USPS is a federal agency and therefore under the jurisdiction of federal law, even if the package doesn't cross state lines. If I send mail through the post office to my neighbor next door and it gets stolen from my neighbor's mailbox, it's a federal crime, even though it didn't leave my town.
UPS/FedEx both give the shipper the option to require a signature for delivery. Upon not being able to deliver within the first 3 days, they'll hold at local location for another 3 business days.
That all being said, my USPS delivery person has been dropping packages off as much or more than the FedEx/UPS guys, so not sure what you're referencing there.
Also, as someone who ships multi-thousand dollar shipments on the regular that are not simple sizes, I would never give the client the option of USPS for these unless they're going to an APO/DPO type address. The things I've regularly seen done via the postal service scare me, and the price of shipping is insane (IE, shipping this from the midwest to California costs me roughly $40 via FedEx and UPS (one just over $40, the other just under), but priority Mail will cost $121).
If the customer wants it through the postal service, I warn them that I don't recommend it, the other carriers are usually quicker and offer better tracking, but if you want it, you're paying the difference between the cheapest shipping and the postal service. Most people don't even ask to, but every once in a while someone does and I give them the option of paying $80 more for it (in this example) and they choose FedEx or UPS.
I'd like to see the United States Postal Inspection Service, a law-enforcement entity in its own right, expanded to cover these sorts of crimes even if the shipper is not the USPS, and for the crime of stealing packages to have the same penalties as exists for stealing mail.
It does...when it's the postal service. USPIS doesn't have any say over FedEx or UPS. Additionally, as someone who's day job involves a shit ton of shipping to end users, people assume that they're never going to have this issue come up. I make it a point to try to ship to hold locations, especially now that FedEx has one inside pretty much every Walgreens, for any products that are extremely valuable and they can't be home to sign for it.
Have you ever watched a movie like The Untouchables with video interpolation being done by the TV set? That was one of the most frustrating experiences I've had because the guy who's house I was at "...thought it looked better" (my money's on he doesn't know how to turn it off).
Because enough terminals don't have a chip reader. I just went through a gas station where the terminal didn't have a chip reader, just the mag strip. If they implemented it that way, my card would be useless there...although, they'd also have likely lost enough business to choose to upgrade or to make the decision to go cash only...
Did they finally get in compliance with the GPL? I don't remember hearing about it/following the story recently, but I recall that being a sticking point the last time I was looking at routers as they had been...obfuscating it for a while.
You're absolutely correct. I'm about to replace all of mine. Bought the house 5.5 years ago, but I'm quite certain the toilets were the ones installed in '78 when the house was built. I'm replacing them in small part because one of the flappers is not sealing and the others are getting close to that point, but in large part because they use about 10 gallons (yes, I'm exaggerating, but it's still way more than necessary) every time they flush. If I wanted to, I could keep them running for another 30 years for about 1/5 the cost of the new toilets, but the savings on getting dual-flush models will negate that over 10 years (yeah, my water rate is kinda silly...).
Don't most people put protectors on their phone? That's the de-facto bezel. Get a bigger protector if you need a wider "bezel".
Wait.. let me get this straight.. idiot designers make a phone with no bezel and a notch.. in order to protect their expensive phone users are going to put it in a case which blocks part of the screen... and you're going to call that a wider bezel?
No, smart companies tell their designers that they absolutely need to have a reason for customers to buy a case and further develop the thriving accessory industry that developed as a result of idiot consumers buying iPods and immediately putting them into cases because the iPod was so beautiful...Seriously, think back to the Blackberry days. I don't remember people having fancy cases for their Blackberry. I'm sure some did, but they weren't anywhere near as prevalent as cases for smart phones are today.
Verizon users now have to utilize their Verizon SIM as the primary. As such, Verizon stands to see users utilizing their network as the primary more often and therefore, their data, which they can then charge more for...I don't see this getting solved quickly.
No, technically a patent violation claim can be made any time you make, use, sell, or offer to sell the product without the patent holder's permission (often in the form of an authorization or license).
True, but if you don't cause the patent holder any verifiable financial damages what can they sue you for? If you are just using it personally, from a device you built yourself, how does that damage them?
Technically, punitive damages are easily obtain in patent court thanks to Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics. I doubt it would happen, but legally speaking, it's a possibility.
No, technically a patent violation claim can be made any time you make, use, sell, or offer to sell the product without the patent holder's permission (often in the form of an authorization or license).
1870 when the Librarian of Congress centralized copyright functions and then the Copyright Office became its own department in 1897. As for the frequency of these interpretations, section 1201 of the DMCA provides for exemption petitions to be heard. A little more detailed link on the original story.
I'm far more likely to believe a news source that can admit their mistakes than one that asserts they're right more than anyone. The link shared by the AC is nice, but let's link to the source instead, as they do explain the reasoning behind what goes where. NPR is probably the most reliable news source I can follow in these days, and they flat out tell you (or at least my local member station tells its listeners) to consume news from multiple outlets to get varying reads on the stories.
What other tractos? There's not really a boon of tractor manufacturers in the US and I'm betting that Far West Equipment Dealers Association represents most (if not all) of the ones available in their area...
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Interesting. I was not aware of this. Thanks!
Meh. Some minor technical modifications, and it could have been done.
Attach a trailer with fuel in it, and run a line to the gas tank.
Or put it on a Tesla once these have made it to production.
USPS is a federal agency and therefore under the jurisdiction of federal law, even if the package doesn't cross state lines. If I send mail through the post office to my neighbor next door and it gets stolen from my neighbor's mailbox, it's a federal crime, even though it didn't leave my town.
UPS/FedEx both give the shipper the option to require a signature for delivery. Upon not being able to deliver within the first 3 days, they'll hold at local location for another 3 business days.
That all being said, my USPS delivery person has been dropping packages off as much or more than the FedEx/UPS guys, so not sure what you're referencing there.
Also, as someone who ships multi-thousand dollar shipments on the regular that are not simple sizes, I would never give the client the option of USPS for these unless they're going to an APO/DPO type address. The things I've regularly seen done via the postal service scare me, and the price of shipping is insane (IE, shipping this from the midwest to California costs me roughly $40 via FedEx and UPS (one just over $40, the other just under), but priority Mail will cost $121).
If the customer wants it through the postal service, I warn them that I don't recommend it, the other carriers are usually quicker and offer better tracking, but if you want it, you're paying the difference between the cheapest shipping and the postal service. Most people don't even ask to, but every once in a while someone does and I give them the option of paying $80 more for it (in this example) and they choose FedEx or UPS.
I'd like to see the United States Postal Inspection Service, a law-enforcement entity in its own right, expanded to cover these sorts of crimes even if the shipper is not the USPS, and for the crime of stealing packages to have the same penalties as exists for stealing mail.
It does...when it's the postal service. USPIS doesn't have any say over FedEx or UPS. Additionally, as someone who's day job involves a shit ton of shipping to end users, people assume that they're never going to have this issue come up. I make it a point to try to ship to hold locations, especially now that FedEx has one inside pretty much every Walgreens, for any products that are extremely valuable and they can't be home to sign for it.
Obligatory xkcd
It's in the second paragraph in the TFA ;)
I'd say you must be new here if you expect people to RTFA, but your UID is a respectable 4 digits...
How could motion interpolation ruin the lighting?
Have you ever watched a movie like The Untouchables with video interpolation being done by the TV set? That was one of the most frustrating experiences I've had because the guy who's house I was at "...thought it looked better" (my money's on he doesn't know how to turn it off).
10 years? You might get 3 or 4 years out of an Apple computer before they compel you to upgrade.
I'm still running my late 2014 Mac Mini at the office...in fact, most of the 300+ team is on that era of Mac Mini (and all on Mac Minis).
but close enough... https://xkcd.com/669/
That would eliminate the other aim, making the rich richer.
Because enough terminals don't have a chip reader. I just went through a gas station where the terminal didn't have a chip reader, just the mag strip. If they implemented it that way, my card would be useless there...although, they'd also have likely lost enough business to choose to upgrade or to make the decision to go cash only...
Did they finally get in compliance with the GPL? I don't remember hearing about it/following the story recently, but I recall that being a sticking point the last time I was looking at routers as they had been...obfuscating it for a while.
You're absolutely correct. I'm about to replace all of mine. Bought the house 5.5 years ago, but I'm quite certain the toilets were the ones installed in '78 when the house was built. I'm replacing them in small part because one of the flappers is not sealing and the others are getting close to that point, but in large part because they use about 10 gallons (yes, I'm exaggerating, but it's still way more than necessary) every time they flush. If I wanted to, I could keep them running for another 30 years for about 1/5 the cost of the new toilets, but the savings on getting dual-flush models will negate that over 10 years (yeah, my water rate is kinda silly...).
Wait .. let me get this straight .. idiot designers make a phone with no bezel and a notch .. in order to protect their expensive phone users are going to put it in a case which blocks part of the screen ... and you're going to call that a wider bezel?
No, smart companies tell their designers that they absolutely need to have a reason for customers to buy a case and further develop the thriving accessory industry that developed as a result of idiot consumers buying iPods and immediately putting them into cases because the iPod was so beautiful...Seriously, think back to the Blackberry days. I don't remember people having fancy cases for their Blackberry. I'm sure some did, but they weren't anywhere near as prevalent as cases for smart phones are today.
Verizon users now have to utilize their Verizon SIM as the primary. As such, Verizon stands to see users utilizing their network as the primary more often and therefore, their data, which they can then charge more for...I don't see this getting solved quickly.
So now slashdot has brought it to the front to publicly shame the individual?
You must be new here...
No, technically a patent violation claim can be made any time you make, use, sell, or offer to sell the product without the patent holder's permission (often in the form of an authorization or license).
True, but if you don't cause the patent holder any verifiable financial damages what can they sue you for? If you are just using it personally, from a device you built yourself, how does that damage them?
Technically, punitive damages are easily obtain in patent court thanks to Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics. I doubt it would happen, but legally speaking, it's a possibility.
No, technically a patent violation claim can be made any time you make, use, sell, or offer to sell the product without the patent holder's permission (often in the form of an authorization or license).
1870 when the Librarian of Congress centralized copyright functions and then the Copyright Office became its own department in 1897. As for the frequency of these interpretations, section 1201 of the DMCA provides for exemption petitions to be heard. A little more detailed link on the original story.
I'm far more likely to believe a news source that can admit their mistakes than one that asserts they're right more than anyone. The link shared by the AC is nice, but let's link to the source instead, as they do explain the reasoning behind what goes where. NPR is probably the most reliable news source I can follow in these days, and they flat out tell you (or at least my local member station tells its listeners) to consume news from multiple outlets to get varying reads on the stories.
Go buy some Motorolas. That's probably the manufacturer of my next phone: https://www.engadget.com/2018/...
Not on this one it didn't.
Yet I always see the same Ray-Ban "Sale" spam image/post from hacked accounts...you'd think they'd train it to remove that...
What other tractos? There's not really a boon of tractor manufacturers in the US and I'm betting that Far West Equipment Dealers Association represents most (if not all) of the ones available in their area...