Comment Backbone Internet providers (Score 1) 131
I want to thank Beau for including the explanation of backbone providers for all of us who would have been scratching our heads about how a tier 1 outage could possibly be affecting us personally.
I want to thank Beau for including the explanation of backbone providers for all of us who would have been scratching our heads about how a tier 1 outage could possibly be affecting us personally.
In other news, Google Maps still pulls a megabyte of data when you open it to display a useless "what's nearby" panel that can't be disabled.
Maybe start with cutting out data-hungry misfeatures in your own applications?
Just FYI, any time you are given something of value, it is income.
This is nonsense. You realize taxable income only on items of value (including in-kind) when part of an economic transaction.
Let a friend live in your house? Not income. Write off a debt? Potentially income, depending on the specifics of the debt. Fee waivers? Not income, simply a reduction in price. (Newsflash: Coupons aren't income.) Interest-free loans? Not an issue unless connected to some other transaction and in reality away of compensating you for something.
They aren't. The best guess I've seen is that the product can only handle SHA-1 certificates, and the company is unwilling or unable to obtain a replacement SHA-1 that will be trusted by the cert store.
And in order to produce more natgas, they pump refinery wastes into the ground and shock them, in a process euphemistically called "fracking"
This sounds like an argument from someone who was ejected from Greenpeace for going too far.
Fracking fluids don't contain any "refinery waste"--they're mostly water and sand, along with various chemicals that help keep the fluid flow laminar rather than turbulent (primarily friction reducers). They aren't "shocked" in any sense of the word, simply pumped at insanely high pressure. And "fracking" isn't a euphemism, it's a typically-formed abbreviation of the straightforwardly descriptive term "hydraulic fracturing".
Odd that the judge calls this "unprecedented", when there have been multiple similar instances, and Lawn Chair Larry was internationally infamous.
The phrase "hop on" is vastly more infuriating than either of those canards. It's a reliable tell that the person who's using it doesn't have to do any stateful work that gets derailed in an environment of constant pointless interruptions.
It's the section of the penal code that explicitly enumerates the situations in which conduct that is otherwise unlawful is justified. It is there specifically to override the "brandishing" prohibition in such cases.
Sec. 9.04. THREATS AS JUSTIFIABLE FORCE. The threat of force is justified when the use of force is justified by this chapter. For purposes of this section, a threat to cause death or serious bodily injury by the production of a weapon or otherwise, as long as the actor's purpose is limited to creating an apprehension that he will use deadly force if necessary, does not constitute the use of deadly force.
tl;dr: It's lawful if you're in a "legitimate defensive situation".
I was initially annoyed by the Material Design specification that button text should be in all caps, and I wish that they'd explain their rationales more thoroughly. However, after a bit, here's what I think is going on:
We all know about the tendency for users to click buttons blindly; browser security warnings were notorious for a decade. All-caps text is known to be more difficult to read, and I suspect that having buttons as all-caps (in combination with strong advice to make them action descriptions rather than "OK" and "Cancel") is intended to slow users down just a tad so that they have a moment to think about the action. Once the UI is learned, it's irrelevant, and any slowdown doesn't apply.
In Abilene, TX, I pay Suddenlink $80/mo for a 50/10 business connection with 3 static IPs. It's more expensive than the residential, but I always have the full bandwidth available to me, and they tend to be pretty responsive when there are line problems. I'd still prefer competition, of course, but I'd likely go with a business connection in any case.
The aircraft's systems would not allow the plane to be flown
checks article Yup, Airbus.
Let Google come up with a Swift like language
You mean Groovy, which was the inspiration for Swift and has been able to target Android for at least a year and a half?
I worked for amex as an analyst for a couple of years. They do not (nor do visa or mc) have the ability to see itemised transactions from stores. They can see the merchant id (ie. the store), the amount of $, and they have a lookup table that will assign the merchant to a particular industry. That's pretty much it.
This is blatantly false. My Amex online account lists itemized receipts for at least some retailers (I remember offhand all of the office-supply chains).
EU consumer laws have the express purpose of limiting the abuse of consumers by sociopathic profit-seekers.
Well, the sociopathic profit-seekers who work for companies whose customers can go elsewhere. The sociopathic profit-seekers in government get to abuse to their heart's content. And lest there be any doubt about the latter, the regulator in question was yesterday specifically calling for abuse of "antitrust" action against American companies.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.