Let's ignore for now the obvious issue of how you solve a problem with an app that requires the very device you have a problem with. How do they expect people to become new customers in the first place? The #1 reason I go to a cell provider's physical stores is to pick out a new phone, have it activated, and my current phone (if still functional) cloned to it. Are they seriously expecting 100% of new customers to be BYOD Verizon defectors? I have to suspect this is the "anchoring" opening bid in trying to sneak through a far less obnoxious change, hoping we'll all thank them rather than reaching for the tar and feathers when they announce whatever real change they're aiming for.

To be fair. this is a University with a 90% acceptance rate. It makes Greendale Community college look respectable. No offence Todd.

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, no, no there is not.

You almost got it right. The progression was Fortran -> Pascal -> LISP -> C -> C++ -> JAVA. At least in college introductory programming.

Licenses have ALWAYS been revocable. Physical distribution doesn't change that. Historically, until relatively recently, they have lacked the technological means to enforce license revocation.

Contractors tend to be a lot cheaper and easier to get in big cities. In small to medium cities there is a shortage. You wait for a month and even then they may not show up. They know they have you over a barrel so they overcharge.

I don't want to sound alarmist and I am obviously not an expert but... we know what happens when you remove a species from the food chain. 1. Their predators die off. 2. Other species rise to take their place. While obviously mosquitos are the most harmful-to-humans animals on the planet, have the scientists really figured out what the potential adverse long-term effects of permanent mosquito reduction will be, or are we rushing headlong into solving one problem just to create a worse one further down the line?

There is an ongoing war that is crippling economies worldwide specifically to prevent one nation from getting one nuclear weapon. There is another war where the mere threat of using nuclear weapons has caused the entire Western World from properly protecting an ally against stealing land and heinous war crimes in the act of doing so.

That is not 'controlled', my friend. That is teetering on the edge of disaster.

Most likely, and this is a bit cynical, the people that own or control Cloudera are foreign born and are trying to help their own ethnic group at the exclusion of Americans.

Do you not notice 10 PETABYTES of data transmitting out of your data center? This was either a slow transfer over a REALLY long time, or they pegged the network to download it all really quickly.

Speaking of growth, did the human living in Reality actually work to avoid all the shit life choices that GAVE them cancer?

Shocking how we'll find those clones to be anomaly and disease-free, because common fucking sense. God forbid we ask humans to be accountable for their shitty life choices that literally create the harm they're paying to migitate.

Firefox does built in local translations of pages. That's an "AI feature" and it's avoiding you having to use google translate or other systems that end up sending the data "to the cloud" (in other words, sending you private data to other people's servers where they can do whatever they want with it).

I don't see how local, relatively low energy, private, reasonably effective translation of a page is an "anti-feature".