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When I read what other writers who write about academic writing, I’m often left with the feeling that there is no room for manoeuvering in their advice. “Write 1,000 words a day, no matter what“. “Write for two hours every day” (and yes, I’m well aware that I am well known for advocating this approach – with the proviso that I do recommend that people do whatever suits them best, as long as they are able to create their own academic writing practice). I have been pondering for a while advocating for the value of a different metric of success in #AcWri – success in completing sentences and paragraphs.

When I write, I focus on completing a few sentences and then, a paragraph, not on counting words or pages. pic.twitter.com/A093ZVnH3v

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) November 29, 2017

Let me share an example: I was working recently on a paper on evidence-based policy making, science-policy interfaces and coproduction of science and policy. These aren’t fields I usually work on, this was a commissioned paper. As a result, it’s been quite painful to finish the damn manuscript. A few days ago, I decided that it was good time to finish writing this piece, because I have to move on to other, more pressing manuscripts. I was literally about 1,200 words away from completing the draft.

I get very tired of writing after a while, so using these "anchor sentences" to start a new paragraph is key. pic.twitter.com/T4Vk6ozmpj

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) December 1, 2017

As I’ve suggested above, I take the “complete sentences and paragraphs approach” because I do get tired quite easily. While I love writing, it’s hard for me to stay writing for a relatively long period of time. So, I focus on completing a sentence, stringing a few sentences, or finishing an entire paragraph. This is the idea behind the “anchor sentences” approach.

The trick for me is to focus on completing sentences, and on finishing paragraphs. So, instead of being overwhelmed by the fact that I still have 1,200 words to finish, I focus on completing a sentence that I left incomplete.

Note how I use the "anchor sentences" to prompt me to finish the paragraph. As I've said before, I don't focus on word count. I seek ideas. pic.twitter.com/sINGaig3QC

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) November 19, 2017

While I recognise that this approach may not work for everyone, I agree that we ought to give ourselves permission not to finish all the sentences or complete paragraphs so we can pick up the next day where we left off.

Giving myself permission to continue writing without fully forming all the sentences that came before: A huge leap forward in my process.

— Heather Johnson (@HthrLynnJ) May 1, 2017

Outlining a paper and adding text allows you to form more coherent thoughts as you write.

As you can see, I dump my thoughts through an annotated outline. I write beginnings of sentences that then allow me to build an argument pic.twitter.com/V3EKWXvSLO

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) November 19, 2017

I start the outline, keep adding notes here and there and before I know it the notes start turning into real sentences.

— RouterOperator (@RouterOperator) April 15, 2017

Yes! And I've come to realize it helps to organize random sentences you may have typed previously. Instead of wasting time stringing them together, you also have topic/anchor sentences to guide their placement.

— Julian Reyes (@julianjon) December 1, 2017

Because I do get tired of writing after a while, I calculate “how much more work do I need to do” – so, for example, here I know that I need to write 3 paragraphs (one per bullet item). So, that’s about 300 words. That feels doable and I can do that within an hour that I may have here or there. Or while waiting at the airport for my flight.

I also like to visually calculate "how much more writing I still have to do" (for example, here I have to explain 3 conceptsin detail) pic.twitter.com/FSfp230fFL

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) December 1, 2017

If you remember my photo from yesterday, I wrote a list of 3 concepts I had to explain. This morning I started writing and explaining them. pic.twitter.com/tA6o5cn1LU

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) December 2, 2017

Leaving text for the following day is a well tried strategy as you can see here.

@ErinCassese says don’t put a paper down for the day without knowing how you’ll pick it up tomorrow.

— Matthew Lebo (@MattLebo4) December 1, 2017

Agreed. I also put three xxx’s after it so I can easily search the next time I’m ready to write.

— Kelly Cowan (@CowanMicro) December 2, 2017

Knowing that you can start the next day from an outline of half-completed sentences and paragraphs can actually be helpful. But more importantly, as I’ve said, instead of dreading a blank page, and wondering if 2 hours will be enough to complete 1,500 words, I prefer to focus on completing sentences and paragraphs. Perhaps this approach may be helpful to my readers. It’s definitely useful for me!

mkalus shared this story from Price Tags.

Mixing all forms of transportation at Chilco and Georgia in 1936, a photo from the interesting collection on the Three Quarter Lids blog here.

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I have used the Mate 10 Pro for few weeks and still learned quite a few features from this awesome walkthrough. This is quite a remarkable phone as you will see.

Think of a team you work with closely. How strongly do you agree with these five statements?

1. If I take a chance and screw up, it will be held against me.
2. Our team has a strong sense of culture that can be hard for new people to join.
3. My team is slow to offer help to people who are struggling.
4. Using my unique skills and talents comes second to the objectives of the team.
5. It’s uncomfortable to have open, honest conversations about our team’s sensitive issues.

Teams that score high on questions like these can be deemed to be “unsafe.”

This looks like a fun Processing tutorial by Etienne Jacob. Use noise to draw organic-ish loopy GIFs. I bet the logic could be ported to R.

Tags: GIF, noise, Processing

Former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has pled guilty to lying to the FBI. He has also issued a self-praising statement minimizing what he did. It’s an interesting strategy. Should everyone else who apologizes do the same? Flynn’s proud, patriotic apology Flynn spoke to the Russian Ambassador about foreign policy during the transition, when … Continued

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As most of you know, I am writing a weekly column that talks about what is going to happen in the coming week. This is kind of difficult, because my crystal ball is often clouded. It would be much easier to write a summary about what happened last week.

One of the things that puzzled me was how I could take notes for things happening in the future. I solved this with a OneNote notebook specifically for this task. And there is a convenient way to fill it with invitation emails. I just forward them to me@onenote.com. You have to specify the from address you are taking these notes from and you tell OneNote where to put them.

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Als Hundebesitzer muss man mehrmals am Tag raus und spazieren gehen. Das tut Hund und Mensch gut. Dabei trifft man viele Leute. Manche haben Angst vor dem Tier, die meisten freuen sich. Von einer Begegnung will ich erzählen:

Freitags ist ein kleiner Bauernmarkt in Bessungen. Dort gehe ich regelmäßig hin. Frau Brandlinger darf mit, aber sie nervt manchmal, weil es soviel zu entdecken gibt. Deshalb halte ich sie meistens an der kurzen Leine. Vor ein paar Monaten fiel mir eine ältere Dame auf, die den Hund immer anhimmelte. Ich ging zu ihr hin, damit sie ihm begegnen kann. Sie hatte Tränen in den Augen und erzählte mir, dass ihr Tier eingeschläfert wurde. Für die Nicht-Hundebesitzer: Man sieht das von außen nicht, aber Hunde sind Familienmitglieder und manchmal das einzige Familienmitglied, das bleibt. Ich sprach der Frau deshalb gut zu, sich ein neues Tier zu suchen. Dann erzählte sie mir, dass sie ihren Hund abgeben musste, weil sie ins Heim kam. Ich war erschüttert. Woanders schafft man Therapiehunde an, um alte Menschen aus ihrer Depression zu lösen.

Daran musste ich gerade denken, als ich las, dass die Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt die Hundesteuer von zunächst 66 auf 92 und nun auf 120 € für das erste Tier erhöht hat. Das soll 120.000 € zusätzlich in den Stadtsäckel bringen und trifft ganz sicher oft die Falschen. Viele alte Menschen sparen sich alles für das Tier vom Mund ab.

It was 50 years ago that people made a big decision — no freeways in Vancouver.  It fundamentally altered the city, I say for the better. It changed the city’s look, feel, population and shaped its future.

HERE’s a review of the event by Maryse Zeidler at CBC News.

With a quote from PT’s own Gordon Price:

Gordon Price, a fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue, says freeways were seen as modern and economically attractive — linking cities to trucking routes, trade and the ever-expanding suburbs.

“Freeways have a very bad rep these days but, man, in that period in the 60s when they were newly built, they were astonishing,” Price said.

“Every city wanted a connection with the continental freeway system …  I mean, why wouldn’t you?”

When I am roaming the city, I think of other big decisions, and imagine the battles and back room maneuvering that went on:  Stanley Park, the seawalls, West End’s traffic calming.  Not to mention those little-bitty bike lanes.  All so much accepted now that their reversal or removal would be unthinkable.

Which brings me to upcoming big decisions:  well, how about mobility pricing?

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In a preview of the local mobility pricing work now underway, consider the story of Stockholm. Their scheme prevailed over fierce initial hostility, got bad reviews early on (36% public acceptance) but, oh my, now gets support from more than 2/3 of the population and all political parties  HERE‘s a 42-page PDF:  a primer and tutorial on the scheme, its design, the decision, the process, its politics, and its results from Jonas Eliasson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

The Stockholm charges went from “the most expensive way ever devised to commit political suicide” (to quote the then‐secret feelings expressed by the Head of the Congestion Charging Office) to something that the initially hostile media eventually declared to be a “success story” (e.g. Dagens Nyheter, June 22, 2006).

No doubt Metro Vancouver can expect similar battles, but a positive outcome on this big decision could change the metro region for the better, in my opinion, for many decades to come.  We can watch and work over the next months as this big decision moves along.

Mobility pricing may not be as big a decision, but just might be as positive as the big decision, 50 years ago, on freeways.

The City of Vancouver is planning ahead to ensure that the option of a streetcar line remains open.   The city has issued THIS RFP for a consultant to “. . . future proof the planning of streets and development within Vancouver so that a modern streetcar system can be constructed in the future.”

Just as the city has done great work to make choosing a bike a safe and effective option, the idea is to make sure that nothing eliminates building streetcar lines into an effective choice.

A proposed alignment of the streetcar has previously been established, as mentioned above. Previous plans and thinking envisage the streetcar travelling through the following neighborhoods/areas:

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• Arbutus Greenway
• South False Creek
• South East False Creek
• International Village and Science World
• False Creek Flats (at 1st Avenue)
• North East False Creek
• Yaletown, along Pacific Boulevard
• Chinatown
• Gastown
• Coal Harbour.

Thanks to Frances Bula in the Globe and Mail for the heads-up.

Internationally water management is the purview of the Dutch, who consulted in the rebuilding of New Orleans after the horrific hurricane and also worked with China on the concept of Sponge Cities to improve drainage and provide flooding mitigation. This is achieved by innovative sewage and waste water techniques, and combining spatial planning and water management, an interdisciplinary approach to flood proofing cities.

Similar work has been successful in the Dutch city of Nijmegen where flooding capacity of a river was enlarged by creating an extra stream channel, which  as part of that City’s policy also enhanced economic development and place making.  In Rotterdam plazas have been created that hold rainwater in extreme weather events replacing infrastructure basins. There have also been pioneering work on the use of dry river bed “wadis” incorporated  in new residential housing developments to mitigate flooding.

As reported to the World Economic Forum  China is utilizing the spongy city design concept in 30 cities including Shanghai, Wuhan and Xiamen. With an investment of 12 billion US dollars the project hopes to have 80 per cent of urban areas in China reusing almost 3/4 of their rainwater in the next three years.

Vancouver is riddled with underground streams, many lost in development~and there is a treasure trove of materials available at the University of British Columbia. There are great stream stories-by mistake the Mount Pleasant stream that used to move logs and power wood mills was excavated during work near Main Street and Broadway decades ago. There is also a large aquifer and flowing stream below the Oakridge Mall. City Engineers have calculated that the Oakridge aquifer can supply 120 US gallons a minute or approximately 7.5 litres of water per second. Indeed the water is used by the mall as a coolant, and has been used that way since the 1970’s.

New York City’s urban ecologist Eric Sanderson has created a “digital elevation” of New York  pre-development and is discussing how these ancient watersheds and streams can be reincorporated into city landscapes for resiliency and public amenity. It is this interdisciplinary approach to flooding, flora and fauna that will bring streams back to New York City and provide a new amenity in the concrete signature of the city. As outlined in this piece from Mountain View’s Vancouver Street Stories, everything old is new again~and streams and old river beds have a renewed purpose in weatherproofing  and providing new recreational spaces in  spongy cities.

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Last month, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, released a draft order that would soften net neutrality regulations. He wants to overturn the restrictions that make paid prioritization, blocking or throttling of traffic unlawful. If approved, this order could drastically alter the way that people experience and access the web. Without net neutrality, Internet Service Providers could determine what sites you can or cannot see.

The proposed draft order is disheartening. Millions of Americans are trying to save net neutrality; the FCC has received over 5 million emails, 750,000 phone calls, and 2 million comments. Unfortunately this public outpouring has not altered the FCC's commitment to dismantling net neutrality.

The commission will vote on the order on December 14th. We have 10 days to save net neutrality.

Although I have written about net neutrality before, I want to explain the consequences and urgency of the FCC's upcoming vote.

What does Pai's draft order say?

Chairman Pai has long been an advocate for "light touch" net neutrality regulations, and claims that repealing net neutrality will allow "the federal government to stop micromanaging the Internet".

Specifically, Pai aims to scrap the protection that classifies ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. Radio and phone services are also protected under Title II, which prevents companies from charging unreasonable rates or restricting access to services that are critical to society. Pai wants to treat the internet differently, and proposes that the FCC should simply require ISPs "to be transparent about their practices". The responsibility of policing ISPs would also be transferred to the Federal Trade Commission. Instead of maintaining the FCC's clear-cut and rule-based approach, the FTC would practice case-by-case regulation. This shift could be problematic as a case-by-case approach could make the FTC a weak consumer watchdog.

The consequences of softening net neutrality regulations

At the end of the day, frail net neutrality regulations mean that ISPs are free to determine how users access websites, applications and other digital content.

It is clear that depending on ISPs to be "transparent" will not protect against implementing fast and slow lanes. Rolling back net neutrality regulations means that ISPs could charge website owners to make their website faster than others. This threatens the very idea of the open web, which guarantees an unfettered and decentralized platform to share and access information. Gravitating away from the open web could create inequity in how communities share and express ideas online, which would ultimately intensify the digital divide. This could also hurt startups as they now have to raise money to pay for ISP fees or fear being relegated to the "slow lane".

The way I see it, implementing "fast lanes" could alter the technological, economic and societal impact of the internet we know today. Unfortunately it seems that the chairman is prioritizing the interests of ISPs over the needs of consumers.

What can you can do today

Chairman Pai's draft order could dictate the future of the internet for years to come. In the end, net neutrality affects how people, including you and me, experience the web. I've dedicated both my spare time and my professional career to the open web because I believe the web has the power to change lives, educate people, create new economies, disrupt business models and make the world smaller in the best of ways. Keeping the web open means that these opportunities can be available to everyone.

If you're concerned about the future of net neutrality, please take action. Share your comments with the U.S. Congress and contact your representatives. Speak up about your concerns with your friends and colleagues. Organizations like The Battle for the Net help you contact your representatives — it only takes a minute!

Now is the time to stand up for net neutrality: we have 10 days and need everyone's help.

Best case encryption in reality:
- Nerd-2-Nerd communication: PGP
- Nerd-2-Muggle communication: Signal, Threema
- Muggle-2-Muggle communication: WhatsApp

— Sebastian Schinzel (@seecurity) December 3, 2017

As the New Year draws closer, we’ve shifted our attention from recently released phones like the OnePlus 5T, the iPhone X and the Pixel 2 XL, to Samsung’s inevitable next flagship, the Galaxy S9.

The latest leaks from the constantly churning rumour mill, reveals the various colours the flagship is reportedly set to be available in. According to a report from SamMobile, the S9 will come in blue, black, gold and surprisingly, purple. While blue, gold and black are common hues for Samsung devices, the South Korean tech giant seems to be aiming to shake things up with a new purple colour. It’s worth noting that the LG V30 Plus is also available in violet.

It’s unknown exactly what shade of purple the handset will be, though I’m hoping it resembles the same colour as the LG Lotus.

SamMobile also doesn’t mention specific names for the colours — such as ‘Orchid Grey,’ or ‘Midnight Black,’ — but it’s likely that apart from purple, the names will be similar to the colours of past devices.

Moreover, it’s unknown exactly what markets will launch with a purple S9, with Canada often only getting two or three of the various available colours.

Alongside the four aforementioned colours, it’s possible that ‘Orchid Grey’ and ‘Arctic Silver’ will also be included in the colour lineup.

The Samsung Galaxy S9, which is rumoured to be unveiled at CES 2018, is expected to feature Qualcomm’s still unannounced Snapdragon 845, standard 3.5mm headphone jack, 90 percent screen-to-body ratio and a fingerprint sensor placed underneath the rear-facing camera setup.

Source: SamMobile

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In 2016, electric vehicles made up less than one percent of all passenger vehicle sales in Ontario. By 2020, the government is looking to increase that number to five percent.

However, analysts say that the province won’t be able to meet this goal in this time.

“The chances of meeting it aren’t low, they’re zero,” auto industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers told The Canadian Press. “In the auto sector all roads lead to electric, it just happens to be that the road to serious acceptance of them is probably at least 2030 and more likely 2040, 2050.”

This is in spite of the ways in which the government has been encouraging electric vehicle sales, such as through the provision of $75 million in rebates to vehicle owners and the spending $1 million CAD to open an electric vehicle education centre in North York in May.

The government has also put an additional $20 million into the construction of a network of 500 public charging stations along highways and at public places across the province.

Analysts, industry and government alike have cited fears that electric vehicles’ range are what is holding back greater adoption. There are concerns that electric vehicles will run out a charge before arriving to charging stations, leading many to prefer gasoline-based vehicles instead.

Telematics company FleetCarma found that sales of electric vehicles rose 96 per cent year-over-year for the first nine months of 2017. Meanwhile, in the second quarter, the firm reported that electric vehicle sales accounted for about 0.7 percent of the market.

Pointing to the upwards trajectory, the president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association said he believes there is a good chance of hitting the government’s five percent electric vehicle target in 2020.

Via: The Record 

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Linux Journal is folding.

Carlie Fairchild, who has run the magazine almost since it started in 1994, posted Linux Journal Ceases Publication today on the website. So far all of the comments have been positive, which they should be. Throughout its life, Linux Journal has been about as valuable as a trade pub can be, and it’s a damn shame to see it go. I just hope a way can be found to keep the site and the archives alive for the duration, as a living legacy.

I suppose a rescue might still be possible. But, as Carlie wrote in her post, “While we see a future like publishing’s past—a time when advertisers sponsor a publication because they value its brand and readers—the advertising world we have today would rather chase eyeballs, preferably by planting tracking beacons in readers’ browsers and zapping them with ads anywhere those readers show up. But that future isn’t here, and the past is long gone.”

I’m working hard at making that future happen (see the list below), and it bums me deeply that we didn’t succeeded in time to save Linux Journal. But here we are.

My own history with Linux Journal began when Phil Hughes pulled me into an email discussion of his plan to start a free software magazine. That was in 1993: twenty-four years ago. Phil ended that discussion when he announced, to everyone else’s surprise, that he had found this kid who had written a new version of UNIX that would likely take over the world. The kid was Linus Torvalds and his operating system was called Linux. I thought, what? But, as he was about so many things, Phil was right. Our first issue came out in April 1994, when Linux hit version 1.0. Linux Journal’s editor for that issue Bob Young, who left shortly after that to start Red Hat and much else. (I once asked Bob—by then a billionaire but no less a great guy—if Phil actually taught Bob how to spell Linux. Bob said yes.)

I first appeared on the masthead in 1996, and I haven’t left it since 1998. For many years I wrote the “Linux for Suits” column, and for many after that “EOF,” which ran inside the back cover. I also wrote a newsletter called “Suitwatch” and a spin-off blog called IT Garage (which you can still find at that link in the Internet Archive). I was the least technical of all Linux Journal‘s editors, but readers mostly seemed to appreciate my elevated but devoted perspective on Linux’s role in the world.

There were heady times in that history. Linux Journal succeeded fast, got fat during the dot-com craze in the late ’90s, and managed to survive the crash when many other rags went down. Remember Upside? Red Herring? The original FastCompany? (Tip your hat to Brewster Kahle and friends for the fossils of those you’ll still find in the Internet Archive.)

We can thank resourceful management and devoted subscribers for our persistence. And, of course, Linux itself. Today all 500 of the world’s top supercomputers run Linux. Since Android is built on Linux, most of the world’s smartphones run on Linux. Name a giant tech company (e.g. Google, Amazon, Akamai) and chances are the services it deploys run on Linux too. Month after month, Netcraft‘s Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites lists are either all-Linux or close enough. Linux is also embedded in countless devices, from clocks to wi-fi routers to flat-screen TVs.

In its own small but significant way, Linux Journal helped make that happen. Wish it could keep doing that, but alas.

So a hearty thanks to everyone who helped us through all those years. It’s been great, and will remain so.

Now, in hope that other publications might be saved, here are some of the posts and essays I’ve written toward that goal—and toward saving the advertising business from itself as well:

1. Without aligning incentives, we can’t kill fake news or save journalism (15 September 2017 in Medium)
2. An easy fix for a broken advertising system (12 October 2017 in Medium and in my blog)
3. Let’s get some things straight about publishing and advertising (9 September 2017 and the same day in Medium)
4. Good news for publishers and advertisers fearing the GDPR (3 September in ProjectVRM and 7 October in Medium).
5. Publishers’ and advertisers’ rights end at a browser’s front door (17 June 2017 in Medium). It updates one of the 2015 blog posts below.
6. How to plug the publishing revenue drain (9 June 2017 in Medium). It expands on the opening (#publishing) section of my Daily Tab for that date.
7. Customertech Will Turn the Online Marketplace Into a Marvel-Like Universe in Which All of Us are Enhanced (29 May 2017 at ProjectVRM and in Medium)
8. What if businesses agreed to customers’ terms and conditions? (28 April 2017)
9. How are ad blockers affecting journalism? (My answer to a Quora question on 27 April 2017)
10. The only way customers come first (26 April 2017 in Customer Commons)
11. Brands need to fire adtech (23 March, and 25 March in Medium)
12. The Problem with Content (1 March 2017 in Linux Journal)
13. The Next Revolution in Advertising Will Be One Customers Lead (7 February 2017 in Medium)
14. How True Advertising Can Save Journalism From Drowning in a Sea of Content (22 January 2017 in Medium and 26 January 2017 in my blog.)
15. The problem for people isn’t advertising, and the problem for advertising isn’t blocking. The problem for both is tracking.(21 October 2016 and same date in Medium).
16. It’s People vs. Advertising, not Publishers vs. Adblockers (26 August 2016 in ProjectVRM and 27 August 2016 in Medium)
17. The cash model of customer experience (17 August 2016 and 18 August 2016 in Medium).
18. If it weren’t for retargeting, we might not have adblocking (13 August 2016 in ProjectVRM and 15 August 2016 in Medium)
19. The Castle Doctrine (19 June 2016 in ProjectVRM, and in Medium)
20. Why #NoStalking is a good deal for publishers (11 May 2016, and in Medium)
21. An invitation to settle matters with @Forbes, @Wired and other publishers (15 April 2016 and in Medium)
22. TV Viewers to Madison Avenue: Please quit driving drunk on digital (14 Aprl 2016, and in Medium)
23. The End of Internet Advertising as We’ve Known It(11 December 2015 in MIT Technology Review)
24. Ad Blockers and the Next Chapter of the Internet (5 November in Harvard Business Review)
25. How the Big Data Craze Will Play Out (1 November 2015 in Linux Journal)
26. How #adblocking matures from #NoAds to #SafeAds (22 October 2015)
27. Helping publishers and advertisers move past the ad blockade (11 October on the ProjectVRM blog)
28. Dealing with Boundary Issues (1 October 2015 in Linux Journal)
29. Beyond ad blocking — the biggest boycott in human history (28 Septemper 2015)
30. A way to peace in the adblock war (21 September 2015, on the ProjectVRM blog)
31. How adtech, not ad blocking, breaks the social contract (23 September 2015)
32. Debugging adtext assumptions (18 September 2015)
33. Separating advertising’s wheat and chaff (12 August 2015, and on 2 July 2016 in an updated version in Medium)
34. On taking personalized ads personally (27 March 2015)
35. Thoughts on tracking based advertising (18 February 2015)
36. On marketing’s terminal addiction to data fracking and bad guesswork (10 January 2015)
37. Privacy is personal (2 July 2014 in Linux Journal)
38. What the ad biz needs is to exorcize direct marketing (6 October 2013)

Fido customers with a Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL are now able to upgrade their devices to utilize Wi-Fi calling.

Wi-Fi calling comes alongside the December 2017 Android security update, as well as an update to Android 8.1 Oreo.

The 2017 Pixel twins join the the LG G4, G5 and G6, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S7, S7 Edge, S8 and S8+ as the only Android devices that can currently access Wi-Fi calling on Fido’s network.

Once activated — and assuming your device remains connected to a stable Wi-Fi connection — the Pixel twins should default to Wi-Fi calling.

Update: While Rogers Upgrade site states this feature is ‘coming soon,’ we are receiving tips that customers are able to enable Wi-Fi calling support.

Source: Fido

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Peter Guillam, no longer young, is summoned from retirement to the new offices of the old Circus. British intelligence, is seems, is being sued by the heirs of agents and officers, long dead, and soon we are back with Alex Leamas, Toby Esterhase, the young Connie Sachs, and George Smiley. This might have been merely a pleasant final bow, but it’s not: a thoughtful and sensitive re-evaluation of a war that, suddenly, seems very distant.