Arizona only requires permission from one of the two parties (without a warrant) to record a conversation.

The trackpad on a macbook is unmatched in any other laptop I've ever used... (all laptop keyboards are pretty shitty), and the screen is nice, but not as unique. I also like the aluminum shell... that said, I'd considered some of the ultrabooks (acer and asus) this last time around... kept me with the touchpad... I care more for what I touch and see than for the guts even. though I did pay too much for 512gb ssd and 16gb ram.

I'll admit, the main reasons I have a macbook pro laptop are 1) the touchpad, 2) the display and 3) the styling... Functionally, I could have similar hardware for about $1k less for what I last bought (top end rmbp august 2014)... My last one was stolen, or I'd still be using it (2011 mbp). My home desktop is windows, my htpc is ubuntu, and most of my dev is in a gui editor (sublime) via a smb connection to an ubuntu VM, with a couple SSH terminals in a shell prompt on that VM in either windows, or linux. I edit with gui, and run against Ubuntu... most of the apps I use run wherever, and don't care that much... I also use a Model-M style keyboard at work and home. As for meta in meta... a lot of my target for software is now in docker containers, inside said VM.

One of my grandmothers has an Ubuntu desktop, and a chromebook... the other has just a chromebook... I am very happy for this.

Didn't AMD management shift off it's manufacturing side, and shake down on its' engineering teams in order to maximize short-term profits? I mean, I will often choose AMD where it's pragmatic, but they're too far behind Intel for server performance/watt considerations.

I'd like to see a salary floor for H1-B at 15 times minimum wage (or 10 times the poverty level, whichever is higher)... + a 20% administrative fee.

That would probably curtail abuses of said system... it couldn't be abused for the purpose of bringing in cheaper labor then.

I don't think the distinction you're making is as bright of a line as many people wish it were.

When you think of "for profit" college, do you think of the motivations? The governance? The educational results?

I look at "normal" colleges and I see many examples of
- bad motivations: if you don't think "normal" colleges aren't motivated by the wrong things, look at how much money gets pumped into athletics programs. look at how much money goes to administrative stafff. look at how much money goes to building lavish student unions, extra rec facilities, and all kinds of other things that aren't really related to the "stated" mission of the university. instead, they're related to attracting student enrollment with candy; attracting not the top of the intellectual pyramid, but the broad base, with bread and circuses...

- bad governance. University administration and leadership live like royalty in some places. In my humble state the university chancellor is apparently forcing campus cops to be his personal chauffer. The higher ed system in this state badly misdirects state funds, over and over, and is never held accountable.

  - bad outcomes: plenty of people coming out of "normal" universities with toy degrees that are unemployable, and worse, really have no insight or understanding into anything worthwhile... and yet are saddled with plenty of debt.

Private universities are a response to current realities: many low-risk jobs require a paper degree, but no actual skills. Many traditional universities are needlessly stupid and expensive if all you want is that paper. And there is plenty of free money to go around, irrespective of merit.

I agree that for-profit diploma mills are probably a net negative. My point is that "normal" universities, in broad strokes, may not be any better.

You have the Part 15 and ISM services for that. You really can buy a microwave link that's metropolitan-distance and legal to use.

We lost much of our 440 capability to PAVE PAWS in California. Remember, Amateur Radio is not the primary service on many bands. The military is on 440.

If you want that nearly infinite microwave spectrum, you have the Part 15 and ISM services. Absolutely nothing is stopping you. Power is not the issue with those frequencies, it's line of sight and Fresnel zones.

No, I absolutely do not have to prefix my words with anything. You do that by posting as an anonymous coward. I use my real name to indicate that I stand behind my words.

Yes. The usual mechanism here would be WiFi security, with HTTPS or SSL inside of it.

I won't use systemd until it is themeable, or at least skinnable.

Also, where are all the good screenshots showing cool systemd setups?

OK, no real technical data and some absurd claims here.

First all-digital transceiver? No. There have been others. Especially if you allow them to have a DAC and an ADC and no other components in the analog domain, but even without that, there are lots of IoT-class radios with direct-to-digital detectors and digital outputs directly to the antenna. You might have one in your car remote (mine is two-way).

And they have to use patented algorithms? Everybody else can get along with well-known technology old enough that any applicable patents are long expired.

It would be nicer if there was some information about what they are actually doing. If they really have patented it, there's no reason to hold back.

The current legality of border searches of electronic property isn't fully settled (see e.g. wikipedia), but the case you're linking is completely unrelated to that issue. The decision doesn't discuss border exceptions -- from the court's perspective, it's a regular arrest and search, and they follow the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Riley v. California (requiring a warrant for searches of a cell phone found during an arrest).

This is actually the third "nVidia SHIELD" product. There's now a Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and this new Shield Console.