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They already have phase 1 of this in place, when you use 3G/mobile data. There is an automatic block on adult sites but this doesn't necessarily mean porn - half the internet is filtered out and it gets very annoying very quickly. Sites with no obvious "adult" nature are inaccessible until you agree to opt-in by allowing the cellphone company to bill a token sum to your credit card to prove you are over 18. Then all your problems go away.

And that is what they really want i.e. to be able to identify the user. Without that I would be just another anonymous prepaid. I'm sure the same will be along eventually for public wi-fi.

It's about fire safety. If the plane crashes and I'm wearing this season's fashionable new look "shirt soaked in spilled jet fuel" then I really really do hope you damn well turned off your electrical gadgets.

What I see almost every day are DJs with headphones plugged into their laptop and it sounds fine to them. The same track out there on the dancefloor sounds like a horrific wall of distortion. As I understand it lossy compression depends on a "psychoacoustic" trick - maybe this doesn't work if you can hear both stereo channels with both ears. Or something. All I know it sounds truly dreadful and I am no audiophile.

Tobacco is a green leafy vegetable so that is definitely a healthy plan.

I never knew why they discontinued those. Maybe there were really no backdoors and someone thought they were just too useful for personal crypto.

Most people are not interested in most jobs. If mo' robotz mean those people could just stop doing the job completely (but still get paid) then I believe they would be happy to do that. Of course if the people don't get somehow paid then they will be spending zero thus failing to consume the products manufactured by the robots and thereby wrecking the economy.

Some people will still want to perform some jobs because they are not in it purely for the money and love doing whatever it is.

Suppose you don't like to eat dog shit but everyone else does. You really can't understand their crazy (to you) preferences but in a spirit of tolerance you let them eat their dog shit but you certainly don't want any yourself. Now tell me you are OK with your food being cooked on the dog shit grill and being smeared with bits of dog shit?

It's a shame none of these disk encryption systems can use hardware (USB token for example) as part of the crypto. Then pulling out the token would remove the key, at least if the software behaved itself correctly with no caching. Truecrypt does go halfway in the sense that the hash of a file stored in hardware can form part of the key but it would be nice to see it done properly.

My first language is UK English and I too faced the same "which next language to learn?" choice. After a lot of thought I chose Russian. China is such a massive trading partner and I can understand the arguments for selecting a Chinese language but the truth is that learning a language takes time and you have to predict what will be useful in the future rather than what would be useful right now. I've been amazed at the high quality of our outsourced Java development from Russia and and I'm betting that it can't be long before they get tired of China/India taking everything and themselves emerge as a prime supplier of both outsourcing and physical resources. Also Luuseens is right there is a lot of useful technical stuff posted in Russian and it's helpful to read it directly rather than auto-translate.

I've been learning Russian for four years mostly by self-study of free learning material found on the internet. I am nowhere near fluent for a workplace but I'll get there. Yes Russian is "hard" from the point of view of being unlike English but on the plus side its internal structure is so consistently logical that it almost feels like just learning another computer language. My friend at the local office of a major software company does speak four languages fluently (including Russian and Mandarin) and it's beyond doubt this has been a major boost to her career so why not also for the rest of us.

I can't help feeling that "topological conductor" would be a better name for a material that behaves as an insulator in its interior but whose surface can conduct.

There is something wrong with this argument but my mind won't tell me what it is. Why do the publishers think people like you should read the full article if you are perfectly happy to read only an excerpt? In fact why don't the publishers save time by only publishing the excerpt (since people don't bother with the full article.) Of course Google would not able to show you this excerpt so instead would have to display a link to "mystery news".

The story has the words in the wrong order.

Having last erupted about 1,300 years ago... That, however, is about to change.

Fixed it for you.

Over the last 20 years of parenthood I ran into exactly two instances (that I knew of) where they encountered a genuinely predatory person. I was able to ensure nothing bad happened on those occasions. So I agree the chances are remote. But so what, when it's your kids no chance at all is acceptable.

I also had a small number of occasions like the OP where the child wandered off in a crowded place and I went into Defcon-6 OMG mode. Again nothing bad happened. But you cannot discount the chance of a troubled person (who otherwise would have done nothing) taking an impulse opportunity if they randomly encounter an obviously unattended child.

Not as impressive as the actual jump but could not help feeling it was cool that I could do that.