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If they start doing security lines for passengers they'll destroy about the only nice thing Amtrak had going for it: being a basic travel option that doesn't involve too much trouble. It's already expensive, slow, and has limited scheduling. The only upshot is that you can walk up 5 minutes before a train pulls in, buy a ticket and hop on without having to take your clothes off and disembowel your luggage.

What's more telling to me is that I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be true.

Ehh, I'd rather have an environmental catastrophe shelter. 140F outside? Hang out underground with a few months supply of food and water in your environmental bunker. Wildfires? Fireproof yourself and your family with a hyper-nano-pico airfilter in your EnviroBunker(R).

Negatory. Go fsck yourself.

SSRI's didn't work too well for me, I ended up feeling like a zombie, personally. Wellbutrin (Bupropion; more of a mild stimulant) was alright for a little bit as a medium-term solution; I had a touch of anxiety for a week or two, but the antidepressant effect wore off after about a year. The main thing for me was changing my life circumstance...which is a tall order when you're depressed, but easier if you have a leg up with an antidepressant and plan things a little bit/give yourself some rails for the near future. Arthur Miller talked about how depression can inform your existence; maybe you've got chemical issues, but consider your mode of existence. Maybe try a change in direction? I don't know your circumstance, but the job market is good right now for that sort of thing. Life has taken a strange turn for me the past few years, I don't know how universal my experience is, lol.

Thank you, this one still makes me lose my damn mind.

pwning the laptop was a req for doing school work, like how you essentially give prior consent to a field sobriety test when you get a drivers license. I'm not saying it's right, but that likely the school district's argument in court, and I'm sure it's buried deep in a EULA or privacy policy somewhere.

As a longtime armchair attorney who has closely read summaries of cases like this on Slashdot for well over the past decade (IANAL, BTW)...you could go the lawyer route but this basically amounts to your kid being a minor in school which means they don't have full legal rights, and the interpretation of 4A is likely up in the air here anyway. Constitutional rights don't necessarily apply at school or anywhere near school (see bongrips4jesus case), your kid is a minor anyway (another special case), and a school doing this for the sake of "preventing cheating" may not fall under the umbrella of unreasonable search.

There was a PA school district back around 2009 that issued laptops to students preloaded with spyware that let school staff watch students through the webcam, while the students were at home and not doing schoolwork. Neither the students or parents were informed of this. IIRC the FBI got involved but nobody actually got in any real trouble, I'm not even sure they were fired.

I wish things weren't this way. You could maybe use Wireshark and black hole anything the spyware tries to connect to at the router, or maybe add the addresses to the hosts file on the machine itself (not sure if ChromeOS lets you do this).

Honestly, move and consider getting a new rig. Unless your story gets traction with nationwide news or you get the governor's attention, these guys act with impunity.

Out of curiosity...are you displaying a "Fuck the Police" kind of message, or do you have a bunch of aftermarket parts that makes you distinctive?

We've come full circle, next-gen consoles will just barely be able to run the original Doom (with ray tracing).

No way, cops can abide by the laws citizens lay out democratically. QI was basically magic'd out of the judiciary's dignified asshole with no basis at all in legislation. It's extra-legal thuggery.

Outside. Don't give their devices the wifi pass. Also consider limiting your own internet usage.

I've been shouting into the void about this forever: get rid of qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture laws. Last I heard, police have seized more property than was reported stolen for a long while now, and nobody can fight it because of QI. Also, insider trading by elected officials and their family should result in hard-ass prison time for everyone involved.

Edit: acting like a goat, finding the highest moral ground: every dollar seized by police without a criminal conviction gets taken by an angry mob from the representative officials.

I was thinking of his dad describing a giraffe to him from a book when he was really young, and then describing the length of its neck and how it would allow it to poke its head into his upstairs bedroom window. He said things like this put him on the path to visualize things. Maybe when you're a kid, certain things set you off on certain paths that you take, and some of those paths are profitable (I don't mean this in a strictly monetary sense). Feynman latched onto that and rode it (with some natural ability) for his whole life. Other people might have been able to do the same thing, but they never would have latched onto it as a kid and refined it.

I think we'd have better thinkers in the future if we put more focus on refining abilities in kids like visualization of problems, or giving them different tactics to approach things they don't understand.

A lot of his intellectual capacity seems to come from his ability to visualize a problem and make something difficult and complicated easier to conceptualize. He credits his dad with showing him how to visialize a problem, but he definitely refined the ability and trained his intuition for non-intuitive problems.

How much money was on the table?

Simple concepts like this can enable a lot of possibilities and functionality that wasn't thought of by the people that created it. I've got one of these packs and for the laptop/document use case it's basically perfect. If you need extra pockets or water bottle holders, it's easy. Pens clip to it easy too, so do flashlights, multi tools, etc.

The trouble is not only finding quality goods now, its that once you do they are way more expensive than they used to be since they now serve a smaller market. Not only are they trying to stay afloat with a smaller customer base, they're losing some of the economies of scale, so prices go up or quality goes down.

Homepage says it's based on Ubuntu and...

It doesn't look bad, but why make an entire distro for a WM/DE setup? It would have wider appeal if it was available as a package.

Definitely not all women are chronic apologizers, but I can't think of ever meeting a chronicly apologetic man. I don't think parental norms and society, taken together, encourage it or even really allow it, at least in the West.

I suspect there's big overlap between women who are chronic apologizers and women with overbearing mothers (NPD, BPD types).

If you're lucky you'll be included in a class action and get a $5 check in a few years.

Mildly interesting, but the writer is misleading, specifically at the end. Maybe there was a scandal in Biloxi in 1951 (really?) with casinos, but more recent cases where casinos specifically targeted gambling addicts for predatory 6-figure loans (which they gambled away 5 minutes later) came out in the casino's favor. The argument for individual agency almost always wins in America, especially when big money is behind it.

RO media is great, especially when you're concerned about data integrity and may not completely trust a machine writing or verifying the media. Consider you're downloading sensitive data from the internet, or just writing sensitive data on an internet connected machine (maybe it's OS installation media, or important legal or financial docs, or you're a wall street or NSA whistleblower, or it's a Bitcoin key backup), and you're worried your machine may be compromised on account of it being connected to the internet; you may not want to stake the quality of the rest of your life on your computer not lying to you about file integrity.

What do you do?

Write it to RO media and take it to different computers to verify the checksum/signature. You don't need to worry about other machines, which are also potentially compromised, corrupting the data. You also don't have to worry about something like BadUSB, where the USB device's microprocessor firmware infects the host machine (or vice versa) before the data payload is even read. This means you can put the disk in your secure airgapped machine at home, even after it's been in the machine at the local library. You create a concensus of file integrity after reading and verifying the data across a range of machines.

Obviously there are other attack vectors, but with the cost of these sorts of attacks (badUSB, or simply getting rooted) going down, the accessibility going up, and the potential rewards becoming more valuable and widespread, it's an attack vector to consider for important data.

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I'll edit it into the original comment.

After playing around with color schemes for over a decade and never really being satisfied, I made my own palette that is pretty close to the ANSI color scheme, just with more attractive shades that I copied from things like subway systems and public safety stuff (fire trucks and school busses) since so much research goes into colors being clear and unmistakable in varying conditions of weather or cleanliness. Highlight colors are incremental shades of grey. This has worked remarkably well with 99.9% of default app color schemes. Haven't touched my colors in years now.

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screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ZPWjSKk, since terminal.sexy URL sharing wasn't working so well for me. I'd post a desktop screenshot, but I'm on the road and my laptop's WiFi just stopped working, lol.

Some background: cyan is now safety orange. This is because cyan hurts my eyes on a light background and it can be tricky to distinguish from blue, while orange is pretty easy to distinguish from red. IIRC I picked out the shades of blue and magenta myself because most color design documents I could dig up had blue and purple usage paired with a specific background color (usually white) which didn't carry over very well to a dark background. I find these shades to be distinguishable and flexible enough for just about any background color.

The greyscale highlights are generally for tmux and nvim status line background colors, which I use to distinguish cells instead of seperator glyphs.

  [colors]

  foreground = #383838
  foreground_bold = #383838
  cursor = #383837
  background = #aaaaaa

  #black (is black)
  color0 = #000000

  #red (fire engine red)
  color1 = #ce2029

  #green (London underground green)
  color2 = #007d32

  #yellow (school bus yellow)
  color3 = #ffd800

  #blue (Persian blue)
  color4 = #1c39bb

  #magenta (Rebecca purple)
  color5 = #663399

  #cyan (actually "ANSI Z535 safety orange", for my eyes)
  color6 = #ff7900

  #white (from the color white)
  color7 = #ffffff

  ###Highlights###
  # Evenly-spaced increments of the greyscale
  # Makes for good tmux/nvim statuslines
  color8 = #1b1b1b
  color9 = #383838
  color10 = #545454
  color11 = #717171
  color12 = #8d8d8d
  color13 = #aaaaaa
  color14 = #c6c6c6
  color15 = #e3e3e3

Having used some of those secure document sharing services, I don't feel very confident in them. They seem more like a checkbox getting ticked off for the sake of offloading some liability. pgp is a real dinosaur and a nightmare to set up, but for sharing legal docs digitally, I can't think of a better tool.

I understand you, I just disagree. Maybe a conscious selection by user for post activity would be appropriate, but the current algorithmic solutions we see on mainstream platforms are trash. The default view of your 'friend feed' should be flat and unbiased.