Well... maybe there's some kind of model in which you would actually look forward to seeing your colleagues in person.

Personally, I've done in both ways. When my partner and I sold our business to a company that was on the other side of the country, I no longer had a two hour a day commute, which was awesome. I also didn't have a team I saw in person every day, which I very quickly grew to miss. And I'm not the most sociable person in the world. I'm more than glad to spend a few days or even weeks working by myself. But as weeks stretched into months, with only emails, teleconferencing, and the occasional cross-country flight, I grew to hate telecommuting. It's great to be able to do it even a couple of days a week, but if I had the choice of woking in bathrobe in the spare bedroom ALL the time or spending two hours in the car EVERY day, I'd go with the commute.

If I were starting another company, I think one of my priorities would be to make being there fun, stimulating, and personally rewarding. I'd make it possible to telecommute, but if people began to see it as their primary mode of working I'd consider that a red flag.

I had no idea photons were so colorful.

An anonymous coward making an appeal to authority. How does this still work?

'Criminal activities that make it so' like civil rights protests and political demonstrations and gatherings?

You must share the government's views on what it would like to consider 'criminal' (basically anything it doesn't like, makes it look bad, limits government power, or interferes with the ability to confiscate and redistribute wealth as it sees fit).

Strat

The grid is bigger than one coal plant. They want to build a few of these, and they can control the timing somewhat by delaying the release of water for a few hours.

Demand and supply already varies by more than these lagoons will provide over the course of a few hours. Somehow the grid copes with it. It's a solved problem.

You left out the really critical part of your argument, which is that Notch wrote a shitty new engine, and still made billions. It wasn't even a competent job.

You keep insisting, not only in this article but also in other Stingray-related /. articles, that the NTIA allows the Feds to do whatever they want radio-spectrum-wise

I have said no such thing. In fact, whenever people like you try to twist what I've actually said into this lie, I've corrected you in public.

Once again, I find myself wasting time responding to people who either cannot understand the difference between "not subject to FCC rules" and "not subject to any rules", or who deliberately ignore the difference so they can lie about what I've said.

There you go again, trying to sidetrack and obfuscate the central issue. Neither the NTIA nor any other federal law or regulation allows Stingrays to be legally used in the manner that law enforcement has used them. That's why Stingray use by LE has been so secretive in the first place.

The fact is that the US government has been taken over by fascist oligarchs who wipe their asses with the Constitution, Civil Rights, Due Process, and Rule of Law, thus it is no longer the legitimate government of the US and has exactly the same type of authority that the Crips and Bloods have in L.A.. The power of fear, guns, and violence.

The US Government has slowly over the decades morphed to an ongoing organized criminal enterprise.

Strat

Oh no, I did read it already. You seem to have a disability that leads you to assign meaning to things which have none. See, there's also plenty of cases where they can't license the source code. For example, Google won't be finding bugs in Microsoft's code any time soon, unless it's something they've open sourced. Which they've been doing lately. Which suggests that even Microsoft is beginning to get what you still can't comprehend. Disability, indeed.

To me it says that the next version of their engine is going to have support for this baked right in, so that anyone who uses Source can support it without any extra work. And that will include HL3.

Fascinating, I wonder whether Descent would make me sick or not. I'm one of the people who could play it for hours at stuttering framerates without ill effect.

Ah yes. The appeal to popularity.

To people who listen to music, it's like pushing Justin Bieber to my device. They're just as relevant, and for the same reasons.

Yeah, just like when your dog leaves you a "gift" on your favorite rug. Why is this a major problem?

It's been a long time since people who have never heard of U2 before wanted to hear U2. A long, long time.

Right, and the point of the person to whom you were replying is that it actually happened, and was possible. Unlike with closed source, where it couldn't have happened at all.

There is nothing there or in the NTIA that allows law enforcement agencies to violate FCC rules, especially without a warrant. Please point out the specific law that, in your opinion, authorizes such activities by law enforcement.

And even if such interference was allowed, that still does not invalidate 4th Amendment protections both for the intended targeted individual(s) nor the innocent people in the area whose civil rights are violated in the course of Stingray use.

Strat

While I know it would never happen, I would love to see the FCC get involved in this. Spectrum is kinda their domain

But the FBI use of spectrum is not.

You keep insisting, not only in this article but also in other Stingray-related /. articles, that the NTIA allows the Feds to do whatever they want radio-spectrum-wise which simply and plainly is not the case.

I have to wonder if either you're that stubborn & obtuse, or do you get paid to shill?

Strat