Actually, they serve a very important purpose. Even when a computer is pretty locked up, the lock indicators will usually still respond unless the computer is completely hosed. Also Linux may start flashing all 3 LEDs in case of a kernel panic.

But why would I waste time getting certs when I could actually spend time doing the things the certs can cover? Who would you rather hire, someone who has a piece of paper saying they can do something, or someone who has actually done it?

I don't think it will become much of a problem because the the non-GMO foods will simply use that as a selling point and label themselves as such.

It depends entirely on what keys we're talking about. Yes, I would much rather hit Ctrl-U/D than PgUp/PgDn, Ctrl-A instead of Home, and plenty of others, because anything outside the alphanumeric can easily end up taking more movement to hit than hitting two keys in the alphanumeric area.

But the real issue I see with the keyboard is that the layout is so nonstandard that finding any third party keycaps will be a total PITA if not impossible, and very few keyboards actually come with good quality caps that won't wear down/shine. It looks like this thing is more expensive than an ErgoDox with very little advantage over it.

For that matter, how do I physically even get 2gbps? Does the modem they provide have a 10GbE port? This is actually quite ingenious of Comcast, selling people a 2gbit connection knowing full well nobody will actually be able to use it.

It's a fundamental issue with intersections that have both vehicle and foot traffic. The only time it's 100% safe for pedestrians to go is when there's no traffic across that particular crosswalk. However, that's never actually the case. Best case is you have right-turn traffic going across the traffic, but that's still some traffic, and a driver not paying attention might still hit someone. If you gave pedestrians a "don't walk" if there's any potential traffic across the crosswalk, then they would never get to go.

I'd love interfaces that don't change every 2 weeks. Especially certain web browsers and desktop environments which seem to be plagued with such issues.

So it seems like the best defense for the restaurant owner would be "we didn't actually condone him playing music". Otherwise, I could simply walk into a restaurant or other establishment with a boombox playing copyrighted tunes, and the restaurant would be responsible for the copyright infringement.

My question is would it apply to those annoying infringement notice pages. Basically, if you get a DMCA notice on your IP, you'll be sent to a walled garden until you acknowledge the notice. It seems to fall under "blocking legitimate traffic", even if it's just a temporary block until someone clicks through a couple pages.

Backstory: I'm currently in an apartment building that has one connection for all the residents. When one person gets caught pirating something, it cuts off the connection for everyone until someone acknowledges the notice. And of course, the chances are slim to none that the person doing the pirating is the person who will see and click through the notice, so it's pointless to begin with.

For that matter, is it even any different than the plain old windows key? I haven't tried it with voice, but with the windows key you press it, type whatever, and it puts it in the search/cortana box.

That didn't happen before, either. MS already funded a good amount of equipment purchases for K12 schools in WA (running Windows, of course). Not to mention, people want computers that just work. Every minute spent dealing with tech issues is a minute less spent on learning.

Because you can actually default on a bank loan. You can't default on a federal student loan. Well, you technically can, but it does nothing. They're allowed to garnish wages and other nasty stuff, so there's basically no getting away from it, barring extreme circumstances or leaving the country. The difference between federal student loans and a mafia loan shark is that one of them is legal.

If your Firefox install and profile are reasonably old, you'll probably have a bunch of cruft. Start fresh (reinstall and start a new profile), import bookmarks, install only the addons you need. Should be plenty fast after that.

Only problem is that it seems for every new version that comes out, you have to install more and more addons just to keep the browser the same. You could always just use Firefox only when accessing a site that requires java, and use another browser for everything else.

The problem is that while I'm sure there are plenty of legitimately disadvantaged people who are trying their best to get an education but can't due to underfunded or incompetent schools, there are also people that just don't try in school. Whether it's plain immaturity, a "doing well in school is for " attitude, bad parenting, or something else entirely, the number of people that simply aren't there to be successful is astounding.

Even though there is a soft correlation between being richer and trying harder in school, a poor person who actually tries in school can easily outperform a rich person that doesn't.

There are plenty of concerts and games where tickets are resold for much more than the original face value. Due to the magic of the internet, I've seen tickets go on sale on resale sites immediately after they sell out from the venue's ticket seller, for a significantly higher price. There is software out there that will automatically scoop up tickets from Ticketmaster and other sites (hence why most of them have captchas now) for that exact purpose.

If I wanted to split economic hairs, I could just say that any event where the tickets sell out and there are people who would still like to pay face value for a ticket (to actually attend, not for reselling) was technically underpriced, as the demand at that price point was higher than the fixed supply. Most places do tend to underprice a little bit since they would rather err on the side of underpricing rather than having empty seats, which is understandable. But tickets reselling for 2-3x the face value or more generally goes outside an acceptable margin of error.