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More appalling to me is if they can shut down the "modules" (as the article calls autonomous vehicles) to quell protests, contain undesirables, or otherwise limit freedom of movement.

I quite liked his book House of Suns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Suns

There might be a few aspects that of the story that push it out of the "Hard Sci-Fi" category; but most of it seems to obey the laws of physics as we understand them.

I'm not sure. I honestly don't know if the assessment in the article is correct, but it seems to me the objective of a project like this isn't to change any minds but harden existing postions and prevent compromise. The impression I got was that the writer argues the Russian's goal in this operation was encourage more extreme political views in order to divide the American people and weaken national unity.

I remember an article not long ago about anti-trust regulation being a victim of it's own success. I think the same is true of many environmental regulations, people vaugely recall an outcry over some environmental concerned and imagine it must have just been overblown since acid rain isn't falling all the time or no canals in their town are currently burning.

I agree. Without moralizing on the motives, it seems like the objective of establishing an institution like the Stasi is control. If you can have that control with a velvet glove and spare the resentment so much the better.

I suppose you could argue that certain taxi laws were enacted to achieve immoral ends. That being the case, if Uber was really fighting for "truth justice and the American way" they could have imposed the socially beneficial aspects of taxi laws on themselves without all the shady stuff they keep getting called out for.

No it is about fixing, a design flaw allowed this to happen. SMB1 (hopefully) wasn't built thinking EternalBlue would be a fun feature.

No one expects perfect software; but this clearly happened because Microsoft's​ software was broken, the NSA found where, and horded and then lost control of that knowledge.

edited: I understand what you mean about people not patching and leaving themselves vulnerable. A lot of pain could have been prevented at that level.

First thing I think of is a Cache drive for a SSD array.

I know this is pedantic, but Nvidia isn't really a "microchip maker" as the article says so much as designer since they're fab-less.

This is what matters most to me. My dislike of ads are out of fear of malicious code first, tracking second, and wasting my bandwidth third.

The simple gif banner ads of yore were tolerable enough.

The "This happens in the US too" comments are an annoying pointless digression.

Just like in the Wikileaks threads when people go on about the abuses in other countries, and how unfair it is that JUST America's/ the DNC's/ the CIA/ the NAS's dirty laundry gets aired.

Repression and abuses of power should concern us all. One evil does not negate an other.

Some of these trades do have apprenticeship program's in their unions and at least in my city in the licensing requirements. To be a journeyman electrician you are first an apprentice for 4 or five years, and at least in union shops your pay reflects your (theoretical) ability.

So a fifth year apprentice make something like 80% of a journeyman as they should be capable of 80% of his tasks; while a first year apprentice pulls in less than half as he likely knows little of the trade.

>...one exception: when the question has been asked countless times already, and the asker could have seen it if they had made the minimum effort of reading the community's FAQ. In which case, RTFM -- or rather, a link to the FAQ -- is the best response.

This is actually the RTFM-ish situations I hate the most; specifically as someone searching a forum and finding a thread or threads close to my own question, only to find the only responses are rudely unhelpful.

I get not answering an insipid post, or a mod locking/deleting one but replying to a question you find dumb or repetitive is a waste of time to everyone involved.

Just like "Don't feed the Trolls," I feel one shouldn't raise the post count of a time sink.

That's funny because I immediately thought of the Honeywell Vista 50p when I saw this headline, and various alarm system forums I've lurked in.

Something dumb, hardwired, and preferably with a couple of way to call out over a phone line really seems like the best option in my opinion.

That said something like the Vista doesn't seem impossible to install yourself for someone with a basic understanding of electrical circuits.

For a server I want a crummy integrated GPU to use every once in awhile without wasting a PCI-E slot.

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Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of those sites Greek teenagers are setting up in droves to cash in on gullible Americans on through facebook likes.

Just think most people have had to settle for dying on a silicon rock buried under a 100 miles of nitrogen.

Great so every time I spring for the brand name molex connectors I'm helping those assholes out.

I read the article and I still don't buy it.

In New Orleans 1972 a concrete and steel building called the Rault Center had it's top two floors gutted by fire, likely arson. The building has been vacant since then, much of it in an almost skeletal state and yet a renovation started last year.

If the Rault Center had sprinklers tragedy could have averted, but I don't believe a wood building could have contained the fire. A wood building certainly couldn't have stood neglected for decades after and still been of any use. http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_9ca3a457...

If you're using NoScript the image is blurry until you allow newyorker.com

>We're still very busy as a society pretending that computers aren't a public utility.

Fuck that noise. No my computers in my home are not a public utility.

I will run or not run the software I choose on my machines. You can call me Typhoid Mary all you want, but if an Nigerian prince somehow compromises one of my machines and tries to sell you Viagra you can report it to my ISP or domain registrar.

You can still use the old, self-hosted one but it's inconvenient to set up with the latest builds of Firefox. I just install version 28, sync it and then let Firefox update to the latest version. Hopefully they don't kill (the semi-hidden) legacy support for the old protocol.

Even alot of people not caring doesn't inherently make it the right thing.

Hear, hear! Late last night I read a LA times Op-Ed (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-klaas-dirsus-leav...) That presupposes globalization is good. Lists problems they allege only it can fix, and ignores globalization role in those very problems.

Additionally they never specify the recipient of globalization's "unprecedented wealth". Why should it motivate the average UK voter if they don't profit?

As far as I can tell the only novel thing about this is that they are W2 employees. I've worked with unskilled and semi-skilled laborers from temp agencies in my last blue collar job.

So are these guys all making 32 hours a week and qualifying for benefits? How does their pay reflect their skills. Do they offer more skilled temps than competing agencies?

I'm suspicious that this isn't so much a business model as much a faux humanitarian PR stunt.

I like pcpartpicker quite a bit especially their $/GB search feature for hard drives. I do wish they would include some basic server hardware for enthusiasts though, big ECC dimms are getting affordable and it would be nice to do some price comparison.

"In this human-robot team, the robot is responsible for the more rote tasks: picking up bricks, applying mortar, and placing them in their designated location. A human handles the more nuanced activities, like setting up the worksite, laying bricks in tricky areas, such as corners, and handling aesthetic details, like cleaning up excess mortar."

"One human plus one SAM equals the productivity of having four or more masons on the job."

A downside I can see is there isn't really any room for apprentices or entry level workers in this model. I imagine with four human masons a couple of them could be learning the trade as they did "the robot's part," eventually developing the skills to be the "human" in the team.

First, I'd be pissed at the asshole that failed to tie their boat up properly. Second, I'd be excited at the prospect of a free boat.

I agree, at the moment I use mostly AMD at home [i]because[/i] the lower end server processors I can afford don't have the feature sets gimped like Intel, and their consumer GPUs support IOMMU passthrough that NVIDIA needlessly restricts to professional cards.

It may only be their weak market share that inspires their generosity, but it's hooked me and certainly has me rooting for their continued existence.

That's sort of what I was thinking. I would imagine a huge amount of ugly carrots for example end up chopped up and in cans or frozen bags or mass produced food products. Who knows what the vegetables in a Swanson pot pie looked like when they were in a field somewhere.