To take an entire country "off the internet" would require the cooperation of every country they're peering with. I don't know the details of China's network infrastructure, but I'm willing to bet they have direct connections to quite a few countries. It would be much easier for whichever country is being targeted to have their ISPs blackhole everything coming from China. But then you start risking a trade war scenario. The United States, as you may know, has a particularly large amount of trade with China. Not just physical goods going back and forth, but companies with branches in both countries, and online/remote services of all kinds. If email and web contact between the US and China got broken, there would be major disruption to all sorts of businesses. Neither side wants that. GitHub going down for a few days is nothing compared to the disruption that closing all US-China data exchange would cause.

our Constitution was written to keep these guys in power. That's why we have a senate & house instead of a parliament. But good luck changing that. Lots of people will agree with you until you suggest scraping the Constitution. They've had it pounded into them while they were young and defenseless that it's a sacred document and if only we just followed it none of this would happen. Nobody questions whether the deck was stacked from the get go...

Lots of thinking goes on at think tanks. It's just not the sort any decent person wants going on. You shouldn't underestimate your enemy. They are well organized, highly motivated and well funded. They're fighting the best kind of war: one where the other side doesn't know there's a war on.

OK, I am in pain from laughing so hard!

Some of my favs include:

* Effortify! "Share your favorite efforts and discover new ones." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?...

* Sprayit! "Spray like never before." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?...

and

* Insectify! "The evolution of the insect" http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?...

Brilliant, that's what!

Nope. I find that Cisco Enterprise Wireless Accesspoints are complete crap in regards to phones if your IT department doesn't update their firmware regularly.

Work recently ripped out all the Cisco junk and installed UniFi and all wireless problems, mobile and other went away.

I believe that this geologic age will pass the tipping point at the Shoe Event Horizon.

      -- Saint Adams

Yeah, that was weird. Some people can't take a joke. I can just picture him sitting at the breakfast table with his laptop and his morning beer, sticking his button everywhere so people can press it.

but they still don't seriously threaten our society

exactly because we have vaccines, you fucking moron

and if not enough vaccinate, the diseases find vectors to proliferate again, AND they have a chance to get lucky and develop new strains that can get around our exisitng vaccines, threatening everyone period

everyone has to get vaccinated. if not, the person is ignorant, irresponsible and dangerous to all of our health. if you don't agree with that statement, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about and/ or you are blindly selfishly irresponsible

you have no freedom to choose something that threatens other people's lives (nevermind your own)

Sorry. Forgot the reference.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

"Sez you!" - F. Flintstone

Yeah, but "living in a large aluminum ball in his parents' basement" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

Interesting, thanks.

Sparton will be good for those who are visually impaired. It is designed for voice command. I am thinking of attaching a mic and seeing if I can have some fun with it. But as far as a work desktop interface goes, I do not think that in places like banks, doctors offices and all the other places where professionals use IE and Chrome and things like Citrix every day for real world work you will see them sitting at their desks talking to Sparton and as a file explorer to get their serious work done. The keyboard is not going away any time soon, neither is the mouse because touch screen typing is for finger painters not serious work and that is why many major banks are still USING XP it was still the cheapest and best terminal OS.

Microsoft would shoot themselves in the foot miss and kill themselves if they completely if they do not support mouse and keyboard with Windows 10 and do it really well as a workplace terminal replacement for XP and 7. We will see if they manage to support enough old gear and pull it off. But with this OS I can tell you that 2 gig of ram is now almost impossible and is worse than 7 starter edition so all the 1 gig and 2 gig XP and 7 desktops will have to be dumped. Either they develop it to run on limited resources or they are going be in for a world of hurt next year when they try to peddle it to their real core fan base which is business and governments.

The appeals courts generally rule on the LAW, not on the FACTS. So when they overturn a decision they frequently remand it with an instruction (not a request) to decide it in accordance with a specific understanding of the law.

Why send it back rather than just deciding the outcome of the case? Because the appellant ruling on the law may or may not change the outcome of a case. Imagine someone confessed to a murder, and there were also witnesses. The appellant court might rule that as a matter of law the confession is not admissible. They'd remand the case to be tried without the confession. The murderer might well still be convicted based on witness testimony and other evidence. The appeals court doesn't hear from witnesses, they just rule on points of law. The trial court would need to judge guilt or innocence, while following the appellant court's instruction to not play the confession for the jury.