And why, in 2019, are symbols mapped into the font in place of letters? Shouldn't most useful symbols be defined in Unicode? How keypresses are translated to code points is totally up to the application, so a properly made application would just accept text input with whatever keys you like mapped to useful symbols. And then text should display however is conventional for the specific text area.

Let us assume that you are based in a location where the cost of energy makes mining cryptocurrencies unprofitable. Let us further assume that you have the capital to setup solar power generation. Would it not then be more profitable to sell the power at the going rate in that location, rather than using it to mine cryptocurrency? If I'm producing something worth X per unit, it makes no sense to use it in the production of something else, unless that something else is worth more than X per unit of my input.

Event Horizon? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-th...

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

Good one. While I like my thinkpads, I would like to have other options while keeping my prefered pointing device. And all the stupid pointing pads should at the very least be disablable at a level _below_ the OS - anice cover plate would be nice too :-)

The media don't have a concern to call out police overreach because frankly, they rely on police for 90% of their reporting. If you don't have a source to start the story, you're out. If you don't have a source to confirm the story, you're out. And if you question what the police tell you, you don't have a source anymore.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/09/misconduct-is-only-news-when-journalists-say-it-is/

http://www.popehat.com/2012/03/21/chelsea-kay-of-krcr-tv-supports-shooting-being-a-lapdog/

http://www.popehat.com/2013/07/12/a-brief-story-illustrating-my-view-of-law-enforcement-and-the-media-that-covers-it/

I have awaken from my near-decade-long Slashdot slumber to rebut the attempted race-baiting of Radley Balko.

Radley Balko is the type of person who calls out injustice, individual and institutional, regardless of who it impacts. And has done so for a long time.

Radley Balko is also the kind of person who has spent hundreds of hours of his personal time meeting with, writing about, agitating for the release of, and providing assistance to, wrongfully-accused defendants... most of whom, in my thirty seconds of scanning the 'net, are black.

"Google Corey May." Classic. Well done, sir.

Radley Balko is a goddamn American Hero.

Just a quick counter point to your first problem. Lack of a (good, working, sane) chargeback system may cause needed work to not be done, if the people who need to do it are not on the same team/in the same department as the people who need it done. Think servers being built by developers - who can't continue work until they have been created - instead of having server specialists build them - who may in fact be able to build them better and faster. This happens easily when no chargeback system exist for the developers to "pay" the server specialists. Everybody works on tasks that contribute to their own department/team bottom line - but the total result for the company as a whole might be a lot worse than possible.

The MG 42 was in fact so good, that it's successor, the MG 3, is still in use around the world (I trained on it myself about a decade ago, in the danish army).

MAC is 48 bits. It is expanded to EUI-64 format by inserting 0xFFFE in the middle and flipping the 6th bit of the first octet. This is then used as the host part of the address.