They know what's in it. What they may not know is how it will be applied.

However, they know how it is applied, because it has been done for years. They know that employers will specify impossible and non-existent job requirements so that they can justify H1B hires. IN 1988 a recruiter contacted me looking for a programmer with 10 years of experience with PC DOS.

Lawsuits against companies for illegal spam also reduces spam.

in 2003, I filed a spam lawsuit against a drug spammer in Florida. Shortly after I settled, the amount of spam I received went down by about 50%.

I filed several spam lawsuits between 2013 and 2014. The e-mail load on my mail server went down by 75%.

Between May 27 2013 and Sat Jul 18 2015 (782 days) my server processed 4,801,196 e-mails (6,1397/day).

In 2012, my server typically processed between 20k-22k e-mails per day.

Between Aug 11 2008 and Nov 29 2008 (110 days) my served processed 1,419,128 e-mails. (12,901/day) But In 2011 I more than doubled the number of e-mail users.

When you sue the advertisers, they may terminate some of the spammer and the advertisers get some of the money from the spam networks that they use. At the very least, spam lawsuits get you on the spammer's suppression lists.

First, it is not spam if you have a relationship.

How is it getting easier to filter? It is not easy, you as an end user just does not see it because providers do most of the work for you.

Worse. He's claiming that AM has better sound quality than streaming.

If you're talking Sirius XM, then he's got a point.

Bitcoin may not be the perfect solution for everything, but if you want a cashless payment technology with the anonymity of cash (i.e. not perfect, but much better than the alternatives), then Bitcoin is already here, been for a few years and spreading in adoption quite nicely. You can keep waiting for your perfect solution, or you can start using Bitcoin now.

A sibling post already explains one key issue. When you're carrying something, it usually puts an asymmetric load on you, causing all kinds of strain over time. It's very different from lifting weights, which is more controlled and dynamic, and usually done for a limited amount of time, not all day. I presume you don't have that much experience carrying laptops (along with all other crap you might need with you).

Also, lifting weights is a very different setting overall from a business day. Small weights might not make you sweat all that much at the gym, where you're probably wearing something light, and you take a shower soon afterwards. But if you carry those weights all day wearing something businesslike and trying to look fresh, good luck.

Lifting weights will probably help you endure that static, asymmetric strain of carrying a little better. But it won't take away the energy expenditure with its associated heat and perspiration.

Of course, the whole premise is kind of wrong -- this is not the kind of business laptop you'd generally carry around for presentations.

While the sibling post should explain the off-center issue, I should probably elaborate on the "better, not more keys" idea. I'm used to traditional navigation keys such as Home/End/PgUp/PgDn and the arrow keys. I also use the function keys a lot, and I appreciate the traditional grouping into 4s for quick access in near-dark conditions (such as DJing and theatre sound tech). My current Thinkpad does this pretty well for a laptop, they actually put some thought into grouping the keys nicely in a tight space.

Conversely, in Macbook-style keyboards which are often found in non-Apple computers likewise, there's barely anything besides the main qwerty of letters and numbers. It's obviously not due to space constraints, as most such machines have plenty of empty real estate around the keyboard.

Besides the Macbook style, the other major laptop keyboard style today fills the extra space with a numeric keypad. This doesn't exactly help the issues with the function keys etc., especially when many people don't have any use for the numeric keypad. It just looks like they needed to slap something on the side without thinking actual needs and ergonomics.

The idea behind Macbook keyboards is probably those who do a lot of things with a mouse/touchpad, so the extra navigation keys aren't necessary any more, and that's a fine decision per se. However, if you put the keys back for those of us who like to use them, then please give it some thought, instead of this alphabet soup vomit.

This. Laptop keyboards are already full of compromises, so the extra space should be used for better keys, not just more keys. To me, a good keyboard was one of the key reasons for getting a Thinkpad, but I wouldn't pay for this crap.

Nokia was developing tablets with a cloud ecosystem over 10 years ago, and their first tablet came out in 2005, the precursor to N900 and N9 GNU/Linux phones. I guess they were too early for the world that was waiting for Apple to invent tablets and apps and the current idea of "smart"phones, as opposed to real computers in your pocket. Also, the Linux team faced internal competition from the old mainline of Symbian phones and the newer Windows phones.

General Relativity is a shining example of this, and the Standard Model is even more so. These theories are among the most accurate predictors of new discoveries, sometimes ridiculously so.

Meanwhile, String Theory is still kicking around, getting more and more complex, but coming up with very little in the way of prediction. I'm not busting on it... I keep up with the latest work (as much as a non-expert can anyway) and find it fascinating (and/or incomprehensible).

We are definitely tapping into something real, but whether or not it's fundamental is another question entirely. Newton seemed fundamental, but wasn't. Einstein seems fundamental, but might not be. It seems like there's usually another layer of reality below the one which seems to be fundamental. But everything we uncover is fascinating.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, "Science is cool".

The OK, the latest release of Flash I updated to about two days ago crashes about 1 out of every 3 times. I use Pale Moon, but it seems to me that Firefox blocking Flash is a lateral move.

Perhaps, but I'm sure it was on his mind. Apple is really good at thinking ahead.

In the long run, disallowing Flash is probably a good thing. I don't use any iProducts, but I pay attention to Apple because they are very influential.

Nuking both is an option.

Oh yes, because that certainly won't start WWIII.

No, but it will end the suspense of when it's going to start.

Obama's big triumph is that it probably won't be him who needs to deal with it.

BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SHOUT OVER ALL THIS FAN NOISE!

Well, the noise issue is mostly solved with aftermarket coolers, but that still leaves power consumption and heat. I guess none of this matters for the occasional gamer, but if you do productive work on GPUs 24/7, and (gasp) pay for your electricity, then these things matter.

(I've been building silent, often fanless computers since about 2003, since I simply don't want any extra noise where I live. Besides, I've never understood why it's OK to waste energy willy-nilly just because it's plugged in. Most of my computers have "laptop" parts in "desktop" cases for the best combination of low power consumption and cooling.)

Greed isn't a question of absolute amounts. It's about having more than others, whether or not you can actually use/consume/enjoy it. It's about status and power -- limiting what others can have so that you get to have something special.

Of course, a sane person will care little about status. If your neighbour has a faster computer, you can still be a better programmer, which is something no amount of greed will ever take away.