"with Canadian streaming provisions yet to be announced".
What did we ever do to you Americans to always get screwed on streaming services?
I'm guessing it's one of two things. Either the CBC or the government is causing this (I have no idea exactly how TV in Canada works, so just a guess here) or you're being punished for supposedly having "weak" laws regarding intellectual property.
So are you telling me Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, Safari, IE/Edge, Opera and Vivaldi won't send sensitive data to the UK or the USA?
Prove it. Or shut up. Crybaby arguments like "everybody else does the same thing" with no proof is meaningless.
Here, bucko. Let me give you a real example about why you might not care what Maxthon does but Chinese people might. A few years ago I had a Chinese girlfriend. I mean she was born and raised in China and lived there most of her life. She told me a story about being in college. She shared a dorm room with 3 oe 4 other girls and one day the police called all of them in for questioning. Separately. Turns out that one of the roommates had some kind of vague link to Fulan Gong, like a relative was a member or something similar. My girlfriend told me that it was really scary for them and they had no idea at all that this girl had any kind of Fulan Gong link. If I remember correctly, the girl in question never returned to school after this. If you don't know what Fulan Gong is, look it up on Wikipedia. While they have some weird beliefs, do they strike you as a true national security threat to China? The Chinese government thinks they are, which is kind of funny since through some miracle nations such as the USA allow Fulan Gong to freely practice their beliefs and aren't in any danger of being overthrown as a result. I'm pretty sure that the Chinese government is looking for people who search for Fulan Gong or various other forbidden topics and the end result of people who look for forbidden topics is not likely to have a happy ending for those searchers.
Security researchers discovered that a Chinese developed web browser you've probably never heard of that claims to have great security actually sends all kinds of personal information about your PC and web searches to a site in Beijing. Also, other Chinese developed web browsers that claim to have great security may do similar things.
If they want to solve it, they just need to issue a pardon.
Very unlikely to do the trick even if they did it. Given Cooper's estimated age at the time (mid 40s) he's most likely dead. In fact, I'd argue that the fact that the money was never recovered except for a small amount of decayed bills found around 1980 means that he didn't survive the jump. If Cooper did survive and is still alive, he'd be approximately 90 years old. Since the vast majority of the bills have never been found or spent, that might mean that he was too afraid of being caught to ever spend the money. I don't think an offer of a pardon or amnesty would get such a person to confess.
Related to some other posts - the statute of limitations issue came up in the 1970s for this case and it's considered that Cooper could still be prosecuted if there was enough evidence to do so. A grand jury issued an indictment against him in absentia that's still valid and would be the basis of any future prosecution.
Russia is one of the countries I regularly choose to send my traffic through. Good internet infrastructure and bandwidth with fast connectivity to much of europe. Absolutely ZERO legal agreements between countries like US, UK etc so far less chance of them sharing your browsing habids with others and those that they would share it with would not give a shit about me.
This. A person I know has sometimes used his Bit Torrent client through a VPN going through Russia for the same reasons.
I've got some cousins who are pretty hard core Sanders supporters who believe all the nut job stuff going around in the supporters' circle for Sanders. For example, did you know that Sanders apparently won California and possibly almost every other state yet was denied victory by cheating conspirators aligned with Clinton who simply threw out votes for Sanders? Yeah, me either. But my cousins buy this one hook, line and sinker. Another thing going around among his supporters is the idea that nothing will ever change if they vote for Clinton or Trump so to make a point a large number of them are threatening to sit out the election. Of course if this happens, it may just simply make Trump the president as despite some vocal anti-Trump stands by various people, the reality is that Republican voters are going to suck it up and vote for him in the fall no matter what. If enough Sanders supporters refuse to vote, it could be very bad for Clinton. We'll see if this endorsement does anything to stop his supporters from sitting out the November election.
Given how Xiaomi only sells their phones in Asia, I'm sure that the 1% or less of Slashdotters who live in a place where Xiaomi actually sells their phones and on top of that actually have a Xiaomi phone instead of a competitor's phone thank you.
The only really scary thing here is the fact that "two thirds of Americans get their news from social media". No wonder the country is so fucked up.
Those numbers were probably pulled out of the air and don't reflect reality. Consider that probably at least 1/3 of Americans don't do social media at all - not in any form including Facebook - and then out of the ones who do, some percentage of them will not get their news from it. I have friends, family and former classmates who don't do any kind of social media and refuse to ever do it. If you're a young person and everybody you know is under 30 that may not be true, but there are tons of people over 30 who aren't interested in social media and will probably die never having used it.
After Carter was driven from office for being honest we haven't seen a single person seriously running for the post who is going to make that mistake.
Are you even American? Because you clearly have the worst possible understanding of why Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 presidential election. Here's why.
1. The US economy was in shambles. Look up Reagan's "misery index" if you don't know what it is, which was an incredibly effective campaign talking point.
2. Carter couldn't get along with Congress despite it being controlled by the Democrats. There were a lot of upset people in Congress over his decision to give back the Panama Canal. I can't prove this so I could be wrong here, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the Taiwan Relations Act got passed because Congress was terrified that Carter was going to abandon Taiwan to the PRC after giving the PRC diplomatic recognition.
3. The Iran hostage crisis and the subsequent botched rescue attempt made him look very weak to both the US voters and foreign powers. Remember, the Russians started messing around in Afghanistan on Carter's watch.
4. The Democratic Party did nothing to stop Ted Kennedy from running against Carter in the 1980 Democratic primary, despite knowing that having opposition to a sitting president would leave that president looking weak in the presidential election even if he won the primary.
All of those issues were reasons why Carter lost in 1980. Being punished for being honest is pure fantasy.
with sim cards being easy to buy, its not hard to change your number often.
I've gotton on some prank lists where I was getting nuissance calls.
I dropped that number. buh-BYE. end of story.
I'm assuming that you don't live in the USA and that you don't work in IT. Both apply to me. This is not as easy to do as you claim for a lot of us. First of all, while you can buy SIM cards in the USA, it's difficult. US mobile telephone service isn't really setup to work this way. Everybody expects you to sign a contract with a carrier for a certain number of years. Just walking down to some local electronics store and buying a SIM card off the shelf is not at all how things work in the USA. You have to go to carriers to get SIM cards here and those aren't really setup to be pay as you. You can do that sort of thing if you're willing to use crap disposable phones like with Tracfone, but not so much if you actually have a good phone.
Secondly, I'm assuming that your work doesn't need to contact you. I work for a support team on a specific product that my employer, and Fortune 500 company, sells. I only support the one product out of many we offer, but our customer base expects and pays for 24x7 availability. Our contracts allow us to do maintenance at one specific time frame on weekends but if we are down outside of that, we lose money. My employer expects me to be available 24x7 in case of emergencies even if I'm not on call and we rotate on call duties every week. I simply can't willy nilly change my phone number every few weeks or months on a whim. We've had people change phone numbers and they have to send out emails to a lot of people making sure that they say when the new phone number will go into effect and update internal contact lists about it. It's not something anybody wants to do more than once every year or two.
And finally, it must be nice that you have no friends or family who want to contact you by phone. Do you remember to tell everybody you actually do care about that you have a new number? What if they forget? What if they are older? I've got a step-mother who I stay in touch with and she is often telling me about having problems trying to get in touch with my brother, who changed his phone number well over a year ago. I think she may be dialing an old number for him, but she swears she's using the new one and she lives hours away from where I live so I can't be there to see what she is actually doing. So yea, hooray for you that your work doesn't need to talk to nor do you have any personal relationships where anybody else does either.
It's yet another case where the headline says something different than the article, as is unfortunately often the case here. Reading comprehension is in general getting worse everywhere and we see that happen a lot at Slashdot.
I have questions about the claims here. Just how many workers commute this way? I've heard of some bad commutes in Japan and California, but the current ferry boat or plane options for Helsinki-Stockholm don't seem to be likely to have a lot of people who regularly do that. I have to ask - Couldn't some kind of bullet train maybe do this job for a lot less money? I've been to Taiwan and within the past decade they put in a fast train that goes between Taipei, the capital in the north, and Kaohsiung, the 2nd biggest city which is in the far south of Taiwan. The normal speed train or driving a car took about 6 hours to go between the cities. The fast train (not really a bullet train as it's not quite that fast) now does it in about 2 to 2.5 hours. I've ridden on this route and it's nice and comfortable. The domestic airlines complained bitterly when the fast train system was built as they knew that almost nobody would choose to fly between Taipei and Kaohsiung once the train opened, but they've had to accept it. Business people say it makes it possible to go to Taipei for meetings and they can go by train for less money and less time than by plane. Some of the trains make stops at various cities between Taipei and Kaohsiung, making it a very convenient and fast way to travel in Taiwan. I am not sure that it raised property values any but the service is very popular. Maybe something like this that gets a fast train to do the Helsinki-Stockholm run in 2 to 2.5 hours would be a better approach than the Hyperloop.
Unfortunately, this campaign comes down to either electing someone who represents everything wrong with the status quo, or the guy who represents everything that could go wrong with trying to change the status quo. I am thoroughly not looking forward to the next four plus years.
I hate to break this to you, but whoever becomes president is almost certainly going to be re-elected in 2020. Don't think so? You're likely wrong about this. Consider the following list of presidents since 1900 who lost a re-election bid and why they lost.
William H Taft - Intensely disliked even by his own party to the point that over half of them backed a third party candidate instead (Teddy Roosevelt).
Herbert Hoover - Punished for being president during the Great Depression and having no solution for it.
Gerald Ford - Tarnished by the Nixon pardon and economic malaise.
Jimmy Carter - Intensely disliked by his own party and economic malaise.
George H.W. Bush - Economic malaise.
Note that George H. Bush and Barrack Obama easily won re-election despite being hated intensely by almost half the voters. So the only way that sitting presidents lose re-election bids is if they are intensely disliked by their own party (Won't happen with Clinton and Republicans are unlikely to turn on Trump if he wins a first term) or are presidents under economic downturns (Obama survived this one though). So like it or not, I'd suggest planning for the 2016 winner to be re-elected in 2020. The odds are really good on that.
If concert promoters want to prevent filming or photographing of concerts then they just need to tell people to leave their phones in their cars or at home and confiscate them if they're smuggled in, returning them after the concert.
As I pointed out recently, it's one thing for Alica Keys to be a jerk about this when she's playing a place that seats about 700-800 people and something else to do so in a much bigger venue. Can you imagine confiscating phones in a venue that holds 14,000 or more people? Last year I went to a Rolling Stones concert at a stadium and while I'm too lazy to look up the exact number, I bet that around 50,000 people attended it with me. How can you possibly confiscate so many phones and then get them back to the owners later without mixups?
Maybe artists like Keys need to just decide if they want to go through life viewing their fans as enemies or not and whether doing so is a really good business decision. I can promise you that the Rolling Stones are not concerned with some dude in the upper deck making a low quality video recording of a live concert for his own use when they make huge money off ticket sales and tour merchandise. If others artists choose to view their fans as enemies and thieves because they want to take pictures and record videos, I don't really see a happy outcome from that. But I could be wrong. Prince was about as fan unfriendly as they come and while the days of him regularly playing basketball arenas were over by the time he died, he could still occasionally sell them out.
The link above states some very good reasons why the judge acted this way and there are some unique circumstances in the case that prompted her decision. The defendant runs an adult care center where the IP address is associated and the plaintiffs knew this. The judge ruled that there are a variety of people who could have infringed the copyright other than the defendant (ie. family members, staff, adult residents at the center) and despite fully knowing this, the plaintiffs chose to insist that the defendant was the only possible person who could have downloaded the movie and they used the IP address as "proof". The judge basically said it's not proof of anything and they're acting in bad faith by insisting that it is proof so she issued her ruling. It's possible that better behavior by the attorneys could have led to a filing that she would have accepted so we shouldn't conclude from this that this necessarily means going forward that these types of lawsuits won't be effective any more.
As a foreigner who lives outside of china and USA it is far easier to travel around China now than the USA.
Except for Tibet. Try to go there sometime. Unless things have changed Tibet is currently closed to foreign visitors although that doesn't mean it won't ever open up to them again. If you have a visa to come to the USA there aren't any states that are closed to you as a tourist.
I've always felt like one of the big advantages reading has over other sorts of media is that it's intrinsically rate-limited..
It's not for some people. I have a friend whose wife reads sci fi novels and she can easily read 100-200 pages a night. She finishes books in a few days. I have no idea what her retention is though. It could be that if you quizzed her a week later she wouldn't remember anything except the most basic overview of the plot. My experience is that speed readers always claim that they retain more than people who read at normal rates do, but I'm not so sure.
I suppose this kind of TV watching is inevitable. Too many of what people call the must see shows are now pushing an hour in length. I don't watch in double speed but I have to draw the line at picking up new shows if they are an hour long. People are all the time asking me if watch stuff like Game Of Thrones and I don't. Don't have HBO. Don't have the time for any more 1 hour shows. Maybe if all these shows everybody raves about weren't always an hour long I could watch more of them.
As far as "Modern Family" goes, all I can say is TV critics, Emmy voters and I have a different opinion of it than those who bashed it. Maybe the haters aren't smart enough to get the jokes.
This is why the UK is fucked. Too many xenophobic bigots, who would burn the place to the ground just to reach an arbitrary target of "tens of thousands" immigrating. I don't even want my fiancee to immigrate any more, such is the blind hatred she would receive. The country is economically fucked anyway.
Time to take my skills elsewhere.
I have a female friend from Asia who some years ago fell in love with a guy from an EU country (not the UK) and they got married. She's not Muslim by the way, so none of what I have to say has to do with religion. She legally immigrated to his country after they got married. I don't want to name the country because they have so few Asians there that it might actually be possible to identify her if I give too many details. She has told me that while the people in that country are outwardly nice on the surface, she feels pretty strongly that inside they are actually quite prejudiced against non-white people like her. She and her husband both really had enough of this so they moved to the UK thinking it surely had to be better. I don't think they even stayed a year before they moved back to his country. I'm positive they'll never consider living in the UK again. It was so bad with "xenophobic bigots" as you say that the problems in her husband's country seemed tolerable by comparison.
There is more thorough analysis available, which basicly states, that the groups Remain and Leave have very distinct properties.
Remainers are younger than 45, live in large towns and have an university degree or are students at an university.
Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.
I found these comments really interesting because you're basically saying that the UK has now become just like the USA. We have the same issues here. People in small towns with no higher education have completely different values and desires from the educated people who live in cities. I can't speak to UK politics, but some of this in the US is the fault of the Republican Party, who in the past decade started embracing anti-intellectuals as a valued voting bloc. In fact, I'd point out that Sarah Palin has made her career out of promoting anti-intellectualism as the solution to all of America's problems. Sorry to hear you're now one of us, UK people.
I actually rode as a passenger on one of these electric bikes in Zhongshan, China. It was operating as a sort of taxi. My (at the time) Chinese girlfriend wasn't sure that they were strictly legal but you could use them go around downtown for short distances and they were cheap. I'd estimate that it got up to somewhere around 25-30 MPH which equates to 40-48 KMH. I didn't feel all that safe as a passenger in it and it's not something I'd do again, but she wanted to use it so we did.
Nobody should be able to walk into a Walmart and walk out with a cart full of machine guns and ammo.
No other "civilized" society accepts this nonsense and neither should the US.
Then you should get the constitution amended.
Not necessary. The Supreme Court made it clear in their last previous major gun ruling that just because the second amendment exists, it doesn't mean that there can't be any restrictions on guns. Supposedly it was Scalia himself who said that. Rights in the constitution are not absolute. Keeping people from buying machine guns is a far cry from saying nobody can buy any gun for any reason, but hey, don't let logic stand in your way.
Just an observation.... I spent a good amount of time traveling in parts of the ex-USSR in the previous decade. I speak good Russian (not fluent, but pretty good) and I've been to places off the tourist track. Got to know several people there on a personal level. I can tell you that the justifications the scammer gave are exactly what someone from that part of the world would use to justify what they did. That doesn't mean that the scammer is from there, but if I had to bet on it, I'd bet that they were. You would not believe the tortured logic they can use over there to justify all kinds of immoral, illegal and unethical behavior.
I have no rational explanation for this. It's just how things are. If you sent a "Nigerian prince" email to a bunch of people, few would actually fall for it. But for some reason many people, especially but not only people under 30 years old, believe that you simply can't be cheated on Craigslist - ever. Simply doesn't happen. But if it did, Craigslist would make you whole. Ha ha ha! If they only knew.. I really have no idea why rational people lose their minds on Craigslist and assume there is no risk to any transaction.
Or should I re-phrase that as "because bogeymen"? I mean, really, how many terrorists attacks, anywhere in the world, have been prevented as a result of the privacy we've already been forced to give up?
More than you might think. The FBI does stings all the time and arrests people who want to commit domestic terrorism. I'm pretty sure that some of this has been found by exactly what you bitch about.
I do just love (not really) negative logic on Slashdot where supposedly intelligent people argue that because something doesn't happen that it was never going to happen anyway when the fact that it hasn't happened may mean that it was prevented in the first place. For example, TSA screenings may actually have real value in preventing terrorism on planes even though most people here swear it accomplishes nothing. It may be that even with the TSA being incompetent that they are not 100% incompetent and being 5-10% competent in terms of finding weapons, bombs, etc. is enough of a deterrence to make the bad guys look for easier targets. The recent Orlando attacker didn't drive to the front gate of a US military facility in Florida and start opening fire. He went to a nightclub he was known to visit because he knew that the odds were high that nobody there would have a weapon that could stop him. Terrorists want easy targets with just about 100% chance of success. They're not looking for difficult targets where they may get stopped or caught.
If you follow a chain of links, it appears that she used this for a show at the Highline Ballroom in NYC. It holds about 700 people. The other musical act mentioned, The Limineers, is a group I've never heard of but they seem to be playing a ton of festivals and mostly smaller amphitheaters. Other users include various comedians. I'll be impressed when someone who can draw tens of thousands of people to see them is willing to do it and risk pissing their fans off. Let me know if Kanye ever decides to try this. I'll be really interested to see what the reaction is.
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"with Canadian streaming provisions yet to be announced".
What did we ever do to you Americans to always get screwed on streaming services?
I'm guessing it's one of two things. Either the CBC or the government is causing this (I have no idea exactly how TV in Canada works, so just a guess here) or you're being punished for supposedly having "weak" laws regarding intellectual property.
So are you telling me Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, Safari, IE/Edge, Opera and Vivaldi won't send sensitive data to the UK or the USA?
Prove it. Or shut up. Crybaby arguments like "everybody else does the same thing" with no proof is meaningless.
Here, bucko. Let me give you a real example about why you might not care what Maxthon does but Chinese people might. A few years ago I had a Chinese girlfriend. I mean she was born and raised in China and lived there most of her life. She told me a story about being in college. She shared a dorm room with 3 oe 4 other girls and one day the police called all of them in for questioning. Separately. Turns out that one of the roommates had some kind of vague link to Fulan Gong, like a relative was a member or something similar. My girlfriend told me that it was really scary for them and they had no idea at all that this girl had any kind of Fulan Gong link. If I remember correctly, the girl in question never returned to school after this. If you don't know what Fulan Gong is, look it up on Wikipedia. While they have some weird beliefs, do they strike you as a true national security threat to China? The Chinese government thinks they are, which is kind of funny since through some miracle nations such as the USA allow Fulan Gong to freely practice their beliefs and aren't in any danger of being overthrown as a result. I'm pretty sure that the Chinese government is looking for people who search for Fulan Gong or various other forbidden topics and the end result of people who look for forbidden topics is not likely to have a happy ending for those searchers.
Security researchers discovered that a Chinese developed web browser you've probably never heard of that claims to have great security actually sends all kinds of personal information about your PC and web searches to a site in Beijing. Also, other Chinese developed web browsers that claim to have great security may do similar things.
If they want to solve it, they just need to issue a pardon.
Very unlikely to do the trick even if they did it. Given Cooper's estimated age at the time (mid 40s) he's most likely dead. In fact, I'd argue that the fact that the money was never recovered except for a small amount of decayed bills found around 1980 means that he didn't survive the jump. If Cooper did survive and is still alive, he'd be approximately 90 years old. Since the vast majority of the bills have never been found or spent, that might mean that he was too afraid of being caught to ever spend the money. I don't think an offer of a pardon or amnesty would get such a person to confess.
Related to some other posts - the statute of limitations issue came up in the 1970s for this case and it's considered that Cooper could still be prosecuted if there was enough evidence to do so. A grand jury issued an indictment against him in absentia that's still valid and would be the basis of any future prosecution.
Russia is one of the countries I regularly choose to send my traffic through. Good internet infrastructure and bandwidth with fast connectivity to much of europe. Absolutely ZERO legal agreements between countries like US, UK etc so far less chance of them sharing your browsing habids with others and those that they would share it with would not give a shit about me.
This. A person I know has sometimes used his Bit Torrent client through a VPN going through Russia for the same reasons.
I've got some cousins who are pretty hard core Sanders supporters who believe all the nut job stuff going around in the supporters' circle for Sanders. For example, did you know that Sanders apparently won California and possibly almost every other state yet was denied victory by cheating conspirators aligned with Clinton who simply threw out votes for Sanders? Yeah, me either. But my cousins buy this one hook, line and sinker. Another thing going around among his supporters is the idea that nothing will ever change if they vote for Clinton or Trump so to make a point a large number of them are threatening to sit out the election. Of course if this happens, it may just simply make Trump the president as despite some vocal anti-Trump stands by various people, the reality is that Republican voters are going to suck it up and vote for him in the fall no matter what. If enough Sanders supporters refuse to vote, it could be very bad for Clinton. We'll see if this endorsement does anything to stop his supporters from sitting out the November election.
Given how Xiaomi only sells their phones in Asia, I'm sure that the 1% or less of Slashdotters who live in a place where Xiaomi actually sells their phones and on top of that actually have a Xiaomi phone instead of a competitor's phone thank you.
The only really scary thing here is the fact that "two thirds of Americans get their news from social media". No wonder the country is so fucked up.
Those numbers were probably pulled out of the air and don't reflect reality. Consider that probably at least 1/3 of Americans don't do social media at all - not in any form including Facebook - and then out of the ones who do, some percentage of them will not get their news from it. I have friends, family and former classmates who don't do any kind of social media and refuse to ever do it. If you're a young person and everybody you know is under 30 that may not be true, but there are tons of people over 30 who aren't interested in social media and will probably die never having used it.
After Carter was driven from office for being honest we haven't seen a single person seriously running for the post who is going to make that mistake.
Are you even American? Because you clearly have the worst possible understanding of why Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 presidential election. Here's why.
1. The US economy was in shambles. Look up Reagan's "misery index" if you don't know what it is, which was an incredibly effective campaign talking point.
2. Carter couldn't get along with Congress despite it being controlled by the Democrats. There were a lot of upset people in Congress over his decision to give back the Panama Canal. I can't prove this so I could be wrong here, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the Taiwan Relations Act got passed because Congress was terrified that Carter was going to abandon Taiwan to the PRC after giving the PRC diplomatic recognition.
3. The Iran hostage crisis and the subsequent botched rescue attempt made him look very weak to both the US voters and foreign powers. Remember, the Russians started messing around in Afghanistan on Carter's watch.
4. The Democratic Party did nothing to stop Ted Kennedy from running against Carter in the 1980 Democratic primary, despite knowing that having opposition to a sitting president would leave that president looking weak in the presidential election even if he won the primary.
All of those issues were reasons why Carter lost in 1980. Being punished for being honest is pure fantasy.
with sim cards being easy to buy, its not hard to change your number often.
I've gotton on some prank lists where I was getting nuissance calls.
I dropped that number. buh-BYE. end of story.
I'm assuming that you don't live in the USA and that you don't work in IT. Both apply to me. This is not as easy to do as you claim for a lot of us. First of all, while you can buy SIM cards in the USA, it's difficult. US mobile telephone service isn't really setup to work this way. Everybody expects you to sign a contract with a carrier for a certain number of years. Just walking down to some local electronics store and buying a SIM card off the shelf is not at all how things work in the USA. You have to go to carriers to get SIM cards here and those aren't really setup to be pay as you. You can do that sort of thing if you're willing to use crap disposable phones like with Tracfone, but not so much if you actually have a good phone.
Secondly, I'm assuming that your work doesn't need to contact you. I work for a support team on a specific product that my employer, and Fortune 500 company, sells. I only support the one product out of many we offer, but our customer base expects and pays for 24x7 availability. Our contracts allow us to do maintenance at one specific time frame on weekends but if we are down outside of that, we lose money. My employer expects me to be available 24x7 in case of emergencies even if I'm not on call and we rotate on call duties every week. I simply can't willy nilly change my phone number every few weeks or months on a whim. We've had people change phone numbers and they have to send out emails to a lot of people making sure that they say when the new phone number will go into effect and update internal contact lists about it. It's not something anybody wants to do more than once every year or two.
And finally, it must be nice that you have no friends or family who want to contact you by phone. Do you remember to tell everybody you actually do care about that you have a new number? What if they forget? What if they are older? I've got a step-mother who I stay in touch with and she is often telling me about having problems trying to get in touch with my brother, who changed his phone number well over a year ago. I think she may be dialing an old number for him, but she swears she's using the new one and she lives hours away from where I live so I can't be there to see what she is actually doing. So yea, hooray for you that your work doesn't need to talk to nor do you have any personal relationships where anybody else does either.
It's yet another case where the headline says something different than the article, as is unfortunately often the case here. Reading comprehension is in general getting worse everywhere and we see that happen a lot at Slashdot.
I have questions about the claims here. Just how many workers commute this way? I've heard of some bad commutes in Japan and California, but the current ferry boat or plane options for Helsinki-Stockholm don't seem to be likely to have a lot of people who regularly do that. I have to ask - Couldn't some kind of bullet train maybe do this job for a lot less money? I've been to Taiwan and within the past decade they put in a fast train that goes between Taipei, the capital in the north, and Kaohsiung, the 2nd biggest city which is in the far south of Taiwan. The normal speed train or driving a car took about 6 hours to go between the cities. The fast train (not really a bullet train as it's not quite that fast) now does it in about 2 to 2.5 hours. I've ridden on this route and it's nice and comfortable. The domestic airlines complained bitterly when the fast train system was built as they knew that almost nobody would choose to fly between Taipei and Kaohsiung once the train opened, but they've had to accept it. Business people say it makes it possible to go to Taipei for meetings and they can go by train for less money and less time than by plane. Some of the trains make stops at various cities between Taipei and Kaohsiung, making it a very convenient and fast way to travel in Taiwan. I am not sure that it raised property values any but the service is very popular. Maybe something like this that gets a fast train to do the Helsinki-Stockholm run in 2 to 2.5 hours would be a better approach than the Hyperloop.
Unfortunately, this campaign comes down to either electing someone who represents everything wrong with the status quo, or the guy who represents everything that could go wrong with trying to change the status quo. I am thoroughly not looking forward to the next four plus years.
I hate to break this to you, but whoever becomes president is almost certainly going to be re-elected in 2020. Don't think so? You're likely wrong about this. Consider the following list of presidents since 1900 who lost a re-election bid and why they lost.
William H Taft - Intensely disliked even by his own party to the point that over half of them backed a third party candidate instead (Teddy Roosevelt).
Herbert Hoover - Punished for being president during the Great Depression and having no solution for it.
Gerald Ford - Tarnished by the Nixon pardon and economic malaise.
Jimmy Carter - Intensely disliked by his own party and economic malaise.
George H.W. Bush - Economic malaise.
Note that George H. Bush and Barrack Obama easily won re-election despite being hated intensely by almost half the voters. So the only way that sitting presidents lose re-election bids is if they are intensely disliked by their own party (Won't happen with Clinton and Republicans are unlikely to turn on Trump if he wins a first term) or are presidents under economic downturns (Obama survived this one though). So like it or not, I'd suggest planning for the 2016 winner to be re-elected in 2020. The odds are really good on that.
If concert promoters want to prevent filming or photographing of concerts then they just need to tell people to leave their phones in their cars or at home and confiscate them if they're smuggled in, returning them after the concert.
As I pointed out recently, it's one thing for Alica Keys to be a jerk about this when she's playing a place that seats about 700-800 people and something else to do so in a much bigger venue. Can you imagine confiscating phones in a venue that holds 14,000 or more people? Last year I went to a Rolling Stones concert at a stadium and while I'm too lazy to look up the exact number, I bet that around 50,000 people attended it with me. How can you possibly confiscate so many phones and then get them back to the owners later without mixups?
Maybe artists like Keys need to just decide if they want to go through life viewing their fans as enemies or not and whether doing so is a really good business decision. I can promise you that the Rolling Stones are not concerned with some dude in the upper deck making a low quality video recording of a live concert for his own use when they make huge money off ticket sales and tour merchandise. If others artists choose to view their fans as enemies and thieves because they want to take pictures and record videos, I don't really see a happy outcome from that. But I could be wrong. Prince was about as fan unfriendly as they come and while the days of him regularly playing basketball arenas were over by the time he died, he could still occasionally sell them out.
The link above states some very good reasons why the judge acted this way and there are some unique circumstances in the case that prompted her decision. The defendant runs an adult care center where the IP address is associated and the plaintiffs knew this. The judge ruled that there are a variety of people who could have infringed the copyright other than the defendant (ie. family members, staff, adult residents at the center) and despite fully knowing this, the plaintiffs chose to insist that the defendant was the only possible person who could have downloaded the movie and they used the IP address as "proof". The judge basically said it's not proof of anything and they're acting in bad faith by insisting that it is proof so she issued her ruling. It's possible that better behavior by the attorneys could have led to a filing that she would have accepted so we shouldn't conclude from this that this necessarily means going forward that these types of lawsuits won't be effective any more.
As a foreigner who lives outside of china and USA it is far easier to travel around China now than the USA.
Except for Tibet. Try to go there sometime. Unless things have changed Tibet is currently closed to foreign visitors although that doesn't mean it won't ever open up to them again. If you have a visa to come to the USA there aren't any states that are closed to you as a tourist.
I've always felt like one of the big advantages reading has over other sorts of media is that it's intrinsically rate-limited. .
It's not for some people. I have a friend whose wife reads sci fi novels and she can easily read 100-200 pages a night. She finishes books in a few days. I have no idea what her retention is though. It could be that if you quizzed her a week later she wouldn't remember anything except the most basic overview of the plot. My experience is that speed readers always claim that they retain more than people who read at normal rates do, but I'm not so sure.
I suppose this kind of TV watching is inevitable. Too many of what people call the must see shows are now pushing an hour in length. I don't watch in double speed but I have to draw the line at picking up new shows if they are an hour long. People are all the time asking me if watch stuff like Game Of Thrones and I don't. Don't have HBO. Don't have the time for any more 1 hour shows. Maybe if all these shows everybody raves about weren't always an hour long I could watch more of them.
As far as "Modern Family" goes, all I can say is TV critics, Emmy voters and I have a different opinion of it than those who bashed it. Maybe the haters aren't smart enough to get the jokes.
This is why the UK is fucked. Too many xenophobic bigots, who would burn the place to the ground just to reach an arbitrary target of "tens of thousands" immigrating. I don't even want my fiancee to immigrate any more, such is the blind hatred she would receive. The country is economically fucked anyway.
Time to take my skills elsewhere.
I have a female friend from Asia who some years ago fell in love with a guy from an EU country (not the UK) and they got married. She's not Muslim by the way, so none of what I have to say has to do with religion. She legally immigrated to his country after they got married. I don't want to name the country because they have so few Asians there that it might actually be possible to identify her if I give too many details. She has told me that while the people in that country are outwardly nice on the surface, she feels pretty strongly that inside they are actually quite prejudiced against non-white people like her. She and her husband both really had enough of this so they moved to the UK thinking it surely had to be better. I don't think they even stayed a year before they moved back to his country. I'm positive they'll never consider living in the UK again. It was so bad with "xenophobic bigots" as you say that the problems in her husband's country seemed tolerable by comparison.
There is more thorough analysis available, which basicly states, that the groups Remain and Leave have very distinct properties.
Remainers are younger than 45, live in large towns and have an university degree or are students at an university.
Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.
I found these comments really interesting because you're basically saying that the UK has now become just like the USA. We have the same issues here. People in small towns with no higher education have completely different values and desires from the educated people who live in cities. I can't speak to UK politics, but some of this in the US is the fault of the Republican Party, who in the past decade started embracing anti-intellectuals as a valued voting bloc. In fact, I'd point out that Sarah Palin has made her career out of promoting anti-intellectualism as the solution to all of America's problems. Sorry to hear you're now one of us, UK people.
I actually rode as a passenger on one of these electric bikes in Zhongshan, China. It was operating as a sort of taxi. My (at the time) Chinese girlfriend wasn't sure that they were strictly legal but you could use them go around downtown for short distances and they were cheap. I'd estimate that it got up to somewhere around 25-30 MPH which equates to 40-48 KMH. I didn't feel all that safe as a passenger in it and it's not something I'd do again, but she wanted to use it so we did.
Good. We need less guns, not more.
Nobody should be able to walk into a Walmart and walk out with a cart full of machine guns and ammo.
No other "civilized" society accepts this nonsense and neither should the US.
Then you should get the constitution amended.
Not necessary. The Supreme Court made it clear in their last previous major gun ruling that just because the second amendment exists, it doesn't mean that there can't be any restrictions on guns. Supposedly it was Scalia himself who said that. Rights in the constitution are not absolute. Keeping people from buying machine guns is a far cry from saying nobody can buy any gun for any reason, but hey, don't let logic stand in your way.
Just an observation.... I spent a good amount of time traveling in parts of the ex-USSR in the previous decade. I speak good Russian (not fluent, but pretty good) and I've been to places off the tourist track. Got to know several people there on a personal level. I can tell you that the justifications the scammer gave are exactly what someone from that part of the world would use to justify what they did. That doesn't mean that the scammer is from there, but if I had to bet on it, I'd bet that they were. You would not believe the tortured logic they can use over there to justify all kinds of immoral, illegal and unethical behavior.
I have no rational explanation for this. It's just how things are. If you sent a "Nigerian prince" email to a bunch of people, few would actually fall for it. But for some reason many people, especially but not only people under 30 years old, believe that you simply can't be cheated on Craigslist - ever. Simply doesn't happen. But if it did, Craigslist would make you whole. Ha ha ha! If they only knew.. I really have no idea why rational people lose their minds on Craigslist and assume there is no risk to any transaction.
Or should I re-phrase that as "because bogeymen"? I mean, really, how many terrorists attacks, anywhere in the world, have been prevented as a result of the privacy we've already been forced to give up?
More than you might think. The FBI does stings all the time and arrests people who want to commit domestic terrorism. I'm pretty sure that some of this has been found by exactly what you bitch about.
I do just love (not really) negative logic on Slashdot where supposedly intelligent people argue that because something doesn't happen that it was never going to happen anyway when the fact that it hasn't happened may mean that it was prevented in the first place. For example, TSA screenings may actually have real value in preventing terrorism on planes even though most people here swear it accomplishes nothing. It may be that even with the TSA being incompetent that they are not 100% incompetent and being 5-10% competent in terms of finding weapons, bombs, etc. is enough of a deterrence to make the bad guys look for easier targets. The recent Orlando attacker didn't drive to the front gate of a US military facility in Florida and start opening fire. He went to a nightclub he was known to visit because he knew that the odds were high that nobody there would have a weapon that could stop him. Terrorists want easy targets with just about 100% chance of success. They're not looking for difficult targets where they may get stopped or caught.
If you follow a chain of links, it appears that she used this for a show at the Highline Ballroom in NYC. It holds about 700 people. The other musical act mentioned, The Limineers, is a group I've never heard of but they seem to be playing a ton of festivals and mostly smaller amphitheaters. Other users include various comedians. I'll be impressed when someone who can draw tens of thousands of people to see them is willing to do it and risk pissing their fans off. Let me know if Kanye ever decides to try this. I'll be really interested to see what the reaction is.