Tried it - just a vacant boring wasteland with a crappy interface. Even the hookers were uninspiring. The text MUDs I used to play had more users, more interesting content and were easier to use.

How about... If I'm going to commit a crime in the area covered by cameras I'll just wear a baseball cap

Let's not forget they've made the public get used to being watched.

hmmm.. but see, now we're having a philosophical discussion. We can discuss what is the right/wrong way to treat offenders. However that wasn't a choice back in the day.. and I don't think that has anything to do with freedoms

Back then the law didn't have the ability or resources to track someone down. Someone could have made a stupid error they should get away from, or they could have committed the most heinous crime where they shouldn't be able to hide in any corner of the world. We can't kill those two birds with one stone.

Freedom isn't about having the ability to hide from your past. Everyone has the right to freedom, but you forgo that right when you commit a crime. BUT we have always had the opportunity to forgive people who deserve it, now we can do it not on the terms of those who perpetrated the crime!

In terms of the law being unforgiving, I don't think the law has ever been forgiving, people have just dodged rules. Crime hasn't magically shot up recently, we've just gained the ability to see it.

What's interesting is the duality of your last argument, this discussion spawns from the growth of government (using CCTVs) at the same time you talk about privatization of jails, and how it's a terrible thing to happen. We have to remember that the law is on the people's side.. and when the law no longer is, we don't avoid laws, we do what we can to change them. Sure that's wishful thinking, but isn't that the "right" thing to do?

Browser history is only kept for a finite period of time, so it has no reason to slow down at all beyond that point.

On a unix based system, the configuration for each app is kept separately and only loaded if required, on windows it's all bundled in to the registry so it needs to be parsed wether you're using that application or not.
So no, simply having more applications and associated their configuration on your drive should NOT slow the system down.

Also, windows apps, especially games, like to load kernel drivers for drm and auto update processes etc... I have a windows machine that is used for nothing but games, and on startup it loads several drm drivers for the various games which have been installed. If you remove the drm crap, the associated game stops working, if you remove the auto updater then your apps will not get updated and could suffer from security holes, or you might find yourself unable to play online because all the other players have been updated to the latest version.

The fact that you consider it normal for windows to get gradually slower under typical usage is just absurd, why should people have to watch out for how many things they install incase the system will grind to a halt?

Also, there is the problem with uninstallers not removing stuff properly and leaving detritus littering the system... It comes from relying on the application vendor to write an uninstaller, a proper package manager that kept track of these things would work much better.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I wouldn't rule out the possibility that he suckered GS into a Streisand Effect. Suckering them into filing suit in such a way that draws gobs of media attention to their unethical business practice.

Looks like the clock on my mom's 15 year old oven. Also looks like the display on a 10-15 year old VCR. If a teenager could remember it being new, then it's not retro. Sorry.

Cool project though.

Will the qualification process work quickly enough to match the growth..

Well China 'trust farmers' might be already hard at work.

Are you trying to say that objective-c is just as common as java? I would guess Java is twice as popular as even regular C programming.

So you're saying the only thing that would give this kind of improvement would be to replace the copper/aluminum heat sink with one of similar size made out of pure diamond? Anyone making those yet?

Like preaching to the choir brother!

I did an English degree in university. I'm currently working as an analyst and getting training as I go in coding and SQL. I started with my current employer as a tier 1 phone jockey. When that contract dried up, I laid my resume on every desk I could find and got extended for a documentation project. Part of that project involved document QA and some basic software QA. When the tech support work restarted, I went back as a tier 1 but because of my experience, acted as a tier 2 most of the time and as a specialist for the documentation project I had worked on earlier. I worked on improving my tech skills and as a result closed more tickets than most tier 2s. Again the support contract ended and it was back to documentation. However, this time I got tagged for more tech QA and reporting. Having worked on documentation, I proved that I could write clearly and understandably - that lead to more reporting work which lead to analysis work which lead to data gathering and thereby coding. My most valuable two skills in all this were an active decision to go promote myself and an ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical users. My generally considered by the geeks laughable arts degree coupled with a hobbyists interest in IT has put me in a job that straddles both worlds. Look at your strengths, see how they relate to what you want to do and sell them as hard as you can. However, you have to demonstrate willlingness to fill in any gaps in your knowledge too - tht where the "No but I can learn" quoted so often in previous posts comes in.

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