"London" invariably refers to Greater London which, for all practical purposes, is a city, i.e. continuous urban landscape. Nobody ever refers to the City of London as London, it's just "the City".

When Microsoft added their "you downloaded this" attribute that warns before executing the file, they implemented it badly. They should have copied the unix default that files are not executable until they are marked that way. I mean they could have used their existing "executable permission" on the entire drive, then prompt the user to change the permissions on each file individually. Including a UAC prompt if they need to enter some admin credentials to make it work.

Oh, well. It's exactly what I expect from Microsoft anyway.

So the real take away is that they have no idea how much of this 1.2 PB is actually child porn. What they have is a file sharing / web hosting service with 1.2 PB of data, provided by users, some of which they know is child porn.

Sounds like an interesting idea to increase capacity, but the downsides are huge. This really needs filesystem level optimisations to get any performance out of it. For rarely modified bulk storage, this should be fine.

The memory of the device contains all of those precious keys they are worried about getting into the hands of evil hackers. While I'm fairly certain blu-ray has been broken for a long time, mostly by grabbing the keys from software players. This adds another avenue to discover valid keys from any player.

MMT? They have some ideas I would agree with, but they don't recognise the current importance of the banking sector IMHO. Though government spending is important, it's the banking sector that has created most of our spending power by issuing loans. I'd like to see that balance shift back towards fiat currency in the future, but we need a working model of the actual economy. A model, consistent with the practice of double entry book-keeping, that is capable of predicting our most recent crisis and warning about the next one.

Krugman thinks that banks are mere intermediaries between patient people and impatient people. Have you ever seen your bank balance drop when the bank creates a loan?

redshift-gtk on Linux and f.lux on Windows (although nowadays there is an f.lux version for Linux, but I'm used to redshift). Both use geolocation/entered geographical coordinates to match the changing color balance to your local day night cycle, and have adjustable day and night color temperature. Both work very well and considerably reduce eyestrain when working at night, and are set-up once and forget. I recommend them to everyone who spends hours in front of a screen.

(for Android I have Screen Filter, it doesn't do the reddening but it does darken the screen beyond what the usual bright control can do.)

A dumb watch has a hardware logic circuit to drive a segmented display. A smart watch has a general purpose CPU that has to render the time using a supplied font to the pixels of the display. This might be just a blit from a pre-rendered buffer, so long as the fonts align to the pixel grid. But even with a "paper" screen, the CPU is *always* going to be an order of magnitude more power hungry than a hardware implementation.

And that's the statement that I question. Sure there's an extra force, but is it due to more mass or just more gravity than we expect? Can a super-massive black hole contribute more gravitational force at greater distances than other forms of matter?

I don't have the data at my fingertips, and I suspect I'd get the maths wrong. But is this new finding inconsistent with my above poorly defined idea?

Or this research should point us in the other direction. Perhaps it's the size of these black holes that is the source of the extra gravity that we currently attribute to the existence of dark matter...

I've always figured there is a term missing from our formula for gravity that is only significant at large scales. Perhaps with larger black holes, this theoretical missing term is similarly larger.

Cash is a real thing, bank deposits are just numbers on a ledger. There are some limits to the amount of money banks can create, but there is no mystical stock of money that they lend from. The stock of money has very little to do with how often that money flows around the economy each year. Don't mistake the level of debt and money, with the flow of that money as we measure it in GDP.

If you really want to understand how money is created I suggest you read this report from the Bank of England. Though there's probably a lot in there I'd disagree with.

Read the last 3, but if you don't want to read the ones in the middle, read Leigh Butler's re-read. Though it may contain some spoilers for things you haven't gotten up to yet.

Money isn't a commodity like gold. When a bank issues a loan, they create an asset and liability at the same time. When you pay a loan back, the asset and liability are cancelled out. Most of our spending power is based on ledger records in a bank's double entry book-keeping system. But as an entire country, we haven't been paying back our loans at all. Each year we've borrowed more than we've repaid, even when you take inflation into account.

If you're running a business, your income is based on what your customers spend from their income plus new debt. Therefore the growth in your income is based on the growth of your customers income and the *acceleration* of their debt. If the acceleration of debt slows down and turns negative, even if the velocity of debt is still positive, your flow of income will reduce. If income is growing, you'll probably hire more people. If income falls you'll be forced to let people go.

So if we can extrapolate this to an entire economy, we should see a strong correlation between employment and the acceleration of debt. This, IMHO is the smoking gun.

For similar reasons I'd expect to see similar relationships between mortgage acceleration and house prices, or margin lending and share prices.

Private debt drives the economy. And yet economists have convinced themselves and us that we can safely ignore the role of banks debt and money. This situation is absolutely insane.

I assume you mean "countries with tighter regulations on government debt" eg anywhere in Europe. That's a symptom of what I'm talking about. When the private debt bubble collapses, taxes fall and government debts rise. If you try to limit government spending through austerity measures, you take even more spending money from the populous, making the problem worse.