Comment Re: single-purpose tools better be awesome + durab (Score 1) 270
Yeah, I put my frozen veggies in a mug and rest the dinner plates on top. 4 mins later and hot plates and veggies.
Comment Re: Yes, let's INCREASE waste (Score 1) 270
Yeah, but you can get machines that grind beans from a hopper and make coffee - I see them all the time in hotels. Just as convenient. But without the lock-in and plastic waste.
Comment Re: Follow the Good Eats mantra (Score 1) 270
I like my Aeropress and Porlex. They fit into less space and make coffee that's good. OK, they require more effort, but no DRM....
Comment Re: It's not limited to the US (Score 1) 220
> British honeybees produce best output in 5 years
After the EU banned the use of neonictinoids. Yes, we had the same problem. We did something about it.
Online Voting Should Be Verifiable -- But It's a Hard Problem 258
An anonymous reader writes with a link to a pithy overview at The Conversation of recent uses of (and nagging difficulties with) online voting and asks Regular 'internet voting too risky' arguments don't take some approaches into account like verifiability of votes by voters, observers, and international media. Could we have end-to-end verifiable online voting systems in the future? What are the difficulties? Where is it being done already? From the linked article (which provides at least some answers to those questions), one interesting idea:Another challenge to designing verifiability in online voting is the possibility of malware infection of voters' computers. By some estimates between 30%-40% of all home computers are infected. It’s quite possible that determined attackers could produce and distribute malware specifically designed to thwart or alter the outcome of a national election – for example undetectably changing the way a user votes and then covering its tracks by faking how the vote appears to have been cast to the voter. Whatever verifability mechanisms there are could also be thwarted by the malware.
One way to try to prevent this kind of attack is to make voters use several computers during the voting process. Although this is hardly convenient, the idea is to make it more difficult for an attacker to launch a co-ordinated attack across several computers at once.
One way to try to prevent this kind of attack is to make voters use several computers during the voting process. Although this is hardly convenient, the idea is to make it more difficult for an attacker to launch a co-ordinated attack across several computers at once.
Comment Re: nature will breed it out (Score 1) 950
Already have a new woman! The mother in law quite likes her, I think. My daughter is already very fond of her.
No recriminations, no adverse effects.
I guess it helps that my ex-wife is a nice person. There was a reason I married her, after all.
Comment Re: nature will breed it out (Score 1) 950
On the flip side, my divorce has been relatively painless. Initiated by my wife, we agreed the only financial responsibilities we share are the house and my daughter. I pay maintenance for my daughter and we're splitting the house. She earns about what I do, so why fuss?
I imagine the ferocity of your wife's attack lawyer varies depending on the grounds for divorce. In my case, we were just neglecting each other emotionally. I imagine in cases where there has been adultery, things get much worse.
Comment Re: nature will breed it out (Score 3, Informative) 950
They don't treat the guys they meet well either - ever played a MOBA game? You'll get constant accusations of being a noob, and have various curses thrown at you until your standard of play is what they demand. Of course, I've seldom seen actual advice on how to play better, which would be far more productive.
Comment Re:How are they going to charge for this? (Score 1) 199
Yeah, the thing that finally provoked an upgrade was buying a game I really wanted to play that refused to install on Win2k because of the DRM.
I upgraded to the newest Windows available at the time... which was Vista. Oops.
Comment Re:Barber or Masseuse (Score 1) 420
Or the inverse, where the manager is a computer and the workers are all just "robot arms" for it.. already happening in fulfilment warehouses.
Comment Re:best option: plumbing (Score 1) 420
I liked my analysis of this in the recent "Peter Principle / PHB" story.
Aside from all the communications considerations, what you get with the Indian culture is a lot of deference and obedience. Which is precisely what you don't want, because they do exactly what managers tell them to do, and managers are by definition, people who are not competent to do their job.
It's a GIGO problem...
Comment Re:How are they going to charge for this? (Score 1) 199
Doesn't work. Windows 2000 was really good as well. It whistles along on modern hardware. As far as I can tell, the main change in it is that XP contains more cryptographic components for implementing DRM.
Comment Re:Rating: Sell (Score 1) 369
Maybe it makes iced tea by brewing it hot, then chilling it rapidly.
Comment Re:Hacked (Score 4, Informative) 369
Actually special ink that fluoresces a particular way in infrared light.
But yes, you can mod the machine by sticking the rim of a v2 K-cup inside it in the right place.
Comment ISDS is the real stinger (Score 5, Insightful) 169
Or Investor-state dispute settlement
TLDR?
Corporations get to sue your sovereign nation if they think your laws are impeding their profits, decided by a "court" consisting of three "independent" lawyers.
So, for example, many EPA regulations would probably be contested very soon after the passing of this treaty.
This is what they want to hide. The fact that they are preparing to sign governance of the USA (and every other signatory) over to Big Corporate.
