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Isn't this the same government that mandates that everyone use Internet Explorer with ActiveX to access government services, do banking, or shopping?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
https://www.reddit.com/r/today...

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Why don't you try posting something like "illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on /r/politics. I'll wait for your ban, you could post say "not all illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on T_D, people would even tell you to defend your pov. Besides, that, you been paying to the absolute bullshit going on in FOSS communities? Where people have started witch hunting code contributors because they have sexual life styles that the new leftist moral majority don't like. Enjoy the shit show

But you're an anonymous coward. There is no "you", and therefore, no one gives a fuck about "your" opinion.

But you sure got up in arms over it.

That is complete, utter, total, and every other kind of bullshit. The conservative wing is powered by the religious reich, which absolutely opposes free expression.

The religious hold on conservative has been dead around 20-28 years at this point. You might have missed it if you were living in a social bubble, where they kept telling you that though. It was roughly that wingnuts were trying to blow up abortion clinics, and people simply had enough.

You either haven't read up much on the Nazis, or you think they were grand.

So let's look at all that fascist stuff the left is going down with: Free speech walls, making claims that "bad speech is hate speech" with the demands that anything contrary to their opinion must be silenced. Doxing, going after employees of companies(there's even a giant tumblr blog you can find that they still refuse to take down). There was the apparent case of witch hunting on a game developer the other day by leftists(they class themselves as SJW's just a FYI) for holding opinions they didn't like.

Oh and remember the limerick from Pillars of Eternity they didn't like? And got so upset that they started attacking the developers so it got changed...or how about the time when they went after one of the artists for Divinity: Original Sin.

There seems to be a large bias towards binge watching. I think it's related to our society and the culture of impatience and instant gratification. I'd relate binge watching vs pacing a show out to orgasm vs heroin. Heroin gives a constant steady stream of dopamine release, while orgasm gives you this huge spike. So heroin actually feels better. I personally think taking a small dose of pleasure each day is better for our brains, but what do I know lol.

An ICO (initial coin offering) is a similar concept, but far more general and interesting; rather than buying shares, an investor buys cryptographic tokens (called "coins") that represent some kind of ownership of (or affiliation with) the endeavor.

While this is true in theory, in practice most ICOs are scams: someone creates a new cryptocurrency out of thin air by cloning an existing open source project and offers these coins for sale. Greedy non-savvy investors buy these hoping they will get rich when the price increases (that never happens), while the founders fill their pockets with the money.

Examples of such scams are Superior Coin (a ripoff of Monero), SureCoin (another copy of Monero started by the scammer who started Superior Coin), and ParagonCoin, just to mention a few.

Personally I'm glad they're banning these ICOs.

Emoji uploading in the chat site Discordapp.com works in Chrome and Chromium but not Firefox.

1. Log into your Discord account.
2. Switch to a "server" (Discord's name for a collection of channels that share the same user list) that you own or on which you have been assigned a role with the Manage Emoji permission.
3. Right-click the server's icon and choose Server Settings > Emoji.
4. Click Upload Emoji.

Chrome result: File chooser appears.
Firefox result: Button does nothing, and nothing appears in Console.

Emoji uploading used to work in Firefox before May 23, 2017, when the server settings user interface changed to its current form. Others report this happening even with a fresh profile.

With the release of extention killing Firefox 57, which also comes with a clippy clone and a doge meme logo and another new theme worse than australis.

On November 14 there will be millions of browser refugees. Some will go back to 52 ESR or 56, others will experiment with forks of Firefox, but most will be sent to the clutches of Google and Microsoft.

We can stop this, we need to stage a coup against Mozilla and fire the traitors responsible for web extentions.

Running list of Trump's accomplishments

Community moderation is never not a clusterfuck. Exhibit A.

Didn't you know? You're not allowed to have nukes until you have a Central Bank owned by the Rothschilds

E Pluribus Pluribus.

if the battery packs could be changed in the field, a store or warehouse could charge spare(s), and the drivers could swap them while waiting for their loads to be handled.

It takes more than 5 minutes to unload.

I did a quick google and found this thread
It tells us that 2 hours to unload is considered fast. 4 hours isn't unheard of.
If you can get enough charge for the return trip with an empty trailer in 2 hours you're good.

A short battery replacement time is needed if the trailer is detached and left there.
As pointed out here that means that it is a regular customer that you have a contract with regarding the spare trailer. Having an extra battery there wouldn't be a problem.
They already have a deal to keep the trailer there so battery management shouldn't be an issue.
Again they verify a 2-3 hour unload time. Customer pays extra for exceeding that time.

Web browsers and web based software like electron hoard memory like crazy. A gigabyte of RAM was once reserved for supercomputers, now even the cheapest netbooks have one. We need to force app developers like Mozilla (who rather design silly logos than work on RAM consumption) to document every byte of their usage. We will soon how much is wasted due to fad technologies like javascript and blockchains.

Good point, I looked it up and I was wrong: "Normal transaction takes up to 2.5 minutes to get included in a block. If you use instantsend transaction gets confirmed within one second." Also, I guess they dropped the InstantSend fee to $0.20.

Ethereum might have a fast system too.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dashp...

Let me link to this description of one person's daily schedule aboard a destroyer:

https://np.reddit.com/r/navy/c...

It starts with this, and then goes into detail:

I averaged 3 hours of sleep a night on my DDG and CG. Sometimes I'd go days, 48-36 hours, depending on scheduling, before I could catch more than a 90 minute nap over lunch in my shop.

To care about user privacy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

Sadly - it is part of the system. Upvote/Downvote doesn't reflect disagree. Take, as an example, a post that I made, which has a negative score. I never engage in political debate (other than to crack jokes) in Reddit and this is why:

https://www.reddit.com/r/world...

Someone said: "I didn't vote for Trump, so I don't deserve him as a president" (100+ karma). The response was "Most of us didn't vote for him, just not the right combination of "us" I guess. Thanks Electoral College." (120+ karma).

I said (in summary): "Trump's party carried the majority in House and Senate. Trump carried a majority of states in popular majority and a majority of in popular majority. He got more electoral college votes than the other candidate. We live in a system where it is not a popular vote, and the person that you want elected isn't necessarily the person the country wants elected."
(-11 karma)

At -11 karma, this post is effectively removed from discussion. I take those downvotes to mean "I don't like Trump so I don't like your comment".

That said, there are plenty of (non-political) communities where good advice is plentiful. I HIGHLY recommend bodyweightfitness and BuyItForLife. The discussions of "how to do a handstand" and "how can I buy higher quality socks without wasting my money" are relatively safe from downvotes (people who disagree with your handstand/socks advice will rebut rather than try to downvote). I have ~2K karma overall on reddit for fitness advice, jokes, purchase advice.

Since you are sincere in wanting to learn, here you go: List of Trump accomplishments to date

Here is how liberals normally react:
1) "Lol, 3 points of 97 are not because of Trump, these are because of Obama, therefore the full list is invalid"
2) "Lol, point XX is slightly wrong: Trump didn't create 1 million jobs, it was really only 976 thousand."
3) "Lol, it's reddit, therefore I am unable to read it and the words are automatically invalid"

Try to be honest at least with yourself. Or go stuff your libtard gotchas up your ass.

Last things first, I think it's hilarious that you have made only a single citation in your last couple of posts while making many claims and then you demand I cite sources. To keep you from throwing a tantrum though I'll spend my own time citing sources even though you cant be bothered.

Working from the end, the Southern realignment of the 60's and 70's which happened around the civil rights movement is a well known event so I certainly didn't think I would even need to even cite sources (much like I wouldn't think I would need to site a source for saying that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln). Major party realignments don't just happen spontaneously for no reason and this was the big event effecting the South during this period. Here's some links so you can brush up on your history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://economics.yale.edu/site...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHi... (Yes, I know it's reddit but the post is accurate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There's certainly more easily found resources but I was trying to find some that might be up to your demands and perceptions and didn't want to spend a lot of time on it.

Finally to your first part, I certainly never said "conservatives are racist", that's you putting words into my mouth and playing the victim. A simple look at what you literally quote me on should spell out to you that what I was saying is that racial hate groups tend to be conservative, not that conservatives tend to be racist. Most of the groups on this list are known for favoring modern American conservative politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Of course there are some liberal groups on the list and I would never say the Left in this country has clean hands in this regard. What I am saying is that the vast majority of groups on this list identify with our country's conservative politics.

Who runs 32 bit...in 2017? How about (at least) the 140,000,000 people still running Windows XP*.

This Redditer estimates that half of all Windows 7 users (that is, half of 48.5% of 2 billion = some 485 million) are running 32 bit.

tl;dr? One-third of all computer users...some 650M people...are still using 32 bit.

* Windows XP is still the third most popular operating system in the world (as of May, 2017)

Years ago I got mail from them regarding my credit card. I had been signed up for "Credit Defense", which WF charged some % of your monthly balance to put toward a pot that you could draw on should you be unemployed for a length of time. I didn't think much of it and didn't care because I didn't have a high balance.

Fast forward a few years and couple moves later and my balance was a bit higher. To top things off, this charge was getting between $50 and $60 every month, which was making payments harder. Basically my story was a lot like this guys. I called up WF, they told me to call this third party company. I call them "Sorry, I can't refund". So I broken record the assholes, "So send me to someone who can". A few people later and I can "file a complaint" or whatever their lingo was. They had to prove that I had signed a document allowing them to charge me. They couldn't, so I got refunded near $2k for my troubles. No bogus charges since.

If it weren't for having my longest running line of credit with them, I'd have walked into a branch, shredded my credit card and given them the two finger salute years ago.

This same SJW death spiral is going on in the Drupal community right now. There's a bunch of self-appointed busybody BDSM police in the organization plus both a board and a committee charged with enforcing the Drupal Code of Conduct being filled with identity politics social justice baizuo types. I'll paste a recent Reddit post and a follow-up post that explains where I'm going with this:

Well, the fact that they adopted the TODO Group's "Open Code of Conduct" screams a lot about the "values" under their cranial hoods. Have a peek at the history of this document. My favorite part is this one:

Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”
Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions


Granted, that has since been removed from the text due to the sour taste it left in the mouths of many, but the choice of this particular Code of Conduct implicates the choosers as endorsing such one-sided beliefs. I'm not even REMOTELY surprised that this kind of anti-inclusive ousting has occurred; in fact, I'd say it was only a matter of time.

The OCOC is at http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/ and https://www.drupal.org/dcoc says "Edited by webchick, danigrrl, kattekrab, tvn." The Community Working Group is charged with enforcement and https://www.drupal.org/governance/community-working-group says they are: George DeMet (Chair), Adam Hill, Michael Anello, Emma Karayiannis, Jordana Fung, Rachel Lawson.

This same SJW death spiral is going on in the Drupal community right now. There's a bunch of self-appointed busybody BDSM police in the organization plus both a board and a committee charged with enforcing the Drupal Code of Conduct being filled with identity politics social justice baizuo types. I'll paste a recent Reddit post and a follow-up post that explains where I'm going with this:

Well, the fact that they adopted the TODO Group's "Open Code of Conduct" screams a lot about the "values" under their cranial hoods. Have a peek at the history of this document. My favorite part is this one:

Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”
Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions


Granted, that has since been removed from the text due to the sour taste it left in the mouths of many, but the choice of this particular Code of Conduct implicates the choosers as endorsing such one-sided beliefs. I'm not even REMOTELY surprised that this kind of anti-inclusive ousting has occurred; in fact, I'd say it was only a matter of time.

The OCOC is at http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/ and https://www.drupal.org/dcoc says "Edited by webchick, danigrrl, kattekrab, tvn." The Community Working Group is charged with enforcement and https://www.drupal.org/governance/community-working-group says they are: George DeMet (Chair), Adam Hill, Michael Anello, Emma Karayiannis, Jordana Fung, Rachel Lawson.

"Using access credentials that you shouldn't have had, after you left" equals "hacking" now.

Right. That word really doesn't mean squat any longer. Thus we have:

Anything can be hacking and anyone can be a hacker, as the prosecutor likes it.

May you live in Shakespearean times, good sir.

Oh, that's nothing. In Australia, sexual assault is being redefined as 'inappropriate staring' or 'inappropriate invitations to a date' or anything that makes a woman feel uncomfortable or offended. Jokes included. Online included. Oh, and 50% of all woman have been sexually assaulted on university campuses last year. Link with survey questions. According to this survey, it is safer to send your female children to Zimbabwe (where there's only a 1 in 5 chance she'll be assaulted) than to the uni in NSW.

Shakespearean machinations, indeed

I found this on Reddit probably quoting what you read. The basic idea is that a transgender person cannot rape a cisgendered person because transgendered people are below cisgendered people on the "power" totem pole, apparently. But what if the rapist was a white cop and the person raped was a black prisoner?

I literally can't even...

dom

Perhaps you know it better as Equity

If Wikipedia isn't enough of a leftist propaganda outfit for you, try this gem from /r/LateStageCapitalism*

*Disclaimer: viewing /r/latestagecapitalism may cause headaches, cramps, nausea, cranial bleeding, and rarely sudden death. Despite appearances to the contrary, I assure you the people there are a) real, and b) completely serious.

This is crazy. Wonder if it is retaliation or if he was really involved? If he was involved, why did he go through all of the trouble to put himself in the public view? The guy did an AMA just 2 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/... AND he attends Defcon? Something is fishy...

Do not underestimate this one, for it has transformed from a low 6 digit UID to an AC within mere hours.

Next step, who knows... DNC chair?

Wrong bookmark... allow me to assist.

Reddit

Your post getting voted down to minus figures is not "censorship", it's just an indication that the majority of people voting on your comment think you're talking shit and rate your comment accordingly.

Also keep in mind forums are privately owned, and much like people have the right to kick you out of a restaurant if you start saying abusive things, they also don't have to tolerate you saying abusive things on the forum they have allowed you to register on. You're essentially a guest, given the privilege of participating in a community, and that privilege can be revoked for whatever reason its owners like.
Free speech means you can express your opinions in a public place without getting thrown in jail for dissent against the government.

You don't see silencing from right wingers? Rule VI on the Trump-Supporters-Only Safe Space wants a word: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...

Say what you will, those guys are meticulous about details.

Have you looked I to Darktable to replace LR? Also keep an eye on: https://www.reddit.com/r/FOSSP...

What a shock, all the Drupal Code of Conduct authors are women. Remember when GitHub was about to adopt the TODO Group's Open Code of Conduct that enforces a whole lot of identity politics bullshit? Well, while the most blatantly hateful anti-white anti-male anti-normie items have been cleaned out of it, Drupal's using the current version of the same godforsaken thing. We've seen this formula play out time and time again with SJW infections. Drupal is an SJW infested project with SJWs running everything. Is it any surprise that development is tertiary to micro-aggressive oppression olympics squabbling and Tumblr feminist grade virtue signalling competitions?

No. No it's not. "Social justice" is antithetical to actual work. It is a cancer. Drupal needs some serious anti-feminazi chemo.

While we're remembering "retarded" hurtful word shit, let's also revisit the time GitHub blew away a project for using the word "retard." The GitHub code of conduct drama shitstorm is eye-opening reading while we're looking back at things.

I believe in the iDubbbz position on hurtful words and slurs: either all of it is okay or none of it is.

We caught them red handed -- they claimed 'cyber attack' but we have the uptime reports. We have the connectivity reports (their CDN is Akamai - you can view real time attack data for their network -- if the FCC site was down, a big chunk of the web would have been too). It would have made big news in the IT/networking world if Akamai hiccup'd... since they were able to handle the world's largest DDoS last fall. That got noticed... by, erm, everyone. Network Operations Centers all over the world saw it. Did anyone see the FCC DDoS? crickets There's evidence that the bot is being run on an API -- in other words someone inside the FCC specifically gave access. They have to issue special keys (just like with Reddit!) -- and they're rate limited. They would know who's doing it instantly, because that API isn't available for just anyone: You have to ask for it -- click on the link, it'll show you the form; It asks for name and e-mail. Someone from the FCC said as much -- it was API accesses, not public-facing. If there was a connectivity issue it wasn't external, it was internal, preventable, and that's why they won't give out the server logs. Because they knew who was doing it, could have stopped it, didn't, and are letting it continue to happen as we speak. They know exactly which comments are being submitted by bots, and who owns them. Purely for my own amusement, I went looking for the Terms of Service for accessing the API. Click. Click. Aaaand here we are: "FCC computer systems employ software to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts..." :snip: "If such monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity" :snip: cough Fraud cough "Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on this server are strictly prohibited". Not going to do anything, FCC? Says what they did is "strictly prohibited"... soooooooo.... crickets The previous link provides evidence it's a grand total of... five. Five different copy pasta text; And all sourced from the same stolen identity databases. And the submission times are painfully obvious that it was automated: The number of submissions per second was nearly constant too, like clockwork. And submitted alphabetically. What's more... They prepared for this years ago. You can say, unironically, "Thanks Obama" for that one. They specifically upgraded the public comments after the last network neutrality comment crush. Rather a lot (footnote: ECFS is the comment system -- and it was specifically targeted for a revamp and big bump to system capacity). That capacity wasn't exceeded -- not by the general public anyway. The inflow rate of submissions from John Oliver's gofccyourself.com came in well under -- 150k versus 1.1 million? It's hard to imagine how they'd add all that extra capacity only to have it fall over dead under a fraction of the load. Someone was even nice enough to make a map of who's submitting the comments. Look at the first time this happened. Then look at that one. Notice anything? This time around, the map looks like a mirror of the population distribution of the entire country. By the numbers, the whole nation knows about Network Neutrality, across every demographic... equally. Including the deceased. Oh, they never filed a report with the Department of Homeland Security, which is what every government agency is supposed to do if they experience a cyber attack. Double bonus round, Here's the FCC's own page on cybersecurity preparedness and response. And what do they say? "The FCC, because of its relationship with the nation’s communications network service providers, is particularly well positioned to work with industry to secure the networks upon which the Internet depends." Sounds like someone who'd have a plan, you'd think.They claimed to the media something their own policies dictate what the response should be -- and they did

Already done on a site which still does "stuff that matters".

https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6odans/fcc_now_says_there_is_no_documented_analysis_of/dkgxguo/

Its a corruption of the market.

No, if you don't want to pay: don't watch it. We're not talking about some movie Disney made a million years ago and everyone who worked on it is retired or dead - this is a show which is in current production. They have every right to earn money on something they've just invested money in bringing to the screen.

Perhaps in 20 years you'd be right to bitch if they're still being copyright nazis about something they've long since abandoned, ya know?

Intel has serious security problems with their FSP and management engine blobs, which for example break verified boot on ChromeOS such that NSA could implant a persistent rootkit that bypasses ChromeOS's key verification, without holding Google's private key and without physical access to the device.

The way this works is that management engine blobs must exist, or else the CPU reboots a few seconds after startup. While you can check the signature on the blob, you can't check the signature on the blob before it gets control, which is what verified boot requires. It's not just a matter of source code. Although more source code does need to be provided for security, realistically there are some black boxes in the CPU ("microcode", etc.), but this is a writeable black box that can be overwritten with a rootkit on the victim's computer, yet not distributed to all other computers so it can't be studied, and so there isn't a record of their collaboration or incompetence later to hold them accountable. Verified boot resists attacks by at least forcing all computers to be the same: all backdoored or none backdoored, while we know NSA prefers to target individuals (1) because people aware of a leak plug it. unaware targets leak more. (2) for NOBU. known backdoors can be reused by others. (3) because otherwise their relationship with collaborating US companies would be come impossible. IMHO Intel is basically offering up a silver-platter backdoor to them, but the "management engine" and "RAM initialization and stuff" excuses are just plausible enough for credulous neckties to claim deniability and buy Intel.

AMD has all the same problems with their "PSP". Snowden has suggested this is the time for AMD to offer an alternative to this backdoored-by-design US CPU that's built from the ground up with a welcoming, unremovable module perfectly fitting the way US spy agency likes to implant things.

AMD, is there any progress on this? You seem to have backslided since Athlon FX, yet now it's more important than ever to get this situation cleaned up.

The problem is that biases are reality based. Blacks really are more violent. Asians really are good at math. Women really are bad at navigating. As humans, we try to ignore these generalities for the greater good of judging people as individuals, but nonetheless generalities are generally true.

A famous quote from Arthur Conan Doyle, "While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician."

You can have a pacifist Buddhist black man, Asian who has flunked math and a woman navigator.

If you institutionalize AI decision making for individuals based on statistics on what we believe a group a person might belong to, this is worse that hiring a racist/sexist decision maker.

Another interesting quote about Jeremy Lin, https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/5zcmz4/michael_lewis_morey_said_jeremy_lin_is_the_15th/

We should be using AI to judge removed from our biases, not take the worst biases and amplify them.

In their minds, the 'losers' from the 'fake news' outlets are outraged that Trump won and are trying to sabotage him from every angle, so obviously the news are going to report negative things about him but that's just because they don't want him to "win."

In what universe is this not true? The media gets caught lying all the time. CNN just had to fire 3 people for lying about Trump.

The establishment press uncritically "vetted" and embraced a Clinton campaign talking point designed to make Trump look foolish, divorced it of its political context and reiterated it word-of-God style for more than six months - all the time either ignoring or missing entirely easily obtainable information proving it false - and then suddenly reversed course on the claim weeks after it was unambiguously and authoritatively debunked. We live in a world where r/the_donald - a Reddit thread teeming with Trump supporters - proved more shrewd than The New York Times and the Associated Press when vetting an important claim about the Russia investigation.

Link to story

For the moment, it's pretty closely tied. But both OSVR and SteamVR do function on GNU/Linux, and if I recall correctly nvidia recently added the direct mode (after a few mishaps including a driver release that simply refused to let us access VR headsets it recognized. OpenHMD works on VR device drivers that are properly free software. There's lots of work to be done still.

Some notes on e.g. https://github.com/ValveSoftwa... and https://www.reddit.com/r/OSVR/...

If electricity is cheap enough you can generate 'oil-based' fuels out of air and water.

There's multiple ways to get there, none are easy. If we have a lot of excess energy then a straight conversion isn't all that hard, but we need a lot of excess energy. We could also get there if there's some massive breakthrough in the conversion process. At the moment, syngas isn't a very easy product to produce and from what we know we need syngas as the precursor to anything past syngas like ethanol. GMOs might be another way to get to that end. GMOs built to produce hydrocarbons at better than photosynthesis rates might get produced one day.

There's a ton of ifs and unknowns at the moment, so it's a shot in the dark kind of thing to thing to reach a concrete method for how we get there. However, no matter what we come up with, we definitely will need to change where we use hydrocarbon fuel. There's no method we could come up with that would satisfy all of our current HC fuel needs/wants. While pure electric might work for cars, jet planes (for example) just aren't going to become electric unless we have a massive revolution in materials/batteries.

An electric motor built to move a jet to take off speed would be massive, that's not also mentioning the size of the batteries that would be required to power the massive motor. Even if Lithium air batteries get invented you still run into the matter of how absolutely massive an electric motor to move something 200+ MPH that weighs 187k pounds at takeoff would be (sorry that's using 737 weight at takeoff currently, an airplane using an electric motor would be heavier if all other things stayed the same, but you could have fewer people, less cargo, carbon fiber, etc to change that as well, but I couldn't come up with a number for weight of electric jet that would be anywhere meaningful. Also I'm at work at the moment so trying to crunch numbers is proving to be difficult with the onslaught that is my job. However, there is a Reddit thread that talked about this.).

That said, is still very reasonable in my opinion if we have trains, cars, and boats electric and jets remain fuel based. If we can change the world to be like this where jets are the reason we keep producing fuels, we just might be able to produce enough syngas and ethanol from thin air to keep us all happy.

You have a very good comment because it's one of those, "there's a lot of variables involved" type questions that I always find so interesting.

Did we really bring a nuclear bomb with information that canâ"like we see with fake newsâ"blow up peopleâ(TM)s brains and reprogram them?

You made some crappy worthless products history has already forgotten about. Ones that caused real damage to real people in the process.

We've all seen lots of shit like this on various HVAC forums over the years.

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/homea...

Energy harvesting scheme in particular you all knew when you did it that it would cause problems yet ..."C" wire too hard = lost sales = customer bitching = fuck it. This wasn't unintentional. It was deliberate.

According to Fadell, this is largely a matter of unintended consequencesâ"but that doesnâ(TM)t free designers and developers from responsibility.

You all know what you were doing (selling your customers out) and why you were doing it (to make money). Building actual functional products gets about as much attention as smartphone voice quality.

Fadell wants there to be a Hippocratic oath for designers, where they pledge to work ethically and âoedo no harm.â âoeI think we have to be very cognizant of the unintended consequences, but also acknowledge them and then design them outâ"make sure that we are ethically designing,â

Yea sure... back in the real world we have firms hiring physiological experts to maximally get users addicted to their "platforms" to maximize advertising profits. Unintended consequences. I'm sure the drug industry didn't intentionally cause an opioid epidemic either... It was all "unintentional". If your going to bother reflecting on "ethics" you should probably start by admitting what you really did and why you really did it. Not that any if it matters.

This guy posted a nice little tenting system made out of craft foam sheets:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mecha...
http://imgur.com/a/7hhgx

I ended up designing one like it for my own split keyboard. Works great, feels great. Just don't spill soda on it.

I'm also a fan of the Microsoft Natural layout. I got one back in 1994 that lasted for 15 years before the keys began malfunctioning, and I had to throw it out, sadly.

Great post on Reddit explaining how you can complain not just to the direct CNN advertisers, but the sources of deeper revenue...

"go for the ad exchange and behavioral revenue"

TillSverige is the subreddit for people who intend to or are in the process of migrating to Sweden.
Feel free to ask any questions you have.

CNN coerced him to apologize by threatening to dox him, and now is claiming that he called them to apologize first. Check the timestamps and archive links here.

Which has caused a whole big pile of new anti-CNN memes. My favorites are the ISIS apology video ones. example here. And another. Also, this guy showed up. Even the theater in the park got involved.

Looks like pretty much everyone is now piling on. Here is Julian Assange, Donald Trump Jr., the Washington Times.

It is pretty much the only topic now on The_Donald and has numerous threads on /pol/ (warning, NSFL). Front and center on Breitbart News and Drudge.

Oh, and the guy's identity is pretty much out there already, making their threat moot.

The laptops are refurbished lenovo's. Overpriced, outdated crap. I am all for Free Software, but this is just getting pathetic.

New Intel and AMD designs are Stalin's dream: they seem to be designed to accept untraceable targeted Intel/AMD-signed-NOBU government backdoors (FSP, ME, AMT on Intel. PSP on AMD). I would buy this outdated crap if the openness argument could be turned into a security argument, but that has not been done. It would require:
  - verified boot
      - that actually means something: signing key is user's choice, and no writable firmware runs without signature check
      - a distribution with Merkel tree filesystem that can preserve verified boot even if SSD firmware is backdoored
  - physically removing components that can hold backdoors (ex. a cel radio on PCIe bus)
  - multiple verified builds of the distribution operated under different ownership in opposed jurisdictions
  - an update distribution service where different update versions can't be served based on serial number

Chromebooks already do many of these things, and ChromiumOS could be the basis of the Linux distribution if it were freed from Google and convinced to obey a consensus of signing keys instead of one key (multiple verified builds). To me this seems like a more promising direction since Google has already done 90% of the work FSF wants, and is almost strong enough a negotiator to get what's needed from the hardware manufacturers: it's foolish not to use them as allies just because their ad tracking and cloud computing work is distasteful to FSF believers. However even with their negotiating power Google still has gotten no way around FSP and PSP.

Especially when posting a link to a video you should include a _summary_. That video is actually pretty good, based on the responses here I expected something much worse.

About the video:

Statistics: ~9 million views, 191,330 upvotes vs. 3,585 downvotes

The video is in support of the point raised in this story, "this time it's different", and they raise a few good points in support.

After watching the video I don't understand the response by drinkypoo about the horses, it does not seem to fit with what is said in the video _at all_.

The video comes with a link to a reddit trhead about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGre...

Completely unusable, so long Google news, may check again in a few weeks. Moving to Reddit News (of all places) https://www.reddit.com/r/news/

Intel CPUs have (had?) 3g modems built into them from the factory. Really, your only option is generating your own power to give to the device and placing it in a Faraday cage.

Unfortunately, a quick visit to Google only provides this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/priva...

None of that appears to be very reliable sources but meh. It is possible to do so and seeing what Microsoft is doing with the OS, it seems inconceivable that Intel is not doing something similar.

and here his support base..

look at the education breakdown, especially:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueM...