I know "this really isn't the right Cafe, now is it?"

Hah!

My employer just started Windows 7 rollout a couple months ago, and the users are screaming.

As a user, I'm quite happy with a Citrix virtual Windows XP environment which gets cleared out every 12 hours or so. I'm in the health care industry, so we really shouldn't be keeping personal stuff on work computers anyway.

"PHP is a bit so-so. It does its job, but doesn't really offer anything new or innovative language wise"

Prior to PHP, people were writing CGIs. Language-wise doesn't really matter, there was no interpreted inline-C-for HTML html preprocessor without smashable stacks by default.

Coming from the embedded world and C/C++, I think you're forgetting how much discipline you need to write in C or C++. Most people can't do it without a serious learning curve coming from PHP or Javascript.

It's clear that while not all muslims are terrorists, almost all terrorists seems to be muslims, how about a targeted approach. Normal people know that the problem at the moment is islam, why can't politicians see it.

By the same logic, not all humans are terrorists, but all terrorists seem to be human. How about targeting all humans for surveillance?

Oh wait, that's exactly what they wanna do...

All 3 Charlie Hebdo terrorists were known extremists and were under surveillance. The French authorities simply dropped the ball and fucked up - for lack of resources or for negligence.

They could convincingly make a case for vastly increased means of putting known terrorists under 24/7 surveillance, but the Charlie Hebdo attacks are a really poor argument for enhanced decryption powers, because the FUCKING TERRORISTS HAD BEEN CLEARLY IDENTIFIED ALREADY!

Clearly this is yet another exploitation of people's fear-du-jour to bring the world closer to a panopticon society. Me, I'm more scared of the government than muslim terrorists. 1984 anyone?

I'm from New York. Nobody in New York call diesel gas you stupid moron.

you stupid moron.

Die in a fire moron.

It would be easy to get that fire started if you poured on a little diesel gas first

It's funny to read this thread in a New York accent.

You found the rare exception which proves the rule. :-)

I had a nice Saturn dealer when I bought the Saturn SL2. But that was ~17 years ago. Every car purchase since then was basically fights about how much of a "deal" I would get.

It's not that Chevy wont make a profit on the Bolt. It's just they wont make an insane profit on each one, like Tesla does.

I seem to recall that the margin on a Tesla Model S is over 25%. It's just that Tesla uses that money to build up the supercharger network rather than take it as pure profit at the end of the quarter.

If Chevy decides they don't want to build their own supercharging network they can charge a lot less for the car. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't ask Tesla to piggyback on the Tesla supercharging network.

Tesla realized that electric cars cannot be bought through dealers.

Dealers would never afford to be open if they just sold electric cars unless the markup on them was huge. Otherwise, where would they make the money? Certainly not in service contracts since electric cars don't have expensive parts that go bad after 50K miles.

Tor has something i2p doesn't: exit nodes (or outproxies, in i2p parlance). That's what keeps me on Tor, despite the fact that most exit nodes are probably ran by state surveillance agencies: I use it to throw Google and other nosy corporations off my tracks when I browse the regular internet, not to escape state surveillance or buy drugs. There's no escaping the latter anyway...

Oh come on: anyone with a passing interest in trying to get away from ubiquitous corporate and state tracking knows of i2p. It takes a minute of googling to find Tor first, and i2p second.

that the Charlie Hebdo terrorists were under surveillance by the French interior surveillance services. They were known, identified extremists and the police failed to prevent their attack.

What we're dealing with here is a police failure, not a surveillance failure.

The Charlie Hebdo events are the perfect excuse for the powers-that-be and the rich fucks of this world to inch a little closer to their wet dream of a 1984-style society for the rest of us - as if those who pay attention to the erosion of individual liberties didn't see it coming. It's disgusting...

And you'll see a lot of second sites very near the first.

Almost anywhere you live, you likely live within a hundred miles of an "auto mile", where you have 7 or 8 dealerships strung right next to each other. Almost always they're owned by just a couple families, rather than all single person shops.

Dealers are scum. Never liked buying a car from one, and hope to never again buy a car from one.

Just because someone is known, doesn't mean anything can be done.

What should have been done with these guys before they killed people? Have them watched indefinitely? Imprison them because they may cause a crime? Limit their freedoms in any other way?

The world governments know a lot about a lot of individuals. It's just that most of what they know is circumstantial and not actionable information.

Port it to minecraft. There seems to be some good 1970's CS work happening there.