corporate fascism isn't capitalism

the difference between quaint and eccentric is given by two words: NUCKLEAR FUCKING WEAPONS, BEE_YATCH

ah, so you designed the unprofitable crap that drove Nokia to near death, instead of the smartphones people wanted. well done, are you a systemd developer now?

well to be fair the donation chains wash what is put into the drop boxes regardless

the guy is still a douche for other reasons, adopting his ways for anyone with wife and kids would be quick divorce court path

actually, high voltage DC is far more efficient for long distances, so countries like India are going to that

Kodak was trying other things at the time too, so can't necessarily say the ink tank idea was the problem.

Pretty sure they're going to know if you sent just a few packets a minute or several million in the same time space...

If your SCADA machinery is plugged into the Public Internet, you got way bigger problems than whether or not it's a bot...

I think it would be easier to simply take command/control of those bots and start flushing hard drives (or whatever else will ensure it never reboots), then shut it down remotely.

Or, if you don't feel that destructive? Drop a small executable that removes all networking/modem/etc capabilities upon boot, then remotely restart the machine. They keep their cat pictures, and we don't have to deal with it being on the public network.

Yes it's completely unethical, etc... but maybe that's the one thing that will give the botted machine owners the hint that maybe they should take their boxes down to Geek Squad (or wherever) to get fixed?

middle aged men can have hot flashes too

You are funny, trying to justify the actions of savages who refuse to take responsibility for themselves and are essentially adult babies throwing a tantrum. No respect for themselves, for others, for rule of law, or their spawn. They are a lost cause

Industry is regulated by free market, which is the collective desires of all people only without government supplied violence. Actually I would rather see the life on this plant completely exterminated than enslaved.

I will never stand even for most trivial amount of socialism, which to me is slavery. Not even a trivial amount of slavery, 1% slavery is completely unacceptable as far as I am concerned.

Curious how a question of costs is somehow "offtopic"...

Guess I must've struck a few nerves.

Please explain how ~30-80 cents/gallon** taxation becomes "subsidized".

**depending on state and local excise taxation.

Okay, stop tape.

Unless you can point to or create an objective set of criteria for those "negative externalities" and do so in a way that sets an objective price point for them? It's a nice way of saying that pollution sucks, but way too subjective to actually use fairly. I guarantee that if ever put into statute, it would fast become a club with which to punish political enemies and convenient scapegoats.

Besides, who decides what is "energy intensive"? I'm pretty sure the old folks who rely on motorized gear just to stay out of a nursing home, or a crippled kid who relies on power-hungry medical equipment just to stay alive would object to your assessment, no?