Yes, but will it melt steel beams?

He would have been better off helping himself to free coffee until the wankers fixed their system.

I applaud Congress recognizing that their position and duties are outdated and no longer necessary. This vote passage is an important first step in dissolving Congress and having Corporations rule the World through Treaties that trump all Constitutions of the signatories. It only makes sense that we continue efforts to restrict our Government to 2 Branches -- the Executive which will sign these treaties and wage wars upon citizens at home and abroad and the Judicial to oversee the criminal convictions of Citizens for breaches of these treaties.

Yes, that's why I was thinking -- plus the synthetic animals such as the Owl and Snake they showed. They didn't explore that, but who's to say they weren't networkable and capable of being voice programmed? I find this timely since I was considering how the use of friendly looking robots might become prevalent in shopping malls or other high traffic areas to provide people with information and assistance while also providing surveillance.

You're wrong, unless you can provide equally large-scale, cross-platform metrics. Compare the iOS 8 (most popular iOS version with about 85% usage share) crash rates (most recently 2.05%) with KitKat 4.4 (60% share) at 2.53% crash rate.

It only doesn't effect those that don't give a shit about their rights. Which is most Americans that only care about their ability to buy an SUV and pay rent.

Sure -- enslavement by a cabal of Corporate and Government fascism beats death and imprisonment. But not by much.

The bars might be "invisible" but they are still there.

How about securing your freaking server by locking down all ports and running only necessary services with access restrictions to allowed IPs? How about NOT using MySQL which is shit poor as far as security? How about not allowing direct DB over a Port and use an API over HTTPS instead? These are but a few obvious things that can be done to prevent someone from getting access to your DB's Data Files or accessing the DB itself.

Those shows should be watched and shown as part of grade school curriculum. It's important for people to know what they are eating and to know what their alternatives are besides going to buy Factory Farmed Meats at Supermarkets. Even buying a joint of meat at Safeway comes with so much crap that it's not much better than processed.

Until people start caring about the quality of their foods, we will continue on this race to the bottom -- the Average American already eats on par with a pig anyway with all the processed crap made from fillers and byproducts. All that's needed is for Americans to ditch table dining for a troft.

Actually, I found it rather interesting to consider -- given that African Americans are so fond of shouting oppression. Yet they seem to have flourished here rather well, with plenty of opportunity to advance in society, have many elected officials and business leaders and finally, even a President.

Just because you don't like a statement that may be made inappropriately does not mean it's completely without merit.

FFS -- the slaughter of an entire family of any background would cause outrage and a thorough investigation. You're a real fucked up piece of shit to look at this act of cold blooded brutality and denigrate the victims by making it all about your angst-ridden political agenda.

Javascript is hot right now thanks to Modern Browser capabilities and NodeJS. So if you have knowledge of and are comfortable with jQuery -- here's where to go next:

• NodeJS -- learn to work with Express, and package your code into reusable/distributable NPMs. As a bonus check out Socket.io
• MongoDB -- knowledge of and practical experience with at least one NoSQL DB is a must for todays web developer
• Bootstrap -- Responsive UIs are a necessity for Web UIs and knowledge of at least one Response CSS Framework is a standard requirement
• Backbone -- Working knowledge of at least one JS based MVC Framework is also needed , Backbone might be a good place to start given your knowledge of jQuery, ReactJS is another more recent JS framework that can work with jQuery. Angular is also quite popular, but not based on jQuery and takes some doing to integrate jQuery plugins
• Bower -- not a requirement -- Package/Dependency Manager that works like NPM but for JS/CSS UI dependencies, a good thing to have working knowledge of as you'll most likely use this in any production level JS UI development pipeline
• Yeoman/Grunt/Slurp -- not a requirement -- CLI Tooling to aid in building/packaging/testing/task running --a feature common to production level JS UI development pipeline
• Phonegap -- not a requirement, but helpful to be aware of how to take an HTML5/JS UI and turn it into a Native App for iOS and Android

Anyway -- that's the basics of where to go if you'd like to leverage your existing knowledge of jQuery into something marketable. Express for NodeJS is also a good primer for Ruby on Rails as it is a "rails-like" framework with NPMs being similar to Gems

Then why am I a vi/emacs hipster to you?

Why do you assume that your IDE has features that Emacs doesn't? It's been in active development for 39 years to be a great, productive programming environment. Do you honestly believe that it's had 4 decades of worldwide contribution and not become reasonably good at helping people write software?

Without exception, everyone I've heard decry Emacs and Vim as "just text editors" has never used them beyond "open file / type / save" and has no idea what they were working with. It's like dismissing Linux because you've only used it as an AWS shell, and you feel sorry for people who won't upgrade to Windows so that they can use a web browser.

Surprisingly -- no one is making a stink about the State TRACKING THEIR MOVEMENTS.
I guess people just accept surveillance now -- just let the Gov't track and monitor them like good little inmates should.

This should not be allowed -- you want to increase monies to pay for road work? Instead of tracking everyone's movements, hike up Vehicle Registration fees to offset the loss you perceive from the switch to Hybrid -- or increase the tax you charge for electricity.

Because tools are fucking expensive. Bridge tolls in the Bay Area are $5.00 a pop -- for now -- And they cause MASSIVE CONGESTION. Toll Plazas are a consistent source of congestion which can add 20 minutes or more to commute times and all those idling cars are so great for the air quality.