"Cells are bad. My uncle lives in a cell. It's ten foot by twelve and he has to read the same boring, old magazine everyday. The end."

Dear FBI,

Just because I choose to prevent your abusive use of e-binoculars to watch me by putting up an e-fence, doesn't mean I'm a pedophile, child pornographer, or terrorist. It means I value my privacy and that I don't trust you.

Please stop abusing your powers.

Thanks,
Me

Because they don't read anything other than the sensationalized articles.

Hint: not all Jews are Israelis, nor are all Israelis Jews. 75% of Israelis are Jews, and (doing math) only ~44.6% of Jews live in Israel.

Please don't confuse the two.

To be fair, there are some advantages to smarter switches - adjusting light levels automatically based on current demand, keypads for controlling multiple lights to set (potentially different) levels at a time (ex: turn everything off, put lights to a comfortable TV viewing level), and for some setups allowing you to trigger your lights based on time or occupancy (though occupancy/vacancy is built in to switches now too).

For example, I have a switch that does vacancy sensing in my bathroom - now I can leave my fan on to air out the shower when I leave for work in the morning. A friend of mine has an occupancy sensor in his stairwell that turns on (and off) his entryway lights so he doesn't need to walk down and turn them off from their only switch (bad design, but something that happens).


Full disclosure: I work for a company that makes light switches and their control systems.

Is that 30,000 devices before being replaced, or 30,000 kinds of devices? The latter would seem to make more financial sense, though I'm not sure if it's actually feasible.

I could almost wish. She'd probably be less demanding :(

And I'd get more cookies.

1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
In the customer's basement. Their house, not their place of work.

2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
Pretty much the above, but with the added amusement of two other techs standing around while you sit on some heating equipment, wondering why you can't finish this faster.

3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
A headless server box? Nothing too exciting here.

4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?
I only write usual boring stuff :(

The good old permanent temporary solution.

If you're taking an extremely narrow understanding of essential, then yes. However, there are other reasons things might be essential - take Reverse 911 for emergency awareness (requires a phone). More generally, in this case essential infrastructure is actually being used like the term critical infrastructure. Some examples (cribbed without shame):

• electricity generation, transmission and distribution
• public health (hospitals, ambulances)
• water supply (drinking water, waste water/sewage, stemming of surface water (e.g. dikes and sluices))
• telecommunication

So the question becomes, "is the Internet critical infrastructure", not "is the Internet essential for survival". Personally, I think it falls quite nicely under telecommunications.

It's every filter ever, all over again!

Think about it this way: you can retire when you close your first ticket!

I think the AC means "applying a patch to a version older than it was meant to patch." Like those game patches that have to be applied in order.

I do, and it doesn't seem to have impacted my battery life much at all.

I leave it on because it works with my car radio, and I use that (plus an app) to trigger various things, like turning off my WiFi when I leave in the morning. It also lets me play music on long trips and I can do bluetooth calls (in my car, not a headset).

I think the point he is trying to get at is if he's out and about with his gun, this adds the possibility of "Oh, I forgot my . Now the bear shall eat me."

In other words, there's the crisis this won't influence (gun is stored) and the one it will (gun is on him).