This has been long overdue for Gamestop. Too many stores, too many crappy policies and prices and too much hassle and upsell.
But on the other hand, my ex girlfriend now works in a Gamestop and it's the first "real" job she's ever had and she is happy working there. It's the sort of happy she needs in her life at this point and I'd hate to see it taken away. No clue if her store will close or not. But even if not now, the writing is on the wall for the company.
If he's not abusing coworkers or his spouse/significant other, and his work is good, it should not matter how he chooses to fly his flag. I don't care. Probably almost nobody using Drupal has even heard of the guy, much less worried about his hobbies.
They already do this. Some news organization did an expose on it. They went through a building that was simply corridors full of one-room offices, a company nameplate on the door, and no one ever went in or out.
There may have been news reports but one of the best investigations was from Austin Mayer, developer of the flight sim X-Plane, who was being sued by one of these worthless companies.
Austin went to East Texas, dug around those empty hallways, and produced a scathing report: http://www.thepatentscam.com/
There is a long history of similar projects and they all face the same challenges: airframe, engines, engines, engines, engines, cash flow, actual demand from buyers, and safety. And time to get certified (likely to be 5-10 years) and lawsuits.
For a couple good examples of conventional aircraft enduring this, look no further than the HondaJet or Leonardo's AW609. Though I am not aware either has been sued, they HAVE taken a very long time to get from design to prototype to test vehicles to certification and sales. Honda worked on their jet for at least SIXTEEN YEARS to get certification, and it's not as radical as a supersonic jet.
Any new design is going to take years to get certified. Major updates on existing vehicles also take forever. It's just the way it is, and helps keeps these things from falling of of the sky. Which you want even more if the vehicle is supersonic and might kill a lot of people if it failed in flight.
Mostly, supersonic projects are stuck at the mercy of their engine supplier. There is always only one such supplier and any delays or problems there delay everything else. It's really only recently that some common airliners have even had an option for engine suppliers and you still have to choose in advance who will make them.
Ah McAfee. I used to go a lot of gaming with a group of ladies. Actual biological females. Being way too old for any of them to worry about, and being old enough to be polite, it was good place to hang out and game. We got along fine. Still do.
They had a clan thing going and used voice chat to talk as they hopped from game to game to game. It was a lot of fun.
Anyway, I knew a lot more about PCs than any of them, which is fine. Nobody really needs too know much. Several of the ladies had ongoing performance problems and it turned out to they all had McAfee. So I walked them through getting rid of that turd and gave them all Eset licenses. Everybody had very good results. They now talk to their friends and selectively choose who is told to install McAfee and who is told to get rid of it.
Productivity is at an all-time high. This is one reason why people can't find jobs: work that used to take several people is now being done by one, and that one suffers in silence just glad to have a job. And they can see the line of applicants at the door.
So what crack is Comcast smoking? Maybe their cameras can tell them where to get it.
Here's the thing: any business desperately threatened without cameras A) already knows it, and B) almost certainly already has cameras in place. Cameras have been cheap for a while and easy to setup and monitor. Anyone who wants to go nuts putting in cameras can do so, and watch them from across the globe.
The problem is, all the cameras you can install have not stopped shrinkage (employee theft) or really stopped other crimes, and there is scant evidence they have encouraged people to work harder. Everybody who wants to steal figures out ways to do it that the cameras can't see. And people who goof off or whatever will always goof off.
And if you really DO install cameras and follow what Comcast suggests for doing live remote monitoring or storing footage online and so forth, exactly WHO is going to watch all of this amazing footage? In most offices or businesses, nobody has time to be a camera operator. And the regular managers already have jobs, managing, and when they go home, they don't want to sit there having to watch cameras.
So Comcast is selling a solution for a problem that they cannot actually fix, and instead of improving productivity as they claim, it really means some sucker will have to endure watching hours of nothing trying desperately to find something exciting worthy of Youtube if not LiveLeak, and for 99%+ of of these cameras, they will see nothing at all.
But hey Comcast can charge them big $$ for it. Every month. Promising something exciting will happen and Comcast will be there to help you see it!
As someone who is aware of super hero comics and once faithfully followed one of them and watched the cartoons, the whole idea of Batman vs. Superman was just ludicrous from the title alone.
Batman is basically a rich guy with fancy gadgets on his toolbelt. He's not a LOT different from anybody. He just has better gadgets.
Superman is a God, effectively.
This fight is over before it even starts so why the hell would I want to pay to see it? Well, I wouldn't and didn't and never needed to read the reviews. These characters used to be allies as well so the idea of having them fight each other sounds like something a four-year-old kid would come up with, bashing action figures in a sandbox. Whatever, man. Not gonna see this movie. Honey Boo Boo, which I have also never seen, sounds more interesting.
PayPal and eBay shared the same keyfobs for a long time, but sometime about two years ago, PayPal logins stopped working for me and nobody from their side could figure out why. Long story short, the only fix was to turn off the keyfob and use PIN codes sent by SMS.
I am not sure if this really impacts security as PayPal was trivially easy to social engineer and have the keyfob taken off a target account, so having a keyfob on your account really didn't mean that much.
Thanks for explaining that. Sold on ebay for ~20 years but never heard of GSP. Sounds ghastly.
I used to do international all the time in my previous job and we always used Fedex or LTL freight, never the mail. All the customs stuff was integrated and easy to do as long as it wasn't being mailed. Fedex made it a snap. Never had one issue with paperwork or customs or duties.
Our Canada office always used UPS to ship to US offices. Everybody was careful to avoid US Mail or Canada Post.
The cost is dictated by size and weight. I've shipped many five-six pound items that were bulky and cost $50 to ship. No matter if using USPS, Fedex, UPS, whatever, the cost was expensive. Thankfully I take this cost into account for my auctions. And I eat the cost of the box I have to supply (these are anywhere from $2 to $8 each!) and packing materials (bubble wrap is fucking expensive).
So I not only don't make money on shipping, I lose money. And then some doofus demands a refund because the USPS is late with delivery. The only way the eBay process could be more abusive to sellers is if they outright just took the merchandise and stole it. Oh wait, they fucking do that too when a buyer says they didn't get the item or it was a fake or some other BS. They take back what the person paid and let them keep the merchandise. So the seller is out the merchandise, the postage, the money to pay for those things and still has to pay eBay for the sale fees.
Helium balloons also have another use the government would not like: you can take a few of them and inhale the gas and die. It's a quick, cheap, effective and painless suicide method.
We all know how much the government really hates people making their own choice to end things. It is surprising helium balloons aren't already banned.
Well, when MY life reaches the "game over man, game over!" stage, I have money saved to buy some of these balloons and celebrate myself exiting this existence. Happy Birthday to me. Happy fucking birthday to me.
Legally Google should only have SSN's for their own employees, though with the level of spying and data analysis they conduct for their advertising it's possible they can connect the dots and statistically identify an individual including their ID numbers.
The thing is, an SSN is not considered confidential information. It's merely an identifier. The fact that banks and credit companies and lenders have USED it for identification and credit ratings and such is entirely of their own volition. They're not supposed to do that. It's not meant for that purpose. But the barn door was left open long ago.
In fact, there are algorithms that can deduce your SSN with good rate of success just by knowing your DOB and place of birth. So if it's possible to figure out your number based on what would be public information, can you really call the SSN confidential? If you can just guess and get it right, no.
The real problem is this number was never meant to be used the way it is. It was never meant to be the key to unlocking credit and loans and money. It was never meant to be secure. We have stupidly allowed it to be all those things and done nothing to secure it along the way, besides just saying "Oh wow don't share that!" and assuming that's all we had to do.
If things were the way they should be, an SSN would have no more usefulness than someone's phone number. It's not a lot of good beyond using it to call them. And an SSN should not be any good for anything beyond crediting stuff to your retirement, if there is any by the time you retire.
Hollywood is so busy gazing into its own navel, they don't even want ideas from outside. Across the world, tons of literary content never before in English have been translated and published, and a lot of these books are jammed with ideas and approaches and concepts never seen or used by Hollywood. Fresh, new material ripe for licensing and/or theft.
But Hollywood doesn't want ANY of it! Because Hollywood is always busy trying to remake the last thing that was a hit, not trying to make new things.
Alien Covenant is at least 50% a remake of the first movie and Scott is not only proud of this, he wants to make (or remake) a ton more movies it the same series, probably all of them retellings of an existing story.
Spiderman, Batman, and Superman have all been rebooted multiple times despite the fact that everyone pretty much knows the origins for these characters. Hell, the fact that people already know is considered a PLUS, not a negative. Remake it again. Stupid moviegoers will happily buy the goddamn tickets anyway.
That's the other half of the problem: Hollywood keeps remaking bullshit but the motherfucking public rewards this by spending billions on tickets and DVDs and BDs and rentals and happily spend spend spend every damn time they remake this shit.
Geeks and nerds are the worst. You lot go to every single super hero movie to support the genre or whatever, but your devoted movie dollars go to reward completely crap and studios who don't even try, and you convince yourselves these movies are good. And you go again!
No wonder Hollywood keeps making this crap. They have no reason to make the next Arrival or take any of a dozen excellent contemporary Chinese fiction works and make a movie from that. And then they make crap like Great Wall, which flops because it is crap, and that right there will reinforce Hollywood's idea that they should just stay insular.
And there is plenty of cargo capacity at the moment. Elon can ask for bids on the shipping part and probably get a good deal for a load of 80-odd containers.
I don't know what the cargo frequency is from Long Beach (the most likely port of origin) and Australia but there will certainly be more than one shipper eager to take the shipment. Probably be good publicity too. Hell, somebody can do a documentary on the whole process, from construction and build, to packing, to shipping, to installation, and secrete a camera crew ON the boat.
Somebody call Beyond Productions or Seven Network. They'd do it.
Seriously? They truck them or ship via rail to a port and then cargo ship to Australia, whereupon they are put on trucks or rail again.
They don't need to do anything fancy or hyperlooped or orbital The battery systems would have always been designed for shipment as cargo. So, all they have to do is make them and ship them. No magic in it. Just logistics.
We could be surrounded by alien data sand waiting to be discovered, except somebody vacuumed it up from the floor mats in their car and threw it out.
This is just retarded. Anyone storing data on something so incredibly volatile deserves to have their data destroyed.
Retarded? You seem to be. Storing or distributing data like that would be a great test. If a feeble species like ours never finds it, oh well, we were just too retarded. But if we did find it, hey, maybe we are not all morons like you after all. Eh. Well, we probably are.
This and other similar forms of radical memory storage are frightening to me. Not because of anything they do or are, but because they carry a huge implication.
If we humans, certainly not all that advanced, have come up with ways to store data in single atoms like this, or in forms like grains of sand, then what does this suggest about how more advanced species might store and distribute their data? And would we even know it was there?
Suppose right now, the beaches of earth were covered in grains of sand that were really data storage grains. We would have no idea. We'd never look, and even if we did, we would never understand what we had. By the same token, we could be exploring the moon or Mars or somewhere else and encounter non-terrestrial data artifacts and never even see them much less bring them back.
We could have untold wealths of knowledge RIGHT THERE and never know it. If Type 0.5 humans can store data this way, what could a Type 2 civilization do?
We could be surrounded by alien data sand waiting to be discovered, except somebody vacuumed it up from the floor mats in their car and threw it out.
This is the stuff of nightmares. And OCD. And there is nothing we can do about it. We can't detect it.
Was out at the local strip mall today and had a sudden memory of how Radio Shack stores used to smell. They had a distinctive aroma, and no, it wasn't from the workers.
After finding these images were still on FB, the BBC asked for an interview with FB to get an explanation of why this was still going on. FB then asked them, please send us the images you want to talk about. We want to see it before we say anything.
The BBC complied that request. And then got reported.
So FB ASKED them for the images, which were already present on FB. And instead of doing anything about the images, they went to the police with them.
FB, you are a fucking bunch of cowards and goddamn stupid too. You, by asking for the images, are guilty of the crime you sought to accuse the BBC of committing.
Good luck getting 300,000 miles out of your brakes and battery. There's also a damn good chance you'll be on your second (or later) alternator or starter by then, too. As you yourself actually pointed out.
Is it SO bad to have replaced an alternator even twice in 300K miles? That's a LOT of miles. Some repair expenses to reach that number are perfectly reasonable and should be expected.
Oh I know, people want to reach 300K just having put in gas and never spending a dime on maintenance or parts or tires. But that's not realistic. Things wear out. Things break, especially if people drive like idiots on bad roads and neglect maintenance.
In the 80s and 90s, being able to run a specific application meant something. You had to have the right combination of hardware and software to make it all work.
But now, a whole LOT of stuff runs in a browser, and runs the same across platforms. Which platform it happens to be is mostly irrelevant. Most people won't even care which platform they are using.
So we don't need a Mac version or a Windows version or a mobile version. Just something that runs in a browser and done. Oh sure, there will always be certain applications that require a native application. This is going to be a smaller and smaller number every year.
They wrote that awkwardly. It's 108C more than they expected, which is probably, I dunno, thousands of C if the mantle is melting rocks and crap.
So instead of being insanely hot, it is now extra crispy insanely hot. Or, 108 more than they thought.
It is NOT 108F and suitable for a moderately warm bath, nor 108C and suitable for making tea if there is any water left in the pot that hasn't gone to steam.
Since when does Uber give two shits about what happens to their drivers?
They act like they could not care less if the drivers are murdered by passengers, are hijacked, or caught up in a sting operation of some kind. Uber has made it clear the drivers are on their own in such cases and don't call them for bail money.
There is NO way they ran this filtering app to benefit drivers when they don't give a shit about the drivers. They've got so many new drivers begging to sign up, existing drivers are of no concern to Uber at all. One existing driver drops out or gets killed or arrested, oh well: three more replace that one.
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This has been long overdue for Gamestop. Too many stores, too many crappy policies and prices and too much hassle and upsell.
But on the other hand, my ex girlfriend now works in a Gamestop and it's the first "real" job she's ever had and she is happy working there. It's the sort of happy she needs in her life at this point and I'd hate to see it taken away. No clue if her store will close or not. But even if not now, the writing is on the wall for the company.
THIS pretty much.
If he's not abusing coworkers or his spouse/significant other, and his work is good, it should not matter how he chooses to fly his flag. I don't care. Probably almost nobody using Drupal has even heard of the guy, much less worried about his hobbies.
They already do this. Some news organization did an expose on it. They went through a building that was simply corridors full of one-room offices, a company nameplate on the door, and no one ever went in or out.
There may have been news reports but one of the best investigations was from Austin Mayer, developer of the flight sim X-Plane, who was being sued by one of these worthless companies.
Austin went to East Texas, dug around those empty hallways, and produced a scathing report: http://www.thepatentscam.com/
It's brilliant.
The DC-X was successful except for the idiot who didn't connect the landing leg.
Human error is not the same as a fundamental flaw in the program.
There is a long history of similar projects and they all face the same challenges: airframe, engines, engines, engines, engines, cash flow, actual demand from buyers, and safety. And time to get certified (likely to be 5-10 years) and lawsuits.
For a couple good examples of conventional aircraft enduring this, look no further than the HondaJet or Leonardo's AW609. Though I am not aware either has been sued, they HAVE taken a very long time to get from design to prototype to test vehicles to certification and sales. Honda worked on their jet for at least SIXTEEN YEARS to get certification, and it's not as radical as a supersonic jet.
Any new design is going to take years to get certified. Major updates on existing vehicles also take forever. It's just the way it is, and helps keeps these things from falling of of the sky. Which you want even more if the vehicle is supersonic and might kill a lot of people if it failed in flight.
Mostly, supersonic projects are stuck at the mercy of their engine supplier. There is always only one such supplier and any delays or problems there delay everything else. It's really only recently that some common airliners have even had an option for engine suppliers and you still have to choose in advance who will make them.
Ah McAfee. I used to go a lot of gaming with a group of ladies. Actual biological females. Being way too old for any of them to worry about, and being old enough to be polite, it was good place to hang out and game. We got along fine. Still do.
They had a clan thing going and used voice chat to talk as they hopped from game to game to game. It was a lot of fun.
Anyway, I knew a lot more about PCs than any of them, which is fine. Nobody really needs too know much. Several of the ladies had ongoing performance problems and it turned out to they all had McAfee. So I walked them through getting rid of that turd and gave them all Eset licenses. Everybody had very good results. They now talk to their friends and selectively choose who is told to install McAfee and who is told to get rid of it.
Ah dirty tricks.
Productivity is at an all-time high. This is one reason why people can't find jobs: work that used to take several people is now being done by one, and that one suffers in silence just glad to have a job. And they can see the line of applicants at the door.
So what crack is Comcast smoking? Maybe their cameras can tell them where to get it.
Here's the thing: any business desperately threatened without cameras A) already knows it, and B) almost certainly already has cameras in place. Cameras have been cheap for a while and easy to setup and monitor. Anyone who wants to go nuts putting in cameras can do so, and watch them from across the globe.
The problem is, all the cameras you can install have not stopped shrinkage (employee theft) or really stopped other crimes, and there is scant evidence they have encouraged people to work harder. Everybody who wants to steal figures out ways to do it that the cameras can't see. And people who goof off or whatever will always goof off.
And if you really DO install cameras and follow what Comcast suggests for doing live remote monitoring or storing footage online and so forth, exactly WHO is going to watch all of this amazing footage? In most offices or businesses, nobody has time to be a camera operator. And the regular managers already have jobs, managing, and when they go home, they don't want to sit there having to watch cameras.
So Comcast is selling a solution for a problem that they cannot actually fix, and instead of improving productivity as they claim, it really means some sucker will have to endure watching hours of nothing trying desperately to find something exciting worthy of Youtube if not LiveLeak, and for 99%+ of of these cameras, they will see nothing at all.
But hey Comcast can charge them big $$ for it. Every month. Promising something exciting will happen and Comcast will be there to help you see it!
BULLSHIT
As someone who is aware of super hero comics and once faithfully followed one of them and watched the cartoons, the whole idea of Batman vs. Superman was just ludicrous from the title alone.
Batman is basically a rich guy with fancy gadgets on his toolbelt. He's not a LOT different from anybody. He just has better gadgets.
Superman is a God, effectively.
This fight is over before it even starts so why the hell would I want to pay to see it? Well, I wouldn't and didn't and never needed to read the reviews. These characters used to be allies as well so the idea of having them fight each other sounds like something a four-year-old kid would come up with, bashing action figures in a sandbox. Whatever, man. Not gonna see this movie. Honey Boo Boo, which I have also never seen, sounds more interesting.
PayPal and eBay shared the same keyfobs for a long time, but sometime about two years ago, PayPal logins stopped working for me and nobody from their side could figure out why. Long story short, the only fix was to turn off the keyfob and use PIN codes sent by SMS.
I am not sure if this really impacts security as PayPal was trivially easy to social engineer and have the keyfob taken off a target account, so having a keyfob on your account really didn't mean that much.
Now eBay is doing the same thing. Oh well.
Thanks for explaining that. Sold on ebay for ~20 years but never heard of GSP. Sounds ghastly.
I used to do international all the time in my previous job and we always used Fedex or LTL freight, never the mail. All the customs stuff was integrated and easy to do as long as it wasn't being mailed. Fedex made it a snap. Never had one issue with paperwork or customs or duties.
Our Canada office always used UPS to ship to US offices. Everybody was careful to avoid US Mail or Canada Post.
The cost is dictated by size and weight. I've shipped many five-six pound items that were bulky and cost $50 to ship. No matter if using USPS, Fedex, UPS, whatever, the cost was expensive. Thankfully I take this cost into account for my auctions. And I eat the cost of the box I have to supply (these are anywhere from $2 to $8 each!) and packing materials (bubble wrap is fucking expensive).
So I not only don't make money on shipping, I lose money. And then some doofus demands a refund because the USPS is late with delivery. The only way the eBay process could be more abusive to sellers is if they outright just took the merchandise and stole it. Oh wait, they fucking do that too when a buyer says they didn't get the item or it was a fake or some other BS. They take back what the person paid and let them keep the merchandise. So the seller is out the merchandise, the postage, the money to pay for those things and still has to pay eBay for the sale fees.
It's a fucking scam at this point.
Helium balloons also have another use the government would not like: you can take a few of them and inhale the gas and die. It's a quick, cheap, effective and painless suicide method.
We all know how much the government really hates people making their own choice to end things. It is surprising helium balloons aren't already banned.
Well, when MY life reaches the "game over man, game over!" stage, I have money saved to buy some of these balloons and celebrate myself exiting this existence. Happy Birthday to me. Happy fucking birthday to me.
Legally Google should only have SSN's for their own employees, though with the level of spying and data analysis they conduct for their advertising it's possible they can connect the dots and statistically identify an individual including their ID numbers.
The thing is, an SSN is not considered confidential information. It's merely an identifier. The fact that banks and credit companies and lenders have USED it for identification and credit ratings and such is entirely of their own volition. They're not supposed to do that. It's not meant for that purpose. But the barn door was left open long ago.
In fact, there are algorithms that can deduce your SSN with good rate of success just by knowing your DOB and place of birth. So if it's possible to figure out your number based on what would be public information, can you really call the SSN confidential? If you can just guess and get it right, no.
The real problem is this number was never meant to be used the way it is. It was never meant to be the key to unlocking credit and loans and money. It was never meant to be secure. We have stupidly allowed it to be all those things and done nothing to secure it along the way, besides just saying "Oh wow don't share that!" and assuming that's all we had to do.
If things were the way they should be, an SSN would have no more usefulness than someone's phone number. It's not a lot of good beyond using it to call them. And an SSN should not be any good for anything beyond crediting stuff to your retirement, if there is any by the time you retire.
Hollywood is so busy gazing into its own navel, they don't even want ideas from outside. Across the world, tons of literary content never before in English have been translated and published, and a lot of these books are jammed with ideas and approaches and concepts never seen or used by Hollywood. Fresh, new material ripe for licensing and/or theft.
But Hollywood doesn't want ANY of it! Because Hollywood is always busy trying to remake the last thing that was a hit, not trying to make new things.
Alien Covenant is at least 50% a remake of the first movie and Scott is not only proud of this, he wants to make (or remake) a ton more movies it the same series, probably all of them retellings of an existing story.
Spiderman, Batman, and Superman have all been rebooted multiple times despite the fact that everyone pretty much knows the origins for these characters. Hell, the fact that people already know is considered a PLUS, not a negative. Remake it again. Stupid moviegoers will happily buy the goddamn tickets anyway.
That's the other half of the problem: Hollywood keeps remaking bullshit but the motherfucking public rewards this by spending billions on tickets and DVDs and BDs and rentals and happily spend spend spend every damn time they remake this shit.
Geeks and nerds are the worst. You lot go to every single super hero movie to support the genre or whatever, but your devoted movie dollars go to reward completely crap and studios who don't even try, and you convince yourselves these movies are good. And you go again!
No wonder Hollywood keeps making this crap. They have no reason to make the next Arrival or take any of a dozen excellent contemporary Chinese fiction works and make a movie from that. And then they make crap like Great Wall, which flops because it is crap, and that right there will reinforce Hollywood's idea that they should just stay insular.
And there is plenty of cargo capacity at the moment. Elon can ask for bids on the shipping part and probably get a good deal for a load of 80-odd containers.
I don't know what the cargo frequency is from Long Beach (the most likely port of origin) and Australia but there will certainly be more than one shipper eager to take the shipment. Probably be good publicity too. Hell, somebody can do a documentary on the whole process, from construction and build, to packing, to shipping, to installation, and secrete a camera crew ON the boat.
Somebody call Beyond Productions or Seven Network. They'd do it.
Seriously? They truck them or ship via rail to a port and then cargo ship to Australia, whereupon they are put on trucks or rail again.
They don't need to do anything fancy or hyperlooped or orbital The battery systems would have always been designed for shipment as cargo. So, all they have to do is make them and ship them. No magic in it. Just logistics.
We could be surrounded by alien data sand waiting to be discovered, except somebody vacuumed it up from the floor mats in their car and threw it out.
This is just retarded. Anyone storing data on something so incredibly volatile deserves to have their data destroyed.
Retarded? You seem to be. Storing or distributing data like that would be a great test. If a feeble species like ours never finds it, oh well, we were just too retarded. But if we did find it, hey, maybe we are not all morons like you after all. Eh. Well, we probably are.
Nope. Never once. But I will happily build a robot to take your job. Just business.
This and other similar forms of radical memory storage are frightening to me. Not because of anything they do or are, but because they carry a huge implication.
If we humans, certainly not all that advanced, have come up with ways to store data in single atoms like this, or in forms like grains of sand, then what does this suggest about how more advanced species might store and distribute their data? And would we even know it was there?
Suppose right now, the beaches of earth were covered in grains of sand that were really data storage grains. We would have no idea. We'd never look, and even if we did, we would never understand what we had. By the same token, we could be exploring the moon or Mars or somewhere else and encounter non-terrestrial data artifacts and never even see them much less bring them back.
We could have untold wealths of knowledge RIGHT THERE and never know it. If Type 0.5 humans can store data this way, what could a Type 2 civilization do?
We could be surrounded by alien data sand waiting to be discovered, except somebody vacuumed it up from the floor mats in their car and threw it out.
This is the stuff of nightmares. And OCD. And there is nothing we can do about it. We can't detect it.
Was out at the local strip mall today and had a sudden memory of how Radio Shack stores used to smell. They had a distinctive aroma, and no, it wasn't from the workers.
Oh well.
The whole story was on BBC Newshour this morning:
After finding these images were still on FB, the BBC asked for an interview with FB to get an explanation of why this was still going on. FB then asked them, please send us the images you want to talk about. We want to see it before we say anything.
The BBC complied that request. And then got reported.
So FB ASKED them for the images, which were already present on FB. And instead of doing anything about the images, they went to the police with them.
FB, you are a fucking bunch of cowards and goddamn stupid too. You, by asking for the images, are guilty of the crime you sought to accuse the BBC of committing.
Good luck getting 300,000 miles out of your brakes and battery. There's also a damn good chance you'll be on your second (or later) alternator or starter by then, too. As you yourself actually pointed out.
Is it SO bad to have replaced an alternator even twice in 300K miles? That's a LOT of miles. Some repair expenses to reach that number are perfectly reasonable and should be expected.
Oh I know, people want to reach 300K just having put in gas and never spending a dime on maintenance or parts or tires. But that's not realistic. Things wear out. Things break, especially if people drive like idiots on bad roads and neglect maintenance.
In the 80s and 90s, being able to run a specific application meant something. You had to have the right combination of hardware and software to make it all work.
But now, a whole LOT of stuff runs in a browser, and runs the same across platforms. Which platform it happens to be is mostly irrelevant. Most people won't even care which platform they are using.
So we don't need a Mac version or a Windows version or a mobile version. Just something that runs in a browser and done. Oh sure, there will always be certain applications that require a native application. This is going to be a smaller and smaller number every year.
They wrote that awkwardly. It's 108C more than they expected, which is probably, I dunno, thousands of C if the mantle is melting rocks and crap.
So instead of being insanely hot, it is now extra crispy insanely hot. Or, 108 more than they thought.
It is NOT 108F and suitable for a moderately warm bath, nor 108C and suitable for making tea if there is any water left in the pot that hasn't gone to steam.
Since when does Uber give two shits about what happens to their drivers?
They act like they could not care less if the drivers are murdered by passengers, are hijacked, or caught up in a sting operation of some kind. Uber has made it clear the drivers are on their own in such cases and don't call them for bail money.
There is NO way they ran this filtering app to benefit drivers when they don't give a shit about the drivers. They've got so many new drivers begging to sign up, existing drivers are of no concern to Uber at all. One existing driver drops out or gets killed or arrested, oh well: three more replace that one.