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Payment processors have never been classed as even kind of a common carrier. Pretty much the moment you deal with money the government will more or less be your "partner".

Cloudflare notably has not been legally forced to take the positions it has. You can be a common carrier as much as you want

I use and see others use smart watch triggered from time to time. Occasionally I see people use Bluetooth headphone triggers.

Believe it or not a lot of use is out of the public eye, though. Lots of usage is in cars (where there has been a sharp shift to phone powered interfaces), and as an assistive tech. They are great for breastfeeding moms as an example.

While you need ID, all that proves is that you have been asked to attend. You can get access to the building (ok after hours) by signing up to a meetup and providing your name. Also by virtue of the work they do, relative strangers will come in frequently as sources, experts, etc.

Shootings tend to happen relatively quickly (though often longer than people think the Virginia Beach shooter wasn't contained for 15 minutes), but they tend to have very long and potentially dangerous sweeps to clear the area. You don't want a response team to accidentally shoot a guy holding a stapler or something.

The NY Times building is a single block from Times Square where there are enough heavily armed response teams to depose several island governments 24/7. Also being in the area somewhat regularly there are regular and counterterrorism police directly in front and across the street often during daylight hours.

The Times is kind of the exception that proves the rule. If you aren't literally feet from an armed response that can bring down everything from an armored car to a helicopter (only rumored, but repeatedly so) it probably won't do as much good. In their particular situation though, I suspect it could save lives if a rare event occurs. Which is always a hard thing to balance.

If you are able to talk about porn and ban it with your parents (presumably providing some alterate means, because you know they have needs), then well congratulations that sounds like a very open and sharing relationship.

For the rest of us though...

Because the numbers are kind of crap lately. People don't realize just how the average episode of Friends beat 20 million for every one of 10 seasons [1]. The audience is fragmented like never before.

A small correction though, All in the Family was on average over 20 million households, and before every house had seven tvs that was significantly more viewers.

http://newmusicandmore.tripod.com/friendsratings.html

Joel's article ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... ) has tons.

A classic trap for new players is that in most modern compiled languages you can add strings and get a string, but strings are in fact immutable and can't be added without making an entirely new string and disposing of the original two. This means "a" + "b" is actually a horrible way to build up a string if you have to do lots of little additions, so most languages have some other method of making a string of strings/chars (StringBuilder in Java and C#, strings.Builder in Go, etc).

Onsite is your site. It is at times a confusing term, but if you get an onsite warrant you needn't go anywhere, you wait at your place of business or your home and the tech comes in and fixes it. Lenovo actually does pretty well at this.

Rarely does a good local reporter just sit in on the meetings generally they also get some background from parties presenting, and on the council. Often they even develop sources that provide a bit more insider information.

And most importantly they follow up. The meeting is the start. Ihe rest is follow through. If the council are approving a special zoning permit, they go out and talk to neighbors, or the contractors previous special work, etc.

To say that you can just get some text is a bit like suggesting that wget is a good replacement for a web browser. Sure it does some of the stuff, but it isn't the real deal.

He apparently "occasionally skips toast in favor of ice cream" https://www.chatelaine.com/living/cooking-the-news/todays-pa... So you might want to get an ice cream based printer. (Or maybe really get the brand synergy together and use Heinz ketchup)

Not so much the windows site licenses as their office ones but yes. For anyone running office 365, base teams/skype conferencing is free and adding on call in lines and the rest is generally just a matter of ticking boxes and won't require purchase approval or the rest.

People tend to underestimate just how different it is at most companies to modify/increase an existing agreement vs. setting up a new one.

You assume they would sign it. That quick little agreement is likely to be a major point of contention.

OS as a gatekeeper is still present in a lot of corporate stuff. You'd be amazed the number of people who are still running IE because of one reporting package or what not.

That said there is no reason in 2020 they couldn't dual boot to MS's Windows ARM which is already shipping supports 32 bit x86 apps and should be polished enough to do legacy to the limited degree most users need.

I have to say this isn't how I expected Intel to go down. It is basically microcomputers killing minicomputers all over again (which was before my time, TBH).

They aren't opposite. You need the practice to learn the music, but it doesn't help (apparently) you determine pitch , or pick out rhythmical differences (which is what it actually tested). It doesn't necessarily mean you play, but it will probably affect your ability to self regulate and learn by ear.

I do kind of suspect that a lot of the problem was really their ability to impose a $1/user "tech" fee. Once you get to that point you really don't have to explain over much to anyone unless things go massively wrong (which they did here).

They'd probably have been much better off it they hadn't managed to get a truly massive amount of money together. Spending tons of money properly is far harder than people realize. Unless you have a cadre of people who've closely managed outsourced contractors before you are basically going to be giving a lot of people learning opportunities on how things can go wrong.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was less a political hack than someone getting exactly what they asked for and having no idea what to do with that horrible fate. Imagine quoting millions to fix multiple complex underlying problems and being handed that with what was no doubt an unrealistic timeline.If adding people to a late project often makes it later, the same is often true of money. Knowing how to spend millions of dollars on a tech project is a skill, and it isn't a common one in chronically underfunded departments.

Because a bus lane is actually a really cheap train. Construction costs are minimal, your "stations" are generally unmanned, and cheap, and if you need to reroute for construction it generally is much less a big deal. There is basically no point at which subway tracks are cheaper than BRT.

The big issue with the Cheap Trains of busses is the lack of commitment that is otherwise nice for transit authorities is not an advantage for real estate. BRT just doesn't indicate commitment to the route enough to really boost property. This is why even though tram lines are basically just busses that can't get out of the way they have a much more marked effect on real estate and neighborhood development.

As to other ways to avoid lifetime employment denial, a lot of places are forcing at least public sector places and many private sector employers to "Ban The Box" [1] that is to say remove the initial questions about criminal history. They are still allowed to ask at a later date, but the idea is that the people just won't be completely culled without care (which is technically against US employment law anyways).

1: http://www.nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hiri...

Just for people as uninformed as myself:

the UK will apply GDPR post Brexit http://www.blplaw.com/expert-legal-insights/articles/gdpr-an...

They do, at least in the US, [UPS mychoice](https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/tracking/mychoice.page)(w... has a free tier and a paid one) and [https://www.fedex.com/us/delivery/](https://www.fedex.com/us.... In most urban areas you can hold deliveries in local stores. I mean really it is for signing for packages during the workday, but it would work well for this.

Though honestly, I imagine you'd get pretty friendly with your neighbor and just reciprocally transfer things.

Honestly they don't seem to be that close to cracking it, like at all.

They may be using camera phone images, but they are well framed images of very distinctive features. Trying to recognize a literal tree in a forest is going to be far harder, and recognizing a tree based on a dead leaf (as a photo towards the bottom suggests) can be very very tricky. Also I have to admit to being concerned that adding "any known plant" won't kill accuracy. The more classification endpoints the less likely you are to get a decent result, and already you have to deal with far greater scale differences than are usual (basically it would be like identifying the breed of dog from anything from a full picture to a photo of a single claw).

Eh except if you can work there you can work at several other places in the financial industry, and the pay and future career benefits aren't that special if you are already in that league.

The good/bad news is that you were already plenty vulnerable. Also they wouldn't need an app to be installed, all they need is to force an app to use (or induce you to say click on a link and use) the already very exploitable webview renderer to open up a webpage. This just simplifies getting root once they have some control, but before this they could have compromised your device, and all this does is simplify the utilization of it (because now instead of a kit of solutions to get root malware can use one a do all hack).

People have tried to build software like Civil Engineers build bridges. It becomes frighteningly complex and involved to make a stop light controller, and you end up wanting to throw out functionality from your hardware because it makes things complicated or impossible.

I mean a lot of the problem is we generally spend most of our time thirty abstractions away from what is actually happening, and often times those abstractions leak. For goodness sakes few of us are even protected from cosmic rays changing bits in our ram, which happens fairly frequently.

Eh, I think it is a natural process though in one's professional life. Especially with something like phones where the complexity has just exploded within each platform. The number of ways to deploy code on iOS alone (ObjC, Swift, Cordova, React native, etc.) has increased rapidly, and the size of the system apis alone has increased massively. Some form of specialization is likely inevitable. There was a time when the web only had webmasters, and they did everything from devops to backend to frontend. Gradually it became handy for a lot of people to focus their professional career on one area they were particularly good at, especially to move to the absolute peak of their potential.

By all means people should try out things, and keep up with things, but for a lot of professional reasons it makes sense to have a core competency. Of course it also makes sense to move that as needed.

You can't compare across 4 year periods (General economic noise will swamp the signal), but instead look at declines in the run up. Basically take the first derivative.

The data [1] is pretty noisy, but dissatisfaction with "the way things are going in the US" is pretty common in (presidential) election years. This shouldn't be shocking, all of the media is basically talking about how things are going wrong.

[1]http://www.gallup.com/poll/1669/general-mood-country.aspx

Eh you have to understand that in dealing with loan words the goal isn't to produce cognates. It is a natural well established process in English, and pointedly doesn't carry over pronunciation or diacritics. This is so that the words text is freely interchangeable as there is a long period where the term is sometimes written with diacritics (and italicized) and sometimes not. über and ueber would seem different to people and risk confusing them.

I understand your concern, in German as in most languages words are being homogenized and losing diacritics, first among the youth and informal use, and then even sneaking in to ads and "real" use. It has caused a lot of concern, and a fair amount of pushback, but you can't expect other languages' systems to follow the reactionary rules or care about the internal politics.

These cause huge cyclical attrition and mess with everything every vest/payout. Also if that is written to the contract as a formula it is a huge reason to lay off old employees, because as the company grows one expects the MM to grow larger. If it isn't written into the contract it is a crappy way to reward the initial brave few as initial revenue will be negligible and their share will decrease as the company grows.

Were you to want to, you'd have much much more space and could just convert a lot of the body to li-ion which is probably a better use than really trying to get it last that long on AAs. (Also there are probably better processors, unless you really need the graphics performance (though not all the time of course), it really is true that the RPi is a GPU with a CPU accessory, shame it is so hard to do compute with the GPU)

Anyways for your needs I'd look at the CHIP, which is much like the rPi 0 except it has WIFI and BT connectivity, plus built in power control and charging circuitry (and costs $9 (or $8 if you are fast)) [1]

A hackish job is probably possible, the hard part would be sourcing the display.

[1] http://makezine.com/2015/11/28/chip-vs-pi-zero/

Something like that just screams "eventual compromise and massive tears" though. Especially since most click to deploy solutions go on to pull from a lot of different remote servers, widening the attack surface.

No amount of repointing could make the modern joints as even, or as narrow, as the old ones. Though to be fair I don't think the modern builders were even going for that look.