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From recent revelations, it's more likely the governments are looking for easier ways to break into citizens' computers.
From recent revelations, it's more likely the governments are looking for easier ways to break into citizens' computers.
You wouldn't steal a car, would you?
Choosing your own screensaver is not a victimless crime.
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Google Play placed ads at the beginning of Archer episodes. It pissed by off considerably. I pay good money to NOT see commercials. Being force-fed ads when I paid for something (a movie ticket, a Google Play video, etc.) is about the surest way to get me to stop paying you money.
Seriously, fuck you Google. And if you do this, fuck you Netflix too.
It's most likely for a defensive purpose and something that the legal firm advised doing.
Then we can expect them to issue a legally binding promise to transfer the patent rights to the Patent Commons, yes?
How about collaboration, a team can do more than single entity
A team is also a single entity. Does its productivity drop once they realize that, like how cartoon characters only fall once they've noticed they're in mid-air?
Of what the TPP is going to do.
Or perhaps the TPP people don't want the SCOTUS ruling on this, because it could provide a constitutional basis for challenging the TPP.
Nah, nevermind. That couldn't be the motivation of The Most Transparent Administration in History.
I've got a PhD in CS, and I grew up with the U.S. education system of the 1970's and 80's. I had playground time, and little formalized national testing. I'll bet few of the Turing award winners or ACM Fellows were educated in the manner advocated by today's politicians and Plutocrats.
If they're so eager to make good computer scientists, one might ask if they're willing to reproduce the educational environments of those luminaries.
I did all of my phd work on an m6500 years ago, and thanks to having bought an extended fix-everything-on-site-no-matter-what warranty, it's still going strong.
I occasionally have the budget to buy a modern version of that laptop, but Dell continues to disappoint by offering only a 16:9 screen. Not sure why they keep on doing that; for coding I'd much rather have a taller screen, especially for that much money.
My only other beef is with the video cards. I really don't care about 3D. I don't want to spend the heat, battery life, or money on a fancy OpenGL card, especially since their Linux drivers often suck (I'm especially looking at you, AMD). So I'd be extra happy if they'd offer a version of the m6x00 that just used Intel's graphics. They're plenty good for what I want these days.
As though millions of divorce lawyers just orgasmed at once.
I see. Thanks for the correction. You're right, I did miss that detail.
Well that was my point about having very plastic brains. I'm not a neuroscientist, and I don't know how much details like (I have specifically four major appendages to control; two arms, two legs) are baked into the brain from day 0, vs. being just one of the configurations to which a very young brain can adapt.
I wonder what the limits of this are.
I.e., if we take a sufficiently young human with a very plastic brain, can we give them two additional arms, or a flagellum, or whatever, and have it all work out well?
Pretty much never seen an entire city or neighborhood redlined into crappy schools unless they were black.
Where exactly are the underperforming schools where Asians make up 50 % of the population ?
Oh, they don't exist
Hanoi?
Bacterial concrete is ideal for constructing underground retainers for hazardous waste
Okay, so the bacteria are going to be in the walls, exposed to mutagens and/or radiation, and unobserved by humans for years at a time. I want movie rights!
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