Henry Ford wouldn't be allowed to say many of the things he believed. He would keep getting shushed (rightly so) every time he advocated Nazi positions. The people history remembers fondly had great accomplishments, but weren't always great people when looked at on the whole with the biases and perspective changes of a new generation.

Maybe if you want to write all your own code from scratch optimized for these. None of the existing open source toolsets performs well on them (on a value basis of performance per dollar).

I'm having some difficulty understanding why getting lunch in a police car is considered some sort of silver bullet proving police misconduct. Don't you normally get your lunch in your police vehicle if you are a police officer?

It's cute that you think there is a meaningful difference between US and THEM. Blindly supporting a party's candidates like you are suggesting is 99.9% of the reason we are so fucked right now.

While those laws exist in fact in many jurisdictions, I would not be at all surprised to see the FCC claim that their exclusive jurisdiction over telecom means that state laws can't be applied to telecom, even for the purposes you describe.

Of course, but his link is a total non sequitur because it's completely focused on CPU-mining of BitCoin, which has become absurd. You can go flying with thousands of helium balloons, but that doesn't make it the right solution to your travel needs.

I did the calculations when BTC was at $4500. It would have taken me one month to pay for the miner, which could have then produced one BTC per month for $67 worth of electricity. Two things kept me from moving forward: 1.) availability of extra power circuits in my unfinished basement area, 2.) fear of a collapse in BTC

For my own knowledge, are you talking only of those that deal in fiat currencies?

If I understood correctly, his was a philosophical assertion, not a proof. For most of us, the empirical wisdom of it is unmistakable anyway.

The more direct paths will likely lead to each ship burning less diesel per trip. More trips due to the ease is just an unfortunate side effect.

If you're a proper manual driver, you don't have need of space for a rollback. I never had rollbacks after about 3 months of practice. It might be a little harder on your clutch, but you don't have the right to randomly back into cars because you don't know how to drive yours.

I don't have mod points at the moment, but maybe you got modded down because your points were ridiculous. A login doesn't make you any less anonymous unless you choose to use your real name or use the same screen name you use on other sites where you give your real name or personal information. It's very confusing for those of us who do log in to try to figure out which Anonymous Coward in a thread is even the same entity. Maybe they should do like Google Docs does and give anonymous users absurd nicknames like Jaunting Jackalope to at least solve that issue.

Anonymous COWARD should somewhat give away how the site feels about anonymous posts, but whatever.

The good news is mostly only early adopters of the Internet like gigantic corporations and government entities have that sort of access to public IPv4 addresses. Oh, wait. That makes it much, much worse!

I've been battling Google over an Android app I coded in 2009 against the Android 1.5 API. I was getting nag messages for several months about the app no longer being in compliance with their latest standards. I had sold I set about unpublishing the app. The Android store continues to allow access to the app for any previously paying customers--no harm there. However, they would not let me complete the unpublish step because they tied their entire form to validation checks. So, I would have to provide a privacy policy, several new icons and app screenshots, and a content rating to UNPUBLISH the app. One day, I begrudgingly completed this task and submitted the application for review. It was denied. Google took issue with something in the APK itself and wanted me to rebuild an app I hadn't touched in 8 years.

I finally took the nuclear option and deleted the entire Google account that had published the app. Google left the app in place and is continuing to offer it for sale. I think I have a case for a lawsuit, but who bothers suing a behemoth like Google?

If he truly discussed it in public, on a forum using timestamped messages, that should count as formally published in our increasingly informal society. Of course, there's probably some IP-catchall buried in the Google Groups ToS that claims ownership of all ideas written there.