My wife is totally hooked on Facebook, and I'm now I'm the one complaining about spending so much time on the computer!
My mom bought my wife a Kindle Fire and I would pray to any god that would get her off of Candy Crush and back onto books.
ARGH!
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If they collect data on it, then it could possibly be used to prove that the cameras don't deter crime. Then people might start to complain about pesky things like "civil liberties" and "privacy" and "freedom". If they don't collect the data at all, then detractors have no way to argue against it.
Most of the places that I've worked don't invest properly in a lab environment and so the only "learning lab" is the production systems. You really need something that you can break and leave broken for days, weeks, or even months. You need something that you control 100% and you aren't answerable to anyone else for its status. A home lab is very attractive in that respect.
It's cynicism borne of past experience. Governments are not trustworthy. They never have been and they never will. Constant vigilance against abuses is the only way to stop it. Public apathy is why we're where we are.
"10" in base Pi.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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The PC is dead, as you gloriously noted at SXSWi this year. Michael Dell is now officially back at the helm.
What is your advice to Michael Dell?
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The debt owned by the public equates to 12 trillion which is something I'd call huge.
Interestingly, U.S. household wealth topped $74.8 trillion this year, making you wonder if those debt hawks are squawking about a problem that's not as bad as it sounds out of context.
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Not sure why you're not interested in Uverse if it's available. Are the Internet-only plans there unreasonably priced?
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I know some journalists hate the Oxford Comma, but this is getting ridiculous,
It's actually a lot more insidious than that. According to the GOA:
Unless it existed before December 10, 1988, the plastic gun ban absolutely bans any gun that is not as detectable in a "walk-through metal detector" as a Security Exemplar (18 U.S.C. 922(p)(1)(A) and (6)).
The “Security Exemplar” is a piece of metal that the ATF uses to calibrate how much steel a manufacturer needs to put in the gun to make it beep in the metal detector. Other than the fact that it has to contain 3.7 ounces of steel and look sort of like a gun, anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder can determine, by regulatory fiat, the characteristics of the Exemplar.
He can determine whether you test guns with a "top flight" metal detector -- or a crummy one. He can determine how many times (or thousands of times) a gun has to pass in order not to be banned.
In addition, every "major component" of every firearm has to pass through an airport x-ray in such a way that its shape is "accurately" depicted (18 U.S.C. 922(p)(1)(B)).
The problem is that the language of the law is so amazingly vague that the BATFE could use it to outlaw just about any gun currently on the market if they so chose.
In general, it is bad form to peek under the sheets in the database. However, it could be extremely useful to tie a trigger to a primary key + address for these specific cases. The database should also not block on it if there is no DML or DDL going on -- just piping to a message queue or executing an external script or whatever.
Blue-skying. It's still early, here.
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1. These metrics always increase every year
2. They always seem to have a little energy of their own
Lambda-CDM of academic publishing? Eventually the most important results will be entirely out of reach of the academic horizon?
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Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done.
