In other news today...
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
A water fountain is news.
We've had those for years. I'm glad they're showing up other places now too...
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Windows search will now imitate the Launchy interface in the same way that OSX's search started imitating Launchy a few versions ago.
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@hungrier It'll probably make the Vista/7 people even more angry than having a more useful search system did, but I welcome it.
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@magus Personally I didn't like it when OSX changed. It still works for launching things, but doing calculations with it is craptacular. Before, I could have whatever I was looking at somewhere on the screen, Spotlight in the top-right corner, and everything visible at once. Now, instead of sitting in the corner it covers up 75% of the screen, always centered, leaving no room for the window with the numbers I want to do math to. At least Launchy was small.
I also question Cortana being "a more useful search system" than the Vista/7 start menu. 99% of the time I want to launch some app, which it still does, but sometimes it'll open up Edge with a Bing search, which is something I want to do exactly 0% of the time.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I also question Cortana being "a more useful search system" than the Vista/7 start menu. 99% of the time I want to launch some app, which it still does, but sometimes it'll open up Edge with a Bing search, which is something I want to do exactly 0% of the time.
But that doesn't mean it's not a more useful search system. It can do filtering, and displays things better. It can tell you the weather and do calculations. Sure, maybe you don't use any of those things, and are annoyed with what happens when something is unrecognized now. Cool. It's still unquestionably more useful than it was before.
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@magus I just want any of these things to be as good as Launchy was 10 years ago. Is that so much to ask?
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@hungrier Of course it's too much to ask! It's probably powered by javascript now, so we'll never get there.
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@magus My first question though would be: if it's a launcher, does it support fuzzy search and does it keep a history for shortcut prioritization?
If I type
flex
orinex
in Launchy I will getFile Explorer
andInternet Explorer
respectively, and due to the history those never get confused for anything else.
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@jbert I don't know about fuzzy, but it does remember things.
Like if I do "vis" it will launch visual studio 2017. If I do "visu" it'll show me Visual Studio Installer.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Of course it's too much to ask! It's probably powered by javascript now, so we'll never get there.
Well, not Javascript, otherwise people would be hacking it into shape.
No, it's your average duncy Metro app.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
A water fountain is news.
We've had those for years. I'm glad they're showing up other places now too...
I have seen them around here in the Midwest. Probably starting about 2-3 years ago. When I first saw one I thought: "That's kind of cool. Neat idea."
I did not think: "Alert the NYT!!!"
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
A water fountain is news.
We've had those for years. I'm glad they're showing up other places now too...
I have seen them around here in the Midwest. Probably starting about 2-3 years ago. When I first saw one I thought: "That's kind of cool. Neat idea."
I did not think: "Alert the NYT!!!"
Yeah, the ones specifically designed to fill water bottles are relatively new to start appearing.
The fact that you could bring an empty water bottle through security and then fill it up (in the bathroom sink, if nowhere else) was a badly-kept travelers' secret. Nice to see that they're helping publicize it further.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Well, not Javascript, otherwise people would be hacking it into shape.
No, it's your average duncy Metro app.UWP can be done in Javascript.
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@luhmann
Battlefront II: So Belgium'd, even Belgium is calling them out.
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@luhmann Seems the editor already added the following update:
Update: there are conflicting reports and translations about what, precisely, the Gaming Commission has decided. Per 4gamers.be, Geens has made his view clear, but that contrary to the VTM Nieuws report, the Commission itself is still investigating.
So, what is it going to be?
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
So, what is it going to be?
I'm going to follow the VTM News outlet and just say that the responsible minister mr. Geens has made his views public but that the responsible commission for betting licenses (and the determination what constitutes as betting) has not yet published an official answer
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@luhmann I'd expect they're legally equivalent to trading card packs? Though those rewards are, as the name suggests, tradeable, and loot box rewards often are not, the unpredictable value factor still applies.
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Choose your drink wisely
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
Though those rewards are, as the name suggests, tradeable, and loot box rewards often are not,
Ours will be (once we roll them out in the next update)!
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
They're both green and have leaves. Easy mistake.
Marijuana plants found in Sarver, Pa.:
In Portuguese we use the word "folha" for both leaves and paper sheets.
In English, "leaf" can also refer both to the extremities of vascular plants and to the pages of a book (usually used in the plural). The latter has also been verbed to the more familiar usage as a synonym of "turn a page".
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@zecc said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
They're both green and have leaves. Easy mistake.
Marijuana plants found in Sarver, Pa.:
In Portuguese we use the word "folha" for both leaves and paper sheets.
In English, "leaf" can also refer both to the extremities of vascular plants and to the pages of a book (usually used in the plural). The latter has also been verbed to the more familiar usage as a synonym of "turn a page".
Don't forget its use as the singles position in a stem and leaf graph!
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@timebandit When I lived in Boston, a dance club I frequented would occasionally bring in a girl to serve tequila shots. Every night she worked, there would be at least one fight.
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@polygeekery [insert joke about how the algorithm got it right]
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@anonymous234 yeah, too bad it is missing all the pedobait on YouTube:
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@polygeekery I like the implied "we're outraged not by the existence of pedophile-attracting videos, but by the fact our ads are associated with them".
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Yeah, the ones specifically designed to fill water bottles are relatively new to start appearing.
Meh...I remember seeing stuff like that years ago in an airport somewhere.
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@dcon ... unfucking believable.
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Apparently Uber
- Had a department/sub-section/whatever dedicated to stealing trade secrets from competitors
- Instructed people to delete communications explicitly for the purpose of avoiding anything incriminating being available to be used against them in lawsuits
- Hid relevant stuff that was still around from Waymo in discovery
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@masonwheeler If that's true (and I don't put it past them), then Uber's SOL. Doing that's a great way to get judges and other regulators (which didn't like Uber very much already, albeit often for less valid reasons) to take great pleasure in crushing them.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler If that's true (and I don't put it past them), then Uber's SOL. Doing that's a great way to get judges and other regulators (which didn't like Uber very much already, albeit often for less valid reasons) to take great pleasure in crushing them.
I haven't seen any "less valid reasons" TBH. They've been operating as a de facto criminal organization pretty much since day 1, brazenly flouting any laws they saw as inconvenient and relying on the court of public opinion to pressure the relevant people to not press charges. And now it's all coming home to roost, and not a moment too soon.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler If that's true (and I don't put it past them), then Uber's SOL. Doing that's a great way to get judges and other regulators (which didn't like Uber very much already, albeit often for less valid reasons) to take great pleasure in crushing them.
I haven't seen any "less valid reasons" TBH. They've been operating as a de facto criminal organization pretty much since day 1, brazenly flouting any laws they saw as inconvenient and relying on the court of public opinion to pressure the relevant people to not press charges. And now it's all coming home to roost, and not a moment too soon.
As true as that may be, many of the regulators were acting as paid thugs for the taxi industries. They can both be wrong--doing the right thing for the wrong reason is still wrong.
It's also an open (legal) question if (some of) the laws as written really applied to Uber or not. If the lawmakers made a law that didn't cover X, Y, and Z, (even though they intended to cover X, Y, and Z), then punishing someone for doing X, Y or Z is still wrong, and the fault lies with the lawmakers. Remember--the default state of law must be to allow an uncovered action. We wouldn't want to get into a state where everything not expressly allowed is forbidden, not if we like freedom at all.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
As true as that may be, many of the regulators were acting as paid thugs for the taxi industries.
Are you literally accusing the taxi agencies of bribing the regulators to go after Uber, and the regulators of accepting bribes? Or is that hyperbole?
It's also an open (legal) question if (some of) the laws as written really applied to Uber or not.
It's pretty clear. Selling a service to drive people from point A to point B is what it is: taxicab service. Doing so without proper authorization is a well-known practice known colloquially as "operating a gypsy cab." There are well-defined rules about this.
Adding an app to the mix does not fundamentally change any of the above. Trying to claim otherwise without some really solid legal analysis to back it up is nothing but wishful thinking.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
As true as that may be, many of the regulators were acting as paid thugs for the taxi industries.
Are you literally accusing the taxi agencies of bribing the regulators to go after Uber, and the regulators of accepting bribes? Or is that hyperbole?
Not all quid pro quo are bribes. The formal name is regulatory capture. Many of the regulators' boards were (and are) made of taxi medallion owners. That's conflict of interest if I've ever seen one.
It's also an open (legal) question if (some of) the laws as written really applied to Uber or not.
It's pretty clear. Selling a service to drive people from point A to point B is what it is: taxicab service. Doing so without proper authorization is a well-known practice known colloquially as "operating a gypsy cab." There are well-defined rules about this.
Adding an app to the mix does not fundamentally change any of the above. Trying to claim otherwise without some really solid legal analysis to back it up is nothing but wishful thinking.
But so far, no final court has so ruled. And that means that the above is simply your (non-professional) judgement, not the law. That is, it's an open legal question. Both sides have focused on winning in the court of public opinion because they are afraid of the possible outcomes in the court of law.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
Many of the regulators' boards were (and are) made of taxi medallion owners. That's conflict of interest if I've ever seen one.
If so, that's a real problem that ought to be dealt with. But it has nothing to do with the objective observation that Uber has built its entire business on flouting any and every relevant law that it finds inconvenient.
But so far, no final court has so ruled.
So? Where did this meme that no law is really, truly final until it's been reviewed by the Supreme Court come from anyway?
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra Yes, Sum Ting Wong.
In this instance, I suspect that those involved will soon realize that Whi Tu Hai and cut down on the crack smoking in the executive washroom.
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@pjh that's a load of grit...
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
More pictures and a video available in TFA.
Meanwhile, back in April:
Huh, a woman shoves 20 live anguilids up another woman's ass and becomes an Intarwebs shock site celebrity, but a guy inserting one up his own sphincter...
Filed Under: And don't even get me started about the double standard in applying capital punishment for horse sexxoring...
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
don't even get me started about the double standard in applying capital punishment for horse sexxoring...
Topics are free.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Oops.
I gotta try this!
One sec, lemme boot my hackintosh VM...
Nope. Doesn't work on this version. Suck on that!
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Doesn't work on this version.
Judging by the comments, it does seem to be quite version-specific.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Doesn't work on this version.
Judging by the comments, it does seem to be quite version-specific.
Oh, and Apple's response:
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
It's also an open (legal) question if (some of) the laws as written really applied to Uber or not
Depends on jurisdiction. I am pretty sure the only part open here is whether the company itself can be made liable; the drivers definitely are.
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Adding an app to the mix does not fundamentally change any of the above.
Indeed, it doesn't. The only thing it could change is make things a lot easier—if the company chose to cooperate with the authorities and get the app certified as taximeter and as cash/income register. But they are choosing to evade the laws instead.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Filed Under: And don't even get me started about the double standard in applying capital punishment for horse sexxoring...
Well in Kenneth Pinyan's case, he got a death sentence...
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The only reason Uber has got as far as it has in America is the horribly broken taxi system you have over there. Most towns and cities in the UK have actual competition between taxi companies, leaving Uber as just another provider with no real niche
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
Depends on jurisdiction. I am pretty sure the only part open here is whether the company itself can be made liable; the drivers definitely are.
Since they've been pretty much presenting themselves to the public as a taxi service, they've got to really expect the courts to treat them as one.
That Uber has historically done so well has been generally an indication of just how poor the normal taxi services were in some parts of the US. Expensive, unpleasant and quite difficult to use, and all because some places had taxis as effectively rackets set up for the benefit of a few. (Just because a monopoly is only local doesn't make it any less abusive.) OTOH Uber's not been run by a bunch of saints either, and their attitude to the parts of regulation that relate to the safety and security of passengers and drivers is really quite worrying.
But they are choosing to evade the laws instead.
Scofflaws make trouble for themselves. Always have done.
And now I know what the Word of the Day is going to be…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@bulb said in In other news today...:
Depends on jurisdiction. I am pretty sure the only part open here is whether the company itself can be made liable; the drivers definitely are.
Since they've been pretty much presenting themselves to the public as a taxi service, they've got to really expect the courts to treat them as one.
Well, our laws don't have any requirements for taxi company, only for taxi drivers (must have license) and taxi cars (must have taximeters installed). And since the drivers are contractors, not employees, they are legally responsible for satisfying the regulations themselves. So they can be, and sometimes are, fined, but the company could only be charged with suggesting illegal activity or something like that.