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The best the US can do is 80s/90s era ICs. Modern ICs drive the high bandwidth of the modern Internet. Welcome.

Approximately 75% of Intel's semiconductor fabrication is performed in the USA.. That includes 14nm and 10nm foundries, with a 7nm foundry planned to open in the US as well.

GlobalFoundries has a presence in the US and is pushing out 60,000 wafers a month outside of Albany, NY with process at 14, 22 and 28 nm. (that's a lot, the largest in the world are pushing about 150,000 wafers/month)

Tower Semiconductor has US foundries, although it is not a US company, dealing with some more exotic ICs for mixed signal and high performance analog. They're frequently making special purpose ASICs for telecommunications, so there's your "high bandwidth Internet" right there.

Does the US manufacture the most ICs? No way, not by a long shot, the tiny Island nation of Taiwan has the big United States beat by an order of magnitude. But the US still operates cutting edge silicon foundries, so it's premature to say "The best the US can do is 80s/90s era ICs"

Let's compare browser market share stats from October 2017, before Firefox 57 was released against browser market share stats December 2017, after Firefox 57 was released.

The first thing to notice is that Firefox 55 had 3.86% of the market in October, but Firefox 57 only had 3.55% as of December. This indicates to me that new users aren't adopting Firefox 57, and existing users have been avoiding or leaving it.

Firefox 54 dropped from 0.24% to 0.05%. This indicates to me that users haven't been sticking with recent older versions instead of upgrading.

We must also notice that Firefox 52 dropped from 0.49% in October down to 0.44% by December. Remember that Firefox 52 is an extended support release (ESR), and we would have expected this number to have grown, or at least remained constant, if users had chosen to stick with Firefox 52 instead of upgrading to Firefox 57.

There has also been a decline in the market share of the future (at the time) versions. Firefox 56 had 0.16% of the market in October, but the equivalent next version as of December, Firefox 58, had only 0.13% of the market. So Firefox wasn't even able to maintain its more advanced users, who use upcoming versions of Firefox.

So we've seen Firefox suffer from some significant market share loss within the desktop segment.

Some people will probably point out how Firefox for Android went from 0.09% in October to 0.45% in December. There's nothing to get excited about here, though. First of all, any growth here has been more than offset by declines in the usage of desktop Firefox. Second of all, it's likely that this sudden jump is a result of people trying out Firefox, but there's little to suggest that they'll continue to use it over the long run. Third of all, a market share of 0.45% still makes Firefox for Android totally irrelevant, with mobile browsers like Chrome for Android at over 28%, UC Browser for Android at almost 9%, iOS Safari at over 7%, Samsung Internet at over 3%, and even Opera Mini at just over 3%. So Firefox is at best the 6th place mobile browser, which is a rather pathetic place to be for an organization like Mozilla that has significant resources and had specialized in browser development for a long time.

I don't see how anyone can consider Firefox 57 to have been a success. The broken extensions, the unwanted new UI, and the lack of performance improvements meant it was a very painful release for end users. We see their pain reflected in these recent browser market share statistics, which clearly show that Firefox is still losing users and not gaining users, and this is something it just can't afford to have happen given how low its market share was to begin with.

If Firefox 57 was meant to "recover" Firefox, as the summary suggests, then it completely failed at achieving this goal. I think it has actually done the opposite: Firefox 57 has accelerated Firefox's decline, as indicated by the market share stats.

The lying, misogyny, insensitivity, bellicosity, narcissism and over-compensated inferiority complex have nothing to do with intelligence.

You just described every single person who has ever been in Congress or the White House. ...snipsnip...

Excellent demonstration of The Golden Rationalization or Two Wrongs make a Right. However I would like to believe that there's been some representatives who just wanted to do the right thing. The trick is trying to distinguish the baby from the bath water.

I assure you just because some people put on a public face which seems nice and comfortable to you does not mean they are like that in private.

Agreed. I would go so far as to say " .... they are like that in reality".

That was a nice comment you quoted, and I agree that those are things that Sourceforge has done mostly right. Or at least does nowadays.

Though this is how I remember it... I really hated that tiny font, navigation bar that doesn't look like one, anonymous CVS service that was down 70 % of the time, bug tracker that's full of ">" and other HTML entities thanks to a doubled up conversion somewhere along the journey...

(And then the "project page" and user-friendly "home page" being separate from each other and often not linking to each other...)

Sourceforge had a lot of faults back then, and I'm not really sure they are much better now. I wish some other web site had gathered enough OSS projects to get a non-negligible market share. Because Github isn't making me happy either.

No, what's going on recently does very much concern me, but perhaps in an entirely different way than it concerns you. You see, I'm not a prominent public figure, I am in control of my own income (I work for myself, I'm certainly not going to fire my star employee and I'll know immediately if accusations against him -- myself -- are true or not), and really I don't care if someone comes at me; they've done it before and I'm sure they'll do it again. I will rise above it just as I have in the past.

See you don't need to be a prominent figure. All controlling your income means, is that you're a far richer target for someone if they actually decide to do something. In the current state of affairs, you won't be rising above. You'll be mired in a bog for years wondering "why did this happen" just like countless others have.

Been there, done that, moved on from retail as a result and my life has never been better. Of course, I'm not well-known enough to make national headlines; if I were, I might be more afraid of the current situation.

So you've turned around and already been accused, but still think you'd be able to ride it out if it happened today because you're low key enough. You don't seem to get that if it happened today, it wouldn't matter because your friends and family in the current "sphere" would consider you suspect regardless.

FYI, if you want some actual "toxic masculinity" you should look no further then VICE today, where they labeled a woman as a "real doll" for daring to have an opinion that differs from theirs. But they're not receiving flak for it, the left is cheering them on.

As for emailing, I might when I get time after this massive screw-up and repairs get rolled out.

I was thinking of the very old ISOs that are still floating around... [looking in my archive]

Puppy_Lighthouse215SeaM_Beta5.iso (2007)
Puppy_4.2retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso (2009)

are the oldest that I have stashed here.

Here's one from 2003:
https://archive.org/details/Pu...

I have an early P75 ready to hand (well, I could bring it up from the basement) which should be close enough to a 486 for quick test purposes... stay tooned...

Well no, he didn't. What he said is that there are differences on average between men and women and those differences can explain why a job is not exactly 50:50 male and female even in the absence of discrimination. He also pointed out that those differences are an average for a group and pointed out there's a lot of overlap. So saying 'women on average are more X than men' doesn't mean that 'each individual woman is more X than any man'. When the fake news media reported on his report they accused him of saying that 'men can code/women can't code', but he very carefully explained this was not what he was saying. And he even drew a nice diagram of two overlapping normal distributions to illustrate this point.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Note, I'm not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these differences are "just." I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there's significant overlap between men and women, so you can't say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

He pointed out that Google's policies now discriminate against men and that there were non discriminatory ways to get more women to work there.

But why not try reading what he actually wrote rather than what other people - who have an agenda - said he wrote. I even linked to a copy of his memo so you can verify he said all the things I said he said, and carefully explained he was not saying what you accused him of saying.

I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying. What he's saying is Microsoft didn't make their fix selective as to whether the CPU was an Intel or AMD one. Linus Torvalds specifically wanted a kernel configuration option for the speculative execution fix in the Linux kernel. The guy was struggling to think of a name though. "CONFIG_INSECURE_KERNEL, CONFIG_LEAK_MEMORY?"

There may very well be laws against firing whistleblowers who were blowing the whistle on illegal discrimination.

Illegal discrimination would be anything that violates the equal protection clause

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And if Google were illegally discriminating and Damore pointed this out, which he did, it would be illegal to fire him

https://www.workplacefairness....

In addition, the California State Legislature has adopted statutory protections for employees. Notably, California has a general whistleblower protection statute that protects employees who disclose illegal activity or refuse to participate in illegal activities. Whistleblowers are thus protected under both this statute and the common law public policy exception. Also, several other California statutes contain anti-retaliation provisions. Employees who engage in protected activities (usually filing a complaint or testifying) under laws in the following subject areas are protected from retaliation: discrimination, hazardous substances, occupational safety and health, and workers' compensation. Also, California protects employees who file a complaint relating to employee rights with Labor Commissioner.

Damore's memo was more subtle than his detractors give him credit for

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

He explains that 'Google has created several discriminatory practice' and suggests 'non discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap'. So he could argue Google were breaking the law, he blew the whistle and they fired him.

Google have pots of money of course, so they'll probably pay him off. And go on discriminating.

Interesting. I wasn't in the market for 16MB memory in 1993; I purchased 1MB modules because just having 4MB was an impressive upgrade. So I have no direct experience with prices for modules of that size. You position makes sense; the larger modules should cost more, as they would have smaller production yields. Still, to achieve the $60,000 price-point the RAM would have to cost $900+ per megabyte. But 16MB modules would be reserved for servers and business applications, and those always are more expensive than consumer hardware, so maybe?

Still, looking at the advertisements in Byte Magazine of that era (September 1992) this doesn't seem to be the case. The ads don't specify whether or not the memory is 30- or 72-pin, but regardless the memory does seem to stay within the $40MB range (with some increase as the modules get larger; up to 4MB modules stay within the $40/MB range but it jumps up once you start pricing 16 or 32MB modules). 8MB modules go for around $300-$400 (with one outlier being $695). 16 MB modules range from $700 to $900, and the exceptionally rare 32MB modules range from $1800 to $2700. Nowhere do I see prices close to those you suggest. Even the priciest 32MB module is available for a "mere" $85 per MB, a far cry from the $900 you remember. Doubtless all this RAM was of the non-parity variety; adding ECC would increase the price but even so not by an order of magnitude.

Still, it's fun to look at those prices and compare them to the hardware of today. The 32GB RAM I have in my current computer - were such a thing been available in 1993 - would have cost over a million dollars at those prices.

Your page links to this

http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/d...

Which is down. But if you go to Wayback you find this

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Which contains

Most individuals and many transgender people use female or male pronouns and
titles. Some transgender and gender non-conforming people prefer to use pronouns
other than he/him/his or she/her/hers, such as they/them/theirs or ze/hir.10 Many
transgender and gender non-conforming people choose to use a different name than
the one they were given at birth.

A broken link on a web page doesn't mean the guidelines have been retracted. It just means they suck at running a web server.

If they wanted to retract the legal protection for ze/hir/zxhim/zxche, they'd have to say it.

The guidelines require anyone who provides jobs or housing to use the transgender person's preferred pronoun, such as "ze," "hir," "they," them," "he," "she," "him," or "her." "Ze" is the third person singular, used in place of either "he" or "she," while "hir" is third person possessive, used to replace "his" or "her." Pronouns like "ze" or "hir" represent a break from traditional male- or female-only roles.

Lolnope!

LOLYES

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

Facebook now offers 50 different gender identity options for new users, including gender fluid (with a gender identity that is shifting), bigender (a person who identifies as having two distinct genders) and agender (a person without an identifying gender). There are day cares that proudly tout their gender-neutral pronoun policies - so kids don't feel boxed in - and college professors who are skewered on the Internet for messing them up.

In New York City, new clarifications to the city's human rights guidelines make clear that the intentional misidentification of a person's preferred name, pronoun or title is violation of the city's anti-discrimination law.

The article is clearly saying that if you refuse to call me by my preferred pronouns of His Lordship, I can complain and you will be fined.

And the NYC legal guidelines make this explicit. NYC have taken down the page, but you can get it back from the Wayback Machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

1. Failing To Use an Individual's Preferred Name or Pronoun

The NYCHRL requires employers and covered entities to use an individual's preferred name, pronoun and title (e.g., Ms./Mrs.) regardless of the individual's sex assigned at birth, anatomy, gender, medical history, appearance, or the sex indicated on the individual's identification.

Most individuals and many transgender people use female or male pronouns and titles. Some transgender and gender non-conforming people prefer to use pronouns other than he/him/his or she/her/hers, such as they/them/theirs or ze/hir. 10 Many transgender and gender non-conforming people choose to use a different name than the one they were given at birth.

All people, including employees, tenants, customers, and participants in programs, have the right to use their preferred name regardless of whether they have identification in that name or have obtained a court-ordered name change, except in very limited circumstances where certain federal, state, or local laws require otherwise (e.g., for purposes of employment eligibility verification with the federal government). Asking someone their preferred gender pronoun and preferred name is not a violation of the NYCHRL.

I.e. you have to call people Ze if they tell you to. Best hope your mailmerge software supports it.

Not that any of this will survive a SCOTUS case now that Lord Gorsuch is on it.

Why would I lie about this. You're just being silly and lazy. It's not a huge issue unless you are a cloud provider who shares CPU space among your tenants.
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

They updated it. Was a 1.5 earlier.
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

It's a 50 year period, not 75. That's the reference to "September 30, 2056" in the legislation (the PAEA was passed in December 2006). And the exaggeration that it's 75 years was originated by the NALC, one of the postal labor unions. Along with the claim that the PAEA was forced on the USPS by Republicans in Congress (in reality it was bipartisan, and supported by postal management and the NALC itself). Here is what the NALC actually thought of the legislation just after it passed (notice how they brag about how bipartisan it was). The NALC was in favor of it at the time because total mail volume was still increasing (even though First Class mail peaked in 2001) and they thought the prefunding would safeguard their retirement benefits. As it turned out, total mail volume peaked right around the time the PAEA passed, then started dropping. When they realized the mistake they'd made, they decided to play victim by pretending that the PAEA was forced on them, and exaggerating the time period. It worked beautifully, as you can see from all the ignorant comments here with a "5, Insightful".

Both conventions were apparently used. See these manual covers as an example of how you're wrong. I trust the pictured documentation more than I trust your unsubstantiated claims.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...
"More than a few people agree the best career would be one which provides challenge, intellectual stimulation, and rewards for quality work. Many however, would be surprised to discover they can have all of those benefits and more in some of the unlikeliest of careers.
                Case in point: I'm a professional carpet cleaner. Some people think this is a second-rate career. I don't agree with them. Carpet cleaning gives me challenges, intellectual stimulation, and many other rewards. To prove this, permit me to walk you through one of my work days. ..."

Good luck and have fun with your physics and other explorations!

Computer Chronicles

AOL sold ICQ in 2010.

Protip...Congress likes to name bills the OPPOSITE of what they actually do. All this changes does is revert things to the way they were in the long ago time of...2015 while removing ISPs from the same regs that were used to justify the AT&T wiretaps. All those "ZOMFG they are gonna kill the nets!" FUD? Yeah there are already multiple federal laws preventing that already on the books.

But hey don't listen to me or anybody else's opinion on the subject why don't you actually read the bill? Raise your hands how many of you actually read the bill you are screaming to save versus how many of you are just parroting what you heard some talking head say? the same talking heads that I might remind you said HRC wasn't a crook while she smashed her phones with a hammer to destroy evidence and bought the DNC and the superdelegates to make sure Bernie couldn't win, said there was WMDs in Iraq despite there being ample evidence that wasn't the case, and again sang the praises of PATRIOT? Think for yourself people, don't just believe what you are told!

They still have a page. It doesn't say what it used to. They removed "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes."

To start with: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"Thirty years of official health advice urging people to adopt low-fat diets and to lower their cholesterol is having "disastrous health consequences," a leading obesity charity warned yesterday. "Eating fat does not make you fat," argues a new report by the National Obesity Forum (NOF) and the Public Health Collaboration, as they demanded a major overhaul of official dietary guidelines. ... Promoting low-fat foods is perhaps the biggest mistake in modern medical history... The report says the low-fat and low-cholesterol message, which has been official policy in the UK since 1983, was based on "flawed science" and had resulted in an increased consumption of junk food and carbohydrates. The document also accuses major public health bodies of colluding with the food industry, said the misplaced focus meant Britain was failing to address an obesity crisis which is costing the NHS £6 billion a year."

See also, for more details: http://drhyman.com/blog/2016/0...

The history is even more complex. A more diverse "basic seven" was replaced by a "basic four" food groups including through industry industry lobbying, especially by the dairy industry, where "milk" and "meat" became half of the groups and the dairy industry supplying printed materials for schools:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Note that most people on the planet are lactose intolerant and pushing milk on many children even in the USA via school lunch programs and dairy industry advertising is causing them health issues. Dairy may have been a better food decades ago before so much recent alteration like the widespread use of growth hormones and antibiotics. Animal fats tend to have other risks associated with them, like too much protein and a concentration of carcinogens moving up the food chain. That said, dairy products can make sense in moderation for some people and dairy farming can be a good use of some grazing land.

They key point is that the idea of a diverse diet including a lot of fresh vegetables was being narrowed to what could be most profitably sold by big agribusiness, which for decades was mostly about dairy, meat, and processed grains.

Related: http://www.macleans.ca/society...

Also related: http://ezinearticles.com/?What...

And:
https://www.alternet.org/story...
"In December 1999, the PCRM filed suit against the USDA, claiming the department unfairly promotes the special interests of the meat and dairy industries through its official dietary guidelines and the Food Pyramid. Six of the eleven members assigned to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee were demonstrated to have financial ties to meat, dairy, and egg interests. Prior to the suit, which the PCRM won in December 2000, the USDA had refused to disclose such conflicts of interest to the general public."

From lobbying, food subsidies in the USA are completely inverted compared to the (not that great) food pyramid which explains why a salad costs more than a big mac:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
"The Farm Bill, a massive piece of federal legislation making its way through Congress, governs what children are fed in schools and what food assistance programs can distribute to recipients. The bill provides billions of dollars in subsi

From the blurb on his site: "In this New York Times bestseller, The End of Diabetes, Dr. Fuhrman, offers a scientifically proven, practical program to reverse type 2 diabetes without drugs as well as how to prevent it. Having type 1 or type 2 diabetes does not have to doom you to a shorter life span or its complications like high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney failure or blindness. Most type 2 diabetics get off their medications and become 100 percent free of diabetes by following guidelines clearly outlined in the books. By following these same steps, most type 1 diabetics can cut their insulin in half and maintain excellent health and quality of life into old age."

For so many things, as with this good yet limited study, mainstream medicine inches glacially slowly towards reversing bad ideas (e.g. fat makes you fat -- where it is really more that sugar makes you fat) that quickly took hold decades ago with next-to-no evidence (usually to some manufacturing company's profit). Even this latest study put people on a liquid diet instead of just asking them to eat more vegetables.

The big medical problem in a capitalist society is that staying healthy or becoming well is usually not very profitable to third parties. For example, insurance companies make a profit as a percent of revenue, so the sicker the general public is, the bigger the pie they are taking their cut from. The big profits are in treatment and palliation, not prevention and cure.

That said, it does take time, knowledge, and some careful shopping to eat well -- and that is continually undermined by others around you eating poorly and creating situations where poor food choices are on offer (including within families). And people under stress tend to gain weight as their body prepares for expected lean times ahead -- so there are multiple factors (like discussed in "Blue Zones"),

Dr. Mark Hyman has a lot of good stuff in this area too, like his book "The Blood Sugar Solution".
http://drhyman.com/blog/2014/1...

Also related: "The Pleasure Trap" by Douglas Lisle, Ph.D. and Alan Goldhamer , D.C.
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"Tragically, most people are totally unaware that they are only a few weeks of discipline away from being able to comfortably maintain healthful dietary habits -- and to keep away from the products that can result in the destruction of their health. Instead, most people think that if they were to eat more healthfully, they would be condemned to a life of greatly reduced gustatory pleasure -- thinking that the process of Phase IV will last forever. In our new book, The Pleasure Trap, we explain this extraordinarily deceptive and problematic situation -- and how to master this hidden force that undermines health and happiness."

Some ideas by me on making software to help with health sensemaking:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

From the blurb on his site: "In this New York Times bestseller, The End of Diabetes, Dr. Fuhrman, offers a scientifically proven, practical program to reverse type 2 diabetes without drugs as well as how to prevent it. Having type 1 or type 2 diabetes does not have to doom you to a shorter life span or its complications like high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney failure or blindness. Most type 2 diabetics get off their medications and become 100 percent free of diabetes by following guidelines clearly outlined in the books. By following these same steps, most type 1 diabetics can cut their insulin in half and maintain excellent health and quality of life into old age."

For so many things, as with this good yet limited study, mainstream medicine inches glacially slowly towards reversing bad ideas (e.g. fat makes you fat -- where it is really more that sugar makes you fat) that quickly took hold decades ago with next-to-no evidence (usually to some manufacturing company's profit). Even this latest study put people on a liquid diet instead of just asking them to eat more vegetables.

The big medical problem in a capitalist society is that staying healthy or becoming well is usually not very profitable to third parties. For example, insurance companies make a profit as a percent of revenue, so the sicker the general public is, the bigger the pie they are taking their cut from. The big profits are in treatment and palliation, not prevention and cure.

That said, it does take time, knowledge, and some careful shopping to eat well -- and that is continually undermined by others around you eating poorly and creating situations where poor food choices are on offer (including within families). And people under stress tend to gain weight as their body prepares for expected lean times ahead -- so there are multiple factors (like discussed in "Blue Zones"),

Dr. Mark Hyman has a lot of good stuff in this area too, like his book "The Blood Sugar Solution".
http://drhyman.com/blog/2014/1...

Also related: "The Pleasure Trap" by Douglas Lisle, Ph.D. and Alan Goldhamer , D.C.
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"Tragically, most people are totally unaware that they are only a few weeks of discipline away from being able to comfortably maintain healthful dietary habits -- and to keep away from the products that can result in the destruction of their health. Instead, most people think that if they were to eat more healthfully, they would be condemned to a life of greatly reduced gustatory pleasure -- thinking that the process of Phase IV will last forever. In our new book, The Pleasure Trap, we explain this extraordinarily deceptive and problematic situation -- and how to master this hidden force that undermines health and happiness."

Some ideas by me on making software to help with health sensemaking:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Roads are the very definition of a public good.

A congested road isn't a public good.

Everyone benefits from better roads, whether they drive on them or not. They bring goods to your store, food to your market, customers to your business.

That's true. Streets (roads with driveways) benefit the property owner like you said, and so streets should be financed with a street frontage fee. Then the property owner can decide how much street he/she wants to pay for.

Non-street roads benefit the traveler and therefore should be billed to the traveler.

Pay per use is horribly inefficient. You burden the poor...

False. In fact, the poor love pay per use, because it gets them out of paying taxes. Nobody likes paying taxes. Except maybe you.

You burden...those with the greatest distances to travel.

Yes, but what's the downside?

Lets face it both are the Distant 3rd place players in their respected areas.

Based on the latest browser market share stats, Firefox isn't in 3rd place. It's much worse than that.

Yes, Chrome is the leader, without a doubt, at about 60% of the market, including both mobile and desktop devices.

Second place goes to Safari, with about 12% of the market.

UC Browser for Android is at about 8%.

So at this point we know that Firefox is at best 4th place, at around 4% to 5% of the market.

Things get hazy at this point, as there are several other browsers near this range, including Samsung Internet, IE/Edge and Opera.

Realistically, Firefox could be well below IE/Edge, given that there are many corporate and institutional users of Microsoft's browsers on large Windows intranets, and these users wouldn't appear in usage data collected for the public web.

So Firefox is probably the 5th place browser now, with at least Samsung Internet and the Opera family of browsers not far behind. If Firefox were to lose a percent or two of market share within the near future, and the nearby competitors don't lose any users, then Firefox could soon fall to perhaps 6th or even 7th place!

The most interesting thing to notice with the stats is how much of a disaster Firefox 57 has been.

If we look at the October 2017 stats, which don't include the final release of Firefox 57 that happened mid November, we see that 4.28% of the market was using Firefox 55, 56 or 57. The November 2017 stats show that Firefox 56, 57 and 58 only have 4.14% of the market! We should also note that the Firefox 52's usage has dropped from 0.50% to 0.49%.

Firefox 57 was supposed to be a hugely important release that was meant to draw in new users. But we've seen the opposite: Firefox has actually lost market share!

We shouldn't be surprised, of course. Firefox 57 is well-known for breaking most extensions, for having a generally-disliked UI, and for not really offering any real improvements to its users. The extension breakage in particular drove many users to alternate browsers, now that Firefox no longer offers an advantage in this area, and it actually offers a lot of disadvantages in other areas.

Things are looking really bleak for Firefox.

oblig:
New Yorker Magazine, The View From 9th Ave

I remember some time back there was a NIC card which had some kind of cpu/ram/etc with it. I think it may have been able to offload torrents or something like that.

One such NIC was the Killer NIC (no, not that one).

Microsoft Research also developed an USB variation of this.

Do we need that kind of things these days and maybe some BSD based guardian to live there to report on any strange stuff being sent or received?
Basically you would have a computer spending full time making sure your computer is secure, or trying to.

That's exactly how Intel ME /AMT and how IPMI (the industry standard equivalent for servers) were sold back then.
The only exception :
  - they were sold to management, not to you the end-user. So ITs could remotely manage your workstation or company servers remotely, even if they are powered down, while keeping you, the user entirely out of the loop.
  - nobody though about software freedoms (freedom to study/modify, etc.) thus you, the end user, end up now with a blob on which you have absolutely zero control, but which could be exploited to remotely hose your machine even if it's powered down.

(At least IPMI can be kept on an entirely separate network port, which will be kept on a separate private network and thus will never get into contact with the internet - thus limiting any potential remote exploit. IntelME is an entirely different can of worms.)

what an achievement

It is. It's ideal for running emulators for projects like the Internet Archive's MS-DOS software library or their console video game collection.

what an achievement

It is. It's ideal for running emulators for projects like the Internet Archive's MS-DOS software library or their console video game collection.

(using food as an example): http://web.archive.org/web/201...

And for screen time, books like:

* "Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Tim" by Victoria L. Dunckley MD"

* "Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance" by Nicholas Kardaras (Author)

See also for the big picture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.paulgraham.com/addi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Not sure what happened, maybe my iphone prevents me to reveal the truth... here the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Whoops, the dead media list at Bruce Stirling's Dead Media Project 404s.

Luckilly, Archive.Org is on the case!

my sentiments exactly. Fuck Tumblr. They straight up deleted my favourite tumblr for no posted reason. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

A 85kWh Model S will (apparently) get 265mi

Scott Oldham, editor in chief of Edmunds.com, only got 120 miles from their long term Tesla 85kWh.

https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-test/2013-tesla-model-s-real-world-range.html

Above link is now broken (active even a month ago)...hmmm...I wonder who didn't like real world data from their shitty cars?

However check the cached webpage for a brief summary:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160620105935/https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-test/2013-tesla-model-s-real-world-range.html

In many public schools in the US, children are shown footage like this so that they remember:

https://archive.org/details/34...

Some quotes from some nazi moron isn't what we need to remember. Who the fuck cares what he said?!

Indeed. The sobering thing though is the Sphinx, claimed to be 4000 years old exhibits the weathering of a structure 35000 or more years old and erosion from thousands of years of rain when there hasn't been rain on the Giza plateau for about 8000 years(IIRC).

According to whom? The last I read about weathering of the Sphinx was not due to rainfall but runoff of rainfall which is different.

Apologies, I did not see your reply.

I see what you mean about the sheet runoff, the implication being that chemical changes to the limestone may make it more susceptible to erosion, it's a good point. I reviewed my knowledge about the 35,000 year claim and found it was a documentary and the geologist concerned was expressing an opinion that the quarry structure looked between 35000 and 120000 years old. From the supporting evidence in research papers, you sent and I found it would seem that geologists are reluctant to challenge the archaeologists established dogma at this time. Thank you for helping me evolve my knowledge.

What the new geological evidence presents is a challenge to the claim that the Sphinx is 4000 years old. The structure could not have started to erode before it was built, or have water erosion after Giza turned to a desert so that leads me to doubt the archaeologists claims about the age of the structure and the interest in maintaining it. Additionally the Pyramid quarries do not exhibit as much erosion as the Sphinx quarry so it is possible the structures were built at different times.

As I pointed out in this post astronomical evidence connects the structures to their zodiacal counterparts. If you accept the alignment of the sphinx to Leo then the structure is over twice the age the archaeologists claim. Of course until astronomers and geologists present more evidence to challenge the established archaeological dogma it's all conjecture, however the math encoded into the great pyramid shows it was a sophisticated society that didn't do things by accident.

But maybe if you had, they wouldn't have run out of money. Did you think of that? DID YOU!?

I know you're joking.

But I'll answer anyway.

It was $7500 for "lifetime" membership.
or $5k for 5-year pre-paid membership
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Another article said something about them losing $30k/month in Pittsburgh.
I don't think my $7.5k would have helped much.

The China model is that you have a bunch of factories making stuff but no IP. I.e. no trademarks and no patents.

So one factory makes a hoverboard, and the others copy it because of no patents and no copyright. However some of them mess up and make something which shorts out the batteries and catches fire. The problem is that then the consumers have no idea if a given hoverboard is from one of the good companies or one of the bad ones. So consumers get wary, and most likely regulators step in and ban them. E.g. they're banned on the NYC subway.

So a product which could have been pretty popular doesn't.

Now the US model is different. You have copyright and patents. Most importantly you have trademarks and brands. So you can work out which brands are reliable and buy from them. And patents and copyright mean those brands can't be cloned. Well regarded brands can sell their stuff at a hefty markup from raw materials because people trust them. And copyright and patents mean that the inventors might even get compensated. In China if something sells the guy who owns the factory makes money and the inventor gets nothing.

Copyrights, patents and brands mean that for an iPad much of the profit stays in the US, even though the hardware is assembled in China and the chips made in Taiwan or Korea.

https://i.imgur.com/gMTYvBE.pn...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Take the iPad, which America imports from China even though it is entirely designed and owned by Apple, an American company. iPads are assembled in Chinese factories owned by Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm, largely from parts produced outside China. According to a study by the Personal Computing Industry Centre, each iPad sold in America adds $275, the total production cost, to America's trade deficit with China, yet the value of the actual work performed in China accounts for only $10. Using these numbers, The Economist estimates that iPads accounted for around $4 billion of America's reported trade deficit with China in 2011; but if China's exports were measured on a value-added basis, the deficit was only $150m.

The chart shows a geographical breakdown of the retail price of an iPad. The main rewards go to American shareholders and workers. Apple's profit amounts to about 30% of the sales price. Product design, software development and marketing are based in America. Add in the profits and wages of American suppliers, and distribution and retail costs, and America retains about half the total value of an iPad sold there. The next biggest gainers are South Korean firms like Samsung and LG, which provide the display and memory chips, whose profits account for 7% of an iPad's value. The main financial benefit to China is wages paid to workers for assembling the product and for manufacturing some inputs-equivalent to only 2% of the retail price.

Of course this probably isn't lost on the Chinese. The US had very lax copyright laws, up to the point authors lobbied to tighten them up. Dickens complained his books had no copyright protection in the US. The same thing happened to Edgar Allen Poe when his books were not copyright protected in the UK.

https://www.charlesdickensinfo...

While on tour Dickens often spoke of the need for an international copyright agreement. The lack of such an agreement enabled his books to be published in the United States without his permission and without any royalties being paid.

This situation also affected American writers like Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's works were published in England without his consent.

Dickens first realized that he was losing income because of the lack of national in international copyright laws in 1837 when The Pickwick Papers was published in book form. At times the novel was reprinted with

Oh neat! The WayBack Machine has a few archives of it starting in 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Incidentally Moody's have worked out the fiscal headway various countries have here

https://www.economy.com/dismal...

The Economist wrote about it here

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

With current debt to GDP ratios the US is in the greenzone. Doubling debt to to GDP ratio would be bad though. It would put the US somewhere between Ireland and Portugal.

This will affect Treasury Bill ratings, and the amount of interest the US pays on its debt.

The worst case is a sovereign debt crisis where credit ratings fall, interest payments on debt increase, those interest payments add to the debt, so the debt rises and the cycle repeats until the country defaults.

Policies that add $32 trillion to the US's public debt risk heading down this path.

SJW-ism is Church Of No Salvation. A doctrinal revision has converted white guilt into a form of original sin. Ancestral guilt which no amount of penitence can expiate.

And has been pointed out, why follow a religion which offers no redemption?

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

In the latter half of the 20th century, our civic religion was egalitarianism. If you got accused of the sin of racism, you could atone. And as long as he hired a few token women, paid off the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, engaged in ritual recitation of of "I Have a Dream," or voted Democrat, a heterosexual white male could atone for the original sin of his birth.

The problem is that in the last ten years, the Cathedral has undergone a doctrinal reformation. The old creed, "Race is only skin deep," has been replaced with a new one, "To be white is to be racist." The means of salvation have been taken away, and it is now taught that there is literally no way for a straight, white male to find salvation, to get right with the god of the age, to be restored to respectability.

Why follow a religion that offers no redemption? Why listen to its priests or care about its rites? The cult of equality is losing its grip on white males, because more and more of us are realizing it offers nothing to us whatsoever. Its condemnations mean nothing now. A church with no salvation is a church with no adherents.

It was only a couple days ago when Firefox was quoting Vogue Culture News for this:

Break up with Google.

Use a web browser you have more control over, and which has more plug-ins that you can use for privacy, such as Firefox.

Whatever Mozilla. Keep pretending the "champion of the Internet", it's part of your act.

And speak of the devil. EA is now trying to shift the narritive to "omg, woe is me, we've gotten death threats." bullshit to try and derail this. Of course no proof is offered at all.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Game creators / studios receiving death threats? -- that's not extraordinary. That's become so sadly common, almost par for the course, that at this point it would be extraordinary if they hadn't received death threats.

And speak of the devil. EA is now trying to shift the narritive to "omg, woe is me, we've gotten death threats." bullshit to try and derail this. Of course no proof is offered at all.

Since at least when I started working on AutoInput Google have said that accessibility services could be used for other situations other than to help disabled people. Even now this page lists other use cases: https://developer.android.com/... You can see how there's a note there: Note: Your app should use platform-level accessibility services only for the purpose of helping users with disabilities interact with your app. This note was only added very recently. Check out this version of the page from July: https://web.archive.org/web/20... This means that until a few months ago developers were using these APIs exactly how they were meant to be used: in a way that helps people use their devices in situations that they can't physically touch or otherwise handle their Android device.

2) It's OFF BY DEFAULT.

We don't believe Intel's claims. After the Edward Snowden revelations, after the way that an exploitable backdoor was hidden in the Dual_EC_DRBG standard, after news that Microsoft works to provide backdoors in its Windows operating system, and after government officials have insisted that backdoors must be provided, we just don't trust Intel. The ME has the potential to be the most perfect backdoor in almost every computer. And if the Intel ME is a backdoor, then most of our computers are vulnerable if anyone (anywhere in the world) learns how to exploit it.

A link to a downloadable copy is probably a good idea at this point. Scroll down a bit to the download options.

https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612

According to Wikipedians everything I wrote is "Not Relevant" and deserves to be deleted. I prefer to store knowledge on the Internet Archive now. http://www.archive.org/