And then, there'll be the inevitable design flaw that crops up once the iCrapper becomes the market darling. And the cover-up of the design flaw. And the extensive silencing of forum discussion of the design flaw. And the "You're sitting on it wrong" email. Then the threatened lawsuits, and the announcement of free toilet seat covers to help remedy the problem.
Night soil, un-composed, is a health risk because pathogens are returned un-treated to the food production cycle. Composting it into "humanure" is a good way to regain the nutrient value in a local closed system while reducing artificial fertilization inputs.
Composting toilets exist, so I'm not really sure what role Gates would have, except maybe simplifying design and streamlining manufacturing and distribution so that they can become cheap and common in the areas of interest. Or else using some other technique besides composting for sanitization.... but that would require some kind of energy source to Pasteurize the waste. Hard to beat just letting composting microorganisms crank up the heat using just the nutrients in the waste.
Mozilla bloggery indicates that, at least on mobile platforms, WebM is just a non-starter. H.264 is already out there in hardware (all bastard patents tidily licensed, all i's dotted, all t's crossed); WebM wasn't getting any traction; and Google didn't look all that serious. (Protip, Google: if you threaten to pull H.264 support in Chrome in order to strengthen WebM's hand, you need to follow through within at least a couple of years. Otherwise, you just look like a poser chump.)
Mozilla was supporting Google's play, and Google stopped playing.
I think it boils down to "the mobile world has moved on".
Using the exact setup from the case in question, if the cops had gone through the seized smartphone's call log and called back phone numbers offering drugs, that'd be on the "entrapment" side of it. I guess.
I suspect you never really know if it's officially entrapment until an judge says it is in the process of throwing out the case.
Regardless of trends away from slider keyboards and towards larger-format touchscreen soft keyboards, I will always prefer a slider. Have you even tried using a smartphone SSH client through a soft keyboard? Linux shell syntax is not really softboard friendly.
Of course, this brings up the other dimension of "bigger": My Droid 4 is pretty large, length-by-width, but it's also THICK because of the keyboard. And heavy, too. It's manageable, for me, since I'm pretty large. But I bet a petite person with small hands would not be comfortable handling the phone one-handed, and there are a lot of pockets in my clothing I can't put the phone into.
The fix for console lockdown would be to market PCs as replacements for consoles, including a ten-foot-friendly application launcher
When you said that, I actually pictured Windows 8 Metro. It was deeply unpleasant, but also surprising.
I wonder if MS realizes they might be cannibalizing their own console market share by releasing a desktop/settop OS which happens to be more usable on a bigscreen than Win XP or 7 ever were.
He may have found one propped open, or (just a speculative stretch) attended an early showing and sabotaged the latch on that door on the way out. Or had a confederate in that showing who opened the door and then ditched (a la The Trojan Horse).
I don't know. There are a lot of ways he COULD have gotten in without going Rambo on the door, especially since a mere kick wouldn't probably be enough for a steel security door set to open outward.
Good point. My right to drink a beer isn't explicitly constitutionally protected. It's only indirectly constitutionally protected by my right to carry deadly weapons.
If the Oracle case is any indication, the existence of the patent wouldn't stop Google, and the invalidity of the patent wouldn't stop Apple (like it didn't stop Oracle).
There isn't stopping patent litigation any more than there's stopping street mugging. If you look like something the thug wants, and the thug thinks he can take you, there's gonna be trouble. And in the tech IP world, there are no "safe neighborhoods" except maybe the EU.
Someone can walk down a street and run into people and bludgeon them to death with their bodies, but because a car can do it so much better and so much quicker, we are scared and feel the need to censor progress. What about freedom to travel?
I know, right? Our FSM-given right to travel is being TRAMPLED by that pointless prohibition. If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!
"It's been a poor, poor five years for fiction in the video game industry...."
Nonsense, Victor. Gaming magazine reviews have raised High Fantasy to an unprecedented new art form, and DRM has been more gruesome and compelling than the best Horror gaming.
Whatever you and he are smoking, it's interfering badly with your ability to identify intellectual recreational pharmaceuticals.
That's not deductive reasoning, that's wild-assed speculation cut with conspiracy theory. Looks like your dealer sold you a dime bag of logical ditchweed.
On a related note, the biggest roadblock for change is that none of us can discuss the issues, since Godwin almost always rears his ugly head the moment the word "oppression" comes into play.
Actually, I'd argue that Godwinization is only, at worst, the second-biggest potential roadblock for change. The biggest would be that none of us can discuss the issues, since the Secret Police would rear its ugly head the moment the word "oppression" comes into play. But I hope we're a lot farther from that one than the Godwin one.
Yup, officially non-partisan (even the election--one big non-partisan primary, which cuts the field down to two candidates without regard to party affiliation, and then the general election between those two). And no party structure within the sitting Senate.
And unicameral, too--no House and Senate. Very streamlined; no stupid having both houses working on the same type of bill at the same time and then trying to reconcile the inevitable differences in a conference committee.
Well, historically, Afghanistan seems to have a semi-fixed number of indigenous tribal/linguistic cultures and a rotating cast of guest invaders. NATO and Taliban/AQ is just the latest in a long long list.
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I'm discovering that Poe's Law is applicable to faux stupidity as sarcasm, too. Or, frankly, any form of humorous or sarcastic parody.
And then, there'll be the inevitable design flaw that crops up once the iCrapper becomes the market darling. And the cover-up of the design flaw. And the extensive silencing of forum discussion of the design flaw. And the "You're sitting on it wrong" email. Then the threatened lawsuits, and the announcement of free toilet seat covers to help remedy the problem.
Night soil, un-composed, is a health risk because pathogens are returned un-treated to the food production cycle. Composting it into "humanure" is a good way to regain the nutrient value in a local closed system while reducing artificial fertilization inputs.
Composting toilets exist, so I'm not really sure what role Gates would have, except maybe simplifying design and streamlining manufacturing and distribution so that they can become cheap and common in the areas of interest. Or else using some other technique besides composting for sanitization.... but that would require some kind of energy source to Pasteurize the waste. Hard to beat just letting composting microorganisms crank up the heat using just the nutrients in the waste.
This happened.
Mozilla bloggery indicates that, at least on mobile platforms, WebM is just a non-starter. H.264 is already out there in hardware (all bastard patents tidily licensed, all i's dotted, all t's crossed); WebM wasn't getting any traction; and Google didn't look all that serious. (Protip, Google: if you threaten to pull H.264 support in Chrome in order to strengthen WebM's hand, you need to follow through within at least a couple of years. Otherwise, you just look like a poser chump.)
Mozilla was supporting Google's play, and Google stopped playing.
I think it boils down to "the mobile world has moved on".
Sure. He managed to get someone else to google up his unsupported assertion. Without resorting to sudo, no less.
Very impressive. TheLandyman appears to have a bright future in social engineering ahead of him (her?).
into meat-eaters and I'll worry.
I think you're putting waaaay too much faith in Wikipedia's "notability" test. Or, generally speaking, Wikipedia in toto.
Or, are we being "whooshed?" Advocacy can be hard to differentiate from trolling, even humorous trolling.
And when you send an email to Steve Jobs' afterlife email address, he'll tell you you're putting it down wrong.
Using the exact setup from the case in question, if the cops had gone through the seized smartphone's call log and called back phone numbers offering drugs, that'd be on the "entrapment" side of it. I guess.
I suspect you never really know if it's officially entrapment until an judge says it is in the process of throwing out the case.
Regardless of trends away from slider keyboards and towards larger-format touchscreen soft keyboards, I will always prefer a slider. Have you even tried using a smartphone SSH client through a soft keyboard? Linux shell syntax is not really softboard friendly.
Of course, this brings up the other dimension of "bigger": My Droid 4 is pretty large, length-by-width, but it's also THICK because of the keyboard. And heavy, too. It's manageable, for me, since I'm pretty large. But I bet a petite person with small hands would not be comfortable handling the phone one-handed, and there are a lot of pockets in my clothing I can't put the phone into.
The fix for console lockdown would be to market PCs as replacements for consoles, including a ten-foot-friendly application launcher
When you said that, I actually pictured Windows 8 Metro. It was deeply unpleasant, but also surprising.
I wonder if MS realizes they might be cannibalizing their own console market share by releasing a desktop/settop OS which happens to be more usable on a bigscreen than Win XP or 7 ever were.
He may have found one propped open, or (just a speculative stretch) attended an early showing and sabotaged the latch on that door on the way out. Or had a confederate in that showing who opened the door and then ditched (a la The Trojan Horse).
I don't know. There are a lot of ways he COULD have gotten in without going Rambo on the door, especially since a mere kick wouldn't probably be enough for a steel security door set to open outward.
Damn. And me without modpoints.
Well said.
Good point. My right to drink a beer isn't explicitly constitutionally protected. It's only indirectly constitutionally protected by my right to carry deadly weapons.
Because decent human beings are decent.
See also Internalization.
If the Oracle case is any indication, the existence of the patent wouldn't stop Google, and the invalidity of the patent wouldn't stop Apple (like it didn't stop Oracle).
There isn't stopping patent litigation any more than there's stopping street mugging. If you look like something the thug wants, and the thug thinks he can take you, there's gonna be trouble. And in the tech IP world, there are no "safe neighborhoods" except maybe the EU.
This feature doesn't let websites run native code on your machine.
Well, that's CLEARLY enough. Because we all fully know and understand that non-native interpreted code can never EVER break out of its sandbox and run native shellcode. Never.
Someone can walk down a street and run into people and bludgeon them to death with their bodies, but because a car can do it so much better and so much quicker, we are scared and feel the need to censor progress. What about freedom to travel?
I know, right? Our FSM-given right to travel is being TRAMPLED by that pointless prohibition. If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!
"It's been a poor, poor five years for fiction in the video game industry...."
Nonsense, Victor. Gaming magazine reviews have raised High Fantasy to an unprecedented new art form, and DRM has been more gruesome and compelling than the best Horror gaming.
The line between "whistling tunelessly" and "whistling Stravinsky" is very fine...
Whatever you and he are smoking, it's interfering badly with your ability to identify intellectual recreational pharmaceuticals.
That's not deductive reasoning, that's wild-assed speculation cut with conspiracy theory. Looks like your dealer sold you a dime bag of logical ditchweed.
On a related note, the biggest roadblock for change is that none of us can discuss the issues, since Godwin almost always rears his ugly head the moment the word "oppression" comes into play.
Actually, I'd argue that Godwinization is only, at worst, the second-biggest potential roadblock for change. The biggest would be that none of us can discuss the issues, since the Secret Police would rear its ugly head the moment the word "oppression" comes into play. But I hope we're a lot farther from that one than the Godwin one.
Yup, officially non-partisan (even the election--one big non-partisan primary, which cuts the field down to two candidates without regard to party affiliation, and then the general election between those two). And no party structure within the sitting Senate.
And unicameral, too--no House and Senate. Very streamlined; no stupid having both houses working on the same type of bill at the same time and then trying to reconcile the inevitable differences in a conference committee.
Well, historically, Afghanistan seems to have a semi-fixed number of indigenous tribal/linguistic cultures and a rotating cast of guest invaders. NATO and Taliban/AQ is just the latest in a long long list.
People there don't plant marijuana there
That Afghan black hash you must be smoking would beg to disagree with you.