bumblebeard

I think you're both right. Once trained, someone who can fly a 747 can also fly an A320 or an L-1011 since they know how to fly a multi-engine plane.

Programming is similar in that once you "get it" the skills transfer easily between languages. Learning a new language is much easier than learning the first one.

What bank? I wouldn't want to do business with them if that's how they handle security.

The data still has to get out though. If LibreOffice doesn't have network access then that can't happen, at least not without an attack on some other systems as well. This protects against generic sort of "drive-by" attacks but if someone is being targeted then yeah, sandboxing the office suite isn't enough.

>Cute snake oil, but you might want to peddle it somewhere other than Hacker News. People here place too much importance on facts and knowledge to really go for this stuff.

Actually I think this is exactly the kind of pseudo-scientific nonsense that HN types tend to fall for. I am glad that most of the top comments are people debunking it but I think it's telling that it was upvoted to the front page in the first place.

I imagine AppArmor is configured to minimize the access that LibreOffice has to the rest of the system. Otherwise yeah, vanilla LO is probably not any better than MS Office.

VServer or similar could also work well but might be harder to configure correctly.

Midland county. Here's a similar document for an area near me; the city doesn't seem to have a fee schedule online anywhere.

http://www.lincoln-twp.org/forms%20policies/New%20Water%20Co...

$2,520 is what they charge for water; not sure what it is for wastewater - they may not have a public sewer system - but it's about $3,500 where I live. It used to be $150 (seriously, not a typo) and people got really upset when they raised it by a few thousand dollars all at once a few years ago.

I guess it's not a very densely-populated area and the state is surrounded by water so that might explain why it's so cheap.

$30,000 seems like a lot unless you live in a very rural area. Where I live in Michigan it's $1,410 for a hookup within 500 feet of a road. Why is it so expensive where you are?

Also, fiber would probably be pretty cheap once the infrastructure was already in place. A single phase overhead power line is often provided for free to new homes and underground service runs about $3.50/foot so I imagine fiber would be similarly cheap.

The Soviet Union had a bunch of engineers in their government too and they made all kinds of stupid decisions anyway. I don't think the composition of the government matters as much as its structure and as governments go I think the US has a decent one.

I think the problem is more who our politicians are listening to then what they actually believe themselves. Banning lobbying would probably do a lot more than just trying to elect a bunch of scientists and engineers.

I guess I'm cheap then. I have no interest in paying any amount of money to read most of the things I read online. It seems to me that it's not so much that people are demanding this content for free as it is that people don't think it's worth paying for. It's not that I particularly wanted to see an article about the usefulness of advertising as it is that it's something to read on the bus. I would probably just look out the window instead if the alternative weren't free.

Most articles/videos on sites like HN fall into this category - I wouldn't have paid to read this article for example. To me, this comment thread is worth much more than the article itself and I don't see anybody here upset that they aren't getting paid to comment.

I guess that means that I would probably pay a subscription fee to a site like HN but that I wouldn't generally pay for the content itself, which does seem a little backwards. Still, that's what's valuable to me. Does anybody else feel this way or am I weird?

>Our wedding consisted of signing some paperwork at city Hall.

They are constantly checking public records like this and that's how they would have found out. Still a little creepy though.

> Even without getting into the result that not interacting with Elsevier has on careers in the biomedical sciences...

The author of the article addresses this concern in the "What you can do" section. He says he's noticed no ill effects from avoiding Elsevier journals and that most people are likely to have the same experience.

As for PLOS ONE's business model, it's possible that it sets up some perverse incentives, but fortunately there are choices other than PLOS ONE if this model bothers you.

If it really is impossible for you to avoid publishing in an Elsevier journal, that's fine, but anybody who can avoid it should for the reasons presented in this article.

There doesn't need to be a "function;" the conclusion of the paper puts it pretty well:

"In summary, compared to nondepressed indi- viduals, depressives are “nay-sayers”. Depressives may be sadder but they are not wiser; rather, so- called “depressive realism” results from the bias of depressives to say “no”"

Cell division is obviously important for organisms to function, but it can run amok - that's cancer. Similarly, pessimism is sometimes a useful approach to solving a problem, but it becomes debilitating when it's out of control.

Depression is not a "problem solving mode" or anything like that; it's a disease. Depression (the medical condition, not just pessimism or being sad sometimes) is totally and completely draining. Someone who is depressed does not have the energy to solve the problem of "should I take a shower today," let alone "hunker down and deal with hard problems."

Sorry to pick on you, I just find the comment threads on articles like this so frustratingly ignorant sometimes.

Agreed, although maybe this is what they want to happen. If you use their bandwidth and they don't make any money off your visit, then they probably don't care if you never come back.

I'm like you though; I actively avoid reading sites that do this. I also block JavaScript by default, which helps to mitigate a lot of other annoyances and privacy invasions.

I was wondering about the price too. If the bandwidth is actually going to be as limited as the numbers in this article imply then it'll probably be out of reach for most of the people who need it.

"Once fully optimized through the Final Deployment, the system will be able to provide high bandwidth (up to 1Gbps per user), low-latency broadband services for consumers and businesses in the US and globally,” SpaceX told the FCC. “Subject to additional development work, SpaceX plans to design and manufacture its own satellites, gateway earth stations, and user terminals.” Home Internet customers would receive a "low-profile user terminal that is easy to mount and operate on walls or roofs."

I guess the numbers depend on what "final deployment" means. Presumably more satellites with higher bandwidth.

For those not familiar with Clippy:

https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-clippy

It's a very useful tool; the main thing about it that annoys me is that it only works with nightly.

They mean Mandarin. There have been rumblings in the past that Cantonese support might be coming though.

Why isn't free software a net good?

I think people are hopeless because while we are starting to move in the right direction, it's probably too little and too late. Moderation of CO2 emissions might have been enough 20-30 years ago, but now we need immediate radical action to prevent extreme changes in the planet's climate and that's not happening.

Regardless of how much money there is to be made in this market (and you're right, there's a lot), Earth is going to be a very different place to live in 50 years unless we rapidly make dramatic and fundamental changes to the way we produce and use energy.

Unless you swallow your food whole I imagine that your teeth might break down cell walls too.

This annoyed me too.

I think it's fair to expect to be able to see something without JavaScript, even if it's not formatted correctly or missing fonts or whatever. I disable JS by default for performance reasons, not just because of tracking.

What French TV shows did you enjoy? I've been looking for some to watch to improve my listening skills.

By using a CA they control to generate a fake certificate for Google like they've already "accidentally" done:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/turkish-government-a...

I would probably start looking for somewhere else to work if I had to use special hand signals during meetings.

Steam Play is their one license = all platforms thing.

I think the little Steam icon means SteamOS and therefore Linux.

Nothing looks wrong to me (Firefox/Debian). Are you sure it's a problem with the font?

A house can still be an eyesore even if you don't live in it.

Effect is usually a noun and affect is usually a verb.

This isn't actually a new law but the overturning of a new law passed last year that explicitly legalized these things. The law now is as it was when iTunes was originally introduced.

Story about the passage of the now-overturned law: https://torrentfreak.com/uk-government-legalizes-cd-ripping-...

Is the source code actually free though? For example, could I redistribute the source code myself and not take any revenue from the people I distributed it to? Could I make some changes to the engine and redistribute it? How would the revenue sharing work if I did something like that and someone using my version of the engine started making money using it?

I'm glad there's another no-cost video game engine available, but I don't think it qualifies as free software in the Free Software Foundation sense of the word free. I haven't seen the actual license though, so maybe it is actually free. It would be awesome if it was.