Also cheap and nasty doesn't necessarily mean bad. It's just a roll of a typical DnD dice.

I have currently a 3 year old, definitely cheap Chinese import battery in my ancient Dell XPS. It was less than 1/3rd of the price of the original Dell. This is now the 3rd battery in it. The original Dell lasted about 3 years, the replacement from Dell lasted about 1 year, and now this ebay Chinese one, covered in Chinese writing is almost 3 years in and still going strong.

When I bought my Nikon D200 I also bought an after market Chinese battery too for 1/4 of the price of the Nikon one. The Nikon one died first even though they were both given equal cycles (always swapped them when they needed charging). But with the D800 I have now the Chinese one lasted about a year and the Nikon one is still going strong.Also my sister's Dell Chinese knock-off battery lasted about 9 months before its performance notably degraded.

Do you feel lucky punk?

Found a bug in physics.c, those cars we mass produced last year will spontaneously explode after 367 days of exposure to an atmosphere containing oxygen, or when white lines are painted rather than vinyl, or when attempting a corner of a prime number of degrees when speeding on a cambered road.

Why wasn't this spotted sooner?

Because we hadn't expected to need chemistry or non-Euclidian geometry in a physics engine.

Then make the episodes longer. Or have one set of presenters on the first show (they're usually paired) and the others on the second show. Or eliminate redundant footage so that you can have two or three times the content. Or eliminate the advertisers, sorry adverts, and get three times the running length.

The assumption seems to be that as 90% of kids 15 years ago were diagnosed ADHD, 90% of the target audience now must also have ADHD. Except for Game of Thrones viewers, who apparently have other issues.

Discovery got caught using fake footage in documentaries. No scientist should be working with a channel that is peddling fraudulent material. History lost a lot of reputation with their academically bogus Ancient Aliens stuff, but at least they didn't try to offer photographs and videos they themselves doctored as "evidence".

If the three have projects worth taking seriously, they won't be projects on Discovery. HBO has less of a credibility issue.

God damn Fred Phelps.

... lack of randomness.

Will they simulate a 3 year old tossing a sandwich out the window into oncoming traffic?

Two things:

1.) Photographs are images frozen in time. A little bit later, things change. Try it. Go outside with your phone and take a picture. Wait until after Family Feud. Go outside and look at the same scene and the picture on the phone. Notice the the cat is gone now.

2.) "I would hate to think that showing them how easy it is ..." -- Just no, OK?

Fred died.

Other OSes use other windows manager.
Android is the only one using "flinger".
Wayland for exemple is used by the Meago/Tizen/Sailfish OS family.

Same vulnerability won't expose other OSes, but on the other hand, other window manager could also be broken in a different way and be exploited by a different malicious app.

Yup. Either swap between driver, or taking breaks. But indeed, a single driver shouldn't drive more than 2 hours straight any way.
And to come back to the argument I was giving to the parent poster (arth1): if you're taking breaks anyway, why not plugging the car into the charging port, instead of complaining that a charge is slower than a fuel tank (or a battery swap, for that matter).
Unlike a gaz station, you don't need to hold the the charging cable during the whole procedure. Just plug the car, go make a nice break, drink a coffee, and go back to your electric-car once it alerts you on your smartphone that the battery is nearly full again.

Well, of course I don't know the rules of DOT, because I happen to live on the wrong side of the Atlantic pond.

Well, I happen to have a military driving license and I had to fill this stupid paperworks (or at least, the local equivalent).
And yup, here around too, the drivers are required to keep their tiredness in check and take the necessary breaks.

Depends. Here around, planes tends to be expensive if you don't plan your trip well in advance and buy your ticket while still cheap.
If you want to last-minute travel, trains can be cheaper.
If you're part of a small group, doing a road-trip can also be economically intesting.
Also not every destination is easily reachable by train or airplane.
(During autumn, we need to drive around 3hours to reach ski-resort which are already open for pre-season skiing. Car is the only single way to reach them)
I happen to be the only driver in my group, so I'll have to drive the whole trip both ways. And yes I *do* take breaks mid-way and make sure to be rested enough. And yes, my car is also equipped with collision-avoidance systems, just to have extra safety.

Cause the NSA ain't providing code, bandwidth, or servers to scale the system to millions of users. Google and Facebook have the knowledge and resources to actually do it, if they want.

But yeah, its a pretty dumb hope. They don't want you to have any anonymity as it is.

I think it would be cool if some one were to design a cryptocurrency wherein the proof of work was somehow related to the number of connections proxies. So mining would actually be providing anonymity to those who needed it and their would be an incentive to provide service. However that trick of providing indisputable proof of work, while not reveling the traffic or inbound/outbound connections might be a bit tricky to get right.

I see a fuck of a lot more millionaires in the movie industry than I do at my local garage.

It could be coincidence, or it could be because they're still charging fifteen quid for a film released three decades ago and demanding jail time for anybody that thinks its earned them enough money already and they should be incentivised into producing something worth watching now, not Fast and Furious fucking 6.

Yeah, you understand completely. That's exactly why the Infosys staff I worked with didn't want to move to the UK.

Or maybe it's because in the UK they wouldn't be able to afford multiple houses earning them a second income, a household staff so that the wife doesn't have to work, the early retirement they're planning to enjoy.

Indian salaries may be low compared to the UK or the US but Indian IT salaries are way off the scale when you factor in the cost of living.

The big problem is that the pipeline's been cut off.

You used to be able to interview 20 local people and get a choice of great candidates because the local people had come through the ranks and had to learn their shit.

These days you don't take on junior people and train them up. For the same money you can get the already experienced person over from India, or Malaysia, or China, or Bulgaria. Or if you're a multinational, don't even get them over: Open the office there, it's even cheaper.

So there aren't the junior learning roles, the apprenticeships, the low paid jobs in which people can learn the skills and become the great IT people we need.

It's a fucking tragedy and it's taken a failure of the outsourcing model to reveal the sudden disconnect and gap that's been created, and it's going to be another decade before that gap starts to be filled.

So right now it's actually true: there is a shortage of great people. Not because the locals aren't capable, or couldn't become great, but because there just haven't been the openings to let them develop those skills.