All gas stations are required to have a big emergency button mounted on the wall inside of the building that will immediately cut off the flow of fuel to the gas pumps when pushed....Push that button and no fuel is dispensed until the system is reset.
If the attendant somehow didn't know about that button, then that's a hazardous situation right there.
Even ignoring this, the theft went on for 90 minutes. Was there some reason the attendant couldn't get the cops to come out in less than an hour and a half and stop people from filling up?
Are you going to have trouble driving home through the snow? Or is it more ice on the roads now?
1) First question triggers answer based on geolocation (or maybe just giving the same location or closest major city to the caller). 2) Second question triggers response based on weather conditions for first answer. 3) The OP's point is there will be more harassment from telemarketing calls. What does it matter if they can pass a Turing Test or not? They're making my phone ring and bothering me either way, so I don't know how you see asking a bunch of questions to see if someone is an AI as a "solution" to the problem.
a modest settlement from each of the 'views' would pay production costs and turn a profit... even with their usual accounting practices and including lawyer fees... all without a single ticket sold in the theaters.
If Sony uploaded the movie then it's not copyright infringement to have viewed it, since it was provided by the distribution rights holder.
Slashdot trolls can be hidden at -1. Reddit trolls will often be right there in the middle of the comments. For example, I was reading a Reddit thread where someone began saying that (paraphrasing) "Jews aren't people because only those who believe in Jesus Christ are people." I've seen anti-Semitic comments like this on Slashdot before but I need to go to -1 to spot them usually. On Reddit, the comment is right there.
On Reddit you can't post as an AC, so there is no automatic -1/hidden. If the comment gets downvoted on Reddit it will get hidden, just like on Slashdot. The difference might be in how the default Reddit settings are as far as when something crosses this threshold and gets hidden. If I or you posted the anti-Semitic comment (as logged in users) it would be scored as 1 and visible depending on how many comments the story has.
Campbell was in a distant corner, on his knees, pecking at a MacBook on a coffee table. He was wearing a puffy black Eddie Bauer jacket over..
That sounds like the beginning of the gayest Letter to Penthouse ever.
...
“If I turn it on, it won’t make a difference, literally,” Campbell said with grim cheer. The thirty-fifth floor was dressed in the trappings of anonymous luxury: shell chairs, gas hearths, and an oyster sculpture on piled ice that radiated blue light, like a laptop keyboard. Campbell was in a distant corner, on his knees, pecking at a MacBook on a coffee table. He was wearing a puffy black Eddie Bauer jacket over a puffy charcoal-gray vest. His spectacles were pushed up on his forehead, nestled under a flop of gray hair. For some days, Campbell had been suffering from a chest cold, and, while speaking at a ribbon-cutting-type gathering that morning, he had been stricken with the stomach flu and evacuated mid-event. “I’m—under the weather,” he said faintly, clutching a tumbler of water and glancing nervously at the fog. When guests approached to wish him well, he murmured something about Murphy’s Law.
Campbell was in a distant corner, on his knees, pecking at a MacBook on a coffee table. He was wearing a puffy black Eddie Bauer jacket over...
That's the only appearance of it. Completely not-interesting. Could have just used the word "laptop" just as well, but we gotta get an Apple mention in there somewhere to drive traffic.
Last I remember, technology is a competitive business, not a hippie co-op.
Many of the connectivity interfaces Apple eschews are developed by partnerships between major technology players. It literally is a co-op.
Once you're dependent on someone else's products they suck the life out of you like the mafia.
They all contribute their own know-how to the standards and they all benefit without having to seek out licensing agreements with other companies directly to adopt a specific feature, because it becomes part of the standard. For an example of companies not following this logic, look to the cell phones that use USB-C but only support fast-charging via Qualcomm's proprietary "Quick Charge" feature, and not USB-PD.
Apple is even on the USB-IF group. If they felt the design of it was somehow lacking in what that wanted, they were in a position to make their voice heard. Instead they started a whole separate interface with it's own set of issues and fragmented the market for mobile accessories in the process. The reason ultimately seems be to start the "Certified for iPhone" program and becomes a tollbooth for people making those accessories, a decision that does not have the customer's best interests at heart.
KDE Mint feels kinda redundant to me when you have Kubuntu and KDE's own Neon. Why do we need a KDE version of a distro that is a derivative of another distro that is a derivative of Debian? So we can play more games of point the fingers when something doesn't work right?
You know what would reduce shipping emissions? Less shipping. Making more products local to the market and not having to transport them long distances is how you do that.
Or we could imagine a day where people's lives aren't dictated by whether they have a f'ing internet connection or not. Somehow humans have managed just fine for the past 10,000 years without Facebook.
I suppose you don't notice the irony in bringing up Facebook, another large corporation whose goal is to "own all the communications" and does so by buying up other companies that bring alternate means to the table?
A more resilient system of sharing information exists through use of Instant messenger/VoIP, email transmitted between servers owned by several companies, and personal space on the web defined by thousands of blogs hosted on providers stretching the globe. Not a cookie-cutter profile in a single huge data center.
Why bother trying to maintain their failed maps system when there are several others they could partner with?
Why does Apple continue to invent new interface standards and protocol/configuration methods when they could just use what literally every other company does and contribute their ideas back to the whole to improve them?
It's starting to feel more and more like they do it just to "be different". Not that their their way is necessarily better, but it has to be "special" in some way so that Apple's gullible users can convince themselves they are getting something more than just another version of the same things everyone else is using for the inflated prices they pay to be in the Cupertino ecosystem. "Because I'm on an iPhone I have access to Apple Maps, instead of having to use Google Maps.", "I can't borrow Tom's charger because it's Micro USB, and I need Lightning", "This computer is so much better because it has these newer USB-C ports on it -- I have to use an adapter because everyone else wont 'get with it' with their flash drives."
Note: I'm typing this on a MacBook that has an optical drive, Magsafe, USB-A ports, Ethernet, and a keyboard that will function when dusty. They don't make'em like they used to.
Isn't it awesome that we keep allowing these large internet providers to buy up more and more smaller ISPs and merge with other large companies.
Imagine a day when all of America can stand in solidarity, regardless of age, gender, skin color, or religious viewpoint -- and commiserate the lack of internet service we all share because "the Internet company" (which will likely be AT&T at that point), is having a nationwide outage.
Coming from Europe i was stunned by the amount of thin plastic bags the USA customers consume. Walmart happily packs 1 bottle of soda in a plastic bag. Spending $50 gets you home with at least a dozen of useless plastic bags.
Most people reuse those bags as liners on small trash cans, but I do agree people tend to get a few too many.
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In winter with no hour added sunrises happens at an earlier time, otherwise people would go to work in total darkness.
Only people in suburban Detroit. The rest of us have working streetlights.
I figured they'd rush to the scene of a crime against an oil company.
All gas stations are required to have a big emergency button mounted on the wall inside of the building that will immediately cut off the flow of fuel to the gas pumps when pushed....Push that button and no fuel is dispensed until the system is reset.
If the attendant somehow didn't know about that button, then that's a hazardous situation right there.
Even ignoring this, the theft went on for 90 minutes. Was there some reason the attendant couldn't get the cops to come out in less than an hour and a half and stop people from filling up?
The conception phase certainly is; manufacturing humans until fully functioning ... not so much.
Those costs are outsourced to parents for the most part.
It's cheaper for the company.. the only metric they really care about.
Easily solved:
1) First question triggers answer based on geolocation (or maybe just giving the same location or closest major city to the caller).
2) Second question triggers response based on weather conditions for first answer.
3) The OP's point is there will be more harassment from telemarketing calls. What does it matter if they can pass a Turing Test or not? They're making my phone ring and bothering me either way, so I don't know how you see asking a bunch of questions to see if someone is an AI as a "solution" to the problem.
News at 11.
a modest settlement from each of the 'views' would pay production costs and turn a profit... even with their usual accounting practices and including lawyer fees... all without a single ticket sold in the theaters.
If Sony uploaded the movie then it's not copyright infringement to have viewed it, since it was provided by the distribution rights holder.
Slashdot trolls can be hidden at -1. Reddit trolls will often be right there in the middle of the comments. For example, I was reading a Reddit thread where someone began saying that (paraphrasing) "Jews aren't people because only those who believe in Jesus Christ are people." I've seen anti-Semitic comments like this on Slashdot before but I need to go to -1 to spot them usually. On Reddit, the comment is right there.
On Reddit you can't post as an AC, so there is no automatic -1/hidden. If the comment gets downvoted on Reddit it will get hidden, just like on Slashdot. The difference might be in how the default Reddit settings are as far as when something crosses this threshold and gets hidden. If I or you posted the anti-Semitic comment (as logged in users) it would be scored as 1 and visible depending on how many comments the story has.
Damn. So close. How will I get back to 1984?
You only need to get back to October 26th, 1985. Maybe it will be enough.
That sounds like the beginning of the gayest Letter to Penthouse ever.
...
From the New Yorker article:
That's the only appearance of it. Completely not-interesting. Could have just used the word "laptop" just as well, but we gotta get an Apple mention in there somewhere to drive traffic.
Last I remember, technology is a competitive business, not a hippie co-op.
Many of the connectivity interfaces Apple eschews are developed by partnerships between major technology players. It literally is a co-op.
Once you're dependent on someone else's products they suck the life out of you like the mafia.
They all contribute their own know-how to the standards and they all benefit without having to seek out licensing agreements with other companies directly to adopt a specific feature, because it becomes part of the standard. For an example of companies not following this logic, look to the cell phones that use USB-C but only support fast-charging via Qualcomm's proprietary "Quick Charge" feature, and not USB-PD.
Apple is even on the USB-IF group. If they felt the design of it was somehow lacking in what that wanted, they were in a position to make their voice heard. Instead they started a whole separate interface with it's own set of issues and fragmented the market for mobile accessories in the process. The reason ultimately seems be to start the "Certified for iPhone" program and becomes a tollbooth for people making those accessories, a decision that does not have the customer's best interests at heart.
KDE Mint feels kinda redundant to me when you have Kubuntu and KDE's own Neon. Why do we need a KDE version of a distro that is a derivative of another distro that is a derivative of Debian? So we can play more games of point the fingers when something doesn't work right?
You know what would reduce shipping emissions? Less shipping.
Making more products local to the market and not having to transport them long distances is how you do that.
Or we could imagine a day where people's lives aren't dictated by whether they have a f'ing internet connection or not. Somehow humans have managed just fine for the past 10,000 years without Facebook.
I suppose you don't notice the irony in bringing up Facebook, another large corporation whose goal is to "own all the communications" and does so by buying up other companies that bring alternate means to the table?
A more resilient system of sharing information exists through use of Instant messenger/VoIP, email transmitted between servers owned by several companies, and personal space on the web defined by thousands of blogs hosted on providers stretching the globe. Not a cookie-cutter profile in a single huge data center.
Why bother trying to maintain their failed maps system when there are several others they could partner with?
Why does Apple continue to invent new interface standards and protocol/configuration methods when they could just use what literally every other company does and contribute their ideas back to the whole to improve them?
It's starting to feel more and more like they do it just to "be different". Not that their their way is necessarily better, but it has to be "special" in some way so that Apple's gullible users can convince themselves they are getting something more than just another version of the same things everyone else is using for the inflated prices they pay to be in the Cupertino ecosystem. "Because I'm on an iPhone I have access to Apple Maps, instead of having to use Google Maps.", "I can't borrow Tom's charger because it's Micro USB, and I need Lightning", "This computer is so much better because it has these newer USB-C ports on it -- I have to use an adapter because everyone else wont 'get with it' with their flash drives."
Note: I'm typing this on a MacBook that has an optical drive, Magsafe, USB-A ports, Ethernet, and a keyboard that will function when dusty. They don't make'em like they used to.
Isn't it awesome that we keep allowing these large internet providers to buy up more and more smaller ISPs and merge with other large companies.
Imagine a day when all of America can stand in solidarity, regardless of age, gender, skin color, or religious viewpoint -- and commiserate the lack of internet service we all share because "the Internet company" (which will likely be AT&T at that point), is having a nationwide outage.
I think you missed the reference due to Ill Communication.
Title 3 (III)? Yes, I think you're right
We just had a story about it yesterday.
We should break AT&T up into smaller regional AT&Ts.
That plan rings a Bell with me for some reason.
Hey, another reason to not subscribe to pay TV.
What a waste of time / judicial resources this was.
I still haven't seen any smartphones with sharp corners.
Lots of Sony smartphones have square corners.
So when you walk your dog - where do you put the poo?
You let the blue-coated inspector stop you and you happily surrender your full bags to them.
Coming from Europe i was stunned by the amount of thin plastic bags the USA customers consume. Walmart happily packs 1 bottle of soda in a plastic bag. Spending $50 gets you home with at least a dozen of useless plastic bags.
Most people reuse those bags as liners on small trash cans, but I do agree people tend to get a few too many.
the ability to add custom search engines to the location bar
I've been doing that for years now. Did Mozilla forget about their own feature, one of the features that keeps me on Firefox, I might add?