Is there some problem particular to human DNA that they are looking to solve; or is this just an extension of the ongoing work on DNA synthesis(if you are OK with relatively short segments that has come down to being something you can just order, not nearly as exotic as it once was) but being hyped because there's some human cell genetic engineering at the end; rather than just meeting more aggressive targets for achievable lengths?

If a Canadian engineering firm designs something to be built in America, nothing crosses the border but information. Specifications one way, blueprints flow the other. The work is taxed in the country of sale, where the customers are. It's always been that way, on both sides.

This is just a computer doing some work in America (and we all know the actual computer may be in Sweden), work that is sold as a service by Americans, to Canadians. It's no different than the specs and blueprints. A query is sent to America, services are performed, results are sent back to the customer in Canada.

And it's a friggin' THREE PERCENT TAX. God, quit whining. You got away with no-tax for years, and never should have.

Nah, Guzman y Gomez started in Sydney, and spread around the country from there. Australians do Tex Mex, even if it isn't the national cuisine.

>This is the final refuge of the defeatist: âoeTheyâ(TM)re already watching you, so why care?â

Please don't put words in my mouth. Try, "They're already watching you, so you're going to need to find another way to avoid them if it's important enough, and it'll take a lot of work".

You say 'involuntary psych hold'; I say 'MAU'!

I wasnâ(TM)t getting into a gypsies UBER

Haha, Uber is just an unregulated taxi service. This is the logical conclusion. (Well, aside from your use of a racially loaded term...)

Diminished maybe, but not all that much.

I think we can reasonably assume that if there's a huge blackout, it won't last forever. A lot of smart people will work hard on getting things up and running again. A few years ago in the USA it lasted for a bit longer, what was it, a week or two? Recently in Spain it lasted a few days. But all those power stations and power grid operators don't just shrug and go home. So getting through those days is probably all it takes for any reasonably realistic scenario.

And you can build things up piecewise. I've got my solar now. The next thing will be a battery. Once I have that, I can think about an electric car.

Phone-to-provider encryption seems like a better option. The only unencrypted information to start with would be your provider's ID, so your traffic is routed to their systems for decryption. Basically... my best current guess for greater security? Give up your mobile phone number, use data and a VOIP app. Then the cops will have to get a warrant (assuming your VOIP provider worries about that) not only to know the content of your conversation, but even to know who you called.

You're never going to be able to hide your phone ID and location with current cellular technology, though. You're not connecting to a tower at all unless it knows you're a valid client, and once you connect to a tower they at least know your general direction (most towers have antennas facing each direction, and aren't omnidirectional) and can guess your range. If you hit three or more towers, they can start to approach GPS accuracy pinning you down.

Long before you have to worry about all that, the cops will already have you under surveillance. Every box on every pole around your usual hangouts could be a camera and mic. They could have put devices in your car or home. And I wouldn't bet on them waiting on a warrant to do these things. The warrant will come when they think they'll need to use the information in court and might get called on it.

IIRC the Windows one just gave the stop code, i.e. the same information displayed as text. There was no additional detail.

Vista moved graphics drivers back into userspace. It was only from NT4 to Server 2003/XP x64 Edition that they were in the kernel. They also made it so Windows can restart a crashed graphics driver - the screen will temporarily go black but the system will keep running. That's part of the reason you can reinstall/upgrade/downgrade graphics drivers without a restart now.

The paper claims that the photochemistry of the particles is important to the process; allows them to generate free oxygen at the target site when illuminated without the downsides of just shoving hydrogen peroxide into your sinuses and oxidizing things indiscriminately.

I'm unclear on why small magnetic particles are being called 'robots' now; by that logic you could claim that laser printers use nanorobot swarms to produce text; or that paint is actually an aqueous suspension of visual-band signaling nanites; but it sounds like the surface chemistry of the particles is an important part of the process.

If you were using iron you might be able to get similar effects by inductive heating once you delivered them to the target area; you absolutely could destroy cells in the immediate proximity that way; but it would come down to what option is easier to tightly control and, ideally, more discriminating between bacteria and local human cells. I assume that the actually-qualified people chose photochemistry and free oxygen over inductive heating for good reasons; but I don't know how they compare.

It's not that weird. Much of what Steam sells won't run as expected without some amount of 32 bit support(you are much less likely to find that the main game is 32 bit for anything that got a cross platform release with an 8th gen console, since all but the switch had more than 4GB of RAM; but absolutely no promises on every config launcher or random middleware component); and the steam client itself has, thankfully, remained comparatively lightweight. Probably not as light as it could be; but on the speedier end of programs that are basically web browsers with some background extras.

Not being 64 bit is more of an issue in cases where your one program is the only reason an entire 32 bit support environment is being loaded up; but that's very unlikely to be the case on a windows gaming system and fairly unlikely to be the case on a linux gaming one; and is no longer a terribly relevant consideration on MacOS now that Apple just executed all the 32 bit stuff. Maybe more people than I think are running Steam on TV-connected PCs purely as a remote play client?

It's not desperately elegant; and if they were holding off because they viewed it as an actually hard problem you' be a bit worried about either the state of the codebase or the people working on it; but it's hard to make a strong case for a 64 bit steam client being a particularly urgent priority; given the software that you normally use steam to install and run.

It uses a proxy, so each of your tabs appears to come from one of the IP addresses of their proxy. It's like those things that obfuscate Bitcoin transactions, but for HTTP connections.

I mostly knew Handango for Symbian apps. I didn't realise they did all the mobile platforms before we entered the locked-down era.

Yeah, it's pretty telling that none of their albums since have come close to the 25 million sales of The Joshua Tree (1987) and 18 million sales of Achtung Baby (1991). Pop (1997) didn't even make 4 million sales.