I use the hub to hook up the stuff on my desk (extra monitors, ethernet, the kvm switch with keyboard and mouse...) When I travel I just take headphones and a mouse, so I don't need the hub. *shrug* This whole thing is extremely situational.

That said, if he just wants more ports, then it doesn't matter if they're A or C because adapters. It sounds like what he's trying to ask for is "enough A ports and enough C ports to connect anything I might want" which is into the psychic powers part of design.

I can see that point of view but using that logic my employer pays my taxes, so...

which card do you use? I've been interested in using virtual card numbers but mine don't do that.

decreasing price auction, preferably. That'll minimize speculative buying (because most folks likely to be willing to pay more than you did probably already did).

Of course, you still get the "rich people get tickets before anyone else" part, but that's hard to avoid in general.

I feel like a factor that makes it weird is that anyone who wants to head up the linux kernel can... just fork it and go. And then the market decides who to follow.

Or a courthouse for a required checkin to maintain legal status

... if he decides to pay attention to such a law. Who's going to hold him accountable?

in the current state of affairs I think we should also suspend Poe's law. I think it would be good for satire to be obvious.

Yeah, but until someone notices, identifies it, and adds a signature for it, there's no indication that what it's doing is worse than legitimate tools =/

who do you figure is going to ban it? Unless this results in a drastic drop in revenue, Delta's not gonna do it, and the secretary of transportation doesn't seem likely to stick his nose in...

The quote about "at the same time" is coming from Engadget. It may have originally come from Nintendo that way, or it may be that someone at Engadget misunderstood something.

The problem is not how the Earth handles high CO2 levels, it's the disruptions to modern civilization and how various nations react to them. Almost every war in history has been caused by some level of too much population for the resources in an area, and rapid changes to the availability of resources is not going to be good for political stability.

Unfortunately thermodynamics makes this really difficult - turning any other form of energy into heat is easy; turning heat into anything else is painfully inefficient at best and what you turn it into turns back into heat in the end anyway.

Or you have a backup plan that doesn't put internal combustion in the basement in a tsunami zone, and your pumps keep running fine.

polaric energy? From Star Trek?