With nearly 300 comments already, I'm not sure there's a point in posting, but...
Los Angeles ran out of water decades ago. Or they would have if they hadn't built aqueducts to bring water from Mono Lake and the Colorado River.
Santa Barbara nearly ran out of water. They started to build a desalinization plant. Then one rain storm refilled their primary source of water. They cancelled the plant and sold the equipment to one of the dunes countries IIRC.
The real question should be why did Cape Town wait so long to start dealing with it?
If the ISP messes with your thermostat it is their fault. If they do it in the middle of the night when you're asleep, it's their fault. If they do it when you're away and your pipes freeze and flood your house, it's their fault.
They have no business messing with your thermostat. They aren't the police, or the FBI. It's not their job to enforce the law.
And if I had the misfortune to be a customer, you can bet I'd be shopping for another ISP right about now.
but getting these handsets to the cheapness of $30 opens a lot of windows for those who had none before.
Opening what kind of windows though? This isn't the same as One Laptop Per Child sort of goodness. (And look at how little that has accomplished.) This is purely about getting data-consuming devices into more hands.
Dunno. There's always lunch break. I used to work with a guy that had movies or other video content on his iPod that he played during the day. It didn't seem to affect his productivity. A long time ago I worked for an outfit where once a week someone would download the latest Dr. Who and they'd show it on the big conference room screen after hours. These days they'd just stream it.
In the ten years I've been at this company there's been one or two times I've hit a link by mistake that I shouldn't have; site was blocked, nobody stormed to my cubicle demanding to know what I was trying to do. I work for a company that's pretty good that way I guess. Maybe if I "accidentally" hit those links too many times I might get a polite inquiry. As I said, I'm not going to test that theory.
the moon appearing full (every 28 days) happened to fall twice within 31 days of a calendar month. "THIS IS A ONCE IN A 150 YEAR EVENT!"
Once in 150 years you say?
January 2018, July 2015, December 2009, June 2007, July 2004 all have (had) monthly blue moons. The next one will be October 2020, then August 2023. You do the math.
And as for the moon appearing full every 28 days? No, the moon appears full every 30 days, when the moon completes a full orbit relative to the Sun. (Hint, the full moons this month are on the 1st and the 31st.) This is different than a sidereal orbit. which is 27.5 days.
This is only a 'blue moon') if you misunderstand what this term means, or trying to make up some story. Go and read Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
The next blue moon will be 18/05/2019.
This is the two-full-moons-in-one-month Blue Moon. That's what's happening on Jan 31st.
The original definition, AIUI, is third full moon in a season with four full moons. Usually there are only three full moons in a season. (A season being the period of time between a solstice and an equinox, or between an equinox and a solstice.) That's the kind of blue moon that's happening on 18 May, 2019.
Superhero, Star Wars, Star Trek, Bond, blah, blah, blah.
My wife likes the superhero movies, thus we go see them. We were born at the tail end of the baby boom. The audiences are full of millennials and tail-end-of-the-baby-boomers. That's who.
Hasn't it turned into MySpace? Only teens and olds posting pictures of their lunch? All the millennials seem to have departed for Reddit and Instagram.
Slashdot Mirror
If I was in a gunfight I might think twice about killing another human. But a bot? No hesitation whatsoever. I'd blast the motherfucker.
Sending bots just sounds like an expensive way to flush money down the toilet.
... combined with a slow hardware upgrade rate (long travel time)
Bandwidth isn't a problem. The latency sucks big time.
With nearly 300 comments already, I'm not sure there's a point in posting, but...
Los Angeles ran out of water decades ago. Or they would have if they hadn't built aqueducts to bring water from Mono Lake and the Colorado River.
Santa Barbara nearly ran out of water. They started to build a desalinization plant. Then one rain storm refilled their primary source of water. They cancelled the plant and sold the equipment to one of the dunes countries IIRC.
The real question should be why did Cape Town wait so long to start dealing with it?
Can't be a hypocrite without hypocriting.
Wow, who knew Donald Trump posted to /.
AMD chips have their own security flaw[1].
Surprising that it hasn't been reported here yet.
It's apparently easier to fix than Intel's.
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
I don't see ARM donating its IP to this effort...
I don't imagine Softbank paid $32B for ARM Holdings just so they could give the IP away.
If the ISP messes with your thermostat it is their fault. If they do it in the middle of the night when you're asleep, it's their fault. If they do it when you're away and your pipes freeze and flood your house, it's their fault.
They have no business messing with your thermostat. They aren't the police, or the FBI. It's not their job to enforce the law.
And if I had the misfortune to be a customer, you can bet I'd be shopping for another ISP right about now.
Elon must have missed that lecture in Marketing 101
That Twitler will just veto it.
Mandatory voting, e.g. like Greece and Australia.
Polls open multiple days, including over a weekend.
Eliminate Gerrymandering
Those are the things we really need. It's the 21st Century. Really, it's time.
but getting these handsets to the cheapness of $30 opens a lot of windows for those who had none before.
Opening what kind of windows though? This isn't the same as One Laptop Per Child sort of goodness. (And look at how little that has accomplished.) This is purely about getting data-consuming devices into more hands.
Dunno. There's always lunch break. I used to work with a guy that had movies or other video content on his iPod that he played during the day. It didn't seem to affect his productivity. A long time ago I worked for an outfit where once a week someone would download the latest Dr. Who and they'd show it on the big conference room screen after hours. These days they'd just stream it.
In the ten years I've been at this company there's been one or two times I've hit a link by mistake that I shouldn't have; site was blocked, nobody stormed to my cubicle demanding to know what I was trying to do. I work for a company that's pretty good that way I guess. Maybe if I "accidentally" hit those links too many times I might get a polite inquiry. As I said, I'm not going to test that theory.
But the URL definitely isn't. Pretty my employer would block it. I'm not going to test the theory either.
the moon appearing full (every 28 days) happened to fall twice within 31 days of a calendar month. "THIS IS A ONCE IN A 150 YEAR EVENT!"
Once in 150 years you say?
January 2018, July 2015, December 2009, June 2007, July 2004 all have (had) monthly blue moons. The next one will be October 2020, then August 2023. You do the math.
And as for the moon appearing full every 28 days? No, the moon appears full every 30 days, when the moon completes a full orbit relative to the Sun. (Hint, the full moons this month are on the 1st and the 31st.) This is different than a sidereal orbit. which is 27.5 days.
This is only a 'blue moon') if you misunderstand what this term means, or trying to make up some story. Go and read Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
The next blue moon will be 18/05/2019.
This is the two-full-moons-in-one-month Blue Moon. That's what's happening on Jan 31st.
The original definition, AIUI, is third full moon in a season with four full moons. Usually there are only three full moons in a season. (A season being the period of time between a solstice and an equinox, or between an equinox and a solstice.) That's the kind of blue moon that's happening on 18 May, 2019.
I'm personally a fan of the Nordic system: purchasing sex is illegal, as is pimping, but selling sex is perfectly illegal.
Interesting that this is called the "Nordic system". I might be wrong, but only Norway + Sweden have rules like this,
Denmark and Iceland too Finland is similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Denmark and Iceland are considered Scandinavian and Nordic.
Next time do your homework
Superhero, Star Wars, Star Trek, Bond, blah, blah, blah.
My wife likes the superhero movies, thus we go see them. We were born at the tail end of the baby boom. The audiences are full of millennials and tail-end-of-the-baby-boomers. That's who.
I'd bet the nightly rate at the Ecuador Embassy isn't cheap.
Hasn't it turned into MySpace? Only teens and olds posting pictures of their lunch? All the millennials seem to have departed for Reddit and Instagram.
And making over $100K a year. Then it's okay.
So they were buried with all the ET cartridges?
Reburied
Well, there you go. If they laid off several, it must be bad.
Funny use of "retrenched" IMO.
Linux Desktop is not measured in how many soccer moms are using it.
You clearly underestimate the attractiveness of MILFs.
Sorry to burst your bubble (or bubbles) but not all soccer moms are MILFs. Not by a long shot.
Do you really want to be the first choice of all the grannies who just want to see pictures of their grandkids?
Or the soccer moms who are buying the desktops for grandma to see pictures of the grandkids?
The success of Linux and the Linux Desktop is not measured in how many soccer moms are using it.
The whole Protestant Work Ethic is based on the premise that if you're successful, then God will favor you and you'll be guaranteed entry to Heaven.
Of course you have to accept the premise that there are Sky Fairies and a place called Heaven (and Hell) where you will go when you die.
So let me get this straight. Because many of them were just operators, therefore we should relegate all of them to the dustbin of history, right?
There have been a lot of male operators too. Shall we apply the same standard for them?