We've never been able to survive on our own in the advent of a catastrophe. If you were a subsistence farmer in Europe, and there was an extended drought your crops failed and you died. Extended winter? Your stores failed and you died. Had slightly impacted wisdom teeth? You got a massive dental infection and you died. A foreigner accidentally tracks a new species of weed onto your farm that's poisonous? You either have to kill it off aggressively, or experimentally eat it - and well, you died.

This is rugged individualism fiction of a uniquely American kind. Human history takes a dim view individualism and had a way of dealing with: you died.

The appeal of Facebook is usually that you can have not real interactions with family. In fact you can cleverly avoid having any at all. Feature, not a bug.

In talking to Americans, the thing you have to keep in mind is they have no concept of what "waiting times" means. They think of it like it is to them - you need heart surgery, but you don't have enough money, so instead you die.

Whereas to anyone from any other developed country, waiting times are about "elective" procedures (some argument over that definition), you always have the option to pay privately for immediate treatment, and are "long" precisely because anyone with an emergency or life-threatening condition gets rushed to the front of the queue.

Yeah it's a good thing the actual plans aren't due to be purchaseable for another 3 months. It's almost like they'll fix the bugs by then and this is mostly a huge beat up for people who, given their way, would've ensured this website never existed at all.

It's not constructive criticism when you're actually just opposed to the whole enterprise.

Unfortunately the only president on the Republican side they care to compare to anymore is fictionalized Reagan, and it's a little hard to compare policy ideas and implementation to a dead guy who was in office 4 decades ago when the internet wasn't invented in any serious way.

I don't know. Perhaps the part where you're posting, through a non-anonymous network, onto a public website, claiming this is happening without fear of reprisal?

By comparison: Iranian blogger's death in custody stirs up debate Shots fired at huge Iran protest.

Grow some perspective.

The really compelling thing about the reusable concept SpaceX are going for is that observation that rocket fuel is only 3% of the cost of a launch. That's utterly crazy - even if you wouldn't want to use them for manned launches right away, the savings when you can put up 10 or 20x the number of satellites for the cost of a launch is going to lead to some big changes if they can pull it off.

Just go with a mini version of those magsafe connectors. Bevelled shallow ports, and a one-way indent on the surface for orientation. Even with PCB mounting they'd last pretty much forever.

High level politicians who distance themselves from the idea and implementation of effective intelligence programs rapidly find themselves without allies for reasons they don't know, against enemies with more resources then they expected and outmanoeuvred in every negotiation they get involved in.

Mysteriously it was ruled Apple could get an exception provided it sold a USB adapter.

So your plan is to go around to a lot of private businesses disabling their security cameras?

Probably should help yourself to the till while you're at it - you know, compensation for the effort.

It's not labs though, it's raw materials. There's only so many chickens and chicken eggs you can get to grow vaccine from, it can only be done so fast and there's a definite lag in converting existing production lines to create a new vaccine (since everything has to be isolated and grown up).

The difference being that a zombie apocalypse is presumed to have infected as hostile-actors who have to be murdered, not victims who need to quarantined but will most likely survive if treated.

Although now I'm thinking it would be a hell of a thing to make a movie where the zombie-virus worked that way, since that would wind up being a fairly accurate model of armed-crazy people during a flu pandemic.

There's a motion on the ZoL lists currently to figure out what would be required to get it into the tree without technically violating CDDL. I personally hope it eventually happens, since I think if ZFS got more users we might finally get enough momentum to clear it's problems (shrinking filesystems, reshaping arrays i.e. block pointer rewrite).

I feel you undermine your point by going with "annoying teenagers" as the adversary.

Pattern lock will prevent annoying teenagers too, though you're right - at a higher cost but very marginally. But with time-duration lock outs, it's not exactly likely. Anyone willing to pull CCTV footage is willing to do a heck of a lot to get into my phone which is where the doubt creeps in - this sits at an unfortunate intersection where it certainly feels like it would be a challenge to get in, but anyone dedicated enough to break lesser systems is probably easily capable of breaking this one (and perhaps more so - seeing how hackable it is I am hugely interested in).