In my experience from organizing conferences people who self-identify as vegetarians eat milk products and eggs, though sometimes reluctantly. Vegans don't.
It will make things way worse, since politicians from now on can and will plausibly deny any video evidence about them. Candidates will literally rewrite history instead of merely suffering from amnesia and any real…
Insecure defaults are always bad. The other way round would be the right choice. Let users downgrade their security for performance, if they insist.
I'm changing my system soon and I can tell you that I'm very, very happy that most of my games are on Steam. I remember that manual installation from DVD used to take minutes to hours, and I just don't have the time for…
That's correct, and I should mention that Schadenfreude can sometimes even be used with a positive connotation, namely when a bad person suffers some misfortune due to his own wrongdoings.
What about microwave beams? Wasn't one of the theories that these could have been used for surveillance and caused brain damage with similar symptoms?
Gmail also drops sent mails occasionally for no apparent reason. They don't even bounce back, they simply disappear and never reach their destination.
Yandex is pretty good but I haven't found a use case for DDG yet. Whenever I set it for "privacy" reasons (not that I really believe them), I have to go back to Google to get reasonable results. I can confirm the memory…
I believe Brexit is a loose-loose deal. It's bad for the UK because it causes a lot of complications without producing real benefits. Basically, the UK will loose lot of political influence and control while having to…
I wish they would still make calculators as beautiful as that one instead of all the cheap plastic we get today. All the Casio FX-880P would need is a slightly faster processor and a slightly more modern programming…
You mean those eternally scrolling pages whose main purpose is to hide content that belongs to the user in the first place? These sites are a pest.
Ahhhh ... it doesn't suffice to simply do your work without slacking, we need no less than the best and brightest for mostly boring office jobs in the government! Maybe some groups within the NSA need the best and…
Some contemporary mathematical theories such as "Inter-universal Teichmüller theory"[1] are so complicated that only one or two dozen people in the world can understand them. Proof assistants like Coq do not help with…
It's not just that, people spend way more time going through mathematical proofs, finding, and formulating them. If you give programmers time to muse about every function for weeks and write no more than 50-100 pages of…
I can see the difference, but I think in reality these cases are way less clear and the lines are way more blurry. I also wasn't really discussing the legality of his actions, I was rather addressing the way in which…
People loose millions every year without consequences. It's only considered a crime under certain circumstances and if you don't fulfill the general expectations in terms of behavior, dress codes, legal structures, etc.…
Don't you have to run your own IMAP server for that to work? Although my mail provider is fairly generous about storage space, it's not unlimited.
Are you sure about your noncompliance status? IANAL, but aren't there treaties between the US and all EU countries that avoid any double taxation? You have to pay income tax wherever you live most of the time and…
No big surprise here. The US is a member of the UN, of course, and the US and the UK were the driving forces behind the inception of the UN, which was first conceived by the US State Department and later worked out in…
Bitcoin and other crypto coins are a neat idea until their underlying cryptographic primitives are broken. Then they will immediately loose all of their value. Every cryptosystem of the past has been broken at some time.
Maybe in hindsight due to a certain perceived technological superiority, but that's far from clear and from the perspective of the 80s the Warsaw Pact was far superior in conventional force by numbers in Europe. See…
If you look at the figures you'll find out that such a defense network could never have worked as a deterrent and wouldn't work today either. Russia had and still has a gigantic amount of conventional troops including…
No it's not the tracker, it also works for magnet links and people get letters for downloading. There are companies who join the download swarm and register all other downloading parties. That's very easy with…
PocketChip: only 5 h battery life, not durable, but otherwise would be ideal - but with 5h battery life it's nothing but a useless gimmick DM42: no alarm, too limited programming (basically a HP42 clone), no CAS,…
I'm still looking for an ideal calculator, a fully programmable ruggedized device with a small form factor, a powerful CAS, an outstanding keyboard, clock and alarm, a sun-readable display (e-ink), and, most…
In my experience from organizing conferences people who self-identify as vegetarians eat milk products and eggs, though sometimes reluctantly. Vegans don't.
It will make things way worse, since politicians from now on can and will plausibly deny any video evidence about them. Candidates will literally rewrite history instead of merely suffering from amnesia and any real…
Insecure defaults are always bad. The other way round would be the right choice. Let users downgrade their security for performance, if they insist.
I'm changing my system soon and I can tell you that I'm very, very happy that most of my games are on Steam. I remember that manual installation from DVD used to take minutes to hours, and I just don't have the time for…
That's correct, and I should mention that Schadenfreude can sometimes even be used with a positive connotation, namely when a bad person suffers some misfortune due to his own wrongdoings.
What about microwave beams? Wasn't one of the theories that these could have been used for surveillance and caused brain damage with similar symptoms?
Gmail also drops sent mails occasionally for no apparent reason. They don't even bounce back, they simply disappear and never reach their destination.
Yandex is pretty good but I haven't found a use case for DDG yet. Whenever I set it for "privacy" reasons (not that I really believe them), I have to go back to Google to get reasonable results. I can confirm the memory…
I believe Brexit is a loose-loose deal. It's bad for the UK because it causes a lot of complications without producing real benefits. Basically, the UK will loose lot of political influence and control while having to…
I wish they would still make calculators as beautiful as that one instead of all the cheap plastic we get today. All the Casio FX-880P would need is a slightly faster processor and a slightly more modern programming…
You mean those eternally scrolling pages whose main purpose is to hide content that belongs to the user in the first place? These sites are a pest.
Ahhhh ... it doesn't suffice to simply do your work without slacking, we need no less than the best and brightest for mostly boring office jobs in the government! Maybe some groups within the NSA need the best and…
Some contemporary mathematical theories such as "Inter-universal Teichmüller theory"[1] are so complicated that only one or two dozen people in the world can understand them. Proof assistants like Coq do not help with…
It's not just that, people spend way more time going through mathematical proofs, finding, and formulating them. If you give programmers time to muse about every function for weeks and write no more than 50-100 pages of…
I can see the difference, but I think in reality these cases are way less clear and the lines are way more blurry. I also wasn't really discussing the legality of his actions, I was rather addressing the way in which…
People loose millions every year without consequences. It's only considered a crime under certain circumstances and if you don't fulfill the general expectations in terms of behavior, dress codes, legal structures, etc.…
Don't you have to run your own IMAP server for that to work? Although my mail provider is fairly generous about storage space, it's not unlimited.
Are you sure about your noncompliance status? IANAL, but aren't there treaties between the US and all EU countries that avoid any double taxation? You have to pay income tax wherever you live most of the time and…
No big surprise here. The US is a member of the UN, of course, and the US and the UK were the driving forces behind the inception of the UN, which was first conceived by the US State Department and later worked out in…
Bitcoin and other crypto coins are a neat idea until their underlying cryptographic primitives are broken. Then they will immediately loose all of their value. Every cryptosystem of the past has been broken at some time.
Maybe in hindsight due to a certain perceived technological superiority, but that's far from clear and from the perspective of the 80s the Warsaw Pact was far superior in conventional force by numbers in Europe. See…
If you look at the figures you'll find out that such a defense network could never have worked as a deterrent and wouldn't work today either. Russia had and still has a gigantic amount of conventional troops including…
No it's not the tracker, it also works for magnet links and people get letters for downloading. There are companies who join the download swarm and register all other downloading parties. That's very easy with…
PocketChip: only 5 h battery life, not durable, but otherwise would be ideal - but with 5h battery life it's nothing but a useless gimmick DM42: no alarm, too limited programming (basically a HP42 clone), no CAS,…
I'm still looking for an ideal calculator, a fully programmable ruggedized device with a small form factor, a powerful CAS, an outstanding keyboard, clock and alarm, a sun-readable display (e-ink), and, most…