The Linux ecosystem is already severely wounded, possibly mortally so, by systemd's attempted coup. The operating system loses most all practical advantages because of this malware - I will literally go so far as to say if I have to have Linux with systemd I don't want Linux. I might as well just run Windows. They are both black boxes of unknown function and unrepairable, not to mention unfindable, vulnerabilities. So why bother with the down sides of Linux if it has no up side?

At this point I am evaluating BSD vs Windows 10; BSD is winning. Hopefully Linus will never allow these evil monsters to commit their viruses to the kernel. That will be game over for Linux.

So basically bombing developing children's minds for a decade or more to make the more receptive to the state indoctrination is an important psychotherapy. But an adult voluntarily using the same drugs to further their personal goals shows once again how America is barbaric and discriminates against workers etc etc etc etc.

Got it. Thank you Comrade Marx

And for all those researches that failed Introduction to Statistics - what you utterly failed learn is Correlation does not imply (and sure as hell does not prove) Causation.

I don't do any drugs legal or otherwise. But I do so despise disingenuous douchebags spraying their political agenda all over the internet.

Typical bureaucratic thinking. They created the problem by removing the crew's responsibility to protect their aircraft and replacing it with an impenetrable vault door. MANY failure modes were easily foreseeable 13 years ago. From suicidal pilots, to simple medical emergency, and a dozen others this was a stupid idea from people that didn't know what the hell they were talking about.

Now rather than remove the problem, they want to double down on Central planning and control. Given the current bleeding edge state of the art technology and adding best case advancements over the next 10 years, I think I'll drive - and possibly buy an armored car to do that in as well because it is going to be raining airplanes. The one certainty is whatever their next plan is, it will be worse than the last and make us look back at 2 suicides in a decade as "the good old days".

So if I understand this, the price of Natural gas is down, what, 80%? And now places where mostly no one lives have hundreds of itty bitty tinny tiny tremors so small that the people, that don't live there anyway, can barely detect them without specially calibrated scientific instruments. Also figure into the equation that the nearly free natural gas has allowed us to decommission coal burning plants left and right and is even threatening the economic viability of nuclear fission.

Notwithstanding the absolute fact that relying solely on a single source of power is dangerous and stupid, this seems like a pretty freaking wonderful tradeoff! Granted the media panders exclusively to the eco-terrorist agenda and anything other than a rare earth exhausting solar panel, or a bird extincting windmill is unmitigatedly evil in their narrative. But for those of us that rather like living in the first world, with reliable power at record low prices, this seems like a glass half full sort of story.

Freedom of Information Act

If they really could hide wholesale violation of millions of people's 4th Amendment rights behind a civil NDA contract it is seriously time for new federal felony laws with MANDATORY prison times for every government employee involved in the conspiracy to block FOIA releases. Of course obviously if it were something they wanted to do they would brush civil contracts aside just like they do criminal laws now.

I have about decided that the magic wand of "National Security" should be rescinded as well. All this secrecy is doing FAR more harm to American citizens than the wholesale release of EVERY national secret ever possibly could.

This summary deserves some sort of internet fame.

$1200 for tires?!

No. $1200 for A Tire.

You too can have the same experience as the USAF when their $85 million fighter is brought down by a guy with a rifle. Except it will be your $1200 tire flattened by a $0.0006 roofing nail. Same principle though. Welcome to the firstworldproblems club. Hope you brought that black AMEX card.

When I was a kid the doctors were actually doing the same thing. They gave me a book to read with alternate red and blue words and red/blue glasses to wear. The idea was to strengthen your lazy eye. What it does do is trains you in the weird ability to consciously control which eye you are looking out of. This has the unfortunate side effect of severely impairing your 3d vision / depth perception.

Whenever I mention those glasses to doctors today they grumble sub-vocally and get this disgusted look on their face like I was talking about blood letting using leeches. The proper treatment for mild lazy eye is prescription glasses. For severe cases surgery is required.

They'll probably try to build some move covert throttling into the driver. And if done properly it will probably all turn out OK. This was a VERY STUPID public relations move that they needed to get past as quickly as possible.

They GROSSLY underestimated the shitstorm of complaints. OC is a small group but they're disproportionately loud. As a business NVIDIA has to balance the occasional fried hardware (an annoyance that has no measurable impact on revenue) with a mass migration to ATI that can reshape the industry (and most dramatically impacts revenue).

They also don't want to have people posting to every corner of the internet that "ALL DRIVERS PAST 344.75 ARE DEFECTIVE AND IF YOU INSTALL IT YOUR MACHINE WILL BE RUINED" [sic emphasis in original].

Maybe the Feds were right when they said they'd never buy Chinese PC hardware. I was just looking at how attractive and powerful their current laptops are. This all makes me FAR less inclined to ever buy one.

Between Ubuntu and Lenovo who needs the NSA? Anyone can just pay these asshats for all your data.

I can't read it. The political self interest is so strong it made my eyes water.

Someone, like maybe torrent freak, did an exhaustive survey of seemingly EVERY VPN. They were specifically asking about what logs the company keeps and what laws govern their operation. A stunning majority of them log virtually everything you do, keep the logs for months, and are conveniently incorporated in the US. (Convenient for spying, not convenient for privacy).

OF COURSE there was absolutely no way to prove the one's that claim to be reputable aren't actually the worst of all. But it is worth at least trying.

PS Here's an updated survey.
http://torrentfreak.com/which-...

This didn't turn out so well for Val Kilmer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

CPS has rarely, if ever, concerned themselves with what is legal. In their defense learning your legal powers and obligations would be a lot of work. It is much more expedient to threaten violence against someone's children. It's very much like King Solomon only backwards. He threatened the child to figure out which woman actually cared about the child so he could return it to the parent. CPS threatens children and uses that threat to coerce compliance from parents afraid for their child's safety. Parents that don't care cannot be threatened in this way.

There are bad parents, there are even monsters masquerading as parents. No question about it, there is evil in the world. But in the final analysis nothing is more monstrous than a bureaucrat with super-police powers. An adult can rationalize: "Sure Mr Cop, you can arrest me on false grounds. I'll spend a day in jail and sue the city for $500,000". But when a sociopath is going to kidnap your child and put them into an unknown situation from which you may NEVER get them back - since there are NO objective laws in the first place, a parent simply can't risk it.

CPS are synonymous with home invaders. Maybe they broke into the home of a bad guy and the world will be better if they just shoot him. Maybe the people are completely innocent of ever even jaywalking. When guilt means whatever they want it to mean and you are guilty until proven innocent, perhaps 3 years from now, you just cannot take the risk.