The same is true for an anonymously bought card with remotely stored value.

Uhuh, so when the pension fund of some naive person is left holding the bag that's his own damn fault? The stockmarket and society as a whole should not be one huge clusterfuck of perverse incentives.

Tantalum isn't exactly the gold standard for reliability either ... and they have nasty failure modes.

Nevermind, the Oppo N1 does have an unlocked bootloader out of the box.

I wonder if the N1 can install unsigned ROMs ... if only signed ROMs can be installed on the N1 (ignoring exploits) then the leaders of Cyanogenmod are pretty much tiviozing the project (at some point a phone would come around with no available exploit).

No, you haven't been paying attention ... the beta boxes are NVIDIA and eventually they want reference designs with all the major graphics architectures.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/10/09/valve-confirms-official-amd-powered-steam-machines-for-2014/

How many downstream projects get screwed when one of the kernel devs decides to ignore AUFS and "accidentally" breaking it? There are no more excuses. Union mount/overlay is fucking vapourware ... the farce has gone on long enough, mainline AUFS already.

Amazon must have some pretty good psych screening, you'd think someone would go postal ...

Also a popular time for road maintenance, sometimes with pretty narrow detours across shoulders.

I just don't see how AI is going to deal with real traffic. Lets say traffic is diverted by ad-hoc traffic directors across the pedestrian pavement because workmen are blocking the road with heavy equipment. Is the AI going to be able to deal with that? I think until we have human level AI it will just throw it's hands up in the air and park the car far too often in real traffic, potentially in a spot where it blocks everything.

You are talking like new reactor technologies are a sure bet, they are not ... at best you're spreading your bets with new technologies.

Nuclear works, the nuclear we have which can be deployed on a commercial scale now ... the nuclear we don't have which can do that? A future magic solution.

Even with reduced regulation industry isn't going to put up the money for researchers to have fun and experiment with nuclear energy. The momentum in the prices for PV are just too scary, if that carries on nuclear is just one major breakthrough in energy storage away from obsolescence ... in a field where billions are spare change and commercialization takes decades.

Nuclear is a gamble only governments would take and most governments are strapped for cash.

Administration just respond to incentives and try to corrupt the people providing those incentives. If they profited from by optimizing some weighted function of patient outcome and patient hospital time they would try to optimize that, but they don't so they don't.

Well by age 51 his work would have been mostly getting grants and managing PhDs ... if he got fired in 1980 it wouldn't really have impacted is scientific work.

It just conflicts with their other desires. When they say they are willing to do what it takes, they're almost always lying. I'm willing to make an exception for people who eat in their sleep, but everyone else prioritizes eating over weight loss.

I'd love to lose my beer gut and have muscle tone, I love more not putting in any effort.

Withdrawal suppression does help some people in kicking habits and stick to that habit better than going cold turkey.