I don't even see this as being a break the glass measure. If they don't have the chops to deal with it then just turn it off and don't deal with it. Is it going to hurt someone in Norway if they can't create a new Lutefisk dish recipe group right away? I mean I can wait a week or two (or month) without discussing Lutefisk recipes.

I think that's the problem they're trying to solve isn't it? There are dozens of disparate applications that together accomplishes what procmon does? I don't know if the linux promon does all of the things windows procmon does, but if it does It'll make my life easier.

I don't think it's largely the developers that would be clamoring for it, it's the people trying to figure out WTF a developer did and how that interacts with the system that may be interested in it.

One tool that integrates all the things that procmon does is valuable in my opinion. inotify, lsof, lsblk, netstat etc all in one combining them in a single time based log is a very useful tool in my opinion. I'll pass judgement after I play with it, but if it's as good as procmon is on Windows then it's not a solution in search of a problem, it's just a potential solution and still useful.

Just because it's from Microsoft (or Micro$oft for some) it shouldn't be disregarded by default.

What's the deal with The Guardian wanting to dump things to "solve" the CO2 problem?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/18/iron-sea-carbon

Lets dump things, in spite of the inherent drawbacks to the plan! In this case it's changing fields PH balance in spite of the crops, in the Iron fertilization it's in spite of the deep sea oxygen levels possibly killing off life there.

I hadn't thought of that. I'm sure if I told them porn was on the internet the old people would learn to use it fast.

Could be worse, they could be Rogers. Rogers used to base their "Unlimited" plan on a neighborhood average and would kick you off if you used "Significantly more" than the average and they wouldn't tell you what that was. I'm assuming it was based on a percentage disregarding any logic at all. I lived in an area that was largely a geriatric demographic... One month about half way through I apparently "abused" the network after 20GB of usage (total up to that point) and got kicked off.

Right,

Security was a paid premium feature for ElasticSearch for a very long time as part of X-Pack. They tried to spin making X-Pack free as being some kind of magnanimous move on their part. However it was conveniently only after we started to see massive data dumps of personal information originating from insecure free tier ElasticSearch instances that they did the about face.

Basic security should never be a premium feature.

Don't you mean Google Cloned BlackBerry's SurePress technology using just software, which Apple also cloned and called 3D touch?

To be fair to Google, if it's purely software and doesn't have any hardware cost like SurePress or 3D Touch then I'd hesitate to say they cloned it.

This reads like they are using this to make a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel. Reading it i'd say its more of a manifesto or an opinion piece than an article. Wheres my news for nerds?

I once worked for a SCCA Pro racing team as a pit monkey for a weekend. The team some time before had a sweepstakes to send two people to the Toronto Grand Prix fom the United States and someone who does this activity of throw shit at the wall and see what sticks won. This person who won it was some single mom with a toddler, neither of them gave any shit about what they were doing there and screwed off as soon as the paddock tour was over, I assume they tried to sell their sweet tickets for the rest of the weekend. I didn't see them again even though we were supposed to.

I guess if you're a single mom and you can't afford to do things like vacations for your kids then this is kinda cool way to expand their world but in this case the kid was in a stroller and wouldn't remember sitting in a race car 5 minutes later.

The contest was intended for fans of the team and this outcome really disappointed one of the drivers. This is when I found out about "contest winners" because it's usually a contest winner not a fan that wins these prizes they have. So ultimately in this case, the contest winner took something away from the intended audience and it wasn't even something they appeared to enjoy.

Mental note: Next utility I don't want to make will be entirely constructed using profanity.

Just need to work out the style guide for it now, high level is open to discussion.

It seems an awful lot like an Android version of BlackBerry Blend (for BB10), just offering messaging and file access. It seems kinda redundant since my google drive already has all my photos and files, plus the sms in browser feature that's recently been added.

I'm in the same boat, I use firstname.lastname@gmail.com and conveniently I can just mark everything spam that's firstnamelastname@gmail.com. HOWEVER I keep getting email for some semi-famous musicians in the UK. I've received all kinds of personal garbage for this guy including login details to Sony Music Entertainment (Record label), banking information, stuff about his kids, it's wild and extremely annoying.

I tried submitting a story about Amazon not validating emails a few years ago, some little kid registered his brand new Amazon Fire Tablet with my email address. Amazon didn't (likely still doesn't) validate the email address when registering accounts. He promptly loaded it up with a couple hundred dollars in gift cards and I had a hell of a time getting Amazon to sort it out. I eventually emailed the Jeff Bezos email address saying something to the effect "I don't want to ruin this little kids christmas by being a grinch, changing the password and ordering a truck load of dildos to his house with his gift cards" which finally got some traction when his EA contacted me back. But this wasn't until after their support told me that because this little kid registered using my email address he must own my email address.

Considering reproduction control works with mosquitoes I'm not sure why we shouldn't consider the same concept with weeds. The target zone would be repopulated after you stop, minimizing the environmental impact. I don't see why this concept should be thrown away because it's not permanent.

The only issue I take with GMO at the moment is it's being used to allow increased inputs of things like herbicides. There's nothing scary or bad or dangerous about GMO except for the potential for increase in inputs, with the inevitable absorption into the yielding crop.

Why can't GMO work be put towards lowering inputs, or allowing the crops to out compete the weeds and be more resistant to funguses and insects.

I feel like we're a lot safer with gene editing these days than we were in the 50's with Atomic Gardens. They were irradiating entire fields to see what happened, sure we still have peppermint today and other popular produce likes certain types of tomatoes because of the 'IRRADIATE ALL THE THINGS' movement. Though if something mutated in a negative way like an undesirable weed among the crops then we'd be in a bit of a pickle.

We're not going to be able to feed the planet if we don't embrace GMO, we just need more some more focus and care.

GMO is not in itself a bad thing or unhealthy in it self in anyway, it can be quite the opposite. It's the dodgy GMO that should be targeted and shunned, none of this Roundup Ready type garbage so we can drench acres in toxic chemicals bullshit. Focus on less inputs (fertilizers and control chemicals) and maximize yield would be an ideal direction IMO.

Or how about modifying pest weeds to make them spread less and grow smaller or not reproduce at all?

Blanket labeling GMO may not be the right direction, we could in theory make a GMO "organic" plant that requires no inputs. Would this wonder plant have to be binned next to the pesticide soaked produce at the grocery store because it's GMO?

The Quicken change is garbage, once you upgrade to 2018 all of your data gets held hostage going forward. If you don't renew for the low low price of full price next year you only have read-access. Before at least they just disabled downloading financial statements which sure that's no problem. It just made the old versions a pain but I understand that limitation, importing external data could require ongoing support.

If a user doesn't need to download statements or new features, forced upgrades are no benefit so long as everything is working fine.

I setup a new PC for the gf's family that I got for them, I had to dig up a copy of Quicken 2015 to reinstall since they're poor farmers. Their old PC was a Pentium 4 with Windows XP running Quicken 2011.... They were happy with 2011 and don't need anything new or fancy, unfortunately they lost the CD and it probably wouldn't work on Windows 10 anyways. Forcing them to pay $35-50/yr to be able to manage not going into debt is counter-intuitive. This sounds like it's thick with exaggeration but unfortunately this is the case. People trying to make ends meet responsibly trying to be forced to shell out more out of what they have, Quicken isn't used just by rich people with money burning holes in their pockets.