I count four comments referencing the stillsuits prior to yours, but one of those is a reply to another comment that referenced them and came five minutes after you, so that doesn't count.
Never mind iPhone cases - that stuff can be used to make transformers more efficient and more compact. If you could get it cheap, it could potentially cut a percent or two off of energy transmission losses.
Cynical is a good thing. It's the antidote to societal romanticism, which tells us that every disabled person is a unique and treasured snowflake full of love.
There is an obligation in basic human decency to help those who need it. That doesn't mean we need to keep churning out more of them if we can help it.
But we already have a treatment: The prenatal test for downs is reliable, usually noninvasive (Amniocentris is used only to confirm an ultrasound result) and early in pregnancy. If you get a dud, discard and try again.
The only problem comes from the religious people who believe everything with a human genome is magical or sacred.
Actually a few oppressive dictatorships have some form of protection for free speech. Like North Korea. The government just ignores their own constitution to an extent the US government can only look upon with envy.
At a guess, he - like so many users - doesn't actually know of 'facebook.com.' He just enters 'facebook' into the browser address bar, and lets it automatically send that to a search engine then clicks the top result. Combine a typo with the often over-aggressive techniques some dodgy porn sites use to lure in viewers, and it's possible that one could have overtaken facebook for some sufficiently mangled query.
His claim is a little more precise than that. He recounts a chain of events: 1. He wanted to look at facebook. 2. He typoed something (probably one of those idiots who puts 'facebook' into the address bar and lets the search engine add a.com) and ended up at a porn site. 3. Upon being confronted with porn, he was struck by an irresistable instinctive urge to look at it for hour after hour, week after week, destroying his life.
His claim is based on the idea that if Apple sold devices with filtering installed and enabled by default, the chain would be broken between steps two and three. That appears to be the only part of his argument that makes sense though - most of it consists of crazed ramblings that suggest his mental state may be impaired.
We're at the point where ideas that would otherwise be dismissed as paranoid conspiracy theories start to sound plausible. It's entirely possible you are right.
This is why I believe the only true protection against government monitoring is in the security of mathematics. Cryptography for all.
Over here in the UK, the government takes it out. Everyone has access to free healthcare. No-one dies because they can't afford insurance, or faces financial ruin because they can only survive with a drug that costs £1000 a month.
On the downsides, a combination of high demand, tight funding and a government constantly starting 'reforms' in such rapid succession that none of them even finishes before the next begins have overstrained the system to the point that all you're promised right away is access to a waiting list.
Landlines are powered from the exchange. All exchanges have backup batteries and generators for just that situation - because in an emergency, you really want the phones to work so the injured can call 911.
It could become a serious concern with the loss of landlines in favor of cellphone and VoIP though. The infrastructure for those is much more distributed, and generally doesn't have much in the way of backup power. It's not practical to put a generator in every street cabinet and base station - those generators need regular inspections and maintenance.
That gasoline goes below ground, but the pumps to get it out are electric. No power, no pumps.
The gas station operators could open the fill hole and stick a hand-pump in, but it'd be very slow to dispense - and with panic buying inevitable, the queue could take hours to get through.
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I had the CCNA. Got my my first job out of uni.
On Helldesk.
Been there ever since.
A proxy delivers whatever code the admin wants it to deliver. Squid returns 403 on ACL blocks, but it's trivial to alter.
I count four comments referencing the stillsuits prior to yours, but one of those is a reply to another comment that referenced them and came five minutes after you, so that doesn't count.
Your estimate was off by one. Close.
'From the mouths of babes' is only endearing when it comes from an actual child.
Cheap, bulk amorphous metal?
Never mind iPhone cases - that stuff can be used to make transformers more efficient and more compact. If you could get it cheap, it could potentially cut a percent or two off of energy transmission losses.
And if fixing the laptop would cost more than buying a new one, throwing it in the trash is still the more sensible approach.
Cynical is a good thing. It's the antidote to societal romanticism, which tells us that every disabled person is a unique and treasured snowflake full of love.
There is an obligation in basic human decency to help those who need it. That doesn't mean we need to keep churning out more of them if we can help it.
But we already have a treatment: The prenatal test for downs is reliable, usually noninvasive (Amniocentris is used only to confirm an ultrasound result) and early in pregnancy. If you get a dud, discard and try again.
The only problem comes from the religious people who believe everything with a human genome is magical or sacred.
"And there's a shortage of companies that still has a decent moral compass."
That's because they go out of business.
The issuer would simply switch to sending a lot more notices, with only one URL per notice.
But on paper, that'll be the assistant deputy backup lawyer. The one they pay $2 an hour to sweep the floors part time.
Lawyers are very good at weaseling out of laws. That's kind of their job.
" 41.71 MB (43,733,142 bytes)"
No. Clips, maybe. Even an audio track, perhaps. I'd have to download it to be sure. But it's not an episode.
"Who gets to have -?"
The highest bidder, of course.
Actually a few oppressive dictatorships have some form of protection for free speech. Like North Korea. The government just ignores their own constitution to an extent the US government can only look upon with envy.
Porn is a very personal thing. Another man's porn is rarely appealing.
At a guess, he - like so many users - doesn't actually know of 'facebook.com.' He just enters 'facebook' into the browser address bar, and lets it automatically send that to a search engine then clicks the top result. Combine a typo with the often over-aggressive techniques some dodgy porn sites use to lure in viewers, and it's possible that one could have overtaken facebook for some sufficiently mangled query.
His claim is a little more precise than that. He recounts a chain of events: .com) and ended up at a porn site.
1. He wanted to look at facebook.
2. He typoed something (probably one of those idiots who puts 'facebook' into the address bar and lets the search engine add a
3. Upon being confronted with porn, he was struck by an irresistable instinctive urge to look at it for hour after hour, week after week, destroying his life.
His claim is based on the idea that if Apple sold devices with filtering installed and enabled by default, the chain would be broken between steps two and three. That appears to be the only part of his argument that makes sense though - most of it consists of crazed ramblings that suggest his mental state may be impaired.
iBone, surely?
Green lantern can only fly because of his ring. The problem with the costumes is just that they rarely come with the charging device.
That explains a lot about the state of the world.
We're at the point where ideas that would otherwise be dismissed as paranoid conspiracy theories start to sound plausible. It's entirely possible you are right.
This is why I believe the only true protection against government monitoring is in the security of mathematics. Cryptography for all.
Over here in the UK, the government takes it out. Everyone has access to free healthcare. No-one dies because they can't afford insurance, or faces financial ruin because they can only survive with a drug that costs £1000 a month.
On the downsides, a combination of high demand, tight funding and a government constantly starting 'reforms' in such rapid succession that none of them even finishes before the next begins have overstrained the system to the point that all you're promised right away is access to a waiting list.
Sounds like an 'ethnic detector.'
Landlines are powered from the exchange. All exchanges have backup batteries and generators for just that situation - because in an emergency, you really want the phones to work so the injured can call 911.
It could become a serious concern with the loss of landlines in favor of cellphone and VoIP though. The infrastructure for those is much more distributed, and generally doesn't have much in the way of backup power. It's not practical to put a generator in every street cabinet and base station - those generators need regular inspections and maintenance.
That gasoline goes below ground, but the pumps to get it out are electric. No power, no pumps.
The gas station operators could open the fill hole and stick a hand-pump in, but it'd be very slow to dispense - and with panic buying inevitable, the queue could take hours to get through.