Two approaches come to mind, both of which are probably too massive to actually be undertaken. One is to cool the magma, by drilling a grid of holes and pumping water into them. (Use the heated water or steam for electric power plants.) The other is to break up the surface to a depth of several miles (underground nuclear bombs), so that any eruption will be just magma flows rather than an explosion.
Could either work? I don't even pretend to know. Would either attempt cause more problems than it solved? I wouldn't be surprised. At least some examination of possibilities should be done.
We are talking about Yellowstone, so consideration is needed as to how such preventative actions may affect the features which attract visitors.
I grew up with my parents telling me I was smart and special. I was bored at school. Being labeled smart made me lazy. I turned in maybe a third of my homework (I did homework if I thought I needed help with the material), but aced the tests so I rarely got below an A-. This made my parents mad because they couldn't punish for an A-. Admittedly I was a geek, reading the encyclopedia for leisure and performing all sorts of science experiments.
It costs me $3 / minute to talk on my cell when I'm out of country.
It would cost you nothing to use WhatsApp at the local McDonalds in whatever country you're in. Or any other beat down restaurant.
What is this McDonalds you speak of? When I travel out of country I often find myself at least 100 miles away from the closest golden arches and most restaurants don't offer free wifi. I went 2 years without seeing a single McDonalds.
The question is if Google identifies a phone based on SIM information.
The answer is no, it ties the device ID to your Google account. You can do whatever you want with the SIM including throw it away. The modern smartphone ties nothing to it, not even WhatsApp complains when you change your number despite needing one to sign up for the service.
My thoughts were more along the line if you could identify your phone via wifi or using a prepaid SIM.
Some people go on foreign vacation for that long and don't use their phone.
huh? I don't think I've ever seen anyone go on vacation without using their phone. WiFi, and local SIM cards are so incredibly prevalent that unless you're climbing Mt Everest you're probably likely to not only take your phone on vacation but likely use it too.
Agreed. $25 or even $20 is too much. Take it down to $10 and then I'll seriously consider buying it. I almost never watch a movie twice (most aren't worthy of a second watch), so unless buying is not significantly more money than renting a movie, I'll just stick with renting.
It is cheaper to buy the movie the week it comes out on disc (about $20 for the BD) than take the family to the theater. If I don't like it or think I won't watch it again, I can sell it to FYE.
I have 17 years as a software engineer in Utah and don't make 6 figures.
"I have"? Sound like you need to do the needful and finally apply for AOS so you can get rid of your H1-B.
H1-B? Nah, I was born in the USA. Many ancestors arrived in the colonies in the 1600s. The most recent newcomers arrived in the 1850s. Admittedly Hawaiian Creole English (colloquially called Pidgin, ISO-638 code HWC) is my native tongue, so I may occasionally make a few grammar mistakes.
I've been a professional software engineer for 17 years. I have 17 years (of experience) as a software engineer.
This is the average for all computer science majors. It is very consistent with just about every other salary survey on the subject, if not a little on the high side. Do not put too much stake in the slashdot bubble comments claiming that every code monkey is making mid-six-figures. These are coming from the same people who all claim to be over 6'4" tall with IQ180.
I have 17 years as a software engineer in Utah and don't make 6 figures.
Other than Star Wars, Disney is a waste of my money. Unless they're pumping out 4-5 Star Wars movies per year, I'll pass. See ya Disney, I was tired of super hero movies years ago and the rest never interested me.
This 100%! Each family needs to determine if the $5 / month is worth it for them. With 2 toddler boys it might be worth it just for their cartoon selection. 1 Star Wars movie every two years isn't enough to justify it for me (cheaper to just buy the discs).
Considering the odds of being in a terrorist attack are incredibly low, and yet you apparently know two people who were in them or nearby. I call bullshit.
Also - you can just as easily message people without using Facebook. FB is just a way for people to blast out messages without having to actually talk to anyone personally. It's nearly as dehumanizing as the terrorists who tried to bomb your fake cousin and coworker.
Which is more efficient: calling everyone you know to let them know you're ok (or at least key people who can spread the word) or do a single post on social media? This feature is to lessen the cell network traffic so people won't get a network not available type message while calling 911.
My college had culture clubs for every culture except American or white European, because such clubs would be seen as racist.
Well, yeah. Because that's racist. If you don't understand why, you've really never embraced diversity. You might have gone to a diverse college, but you've wrapped yourself in a blanket of whiteness.
It's not racist to have Tongan, Samoan, and Latino clubs, but it's racist to try start an American club? Again, my fight is for equality, not superiority.
I can get the unhappiness of having to work with unqualified individuals - been there, and it's frustrating. But your racism and sexism comes out when the complaint is not on the person's skill-set, but on their race or gender. I find it hard to believe that you've never come across someone white and male hired to a position that they were utterly unqualified for. It happens all the time, in my experience.
In my experience, when an unqualified white man applies for the job, they don't make it past the interview (which is as it should be). When an unqualified minority applies for the job, that individual has to be so inept that there's no way to cry discrimination.
As for the deck being stacked against you, bullshit. If you are white, male, and make enough that you don't qualify for government assistance, you have it largely made.
I see you believe in the myth of white privilege. I grew up in a minority. I received threats based on skin color. I had friends that had to slip away in the middle of the night to save their lives.
You're not likely to get arrested for doing the same things that get black people arrested, you're (presumably) not likely to have your resume thrown in the bin because of how your name is spelled or because you've got hints of a black experience in it, and you're not likely to have credit denied for houses and cars, or extra-padding added to the interest rate. You're not likely to be sexually harassed at work, walking down the street, shopping, and going to the park.
Actually I have had credit denied. I currently pay PMI on my mortgage. I make it abundantly clear at work that I'm happily married so I don't get much harassment other than the occasional "joke" about why I don't have more kids to be like the stereotypical Mormon (when I announced the birth of my second son, I got a lot of comments similar to "only 9 more to go!"). I would imagine sexual harassment is more of an issue for women than men in general.
To complain about the deck being stacked against you is most likely very large amounts of ignorance about exactly how high the deck is stacked for women and minorities. If you never experience diversity, I'm sure the world looks hard. If you want it to look easier, look through someone else's eyes. It's always going to look unfair to you if you don't understand how hard it is for others, and why we're doing this diversity thing in the first place. It's not about shitting on you - it's about trying to give other people a chance to have what you have.
Perhaps you failed to notice that the Justice Department is taking on colleges and universities for discriminating against whites?
Diversity is implemented by stealing opportunities from white men to give them to minorities. If minorities earn significantly less based on their minority, that has to be remedied. Equal pay for equal skills and work. I won't have my sons tout their mixed race heritage to get special treatment. They have a healthy pride of my heritage and my wife's. They speak both languages. We celebrate both cultures.
Sure, but are the people getting raises now making way more than you are, or are the raises the mechanism to get them back up to salary parity to right a previous wrong? Are the raises to keep them in the organization, because their diversity is valued? There are plenty of good reasons that someone else is getting a raise and you aren't. And that's not even considering that you're hostile to minorities to the point of angry internet posts.
I'm not hostile towards minorities, I'm hostile towards preferential treatment and government-backed racism. My wife and 2 of my brothers' wives were born outside the US. My other in-laws are of different races. I have no problem with co-workers of other races as long as they don't demand special treatment. Oh, those raises were a PR stunt by the company (The company even had a press release about them).
Diversity means giving preference to non white men. There's no way to work on fixing diversity issues without doing that. I value the diversity in my organization, because people with a different view of the world and different experiences can be really helpful. They can help an organization better interact with customers, find new ones, improve how it works, and any number of other things. I'm sorry that you've decided to be bitter about diversity rather than understanding why it's important. Life is hard when you want to be a special snowflake, but the world doesn't think you are.
I believe in meritology. If 10 men and 1 woman apply for the same job with all applicants having similar skills and experience, why will the woman get the job 9 out of 10 times? People from different backgrounds have different insights, but I don't want a minority getting a senior level programming job when they have ask how to write a for loop.
Perhaps my bitterness, as you called it, is the result of trying to provide for my family and finding the deck stacked against me. I make enough that I don't qualify for government assistance, but little enough that money is tight. When I was applying for colleges, my parents earned too much for me to get government assistance but too little to help me. I saw scholarships for every race and gender except white men. My college had culture clubs for every culture except American or white European, because such clubs would be seen as racist. I worked hard to pay for my education. I was only able to go to the beach once or twice a week while it seemed minority students were at the beach every day. Oh, and only 25% of the student population was white, so I guess I was in a minority without any of the benefits.
I don't consider myself a snowflake. As I've mentioned, I counter all the discrimination against me by working harder to try get ahead.
You white men massacred the native Americans and generally screwed the whole world, raping pillaging colonizing.
Sorry, I refuse to take responsibility for actions that took places HUNDREDS of years before I was born. I don't condone what was done, but I don't feel guilty for it.
I gotta say, I get treated pretty nicely. When I was a twenty-something I was really resentful because I couldn't figure out how to get dates. I want to believe that there is more to this kerfuffle than that, but I really just don't get it. Why are my youthful brethren so discontent?
I am a white man, early forties. Every celebration of diversity I have seen during nearly 20 years as a professional has been to the detriment of whites in general (and white men specifically). Diversity means giving preferences to women, LGBT, or racial minorities. It means I have to be twice as qualified in order to compete against individuals in the desired minorities. I have been passed over for raises two years in a row while all minorities in my company got significant pay increases.
How about we all keep being crazy until your head explodes?
Think about it. Battery powered spinners! Spinning the spinner is too hard we better automate the spinning!
The batteries power LE.Ds, not to actually cause it to spin
^^^ spends a truckload of cash on a 4K TV, wont foot the bill for the internet connection to drive it.
I got an amazing deal on my 4K TV - $500 for a 52 incher. My old tv (50 inch rear projection) was on its last leg when I saw a deal I couldn't ignore: a 4K TV for the same price as 1080P. My BD player doesn't support 4K nor does my receiver, but the tv's upscaling is amazing.
Not as a class based on those attributes. But as TFS states, political affiliation is a protected class in California (and other states). Religious expression is also protected. Just join a church that wears those pointy white hats and the Venn diagram of members and white males is a near perfect match.
No, that's not a near perfect match; virtually all pointy-hat-wearers are white males, but only a minority of white males wear pointy-hats.
Organic producers don't want to publicize that they use pesticides or have cultivars produced through mutagenic breeding using radiation or dna-damaging chemicals.
Are they also being malicious?
In the US, only "organic" pesticides can be used on crops which carry the "organic" certification. These must also be grown from seeds which were certified "organic".
The other is that the pro-GMO people insist that anti-GMO means that if you eat GMO, that you die.
GMO is bad because of mono crop issues.
GMO is bad because resistance to herbicides induces over-use of them.
GMO is bad because GMO has been used to have plants make toxins. So GMO food can contain poison. And there are no regulations about this or any other use of GMO.
GMO is bad because it has been used to make kill-genes, even if only in the lab, and between that and mono-crop the results of a wide-spread release could cause massive destruction.
GMO is bad because Monsanto claims it's harmless, and when Monsanto says something, the opposite is more likely true.
But the pro-GMO crowd doesn't talk about the reasonable objections. Instead, it's all about the strawman.
Do you enjoy Canola oil, which is derived from GMO rapeseed?
Voice-to-text wrappers are a nice touch - but they really shouldn't be a 'browser' feature - but a system feature that can be used in ANY application, so you don't have to tweak it separately for every tool you use.
I agree that the system should provide voice-to-text or voice control capability.
Note taking is also an occasionally neat thing - but not something you want constrained to the browser developers controlling. Browser developers shouldn't have an interest in getting a piece of that pie, or shaping that 'market', even between open source options.
Do one thing and do it well. Oh, make it easy for plugins to extend functionality. Note taking should be a different app.
And file sharing tools? That's an odd technology to push into - not too removed from HTTP/FTP (filezilla) logic at times, but very fiddly even for companies that devote their full focus on it.
File upload should be part of the browser, IMHO. I'm not sure I like how they implemented their gigabyte upload.
That said, I'd love it if the 'default' tools could smoothly resume arbitrary download after an interruption, integrate multiple downloads from identically hashed sources, and so on... but companies that take such tools on as secondary interests tend to let such tools fall to dust shortly after trumpeting their first launch.
You can't do that for arbitrary downloads; the web server needs to fully support appropriate HTTP headers (such as chunked transfer encoding and byte serving)
Here in the US, I'm wondering what the big deal is for requiring an passport to move between sovereign countries over there?
I thought that was pretty much the norm for most of the world....?
As a US citizen, I must have a US passport in order to enter Mexico, but no visa is required; it used to be that a US drivers license was enough. As a Brazilian citizen, my wife can enter just about any South American country with just her Brazilian passport (again, no visa required). Surely there must be a way to verify that someone has the required citizenship to cross the border without a visa.
Uh, 10% is an order magnitude too high for LGBT population (inclusive, not just "gay people").
[Citation needed]
Wikipedia has an article on this topic. In a July 2014 government survey, 1.4% of Americans self identify as gay or lesbian. A Gallup poll from 2012 showed 3.4% self-identified as LGBT. Note that 3.4% is significantly lower than 10% and higher than 1%, but 1% is close to 1.4% for just gay or lesbian.
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Two approaches come to mind, both of which are probably too massive to actually be undertaken. One is to cool the magma, by drilling a grid of holes and pumping water into them. (Use the heated water or steam for electric power plants.) The other is to break up the surface to a depth of several miles (underground nuclear bombs), so that any eruption will be just magma flows rather than an explosion.
Could either work? I don't even pretend to know. Would either attempt cause more problems than it solved? I wouldn't be surprised. At least some examination of possibilities should be done.
We are talking about Yellowstone, so consideration is needed as to how such preventative actions may affect the features which attract visitors.
I grew up with my parents telling me I was smart and special. I was bored at school. Being labeled smart made me lazy. I turned in maybe a third of my homework (I did homework if I thought I needed help with the material), but aced the tests so I rarely got below an A-. This made my parents mad because they couldn't punish for an A-. Admittedly I was a geek, reading the encyclopedia for leisure and performing all sorts of science experiments.
It costs me $3 / minute to talk on my cell when I'm out of country.
It would cost you nothing to use WhatsApp at the local McDonalds in whatever country you're in. Or any other beat down restaurant.
What is this McDonalds you speak of? When I travel out of country I often find myself at least 100 miles away from the closest golden arches and most restaurants don't offer free wifi. I went 2 years without seeing a single McDonalds.
The question is if Google identifies a phone based on SIM information.
The answer is no, it ties the device ID to your Google account. You can do whatever you want with the SIM including throw it away. The modern smartphone ties nothing to it, not even WhatsApp complains when you change your number despite needing one to sign up for the service.
My thoughts were more along the line if you could identify your phone via wifi or using a prepaid SIM.
Some people go on foreign vacation for that long and don't use their phone.
huh? I don't think I've ever seen anyone go on vacation without using their phone. WiFi, and local SIM cards are so incredibly prevalent that unless you're climbing Mt Everest you're probably likely to not only take your phone on vacation but likely use it too.
errr. Nope I was wrong. Looks like using your phone on Mt Everest isn't a problem either
It costs me $3 / minute to talk on my cell when I'm out of country. The question is if Google identifies a phone based on SIM information.
Agreed. $25 or even $20 is too much. Take it down to $10 and then I'll seriously consider buying it. I almost never watch a movie twice (most aren't worthy of a second watch), so unless buying is not significantly more money than renting a movie, I'll just stick with renting.
It is cheaper to buy the movie the week it comes out on disc (about $20 for the BD) than take the family to the theater. If I don't like it or think I won't watch it again, I can sell it to FYE.
The article says that Oracle will continue to support its Weblogic server, but what about JBoss?
I have 17 years as a software engineer in Utah and don't make 6 figures.
"I have"? Sound like you need to do the needful and finally apply for AOS so you can get rid of your H1-B.
H1-B? Nah, I was born in the USA. Many ancestors arrived in the colonies in the 1600s. The most recent newcomers arrived in the 1850s. Admittedly Hawaiian Creole English (colloquially called Pidgin, ISO-638 code HWC) is my native tongue, so I may occasionally make a few grammar mistakes.
I've been a professional software engineer for 17 years. I have 17 years (of experience) as a software engineer.
This is the average for all computer science majors. It is very consistent with just about every other salary survey on the subject, if not a little on the high side. Do not put too much stake in the slashdot bubble comments claiming that every code monkey is making mid-six-figures. These are coming from the same people who all claim to be over 6'4" tall with IQ180.
I have 17 years as a software engineer in Utah and don't make 6 figures.
If Alvin and John doesn't need pants, why does Donald?
John is wearing a sleeping gown, which was common sleeping wear back in the day. Nothing immodest about it, even if it is dated.
Other than Star Wars, Disney is a waste of my money. Unless they're pumping out 4-5 Star Wars movies per year, I'll pass. See ya Disney, I was tired of super hero movies years ago and the rest never interested me.
This 100%! Each family needs to determine if the $5 / month is worth it for them. With 2 toddler boys it might be worth it just for their cartoon selection. 1 Star Wars movie every two years isn't enough to justify it for me (cheaper to just buy the discs).
Considering the odds of being in a terrorist attack are incredibly low, and yet you apparently know two people who were in them or nearby. I call bullshit.
Also - you can just as easily message people without using Facebook. FB is just a way for people to blast out messages without having to actually talk to anyone personally. It's nearly as dehumanizing as the terrorists who tried to bomb your fake cousin and coworker.
Which is more efficient: calling everyone you know to let them know you're ok (or at least key people who can spread the word) or do a single post on social media? This feature is to lessen the cell network traffic so people won't get a network not available type message while calling 911.
Also I've never heard of this "most sacred tenet" and when I google it the only two relevant hits are the article and this slashdot post.
You haven't heard of DRY? Don't Repeat Yourself.
My college had culture clubs for every culture except American or white European, because such clubs would be seen as racist.
Well, yeah. Because that's racist. If you don't understand why, you've really never embraced diversity. You might have gone to a diverse college, but you've wrapped yourself in a blanket of whiteness.
It's not racist to have Tongan, Samoan, and Latino clubs, but it's racist to try start an American club? Again, my fight is for equality, not superiority.
I can get the unhappiness of having to work with unqualified individuals - been there, and it's frustrating. But your racism and sexism comes out when the complaint is not on the person's skill-set, but on their race or gender. I find it hard to believe that you've never come across someone white and male hired to a position that they were utterly unqualified for. It happens all the time, in my experience.
In my experience, when an unqualified white man applies for the job, they don't make it past the interview (which is as it should be). When an unqualified minority applies for the job, that individual has to be so inept that there's no way to cry discrimination.
As for the deck being stacked against you, bullshit. If you are white, male, and make enough that you don't qualify for government assistance, you have it largely made.
I see you believe in the myth of white privilege. I grew up in a minority. I received threats based on skin color. I had friends that had to slip away in the middle of the night to save their lives.
You're not likely to get arrested for doing the same things that get black people arrested, you're (presumably) not likely to have your resume thrown in the bin because of how your name is spelled or because you've got hints of a black experience in it, and you're not likely to have credit denied for houses and cars, or extra-padding added to the interest rate. You're not likely to be sexually harassed at work, walking down the street, shopping, and going to the park.
Actually I have had credit denied. I currently pay PMI on my mortgage. I make it abundantly clear at work that I'm happily married so I don't get much harassment other than the occasional "joke" about why I don't have more kids to be like the stereotypical Mormon (when I announced the birth of my second son, I got a lot of comments similar to "only 9 more to go!"). I would imagine sexual harassment is more of an issue for women than men in general.
To complain about the deck being stacked against you is most likely very large amounts of ignorance about exactly how high the deck is stacked for women and minorities. If you never experience diversity, I'm sure the world looks hard. If you want it to look easier, look through someone else's eyes. It's always going to look unfair to you if you don't understand how hard it is for others, and why we're doing this diversity thing in the first place. It's not about shitting on you - it's about trying to give other people a chance to have what you have.
Perhaps you failed to notice that the Justice Department is taking on colleges and universities for discriminating against whites?
Diversity is implemented by stealing opportunities from white men to give them to minorities. If minorities earn significantly less based on their minority, that has to be remedied. Equal pay for equal skills and work. I won't have my sons tout their mixed race heritage to get special treatment. They have a healthy pride of my heritage and my wife's. They speak both languages. We celebrate both cultures.
Sure, but are the people getting raises now making way more than you are, or are the raises the mechanism to get them back up to salary parity to right a previous wrong? Are the raises to keep them in the organization, because their diversity is valued? There are plenty of good reasons that someone else is getting a raise and you aren't. And that's not even considering that you're hostile to minorities to the point of angry internet posts.
I'm not hostile towards minorities, I'm hostile towards preferential treatment and government-backed racism. My wife and 2 of my brothers' wives were born outside the US. My other in-laws are of different races. I have no problem with co-workers of other races as long as they don't demand special treatment. Oh, those raises were a PR stunt by the company (The company even had a press release about them).
Diversity means giving preference to non white men. There's no way to work on fixing diversity issues without doing that. I value the diversity in my organization, because people with a different view of the world and different experiences can be really helpful. They can help an organization better interact with customers, find new ones, improve how it works, and any number of other things. I'm sorry that you've decided to be bitter about diversity rather than understanding why it's important. Life is hard when you want to be a special snowflake, but the world doesn't think you are.
I believe in meritology. If 10 men and 1 woman apply for the same job with all applicants having similar skills and experience, why will the woman get the job 9 out of 10 times? People from different backgrounds have different insights, but I don't want a minority getting a senior level programming job when they have ask how to write a for loop.
Perhaps my bitterness, as you called it, is the result of trying to provide for my family and finding the deck stacked against me. I make enough that I don't qualify for government assistance, but little enough that money is tight. When I was applying for colleges, my parents earned too much for me to get government assistance but too little to help me. I saw scholarships for every race and gender except white men. My college had culture clubs for every culture except American or white European, because such clubs would be seen as racist. I worked hard to pay for my education. I was only able to go to the beach once or twice a week while it seemed minority students were at the beach every day. Oh, and only 25% of the student population was white, so I guess I was in a minority without any of the benefits.
I don't consider myself a snowflake. As I've mentioned, I counter all the discrimination against me by working harder to try get ahead.
You white men massacred the native Americans and generally screwed the whole world, raping pillaging colonizing.
Sorry, I refuse to take responsibility for actions that took places HUNDREDS of years before I was born. I don't condone what was done, but I don't feel guilty for it.
I gotta say, I get treated pretty nicely. When I was a twenty-something I was really resentful because I couldn't figure out how to get dates. I want to believe that there is more to this kerfuffle than that, but I really just don't get it. Why are my youthful brethren so discontent?
I am a white man, early forties. Every celebration of diversity I have seen during nearly 20 years as a professional has been to the detriment of whites in general (and white men specifically). Diversity means giving preferences to women, LGBT, or racial minorities. It means I have to be twice as qualified in order to compete against individuals in the desired minorities. I have been passed over for raises two years in a row while all minorities in my company got significant pay increases.
How about we all keep being crazy until your head explodes? Think about it. Battery powered spinners! Spinning the spinner is too hard we better automate the spinning!
The batteries power LE.Ds, not to actually cause it to spin
^^^ spends a truckload of cash on a 4K TV, wont foot the bill for the internet connection to drive it.
I got an amazing deal on my 4K TV - $500 for a 52 incher. My old tv (50 inch rear projection) was on its last leg when I saw a deal I couldn't ignore: a 4K TV for the same price as 1080P. My BD player doesn't support 4K nor does my receiver, but the tv's upscaling is amazing.
Maybe mobile would be a solution if we didn't have such horrendous internet on our cell phones or the data caps / throttling of most providers.
White males are not a protected class, ever.
Not as a class based on those attributes. But as TFS states, political affiliation is a protected class in California (and other states). Religious expression is also protected. Just join a church that wears those pointy white hats and the Venn diagram of members and white males is a near perfect match.
No, that's not a near perfect match; virtually all pointy-hat-wearers are white males, but only a minority of white males wear pointy-hats.
Organic producers don't want to publicize that they use pesticides or have cultivars produced through mutagenic breeding using radiation or dna-damaging chemicals. Are they also being malicious?
In the US, only "organic" pesticides can be used on crops which carry the "organic" certification. These must also be grown from seeds which were certified "organic".
The other is that the pro-GMO people insist that anti-GMO means that if you eat GMO, that you die. GMO is bad because of mono crop issues. GMO is bad because resistance to herbicides induces over-use of them. GMO is bad because GMO has been used to have plants make toxins. So GMO food can contain poison. And there are no regulations about this or any other use of GMO. GMO is bad because it has been used to make kill-genes, even if only in the lab, and between that and mono-crop the results of a wide-spread release could cause massive destruction. GMO is bad because Monsanto claims it's harmless, and when Monsanto says something, the opposite is more likely true. But the pro-GMO crowd doesn't talk about the reasonable objections. Instead, it's all about the strawman.
Do you enjoy Canola oil, which is derived from GMO rapeseed?
Voice-to-text wrappers are a nice touch - but they really shouldn't be a 'browser' feature - but a system feature that can be used in ANY application, so you don't have to tweak it separately for every tool you use.
I agree that the system should provide voice-to-text or voice control capability.
Note taking is also an occasionally neat thing - but not something you want constrained to the browser developers controlling. Browser developers shouldn't have an interest in getting a piece of that pie, or shaping that 'market', even between open source options.
Do one thing and do it well. Oh, make it easy for plugins to extend functionality. Note taking should be a different app.
And file sharing tools? That's an odd technology to push into - not too removed from HTTP/FTP (filezilla) logic at times, but very fiddly even for companies that devote their full focus on it.
File upload should be part of the browser, IMHO. I'm not sure I like how they implemented their gigabyte upload.
That said, I'd love it if the 'default' tools could smoothly resume arbitrary download after an interruption, integrate multiple downloads from identically hashed sources, and so on... but companies that take such tools on as secondary interests tend to let such tools fall to dust shortly after trumpeting their first launch.
You can't do that for arbitrary downloads; the web server needs to fully support appropriate HTTP headers (such as chunked transfer encoding and byte serving)
Here in the US, I'm wondering what the big deal is for requiring an passport to move between sovereign countries over there?
I thought that was pretty much the norm for most of the world....?
As a US citizen, I must have a US passport in order to enter Mexico, but no visa is required; it used to be that a US drivers license was enough. As a Brazilian citizen, my wife can enter just about any South American country with just her Brazilian passport (again, no visa required). Surely there must be a way to verify that someone has the required citizenship to cross the border without a visa.
Uh, 10% is an order magnitude too high for LGBT population (inclusive, not just "gay people").
[Citation needed]
Wikipedia has an article on this topic. In a July 2014 government survey, 1.4% of Americans self identify as gay or lesbian. A Gallup poll from 2012 showed 3.4% self-identified as LGBT. Note that 3.4% is significantly lower than 10% and higher than 1%, but 1% is close to 1.4% for just gay or lesbian.