I did not RTFA in depth but I am surprised that they did not have a mechanism to fix it remotely via updates of something.
Straight from the summary:
they are disabling the Nest Wave feature through automatic updates. Owners who don't have their Nest Protects connected to their WiFi net or don't have a Nest account are suggested to either update the device manually or return it to Nest for a full refund
Lately, when I checkin for a flight, the software in the ticket scanner checks to see if the seat has already been scanned. If it has, it'll beep, if not then it marks it as now allocated.
The gate agents also have access to electronic versions of the passenger manifest, and newer systems even display the names of passengers that are not yet checked in/on board/awaiting seat assignment next to a seatmap of the aircraft so they can be literally dragged and dropped to assign seats. If the boarding pass fails to scan, the first thing the gate agent will notice, either by looking at the list or manually typing in the passengers name, is that no one with that name is booked on the flight, either as a paying passenger or on standby. The name would have to match up with a person assigned to the flight, otherwise they will not let you on.
Of course there's also the non-rev standby category, but for that you need to fake an airline ID and uniform... and that's a lot more risky.
Non-rev standby doesn't work like that. You are thinking more of jump-seating for pilots and flight attendants, who must be in uniform and can just show up at a gate and get listed. Non-revs wear regular clothes and do not need to show ID at the gate, but when they check-in at the airport they need to have already made a reservation through their online company portal, or need to produce an airline ID to the ticket agent if they are booking the flight day of. But trying to fake either of those, especially jump-seating, is a good way to earn yourself a nice little vacation in federal prison.
What makes you think that Cuba has propaganda?
Probably the fact that every country has propaganda? The US has Voice of America; other states have semi-official or even official government news agencies.
Even in India there are count down clocks on many signals, telling you how many seconds of red is remaining or how many seconds of green is remaining. Just simple feedback like this would reduce accidents and save fuel for the drivers. This technology is easier to implement in a phased manner all over the country rather than fancy-nancy technology involving "the cloud" and such stuff.
We kind of have this in the US, at least indirectly. As you are coming up to a light, you can look at the cross signal for the intersecting street. If it is counting down, then you are about to get a green light. Vice versa, waiting at a red light you can just look at your own cross signal for the countdown. Of course, not every light has crosswalk timers yet.
I'm bit suprised at bad reputation HFT has at Slashdot. In many ways, it is very interesting subject for geeks - how often do you have to care about speed of light and benefits of straight-line microwave link over curvature-of-earth fiber... but most importantly, without HFT, you were able to win the market by either social networking (moving at the border of legalities regarding front running, insider trading etc), sheer amount of money or dumb luck. With HFT, you can win because you have best programmers.
I personally enjoy battle of programmers throwing algorithms against each other a lot more than shady agreements done by cabal of elitist traders agreeing over the phone whom to s***w over today. Maybe because I'm a programmer and I haven't managed to get into cabal of elite traders. I would expect most of Slashdot crowd to be on same side?
Probably because, with HFT, its not so much about how good your program is, but rather how close you are to the exchange. HFT is more a battle of real estate agents than it is programmers.
i wonder if us customers can sue and use these laws.
Remember, though, the IRS considers Bitcoin "property" not "money".
So sue/press charges on Mt. Gox for loss/theft of property? If bitcoins are property, then an exchange would be like a storage place, or maybe a consignment shop. If you put your physical items in any of those places and then one day the owner says "oops, your stuff is gone, sorry"(especially due to the actions/fault of the owner), you would be able to go after them for the loss of your assets. It should be the same case with bitcoins.
I think you missed the point
So, essentially me reading this entire thread having never seen a whole episode of Star Trek, or even seen an hours worth combined (not counting the recent lens flares).
Wait so in the US most passwords (and server names and PC names and switch names and domain names) are Anime characters or related to Animes and in Japan they chose 123456? What the hell?
Maybe ebay knew that Japanese people love to travel, so this would be easy for them to remember because it's probably the same combination as their luggage?
Those who routinely eat extremely spicy food also don't realize that food is supposed to have so much actual flavor.
There is a wing place near me that recently changed owners. I used to love their hot marinade-it was housemade, had great flavor, and you could see the chunks of peppers in it. When they changed, the hot had way too much black pepper in it (you could see the grains there were so many). I stepped up to their next-level hot marinade and found that it isn't much hotter (and in fact the burn doesn't last as long) and has much better flavor.
Sudeten never voted to become part of Germany as Crimea did Russia.
Would you prefer a comparison to Austria and their rigged election backed by the threat of German invasion to allow annexation by Germany?
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
