As climate change has already warmed up Earth for a while now, and this is one of the consequences. Too bad it takes a disaster before we find money to do things properly.

Insert scene with Ron Perlman shooting at the sky, here.

Do I have to spell it out? I'm not even an expert in the field, and it feels obvious:

- The one with the big guns makes the laws in the end.

We have democracy because the people with the big guns decided to enforce democracy. Same with any regime really.

- If you have two parties with comparably big guns on the same patch of land who disagree you get civil war

- If you have two parties with comparably big guns on separate patches of land they call those "countries"

- If the party with comparable big guns on a separate territory wants to do business with you, but you don't like how they conduct themselves, you impose sanctions, you flash your big guns, and even reposition some of your big guns on their patch of land. They may position some of their on yours. It's called going to war (with declaration or not)

With these bullet points in mind, let's imagine what the US government will have to say about the operations of the company and its associates on US soil should they behave as if they're their own nation on Mars...

Quite a few of us are gonna die!

Improved user experience using finger push-buttons and a mobile on-screen position indicator.

Improved improvement: the indicator changes shape depending on context.

I've only seen it at the design museum earlier, so I don't know the details, but machine gun drone fans should play this: Killbox

Caution: it may cause emotional distress in people who have no idea what that is

Watch out Thailand, in a few decades from now these guys will leave for another place because your standard of living is starting to become bearable. You've been warned.

This sounds like pure and simple fraud. I wonder how AT&T's lawyers will try to spin this though.

"Now I've got as much tail as I did when I was younger"

Fixed (well, at least Preview shows OK):

Xerox already said something.

But the lawsuit was dismissed.

Have they tried thoughts and prayers? They seem to work great for stuff like alternative medicine, alternative psychology, alternative education... So why not alternative fungus control?

Well, they should plaster their walls with My Little Pony posters. That should bring joy to the terrorists and make them not commit mass murder. What say you Walmart?

For some reason my Slack goes into "I'll use 100% CPU for no reason and you have to quit me to work again" mode randomly after bringing my (Linux) laptop out of standby. Once it did it just because I disconnected the network, so I think it's a network-related bug. Somebody busy-loops on EOF or Broken Pipe in there.

I kept the client around and clicked "Quit" on the "unsupported fs" dialog box at every boot hoping it will show up in their statistics.

That's why I mentioned the nonce. It would make the hash usable only once (i.e. no replay attack), and if done the way I thought about it, the server would start from its own stored hash, add the nonce, then compare.

I posted a longer text as a response to somebody else, and found a problem with my idea: how does the server get the initial hash while not revealing the password and also preventing replays?

So back to the drawing board, and learning some more security concepts (it's impossible that nobody thought of this before, and very likely I just don't know about it)