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Comment Re: Addictive Design is just Good Design (Score 1) 27

We regulate certain things more or less out of existence because they're dangerous. Certain types of products which people can't or won't make themselves can be prohibited from sale, for example. I generally am in favor of legalizing things and enforcing laws against fraud, so that people get honest information about consequences, but I also like for people to be protected from other people.

Tobacco products are my favorite example because they affect people who aren't even using them. We allow them to persist only because of a profitable and highly taxable industry, not because of any notions about freedom. Freedom would be to permit you to grow your own instead of enabling the cancer stick industry, and let all the smokers move to farms in the south.

Comment Re: Time (Score 1) 61

Here's a fun fact, there's a clearing house colloquially known as the "federal hub" where your name, DOB, SSN, and ID numbers can be rubbed together and your citizenship verified in seconds if you're well-documented. It takes longer to verify noncitizen status, but citizenship is stupidly easy to verify once identity has been verified, and registered noncitizens are required to carry their citizenship documents anyway... authorization to work, legal permanent resident card, passport, etc etc. Those are also all photo ID.

The passport is the gold star of verification, as it verifies both citizenship and identity anywhere in the US.

Comment Re:Oboyoboyoboy! (Score 1) 25

My cochlear implant - Spectra 22 from the mid-90s - has a 2.5mm input jack so I can connect a microphone and isolate the sound source. If we're in a restaurant, or driving, for example, my wife will wear it under chin so I pick up her voice almost exclusively. If we're in a crowd, and moving about, it's not as convenient, so I'm at the mercy of a flood of noise.

Did not know they had a mic jack. That's a nice addition.

Comment Re:My SciFi dream is still Fusion to Synfuel (Score 1) 164

hey combine hydrogen from with carbon dioxide,

Hydrogen from what or where?
If, like almost all *industrial* hydrogen, it comes from cracking natural gas, that's as something pure magenta (whatever the complimentary colour to green is).
(Our "analytical grade" hydrogen was probably sourced from electrolysis - certainly when we made it on site, it was ; but that was substantial cost of equipment and maintenance time. Our systems really cared about contaminants at the part-per-million level.)

Comment Re: That which is measured (Score 2) 32

Indeed. Here in California we are the poster children for this, because we have a 55 mph speed limit while towing which is NEVER enforced. We have a requirement that headlights be aimed correctly, same. We have a law saying that if there are five or more people behind you, you must pull over at the first safe opportunity to let them pass, same. Fender flares must project as far as tires, same. (Anyone who's ever had a rock break their windshield understands.)

CHP cares specifically and only about revenue generation, so they do nothing to improve safety except go after speeders. That's not nothing, but it's not enough.

Comment Re:Curl ism’t myths “target" (Score 1) 62

If you can break into a foreign system by running a curl command on your machine: it is not curls fault.
If some one is remote executing curl on your machine, then it is also extremely unlikely that it is curls fault if something odd happens. It can only fetch files from where ever the user running it has read access, and likewise can only write where the user running it, can write.
I have no idea why/where curl would need super user privileges ... and most certainly it can not elevate its privileges on its own.

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