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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
<minirant>Double-decker buses are great if you want to turn an inherently slow and serial problem into a slower and "serialer" problem. Instead of making it efficient and quick to get people in and out of bus at a stop with e.g. multiple doors, you now had added a steep narrow stairway into the mix, through which people have to funnel. Good jorb.</minirant>
The Polish approach to the Embarking Problem (which I consider vastly superior to the English one) is for passengers to purchase tickets prior to getting on, and validate them (in my younger days - by means of a marvellous instrument otherwise known as a hole-puncher) once they've embarked, allowing all doors in the vehicle to serve both purposes.
Validated by a conductor presumably?
London buses have the same contactless system that the Underground does. The passenger just taps their travelcard, their contactless debit/credit card or their phone and walks on. If you're not using that, you need a ticket before you get on.
Originally there was a conductor on London buses and all 3 doors could be used for entry and exit, but they got rid of the conductors and then too many people got on without paying so the middle and rear doors were turned into exit only.Having said that, I suspect the main reason for using double-deckers is to increase capacity while maintaining a smaller footprint, which makes sense if you're gonna be navigating a maze of twisty little passages.
Yes. London tried articulated single decker buses, and they caused problems and got replaced with newer double decker buses.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Validated by a conductor presumably?
Nope. Self-validation. IOW, there are validation terminals spread out across the vehicle, and - if you have a ticket to validate, you simply insert it and it gets scanned, and the period for which it's valid gets printed on.
Instead of conductors we have controllers who travel the transit network and check whether passengers have valid tickets. On my normal commute I encounter them every couple of months.
I am aware of how London buses used to work ten years ago (having lived there for a couple of years, as already mentioned), and from what you write, it hasn't changed much. In Warsaw, travelcards are for long-term tickets only (a 30 days or longer, valid for all travel). There was a period when bus/tram drivers sold tickets, but it was too much of a pain, and now there are typically ticket machines on the vehicle where you can buy pre-validated tickets or renew your long-term ticket.
For someone like me, who commutes by public transport, the best approach is a long-term ticket (I tend to buy the 30-day ones), meaning that as long as you have your card with you, you just get on whatever you need to take and don't worry about nuffin unless the controllers show up (in which case you just give them your card to scan and that's that).
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Validated by a conductor presumably?
Nope. Self-validation. IOW, there are validation terminals spread out across the vehicle, and - if you have a ticket to validate, you simply insert it and it gets scanned, and the period for which it's valid gets printed on.
That's effectively how it works on London buses these days.
Too many bus passengers in London are apparently fare dodgers though, so entry is now only allowed through the front door.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity That reminds me of VIKI in "I, Robot"
Same!
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FFS. Even the spinach is out to get you in Australia. Why haven't we glassed it yet?
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Probably still can't tell me if its raining until two minutes after the fact.
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@DogsB maybe stop getting weather forecasts from a glass of whiskey?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Probably still can't tell me if its raining until
twoten minutes after the fact.
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How did I miss this?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Probably still can't tell me if its raining until two minutes after the fact.
I've been to Ireland so you can't fool me. You know that the answer is "yes, it is raining" pretty much 100% of the time.
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@GOG Conductor, Conductor. Punch with care. Punch in the presence of the Passengair.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB maybe stop getting weather forecasts from a glass of whiskey?
But it's neverr wrrong!
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2 dead after 6.4 NorCal earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LJWaNOT5p4
Edit: Many comments wishing the earthquake had been bigger and further south. (It was in far northern California, close(-ish) to the Oregon border and was barely felt, if at all, in the San Francisco area.)
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
2 dead after 6.4 NorCal earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LJWaNOT5p4
Edit: Many comments wishing the earthquake had been bigger and further south. (It was in far northern California, close(-ish) to the Oregon border and was barely felt, if at all, in the San Francisco area.)
Didn't know it was "far northern" but that set me wondering how far it is from Boonville, the town where the peculiar slang known as Boontling is spoken.
According to Wolfram|Alpha, not close at all. Roughly 118 miles, or the same distance as Tucson is to me.
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Two thoughts on this:
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Since when had it been there?
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Evacuation needed.
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@boomzilla
just be glad it wasn't a WWI gas shell.
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Whose Source is it Anyway? The exciting new game show where commits are made up and the vulnerabilities REALLY matter.
Also, who would the tech world version of Drew Carrey be for this show?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
2 dead after 6.4 NorCal earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LJWaNOT5p4
Edit: Many comments wishing the earthquake had been bigger and further south. (It was in far northern California, close(-ish) to the Oregon border and was barely felt, if at all, in the San Francisco area.)
I have a couple friends who live up there. And the town where it was closest to (Ferndale) is where we have a dog show every July. Which means we have to drive across that bridge. I'm actually surprised it's still standing. It's so old, it's an historic bridge. Narrow enough that it's a little scary pulling a trailer across it.
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Cox & Jones allegedly made more than 5.1 billion robo-calls in 3 months last year (that's 2021, for people reading this later). That's enough calls to have called every person in the US 15 times. In just 3 months. The spam calls were to sell bogus auto warranties, and they used spoofed phone numbers, which is also illegal (if it's done for the purpose of causing harm, including fraud). The FCC determined that the calls were "egregious violations", earning them "substantially escalated" penalties.
It's not clear they'll ever pay, though. They have the right to defend themselves against the allegations. Even if they are unsuccessful in defending themselves, they might be able to negotiate a settlement for substantially less money. And mostly, it's not clear where Messrs. Cox and Jones are, but much of their operation was conducted outside US jurisdiction, so the FCC may not be able to actually collect the fines.
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LastPass got a security beach
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@HardwareGeek what would legitimate uses of spoofing phone numbers be?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek what would legitimate uses of spoofing phone numbers be?
Political campaigns spamming you
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@homoBalkanus said in In other news today...:
LastPass got a security beach
Between this and the string of okta breaches I beginning to think open s3 buckets would be the best place to store our users credentials. At least it would be cheaper.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek what would legitimate uses of spoofing phone numbers be?
legal != legitimate
AKA, just because it's legal doesn't mean you should do it.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek what would legitimate uses of spoofing phone numbers be?
legal != legitimate
AKA, just because it's legal doesn't mean you should do it.
Well then, what are legal uses?
Because I can’t think of anything that’s not fraudulent, which would make it illegal.
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@topspin my understanding is that companies with bundled phone lines for support (etc) spoof the number so when they call you it always comes from the same number. Kinda like how DNS works with distributed systems. Same DNS entry, different IP address.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin my understanding is that companies with bundled phone lines for support (etc) spoof the number so when they call you it always comes from the same number. Kinda like how DNS works with distributed systems. Same DNS entry, different IP address.
Yeah, I mean if your phone system suppresses the extension for outgoing calls or something like that, I wouldn’t call that spoofing. You still own the number it displays. But displaying a number you don’t own, that’s pretty hard to come up with a legitimate use case.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin my understanding is that companies with bundled phone lines for support (etc) spoof the number so when they call you it always comes from the same number. Kinda like how DNS works with distributed systems. Same DNS entry, different IP address.
Yeah, I mean if your phone system suppresses the extension for outgoing calls or something like that, I wouldn’t call that spoofing. You still own the number it displays. But displaying a number you don’t own, that’s pretty hard to come up with a legitimate use case.
Yeah. Displaying a number someone else controls smells badly. Like spoofing the email sender address.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Similarly, the US has a bill to abolish the DST here. But it's stuck because they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
And once again, people refuse to learn from the mistakes of the past.
Almost 40 years ago, the state I live in went on year-round DST. It lasted less than a year. As soon as winter came, everyone was complaining about their kids having to walk to school in the dark. And they changed back to the current system.
Personally, I think we should pass a law requiring the earth to change it's axis and orbit so that we always get the same amount of daylight year-round. Because that makes just as much sense as bitching and complaining about DST every year.
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Filed Under: Change your clock and STFU.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin my understanding is that companies with bundled phone lines for support (etc) spoof the number so when they call you it always comes from the same number. Kinda like how DNS works with distributed systems. Same DNS entry, different IP address.
Though technically that's not spoofing, that's specifying caller ID as a number that's one of the ones you own on your trunk.
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Latest survey show that more developers use Linux than MacOS
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Latest survey show that more developers use Linux than MacOS
Yeah but 87% of developers claim to love Rust so there's clearly something wrong with them
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I suppose the Linux fanbois will blame this on Micro$oft since it's an SMB implementation problem.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
I suppose the Linux fanbois will blame this on Micro$oft since it's an SMB implementation problem.
I'd blame someone else.
This new program, which was introduced to the kernel in 2021, was developed by Samsung.
The old samba stuff doesn't share this new barn sized hole.
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@Carnage they let Samsung write kernel software? Why? Samsung has zero fucking clue about anything that's not the hardware itself.
And why isn't this, like, a FUSE driver or something?Also, insert obligatory "and you're still laughing about Rust" plug here.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
And why isn't this, like, a FUSE driver or something?
FUSE is for clients, while this is an in-kernel server. A.k.a. all around bad idea.
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El Reg discovers that water
ismakes things wet
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
El Reg discovers that water
ismakes things wetSo is it still shit or are they just recycling old news?
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@Carnage That would require me to RTFA, and a wild is in the way (the most reliable form of the Turing Test)
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Aaaw... Slow year for the arsonists this year.
Accelerant is expensive this year.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
So is it still shit or are they just recycling old news?
At this time of the year, both are very possible.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
El Reg discovers that water
ismakes things wet//TODO: implement security theater here
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@Gustav said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon repeated temporary happiness is indistinguishable from long term happiness.
Science journalism strikes again!
The science of happiness generally splits the goodness of being into two parts: long-term contentedness (that's not the right term, but I can't be arsed to check what it's supposed to be), and day-to-day happiness. The day-to-day happiness can't get improved with money beyond a certain point, but the long-term contentedness improves without bound as you get more money. I think it gets more logarithmic after a while, but it just never stops improving.
And 90% of the articles about scientific happiness research refuse to make the distinction between short and long term.
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@PotatoEngineer fair enough. I still believe stable high income leads to long-term happiness, for exactly the same reasons why one-time extra cash leads to short-term happiness.
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@Gustav said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer fair enough. I still believe stable high income leads to long-term happiness, for exactly the same reasons why one-time extra cash leads to short-term happiness.
It doesn’t lead to long-term happiness, but it removes one very big indirect cause for unhappiness.
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@topspin I've never met a rich person who wasn't overall happy with their life. Except the ones who suddenly lost their wealth.