Actually yes, I am familiar with how social networks work... familiar enough to know that they can go from king of the hill to nothing based on the fickle whims of what's cool. Myspace used to be that king of the hill. Then, one day, for some reason or another, Myspace became uncool. And in the space of a year everybody but everybody had left and signed up for this new network called Facebook. Before that? Tribe used to be where it was at. Then everyone left for Myspace. Before Tribe it was Friendster. Before Friendster, everyone who was anyone had a Livejournal.
Granted, Facebook has stayed at the top atypically long. But other than blocking the "pimp my page" CSS crap that made so many Myspace pages look like geocities throwbacks; it really offers no compelling functionality or intrinsic value that's not available elsewhere. One day, Zuck will wake up to see Facebook a burnt-out shell with nothing there but shitty bands trying to promote themselves, even shittier Zynga games, and marriage proposals from Malaysia.
The barrier to entry to compete with AT&T was: "Put in telephone poles and/or tear up the sidewalks to put in cabling along every right-of-way in every city, county, and state in the entire country. Wire up every home, office, and factory in the country for your new service. Then invent and manufacture the switches and exchanges to go with them, buy the real estate these require, and install."
The barrier to entry to compete with Facebook or Google is: "Have a good idea. Get some VC. Open an AWS account." If you want to be really cheeky, you could even run your Google competitor in Google Cloud.
Actually, I rather like cars... on the weekends anyway. Taking my Mazda up to the curves on Skyline or along the coast on 1 is fantastic fun. What I hate about cars is the necessity. My normal M-F commute is via mass transit. But for many things I need or want to do on the weekends, even San Francisco does not make it possible for me to get by entirely without one. I think in the US only New York has bothered to put in transit adequate to make that possible.
Urban planning issues aside... And I do think that McMansions and suburban sprawl are goddamned stupid and don't the a lot of sympathy for their advocates... I think it IS just a matter of critical mass. Electric cars will continue to grow in popularity. And eventually, even if it's not Musk buying a chain and forcing the issue, one gas station company or another will see the opportunity and put in chargers at their locations. And then the floodgates open.
And I wouldn't worry too much about regulations. Existing cars will almost certainly be grandfathered in. Even here in California, if you really and truly think that global warming is a hoax and that emissions standards are for communists, and you well and truly hate the idea of having to pass smog checks; you can buy a 40-year-old beater whose manufacture date predates emissions standards in order to be exempt. And more people than you think do exactly that. Californians may be known for being liberal; but we 're often ornery and contrary too.
I turned off WiFi on my phone and fired up speedtest. And it turns out T-Mobie is actually better than my home ISP: 101Mbps download and 24Mbps up. I'm not sure what Verizon would be here, but why would I care? 101Mbps is fast enough for everything I use the phone for, and TMO is a lot cheaper than Verizon, includes more features for my money, and unlike Verizon is not run and staffed exclusively by slimy assholes. I know people do like to go on about Verizon's supposedly superior coverage. But I've only ever noticed one place that I go where tmo tends to fade out: The Costco down by SFO. And even then, it's just data that goes. I can still call and text just fine.
I know... the plural of anecdote is not data, and all that. But T-Mobile has done fine by me. I'm happy to be paying about half what I was before for better (for me) service. And, Frankly, after having *been* a customer of theirs once, and having declared "never again" Verizon can bite my shiny metal ass. I'd even go back to AT&T before I'd deal with those scum again.
> I'll believe in the death of the gas/diesel car when it > actually happens.
The thing is, there's only one piece left missing in the electric car's replacement of gas/diesel: charging infrastructure.
Oh, the superchargers are great and all. But they solve the "road trip" problem for people who own homes with enclosed garages and charging stations. They do nothing for people who don't own a house with an enclosed garage in which they can have the home charging station installed. Once people who rent and park on the street, in a driveway, or in a garage in which they are forbidden by their lease to modify the wiring... or, for that matter, people who do own their home, but don't have that garage... can pull into a charging station anywhere to juice up; electrics will sell like gangbusters. If Musk *really* wants electric cars to take off; he'd do better to forget about looking for the next SolarCity or boring tunnels and such. Rather, he should buy one of the gas station chains and, across the board, tear out the gas pumps and replace them with electric chargers.
Myself, I fall into the "renting w/ no enclosed garage" category. So I'm still murdering dinosaurs for the foreseeable future. But if I could pull into any Chevron station to charge up, I'd have put down a deposit for a Model 3 on day one. The day that I *CAN* charge up at any Chevron (or Arco or whatever), or when I own my own home with said garage that I can have a charging unit wired into, I'll switch to electric without the slightest hesitation.
1) Every single C-level, board member, and president going away into pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison... forever.
2) Anyone who knew about the breach, but sat on it for six weeks while the above sold off their stock, joins them in the pen.
3) All assets of Equifax and of the above people... no matter where, or in what form, they are... are seized and liquidated; the proceeds used to compensate anyone who suffers identity theft or other credit or financial issues because of the breach.
> "Equifax has said it did its best to respond to the > breach and alerted consumers as quickly as it > could..."
And by "as quickly as it could", Equifax means that they view sitting on the breach and keeping the public in the dark while the C-levels sell off their stock as being legitimate.
Okay, mister internet tough guy... go ahead. Trot on down to one of the bars adjacent to, and mostly patronized by, the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels. Take a shot at one of them. I dare you. I double-dog goddamned dare you.
I'm still a bit annoyed that Nero bothered with the "revenge against Vulcan and Earth" thing at all; instead of flying off to Romulus and having a nice little chat with the Praetor:
"Hi there. I'm Nero. Like my ship? See how impressive it is and how it out-classes anything you, the Klingons, or the Federation have, even though it's really just a mining ship? Well, I'm from the future. More proof? Well, according to the copy of 'Grays Sports Almanac, Romulan Empire Edition' in my ship's computer, the Remans are going to win tonight's grav-ball game, 63-61. Let's chat tomorrow."
"Hi. Good morning. I'm still Nero. Did you enjoy the grab-ball game? Yeah, a real shocker. I bet everyone in the empire thought that Romulus was going to win, right up until the last pentameter. So yeah... Do you believe me about the whole 'being from the future' thing now? Great. Let's do lunch."
"Wow, I haven't had grilled trait that tender in ages. So hey... you know that red giant star over there, just a couple light-years away from Romulus, across the sector border? Yes, that's the one. You know how your neutrino detectors show that fusion has nearly stopped in its core? Well, that star's going to be a problem. It's going to go supernova in exactly 102 years 4 days 3 hours and 42 minutes. Woah! I must have a little bit of Vulcan in me. But anyway, since I'm from the future, I know that. When it explodes, the Vulcans are going to try to keep it from destroying Romulus by using something called red matter. It doesn't make any sense. But they're going to fail. So you should probably see about evacuating the planet. The more than a century of heads-up I just gave you should be more than enough time; especially seeing as I have this giant spaceship here filled with technology from your future."
"Hi. I'm still Nero. So... can anyone recommend a good tattoo-removal place?"
Yeah. But did you look at the how poor Darth Emo's form and technique were? He was a brawler, and not a very good one at that. He had no speed or finesse, and used nothing but power moves... which he telegraphed every time. If it weren't for the fact that his weapon of choice was a goddamned lightsaber, there are bars within walking distance of where I'm sitting right now that he wouldn't be able to enter without getting a serious beating and his ass tossed out into the gutter. (Before you fire off the snark, I'm not claiming to be badass myself. I'd get my ass kicked and tossed into the gutter if I were dumb enough to go to these bars too.).
Sure, they made her kinda badass... justifiable, seeing as she was basically raised by a rebel fighter a bit too extreme of a fighter for the rest of the rebellion. But besides wearing a kyber crystal around her neck, there was nothing Jedi-like about Jyn Erso at all. The only one who displayed anything like force powers was the blind guy with the bo-staff. Well, him and Darth Vader, of course.
And strong females are hardly new to Star Wars. Yes, since it was basically "The Hidden Fortress... IN SPAAACE!!!", the narrative of A New Hope required Princess Leia to be in need of rescue. But did you forget that she was already a rebel agent using her senate position and diplomatic status as cover for espionage and started the movie off by:
1) Passing the Death Star plans off to R2-D2 so her mission would still be completed. 2) Gunning down Stormtroopers to create a distraction, and: 3) Telling off Darth Vader himself, before he knew he even had a daughter, and was very much in a larynx-crushing mood.
> Interesting that a Chinese company chooses the US > for it's robot factory.
It's predictable enough. There's enough xenophobia scourging the country these last couple years that "Made in the USA" on the label will command a higher price, or even a purchase in the first place, in many areas. And most of the "made in 'murka" crowd won't bother to do the research to determine the lineage of the parent company anyway; so long as they can see that tag. Seems like a win to me.
Raspberry doesn't seem to have any difficulties keeping their yield for there Pi 3 up. There're a dozen different packages I can get with Prime 2-day delivery on Amazon alone. And by all accounts that I've read, the only significant difference Pi + Raspbian and Nintendo is the nifty "classic" plastic case.
We're talking about an educational foundation versus a major international corporation here. The latter should not have it harder than the former. (And tellingly, Sony and Microsoft have all their kit in stock wherever I'd want to buy it too.)
So... Your argument that is that Nintendo has been engaged in fake-shortage shenanigans since back in the dark ages or yore... so I should therefore forgive them the same shenanigans now. It's not the 1980s anymore. Shortages don't fly anymore. "6-8 weeks for delivery" doesn't fly anymore.
By all accounts, a $40 Pi delivers all the functionality and performance, save the pretty "retro" case. Is Raspberry can deliver, why can't Nintendo?
This has become such a recurring theme with Nintendo that I can no longer believe it's anything but an intentional campaign to drive up hype with false shortages. Its not like they could be having hardware yield issues. It's been ages since Nintendo's hardware was anywhere near cutting edge. The NES Classic especially was just a bog-standard ARM with an emulator tacked on... the sort of kit that could easily be sourced by the hundred million from China. So there's no excuse for a production constraint. A failure in demand forecasting could be understandable once or twice. But after a few shortages, someone should and would have been fired for incompetence and replaced if said shortages were anything but intentional.
Basically, Nintendo is just screwing with us intentionally at this point. If I ever develop an insatiable desire for classic Mario; RetroPi looks the way to go. I'm certainly not going to go stand in their stupid lines.
S3 buckets ARE secure by default. You have to specifically and intentionally open them to the public if your use case requires it. You would know this if you'd used S3 or if, lords of Kobol forbid, you'd bothered to read the article. And using S3 in this case is fairly derpy anyway. Even though it's default private, and can certainly hold encrypted objects; it's primarily intended for data that would be shared with the public. That's why it's so dead-simple to set as the origin for a CloudFront or pretty much any other CDN, and can even function as a poor-man's web server if all you need to serve up is html and client-side javascript.
tl;dr version: Put your damned PCI data on an encrypted EBS volume or RDS database in a private subnet behind a VPC!
PCIDSS is a contractural requirement required by the credit card companies in order to accept payments. It's not a law enforced by government, such as HIPAA. So no, there could never be a fine for a breach. I guess it's possible that there may be a penalty fee specified in the contract, but that's different than a legal fine. Mostly, you just lose your ability to take credit card payments which would sink many businesses.
Well, it's a good thing that "forcing their laws on the rest of the world" has never been something that Europeans were into. Oh... Wait...
Look. The species hasn't evolved. That simply cannot happen in such short a time span. There's nothing particularly special about people, in Europe or anywhere else, that prevents imperialism. It's just not en vogue, politically or socially, in Europe these days. But Europe has, in fact, been rediscovering a taste for exporting their laws beyond their own borders of late. See, for example, the notion that the concept of a "right to be forgotten" includes censoring what Americans are allowed to see on google.com vs. just what the Spanish, for instance, are allowed to see on google.es.
It's really just what's socially acceptable. And humans, on the whole, can regress into utter bastardry fairly quickly; especially if they can be persuaded that an: "If it's us against them, I vote us." situation exists. "President" 45, and the Charlottesville types are the obvious evidence of the backslide here. But you people aren't immune. The UK has taken massive steps back into darkness with Brexit. And even though she was defeated, the fact that Le Pen did as well as she did in the recent election says very bad things about France as well. And don't forget that the important bits of Russia are also in Europe.
Yeah. That darn Obama and his sub-5% unemployment rate. Damn him for the job market that has recruiters messaging me daily based on a LinkedIn profile I haven't updated since I changed jobs 9 months ago. That's sooo annoying, you know? And it's just bloody AWFUL that said job change was the fastest and easiest in my life. I was really looking forward to a few months of dealing with recruiters and interviewers. And that $7500 referral bonus I picked up from bringing a friend into the company... how DARE Obama create a job market like this? Who does he think he is? Why, I spent many agonizing minutes with a calculator deciding whether it was better to save it, or pay down my student loans. Man, I tell ya... that Obama economy... what a downer.
> they sure as heck aren't going to vote for a Democrat in 2020.
The "Lock her up, lock her up" crowd aren't ever going to vote for a Democrat anyway. They hate our living guts, and actively seek to do us harm... and preferably to KILL us. I should think that the events in Charlottesville would have made that quite apparent.
> The Democrats need to start focusing on real issues like healthcare and jobs
Okay, so What. The. Literal. Fuck? Healthcare has been the Democrats' tentpole issue for the last decade; longer if you count Hillary's advocacy during her husband's presidency. The ACA is, granted, far from perfect. But they're the ones DOING something about other than "throw everyone to the wolves".
And Jobs? Are you kidding me? Unemployment is below 5%, and had been for quite a while. It's at 4.3% now, a number which analysts consider to be insignificant, representing the "churn" of people in the process of changing jobs. New jobs are almost ridiculously east to come by. I changed companies last fall, and it was the easiest job hunt of my life. And none of that is a result of 45 "making America great again". That's the condition in which Obama handed the country over too him. It's a job-seekers' market. My current employer needs people so badly that they's talk of increasing the referral bonus from $7500 to an even $10K. What more could we ask for?
Except that no one is being silenced, merely inconvenienced. Just how long has The Pirate Bay remained up, eh? The alt-right faces activists threatening boycotts to "bring pressure" on corporations to disassociate themselves. TPB remains operational despite major corporations buying laws, then using said laws to goto court and win.
The Nazis will find someone, somewhere, willing to help them spread their hate on the internet. They always do. And no one's rights have been infringed. No business is *obliged* to provide them their platform. And I am every bit within my own rights not to be a customer of theirs if they do, and to tell them why. Freedom of speech isn't the only right that matters. Freedom of association is important too.
> I'm assuming that Hawaii law also comes with indemnity
That's a dangerous assumption. Many states have the notion of an "attractive nuisance" doctrine. Basically, even if someone is trespassing... and even of you have a fence or "no trespassing" signs or whatnot... if there's something about or on your property that can be interpreted as "attractive" to a trespasser, and said trespasser hurts himself; you can still be sued and found liable regardless of what other laws are in your favor. Giving permission only makes it worse. What counts as "attractive" varies. But back when I lived in Florida, it was used quite a lot against homeowners with swimming pools when some rando would trespass, fall, and down or crack their head on the concrete. So I could definitely see a beach, and especially a Pacific Ocean beach with rocks and cliffs, causing the same problem.
On principle, I'd also have no problem with people crossing my property to get from point A to point B... so long as it's undeveloped and they're not tromping through my actual yard, apple orchard, or whatever anyway... but without very explicit indemnity from the state with no option for a judge to discard or override it, I don't think I'd take chances on adding to potential liability by allowing it.
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Actually yes, I am familiar with how social networks work... familiar enough to know that they can go from king of the hill to nothing based on the fickle whims of what's cool. Myspace used to be that king of the hill. Then, one day, for some reason or another, Myspace became uncool. And in the space of a year everybody but everybody had left and signed up for this new network called Facebook. Before that? Tribe used to be where it was at. Then everyone left for Myspace. Before Tribe it was Friendster. Before Friendster, everyone who was anyone had a Livejournal.
Granted, Facebook has stayed at the top atypically long. But other than blocking the "pimp my page" CSS crap that made so many Myspace pages look like geocities throwbacks; it really offers no compelling functionality or intrinsic value that's not available elsewhere. One day, Zuck will wake up to see Facebook a burnt-out shell with nothing there but shitty bands trying to promote themselves, even shittier Zynga games, and marriage proposals from Malaysia.
The barrier to entry to compete with AT&T was: "Put in telephone poles and/or tear up the sidewalks to put in cabling along every right-of-way in every city, county, and state in the entire country. Wire up every home, office, and factory in the country for your new service. Then invent and manufacture the switches and exchanges to go with them, buy the real estate these require, and install."
The barrier to entry to compete with Facebook or Google is: "Have a good idea. Get some VC. Open an AWS account." If you want to be really cheeky, you could even run your Google competitor in Google Cloud.
Actually, I rather like cars... on the weekends anyway. Taking my Mazda up to the curves on Skyline or along the coast on 1 is fantastic fun. What I hate about cars is the necessity. My normal M-F commute is via mass transit. But for many things I need or want to do on the weekends, even San Francisco does not make it possible for me to get by entirely without one. I think in the US only New York has bothered to put in transit adequate to make that possible.
Urban planning issues aside... And I do think that McMansions and suburban sprawl are goddamned stupid and don't the a lot of sympathy for their advocates... I think it IS just a matter of critical mass. Electric cars will continue to grow in popularity. And eventually, even if it's not Musk buying a chain and forcing the issue, one gas station company or another will see the opportunity and put in chargers at their locations. And then the floodgates open.
And I wouldn't worry too much about regulations. Existing cars will almost certainly be grandfathered in. Even here in California, if you really and truly think that global warming is a hoax and that emissions standards are for communists, and you well and truly hate the idea of having to pass smog checks; you can buy a 40-year-old beater whose manufacture date predates emissions standards in order to be exempt. And more people than you think do exactly that. Californians may be known for being liberal; but we 're often ornery and contrary too.
I turned off WiFi on my phone and fired up speedtest. And it turns out T-Mobie is actually better than my home ISP: 101Mbps download and 24Mbps up. I'm not sure what Verizon would be here, but why would I care? 101Mbps is fast enough for everything I use the phone for, and TMO is a lot cheaper than Verizon, includes more features for my money, and unlike Verizon is not run and staffed exclusively by slimy assholes. I know people do like to go on about Verizon's supposedly superior coverage. But I've only ever noticed one place that I go where tmo tends to fade out: The Costco down by SFO. And even then, it's just data that goes. I can still call and text just fine.
I know... the plural of anecdote is not data, and all that. But T-Mobile has done fine by me. I'm happy to be paying about half what I was before for better (for me) service. And, Frankly, after having *been* a customer of theirs once, and having declared "never again" Verizon can bite my shiny metal ass. I'd even go back to AT&T before I'd deal with those scum again.
> I'll believe in the death of the gas/diesel car when it
> actually happens.
The thing is, there's only one piece left missing in the electric car's replacement of gas/diesel: charging infrastructure.
Oh, the superchargers are great and all. But they solve the "road trip" problem for people who own homes with enclosed garages and charging stations. They do nothing for people who don't own a house with an enclosed garage in which they can have the home charging station installed. Once people who rent and park on the street, in a driveway, or in a garage in which they are forbidden by their lease to modify the wiring... or, for that matter, people who do own their home, but don't have that garage... can pull into a charging station anywhere to juice up; electrics will sell like gangbusters. If Musk *really* wants electric cars to take off; he'd do better to forget about looking for the next SolarCity or boring tunnels and such. Rather, he should buy one of the gas station chains and, across the board, tear out the gas pumps and replace them with electric chargers.
Myself, I fall into the "renting w/ no enclosed garage" category. So I'm still murdering dinosaurs for the foreseeable future. But if I could pull into any Chevron station to charge up, I'd have put down a deposit for a Model 3 on day one. The day that I *CAN* charge up at any Chevron (or Arco or whatever), or when I own my own home with said garage that I can have a charging unit wired into, I'll switch to electric without the slightest hesitation.
> I would settle for Equifax being destroyed.
Equifax being destroyed, plus:
1) Every single C-level, board member, and president going away into pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison... forever.
2) Anyone who knew about the breach, but sat on it for six weeks while the above sold off their stock, joins them in the pen.
3) All assets of Equifax and of the above people... no matter where, or in what form, they are... are seized and liquidated; the proceeds used to compensate anyone who suffers identity theft or other credit or financial issues because of the breach.
> "Equifax has said it did its best to respond to the
> breach and alerted consumers as quickly as it
> could..."
And by "as quickly as it could", Equifax means that they view sitting on the breach and keeping the public in the dark while the C-levels sell off their stock as being legitimate.
Because in a few years, half the submarine force is going to be laid up with carpel tunnel and debilitating hand cramps.
Okay, mister internet tough guy... go ahead. Trot on down to one of the bars adjacent to, and mostly patronized by, the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels. Take a shot at one of them. I dare you. I double-dog goddamned dare you.
Screw all that.
I'm still a bit annoyed that Nero bothered with the "revenge against Vulcan and Earth" thing at all; instead of flying off to Romulus and having a nice little chat with the Praetor:
"Hi there. I'm Nero. Like my ship? See how impressive it is and how it out-classes anything you, the Klingons, or the Federation have, even though it's really just a mining ship? Well, I'm from the future. More proof? Well, according to the copy of 'Grays Sports Almanac, Romulan Empire Edition' in my ship's computer, the Remans are going to win tonight's grav-ball game, 63-61. Let's chat tomorrow."
"Hi. Good morning. I'm still Nero. Did you enjoy the grab-ball game? Yeah, a real shocker. I bet everyone in the empire thought that Romulus was going to win, right up until the last pentameter. So yeah... Do you believe me about the whole 'being from the future' thing now? Great. Let's do lunch."
"Wow, I haven't had grilled trait that tender in ages. So hey... you know that red giant star over there, just a couple light-years away from Romulus, across the sector border? Yes, that's the one. You know how your neutrino detectors show that fusion has nearly stopped in its core? Well, that star's going to be a problem. It's going to go supernova in exactly 102 years 4 days 3 hours and 42 minutes. Woah! I must have a little bit of Vulcan in me. But anyway, since I'm from the future, I know that. When it explodes, the Vulcans are going to try to keep it from destroying Romulus by using something called red matter. It doesn't make any sense. But they're going to fail. So you should probably see about evacuating the planet. The more than a century of heads-up I just gave you should be more than enough time; especially seeing as I have this giant spaceship here filled with technology from your future."
"Hi. I'm still Nero. So... can anyone recommend a good tattoo-removal place?"
Yeah. But did you look at the how poor Darth Emo's form and technique were? He was a brawler, and not a very good one at that. He had no speed or finesse, and used nothing but power moves... which he telegraphed every time. If it weren't for the fact that his weapon of choice was a goddamned lightsaber, there are bars within walking distance of where I'm sitting right now that he wouldn't be able to enter without getting a serious beating and his ass tossed out into the gutter. (Before you fire off the snark, I'm not claiming to be badass myself. I'd get my ass kicked and tossed into the gutter if I were dumb enough to go to these bars too.).
Um... No.
Sure, they made her kinda badass... justifiable, seeing as she was basically raised by a rebel fighter a bit too extreme of a fighter for the rest of the rebellion. But besides wearing a kyber crystal around her neck, there was nothing Jedi-like about Jyn Erso at all. The only one who displayed anything like force powers was the blind guy with the bo-staff. Well, him and Darth Vader, of course.
And strong females are hardly new to Star Wars. Yes, since it was basically "The Hidden Fortress... IN SPAAACE!!!", the narrative of A New Hope required Princess Leia to be in need of rescue. But did you forget that she was already a rebel agent using her senate position and diplomatic status as cover for espionage and started the movie off by:
1) Passing the Death Star plans off to R2-D2 so her mission would still be completed.
2) Gunning down Stormtroopers to create a distraction, and:
3) Telling off Darth Vader himself, before he knew he even had a daughter, and was very much in a larynx-crushing mood.
> Interesting that a Chinese company chooses the US
> for it's robot factory.
It's predictable enough. There's enough xenophobia scourging the country these last couple years that "Made in the USA" on the label will command a higher price, or even a purchase in the first place, in many areas. And most of the "made in 'murka" crowd won't bother to do the research to determine the lineage of the parent company anyway; so long as they can see that tag. Seems like a win to me.
Meant to type RetroPI, not Raspbian. But you get the point.
Raspberry doesn't seem to have any difficulties keeping their yield for there Pi 3 up. There're a dozen different packages I can get with Prime 2-day delivery on Amazon alone. And by all accounts that I've read, the only significant difference Pi + Raspbian and Nintendo is the nifty "classic" plastic case.
We're talking about an educational foundation versus a major international corporation here. The latter should not have it harder than the former. (And tellingly, Sony and Microsoft have all their kit in stock wherever I'd want to buy it too.)
So... Your argument that is that Nintendo has been engaged in fake-shortage shenanigans since back in the dark ages or yore... so I should therefore forgive them the same shenanigans now. It's not the 1980s anymore. Shortages don't fly anymore. "6-8 weeks for delivery" doesn't fly anymore.
By all accounts, a $40 Pi delivers all the functionality and performance, save the pretty "retro" case. Is Raspberry can deliver, why can't Nintendo?
This has become such a recurring theme with Nintendo that I can no longer believe it's anything but an intentional campaign to drive up hype with false shortages. Its not like they could be having hardware yield issues. It's been ages since Nintendo's hardware was anywhere near cutting edge. The NES Classic especially was just a bog-standard ARM with an emulator tacked on... the sort of kit that could easily be sourced by the hundred million from China. So there's no excuse for a production constraint. A failure in demand forecasting could be understandable once or twice. But after a few shortages, someone should and would have been fired for incompetence and replaced if said shortages were anything but intentional.
Basically, Nintendo is just screwing with us intentionally at this point. If I ever develop an insatiable desire for classic Mario; RetroPi looks the way to go. I'm certainly not going to go stand in their stupid lines.
My internet is just barely faster than a T1. How ever will I cope?!?!?
S3 buckets ARE secure by default. You have to specifically and intentionally open them to the public if your use case requires it. You would know this if you'd used S3 or if, lords of Kobol forbid, you'd bothered to read the article. And using S3 in this case is fairly derpy anyway. Even though it's default private, and can certainly hold encrypted objects; it's primarily intended for data that would be shared with the public. That's why it's so dead-simple to set as the origin for a CloudFront or pretty much any other CDN, and can even function as a poor-man's web server if all you need to serve up is html and client-side javascript.
tl;dr version:
Put your damned PCI data on an encrypted EBS volume or RDS database in a private subnet behind a VPC!
PCIDSS is a contractural requirement required by the credit card companies in order to accept payments. It's not a law enforced by government, such as HIPAA. So no, there could never be a fine for a breach. I guess it's possible that there may be a penalty fee specified in the contract, but that's different than a legal fine. Mostly, you just lose your ability to take credit card payments which would sink many businesses.
Well, it's a good thing that "forcing their laws on the rest of the world" has never been something that Europeans were into. Oh... Wait...
Look. The species hasn't evolved. That simply cannot happen in such short a time span. There's nothing particularly special about people, in Europe or anywhere else, that prevents imperialism. It's just not en vogue, politically or socially, in Europe these days. But Europe has, in fact, been rediscovering a taste for exporting their laws beyond their own borders of late. See, for example, the notion that the concept of a "right to be forgotten" includes censoring what Americans are allowed to see on google.com vs. just what the Spanish, for instance, are allowed to see on google.es.
It's really just what's socially acceptable. And humans, on the whole, can regress into utter bastardry fairly quickly; especially if they can be persuaded that an: "If it's us against them, I vote us." situation exists. "President" 45, and the Charlottesville types are the obvious evidence of the backslide here. But you people aren't immune. The UK has taken massive steps back into darkness with Brexit. And even though she was defeated, the fact that Le Pen did as well as she did in the recent election says very bad things about France as well. And don't forget that the important bits of Russia are also in Europe.
> destroy the job market like Obama did
Yeah. That darn Obama and his sub-5% unemployment rate. Damn him for the job market that has recruiters messaging me daily based on a LinkedIn profile I haven't updated since I changed jobs 9 months ago. That's sooo annoying, you know? And it's just bloody AWFUL that said job change was the fastest and easiest in my life. I was really looking forward to a few months of dealing with recruiters and interviewers. And that $7500 referral bonus I picked up from bringing a friend into the company... how DARE Obama create a job market like this? Who does he think he is? Why, I spent many agonizing minutes with a calculator deciding whether it was better to save it, or pay down my student loans. Man, I tell ya... that Obama economy... what a downer.
> they sure as heck aren't going to vote for a Democrat in 2020.
The "Lock her up, lock her up" crowd aren't ever going to vote for a Democrat anyway. They hate our living guts, and actively seek to do us harm... and preferably to KILL us. I should think that the events in Charlottesville would have made that quite apparent.
> The Democrats need to start focusing on real issues like healthcare and jobs
Okay, so What. The. Literal. Fuck? Healthcare has been the Democrats' tentpole issue for the last decade; longer if you count Hillary's advocacy during her husband's presidency. The ACA is, granted, far from perfect. But they're the ones DOING something about other than "throw everyone to the wolves".
And Jobs? Are you kidding me? Unemployment is below 5%, and had been for quite a while. It's at 4.3% now, a number which analysts consider to be insignificant, representing the "churn" of people in the process of changing jobs. New jobs are almost ridiculously east to come by. I changed companies last fall, and it was the easiest job hunt of my life. And none of that is a result of 45 "making America great again". That's the condition in which Obama handed the country over too him. It's a job-seekers' market. My current employer needs people so badly that they's talk of increasing the referral bonus from $7500 to an even $10K. What more could we ask for?
Except that no one is being silenced, merely inconvenienced. Just how long has The Pirate Bay remained up, eh? The alt-right faces activists threatening boycotts to "bring pressure" on corporations to disassociate themselves. TPB remains operational despite major corporations buying laws, then using said laws to goto court and win.
The Nazis will find someone, somewhere, willing to help them spread their hate on the internet. They always do. And no one's rights have been infringed. No business is *obliged* to provide them their platform. And I am every bit within my own rights not to be a customer of theirs if they do, and to tell them why. Freedom of speech isn't the only right that matters. Freedom of association is important too.
> I'm assuming that Hawaii law also comes with indemnity
That's a dangerous assumption. Many states have the notion of an "attractive nuisance" doctrine. Basically, even if someone is trespassing... and even of you have a fence or "no trespassing" signs or whatnot... if there's something about or on your property that can be interpreted as "attractive" to a trespasser, and said trespasser hurts himself; you can still be sued and found liable regardless of what other laws are in your favor. Giving permission only makes it worse. What counts as "attractive" varies. But back when I lived in Florida, it was used quite a lot against homeowners with swimming pools when some rando would trespass, fall, and down or crack their head on the concrete. So I could definitely see a beach, and especially a Pacific Ocean beach with rocks and cliffs, causing the same problem.
On principle, I'd also have no problem with people crossing my property to get from point A to point B... so long as it's undeveloped and they're not tromping through my actual yard, apple orchard, or whatever anyway... but without very explicit indemnity from the state with no option for a judge to discard or override it, I don't think I'd take chances on adding to potential liability by allowing it.