Nothing like repeating history:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

The crazy thing is that everyone cites "studies" siding with their side of the argument. But there's no clear indicator of changing clocks are good or bad.

I can't find it now, but there's a view of the US with areas where DST is most appreciated. This works out to be in the north-east of each timezone - because they get the morning shift and extended daylight in the summer. Compare that with population densities, and New England and Chicago are the clear proponents for DST, with large percentages of the US population. As more and more of the population shift south and west, well, we'll see.

Only steal if you can steal enough to buy an island in a country with no extradition laws.

This is from an email they sent out yesterday

Locast Nation

As you probably know, the federal district court in the Southern District of New York issued a ruling in the case brought against Locast by the big media companies. The court concluded that by interrupting programming to ask users for donations, and by suspending those interruptions based on whether a user makes contributions, Locast actually was charging a fee, not merely seeking a voluntary contribution. The court then concluded that revenues Locast collects in this manner exceed the cost of operating the service because funds are used to add new markets, rendering Locast ineligible to use the copyright exemption for non-profits (17 U.S.C. 111(a)(5)).

I'm wondering if this new hypervisor extension is a required feature of the Android sub-system. That could certainly be Microsoft enforcing the mantra: "Windows is a better Linux than Linux"

I don't think MS has ever invalidated 5-year-old hardware before. This is a sledgehammer to older systems.

Um, never heard of Chicago? https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2... And for history: https://slate.com/news-and-pol...

That would be awesome. We'd get *half* of the source code...

When given the choice between upgrading to chip readers that actually prevent fraud or installing video terminals that play advertisements to generate even more money, you know all these jack asses added the revenue generating video while complaining that it would cost too much money to install chip readers.

Idiots.

I agree - This was a great MS magazine and certainly as useful as the mentioned Dr. Dobbs for the MS stack. I do like that there were many articles that spanned several issues covering basic and advanced sides of a given technology rather than just a light cover like most web articles. Lots of *great* authors and lots of coverage of technology that was emerging - the coverage of .Net as it was released was actually kind of exciting (in a wholly geeky way). The same for the Metro UI, but more in a train-wreck kind of way. I hope they continue this in an online-only mode, although I did like reading the paper copy on the train before cell/wifi was as available.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/mag... I hope they keep this archive alive for a while...

Further insult to injury... Student loans are not only held by the government but *guaranteed* by the government. They are one of the only forms of debt that you are not allowed to get out of by declaring bankruptcy. The crazy part is that the loan is *always* paid to the college/university - even if you die and have no estate and no one to pay of the loan, the college gets the money from the load guarantor - the US Government. Which is really you and me. So now imagine you're a car company, and you have a guaranteed loan like this. * First of all, there's no incentive to put out a better product. Bumper falls of after 2 years? You still get your money. The car only gets 10 mpg? You still get your money. * Secondly, all economic guards for pricing are gone. Want to charge $40K for the car? Sure, don't worry about the cost, you always get a loan, even if the car isn't worth 40K. Want to make it 50K for the same car? No problem - there's nothing to stop you from raising your costs. You can see what havoc this causes by examining why universities charge the same for all 4-year degrees regardless of their actual worth. Tuition for engineering degrees costs basically the same as tuition for liberal arts degrees. Especially given that one is a 50-60K a year degree and the other is 30-40K. If this were not a supplemented economy, you'd quickly see tuition varying greatly by the degree you're majoring in. You would also *not* see all tuitions increasing by generally the same percentage over time, but rather the increase tied to the value of the school/degree. The *best* thing the government could do is to completely eliminate guaranteed student loans. Still offer loans, but make the colleges be responsible for the product they create. Have a crappy degree? Declare bankruptcy and the college gets nothing. Screwing with a natural economy results in unnatural prices, and that's what we're seeing.

Um, no. Juul pods are worse and get thrown on the ground just like the cigarette butts. They're all over the place and will be here for centuries.

PureText FTW! https://stevemiller.net/purete...

Certainly not the case for native American Indians: https://indiancountrymedianetw...

A pregnancy is a hell of a side effect of a birth control method.