>. A computer scientist can implement any algorithm in any language.
ou CAN pound a nail with a screwdriver. You can even pound a nail with a saw. A hammer is a much better, more efficient tool for that job. If you need to install hundreds of nails, a nail gun is a much better tool.
I COULD use VB to convert one type of XML to another, but I use xslt (true xslt, not loops) because it's a better tool for the job. I use several languages each day, selecting the one best suited for the task at hand.
> if you cannot implement that algorithm in that language then you are nothing but a code monkey.
If you DO implement all algorithms in your favorite language (JavaScript?!?!?)... well, you're like the "contractor" who owns nothing but a hammer, and says "I can't do it with a hammer..."
PS - generally there is one condition that decides whether JavaScript is the best choice . JS is the best choice if and only if that's the only possible option. For client-side logic in a web page that needs to work in multiple browsers, it's the best option because it's the only option. Anywhere else, there is probably a better tool for the job.
According to your math, passphrases are a thousand times more secure and, unlike 10 random characters, users can remember their passphrase. Sounds like a win to me.
That's two factor authentication, what you know and what you have.
You said:
password, and an 8 digit numeric password
That's precisely the same as saying: All passwords end in 8 numeric digits.
So that's one factor, the password.
User names aren't secret, their NAMES. Knowing your name is not a security factor. Even if they WERE secret, you could equally well describe that as: All passwords follow the form "name:letters:digits"
Knowing the string is one factor. Having the token is the second factor.
I wrote the above comment based on the summary. Now having read his article, he sounds like less of a jerk than TFS made him out to be.
Still, she's FOUR. Little boys don't actually grow up to be knights and little girls don't actually become princesses (unless they marry a prince, not likely). So relax, dad.
> Programmer David Auerbach is dismayed that, at a critical developmental age, his 4-year-old daughter wants to be a princess, not a scientist or engineer, he writes in Slate. The larger society keeps forcing sexist stereotypes on her
"Dad is dismayed his 4-year-old daughter wants". It is DAD who has a problem with what his daughter wants, who is upset that a 4-year-old girl is acting like a 4-year-old girl. "The larger society" isn't dismayed by her making her own choices. You are, David. You are the one who is butthurt that she didn't want to trick or treat dressed as an engineer. "The larger society" would be fine with her being a rodeo rider, a pilot, or baker. You sir are the one trying to force your choice of career on her before she even enters kindergarten.
There is one piece of good news, David. Unless you are King David, she won't actually grow up to be a princess. Next week she might want to be an astronaut and a week after that she might want to be a teacher. When she grows up, she might be an artist, a counselor, or an HR professional. She almost certainly won't be a princess, though, so don't worry about that.
It doesn't turn into small pieces of plastic, it turns it into ~starch.
Polyethelene is (C2H4)nH2, where n is large. In other words, it's a long chain of carbon-hydrogen units.
Sugar and starch, on the other hand, are chains of carbon-hydrogen-OXYGEN units. If the chain is short, it is called a sugar, long chains made are called starches. All animals get their energy from these starches and sugars. Short chains (sugars) are easier to digest than long chains (starches).
So the frustrating thing is that the big differences between plastic and starch (food) is the oxygen atom, and the length - polyethene molecules are even longer than starch. If you add oxygen to plastic and cut the molecules apart, you'd end up with food, except the plastic doesn't allow the oxygen molecule in.
This bacteria does that difficult trick, it forces oxygen atoms in, splitting the molecular chain in the process. After the bacteria does its thing, the result is more like starch than plastic.
At this very early stage, initial testing with this exact microbe didn't immediately dispose of large amounts. That would take more time, more of the bacteria, or a better version of the bacteria.
For a company like Samsung, the software stack used in their phones is very important to them. Kernel support for BLE, for example, affects their revenue. A couple of paid programmers can have significant influence on a software stack that is behind BILLIONS is revenue for Samsung. They'd be incredibly stupid to sit their and let other companies have 100% control of the software they rely on rather than spend a thousands of dollars to protect and expand their billions in revenue.
As an example, my predecessor was a system administrator. He spent his days maintaining the system, compiling data from the system into reports, working around issues with the system, and helping other users maintain their projects on the system, compile reports they need from data on the system, etc.
I'm a developer of the system, not a maintainer. I don't compile reports we need each month, I write a module once which AUTOMATICALLY generates the report when it's needed. I don't have a routine of constantly explaining to users how to work around a limitation in the system, I fix the limitation. Compared to the old way of doing things, having an admin for the system, I probably save my employer several times my salary each year. There is basically no cost to my employer because previously they were already paying someone to administer the system. For the same pay, I administer AND develop the system to better fit their needs. Part of that development work consists of eliminating the need to do much adminstration work.
> one thing a lot of people often overlook is that Stuxnet required physical infiltration of the Iranian lab to plant the virus. It also required someone
No, Stuxnet was injected by spearfishing and waterholing several companies that make components which later go into SCADA systems, some of which were used in the enrichment facility.
Government purchase procedures for purchases over a small amount typically require large amounts of paperwork from vendors, submitted in various stages to ensure transparency and fairness. "Run down to Walmart and get it for one-third the price" isn't an option specified in the procurement process.
The idea is to make sure they don't just run down to their brother's shop and pay five times the going rate. Unfortunately, it means buying mainly from middleman companies who are in the business of getting government contracts. It can be REAL lucrative to contract for computers - you put in a bid for to top of the line computers at $3500 each, installed. The process takes 18 months before you win the bid. You meet with the government agency and the start planning their migration process. Eventually delivery is scheduled, around six months after you won the bid. At that point you buy some computers that meet the specs you bid two years ago, paying $600 each. Six months after that you collect the $3500 each from the government.
> > It's disingenuous to claim that developing tools for generating and curating content "have nothing to do" with generating and curating content.
> The additional software tinkering (if you had read the linked articles) has been for needless, non-working trinkets like Visual Editor (which the vast majority of editors hate) and Media Viewer
You, and many others, may be of the opinion that Visual Editor was needless, but to say the tool for editing content "has nothing to do with generating and curating content" is obviously false. It's a tool for editing (adding and curating) content. That's a completely separate statement from whether or not the implementation was done well (it was not).
Media Viewer is a "better" way to handle image content on the site. Again, you may feel that it's not needed, but to say that it has nothing to do with content is plain silly.
One can simply "take sides' and say anything and everything negative you can think of against "the other side", or can try to improve things by identifying the actual problems and stating exactly what went wrong in those areas.
Let's try looking at the possible issues mentioned and see where the problems actually are:
Spending has increased greatly: true Maintaining a prudent reserve of 1 year operating expenses is excessive: false Improving wikipedia's software systems doesn't help improve content in the long run: false
So we see there is one thing brought up that might really be an issue - the rate of spending increase. Having identified the actual issue to be addressed, we can then begin to address it.
> Wikimedia spending has increased by 1,000 percent in the course of a few years.
That could be a problem.
> Jimmy Wales counters complaints by saying the Foundation are merely prudent in ensuring they always have a reserve equal to one year's spending
Yes, a one year reserve on the low end of normal. You don't want Wikipedia to disappear when something bad happens, and SHIT HAPPENS. It's a top 10 web site, meaning it's in the big leagues with Google, Microsoft etc., except it's nonprofit. They may have to deal with stuff like Google is dealing with in Europe - disputes with multiple governments on the other side. You don't want Wikipedia to go bankrupt when some government or some company somewhere doe something stupid that costs the foundation $5 million to deal with and repair the damage.
> nothing to do with generating and curating Wikipedia content, a task that is handled entirely by the unpaid volunteer base.'
False. A large chunk of the budget is developing software for "generating and curating Wikipedia content". It's disingenuous to claim that developing tools for generating and curating content "have nothing to do" with generating and curating content.
> This might be true, but, if you look at the contents of any folder you'll find that all the files in it are unrelated, i.e., several songs from several different albums by several different artists. This is Apple we're talking about, there's no way that some of the obfuscation isn't deliberate.
That's exactly what any decent programmer has always done want fast access from code. You want each folder (branch) to end up with approximately the same number of files. The user might load 600 Beatles songs and nothing else, so you use a hash that is not affected by artist name or anything else that might cause them to be similar. Something like md2.
I hear that Amazon is now hiring people to maintain warehouse robots, program them, and even develop new ones. Historically, using a backhoe required a little different training than using a shovel. Using a laser CNC machine required different training than using a chisel. The new job made a bit more money, so the middle class now has two cars and a giant HD TV. Middle class houses have doubled in size compared to 50 years ago, when typists had to completely retype a page from scratch when they made an error.
I don't think there's any evidence of that changing. All evidence I've seen says we'll be using more computers to be more productive in more jobs, so cops, fireandfighters, and school teachers need to know how to copy and paste. Teachers don't need to spend weekends in the library with a pen and paper developing lesson plans - they can share lesson plans with peers around the country with a couple of clicks. Different training to get more done in less time.
Those who choose to keep training constantly can specialize in implementing new technology and by doing that my wife
and I have cut our work week in half - she stays home with the kid while I write software. I don't see any reason that would change. I just have to keep my training up to date, exactly like the elevator-operator turned hvac tech of 50 years ago.
> Someone at John Deere should engage in deep thought. With machines doing most of the work, who is going to have jobs that give them the money to buy from John Deere?
ftfy. People have been worrying about that for a couple hundred years and what always happens is that a guy with a machine is more productive than a guy without a machine. His pay is about 25% of the revenue matched to his labor, so as long term productivity rises, wages rise to match. In the short term there is some disruption as the guy who used to operate a shovel learns to operate a backhoe, scribes learn to operate a printing press, etc. In the long term, the guy makes more money using a backhoe than he did using a shovel, because he gets more done using the machine.
If you want to stay close to the technical details and not have to move into management or worry about getting hired by someone 20 years your junior, now might be a good time to look at listings from city, county, state and federal governments. Government employees are rarely laid off and the insurance and retirement benefits are often very good. If you start later in your career, the retirement benefits can be worth 20% of your salary or more.
Down sides to government work include limited advancement potential and lack of exciting new projects, along with a lot of bureacracy. Typically there are professional bureaucrats who handle the bureacracy so coders don't HAVE to. Technicians just have to be patient and wait for the bureacracy to slowly do its thing before "starting" (releasing) a project. That's okay if you don't mind working ahead and doing a lot of housekeeping while waiting for your next project to be approved.
Are you under the impression that he IS in jail? That his custom license plate isn't GUILTY? Certainly that history of dozens of charges and multiple convictions in three different countries never happened?
Seriously, I bet I know what you take issue with - you like getting free stuff. That's cool. You could have the intellectual honesty to admit that to yourself. He did it, he admits he's guilty, and your glad he did it because you got a ripped copy of The Fast and Furious 6 out of it. That's called being honest with yourself.
Here's something you probably didn't know even when you had glimpses of self-honesty though, and it'll twist your mind. Along with his previous convictions for fraud and all is one for pump-and-dump insider trading. Yep, he made millions screwing people over in the STOCK MARKET. The hero in your story is not only a Wall Street multimillionaire, he's such a crook at it that he stood out even there and even the financial regulators couldn't put up with a guy as scummy as him. Mind. Blown.
Yes, the confiscated emails where he explicitly says they need to get more Hollywood movofies in order to make more money. That THE textbook example of criminal copyright infringement. Whether the seizure was the legal the courts will decide. We've seen the the emails, so we know that he intentionally committed another crime. Apparently you feel that you've benefited from this type of crime, so just be honest and say that. To pretend he didn't do the things he brags about doing is silly.
> More than two and a half years have passed since they shut this whole Megaupload down and did this big Hollywoodesque showoff at his mansion. Where is the due process in this?
I'm not quite following your complaint here. You are bothered that his team of lawyers has been given every opportunity to delay the hearing, over and over? You feel that due process requires that his motions for continuance and various prehearing motions be denied?
You may notice he's not in jail. You may also notice all the evidence, including emails he wrote, is pretty much 100% showing he's guilty. Heck, he even had a personalized license plate made - GUILTY. He's bragging about it. The one and only difference between him and any other criminal caught on tape is that he "gave" you free shit (that wasn't his to give).
What was left out for simplication is the $24 / hour the customer is charged when at a light, in traffic, or otherwise not going very fast on top of the mileage charge and the "getting in" charge. In New York city, that $24 is a pretty significant part of the total. Other places, not so much.
The telescope is way out in the boonies. Some of the area has one household per several square kilometers. Fiber installation costs vary greatly, but it costs somewhere around $15,000 to run fiber 2km to a farmhouse, then $15,000 to then next house...
If you expect a marriage to be 50/50, you'll probably be disappointed. Because the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, two people who are equally giving will probably feel that they're doing 80%. I do a lot for my wife, and she does for me. Mostly, we do for us. We want time together, so we make time for that, etc.
With an SSD, boot times are measured in seconds, so just turn it off when you're not playing. Since you're married and apparently grown, I suppose you aren't going to be playing all that much. For the few hours per week that a responsible adult has time to play computer games, see all of the other posts re how to reduce noise.
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>. A computer scientist can implement any algorithm in any language.
ou CAN pound a nail with a screwdriver. You can even pound a nail with a saw. A hammer is a much better, more efficient tool for that job. If you need to install hundreds of nails, a nail gun is a much better tool.
I COULD use VB to convert one type of XML to another, but I use xslt (true xslt, not loops) because it's a better tool for the job. I use several languages each day, selecting the one best suited for the task at hand.
> if you cannot implement that algorithm in that language then you are nothing but a code monkey.
If you DO implement all algorithms in your favorite language (JavaScript?!?!?) ... well, you're like the "contractor" who owns nothing but a hammer, and says "I can't do it with a hammer..."
PS - generally there is one condition that decides whether JavaScript is the best choice . JS is the best choice if and only if that's the only possible option. For client-side logic in a web page that needs to work in multiple browsers, it's the best option because it's the only option. Anywhere else, there is probably a better tool for the job.
This flu does suck. My six-month-old baby and I have it. That's all I have to say for now because looking at the screen hurts right now.
According to your math, passphrases are a thousand times more secure and, unlike 10 random characters, users can remember their passphrase. Sounds like a win to me.
That's two factor authentication, what you know and what you have.
You said:
password, and an 8 digit numeric password
That's precisely the same as saying:
All passwords end in 8 numeric digits.
So that's one factor, the password.
User names aren't secret, their NAMES. Knowing your name is not a security factor. Even if they WERE secret, you could equally well describe that as:
All passwords follow the form "name:letters:digits"
Knowing the string is one factor. Having the token is the second factor.
I wrote the above comment based on the summary. Now having read his article, he sounds like less of a jerk than TFS made him out to be.
Still, she's FOUR. Little boys don't actually grow up to be knights and little girls don't actually become princesses (unless they marry a prince, not likely). So relax, dad.
> Programmer David Auerbach is dismayed that, at a critical developmental age, his 4-year-old daughter wants to be a princess, not a scientist or engineer, he writes in Slate. The larger society keeps forcing sexist stereotypes on her
"Dad is dismayed his 4-year-old daughter wants". It is DAD who has a problem with what his daughter wants, who is upset that a 4-year-old girl is acting like a 4-year-old girl. "The larger society" isn't dismayed by her making her own choices. You are, David. You are the one who is butthurt that she didn't want to trick or treat dressed as an engineer. "The larger society" would be fine with her being a rodeo rider, a pilot, or baker. You sir are the one trying to force your choice of career on her before she even enters kindergarten.
There is one piece of good news, David. Unless you are King David, she won't actually grow up to be a princess. Next week she might want to be an astronaut and a week after that she might want to be a teacher. When she grows up, she might be an artist, a counselor, or an HR professional. She almost certainly won't be a princess, though, so don't worry about that.
It doesn't turn into small pieces of plastic, it turns it into ~starch.
Polyethelene is (C2H4)nH2, where n is large. In other words, it's a long chain of carbon-hydrogen units.
Sugar and starch, on the other hand, are chains of carbon-hydrogen-OXYGEN units. If the chain is short, it is called a sugar, long chains made are called starches. All animals get their energy from these starches and sugars. Short chains (sugars) are easier to digest than long chains (starches).
So the frustrating thing is that the big differences between plastic and starch (food) is the oxygen atom, and the length - polyethene molecules are even longer than starch. If you add oxygen to plastic and cut the molecules apart, you'd end up with food, except the plastic doesn't allow the oxygen molecule in.
This bacteria does that difficult trick, it forces oxygen atoms in, splitting the molecular chain in the process. After the bacteria does its thing, the result is more like starch than plastic.
At this very early stage, initial testing with this exact microbe didn't immediately dispose of large amounts. That would take more time, more of the bacteria, or a better version of the bacteria.
For a company like Samsung, the software stack used in their phones is very important to them. Kernel support for BLE, for example, affects their revenue. A couple of paid programmers can have significant influence on a software stack that is behind BILLIONS is revenue for Samsung. They'd be incredibly stupid to sit their and let other companies have 100% control of the software they rely on rather than spend a thousands of dollars to protect and expand their billions in revenue.
As an example, my predecessor was a system administrator. He spent his days maintaining the system, compiling data from the system into reports, working around issues with the system, and helping other users maintain their projects on the system, compile reports they need from data on the system, etc.
I'm a developer of the system, not a maintainer. I don't compile reports we need each month, I write a module once which AUTOMATICALLY generates the report when it's needed. I don't have a routine of constantly explaining to users how to work around a limitation in the system, I fix the limitation. Compared to the old way of doing things, having an admin for the system, I probably save my employer several times my salary each year. There is basically no cost to my employer because previously they were already paying someone to administer the system. For the same pay, I administer AND develop the system to better fit their needs. Part of that development work consists of eliminating the need to do much adminstration work.
> one thing a lot of people often overlook is that Stuxnet required physical infiltration of the Iranian lab to plant the virus. It also required someone
No, Stuxnet was injected by spearfishing and waterholing several companies that make components which later go into SCADA systems, some of which were used in the enrichment facility.
http://blog.kaspersky.com/stux...
Note that the rest of your post is based on reasoning from your mistake about the initial infection. Also BTW, it's a worm, not a virus.
Government purchase procedures for purchases over a small amount typically require large amounts of paperwork from vendors, submitted in various stages to ensure transparency and fairness. "Run down to Walmart and get it for one-third the price" isn't an option specified in the procurement process.
The idea is to make sure they don't just run down to their brother's shop and pay five times the going rate. Unfortunately, it means buying mainly from middleman companies who are in the business of getting government contracts. It can be REAL lucrative to contract for computers - you put in a bid for to top of the line computers at $3500 each, installed. The process takes 18 months before you win the bid. You meet with the government agency and the start planning their migration process. Eventually delivery is scheduled, around six months after you won the bid. At that point you buy some computers that meet the specs you bid two years ago, paying $600 each. Six months after that you collect the $3500 each from the government.
> > It's disingenuous to claim that developing tools for generating and curating content "have nothing to do" with generating and curating content.
> The additional software tinkering (if you had read the linked articles) has been for needless, non-working trinkets like Visual Editor (which the vast majority of editors hate) and Media Viewer
You, and many others, may be of the opinion that Visual Editor was needless, but to say the tool for editing content "has nothing to do with generating and curating content" is obviously false. It's a tool for editing (adding and curating) content. That's a completely separate statement from whether or not the implementation was done well (it was not).
Media Viewer is a "better" way to handle image content on the site. Again, you may feel that it's not needed, but to say that it has nothing to do with content is plain silly.
One can simply "take sides' and say anything and everything negative you can think of against "the other side", or can try to improve things by identifying the actual problems and stating exactly what went wrong in those areas.
Let's try looking at the possible issues mentioned and see where the problems actually are:
Spending has increased greatly: true
Maintaining a prudent reserve of 1 year operating expenses is excessive: false
Improving wikipedia's software systems doesn't help improve content in the long run: false
So we see there is one thing brought up that might really be an issue - the rate of spending increase. Having identified the actual issue to be addressed, we can then begin to address it.
> Wikimedia spending has increased by 1,000 percent in the course of a few years.
That could be a problem.
> Jimmy Wales counters complaints by saying the Foundation are merely prudent in ensuring they always have a reserve equal to one year's spending
Yes, a one year reserve on the low end of normal. You don't want Wikipedia to disappear when something bad happens, and SHIT HAPPENS. It's a top 10 web site, meaning it's in the big leagues with Google, Microsoft etc., except it's nonprofit. They may have to deal with stuff like Google is dealing with in Europe - disputes with multiple governments on the other side. You don't want Wikipedia to go bankrupt when some government or some company somewhere doe something stupid that costs the foundation $5 million to deal with and repair the damage.
> nothing to do with generating and curating Wikipedia content, a task that is handled entirely by the unpaid volunteer base.'
False. A large chunk of the budget is developing software for "generating and curating Wikipedia content". It's disingenuous to claim that developing tools for generating and curating content "have nothing to do" with generating and curating content.
> This might be true, but, if you look at the contents of any folder you'll find that all the files in it are unrelated, i.e., several songs from several different albums by several different artists. This is Apple we're talking about, there's no way that some of the obfuscation isn't deliberate.
That's exactly what any decent programmer has always done want fast access from code. You want each folder (branch) to end up with approximately the same number of files. The user might load 600 Beatles songs and nothing else, so you use a hash that is not affected by artist name or anything else that might cause them to be similar. Something like md2.
I hear that Amazon is now hiring people to maintain warehouse robots, program them, and even develop new ones. Historically, using a backhoe required a little different training than using a shovel. Using a laser CNC machine required different training than using a chisel. The new job made a bit more money, so the middle class now has two cars and a giant HD TV. Middle class houses have doubled in size compared to 50 years ago, when typists had to completely retype a page from scratch when they made an error.
I don't think there's any evidence of that changing. All evidence I've seen says we'll be using more computers to be more productive in more jobs, so cops, fireandfighters, and school teachers need to know how to copy and paste. Teachers don't need to spend weekends in the library with a pen and paper developing lesson plans - they can share lesson plans with peers around the country with a couple of clicks. Different training to get more done in less time.
Those who choose to keep training constantly can specialize in implementing new technology and by doing that my wife
and I have cut our work week in half - she stays home with the kid while I write software. I don't see any reason that would change. I just have to keep my training up to date, exactly like the elevator-operator turned hvac tech of 50 years ago.
> Someone at John Deere should engage in deep thought. With machines doing most of the work, who is going to have jobs that give them the money to buy from John Deere?
ftfy. People have been worrying about that for a couple hundred years and what always happens is that a guy with a machine is more productive than a guy without a machine. His pay is about 25% of the revenue matched to his labor, so as long term productivity rises, wages rise to match. In the short term there is some disruption as the guy who used to operate a shovel learns to operate a backhoe, scribes learn to operate a printing press, etc. In the long term, the guy makes more money using a backhoe than he did using a shovel, because he gets more done using the machine.
> The Ebola cases/deaths are vastly higher (2x-3x higher min) than what WHO is reporting. This is easily verifiable from WHO and others.
WHO estimates that there are twice as cases as WHO estimates there are? Something doesn't smell right in your post.
However, if in fact WHO is reporting numbers 2-3 times higher than WHO is reporting, someone should report WHO. Who is reporting WHO to who?
If you want to stay close to the technical details and not have to move into management or worry about getting hired by someone 20 years your junior, now might be a good time to look at listings from city, county, state and federal governments. Government employees are rarely laid off and the insurance and retirement benefits are often very good. If you start later in your career, the retirement benefits can be worth 20% of your salary or more.
Down sides to government work include limited advancement potential and lack of exciting new projects, along with a lot of bureacracy. Typically there are professional bureaucrats who handle the bureacracy so coders don't HAVE to. Technicians just have to be patient and wait for the bureacracy to slowly do its thing before "starting" (releasing) a project. That's okay if you don't mind working ahead and doing a lot of housekeeping while waiting for your next project to be approved.
Are you under the impression that he IS in jail?
That his custom license plate isn't GUILTY?
Certainly that history of dozens of charges and multiple convictions in three different countries never happened?
Seriously, I bet I know what you take issue with - you like getting free stuff. That's cool. You could have the intellectual honesty to admit that to yourself. He did it, he admits he's guilty, and your glad he did it because you got a ripped copy of The Fast and Furious 6 out of it. That's called being honest with yourself.
Here's something you probably didn't know even when you had glimpses of self-honesty though, and it'll twist your mind. Along with his previous convictions for fraud and all is one for pump-and-dump insider trading. Yep, he made millions screwing people over in the STOCK MARKET. The hero in your story is not only a Wall Street multimillionaire, he's such a crook at it that he stood out even there and even the financial regulators couldn't put up with a guy as scummy as him. Mind. Blown.
Yes, the confiscated emails where he explicitly says they need to get more Hollywood movofies in order to make more money. That THE textbook example of criminal copyright infringement. Whether the seizure was the legal the courts will decide. We've seen the the emails, so we know that he intentionally committed another crime. Apparently you feel that you've benefited from this type of crime, so just be honest and say that. To pretend he didn't do the things he brags about doing is silly.
> More than two and a half years have passed since they shut this whole Megaupload down and did this big Hollywoodesque showoff at his mansion. Where is the due process in this?
I'm not quite following your complaint here. You are bothered that his team of lawyers has been given every opportunity to delay the hearing, over and over? You feel that due process requires that his motions for continuance and various prehearing motions be denied?
You may notice he's not in jail. You may also notice all the evidence, including emails he wrote, is pretty much 100% showing he's guilty. Heck, he even had a personalized license plate made - GUILTY. He's bragging about it. The one and only difference between him and any other criminal caught on tape is that he "gave" you free shit (that wasn't his to give).
What was left out for simplication is the $24 / hour the customer is charged when at a light, in traffic, or otherwise not going very fast on top of the mileage charge and the "getting in" charge. In New York city, that $24 is a pretty significant part of the total. Other places, not so much.
The telescope is way out in the boonies. Some of the area has one household per several square kilometers. Fiber installation costs vary greatly, but it costs somewhere around $15,000 to run fiber 2km to a farmhouse, then $15,000 to then next house ...
> Look closer, I was responding to catmistake, not your post.
Mea culpa. Catmistake, if you're reading this, pretend I said "my bad".
If you expect a marriage to be 50/50, you'll probably be disappointed. Because the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, two people who are equally giving will probably feel that they're doing 80%. I do a lot for my wife, and she does for me. Mostly, we do for us. We want time together, so we make time for that, etc.
With an SSD, boot times are measured in seconds, so just turn it off when you're not playing. Since you're married and apparently grown, I suppose you aren't going to be playing all that much. For the few hours per week that a responsible adult has time to play computer games, see all of the other posts re how to reduce noise.