I'm sure the "Ghost of Kyiv" will be remembered fondly in their history books.

"Mr. Frost gave Mr. Cook an AR-47"

I'm guessing we've got news being reported by gun experts again.

If it doesn't work, but it also doesn't cause harm, then why go do people need to get a court order in many place just to even try it? I thought this was a very liberal place that was generally against regulating harmless drugs...

You can calm down with the 'horse paste' insults too...it's literally on the WHO's list of essential medicines for people. People on resorted to trying horse paste because they were going after any doctor who would prescribe it to them. (Because prohibition policies are soooo effective...)

I wouldn't be so sure of that, given how many people are fully vaccinated and already getting the new variants.

In the cases of things like Marek's disease, it's exactly the opposite - the vaccinated animals were the origin of the variants that made things worse. This article on wikipedia is still quite good though I'd watch for edits, give the current state of the world we're in.

I'd recommend doing some reading on 'leaky vaccines' because that's literally what the 'safe and effective' vaccines that they're pushing are. It's worth noting that other mandatory vaccines for mumps, measles, rubella, and smallpox are NOT the 'leaky' variety.

Honestly...the unvaccinated are getting scapegoated by manipulative media and most people don't know any better...that seems to suit Pfizer's stock price just fine though.

I think itâ(TM)s more accurate to say that America has a Joe Biden problem.

is to just loot and pillage the SnapChat offices. They've made it obvious that they're not willing to do anything to defend their property from being taken because apparently it would be racist and unjust.

The rioters would do us all a favor if they would have a party in the posh SnapChat offices and loot the idiots so that they might learn something.

Trump-style tactics? This is the most cringeworthy attempt at spin that I've seen on slashdot since Jon Katz wrote that fake crap about Junis in Afghanistan digging up a Commodore 64 to download porn and movies.

I don't check in here very often anymore...this is a great example of why.

They're doing their best to manufacture outrage - that's for sure. They seem to want people to believe that Austin in banning them, when really, they're threatening to leave if they have to deal with this requirement. (A requirement that even applies to a pedicab driver in Austin. Along with a limo driver, taxi driver, etc.)

Houston also has the same fingerprinting requirements. Uber threatened to leave, as did Lyft. In the end, Uber stayed...even with the fingerprinting requirements.

They're playing Austin like a bunch of cry-bullies. They feel that we all owe them an easy and profitable business model as they didn't do any due freaking diligence before jumping into new markets, etc. This is the kind of bullshit they pass off as 'disruption'.

Honestly...they can't afford to leave big cities like Houston and Austin if they want to continue to justify their current valuation, which is 70+ billion dollars. Literally...tens of billions of dollars more than GM or Ford. It sounds pretty bubbly to me.

It's funny you mention the UI, since they're counting servers in their figures. How many of the servers that he's counting actually make much use of a graphical UI on a regular basis?

Licensed amateur radio operators have had a public database with the FCC since practically forever. This really isn't unprecedented.

Would they prefer the term "glorious holes"? It's as valid of a substitute as any...

Well...since Apple just announced Apple Pay, I guess they felt the need to get themselves into the headlines somehow. IMHO, this is probably more about their competition than it is about Bitcoin.

Doh!

Good catch on that...I was pretty sure on that one, but my quickie search didn't turn up the details that your post did. Thanks for that.

I stand corrected on that...you're right. Just had to double check that for myself. I thought they owned some imagery satellites of their own already.

Anyways...the other part is true. Many of the existing satellites up there can do higher resolution than what we've currently been allowed to see. I got to chat with someone at DigitalGlobe at a conference once...it was interesting stuff to hear about. I had no idea about any of those details up until that point.

Yeah...this is obviously true. When I wrote that I had more conventional things in mind, such as the 45 degree views that are available over many cities in Google Maps. Those were done with aerial photography, if I'm not mistaken. I think Bing maps and others are the same way. There were some OpenStreetMap projects doing some things with aerial imagery too...I haven't looked at the state of those projects in awhile, but it looked like neat stuff. Obviously there are services that will do aerial imagery for you for a price too...where allowed by the relevant authorities.

As for Area 51...I wonder how long it's going to be until some civilian manages to get a drone with a camera over that. Maybe it's already happened. Maybe they've already disappeared... :)