Google it, there's a bazillion books and academic papers on the subject. Read The Wealth of Nations, it's free.

You can assert that the moon is actually made of cheese all you want, but it'll only get you laughed at.

That's where the capriciousness of Apple's review process comes in to play. It's hard to justify spending the kind of resources necessary to produce an app that competes on quality when you have no way at all to know if the app will EVER reach even a single customer. That makes cheap throw-aways the best bet and even that is a losing proposition for most.

The hope is that the schools, law abiding individuals and corporations will obey the law and not pay (admittedly, the corporations might be problematic, not a lot of respect for law there).

The idea is that if the targets won't pay because they aren't willing to break the law, then the crooks end up with an all risk but no reward scenario and move on to something else.

No, but the fact that they don't shows that they are fully committed to the idea that American Citizens are the enemy.

Well, we know the NSA doesn't mind sharing info w/ the DEA.

At least they could for once do something helpful. Unlike the DEA cases, there is a high probability that the bad guys are not U.S. citizens or operating within the U.S.

But looking at the comparative benefits, a lockable door still wins. Let's say the door could be unlocked with a oin. Copilot physically jams the door, still no entry. Pilot manages to force the door anyway, copilot overrides everything and barrel rolls the plane to death.

Bottom line, if the person currently controlling the plane wants a crash, there will be a crash. No door design will change that.

OTOH, if terrorist wants control of the plane, a locked door rules that out.

Not sure what that guy was complaining about but I love my Razer Blackwidow ultimate (2013) keyboard. I grew up on heavy n-key-rollover IBM keyboards and then had to make due with horrible light, cheap, keyboards for many years until I found the Razer. It's worth the price for me. And I've gone through probably 30 or 40 keyboards over the last 35 years.

* Heavy, it doesn't move around.

* USB extension port on the right hand side is perfect for my wireless mouse's transceiver plug.

* N-key rollover that actually works, solid tactile (mechanical) response. I can type at 80+ WPM again.

* And doesn't have thousands of useless extra buttons.

Since a Razer engineer is listening. My suggestions:

* Have a usb port on the left side as well as the right side.
* Change the middle-bottom symbol. I don't quite remember... it might have been backlit before and I took the keyboard apart to disconnect it. It was a distraction.
* Don't reverse the upper and lower-case symbols on the keycaps. That was kinda silly.
* The bottom feet could be a little more robust.

In terms of mice, I use a simple microsoft or logitech wireless mouse now. Simple three button w/wheel... I don't like extra buttons or left/right buttons and when I play games I tend to map most features to the left-hand side of the keyboard rather than to a complex mouse. That way I can bang the mouse around without accidental button pushes. I prefer wired mice but for the last few years I couldn't find any at the stores I frequent.

The wireless mice are fine as long as (A) the tranceiver is within a few inches of the mouse, which it is hanging off the keyboard's RHS usb port. and (B) You use a AA alkaline (non rechargeable) battery. Rechargeable batteries just don't last due to charge leakage. And of course keep a spare battery within reach or replace every month whether or not it needs replacing.

-Matt

Because StringBuilder works so well in Python?

You must be a glutton for punishment but I haven't the time or inclination to indulge you so:

*PLONK*

Once you get out of elementary school, you might learn that for the purposes of market capitalism, 2 players doesn't suffice for competition. They will inevitable fall into a sort of tacit agreement to keep prices high and service low.

It's also notable that many of those included in 'ilk' seem also to have a tacit agreement to stay out of each other's staked out territory meaning there may be several such providers but only 1 in a given area. That fairly neatly explains how there can be more than one and still not even minimal competition.

He probably also knows a lot more than Comcast's residential support staff.

Quite possibly. Sadly, I'm not so sure about the number of people who studied CS who find this obvious. A lot of people see a bunch of f.write and think I/O, must be a faster way.

It's actually not the same. You do have to pay for it by law, but nobody's going to try to jail you if you attempt to pay when you order.

Likewise for Best Buy, you do have to pay, but as long as you do, that's the end of it legally speaking. No law says you have to submit to a search.

Actually, such overt prejudice is much more on display in the North these days. I'm not claiming there is no predjudice in the South, but it tends to be a bit more subtle than that.

I believe his point is that their holy book contains many lamentations about the days when they were the minority discriminated against and how wrong it all was.