Re: Common sense and responsibility
Or "Common sense: so rare, it's a superpower"
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This is usually how it goes with Wendy's and Burger King. Only McDonald's has its shit together to have the self-order kiosks functioning.
What's worse with Wendy's are the self-order kiosks are basically registers turned around, and they're at the order stalls, so you stand there in the way of people trying to queue up to order from the staff.
And people wonder why Amazon and McDonald's are doing so well. They seem to be the only companies able to handle modern technology. I tried to order a rainsuit and some mirrors for my motorcycle from a company that was not Amazon, and it was building-the-pyramids time.
The even sadder part is the food quality is in inverse proportion to the service. Wendy's burgers are actually recognizable as meat and mostly edible.
Have you ever driven in America??
Windows NT could probably drive better than 60% of the people here.
A REAL self-driving car solves all the idiot "drivers" killing people because they don't give enough of a shit to pay attention to what's going on around them.
Unfortunately, we don't have any real self-driving cars, and I don't think we will for at least a decade. It needs more than hooking a bunch of sensors and a GPS to a computer and attaching a steering wheel motor.
Edit: God, I can't type.
So we had "cash for clunkers" where we got old, polluting cars off the road. Problem is, poor people suddenly ended up having no cars to buy because A) these cars were trashed and B) prices went up because supply went down.
Also, it turned out to be worse for the environment because these cars were simply shredded or smashed without draining the fluids, so all the oil, coolant, brake fluid, etc is now seeping down through all the landfills.
I exited the app (v78 as well) moved /usr/local/thunderbird to thunderbird-old, untarred the BZ2 file, and started it. I still had my 5 or 6 Google calendars working. I'm on Devuan. It's probably systemd that broke your calendars.
It "just works" and hasn't been screwed with, or revamped, or updated, so I went back and donated $60.
> Will I even recognise the new beasty?
YES. The UI has not been Mozilla-ed at all.
These are just large sites. They're not the internet, and the internet is not "centralized" around them.
Google's a big search engine because it's superseded all the crap ones before it, and because Bing, etc just aren't very good.
If Google went bankrupt tomorrow (which isn't going to happen) then people would drop back to Bing and whatever else, until someone else replicated Google's success.
It's the same with Amazon and Facebook. They're big and popular because they happen to be the "best" at what they do at the moment, where "best' is defined as "not as shitty as the rest" -- if people get pissed off with Amazon's customer service, treatment of their employees, or bogus reviews, or what-have-you, then they'll leave and go somewhere better, if that exists.
For example, I use Amazon a lot as a "shopping search engine" then I find the actual manufacturer/vendor and buy from them.
A lot of the time I can't do that because the manufacturer has decided they don't want to actually sell their stuff "to the little people" and tries to pawn me off on some crappy distributor, and other times they just don't have a working site, in which case I fall back to Amazon.
This is why Amazon makes lots of money, because other people are incompetent at selling their stuff. They put all sorts of obstacles in the way of you giving them money.
They're big and they supply an important service, but that doesn't make them "the internet"
This is the same situation as "Orlando/Melbourne International Airport" and "Orlando/Sanford International Airport" which are 1hr 10min and 45min away respectively.
Orlando finally got the high powered lawyers involved, and now it's Melbourne Orlando International Airport, which is slightly better.
I've had a dozen people ask for rides, and then get a rude shock at the price of an Uber or taxi.
> The rubber radio volume knob on my 2017 Ford Focus has started breaking down
Wot? You need to get with the times, and buy a vehicle that has only a touchscreen, where you have to look over and search for the control instead of watching your driving! Plus when the touchscreen dies, it's an even bigger bill!
"if a bad actor was first able to successfully break into a hospital’s secure network, know and understand the pathway from there to the panel, and then leverage the vulnerabilities."
So they're saying "nobody's smart enough to do it" anyway. Nice.
Assholes. But then in that case, they fit right in with the American medical system.
On this side of the pond, that's apparently the case: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Electrical_Code
"In the United States, statutory law cannot be copyrighted and is freely accessible and copyable by anyone.[8] When a standards organization develops a new coding model and it is not yet accepted by any jurisdiction as law, it is still the private property of the standards organization and the reader may be restricted from downloading or printing the text for offline viewing. For that privilege, the coding model must still be purchased as either printed media or electronic format (e.g. PDF.) Once the coding model has been accepted as law, it loses copyright protection and may be freely obtained at no cost."
Yes, and even NASA was bullshitting that the station never went past 45 degrees out of orientation. 45 degrees was about the point at which they started to regain control and the rates stopped increasing.
Russia's New Space Station Module Causes Alarm On ISS by good 'ol Scott Manley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTR5evpFLb4
There's a picture of Wernher von Braun in his NASA office in his later years. (edit: it's not the one on Wikipedia, it's from a different angle and not so hard cropped, and he's on the phone.)
There's a row of rocket models behind him. I presume they're rockets he's supervised/built/launched and they're all the same scale. They look like the same scale from my piddly little research.
There's a hole in the ceiling to accommodate the Saturn V model.
I always think he was subtly amused by this every time he walked in.
"Last year Apollo took Rackspace public again, in part to pay off the debt it accumulated buying the cloud management company in the first place."
This is the same shit that killed Sears, which was a premier American merchandiser with over a hundred years of success behind it.
There used to be a Sears in every US city, and Craftsman tools, Kenmore appliances, etc were all top quality and highly respected. When you walked in, you got professional courtesy and treatment, instead of Walmart's snotty disgusted acknowledgement that you exist.
And now it's all dead.
Leveraged buyouts should be illegal.
I only have 32GB because the Altavista server had 32GB back in the day, and I said "some day..."
Seriously though, I run 2 VMs so I can run Windows and connect to work, and they love the extra memory. Otherwise, it's mostly wasted.
Same with the 8-thread CPU. The only time it uses more than maybe 2 cores is when it's compiling the newest nVidia kernel module.
> just an RJ45 coming in to the house
Errr, that's what we get on this side of the pond. Actually, it's usually a coax (or fiber) that goes into a DOCSIS (or fiber) modem, that has an RJ-45 on it. You can rent a modem and firewall/VoIP/router/WiFi-AP/pigeonroost from the ISP or buy your own.