Except this time around they're being called "perv goggles" or "perv glasses". I suggest we keep reinforcing that term so that's what the public calls them.

Flatpak, Snap and containers in general need lots of drive space. Good thing storage is cheap these days OH WAIT

The programs I use these days generally don't consume all that much space - even if it got really bloated I'm sure most people can get by with under 200GB of installed programs (excluding things like games).

Most of my disk space is data files - videos, music, etc.

Modern games being so big the extra container overhead is basically nothing compared to 120GB for the game assets itself.

If you have 1T of storage space (something that's been around for a decade and a half now), that's usually way more than plenty for even the biggest Linux distro. (Granted, 1T SSDs have only really been cheap the past half decade or so prior to last year).

I don't think the use of flatpak is going to significantly increase the amount of disk space used. It's all my regular work files that take hundreds of gigs of storage space that really consume disk space.

I would be greatly surprised if you couldn't comfortably install this distro on a 256GB SSD (if you can even find them as most people just threw them out).

No, the solution to Flock is not "no license plates" and "no public photography" as that's stupid.

The solution is to break Flock up. The problem with Flock is that adding one camera adds value to the Flock network. A town adds a Flock camera, and the network gets more valuable as anyone can search data from that camera.

So if your neighborhood HOA puts up a Flock camera (and they were the primary customers a decade ago), now police from across the nation has access to that camera as well.

That would be fine, except that police are misusing it. They're arresting people for having the same license plate as someone they're interested in (same letters and numbers, different state). A woman gets handcuffed in front of her kids while police figure out her minivan is not a motorcycle. Cities in California reporting that anywhere from 60+% of the alerts they receive on stolen vehicles are bogus - wrong vehicle, bad license plate read, etc.

Then you also have police misusing their access to stalk romantic interests. Showing even they can't be trusted to not misuse it.

Or government agencies corrupted with goons to seek out certain groups of people. (And while true that Flock has no contracts with ICE - ICE routinely uses friends in LEOs to provide access for them).

In other words, Flock may have had the best of intentions in the beginning. The problem is they are now the front line for what a misbehaving government can misuse to the point well, people are angry.

Though to be fair, I wouldn't vandalize the camera - destroying them is generally illegal. I suggest instead just putting plastic garbage bags over them which at least will cripple them but not destroy them. Many cities who decide to cancel their contracts do this as Flock owns and operates the cameras and it's up to them to remove it.

It's not hard to hash just the important bits - the image data and tables needed would be hashed, as well as certain portions of the metadata (e.g., GPS coordinates, creator, camera serial number and date/time). The hash is signed and stored with the file.

When you verify it,, you just have to parse the right parts out and hash them.

It's a common technique for files that can be legitimately manipulated in certain ways without changing the contents. You can even choose to re-sign a file without altering the original hash, and append the new hash to the file to create a chain of custody. Then you can verify the image using either hash.

I found it curious that they apparently did not even consider the obvious alternative - which as you say is hemp. There is a lot known about turning hemp into paper - even toilet paper - and they seem to be ignoring or oblivious to it. The problem with hemp is the same as the problem with hesperaloe will be - supply. Hemp paper is expensive because the supply of hemp stalks is limited, so it does not scale up to the capacity of wood pulp to create economy of scale price efficiencies.

Likely because the process to turn hemp into paper isn't patentable - it's been done so long and well known.

From the summary, they have a new patented method to turn hesperaloe into cellulose fibres.

That's the reason.

The paper makers can use hemp, but so can anyone else. With this method, only Kimberly-Clark can use the process.

Yet you took the time to reply. You could have chosen to ignore it instead. Glad we can count on folks like you to continue to drive down the signal to noise ratio here.

Yes, I know my ID is also 7 digits long. I don't consider myself longtime, even having read and posted for over 20 years here.

Virginia does not own Dominion Energy. They just regulate it (set rates, etc). They would regulate the resulting corporate entity after a merger, whatever that is, just the same as they do now, as is their right to do so as a state.

I suspect this will get shot down, as Virginia does not have the right to control this (it is interstate / federal level for one thing).

The question even becomes "what is life".

It's believed life started because two molecules got closer together and then bonded. Those two molecules being proto-DNA then developed the capability to reproduce itself. But we're far from cellular life as we would consider it - just a primordial soup of stuff and two proto-DNA molecules coming together and then being to reproduce a copy of itself.

Yep, pay attention to what Andreessen, Thiel, Elmo, Ellison (he and his sprog), Kurzwei, etc. and their fellow travelers are saying. They want the world to put a data center in every backyard and some (most?) insist we are not using enough energy. Their idea is that we're destined for the "stars" and that they are sooooo (*^(&*% intelligent that they deserve to have their brain patterns (what the hell are those, precisely?) transplanted to silicon so they can survive the coming ecological disaster they are intent on creating. They cannot get their heads around that you cannot get to the stars from here. And even were they to send their bot selves there, the bots would suffer hardware breakdown long before they crashed into a destination star.

The movie "Elysium" seems appropriate here. The rich go and live on a space station with green lawns and huge gardens, while everyone else suffers on Earth. Minus the happy ending where their health care robots come down to earth to provide medical care.

Toxoplasma gondii infection can lead to a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions.

...when your brand new phone refuses to be activated on their network, even though you bought it from them> No activation = no connection = app is useless. Can't call them either because, you know, at that point the phone doesn't work.
And yes, it has happened to me.

For T-Mobile, that works great. You have a customer who's paying you and you don't have to provide service for.

Of course, I guess the other assumption is you have access to another phone or something - either your spouse or your kid, or a work phone. Or maybe a landline.

There's a difference:
- In the case of a remote test, those who fail are not out the cost of travel and accommodation.
- In the case of an in-person test, those who fail are out the cost of travel and accommodation.

It looks very much like there were suicides as a consequence of a poor mental health system in the country. There's no logical reason to kill yourself for having to redo an exam. These cases nearly always have something far more significant going on mentally.

You realize a lot of these countries have the One Big Test(tm) that literally decides your fate, right? Basically at the end of your high school education, you take One Big Test and it determines your future. Do really well and you often get a full ride scholarship to an overseas university (basically any university you want to get to - UK, US, Canada, etc). Do well and you get a scholarship to a local university. Do OK and you might be able to get into university if you can pay for it. Do badly and it's either trades or that's it, you're a poor laborer.

It's often so big many of the countries demand complete silence while the exam happens - they will cut back traffic, cut internet access, stop flights, etc.

And yes, these countries have a LOT of teenage suicides. Many students succumb to the pressure - not just the pressure to do well, but pressure from family. In fact, many students have been known to be disowned by their family for not doing as well as they were expected to. (I.e., if you were expected to get the full overseas scholarship and only get local university scholarship).

Students will spend 18 hours a day being tutored and studying for the exam - literally all day and all night in the leadup.

It's one of the advantages of the American system - in that you get second chances. If you fail your university entrance exam, you can often take it again, usually the next year. Same with basically any critical exam - fail the bar, you can take it again the next time (6 months later, though). It's not consequence free - you have to wait for the next exam to be held, and you lose any time opportunities like jobs and such that might be waiting on successful completion. But you get second chances, because at least we've recognized that things happen. You might do poorly because a family member passed at an inopportune moment.

Many of those suicides happened because they put their work into studying for the exam - literally put their life on hold for a month or more and many cannot contemplate having to go through it all over again.

Apple used up their backlog of processors. It's why Neo shipment times have turned into months - Apple was shocked by how many people wanted the computers and sold way more in the first month than they expected to ever sell.

As a result their supply of processors has dried up.