Re: Wow, juat like home
They'll F you back, then. Their estates are probably large enough they can use Nightingale...which doesn't NEED roads...
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Been there. I guess it's a matter of perspective because if you say P3000 (about $60) for a decent Android phone (and this was two years ago) is too much, we must be looking at two different parts of the country. BTW, I got a relative a new feature phone for about P750 ($15). Access depends on the plan you pick, but I recall them offering some decent plans with Internet access for P1000 ($20).
PS. Facebook subsidizes a lot of the Internet access there. Buy some groceries, get some codes, etc.
"There is no such assumption, rather it is a fact."
So you can conclusively prove there are no people on the LKML who do not use a non-Latin language as their first written language. Sounds like a high-handed, potentially dangerous assumption if you ask me, smacking of certain things best left unsaid.
She herself said it's hard to keep maintainers as it stands now due to barriers of entry. The risk is that if she leaves, others may follow and soon there aren't enough people to maintain the beast. You ever seen that bit where the one told the door whistles...and everyone else follows the former out the door? That's the risk they're facing right now. Be careful what you wish for.
"The thing about plain old ASCII email is that it is remarkably robust and (excuse shouty) IT LOOKS THE SAME ON EVERYBODY'S SCREEN"
That assumes you live in the West and communicate using Latin letters and so on. As a lot of coding is now being done in the East, with its cavalcade of non-Latin scripts, particularly RTL languages, a bit of unintentional bias starts to creep in.
The problem here is that mass runs smack into the Tsiolkovsky equation. In a nutshell, it's a necessity to optimize payload since fuel has to be part of that payload as well. Beyond a certain point, diminishing returns kick in, especially for a long-haul trip like to Mars. For it to be practical, you need a lightweight cosmic ray shield.
"You could ask "what if someone hacked my friend's cochlear implant (or a more common hearing aid, for that matter) to make her 'hear' things that I didn't say?""
It's a lot easier to just hack the existing Ear v1.0. Highly-focused sound was developed a couple decades back that enables a sound to only be heard in a very tight area, dispersing rapidly away from it.
I raise you the Tesla and the boom in other electric cars: the closest we've come to having them as a viable long-term means of transportation in...decades, as you've said. A lot of science is like this: much headbanging until there is that one little breakthrough.
Did you know that until the late 19th century, aluminum was so rare as to be considered a precious metal? Then one little breakthrough--electric smelting--made the metal abundant as bauxite and cheap as chips. Sometimes, one little thing is all it takes...but we still have to find, and no amount of smarts is going to help a literal groping in the unknown.
"Experimental implemented devices have had to be extensively trained by the wearer before they can do anything, and aren't always 100% correct."
And once upon a time, radio signals were just pulses of incoherent noise transmitted through the air. Nascent tech evolves, and what you see today may not even be close to what you may possibly see tomorrow, unless you can throw us some Turing-style disproof to support your claim.
"All he can do is pick up electrical signals, it can't read thoughts or even whole words out of your brain. You have to think about each individual letter."
Oh? If letters can be picked out of our brains, wouldn't picking out whole words be a difference of mere degree rather than kind, meaning it's simply a matter of being able to tell them apart through higher sensitivity and better training? After all, wouldn't the ability to discern words be a whole lot different than trying to use this technique with a far eastern language with its large symbol libraries?
Way too late for that. That genie left the bottle well before Facebook ever appeared, and now that we know about it, many will never go back. Even if you were to cut off the Internet itself, they'll just make a replacement. Same with Facebook. And since a lot of the participants are voting adults, I don't thnk even a Supreme Global Dictator could stop the crush without just going, "What boots it?" and blow up the planet.
Trouble is, it's like a mutant weed. Stomp it, and several more pop up in their place, able to regrow faster than you can stomp. Worse, they have Andromeda Strain characteristics, so nuking from orbit would be counterproductive. Frankly, the problem is the human condition, no less. You wanna keep the likes of Facebook from coming back? Evolve a better human first.
Whatever happened to a stump grinder and a little patience? And incidentally, you may not have realized that I was referencing ol' Monty Python.
Interesting. Most of the vending machine vendors in my area lack the coinage, actually, as vending units in my area have been taking plastic for decades. The readers themselves are modular and upgradable. They went to chips a while back and many now take contactless. Upside: Less labor costs for collection runs more than makes up for the transaction fees.
Unless you engage in a hostile takeover (aka a mutiny), odds are the ship from which you're jumping won't be your own, and it's a long way to shore (or another ship, whatever it may be). And sharks are NOT a figment of the imagination. Local news reported of an actual shark attack not too long ago, and that was on shore.
Put it this way. If OYOB was anywhere close to what you described, there would be a lot more entrepreneurs having a go at it.
"The ability to open arbitrary sockets is likely to be tightly controlled, no browser is going to allow sites to open arbitrary sockets by default, and it's going to require users to explicitly accept the opening of sockets."
The mere ability to do so is enough for malware to exploit a security hole and ram whatever they want through that ability. As for relying on the users, does the word "clickbait" ring a bell?
"If users want to explicitly allow arbitrary sockets they can already do this, but they do so through things like java applets or even downloading and running an arbitrary binary. By doing this, not only can the code open arbitrary sockets - it can do A LOT WORSE TOO."
It's still diversification, especially when dealing with Joe Stupid who pretty much says if it requires a separate app The Internet Is Broken.
"For cases where there is a legitimate need to connect over an arbitrary socket connection, having the client software running in the browser sandbox is an improvement on the status quo."
I disagree. Java was supposed to be in a sandbox and look what happened there. VMs aren't supposed to see each other or the hypervisor; then someone developed the first Red Pill exploit. Browsers need to be jacks-of-all-trades; that makes them terrible for security purposes. The only reliable way to prevent something from happening is to not have the ability to do so, period. Thus the UNIX philosophy to do ONE thing at a time.
"It's also going to be possible to turn this functionality off entirely or restrict it by policy, if you're in an environment where such features are never required."
If someone can turn it OFF, someone else can turn it back ON. Or it could be ON and no one of note realizes this.
"Walk into a local branch and tell them why your are there. They will be happy to set you up."
You assume one exists. In many places, the last local branch of any bank within walking or even driving distance closed years ago, meaning it's online or bust, and no, the community is too small for anyone to give a soaring screw.
I suspect this was one of those Sony chipped in with the original developing, thus Guerilla may have been a bit hung out to dry when doing a PC port. Tales of this sort tend to be few and far between for this generation and likely going forward barring another architectural shift.
SEMA has a receptive audience that commanded good money for a product people could actually get their hands into; that's what forced the automakers to concede because they knew the first to cater to that audience would win.
That kind of audience doesn't exist in Apple's world. There aren't a lot of "tuners" out there for iDevices; tuning tends to happen in the wild world of Android instead; Apple lets Google have that market. Besides, given all the patents and trade secrets involved, I don't think it's possible to put things like an aftermarket CPU into an iPhone.
"Debit cards are charged as a flat fee. Credit cards charge a percentage of the transaction."
Must depend on the jurisdiction. As I work in American retail, I'm actually aware of those fees, and where I stand the fee for debit transactions is also a percentage, but generally lower (say 1.5% versus 3%) because they don't have to go through the major credit companies (Visa, MasterCard, etc.).
I believe the key element here is you can't pay through the app, at least not how I've read it. I'm an American, so I can't discern all the details. However, perhaps I can make a related comparison. What about, say, the Walmart app? This allows payment via QR Codes, and on the Android version at least, you linked Walmart Pay to cards one can add oneself. How does this work on the iOS version? Does it only take Apple accounts?
"We usually put the right to life first so freedom of speech has to take a lower precedence."
Which is why abortion is such a touchy subject. Unlike most other arguments, you're putting two rights to life against each other, AND there are arguments in both sides' favor (which is why I, personally, cannot take a side on the debate at present; I recognize both have points and am pretty much of the mind that you pretty much have to handle these on a case-by-case basis).
"If I'm not mistaking, land can still be sold/bought. It is not forbidden."
It is if the landowners aren't SELLING. If none are being offered at any price because the owners know what they have and are hoarding, the market's cornered, so to speak.