I usually buy the item and try out the features that matter knowing its guaranteed. Why should I read what some random fool who probably didn't really care at all or didn't even buy says on the Internet?
A bad review may save you the time of having to try out an obviously dodgy product, and having to pack it up and send back again
Same thing if you buy something as a gift. In that case you really don't have the opportunity to try it out, and you want to avoid the embarrassment of giving something that doesn't work
Well, if this drags on beyond 31st of October, he won't be able to leave the UK anyways, as there will be not flights... (airlines need a deal with airports where they depart from and land...)
In Europe, filling stations have cameras. When you just drive off when done, you'll be caught pretty quickly...
I'm not sure what happens if somebody would pull this stunt in a stolen car... never heard of any such occurrence
At night, when the card readers are in operation, you do indeed have to insert card before you start pumping (but amount is booked after you're done, obviously, as quantity pumped is not known before).
Have human staff on duty when the gas station is operational.
This was done at night when the station was not operational in manual mode, but rather automatic.
People can still fill up using a credit card inserted into a slot next to the pump.
Using their magic remote, the thieves switched station into daytime mode (where you're supposed to pay inside after filling up...) , filled up the van, and switched it back to night-time mode.
Only protection here would be to give up the night business, but then the station would lose (paying) night-time customers to their neighbor who do have open 24/24.
Or they could just integrate their system with Pwned Passwords [haveibeenpwned.com], which is a service set up for this very purpose already.
Honestly, how would this work? Send every single one of their passwords to haveibeenpwned.com to have it verified? Then what if haveibeenpwned.com abuses this to build a nice database of passwords to attempt on each participating domain?
That's quite some slog from the couch all the way to the control unit on the wall, though.
Smart thermostats have other uses:
Timers. Set it up so that it turns off when you're off to work, and back on just before you come home
Controlling it from somewhat further away than from the couch. For instance, if you unexpectedly finish work early, you can remotely turn on your thermostat at home just before leaving the office, so that it's warm and cosy by the time you arrive
He's got enough here to show the judges are being paid and we need to start getting polices and sherrifs involved to investigate and ensure we don't have a pedophilia ring operating here, or something worse.
Dude, in simpler words its called "running in the family". And indeed, an older sibling did have a mitochondrial condition. And for that sibling, a biopsy had indeed been done that confirmed the disease.
anybody can put together a professional looking website with articles that seem to be written by journalists.
... but these old farts also share articles that have obviously not been written by a journalist. Journalists can spell. Journalists can write grammatically and semantically coherent sentences. Journalists don't need google translate to make sense of foreign sources.
Same way that my council collects my rubbish "for free" because if you charged me specifically to take my rubbish away, all those people who can't afford things will sacrifice rubbish collection and
Somebody, please tell this the Luxembourgish communal authorities... Have you ever seen garbage cans with locks on them? Surprise: in Esch-sur-Alzette you have them! No, it's not to prevent people from stealing your garbage, but rather to prevent them from adding to it.
turn all the poor areas of the city into unofficial municipal rubbish tips in seconds.
... or of the neighboring cities. Wonder why there are no public garbage cans left at the rest areas in Dippach?
Right: it's to prevent people driving through from Esch-sur-Alzette to Luxembourg-City on their way to work to dump their household garbage into a trashcan solely intended for picnicers.
Fortunately Luxembourgers are still well educated enough not to simply dump their trash into the forest, or along the roads...
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I usually buy the item and try out the features that matter knowing its guaranteed. Why should I read what some random fool who probably didn't really care at all or didn't even buy says on the Internet?
Still no mention of the cat though.
Google is your friend, and fuck you NPR.
Well, if this drags on beyond 31st of October, he won't be able to leave the UK anyways, as there will be not flights... (airlines need a deal with airports where they depart from and land...)
but often airlines turn off most of the in-flight entertainment system on approach and leave it off after landing
And, more annoyingly, air conditioning. It can get awfully hot in these 30 minutes...
These court officials need to be prosecuted as the pedos they are!
(n/t)
This story is a day late...
No it isn't. Look at the dateline on top of that BBC the article. It was indeed published yesterday.
Yeah thanks to the wonder of "journalists" copying and linking each other without fact checking, nowadays April first lasts until July :-)
every station makes you pay before you pump
In Europe, filling stations have cameras. When you just drive off when done, you'll be caught pretty quickly...
I'm not sure what happens if somebody would pull this stunt in a stolen car... never heard of any such occurrence
At night, when the card readers are in operation, you do indeed have to insert card before you start pumping (but amount is booked after you're done, obviously, as quantity pumped is not known before).
The need to interact with people could have stopped that van crime.
The theft happened at night. When filling stations are typically not manned, but operate with automatic credit card readers.
This allows the station's operator to capture the business at night without the staff expense.
figure one euro per liter and 3000 liters per hit, that is an expected loss of 30 euros.
Wouldn't that be 3000 Euros? And in France, gas is more expensive than 1€/l...
Once electric cars take over the world, stealing gasoline might be less of a concern :-D
yeah, because then stealing electricity might be more of a concern :-)
Have human staff on duty when the gas station is operational.
This was done at night when the station was not operational in manual mode, but rather automatic.
People can still fill up using a credit card inserted into a slot next to the pump.
Using their magic remote, the thieves switched station into daytime mode (where you're supposed to pay inside after filling up...) , filled up the van, and switched it back to night-time mode.
Only protection here would be to give up the night business, but then the station would lose (paying) night-time customers to their neighbor who do have open 24/24.
I concur though that it feels an ambitious headline. Does this mean I'm reversing time when I take a piss into the glass I drank out of?
Only if it was Budweiser. Otherwise it wouldn't taste the same as before...
Is dark matter just ... sounds?
Yes, it's BSharp
No, its C-Pound
Das schwarze Gold ist weiß geworden
Man nehme eine einfache Rezeptur
Und aus Koks wird wieder Kohle
Why all the black bars and rectangles on that sciencemag site? :-(
Or they could just integrate their system with Pwned Passwords [haveibeenpwned.com], which is a service set up for this very purpose already.
Honestly, how would this work? Send every single one of their passwords to haveibeenpwned.com to have it verified? Then what if haveibeenpwned.com abuses this to build a nice database of passwords to attempt on each participating domain?
That's quite some slog from the couch all the way to the control unit on the wall, though.
Smart thermostats have other uses:
Mine too was listed, but it didn't even say which list. How do you find out? Can these lists be downloaded from anywhere?
Pro tip: there is vastly more to the internet than the entertainment site Inforwars. You know, like facts and sh1t.
Wikipedia seems to have been duped too
He's got enough here to show the judges are being paid and we need to start getting polices and sherrifs involved to investigate and ensure we don't have a pedophilia ring operating here, or something worse.
Actually, there is: Feds: Boston Children's Hospital doctor charged with receiving child porn
genetic
Dude, in simpler words its called "running in the family". And indeed, an older sibling did have a mitochondrial condition. And for that sibling, a biopsy had indeed been done that confirmed the disease.
anybody can put together a professional looking website with articles that seem to be written by journalists.
... but these old farts also share articles that have obviously not been written by a journalist. Journalists can spell. Journalists can write grammatically and semantically coherent sentences. Journalists don't need google translate to make sense of foreign sources.
Same way that my council collects my rubbish "for free" because if you charged me specifically to take my rubbish away, all those people who can't afford things will sacrifice rubbish collection and
Somebody, please tell this the Luxembourgish communal authorities... Have you ever seen garbage cans with locks on them? Surprise: in Esch-sur-Alzette you have them! No, it's not to prevent people from stealing your garbage, but rather to prevent them from adding to it.
turn all the poor areas of the city into unofficial municipal rubbish tips in seconds.
... or of the neighboring cities. Wonder why there are no public garbage cans left at the rest areas in Dippach?
Right: it's to prevent people driving through from Esch-sur-Alzette to Luxembourg-City on their way to work to dump their household garbage into a trashcan solely intended for picnicers.
Fortunately Luxembourgers are still well educated enough not to simply dump their trash into the forest, or along the roads...
You will not be sitting in it for longer than about 30 minutes unless you are crossing a border
You'd wish. From Troisvierges to Belval (no borders involved) the train takes 1 hour 45 minutes. If it is on time, which rarely happens.
Yes, some people actually object to fare-free travel saying that the money would be better used improving the service, rather than making it cheaper.