How about trowing out the tipping service and pay your staff a wage to what they deserve (That does NOT mean minimal wage). And do not hire terrible servers.
Just like any other job, if you don't do it correctly, you get fired.
And if the service is lousy, why would the bossman care? Because then I do not come back and neither will others and he goes broke.
I live somewhere were there is no tipping and the service is excelent. No fake friendlyness. No need to suck up to me. No me trying to figure anything out after a few beers. And this goes from the cheap places to the three star restaurants.
As an extra: no need for the lazy server to post anything about me.
I remember the time when having 20 records was already a lot of music to own. That is the average my friends had.
My parents had about 50. I had the same amount. That is 100 albums in our home or about 100x40 minutes or just under 3 days of music. Or at 3MB on average per song, 12GB of songs.
That is the amount of music we had as a family and we had a lot of music. From what I saw with other people, about 10 times as much.
And having a 32GB music player is nothing special. How much does it cost to fill that? Say 30GB and 3MB per song gives you 10.000 songs at 1USD.
I think it goes back before the radio, when you could buy sheet music. This was a way of distributing music and as you can imagine, it was pirated in several ways.
Wikipedia tells it goes back to 1575. As a copyright was needed, it means that there was something to copy. It is also clear that some people would not follow that law.
So since 1575 the music industry is going bankrupt due to piracy and some people will have said that 'it should be free', otherwise a law would not have been needed.
There is a LOT that is not (yet) on the recently opened TPB website. For science I looked at Pr0n(*) and found much less content then what it was before.
So I guess they restarted with a non-complete database or even a complete new one.
When they were looking at what is now on TPB, it could be logical that a lot of things are not there yet. Also possible that now TV shows have a lot in the top 100. Many shows often have many different torrents (with identical content) so 20 popular tv shows and a few movies can easily populate the top 100.
Where people did not use to have the bandwith to download tv shows, many do so now. It could also be that people do not watch TV anymore, as that forced people to be home at a certain hour or record it. With faster Internet, downloading it when you want to see it is also nice and it saves you the money of having to buy the DVD/BueRay set later.
I work at a company where we need to use wording strictly as provided by the law. The reason for this is that the wording over different companies is identical. They even tell us what size of font to use and how much white space and other things.
As a company this pisses me off, as I have do do changes. As a customer I am happy, because it takes away a lot of doubt, especially with other companies who are perhaps not as honest as we are.
Sure it costs the taxpayer. Nobody is denying that. I am happy to pay that cost as a customer.
Now given that Google is a marketing company, I will automatically assume that if they change something in their AUP, the wording "to make it easier to understand" is a smokescreen to hide something else or to trample on even more rights. They will NOT do it just to be nice and they were bored one afternoon. They do it because they were told to do it. Either by their marketing team or by their lawyers or both.
Actually, history has proven that no military, no matter how powerful, no matter how brutal, can ever conquer an armed civilian population.
You can leave that aremed part out. The Russian population was not armed. They had some milatary help on their side. About the British: what weapons did Ghandi use again?
And look at East-Germany where there was not one shot fired to overthrow the government.
It does not matter if they are armed or not. It helps a bit, but it is not the deciding part. Sometimes it will result in a bloody civil war as well.
What is deciding is if they really want a change to risk death. And if enough people want that, change will happen and governments will be overthrown by the population. Or serious change will be received (mixed schools and what not in the US) even without the population having guns.
Nobody is shocked. They just need to change their wording so that what they are doing and what they say they are doing is the same and clear to people. That way they can make a correct decision if they want to sign up or not.
Compare it with buying a bottle of some drink. You would also want the volume written on it be the same as the volume of what is in the bottle. Not have it say 5L and no sugar while it is a 1L Mountain Dew bottle.
Laws in Europe can be pretty anal when it comes to being clear to customers. And even then just clicking on OK is not an official contract by any means. It also does not clear you from following the law regarding privacy or any other law.
Also: the fact that other countries come to a different conclusion is because they have different laws that are even based on different legal principals as a basis.(English and Napoleonic Law). For all I know what is legal in the UK is not in other countries.
If you have the choice between sending the message to 10000 random people, or to 217 targeted people
Do not think that they will send less messages. They will just send more, because they see it is working and the budget stays the same.
They can send 50 times as many spam messages. Sure, that will mean that some people who would have bought something now are fed up, wich will mean less sales but as long as they get at least the same result in money, all is good. They now have a margin of 50 times. And later they will find something else and send even more.
I just tried google and found D-Linkthat has an FTP client and http+https So you could let the website access the camera for updates. Bit of scripting should solve it.
I would look first at the camera that you want. Let the store take a picture and upload that to the website. I bet the quality will still be too poor, depending on how large the board is they write it on.
A chalkboard or whiteboard is a differnt medium then a website. Much will also depend on the lighting of when the image is taken. The handwriting of the person who wrote it and so on.
I often am unable to read the board when I am in a restaurant. Again, these are two differnt mediums and I am not sure if it would mix with a website.
If I were to do it, I would buy the best webcam that works under Linux and have a small device take the images by the OS, not by the camera. That way you can SFTP it to wherever you like after doing whatever you want with it. ImageMagick can crop it and do whatever else you would need to the images.
Talk about a bad example. farmers complain ALL THE TIME about apples getting spoiled. They are lting around and are not being sold and thus getting spoiled. Yet they STILL want the money for it (so in THAT way they are the same as the MAFIAA). Replace apples by corn and perhaps you see where I am coming from. Seriously, I know farmers personally. They will comp;ain about rotten apples, ripe apples, good weather and bad. A great crop is not good and a lousy crop is not good (although sometimes better finanically then a great crop).
Perhaps compare it with cribbing. One person does all the work and gets an A for efford. The other person also gets an A without the effort. Nothing has been taken from the first person. He still has his A and the knowledge to get that A. Where it gets realy intresting is when you are looking for a job. The MAFIAA says that your chance of getting a job is less, because somebody now has 'your' A and could get the job.
People that pirate say that this is not the case, because the A is not the only thing. They will very soon see that the person does not know anything and lose his job anyway this giving the first person the job.
However what also is true is that the value of the A becomes less, as more people walk around with fake an A and that (said the MAFIAA) is the reason you need to catch as many cheaters as possible.
This is all very interesting. OTOH the music industry is not broke because of tape recorders. The movie theaters are not broke because of VHS.
This is what you get for spying on each and everybody and infiltrating everything. So now they distrust everybody and (rightfully) are asking for the source.
The result will be that they then will have the source and will do their own improvement and not coming back for more. This basically means that they can do one more deal by selling the software and then they will start selling the software themselves (including the backdoors)
So the wise thing would be NOT to sell anything. However if just one company will sell, they are all lost.
I am not even worried about the backdoor, because that was in there already.
The next will be that they ask the source code for other software as well (Microsoft anybody?)
I remember when they held sales in Belgium and the rest of Europe over the UMTS licences. That did not go over well for some companies. Fun times loosing my job because they needed to make good on that money they spend. Well, not just me, in the end 50% of the company and it went downhill from there.
The reason I am against this is that even though it is extra money for the government, it will mean that people will still have to pay for it, so in reality it is a tax.
I read the article but I did not find what was left. In Belgium (Perhaps Europe) all that remains is the transaction number and the last 4 numbers of the card. The card company will only see the amount and will have no idea what is bought.
So if the last 4 digits are 1234 (And about 1 in 10000 will scream) they know if I pump gas, take out some cash, eat in a restaurant and buy at a supermarket that they know who I am?
I would really, really, really try to test that claim.
I just run my own DNS server pdnsd because it is easy to configure. That way I have access to sites that are blocked otherwise by law (Torrent sites) and I do not give Google even more information then what they already get.
I can also easily add the domains from mvps and others to block. Bit of scripting and it is done.
The chip requires a PIN to be entered. If you don';t do that correctly within three times, the card is rendered useless. And this does not have to be three consecutive times.
So even if you have the card, you are unable to do any purchases with it. And obviously you need to do them before the card is noticed to be stolen.
In Belgium the Card Stop number is on every ATM. You call them and the card is blocked. Any Belgian card. Loose your walled with 10 cards? One number to call. The number is even on every new sim-card in Belgium.
In Belgium these small concrete buildings are called 'banks' most of the times. So entering them through the backdoor will set of an alarm. I assume that this will be the case in those that are not banks as well.
I have to assume it is more cost effective to take the losses than to chip all of the cards.
No, it isn't. Especially not if you do it over a fase of say 5 years. That way the moment somebody needs a new card, either because the old one expired or it was lost or stolen.
The extra cost for the card is minimal as it is produced in such vast numbers. Sure, if you replace all cards before their end of life, then it becomes expensive.
The problem, I believe, is that investing money is almost seen as a loss for the company. In Europe and the rest of the world the same issues have arisen and the same questions have been asked by the same companies. And somehow they arrived at different answer?
Also the money that you looses is not all. You also need to spend time in the investigation. You get false positives and false negatives. It all becomes a LOT easier when you have a chip.
This does not mean abuse is not possible. People will lie that their card is stolen. Other ways of abuse will happen as well. These are on top of what already happens with the cards, not instead of.
Spending money is true, but is was a mere investment that has been profitable. There are now several banks in Belgium that block your credit card (MC, Visa) for the USofA, because of the risk.
As the usage of cards in the US is much higher, the return on investment should be sooner in the US as well.
In Europe it is now the standard. Both debit and credit cards use it and I have seen some pre-paid cards that don't even have a metal strip anymore. Readers still have it as a backup, but cheaper ones without it are available. In Belgium even the ID card has it (Open source) and can be used to sign digitally.
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you."
"You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity."
"Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head."
"You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."
To many people drones are military. That is the reason they are called quadcopters or the like. So I was a bit surprised to learn that the drones were made in China, as I associate them with military devices.
Using model planes or quadcopters without a GPS is the standard, so these have NO idea where they are flying, yet can be easily flown long distance with goggles.
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How about trowing out the tipping service and pay your staff a wage to what they deserve (That does NOT mean minimal wage). And do not hire terrible servers.
Just like any other job, if you don't do it correctly, you get fired.
And if the service is lousy, why would the bossman care? Because then I do not come back and neither will others and he goes broke.
I live somewhere were there is no tipping and the service is excelent. No fake friendlyness. No need to suck up to me. No me trying to figure anything out after a few beers. And this goes from the cheap places to the three star restaurants.
As an extra: no need for the lazy server to post anything about me.
I remember the time when having 20 records was already a lot of music to own. That is the average my friends had.
My parents had about 50. I had the same amount. That is 100 albums in our home or about 100x40 minutes or just under 3 days of music.
Or at 3MB on average per song, 12GB of songs.
That is the amount of music we had as a family and we had a lot of music. From what I saw with other people, about 10 times as much.
And having a 32GB music player is nothing special. How much does it cost to fill that? Say 30GB and 3MB per song gives you 10.000 songs at 1USD.
I think it goes back before the radio, when you could buy sheet music. This was a way of distributing music and as you can imagine, it was pirated in several ways.
Wikipedia tells it goes back to 1575. As a copyright was needed, it means that there was something to copy. It is also clear that some people would not follow that law.
So since 1575 the music industry is going bankrupt due to piracy and some people will have said that 'it should be free', otherwise a law would not have been needed.
There is a LOT that is not (yet) on the recently opened TPB website. For science I looked at Pr0n(*) and found much less content then what it was before.
So I guess they restarted with a non-complete database or even a complete new one.
When they were looking at what is now on TPB, it could be logical that a lot of things are not there yet. Also possible that now TV shows have a lot in the top 100. Many shows often have many different torrents (with identical content) so 20 popular tv shows and a few movies can easily populate the top 100.
Where people did not use to have the bandwith to download tv shows, many do so now. It could also be that people do not watch TV anymore, as that forced people to be home at a certain hour or record it. With faster Internet, downloading it when you want to see it is also nice and it saves you the money of having to buy the DVD/BueRay set later.
(*)company filter.
I work at a company where we need to use wording strictly as provided by the law. The reason for this is that the wording over different companies is identical.
They even tell us what size of font to use and how much white space and other things.
As a company this pisses me off, as I have do do changes. As a customer I am happy, because it takes away a lot of doubt, especially with other companies who are perhaps not as honest as we are.
Sure it costs the taxpayer. Nobody is denying that. I am happy to pay that cost as a customer.
Now given that Google is a marketing company, I will automatically assume that if they change something in their AUP, the wording "to make it easier to understand" is a smokescreen to hide something else or to trample on even more rights. They will NOT do it just to be nice and they were bored one afternoon.
They do it because they were told to do it. Either by their marketing team or by their lawyers or both.
You can leave that aremed part out. The Russian population was not armed. They had some milatary help on their side. About the British: what weapons did Ghandi use again?
And look at East-Germany where there was not one shot fired to overthrow the government.
It does not matter if they are armed or not. It helps a bit, but it is not the deciding part. Sometimes it will result in a bloody civil war as well.
What is deciding is if they really want a change to risk death. And if enough people want that, change will happen and governments will be overthrown by the population. Or serious change will be received (mixed schools and what not in the US) even without the population having guns.
Use quotes. So instead looking for Pi 2 Model B plus you look for " Pi 2 Model B plus ".
I would somebody here to already know how to use Google, but Punctuation, symbols & operators in search are pretty normal and easy to be used.
That does not mean they have a good naming scheme. Just that using google should not be an issue.
Nobody is shocked. They just need to change their wording so that what they are doing and what they say they are doing is the same and clear to people. That way they can make a correct decision if they want to sign up or not.
Compare it with buying a bottle of some drink. You would also want the volume written on it be the same as the volume of what is in the bottle. Not have it say 5L and no sugar while it is a 1L Mountain Dew bottle.
Laws in Europe can be pretty anal when it comes to being clear to customers. And even then just clicking on OK is not an official contract by any means. It also does not clear you from following the law regarding privacy or any other law.
Also: the fact that other countries come to a different conclusion is because they have different laws that are even based on different legal principals as a basis.(English and Napoleonic Law).
For all I know what is legal in the UK is not in other countries.
Do not think that they will send less messages. They will just send more, because they see it is working and the budget stays the same.
They can send 50 times as many spam messages. Sure, that will mean that some people who would have bought something now are fed up, wich will mean less sales but as long as they get at least the same result in money, all is good. They now have a margin of 50 times. And later they will find something else and send even more.
I just tried google and found D-Linkthat has an FTP client and http+https So you could let the website access the camera for updates. Bit of scripting should solve it.
I would look first at the camera that you want. Let the store take a picture and upload that to the website. I bet the quality will still be too poor, depending on how large the board is they write it on.
A chalkboard or whiteboard is a differnt medium then a website. Much will also depend on the lighting of when the image is taken. The handwriting of the person who wrote it and so on.
I often am unable to read the board when I am in a restaurant.
Again, these are two differnt mediums and I am not sure if it would mix with a website.
If I were to do it, I would buy the best webcam that works under Linux and have a small device take the images by the OS, not by the camera. That way you can SFTP it to wherever you like after doing whatever you want with it. ImageMagick can crop it and do whatever else you would need to the images.
Talk about a bad example. farmers complain ALL THE TIME about apples getting spoiled. They are lting around and are not being sold and thus getting spoiled. Yet they STILL want the money for it (so in THAT way they are the same as the MAFIAA).
Replace apples by corn and perhaps you see where I am coming from.
Seriously, I know farmers personally. They will comp;ain about rotten apples, ripe apples, good weather and bad. A great crop is not good and a lousy crop is not good (although sometimes better finanically then a great crop).
Perhaps compare it with cribbing. One person does all the work and gets an A for efford. The other person also gets an A without the effort. Nothing has been taken from the first person. He still has his A and the knowledge to get that A.
Where it gets realy intresting is when you are looking for a job.
The MAFIAA says that your chance of getting a job is less, because somebody now has 'your' A and could get the job.
People that pirate say that this is not the case, because the A is not the only thing. They will very soon see that the person does not know anything and lose his job anyway this giving the first person the job.
However what also is true is that the value of the A becomes less, as more people walk around with fake an A and that (said the MAFIAA) is the reason you need to catch as many cheaters as possible.
This is all very interesting. OTOH the music industry is not broke because of tape recorders. The movie theaters are not broke because of VHS.
The tyhing is that that would not work as rape is more about power then about sex. Also people who can't be castrated (women) do rape.
This is what you get for spying on each and everybody and infiltrating everything. So now they distrust everybody and (rightfully) are asking for the source.
The result will be that they then will have the source and will do their own improvement and not coming back for more. This basically means that they can do one more deal by selling the software and then they will start selling the software themselves (including the backdoors)
So the wise thing would be NOT to sell anything. However if just one company will sell, they are all lost.
I am not even worried about the backdoor, because that was in there already.
The next will be that they ask the source code for other software as well (Microsoft anybody?)
I remember when they held sales in Belgium and the rest of Europe over the UMTS licences. That did not go over well for some companies. Fun times loosing my job because they needed to make good on that money they spend. Well, not just me, in the end 50% of the company and it went downhill from there.
The reason I am against this is that even though it is extra money for the government, it will mean that people will still have to pay for it, so in reality it is a tax.
It also removes any real option of competition.
I read the article but I did not find what was left. In Belgium (Perhaps Europe) all that remains is the transaction number and the last 4 numbers of the card. The card company will only see the amount and will have no idea what is bought.
So if the last 4 digits are 1234 (And about 1 in 10000 will scream) they know if I pump gas, take out some cash, eat in a restaurant and buy at a supermarket that they know who I am?
I would really, really, really try to test that claim.
I assume some other data has been left.
I just run my own DNS server pdnsd because it is easy to configure. That way I have access to sites that are blocked otherwise by law (Torrent sites) and I do not give Google even more information then what they already get.
I can also easily add the domains from mvps and others to block. Bit of scripting and it is done.
The chip requires a PIN to be entered. If you don';t do that correctly within three times, the card is rendered useless.
And this does not have to be three consecutive times.
So even if you have the card, you are unable to do any purchases with it. And obviously you need to do them before the card is noticed to be stolen.
In Belgium the Card Stop number is on every ATM. You call them and the card is blocked. Any Belgian card. Loose your walled with 10 cards? One number to call. The number is even on every new sim-card in Belgium.
In Belgium these small concrete buildings are called 'banks' most of the times. So entering them through the backdoor will set of an alarm. I assume that this will be the case in those that are not banks as well.
No, it isn't. Especially not if you do it over a fase of say 5 years. That way the moment somebody needs a new card, either because the old one expired or it was lost or stolen.
The extra cost for the card is minimal as it is produced in such vast numbers. Sure, if you replace all cards before their end of life, then it becomes expensive.
The problem, I believe, is that investing money is almost seen as a loss for the company. In Europe and the rest of the world the same issues have arisen and the same questions have been asked by the same companies. And somehow they arrived at different answer?
Also the money that you looses is not all. You also need to spend time in the investigation. You get false positives and false negatives. It all becomes a LOT easier when you have a chip.
This does not mean abuse is not possible. People will lie that their card is stolen. Other ways of abuse will happen as well. These are on top of what already happens with the cards, not instead of.
Spending money is true, but is was a mere investment that has been profitable.
There are now several banks in Belgium that block your credit card (MC, Visa) for the USofA, because of the risk.
As the usage of cards in the US is much higher, the return on investment should be sooner in the US as well.
In Europe it is now the standard. Both debit and credit cards use it and I have seen some pre-paid cards that don't even have a metal strip anymore. Readers still have it as a backup, but cheaper ones without it are available.
In Belgium even the ID card has it (Open source) and can be used to sign digitally.
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you."
"You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity."
"Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head."
"You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."
--- banksy
If people do not like the show, just don't watch it. (What? If I read the what now? I read part of the subject, like everybody else.)
Well, I have this accountant from Hollywood and he says that that movies make no money at all. Nothing.
And people working in hollywood? I met a lot of actresses while I visit places like Hooters and McDonalds.
To many people drones are military. That is the reason they are called quadcopters or the like.
So I was a bit surprised to learn that the drones were made in China, as I associate them with military devices.
Using model planes or quadcopters without a GPS is the standard, so these have NO idea where they are flying, yet can be easily flown long distance with goggles.