Having opportunities to change things after being voted out seems to be a bad oversight to me. The difference is time and effort. If the outgoing administration doesn't do anything else, you can already setup your agenda and timelines for things you want to accomplish, tossing stuff in can derail your agenda and/or timing. The outgoing president is still president until the incoming one is sworn in though, so that is what you deal with.
Should the highest office in the land just go on pause? People voted for the previous president knowing they would be in office almost 3 months after the next election results.
I'd wager shoulder surfing was never that likely, but it is much less likely today and much harder. However, high def recording is much more prevalent these days. The one thing I like that some password forms have started doing is obscure the username. Usually the first time you enter it, its plausible to grab, but subsequent entries, only grabbing the password, if it is at all feasible, isn't as useful without the username.
I'm sincerely glad I haven't seen login forms that obscure the user ID. Blind user ID entry, followed by 10+ characy,high entropy password, also blind, on a tiny keyboard with no tactile feedback. Don't know about you, but my fingertip can cover 2 phone keyboard virtual keys, and touch corners of 3 or 4 at once.
Logging in is already excruciating. That would make logins secure by making them impossible.
The main concern I see with "technologic" wombs is who is then responsible for the upbringing and care of the fetus until it because viable to live on its own? If someone gives up a fetus but is still force to be financially responsible for it, more harmful and destructive forms abortion will be, by necessity, be used.
My use of “unburdened” includes financial in all variations, even sealing the ability of the subsequent child to find the parents.
It’s pretty clear that it will be the state who assumes receivership of the fetus and subsequent human with full constitutional rights.
It’s also a pretty easy legislative problem to say the state is transferring unwanted fetuses, despite the technology for its viability not currently existing. The outcome shifts the burden of guilt - or lack thereof - away from the parent(s), over to an immune state regardless of that state’s laws on abortion. And it shifts priorities and funding measures on creating the technology to ensure a fetus’ viability, whether that turns out to be a fool's errand or not.
This will easily bridge consensus between “camps” as the discomfort over citizens killing fetus turns into a market choice instead of a legislative debate. What will the market primarily choose to end a pregnancy
Who is responsible for incubator babies until they are viable to leave the incubator? That's already a limited sort of artificial womb. The state picks up the bill I suppose, if everybody else decides to bail.
I would love to see all those things myself. Part of my job this past week was inquiring with local jurisdictions about utilities to request utility atlases and other existing condition reports. Unfortunately, this info can be hard to find, inaccurate and inaccessible. There are many pros and cons for showing/hiding utility data etc. <p>
If you're interested in getting started with roads, Local GIS shapefiles and tiger databases can be found for much of the US. Not too familiar globally.
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Downloading a database from the following site and opening with QGIS or similar might be something to start with:
https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series...
If the series of events was: They wanted Scar Jo, she said no. They found someone similar. That would be the end of the story. The question then was, why did they reach out to her again immediately before putting it out there? That seems pretty strange to me.
I don't have more to say here other that I'm aware of the legal precedent being discussed here, read 2 cases, and in both the fact pattern cited in the decision involved specific instruction for the performer to mimic someone else's performance. That's all.
They did no such thing. The Washington Post found the voice actor they used, it's her natural speaking voice, she was not asked to perform ScarJo, and the movie "Her" wasn't mentioned.
A blanket cutoff is ill advised in my opinion. I think it has to depend on the intent behind the phone call. For instance, I got a robocall from the water department monday saying there is a boil advisory in effect due to high water and sediment runoff due to weather. Having enough people for the once in 10 years where ythey needed that many doesn't seem necessary. And once you get into intent sadly, all bets are off.
Since I and most everybody I know will never answer a call from a number not in their address book as a direct result of robocalls, I'm not sure that this is a huge issue.
If, for instance, my water company called me with such a notice, it's not likely I would actually hear about it that way, because I'd assume it was a robocall. I'd more likely hear about it through other media outlets.
I know several people with kids, and I have kids of my own. They're no longer young enough for this to matter, but even when they were, I still ignored calls. The main difference was that I actually bothered to listen to any voice mails unknown callers left.
I have never in my live received a robo call, then again I live in the EU. So yet another one of those unsolvable problems that have been solved elsewhere..
I can imagine if it hasn't happened yet, it will happen soon enough where QR code menus will be tailored to the person. Change the order of items and possibly even costs to try and drive the individual diner to choose the options that are better for the restaurant. Digital menus already offer many of these perks for the restaurant, and I suspect forcing around the margins can definitely make a difference at the expense of the customer.
Yeah, this is why I don’t want to use QR codes. Prices need to be set in writing and be the same for everyone, although I’m okay with things like discounts for seniors, students, active service members, etc.
I don't see that happening except at very big businesses like chains. Most locally owned restaurants have trouble maintaining a working website let alone something so complicated.
That's where a lean and hungry third party startup comes in and offers to take a little piece of that action in exchange for handling all the backend work.
Tack on some image recognition to gauge customers "value" as they walk in and track where they sit. See a party sporting luxury bags and watches and charge them a little bit extra eh? Add in some facial recognition too to keep prices consistent between visits and voilà.
I believe there was a Planet Money (or similar) piece about this recently. There are already services to enable dynamic pricing for restaurants. E.g. on super bowl Sunday ordering wings will be more expensive. (They don't like the term "surge pricing" though:-)
However it can also go the other way and lower prices to incentivize demand during slow periods like middle afternoon.
Can't say I blame restaurants for this. As many other comments mention, it is all about having good UX
Restaurants already know how to design menus to drive diners to choose the options that are better for the restaurant. I don't see how personalisation can improve the situation. Maybe the illusion of personalisation?
If ignoring cost, closing a road for likely months, papering over potential design issues for a temporary solution is not an issue, then go ahead and do this every where.
Speeding up repairs would be lovely, trying to make municipalities not spend 50% of the budget to prevent wasting pennies and then giving the construction contract to connected entities on the other hand...
I know a lot of blue collar people in NY whose work is directly involved or adjacent to road construction and all of them express cynical views about corruption in that sphere.
Petty corruption is the open secret in all of American construction. Even out in the boonies where we never had the militant unions and "Machines" of new york, the construction company is owned by a guy who is high school friends with most of the people on the town council. Is it any wonder the contract goes to them?
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