Theres a lot of DNA conditions that are straight up "You wont live to 50 and theres nothing you can do to make it better" type things. Frankly for a young person, its better to just not know and go and live a healthy and normal life until the bloody thing reveals itself, than living a life in misery under a death sentence.

Living in ignorance isn't living a lie, knowing the truth and going on like its not real , however is.

Frankly, I'd take the ignorance.

The star trek replicator is still firmly in the realm of science fiction, because it straight up can replicate almost *anything* (Except , of course ,latinum, whatever the heck latinum is).

THAT would be the technology that would straight up have people arguing about capitalism vs socialism as arcane as arguing about feudalism vs agrarianism seems to us.

Post scarcity, particularly if we can sort out some of our growing environmental issues, would make for an amazing society.

Throw in the warp drive, and mastery of genetic manipulation, and you've more or less got the world of star trek. Minus the pointy eared aliens.

Righto. I'm in australia (Again, midrange ADSL2 and likely to remain that way for quite some time thanks to the our ludite conservatives deciding that australia copper is preferable to fibre for future connectivity and cancelling the NBN.) so I use netflix over a vpn and it works fantastic.

However the comcast situation there does sound like ia straight up anti-competitive shakedown. I wonder if the Justice department could get involved, or is the supreme court too much in the oligarch pockets now to be reliable for pro-citizen judgements?

Pretty sure Mein Kampf was considered "racist and controversial" by 1930s standards too, what with all the stuff about snuffing the 'weak' and wiping out the jews!

Whilst the tea-party wing of the GOP might be more or less unredeamable wing-nuts, I've never quite understood why the libertarians have tolerated the anti Tesla thing.

Libertarians in recent years have found themselves in the untennable situation of being forced to side with the climate change denialist flat earther society, having to weave weirder and wilder conspiracy theories whilst discarding more and more fundamental science to try and dismiss an unfortunate fact of chemistry and science that was largely proven over a century, because the suggested solution doesnt fit neatly at all into their "no government interventions ever" mindset. The more thoughtful libertarians must surely find this a situation as difficult as the smarter minds in the left find the anti-nuclear power sentiment. A troublesom matter of faith not reason.

So things like the Tesla would seem an obvious way out of this mess. It provides a market based solution, creates jobs, and generally ticks all the boxes that the libertarians want ticked, without forcing them to share the same podium with the creationists and "smoking DOESNT cause cancer!" whackjobs by reluctantly feining a belief that scientists are in some 100 year old sinister global conspiracy to lie about physics for some undeteriminable reason.

I dont think this is really the problem. I'm on a mid range ADSL2 connection and Netflix streams fine for me, as does youtube and most silverlight based sites (Silverlight was a misconcieved technology that nobody wanted, but to its credit, its video streaming worked exceptionally well).

The problem is straight up the fact that some of what I want to watch is on Netflix, some of it is on hula and yet more is just straight up not available.

Unless I use Pirate bay.

If the industry wants people to stop downloading unauthorized copies, maaaaybe they could consideri doing like them music industry did and fixing this. I havent downloaded an unauthorized mp3 in years because iTunes and spotify just work.

We only accept Gold Pressed Latinum in this station buddy. BY order of the Grand Negus.

Prune flavors would work. Worf always liked prune juice because it tasted like a "Warriors drink". I guess you could make inferences from that.

Here in australia your not supposed to listen in to police comms, but journalists, tow truck drivers and whoever else have been doing so for decades with no penalty.

That said I wouldn't be surprise if its encrypted (or whatever they do) these days.

The approach of the IPCC is to take the worst scenario that hasn't been conclusively rejected by the scientific community, and promoting that scenario most prominently, which is why we you see it being presented with judgement words, like "darkest yet." Their goal seems to be to make it look as dark, which is obviously not a good scientific approach.

Wouldn't it have been quicker to have just note you actually don't have any idea whats in the report?

The IPCC does nothing of the sort. The risk assesment framework of the IPCC is actually quite conservative and is regularly criticized by climate scientists and physicists for understating the risks involved. To its credit the IPCC takes the approach of a mass literature survey and then weights the results of the tens of thousands of research papers , and looks at what the median opinion is. Nobody is predicting a Venus result, however we do know that runaway climate change is both a very real possibility and rather nasty.

Whatever the case is , the predictions of the IPCC are not the high ends, not the low ends, but somewhere in the middle and the other outlier predictions are also presented with the approprite probabilities assigned.

Actually try reading the thing. The first thing you'll notice is these global warming denial blogs are not being very honest about what the IPCC actually says.

Someone is getting their pockets lined. This is politics Al Gore style. Its pathetic, "food shortages" yeah right, because we all know food doesn't grow when the climate is warmer........ Scare tactics by intellectually challenged pseudo scientists.

Well this ooky spooky vast left wing conspiracy certainly has forgot to line my sisters pockets who's been staring at satelite data and , you know, using physics and stuff (hint: The picture coming out of the science really isn't pretty)

Thankfully the christian right blogosphere will teach us about how real science works!

And yet death row is filled with people desperate to exchange their impending deaths for life imprisonent.

In fairness Python 3 isn't really as widespread as it should be. I think people have found the 2.7 branch just works well for them.

With that said I do wish people WOULD move to python 3. 2.7's unicode handling is infinitely awful and fragile compared to 3.

Reminds me a bit of one of the tropes from battlestar galactica. Adama knew from the previous war that the cylons where master hackers and could disable battlestars by breaking into networks via wireless and then using them to disable the whole ship, leaving them effectively dead in the water, so he simply ordered that none of his ship ever be networked and that the ship be driven using manual control. Later on they meet the other surviving battleship, the pegasus, and it turns out that only survived because its network was offline due to maintainance. Its not actually a novel idea in militaries. I remember in the 90s doing a small contract for a special forces group I can't name, and asked them about their computer network. He said they used "Sneaker-net", which is that any info that needed transfer was put on a floppy and walked to its destination, thus creating an air gap between battlefield systems.

I guess this isn't quite that, but it certainly seems to be a sort of variant of it.

Don't. Just forget the password. They can't prove you haven't. In fact its actually really common for people under duress to forget passwords for real, since memory can get quite impaired by anxiety (Its part of why torture doesnt work. The more people are freaked out, the more the brain reverts to a fight-or-flight baseline with faster reflexes and diminished cognitive skills)