We, as those who are here in South Africa, believe it because we can see there is no general blackout and those on billed connections still have power, and those on prepaid with sufficient credit on the meter still have power.

The worst thing is it happened just before the general monthly payday, so people on tight budgets with few credits left are screwed even though they now have the money to pay for the next month.

Ask and you shall receive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aog-6mFPcY

Would hate to see the fuel consumption on that.

But having access only during a court hearing with expert testimony explaining every second of the call stops the friends and family from espousing on social media that if the untrained idiots at 911 had just told them something, they could have saved Bob after his decapitation by jet-engined chainsaw. Because reasons and science and someone they knew at school survived dropping a brick on their foot.

That's the real reason people are upset about a non-problem.

What, no <blink> tags. Amateurs.

From the various articles on the case, Khafra was at the bottom of a 6m deep shaft with no ropes or ladders to climb out. Beckwitt's paranoia trapped him in there until Beckwitt came to get him out or feed him and haul out a bucket of shit.

If I had the upstream bandwidth, I'd happily do that. But with my ADSL only providing 1Mbps upstream, it would take me months to upload the first backup set. For some areas of the planet, local backup is the only affordable method.

Whether you can call it hubris or not is debatable. Back in the 90s, the human genome mapping project was just getting going and the understanding of the genetics of HIV was sadly lacking. The researchers said 5 to 10 years because their experience was with vaccines for high speed diseases that overwhelmed the immune system, not something that ran slow and shut down the immune system response.

When they finally dug their collective heads out of the sand and recognized it as a human threat, not a gay or druggie threat, they still didn't understand it properly. So they thought their previous experience would prove similar with HIV. Unrealistic, maybe, naive, definitely, hubris, I don't think so.

Same with cancer cures, the tools we have for fixing the genetic car engine are hammers and chisels, not diagnostic computers and electronic tuning systems. Medicine is still a lot of brute force over ignorance, though we'd rather not admit it.

When was that? Genuinely interested.

Not a dupe. Two experiments, two reports, different techniques. One a color blob time perceprtion test and the other a fMRI scanner tracing what happens inside the brain.

Should HPe and Dell give MongoDB cash whenever I buy new servers to run their database on my premises? Does that make sense? Then why should AWS or Azure have to pay up when I buy my servers on their hardware?

Astronomy media sites go for the supermoon, blood moon etc crud to drive clicks. Actual looking-at-the-sky-from-the-top-of-mountains astronomers cringe when we hear these terms.

The new not yet shipped A8s (the s is part of the model and not indicating plurality) doesn't have a jack, the currently on market A8 and A8+ 2018 models do.

This'll only work for North American car thieves, out here in Africa and likely Europe and Asia as well, everyone drives stick except for the larny folks with road tanks.

One of our radio DJ's did a classic phone prank on the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYsTw3PQKYA

Not normally a pendantic replier, but in this case it's a private VPN as opposed to a commercial one or a corporate one. You spin it up for a purpose, talking to one source maybe, and not for everyone to use at the same time.