I'd imagine the GPS works just fine if you don't pay the subscription. Access to the information that it relays back would be the part of it that you lose, not the ability of the watch to pick up GPS signals or talk to the satellites.
Which brings me back to the original post: is there a service provider in the middle of Outback
Yes. The middleman will have the ability to know where your kid is, they just won't tell you without the subscription.
While I think that the parent to your post is slightly trolling, I do think that a valid point was raised and that your point was not really proven. That topic is fascinating to you but you don't have the right to dictate that all people should find it interesting, even smart ones. I know some really clever people who chose to study history because they find it interesting. However, I'd be pretty peeved if they hijacked a party conversation and tried to start a debate about a period in history that only they had any interest in talking about.
There are many things and topics in this world that deserve thought and debate but individuals will only care about some of them and rightly so. Just remember, things that are important to you don't mean that they're important to everyone and trying to force people to be interested is just silly. Heck, I like science, mathematics and engineering but I don't want to talk and debate those things 24/7. Sometimes I just want to sit around and talk about crap. Try it, it's fun!
I do agree that people should be taught the value of science and I would love to see the average understanding of scientific principles dragged out of the gutter, but I don't expect the majority of people to care about such debates as whether maths was discovered or invented (especially at a party of all places, unless it's a party for people into maths) just as I don't really give a crap about whether historical references to a king arthur are about the legendary figure or not. Just remember, it's a good thing to have people with a variety of interests.
Perhaps this is where social networking sites will evolve to: service providers for our information. It wouldn't be that greater step for the facebooks and myspaces of the world to add a bunch of servers and rent space on them with interfaces that can interact with cloud services. After all, it seems that most people already have an account and use it in order to store various photos and information about themselves.
If the technology for interacting with the cloud is open and well documented it'd make sure those who don't mind leaving their documents, data and information in the hands of 3rd parties can do so, while leaving the option to do it yourself open.
I'm quite cynical about the cloud at this point as there isn't nearly enough of a global network to make me want to have something relying on a connection to work. However, I think it's a nice idea for the future, if implemented sensibly and away from any political or corporate interests.
Sounds like you've never found an IDE that suits you. I've tried using the vim + gdb + strace type of development and gotten along just fine, but when you find a decent IDE with a good debugger, stack trace, good search facility, debug probe and a ton of other helpful tools it's hard to go back to messing around with lots of separate ones. I think it's important to be able to use the separate utilities to get a project done, and understand what you're doing with them, but why make life more difficult if you can get something that's integrated and does everything you need in one place?
Try to stop being so suspicious of people who like to work differently to you. It's likely they know how to use the tools you use but prefer an integrated environment to get their work done. Not everyone using an IDE is using it because they want their hands held. Those that do won't be using their IDE properly anyway.
You say that reading it out loud might not be recommended for programming but I find I catch a whole lot of mistakes is I get a co-worker to come over and let me explain what I've done to them. It's also a nice way to get improvements suggested so the code as a whole is better and I get to learn new ways of doing things.
One of my parents runs a small business. Two backups are made once a week onto USB thumb drives and once a month onto DVDs. One copy stays on site in a fireproof lock box and the other goes home with the named person. It's cheap, simple and covers most of the probable disasters. Sure, it's not perfect and I can think of lots of things that could go wrong. But just having the backup system in place makes it very likely that should data loss occur for some reason they have a decent chance of it not seriously interrupting their business. The point is, you don't have to even have a dedicated box to have a half way decent backup system for a small business.
Some of us have friends who are not quite so technologically savvy and these friends use facebook as their main mode of communication. They organise events, send messages and use it to circulate news. I tried getting along without it but it's just not practical when everyone else you know uses it for so many things.
Eventually when everyone gets fed up and turns to ad blockers, everybody will lose because the sites will either go subscription-only or shut down completely.
Or they'll move over to the third option: non-intrusive, non-annoying text-based ads. I'm just wondering how long it'll actually take advertisers to realise that being polite is actually quite productive.
Ditto for Southampton University. None of my lecturers ever tried to make me buy their books and all of them provided full lecture notes.
The only times they required us to read parts of specific books they would either photocopy the pages or make sure that the book was available in the library so we could go and find it.
Please excuse my ignorance of the American trial rules (I'm in the UK and over here you can't even take a photo during a trial). Would an open trial mean that a person could go in with a dicta phone and record the trial anyway? I've seen plenty of excerpts from American trials on the news. Do you have to be a member of the press or get consent to film or record? Just interested as I've never really understood what can and can't be done.
Apologies if I've missed something. From what I can gather there were some complaints about ads being messed with in non-participating websites during some of the trials, hence the reason I thought this was a part of the main plan.
Do you know if the ads in participating sites will be there in the actual web page or if they'll be stuffed in during transit of the page to my browser? Curious as the latter might mean having to download the stupid things regardless of whether I want to or not.
Phorm wants to inject ads into web pages at the ISP level. They want them to be targeted so not only do they want to alter web content without the owners or receivers consent, they also want to take a look at all web traffic first (deep packet inspection) and keep a history so they can better target the ads. It's opt-out because otherwise no-one would even touch it.
Now, I'm not going to even try to claim that I'm unbiased as living in the UK means that this monstrosity may well hit me but I think that's not an entirely inaccurate explanation. I really hope that the EC manages to step in and squash Phorm and maybe even slap BT with a giant fine.
My website content has been written to look how I want it to look. I block many ads as a policy as I don't want crap clogging up my screen or distracting me. Now they want to bypass both my content layout in my website *and* throw ads at me even though I have zero interest in them. Asshats.
It's also a problem that if a teacher doesn't think a student will achieve a decent grade they wont enter them for the exam or will only enter them for an easier paper (where they can't attain higher than a certain grade. In my day D was the highest possible for a foundation paper. Useless).
The problem with UK schools is that they are increasingly trying to meet government targets. It's getting more difficult for kids to fail.
A child can work really hard, learn a lot and get good grades. Those grades are deserved and that kid will be better set up for later life. They will also be able to study at a more in depth level if they work hard, they just wont be tested on it so it's not compulsory for the teachers to teach that material. However, a kid can also scrape by with minimum effort and still pass. Heck, they might only be a grade below those smart kids who work hard. They'll find it harder later on though.
I find it annoying when British kids get angry at people like me who say it's getting easier* as they should be angry at the government for making ti so much harder for the smart ones to stand out.
* Having been in an academic year where I could do both the old A-levels and the new AS levels I got a good first hand comparison. The AS-levels are much, much simpler but broader in scope. I would assume the same sort of dumbing down has happened all through the school system
Smart move, raiding the home of a person involved in a website devoted to leaking crappy behavior by companies and governments. Even smarter citing wishy-washy reasons for doing so. Real smart.
I spend well within my limits, to the point of being able to save a good chunk of my pay every month. I also pay all of my bills on time, or if possible ahead of time (e.g. one month ahead on rent). The problem I have is that I get uncomfortable spending money if I'm not 100% sure I don't need it for something else. Hence the spending account, I know that whatever is in there is fair game.
Er...it's not a solution to the debit card problem, it's a solution to organising my money in a way that I never have to worry about spending what I don't have and gives me peace of mind. The side effect is that I can use a debit card and also not worry about being robbed blind.
The reason for using debit over credit is that you don't put your credit at risk. Forgetting a credit card bill can damage your credit rating, even if it's just with your bank. For many people (and not just plain old irresponsible ones) credit cards are dangerous.
Using a debit card and separated accounts is like driving from A to B via C because the direct road from A to B is known to be dangerous.
Perhaps you should think about organising your money a little differently. I have 3 accounts: Savings, Dumping account (where my pay cheque gets "dumped" into) and my spending account. I pay rent and bills from my dumping account when I get paid. I then put some into my savings account and then pay myself what I need for the month into my spending account. The only debit card I use is for my spending account, ensuring that if anyone manages to commit fraud on that card, the maximum I lose is 1 month plus whatever was left over from the previous month (if the amount starts building up I just move it to savings).
It works quite well since I know I'm not spending money that I don't have or is meant for something else and I don't have to worry about someone nicking everything I have.
To me, walking around with a debit card with access to all of your money is like walking around with your life savings in your wallet: stupid.
I also have a credit card on my spending account but that's just so I can boost my credit rating. That and buying things like plane tickets or any service that is at risk of not materialising is protected. In that case credit cards are indeed better.
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I'd imagine the GPS works just fine if you don't pay the subscription. Access to the information that it relays back would be the part of it that you lose, not the ability of the watch to pick up GPS signals or talk to the satellites.
Which brings me back to the original post: is there a service provider in the middle of Outback
Yes. The middleman will have the ability to know where your kid is, they just won't tell you without the subscription.
Pfft! Python makes it easy:
import suicide-python
Pfft! You are so wrong!
While I think that the parent to your post is slightly trolling, I do think that a valid point was raised and that your point was not really proven. That topic is fascinating to you but you don't have the right to dictate that all people should find it interesting, even smart ones. I know some really clever people who chose to study history because they find it interesting. However, I'd be pretty peeved if they hijacked a party conversation and tried to start a debate about a period in history that only they had any interest in talking about.
There are many things and topics in this world that deserve thought and debate but individuals will only care about some of them and rightly so. Just remember, things that are important to you don't mean that they're important to everyone and trying to force people to be interested is just silly. Heck, I like science, mathematics and engineering but I don't want to talk and debate those things 24/7. Sometimes I just want to sit around and talk about crap. Try it, it's fun!
I do agree that people should be taught the value of science and I would love to see the average understanding of scientific principles dragged out of the gutter, but I don't expect the majority of people to care about such debates as whether maths was discovered or invented (especially at a party of all places, unless it's a party for people into maths) just as I don't really give a crap about whether historical references to a king arthur are about the legendary figure or not. Just remember, it's a good thing to have people with a variety of interests.
We used to call these places of higher learning "Universities". I can't speak for places outside of the UK but here they're turning into paper mills.
Perhaps this is where social networking sites will evolve to: service providers for our information. It wouldn't be that greater step for the facebooks and myspaces of the world to add a bunch of servers and rent space on them with interfaces that can interact with cloud services. After all, it seems that most people already have an account and use it in order to store various photos and information about themselves.
If the technology for interacting with the cloud is open and well documented it'd make sure those who don't mind leaving their documents, data and information in the hands of 3rd parties can do so, while leaving the option to do it yourself open.
I'm quite cynical about the cloud at this point as there isn't nearly enough of a global network to make me want to have something relying on a connection to work. However, I think it's a nice idea for the future, if implemented sensibly and away from any political or corporate interests.
Here in the UK it's more like a minute+. Why wait if I can rip my DVDs and save that time?
Sounds like you've never found an IDE that suits you. I've tried using the vim + gdb + strace type of development and gotten along just fine, but when you find a decent IDE with a good debugger, stack trace, good search facility, debug probe and a ton of other helpful tools it's hard to go back to messing around with lots of separate ones. I think it's important to be able to use the separate utilities to get a project done, and understand what you're doing with them, but why make life more difficult if you can get something that's integrated and does everything you need in one place?
Try to stop being so suspicious of people who like to work differently to you. It's likely they know how to use the tools you use but prefer an integrated environment to get their work done. Not everyone using an IDE is using it because they want their hands held. Those that do won't be using their IDE properly anyway.
You Sir, have just improved my programming productivity ten fold!
You say that reading it out loud might not be recommended for programming but I find I catch a whole lot of mistakes is I get a co-worker to come over and let me explain what I've done to them. It's also a nice way to get improvements suggested so the code as a whole is better and I get to learn new ways of doing things.
One of my parents runs a small business. Two backups are made once a week onto USB thumb drives and once a month onto DVDs. One copy stays on site in a fireproof lock box and the other goes home with the named person. It's cheap, simple and covers most of the probable disasters.
Sure, it's not perfect and I can think of lots of things that could go wrong. But just having the backup system in place makes it very likely that should data loss occur for some reason they have a decent chance of it not seriously interrupting their business.
The point is, you don't have to even have a dedicated box to have a half way decent backup system for a small business.
Some of us have friends who are not quite so technologically savvy and these friends use facebook as their main mode of communication. They organise events, send messages and use it to circulate news. I tried getting along without it but it's just not practical when everyone else you know uses it for so many things.
Eventually when everyone gets fed up and turns to ad blockers, everybody will lose because the sites will either go subscription-only or shut down completely.
Or they'll move over to the third option: non-intrusive, non-annoying text-based ads. I'm just wondering how long it'll actually take advertisers to realise that being polite is actually quite productive.
I'm assuming that not even a governmental department can be stupid enough not to have copies of the backups in a fire safe, off-site location.
Ditto for Southampton University. None of my lecturers ever tried to make me buy their books and all of them provided full lecture notes.
The only times they required us to read parts of specific books they would either photocopy the pages or make sure that the book was available in the library so we could go and find it.
Please excuse my ignorance of the American trial rules (I'm in the UK and over here you can't even take a photo during a trial). Would an open trial mean that a person could go in with a dicta phone and record the trial anyway? I've seen plenty of excerpts from American trials on the news. Do you have to be a member of the press or get consent to film or record? Just interested as I've never really understood what can and can't be done.
Apologies if I've missed something. From what I can gather there were some complaints about ads being messed with in non-participating websites during some of the trials, hence the reason I thought this was a part of the main plan.
Do you know if the ads in participating sites will be there in the actual web page or if they'll be stuffed in during transit of the page to my browser? Curious as the latter might mean having to download the stupid things regardless of whether I want to or not.
Phorm wants to inject ads into web pages at the ISP level. They want them to be targeted so not only do they want to alter web content without the owners or receivers consent, they also want to take a look at all web traffic first (deep packet inspection) and keep a history so they can better target the ads. It's opt-out because otherwise no-one would even touch it.
Now, I'm not going to even try to claim that I'm unbiased as living in the UK means that this monstrosity may well hit me but I think that's not an entirely inaccurate explanation. I really hope that the EC manages to step in and squash Phorm and maybe even slap BT with a giant fine.
My website content has been written to look how I want it to look. I block many ads as a policy as I don't want crap clogging up my screen or distracting me. Now they want to bypass both my content layout in my website *and* throw ads at me even though I have zero interest in them. Asshats.
It's also a problem that if a teacher doesn't think a student will achieve a decent grade they wont enter them for the exam or will only enter them for an easier paper (where they can't attain higher than a certain grade. In my day D was the highest possible for a foundation paper. Useless).
The problem with UK schools is that they are increasingly trying to meet government targets. It's getting more difficult for kids to fail.
A child can work really hard, learn a lot and get good grades. Those grades are deserved and that kid will be better set up for later life. They will also be able to study at a more in depth level if they work hard, they just wont be tested on it so it's not compulsory for the teachers to teach that material. However, a kid can also scrape by with minimum effort and still pass. Heck, they might only be a grade below those smart kids who work hard. They'll find it harder later on though.
I find it annoying when British kids get angry at people like me who say it's getting easier* as they should be angry at the government for making ti so much harder for the smart ones to stand out.
* Having been in an academic year where I could do both the old A-levels and the new AS levels I got a good first hand comparison. The AS-levels are much, much simpler but broader in scope. I would assume the same sort of dumbing down has happened all through the school system
Smart move, raiding the home of a person involved in a website devoted to leaking crappy behavior by companies and governments. Even smarter citing wishy-washy reasons for doing so. Real smart.
I spend well within my limits, to the point of being able to save a good chunk of my pay every month. I also pay all of my bills on time, or if possible ahead of time (e.g. one month ahead on rent). The problem I have is that I get uncomfortable spending money if I'm not 100% sure I don't need it for something else. Hence the spending account, I know that whatever is in there is fair game.
Things like Spotify do though.
Er...it's not a solution to the debit card problem, it's a solution to organising my money in a way that I never have to worry about spending what I don't have and gives me peace of mind. The side effect is that I can use a debit card and also not worry about being robbed blind.
The reason for using debit over credit is that you don't put your credit at risk. Forgetting a credit card bill can damage your credit rating, even if it's just with your bank. For many people (and not just plain old irresponsible ones) credit cards are dangerous.
Using a debit card and separated accounts is like driving from A to B via C because the direct road from A to B is known to be dangerous.
Perhaps you should think about organising your money a little differently. I have 3 accounts: Savings, Dumping account (where my pay cheque gets "dumped" into) and my spending account. I pay rent and bills from my dumping account when I get paid. I then put some into my savings account and then pay myself what I need for the month into my spending account. The only debit card I use is for my spending account, ensuring that if anyone manages to commit fraud on that card, the maximum I lose is 1 month plus whatever was left over from the previous month (if the amount starts building up I just move it to savings).
It works quite well since I know I'm not spending money that I don't have or is meant for something else and I don't have to worry about someone nicking everything I have.
To me, walking around with a debit card with access to all of your money is like walking around with your life savings in your wallet: stupid.
I also have a credit card on my spending account but that's just so I can boost my credit rating. That and buying things like plane tickets or any service that is at risk of not materialising is protected. In that case credit cards are indeed better.