The only problem there is that unless you're individually tagging packages by handler, it's of limited use int he warehouse. Still, it's not completely worthless, it would help the shipping company know which shifts to pay closer attention to and that they can ignore shifts that aren't damaging boxes. Or at least stop worrying about damage to the boxes.

Or, maybe the shipping companies need to be held liable for damage that happens during shipping. Nobody expects that a package will make it all the way without possibility of being dropped, but being thrown around and such isn't something which the shippers ought to expect.

It's not wrong, when I was getting my teaching certificate, I didn't have access to any of that stuff because the school wasn't big enough to be able to afford it. I think there were only like 30 or 40 students in the program tops, and it would have been unaffordable for them to provide.

So, no, it's not wrong, you'd be surprised how many schools there are of that size that can't afford to pay for things which might only be used for one article over the course of a year.

And BTW, the education I received there was a lot better than what I've seen from larger schools.

Libreoffice uses very little Java at this point. That's one of the things that's changed since they forked from OO.org.

I'm not so sure about that. It's not exactly hard to get a pirate copy of Windows 7 in China. Not sure about Vista or 8 though, but I'd be surprised if they were at all hard to get.

If they're selling well, you would expect for at least some of them to be taken outside. If you just want something to check email and stuff like that, you're better off buying something that's used.

And yes, the fact that I'm not seeing them is a problem for them. Windows laptop manufacturers can get away with that because Windows is a commonly used OS and they're just competing with other Windows laptop manufacturers. Apple can't as much because they need people to know that they're product is being used. ChromeOS OTOH, isn't getting any attention and adding the Pixel isn't going to change that if it isn't clear that people are using it.

And yes, when tablets first came out they didn't fill any particular needs. Many years later, Apple figured out how to make them useful and convince people to pay for them. At which point many more uses came into existence. In large part because there was money to justify creating applications just for it. ChromeOS doesn't look to be going that way because nobody knows where these machines are or what they're doing.

Only if you go to a larger or more expensive college do you get access to major journals. And it doesn't permit folks that are out of college to gain access to them either if they see a particularly controversial claim being made.

I'm not sure why creating derivatives would be considered OK for these studies. The stuff you need to do with them are generally already covered under the rules for citation and plagiarism anyways. The big issue is gaining access in the first place.

If it's a study that's created with private funds closing it off is merely anti-social, but if they're using government funds, then it really ought to be free for anybody to look at and examine.

No, but who is buying these things? Which is sort of the point. They don't fill any particular needs, they don't get any press either here or on regular web sites. I've never actually seen one anywhere. So, the GP is making a point that wherever they're being sold, it probably isn't in the general market. Or the owners aren't taking them outside for use.

I'm wondering if the hardware isn't just being repurposed for other things.

You're supposed to combine SPF with DKIM so that you know who is sending messages from where. The point isn't to kill spam completely, just to make it as inefficient as possible. If you make it inefficient enough that they're all losing money, they'll move onto another scam.

I dunno, I hear that sunshine is the best disinfectant and they haven't gotten around to charging for that yet.

Indeed, I spent the last year living in China. And it was really disturbing how quickly I got used to having no say at all in anything. It's no wonder that most Americans are so complacent. I only hope that the Canadians are smart enough to avoid that. I wouldn't mind moving to BC and taking my trade craft with me.

If you knowingly send a fake takedown notice you're already committing perjury.

Yeah well, at least it's not idiots with automatics, that could get serious...

For better or for worse most of the US government is concentrated in that part of the US. But that's not going to change until somebody does something about the ego problem running up and down the East Coast. Seriously, the East Coast bias is very real. The thing is that we on the West Coast don't really want our news over there, we just want to stop being bombarded with nothing stories that happened to happen on the East Coast.

A hole that size would take a long time to bring down a blimp. And I'm pretty sure that people shoot at the Goodyear Blimp from time to time. Presumably people hit it. It's just that a hole that size makes little or no difference when dealing with a volume of gas that large.