I know someone who uses this in China and apparently it's fantastic. Faster than commercial VPN services even for streaming video. Not sure how that'll work out in the long run if it gets more users than providers. The…
If you live in the US or UK, your movements are already being tracked by license plate reading cameras.
Yea points sound nice in a way but I like to just replace the specified nationality with "black" and see if it still sounds OK. "There's a points system to allow the most successful blacks to work among regular…
Yes, can you imagine if there was a "black visa"? We still discriminate hard but it's so entrenched that it seems obviously right.
It wasn't till after I graduated that I started to realize the enormous volume of books arts majors had to read. And I don't understand why their information is presented in such an inconvenient format. If the book is…
Seems to be very dated. Plenty on adjusting carburetors, in fact adjusting all sorts of no-longer-needing-adjusting parts.
I think the lesson here isn't that iCloud is unreliable, but that any data storage is unreliable. Syncing isn't backup so you still need a backup.
Don't dating sites have an 18 year age limit despite different states having different ages of consent, etc? It's just easier than making a fine grained filter.
American companies also support their own government's efforts to imprison people for visiting the wrong websites (gambling, piracy, child porn, etc). Isn't it a bit arbitrary to accept that in America but not other…
Perhaps the crime should be buying or selling it, not simply possessing it. Then there's no market if there's no money.
I agree. I think people hate pedophiles in much the same way they hate(d) gays. Because it's disgusting and perverted, not because it harms people. The fact that some children do actually get harmed and that many people…
According to the article though, this deceitfulness is actually good, not destructive. It puts us into a more productive Nash equilibrium than we'd be if we each individually assessed the risk of our single investment…
I think this is just a sign that there's healthy decision making going on. If what the CoC claims is true, that Jamaica's law was passed without following the proper process, then that is a problem and it should be…
There's a powerful part of the "free software" ideology that's not explained well at all here - the GPL helps to force non-free software out of the market. Unlike, say MIT which can help non-free software get a leg up…
Yes, it doesn't quite add up. For that money, you could hire the guy to turn things on and off by hand for 50 years.
A real life example of this type of trick happened with a large public sculpture in New Zealand recently. It looks innocent except from the right angle. http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/65855907/Cloud-or-phallus-Sc...
I have a pdf scan of a text book that exibits this problem. It's a complex math book with a lot of superscripts, subscripts and combinations of them. Some are the wrong symbol - eg i instead of j, etc. It was very…
What do you think the feeling among contributors is? Are you happy to change yours? Doesn't GPL effectively prohibit combining it with a closed source commercial product? That suggests you still won't be able to bundle…
What kind of information would we lose, besides information about the extinct species themselves? For example, are there unsolved questions in science that could be solved if we still had a specimen of a missing…
Wow, there are also 2 females. Is there any technical reason why they don't just use artificial insemination to make some more babies? It would be pretty irresponsible to let the species go extinct because they didn't…
Calling it a kingdom is also wrong. It has only a queen, not a king. But really, I'd be surprised if any typical person outside of UK knew the difference. I'm a British citizen (of the 1st kind) but had no idea till now…
Judging by the occupied parking spaces in his photo, I think residents want cars. Whether parking is private or public, it'll still need to be there in some form for people to be happy living in that street. For people…
How do you synchronize multiple trucks? One company wants their truck to leave at 6pm so something will be available the next morning. Another nearby needs to wait till 6:30 before they're ready to leave. Where's the…
We still have train drivers, even though they're almost, but not quite, redundant. I can't imagine how trucks could be so automated that no driver at all is needed when we don't even do that with trains. Truck drivers…
It sounds like they really did get hacked. Isn't the whole point of the lawsuit that they were too insecure with sensitive information, and therefore justifiable? "Wallace said he tapped into LabMD's computers and…
I know someone who uses this in China and apparently it's fantastic. Faster than commercial VPN services even for streaming video. Not sure how that'll work out in the long run if it gets more users than providers. The…
If you live in the US or UK, your movements are already being tracked by license plate reading cameras.
Yea points sound nice in a way but I like to just replace the specified nationality with "black" and see if it still sounds OK. "There's a points system to allow the most successful blacks to work among regular…
Yes, can you imagine if there was a "black visa"? We still discriminate hard but it's so entrenched that it seems obviously right.
It wasn't till after I graduated that I started to realize the enormous volume of books arts majors had to read. And I don't understand why their information is presented in such an inconvenient format. If the book is…
Seems to be very dated. Plenty on adjusting carburetors, in fact adjusting all sorts of no-longer-needing-adjusting parts.
I think the lesson here isn't that iCloud is unreliable, but that any data storage is unreliable. Syncing isn't backup so you still need a backup.
Don't dating sites have an 18 year age limit despite different states having different ages of consent, etc? It's just easier than making a fine grained filter.
American companies also support their own government's efforts to imprison people for visiting the wrong websites (gambling, piracy, child porn, etc). Isn't it a bit arbitrary to accept that in America but not other…
Perhaps the crime should be buying or selling it, not simply possessing it. Then there's no market if there's no money.
I agree. I think people hate pedophiles in much the same way they hate(d) gays. Because it's disgusting and perverted, not because it harms people. The fact that some children do actually get harmed and that many people…
According to the article though, this deceitfulness is actually good, not destructive. It puts us into a more productive Nash equilibrium than we'd be if we each individually assessed the risk of our single investment…
I think this is just a sign that there's healthy decision making going on. If what the CoC claims is true, that Jamaica's law was passed without following the proper process, then that is a problem and it should be…
There's a powerful part of the "free software" ideology that's not explained well at all here - the GPL helps to force non-free software out of the market. Unlike, say MIT which can help non-free software get a leg up…
Yes, it doesn't quite add up. For that money, you could hire the guy to turn things on and off by hand for 50 years.
A real life example of this type of trick happened with a large public sculpture in New Zealand recently. It looks innocent except from the right angle. http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/65855907/Cloud-or-phallus-Sc...
I have a pdf scan of a text book that exibits this problem. It's a complex math book with a lot of superscripts, subscripts and combinations of them. Some are the wrong symbol - eg i instead of j, etc. It was very…
What do you think the feeling among contributors is? Are you happy to change yours? Doesn't GPL effectively prohibit combining it with a closed source commercial product? That suggests you still won't be able to bundle…
What kind of information would we lose, besides information about the extinct species themselves? For example, are there unsolved questions in science that could be solved if we still had a specimen of a missing…
Wow, there are also 2 females. Is there any technical reason why they don't just use artificial insemination to make some more babies? It would be pretty irresponsible to let the species go extinct because they didn't…
Calling it a kingdom is also wrong. It has only a queen, not a king. But really, I'd be surprised if any typical person outside of UK knew the difference. I'm a British citizen (of the 1st kind) but had no idea till now…
Judging by the occupied parking spaces in his photo, I think residents want cars. Whether parking is private or public, it'll still need to be there in some form for people to be happy living in that street. For people…
How do you synchronize multiple trucks? One company wants their truck to leave at 6pm so something will be available the next morning. Another nearby needs to wait till 6:30 before they're ready to leave. Where's the…
We still have train drivers, even though they're almost, but not quite, redundant. I can't imagine how trucks could be so automated that no driver at all is needed when we don't even do that with trains. Truck drivers…
It sounds like they really did get hacked. Isn't the whole point of the lawsuit that they were too insecure with sensitive information, and therefore justifiable? "Wallace said he tapped into LabMD's computers and…