My work laptop was upgraded to a new MacBook Pro after it started reporting Bluetooth failures. I absolutely hate this new keyboard with practically zero key travel.
My error rate has gone way up with many more transposed letters than before. My typing maxes out around 120 WPM and this keyboard is just not good for me. I prefer mechanical keyboards, but the old MacBook Pro's keyboard was better than this new one.
I share the same concerns about this type of research. I seem to remember another recent experiment where they grew mice with brains containing some human brain cells. It's not just animals though, what about artificial intelligences?
Since we can't enter the consciousness of something else, how can we be sure we haven't created something that exists in a state of constant agony?
The problem with those vehicles is that they are still too large for some environments. I'd much rather drive and park a small two-door like a Miata in the city than I would a Cayenne.
If you need the ability to haul some cargo you can always get a hatchback. The back seats in my Lancer fold flat and I can fit an entire bookcase back there.
I've never made it all the way through juror selection, but I have heard that courts now try to get people to waive their right to nullification by getting them to swear under oath not to do it.
I have no idea how that would ever be enforced. Can't you just tell the jury foreman you vote not-guilty and then refuse to explain how you reached that decision?
That said, the whole idea of expected tipping is quite ridiculous and causes all manner of problems.
Yeah, right. Tipping well at a place you regularly visit is how you get better service, including complimentary items. I paid for exactly 0 of my drinks at the bar I ate at this past weekend. Heck, some places will even give you free lodging if you're a good customer.
Isn't it amazing that big business has an obligation to take care of unskilled workers, while at the same time workers are not expected to have developed any skills?
If you don't want to work a minimum wage job then you need more than a minimum wage skill set. There's no excuse for going through 12 years of public education and having developed no marketable job skills. Private business is not a charity. Minimum wage is enough to live on, but you're not going to be able to afford your own place, a car, kids, etc. We've got way too many people who think they are entitled to things they haven't earned.
If words had no effect on people then they wouldn't be able to cause stress, depression and other mental illnesses. These illnesses have physical manifestations. Words literally have a physical affect on a human's body.
As the old childrens' rhyme goes, "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me!"
People choose to be offended, upset, saddened, etc. by what they hear. There is no right to no be offended, nor should their be. Speech advocating for violence is one thing, but hate speech is overly broad to the point of being a meaningless term. It's being used as a way to censor ideas people disagree with.
How is Amazon anti-competitive? I, and I imagine most people, order from Amazon because it's a much better experience that shopping at a bricks and mortar retailer. Lots of things on Amazon are sold by third-parties as well.
Instead of driving 10 minutes to the local Target and taking a cart down the aisles and hoping what I need is in-stock, checking out and driving home I can shop from almost anywhere via my phone and my goods will be waiting for me when I get home.
Does Pandora even allow you to choose what you listen to? I tried it out back around 2008 and from what I remember you couldn't select songs and you could only skip tracks a certain number of times per hour.
My car does have the required hardware for satellite radio, but I don't see the point when I can download music to my phone. Plus my car has an in-dash music server. I don't listen to any live broadcasts since they had ads.
$10 per month for Spotify is an incredible deal if you listen to music regularly. That's less than the cost of most CD's.
YMMV, but my Netflix subscription is hardly used these days. They lost all of the television series I watch to Hulu and I've already seen most of the shows I care about. In comparison Spotify has order of magnitude more content I want to consume.
Remember that you don't have to be on Facebook to be tracked by Facebook. All the websites that very helpfully add "Like" buttons to their articles and pages leave a solid trail, too.
That's why you install a browser plug-in like uMatrix, the Facebook cookies and scripts are blocked by default.
I tend to agree. What's the point in interacting with people online if you don't actually spend time with them in real life? Why spend _any_ time doing that when you can spend it face-to-face with someone else?
I work at a computer all day long. The last thing I want to do in my down time is sit in front of a computer unless I'm working on a side-project. IMHO something like Google Hangouts is a much better way to communicate with the people I care about.
I suspect he's just now figuring it out. He doesn't seem to be very tech-savvy these days which is kind of ironic. He fell for a simple credit card scam back in February. Apparently didn't know about chargebacks.
That makes about 2 billion users whose privacy was leaked.
How the hell is privacy "leaked" when you (a) entered the information yourself into a 3rd party's website and (b) agreed to allow the information you entered to be shared?
In the United States the data belongs to the person who collects it. If you don't want someone using "your" data, then don't give it to them!
My credit union is 150 miles away. I just mail the few checks I receive to them along with a deposit slip. There are several post boxes on my daily route, but the post office is only 6 blocks away (~1.5 miles). I used to pay my rent with a check, but these days it's all ACH transactions, cash and credit.
Some banks here allow you to deposit a check by taking a picture of it using a smartphone application.
Many mass shooters had received mental health treatment that usually included drugs.....but he wants you to think they're using illicit drugs to increase the moral panic.
OP never mentioned illicit drugs, he said mind-altering. You know, like anti-depressants?
For the two hundred years before that decision, it was accepted that the government had the right to regulate guns as a mechanism to regulate the militia.
Wrong. "Well regulated", means able to shoot accurately, it has nothing to do with legal regulations. The militia was all able-bodied adults.
Gun control is a damage mitigation strategy. The goal is to make it harder to commit a mass shooting, and to make you slower while you are committing your mass shooting.
Also incorrect. The ultimate objective of gun control is to take away one of our essential freedoms. If the objective were to reduce the number of casualties we'd be doing proactive things like locking doors, improving physical security and actually investigating tips about violent individuals.
Most mass shooters are expecting to die in the police response. The presence of armed civilians is not a deterrent. Especially because exactly zero mass shootings have been ended by an armed civilian.
Plenty of attacks have been stopped by armed civilians.
There was a mall shooter a few years ago who was confronted by an armed civilian and killed himself. There was a recent story in a local crime blog about a conceal carry license holder stopping a 3 on 1 attack. Here's an older article about some of the attacks that were stopped by a good guy with a gun. There have been a number of attackers that have been stopped by a concealed carry license holder in Chicago since the McDonald decision.
We will never find security in giving up essential liberties.
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My work laptop was upgraded to a new MacBook Pro after it started reporting Bluetooth failures. I absolutely hate this new keyboard with practically zero key travel.
My error rate has gone way up with many more transposed letters than before. My typing maxes out around 120 WPM and this keyboard is just not good for me. I prefer mechanical keyboards, but the old MacBook Pro's keyboard was better than this new one.
So replace the entire keyboard with a touch bar? Don't give people any ideas.
I share the same concerns about this type of research. I seem to remember another recent experiment where they grew mice with brains containing some human brain cells. It's not just animals though, what about artificial intelligences?
Since we can't enter the consciousness of something else, how can we be sure we haven't created something that exists in a state of constant agony?
The problem with those vehicles is that they are still too large for some environments. I'd much rather drive and park a small two-door like a Miata in the city than I would a Cayenne.
If you need the ability to haul some cargo you can always get a hatchback. The back seats in my Lancer fold flat and I can fit an entire bookcase back there.
I've never made it all the way through juror selection, but I have heard that courts now try to get people to waive their right to nullification by getting them to swear under oath not to do it.
I have no idea how that would ever be enforced. Can't you just tell the jury foreman you vote not-guilty and then refuse to explain how you reached that decision?
What about the freedom of the employer to hire whom he wants for the job?
That said, the whole idea of expected tipping is quite ridiculous and causes all manner of problems.
Yeah, right. Tipping well at a place you regularly visit is how you get better service, including complimentary items. I paid for exactly 0 of my drinks at the bar I ate at this past weekend. Heck, some places will even give you free lodging if you're a good customer.
No one's forcing you to leave a tip.
Isn't it amazing that big business has an obligation to take care of unskilled workers, while at the same time workers are not expected to have developed any skills?
If you don't want to work a minimum wage job then you need more than a minimum wage skill set. There's no excuse for going through 12 years of public education and having developed no marketable job skills. Private business is not a charity. Minimum wage is enough to live on, but you're not going to be able to afford your own place, a car, kids, etc. We've got way too many people who think they are entitled to things they haven't earned.
Facebook got CAUGHT selling your data to others. MS haven't as yet.
Facebook got caught selling their own data. In the United States the person who collects the data owns it.
All of those Facebook users that posted personal data to the website gave it away voluntarily. Why do you think Zuckerburg called them, "dumb fucks?"
If words had no effect on people then they wouldn't be able to cause stress, depression and other mental illnesses. These illnesses have physical manifestations. Words literally have a physical affect on a human's body.
As the old childrens' rhyme goes, "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me!"
People choose to be offended, upset, saddened, etc. by what they hear. There is no right to no be offended, nor should their be. Speech advocating for violence is one thing, but hate speech is overly broad to the point of being a meaningless term. It's being used as a way to censor ideas people disagree with.
How is Amazon anti-competitive? I, and I imagine most people, order from Amazon because it's a much better experience that shopping at a bricks and mortar retailer. Lots of things on Amazon are sold by third-parties as well.
Instead of driving 10 minutes to the local Target and taking a cart down the aisles and hoping what I need is in-stock, checking out and driving home I can shop from almost anywhere via my phone and my goods will be waiting for me when I get home.
Do people really want to play cards with a robot dealer? It seems a little impersonal to me.
Does Pandora even allow you to choose what you listen to? I tried it out back around 2008 and from what I remember you couldn't select songs and you could only skip tracks a certain number of times per hour.
My car does have the required hardware for satellite radio, but I don't see the point when I can download music to my phone. Plus my car has an in-dash music server. I don't listen to any live broadcasts since they had ads.
$10 per month for Spotify is an incredible deal if you listen to music regularly. That's less than the cost of most CD's.
YMMV, but my Netflix subscription is hardly used these days. They lost all of the television series I watch to Hulu and I've already seen most of the shows I care about. In comparison Spotify has order of magnitude more content I want to consume.
Until you lose your key and go whining to the operators of the service.
I have several of the Yubikeys and in the user guides they explicitly tell you to (a) have a spare and (b) make a backup.
Don't confuse them with facts!
I've been testing the Yubico devices, they work great! I just put an order in for their new security tokens.
The fingerprint scanner was just one example of a supported device. You can use hardware tokens too.
Yubico announced their new security tokens today, they ship on the 13th.
Remember that you don't have to be on Facebook to be tracked by Facebook. All the websites that very helpfully add "Like" buttons to their articles and pages leave a solid trail, too.
That's why you install a browser plug-in like uMatrix, the Facebook cookies and scripts are blocked by default.
I tend to agree. What's the point in interacting with people online if you don't actually spend time with them in real life? Why spend _any_ time doing that when you can spend it face-to-face with someone else?
I work at a computer all day long. The last thing I want to do in my down time is sit in front of a computer unless I'm working on a side-project. IMHO something like Google Hangouts is a much better way to communicate with the people I care about.
I suspect he's just now figuring it out. He doesn't seem to be very tech-savvy these days which is kind of ironic. He fell for a simple credit card scam back in February. Apparently didn't know about chargebacks.
That makes about 2 billion users whose privacy was leaked.
How the hell is privacy "leaked" when you (a) entered the information yourself into a 3rd party's website and (b) agreed to allow the information you entered to be shared?
In the United States the data belongs to the person who collects it. If you don't want someone using "your" data, then don't give it to them!
Same experience here. Give a cashier $21 for a $15.30 charge and it's amazing how many want to hand that dollar back before making change.
My credit union is 150 miles away. I just mail the few checks I receive to them along with a deposit slip. There are several post boxes on my daily route, but the post office is only 6 blocks away (~1.5 miles). I used to pay my rent with a check, but these days it's all ACH transactions, cash and credit.
Some banks here allow you to deposit a check by taking a picture of it using a smartphone application.
What do people do when the government turns their money off?
If I'm holding cash you actually have to be physically present to pick my pocket. When there's no cash you can be robbed from across the World.
Many mass shooters had received mental health treatment that usually included drugs.....but he wants you to think they're using illicit drugs to increase the moral panic.
OP never mentioned illicit drugs, he said mind-altering. You know, like anti-depressants?
For the two hundred years before that decision, it was accepted that the government had the right to regulate guns as a mechanism to regulate the militia.
Wrong. "Well regulated", means able to shoot accurately, it has nothing to do with legal regulations. The militia was all able-bodied adults.
Gun control is a damage mitigation strategy. The goal is to make it harder to commit a mass shooting, and to make you slower while you are committing your mass shooting.
Also incorrect. The ultimate objective of gun control is to take away one of our essential freedoms. If the objective were to reduce the number of casualties we'd be doing proactive things like locking doors, improving physical security and actually investigating tips about violent individuals.
Most mass shooters are expecting to die in the police response. The presence of armed civilians is not a deterrent. Especially because exactly zero mass shootings have been ended by an armed civilian.
Plenty of attacks have been stopped by armed civilians. There was a mall shooter a few years ago who was confronted by an armed civilian and killed himself. There was a recent story in a local crime blog about a conceal carry license holder stopping a 3 on 1 attack. Here's an older article about some of the attacks that were stopped by a good guy with a gun. There have been a number of attackers that have been stopped by a concealed carry license holder in Chicago since the McDonald decision.
We will never find security in giving up essential liberties.