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I got worried seeing how she profiled 14/15 year olds in the same frame as adults. That’s problematic. Children have a right to make mistakes — I’m sure we’ve all benefited from a second chance, although my rationale must change to consider the possibility for massive damage over a computer terminal.

The thing is that these crimes are hard to stop by anyone else considering how complex they can be for the public, let alone for parents to understand what it is their kid is doing in their bedroom late at night.

I have seen the proliferation of these POSs, but I never assumed they meant total tips have gone up. How do you know that total tips have gone up across the board?

I’d go running up the tow path along the canal out of Georgetown and always wondered what the hell this random cable connecting to a barrier island (as seen in the photo) was for. I figured it was a camp or club of sorts. I knew I was approximately abreast of Langley but definitely never guessed at this.

At last I have closure.

It’s a very pretty area, and I imagine made for one gorgeous commute.

Certainly puts the French government and Foreign Ministry in a curious spot. Were they the ones to ask Britain to intervene? What is a publisher doing on a counterterrorism watchlist? Are we to assume the worst that Britain is impinging on freedom of speech or just merely abusing a statute like the US and the Patriot Act?

I can see it working well politically for Macron to call for his release as a demonstration of civility and liberal virtue. However, before he swoops in, I suspect there is more to the story.

The point of the article is to propose it as a fun thing to do on the side. But who solders as a hobby? I’m a millenial, and I have broken out my dad’s soldering equipment a handful of times because I wanted to try fixing something myself. (I’d hazard a guess that’s cultural more than generational, but maybe not.)

I don’t know that this article did such a good job making the case for soldering as a hobby in so much as it lays the groundwork for someone who might need to use this tool to fix something his/herself. And that should be the emphasis.

I can drive a manual car, swim, and perform CPR — supposedly the three things an adult should know, but damn it if I spend more time in my workshop hunched over molten metal. I got other things to enjoy, as I’m sure many people younger than myself do too.

I’ve lost all patience for liberals or conservatives who can’t entertain a thought that doesn’t strictly adhere to the contemporary orthodoxy. It is especially disconcerting within a law school. What an awful thing to imagine a lawyer unwilling to defend a client for similar grievances, or one incapable of knowing how to argue against a position one finds problematic.

On an epistemological level it is even more frightening. We lose knowledge when we refuse to engage ideas, especially when the intellectual elite does the equivalent of sticking their heads in the sand.

It is never a bad time to pursue justice and allow the rusty machinery of our democracy to operate. I don't really care what comes of it, though I have an opinion of what is right and also what will happen. Many people treat this like a zero sum game: either he wins or he loses, and that result is good for Red Team or Blue Team. It would be helpful to our Nation if we recast this indictment as whether a public hearing on the alleged crimes is beneficial to the longevity of our way of governing. To show that none is above the law sends a powerful and unifying signal. So many of us -- my self included -- have already lost faith in our institutions, and while one trial will hardly restore them to glory or depolarize our politics, we must give our laws and processes credence by engaging them. Otherwise for what good are they?

Agreed. Speaking about passion, I just can't forgive Ubi for what they've done to my beloved Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six games. Nothing good can last forever, but I have a lot of nostalgia for those stories and the games based on them.

You'd damn sure better be earning well over 7,000 USD a month. Iceland is so expensive, and I'd imagine those prices have gone up with inflation. Even the locals have a secondary pricelist. It's a nice place to visit, but I'm not sure the cost is worth the living.

Well with those prices, organic and fair trade cotton or not, it’s certainly not going to be “for the people.” On the net, privacy will become a luxury fewer people can afford, and that holds true with this apparel as well. Maybe others will follow suit and scale down prices, but for now I wouldn’t pay 400€ for this.

I use Mullvad. They recommend configuring your browser to enable a SOCKS5 proxy (can only work once you’re connecting thru their Vpn). They claim that this helps with captchas. Might be worth a try with your service.

That’s what I used, but it requires creating VLAN configurations, or it did when I tried this a couple years ago. I had to get help and just don’t have time to futz around with it anymore.

I’ll give this a try. That’s a neat workaround.

This is great news for consumers. Here in France, it’s a major pain in the ass to directly use your own router, thought not impossible. I did it with Open WRT on a Netgear Archer. It suddenly stopped working, and I suspect the VLAN config needed modification, but I gave up trying to bypass my ISP. I have their junk box again — to get something with Wifi 6 or meshing would be much more expensive. At least the fiber modem is integrated, so there’s a little less latency. I’m not a power user so the reward for patching together my own solution wasn’t high enough to teach myself networking, but the thing I absolutely cannot stand is the hardcoded DNS addresses.

It is a major privacy invasion for me. I use a VPN for a lot, but certain things can’t be done with VPNs, and it disturbs me that my partially state-owned ISP can gather that much more data on my online activity.

Why is this even newsworthy?

Pretty wild probability for that to happen but definitely a credible theory. I miss that show.

The same thing happened within the American Psychiatric Association with regards to the classification of homosexuality in the DSM as a form of deviancy and therefore as a pathology. All the while, many members were themselves gay and formed some small union of activist types who sought to slowly upend the codifications from within. It’s a glacial and bureaucratic process, but they succeeded. At the same time, many of them practiced psychiatry, and I don’t doubt found meaning in their practice to help people for other issues. The DSM isn’t all bad even if it’s flawed.

Now, imagine doing it for a dogmatic scripture held dearly by many millions. Sure, the Catholic Church is on the wrong side of history when it comes to gay rights, among other things, but if some people find peace and meaning in its voluminous scriptures, then there is still a leadership role for those priests. That might explain the cognitive dissonance.

“This will be the norm until we get more inventory in the market."

I can see how that would be one analysis in dense and growing cities, but I wonder how much of this holds true in less densely populated areas where there are homes available, but they are unaffordable because of insufficient wages.

Because it’s hypocritical. Apple’s marketing tries to cast its products as pro-privacy, and this would suggest that they are willing to give yours up for the right price. The secrecy part is icing on the cake. Privacy exists for them but not for you.

This sounds naive, but why is it advantageous for Apple to limit transfer speeds? I understand adding a chip to control which accessories are fully compatible, but isn’t this a missed opportunity for Apple to tote new transfer speeds? Or would they only relegate transfer speeds for uncertified products?

In response to the subtitle asking whether these species can help revive burnt areas: I doubt it. It is true that some species are specially adapted and even need burnt vegetation to thrive (eg. There’s a bird species I believe endogenous to the Yosemite area whose name I can’t recall). However, these species occupy a particular niche much like I expect fungi or bacteria do. For them to restore an ecosystem naturally implies balance. There is nothing balanced about the intensity and frequency of fires, which are in large part anthropogenic. Maybe there are some species that are adaptable but I just don’t see this as some kind of panacea.

Would it also be a tech coup for privacy given that DDG uses Bing?

Walled garden be damned, I’d really like some choice in how I browse the web on my phone. Not that I want Google peering in on me over Apple, but hopefully (maybe?) this can be a wedge to open up rules on iOS browsers for Firefox and Orion. Is there any possibility of Google effecting a change in Apple’s iOS rules?

Not only wet but soaked with forever chemicals and hormones. Where to begin to save the children?

Controls are not a problem, but I’m not sure I can handle more than 15 minutes of that music on repeat.

Goldeneye was re-released to Switch and Xbox today. It has revamped controls, refresh rate, and resolution. I’ve yet to give it a try, but if you have Xbox’s game pass, it’s gratis. Switch apparently requires some kind of expansion pack.

I’m excited to see this out. If Switch can support it, hopefully Xbox can also arrange online multiplayer at some point.

Careful what you wish for. You might end up with endless strip malls, cookie-cutter buildings, and concrete cathedrals instead of beautiful forests and neighborhoods with a soul.

Thanks for posting this. I’m sorry to hear about what all this “progress” might cost you personally in addition to the habitats around you. I don’t believe we have the right to cut down trees older than we are. It appears I’m in the minority in this country.

Something similar happened to my partner’s grandmother’s place in rural France in a matter of years.

My partner grew up in her grandparent’s backyard that was loaded with a garden, fields, and animals. They had no neighbors within sight. Slowly all around them new commercial developments cropped up. The equivalent of a Lowe’s or Super Target, different bricks and mortar, and the like. The nail in the coffin was the McDonald’s adjacent to their property, probably the same field where my spouse used to roll in the dirt. Now the house has been converted to an optician storefront. The area was re-zoned with no appreciation for the inhabitants. I suppose it had to go somewhere, but why does the march of “progress” have the familiar feeling of tragedy?

Her grandparents were immigrants of the Spanish Civil War, and this property epitomized their grit and triumph. To see it today, it is haunted and sad. It is unimaginable that a family ever lived there.

I wish I could offer you hope, but the only solace in this tragedy of so-called progress is the conservation easement. Plant some trees for me, and good luck to you.

This is the future, like it or not. There’s a lot of energy tied up in batteries, or at least their can be. And until we solve the problem of harnessing intermittent energy sources for when they aren’t generating energy, we aren’t going zero emissions.

Acoustic fingerprinting sounds like an excellent method to begin identifying anyone and everyone who utters a sentence around one of Amazon’s spy toys.