They could do horrible things to your wifi traffic. You can do horrible things to their Internet traffic. This is a double edged blade. In the end it's just a bunch of APs that determine how far away you are from the AP by using the signal strength negotiation part of the WiFi protocol and log your MAC and a timestamp. Put enough of these APs in your store and you can get a rough idea where a customer is standing at a certain time within a few feet accuracy. All they need to do is pick up one search for a known AP from your device and they can lure it into constant negotiation for as long as you are within reach of their APs. Providing WiFi to customers is only profitable enough if you're going to be actually using your device in their establishment and will be buying food, beverages and such from them. In a DIY store the risk versus profit ratio is way too bad for them to do such a thing.
Your phone will still occasionally be sending packets to see if a known access point/SSID will reply. This is so access points with "hidden" SSIDs will still be found. Most devices just do this and there is no option to disable it, apart from disabling wifi completely. This is enough to see if someone with wifi enabled on their device is hanging around.
Even more disturbing, if an access point with the correct SSID replies with no encryption, a lot of devices will automatically try to attach to that AP. By mimicking the identification protocol the device asks to use, you can even get it to attach to your rogue access point; just tell it it's credentials are accepted and it will merrily use your AP without any user interaction.
I tend to advice PCL these days. PostScript support is often slower, buggier and has less fonts available than modern PCL compatible laser printers do. Most business printers are either USB or (wireless) ethernet linked now. Most are able to process and rip their own content, and have support for multiple operating systems and standards. Buying PostScript printers used to be the safe bet since those were supported on all your OSes and they didn't put PostScript on budget printers that weren't properly supported on multiple OSes anyway. Times have changed. I'd advice you to re-evaluate your advice based on new data with modern printers. You just may find yourself suddenly liking the PCL output option of a dual personality printer more than you do the PostScript.
Imagine you have a nice and shiny turd. It looks okay from a distance, but when you get closer, you realise it smells rather bad and you can't use it for anything more useful than throwing it at the primates watching you in the zoo. Then take all the shine off it, let's call it a fall back turd. You are left with an ugly stinking turd. Why would you want to polish it? Gnome3 fall back mode is all the bad parts of the gnome3 shell, without all they eye candy. It's bad for productivity and usability, no matter how much compositing you throw at it. I can't think of a single argument why you would want to fork just the bad interaction design bit of it. Someone needs to take it out back behind the barn and put an end to it's suffering. It'd be the humane thing to do to all the users and developers wasting time on it.
I looked at the Gunnar Web site and saw no scientific backing of any of their claims. In my opinion, any improvement you'll get from these is 100% due to a placebo effect.
specifically tuned focusing power - It's your eyes that do the focussing. Air does not distort focussing unless it's extremely hot.
DIAMIX lens material is optically pure. - So is air. Actually, air is probably more optically pure than DIAMIX.
IONIK lens tints improve overall contrast and comfort by filtering out harsh artificial light, eliminating UV rays and reducing high-intensity visible light. - So does your eye. You have an iris, lens and your brain automatically corrects for white balance. If your work place behind a computer screen puts you in dangerous UV light, you really need to look at your TFT, since those don't emit UV at all.
iFi lens coatings include an anti-reflective layers to reduce glare - If there was no lens in the glasses, they wouldn't have to put anti-reflective layers on it. The only reflection those layers partially prevent is the reflection on the glasses themselves.
When you don't plea bargain, you statistically have a high risk of being found guilty. When you're found guilty and you didn't plea bargain, statistically, you get a much higher punishment than the plea bargain would have given you. Statistically, the chance that you get the maximum possible punishment is quite high. That is where the 35 years comes from. Look up how many people in the USA take a plea bargain and how many are found guilty amongst the ones that don't. Either the system is incredibly effective, or it's so broken that people opt for the bargain even if they aren't guilty. Given the amount of people that are now being found innocent with new DNA technology finally being applied to their old cases, the system fails way too often to be called successful.
It's using 90% of the biomass of readily available crops and waste of food production. When you produce bio-diesel, you may get a 10-20% or so return on the total mass of the crops you are growing, throwing away the rest. It gets to be so efficient because they added a new part to the old process, a catalyst. Basically, the old and known process makes several light carbohydrates out of biomass through fermentation. These are then refined and processed using a catalyst, much like fossil fuel out of raw oil is processed into fuels we can use. The big difference is that they use the catalyst to combine molecules, rather than break them up. Even though the processing part uses energy to combine the lighter molecules, you still end up cost effective enough to produce fuels cheaper than using the current fossil fuel process.
Given the fact that this is a starting technology and the amount of crops available for this, it will be a niche market for quite a while. Because of the availability, the fuel won't even influence fossil fuel prices, making the process pay for the investments made into it rather quickly. The real big deal is going to be how to produce enough plants to both feed and fuel the world. We're already seeing large palm oil plantations ruin wildlife and local food production in developing countries, just so the west can make "eco friendly" fuels out of it. This is not going to get any better unless some action is being taken.
Certificates can be stolen by spyware. As others pointed out, you need a 2 factor authentication and proper prevention of MitM attacks on both network level (SSL/TLS) and on the user's machine. You need it on the user's machine as well to prevent malware modifying the web page, hiding a malicious transaction from view, but still submitting it to the bank. In Europe a lot of countries use the chip part of the debit card with an OTP generator to generate responses to challenges sent by the bank website. This is guarded against physical debt by requiring the PIN for every transaction as well. This still leaves protection against MitM malware on the computers. Banks are currently studying how to deal with that, since it's quite a threat, given the enormous amount of flash, acrobat and java zero-days hitting users in Europe. Every week we get new attacks and they are getting better and better at faking content and hiding the exploits.
There is European regulation about how consumer warranties are supposed to be implemented in member country legistlation. Both Belgium and Italy have this legislation in place. In Italy, Apple already lost a trail on the exact same warranty, so the chance that they'll win the trail in Belgium is negligible. In the Netherlands they changed the warranty before they got sued by a consumer organization. They did however lost several court cases to individuals that sued them on their warranty.
You are forgetting that a lot of people bought it because "the guy that knows computers" said it was "the best model", never understanding why and how to take advantage of the added value of the GL over the budget model. The amount of home computer equipment that gets bought on recommendation of either the sales guy, the neighbour kid or the relative that works in IT is staggeringly high. Those people will most likely still be running stock firmware, probably a relic version at that.
They already had pretty lousy terms to start with. Nobody reads terms when they sign up. They only start getting enraged once somebody else tells them the terms suck, usually after they get changed and people influential enough to be listened to complain vocally. In fact, Instagram merely made the terms more specific and by doing so, allowed users more freedom in a lot of cases than with the previous terms. The only real difference was that they actively stated that they might print ads over users pictures when displaying them. They already had that right with the previous terms, so meh.
The true lesson here is that people should read terms before they sign up and if a company makes the terms illegible, they should vocally complain to the company about the terms being illegible. Since most people can't be bothered, they end being part of a human centipede. I guess people need to have that happening to them every once in a while to be reminded that there's no such thing as a free lunch and if you're not paying, you're the product.
Kevin Mitnick got royally shafted for the crimes he committed. He was grossly mistreated and denied a swift trial, access to the evidence in the case against him and by all means, fair representation. What can happen to Mitnick, could happen to any white/grey/blackhat hacker, regardless of what they are accused of or how much of what they are accused of is actually true. In reality, Swartz could very well be looking at 5 years behind bars and the rest of his working life probation. For some reason US courts tend to put people in jail longer for hacking a computer and not stealing anything than for multiple violent armed robberies lately. He may not have gotten 35 years, but losing everything you have and not having a way to get back on track when you're out of jail is going to make most people rather depressed.
Most people don't move out of state more than once a year, even in the USA. If the USA telcos were to offer cheaper subscriptions that would only work in your home state, I'm fairly certain over 80 percent of phone users would get one of those plans.
If you do have to go abroad, often people buy a local SIM with a prepayed package on it for E10 or something. You can often get 1G or more on your holiday destination for that sort of money, often with hundreds of minutes of local calls as well. Spending anywhere up to E50 in such "roaming costs" each year is still a lot cheaper than having to pay for "all around Europe" for 365 days a year while in reality, you usually don't need that for more than a few weeks.
I agree that 1G is rather limited for "power users". However, in reality over 80% of cell phone users just don't consume that amount of data right now. That may be a chicken/egg thing, data usage may be rising fast, but right now, over 1G/month isn't going to bother a lot of users.
It's not the fact they already exist, but that they have to spend government money. Since they are spending that money, they have to get the taxpayers their moneys worth and have to put out a "tender" so suppliers can compete offering the best deal. In order to prevent personal preferences of people in power, bribes and such, tenders are usually rather strict in their requirements and procedures. This is about a lot of tax money, so it gets a lot of attention. Your local community probably puts out tenders for a contract to fix the holes in the road each year, or for putting a new roof on the public school three streets down as well. Those don't make it to SlashDot, but they work the same way.
a) not every piece of video is on those services. Often, stuff just isn't for sale by the "distributor" since they can't make enough money by selling it. Disney Vault?
b) not everyone can order those. True, in the USA you probably could, but there are more countries on the planet and a lot of what you name just isn't available to the rest of the world and even if the services are, the content often isn't.
c) There's more on BitTorrent than just video's you can watch on a streaming service. There are plenty of books and music albums you just can't buy anywhere any more, to name some examples.
d) Stuff your government or another government outlaws. WikiLeaks publications are quite a good example why using BitTorrent in the USA (or anywhere) should not be forbidden.
Google has a profile on you and they have your android device(s) and your home ISP perfectly matched up to that. Even if you don't own android and don't have a google account, they have a "virtual profile" on you. Not only that, but even if you never use google services even as an anonymous user, they probably have your home address and telephone number in their database, including an IP address for your home computer. Yes, thank the people you gave that information to that put it in their android device, which get synced, how conveniently, to Google's cloud.
Google may not be actively telling that they have this information nicely catalogued available to themselves. They may not even have all their internal applications linked exactly this way, but we all know it would be trivial for them to come up with the queries to produce the information I just described. Once there's profit in doing so, they most certainly will do it in a heartbeat. Since several large companies (the "Target knows you're pregnant" article comes to mind) have already admitted they profile their customers/users this way, it'd be very unrealistic for Google not to do this. If even a grocery store can make money on this, a company that makes their money on selling user demographics would most certainly profit from virtual profiles and linking based on probability.
I wonder, what apps did you download for it, what do you use it for, apart from calling people and taking some casual snapshots? What does it make it worth more than a feature phone for you?
Really, it does, uncompressed it does. Yes, we can compress very effectively and we do, but he does have a point that the current infrastructure is struggling hard to keep up with a few 720P channels, let alone 1080P. One 4K channel will probably take the same bandwidth that 8 or 10 720P "HD" channels take. Given the amount of 720P channels one user can choose from at the moment and the amount they can play simultaneously over their connection, only very few people will be able to receive 4K broadcasts in the foreseeable future.
That will make 4K the domain of physical media and brick and mortar stores renting those out have long disappeared. Buying media is something only few people do these days, so there's no supporting infrastructure or economy for the format to succeed. Bluray is the current state-of-the-art medium that will be replaced by whatever 4K will bring us. Whe VCRs were the thing, everybody I knew had at least one in their home. Almost the same with a DVD player. By the time DVD burners got popular, most people had an HTPC of some kind and didn't even watch that much on their TV, but also used their laptops and PCs to watch video. By that time, Internet downloads became so popular, that video rental stores would go bankrupt all over the place. The industry came with "HD" media and the public reaction was mostly "meh". I seriously don't know anyone that owns a dedicated Bluray player. I know quite a few that have a PS3 with a built in drive, but almost none of those people actually own even a single Bluray disk.
Distribution is going to be hard with the current available options. This will mean that the market adoption will be driven by whatever "portable media players" will support in terms of storage, resolution and processing power. Once tablets, 3D augmented reality glasses or whatever video output device we will be using "on the go" will be using higher resolutions than HD successfully, people will be wanting to get media to use that resolution. Until then, only people that want to compensate their below average size genitals and a few "enthusiasts" will be buying 4K equipment.
Sure, car makers should go into their own app store business, since they totally know how to do that. Those people at Google, Apple and MicroSoft don't have a clue when it comes to IT so they owe it to themselves to see their devices jail broken and all sorts of stuff installed on them.
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They could do horrible things to your wifi traffic. You can do horrible things to their Internet traffic. This is a double edged blade. In the end it's just a bunch of APs that determine how far away you are from the AP by using the signal strength negotiation part of the WiFi protocol and log your MAC and a timestamp. Put enough of these APs in your store and you can get a rough idea where a customer is standing at a certain time within a few feet accuracy. All they need to do is pick up one search for a known AP from your device and they can lure it into constant negotiation for as long as you are within reach of their APs. Providing WiFi to customers is only profitable enough if you're going to be actually using your device in their establishment and will be buying food, beverages and such from them. In a DIY store the risk versus profit ratio is way too bad for them to do such a thing.
When I was young I used to have mod points, just like you. But then I took an arrow to the knee.
Your phone will still occasionally be sending packets to see if a known access point/SSID will reply. This is so access points with "hidden" SSIDs will still be found. Most devices just do this and there is no option to disable it, apart from disabling wifi completely. This is enough to see if someone with wifi enabled on their device is hanging around.
Even more disturbing, if an access point with the correct SSID replies with no encryption, a lot of devices will automatically try to attach to that AP. By mimicking the identification protocol the device asks to use, you can even get it to attach to your rogue access point; just tell it it's credentials are accepted and it will merrily use your AP without any user interaction.
The other 17% is produced by either cows, or calves that are too young to be counted as a gender?
I tend to advice PCL these days. PostScript support is often slower, buggier and has less fonts available than modern PCL compatible laser printers do. Most business printers are either USB or (wireless) ethernet linked now. Most are able to process and rip their own content, and have support for multiple operating systems and standards. Buying PostScript printers used to be the safe bet since those were supported on all your OSes and they didn't put PostScript on budget printers that weren't properly supported on multiple OSes anyway. Times have changed. I'd advice you to re-evaluate your advice based on new data with modern printers. You just may find yourself suddenly liking the PCL output option of a dual personality printer more than you do the PostScript.
Imagine you have a nice and shiny turd. It looks okay from a distance, but when you get closer, you realise it smells rather bad and you can't use it for anything more useful than throwing it at the primates watching you in the zoo. Then take all the shine off it, let's call it a fall back turd. You are left with an ugly stinking turd. Why would you want to polish it? Gnome3 fall back mode is all the bad parts of the gnome3 shell, without all they eye candy. It's bad for productivity and usability, no matter how much compositing you throw at it. I can't think of a single argument why you would want to fork just the bad interaction design bit of it. Someone needs to take it out back behind the barn and put an end to it's suffering. It'd be the humane thing to do to all the users and developers wasting time on it.
I looked at the Gunnar Web site and saw no scientific backing of any of their claims. In my opinion, any improvement you'll get from these is 100% due to a placebo effect.
specifically tuned focusing power - It's your eyes that do the focussing. Air does not distort focussing unless it's extremely hot.
DIAMIX lens material is optically pure. - So is air. Actually, air is probably more optically pure than DIAMIX.
IONIK lens tints improve overall contrast and comfort by filtering out harsh artificial light, eliminating UV rays and reducing high-intensity visible light. - So does your eye. You have an iris, lens and your brain automatically corrects for white balance. If your work place behind a computer screen puts you in dangerous UV light, you really need to look at your TFT, since those don't emit UV at all.
iFi lens coatings include an anti-reflective layers to reduce glare - If there was no lens in the glasses, they wouldn't have to put anti-reflective layers on it. The only reflection those layers partially prevent is the reflection on the glasses themselves.
TL;DR Snake oil glasses, you've been conned.
When you don't plea bargain, you statistically have a high risk of being found guilty. When you're found guilty and you didn't plea bargain, statistically, you get a much higher punishment than the plea bargain would have given you. Statistically, the chance that you get the maximum possible punishment is quite high. That is where the 35 years comes from. Look up how many people in the USA take a plea bargain and how many are found guilty amongst the ones that don't. Either the system is incredibly effective, or it's so broken that people opt for the bargain even if they aren't guilty. Given the amount of people that are now being found innocent with new DNA technology finally being applied to their old cases, the system fails way too often to be called successful.
It's using 90% of the biomass of readily available crops and waste of food production. When you produce bio-diesel, you may get a 10-20% or so return on the total mass of the crops you are growing, throwing away the rest. It gets to be so efficient because they added a new part to the old process, a catalyst. Basically, the old and known process makes several light carbohydrates out of biomass through fermentation. These are then refined and processed using a catalyst, much like fossil fuel out of raw oil is processed into fuels we can use. The big difference is that they use the catalyst to combine molecules, rather than break them up. Even though the processing part uses energy to combine the lighter molecules, you still end up cost effective enough to produce fuels cheaper than using the current fossil fuel process.
Given the fact that this is a starting technology and the amount of crops available for this, it will be a niche market for quite a while. Because of the availability, the fuel won't even influence fossil fuel prices, making the process pay for the investments made into it rather quickly. The real big deal is going to be how to produce enough plants to both feed and fuel the world. We're already seeing large palm oil plantations ruin wildlife and local food production in developing countries, just so the west can make "eco friendly" fuels out of it. This is not going to get any better unless some action is being taken.
Certificates can be stolen by spyware. As others pointed out, you need a 2 factor authentication and proper prevention of MitM attacks on both network level (SSL/TLS) and on the user's machine. You need it on the user's machine as well to prevent malware modifying the web page, hiding a malicious transaction from view, but still submitting it to the bank. In Europe a lot of countries use the chip part of the debit card with an OTP generator to generate responses to challenges sent by the bank website. This is guarded against physical debt by requiring the PIN for every transaction as well. This still leaves protection against MitM malware on the computers. Banks are currently studying how to deal with that, since it's quite a threat, given the enormous amount of flash, acrobat and java zero-days hitting users in Europe. Every week we get new attacks and they are getting better and better at faking content and hiding the exploits.
There is European regulation about how consumer warranties are supposed to be implemented in member country legistlation. Both Belgium and Italy have this legislation in place. In Italy, Apple already lost a trail on the exact same warranty, so the chance that they'll win the trail in Belgium is negligible. In the Netherlands they changed the warranty before they got sued by a consumer organization. They did however lost several court cases to individuals that sued them on their warranty.
You are forgetting that a lot of people bought it because "the guy that knows computers" said it was "the best model", never understanding why and how to take advantage of the added value of the GL over the budget model. The amount of home computer equipment that gets bought on recommendation of either the sales guy, the neighbour kid or the relative that works in IT is staggeringly high. Those people will most likely still be running stock firmware, probably a relic version at that.
They already had pretty lousy terms to start with. Nobody reads terms when they sign up. They only start getting enraged once somebody else tells them the terms suck, usually after they get changed and people influential enough to be listened to complain vocally. In fact, Instagram merely made the terms more specific and by doing so, allowed users more freedom in a lot of cases than with the previous terms. The only real difference was that they actively stated that they might print ads over users pictures when displaying them. They already had that right with the previous terms, so meh.
The true lesson here is that people should read terms before they sign up and if a company makes the terms illegible, they should vocally complain to the company about the terms being illegible. Since most people can't be bothered, they end being part of a human centipede. I guess people need to have that happening to them every once in a while to be reminded that there's no such thing as a free lunch and if you're not paying, you're the product.
Kevin Mitnick got royally shafted for the crimes he committed. He was grossly mistreated and denied a swift trial, access to the evidence in the case against him and by all means, fair representation. What can happen to Mitnick, could happen to any white/grey/blackhat hacker, regardless of what they are accused of or how much of what they are accused of is actually true. In reality, Swartz could very well be looking at 5 years behind bars and the rest of his working life probation. For some reason US courts tend to put people in jail longer for hacking a computer and not stealing anything than for multiple violent armed robberies lately. He may not have gotten 35 years, but losing everything you have and not having a way to get back on track when you're out of jail is going to make most people rather depressed.
Most people don't move out of state more than once a year, even in the USA. If the USA telcos were to offer cheaper subscriptions that would only work in your home state, I'm fairly certain over 80 percent of phone users would get one of those plans.
If you do have to go abroad, often people buy a local SIM with a prepayed package on it for E10 or something. You can often get 1G or more on your holiday destination for that sort of money, often with hundreds of minutes of local calls as well. Spending anywhere up to E50 in such "roaming costs" each year is still a lot cheaper than having to pay for "all around Europe" for 365 days a year while in reality, you usually don't need that for more than a few weeks.
I agree that 1G is rather limited for "power users". However, in reality over 80% of cell phone users just don't consume that amount of data right now. That may be a chicken/egg thing, data usage may be rising fast, but right now, over 1G/month isn't going to bother a lot of users.
It's not the fact they already exist, but that they have to spend government money. Since they are spending that money, they have to get the taxpayers their moneys worth and have to put out a "tender" so suppliers can compete offering the best deal. In order to prevent personal preferences of people in power, bribes and such, tenders are usually rather strict in their requirements and procedures. This is about a lot of tax money, so it gets a lot of attention. Your local community probably puts out tenders for a contract to fix the holes in the road each year, or for putting a new roof on the public school three streets down as well. Those don't make it to SlashDot, but they work the same way.
Because
a) not every piece of video is on those services. Often, stuff just isn't for sale by the "distributor" since they can't make enough money by selling it. Disney Vault?
b) not everyone can order those. True, in the USA you probably could, but there are more countries on the planet and a lot of what you name just isn't available to the rest of the world and even if the services are, the content often isn't.
c) There's more on BitTorrent than just video's you can watch on a streaming service. There are plenty of books and music albums you just can't buy anywhere any more, to name some examples.
d) Stuff your government or another government outlaws. WikiLeaks publications are quite a good example why using BitTorrent in the USA (or anywhere) should not be forbidden.
Google has a profile on you and they have your android device(s) and your home ISP perfectly matched up to that. Even if you don't own android and don't have a google account, they have a "virtual profile" on you. Not only that, but even if you never use google services even as an anonymous user, they probably have your home address and telephone number in their database, including an IP address for your home computer. Yes, thank the people you gave that information to that put it in their android device, which get synced, how conveniently, to Google's cloud.
Google may not be actively telling that they have this information nicely catalogued available to themselves. They may not even have all their internal applications linked exactly this way, but we all know it would be trivial for them to come up with the queries to produce the information I just described. Once there's profit in doing so, they most certainly will do it in a heartbeat. Since several large companies (the "Target knows you're pregnant" article comes to mind) have already admitted they profile their customers/users this way, it'd be very unrealistic for Google not to do this. If even a grocery store can make money on this, a company that makes their money on selling user demographics would most certainly profit from virtual profiles and linking based on probability.
I wonder, what apps did you download for it, what do you use it for, apart from calling people and taking some casual snapshots? What does it make it worth more than a feature phone for you?
Really, it does, uncompressed it does. Yes, we can compress very effectively and we do, but he does have a point that the current infrastructure is struggling hard to keep up with a few 720P channels, let alone 1080P. One 4K channel will probably take the same bandwidth that 8 or 10 720P "HD" channels take. Given the amount of 720P channels one user can choose from at the moment and the amount they can play simultaneously over their connection, only very few people will be able to receive 4K broadcasts in the foreseeable future.
That will make 4K the domain of physical media and brick and mortar stores renting those out have long disappeared. Buying media is something only few people do these days, so there's no supporting infrastructure or economy for the format to succeed. Bluray is the current state-of-the-art medium that will be replaced by whatever 4K will bring us. Whe VCRs were the thing, everybody I knew had at least one in their home. Almost the same with a DVD player. By the time DVD burners got popular, most people had an HTPC of some kind and didn't even watch that much on their TV, but also used their laptops and PCs to watch video. By that time, Internet downloads became so popular, that video rental stores would go bankrupt all over the place. The industry came with "HD" media and the public reaction was mostly "meh". I seriously don't know anyone that owns a dedicated Bluray player. I know quite a few that have a PS3 with a built in drive, but almost none of those people actually own even a single Bluray disk.
Distribution is going to be hard with the current available options. This will mean that the market adoption will be driven by whatever "portable media players" will support in terms of storage, resolution and processing power. Once tablets, 3D augmented reality glasses or whatever video output device we will be using "on the go" will be using higher resolutions than HD successfully, people will be wanting to get media to use that resolution. Until then, only people that want to compensate their below average size genitals and a few "enthusiasts" will be buying 4K equipment.
Sure, car makers should go into their own app store business, since they totally know how to do that. Those people at Google, Apple and MicroSoft don't have a clue when it comes to IT so they owe it to themselves to see their devices jail broken and all sorts of stuff installed on them.
Aim bots are not allowed!
First they came after CP/M, but I didn't own a CP/M computer, so I didn't complain. Then they came after the Amiga. ....
Press the right trigger. NoNo, not the left one! You should have pressed the *right* trigger and scrolled to "stun" before you pressed the left one!
That's what *she* said!