I especially like those times when I'm ready to prop myself up against a wall and doze off and then I hit the bed and suddenly I'm charged up and ready for bear.
Or the times when daylight makes me sleepy and nighttime makes me bounce off of the walls looking for something to do..
may have been awake for over 36 hours
That's cute
I'm not as far off the median as you but I have been over 72 hours many times and over 24 was pretty common for years. By common I mean once a week or more. I got to the point that I really couldn't sleep more than four hours at a stretch for a while.
These days I'm trying to get more sleep as it's starting to have an effect. I can manage 6 hours on a good night and I usually get 5.
always prefix and end your conversations with "yes sir" and "no sir".
This has always baffled me about you Americans, you viciously and readily proclaim yourselves as a nation of citizens over state power and the freest people on earth, but every single time a thread like this comes up people say baffling things like the above.
It's because we either know or strongly suspect that those 'Land of the free' and 'By the people for the people' things are just slogans and should not be taken too seriously. We know that when all is said and done it all comes down to their word against yours and if they are police or other authorities or are sufficiently popular/wealthy/influential then that's 2 strikes against you already.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this. it's lightweight, clean, fast, and it gives me all the features I need in a basic calculator. I use it for most everything except taxes these days.
I did look at Python for more complex math but I ended up just using gnumeric first and later KSpread.
Yes. This battle is won but the war continues and the fact that this battle got to this point is a serious concern. Governments tend to grow and a government that can propose this sort of thing with a straight face.. Well it should be frightening.
It really should not have been a matter of 'bowing to pressure' it should have been laughed off the floor upon introduction.
I'm still using v2 and this is the output of 'ps -A u' for firefox;
2369 2.0 9.0 294940 188736 ? Sl 07:29 12:07
I've noticed one thing that may contribute to confusion here. My browser was dog slow and I mean sometimes it would take 10-15 seconds just for the save file dialog to close. I had, until recently, considered this to be a poorly done plugin because back when I installed the system it was much faster.
Recently I heard about the above mentioned speed difference but what I was seeing was just too great to be explained by that. I noticed a lot of stuff was unchecked under private data settings so I cleared it and now it's much faster than it was.
Granted, it's a completely different thing but this could be one reason for the perception that the compiler related performance difference persists.
Freedom of speech includes the right to waive that freedom in particular cases. NDA's for example.
This is not censorship or a ban on free speech.
This is a questionable practice, it's doomed to fail because anonymity makes it unenforceable, it's counter productive, it's idiotic, but it is not a violation of freedom of speech.
Indeed. To anyone who is naive enough to wonder why privacy and anonymity matter on the net and elsewhere here it is. They give us a valuable tool to deal with what amount to guerilla attacks upon fundamental rights.
Defense in depth. Because sometimes you cannot count upon people to be honest.
There is no such thing, unless you're going to allow no access at all to the data. The best you can hope for is to make it difficult enough that non-technical doctors won't know how or won't care to circumvent your road blocks.
That would be good enough. Most security breaches come from convenience. Things like Flash drives walking out the door and such. When we have a system that's as secure as a good filing cabinet we can call it secure. As it is now we might as well just put the files in a public library in some cases.
Are you blind?
Look at all the insipid laws we're trying to pass to 'protect the children' and 'stop terrorism'. Hooray, government will save us from ourselves by tracking every step we take. Except government serves money more than people. The odds are just as good that we'll end up as some sort of drone culture where everything that isn't safe for baby is illegal.
Or perhaps the IP society will do it. Patent everything until no one can speak in public about anything but water-cooler chat without violating some patent or another.
Or maybe we'll just pave over the world and turn everything other than farms into condominiums or malls.
Yes, technically that wouldn't be destroying civilization but who cares if it isn't fit to live in? There is more than one way to ruin a civilization.
Of course there's always space travel. If we ever get off this rock long enough for those in power to get the idea that large-scale war can be made profitable again it's all over. Watch all of that so-called 'better society' vanish inside of a decade of media manipulation towards war.
It's all gambling and even odds don't build casinos.
Human nature does not change. Only technology and since that tech is controlled by us this improvement is situational and temporary.
I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it. - Joe Mullally, computer salesman
