I've always enjoyed working the day after Thanksgiving. Not many other people are working so traffic is lite. The office is quiet. Few if any drive-by requests happen. Gives me time to get some tasks done, plus hang out in the cafe with coworkers and casually socialize.

Don't you mean Latina vulgaris?

Get off of my lawn! Dang meddling kids.

Isn't that true of any biometric-only authentication system? Fingerprint, face, iris, voice... they can all be emulated with enough effort. It's a darn convenient security measure, however, which under the right circumstances is augmented by a strong passcode.

I couldn't find details on the implication of this ruling. Does this mean that if I sign up to be a Uber driver in the UK, I can flip the switch to online, never take a single rider, and Uber is required to pay me a minimum wage for doing nothing more than sitting at my desk doing my regular day job? How do traditional taxi services in the UK handle things? Are those drivers paid by the hour? And if so what repercussions do they face if they never take a fare? Can they be easily fired?

The communities did not reject Comcast - they voted in favor of allowing the city to provide Internet access (alongside all existing providers.) It's now up to the city to put together a plan to fund and provide that access, and get approval for that plan. In Longmont COs case, once the city voted to exempt itself from the ban, the city proposed floating a bond to fund the build-out, which was approved by the city in yet another vote. The city then did in fact built out a gigabit fiber service. And it's awesome.

Where do you see that people had their feelings hurt? Muskâ(TM)s comments, both serious and joking, were highly upvoted or even gilded.

Good call. With less than an hour to the closing bell, not only is TSLA higher than it's starting price as you predicted, it's 1.5% higher than yesterday's closing.

Here's my understanding of what the buttons in Control Center now do:

Airplane Mode - same as before, turns off all radios - wifi, BT, cell.

The green cellular lollipop - not intuitively obvious to me that this was for cellular, but anyway it turns off the cellular radio entirely as one would expect.

Blue wifi icon - this is the one with the new functionality. It's a 'disconnect' button now, not a 'turn off' button. The use case, from what I can tell, is for people who want to not use wifi at a particular location (like at a restaurant that offers wifi but their Internet connection is down) but don't want to worry about turning wifi back on once they leave that location. There are some anecdotes on reddit about people who have turned off wifi but forgot to turn it back on once they got home and blew through their data plan in a couple days. Wifi can be turned off entirely via the Settings app like before.

Blue BT icon - again, like the wifi button, it's simply a 'disconnect' button now. I'm having a hard time thinking of a use case for this, however. Maybe some people want to temporarily disconnect from their keyboard, speakers, card, headphones, whatever, without having to remember to turn BT back on again later when they do want to connect...? I only ever use BT for in-car stuff, and never had need to turn off BT.

So I think the new ability is a good one to have, and a good one for the control center, but yeah it's questionable to change an existing button's function without a more clear indicator of what it does. Like a pop-up that says 'This just temporarily disconnects you from your wifi network, instead of turning wifi off. [] Do not show again.' would perhaps have been advisable?

Less storage than a Nomad? Lame.

Hmm, makes me wonder if it's time for baseball to embrace technology... Just give the pitcher and catcher earpieces and let the manager talk to them over a radio. Then the manager (or anybody else, really) can call the pitches and there's no way to intercept that without breaking the radio's encryption or surveilling the person making the calls...

If I could somehow get a feed that only includes things my friends wrote and none of the things they've liked or shared, I'd be pretty happy.

Sorry, meant to say "a flaw with the program not the user/victim."

I certainly blame the victim for not having backups. But given the wording here, I don't blame them for not realizing that this would delete everything. I guess the import deleted the source as everything was being imported, after which the files were in a pending state, and the discard then deleted the pending files without putting them back to the source prior to the import...? Or maybe the import process marked the files as "these belong to me now" inside of VS, with a pending status, and the discard is programmed to delete pending files regardless of how they became pending? Either way, that sounds like a flaw with the program not VS. Of course, perhaps during the import process there's some big red warning saying "This import process marks all files as pending and does not preserve the source of the files, so discarding these files will erase the source you are importing from unless you commit them."

Disclaimer: not a VS user.

It's almost as if substance abuse isn't about the specific substance, whether it be caffeine, alcohol, marijuana or heroin, but rather is all about the abuse and the behaviors surrounding it. As if even were those substances totally eliminated off the face of the Earth, substance abusers would find something else to abuse.