Not always true.

I've worked for more than one company that treated their employees well even when it wasn't directly in their best interest. Companies are run by people and not all of them are greedy sociopaths.

Maybe that's a bit of advice for the OP: "Don't accept that things are always as bad as what cynical /. posters say."

If you don't like the ads on a site, don't visit that site. If enough people do that, site operators will figure out the types of ads people tolerate and those they don't. Ad blocking isn't 'stealing', but it is mildly sociopathic: "I want what I want and screw the people providing it."

I find ads as annoying as the next person, but that's how a lot of stuff I want to see is funded, so it only seems fair to accept them. Pretty much every 3+ comment here is pro adblocking.

Drum Key (used to tune drums and adjust hardware). If you play in bands it's surprising how ofter the drummer needs one and doesn't have one.

The Unicomp clicky keyboards are also available with blank keys (no letters). I've found that to be a good way to improve touch typing. Even if you don't think you're looking at the keyboard much (I didn't) it can be surprising how much you're cheating.

They probably could respond more reasonably, but walking up to the door and knocking might be a bit reckless. What if it's not a false alarm and there's am unstable, armed murderer on the other side?

Seems like any time there's anything wrong with a mac laptop, the solution is: new logic board, that will be $600 please. It's the only piece of hardware that I will get the extra warranty coverage on.

On Slashdot, maybe 'former MLB pitcher' is less noteworthy than 'creator of Kingdoms of Amalur'.

There are a few other things:

• The satisfaction of creating jobs for people doing something you particularly approve of.
• The impact a successful campaign has on the perceived feasability of similar future efforts (crowd funded or otherwise).

There have been some recent amazing innovations in audio technology!

Apple with the 'pentalobular' screws certainly seems to have had anti-tampering in mind. I don't remember seeing any other justification for those over torx.

Wait! ... amongst the things they managed to combine were such elements as action, a compelling story and ... i'll come in again.

Neither article (OP or this response) seem to support the assertions made in the posts.

Also, is "amount of radiation" a good metric for harm done? Seems like that leaves out a lot of factors that would affect the real world impact.

One thing that seems clear is that (even ignoring climate change) fossil fuels cause a lot more deaths than nuclear.

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to say that. The people who will exploit your system and extract something valuable from it can afford those experts.

Even in that vision of the distant future, human intervention was required to make it work completely.

The type of real GOFAI implied by "Computer Teacher" is probably the most valuable tech on the list, but it seems like it's a lot harder to do than the rest. The fact that our best "human simulations" are basically Eliza with a few hard-coded gags is kind of depressing.

That's one of my favorite things about music. Nobody can explain it. People throw around some bullshit hypotheses, but in reality we just don't know.