Seriously? You are comparing a wall that spans over 1000 miles and where the response time is measured in hours with a prison wall where 1 person can see from one side to the other, and that has guards with machine guns every couple hundred feet ready to open fire the second someone begins climbing?

As I've said previously on this topic, physical barriers only work when the delay they add is proportional to the response time, or when the barrier improves the response time. Out in the desert, even if you know the exact moment that someone breaches the border, the response time can be hours. Adding 5 or 10 minutes for someone to scale the wall is trivial. If you can track down and intercept someone who breached the border 1 hour 50 minutes ago, you can almost surely track down someone who breached the border 2 hours ago.

1) Complete transaction of X merchandise in exchange for cryptocurrency
2) Roll back transaction
3) Profit

Except that Remind actually IS NOT spamming. I'm not sure how often this is used to communicate directly with students in upper grades or college. My experience is with it used in elementary school for the teachers to send information to the parents. It also allows parents to respond back to the group, and one parent to respond to any other parent in the class. And it does this without anyone having to share their email address or phone number with each other. The parents voluntarily sign up for the list, so it's not spam even if you don't like the messages being sent.

Is that what your extensive research tells you? Because my extensive research (which consisted of googling "do any animals eat mistletoe" and reading the google highlighted summary at the top of the results) says:

The full article (https://www.usgs.gov/news/not-just-kissing-mistletoe-and-birds-bees-and-other-beasts-0) also documents species of birds that eat the berries

Physical barriers only work when the delay they add is proportional to the response time, or when the barrier improves the response time.

Police response time to your house is often only a matter of minutes. A door lock works because either it adds a few minutes of delay for the thief trying to bypass it stealthily (giving neighbors or homeowners a chance to spot the intrusion and call police) , or because it draws attention if you bypass it quickly (neighbors or homeowner hear door kicked in or window being broken). Even a 15 second delay may be all it takes for a homeowner to run and retrieve a gun from a safe.

Walls/fences work in urban areas because they prevent casual flow of people back and forth, and because they are well monitored. The 15 seconds it takes someone to scale a fence is plenty of time to mobilize the guards and intercept. These are the areas where we already have walls/fences built.

Out in the desert, even if you know the exact moment that someone breaches the border, the response time can be hours. Adding 5 or 10 minutes for someone to scale the wall is trivial. If you can track down and intercept someone who breached the border 1 hour 50 minutes ago, you can almost surely track down someone who breached the border 2 hours ago.

I'm confused. Why would nVidia want ANY game to perform less than 100% on their hardware? Crippling any given game on nVidia hardware doesn't in any way hurt their competition (ATI)...just the opposite, actually. And as far as I'm aware, they don't have any ownership interest in any game development or publishing company. So I fail to see what the upside is for them to do so.

While my memory of that period may not be as clear 20+ year later, I think Nvidia was actually breaking new ground back then. Matrox made some wickedly fast 2d accelerated cards, but I don't seem to recall them ever having anything particularly compelling in the 3d market (the attempts they did make were either slow, poor quality, or both). 3dfx had some killer 3d performance, but every one of their cards was neutered in some form or another (required separate 2D card, limited resolution, only 16-bit color, 2D+3D in one card sacrificed performance).

Nvidia sort of created the perfect middle ground. A single card that could perform extremely good at both 2D and 3D (though not top of the line at either), great image quality, and not too pricey. And though my memory is less certain on this, I feel like they were earlier to have full opengl and better support for new direct3d features. And when the GeForce cards came out with the first implementations of programmable transform/lighting pipelines, that was the final nail in the coffin for most of the competition...you could have your cake AND eat it, and they'd even throw some extra sprinkles on the top for good measure.

Another example is Tile, the handy little device that helps you find your keys using your phone, or find your cell phone using your keys. It's a nice little piece of tech that I've liked very much. However, after seeing stories recently how some seemingly trustworthy apps are selling "anonymized" location data which can trivially be reidentified simply by looking where you spend your evenings and where you spend your work hours, I started locking down location data for all my apps. And when I did, wouldn't you know it...the Tile doesn't function at all anymore without location services. I understand they want location data to enable their crowdsourced location feature, but I don't want that. I just want to find my keys in my house.

Aren't they a bit late in this hack? Just a few months ago we had this story about how google is redesigning the recaptcha to not even require user interaction anymore:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

So it sounds like they are hacking an old version that is already in the process of being retired.

I'm not sure what the difference is. I'll admit I'm not familiar with the internals of Etherium, though I was under the impression it was pretty much the same as Bitcoin (which I am familiar with). In Bitcoin, the "mining" aspect is to take a bunch of transactions and stuff them into a fixed size block, and then repeatedly hash that over and over each time with a different nonce appended until the hashed result matched a preset value or range. The "mining" process is the act of hashing until you find the right nonce. When you do, the transactions that you hashed are then considered processed. The one gotcha there is that because of the distributed nature and the fact that someone else could've minded a block at the exact same time as you, the processed transaction is only considered "verified" after a certain number of additional blocks are mined (at which point it becomes statistically unlikely for a competing blockchain to invalidate the mined block)

So mining and processing transactions really go hand in hand. Doing one is the same as doing the other.

It's actually a combination of competition from many faces. Clothing is a major item for Sears, and yes Walmart and Target (and Kohls) are competion for thier price point. But another big item for Sears is appliances (at least in my mind, that is what they are best known for, but I'm not sure if that's the biggest part of their bottom line). In that area they've faced competition from Best Buy, Home Depot/Menards/Lowes, Costco, and others.

Along with clothing and appliances, tools is the one other thing that comes to mind when I think Sears. And again, Home Depot/Menards/Lowes is big competition here, but I really feel like (and I may be way off) Harbor Freight is a huge source of competition for them here. Yes there is a bit of a quality difference (though that is a bit diminished as I don't think craftsman quality is quite what it used to be), but honestly for most people the cheap Harbor Freight tool is sufficient 9 out of 10 times, and for the price of the craftsman tool you can just replace the harbor freight tool 5 times (and that's not even considering most of the HF non-power tools have a lifetime replacement warranty anyway)

Of all the things out there, I really feel like Amazon is one of the smallest contributors to Sears' demise.

The problem is there are just way too many things to take a stand against. I don't like a heavily customized OS, so I want something that runs a more or less barebones version of Android (good support for Lineage OS is also highly desired here, so that later when the vendor stops updating, I can switch there for my updates). So I've got to make my stand on the OS.

When my OnePlus One was about 2 years old, I started looking for a replacement. Nothing felt right. The original Google Pixel was a good contender, but was a bit too pricey in my opinion. So I've got to make my stand on the price.

I waited for a bit and the Pixel 2 was coming out. It was looking pretty interesting, so I considered abandoning my stand on the price. But wait...no headphone jack? No way. So I've got to make my stand on the headphone jack.

So I was thinking about another OnePlus phone. The OP6 was coming out soon so I waited even longer for that. Hooray, a real headphone jack and a decent price. But WTF...a glass back? God damn it, I hate that, so I've got to make my stand on the glass back.

So I wait even longer and now my phone is approaching 4 years old. I'm making my stands on installed OS, price, headphone jack, and glass back. the OP6t is coming but fuck, now it too ditches the headphone jack. The situation is getting worse.

Pixel 3 is coming out. All the downsides of the previous, plus now they too have the fucking glass back. But god damn did they do a really incredible job on the camera and camera software. My 4+ year old phone is on it's last leg, having to charge it twice a day and dealing with constant reboots (I replaced the battery but since there are no genuine ones I found the replacement even worse than the degraded original). The way the market has gone, my stand on no glass back is pointless. My stand on the headphone jack is nearly the same. So I compromise on those and the price, keep my stand on the OS, and get the nice camera of the Pixel 3.

I've been holding out for 2 years now and I feel that's about the best I can do. It's a good phone, and I'm really happy with it. It's annoying every time I have to hook up that dongle. I'm annoyed I had to buy a case for it (I used my previous phones with no case, but that's not a realistic option with a glass back). But I love the camera (which to me is probably more important than the cellular functionality itself). I tried making my stands, but it's just not realistic.

I trust it because, 1) I've disabled it so that it doesn't respond to voice, only manual triggering (thus much more difficult to invoke accidentally), and 2) at least with Android, it's open source, and although I haven't personally looked at the source, enough people have that I'm fairly confident if it were doing something to upload recordings without my permissions, somebody would likely have figured it out by now.

It's really too bad that laws cannot be amended. Oh wait. They can be. And they have been:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/t...

You do know that "female" is a sex classification, not gender, right? You can chop off or sew on or use hormones to grow whatever you want to in order to change your gender classification, but it still doesn't change your chromosomes.