The droughts in Arizona and fires in California are just quirks of nature. The failing orange crops of Florida are imaginary. Last year was the Sabattical one for crops. You know, every seventh year, plants take off producing for the season
Why are we spending so much money on satellites? We could have bought a couple Cold War fighter jets that will never be used and that explode on liftoff!
Is that parody or is that news? I cannot believe that one-sided, war-mongering, short-sighted propaganda piece is called 'News'. It packs more lies, ridicule, non sequiturs, and manipulation into three minutes than I've even seen before. Are people really expected watch that and then form their own opinions? If that is how Americans get their news, it explains so much about American ignorance, xenophobia, and thirst for war.
Aren't you understating what the Americans receive from Fox, CBS, NBC, etc? Americans are for the most part, kept ignorant about whats happening outside of the football or baseball field.
I want my home to be stupid, to not have a telescreen, and to not track me or sell my habits to third parties.
I want my mortgage paid.
If the watches are stopped, they are each right twice a day.
I don't have a stand on DST or Standard time. I stand on the floor. I have a stand for my pictures, etc.
I would like to have one timezone for all of North America. 8am everywhere. Use the existing Central time as the reference.
I prefer to have Darkness in the AM and a later sundown.
Kids never play for an hour or two before school, but do so after school. So, for their safety and to extend outdoor playing time in daylight, lets keep DST all year round.
I take my watch off at the end of the day. I put it on in the morning. How big a difference is it to set it "on a charger on my nightstand", instead of just "on my nightstand?"
Much ado about nothing.
Do you bring the charger with you when you travel or are away for one night?
Just look at the loving way in which the residents of "free" public housing maintain their residences out of gratitude to the all-caring government.
Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.
My view is that by giving free internet, people will self-educate. Nothing better, don't you think.
And some will find better jobs, because they will see opportunities.
Does his edict mean that science can again be taught in schools in the south?
Wow.
Went the Android route and am very happy. I use a basic smartphone --one game that I chose, calculator, sms, telephone, email, camera, internet browsing and hotspot
It fits into my shirt pocket. I don't expect it to break if I accidentally sit on it or drop it.
What I can't figure out is how incompetent the car industry's software engineers must be. The implication of this is that it's possible to clone a key based only on the signal it gives off. The implication of that is that they're sending out a static password.
I mean, why are these keys not just broadcasting an "I'm here" signal (possibly with a unique id), and then doing some challenge/response authentication ala SRP that can't have the key reverse engineered from the transmissions to actually perform the unlock.
How did the car companies think they could get away with such crappy security?
My Chamberlain garage door opener uses a rolling security code as an access code. This is to protect hackers from recording the code and reusing it.
The same is required for vehicles. The access code has to randomly change with every use, and be known only to the legitimate keys.
I never leave the garage remote anywhere in site. Especially not in the car parked in the driveway.
If garage door openers can be secure, so should car access systems.
And as passive income that billion a year is taxed at a 15% rate after all of his other deductions and loopholes. Whether or not you think a $70 mil writeoff is insignificant to a hundred billionaire, it's just this kind of insult to injury loophole (available only to the hyper rich) that makes a travesty of the notion that we're all in this together. But, of course, we're not - and apparently CrimsonAvenger is fine with that...
I guess Balmer wants to line his coffin with all those shareholder certificates. Somebody tell him to insist to have the certificates waterproofed
Our local Sushi and Chinese restaurants and even the Fast Food ones are putting a tablet at the table, with the menu. We click on the item, indicate the quantity, and press the complete button. Thats it. Waiter does not have to walk back and forth, with paper written order to the chefs. And the chefs see merged quantities. (eg, 3 orders for xyz) result in his putting 3 quantities on the stove in one batch, and then separating out the quantities after heating/cooking.
Its faster, and the pictures of the food are great. One gets an idea of the serving and the quantity.
Its also great for billing. We are only billed for what we ordered. Tips are not calculated, except if the table has a party of 6.
Hungarian dude here.
1. That will be delegated to the ISPs. The plan is, that the ISPs should pay these taxes from their profits, and are expected NOT to increase the internet subscription fees, however, they will anyhow.
2. It is a tax on everything. not just streaming.
3. They won't leave anything untaxed.
What happens when the ISP is the government?
Now consumers are becoming aware that there's a massive counterfeiting problem and can be better educated to ask their vendors "Hey, is my device legit?" I certainly had no idea that this was going on.
What happens when you buy the product at BestBuy or other BigBox store.
There are still bills I pay with paper. (Some companies still charge for the "privilege" of paying online, which pisses me off even though the amount doesn't matter.)
I occasionally deposit checks via mail. Even if I trusted my phone enough to put banking software on it (which would be a silly thing to do), that only works for some kinds of checks.
Some companies respond to customer complaints via paper mail much better than they do via the net.
Sometimes I send checks to family members who aren't technologically sophisticated enough for there to be another way.
Maybe all of those reasons will disappear eventually, but I doubt that will be in my lifetime. It's also worth remembering that you can still send some mail anonymously - frankly, I'm surprised you still can, as there's nothing a totalitarian state hates more than anonymous communication.
For Canadians, cheques by residents are so passé. Businesses, of course, use cheques as proof of payment.
If you are doing consumer banking and If you do not take a special type of bank account, you are entitled to 3 cheques per month, and then whamo, around $7.00ea for the excess. So, we consumers have automated payment from accounts, or even online bill-payment options.
So, keep a balance to cover the cheques, earn no interest, and pay to make payments.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
