Theoretically, the SIM has its own MAC that’s used for routing on the cellular network; however, the network is required to route 911 calls even without a SIM, and that’s done via IMEI.
Theoretically, the SIM has its own MAC that’s used for routing on the cellular network; however, the network is required to route 911 calls even without a SIM, and that’s done via IMEI.
Why exactly does vehicleprivacyreport want my VIN instead of year make and model? That’s me giving an unvetted third party website the unique tracking token for my car….
And only some e-bikes have a built-in cell phone.
With the limited size of our domestic population, it always blows me away that there are enough Canadians living in countries like Lebanon to populate a small city.
Has UW never met Barbara Streisand before?
There was a time when I could joke “what do the other two do?” but I think inflation has long since caught up.
But wait… didn’t China say the re-education camps were a hoax, that Muslims have the same rights as everyone else in China, and that any issues they’d been having had already been resolved?
If recommendations are being provided to me as a service and the algorithm that goes into it is relatively transparent, I have no issues.
If advertising is based on the value an advertiser sees in the product being advertised, I have no problem.
If I’m the product being sold or an ad distribution network is involved, I’ve got a problem.
To be fair, I think Mythbusters went off the air because Discovery would no longer pay their explosives bill. The focus on sciency mumbo jumbo was secondary.
The title and the poll don’t match?
The poll was on whether Canadians think Canada should be officially bilingual. Outside Quebec, the majority of people polled don’t— which is part of the reason why official bilingualism is important.
Is official bilingualism a myth? They’d have to poll for whether those in jobs that have a bilingual requirement are actually bilingual to answer that question.
Personally, I also question the validity of the poll, as the population sample could be really easily skewed depending on how the poll was performed.
Sorry, but I prefer those radical government policies that were considered mainstream 40 years ago.
And the trestle bridge was coated in creosote, so good luck totally putting it out until it cools down.
That took some figuring on my part of where they put it — it’s right on top of the old playground, beside the commemorative plaque, between the end of the parking lot and the ponds.
This isn’t the park’s first foray into rubber; they already put in an outdoor fitness facility slightly downriver when the park was newer, using the same surface material.
It looks like to be named the “tallest play structure” they cheated and put a cone on top — I was trying to figure out how it was taller than tha Terra Nova Rural Farm Playground in Richmond — the height seems the same (same slide) but the Richmond structure doesn’t have the cone on top.
I’ve got a reel mower and lawn cutting doubles as exercise without noise or cables or bags. Just have to do it regularly.
But then, I also don’t water my lawn, so it’s dormant for large parts of the year, like nature intended.
That’s because they’re all out of business or bought up by their competitors.
My general rule is: “if they have data they can sell, sooner or later they will.”
There are very few corporations that have proved me wrong.
The “Truth in political advertising” bit stood out to me.
Just like there’s a consumer protection agency, there should be a voter protection agency.
Get caught materially misleading voters? No more going on the ballot for you. Get caught pretending to be running ads for a candidate when you’re not part of their official campaign team? Go to jail for fraud. Be blocked from doing official political business in the future.
It should be reasonably trivial to programmatically watch the frames; original programming will have mastered audio levels and set video compression; any shift to an ad should stand out like a sore thumb.
So as long as things aren’t locked down to a DRM’d player, it should be possible to fingerprint the audio and video stream content and drop any inserted frames that don’t match.
If YouTube decides to mangle the original content to fight back… then maybe that’s finally the impetus people will need to switch platforms.
Hopefully the rest of the world can follow their sodium.