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But you give a major difference: the functionality it offered was so useful.

While I'd love a Segway, it's usefulness is much less than my cellphone to me. Maybe if cities had been redesigned around it, things would be different

For me, the appeal is that I live a 20 minute walk from the train station I use for my commutes. A lot of the time I don't mind that walk, or I take the bus. I don't have a car. A Segway would make the bus uninteresting except in really bad weather - it'd be about as fast and not tie me to the bus schedule. It'd also make dragging shopping around easier.

But those are slight conveniences, and conveniences that are even less of a deal for someone with a car (who'd just drive their shopping home), and that has become less important as time has passed: These days I have a shortcut to a countdown display for my local bus stops on my phone, so while I sometimes have to wait, when leaving home I can wait in my living room and walk out just in time for the bus, and when returning I always know if it's worth waiting for the bus or starting to walk or flag down a taxi. And we get the shopping delivered to our door step, in a one hour time slot every week, and if we forget to order, they automatically put together an order that is ok based on our usual order pattern, so grocery shopping is totally off my radar.

I still think it'd be great if Segway's get to the point where they become accepted, and maybe they still can (around London, there's tons of people on silly looking kick scooters, some of which are motorized, so clearly some people are prepared for alternatives...).

But they'd first become revolutionary if they reach a sufficient level of use displacing cars that it'd change city cores, and that, I'm afraid would take a miracle or a lot of time.
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Or just look at Steve Jobs and Apple.
I spend a lot of time on that site, and like you I generally think the strict criteria are a net positive.

However, I'd just like to add that I've seen lots of abusive language and misuse of powers to close/put on hold. Flagging of unnecessarily negative/harsh language is not in general followed up, which basically means that it is encouraged.
This is pretty incredible. Why are they doing this? Even if there's a bomb in a parked car, does it really pose a safety threat? Who is going to bomb an empty valet parking lot?

Obviously the answer is "because they can". There is no grounds for suspicion, just their assumption that they might find some kind of contraband, etc.. This is 100% pure inexcusable overreach.
I see this in this manner: smart people in Russia know that the government is evil and that it can (and will) abuse its power to ensure they reserve their power and money. They know democracy doesn't work as intended, it's a theater.

Contrary to that, people of the western world still believe that they can oppose an abusive government in courts and by voting for another government.
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What? Lot's of diseases are a result of animal farming - see "Guns, Germs and Steel" for an account of how the germs we bred in Europe helped deplete the New World of people who weren't exposed to animal farming yet. And modern factory farming will add it's share (antibiotics resistances and so on).
I'm confused by this... If the air molecules are staying roughly still, but the density of the air surrounding the vehicle rises by a factor of n, isn't the vehicle colliding with n times as many particles as it would have otherwise? How is this more efficient?

Is the velocity in the drag equation relative to the vehicle, or to a stationary frame of reference?

Edit: Or is the point that the velocity of the air particles within the density peak is at its maximal forward-traveling rate before they start to loop back around and form their ellipse?
I do almost all of that stuff (except going to meetups because...) but location matters the most. I live in a small town in India, and I would like to work, but we don't have the kind of job I would like to do here. No one writes good software, there is no startup culture. People here need someone to maintain old java code or write some mundane portfolio website. I need a startup or a proper tech company with products, market, that has exciting cool stuff to work on, I would be more of an intern, but location is I believe the most important factor. I even got a couple of emails back but they declined because they were not supporting visas. But's that's alright, I am not too keen on leaving the country either.
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I got a "This article is reserved for paying subscribers..." notice when trying to access the article. It is available if you go through Google news though.

Here is a pastebin mirror: http://pastebin.com/pfKEvM6M
> This way we don't get the unaccountable second term crap we see a lot of.

Usually the president is working so that his successor will be from his chosen party. Who thinks the next president will be a Democrat? (It doesn't really matter if you think Republican is better or worse - if they are not happy people will switch.)
Nothing in the OP mentioned entering homes to shoot animals.
Somebody got nothing better to do..?
no love for IE8? :( Saved anyways, Thanks for the great share!
Who among us has not googled a problem, found the top hit at Stack Overflow, got our solution, and noticed also that the question was closed as not-something?

IMHO the whole thing can be handled by upvotes (as HN demonstrates, you don't even need downvotes)
US is really the Roman Empire of our time.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
and who is responsible to ensure nothing of value leaves the car during inspection? I do not believe the car should be subject to inspection without the owner being on hand.

Are there details on how they conduct a search? Are we crossing the 4th again?

What is next, having to show up for your flight another half hour earlier so your car can be frisked?
Надѣюсь, что Вы это сказали про А. Новикова, а не Навальнаго... (I hope the remark is about anovikov and not Navalny...)
Most of the value of air travel is in its speed and thus convenience. Personally I have yet to fly to a destination that was incapable of being reached by automobile. There are circumstances where the tradeoffs stop being worthwhile, but comparing anything "high speed" to the Concorde is a red herring.
This was my thought too. From a cursory look at the ages in this study I'm thinking it's not the cause here at least? I may be wrong.

I'm still very curious is Alzheimer's is caused by something environmental? I've heard aluminum suggested but I haven't seen anything conclusive. (And I can't find antacids that don't include aluminum!)
> Iacuzza's car was inspected by valet attendants on orders from the TSA.

They are turning ordinary citizens into spies and informers. Soon we won't be able to trust the person next to us in a line. Or look our neighbors in the face without suspecting them of something.
Public defenders are overworked and often unable to mount a sufficient defense.
The problem is in the tiny word "usually", I suppose. Almost every dog that attacks a human does so for the first time, to the complete amazement of it's owners.
You mean you don't want to see a medical supply startup that "moves fast and breaks stuff"? I'm surprised we haven't yet...
Haha, the one time in my life having an outdated credit card on file paid off.
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> less and bunch of files were working much better for me

Just because it works for you does not mean it works for everybody else. The mess of log files below /var/log has been a problem for a long time. The format is not descriptive enough, there timestamps are second resolution only, no timezone information, and yet the times are in local timezone.

Please don't hold on /var/log/messages just because it has been like that for ages. That should not be the justification for it existing.

> I've had a huge pain rewriting couple dozens of init.d scripts with custom logic to service files.

That's funny, because my experience has been that writing init.d scripts is painful and even package maintainers sometimes get it wrong.
You’re correct.

To replicate the event you're describing, we need to have a multi-million tonne building, close to our steel building and we need to make that first building collapse.

Naturally flying a plane into the first building won't make if fall, so we'll need a few hundred kilos of strategically placed C4 in that building to bring it down.

To hide that C4 explosion we'll use the plane flying into the building as a diversion but at least we're guaranteed to bring down that first building.

Now we have a collapsing multi-million tonne building close to the steel building we are trying to bring down and that event will be creating millions of tons of flying debris.

Naturally, that amount of flying debris won't be enough to collapse the target building, but luckily we also places some C4 in a second building that is also close by.

Once again we are going to need a second plane to hide the C4 explosion in that second building, but that should be easy enough to arrange.

Now we've managed to bring down two massive multi-million tonne buildings and created flying debris with the equivalent energy of thousands of tons of C4 but we always knew that wouldn't be enough energy to bring down our target building.

Luckily, while laying the C4 charges on the other two buildings, we also manage to plant a few hundred kilos of C4 in the third building.

Now to finish the job, all we have to do is detonate those last few kilos of C4 and no one will be the wiser.

What a simple plan. It's fool proof and using the planes to cover up the C4 explosions is a stroke of genius.

The only problem we face is this last explosion makes the building collapse like a demolition.

We should have thought about that!!!
Agreed. But this war is open-ended - thus there is no natural time-limit on when things revert back to normal.
No, it's not. They have a clear purpose: they want the site to be useful. The definitive go-to site for programmers that have a question they need answered in a way that solves their problem.

Lengthy discussions can be interesting, but they don't solve problems. They're not useful. Therefore, Stack Overflow is not the right place for them.

Actually they even have a place for discussions: a chat feature that can be linked to from any question.
An array of pulse jets! That's not very solar friendly, but it is very loud!
They aren't exactly smart in the sense that they don't have any plan for government evil. They're not smart in the Paul Graham, problem-solving, bold ideas way.

Rather they are cynical and "understanding" in the grumpy old man manner.
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RMS real rich.
Are those tubes bulkier than current train/metropolitans ? Even cities like Rome dig underground to build urban transport, even if in those cities hearts you can find more than just soil.
According to Lennart, Arch have already moved to journal-only default so Fedora is not really leading there...
I was thinking about building this just yesterdaynight!

Coincidentally a community I used to really like is being flooded by noobs and trolls in the past few months, that was the actual trigger. I was thinking of creating a community that was more like a combination of Stackoverflow, Hackernews, and a few older members of that other community.

Anyway, it's funny how often things I thought of appear right the next day. I'm sure it's just coincidence or some other illusion, but it happens pretty regularly.
This is odd, because every time I've been in a building when a fire alarm went off, people by and large got up and got out. Okay, so they generally brought their coffee with them, and sometimes their laptops. Maybe it was because there were unannounced fire drills and occasional false alarms, so it wasn't really a novel situation.
This "I won't abuse my extraordinary privilege" mindset that people in power appear to have is naive beyond all comprehension. It reminds me of an exchange that occurred during a Clinton administration meeting on the legality of extraordinary rendition back in 1993:

> 'extraordinary renditions', were operations to apprehend terrorists abroad, usually without the knowledge of and almost always without public acknowledgment of the host government.... The first time I proposed a snatch, in 1993, the White House Counsel, Lloyd Cutler, demanded a meeting with the President to explain how it violated international law. Clinton had seemed to be siding with Cutler until Al Gore belatedly joined the meeting, having just flown overnight from South Africa. Clinton recapped the arguments on both sides for Gore: "Lloyd says this. Dick says that. Gore laughed and said, 'That's a no-brainer. Of course it's a violation of international law, that's why it's a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.'"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

FTFA:

> Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely

How could this possibly not end up with someone abusing it? Without due process, the executive branch basically has carte blanche to do whatever the hell it wants. Political opponents. People you don't like. People in the media. Whistleblowers. No one has any rights any more. All it would take is for a covert agent or hacker to plant bomb making material on your computer to detain (and torture) you until you die.

Everyone knows that this is illegal. Everyone knows that this is insanely stupid. Everyone knows that this will be abused. Everyone knows that this is against the constitution.

Shit still happens anyway.

The terrorists fucking won. They've destroyed America, and they didn't even have to lift a finger to do it. We did it all on our very own.

I'm tired. So very tired.
Presumably, since it's the valet doing the search not a TSA officer, the 4th doesn't come into it.

Pretty sure the police (for example) can't just stop cars and search them without probable cause, but the standard for vehicles is lower.
This is a good point. Employees in particular have a unique perspective that investors are largely shielded from - they get to see the politics, the inefficiencies, and all the dark corners that are smoothed over or hidden from board decks.

I would imagine if you took a sample of failed companies, and interviewed their investors and their employees, in most cases the employees knew the ship was sinking long before the investors did.
What happens if you lock the trunk and glove box and then give them the valet key? Do they break the locks?
I suspect the flags are more likely because the title implies that there will be a discussion site, as opposed to just a launch page.
We used to use monotouch a lot, but as soon as we tried to use any third party sdk it was a huge mess. All of the ones supplied by xamarin never quite worked/were out of date and threw a bunch of weird errors.

Of course there is a way to write your own bindings, but the those threw a bunch of undecipherable error messages as well and never really worked either. The main problem was that there were way too many possible sources of the errors to try and just diagnose the problem and the error messages themselves were useless.

So basically xamarin was great as long as you didn't need to use a third party sdk and there is 0 chance that down the road you might need to use a third party sdk.

That was really the deal breaker for us, that we were severely limiting our future capabilities on any app we made with monotouch.

Also it is often difficult to pull in third party c# libraries because monotouch uses weird versions of all the main .net references. But this was not the main problem.

In the end it is just much easier to bite the bullet and use obj C.
It matters, similarly to haow it matters that you have more choice in Internet providers than a binary choice of either 1) cable or 2) telco-provided DSL.

Countries where multiple parties feasibly compete have the possibility, at least, of a disruptive new party taking share.

The American system, like the American ISP market in most of the country, is so rigged for the two corrupt incumbents that you basically always have a choice of light dark gray or dark light gray.

I live in Japan where we have a wide range of competing ISPs and political parties. Both Internet service and political representation are vastly better than in my native USA.

(Admittedly, the former more so than the latter...)
Which is not actually that different from the US, where the conviction rate is 93%, of which 97% accepted a plea bargain prior to trial.

Source: http://www.justice.gov/usao/reading_room/reports/asr2011/11s...
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I can only hope that the Mythbusters are on this already.
I do love a good conspiracy theory.
That's a smokescreen. It's much better for the masses to be arguing over gay marriage than coming together and figuring out that maybe tax cuts for the wealthy were a bad idea after all.
Well actually learn to write test cases and review code. Though even with that it's feasible to miss a bug.
>Lengthy discussions can be interesting, but they don't solve problems.

The problem is that SE's criterion for a "lengthy discussion" is so moronically short that valuable and constructive questions are getting killed off. I echo the sentiment elsewhere in this thread that I have many a time had a question answered in a thread marked as "not constructive".

It's downright wrong and insulting.
Never said it would be leading. But more distributions switching to journal-only is a good thing, because that makes it that much easier for the rest to follow suit.
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Where, exactly, lies the line that you cross with speech that justifies being murdered in cold blood? Let's figure this out, then.

Westboro Baptist? Are they extreme enough?
How about skinheads or white supremacists? They certainly advocate for violence against innocents, they probably even call it holy war.

If the United States seriously starts advancing the idea that speech alone can justify an execution, then it's all over. There's no point in pretending there's anything resembling freedom in this country anymore if that's the case.

You simply cannot justify executing someone based solely off speech. It doesn't matter what the speech is. You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt actual, active involvement in a crime to justify murdering anyone, let alone a US citizen. The fact that the US government gets away with murdering people all the time doesn't change anything.

You can certainly respond to 'undesirable' speech in appropriate ways based on the law. There are lots of examples of countries where undesirable speech - whether it criticizes tyrants or promotes violence against minorities - can be punished with fines or jail time. That's certainly a lot better than an execution.
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> Iacuzza said she doesn't mind the security measure.
> She just wants to be told if her car is getting searched.

vs.

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
> houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches
> and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall
> issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
> affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
> searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

IANAL, but it seems like there is so much precedent against vehicle searches that it's staggering that TSA thinks this is acceptable. Every case I've read related to vehicles indicates that probable cause is required for a car search. Due to mobility, car searches are often exempt from requiring warrants, but even in cases where a person is arrested for a crime unrelated to their vehicle a car search can be considered unreasonable

If the TSA was really concerned with cars being parked for extended periods, it seems the more reasonable thing to do would be to move the valet parking drop off. My feeling, however, is they were just excited to get easy access to a lot of cars.
I get a lot of recruitment spam from India based companies. In fact it seems as though they've taken over the low end of the market. Typically they open with a vague description of a position that "matches your qualifications", then ask for a set of answers including number of years of experience in ten skills and my expected rate.

This approach to recruitment may work for some segments of the market, but it's pointless for me. I used to actually respond to such inquiries when the market was very slow and I was getting desperate, but they almost never followed up, so I stopped wasting my time.
Official summary in English:

'When you enter your POP / IMAP e-mail credentials into a Blackberry 10 phone they will be sent to Blackberry without your consent or knowledge. A server with the IP 68.171.232.33 which is in the Research In Motion (RIM) netblock in Canada will instantly connect to your mailserver and log in with your credentials. If you do not have forced SSL/TLS configured on your mail server, your credentials will be sent in the clear by Blackberrys server for the connection. Blackberry thus has not only your e-mail credentials stored in its database, it makes them available to anyone sniffing inbetween – namely the NSA and GCHQ as documented by the recent Edward Snowden leaks. Canada is a member of the “Five Eyes”, the tigh-knitted cooperation between the interception agencies of USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, so you need to assume that they have access to RIMs databases. You should delete your e-mail accounts from any Blackberry 10 device immediately, change the e-mail password and resort to use an alternative mail program like K9Mail.

Clarification: this issue is not about PIN-messaging, BBM, push-messaging or any other Blackberry service where you expect that your credentials are sent to RIM. This happens if you only enter your own private IMAP / POP credentials into the standard Blackberry 10 email client without having any kind BER, special configuration or any explicit service relationship or contract with Blackberry. The client should only connect directly to your mail server and nowhere else. A phone hardware vendor has no right to for whatever reason harvest account credentials back to his server without explicit user consent and then on top of that connect back to the mail server with them.

Recipe for own experiment:
1. set up your own mail server with full logging
2. create throw-away IMAP account
3. enter IMAP account credentials into Blackberry 10 device, note time
4. check mail with Blackberry
5. look in logfiles for IP 68.171.232.33 (or others from RIM netblock)'
Don't medical people get around that by ensuring the first customers are mice?