There goes three minutes of my life I can’t get back. Why do we waste time on imbeciles like this? Just ignore him, he’ll still get an audience at the local bar and be happy about it.
I hadn’t thought about that... the timing of Assange’s arrest along with the upcoming 2020 US campaign where The Donald is worried about losing the Senate too.
We all know how he loves WikiLeaks... I mean, how he doesn’t know anything about Wikileaks.
2) Washington State hasn't fixed the problems with traffic in Seattle.
Yeah it’s amazing how the rest of the US and the rest of the world have solved their traffic problems, leaving Seattle as the only place which has to deal with bad traffic.
We have hundreds of iPhones returned by former employees that are unusable because of this. Apple refuses to unlock them even though they belong to the company.
Sounds like the company needs to learn how to properly deploy corporate-managed iPhones.
Except not all semi-trucks are operating in "on the interstate 99.9% of the time" mode - they're used in semi-local transport. For example, local grocery stores aren't directly stocked from thousands of miles away... their stock is trucked from a local distribution center that's probably 10-50 miles away. In this case, while the semi is certainly still doing a fair bit of highway driving, it's also spending a significant amount of low speed, stop and go driving.
It's also true that many countries other than the US are much more densely populated - large trucks operating there are likely not driving hundreds of uninterrupted miles at high speeds.
I would also be curious to learn what percentage of true long-haul transport of goods in the US is happening with trucks versus trains nowadays. We have a couple of major ports here in the Puget Sound area - I see an awful lot of trains which are hauling hundreds of "truck" containers (in which case the amount of time they're actually being hauled by a truck will be quite a bit less).
So how many times, when we’ve discussed these devices before and someone like me has brought up this EXACT concern... has someone right here said some variant of “oh, no, they don’t transmit anything unless it’s preceded by the trigger phrase”?
I get the distinct impression that all these new "TV" providers - be it T-Mobile, YouTube, or whomever - don't really understand why it is people have been fleeing their cable TV subscriptions in increasing numbers over the past 10-15 years.
I'd gladly pay for software, browsers included that doesn't track and pay a premium for actually defending my privacy without ambiguous TOS that changes every time the wind shifts.
Unfortunately, you are in the minority. Whenever someone tries to figure out how to make a living catering to people like you, they fail.
I’m sure someone’s going to trot Apple out as a counter-example, but 1) in this case Safari is one of the offenders; and 2) there’s a huge price premium on the brand, very little of which is actually related to giving up the revenue from tracking you.
This means you gave all your private financial information to a 3rd-party, who then transmitted a copy of it to the IRS.
Same people run it who sell the paid tax services - so there’s no additional guarantees just because you pay (or walk into H&R Block). However if they disclose that information to anyone else, they’re liable under Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code. So unlike info one might post to Facebook or send in a Gmail message, they can’t legally share it or sell it. If they do, they better hope they don’t get caught.
As far as it might be hacked from their servers... yeah, that’s more of a concern. Although one could argue that ship has mostly sailed, thanks to Equifax.
"In addition to a free system of online tax preparation and filing, the agency could provide people with pre-filled tax forms containing the salary data the agency already has, as ProPublica first reported on in 2013."
Given the government's security track record, is there anyone here who thinks pre-filled tax forms being sent to us (or made available online) is a good idea?
For the past three or four years I've used freefilefillableforms.com, which has no income limit and is linked directly from the IRS website. Yes, you're basically filling in a web form which is laid out exactly like the paper 1040... but so what? It's free, and it's online.
Obviously they're not referring to that program, since it already exists.
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But did you hear Bob Dylan or Peter, Paul, and Mary? I know Dylan wrote it; but, when I think of the song, I think of the latter's recording of it.
The plastics, my friend, are blowin' in the wind.
The plastics are blowin' in the wind.
Perhaps they should come up with a way to lay the booster down on its side, once it's successfully landed on the drone ship?
I was also wondering why just 2in down, that seems extremely shallow and that any kind of roadwork would mess up the cables.
The micro-trenching system was designed by Elizabeth Holmes - she assured everyone it would work flawlessly.
My pass phrase is 1kb long.
Well, MY pass phrase has 1kg mass.
... until Firefox won't run!
This is not exactly socialism.
If you haven't noticed, nowadays there's a group of people to whom "socialism" means any attempt to do anything they don't agree with.
That’s gonna be tough on the litterers...
I dunno... whenever I see that plane, I just think how it seemingly easy it would be to snap it in half. Just landing the thing must be an adventure.
There goes three minutes of my life I can’t get back. Why do we waste time on imbeciles like this? Just ignore him, he’ll still get an audience at the local bar and be happy about it.
“We can fix it in post.
Even post-release.”
I hadn’t thought about that... the timing of Assange’s arrest along with the upcoming 2020 US campaign where The Donald is worried about losing the Senate too.
We all know how he loves WikiLeaks... I mean, how he doesn’t know anything about Wikileaks.
2) Washington State hasn't fixed the problems with traffic in Seattle.
Yeah it’s amazing how the rest of the US and the rest of the world have solved their traffic problems, leaving Seattle as the only place which has to deal with bad traffic.
We have hundreds of iPhones returned by former employees that are unusable because of this. Apple refuses to unlock them even though they belong to the company.
Sounds like the company needs to learn how to properly deploy corporate-managed iPhones.
”the equivalent of 5,000 years worth of MP3s”
How am I supposed to get a sense of scale from that? They didn’t even provide the bit rate...
His invention decimated the livelihoods of THOUSANDS of monks!
Except not all semi-trucks are operating in "on the interstate 99.9% of the time" mode - they're used in semi-local transport. For example, local grocery stores aren't directly stocked from thousands of miles away... their stock is trucked from a local distribution center that's probably 10-50 miles away. In this case, while the semi is certainly still doing a fair bit of highway driving, it's also spending a significant amount of low speed, stop and go driving.
It's also true that many countries other than the US are much more densely populated - large trucks operating there are likely not driving hundreds of uninterrupted miles at high speeds.
I would also be curious to learn what percentage of true long-haul transport of goods in the US is happening with trucks versus trains nowadays. We have a couple of major ports here in the Puget Sound area - I see an awful lot of trains which are hauling hundreds of "truck" containers (in which case the amount of time they're actually being hauled by a truck will be quite a bit less).
So how many times, when we’ve discussed these devices before and someone like me has brought up this EXACT concern... has someone right here said some variant of “oh, no, they don’t transmit anything unless it’s preceded by the trigger phrase”?
I get the distinct impression that all these new "TV" providers - be it T-Mobile, YouTube, or whomever - don't really understand why it is people have been fleeing their cable TV subscriptions in increasing numbers over the past 10-15 years.
I'd gladly pay for software, browsers included that doesn't track and pay a premium for actually defending my privacy without ambiguous TOS that changes every time the wind shifts.
Unfortunately, you are in the minority. Whenever someone tries to figure out how to make a living catering to people like you, they fail.
I’m sure someone’s going to trot Apple out as a counter-example, but 1) in this case Safari is one of the offenders; and 2) there’s a huge price premium on the brand, very little of which is actually related to giving up the revenue from tracking you.
This means you gave all your private financial information to a 3rd-party, who then transmitted a copy of it to the IRS.
Same people run it who sell the paid tax services - so there’s no additional guarantees just because you pay (or walk into H&R Block). However if they disclose that information to anyone else, they’re liable under Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code. So unlike info one might post to Facebook or send in a Gmail message, they can’t legally share it or sell it. If they do, they better hope they don’t get caught.
As far as it might be hacked from their servers... yeah, that’s more of a concern. Although one could argue that ship has mostly sailed, thanks to Equifax.
"In addition to a free system of online tax preparation and filing, the agency could provide people with pre-filled tax forms containing the salary data the agency already has, as ProPublica first reported on in 2013."
Given the government's security track record, is there anyone here who thinks pre-filled tax forms being sent to us (or made available online) is a good idea?
For the past three or four years I've used freefilefillableforms.com, which has no income limit and is linked directly from the IRS website. Yes, you're basically filling in a web form which is laid out exactly like the paper 1040... but so what? It's free, and it's online.
Obviously they're not referring to that program, since it already exists.
What a coincidence - I just opened a lemonade stand!
Wake me up when they refresh Comic Sans!