked and has lost most of its heat by this point. The peak temperature of the burger was when it dropped off the chain at the end of the broiling. The microwaving is not raising the meat's temperature above that -- so it is not cooking it any more thoroughly. Note: When the burger exits the boiler, you needed tongs to pick it up, but when preparing burgers the sandwich is picked up with your hands from the microwave.
...they also used Kit-Kat. Both names with few (non-trademarked and widely recognized) choices. Your point?
"Popsicle" is really one of the first things that (pardon the pun) pops into people's heads when looking for a dessert or confection that starts with "P". While the term may be owned by someone, it's one of those words that has come to describe a common noun (like Kleenex for any facial tissue). "Pop-Rocks" is a bit dated from being linked to a specific period of time, and "Pez" isn't as popular. "Pixy-Stix" has some chance here, but note that that last couple major Android versions (7.0 and 8.0) have shipped in late August, which is the hottest part of summer in most of the U.S.
What better way to cool off this summer, than with an ice cold Popsicle, eh?
I was hoping to see inside Uranus.
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OKAY! It's been posted. Sorry folks, you're too late to make the joke now.
What makes Popsicle such an "obvious choice," especially considering it's a trademark? If they want to deal with getting trademark permissions (as they've done on some past occasions), then Pez, or Pixy-stix, or Pop Rocks, or ...
Obviously they have no issue with it, since they used Oreo.
My device is over a year old now.
It shipped with M, got upgraded to N, and while I haven't done it yet, O is available for it now.
I know playing and hacking tech for fun is a thing. But really why even bother trying this?... Surely their are better projects to waste ones time on?
Getting Linux to run on a toaster is of questionable value when a Raspberry PI is so inexpensive, but people still want to do it.
It's called a hobby.
This really sucks since i store itunesmedia on a nas thats backed up every two hours with rsync. precisely to avoid having duplicate files everywhere. I do not care to have my files backed up via icloud and rented back to me.
Are the filenames being rotated around by iTunes on a regular basis or something? I'm having trouble seeing how this would cause "duplicate files". I have my iTunes library being synced to my NAS, too, and while the iTunes library files get replaced regularly, the only other file changes are actual music that has been added, removed, or changed location from me editing tags on the source machine (I let iTunes organize it by tag info). The linking of the actual LP content file to the music album should be included in your iTunes Library files, so if you did a restore it would still work. Unless you're syncing this between multiple machines and they are maintaining separate Library files of their own. In any case they aren't using gobs of storage.
I never really got into iTunes LPs and only have a couple. At this point I look for music files on Bandcamp, Amazon's MP3 Store, and iTunes -- in that order. If I want all the linear notes and stuff I'll just buy the physical disc.
Also to GP, they microwave it after "charbroiling" it to finish it off (this may have changed, it's been over a decade since I was an employee in the industry.)
Do you seriously think microwaving a burger for 11 seconds actually cooks the meat in some way? They may be higher wattage commercial-grade microwaves, but -- no.
The burgers exit the boiler fully cooked and are put on a bun and into a steam tray to help them stay warm during their holding period. The microwaving is just to boost the temperature after they are taken out, before being assembled into a final sandwich per order.
Source: Worked two years at Burger King back in high school.
That's all I had to read to realize this article was submitted by an idiot. "iTunes" the music application/media store portal is NOT the same thing as "iTunes LPs". All they are doing is getting rid of a special content-addition option for album sales on the music store that let publishers include digital version of the booklets that normally accompany physical CDs, containing linear notes, photos, and other printed content from the band.
The person who owns and paid for it? What if it wasn't hacked and it's just simple sharing of accounts? Is that threat worthy? Would they rather have no customers than 1 guy paying while several use it?
If you RTFS, they are specifically talking about free account users. No one is paying for anything here.
Here's one more example. In fact, the neural network hallucinated sheep every time it saw a landscape of this type. What's going on here?
Computers don't recognize organic life forms. A "sheep" is nothing more than a pattern of pixels. In this case, a black snout, white body, and black legs below -- like this. Do we see anything similar to that in the picture?
Spotify said, "In addition, Apple and Google also own application store platforms and are charging in-application purchase fees, which are not being levied on their own applications, thus creating a competitive advantage for themselves against us..."
Sounds like lining up an excuse for investors.
that Apple doesn't give away their razors, and people are willing to pay a premium for the ability to pay for Apple App store goods...
Give away their razors -- are you seriously talking about iPhones and iPads here?
The most popular apps on the App Store are for third-party companies, and many of them are free apps because they are used as doorways to services whose revenue comes from datamining and reselling info to markers (any social networking app), or are subscribed to in a separate manner (video service apps). People may be willing to spend more on iOS apps than Android when you're looking at the numbers, but the revenue from those apps is not about to come close to the margins on the devices themselves. Apple does not have the home-grown popular services with recurring subscription revenue to justify making the device cheap.
Outside of EU, Facebook looks at YOU!
I'm waiting for the C# band, it's a much less intimidating band.
Shouldn't the sharp ones be more intimidating?
I often need to whack a broken cookie for a single site. Now I have to blow out all my logins (and worse, my user's logins) just to fix one bad cookie?
It appears they are grouping all local data (cookies, cache, etc) under one heading per site. You can still search by site and remove data specific to that site, leaving other sites' data untouched, but you can't clear only cookies and leave cache, or just one cookie out of several, for example.
I suppose that if a large number of people use the same PC and user account, then yes, you will wipe out all other users' cache and cookies for the same domain. I guess Mozilla assumes most people would have a separate user account on the OS from other users, or would utilize separate browser profiles in some way to keep their data segregated from other surfers' info.
UBlock Origin installed here.
Can see article images fine.
No ads (unless you count the other Verge story plugs at the bottom).
I'll have to get myself a man-purse to carry it in.
I'm so glad dropbox deletes old files, that way when I go and click on a link from a forum post from 2014 it no longer works. Thanks dropbox!
It deletes files on accounts no longer being used. Not old files.because of the date.
What "endless-growth" unicorn will Wall Street chase now that the time of cell phone sales is ending?
A 12-year-old gamer heard a knock at his door Sunday -- which turned out to be "teams of Los Angeles police officers and other rescue personnel who believed two people had just hung themselves." The Los Angeles Police Department "said there's no way to initially discern swatting calls from actually emergencies, so they handle every scenario as if someone's life is in danger,"
And they didn't suspect something was amiss when someone answered the door?
It makes sense that Koum didn't change his worldview just because of that.
Cool story, bro. But if you RTFS, you'll see it's Acton they're talking about.
The sent out some SMS alert earlier this month talking about "an industry-wide phone number port out scam"
https://www.t-mobile.com/custo...
I noticed that happened right after that story about the man who lost the cryptocurrency after his (2FA used) T-Mobile number was ported to an attacker's account on AT&T because the T-Mobile rep got social engineered it sounds like.