Translation of headline: Bay Area Startup Wants to Make It Easier For Call Centers to Lie.

How much coding has Tim Cook done? Seems to me if he came up on the business side and didn't do a lot of coding, he's no expert to be saying anything about it.

Why is legislation defined as automatically meaning higher energy bills and more pollution? Aren't people free to buy the bulbs they want to buy? I have a whole bunch of candle-type LED bulbs; they're already on the market. I chose to buy them because of the energy savings of using them. Presumably, many more people will do the same. Regulation had nothing to do with my purchasing them.

Why should anybody care about what the government says about this when you can already make the choice yourself? Regulations don't "make a wide array of specialty light bulbs more efficient," the people who invented the specialty light bulbs do. Regulations just force people to do stuff (or not to do stuff).

This is part of why I dumped RedHat for Mandrake in 1998 and never looked back. Now it's Manjaro FTW.

Case in point: I was just given an iPad (company anniversary gift). It's my first Apple device. After a month of trying to get it to work for me, I'm probably going to have to turn it into a streaming/gaming device for my kids. Why?

Apple's trust model is broken. On iOS, apps are assumed to be not trustworthy, so they put them in a sandbox. This means one app can't access another app's local files. On the other hand, for some reason, the cloud is assumed to be trustworthy. If I use iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, or any other cloud provider, I can open and save files to any cloud folder.

I've spent a couple years de-cloudifying myself because as we all know, the cloud is just somebody else's computer. According to my philosophy, therefore, the cloud is inherently untrustworthy, and I don't want my data on somebody else's computer. This is why my devices have local storage: to hold my data. If I want to share it, I use Syncthing (https://syncthing.net) and I can then access it on the local storage of one of my other devices. I'm therefore not sharing todos, notes, files, or anything else I choose not to share with Apple, Google, Amazon, or anybody else who may decide at some point to mine my data.

On Android, I have the choice to configure my device this way. On my iPad, I do not. It is, essentially, then, not my device. It's Apple's. It's bound to their trust model, which says Apple is trustworthy (their apps can access the new "On my iPad" file selector), but 3rd party apps are not (even sync apps like Resilio Sync or Syncthing). Their trust model, therefore, makes the device useless to me.

Sure, what Tim Cook says has some truth to it: if I were willing to share all my stuff on other people's computers, I would be able to use the iPad without thinking about "bits and bytes and feeds and speeds." But their "whole system" means sharing personal life data to an unprecedented extent with Apple. That's not bringing humanity to computing. That's giving over our humanity to be stored by one or more corporations. It's a classic example of forging an easy path for Lemmings to go--where? And that's the problem. We don't know if we're heading for the safe exit or dropping off the cliff.

I believe Southern California (LA, San Diego) never had enough water. They get their water piped in from Colorado.

A good parallel is Uber and Lyft. They both use the same infrastructure (roads). Should they be required to support each other's services? No. They're competitors. Similarly, Google and Amazon use the same infrastructure (the Internet). Net neutrality should allow them to compete on the shared infrastructure, just as others compete on their shared infrastructure.

Why does it have to be all or nothing? I prefer close on the left and max/min on the right.

Calling something you don't like (or maybe don't understand?) ridiculous and insanity is not an argument against it; it's just an opinion. I agree that it is a real shame that the Bahnsen/Martin debate never happened. But for anyone interested in theism/atheism, you've got to engage with this debate, or you haven't fully explored the topic.

Hilariously funny. Every bit as good as the Hitchhiker's Guide series:

https://www.amazon.com/Starshi...

https://www.amazon.com/Robot-N...

You should now listen to the classic debate between Bahnsen and Stein:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Session restore is still there. Go to System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Desktop Session. Under "On Login," make sure either "Restore Previous Session" (which is the default setting) or "Restore manually saved session" options are selected.

You can easily get different backgrounds if you use activities instead of virtual desktops. Activities are pretty much the same except they're more powerful: you can have different widgets in different activities, and you can set various applications to auto-launch in those activities. For example, you can have a Desktop activity for your work and a Social activity that has your email client, Twitter client, etc. They can have different backgrounds and you can switch back and forth in the same way as with virtual desktops.

Use Manjaro: http://www.manjaro.org./ It's based on Arch, so Manjaro is to Arch as Ubuntu/Neon is to Debian. They have a great KDE version of the distro, and they've integrated their hardware driver manager into the Plasma 5 System Settings.

How about this: Clintons' lack of CS savvy in setting up an email server threatens US national security.