Those were also arguably food at some point
As with most things of this nature, it’s presented in a way that makes it difficult to argue against, but the evil will come with how it is enforced.
Basically everyone agrees that harmful content should be harder for children to access, and reigning in social media’s exploitation of psychology is laudable.
Right now, there isn’t a good way to control access without handing a ton of personal information to a 3rd party agency with questionable oversight. When you want to access porn in meatspace, you share your name and age with the store clerk, who will promptly forget it. The system doesn’t translate to a digital medium with permanent records.
People use their phones primarily as media consumption devices. That means bigger screens are desirable to the public at large.
We were well on our way to miniaturization until your phone also became a pocket computer
Squirrels are known for storing large amounts of nuts all over the place, hense the term “squirreling away” but they often forget about stores, leading to new trees sprouting
Im not sure exactly how the system works, but if I were designing one, there would be 3 approaches I can think of.
The first is to equip the lock with a GPS system and dictate that it locks if it’s not within range of a particular location. This one would be the most expensive to implement, but should come with minimal opportunity for messing with it.
Next down the list is each lock is equipped with a radio to connect to a wifi or sub-GHz broadcaster, and as soon as it misses enough heartbeats to a central control point, it locks the wheels. This could be disrupted by jamming the signal, but jammers of this type are highly illegal, and easily trackable.
Last is the cheapest option, which is to include an RFID module tied to the lock and a system to broadcast a signal at the perimeter. If a cart comes within range for a long enough period then the RFID tag is activated and the wheels lock.
I suspect it’s probably a sub-GHz radio situation, with the broadcast power tuned to be within a few hundred meters of the store. If you had some kind of SDR you could probably pinpoint the signal they use and repeat it, letting you wheel a cart outside the zone, but as soon as you stop the signal the wheels will lock.
This is Microsoft Licensing in a nutshell.
I have a tinfoil hat theory that they keep it complicated on purpose to add value to 365 certifications
I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)
Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that
on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments
How do I stop having expectations?
This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can’t expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.
If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it(ie: make them spoken expectations), not to remove them altogether.
That whole album is full of bangers.
From the somber Father of Death, to the jazzy sounds of The Hounds, to the very 80s rock of Breaking out and Light up the Night. Every track on that album is good.
It’s far more polished than the noisy, almost punk vibe the first album has.
Ah, The 4th directive.
It depends on what you think the purpose of keeping creative works outside of the public domain is. Generally, the idea is so that the original creator can make a living off of their art without someone immediately copying their work and undercutting them. The idea of keeping a character true to the original interpretation is not usually considered in this discussion.
Personally, I believe that IP should enter the public domain way sooner than it actually does. I’m generally in favor the original definition of 14 years, with a 14 year extension before the work enters public domain. That gives someone 28 years to make a living off of a character before the ideas become free game for others to use and adapt in any way they see fit.
Having Spongebob as IP keeps him on rails for who he is as a character. Change that, Spongebob as a character is changed by the public that could make the original unrecognizable
I fundamentally disagree with this premise. The vast majority of characters that are in the public domain are not significantly different from their source work, outside of a handful of modern exceptions. Dracula is still mostly Dracula, even in the modern day. Same for Sherlock Holmes, or anyone in a Shakespeare play. The idea of completely twisting a character once they enter the public domain happens, like with Blood and Honey, or that Popeye horror movie coming out, but I think you’d struggle to find anyone that only knows Winnie the Pooh or Popeye from their modern, cheesy slasher adaptations rather than the original stories.
“The south shall rise aga…what do you mean I lost a quarter of my money in failing stocks!?! That’s it! Call the whole thing off!”
It depends what you want to see from the US. The US is massive and there is a huge difference in visiting NYC vs visiting Omaha.
It also depends where you are. For example if you’re in the EU then visiting places like Paris or Amsterdam are probably out as they are accessible as a day trip.
Somewhat Ironically, the Pixels are the only supported devices for GrapheneOS.
Similar enterprise-grade SSDs go for around $16K
They’re currently trying to paint Carney as a pedophile because he met Ghislaine Maxwell at a social event one time.
“State sanctioned murder is fine if you were a victim of British colonialism 200 years ago” is a wild take, even for a tankie
That’s one issue where they both agree. The conservatives want to be more like the US with lower taxes and fewer regulations, but they still want to be Canadian.
Isn’t that just an open admission that they’re trying to influence a foreign election