Kinky. But, hey, if making Lego dildos and shoving them up your ass is your thing, knock yourself out.

You can probably even find a website where like-minded freaks share their pictures of their escapades. *LMAO*

Here's a thought. If internet access is that important to you, make sure you don't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house that doesn't already have high speed installed.

Just a thought...

Yeah, I want my home automation systems to be dependent on my DSL link so that the furnace can go out if SaskTel hiccoughs.

I want my refrigerator to be hackable from the internet so all my food can spoil.

I want someone who is into doxing to be able to flash my house lights randomly for giggles.

IoT: Just say "No!"

Java's "StringBuffer" object can deal with concatenating source code fragments to produce 6 million lines of code in under 8 minutes and write it to a 7200rpm HDD on Linux. Java handles string concatenation quite efficiently if you're using the proper data objects instead of naively doing actual string concatenations that require much more buffer re-allocation than simply extending the end point of a buffer that is periodically reallocated with n extra bytes each time. And that's only on a creaky old P4 3.8GHz with DDR2-800 memory.

I call "bullshit" on the paper.

What is "offensive" is politicians who try to censor discontent with their policies and behaviour. I realize it's mere fantasy, but politicians should always be held accountable under both the law and public opinion. They're supposed to be there to represent us, not line their own pockets.

Don't.

:P :P :P

Even if it's not an intentional scam, the numbers, timeline, and science just don't add up. NASA has a lot more experience with this kind of thing, and they're suggesting numbers nearly 20 times as big for a project like this.

I'd trust NASA's experience long before I'd trust some rich guy's wishful thinking. Especially if I were planning to put my life on the line. Not that an overweight 50 year old would qualify for such a project. :P

It was a weird language called "C-HyperText". :P

Nah, typo of course. But the first thing I thought after hitting submit was ".hypertext". :D

If by including the line "#include <stdio.ht>" before each and every call to a stdio function leading to hundreds of compile errors "interferes" with the job of a programmer, then yes. He was the single most incompetent fraud I've ever encountered in my life.

Sadly, it's a cultural thing. The first Indian I met was caught with a forged degree from a University he never went to. Over the years as I've gotten to work and know more Indians, I found an endemic culture of cheating on taxes, cheating on business deals, ripping off customers, degrees bought from diploma mills, and most recently, refusing to honour their own restaurant's gift certificates when you tried to cash them in.

Worse, every single one of these individuals bragged about how they "beat the system."

They don't worry that cheating is wrong, just about getting caught. :(

By the way, the thing they're distracting you from doesn't have to be some conspiracy theory craziness. It could be something as simple as fraud by the party's members, a bad economic report, a downturn in employment numbers, and so on.

There is also the "positive" spin some try to put on it: we're the only party that can protect you from this vague uneasiness!

Well, it's a consistent flaw with Windows 7 on this Lenovo box. I've repeatedly had to disable UEFI for driver updates; the graphics driver was just the first one I discovered the workaround for. What is surprising is that the reported error isn't listed in the Microsoft online error database with the suggested workaround of disabling UEFI while installing the driver.

You can easily distract the bulk of the population by raising fears of something they don't understand. Anything nuclear. Anything to do with computers. And so on...

The question is not "why" they do this, but what are they trying to distract you from?

When I tried to update the graphics drivers for my Lenovo laptop, I got undocumented errors and a rollback. Later, on a whim, I disabled UEFI, and the drivers installed with no problem. I re-enabled UEFI afterwards, and the system still runs fine.

So unless you trust your vendor to deliver absolutely PERFECT drivers that will NEVER need updating, you wouldn't want a system that prevents you from disabling UEFI.

Anyone who is designing such systems around "accurate time" hasn't got a freaking clue how to build such systems.

For example, when dealing with spacing on self-driving vehicles, you rely on radar or laser tracking to maintain the separation between vehicles, not some wildly inaccurate network message about the velocity and position sent by other vehicles.

Medical in particular baffles me. Who in their right mind would design a medical system that synchronizes with anything other than the patient's own body rhythms?

But hey, that's what happens when you get some simulation designers trying to apply their single-clock logic to complex systems. They don't think about how real systems work -- the problem isn't an inaccurate time value -- it's an inaccurate understanding of the problem itself.