Because back in the days, psychological illnesses weren't properly considered. ADHD and depression are real diseases. It is not the same thing as "being excited" and "feeling down". In the same way that being stuck with a high fever is not the same thing as "being lazy". A proper diagnosis followed by a proper treatment is a good thing and certainly better than doing nothing, even if it involves drugs. And no, these drugs aren't designed to turn you into a zombie unless you are about to kill yourself and the only alternative is a padded cell and a straightjacket. And there is a difference between boys being boys and failing constantly at school despite above average intelligence and favorable conditions.
And you think things were better in the past? They used to give fucking heroin to kids to calm them down...
Yes and no. Yes because you basically have built-in ad blocking features in Safari. You don't have this in Chrome. There are alternatives like Firefox for Android but they are not as popular as Chrome. No for everything else. Android allows alternative browsers, not IOS, and you don't even need to root for this. If you are rooted, the possibilities are almost endless : hosts based blocking, proxies, xposed modules, lucky patcher... Personally, I use #NoChromo and YouTube AdAway, I used to use MinMinGuard and XPrivacy but now I have no apps that "require" it.
You don't need to be a skilled hacker to royally mess up ATC. All you need is a sufficiently high powered radio transmitter tuned to ATC frequencies. The kind you find in light aircraft may be sufficient. I don't recommend it though as you will piss of a lot of people that hold various kinds of badges that all mean trouble in this situation.
Probably this, no joke. Control towers (the building, not the ATC as a whole) are for watching what happens on the ground, so yes, you can tell all the planes that are not obstructing the runway stay where they are.
Bank will probably won't use a proof-of-work mining scheme like bitcoin. More likely they will keep a centralized model for currency generation and use the blockchain model only for transactions.
Good use for the empathy button : - New couple - My new tattoo - Look at my drawing - Just married - We are going to this place for our holidays - Babies
Punish the hysterical school officials who lack the sense to tell a clock from a bomb for wasting police time.
Hysterical school officials are one thing, but the worst part is that the police, instead of telling them to stop wasting their time actually went with them.
Well, I don't really blame the teachers. They found something suspicious, they reported to the police. Handling threats is not their jobs after all. And maybe he actually was curious about bombs, which wouldn't be surprising (just give the Anarchy Cookbook to some smart kid and see what happens). But the Police came in, things should have been cleared up. They should have sent someone who actually knew something about bombs, explained the teachers that a PCB is not a bomb when it is not connected to actual explosives, and explained to the kid the situation "the teacher thought it was a bomb but don't worry, you didn't do anything bad". The police officers should be suspended or at least be retrained.
I code, a lot. But I don't need an API for everything. Beside my work, I'm at 99% a regular computer user. If I want to read twitter feeds, I go to twitter.com, why should I mess with the API? My needs aren't so specific that I should write my own code. And even when I do the remaining 1%, I rarely use website APIs, even when they are available.
They reinforce traditional stereotypes of men and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical... Sexbots are masturbation aids, no more, no less. And I don't see anyone but the most hardcore fetishists see them as anything else but a glorified dildo or fleshlight.
I had a Galaxy XCover 2 that got water damaged after filming underwater. I brought it to the service center and they basically told me that waterproof phones are actually not meant to be used underwater, that they get them regularly and they are often not covered by warranty. I think they even said "false advertizing" explicitly. They sent my phone back to Samsung and I got a replacement for free so I guess I was lucky.
"Waterproof" is a relative safety feature but don't expect more.
It still cracks me up that Nintendo still follows their same old nationalistic/xenophobic practice of releasing their games first in Japan, and only then to the rest of the world (often months or even years later). They didn't get the memo from about 15 years ago that the Japanese market is inconsequential now compared to the rest of the world. They're like the old soldier in the nursing home who doesn't know that we lost the war--because no one has to heart to tell him.
Many Japanese companies still work like this. Often, the rest of the world doesn't even get a release. For example about half of the Monster Hunter games (from Capcom) don't make it outside Japan, and it is a huge franchise. The good thing however is that the exported games that are released months later may end up better than the Japanese original.
Legal protections against mass surveillance mean basically nothing. If some government doesn't do it officially, they will do it unofficially, and if some government doesn't do it at all, someone else will do it. So your best bet would be assume someone is watching and react accordingly by using encryption and good security practices. If you really are paranoid, you can add proxies. I don't believe in anyone, NSA included, breaking standard modern encryption, at least not for untargeted mass surveillance.
Your choice of country maybe more important for protection against court-ordered surveillance.
I don't know about the US but in France, it isn't absolute. If the truth is presented in a way that incite misinterpretation, it is still defamation. An exemple is saying "Mr. X is involved in a crime" when Mr. X is actually a victim.
Cartridges are rated for a number of "standard" printed pages. Why should I care if there is ink left in the cartridge as long as it meets its requirements. The price for ink cartridges is totally artificial anyway, so it is not like the extra ink makes a difference. If you don't like the idea of a black box cartridges, then don't by a printer with black box cartridges, or you may complain about the unavailability of such printers. But don't complain about what happens inside the black box.
All the major operators are moving away from the 2 year contract yet apple still list the iphone prices in terms of a 2 year contract. I am guessing even Apple knows that many customers are going to balk at the iphones true starting price of $650.
Have you priced any unlocked Samsung phones lately?
Yes, Samsung flagships are similar in price to iPhones... on paper. The street price is often much lower. For example, in France, the Galaxy Note 4 initial listed price was 749 euros whereas the 16 GB iPhone 6 was 709 euros. The price I actually paid for my Note 4 (new, unlocked) about 1 month after release was 575 euros. Getting an iPhone (new, unlocked) below its listed price is nearly impossible. And the price doesn't drop until near the time the new model is out.
Well Avisynth may not be the most important windows-only app around, however I feel like it is a special case. Avisynth is basically a script-based video editor popular with people encoding movies or anime. It is possibly the most powerful tool for this job. What makes it special is that it fits very well within Linux philosophy, yet it is Windows only : - It is opensource - It is script-based, no built-in GUI. It is a frameserver, so it will work with an external video player / encoder. - It is highly modular, plugin based
I am a fan of Steve Jobs for marketing and his CEO abilities. If it were not for Steve Jobs the Mac would not still be here. Actually Apple finally killed the floppy drive and gave us USB. The original iMacs were so popular it finally got the peripheral makers on board which benefited the PC.
Not sure about that. Floppy disks were on their way down and USB was developing in the PC world too. The iMac influence was probably very small, especially considering that PC-Mac cross-compatibility wasn't really a thing back then : slightly different keyboard layout, single-button mouse, different file formats,...
Apple did have some positive influence in the tech world but I don't think that the iMac was a significant part of it. I think it was ahead of its time but not in a good way.
Bhutan has a population density of 18/km2, the world land population density is 47/km2, including infertile areas. So what applies to Bhutan may not apply to everyone unless we decide to reduce world population by 2/3.
Didn't the lab just send live pathogens intentionally as a way to work around paperwork? Like maybe the request for dead pathogens is interpreted by both party as a request for live ones but without the additional paperwork. Considering how overzealous regulators can be, the procedure required to send dead pathogens is probably secure enough for live ones.
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The NFL received $800 million from Apple, for no apparent reason.
Because back in the days, psychological illnesses weren't properly considered.
ADHD and depression are real diseases. It is not the same thing as "being excited" and "feeling down". In the same way that being stuck with a high fever is not the same thing as "being lazy". A proper diagnosis followed by a proper treatment is a good thing and certainly better than doing nothing, even if it involves drugs. And no, these drugs aren't designed to turn you into a zombie unless you are about to kill yourself and the only alternative is a padded cell and a straightjacket.
And there is a difference between boys being boys and failing constantly at school despite above average intelligence and favorable conditions.
And you think things were better in the past? They used to give fucking heroin to kids to calm them down...
Yes and no.
Yes because you basically have built-in ad blocking features in Safari. You don't have this in Chrome. There are alternatives like Firefox for Android but they are not as popular as Chrome.
No for everything else. Android allows alternative browsers, not IOS, and you don't even need to root for this. If you are rooted, the possibilities are almost endless : hosts based blocking, proxies, xposed modules, lucky patcher...
Personally, I use #NoChromo and YouTube AdAway, I used to use MinMinGuard and XPrivacy but now I have no apps that "require" it.
You don't need to be a skilled hacker to royally mess up ATC.
All you need is a sufficiently high powered radio transmitter tuned to ATC frequencies. The kind you find in light aircraft may be sufficient. I don't recommend it though as you will piss of a lot of people that hold various kinds of badges that all mean trouble in this situation.
Probably this, no joke.
Control towers (the building, not the ATC as a whole) are for watching what happens on the ground, so yes, you can tell all the planes that are not obstructing the runway stay where they are.
Bank will probably won't use a proof-of-work mining scheme like bitcoin.
More likely they will keep a centralized model for currency generation and use the blockchain model only for transactions.
Good use for the empathy button :
- New couple
- My new tattoo
- Look at my drawing
- Just married
- We are going to this place for our holidays
- Babies
Punish the hysterical school officials who lack the sense to tell a clock from a bomb for wasting police time.
Hysterical school officials are one thing, but the worst part is that the police, instead of telling them to stop wasting their time actually went with them.
Well, I don't really blame the teachers. They found something suspicious, they reported to the police. Handling threats is not their jobs after all. And maybe he actually was curious about bombs, which wouldn't be surprising (just give the Anarchy Cookbook to some smart kid and see what happens).
But the Police came in, things should have been cleared up. They should have sent someone who actually knew something about bombs, explained the teachers that a PCB is not a bomb when it is not connected to actual explosives, and explained to the kid the situation "the teacher thought it was a bomb but don't worry, you didn't do anything bad".
The police officers should be suspended or at least be retrained.
I code, a lot. But I don't need an API for everything. Beside my work, I'm at 99% a regular computer user. If I want to read twitter feeds, I go to twitter.com, why should I mess with the API? My needs aren't so specific that I should write my own code.
And even when I do the remaining 1%, I rarely use website APIs, even when they are available.
They reinforce traditional stereotypes of men and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical...
Sexbots are masturbation aids, no more, no less. And I don't see anyone but the most hardcore fetishists see them as anything else but a glorified dildo or fleshlight.
Indefensible xeonphobia.
Xeonphobia? Is it what you get when you lack Inteligence?
Especially English.
Clean water, toilets and computers can be picked up later. But foreign languages are best learned early.
And if the trend of outsourcing to India continues, English is a very valuable skill.
20 million neural networks in my brain... all interconnected...
It means I have a neural internet in my brain! That's fucking cool!
I had a Galaxy XCover 2 that got water damaged after filming underwater.
I brought it to the service center and they basically told me that waterproof phones are actually not meant to be used underwater, that they get them regularly and they are often not covered by warranty. I think they even said "false advertizing" explicitly.
They sent my phone back to Samsung and I got a replacement for free so I guess I was lucky.
"Waterproof" is a relative safety feature but don't expect more.
It still cracks me up that Nintendo still follows their same old nationalistic/xenophobic practice of releasing their games first in Japan, and only then to the rest of the world (often months or even years later). They didn't get the memo from about 15 years ago that the Japanese market is inconsequential now compared to the rest of the world. They're like the old soldier in the nursing home who doesn't know that we lost the war--because no one has to heart to tell him.
Many Japanese companies still work like this. Often, the rest of the world doesn't even get a release. For example about half of the Monster Hunter games (from Capcom) don't make it outside Japan, and it is a huge franchise.
The good thing however is that the exported games that are released months later may end up better than the Japanese original.
Legal protections against mass surveillance mean basically nothing. If some government doesn't do it officially, they will do it unofficially, and if some government doesn't do it at all, someone else will do it.
So your best bet would be assume someone is watching and react accordingly by using encryption and good security practices. If you really are paranoid, you can add proxies. I don't believe in anyone, NSA included, breaking standard modern encryption, at least not for untargeted mass surveillance.
Your choice of country maybe more important for protection against court-ordered surveillance.
I don't know about the US but in France, it isn't absolute.
If the truth is presented in a way that incite misinterpretation, it is still defamation. An exemple is saying "Mr. X is involved in a crime" when Mr. X is actually a victim.
Cartridges are rated for a number of "standard" printed pages. Why should I care if there is ink left in the cartridge as long as it meets its requirements. The price for ink cartridges is totally artificial anyway, so it is not like the extra ink makes a difference.
If you don't like the idea of a black box cartridges, then don't by a printer with black box cartridges, or you may complain about the unavailability of such printers. But don't complain about what happens inside the black box.
All the major operators are moving away from the 2 year contract yet apple still list the iphone prices in terms of a 2 year contract.
I am guessing even Apple knows that many customers are going to balk at the iphones true starting price of $650.
Have you priced any unlocked Samsung phones lately?
Yes, Samsung flagships are similar in price to iPhones... on paper. The street price is often much lower.
For example, in France, the Galaxy Note 4 initial listed price was 749 euros whereas the 16 GB iPhone 6 was 709 euros.
The price I actually paid for my Note 4 (new, unlocked) about 1 month after release was 575 euros. Getting an iPhone (new, unlocked) below its listed price is nearly impossible. And the price doesn't drop until near the time the new model is out.
Well Avisynth may not be the most important windows-only app around, however I feel like it is a special case.
Avisynth is basically a script-based video editor popular with people encoding movies or anime. It is possibly the most powerful tool for this job. What makes it special is that it fits very well within Linux philosophy, yet it is Windows only :
- It is opensource
- It is script-based, no built-in GUI. It is a frameserver, so it will work with an external video player / encoder.
- It is highly modular, plugin based
There are linux ports but they are incomplete.
I am a fan of Steve Jobs for marketing and his CEO abilities. If it were not for Steve Jobs the Mac would not still be here. Actually Apple finally killed the floppy drive and gave us USB. The original iMacs were so popular it finally got the peripheral makers on board which benefited the PC.
Not sure about that. Floppy disks were on their way down and USB was developing in the PC world too. The iMac influence was probably very small, especially considering that PC-Mac cross-compatibility wasn't really a thing back then : slightly different keyboard layout, single-button mouse, different file formats, ...
Apple did have some positive influence in the tech world but I don't think that the iMac was a significant part of it. I think it was ahead of its time but not in a good way.
Bhutan has a population density of 18/km2, the world land population density is 47/km2, including infertile areas. So what applies to Bhutan may not apply to everyone unless we decide to reduce world population by 2/3.
Didn't the lab just send live pathogens intentionally as a way to work around paperwork?
Like maybe the request for dead pathogens is interpreted by both party as a request for live ones but without the additional paperwork. Considering how overzealous regulators can be, the procedure required to send dead pathogens is probably secure enough for live ones.
Better give these peers some work to do, right now, resetting connections is the only thing they seem to do.