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Look again, there's a bit of javascript in it.

There's an update buried at the bottom of the article. Ton Roosendaal tweeted[1] that they sent Blender a contract to enable monetization. I can see why he doesn't want to do it based on the principles of the Blender Foundation. Sounds to me like Youtube is holding these creator's content hostage because they don't want to put up ads.

He put the contract up for review as well: http://download.blender.org/institute/Contract%20between%20G...

[1] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1009010581549060097

I think this article is a bit misleading. According to the original article[1], they're not getting rid of the self checkout lanes, they're getting rid of "Mobile Scan & Go" which is using a mobile app to scan and checkout.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-15/-leery-cu...

Yeah, something like "Hello, I'm Rogers' Assistant..." to fit current Google naming conventions would probably be fine.

There's also a response from someone at System76 here: https://plus.google.com/+CassidyJames/posts/RDKMJtGoX62

Looks like Creative Cloud leaks handles. Two and a half days uptime, no app updates in Creative Cloud and it had ~16,700 open handles.

I only noticed recently as they seem to have gotten even more aggressive about it. I often watch things fullscreen at 4K at my desk(49" TV being used as a monitor, it's basically 2x2 24" monitors) and 1080p streams, like Amazon, still look great but recently Netflix took a nose dive in quality and I couldn't figure out why. Using the Windows 10 app instead of my browser fixes the issue.

Can a consumer even initiate a partial chargeback on their card without the original merchant being involved? I don't think they can, so you probably have nothing to worry about as far as fraud lists or something.

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Can a consumer even initiate a partial chargeback on their card without the original merchant being involved? I don't think they can, so you probably have nothing to worry about as far as fraud lists or something.

Why not just use an extension like Disconnect to prevent Facebook tracking?

> If you can't find someone to answer your question, or don't even know how to start to find someone inside the org, what do you do?

As my brother used to say when he was in the Marines in a non-combat position: "They literally pay me to move sheets of paper from the left side of the desk to the right."

Amazon forces 1-click use in places like Kindle and Video purchases. I find this is a detriment if I want to purchase multiple things from these areas since each results in a credit card charge and too many similar charges or too little time between will result in my card getting flagged and locked out.

As far as I understood, the "fake" part of these fake eclipse glasses is calling them eclipse glasses with the implication that they are safe when they are not or not made to the proper standards, not that they were forging real manufacturer information.

Assuming you got paper glasses, on the inside of the arms of the glasses should be information about the ISO certifications and who manufactured it. Compare this against NASA's approved manufacturer list. If there's no info or they're not on the list, don't risk using them.

It's weird but I've got a co-worker who bought some cheap Chinese ones and actually block more light from a phone's flash LED than my legit, approved pair. I'd still never use them since my test is very simple and I don't understand enough about the properties that make for good solar filters.

> because the registrars knew perfectly well that the outcome of refusing service within 60 days after a transfer was that the owner would be locked out of their domain.

This is a bit disingenuous, the rule was established well beforehand. It's not like they made it up for this specific instance.

> "The persons who habitually smoke marijuana have been shown to have higher blood pressure levels when compared to the general population"

It's not even this, it reads as if it was a simple "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" and that's what the conclusion was drawn from.

"Yankey said were limitations in the way marijuana use was assessed -- including that researchers could not be sure whether people had used the drug continuously since they first tried it."

That would be like asking "Have you ever intentionally hurt someone's feelings?" and concluding that people were three times likely to be anti-social.

Sorry to break it to you but he passed away 4 years ago. :(

Presumably they were contacted but the home owners association failed to keep an up-to-date mailing address with the tax authority. It's not the city's responsibility to determine if mailing addresses are accurate, especially for a three decade tax bill of less than $1000.

From my anecdotal experience, a lot of people in the US don't know the difference between a honey bee and a yellow jacket wasp.

Say "agent" has always gotten me a real person when the 0 or the */# buttons don't work.

I'd like to hear more about how you would use constraints in Postgres to control state transitions in the accumulating snapshot table.

All the more reason to do research into making sure there isn't a safety issue here. Stats like this just make people and companies complacent until the next tragedy strikes.

> I'm curious how just using a photo makes it "transformative". Those photos look straight up taken from one site and used on the next.

The photos are annotated for the article. That's not a straight rip, definitely some transformation going on.

Used to be able to do this in the US with magnetic swipe but now you can't because of chip reading taking place at a specific time in the checkout process.

The 12.9" iPad Pro + Pencil + 60hz app works very well with no behavior like that. My guess is that it's a beta iOS issue because there seems to be a lot of churn with major iOS versions when it comes to the pencil. Apps usually have to do some kind of update to address whatever Apple has done each time around.

Yeah, the important one it offers is "Not Now". If you tell it "Not Now", it will not install that update, period. Windows 10, by default, will install those updates automatically and pick a random time or immediately reboot.

If I'm out of town for 2 weeks, I cannot have my Windows 10 machine reboot, it runs the software for my security cameras and that can't start until I log back in. Thankfully, I set up Windows Update to not install updates automatically(Win10 Pro) way back when it came out and it has continued to stick. Major updates are a constant worry that they will finally break this forever when it shouldn't even be a concern in the first place.

Is there a demo I can try without connecting it to my Google account? Also, why does it say the app is "Tracking Numbers" when clicking Login? Makes it seem fishy.

I forgot about the "Never ask again" functionality, that is definitely good for user agency but it would be much better if Google required apps on the Play store to function with real data or fake data. This includes having an alternate auth method if the user doesn't grant access to their account, especially in light of the following paragraph.

However, you don't really address my concern that Contacts is grouped up with Accounts when it shouldn't be. I cannot deny an app access to my contacts while allowing it to use my account to sign in. Android app permissions need to become much more granular and fully backwards compatible.

Ironically, I'm sitting here not upgrading my phone to Nougat because I really dislike the material design aesthetic of the UI. It's ugly, blinding white and turns every icon into boring circles. It also apparently breaks a lot of stuff that I use everyday.

Google doesn't even apply the permissions very tightly. App makers are happy to ignore recommendations(I don't think they're requirements) to work, even if not granted the permission. They just do things like prompt over and over or completely stop working if they detect they're given the fake, default data from not being given permission to things like your Contacts or Location. There's no user agency in Android 6.0+ permissions really, the apps can just hold their functionality over the users' head until they accede.

Also, Android permissions are strange. Like, why does an app need access to Contacts to use my Google Account to sign in? An account is not a contact and just because I want to let you unify my logins, that doesn't mean I want you to have access to my contacts.

> dispensing it for victim's relief.

IANAL either but wouldn't the victim's relief come from a civil trial, not a criminal one?

I believe there are already processes in place that can be undertaken to delay payment on appeal. Why should criminal penalties be awarded, subject to immediate payment and then have to go through another court proceeding where the plaintiff has to prove their innocence again to get it back?