...make better games instead. But that wouldn't give them as much $$$
And fuck Origin right off.
Simple, EA, make better games and get rid of Origin... Erm... to what end? EA wants to make money and as long as people keep buying NB/H/FL games on consoles, they've got no impetus to change.
I on the other hand have stopped buying EA games... I've even stopped pirating them as nothing remotely interesting has come out lately (I didn't even bother with that Mass Effect game as I heard it was dreadful).
Notepad is a small simple text editor that exists because occasionally you might need to edit some text files (typically for config files or something) on a machine that is not yours so doesn't have Notepad++ installed. These will be in a Windows friendly text format. It doesn't pretend to do anything remotely sophisticated.
If you want to do something more complex then download a non-minimal text editor. There are loads available for free.
TFTFY.
If you're regularly editing text files, Notepad++ (or a contemporary) is essential. Notepad is for when you don't have anything like Notepad++
It's mostly to stop ticket touts selling on tickets at inflated prices.
Well, now that we've unwrapped this bullshit burrito, let's get down to the corn-riddled meat of it. This isn't about curbing inflated ticket prices. This isn't about protecting vendors who thrive on gouging customers with onsite food services. This isn't even about security.
This is about building a fresh database of facial recognition data, to include men, women, and children. This is about testing the accuracy of said system. This is about testing the tolerance level of the masses to accept such surveillance as the new "norm" in our world.
In other words, this is about Control.
I've never really worried about government control. The govt knows who I am, they have my biometrics (passport), my NI number (tax), my car registration, my fingerprints were first taken when I was five... If they were to do something untoward with this information they'd have acted by now. What the government has are a load of rules around this data that are enforced and there would be a lot of warning signs before any of this changes.
Private industry on the other hand has no qualms about screwing me over for a quick quid. About abusing my personal data for their gain. This is why we need strict laws regarding what they can do with my private data, how they are supposed to protect my private data and under what conditions they are permitted to collect it in the first place.
Why would anyone think signing up for an account meant that account would somehow cease to exist once you no longer owned the car? Not only that, why would one sign up for an account which explicitly links you to your car?
Chances are she didn't sign up for it, I think the manufacturer would have done that automatically when she agreed to buy the "driver convenience" pack (or whatever nice sounding name they gave this bollocks). All the EULAs will have been hidden amongst the paperwork she didn't read.
Tapes are still one of the most economically efficient and reliable mediums available, in 2012 and even in 2018. Obviously the one drawback is they can be easily transported and lost...
This,
I've worked with several banks in the UK, one of the key requirements is a secure offsite and offline backup location. This is usually provided by a secure storage company like Chubb or Iron Mountain. However backups should have been encrypted first, although with a physical copy, encryption only delays the data being publishable.
However what many non-Australians may not know is that there is currently a government enquiry called a "royal commission" into banks in Australia and this is far from the darkest skeleton to come out of a major banks closet. In fact compared to NAB's "sub-prime" like lending policies, this is almost passe.
I'm guessing you haven't actually come back into the US in a while. It *is* dangerous. My wife and I came back from a lunch in Ontario's Fort Erie, and the Border Patrol person didn't hear what my wife, in the passenger seat, said in reply to one of his questions. I repeated what she said - for his benefit - and he jumped all over us, threatening us with federal prison for lying to a federal agent. I just repeated her answer - that's it. These fuck-tards can have your ass thrown in jail for the most trivial of things, in addition to what the OP said. That just about makes it a form of Russian Roulette. I consider that dangerous - to the point where if I don't have to come back into MY OWN COUNTRY, I'll take a pass on it.
I'm guessing you haven't had to fill out an ESTA. If you're Canadian probably not because the government has already provided any information the US wanted on you.
Besides, US border controls extend to Canadian borders, so you can't go into Canada without the applying for Approval (eTA, compared to ESTA) which is vetted by the Americans. A right pain in the backside for Australians who can simply walk right over most borders by flashing a small book with a Kangaroo and Emu on it (I mean a passport, not the Ladybird book of antipodean animals).
I'm sorry but autonomous cars should never need a connection to an Active Directory server.
How else will cars know who is and isn't an authorised user? Are you honestly suggesting we use OpenLDAP instead... what's next, Sendmail to replace the CANBUS?
Point your browser at the Chicken Noodle Network (cnn.com). They not only have an autoplay video, they make the damned thing follow you down as you read the page. Please block that.
Just about every newspaper's website that isn't the BBC in the UK does the same thing. FFS, Get Reading does it and Reading is a town of 160,000 people. Annoying as fuck. So much so that most sites I don't bother to visit any more.
Did I say highest selling... Let me check... no I said "king". As in the EV that is making the most money. BMW is about the only company not losing cash on their EV program and are the one taking all the positive press (I think GM might have made money with their bolt, but sales are abysmal despite it being a decent EV... which kinds of sounds like the most preferable of the sexually transmitted infections).
Nissan/Renault are losing money on the Leaf/Zoe, not sure about the Twizy, but that was expressly designed to be affordable.
BMW is the current EV king with their I3. For ever Tesla I see on the road, I see 5 or 6 I3's.
Not in Northern California. For every i3 I see, I see about a dozen Teslas. Range is a problem up here.
Cali is usually one of the first to adopt the worst motoring trends... they popularised the Prius.
The I3's range is a problem here in the UK too. If you wanted to go from London to a pub in Newquay to see Rodger Daltrey playing, you may as well take the train because an I3 wont make it. Honestly a Tesla would struggle as well as its about 280 miles. My M240i does about 400 miles on a tank (combination of a powerful engine and tiny fuel thimble). Jokes aside, some people in the UK commute 300 miles a day because living in London is so bloody expensive.
Serious answer, I've always thought it was good to have the watchmen, watch each other with each person watching two others randomly assigned but with no knowledge of which two are watching them. That way any conspiracy has to involve too many people to keep quiet as you'll need to get a lot of people in to get all the people who might be watchers.
These people will just start a new business and rehire the core team. Watch.
Yep, likely to be reborn as something like Oxford Logica.
In the UK, the process of dissolving and reforming a company, usually to avoid debts, is called "phoenixing". Sadly the law seems to do little about it, even the HMRC (tax dept) only makes a half-hearted effort.
Once Fords, GMs, Toyotas seriously push electric then Tesla will be a niche player... or purchased by one of the aforementioned in a liquidation sale
BMW is the current EV king with their I3. For ever Tesla I see on the road, I see 5 or 6 I3's. Beyond that you have the Nissans and Renaults, I see more Renault Twizy's than Teslas here in the UK. Mistubishi are also making inroads with their PHEV range. The e-Golf exists, but has been an abysmal failure because its a petrol powered golf retrofitted with an electric engine and battery pack. Toyota has their Hybrids as does BMW and GM has the Volt (as badly as it's doing).
Ford Audi and Mercedes are the only ones without a horse in the EV race... and I'm not sure about Audi and Mercedes.
However I largely agree, Tesla is going to be pushed into a niche and forgotten about or bought up. I'm just pointing out the EV market is already bigger than just Tesla.
Amazon forged into semi-explored territory: Everyone wants to buy stuff, the question was how much and how willingly they'd do it online.
Tesla is forging into semi-explored territory: Everyone wants to have cars, the question is how willingly they'll buy electric cars with a reasonably high degree of automation.
Amazon had a plan for profitability. They were on target to make it by 1998, but decided to expand instead and became profitable in 2001. Amazon followed a predictable curve of increasing revenue and decreasing costs.
Tesla does not seem to be doing the same... Uber is in the completely wrong direction.
However Tesla Inc. is not underwritten by VC's or external investors like Uber and Amazon were, Musk and the other founders put up the cash so Tesla can run at a loss for as long as Musk is willing to underwrite it.
Boeing only just stopped adding to its debt pile on the 787 last year - a decade after it was first supposed to fly.
So no, there's no real reason to get excited about the backlog, because a massive backlog does not automatically equate to a success.
Yep, the 787 "squeezeliner" is incredibly unpopular with passengers. I'm far from the only one who's willing to pay extra to avoid flying on one. You cant count on orders you haven't filled and can be cancelled for profitability. Sadly Airbus I believe is doing the same thing.
The late passengers should miss their plane. To go rummaging them up, trying to find them before the plane leaves, will only encourage the bad behavior of not getting to the gate area on time.
Oh this, a thousand times this.
When you check in, you're told what time your plane boards and leaves and that boarding gates close 10/15/20 minutes before departure. Remember that when you're all sitting down and departure has been delayed its due to one passenger that is too busy stuffing their face to bother listening to the tannoy that has been saying "Paging Mr Dumfuck, would Mr Dumfuck please make himself known to airport staff, thank you". People do this because they know the plane wont leave without them.
Fuck them. If you're not at your boarding gate on time and ignore announcements, you should miss your plane. Any luggage you have on board will be sent back at the airlines convenience within 2 weeks. The plane should leave without them.
It's true that he can easily evade this if he wants to, although it is kinda embarrassing to be effectively barred from visiting a country because you don't want to answer questions about the scandals you presided over.
Easily is not what I'd call it. He'd never be able to travel to the EU or Commonwealth nations, even accidentally setting foot in Malaysia will have the coppers up his backside (and the police walk around KLIA with submachine guns, I still think it's quite funny seeing a Muslim Malay woman in uniform with a headscarf and MP5). Plus the UK can begin extradition proceedings against him in the United States, even if Zuckerberg wins (with what excuse, he's not being charged, just asked to attend Parliament, walking out is practically guaranteed), it'll cost him a lot to defend himself.
Considering how well he came off from the US hearings I think he might come. Our MPs are pretty tame really.
They can get pretty vicious when they think it'll benefit them. But I'll still bet on this being a damp squib.
"Iran Bans Use of Telegram Messaging App To Protect the people in power from their citizens "
Or in other words.. "Totalitarian nation does thing that Totalitarian nations do to protect themselves whilst giving an obvious lie as the reason". This kind of thing barely gets a Meh out of me. Knowing a few Persians I feel for the Iranian people but getting hot under the collar over a phone app banned in a place I'll never visit is pointless.
I always hated that so many popular dating apps decided they required a Facebook login. They desired all that extra data and, while I was willing to give a small company that info, I was not willing to give Facebook it.
Erm... I used a fake facebook with fake details. Most people do. It gives you something to talk about on the first few dates.
Hell, I still use my fake facebook for meeting... ahem, Ladies in foreign nations. It sees more activity than my "real" facebook these days.
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...make better games instead. But that wouldn't give them as much $$$
And fuck Origin right off.
Simple, EA, make better games and get rid of Origin... Erm... to what end? EA wants to make money and as long as people keep buying NB/H/FL games on consoles, they've got no impetus to change. I on the other hand have stopped buying EA games... I've even stopped pirating them as nothing remotely interesting has come out lately (I didn't even bother with that Mass Effect game as I heard it was dreadful).
Wow, a law that seemed to be actually accomplishing what it intended to do! Who would have thought?
Amazing that, it's almost as if the EU cares about the safety and well being of its citizens.
Notepad is a small simple text editor that exists because occasionally you might need to edit some text files (typically for config files or something) on a machine that is not yours so doesn't have Notepad++ installed. These will be in a Windows friendly text format. It doesn't pretend to do anything remotely sophisticated.
If you want to do something more complex then download a non-minimal text editor. There are loads available for free.
TFTFY. If you're regularly editing text files, Notepad++ (or a contemporary) is essential. Notepad is for when you don't have anything like Notepad++
It's mostly to stop ticket touts selling on tickets at inflated prices.
Well, now that we've unwrapped this bullshit burrito, let's get down to the corn-riddled meat of it. This isn't about curbing inflated ticket prices. This isn't about protecting vendors who thrive on gouging customers with onsite food services. This isn't even about security.
This is about building a fresh database of facial recognition data, to include men, women, and children. This is about testing the accuracy of said system. This is about testing the tolerance level of the masses to accept such surveillance as the new "norm" in our world.
In other words, this is about Control.
I've never really worried about government control. The govt knows who I am, they have my biometrics (passport), my NI number (tax), my car registration, my fingerprints were first taken when I was five... If they were to do something untoward with this information they'd have acted by now. What the government has are a load of rules around this data that are enforced and there would be a lot of warning signs before any of this changes.
Private industry on the other hand has no qualms about screwing me over for a quick quid. About abusing my personal data for their gain. This is why we need strict laws regarding what they can do with my private data, how they are supposed to protect my private data and under what conditions they are permitted to collect it in the first place.
Why would anyone think signing up for an account meant that account would somehow cease to exist once you no longer owned the car? Not only that, why would one sign up for an account which explicitly links you to your car?
Chances are she didn't sign up for it, I think the manufacturer would have done that automatically when she agreed to buy the "driver convenience" pack (or whatever nice sounding name they gave this bollocks). All the EULAs will have been hidden amongst the paperwork she didn't read.
Tapes are still one of the most economically efficient and reliable mediums available, in 2012 and even in 2018. Obviously the one drawback is they can be easily transported and lost...
This, I've worked with several banks in the UK, one of the key requirements is a secure offsite and offline backup location. This is usually provided by a secure storage company like Chubb or Iron Mountain. However backups should have been encrypted first, although with a physical copy, encryption only delays the data being publishable.
However what many non-Australians may not know is that there is currently a government enquiry called a "royal commission" into banks in Australia and this is far from the darkest skeleton to come out of a major banks closet. In fact compared to NAB's "sub-prime" like lending policies, this is almost passe.
I'm guessing you haven't actually come back into the US in a while. It *is* dangerous. My wife and I came back from a lunch in Ontario's Fort Erie, and the Border Patrol person didn't hear what my wife, in the passenger seat, said in reply to one of his questions. I repeated what she said - for his benefit - and he jumped all over us, threatening us with federal prison for lying to a federal agent. I just repeated her answer - that's it. These fuck-tards can have your ass thrown in jail for the most trivial of things, in addition to what the OP said. That just about makes it a form of Russian Roulette. I consider that dangerous - to the point where if I don't have to come back into MY OWN COUNTRY, I'll take a pass on it.
I'm guessing you haven't had to fill out an ESTA. If you're Canadian probably not because the government has already provided any information the US wanted on you. Besides, US border controls extend to Canadian borders, so you can't go into Canada without the applying for Approval (eTA, compared to ESTA) which is vetted by the Americans. A right pain in the backside for Australians who can simply walk right over most borders by flashing a small book with a Kangaroo and Emu on it (I mean a passport, not the Ladybird book of antipodean animals).
It looks like it's hard to visit Iran from several countries (US, UK, Isreal) unless in a group or approved business as well.
Isreal? Are you sure you're not confusing them with their neighbour, Isfake.
Canada has the best 21-days summer of every country in the world.
Summer, LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLugggury (with 3 g's).Come to Scotland where summer is our favourite day of the year.
I'm sorry but autonomous cars should never need a connection to an Active Directory server.
How else will cars know who is and isn't an authorised user? Are you honestly suggesting we use OpenLDAP instead... what's next, Sendmail to replace the CANBUS?
Point your browser at the Chicken Noodle Network (cnn.com). They not only have an autoplay video, they make the damned thing follow you down as you read the page. Please block that.
Just about every newspaper's website that isn't the BBC in the UK does the same thing. FFS, Get Reading does it and Reading is a town of 160,000 people. Annoying as fuck. So much so that most sites I don't bother to visit any more.
Wrong. The Nissan Leaf is the best selling EV.
Did I say highest selling... Let me check... no I said "king". As in the EV that is making the most money. BMW is about the only company not losing cash on their EV program and are the one taking all the positive press (I think GM might have made money with their bolt, but sales are abysmal despite it being a decent EV... which kinds of sounds like the most preferable of the sexually transmitted infections).
Nissan/Renault are losing money on the Leaf/Zoe, not sure about the Twizy, but that was expressly designed to be affordable.
BMW is the current EV king with their I3. For ever Tesla I see on the road, I see 5 or 6 I3's.
Not in Northern California. For every i3 I see, I see about a dozen Teslas. Range is a problem up here.
Cali is usually one of the first to adopt the worst motoring trends... they popularised the Prius.
The I3's range is a problem here in the UK too. If you wanted to go from London to a pub in Newquay to see Rodger Daltrey playing, you may as well take the train because an I3 wont make it. Honestly a Tesla would struggle as well as its about 280 miles. My M240i does about 400 miles on a tank (combination of a powerful engine and tiny fuel thimble). Jokes aside, some people in the UK commute 300 miles a day because living in London is so bloody expensive.
Who watches the watchmen?
Serious answer, I've always thought it was good to have the watchmen, watch each other with each person watching two others randomly assigned but with no knowledge of which two are watching them. That way any conspiracy has to involve too many people to keep quiet as you'll need to get a lot of people in to get all the people who might be watchers.
It's Cambridge Analytica, not Cardiff.
I wish I had not already commented before reading that as I have mod points. Golf clap, good sir.
These people will just start a new business and rehire the core team. Watch.
Yep, likely to be reborn as something like Oxford Logica.
In the UK, the process of dissolving and reforming a company, usually to avoid debts, is called "phoenixing". Sadly the law seems to do little about it, even the HMRC (tax dept) only makes a half-hearted effort.
Once Fords, GMs, Toyotas seriously push electric then Tesla will be a niche player ... or purchased by one of the aforementioned in a liquidation sale
BMW is the current EV king with their I3. For ever Tesla I see on the road, I see 5 or 6 I3's. Beyond that you have the Nissans and Renaults, I see more Renault Twizy's than Teslas here in the UK. Mistubishi are also making inroads with their PHEV range. The e-Golf exists, but has been an abysmal failure because its a petrol powered golf retrofitted with an electric engine and battery pack. Toyota has their Hybrids as does BMW and GM has the Volt (as badly as it's doing).
Ford Audi and Mercedes are the only ones without a horse in the EV race... and I'm not sure about Audi and Mercedes.
However I largely agree, Tesla is going to be pushed into a niche and forgotten about or bought up. I'm just pointing out the EV market is already bigger than just Tesla.
Amazon forged into semi-explored territory: Everyone wants to buy stuff, the question was how much and how willingly they'd do it online.
Tesla is forging into semi-explored territory: Everyone wants to have cars, the question is how willingly they'll buy electric cars with a reasonably high degree of automation.
Amazon had a plan for profitability. They were on target to make it by 1998, but decided to expand instead and became profitable in 2001. Amazon followed a predictable curve of increasing revenue and decreasing costs.
Tesla does not seem to be doing the same... Uber is in the completely wrong direction.
However Tesla Inc. is not underwritten by VC's or external investors like Uber and Amazon were, Musk and the other founders put up the cash so Tesla can run at a loss for as long as Musk is willing to underwrite it.
Boeing only just stopped adding to its debt pile on the 787 last year - a decade after it was first supposed to fly.
So no, there's no real reason to get excited about the backlog, because a massive backlog does not automatically equate to a success.
Yep, the 787 "squeezeliner" is incredibly unpopular with passengers. I'm far from the only one who's willing to pay extra to avoid flying on one. You cant count on orders you haven't filled and can be cancelled for profitability. Sadly Airbus I believe is doing the same thing.
Wonder how many people will use this feature as a quick "hookup"?
Including or not including the number of people who are already doing that? Not to mention the "ladies" looking for Johns.
The late passengers should miss their plane. To go rummaging them up, trying to find them before the plane leaves, will only encourage the bad behavior of not getting to the gate area on time.
Oh this, a thousand times this.
When you check in, you're told what time your plane boards and leaves and that boarding gates close 10/15/20 minutes before departure. Remember that when you're all sitting down and departure has been delayed its due to one passenger that is too busy stuffing their face to bother listening to the tannoy that has been saying "Paging Mr Dumfuck, would Mr Dumfuck please make himself known to airport staff, thank you". People do this because they know the plane wont leave without them.
Fuck them. If you're not at your boarding gate on time and ignore announcements, you should miss your plane. Any luggage you have on board will be sent back at the airlines convenience within 2 weeks. The plane should leave without them.
Yes, there's no way a boss/politician could ever look at that and think, "I bet we could use that for finding terrorists..."
To play devils advocate... If you had a photo of what Timmy Terrorist looked like, wouldn't you?
The fatal flaw of facial recognition is (beyond the fact it's highly unreliable) is that you need to have an accurate picture of them to begin with.
It's true that he can easily evade this if he wants to, although it is kinda embarrassing to be effectively barred from visiting a country because you don't want to answer questions about the scandals you presided over.
Easily is not what I'd call it. He'd never be able to travel to the EU or Commonwealth nations, even accidentally setting foot in Malaysia will have the coppers up his backside (and the police walk around KLIA with submachine guns, I still think it's quite funny seeing a Muslim Malay woman in uniform with a headscarf and MP5). Plus the UK can begin extradition proceedings against him in the United States, even if Zuckerberg wins (with what excuse, he's not being charged, just asked to attend Parliament, walking out is practically guaranteed), it'll cost him a lot to defend himself.
Considering how well he came off from the US hearings I think he might come. Our MPs are pretty tame really.
They can get pretty vicious when they think it'll benefit them. But I'll still bet on this being a damp squib.
"Iran Bans Use of Telegram Messaging App To Protect the people in power from their citizens "
Or in other words.. "Totalitarian nation does thing that Totalitarian nations do to protect themselves whilst giving an obvious lie as the reason". This kind of thing barely gets a Meh out of me. Knowing a few Persians I feel for the Iranian people but getting hot under the collar over a phone app banned in a place I'll never visit is pointless.
I always hated that so many popular dating apps decided they required a Facebook login. They desired all that extra data and, while I was willing to give a small company that info, I was not willing to give Facebook it.
Erm... I used a fake facebook with fake details. Most people do. It gives you something to talk about on the first few dates.
Hell, I still use my fake facebook for meeting... ahem, Ladies in foreign nations. It sees more activity than my "real" facebook these days.