Volpe

> As a random example, people can develop osteoporosis after years of drinking diet soda.

citation?

You can probably make a good guess based on appearance (clothes, race, gender, general appearance) + their location (which if you are looking at them in person, you know). You are right, you can be wrong, but it'd be worth testing, as my gut feel is you'd get more right, than wrong.

Link the (peer-reviewed) articles, rather than guessing peoples responses to the hypothetical articles.

> After the rebellions died down, more moderate reformers, such as the political partners Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, gained credibility as an alternative voice to the radicals. They proved to be influential when the British government sent Lord Durham, a prominent British reformer

(from that article)

It was not the violence that lead to change, but diplomacy... unless I'm missing something.

Regardless, it doesn't counter my point, unless you want to point out the revolutionary wars Australia and New Zealand had...

New Zealand, Canada, Australia... All became relatively independent of the UK without warfare, suicide bombings or any kind of violence.

You don't need violence to be effective.

Most browsers have "save this webpage" functionality.

Are you really saying there is not a middle class in china?

How would it be different? show more times in the morning? The 90 minute cycles it shows you are still valid 45 minute cycles too...

I assume you need more cycles than people who have 90 minute cycles?

I don't quite understand the whole "I cripple my browser" thing. Like, if you are going to disable javascript, why not CSS, and if you disable both of those... by not disable the renderer and just read the html... or demand people write plain text websites. Javascript seems rather arbitrary...

But I do wonder about the accessibility ramifications of only supporting javascript. Do all browsers support javascript?

I think you mean your addiction is no longer outside the social norm. Caffeine is addictive, regardless what you rationalise or not. The only way to not be addicted is to severely limit supply...

While not directly related to this article, last I checked Puppet/Chef don't have particularly useful windows support. Is there an chef like solution for windows?

While "This phrase is definitely not in the dictionary" is true, every component is. If this sort of password became popular brute forcing passwords would just start using whole word combinations when cracking passwords. i.e a word becomes the equivalent of a character (though from a larger set of characters).

Also wouldn't a hash of a long passphrase be longer? (I am completely ignorant the details of hashing algorithms)... so if I'm cracking a table of hashed passwords, I could set a "passphrase" cracker on hashed passwords of above average length?

I like your response and tone. And the article.

But:

> Agreed, but that's why the majority of the world ends up living life as a cog.

This to me, amounts to: You are a failure (cog) if you don't do your own thing and "follow your dreams".

I don't agree with anything in that statement. I would ask readers to really think about why "following dreams" is important. Is it related to happiness? What if skills and dreams are completely out of reach from each other? Is it really just going to set someone up for failure/depression etc.

As I say, I like the sentiment, but feel there is little analysis to the thought.

why?

Why do "moderators" feel the need to weigh in then, if they have no visibility of the problem?

There was nothing in that thread that requires moderation (other than the mods themselves)... so why are they even there?

Ooh thanks for that, I was confused by the title and the video, but your pointless pedantics cleared it all up for me.

Thanks!

So this implies there is a market for a simple mailserver that just mimics gmail (or whatever) on your own server:

e.g.

apt-get install gmail-server

Why is that ironic? (Sorry if I'm being really stupid here... :\ )

Philosophy predates a fair amount of religion, and actually encompasses it. And by definition it can't become outdated (as it's the pursuit of knowledge).

Cool... though I wish we'd hurry up and get to the point where students can just input answers digitally rather than this "Print out this digitially created form, use a pencil, then scan it back in" process.

They hinted at "Gaming in the cloud" that would support PSX, PS2, PS3, PSP... etc

Likely using the same tech they use for playing a PS3/4 on a PSP/PSVita (respectively)

No they don't. Console games serve the "Console game market".

PCs serve the "PC market" (A subset of that is the High end gaming market that enjoy keyboards and mice).

Show me a Street Fighter tournament being played on PC?

Or a Starcraft game being played on Consoles?

...

The reason you can't find those things, is they are different markets.

5 times. Each time the bank called me, and told me they were sending a new card. (Once was a false positive).

New card arrived within 3 days from old card being stopped. Money was reimbursed the same day it was taken.

The false positive was when I was traveling, and it was a minor hassle (as I had multiple credit cards).

I take it from the responses from people, my experience isn't typical.

The PS Vita is the answer in the mobile space, and it's release cycle will likely be shorter than the PlayStation Consoles.

Yeah, just like Apple did with the iPhone. It's just a branded PC, with a touchscreen, and a low powered CPU... What were Apple thinking!?

How is that different from every other console release in the history of consoles... they are always behind. But they are different markets.

It's like saying: "The iPhone X is years behind the latest PC chips"

That's a problem for the banks (who insure all that money for fraud), not really a problem for the individual (who are insured).

> A person with common sense would look at the mass of a baby, and the mass of an adult human.

Weight/mass has very little to do with it. The baby is never 'crushed' it is 'smothered'.

Also when you smother a baby (accidentally or intentional) it squirms. So common sense would indicate the key factor is how heavily you sleep, and how easily could you role onto the baby.

If the babies head is the same level as your head, the chances of rolling on top, would require some pretty intense dreaming.

Knocking a baby off the bed is very unlikely to kill a baby (they are in a relaxed state, and have flexible bone structure/skull).

Research indicates co-sleeping is dangerous when the adult has consumed alcohol or drugs (i.e is sleeping very heavily).

But that's fine right. As long as no one else gets the trademark, then the PSF is happy. Or do I have it wrong?

I don't think it misrepresents it too much. It's a pretty 'squirmy' retraction.

Basically they are saying what Broder wrote was incorrect, and showed poor judgement, but without faulting Broder in any way. (As ridiculous as that sounds)