It should be closer to cab costs. The reason rides are cheaper is because if you call for one, the meter technically starts the moment the driver heads your way and does not end until that driver is back at their central spot.

In the rideshare world, the ride does not start charging until the driver is withing 2 minutes of the passenger pickup point, AND/OR the driver waits for five minutes to pick up the passenger. Should the passenger cancel or not show up at this point, they are charged $5. Lyft passes this on to the driver, while Uber keeps about $2 of it. At the point the passenger is charged ONLY for distance and time needed for travel. Once the ride is over the driver has to drive to another ride, or go back to a central point on their own dime.

The result in my town is that Taxis have lowered their rates, will do late night pickups, and take credit card to compete.

Samsung Dex addresses this. Phone interface, Car interface, and then you have Dex for desktop interface.

Now if Samsung would allow dual sim on US phones, I would buy one and use pne of those nextdock laptop docks for laptop use and then use my usb-c dock for home use.

I bought a feature phone ( alcatel flip 3) as a burner about two months ago to have a cheap phone for a camping trip.

I discovered, the phone did everything in a EDC device. With Google assistant, Maps, and contacts sync, it covered what I need to have with me all of the time, but none of the extra crap like Facebook, etc. Thus I pulled the sim out of my primary phone (oneplus 6T) and have been running kaios for about six weeks now.

I use an iPad mini for the other phone related crap I need, or pull out a laptop.

Anyone who has had the joy of having to authenticate their part via CAN BUS on a Ford ( in my case) knows exactly what I am talking about.

The BUD era is much like the streaming era now. Initially most of the feeds were free. Then they started encrypting. HBO started the trend of allowing end users to decrypt the channel. This led to others doing the same.

At one point it was common to have a dozen annual bills.

As BUDS got more popular and out of the hobbiest stage, package companies came into existence that sold packages of channels ( Dish network got started this way.) This got you better prices and one bill.

The led to the consumer small dish systems that we have today.

Back in the day when you had an 8 foot dish in your backyard, you had to buy your TV from each individual producer ( HBO, Viacom, WGN, etc.) Eventually companies started up which negociated deals and provided packages.

The hilton condo was $130 a night for a one bedroom, full kitchen, and washer/dryer.

The one I stayed at this time was a block north of the Westgate.

The other one I stay at from time to time is behind planet hollywood with simular arrangments but higher end and is usually $180 a night.

You can always stay in the Siegel Slums for $50 a night, but would you trust leaving anything valuable there while you are out on the strip?

The problem with AirBnB in vegas is that the ones in decent areas, are too far from the strip and cost as much a decent accomidations close to the strip.

I have a netgear nighthawk LTE hotspot that I use since I never use someone else's wifi (Thany you AT&T for the mobley plan.) It works very well as an Arlo controller. I keep an arlo by the hotel TV pointed at the door.

works great.

I am a CCW holder from Oklahoma and a roadwarrior who carries in all but what the gun community calls the commie states.


Nevada is an 2A - open carry state and reconizes my CCW.

You can carry just about everywhere including casinos. If a property owner does not want you to carry, they have to post an obvious sign at each entrance AND ask you to leave. If you choose to not leave after they request, you are now trespassing and committing a misdemeanor.

Nevada is so lax on their carry laws that you can drink and carry as long as you stay under 0.10%. I prefer icetea when carrying, but that is another story.

Personally, I prefer OpenCarry and did almost the whole time I was in Vegas. When I was in the casinos, I CCW (including the Cons.)

I usually go to the Defcon Shoot and on their webpage they instruct people to either avoid the casino hotels if possible. If you have to stay at one, then call ahead to see what their procedure is for firearms for a show.

I am a Hilton Diamond member and never have had a problem with legal carry ( usually open) and according to my Arlo camera in my room, no one has ever been in my room unless I let them in to clean. I have been going to Defcon since the Alexis days and years back I learned that the experience is much more enjoyable ( and cheaper) if you book a condo at one of the hilton vacation or other simular offerings.

That is my logic on it.

If you are independant contractor and in YOUR own office, then the client can not dictate how you perform the job. In the long run I see the rideshare companies loosing on this one.

If they want the cars to be gun free and meet their california standards, then they have to acknowledge that their worker is an employee and have all of the responsibilities as such.

HAHHAAHAHAHHAAAHHAHAA

What kind of crack are you on?

Wait until your IT career gets to the point you are a road warrior.

When you switch timezones every week, DST is a silly joke that is not even noticed.

I am an infosec consultant and about a year ago started to see clients as suggested friends.

I keep facebook for family stuff in a closed group and never mix work with my personal life.

I figure it is tied to the mobile app.

I have been using macs since 1999 or so. I got my hands on a beta for OSX and realized that it was OpenStep that can run mac apps. Sweet.

Every three years or so I would buy a mbp with the highest cpu but lowest ram and drive. I would then go to crucial and start to upgrade what I can afford.
About a year later the machine would be maxed. I would get another 2-3 years of daily driver out of it.

Then the 15"rMBP came along. I had to buy it at max cpu and max ram. I soon swapped the drive for a 960GB OWC drive. Then I started to have the dreaded wifi display flicker.

apple was a PITA to fix it under apple care. I eventually got it replaced and about a year later it started to do it again. I switched my house to 5g.

Another six months later the lamination on the monitor started to come off. Apple would not fix it. Resigned to this I found a display and fixed it myself


Come mid 2016 - Time to consider replacing the machine. I looked at the current offering and was disgusted. Old CPUS, still only 16 gigs ram, etc. So I bought a surface book and quickly returned it since VMware sucks on it.

I then decided to wait for apple to release something new.

When they did, I decided to buy a Dell E5470 from their outlet store with 32 gigs of ram and an i7 with touch screen. Added a 2tb Samsung SSD, and a Cell modem. Total cost once done was around $1500. It took a little to get used to Windows 10, but with the linux enviroment, ubuntu, and OSX running in vmware, the machine is actually nice.

Bye Apple.

My first gen Macbook retina died last week.

I am a road warrior and need a high end laptop for personal use while in a hotel somewhere.

Since Apple is supposed to update in Q4, I really do not want to buy a new maxed out macbook. So I opted for a surfacebook. First windoze machine in years

Nightmare, sleep of death - fixed, 2 hour battery life and crazy sleep fixed - come one microsoft a corrupted install image?.

Now that I have the machine stable, I was going to keep it until all of the bugs are worked out of the new macs.

Now that I am reading more on how the update is going to give me a migraine.. screw that, I am going to return it and trade it in for the appropriate macbook retina..... this sucks