Holy crap, dude. It was a joke. Things like "magical" and "zero runtime overhead" and "including ones that haven't been written yet" didn't clue you in?

A networked camera. Have the computer send an alert when it thinks someone has not paid and an operator can review the video footage to check and then you can send someone to meet the bus at the next stop. They used to use a similar system on the toll roads around Chicago.

Alternatively use a system like they do in Geneva: the driver does not check any tickets but every so often they have ticket inspectors on a bus or tram that will. They just hop on at a random stop and check everyone's ticket and anyone without a ticket gets a large fine. The same system is used on the LRT in Edmonton, Alberta.

Not necessarily - Dark Matter is so far only obvious at the galactic scale and above. This might be because its distribution only varies on such large scales. If this is the case then DM within the solar system would have no gravitational effect because the density of DM would be approximately uniform throughout it.

As for redefining the physical laws on a large scale these models have a lot of trouble explaining all the observed effects but in any case these are still 'exotic' physics and, if anything, far more exotic than just adding a new type of particle. In fact we have seen this before when nuclear beta decay was found to conserve neither energy or momentum. The conclusion was not that we needed to rewrite the laws of physics but that there was a particle that we could not detect...and it took ~60 years before we did detect the neutrinos.

Any commit message that is only a single line other than "fix typo" is a bad commit message

"Fix typo" is a bad commit message. After all it doesn't explain what it was. Did it not build (in which case it would be "fix broken build"? Was a variable renamed because its name had a typo (in which case it should be mentioned in case it broke something)? Was it merely a typo in a comment?

Was it a bad #define that suddenly works and exposes new code?

The OpenBSD developers are so awesome that they've found a magical way to make modules unnecessary: Magical code compression with zero runtime overhead. As a result of this new approach, every possible kernel module (including ones that haven't been written yet) is stored in less space than an otherwise completely stripped kernel from the prior revision.

I tried to set this up for my wife's great grandmother, but the otherwise modern facility had no Wifi and no 3G. We could barely get a cell signal of any kind in her room. The only internet in the facility was on a few dedicated computers. Cell reception was just fine outside though.

Actually, modern buildings are more likely to be like that because the windows and such have metallized tinting to try to block heat from entering and all that (where it'll get way too hot in summer).

Of course, this also means that RF is often blocked as a side effect.

Who do you trust? The merchants who want to use you as the product or someone who sells you the product.

  Everyones data mining and everyone's selling everyone's data. A business like Facebook its painfully obvious, the user is the product. Apple they are both so is MS. So unless you pay for everything in cash you are being mined by everyone. What we lack and our lawmakers are dragging there asses is forcing them to give us real options as in opt-in. If they were forced to give that option they dam sure would make it easy to find as apposed to digging to find an opt-out. Ever notice almost all of our public servers were/are businessmen and women many millionaires ..IMO taking care of there own.

Except Apple Pay can't. Apple Pay is a glorified credit card in the end. Apple is out of the loop other than knowing that you have at one point registered a Visa or MastterCard or something because Apple had to interface with the bank. But once you use Apple Pay, Apple doesn't get any information. Because it's a virtual credit card, so all the transaction information is shared between the retailer and the bank.

Google Wallet does, but that's because Google Wallet is a payment processor like Paypal, in that they get charged by retailers and they have to charge you, so they're a middleman.

And that's why Apple Pay IS more successful - because retailers have to do nothing to support it. If they have an NFC credit card reader, they automatically support Apple Pay, because it's a glorified credit card.

Sure there's a lot more security using tokens which can be revoked and reissued (so breaches just mean you shrug, get a new token and continue on with life because the old one is now invalidated), but in the end, that's it. It's a credit card.

Which is why Apple Pay is more likely to succeed than CurrentC - there is zero retailer investment (they're upgrading their terminals anyways), it integrates with current life much easier (it's just a credit card, a safer one than a traditional credit card, but it's juts a credit card) and it's dead simple to use, like a credit card.

Supporting Google Wallet requires retailer support (they need to make sure their payment processor supports it) - just like supporting Paypal or Bitcoin. Supporting CurrentC requires retailer support as well.

A lot of retailers mentioned by Apple had to do NOTHING in order to get Apple Pay to work.

Anyhow, let's see, we had Target, Home Depot, and many other big retailers breached. I don't know about you, but having all that data required for CurrentC seems rather ripe for stealing - full access to bank accounts, medical records and history and information (probably just skirting the boundaries of HIPPA).

And if Apple Pay doesn't work, then I'll whip out my old school Visa or MasterCard.

The fact that a supermajority vote can potentially allow Ello to someday run ads still leaves Ello 167% less obnoxious than Facebook.

Sure, it's less obnoxious than Facebook. But, really, what isn't?

But, as many of us pointed out the other day ... this promise from Ello is essentially worthless, and therefore not really something you can put any stock in.

It's a vague, empty promise, which isn't legally binding on anybody in any real sense.

So, it's worth about as much as saying "I promise I won't c*m in your mouth".

That sounds like service from a cable company.

If she has Comcast in here area perhaps she can qualify for Internet Essentials? $10 per month broadband service to low income families.

If not what about DSL?

You've read and regurgitated many of the points which were made in the article about this last week, and which were made by many of us.

I'm awfully glad we have you to read through the discussions and save ourselves from doing it.

Seriously, since when do we have someone whose job it is to read and summarize discussions? Are you getting paid for this shit?

If I can exclude timothy, then why the hell can't I exclude "stories" from Bennett? Because, really ... he adds nothing of value here.

We've become the fscking Bennet Haselton show lately, and it's pathetic and means the "editors" are even more lazy and useless than before.

Way to do a 180 on my point.

There's a massive difference between empirical studies of "how do these strange beings we call humans work" and political pseudo-sciences (though I will gladly admit that a small part of gender studies is worth the title, unfortunately it has largely been occupied by ideologists).

Knowing at least some basics about group dynamics, cognitive bias and such things can be very useful to avoid unnecessary conflict within a group, for example. When you're barely surviving, turning your potentially random group into a functioning team is about the most important knowledge you can have.

So much is obvious just from the list of titles. It still makes no sense. Embalming has never in human history been used in a society struggling with survival. It's a luxury technique.

It will not. One generation is th other of magnitude of lifetime for pretty much all our current electronics. Do you think a scenario that requires this kind of library will bring society back to a state where it'll be able to have functioning printers and USB readers again? If so, the library desperately needs the specifications for USB, the ebook file format and a ton more that'll be necessary to preserve your ebook for longer than the lifetime of your setup.

No, you misunderstood completely what I meant. Good editing doesn't mean short and simple. It means accessible and organized.

There's a difference between the knowledge about or science of politics and the current political realities. Knowing about politics and especially history is the only hope survivors would have of repeating all our (and our ancestors) mistakes.

I think the primary mistake of pretty much all apocalypse scenarios is always the "total anarchy" part. As much as some dreamers wish it, humans simply aren't that way. We are social animals and the chances that group dynamics survive and families, tribes or other units of people, especially if they already know each other and learnt to trust each other (sports teams, military teams, etc.) fighting for survival is much, much higher than an "everyone for himself" scenario.