I'm wondering how they got that kangaroo. There are strict export controls on live kangaroos from Australia. It's only allowed for non-commercial purposes, such as zoo exchanges, and even then I think they require them to be returned, like the Chinese deal with pandas.
Sorry, but every other developed country recognises that us all having our own, incredibly energy hungry tin box that goes where we tell it is just not sustainable
Where are your statistics supporting that? I don't know how you'd measure their popularity because there would seem to be quite a few different possible metrics, but if I were taking a stab I'd say Rugby League is more popular, based on the fact (/conventional wisdom) that the NRL is more popular in NSW and Queensland whereas the the AFL is more popular in Victoria (and I guess South Australia, maybe WA, too), but Qld and NSW together make up (just) over half the population of Australia.
They can and would do this, but all accounting for reporting is done on an accruals basis rather than a cash basis, which means they record everything whether it's been translated into an actual cash gain or loss yet or not. If they have to report their profit in JPY then they would convert the value of their foreign holdings for accounting purposes, that doesn't necessarily mean that they actually make the exchanges in cash.
To be pedantic, every State in the world has a representative in the UNGA. It just so happens that each State is represented by a government and that government appoints their ambassador.
There are different types of CVV/CCVs. RFID cards transmit a one time only CVV, so intercepted data is only valid for one transaction and the transaction will only be approved if used before the card is used again because the CVVs have to be used in order.
Try reading in bed while lying down without giving yourself a neck injury. There's no way lock screen orientation! That alone is reason enough for me to never consider a WP7 phone, I hate automatic rotation. In Android I have it turned off ~98% of the time and when I do want it I quickly toggle it on from the notifications tray.
I have a long list of other complaints about the OS, but it seems to me they mostly come into the same category: lack of choice, lack of options, lack of customization-ability.
Not that I disagree with their view here, but the summary makes the mistake of conflating 'the public interest' with what is 'interesting to the public'.
I'm guessing that the WaPo section is the one in charge of writing misleading titles for pointless fluff articles to generate clicks on Facebook in the Washington Post Social Reader app. No journalism to be had there.
Unless of course you set your settings to not allow tagging or just simply remove the unwanted tags. Or you could even request that the owner take down the photo if it's so embarrassing, and assuming they're not an adolescent they'd probably do it.
The hatred for Facebook here on Slashdot is really quite absurd, and not just a little ironic as well, given that people here usually criticize others for not understanding technology.
You can set the privacy settings how you want, sure they have defaulted to public in the past, but who here uses the default settings on anything without looking at the other options first anyway (and with government attention now they probably won't be making the same mistakes again)?
Certainly it can be a source of problems, but that's really only if you're stupid enough to share things that shouldn't be shared with a wider audience than appropriate. Think about what you share and who you share it with (normally a mantra for the/. crowd!) and you won't have any problems.
What you will have is a platform to connect with people you otherwise would be interested in but may not have the time/inclination to reach out to, a more efficient way of keeping up with those who you would have contacted by other means and an interesting way to pass time when you don't have anything to do/are procrastinating.
As for the "you are the product" people, well there's not much to do about them. You are correct, but also paranoid, egocentric and absurd. That's how the internet provides you with free content: ads. Targeted ads are more valuable so Google, Facebook etc collect data about you in order to provide you with ads.
What they don't do is sell your information, nor does anybody read it. Nobody gives a shit that you looked at looked at example.com or did a search for abc, or 'liked' a particular page. Nobody is sitting in a server room at Facebook jerking off to your "private" (read: incredibly mundane) data, you thinking that is just egotistical. The only thing that cares about it is their ad-targeting algorithms.
I'd guess they dropped underlining hot-keys because it looked ugly. You can still see them by pressing Alt if you're in the minority that uses them regularly (not being disparaging, I count myself in that minority).
Here's an interesting article assessing some common "misuses" to decide which words it's worth being pedantic about and insisting on the original meaning and which meanings we should give up on. The author bases the assessment on the frequency of the two meanings and on his view of the word's utility and uniqueness in expressing a concept (i.e. what you were referring to regarding "impartial").
Huh, I thought it was a really original idea when I saw this product a few weeks ago: http://www.lenskirt.com/lenskirt/ This one's aimed at taking photos through windows, though, so it'd be smaller than the monitor ones.
Actually he'd have it shot and then pose for photos pretending he shot it. Or he might just skip the cloning part and pose over an existing skeleton and claim he shot that one.
Golden rice bowl is (you probably could have guessed this) a Chinese idiom meaning a high paying, stable job. Besides, it's not a stereotype, almost all meals in China (and other Asian countries as well) have a rice component. The word for meal is the same as rice.
DealExtreme have quite a few options to choose from. You put a SIM card in them with a data plan and they send their GPS location to an IP address of your choosing at a set interval.
For personal use you can point the device to the servers at http://gps-trace.com/. They can show you the real time location and history on Google Maps, you can set up a geofence alert (tells you when the device leaves certain boundaries), etc.
One member created an Android app to make configuration easier for a particular model (TLT-2H), so you can avoid the Chinglish manual. (Set up is done by sending SMSes to the device in a particular format, the app automatically produces the SMSes for you with the defined parameters.
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I'm wondering how they got that kangaroo. There are strict export controls on live kangaroos from Australia. It's only allowed for non-commercial purposes, such as zoo exchanges, and even then I think they require them to be returned, like the Chinese deal with pandas.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/kangaroos.html
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Sorry, but every other developed country recognises that us all having our own, incredibly energy hungry tin box that goes where we tell it is just not sustainable
I'm Australian, you insensitive clod!
Cycling is not at all popular in Australia. Certainly nothing like Holland.
Where are your statistics supporting that? I don't know how you'd measure their popularity because there would seem to be quite a few different possible metrics, but if I were taking a stab I'd say Rugby League is more popular, based on the fact (/conventional wisdom) that the NRL is more popular in NSW and Queensland whereas the the AFL is more popular in Victoria (and I guess South Australia, maybe WA, too), but Qld and NSW together make up (just) over half the population of Australia.
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They can and would do this, but all accounting for reporting is done on an accruals basis rather than a cash basis, which means they record everything whether it's been translated into an actual cash gain or loss yet or not. If they have to report their profit in JPY then they would convert the value of their foreign holdings for accounting purposes, that doesn't necessarily mean that they actually make the exchanges in cash.
To be pedantic, every State in the world has a representative in the UNGA. It just so happens that each State is represented by a government and that government appoints their ambassador.
Also Australia.
Original source:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/biking-directions-expands-into-europe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/SbSV+(Google+LatLong)&utm_content=Google+Reader
There are different types of CVV/CCVs. RFID cards transmit a one time only CVV, so intercepted data is only valid for one transaction and the transaction will only be approved if used before the card is used again because the CVVs have to be used in order.
Try reading in bed while lying down without giving yourself a neck injury. There's no way lock screen orientation! That alone is reason enough for me to never consider a WP7 phone, I hate automatic rotation. In Android I have it turned off ~98% of the time and when I do want it I quickly toggle it on from the notifications tray.
I have a long list of other complaints about the OS, but it seems to me they mostly come into the same category: lack of choice, lack of options, lack of customization-ability.
Not that I disagree with their view here, but the summary makes the mistake of conflating 'the public interest' with what is 'interesting to the public'.
I'm guessing that the WaPo section is the one in charge of writing misleading titles for pointless fluff articles to generate clicks on Facebook in the Washington Post Social Reader app. No journalism to be had there.
Unless of course you set your settings to not allow tagging or just simply remove the unwanted tags. Or you could even request that the owner take down the photo if it's so embarrassing, and assuming they're not an adolescent they'd probably do it.
The hatred for Facebook here on Slashdot is really quite absurd, and not just a little ironic as well, given that people here usually criticize others for not understanding technology.
You can set the privacy settings how you want, sure they have defaulted to public in the past, but who here uses the default settings on anything without looking at the other options first anyway (and with government attention now they probably won't be making the same mistakes again)?
Certainly it can be a source of problems, but that's really only if you're stupid enough to share things that shouldn't be shared with a wider audience than appropriate. Think about what you share and who you share it with (normally a mantra for the /. crowd!) and you won't have any problems.
What you will have is a platform to connect with people you otherwise would be interested in but may not have the time/inclination to reach out to, a more efficient way of keeping up with those who you would have contacted by other means and an interesting way to pass time when you don't have anything to do/are procrastinating.
As for the "you are the product" people, well there's not much to do about them. You are correct, but also paranoid, egocentric and absurd. That's how the internet provides you with free content: ads. Targeted ads are more valuable so Google, Facebook etc collect data about you in order to provide you with ads.
What they don't do is sell your information, nor does anybody read it. Nobody gives a shit that you looked at looked at example.com or did a search for abc, or 'liked' a particular page. Nobody is sitting in a server room at Facebook jerking off to your "private" (read: incredibly mundane) data, you thinking that is just egotistical. The only thing that cares about it is their ad-targeting algorithms.
Or the comedy that has 5 funny lines, all of which are featured in the trailer.
I'd guess they dropped underlining hot-keys because it looked ugly. You can still see them by pressing Alt if you're in the minority that uses them regularly (not being disparaging, I count myself in that minority).
Here's an interesting article assessing some common "misuses" to decide which words it's worth being pedantic about and insisting on the original meaning and which meanings we should give up on. The author bases the assessment on the frequency of the two meanings and on his view of the word's utility and uniqueness in expressing a concept (i.e. what you were referring to regarding "impartial").
Huh, I thought it was a really original idea when I saw this product a few weeks ago: http://www.lenskirt.com/lenskirt/
This one's aimed at taking photos through windows, though, so it'd be smaller than the monitor ones.
Actually he'd have it shot and then pose for photos pretending he shot it. Or he might just skip the cloning part and pose over an existing skeleton and claim he shot that one.
I prefer the original version. I would like to see drinkypoo's wall-mounted HD tablet TV, I think it's an interesting concept.
Golden rice bowl is (you probably could have guessed this) a Chinese idiom meaning a high paying, stable job. Besides, it's not a stereotype, almost all meals in China (and other Asian countries as well) have a rice component. The word for meal is the same as rice.
http://www.targetchinese.com/targetpedia/a-stable-high-paying-job/
Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha
DealExtreme have quite a few options to choose from. You put a SIM card in them with a data plan and they send their GPS location to an IP address of your choosing at a set interval.
For personal use you can point the device to the servers at http://gps-trace.com/. They can show you the real time location and history on Google Maps, you can set up a geofence alert (tells you when the device leaves certain boundaries), etc.
One member created an Android app to make configuration easier for a particular model (TLT-2H), so you can avoid the Chinglish manual. (Set up is done by sending SMSes to the device in a particular format, the app automatically produces the SMSes for you with the defined parameters.
Poor Alot, he can't send email to Hotmail users :-(.
Well, yes. At least they were able to get the longest road in the world.