What a strange name for a web site: e. coli sting.

I had to check it out to see what it really was supposed to be.

Now I'm off to Expert Sex Change dot com to see what that's about.

Pity, it didn't work anyway. Must have gotten wet somehow. Good thing it wasn't plugged in.

It's hard to put into words how much I do not want this.

It's hard to not realize you've disabled it. First, there's a distinct two-tone chime. Second, if regenerative breaking is enabled at maximum (which I think most people do), the car slows down noticably unless you press the accelerator. And there's just a "feel" with the torque on the wheel or something. It's just hard to miss unless it's your first day using it or you're just not paying attention at all.

How this works is that you press the park button twice to activate autopark (aka summon). This brings up on the center display an overhead representation of the car with arrows front and back that you can press to move the car forward or backward. The flaw is that forward is the default. You don't have to press it. The default should be "do nothing", making the driver confirm intent to autopark.
The first time I saw this, I knew it would be trouble.

You're posting this anonymously, leading many to believe that you're a corporate plant. But anyway, so what if it's a taxi company? If they can provide a valuable service and cooperate with local municipalities, good for them.

As someone who lives in Austin, I can confirm the bombardment in advertising. Over the last few weeks I got between one and four pro-Prop 1 mailers per day. My wife and I didn't get texts, and we don't answer unknown numbers so we don't know if they actually called us or not. They did call my mother-in-law twice. The first time, they deliberately lied to her. "They" never identified themselves, but I'm assuming it was Rideshare Works for Austin (the Uber/Lyft PAC).

RWA: Which way are you planning on voting on Prop 1?
MIL: I'm FOR fingerprinting.
RWA: Then you want to vote FOR Prop 1.
MIL: Are you sure? I thought I'm supposed supposed to vote against.
RWA: Nope, you're supposed to vote FOR it if you're in favor of fingerprinting.

We got at least four canvassers. The first guy asked us how we were planning on voting for Prop 1, and my wife replied that she was for fingerprinting. He tried to argue that fingerprinting wasn't necessary, so he was pro-Prop 1. I answered the door to another canvasser who was anti-Prop 1. My wife ignored the last two when she saw that they were carrying clipboards.

I ran into a pro-Prop 1 canvasser while out jogging with my neighbors. The canvasser got lost in our neighborhood, so we walked with her for a block. She tried to use some of the pro-Prop 1 talking points, but she admitted that she didn't really care about it, so she was probably paid.

On top of that, the internet was on fire. Here and here are two reddit posts just about the phone calls. Nextdoor threads were epic.

What difference would it make if the WH suggested this to Congress or not? The House isn't going to do anything. Why is it the WH that's punting on this issue?

Group texts (in iMessage) are MMS, and the less tech savvy people don't realize that. And people have sent me texts with images, which I wouldn't have known about unless someone told me that they sent them.

One thing the article nailed:
"MMS messages not only don't come through, there's no notice that someone tried to send something."

Most users don't know the difference between SMS and MMS (and why should they?), so it requires explaining to other people why you only get some texts and not others.

I do like the spam number blocking feature, though, and I'm afraid that once I port it over to a real phone I'll get more telemarketer calls than useful ones.

Some third party Google Voice apps do support VoIP (like GV Mobile+), but yeah, it would be nice for it to be in the official app.

If we follow the trend of other products, I would expect to see this in the 9.4 release notes:
* Removed "DISTINCT" and "GROUP BY". Usability studies show that most queries do not use them and new users find them confusing.
* "SELECT *" queries now return additional entries from Amazon.
* SQL language extensions to integrate Facebook and Twitter.
* Column order, if not specified in "ORDER BY", is heuristically determined from previous queries.

It's just great to see a release of anything that is actually better than the what it is replacing.

Dude, a little hostile there. You're a prime example of why this article even exists.

1. Yep, Customs. Not US customs. I worked in a top secret area without a security clearance as a foreigner, so security was actually frightening. Believe me or not. Basically, there was no security *at all* on really important stuff, like terrorist watchlists. A USB drive in a locked datacenter was the last thing in the world to worry about in this case.

2. I don't care if you store the thing over a sink with a 30 foot extension cord. You can kick it like a hacky sack for all I care. If we replace it weekly, that's fine.

3. Everyone had root access, as I mentioned before. Permissions were scrapped long ago, so that we could all manage build our little ship in our little 40 GB bottle.

4. Don't care about performance or reliability. Two developers couldn't even check out all the source at the same time, so if you had a day off, you're likely to find somebody deleted your home directory files just to have enough space to get a patch built. Zero reliability or performance already.

As I stated before, had you actually taken the time to read (and I don't get that actually reading, listening, or contemplation are strong points with you) it's not like I actually would have installed anything without permission. But when IT says that 8 or so people have to share a single 40 GB drive and that anything else is impossible, you start with the "I can get you 1 TB for $100" as a starting point for discussion. Sounds like you don't get that and aren't interested in doing anything but shouting down the people you think you have control over.

By the way, the head of the department did come around and asked my opinion. I stated what little I knew, and it got the ball rolling on an actual solution. The rest of the department apparently was too cowed be being called a moron or "shit monkey".

You explain the cost difference and why it exists. You explain why this may cause problems (stalls). You've thought through and explained the backup and concurrency issues. You present a second server as a viable option to this problem. You do not whine about how hard it would be or the paperwork involved. You are neither disrespectful or obstructive to the user.

Armed with this information, the Arrogant User (aka Desperate and Frustrated User) has a solution path and an explanation. He can now work with you and take it up the management chain to get something done. After all, he can explain his needs better than you.

I would want you as my IT person.