I didn't think that. You couldn't use the payphones for 911 calls (since the phones didn't work) so it's nice to see another useful feature.
Pay phones are remarkably rugged, yet a high percentage of them are always out of order. Makes you wonder how these kiosks will stand up to the abuse they will undoubtedly receive.
While we're at it, can we dispel with the notion that Barrack Obama doesn't know what he's doing?
I don't know anyone who thinks Obama doesn't know what he's doing. There does, however, seem to be sharp disagreement over whether his intent is good or evil with respect to the welfare of the nation.
I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't know what "Stands Pat" is supposed to mean...
Probably not. But you do appear to be one of the people who don't seem to know how to use an internet-connected device to discover the meaning of an expression.
The travel router is an interesting device, and no doubt a lot of people are fine with bringing along a 1/2 pound device and setting up a personal WiFi network on a commercial airliner. I am not one of those people, and have a bit of difficulty seeing this lashup as a great replacement for a tiny memory card that lives inside my phone or tablet. A 128 GB micro SD holds more music and video than I can possibly listen to and watch on a round trip between Los Angeles and London. And while in-seat USB ports or AC power receptacles aren't ubiquitous, they're becoming more common. I didn't have to take my battery out of my carry-on on my last trip (12 hours in the air each way) to keep my devices charged.
You could use a OTG SD, or OTG cable and flash drive(s) for those times.
I have an OTG cable, and it's very useful for transferring files on and off the phone. However, the original complaint concerned "fiddling about the SD cards", which in my experience involves much less fiddling than OTG cables and thumb drives. In my particular anecdotal case, the total extent of "fiddling about the SD cards" reduced to a one-time insertion of the micro SD into its receptacle on the side of the phone.
Uverse Internet/Video is on same pileline. But U-verse video doesn't count against data cap while all other streaming services do.
What data cap are you talking about here? I have Uverse TV and Internet, and there isn't any data cap on Internet usage (or if there is, it's so large that watching several hours of Netflix HD every evening doesn't hit it). But if I use my Verizon mobile account to watch content recorded on my Uverse DVR when I'm out of WiFi coverage, then yes it would count against my Verizon data cap. Personally, I prefer to watch television content on my television and not on my phone, so the Verizon cap is not an issue.
Your a bit young so I guess I should point out that in my parent's day, you simply wouldn't have opinion in newspaper articles.
Newspapers have been full of biased reporting and sensationalism since long before your parents were born. The term "yellow journalism" was coined about 125 years ago.
"the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures"
Yes, it does. Unreasonable searches and seizures are those executed either without a warrant, without consent, or without a combination of probable cause and exigent circumstances. Furthermore, "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
So no, the founders didn't accidentally put that clause in there. They also didn't put it in there for the purpose you seem to be proposing.
Items are absolutely declassified after a certain amount of time, the national archives has a whole division dedicated to this activity.
Yes, some items are scheduled for declassification after either 10 or 25 years. Some aren't.
Here is an example of a declassified document, you can see the classification of Top Secret is crossed out.
I'm sure you noticed that the example document is over 50 years old (and appears to have been redacted with white-out). The rules have changed since then. 18 CFR 3a.31 - "Classification markings and special notations" has the details, but specifically, "When classification changes are made, the classification markings themselves will be changed or canceled, and each copy or item of the material will be marked with the citation of authority."
By the way, congratulations on posting without triggering a diatribe by the hosts file guy.
As far as I can tell, the markings AC is talking about are not declassifications, the documents are actually marked unclassified. There are reason codes given for the redactions, though I don't know what those align with.
Well yes, the documents are actually marked unclassified, because they have been declassified. Documents that have been declassified, whether due to being redacted or because the information previously considered sensitive has been determined to no longer be sensitive, should either be marked unclassified or have no classification markings. To the best of my knowledge, documents bearing classified markings are never intentionally made public by the government.
Anyone else notice that the vast majority of those pages are marked as unclassified and/or non-secret yet severely redacted?
This is not at all unusual. Sometimes documents are declassified because the content is no longer considered sensitive. Sometimes documents are declassified by redacting the sensitive content. More information here.
Cali just wants your money, it's not unheard of to have 1000 dollar yearly car registrations there.
Well yeah, if your car is brand new and you paid over $138,000 for it. Otherwise, not so much.
I'm with you, though, on the ease of getting a driver license. I have personally witnessed people taking tests at the local DMV office being allowed to use "translators" who were openly coaching them on the correct answers.
Why is he getting involved in this at all? We already have several companies working toward this goal. The only answer that makes sense is that he wants to fund those companies closest to him or his party.
Or maybe he thinks the government should know at all times where you are, where you're going, where you stay when you get there, and how long you stay there.
You miss the point. Area codes are the complete the opposite of useless.
He didn't say they were useless; he said they were fairly useless. The context was clearly determination of the owner's home location, which has pretty much zero to do with the total possible number of telephone numbers as a function of the number of available digits. And he couldn't miss the point, because he made the point to start with. Aside from all that, what the heck does "the complete the opposite" even mean?
It's not just the masses of asses who don't think beyond "ooh, shiny", unless you define everyone who buys this crap as an ass.
Can't I?
Well yeah, as long as you're not looking for a lot of buy-in. Of course, you can always dismiss anyone who disagrees as being part of the mass of asses. Sort of an interesting variation on "no true Scotsman".
Another friend who is extremely cautious - bordering on paranoid - about revealing any personal information on the internet, has an Amazon Echo sitting on his bar. Still scratching my head over that one.
Ooh, shiny!
Well, that's what has me scratching my head. This guy is definitely not the "Ooh, shiny!" type at all.
To be fair, I own an Android phone. It's running AOSP and I have voice turned off, but there's a certain amount of trust involved even so. Who can say what level of paranoia is justified?
To the true paranoid, there is no level of paranoia that isn't justified.
1) you're not going to have a choice because everything else will fall off the market and 2) the masses of asses who don't think beyond "ooh, shiny". They are clearly in the majority, just look around.
It's not just the masses of asses who don't think beyond "ooh, shiny", unless you define everyone who buys this crap as an ass. I have a close friend with a PhD in CS and an MS in psychology, who has everything in his house from his garage door to his thermostat to his ceiling fan (!) networked and internet accessible. Another friend who is extremely cautious - bordering on paranoid - about revealing any personal information on the internet, has an Amazon Echo sitting on his bar. Still scratching my head over that one.
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Sanders is getting his money to campaign from large corporations as Clinton, Cruz, Rubio and the others. They expect a return.
Really? I don't see any corporations, large or small, listed here, but if you can cite a source to back up your claim I'd be interested in seeing it.
I didn't think that. You couldn't use the payphones for 911 calls (since the phones didn't work) so it's nice to see another useful feature.
Pay phones are remarkably rugged, yet a high percentage of them are always out of order. Makes you wonder how these kiosks will stand up to the abuse they will undoubtedly receive.
While we're at it, can we dispel with the notion that Barrack Obama doesn't know what he's doing?
I don't know anyone who thinks Obama doesn't know what he's doing. There does, however, seem to be sharp disagreement over whether his intent is good or evil with respect to the welfare of the nation.
I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't know what "Stands Pat" is supposed to mean...
Probably not. But you do appear to be one of the people who don't seem to know how to use an internet-connected device to discover the meaning of an expression.
As General George S. Patton said to the krauts!
That was General Anthony McAuliffe, not Patton.
The travel router is an interesting device, and no doubt a lot of people are fine with bringing along a 1/2 pound device and setting up a personal WiFi network on a commercial airliner. I am not one of those people, and have a bit of difficulty seeing this lashup as a great replacement for a tiny memory card that lives inside my phone or tablet. A 128 GB micro SD holds more music and video than I can possibly listen to and watch on a round trip between Los Angeles and London. And while in-seat USB ports or AC power receptacles aren't ubiquitous, they're becoming more common. I didn't have to take my battery out of my carry-on on my last trip (12 hours in the air each way) to keep my devices charged.
You could use a OTG SD, or OTG cable and flash drive(s) for those times.
I have an OTG cable, and it's very useful for transferring files on and off the phone. However, the original complaint concerned "fiddling about the SD cards", which in my experience involves much less fiddling than OTG cables and thumb drives. In my particular anecdotal case, the total extent of "fiddling about the SD cards" reduced to a one-time insertion of the micro SD into its receptacle on the side of the phone.
Hey grandpa: use a streaming service!
And personally I find streaming off Plex a lot more convenient than fiddling about the SD cards.
Hey junior: how convenient is your streaming service when you're on an airplane with no connectivity?
Uverse Internet/Video is on same pileline. But U-verse video doesn't count against data cap while all other streaming services do.
What data cap are you talking about here? I have Uverse TV and Internet, and there isn't any data cap on Internet usage (or if there is, it's so large that watching several hours of Netflix HD every evening doesn't hit it). But if I use my Verizon mobile account to watch content recorded on my Uverse DVR when I'm out of WiFi coverage, then yes it would count against my Verizon data cap. Personally, I prefer to watch television content on my television and not on my phone, so the Verizon cap is not an issue.
Just because you are ignorant on the subject doesn't entitle you to have an opinion
Come on now, everyone is entitled to an opinion no matter how ignorant they might be. They just aren't entitled to their own facts.
Considering there are billion dollar high rises right next to slums I could care less.
So you care a LOT then? It is 'couldn't care less', dipshit.
If you are unfamiliar with the concept of the widely accepted idiom, it is likely that you are in fact the dipshit here.
Your a bit young so I guess I should point out that in my parent's day, you simply wouldn't have opinion in newspaper articles.
Newspapers have been full of biased reporting and sensationalism since long before your parents were born. The term "yellow journalism" was coined about 125 years ago.
"the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures"
Yes, it does. Unreasonable searches and seizures are those executed either without a warrant, without consent, or without a combination of probable cause and exigent circumstances. Furthermore, "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
So no, the founders didn't accidentally put that clause in there. They also didn't put it in there for the purpose you seem to be proposing.
Items are absolutely declassified after a certain amount of time, the national archives has a whole division dedicated to this activity.
Yes, some items are scheduled for declassification after either 10 or 25 years. Some aren't.
Here is an example of a declassified document, you can see the classification of Top Secret is crossed out.
I'm sure you noticed that the example document is over 50 years old (and appears to have been redacted with white-out). The rules have changed since then. 18 CFR 3a.31 - "Classification markings and special notations" has the details, but specifically, "When classification changes are made, the classification markings themselves will be changed or canceled, and each copy or item of the material will be marked with the citation of authority."
By the way, congratulations on posting without triggering a diatribe by the hosts file guy.
As far as I can tell, the markings AC is talking about are not declassifications, the documents are actually marked unclassified. There are reason codes given for the redactions, though I don't know what those align with.
Well yes, the documents are actually marked unclassified, because they have been declassified. Documents that have been declassified, whether due to being redacted or because the information previously considered sensitive has been determined to no longer be sensitive, should either be marked unclassified or have no classification markings. To the best of my knowledge, documents bearing classified markings are never intentionally made public by the government.
Anyone else notice that the vast majority of those pages are marked as unclassified and/or non-secret yet severely redacted?
This is not at all unusual. Sometimes documents are declassified because the content is no longer considered sensitive. Sometimes documents are declassified by redacting the sensitive content. More information here.
Cali just wants your money, it's not unheard of to have 1000 dollar yearly car registrations there.
Well yeah, if your car is brand new and you paid over $138,000 for it. Otherwise, not so much.
I'm with you, though, on the ease of getting a driver license. I have personally witnessed people taking tests at the local DMV office being allowed to use "translators" who were openly coaching them on the correct answers.
Found the paranoid schizophrenic.
Found the guy with no privacy concerns because he thinks he has nothing to hide.
Why is he getting involved in this at all? We already have several companies working toward this goal. The only answer that makes sense is that he wants to fund those companies closest to him or his party.
Or maybe he thinks the government should know at all times where you are, where you're going, where you stay when you get there, and how long you stay there.
You miss the point. Area codes are the complete the opposite of useless.
He didn't say they were useless; he said they were fairly useless. The context was clearly determination of the owner's home location, which has pretty much zero to do with the total possible number of telephone numbers as a function of the number of available digits. And he couldn't miss the point, because he made the point to start with. Aside from all that, what the heck does "the complete the opposite" even mean?
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I thought that was "performer".
performant is to performer as informant is to informer.
Performance is a noun. Performant is an adjective. I guess he could have said "faster"
performant
noun
a performer
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based on informant, etc.
It's not just the masses of asses who don't think beyond "ooh, shiny", unless you define everyone who buys this crap as an ass.
Can't I?
Well yeah, as long as you're not looking for a lot of buy-in. Of course, you can always dismiss anyone who disagrees as being part of the mass of asses. Sort of an interesting variation on "no true Scotsman".
Another friend who is extremely cautious - bordering on paranoid - about revealing any personal information on the internet, has an Amazon Echo sitting on his bar. Still scratching my head over that one.
Ooh, shiny!
Well, that's what has me scratching my head. This guy is definitely not the "Ooh, shiny!" type at all.
To be fair, I own an Android phone. It's running AOSP and I have voice turned off, but there's a certain amount of trust involved even so. Who can say what level of paranoia is justified?
To the true paranoid, there is no level of paranoia that isn't justified.
1) you're not going to have a choice because everything else will fall off the market and 2) the masses of asses who don't think beyond "ooh, shiny". They are clearly in the majority, just look around.
It's not just the masses of asses who don't think beyond "ooh, shiny", unless you define everyone who buys this crap as an ass. I have a close friend with a PhD in CS and an MS in psychology, who has everything in his house from his garage door to his thermostat to his ceiling fan (!) networked and internet accessible. Another friend who is extremely cautious - bordering on paranoid - about revealing any personal information on the internet, has an Amazon Echo sitting on his bar. Still scratching my head over that one.