Phone theft may sound rare, but it isn't uncommon, and thieves know that they can just grab the phone, stuff it in a tinfoil envelope, let it sit for a week or two until the battery dies, disassemble it, then sell the screen, case, and other parts for a good amount of cash.
If they're going to sell the phone for parts, why wait for the battery to die? Beyond this, why not simply just remove the SIM card instead. Like a lot of./ers you're over-thinking things to the point where you've completely ignored the obvious solution, relevent XKCD
Getting the phone wiped isn't a problem for a phone thief, they dont care about your personal data. They want to sell the hardware to make a buck. So they simply take it to a pawn shop run by someone who will get the phone wiped. They want a blank phone to sell.
Even IMEI blocking is useless as you can just sell it over the border and anyone unscrupulous enough to steal a phone wont think twice at selling a phone that doesn't work (and no, there will never be a shortage of suckers).
In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.
I've lived in 3 Anglosphere countries and 2 non-Anglosphere countries. I'm a native English speaker from the UK.
Having experienced life outside the Anglosphere I'm puzzled why it is that virtually all the English speaking nations are so fucking retarded in so many ways. Its not just the dumbass self-defeating 'espionage' its also the amazing pedantry, prudishness, squeamishness etc, the obsession with poop jokes. Almost all the adults in these cultures seem, by external standards, to be like large schoolchildren.
I've also lived outside the angloshpere, every single nation has huge glaring problems that people simply ignore because it's part of their culture.
There's no real way to say which one is better, both have their advantages and drawbacks. You may be able to get away with more things in Thailand than the UK, but in Thailand you'll always be a second class citizen, accepted only because you have enough money to live there without working. Any fight between you and a Thai will result in the Thai winning regardless of what actually happens. If you want to live in Asia, you'll have to get used to the corruption, nepotism, tiered society, face, blood money and a lot of other things we would consider uncivilised in Anglo countries.
Often you dont have to give up essential liberty for essential safety. The key is in also being an accepting society. It becomes harder and harder for a malicious person to hide when the average person does not feel the need to hide a lot of details about themselves (please note, this is not a "if you have nothing to hide" argument, its about people feeling secure to be themselves without the fear of societal judgement).
The problem is, politicians know that fear sells. So they use fear to get through what would ordinarily be unpopular and unacceptable laws.
I'm thankful for that. The failure mode of most mechanical problems with an average car is that it gently rolls to the side of the road. The failure mode of most mechanical problems with an average light aircraft is plummeting to death, and likely destroying something below you in the process.
Think of all the nitwits you see on the freeway, and then imagine them with hands on stick in a Cessna. No, thanks.
The mechanical failure mode of a light aircraft is to turn it into a glider. But you have a point in that your average moron would probably screw it up.
I mean they cant even concentrate on a simple task like driving without complaining that its too boring and playing with their phone.
The mechanical failure mode of a jet liner is plummet to the ground, this is why they have multiple redundant systems and see more mechanics in a week than cars will see in their lifetime.
I can only assume you have never worked in a male dominated blue collar job, such as a mechanics workshop, garbage depot, or a building site. I did that sort of work for 15yrs before moving to a white collar job. The first thing I noticed about working in an office was how polite most people are, the boss even says please and thank you.
Same here,
I've never heard one of my work colleges described as "that useless cunt" since I left the building industry for IT despite that description being perfect for many of my work mates.
One of the most annoying safety features to have come out in quite a while.
I've lost track of the number of times I'd had to buckle my -backback- in because my car thought there was a person sitting there:/
You can blame the *NCAP programs for this. The difference between an ENCAP 4 star rating and a 5 star rating are a number of warning buzzers. The Honda Accord got knocked down to 4 stars solely because it didn't have a rear seatbelt warning chime. Crash tests demonstrated that it was as safe to pedestrians and occupants as other 5 star cars.
Automatic Emergency Braking is going to become your new favourite annoying safety features in a few years as the woman who rear ended you keeps crying that the car was meant to brake for her.
The roads in Australia are filled with SUVs just as much as they are in the US (and that number seems to be growing all the time based on my observations) and yet people who know what they are talking about (including a family member who has been working in dealerships and selling both new and used cars for decades and now works in management at a dealer) still recommend small fuel efficient Japanese cars as good first cars for young drivers (despite the "increased risk" if they get into an accident with an SUV)
Its a myth that SUV's are safer. Even though larger cars are marginally safer than smaller cars (and this is marginally), they're talking about large sedans like a Toyota Camry vs a small car like a Toyota Yaris (or things like the Aygo we dont get in Oz). SUV's have additional risk in the fact that they're so top heavy they're more likely to roll in an accident which increases the risk of head and neck injuries which are the real killer in car crashes.
A lot of Australian states have been stupidly banning novice drivers from high powered cars but research from Curtain University in Western Australia has demonstrated that high powered cars (cars in excess of 125KW per ton) not highly represented in fatal crashes, in fact the vehicle type most represented in young driver fatalities were 4x4's.
Now people expect better AI, destructible environments, the focus of FPS is shifting more towards multiplayer including coop mode.
Am I the only one who actually still prefers single-player campaign to co-op/multiplayer? I mean it's ok sometimes, and there's nothing wrong with it. But when the multiplayer fad came along it always seemed like such a tween sub-culture to me.
No you're not.
Like many people I also have a job, life and girlfriend, but I also play games.
But I do have one objection. Many multiplayer games are mature and tend to attract mature people. Step away from the COD and Halo twitch shooters and get into something a bit more tactical like World of Tanks or War Thunder where someone who thinks is more effective than the fastest person on the button. In fact, step away from the console and get onto PC, the PCGMR tends to attract more mature people and has a lot of communities target older gamers who run their own servers (I.E. like the TOG (The Older Gamers) clan in Australia).
the only thing new was the source engine, the game half-life 2 by it self wasnt any marvel of its time, but it had a great story and was well made, but frankly it doesnt and didnt stand up to bring in new things into game play mechanics for its time
If we pick on any single aspect of the game, there were far superior games released at the same time. There were games that looked better, games that played better and games with better stories. The problem was that these games only excelled at one thing. Half Life and Half Life 2 bought all of these factors together. It had great graphics, it had great gameplay and it had a great story all at the same time.
Above this, HL and HL2 both mastered the art of unobtrusive storytelling. The transition between playing and storytelling was so seamless you didn't even notice that you'd stopped playing and started listening, What makes it truly amazing is that they did the whole thing without a single cutscene that restricted the player (excluding the start cut scene), it was masterful direction that kept the player focused on the story when they still had free reign. 10 years on from HL2, few other games can do the same thing and still what sets the Half Life series apart.
Uber is tracking where both drivers and passengers are, and the fact that a passenger has booked with a particular driver...
And you think that is a good thing.
But if that driver decides to stop and assault you, tracking them will do nothing as it's still a he-said/she-said case in court.
OTOH, taxis in my city are fitted with CCTV cameras inside and out. In the unlikely event the footage is unavailable (the companies have never hesitated to turn it over because it gets them off the liabilty hook) it still counts in my favour.
How does telling the PSAP (public safety answering point) that cellular 911 service is out save lives? How does the PSAP tell people who can't call in that they can't call in?
It tells the local police to send out more officers on patrol, patrolling officers can be instructed to keep an eye out. Calls direct to the station will be taken more seriously.
I'm sure the local emergency services have a contingency plan for then PSAP goes down.
To me it doesn't even matter if Uber is exploitive or not. They simply provide a vastly better service than any taxi I have ever used.
So you dont care how a product is made, as long as it's served to you nicely?
Well you are an Apple fanboy.
The problem is, every Uber car I've ever gotten into has been a terrible mess, unwashed and bad smelling, much like the drivers. The last one was a Pug 208 deisel that looked like it had never been cleaned since the dealer got rid of it (and it looks like the dealer got rid of by chucking it out with some food scraps). It looked, smelled and sounded like a farmyard. Compared to this where all the taxis in my city are modern clean cars, either Camry hybrids, Prius or on LPG (so they're all quiet as a whisper), cleaned daily by the taxi company, provide you with a legitimate tax receipt (I can claim a lot of my taxi journeys), pay tax, have knowledgeable drivers and above all else, aren't run by sociopathic idiots.
Uber can keep ripping off their drivers because when they get sick of it, there's a bunch of starry-eyed hopefuls right behind them ready to sell their dignity for a pittance. Eventually they'll run out of suckers and the only people working for them are the ones who have literally been banned from most other jobs though.
Neither side actually wants to implement this stuff, the only reason either party bring up these ideas and have long running inquiries is to buy the votes of independent senators on other matters, particularly those senators from the far right minority parties
Its not just parties like Family First but also factions of their own parties.
What Americans might find difficult to understand is that our parties aren't divided on left and right lines (there are no left win parties left in Oz, even the Greens are extremerly centrist these days). Our major parties (Liberal and Labor) have both left and right elements. Whilst the Liberals tend to be more socially conservative the Labor party has a sizable Christian contingent that are just as backwards. So often legislation like this is introduced to keep the extremists happy even though it'll never pass because the majority of the party will vote against it.
This is the kind of bollocks that the government has been talking about since day one. Mostly driven by the deplorable ACT Attourney General, George Brandis.
The first thing I should point out is that it's just talk. They're talking about introducing legislation to parliment. They haven't done anything but talk.
The second thing is, the Libs face a hostile senate. The Liberal party are our conservatives BTW. Whilst they can pass it in the lower house, it will fail in the upper house.
The third thing is, they will face a revolt from their back bench, many of whom are facing re-election in the next 18 months in an environment where the Liberal party is losing almost every election they're coming up against. So a lot of them are thinking of their own good over the parties.
Finally, ISP's are a powerful lobby over here and you can bet they dont want to turn customers to smaller ISP's who will skirt the laws.
So I'm not worried. the LNP (Liberal/National Party) haven't been able to do much of anything and what they have done has earned them a severe backlash.
The summary shows the problem with big data: it's not the data that counts, it's what you do with it. And no algorithm in the world can make you make good decisions.
So the problem with pens is that no writing tool in the world can make you a good writer?
You had me for a second, but this is not a valid analogy. The valid analogy would require someone to say that their analysis has found the pen that will make you a good writer.
Not quite,
The analysis demonstrated that if you've gone a little bit out of your way to get a certain type of pen, you're more likely to be a good writer.
If an industry has a 45% turnover rate, as is cited for call centers, the problem is not the "talent and dedication" of the employees. The problem is that the job is structured in such a way that it is mind numbing, repetitive, and unsatisfying to the workers. And BTW, if you really want workers who can perform under such conditions, you are NOT looking for someone who wants control over their circumstances as indicated by the selection of a non-default browser.
Having worked in a call centre and knowing many others who have. It isn't the repetition or mind numbingness that causes dissatisfaction. Its the constant abuse from unreasonable callers that makes the job so unpalatable that you'd rather work in a real cesspool. It stems from the fact that most people are ignorant, arrogant, unreasonable and uneducated arseholes that are only ever constrained by the fact that someone will punch them for being such an arse to their face. When given a safe distance, they're itching to become the wankers they know they can be.
Working in a call centre really destroys your faith in humanity.
It was an unfinished buggy mess and if you buy the DLC, it becomes a slightly less unfinished but still completely buggy mess.
I've been playing Civ since before Civ had a number and Civ V is the only time I've actually gone back to the previous version because it was better. Civ sequels have always been evolutionary. A refining of the original idea. Civ V was a dogs breakfast of dumbed down non-civ games with a Civ coat of paint thrown over the top and used the name to try to make it sell.
Beyond this, the beyond awful AI. I mean what world leader says "Look at the wide open land, ready for an empire to expand. I will build two cities and no more" because that's exactly what happens in Civ V.
EA screwed Civ like they screwed SimCity. All we need now is for someone else to release Call to Power 3 that is basically Civ IV with an updated graphics engine.
I gave my nephew a simple electronic drum kit for Christmas
As a parent, and speaking for most parents in the world, I wish upon you a house full of confetti and glitter, a sick goat locked up in your car, and from now on you're only allowed roughspun wool underwear.
It was actually my sister who asked me to buy it.
So I wish upon you that your children place you in the dodgiest pensioners home that they can find on 60 minutes.
Yep. Great system, though a little awkward when tipping and they're standing over you staring as you go to push the 10- no, 15- no, [gulp] 20% button. Maybe that's why they don't tip much in Europe.
They dont tip much in Europe because everyone is paid a wage they can live off. I know, what a novel idea.
However with tipping a fix to that is easy. Just add the tip to the end of the bill before putting it into the machine. If you go the same route as the rest of the world this is what you'll have to do as the EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer, Point Of Sale) device will not be able to change the value of the transaction once it has been entered or passed through to the device.
Also the waiter doesn't stand over you. They give you the device then walk away like they currently do with bills, at a good restaurant wait staff will only step in like a well trained butler if you need assistance.
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If they're going to sell the phone for parts, why wait for the battery to die? Beyond this, why not simply just remove the SIM card instead. Like a lot of ./ers you're over-thinking things to the point where you've completely ignored the obvious solution, relevent XKCD
Getting the phone wiped isn't a problem for a phone thief, they dont care about your personal data. They want to sell the hardware to make a buck. So they simply take it to a pawn shop run by someone who will get the phone wiped. They want a blank phone to sell.
Even IMEI blocking is useless as you can just sell it over the border and anyone unscrupulous enough to steal a phone wont think twice at selling a phone that doesn't work (and no, there will never be a shortage of suckers).
In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.
I've lived in 3 Anglosphere countries and 2 non-Anglosphere countries. I'm a native English speaker from the UK.
Having experienced life outside the Anglosphere I'm puzzled why it is that virtually all the English speaking nations are so fucking retarded in so many ways. Its not just the dumbass self-defeating 'espionage' its also the amazing pedantry, prudishness, squeamishness etc, the obsession with poop jokes. Almost all the adults in these cultures seem, by external standards, to be like large schoolchildren.
I've also lived outside the angloshpere, every single nation has huge glaring problems that people simply ignore because it's part of their culture.
There's no real way to say which one is better, both have their advantages and drawbacks. You may be able to get away with more things in Thailand than the UK, but in Thailand you'll always be a second class citizen, accepted only because you have enough money to live there without working. Any fight between you and a Thai will result in the Thai winning regardless of what actually happens. If you want to live in Asia, you'll have to get used to the corruption, nepotism, tiered society, face, blood money and a lot of other things we would consider uncivilised in Anglo countries.
I would rather be less safe and free.
Often you dont have to give up essential liberty for essential safety. The key is in also being an accepting society. It becomes harder and harder for a malicious person to hide when the average person does not feel the need to hide a lot of details about themselves (please note, this is not a "if you have nothing to hide" argument, its about people feeling secure to be themselves without the fear of societal judgement).
The problem is, politicians know that fear sells. So they use fear to get through what would ordinarily be unpopular and unacceptable laws.
I'm thankful for that. The failure mode of most mechanical problems with an average car is that it gently rolls to the side of the road. The failure mode of most mechanical problems with an average light aircraft is plummeting to death, and likely destroying something below you in the process.
Think of all the nitwits you see on the freeway, and then imagine them with hands on stick in a Cessna. No, thanks.
The mechanical failure mode of a light aircraft is to turn it into a glider. But you have a point in that your average moron would probably screw it up.
I mean they cant even concentrate on a simple task like driving without complaining that its too boring and playing with their phone.
The mechanical failure mode of a jet liner is plummet to the ground, this is why they have multiple redundant systems and see more mechanics in a week than cars will see in their lifetime.
Where do you think he pulled it out of?
And thats where the E Coli comes from.
The only difference between a "cowboy" coder and a "superstar" coder is that the "superstar" has better PR.
I take it you're from the US where diesels are uncommon.
Its quite easy to tell when a car is a petrol or diesel, you just need to listen to it. If the car sounds like a tractor, it's a diesel.
This is a hard topic which should be discussed at length!
Unfortunately society has gone soft on the issue and discussion has fallen short.
It's been a proper cock up.
Same here,
I've never heard one of my work colleges described as "that useless cunt" since I left the building industry for IT despite that description being perfect for many of my work mates.
As a white, middle class, mid 30's male, I have never seen any actual evidence of this war.
The only suggestion of its existence is from bitter old farts who seem to have the most tenuous connection to reality.
One of the most annoying safety features to have come out in quite a while.
I've lost track of the number of times I'd had to buckle my -backback- in because my car thought there was a person sitting there :/
You can blame the *NCAP programs for this. The difference between an ENCAP 4 star rating and a 5 star rating are a number of warning buzzers. The Honda Accord got knocked down to 4 stars solely because it didn't have a rear seatbelt warning chime. Crash tests demonstrated that it was as safe to pedestrians and occupants as other 5 star cars.
Automatic Emergency Braking is going to become your new favourite annoying safety features in a few years as the woman who rear ended you keeps crying that the car was meant to brake for her.
The roads in Australia are filled with SUVs just as much as they are in the US (and that number seems to be growing all the time based on my observations) and yet people who know what they are talking about (including a family member who has been working in dealerships and selling both new and used cars for decades and now works in management at a dealer) still recommend small fuel efficient Japanese cars as good first cars for young drivers (despite the "increased risk" if they get into an accident with an SUV)
Its a myth that SUV's are safer. Even though larger cars are marginally safer than smaller cars (and this is marginally), they're talking about large sedans like a Toyota Camry vs a small car like a Toyota Yaris (or things like the Aygo we dont get in Oz). SUV's have additional risk in the fact that they're so top heavy they're more likely to roll in an accident which increases the risk of head and neck injuries which are the real killer in car crashes.
A lot of Australian states have been stupidly banning novice drivers from high powered cars but research from Curtain University in Western Australia has demonstrated that high powered cars (cars in excess of 125KW per ton) not highly represented in fatal crashes, in fact the vehicle type most represented in young driver fatalities were 4x4's.
Now people expect better AI, destructible environments, the focus of FPS is shifting more towards multiplayer including coop mode.
Am I the only one who actually still prefers single-player campaign to co-op/multiplayer? I mean it's ok sometimes, and there's nothing wrong with it. But when the multiplayer fad came along it always seemed like such a tween sub-culture to me.
No you're not.
Like many people I also have a job, life and girlfriend, but I also play games.
But I do have one objection. Many multiplayer games are mature and tend to attract mature people. Step away from the COD and Halo twitch shooters and get into something a bit more tactical like World of Tanks or War Thunder where someone who thinks is more effective than the fastest person on the button. In fact, step away from the console and get onto PC, the PCGMR tends to attract more mature people and has a lot of communities target older gamers who run their own servers (I.E. like the TOG (The Older Gamers) clan in Australia).
If we pick on any single aspect of the game, there were far superior games released at the same time. There were games that looked better, games that played better and games with better stories. The problem was that these games only excelled at one thing. Half Life and Half Life 2 bought all of these factors together. It had great graphics, it had great gameplay and it had a great story all at the same time.
Above this, HL and HL2 both mastered the art of unobtrusive storytelling. The transition between playing and storytelling was so seamless you didn't even notice that you'd stopped playing and started listening, What makes it truly amazing is that they did the whole thing without a single cutscene that restricted the player (excluding the start cut scene), it was masterful direction that kept the player focused on the story when they still had free reign. 10 years on from HL2, few other games can do the same thing and still what sets the Half Life series apart.
And you think that is a good thing.
But if that driver decides to stop and assault you, tracking them will do nothing as it's still a he-said/she-said case in court.
OTOH, taxis in my city are fitted with CCTV cameras inside and out. In the unlikely event the footage is unavailable (the companies have never hesitated to turn it over because it gets them off the liabilty hook) it still counts in my favour.
It tells the local police to send out more officers on patrol, patrolling officers can be instructed to keep an eye out. Calls direct to the station will be taken more seriously.
I'm sure the local emergency services have a contingency plan for then PSAP goes down.
To me it doesn't even matter if Uber is exploitive or not. They simply provide a vastly better service than any taxi I have ever used.
So you dont care how a product is made, as long as it's served to you nicely?
Well you are an Apple fanboy.
The problem is, every Uber car I've ever gotten into has been a terrible mess, unwashed and bad smelling, much like the drivers. The last one was a Pug 208 deisel that looked like it had never been cleaned since the dealer got rid of it (and it looks like the dealer got rid of by chucking it out with some food scraps). It looked, smelled and sounded like a farmyard. Compared to this where all the taxis in my city are modern clean cars, either Camry hybrids, Prius or on LPG (so they're all quiet as a whisper), cleaned daily by the taxi company, provide you with a legitimate tax receipt (I can claim a lot of my taxi journeys), pay tax, have knowledgeable drivers and above all else, aren't run by sociopathic idiots.
Uber can keep ripping off their drivers because when they get sick of it, there's a bunch of starry-eyed hopefuls right behind them ready to sell their dignity for a pittance. Eventually they'll run out of suckers and the only people working for them are the ones who have literally been banned from most other jobs though.
Its not just parties like Family First but also factions of their own parties.
What Americans might find difficult to understand is that our parties aren't divided on left and right lines (there are no left win parties left in Oz, even the Greens are extremerly centrist these days). Our major parties (Liberal and Labor) have both left and right elements. Whilst the Liberals tend to be more socially conservative the Labor party has a sizable Christian contingent that are just as backwards. So often legislation like this is introduced to keep the extremists happy even though it'll never pass because the majority of the party will vote against it.
G'day,
This is the kind of bollocks that the government has been talking about since day one. Mostly driven by the deplorable ACT Attourney General, George Brandis.
The first thing I should point out is that it's just talk. They're talking about introducing legislation to parliment. They haven't done anything but talk.
The second thing is, the Libs face a hostile senate. The Liberal party are our conservatives BTW. Whilst they can pass it in the lower house, it will fail in the upper house.
The third thing is, they will face a revolt from their back bench, many of whom are facing re-election in the next 18 months in an environment where the Liberal party is losing almost every election they're coming up against. So a lot of them are thinking of their own good over the parties.
Finally, ISP's are a powerful lobby over here and you can bet they dont want to turn customers to smaller ISP's who will skirt the laws.
So I'm not worried. the LNP (Liberal/National Party) haven't been able to do much of anything and what they have done has earned them a severe backlash.
The summary shows the problem with big data: it's not the data that counts, it's what you do with it. And no algorithm in the world can make you make good decisions.
So the problem with pens is that no writing tool in the world can make you a good writer?
You had me for a second, but this is not a valid analogy. The valid analogy would require someone to say that their analysis has found the pen that will make you a good writer.
Not quite, The analysis demonstrated that if you've gone a little bit out of your way to get a certain type of pen, you're more likely to be a good writer.
If an industry has a 45% turnover rate, as is cited for call centers, the problem is not the "talent and dedication" of the employees. The problem is that the job is structured in such a way that it is mind numbing, repetitive, and unsatisfying to the workers. And BTW, if you really want workers who can perform under such conditions, you are NOT looking for someone who wants control over their circumstances as indicated by the selection of a non-default browser.
Having worked in a call centre and knowing many others who have. It isn't the repetition or mind numbingness that causes dissatisfaction. Its the constant abuse from unreasonable callers that makes the job so unpalatable that you'd rather work in a real cesspool. It stems from the fact that most people are ignorant, arrogant, unreasonable and uneducated arseholes that are only ever constrained by the fact that someone will punch them for being such an arse to their face. When given a safe distance, they're itching to become the wankers they know they can be.
Working in a call centre really destroys your faith in humanity.
It was an unfinished buggy mess and if you buy the DLC, it becomes a slightly less unfinished but still completely buggy mess.
I've been playing Civ since before Civ had a number and Civ V is the only time I've actually gone back to the previous version because it was better. Civ sequels have always been evolutionary. A refining of the original idea. Civ V was a dogs breakfast of dumbed down non-civ games with a Civ coat of paint thrown over the top and used the name to try to make it sell.
Beyond this, the beyond awful AI. I mean what world leader says "Look at the wide open land, ready for an empire to expand. I will build two cities and no more" because that's exactly what happens in Civ V.
EA screwed Civ like they screwed SimCity. All we need now is for someone else to release Call to Power 3 that is basically Civ IV with an updated graphics engine.
Actually the bar hates it because they're now having to pay merchant fees where as with cash, they didn't.
This means they have to raise prices, raising prices means they will lose customers. Its a total loss for them.
I gave my nephew a simple electronic drum kit for Christmas
As a parent, and speaking for most parents in the world, I wish upon you a house full of confetti and glitter, a sick goat locked up in your car, and from now on you're only allowed roughspun wool underwear.
It was actually my sister who asked me to buy it.
So I wish upon you that your children place you in the dodgiest pensioners home that they can find on 60 minutes.
They dont tip much in Europe because everyone is paid a wage they can live off. I know, what a novel idea.
However with tipping a fix to that is easy. Just add the tip to the end of the bill before putting it into the machine. If you go the same route as the rest of the world this is what you'll have to do as the EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer, Point Of Sale) device will not be able to change the value of the transaction once it has been entered or passed through to the device.
Also the waiter doesn't stand over you. They give you the device then walk away like they currently do with bills, at a good restaurant wait staff will only step in like a well trained butler if you need assistance.