Comment Re:My own private cloud (Score 1) 86
Neat. I don't think it has a word-processor though.
Neat. I don't think it has a word-processor though.
This article says Canada's healthcare is only slightly better than the USA's, but scores them much better on 'Cost-related problems'.
Surprised to see Australia score so badly on Cost-Related Problems.
The ethics will get interesting when we start to see lines of humanity modified to fit extreme environments
Or, far more likely, to be stronger, prettier, smarter.
At least when titans of industry in the U.S. become the head of the regulatory agencies that oversee their former companies, they actually have to leave those companies.
I imagine this will be standard in the next generation of display connectors.
I don't think it's being mandated in DisplayPort 1.3 though, for whatever reason.
A good summary. Here is Nvidia's overview of G-SYNC.
Well ok, but you've not made a convincing case, you've just restated your opinion.
Nay, it is heresy! Long live vim!
As a child with a GameBoy once told his younger sibling: this console ain't big enough for the two of us.
Your phrasing rather implies you do object to the project.
The idea is to make a shitload of money off poor people who are desperate.
Let's try that more neutrally: there's a profit-motive here, whether or not it's benefiting the Africans themselves.
Let's not ignore the free-as-in-beer alternatives, such as Open Office and its forks.
increasing the supply of consumers.
Isn't that just a cynical way of saying making Africans richer and more computer literate?
Sure, the likely Windows lock-in kinda sucks, and a FOSS utopia would be great and all, but still it seems a lot better than doing nothing.
It's very easy to cause unconsciousness and, eventually, death, by compressing the carotid arteries. This is essentially painless.
It can be applied manually with a rear naked choke (don't mind the name - it's a strangle not a choke, as it prevents blood-flow but doesn't block the wind-pipe).
I doubt it would take a huge feat of engineering to achieve that.
My preferred solution would be to stop executing people, mind. That would solve the problem neatly.
Well sure, that's my assumption. I'm not sure what's the nearest example we can look at.
The old anything government does is wrong line, then.
It's not self-evident that government efforts to stop botnets are doomed to fail.
the group responsible for the harm gets to investigate their own involvement in the harm
In the UK, we have an official body separate from the police who follow up police complaints. Is that not how things are done stateside, or does it exist in theory but fail in practice? Either way is a problem, but improvement is possible.
paid time off while this is happening
As it should be: presumed innocence. The real problem is if an officer faces no consequences even when guilt is clear from the investigation.
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
