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No one uses the FB email address? Why would they when they need a valid email to sign up already?

Any major city, excepting Detroit, has a pretty nice immediate downtown and a ring of shitty stuff out of that. It's the non-gentrified areas around essentially the business districts and bar districts downtown. Chicago, Atlanta, NY, LA and most of other cities I've been to or lived in follow that model.

I know that this is more of an American/Canadian term, but does "chilling effects" ring any bells? If the government can't* do this to journalists but can and will do it to their families and friends, they have to see how that would affect journalist behavior? It's pretty classic operant conditioning AND probably a case of collective punishment as well. * We know they will, but just for the sake of argument

Sounds like the non-idiot consultant was decidedly an idiot. Should have incorporated to shield his personal assets.

Did anyone else do a double take on that headline? I thought it read Build an Open-Source Electric Chair In About One Hour.
That would have been an interesting thread.

I'd just leave in at my desk in a drawer most likely. If I actually worked for a company that tried to implement that, you can guarantee my resume would be going at either at EOD or lunchtime. If your company is suffering because of lack of productivity, the problem might lie with the workers. It probably lies with their boss. Either way, micromanaging 98% of workers* is counterproductive. Much more effective to hire competent, motivated people in the first place and/or replace the people managing them.

* I can see this being useful in a low-skill job with extremely high turnover, but that's about it

Still works on my 8.1

Might be just your machine. I've used several different flash drives to copy multi-GB images on Windows 8.

Just be thankful you weren't in the market for a new machine when Vista came out. I looked around and the best deal in my price range was a C2D, 1 GB HP laptop. Should have upped the RAM to 2 GB, but didn't have the cash at the time. Vista itself ran all right performance-wise, but it was the drivers crashing, updates that hosed the OS, and a few other things that made me pull my hair out. Turned off windows update and manually installed the troublesome drivers (wifi, sound, video) and never looked back until SP1 came out. Couldn't nuke and pave quick enough when I got access to the Win 7 RTM through school.

Like some of the other commenters, I would really, really think about it before you went down that road. Doing stuff for free is rarely a good idea long term, even if it's "simple" like being the family tech support. If you do go down that path, troll around on craigslist for a cheap C2D SFF desktop. I don't know where you are, but you can find them for around $50 here in Chicago. Maybe throw in a larger HD or some more RAM but that is plenty to run all the development stuff you want. You're not going to get the fastest build times, but it's plenty powerful enough to do what you need. It's also going to be small enough to stick next to or on top of your current workstation. Getting a KVM is probably a good idea as well.

Chromecast is awesome and the 'cast desktop' is a beta feature IIRC. However the native apps for Netflix, HBOGO and Hulu pretty much rock.

FTA: Or more commonly, for travellers who want to measure their radiation dose as they fly, since those taking frequent polar air routes between north America and Europe receive a significantly higher dose than others.

Man am I glad smartphones are finally getting out and about in public. This is the year of the smartphone! Hopefully we'll be able to use them to sense the ambient air pressure while in our submersibles soon.

TFA: ""I think this list of reasons to upgrade misses the larger point in providing software for other people: You do not get to tell your users what to do. ... Maybe those users don’t have sufficient control over their working environments to install a new version of Python. ... Maybe those users rely on certain APIs only available in older versions of Python and don’t wish to take an indeterminate amount of time to rewrite (retest, recertify, etc. etc.) their software. ... Maybe those users are just rationally lazy and don’t want to deal with downloading, configuring, and installing a new version of Python, plus dealing with inevitable fallout, when the old version has worked Just Fine for everything else."

I'm just going to mirror what this guy said. There's a reason why IE6 was still around *years* after it should have been taken out back and shot. There's a lot of money dumped into these project and applications. I'd make every effort to encourage a transition, but those cost money and time.

GIMP probably.