And on the 5th, Slashdot featured this article:

https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

"Instead of a long string of characters, this new scheme would have the app or website you're logging in to push a request to your phone for authentication. From there, you'd need to unlock the phone, authenticate with some kind of pin or biometric, and then you're on your way. "

Just perfect.

The phone was a 4 year old rugged flip phone. So even though you believe the original purchase was unlikely, it happened. We got exactly the same features on the new phone, which are exactly what she needs. My wife is visually impaired, and cannot use a typical smartphone. She has no use for email, FM, GPS, or any other advanced features. She has never had the need for longer battery life and has never failed to connect a call. $300 is an unreasonable price for a purchase that turned out to be unnecessary due to Verizon's duplicitous behavior.

  It sounds like there's a good chance you purchased the same phone. Hers was $240, plus 8% tax plus $40 activation fee for exactly the same feature set she had with the old phone.

The title is a polite translation of what I really wanted to say.

We received a note in DECEMBER that they were going to shut down their network as of December 31, 2020. We went to the Verizon store to replace my wife's perfectly functional 3G phone to ensure that she did not have a service interruption. We had a terrible in-store experience, received no discounts, spent $300 to replace the phone, paid a new phone activation fee, and now, after the shutdown deadline, they announce they are keeping the service live.

Scum sucking bottom feeders

Since why would you have the airpods without an accompanying iPhone to drive them. At 10. Since daddy couldn't say no to the three older ones, he says yes to the 10 year old and decks him out in probably an $800 phone and $200 earbuds.

I watch a lot of "how to" channels on Youtube, and I like speeding some of them up. It is very interesting to see how the regional speech characteristics change your ability to listen at a faster rate. A couple of the southern guys I listen to sound completely normal to me (upstate NY) at 1.25x, but if you speed up some of the New York City videos to the same rate, they are challenge to follow.

You must have never have had a colonoscopy. After the prep with a 15x dose of laxative is done, there's none left in there.

Not my claim. OP's numbers. I did a duckduck search on "what portion of web traffic is search engine spiders" and the various articles were consistent with the OP's claim. "what portion of web traffic is robots" gives a WSJ article that says "over one third" in 2014, Another 2014 report ( https://www.incapsula.com/blog... ) claims over 60%, again in 2014. Who knows today?

How do you think search engines work? from: https://www.google.com/search/... "As we speak, Google is using web crawlers to organize information from webpages and other publicly available content in the Search index."

I wonder how much energy was consumed in each stage of the "environmentally friendly" production. Building the collectors, fuel to get them out to the plastic, collection energy, return energy, cleaning and recycling the plastic, etc. While getting the plastic out of the environment is a good thing, source reduction would be much more efficient.I always enjoyed the Fiji water example ( http://www.triplepundit.com/20... ).

I had a G4 die from the bootloop problem. I went into the large red store for replacement, since there was an insurance plan on the 14 month old phone. They told me that the insurance did not cover manufacturer's defects. So I asked if I went outside and threw the phone against the wall and came back in, it would be covered by insurance? They replied it would cover the physical damage.

My ethics would not let me do this, so I contacted LG. The first time, they said that there was nothing they would do. I tried again a day later, and they immediately sent me an email with a shipping label and offered a free repair. I sent the phone in and had it back in 2 weeks, repaired for free and free shipping both ways. I don't understand why the extended warranty isn't better publicized, or why the folks at the red store weren't aware of it..

The interesting side effect of this is that I grabbed an ad-supported $99 Moto G4 Play phone from Amazon for coverage in the meantime, and have not gone back to the LG G4. While the specifications for the Moto are significantly lower, it runs a very vanilla android and the user experience is as good as the LG G4. It will run for two days under usage conditions that had the G4 going dark by the end of one day. The Amazon ads don't impact the use of the phone. And the FM radio works!! I will admit that the LG's camera is significantly better.

The company I worked at implemented SAP, and had an army of folks writing customizations to make it fit the business. I'm not sure what happened first, completion of the SAP implementation or bankruptcy. This link tells the story of Target Canada's experience: http://www.canadianbusiness.co...

There are two design elements in the original Constitution that were included to support the concept of a federal representative republic, rather than a democracy. The will of the people was to be in the House of Representatives, and the will of the individual states was in the Senate, where the senators were appointed by the state legislatures. The electoral college put this same balance into the election of the president.

The seventeenth amendment removed the direct state control of the senators. The electoral college still helps balance the needs of the states and the needs of the people while picking the President.

Yes, I know there were other things going on with both these issues, but in terms of influence on current events, I believe these are the important concepts.

Two quotes:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." Alexander Tytler 1787

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." - Joseph Stalin

From the linked article: [Turbine Nacelles- Factory in Spain], [Blades-Dennmark], [Nacelles- France], [Towers-Spain], [Shipping- I don't know, home port Willemstad], [Ratepayers-Ratepayers are expected to pay an above-market price of $440 million for the next 20 years],

I had (past tense) Frontier DSL for over a decade. They did gradually increase speed from 2.1Mbps to 3.6Mbps, but this was still slow for video. The upload speed of 420K was also crippling with cloud backup and photo sharing(my first Backblaze backup took 6 weeks). I have two phone lines coming into my house, so I repeatedly asked them about bonded DSL to get a more usable speed. They were clueless. They'd said they'd provide me 2 un-bonded services at the price of 2 separate services, but had no plans whatsoever to improve their speeds. I switched to Time Warner, and generally have good service and speed, although in the early evening their Youtube connection saturates.

The actual quote from the article is " achieved 90 percent efficiency at three times the rate of the plug-in systems commonly used for electric vehicles today.", not three times the efficiency. They're comparing the charger to a typical home charger. Which is meaningless since the system isn't limited by the connection to the car. And think about it. 10% loss of charging energy so you don't have to go to all the trouble of plugging it in? What a waste of our tax dollars.