People aren't setting up their own individual cross-country backbone connections; the internet has always relied on the profits of major corporations to function. It's just now we've stopped just paying for the pipe, and moved to paying for the whole stack.
Shift 100% of the cost of dealing with packaging off to the manufacturers instead of the municipalities.
What an asinine question.
Of course we're worse off because there are bad people in the world. If everyone was a magical completely altruistic person who did nothing but make the world a better place, the world would be a better place.
No, it doesn't. It simply treats yourdumbemailaddress@gmail.com as being an alias for your mailbox your.dumb.email.address@gmail.com. You can use any combination of dots as long as the other characters are in the proper order. So yo.ur.du.mb.em.ai.la.dd.re.ss@gmail.com or your............dumb............email........address@gmail.com all go to your mailbox.
Whatever name you signed up with (your.dumb.email.address@gmail.com) is your reply to address, and your account name. Any version of the text with additional dots, or without dots is aliased to your account.
It's especially handy for signing up for services and automatically filtering mail that comes from them. Anything sent to your..dumbemailaddress gets filtered off.
Apologies to anyone that actually has this email address.
Who the hell is printing over telnet or ftp?
The last 4-5 times I've used Uber, the driver/app has told me that they're arriving, and I've gone outside to wait. Then I've continued to be outside waiting for another 3-5 minutes before the driver shows up. I'm not sure if this is the app screwing up, or the driver declaring they're there early, but it's annoying in the middle of the rain and even more so in the middle of Canadian winter,
I figure, if you're going to penalize me for being 2+ minutes late (which can easily be the time it takes to transit from inside while ready to wherever the Uber driver is), I should get a credit on my ride when the driver makes me wait.
Cutting the cancellation grace period to under two minutes while also cancelling the wait grace period seems like a good way to fuck customers over. If something comes up and I know I'm going to take a few more minutes than I thought when I initially requested the ride, now I can't cancel nor can I wait it out without getting screwed.
While I've mostly stopped using the service because the UberX drivers are by and large bad drivers that don't know where they're going, this garbage prompted me to uninstall the app.
Security through obscurity is the best.
This.
If I'm promoting Axe Body Spray For Uber Bros why do I want a bunch of wasted ad impressions on women?
Agreed, blindly:
You're find an absolute in terms of how many days of money you lose, not how many dollars.
Had you read the summary, or the article, or the entire Wiki page you'd have caught that:
1. That they're referring to when a person's "blood alcohol level reaches 0.075" [In the article summary].
2. That the explanation given in the Wikipedia article explains what is meant by blood alcohol level, and notes that it is a term used along side Blood Alcohol Content.
3. The units of measure are interchangeable given the way they're measured, this is why the wiki article gives that handy This much in method A is equivalent to this much in method B chart. One gives a mass per volume, the other gives a volume per mass.
4. There is no mention of blood-alcohol percentage, only the beer's alcohol percentage.
If you're referring to the BrAC in use in some countries as the third unit in use, the wiki article clearly states this is a different unit of measure, and not one that the article mentions at all.
I misread the original comment, I thought it was saying the limit was 0.05 incorrectly as
BAC, it's the standard measure of how much alcohol is in your system.
Semantics about BAC vs % aside, you're off by an order of magnitude. Generally it's 0.05, not 0.005 in the US.
At this point, does it really matter if people are simply taking steps to hide their Facebook posts, or if they're starting to PGP sign their emails?
People are starting to do something; starting to feel that it's important enough to do something. That's a positive step, each subsequent story makes them think "Oh, maybe I should do this thing more often, or keep these posts private." That increases the overall digital literacy, for lack of a better term, with each subsequent generation doing better than the past. Most people now know not to emails from strangers with attachments, if not most then certainly a lot more than did 5 years ago. Same goes for password practices, people know they should do better at them regardless of if they do or not.
Eventually people will, or services will do it for them, encrypt their phones, they'll put a half decent password on things, etc. It's just not going to happen overnight. We should be encouraging any little steps people take, not deriding them for not doing enough.
When you go out to buy, don't show your silver.
