Just give them a "refresh" button that isn't connected to anything (like the elevator call button) and let the OCD people press it as often as they like.
The 2016 election was between a highly polarizing crook with no political experience and a highly polarizing crook with lots of political experience. The Russians don't care who won as long as we tear ourselves apart in the process. They were (and still are) actively supporting both white nationalists and Black Lives Matter. Their goal is to weaken America from the inside out, diminish America's standing in the world, and step into the power vacuum. They've managed to accomplish in a couple years of "social engineering" what they couldn't do in 50 years of cold war.
The last time someone made a claim that civilization was ending because of computers was the Y2K bug, and we all know how that turned out.
Power grids, water, sewage and traffic control systems all existed and worked perfectly fine before there was an internet. If someone decided to connect them to an insecure network without the option to quickly and easily disconnect them again, that person should be fired.
I remember a time when exclusive web content was locked behind walled gardens from AOL and MSN. I remember a time when most popular websites only worked with Internet Explorer and it's non-standard HTML extensions. I remember a time when most popular websites used shitty Adobe Flash widgets. Those things all went away because people won't stand for it (at least not once they have an alternative). The internet is a big place and if your website punishes users with unfriendly tech, there are a hundred other websites that will try to grab your users by giving them what they want.
Ideally, elections should be closer to Canada, where there is no advertising permitted so candidates have to stand on their own merits.
Not sure where you heard that, but we definitely have election advertising in Canada. The main difference to the USA is that in Canada you can only run election advertising in the 37 days prior to the election (which helps limit the never-ending election cycle where candidates are in determinant campaign mode) and no advertising on the actual day of the election (which may be the cause of your confusion).
Better yet, you click on (or hover over) the knob to select it, then spin the scroll wheel on your mouse to change the setting (you know, the actual, physical mechanical wheel that is a perfect "simulation" of a physical mechanical wheel).
Since the ad specifically used the work "Breakout", that won't help. No one can copyright simple game concepts like hit-bricks-with-ball (otherwise there wouldn't be a billion three-in-a-row games on the app store), but if you reference a hit-bricks-with-ball game, you had better not call it "Breakout", because that is a trademark issue, not copyright.
The laws of supply and demand have been well-understood for generations.
So has the economic concept of Externalities. If someone is willing to work for less than they need to survive, then they are obviously being subsidized somehow (living in parents basement, government food stamps & welfare, shoplifting from employer, etc). Minimum wage is a way to level the playing field and eliminate the need for these subsidies so the employer pays the true cost of labor.
Google has become an ideological echo chamber where anyone with centrist or right-of-center views fears to speak their mind.
Excuse Me? The Libertarian "Meritocracy" that is Silicon Valley is already significantly right-of-center. If you find your views are to the right of the laissez-faire CEOs, vulture capitalists and wannabe entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, then you are not a centrist or even right-of-center, you a full-on right-wing extremist. I'm not saying you can't express your views (no matter how distasteful), but don't pretend to be a centrist.
It's a bit like measuring car sales by seeing who shows up at the drag strip to test their quarter mile times. "For the 31st year in a row the 1986 Chevy Camero is best selling car in America!"
Without piracy, the RIAA would still be trying to sell music on shiny plastic discs for $25 a pop at your local Sam Goody. Innovation only comes from the necessity of competing in a free market, not from government-granted, market-distorting regulations (i.e. copyright).
So what I'd like to know is why prisons can't block cell phones.
So a guard at the prison (or an elderly grandma nearby) has a heart attack and calls 911. Opps! Sorry, no cellular coverage. You're life is not as important as maintaining America's record as the world's largest incarcerater.
The census reports don't count homeless people as unemployed nor does it count people who have given up looking.
It also doesn't include people who are retired, or children, or stay-at-home parents, or people in prisons/mental institutions/hospitals/etc. Nor should it. Unemployed doesn't mean "not working", it means "ready, able and willing to work but unable to find a job".
Which part of Canada is similar in climate to Silicon Valley and/or California?
That would be Vancouver BC (yearly average temperature of 50.7 deg F vs 57.3 deg F for SF) but without the drought (so really more like Seattle/Portland climate-wise). Although programmers spend all their time indoors anyways so I'm not sure why climate matters.
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Just give them a "refresh" button that isn't connected to anything (like the elevator call button) and let the OCD people press it as often as they like.
The 2016 election was between a highly polarizing crook with no political experience and a highly polarizing crook with lots of political experience. The Russians don't care who won as long as we tear ourselves apart in the process. They were (and still are) actively supporting both white nationalists and Black Lives Matter. Their goal is to weaken America from the inside out, diminish America's standing in the world, and step into the power vacuum. They've managed to accomplish in a couple years of "social engineering" what they couldn't do in 50 years of cold war.
2. Release new hardware with bigger battery.
3. Profit!
The last time someone made a claim that civilization was ending because of computers was the Y2K bug, and we all know how that turned out. Power grids, water, sewage and traffic control systems all existed and worked perfectly fine before there was an internet. If someone decided to connect them to an insecure network without the option to quickly and easily disconnect them again, that person should be fired.
I remember a time when exclusive web content was locked behind walled gardens from AOL and MSN. I remember a time when most popular websites only worked with Internet Explorer and it's non-standard HTML extensions. I remember a time when most popular websites used shitty Adobe Flash widgets. Those things all went away because people won't stand for it (at least not once they have an alternative). The internet is a big place and if your website punishes users with unfriendly tech, there are a hundred other websites that will try to grab your users by giving them what they want.
A vending machine is considerably more complex with a higher level of automation. This is just a hotel minibar.
Silicon Valley. The rest of the world does not exist to these people.
So they can track your spending habits and sell it to Big Data. Mostly-cash businesses like bodegas are one of the last untracked businesses.
Not sure where you heard that, but we definitely have election advertising in Canada. The main difference to the USA is that in Canada you can only run election advertising in the 37 days prior to the election (which helps limit the never-ending election cycle where candidates are in determinant campaign mode) and no advertising on the actual day of the election (which may be the cause of your confusion).
First the headphone jack, now the home button. If Apple has enough courage, eventually they'll get rid of the whole damn phone.
I converted all my serial commas to USB long ago. If I need one I can always use a virtual serial comma.
How come when the topic is minimum wage, you Trumpers act like "living wage" is a dirty word? What's the matter, can't you compete in a free market?
Better yet, you click on (or hover over) the knob to select it, then spin the scroll wheel on your mouse to change the setting (you know, the actual, physical mechanical wheel that is a perfect "simulation" of a physical mechanical wheel).
Why not include it? It serves to illustrate that not all of the attacks are financially motivated.
Since the ad specifically used the work "Breakout", that won't help. No one can copyright simple game concepts like hit-bricks-with-ball (otherwise there wouldn't be a billion three-in-a-row games on the app store), but if you reference a hit-bricks-with-ball game, you had better not call it "Breakout", because that is a trademark issue, not copyright.
So has the economic concept of Externalities. If someone is willing to work for less than they need to survive, then they are obviously being subsidized somehow (living in parents basement, government food stamps & welfare, shoplifting from employer, etc). Minimum wage is a way to level the playing field and eliminate the need for these subsidies so the employer pays the true cost of labor.
People who "don't need of want" a living wage are free to do volunteer work if they need something to do, freeing up a paying job for those who do.
ALL politics is economic. Social issues are just a distraction to get the uninformed to vote against their own economic interests.
Excuse Me? The Libertarian "Meritocracy" that is Silicon Valley is already significantly right-of-center. If you find your views are to the right of the laissez-faire CEOs, vulture capitalists and wannabe entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, then you are not a centrist or even right-of-center, you a full-on right-wing extremist. I'm not saying you can't express your views (no matter how distasteful), but don't pretend to be a centrist.
I don't know about a top 10 list, but the top 1 list should be Adblock Plus. Security conscious users switched to uBlock years ago.
It's a bit like measuring car sales by seeing who shows up at the drag strip to test their quarter mile times. "For the 31st year in a row the 1986 Chevy Camero is best selling car in America!"
Without piracy, the RIAA would still be trying to sell music on shiny plastic discs for $25 a pop at your local Sam Goody. Innovation only comes from the necessity of competing in a free market, not from government-granted, market-distorting regulations (i.e. copyright).
So a guard at the prison (or an elderly grandma nearby) has a heart attack and calls 911. Opps! Sorry, no cellular coverage. You're life is not as important as maintaining America's record as the world's largest incarcerater.
It also doesn't include people who are retired, or children, or stay-at-home parents, or people in prisons/mental institutions/hospitals/etc. Nor should it. Unemployed doesn't mean "not working", it means "ready, able and willing to work but unable to find a job".
That would be Vancouver BC (yearly average temperature of 50.7 deg F vs 57.3 deg F for SF) but without the drought (so really more like Seattle/Portland climate-wise). Although programmers spend all their time indoors anyways so I'm not sure why climate matters.