I think they also need to make it impossible to turn off GPS. IIRC, that's what the pilot did on flight MH370.
If I'm on a plane and the transponder has an electrical fault and begins to start sparking and smoking I damn well want the cockpit crew to be able to pull the breaker and kill power to it.
Note, though, that budget bills originate in the House, and Pelosi has not allowed a vote on a FY2019 budget. This is Pelosi's shutdown, not Trumps. He blusters, he threatens, whatever. Pelosi has the first move and she's stonewalling.
Incorrect, Anonymous Coward.
The House has passed numerous budgets. The Speaker of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, refuses to take any of them to the floor of the senate.
McConnell has the next move and he's stonewalling.
People complain that the "Cable Companies" don't allow them to purchase channels a la carte, and that they are forced into buying bundles of channels.
Today -
People complain that the "Streaming Companies" are forcing them to purchase streaming services a la carte, instead of having the option of everything being bundled together.
I live in Vancouver, Canada. I certainly don't mind going to an Amazon.ca "pickup point" to get my packages, but the way it's arranged is a disorganized mess as you can only pick up purchases fulfilled by Amazon. As Amazon doesn't want to discourage you from buying from third parties (more profit for them) they make it difficult to filter those options out of their search results, so it's hard to exclude them. Just make it possible to get anything I buy from Amazon.ca retrievable from a pickup point and the problem is solved - At least for me, anyway.
U put your thermostat on 60 when you leave the house?
My house is somewhat older and somewhat drafty (heated by natural gas). No point in spending the money burning gas (and putting CO2 out the chimney) when no one is there to appreciate it, particularly when the forced-air will warm it up the 10F in 10-15 minutes.
We do the same thing for the 8 hours we're asleep.
I don't want my thermostat connected to the internet.
Mine isn't, but I can see the value. Last night my family and I left a restaurant and started the 15-minute journey home. Would have been nice to have been able to remotely bump the thermostat from 60F to 70F before we left the restaurant so the house was warm when we got home.
Why does anyone need a washer, dry or refrigerator connected to anything but power and water?
Refrigerator I agree with you. Washer / dryers will soon be able to query the public utilities to find out when power gets cheaper, and not turn on until then. It's also nice to remotely turn on the dryer an hour before you get home, so you can hang up your clothes without them sitting all wrinkled in the dryer.
If you have good useful hardware you will survive and beat the big tech companies.
Not really - Because if you have "good useful hardware" (but not the economies of scale that the big tech companies have) you will have to charge more than your competitors, which puts you at a disadvantage right out of the gate.
Yes, companies like Apple can charge a premium for good hardware, but they're an exception, not the rule.
That's why the market today is well-known brands (Nest Labs [Google], Logitech) and cheap gadgets.
That... after the liberal left demanded to know where the funding would come from and forced him to find an answer that wouldn't immediately impact the taxpayers. No political applicant would state that in the middle of a campaign.
Only the "liberal left?"
Fact check Anonymous Coward: During ANY election where a candidate proposes new spending, they have to explain where the funding will come from.
For example, in the 2016 campaign, when Hillary Clinton proposed free tuition to state colleges for families earning under $125K she outlined exactly how the USA would pay for it (via changes to the tax code.)
Sigh. Anonymous Coward - Over and over and over and over and OVER again, Trump made it clear that MEXICO was going to pay for the wall. He made it clear that his fantastic negotiating skills will make that a reality.
All we're doing is holding him to his promise.
A promise *every* Trump supporter repeated back to me throughout 2016 and a lot of 2017.
Is that so hard? All he has to do is do what he said: Head to Mexico, and return with a check for $40 Billion dollars for the wall.
I was once talking to an economist friend over a beer, and he idly mentioned that one way to end most crime overnight would be to replace the $1, $2, $5 and $10 bills with coins, and get rid of all paper currency. Would be VERY unpopular with the Slashdot crowd of course, but the fact remains it's pretty tricky to pay for half-a-millions bucks of heroin with 50,000 ten-dollar coins. If you assume a coin might weigh ten grams that's 500 kilograms worth of coins.
Wouldn't it be great if hardware manufacturers and digital content creators were separate businesses?
Apple's not new to it, though.
Back in the day, a Polaroid Camera was dirt cheap,
What was expensive was the Polaroid film - Because Polaroid wasn't in the camera business - They were in the film business, and you could only put Polaroid film in a Polaroid camera.
Same reason Kodak ignored the digital camera business, even though they held the patents. Kodak was a film company, not a camera company.
I live in a country with ad-free public radio (Canada).
Nevertheless, the grandparent is correct - The vast majority of FM radio is ad-supported - Only three channels on my FM dial are public, and one of those is in a language I don't speak (French).
It would only affect those left wing progtards who still think Russia is a real story.
Look you Russian Troll - I know it's damn cold in Moscow today which is likely slowing down your vodka-addled brain, but if you want your fake posts to at least appear credible you should stop posting as an Anonymous Coward.
The fact that you don't know that Ferguson and BLM are very much connected to Soros tells me you're an imbecile.
Sigh. Typical Soros-blaming Anonymous Coward - Completely incapable of answering the simple question asked, so simply deflects to irrelevancy and lobs an insult.
No. But I do want you to answer the question.
How exactly did those things you listed make your life "suck?" How has Black Lives Matter or Ferguson specifically made your life "suck?"
Please go through the list and explain how each of these items have explicitly impacted you negatively.
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Instead they design it to fail safe and have redundancy.
Yes - You have two engines. If one fails you turn it off and run on the other one.
You could certainly install a second redundant transponder, but you'd still need a mechanism to kill power to it.
I think they also need to make it impossible to turn off GPS. IIRC, that's what the pilot did on flight MH370.
If I'm on a plane and the transponder has an electrical fault and begins to start sparking and smoking I damn well want the cockpit crew to be able to pull the breaker and kill power to it.
Note, though, that budget bills originate in the House, and Pelosi has not allowed a vote on a FY2019 budget. This is Pelosi's shutdown, not Trumps. He blusters, he threatens, whatever. Pelosi has the first move and she's stonewalling.
Incorrect, Anonymous Coward.
The House has passed numerous budgets. The Speaker of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, refuses to take any of them to the floor of the senate.
McConnell has the next move and he's stonewalling.
Good ol' days -
People complain that the "Cable Companies" don't allow them to purchase channels a la carte, and that they are forced into buying bundles of channels.
Today -
People complain that the "Streaming Companies" are forcing them to purchase streaming services a la carte, instead of having the option of everything being bundled together.
Why would the announce that?
Likely to override defense accusations of illegal wiretapping.
Tell her your budget and requirements (e.g. "Windows") and let her go buy what she likes.
I would automatically say Microsoft Surface, with pen + dock + monitor + keyboard + mouse, but empower her.
I live in Vancouver, Canada. I certainly don't mind going to an Amazon.ca "pickup point" to get my packages, but the way it's arranged is a disorganized mess as you can only pick up purchases fulfilled by Amazon. As Amazon doesn't want to discourage you from buying from third parties (more profit for them) they make it difficult to filter those options out of their search results, so it's hard to exclude them. Just make it possible to get anything I buy from Amazon.ca retrievable from a pickup point and the problem is solved - At least for me, anyway.
you can put a clothing line on your back porch
I live in the Pacific Northwest. Here is my forecast for this week (with apologies in advance for the metric temperatures).
...and pretty much the previous two months and upcoming two months.
https://imgur.com/a/mDQuEnM
U put your thermostat on 60 when you leave the house?
My house is somewhat older and somewhat drafty (heated by natural gas). No point in spending the money burning gas (and putting CO2 out the chimney) when no one is there to appreciate it, particularly when the forced-air will warm it up the 10F in 10-15 minutes.
We do the same thing for the 8 hours we're asleep.
I don't want my thermostat connected to the internet.
Mine isn't, but I can see the value. Last night my family and I left a restaurant and started the 15-minute journey home. Would have been nice to have been able to remotely bump the thermostat from 60F to 70F before we left the restaurant so the house was warm when we got home.
Why does anyone need a washer, dry or refrigerator connected to anything but power and water?
Refrigerator I agree with you. Washer / dryers will soon be able to query the public utilities to find out when power gets cheaper, and not turn on until then. It's also nice to remotely turn on the dryer an hour before you get home, so you can hang up your clothes without them sitting all wrinkled in the dryer.
If you have good useful hardware you will survive and beat the big tech companies.
Not really - Because if you have "good useful hardware" (but not the economies of scale that the big tech companies have) you will have to charge more than your competitors, which puts you at a disadvantage right out of the gate.
Yes, companies like Apple can charge a premium for good hardware, but they're an exception, not the rule.
That's why the market today is well-known brands (Nest Labs [Google], Logitech) and cheap gadgets.
Just like Medicare For All, right dipshit?
Please provide me with the name of a Presidential Candidate with the Republican or Democratic Nomination who ran on a platform of "Medicare for all."
Thanks.
(Dipshit.)
Mexico bought $250 Billion worth of American goods and services last year alone.
Thousands upon thousands of American jobs depend on selling things to Mexico,
You want to end that trade and kill those jobs for what?
That... after the liberal left demanded to know where the funding would come from and forced him to find an answer that wouldn't immediately impact the taxpayers. No political applicant would state that in the middle of a campaign.
Only the "liberal left?"
Fact check Anonymous Coward: During ANY election where a candidate proposes new spending, they have to explain where the funding will come from.
For example, in the 2016 campaign, when Hillary Clinton proposed free tuition to state colleges for families earning under $125K she outlined exactly how the USA would pay for it (via changes to the tax code.)
The only reason Trump wants a wall
I thought it was "slats" now? Whatever those are.
Just fund the wall that Americans want and need.
Sigh. Anonymous Coward - Over and over and over and over and OVER again, Trump made it clear that MEXICO was going to pay for the wall. He made it clear that his fantastic negotiating skills will make that a reality.
All we're doing is holding him to his promise.
A promise *every* Trump supporter repeated back to me throughout 2016 and a lot of 2017.
Is that so hard? All he has to do is do what he said: Head to Mexico, and return with a check for $40 Billion dollars for the wall.
I was once talking to an economist friend over a beer, and he idly mentioned that one way to end most crime overnight would be to replace the $1, $2, $5 and $10 bills with coins, and get rid of all paper currency. Would be VERY unpopular with the Slashdot crowd of course, but the fact remains it's pretty tricky to pay for half-a-millions bucks of heroin with 50,000 ten-dollar coins. If you assume a coin might weigh ten grams that's 500 kilograms worth of coins.
Wouldn't it be great if hardware manufacturers and digital content creators were separate businesses?
Apple's not new to it, though.
Back in the day, a Polaroid Camera was dirt cheap,
What was expensive was the Polaroid film - Because Polaroid wasn't in the camera business - They were in the film business, and you could only put Polaroid film in a Polaroid camera.
Same reason Kodak ignored the digital camera business, even though they held the patents. Kodak was a film company, not a camera company.
>> The vast majority of FM radio is ads 24/7
> Not in countries with ad-free public radio.
I live in a country with ad-free public radio (Canada).
Nevertheless, the grandparent is correct - The vast majority of FM radio is ad-supported - Only three channels on my FM dial are public, and one of those is in a language I don't speak (French).
It would only affect those left wing progtards who still think Russia is a real story.
Look you Russian Troll - I know it's damn cold in Moscow today which is likely slowing down your vodka-addled brain, but if you want your fake posts to at least appear credible you should stop posting as an Anonymous Coward.
The longer they're able to keep screwing up EVERYTHING, the worse off earth will be.
Flamebait trolling aside, if you help seniors with dementia you're actually saving the system money.
Also, will you have the same opinion in 50 years when *you're* starting to forget who the people around you are?
the drone guy will just delay your travel at worst
US Airways flight Cactus 1549 ingested birds into its engines and ditched in the Hudson River.
The risk is "drone guy" actually bringing your flight down, not inconveniencing your Disney holiday for a day.
Do you feel better?
Yep.
I don't overdo it (that'll kill you) but a troll a week (or thereabouts) is cathartic.
The fact that you don't know that Ferguson and BLM are very much connected to Soros tells me you're an imbecile.
Sigh. Typical Soros-blaming Anonymous Coward - Completely incapable of answering the simple question asked, so simply deflects to irrelevancy and lobs an insult.
Who's the imbecile again?
Want me to continue?
No. But I do want you to answer the question. How exactly did those things you listed make your life "suck?" How has Black Lives Matter or Ferguson specifically made your life "suck?"
Please go through the list and explain how each of these items have explicitly impacted you negatively.