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These anti-theft methods now seem normal with the pandemic.
Developers end up using something and it does about 90% of the job. They say to themselves, "I will write my own software that does 100% and offer it to the world when I am done." And now we have another program on the junk pile of software. Rinse, repeat.
Pretty much everything I order from Amazon these days comes from Nevada even though I am in Silicon Valley. I know Amazon has several warehouses in California, but I have never seen any order originate from California. The company probably uses them as local distribution points for its own shipping service.
You are never going to get 100% because of payment processing, license management, and content hosting costs. If not Apple, then somebody else. You can have a payment processor and manage the licensing and hosting yourself. Or, you could use an all-in-one vendor, but you will still be paying 10-20%.
Extortion (or blackmail) has a legal definition and this isn't it. In California (where Apple is incorporated and headquartered), the statute states:
Extortion is the obtaining of property or other consideration from another, with his or her consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right.
"The essential feature of this disorder is recurrent, intense, sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies, of at least six months' duration, involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child."
"The age of the person is arbitrarily set at age 16 years or older and at least 5 years older than the child."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgmzwn/most-child-sex-abuser...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09249...
False. The election of the President and Vice President is fundamentally undemocratic (by design). Only Congress is democratically elected.
Your argument is stop liking what I don't like.
>how do you find Google's competitors?
Google search provides pages and pages of alternatives to Google services.
Better is in the eye of the beholder.
However, most Sonic Fusion accounts are resold AT&T circuits, including FTTN. As long as Sonic is at the mercy of AT&T, infrastructure issues can crop up. In the late 1990s, which was pre-Fusion, my Sonic DSL service stopped working. After a week of no Internet, Sonic informed me that AT&T had used my active circuit for another customer. The DSLAM was over subscribed and AT&T took a reseller circuit and used it for a new, non-reseller circuit. Because the DLSAM had no capacity, I was SOL. I switched to Comcast.
I had another issue when I lived in my last apartment a few years ago. When Sonic came out to service the line, they put a quality cable in the building's wire closet. Well, AT&T decided they liked that cable and took it for another customer. The cable had a Sonic label, they knew it wasn't their service. I am convinced AT&T does this on purpose since resold circuits bring in less revenue.
There is nothing Sonic can do for these types of shenanigans. Dane keeps on pimping Sonic's fiber but it has limited availability. I am in my 50s, I will be dead before it comes to Santa Clara, California, the middle of Silicon Valley.
It really depends. I have Comcast Business and it has been great. I used to have Fusion from Sonic in an apartment in Santa Clara, CA at 9Mb/s. This was acceptable and the service never felt constrained. Unfortunately, I moved to a house in the same city and the bandwidth Sonic quoted was 3Mb/s. They pitched bonded to bring it up to 6Mb/s. At that point I looked into Comcast Business which starts at 35Mb/s and the L1 support aren't idiots.
Sonic has its own problems. I have been a customer of theirs off and on for over twenty years, and their support has gotten worse while their sales tactics started mimicking AT&T and Comcast. Being a scrappy underdog doesn't cut it anymore.
It took three attempts to get a DSL connection at my last apartment because AT&T failed to do work on their end. Granted, Sonic is dependent on AT&T and they are treated as a customer in this regard, but it is a major weakness. A customer should NOT be informing Sonic that a scheduled activation wasn't completed; Sonic should be the party reaching out to a customer.
I have had modem reboots and complete failures with Sonic equipment. Documented these incidents in excruciating detail and Sonic support responds with boiler plate, telling me to do things I have already done. I would love to buy my own equipment, but unlike cable modems, nobody makes DSL modems for the general market anymore.
I never signed up for promotional email, but Sonic started sending me a sales pitch every week for DirectTV. I normally deleted these, but it got to a point that I was getting three a week. When did Sonic decide that automatic opt-in was an acceptable business practice?
They denied the original appeal over copyrightable APIs. There was a second trial over Google's fair use argument and the jury ruled for Google. Oracle appealed and the Federal Circuit ruled against Google again. That decision was appealed to SCOTUS on January 24, 2019. Google's petition challenged both decisions by the Federal Circuit: APIs are copyrightable and Google's use of the Java API wasn't fair use. Certiorari was granted November 15, 2019 and arguments were planned for October 7, 2020.
Attacking the messenger because you have no rebuttal. Also, it is ridiculous reading comments that have the sentence structure of a person still in primary school.
That is the responsibility of system administrators. Application developers have no business on a production machine. If your sysadmins don't have the technical skills to diagnose these problems, they are incompetent and must be replaced.
Convert the PDF of "Dive Into Python 3" by Mark Pilgrim into ePub and look at the resulting mess. First page:
"AreyoualreadyaPythonprogrammer?Didyoureadtheoriginal“DiveIntoPython”?Didyoubuyit on paper?
What happened to the spaces? You will find numbers throughout pages, often in the middle of a page, which are the page numbers from the PDF.
I made a searchable PDF of my W-2 using Abby Fine Reader and tried to convert that to ePub. The end result is a blank page. I created tabular text of my computers: CPU, and GPU, and memory. I saved as PDF and converted it to ePub; the table is gone with one entry per line.
Dog shit has more value than this garbage.
Gold standard? What the hell are you smoking? The software is absolute garbage. The reader is slow and conversion is broken. I have tried every version for years and it never improves. It can't even convert tabular data properly.
Since it was built in 1968, two faults were discovered, one a few miles offshore and another less than a mile inland. PG&E made structural changes to the plant in 1981. In 2011, PG&E told the NRC to hold the twenty year renewal permit until the company could do a seismic study in wake of the Fukushima disaster because coastal California suffers from both earthquakes and tsunamis. PG&E determined it was too expensive to continue to operate the plant and it could not take on the liability if a Fukushima type disaster happened at Diablo.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/36651/theres-a-jeep-wrangler-d...
Perhaps you should look at a fault map of California. Diablo, the only nuclear plant still operating, sits on an active fault that wasn't discovered until 2008. Not surprising, many new faults have been discovered recently. The Hollywood Fault was mapped in 2014 and many buildings in Los Angeles sit on it. Zoning was changed because of that discovery.
The coast of California is eroding through a combination of rising seas and sediment reduction. In 2010, an entire city block in Pacifica was red tagged because it was close to falling into the ocean. Many asked, why were these buildings allowed that close to the cliff? Well, in 1962 they were about fifty feet away.
Perhaps you should do some reading on the California Coastal Commission. The consensus is we need to retreat from the coast.
Let us imagine we can build magic nuclear plants. Where are we going to build them? Not Southern California. Well, maybe Camp Pendleton or Vandenberg, but that is federal land and they would be operated by the military. Maybe we can sneak one in the top of the northern coast near Oregon.
Did you just wake up from a coma?
Nothing will go to Yucca Mountain because it isn't operational. Obama terminated funding in 2011. Trump has opposed reactivating the project and Congress hasn't funded it. This isn't surprising considering Nevada doesn't want to be America's nuclear waste dumping ground. There is strong opposition from its residents, including Native Americans, and state government.
Finland doesn't take nuclear waste. It used to ship its waste to Russia (and the Soviet Union) for reprocessing. That stopped in 1996 due to legislation in 1994 that mandated domestic long term storage.
>Or it could stay where it is just fine.
Ah, not a coma, just stupidity.