Yeah, because there's absolutely nothing bad that can happen when a local commercial plays at literally TWICE the volume of the programming bookending it. This happened to me earlier in the year while watching a football game - fairly standard audio level of crowd noise with guy talking over the top. Then, obnoxiously loud fast food commercial that had me jump off the couch, and fumble for the remote until I could find the mute button. I had a headache for an hour after that.

I actually called the cable company office and complained, not that it did anything to prevent it from recurring. Needless to say, I'm not eating at that restaurant EVER again.

Because DOCSIS cable modems are only one technology in use by ISPs. See: DSL, fiber, frame relay, metro ethernet, ISDN, 3G cellular, 4G cellular, WiMAX, etc.

s/left/was kicked out of/

You also forget that the adoption of Pentium 4 didn't actually take off until the release of the Intel i845 chipset, which allowed the usage of good ol' DDR SDRAM. With that, a P4-based system didn't cost in excess of $1800.

RDRAM was an albatross around Pentium 4's neck except in very few usage scenarios. You're right though - the super deep pipelines that only existed to ramp the clock rate sky high meant that a whole lot of clock was wasted on branch prediction failures. The so-called NetBurst architecture was a complete failure, and the design team in Israel saved Intel from complete disaster with Pentium-M based on the P3 core.

Yeah, or you could use your brain for half a second for something besides sarcasm. Consider:

It takes X watts of power to desalinate 1000g of fresh water
In desalinating 1000g of fresh water, you get enough brine suitable for generating Y watts of power, where X > Y.

So, would you rather have 1000g of water, or 1000g of water + Y watts of power? And is X - Y watts of net power used better than X watts of power used, where Y > 0?

Is regenerative braking on an electric vehicle also perpetual motion in your world? This is the same concept - harvesting spent energy from waste.

Never dropped this on anyone before, but:

[citation needed]

Average fuel economy of US passenger car fleet: 24.9 (a new record!)

Estimated average motorcycle fuel economy: 35 - 40 mpg. Many models get almost double that.

Show your data where "most motorcycles use more fuel than cars", or shut the fuck up.

On iOS, you do have granular permissions - if an app requests your location, you can say no, and the app can go fuck itself - the API doesn't give it shit. It's not all-or-nothing.

Disabling data access per app is a different story though, so your point still stands.

I think at this point, the default mode for most Android users is to just allow, as most apps have a laundry list of things they want access to. It's probably the second-least read message from an app install of all time (first being the EULA).

No, that is not wise. But people aren't always wise.

If they intentionally pry open a big heavy thick box covered in warning labels and radiation symbols and start making a Cobalt-60 sand castle, then YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE LIKE THAT.

Actually, it's exactly in balance.

They started with robbery / assault. Then they took a big heavy box out of the truck that probably had large warning labels all over it, written in Spanish, with a radiation symbol on it. They then proceeded to crowbar it open and dump it out all over the place, and do Jeebus knows what else with it.

If you're stupid enough to screw around with well labeled and sealed radioactive materials, you're gonna get sick.

"That's a nice streaming content service you've got there. It would be a shame if something was to happen to it..."

It's not my idea, it is how it currently works. Don't participate in an illegal conspiracy if you don't want to get caught and penalized. Besides, if we start dividing up the total penalty based on the amount of participants, and the amount of time they participated, it would serve to encourage more people to participate in order to divide the punishment into a pittance.

It's called a "punitive damage" for a reason.

This guy knew exactly what he was doing, and now he's crying about being the only one (so far) to get prosecuted for it. Maybe this will serve as a lesson to someone else, and they won't involve themselves in a DDoS attack if they don't want to discover the length, width, and breadth of the shaft.

I only stabbed him once, and it was just in the hand. Those other guys stabbed him way more, and in the chest!

If you participate in an illegal conspiracy, you are a conspirator and you take the full weight that everyone else in the conspiracy would take absent a plea bargain. If he can give up some other conspirators, however...

Maybe you should ask your state government why their contract with Oracle didn't include some kind of clause about them getting less money if they don't deliver on time. Why is it that the State of Oregon is such a fan of building in contractor bonuses for early delivery, but never any repercussions for being late or over budget? It's because they let the taxpayer eat those problems, and let the contractor move onto the next contract.

It's been this way for decades with Oregon, and all we get out of the state when something goes sideways like this is some weak shit boo-boo woe-is-me piece on NPR about how the big bad corporation took advantage of us. Where are all the Department of Administrative Services lawyers going after Oracle for breach of contract? Oh, they aren't because Oracle isn't in breach, because I'd bet anything that there was no date actually stipulated in the contract; or if there was, there was no penalty stipulated for missing it.

The reason why, as you put it, there are plenty of people who like to spew forth "anything-about-state-government-is-bad" feedback is because the state has been managed by the same network of Goldschmidt cronies for 20+ years, and this is business as usual.

They knew there would be cannibalization of the Mac at the low end when they released the iPad. This question has been asked of Apple at practically every press conference and interview since the introduction of the thing. But, as Steve Jobs said himself - the first automobiles were largely trucks. Then they were passenger cars, and the ratio of trucks to cars began to diminish. But trucks are still sold today because people still need a truck to do work.

The PC won't be that much different, straight from the "visionary" mouth.