Much of this defense tech is surveillance tech that will also be on Americans. Not particularly patriotic.

Hi worried should I be about my regular investments, 401K and money that's in Fidelity. If this stable coin tanks, will it take my account down with it? I'm thinking about companies such as Barings or Bear Stearns.

Honestly, Apple is a hardware vendor. They can't just put out stuff that's at the line of being embarrassing and then collect feedback. Apple has to live with the consequences of bad design for years. Facebook does not.

Except itâ(TM)s the other way around. Stores charge a high price by default (manufacturers suggested retail price) and add a variable discount.

We were hoping so as well. It's amazing how much of our pipeline has hidden dependancies on Intel. Virtualization on M2 based Macbooks is very limited until new drivers come out. Our CICD pipeline only recently added support for ARM. Every step we take to try and get to ARM is met with months of delays.

(21.01Wh - 14.26Wh) = 6.75Wh more to wirelessly charge your phone once.
365 * 6.75Wh/1000 = 2.46 KWh more power used to wirelessly charge your phone all year.
2.46 * $0.32 $/KWH (power rate in the most expensive state in the US) = $0.79 cents more per year, to wirelessly charge your cell phone in Hawaii.

Cellphones are ridiculously low power.

It could. Thats not what is happening. Actual live women are being inserted into porn without there awareness or consent.

If completely fictional women were being used in porn, then that may fine. I look forward to seeing that happen.

There is a additional security hole here that I'd love to see a solution to-- how to hide your patterns of access. The NSA is every bit as interested in who is access what data, when and where, as it is in the contents of the data. If a person of interested has accessed an encrypted file, then other people who access that same file are also very interesting. The actual contents of the file may just be icing on the cake.

I believe that. The older programmers that I know have a better sence of what is neccessary, what works, and what doesn't need to be done. The young guys out code them by number of lines, the old coders write much more code that survies for years and doesn't need to be rewritten six monthes from now.

"Think of it as a wine cellar for ads, " I love that phrase. I'm going to paraphrase it everytime I want to bull-shit someone. Think of your cooking as a wine celler for garbage.

3D may be invevitable and unwise to resist, but that doesn't mean film makers should embrace it now. Let's face it, it took 30 years for the movies to really transition from B&W to color. Many great B&W movies were made after the color debut. For decades it made economic sense to stick with B&W. Likewise, until 3D cameras become cheap and convinient, it may be better for most filmmakers to skip it. In the long run 3D may win. But, if you want to make a film, it's better to make it with the tools at hand, then go the extra mile and expense to make it in 3D. How many movies really would benifit from 3D? Sure, the summer blockbusters will. And probably animated kids fare. How about a Romantic Comedy? A drama? I predict it will be a long time before a 3D film wins Oscar for best pic.

What ethical line is that? People paying different prices for goods based on how much they want them, is fundamental to capitalism, to supply and demand. There are ethical problems if you gouge; charge thousands of dollars to someone for a bottle of water when they are dehydrated and near death. How else should prices be set? Cost plus some socially approved mark up? What if you find that your goods are continually resold on e-Bay for a much greater price?

> "I've always wondered if I took a postcard, wrote someone's name and city to be delivered to, and gave it to a random person. Would it ever get there?"

That experiement has already be done. Read about Milgram's "Small World Experiement." It's the experiement that originated the phrase "Six Degrees of Separation." Milgram did a rigours version of "write a name and city on a post card and ask a random person to help deliver it."

The article is about Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is not just a langauge. It is a lanaguage and a web framework. Frameworks very much affect your scalability.

This is off topic, but Slashdot's MSFT icon is stale.

The best of both worlds aired 17 years ago. The Borg haven't been on the air in years.

And Bill G is no longer at Microsoft.