So you're saying that the good old magstripe is somehow MORE secure than an NFC phone that requires secondary authentication? Or is it you just haven't figured out how to turn NFC on?
And why, exactly, do you think any of those rich individuals and corporations would remain in America, when you're forcing them to work just so you can steal their money and give it to the people who don't?
The US would still be a very lucrative market - especially since everyone would have a minimum income they are able to spend. Say we put taxes at a ridiculous 90%. Would you as a corporation rather take in 10% of $1 billion or 0% of $1 billion. Take your time on the math.
Though the requirements are a bit vague, Google spreadsheets might be able to fit the need. It can be setup to just have a form/questionaire for the volunteers to fill out and then sticks it all into a spreadsheet.
I know my android device has a barometer, but I can't seem to figure out why. Sure it's kind of neat to be able to see the pressure graphed over time, but I don't think it's a big selling point on devices. Is it just a side effect of some other hardware that makes it easy to implement or something?
The challenge with that is planes are currently tracked via old fashioned radar. Radar has a limited range and being based on the ground has issues with the Earth curving. The new system will use GPS sent via radio or satellite which will give it global coverage.
I bought one to try it out with the knowledge end expectation that I could install Mint on it. I've switched it to developer mode (and back), but I haven't found any need for running actual applications on it. What I wanted was a very light laptop with a reasonable screen/keyboard (no netbooks), and it fits the bill perfectly (plus 6 second cold-boot time).
It does everything that a normal person could want - I use it for email, browsing the web, uploading pictures from a camera SD card, streaming music, editing powerpoint (through google presentations). It even has a built in SSH client for remoting into other machines via terminal as well as a remote desktop app.
Yes and No. You can get a VERY basic terminal by typing ctrl-alt-T, but really all it can do is ssh to something else. If you change it into developer mode (takes a bit longer to boot), then you get access to root/full terminal.
It seems like something that would be useful, but the article says it needs to be "1 to 3 feet from a wall" which would leave a lot of wasted space in most rooms.
Also, only 1 LED? Should have a whole ring of them!
I thought that was the best part of it! The plot basically made no sense and lots of unreasonable/impossible things happened, but after this huge setup of aliens and shields that prevent radar, for that 5-10 minutes they made it just like the game of firing on a grid coordinate and hoping to hit a ship!
What's really missing is that ChromeOS is made to be a lightweight almost terminal system with nothing but the basics installed.
The article even mentions that it will be "Streaming" Photoshop from the cloud - which makes more sense for a ChromeOS program:
Today, in partnership with Adobe, we’re welcoming Creative Cloud onto Chromebooks, initially with a streaming version of Photoshop. This will be available first to U.S.-based Adobe education customers with a paid Creative Cloud membership—so the Photoshop you know and love is now on Chrome OS. No muss, no fuss.
Even though Chrome OS is linux based, this version of Photoshop looks to be web based so it could run on anything that has a modern web browser.
Which corporation were the air-traffic controllers bargaining with, when Reagan crushed them? Hint: public employees (be they air controllers or policemen) aren't struggling against any corporations — their employers are the taxpayers. They should not be allowed to unionize — and certainly, not strike:
The FAA is the "corporation" in this case. Just because it gets its money from tax payers doesn't mean it can't abuse its employees and doesn't mean the employees don't get human rights.
Really? So, if we get the current abysmal union-membership to, say, above 80%, we'll only have to work one day a week? For 2 hours? Wouldn't that be great!!
Probably so - American workers are much more efficient than in the past which is part of why unemployment is so high. If businesses hired two employees for 30 hours a week rather than one for 60, it'd be much more beneficial to society. Of course there are issues with employee overhead such as health care, but that's just more reason the US needs to meet the level of the rest of the first world countries and provide it.
People — workers — choose to sell their labor on the free market to the willing buyers. Any attempts to make that market not free should be met with the same energetic response Standard Oil and AT&T have encountered, when they tried to become a monopoly.
There are still difference between humans, unions, and corporations. If you think a union is a monopoly on the supply side of labor, then the corporation is a monopoly on the demand side. You also have to remember that monopolies aren't illegal. We have laws against abusive monopolies to protect consumers (people) from abusive corporations. Unions do the same.
Any smart employer addresses basic needs of the workers — in order to keep them happy and thus more productive. No employer is allowed to violate human rights — unions or not...
Unfortunately, short term gains often come first, so many don't even pay employees a livable wage.
By that logic, the FAA has a monopoly on hiring air traffic controllers, but no one would say that because it's ridiculous. Unions exist because a single employee does not have bargaining power against a corporation. Without them, we'd be working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week with no benefits. People aren't the same as products. They have basic needs and human rights that we prefer them to have.
You mean, when they conspired to cripple the nation's air-transportation — holding the rest of us hostage? Imagine, Verizon turning off all telephones to demand lower taxes — a public employee has an even stronger monopoly power...
That's how strikes work - they cripple their industry as an extreme resort for bargaining purposes. You can make it sound very scary for other situations too, like the time the fast-food workers conspired to cripple the nation's fast-food industry - holding the rest of us hostage!
A comparable situation with phones would be when manual patching was needed if the switchboard operators went on strike to demand better working conditions/pay. Strikes are done by employees against the company, not by companies against the government.
Now the air traffic controllers work on obsolete equipment, get paid very little, have a stressful job with long hours
That must all be Reagan's fault, right, 30 years later.
You are correct. A union would have been able to negotiate better pay and working conditions.
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So you should feel right at home with NFC+PIN then
Why is that? How do you imagine your money would be stolen?
So you're saying that the good old magstripe is somehow MORE secure than an NFC phone that requires secondary authentication? Or is it you just haven't figured out how to turn NFC on?
Who gave you a monopoly on deciding which words people can use?!
And why, exactly, do you think any of those rich individuals and corporations would remain in America, when you're forcing them to work just so you can steal their money and give it to the people who don't?
The US would still be a very lucrative market - especially since everyone would have a minimum income they are able to spend. Say we put taxes at a ridiculous 90%. Would you as a corporation rather take in 10% of $1 billion or 0% of $1 billion. Take your time on the math.
It is handy to have a standard wallpaper for each version for quick identification
Though the requirements are a bit vague, Google spreadsheets might be able to fit the need. It can be setup to just have a form/questionaire for the volunteers to fill out and then sticks it all into a spreadsheet.
Though with a lag time of over 15 minutes at some parts of the year, it might be not as realtime as one might hope.
I know my android device has a barometer, but I can't seem to figure out why. Sure it's kind of neat to be able to see the pressure graphed over time, but I don't think it's a big selling point on devices. Is it just a side effect of some other hardware that makes it easy to implement or something?
Any third party JavaScript, however, is quite often pretty close to spyware/malware,
Many sites use third-party javascript libraries such as jquery or will host javascript files on a CDN. That doesn't make them close to malware.
That's true, but using ADS-C, it relay the information over a satellite connection.
The challenge with that is planes are currently tracked via old fashioned radar. Radar has a limited range and being based on the ground has issues with the Earth curving. The new system will use GPS sent via radio or satellite which will give it global coverage.
Well you also have the option of installing your own operating system on it, I was just talking within ChromeOS
I bought one to try it out with the knowledge end expectation that I could install Mint on it. I've switched it to developer mode (and back), but I haven't found any need for running actual applications on it. What I wanted was a very light laptop with a reasonable screen/keyboard (no netbooks), and it fits the bill perfectly (plus 6 second cold-boot time).
It does everything that a normal person could want - I use it for email, browsing the web, uploading pictures from a camera SD card, streaming music, editing powerpoint (through google presentations). It even has a built in SSH client for remoting into other machines via terminal as well as a remote desktop app.
Yes and No. You can get a VERY basic terminal by typing ctrl-alt-T, but really all it can do is ssh to something else. If you change it into developer mode (takes a bit longer to boot), then you get access to root/full terminal.
Well he did deliver easy online payment, electric cars, and a space program, so that's a pretty good track record
It seems like something that would be useful, but the article says it needs to be "1 to 3 feet from a wall" which would leave a lot of wasted space in most rooms.
Also, only 1 LED? Should have a whole ring of them!
They're comparing the initial construction costs to that of a coal plant. Actually running the plant would be cheaper than coal or natural gas.
Looks more like the "Hackers" took $5000 from the FBI. They could have just been scammers and not even had one.
I thought that was the best part of it! The plot basically made no sense and lots of unreasonable/impossible things happened, but after this huge setup of aliens and shields that prevent radar, for that 5-10 minutes they made it just like the game of firing on a grid coordinate and hoping to hit a ship!
You can set up a computer in the home office and a TV in the family room. Then you control it using your phone.
What's really missing is that ChromeOS is made to be a lightweight almost terminal system with nothing but the basics installed.
The article even mentions that it will be "Streaming" Photoshop from the cloud - which makes more sense for a ChromeOS program:
Today, in partnership with Adobe, we’re welcoming Creative Cloud onto Chromebooks, initially with a streaming version of Photoshop. This will be available first to U.S.-based Adobe education customers with a paid Creative Cloud membership—so the Photoshop you know and love is now on Chrome OS. No muss, no fuss.
Even though Chrome OS is linux based, this version of Photoshop looks to be web based so it could run on anything that has a modern web browser.
Which corporation were the air-traffic controllers bargaining with, when Reagan crushed them? Hint: public employees (be they air controllers or policemen) aren't struggling against any corporations — their employers are the taxpayers. They should not be allowed to unionize — and certainly, not strike:
The FAA is the "corporation" in this case. Just because it gets its money from tax payers doesn't mean it can't abuse its employees and doesn't mean the employees don't get human rights.
Really? So, if we get the current abysmal union-membership to, say, above 80%, we'll only have to work one day a week? For 2 hours? Wouldn't that be great!!
Probably so - American workers are much more efficient than in the past which is part of why unemployment is so high. If businesses hired two employees for 30 hours a week rather than one for 60, it'd be much more beneficial to society. Of course there are issues with employee overhead such as health care, but that's just more reason the US needs to meet the level of the rest of the first world countries and provide it.
People — workers — choose to sell their labor on the free market to the willing buyers. Any attempts to make that market not free should be met with the same energetic response Standard Oil and AT&T have encountered, when they tried to become a monopoly.
There are still difference between humans, unions, and corporations. If you think a union is a monopoly on the supply side of labor, then the corporation is a monopoly on the demand side. You also have to remember that monopolies aren't illegal. We have laws against abusive monopolies to protect consumers (people) from abusive corporations. Unions do the same.
Any smart employer addresses basic needs of the workers — in order to keep them happy and thus more productive. No employer is allowed to violate human rights — unions or not...
Unfortunately, short term gains often come first, so many don't even pay employees a livable wage.
By that logic, the FAA has a monopoly on hiring air traffic controllers, but no one would say that because it's ridiculous. Unions exist because a single employee does not have bargaining power against a corporation. Without them, we'd be working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week with no benefits. People aren't the same as products. They have basic needs and human rights that we prefer them to have.
You mean, when they conspired to cripple the nation's air-transportation — holding the rest of us hostage? Imagine, Verizon turning off all telephones to demand lower taxes — a public employee has an even stronger monopoly power...
That's how strikes work - they cripple their industry as an extreme resort for bargaining purposes. You can make it sound very scary for other situations too, like the time the fast-food workers conspired to cripple the nation's fast-food industry - holding the rest of us hostage!
A comparable situation with phones would be when manual patching was needed if the switchboard operators went on strike to demand better working conditions/pay. Strikes are done by employees against the company, not by companies against the government.
Now the air traffic controllers work on obsolete equipment, get paid very little, have a stressful job with long hours
That must all be Reagan's fault, right, 30 years later.
You are correct. A union would have been able to negotiate better pay and working conditions.