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They are usually jerks at work also.

This for sure. Can't stand the lazy-ass residential electricians who think because there are outlets on opposite sides of a wall or some j-box is easy to get to that it makes sense to have different rooms on the same breaker.

I'd go even further:

Separate sub panel for all permanent lighting, separate panel for outlets and a separate panel for high wattage appliances with breakers allocated per room or per outlet for the high wattage appliances.

This should make it easier to patch in alternative energy sources, especially those unable to carry the whole house by making it simpler to just switch off the main breaker for high wattage appliances/outlets. I might even be tempted to hardwire a 3-5kVA UPS into the lighting panel. With all LED lighting, you should be able to turn all the lights on and still be under 600 watts.

Everybody wants "the loser" to "just die" until circumstances turn YOU into "the loser". Automation is slowly climbing up the education ladder; your time may come.

I'm not buying that.

One, for all desktops 100Mbit is STILL "good enough". When I look at performance graphs for even mid-sized companies, it's really unusual for a gig switch stack's uplink LAG to show much more than 40-50 mbits/sec, and even when it does those are weird peaks, the average is far lower. Even servers are usually lower, outside of backup windows or unusual activity.

Two, the amount of time between GigE availability and the availability of fairly cheap switches and NICs was pretty short, certainly shorter than the gap between GigE and 10 GigE.

Ask most females who they'd rather date: a warehouse picker, or a guy who sits around all day watching TV and collecting welfare?

How did you pull that out of my writing?

The whole thing seems suspicious. I don't think someone as politically powerful and well connected as the House Speaker is someone you try to shake down for any reason.

they have been raised with a slave mentality

That might be true, but the culture is what the culture is. Republicans commonly denigrate "free-loaders" and that's not going to change any time soon. Our identity is tied to our work, for good or bad.

It's not just nice, it's become mandatory as Microsoft strips development resources from the Exchange GUI, either to just save money or to force SMBs into Office365 because they've made basic Exchange management/configuration onerous to novice admins.

I'm sure I'll take a beating for this, but I wonder if Cook's being gay -- and not being completely "out" until relatively recently -- have some influence on this thinking about privacy?

If you think about it, someone who is gay and had been less than publicly out about it has had a period of their life where they were pretty intense about guarding their personal privacy, especially someone in a high profile corporate job where there are plenty of people inside and outside of the company who would want to take you down.

And not to say that his homosexuality is the only explanation, he's obviously intelligent and presents the case for privacy and encryption in principled, intellectual terms.

Sure, it doesn't explain everything. Straight CEOs also support encryption and not always because they have secret drug/hooker/mistress/etc issued to hide, too.

But it's also works as a counter-explanation, CEOs who may not have had a deep interest in their personal privacy may have less personal association with privacy and may fall for the trap of "I have nothing to hide" and "It only helps criminals" or other deferential logic where they see granting government access as reasonable.

HAL still won't open that damned pod bay door.

Sometimes being able to work is more important to people than having cheap trinkets in the shops. Maximizing happiness and maximizing "stuff" may not necessarily be the same thing.

One where there is no differentiation between "disk" and "RAM"?

I have a G2. I love the way it feels in my hand (although it's super fragile and will chip easily). I love the button in the back (I never have to guess where it is, even when I'm setting the volume from my pocket). And I love the knock-knock feature (although, that only works about 70% of the time).

And I love the guest feature that's better than anything Samsung, Apple, or Google has. It basically logs you in as a guest depending on the unlock pattern you give it. And if you leave most of the apps available to the guest, the guest has actually no idea he/she is in guest mode.

That being said, I concur with the bugs of the lollipop update. I wish I hadn't updated it. The battery drains more quickly now. Sometimes the phone freezes (especially in areas where cell/wifi connectivity is intermittent). I know the phone is old, but it never used to do that before. The carriers are right to wait until these little things get worked out.