Comment: Re:How is maintenance performed? (Score 1) 133
Heavier than air would make it really hard to evacuate out from an underground bunker.
Comment: Re:Authorized resellers (Score 1) 462
If they regularly advertise you have to activate via a VPN, it's a pretty good bet they're not a legit reseller.
If the cost of the product is always vastly cheaper than anywhere else, it's a pretty good bet they're not a legit reseller.
Comment: Correct paper link (Score 4, Informative) 155
Comment: Re:Second link has little to do with the posted to (Score 2) 155
Comment: Re:Insurance (Score 1) 213
> Do remember that, theoretically, Uber/Lyft types aren't doing this full time, but more a matter of "I'm heading out to Walmart, anyone want to come along?".
Theoretically yes, in reality that's about as far from the truth as you can get for Uber drivers.
Comment: Re:Not trying to excuse what he did (Score 1) 376
> In the whole history of people being psychologically manipulated and abused, they *all* could have stopped it simply by saying no, and walking away.
Yes, maybe in the real world, face to face interaction where you can't click block and they're gone.
Comment: Re:If Only the Article Addressed That ... (Score 2) 376
I read the article. I'm just claiming bullshit on the argument that somehow this physics professor is such a master psychological manipulator that he coerced dozens of women halfway across the world to send him nudes over the internet for no good reason.
If you're *that* emotionally troubled with abandonment issues that you're sending a guy over the internet that has no leverage over you nudes, I dont see how you can deal with offline interactions period.
Comment: Re:Not trying to excuse what he did (Score 0) 376
And they could have stopped it immediately by blocking him on FB and/or just stopped the course they paid a whole $0 for.
Comment: Not trying to excuse what he did (Score 3, Interesting) 376
But how exactly did he force them to do what they did *Over the internet*
Comment: Re:HondaKarts? (Score 2) 809
The fartcans?
Canonical Launches Internet-of-Things Version of Ubuntu Core 43
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from the things-need-love-too dept.
darthcamaro writes: Ubuntu Linux isn't just for desktops, servers and the cloud anymore. Mark Shuttleworth wants Ubuntu to be the operating system of choice for the Internet of Things too. The new Snappy Ubuntu Core is targeted at device developers and it's the basis for an entire new division of Canonical Inc. The promise of Snappy Ubuntu Core is also one of security, protecting the devices of the world, by keeping them updated. "With Snappy there is also a division of responsibilities for updating that can also help protect IoT devices and users. So we could deliver an update for a Heartbleed or Shellshock vulnerability, completely independently of the lawnmower control app that would come from the lawnmower company," Shuttleworth said.
Comment: Re:Honest question. (Score 1) 479
That's what I said.
Comment: Re:Honest question. (Score 2) 479
Because humans, for the most part, are pretty stupid and fail to grasp that just because there's an uneven number of something, doesn't make it not normal or perfectly fine.
Comment: Re:A metric for price (Score 4, Informative) 290
> If there isn't enough mining going on to produce the mining rewards that should be awarded daily, the difficulty will quarter every two weeks until the rewards are enough to incentivize miners to continue doing so.
The difficulty only gets changed after the number of blocks since the last adjustment have been met. If less people mine, blocks take longer, blocks take longer, adjustment takes longer. So if people keep dropping out, it'll be a lot more than two weeks for the next adjustment.
Comment: More stuff done (Score 5, Insightful) 112
Because we want to data mine all your work correspondence as well.
