Yes there's loads of good stuff about IoT in the correct context. I just don't get these people who are so obsessed with applying a technology to something that it clearly does not benefit enough for anyone to give a flying fuck "because it's cool", it only damages it...

It's like those amateur inventors who are so amazed by themselves actually coming up with a solution that they are blinded and cannot see it's utterly useless for what they are applying it to... it's the "It's such a neat solution it just has to be useful" plague.

Cmon people are not interested in "IOT" in their life, it's going to end up as a commercial tool where automation is needed, no one wants this shit in their home it doesn't improve anything substantially enough.

Not sure which provider your comment is aimed at but i use gandi and there are no cloud server options for the UK.

For desalinating i guess the main energy consumption is in pumping and the desalination itself...

Could a modified steam turbine concept be used that is driven directly by concentrated solar... that way the desalination mostly takes care of itself and the energy generated can be used for pumping... making it pretty much self sufficient.

its based on the chromium project it should have plugins... just annoying they go for windows first, it's chromium after all.

Was so looking forward to seeing this public beta, lame to be stuck on windows.

Not sure what you mean by manipulated, but i can assure you it's intentional, i don't claim to know what their intention is... but you don't accidentally and repeatedly attempt to login to SSH. If you really want some hard evidence all you have to do is go spin up a standard ubuntu VPS and leave it in it's default configuration for a few days (in particular you leave SSH on the default port), then have a dig through it's logs and plot the SSH login attempt IP locations... you should find a hot spot in China, you will of course get the odd login attempt from other spots around the world but the last time i bothered analysing this before configuring SSH more rigorously i found an overwhelming chunk of attempts stood out in spot in China.

++ yeaaah, streisand :P

It's probably a combination, however i'm fairly convinced that it's more weighted on their government effort to gather as much low hanging fruit around the world as possible, because every time i've spun up a new server before i've locked it down all access attempts come from a more specific block range in China, not more randomly distributed IPs like you would expect from a normal botnet, a big chunk of their internet is dedicated to this.

So should someone who steals $2 million and a kid who steals a pencil sharpener both be given the same jail sentence?

This is the same. Never mind that what he did with his ILLEGAL access was completely harmless (the pencil sharpener would actually slightly damage the shop keepers income if only slightly).

... absolutist

Unless negotiation skills are relevant to the job then it's good (if idealistic) to not determine salary based upon that skill.

However Ellen Pao's reasoning is to make women and men equal... Please notice my wording here, not to treat men and women equally but to make them equal, an attempt to "correct" a statistical bias.

This is bad reasoning: if you take this concept and apply it more broadly it starts to look more absurd. There are large statistical differences between men and women in too many areas to count (in terms of both advantages and weaknesses), those statistics (and stereotypes) should not lead to discrimination when women and men are treated equally (we want to be treated based on our individual ability after all). However handicapping everyone to force equality is like forcing all Olympic athletes to not perform better than the average of whichever gender is statistically weaker... there would be little point in having an olympics other than to prove you can perform at the average of the weaker half of the population (but not better! that would be unequal).

My point is not that learning is bad, it's that excessive and forceful directed learning is bad. Summer should not be the time you use to try and force more learning on your child, it should be the time when you let them learn the most important type of learning in life... self learning. Play is just that, the beginning of self learning.

Not to mention it's important for kids to actually have fun... Sure every kid is different and learn in different ways, however it's implicitly true that every kid will be happier and the learning will be more natural if it's through their own inquisitive nature and not because some horrible strict parent says you must be good at school or your'e in trouble.

Kids need time to be kids, and when they want help understanding something or are interested in something, that's what you are there for. Of course the same goes for not letting them veg out on modern technology, letting them have fun doesn't mean be a shitty parent at the other end of the spectrum.

They would be going outside, having fun or doing whatever they like... because they are kids and summer should be theirs.

Do not twist my argument into one of pedantry, the semantic differences between "legal" and "moral" are not subtle, they are well defined concepts and not sensitive to the constant change that a language is subjected to. So let me be perfectly clear:

This is not someone misinterpreting a word, this is someone hiding behind the rules of others to avoid debating what is right and wrong. Rajesh De's argument is they had permission, the argument of the majority is their actions were wrong.

I challenge you to replace the words pertaining to legality in Rajesh De's quote and have it not sound like complete horse shit.

This. BASIC was the first language i learned, first on DOS then on an Atari ST... (I made the most of old computers when i was young when everything else was windows.)

All i can remember is having fun writing graphics stuff but hating the crudeness of the language, and i really didn't get very far. Picked up programming again so much later, maybe it was all BASICs fault... or maybe i just wasn't persistent enough, i duno. So i don't get what was good about BASIC either.