I as well as others thought the same thing. Maybe 60 years ago we lost 50% (as well as on things that still used techniques and technology created from that time which in some instances were still being used 30-40 years later). But modern AC->DC converters can and are in the 90+% efficient.

"The only appropriate sexual dialogue between tech workers" IS none at all, as long as there's just a slim chance someone might be offended, and it's stupidly immature not to get that in one's head, and as long a such immature offenders constitute a significant portion of tech workers, organizations like the Ada Institute are totally needed.

Or..they could actually grow a bit thicker skin, and ignore people and their words that don't mean a damned thing, and be professional and get their job done.....like most people do.

Quit crying and deal with the real world that isn't all sunshine, rainbows, unicorns and people at are at all concerned about your self esteem.

This is the real world, deal with it....I'm talking to BOTH men and women.

And don't forget, the rich assholes who refuse to spend money to fix social problems

Seriously?

Spending money does not and CAN not fix social problems. We've seen the beautifully exemplified by the non-success of the War on Poverty we've been waging for decades.

You can't buy your way out of immoral, uneducated, violent social problems that many of our US sub-cultures embrace. It has to come FROM the community itself.

If nothing else, the throwing of $$ at it and many programs meant to give help, have become ways of life for many that became generational cultures of dependence, and anger....and the loss of family and family values being passed onto the kids.

It has to come from within the people of the community themselves, you can buy it or legislate it.

Hitchbot is a robot. Hitchbot has no gender.

ROBOT LIVES MATTER!!!

;)

Microsoft had a pretty large number of developers on board, in part to incentives they were handing out left and right...

The problem is even with that support, it did not matter because people were just not buying the phones.

Between the giants of Google and Apple, already well established, it's pretty hard to make other people know you exist much less buy your phone... even if you are Microsoft (or Blackberry).

That sucks. Jesse Wellens is already pulling in more than a half million a year from his YouTube prankvsprank channel. Did he really need a few extra dollars from extra publicity that he was willing to mess up Hitchbot?

Hey, you can never have too much money!!

You're kidding, right? Sure, there is probably a greater chance of such a thing happening in the USA, but there are plenty of vandalas, morons, and drunk idiots in western Europe too, and it's perfectly likely that some such people would do something similar given the chance. Don't try to make out like Europe is a paradise of civility.

Hey, It's not like the robot got shot or anything....

:D

I think by nature, in general, men are more warm natured than women. I know I've frozen girlfriends out at my home, especially at night when I like it at least 72F at night to sleep well.

But my argument is usually similar to yours. IN that, especially at work......if you (a woman) are cold, you can put on a sweater or something.

But me? I legally can only get just so naked before there's a problem.

"Thank you, (don't) come again!!"

You're confusing "totalitarian" with "authoritarian". Authoritarianism is the lack of limits on state power. Totalitarianism is when the state actually uses that lack of limits to institute a pervasive, total control of the populace in all aspects of their lives. Remember that the word was actually used in its proper meaning in a positive sense by the very people that we recognize as the first conscious totalitarians today: Italian fascists. Mussolini defined it as "everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state".

Nice try but the NSA has to verify the communications (which they were of course monitoring) were with a real terrorist.

So either (A) you get no money, or they believe you an (B) whisk your friend off to an"unsafe house" for questioning.

You try to find out later what happened to him and you get to visit him in person!

Oh sure, let's trust the people who can't even protect their own networks to properly identify the perpetrators of a hack instead of some innocent bystander running a TOR exit node.

Are you worried that they will be able to successfully attack anyone?

It is not efficient at all to move the whole fire department over to a house just to watch it burn and make sure it doesn't spread to neighbors.

If that's true, then why would they do it if they were privatized? How do you define "efficient"?

It wouldn't be efficient to have two competing fire departments in a small town. It's much better to have a larger one with better equipment.

If it's inefficient to have two competing fire departments in a small town, then why would there be two if they were privatized?

The market will always produce too much energy from polluting sources.

Even a market free of market failures such as negative externalities?

Of course not, but such market doesn't exist.

If it did, would it produce too much energy from polluting sources?

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.

Here's one example: The cost of air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is more than $1,600 per person per year, or $6 billion to the region's economy, according to the researchers.