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Comment Re:From a non-driver perspective (Score 1) 218

Driving yourself around is dead. It's inefficient. Ridesharing is "libertarian" because it is truly freeing.

That's great, for your situation.

Getting my four kids where they need to go, day in and day out, bringing home huge loads of groceries (and smaller ones in between), etc., however, just isn't served well by anything other than having and using my own vehicle.

Comment Re:exfiltrated? (Score 1) 184

> withdraw (troops, DATA or spies) surreptitiously, especially from a dangerous position

The term is commonly used in info sec.

OK, but it's an odd neologism.

All told, CyberESI was able to identify and acquire more than 700 files — totaling 762 MB total size — that were exfiltrated from IAI’s network during the compromise.

I guess you could "exfiltrate" files that you put on there ... though given the nature of files you'd probably just delete them. But you wouldn't "exfiltrate" someone else's files.

If infiltrating is putting your own stuff in, then exfiltrating would be taking your own stuff out, logically. But language isn't always logical, sure.

Comment Opposite land (Score 4, Insightful) 91

Today, a child without access to a computer (and the Internet) at home is at a disadvantage before he or she ever sets foot in a classroom.

On the contrary; a child who has been reading actual books and using their imagination in play - in other words, not vegetating in front of a screen - has a huge advantage.

Comment Re:Why the asterisk? (Score 1) 739

If you want to say shit, say shit. We're all grown-ups here.

We are? Oh yeah, that age screening that none of us went through to use this site.

Personally, I don't think that life is better with such widespread "refreshing" use of profanity. Just coarser.

Anyway, even if you like profanity, how can it remain profane if everyone uses it? :) It loses force, while remaining coarse. Lose lose.

Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 550

Also, having worn glasses for so long I've gotten used to the built in "objects flying at my eye" protection they offer. My glasses have caught more than a few flying objects and/or children's fingers.

Our pediatrician swears that wearing glasses greatly reduces the incidence of infection and eye injury ... to the extent that she would "almost" recommend that people who don't need glasses wear clear ones.

Or maybe that was just something she told our kids to make wearing glasses more palatable. Sounds good though ...

Comment Re:Bicycles and Jets (Score 1) 372

If you want to bring three hundred people half way around the world, don't try to do it on your bicycle.

Better that than on an ocean liner mounted on absurdly convoluted bicycle wheels.

I mean, as long as we're doing the wildly inapropos metaphor thing ...

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