Comment Re: Should prefix titles like these with "Ad: ..." (Score 1) 127
if you're here you should be able to tell the difference between reviewing the first entrant in a new product category and every subsequent device.
if you're here you should be able to tell the difference between reviewing the first entrant in a new product category and every subsequent device.
What kind of idiot economist says things like this? It's designed to enrich the corporations and take away the rights of the People. It does a great job at that. It's what critics said would happen before it was enacted and the power structure likes it just fine. You sound like a fool when you pretend it's a mistake.
Do the communities who benefit from the secondary-use life of these batteries have the infrastructure and culture to properly recycle the materials
I have an idea - let's get them evening lighting they can afford, so they can be a bit more productive and start building the wealth they'll need to get into a modernized high-tech society.
Look into the history of lamp oil prices, for instance, and its impact on economic development. Teaser: $140/gal (2014) for lamp oil before the Industrial Revolution.
Exactly. There is no right or wrong in fiction writing. This guy is just full of it and stuck in his own rut.
Even worse, he feels entitled to tell writers that they ought to be catering to his preferences specifically, and implicitly that they should feel bad about writing for other people's preferences.
He should, instead, be writing nice reviews about the authors who write the way he likes. Maybe it will catch on by increasing popularity, but the only effect the entitlement mentality ever has is to drive people away from his position. His essay will probably have no impact at all, but if it does, not in the direction he hopes.
Great, so now we just need to fix the sudden random failures where the drive completely fails but it is 6 months old and showed no signs of degradation.
Just counted - the stack on my workbench of completely dead SSD's is 13. I think I've seen one hard drive ever go completely dead. I literally don't understand how the vendors think they can get away with such junk on SSD controllers. I know flash will fail, but that's no reason to hang dead on the SATA bus and not talk to anybody. Admit defeat by SMART and move on.
I don't always use SSD's for journals, but when I do they're in a RAID configuration. Stay speedy, my friends.
Anyone have a suggestion of a dropbox/owncloud replacement that is NOT written in PHP?
IIRC seafile is written in c & c++ with some python bits for web. Based on the git model, but more of a pain to set up than it should be.
The database contains "more than 9,000 chronic offenders" which include "uncooperative witnesses"? Does anyone else worry about this?
Yes, but compared that to the fact that so many of these prosecutions can only identify "the State" as a victim (aka victimless "crimes") and that 97% of them take a plea due to charge stacking and prosecutorial belligerence, when many of the accused are actually innocent, the harassment of witnesses is so minor next to the shredding of the sixth amendment.
If the DA's really wanted to affect crime, they'd focus on crimes with victims. Really what they want to do is advance their careers, which are promoted by the profile level and count of prosecutions. Hell, if they really wanted to affect crime, they'd scrap the War on Drugs, demilitarize the police, abolish civil asset forfeiture, re-separate crime squads from vice squads, find people treatment for addiction, etc., but justice is so clearly not the end goal anymore (if it ever was). When you literally have circus courts suing houses, finding the houses guilty, seizing said houses, and only letting the owners of those "guilty" houses appeal to an administrative "court" where the "judge" is also the prosecutor, you have nothing more than a well-organized gang wearing mid-grade JC Penney suits and using assets inherited from the former Republic.
Right, and you have to add the entire NSA budget to the "costs" column for web encryption or not.
Give it a few more years and you'll be able to get an eink sort of implant grid that will support pattern changing as the styles change. You'll have to go back to the tatoo parlor at first for the big machine, then a home unit will be developed and eventually the microcontrollers can be embedded with the pigment. The tatoo parlor device will only need one use to assign each injected pixel (pigel?) its coordinate. Long term tech support is the obvious problem.
Rabid ideological open source are the vegans of the technology world -- mostly they piss people off and cause a lot of eye rolling as they foam at the mouth.
Being a poor communicator helps nobody. Give those people a Dale Carnegie book - they're just hurting the "cause".
But the ideology does have value - from it the community ethos is generated which results in transparency, helpfulness, and quality, all highly valuable qualities for a mission-critical software package. Those points are worth explaining in a reasoned and effective manor - one does not need to drop the passion to engage in a polite conversation.
It would be nice if it weren't only rich kids who had a choice to attend a school which taught logic, reason, persuasion, and rhetoric.
I'm no conspiracy nut, but how does that happen?
Believing in conspiracy theories without any/sufficient evidence is what makes one a conspiracy nut - a type of fanciful thinking. Given sufficient evidence, the 'nut' label is no longer required. Believing that there are no conspiracies is another type of fanciful thinking.
I stick to foreign based news nowadays. Fortunately with the internet that is easy to do.
And if you want to specifically find foreign perspectives on US endeavors, Watching America aggregates those.
Really, as long as only "reasonable technical assistance" is required, there is no danger. Good encryption
The Justice Department feels that having an embedded back door into the devices' crypto is very "reasonable" and has been pushing for just that. Now they need a judge to rule on their version of the word and the corporations will fall in line.
Throw in a Patriot Act gag order and some import/export barriers vis-a-vis patent wars, and let's make a bet about how many 2015 backdoors will be discovered in 2018.
This is the kind of government the voters support.
From a business point of view, nope. Any corporation would drop Androids like they're penny stocks.
Tell me about how Windows suffered by having the NSA Key embedded.
It's hate posts like TFS that reassure me that Wikipedia is being well-managed. The best he can come up with is "look at this evil financial prudence!"
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