Yes, but you *can* tell the difference if you play the recordings on the original vinyl with a tube amp. That's how Stradivarius intended his instruments to be heard. He even held the wood close to a fire for a few minutes, to give it that warm sound.

Drugs and prostitution happen in SF units regardless. Marijuana growing operations happen too. The motel tax and licensing does nothing to prevent those activities. It's already illegal to do that stuff. Airbnb just attracts more attention because it's the kind of thing that most people assume is OK. Many people naively think that we live in like... the land of the free or something, where you can use your property as you see fit as long as it doesn't harm the neighbor. Of course running a saloon or a baudy house would harm the neighbors; but my understanding of most Airbnb transactions is that it's like having your relatives or friends visit once in a while. I do that. My neighbors do that. Nobody minds. They could be doing Airbnb and I probably wouldn't even notice except to think they have a lot of friends.

What is the logic behind that?

Protection for the incumbent providers, sold as protection for the consumer

Typical pitch: don't rent from an unlicensed provider. There could be bedbugs or poor service, or it might be a fire trap or something.

Typical reality: You are lucky to escape alive with bed bugs and food poisoning when the licensed provider burns down.

Kinda funny this is what became of the original gold rush town, where anything went. Airbnb, lyft, etc... kinda like Napster and YouTube in meat space. They know their business model is an attack on the incumbents. Everybody is just shuffling the shit around, hoping they can shovel it onto somebody else and get out of town in time. OK... maybe it really is still a gold rush town on that level. Anyway, I'm not directly involved so I'll just pop the popcorn.

No. Don't torture them. On day 1 of class the teacher explains it, perhaps like this:

"Programming languages are keys that open doors in the computer. Some open more doors than others. Some open them in a different way. Some computers come with keys and some don't. There are a lot of choices on how to solve this problem. The way I've chosen is.... (teachers tells them what, perhaps even why.)".

See. No big problem, really. The students learn that a language may or may not come with the system, and that you can chose languages. The concept of components is important in software, and they learn it right up front.

Wouldn't any other setup be unstable? M/A collision leads to burst of energy. Energy gets converted back into MAtter via some other process. Does it get converted into M or A? If there's a bias on one direction or another, that one wins; but if it's a 50/50 split than you just need a little push in one direction or another and one side wins because the "wrong" side keeps getting hit with stuff that kills it and pulls it back through the energy cycle.

Of course IANAPhysicist and this seems like a very obvious PoV which means it's almost certainly wrong.

As far as colon cancer is concerned, there is a lot of common sense here. I doubt a tiny little factor like anti-oxidants on your beef is going to make much difference if you're an overweight smoker in your 50s. Having beer around might encourage you to drink heavily, which is listed there as increasing risk. So. If you already like beer marinade then great. If you don't, then there's virtually no reason to use a recipe you don't like. Concentrate on the elephant in the room before addressing the mouse.

No, just rebuild the kernel. It should be a build option for text or QR panics.

I think the winning strategy is to randomly throw 50% paper to cover his rock. I'm just guessing though. No idea how much to pay.

LOL, that's good too. It's my understanding that a good Forth program has simple words with relevant names. I can just imagine giving them misleading names and/or merging them into long functions. I love concatenative language and point-free style; but just like anything else they can be abused.

Of course. They wrote it in Scheme and used call/cc wherever possible. Now nobody can get in because nobody can understand it, not even the guy who wrote it.

LOL, Now if CBS had dubbed the pocka-pocka-pocka sound of a Model T over the Tesla, that would have been "Airplane!".

What stopped you from upgrading to Windows 7 anytime in literally the last 4 years? ... for that matter, what's stopping you from upgrading to Windows 7 tomorrow?

Money, and not wanting to spend it unless I have to. And before anybody says "switch to Linux", no, there is stuff I want that only runs on Windows. It's not just the OS; I'll need new hardware. The hardware would probably make it to the ripe old age of 10 if they didn't EOL the OS. No combination of hardware + software has ever been this stable for this long. It's just... sad to see it go...

My Internet-enabled fridge needs to be developed using proper security procedures which are ummm.... not applicable to any other field such as SCADA or medical database systems that are already in place. Who's smoking the crack here, the journalists or Cerf? I'm betting it's the journalists and that he's misquoted and/or being quoted out of context. Too lazy to RTFA of course...

This still creates a coverage gap for XP users. If 8.1 had a sane UI today, I'd go XP-to-8.1. It's just an announcement though. With XP support going tits up in just a few days, there's no way to fill the gap without doing something transitional that you might want to throw away in a few months.

Speculative history being what it is, here's my $0.02. If Hitler were more rational, he wouldn't have become Chancellor. I think it takes a nut to get to where he got, but then because of his nuttiness the whole thing falls apart.

Not to compare Steve Jobs to Hilter in terms of morality; but there are people who say, "If only he hadn't been so arrogant as to believe that alternative medicine could cure his cancer". I think there's a similar dynamic with Jobs. If he weren't arrogant enough to believe he was better than modern medicine, he might not have been arrogant enough to believe he was better than the other device manufacturers.

More generally, the totality of your personality defines all phases of your outcome. Redefine your personality and you redefine all phases of your outcome, including the early ones that got you to where we care enough to speculate about the later phases.