"Negligent homicide" or something similar is a crime in many jurisdictions: "You didn't mean to kill the guy, but you did because you did something dumb that you should have known not to do."

A body camera is a tiny, tiny fraction of the salary of a cop, and will probably make up its cost very quickly in the bullshit that it cuts out.

And yet Japan and Germany are two of the most prosperous countries in the world today.

Lattice gauge theorist here -- we're working on that.

I agree with your interpretation -- this very well may just mean that the QCD part is hard and the theorists didn't correctly estimate systematic errors from it. However, there's quite a push in the lattice community to actually calculate the messy nonperturbative parts, so there's hope that this will be sorted out from the theory side alongside the new Fermilab experiment.

My mom (a non-techie) and a couple of friends run Lubuntu with no problems at all -- my mom's certainly called me fewer times for tech support since she started using it instead of WinXP.

Nonblack people are hardly a monoculture.

Apple has no obligation to fund schools in black neighborhoods. That is the government's job -- that is why we and they pay taxes.

I said "hurting their customers", not "breaking a law established for the benefit of a cartel".

I live in one. It's 2/3 of a mile walk to the nearest mainline bus stop (and if you've used DC city buses, you know how inefficient they are). It's about 2.5 miles to the nearest Metro station. Try again.

There are huge swaths of the city not served by public transit in any reasonable way.

What are they doing that hurts their customers that warrants a cease-and-desist?

They're doing dirty tricks to each other. The service they provide to customers is still better than the city cabs.

We don't need "regulations" here. If Uber and Lyft are getting trolled by each other then they will need to build anti-troll safeguards into their business model, which they are able to do on their own. There's no problem here that rules from City Hall (other than the standard ones against fraud, like requesting a ride with no intent to actually use it) will fix.

The trouble is that measuring entropy is hard as it depends on context.

"Frutyyzlrdkgejk" looks like a string of characters with high entropy. So does "Cthulhufthagn". One is likely to be tried by an intelligent password cracker long before the other.

"Football purple dizzy rainbow" looks like four words chosen at random and thus has high entropy. So does "correct horse battery staple." One of these is a much weaker password than the other.

Even barring the "attacker gets /etc/passwd and you don't know about it" problem, the problem is password reuse. If you require people to have strong passwords then they'll likely reuse them on other websites; Facebook isn't going to lock user accounts because somewhere else got their hashes compromised.

Rounded rectangles, man.

Rounded fucking rectangles.