:w<CR> should count the same as ZZ for the purposes of hiding better solutions, else it's fairly easy to walk up the leaderboard even though the better solutions are ostensibly hidden.
You can enable session cookies only, even in the current UIs. Ditto for third-party cookies. Duplicating UI in a website is a solution looking for a problem. The web devs can nag the 0.01% who don't have cookies enabled, and leave the 99.99% who have them enabled alone.
It has never been enforced that way to my knowledge, anywhere in the EU. Which law or court decision says that it is actually illegal?
When everybody was running Windows on a smorgasbord of hardware / patchlevel / plugins / fonts, it was easy to fingerprint. Are we moving towards a more monolithic landscape where fingerprinting is less able to track individual users?
* If I have a fleet of Chromebooks running the same version of Chrome OS, will they all have the same fingerprint?
* Will, say, all iPhones 6 with the same hardware parts, running the same Mobile Safari and iOS version, have the same fingerprint?
If you can set cookies, the user has already expressed their consent by enabling the cookies in the browser. As long as cookies' existence is common knowledge (it is by now), there is no need to duplicate browser UI within every website.
This is the official stance of the ICO[1], the UK national authority: there was a need to educate users what cookies were when the directive was passed. No such need exists now. ICO itself briefly used consent overlays, but does not anymore (EDIT: Aaaaand they've apparently use them again; I'll try to find the policy release where they say this is not necessary.). Cookies not used for tracking of persons never needed any consent, as they have no privacy implications.
People who make their living creating cargo-cult UI designs, have predictably added cargo-cult law-compliance to their toolset. It is beyond stupid.
This is the kind of nonconsensual sureptitious user tracking that the EU privacy directive 2002/58/EC concerns itself with, not those redundant, stupid cookie consent overlays.
My point is that this will become the new social norm, much like now it is the norm to write short cryptic messages that readers may or may not understand.
That's a very good point. I would argue that insurance is a long-term relationship, it's a very mature industry, I don't expect there will be great savings in changing providers, and finding the best provider means doing due diligence and reading through dozens of small print — not something I would relish anyway. They're offering a 33% annual ROI. If they can guarantee an option to re-up for at least four years, we're good.
You should adjust the car alarm's settings. If you don't, and you happen to live in my neighbourhood, I have a stack of bricks in my back yard, one of which will just about fit through that hole in your windshield.
If AAPL were interested in selling more shares (their cash reserves growth indicates they don't), they would usually sell the whole bunch of them at once, either to one investment bank, or a consortium (who then resell it on the open market). So yes, Berkshire is buying a lot, so instead of selling to Goldman Sachs, Apple may sell to them.
It all comes down to whether both Apple and Berkshire can agree on a price and cash flow that is better than buying/selling on the open market. This would probably not be a great discount for the buyer. Other companies would probably still ask Goldman to broker the sale (at a lower fee) and take care of regulatory compliance, but both AAPL and BRK like to maintain in-depth knowledge of the intricacies of the stock market in-house, so they may just do everything themselves.
The liability in car insurance is virtually unlimited. Cars are very good at killing people and damaging property. You don't have to insure against small payouts (large excess gives you small premiums), and this is an area where the insurance companies want to upsell you.
The risk you're insuring is negligent or wilful bad driving, and risks inherent in the technology.
All of the above is true for self-driving cars, only with much-reduced negligent risk. The premiums will go down significantly, but the consumer motivation and the public policy interest to have insurance will remain. It may be assumed by the manufacturers for 100% self-driven cars, but insurance of outsized payouts is not something unique to the current iteration of the car industry.
Revenue is an iffy yardstick anyway. If you're the only player who is squeezing blood from that stone, it is not to the credit of the other players that they're squeezing harder. Apple still capture almost all profits in the sector, they take the meat and leave bones to the others. If there were more meat, they would be taking it, but there isn't.
Don't they traffic shape and have much lower speeds, though? If everybody in a building used mobile data at the full speed, where would the telcos put the base stations? And since the frequency spectrum is shared, how many handsets can a 3G or 4G base station even accommodate at once at a full speed?
Unlimited data with tethering is a recipe for disaster; capped data plans usually do have tethering.
:w<CR> should count the same as ZZ for the purposes of hiding better solutions, else it's fairly easy to walk up the leaderboard even though the better solutions are ostensibly hidden.