You spend the same amount of money on screen and UI hardware, and then shave a sliver of the total system cost off by skimping on CPU and RAM, then spend much more than what you saved on beefed up network infrastructure to accomodate the larger payload. Thats what.

Thin clients only make sense as a way to salvage older thick clients when you just happen to have next to no money to spend, and already for some reason have an overpowered network and server infrastructure. Or if your user base is so supid that they cannot be trusted not to throw them in the dishwasher.

This. Looking at existing tests is also very educational. They often show where the codebase was confusing enough to cause recurring regressions.

The other place to make very, very sure to read is the repository commit logs, if you have them. They'll tell you a lot about why the code is in its current state, and will often show you where refactors have been left half-complete.

Given the plumes of VOCs trees emit, no that makes no sense at all. Now, having a bunch of dead decaying trees lying around after being killed by an infestation, THAT impacting air quality would seem to make sense.

I work in an educational environment where we've done BYOD since before the acronym got coined. Even in this very permissive environment, we still insist that certain OSes pass a basic NAC sanity scan to reduce the disease vectors inside the firewall. (It's all easily circumenventable, but less trouble to circumvent than to comply.) This brings down the infection rate to a level manageable by the help desk and IT staff.

We do have IP and PII concerns. We address them organizationally by clearly defining the boundaries where work with certain types of information may occur through user education. This generally does not constrain users to the point of hurting innovation -- interacting with this type of data is only a small part of most jobs here. Companies that fixate on technical solutions to problems that can be solved organizationally are only hurting themselves.

So the end result is people can BYOD, but they are patched up (because bypassing the NAC is 30 minutes work versus 5 minutes complying) can't be running open servers on them (as the firewall won't let inbound connections in) and are not using them to process the latest payroll, because they mostly cannot get to that data due to host/firewall policy, and where they can, they know they shouldn't do that.

All that being said, a larger voltage with a low current, when sufficiently protected with a power negotiation protocol like that used in PoE, is going to be safer than a high current LV source. A sufficiently low voltage source might not be able to electrocute you, but it's pretty damn good at starting fires compared to a HV source with an effective input resistance.

Tap into the other side of the conversation, where granma is running Windoze or OSX?

Which reminds me, you know how many times a year I get asked for a public key for email? About 0.2.

Pretty much the same reason I'm still here... I've managed to succeed enough to be comfortable, do so without pillaging, and work in an area that has potential to deliver productive change to the country. So I think I'll just keep that up.

Absolutely on target. The very first step to doing this, of course, is realizing theat "the system is rigged and the man is keeping you down", and the second is figuring out how to do something about that.

OR, you could buy into the idea that if you just stick your neck out far enough, some Donald Trump's next pyramid scheme won't milk you from what little cash or manpower you have at your disposal and instead will make you magnificently wealthy. But I would not recommend that.

Or use them as a captive board game opponent.

They were testing long-ish term exposure of the older mouse body to blood constantly filtered through the younger mouse's system. Doing that is apparently cheaper and more humane than harvesting and transfusing 24x7.

Any treatment they (meaning any sanely regulated or ethical medical establishment) develop from this won't expose the donor, that would violate a lot of laws, policies, codes and consciences.

It does give a new meaning to the term "Flash Mob"

...unless you come from nothing again, and realize the mess you left behind is yours to deal with.

While carrots and APAP are both in common use by the populance, carrots do
not provide instant relief from sudden onset of pain. When you burn yourself
with hot grits, you can either stand there and think "you know, if I had eaten
carrots instead then maybe I'd be in a better mood about burning myself with
hot grits" Or you can take a pain reliever.

So we need pain relievers, not just carrots.

Carrots also do not do another thing: kill you if you eat too much, with "too
much" being something you could get down in a single swallow, or gradually
take over the course of a day without any stomach cramps to let you know
you are doing something fatal. Carrots don't kill people or cause intractable
medical expenses when used improperly, barring some rather deviant
practices (sometimes involving hot grits as well).

As such, it's very important to understand the reasons why a person might
use these substances, so that we can educate the public about which
substances to use under what conditions. If APAP can help a person avoid
using a more damaging or addictive psycoactive phrametceutical, but
has to be used with care, we need to know that.

Anyway, scientists study diet just fine. They are even finally getting around
to studying intestinal flora in better detail. Of course there is a funding
bias when big pharma levels of money are involved, but that's just capitalism
and greed doing its usual damage when we fail to set good boundaries for it.

This. Anxiety and panic aren't always beneficial and they don't always end on their own.
Sometimes they run away with themselves in completely unproductive directions, and
will cause you to do some pretty crazy and potentially self-damaging things. Since your
brain has effectively been disabled, you can't just self-discipline your way out of them
either.

They can get so bad that you have to go the ER and have them break the feedback loop
with a Lorazepam or whatnot.

Not to mention the actual physical toll that cronic anxiety can have on the health of the
rest of your body (from extreme stress levels) is damaging to your longterm health.

Except it will leave you a walking dead man for a couple of days while your body tries to live without a functional liver, and doctors cannot do a thing about it. So that probably would be an even worse existential crisis.