Well, to be fair, when we go on vacations, it is useful to have photos of ourselves along w/ those surroundings. Otherwise, any video of that place that's publicly available would have been adequate, and people wouldn't bother taking cameras w/ them. Having ourselves in those pics is a part of what creates the memories. Also, while those pictures are mostly of value to them, they are really shared w/ friends and family. What makes it look like it's being shared w/ the 'public' is that too many people are all too happy to add a gazillion people as their friends on FaceBook
But I do agree w/ you about the selfie sticks.
If there are 4 of you, then there is no reason that one of you can't take a photo of the other 3, and for the all of you photo, call a bystander. This is if y'all are outdoors, maybe touring some place. If you are indoors, it's not all that difficult to set up the timer mode on the camera, and in 10 seconds, get the shot of all of you.
The only people for whom they're really useful is a single person, or a single person and his/her kid, w/ the kid too young to take a pic. But even then, using the timer mode, or holding it at arms length makes it easy, particularly since you can see how you look before clicking!
In fact, that would be dangerous too in a roller coaster. You should keep you arms inside the carriage... But a ban on bringing your own arms around on the ride could be a little difficult to enforce. People tend to be quite attached to their arms.
It wouldn't be dangerous per se: it would only make it more likely that the person drops the phone, and depending on the height, end up breaking or otherwise damaging it. Although on the rides, paying attention to the photos as opposed to the rides is more dangerous. If you have someone in your party who's not on the ride, have him/her take the photo from the ground - or preferably, a video, so that he doesn't have to struggle w/ the correct positioning wrt you.
Problem is that these photographers are still stuck in the 20th century, and will give you a printout. They may sell you a CD if you pay more. That's my biggest turn-off: I don't keep photo albums any more, and don't want a folder cover for a slaughtered tree photo. I have my tablets, laptops, phones, and can even get an electronic photoframe if I wish where I can store any number of photos w/o taking up more space.
I don't mind paying for the ride photo services if they take electronic photos and then deliver it to us in a way of our choosing - either email, WhatsApp, iMessage or any other medium of our choosing, not theirs.
Really? You have to tell your DHCP server the MAC of every device on your network?
Unless you're using static assignments ("reservations"), then you don't need to tell the server anything at all.
You have no idea how DHCP works? When you ask the DHCP server for an IP, you do not have an IP address. In order for you to get the reply back from the DHCP server, it needs your MAC address.
That's DHCPv4. In case of DHCPv6, the DHCP server proactively gives addresses to everybody it discovers in its network through router advertisements. The process is reversed here - the server gives the client addresses first, as opposed to the client asking for it first.
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