This gives them enough to access the email where the browser itself is logged in to.

Is that better than 8 hours at one place followed by 8 hours at another place, and 6 hours sleep per day, for each of 5 days a week? Probably.

I did thinking on the throne today for my current project. Started coding. Hit an incompatibility in the script I'm calling. So back to thinking. Back to the throne.

Management doesn't want you to think. They just want you to code.

Any company that tries to collect on using XOR to implement a cursor on a bit graphic screen with text is a troll, even if they filed the original patent. This is an example of non-innovation.

The problem is that too many of the patents are not innovative. Anyone can make a widget bolt. That patent should have never been issued.

NRA did not stray off ... it was pulled off track by the "ban all guns" lobby. The problem today is even well intentioned changes like "background checks for mental illness everywhere" risks the slippery slope, and the "pro guns" lobby has to fight even that to be sure "ban all guns" isn't where we end up. To fix this, liberals need to show, by their actions, they are no longer wanting to "ban all guns", just to get "better background checks" through. Sad.

I agree ... that requirement is burdensome. But there does need to be some kind of showing of innovation. It seems that 99% if patents are for things lots of people could easily do.

... is not that patents are bought and sold (this should be perfectly valid for valid patents). The real problem is that there are so many bad patents ... things that are not innovative at all ... things that don't fulfill the need to have a patent system. Once people start to understand what patents really are supposed to be, then we can solve the problem. It's not about trolls or software patents or things like that. It's about what justifies the government taking property rights away, and how that concept has been corrupted by corporations since the middle 1800's.

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I remember many years ago the Dallas Morning News threatening to sue anyone who made a hyperlink directly to a story, instead of linking to the front page and telling people to go find the story (obviously so DMN could get more ad impressions). They should have hired more programmers and engineers so that they would eventually find one that would make outside links (referrer not from their own domain) redirect to their front page.

Yes, there are some context where real names would be good, like that which you showed. But I think people will normally figure that it in some context when they go to such a place. Most of the rest of the time, people are interacting with the world, which is often dangerous in many ways. People should have this choice. Too bad we cannot trust these companies to have our real name and keep it secret, if they claim they would let us use their service under a nym. If I were putting up a forum, I would not care if one uses a name or a nym. But for some forums, it's necessary to be sure users have only one identity, name or nym. That makes things complicated, too.

None of them use Facebook.

My nephew, when he was a kid, chased down and caught a chipmunk with his bare hands. I'd never seen him move so fast. I doubt he can do that now.

... when I was a kid wondering how flies could so easily see the fly swatter or my hand approaching. My guess was that since their brain was smaller, signals didn't have so far to go, and could be processed faster ... and they would see the world from this faster-brain perspective as a slow world.

The issue is about having the fingerprint data. Business promise things to worker all the time, but their promises are so often just lies (and recently, at least in the US, told to lie by no such agency).

Being on top of a higher mountain places you further from the all that mass of the whole planet, reducing your gravity. How it is that they are showing higher gravity for some mountains is not understood.