As I understand, in the US you get to choose one from two candidates (unlike in my country where there are 20 or so parties etc you get a lot to choose from in the first round).
That is partially true. Politics are dominated by two parties (which are both marching further to the far-right end of the spectrum in a global sense) and they have the most money and ability to run candidates, by a long shot. Attempts to run as a third party candidate are often considered Quixotic.
What if both choices are bad?
In the US you can always write in a candidate of your choosing. Now, some people like to protest vote for Mickey Mouse, or various other inanimate objects. However if you were to vote for someone who was eligible to run who was not on the ballot, and they pulled in more votes than anyone else, they would be the winner.
Really, voting for any eligible person is better than not voting at all. You can vote for yourself if you want, or vote for your favorite musician, athlete, comedian, etc...
With voter turnout this epically low, we are at the point where all the eligible voters who don't vote could band together and elect a president and VP who aren't even on the ticket. Whether or not mandatory voting would help is unclear, but voter disenfranchisement doesn't help anyone and neither do all the various voter suppression methods that we see in each election cycle. Something should be done to push back.
That would be awesome. I was never particularly good with any keyboard / mouse combination and always thought it would be better with a 3-d mouse with lots of buttons.
Actually no, they didn't announce a damn thing you completely inaccurate headline and summary.
Well that makes two people - you and I - who actually chose to RTFA. You should know by now that such choices are strictly taboo around here - and completely forbidden for the "editors" who select the front page material. Hell, I'm surprised the front page didn't link to goatse or foxnews instead.
Thinkpads die and break as well, but getting replacement parts and doing the replacement has been a no-brainer. Also their repair shop is top notch if you are in warranty, at least over here they just fix pretty much everything you complain about.
I had the on-site extended warranty on one of my earlier thinkpads, and that was great. I once called them in the evening with a problem, the following afternoon they had a support guy in my kitchen fixing my laptop.
That said, Lenovo has kept up the tradition of posting the full hardware manuals online in PDF for all the thinkpads, free for all to download and view. This makes DIY a lot easier, and the details in these PDFs are still as impressive as they were years ago (just don't try to print them, they are often 200-300 pages beginning to end).
Hmmm. Sounds like Google is moving toward the concept of a Curated Collection.
Wonder where they would have gotten THAT Idea...?
If you want to be that nonspecific, I will point out that was making submissions to a Curated Collection a decade before Apple launched their App store for any platform. So perhaps google took the idea from the National Institutes of Health?
Need space? Get one of the 5TB external Seagate drives for $130 bucks and find a way to hide the drive behind the TV.
I understood the OP was asking for a way to destroy an HTPC install by putting it in a place where no reasonable one. I don't recall him asking for advice on how to destroy the data quickly as well...
This seems rather hopeless. Does it go to the police with jurisdiction closest to the IP address the offending tweet came from? Or to the police closest to where the alleged victim resides? What if the intended police department has no cyber-crimes unit?
And what do you do to prevent people from trolling this system? It seems that someone could really waste a lot of time and resources at large police departments by flagging every tweet with their names or abbreviations in it.
I have a friend who did his PhD in high-energy physics. He was first at Fermi, then later at the LHC. Data sets often started at 1TB and grew from there. No laptop is capable of handing that kind of data right now; you use your laptop to log in to the supercomputers that can. In other words, you don't need a lot of CPU power in your laptop; you just need a competent system for accessing the supercomputers and for displaying your results in presentations and publications.
I wasn't in physics but I was in the hard sciences. I will mention in particular the matter of longevity. I started grad school with a ThinkPad - a rather cheap one - and it was still working when I finished over half a decade later. I defended my thesis with a newer model only because I needed better graphics capabilities for some of my renderings.
By comparison I had colleagues who had Dell, Asus, Apple, HP, Toshiba, you name it. Average life expectancy for them was 3 years or less. One colleague went through at least 3 laptops before defending. The Apple laptops weren't any better for longevity than the Dells, Asuses (whatever plural of Asus should be) or any other sans the IBM or Lenovo ThinkPads.
And don't do the Lenovo non-ThinkPads, either. They are just average. Grad school is frustrating enough with good hardware, don't make your daughter waste her time troubleshooting poor hardware.
8 miles is a very long taxi trip in NYC - average is 2.6 miles.
True. But a big part of the total fare is the "flag drop fee" and various fees that add up while you sit in traffic going nowhere. I'm pretty sure those didn't go down in past decades either.
The last time I rode a cab was decades ago and it was over $25 for maybe 8 miles. Being as gas costs 2.5-4 times as much now as it did back then I figured the fares would have scaled accordingly.
Or perhaps I'm just willing to walk further than some other people...
I thought the goal of this was to make sure that other countries are quickly made as unproductive as us. If we let them see the internet beyond facebook they might come to realize too quickly that there is actually useful material out there as well.
Yeah, this article is guaranteed to excite slashdot's conservative base, but it isn't about technology in any meaningful way. We all know that no attempt to implement such a system in the US would be successful under the current political power structure. If you want to bitch about politics at least do so in a less obvious way.
When the bakery opened, they were expected to be aware of the laws that apply to their business. The ACLU page you linked to specifically mentions a Colorado state law that
prohibits public accommodations, including businesses such as Masterpiece Cakeshop, from refusing service based on factors such as race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.
Hence they were willingly and blatantly violating the law.
Even so, companies break out of contracts all the time - why should that be any different?
Can you provide an example where it was any different? When companies break out of contracts they have penalties for doing so. From what I've seen it has been exactly the same as any other company breaking out of a contract.
I have a smart phone but an automatic (automatically winding, mechanical) watch. I have zero interest in replacing my watch with a digital "smart" watch. I don't expect there are many others that do, either. The market may gradually be eroding on its own - in no small part due to the flood of cheap Chinese-made mechanical watches that are closing in on 99% as accurate as the Swiss and Japanese models - but the smart watches aren't much of a factor in that happening.
Curious how you felt about photographers who didn't want to shoot gay weddings getting forced to do that by the courts.
The only case I have heard of that happening was when the photographer had signed the contract to do it, and then realized after signing that it was a gay wedding. I have not heard of anyone being forced to do anything for a homosexual couple that they had not already signed up for. It was the photographer's own dumbass fault for not having looked more closely at the names of the customers.
I'm sorry that mental health is a concept that so thoroughly escapes you. The kind of ignorance that you are so proudly putting on display is frightening. If you want to know why mental health is taken so lightly in this country, go look in the mirror. It's mentalities exactly like your own that encourage people not to seek the care they need.
Put down your Ayn Rand for a moment and consider that teenage boy is someone's son. Someone will miss him if he takes his own life. As a society we have a responsibility to help those who find themselves in that situation. Leaving deadly weapons in easy reach is not the answer. If you leave the gun laying around for him there is a very real chance that he will take down someone else before turning the weapon on himself.
Firearm accidents barely made it onto the chart I was looking at with 22 unintentional firearm deaths for the 10-14 year old category.
First of all, they are dramatically underreported, as has been shown numerous times. Second of all, I mentioned shootings, not just deaths. Fortunately a fair number of the shooting victims manage to survive, but that is only by luck (usually aided by the fact that the accidental shooter is often a child as well).
Firearm deaths are hardly the "low hanging" fruit on things killing children in the US, and it hardly happens "every single day"
Hence why most "gun nuts" get more than a little agitated when it is used as a reason to take away their rights.
Did I say anything about taking away rights? No, I did not. I even said that most owners are responsible. I just want people to be responsible. We have a lot of irresponsible shit-heads leaving loaded unlocked weapons sitting around like they are toys, and this is the result.
And your bit about the age of a child is a straw man argument. I follow the standard definition of a child being under 18. And even at that the accidental shootings that I pay the most attention to are the ones involving kids under 10.
There's a big difference between promoting gun safety at home, and putting it into law.
Which would make it political suicide to even propose here in the US.
However, the few of such gun owners that I know do voluntarily practise and advocate safe gun ownership, especially around kids.
The overwhelming majority of actual gun owners are responsible. There are a lot more guns than gun accidents in this country, that is clear. However every single day there is at least one innocent child in this county who is shot as a direct result of an irresponsible owner. And those irresponsible owners are the ones whose "rights" we see so much time and money spent to protect.
If parents leave guns in a locked safe, a teenage son cannot shoot himself if he suddenly decides life is hopeless.
People have been proudly campaigning for irresponsible gun ownership in the US for a very, very, long time. Suggesting things like locking up guns - even in the gun owner's home - will be quickly shot down by people claiming you are impeding on their constitutional right to overthrow the government.
I really, really, wish I was exaggerating or kidding on this one.
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As I understand, in the US you get to choose one from two candidates (unlike in my country where there are 20 or so parties etc you get a lot to choose from in the first round).
That is partially true. Politics are dominated by two parties (which are both marching further to the far-right end of the spectrum in a global sense) and they have the most money and ability to run candidates, by a long shot. Attempts to run as a third party candidate are often considered Quixotic.
What if both choices are bad?
In the US you can always write in a candidate of your choosing. Now, some people like to protest vote for Mickey Mouse, or various other inanimate objects. However if you were to vote for someone who was eligible to run who was not on the ballot, and they pulled in more votes than anyone else, they would be the winner.
...
Really, voting for any eligible person is better than not voting at all. You can vote for yourself if you want, or vote for your favorite musician, athlete, comedian, etc
With voter turnout this epically low, we are at the point where all the eligible voters who don't vote could band together and elect a president and VP who aren't even on the ticket. Whether or not mandatory voting would help is unclear, but voter disenfranchisement doesn't help anyone and neither do all the various voter suppression methods that we see in each election cycle. Something should be done to push back.
...with my Spaceball Avenger?
That would be awesome. I was never particularly good with any keyboard / mouse combination and always thought it would be better with a 3-d mouse with lots of buttons.
Actually no, they didn't announce a damn thing you completely inaccurate headline and summary.
Well that makes two people - you and I - who actually chose to RTFA. You should know by now that such choices are strictly taboo around here - and completely forbidden for the "editors" who select the front page material. Hell, I'm surprised the front page didn't link to goatse or foxnews instead.
Thinkpads die and break as well, but getting replacement parts and doing the replacement has been a no-brainer. Also their repair shop is top notch if you are in warranty, at least over here they just fix pretty much everything you complain about.
I had the on-site extended warranty on one of my earlier thinkpads, and that was great. I once called them in the evening with a problem, the following afternoon they had a support guy in my kitchen fixing my laptop.
That said, Lenovo has kept up the tradition of posting the full hardware manuals online in PDF for all the thinkpads, free for all to download and view. This makes DIY a lot easier, and the details in these PDFs are still as impressive as they were years ago (just don't try to print them, they are often 200-300 pages beginning to end).
Hmmm. Sounds like Google is moving toward the concept of a Curated Collection.
Wonder where they would have gotten THAT Idea...?
If you want to be that nonspecific, I will point out that was making submissions to a Curated Collection a decade before Apple launched their App store for any platform. So perhaps google took the idea from the National Institutes of Health?
Need space? Get one of the 5TB external Seagate drives for $130 bucks and find a way to hide the drive behind the TV.
I understood the OP was asking for a way to destroy an HTPC install by putting it in a place where no reasonable one. I don't recall him asking for advice on how to destroy the data quickly as well...
This seems rather hopeless. Does it go to the police with jurisdiction closest to the IP address the offending tweet came from? Or to the police closest to where the alleged victim resides? What if the intended police department has no cyber-crimes unit?
And what do you do to prevent people from trolling this system? It seems that someone could really waste a lot of time and resources at large police departments by flagging every tweet with their names or abbreviations in it.
I have a friend who did his PhD in high-energy physics. He was first at Fermi, then later at the LHC. Data sets often started at 1TB and grew from there. No laptop is capable of handing that kind of data right now; you use your laptop to log in to the supercomputers that can. In other words, you don't need a lot of CPU power in your laptop; you just need a competent system for accessing the supercomputers and for displaying your results in presentations and publications.
I wasn't in physics but I was in the hard sciences. I will mention in particular the matter of longevity. I started grad school with a ThinkPad - a rather cheap one - and it was still working when I finished over half a decade later. I defended my thesis with a newer model only because I needed better graphics capabilities for some of my renderings.
By comparison I had colleagues who had Dell, Asus, Apple, HP, Toshiba, you name it. Average life expectancy for them was 3 years or less. One colleague went through at least 3 laptops before defending. The Apple laptops weren't any better for longevity than the Dells, Asuses (whatever plural of Asus should be) or any other sans the IBM or Lenovo ThinkPads.
And don't do the Lenovo non-ThinkPads, either. They are just average. Grad school is frustrating enough with good hardware, don't make your daughter waste her time troubleshooting poor hardware.
8 miles is a very long taxi trip in NYC - average is 2.6 miles.
True. But a big part of the total fare is the "flag drop fee" and various fees that add up while you sit in traffic going nowhere. I'm pretty sure those didn't go down in past decades either.
The last time I rode a cab was decades ago and it was over $25 for maybe 8 miles. Being as gas costs 2.5-4 times as much now as it did back then I figured the fares would have scaled accordingly.
Or perhaps I'm just willing to walk further than some other people...
I thought the goal of this was to make sure that other countries are quickly made as unproductive as us. If we let them see the internet beyond facebook they might come to realize too quickly that there is actually useful material out there as well.
Yeah, this article is guaranteed to excite slashdot's conservative base, but it isn't about technology in any meaningful way. We all know that no attempt to implement such a system in the US would be successful under the current political power structure. If you want to bitch about politics at least do so in a less obvious way.
prohibits public accommodations, including businesses such as Masterpiece Cakeshop, from refusing service based on factors such as race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.
Hence they were willingly and blatantly violating the law.
Even so, companies break out of contracts all the time - why should that be any different?
Can you provide an example where it was any different? When companies break out of contracts they have penalties for doing so. From what I've seen it has been exactly the same as any other company breaking out of a contract.
I have a smart phone but an automatic (automatically winding, mechanical) watch. I have zero interest in replacing my watch with a digital "smart" watch. I don't expect there are many others that do, either. The market may gradually be eroding on its own - in no small part due to the flood of cheap Chinese-made mechanical watches that are closing in on 99% as accurate as the Swiss and Japanese models - but the smart watches aren't much of a factor in that happening.
Curious how you felt about photographers who didn't want to shoot gay weddings getting forced to do that by the courts.
The only case I have heard of that happening was when the photographer had signed the contract to do it, and then realized after signing that it was a gay wedding. I have not heard of anyone being forced to do anything for a homosexual couple that they had not already signed up for. It was the photographer's own dumbass fault for not having looked more closely at the names of the customers.
Even facebook and Obama haven't been on the front page of slashdot as many times in the past two weeks as he has.
Unless preventing the easy impulse methods is accompanied by better mental health care, all you're doing is kicking the can down the road.
Kicking the can down the road is still (very marginally) better than the US-endorsed strategy to date of pretending the can doesn't exist.
Thank you for coming in to the discussion. It is good to see at least one other sane person responding to this.
I'm sorry that mental health is a concept that so thoroughly escapes you. The kind of ignorance that you are so proudly putting on display is frightening. If you want to know why mental health is taken so lightly in this country, go look in the mirror. It's mentalities exactly like your own that encourage people not to seek the care they need.
Put down your Ayn Rand for a moment and consider that teenage boy is someone's son. Someone will miss him if he takes his own life. As a society we have a responsibility to help those who find themselves in that situation. Leaving deadly weapons in easy reach is not the answer. If you leave the gun laying around for him there is a very real chance that he will take down someone else before turning the weapon on himself.
Firearm accidents barely made it onto the chart I was looking at with 22 unintentional firearm deaths for the 10-14 year old category.
First of all, they are dramatically underreported, as has been shown numerous times. Second of all, I mentioned shootings, not just deaths. Fortunately a fair number of the shooting victims manage to survive, but that is only by luck (usually aided by the fact that the accidental shooter is often a child as well).
Firearm deaths are hardly the "low hanging" fruit on things killing children in the US, and it hardly happens "every single day"
Read the news. It is not hard to find an accidental shooting every single day in this country that involves a child. Hell, there were three accidental shootings in Houston involving children over the weekend. It does happen every day, and it is the fault of irresponsible gun owners.
Hence why most "gun nuts" get more than a little agitated when it is used as a reason to take away their rights.
Did I say anything about taking away rights? No, I did not. I even said that most owners are responsible. I just want people to be responsible. We have a lot of irresponsible shit-heads leaving loaded unlocked weapons sitting around like they are toys, and this is the result.
And your bit about the age of a child is a straw man argument. I follow the standard definition of a child being under 18. And even at that the accidental shootings that I pay the most attention to are the ones involving kids under 10.
There's a big difference between promoting gun safety at home, and putting it into law.
Which would make it political suicide to even propose here in the US.
However, the few of such gun owners that I know do voluntarily practise and advocate safe gun ownership, especially around kids.
The overwhelming majority of actual gun owners are responsible. There are a lot more guns than gun accidents in this country, that is clear. However every single day there is at least one innocent child in this county who is shot as a direct result of an irresponsible owner. And those irresponsible owners are the ones whose "rights" we see so much time and money spent to protect.
If parents leave guns in a locked safe, a teenage son cannot shoot himself if he suddenly decides life is hopeless.
People have been proudly campaigning for irresponsible gun ownership in the US for a very, very, long time. Suggesting things like locking up guns - even in the gun owner's home - will be quickly shot down by people claiming you are impeding on their constitutional right to overthrow the government.
I really, really, wish I was exaggerating or kidding on this one.